11 June - iG Portal Tab 9

  Washington's Blog

• The Geostrategy that Guides Trump’s Foreign Policies 11 hours ago

  Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org According to Alastair Crooke, writing at Strategic Culture, on June 5th: “Trump’s US aims for ‘domination’...

• U.S. Challenges Russia to Nuclear War 2 days ago

  Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org Now that the United States (with the cooperation of its NATO partners) has turned the former Soviet Union’s states other...

• The Three Crises That Will Synchronize a Global Meltdown by 2025 4 days ago

  To understand the synchronized global meltdown that is on tap for the 2021-2025 period, we must first stipulate the relationship of “money” to energy:“money” is nothing...

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  The Vintage News

• The last meal: What happened when a crime boss sat down to lunch in a Brooklyn restaurant 2 days ago

  A hot day in New York City feels like no place else. The heaviness of the air weighs on you as you trudge down the blinding bright streets crisscrossing Gotham. It could be the concrete...

• “Super Father” Genghis Khan has up to 16 million male descendants 2 days ago

  The Mongolian leader Genghis Khan was known to have fathered many children with different women. One study suggests that up to 10 other men in Asian history have rivaled the procreative...

• Abandoned but pack your ruby slippers and head to 1970s OZ theme park 2 days ago

  Somewhere over the rainbow … lies a theme park called the Land of Oz. It’s in Beech Mountain, North Carolina, to be precise, the dream-child of 1970s developers. And though it is...

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  Utopia – you are standing in it!

• History: BBC – The Great War – E10/26 – What Are Our Allies Doing 4 minutes ago

  Originally posted on The Inquiring Mind: https://youtu.be/rJFFIjPW9kw From Wikipedia The Great War is a 26-episode documentary series from 1964 on the First World War. The documentary...

• Drop the Dead Donkey – Episode 34 – S03E11 – Awards an hour ago

• Creative destruction in music sales 2 hours ago

  and another one .. am I spoiling you too much? 16 Years Late, $13B Short, but Optimistic: Where Growth Will Take the #musicbiz https://t.co/Gik7oHnL81 via @REDEF pic.twitter.com/FXvk7MCuQJ...

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The Truthseeker

• Tommy Robinson and ‘controlled opposition’ 2 hours ago

  Irish Savant explains why he is not ready to dismiss Tommy Robinson entirely.

• Will Bilderberg still be relevant as the future of war is transformed? 7 hours ago

  According to Charlie Skelton much of the focus at this year's Bilderberg was on Artificial Intelligence, and the impact that it will have on future armed conflicts...

• Why don’t we hear more about the gang ‘grooming’ of girls? 8 hours ago

  On the reluctance of the mainstream media to expose underage grooming gangs and the failure of the police and the authorities to protect their victims

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  TARPLEY.net

• At “G-6 + 1” Summit in Canada, Trump Sabotages Alliance System It Took Two World Wars to Construct 2 days ago

  Kremlin Pawn Wants to Re-Admit Putin with No Preconditions; Appeasement of Kim Sets Up 1938 Munich Sellout Redux; The Savage Servility of Scott Pruitt Slides by on Grease, Thanks...

• Eighty Years After Original, Trump Bumbles Towards New Munich Sellout to Kim of North Korea 3 days ago

  United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, June 7, 2018 Summit Prep Focuses on Slandering Traditional Allies at G-7 in Quebec; French...

• Democratic Candidate for Governor of California Gavin Newsom Demands Universal Health System with Guaranteed Care for All 4 days ago

  United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, June 6, 2018 Supports Marshall Plan for Affordable Housing, an End to Child Poverty, Help...

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  Sustainable Pulse

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  French Beekeepers Accuse Bayer after Glyphosate Found in Honey 3 days ago

  A beekeeping cooperative in northern France has filed a legal complaint against German chemicals giant Bayer after traces of the controversial weedkiller glyphosate were detected...
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  GMO Golden Rice Offers No Nutritional Benefits Says FDA 5 days ago

  The biotech industry and its supporters have promoted GMO Golden Rice for decades as an urgently needed solution to vitamin A deficiency. Source: www.independentsciencenews.org/...
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  Monsanto Relied on These ‘Partners’ to Attack Top Cancer Scientists 7 days ago

  This fact sheet describes the contents of Monsanto’s confidential public relations plan to discredit the World Health Organization’s cancer research unit, the International...

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  sunshine hours

• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 160 – 2018 21 hours ago

  South / North

• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 159 – 2018 2 days ago

  South / North

• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 157 – 2018 4 days ago

  South / North

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  Stumbling and Mumbling

• Measuring competition 3 days ago

  How do you measure competition? I ask because on yesterday's PM programme Lynsey Hooper claimed (15 min in) that Amazon's broadcasting of some Premier League games next season means...

• Britain's open borders policy 6 days ago

  Whilst cycling the other day, I crossed the Leicestershire-Rutland border. And I was shocked to see…nothing. No border controls, no passport checks, no customs officials. Here...

• Why the MPC needs experts 10 days ago

  There’s no doubt that Jonathan Haskel is an excellent appointment to the MPC. What we should be asking is rather: isn’t he over-qualified? What I mean is that not much hangs upon...

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  Stagecraft and Statecraft

• The challenge of America’s new extraterritorial sanctions 3 days ago

  The United States, by imposing extraterritorial sanctions, seeks to effectively extend its jurisdiction far beyond its borders. However, such sanctions — which it euphemistically...

• The World According to Trump and Xi 4 days ago

  Trump’s “America First” strategy and Xi’s “Chinese dream” are founded on a common premise: that the world’s two biggest powers can act in their own interest with impunity...

• Can democracy and communism coexist? 4 days ago

  Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asian Review When Nepal’s new pro-China communist prime minister, Khadga Prasad Oli, shortly pays obeisance in Beijing, he will seek not only greater...

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  Socio-Economics History Blog

• Israel’s Founders Believed That Palestinians Are the Direct Descendants of The Ancient Hebrews of The Bible a day ago

• Trump-Macron Handshake Showdown at G7 Summit a day ago

• Canada to Impose Retaliatory Tariffs on US a day ago

  PressTV Published on Jun 10, 2018 The Canadian prime minister says he warned US President Donald Trump that his country will go ahead with imposing retaliatory tariffs on US goods...

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  Socialist Economic Bulletin

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  An Outbreak of Crass Cross-Party Economics a month ago

  By Tom O’LearyThere has recently been a spate of cross-party economic initiatives. Ostensibly they are designed to reach a ‘non-political’ consensus to address some areas...

  Ramani's blog

• Kashmir,Kasyapapura Kaspapyros Kaspeiria 50000 Years Old Mammoth Fossil. Missing a day ago

  Indian geologists say they have unearthed the 50,000-year-old fossil of an elephant in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The fossil was discovered in a field of saffron at Gallander...

• Nataraja,Shiva In Orion Constellation, Cave Arts As Hunter Kratha Shiva 2 days ago

  The Nazca Lines of Peru looks like Shiva's Trishul. It also seems to be OM in Tamil Brahmi Script. Orion Constellation resembles Hunter. Lord Shiva is called Kratha,The Hunter and...

• Akasa,Cloud Application of The Universe. 18 days ago

  At the Macro level all elements lie dormant and can be traced back to Akasa. Everything, including the Human body and the Universe. They draw out from Akasa as we download from Cloud...

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  Diane Ravitch's blog

• Why Does Reed Hastings Hate Public Schools? 13 minutes ago

  Reed Hastings is a tech entrepreneur, a billionaire, and founder of Netflix. He is assimilate about replacing public schools with charter schools. He served for a time as president...

• My Speech at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo 20 hours ago

  I am no longer giving lectures because I am devoting full time to writing a book. So, if you want to see the lecture I gave at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, here it is. What...

• New York: Who Was Behind the State’s Beneficence to Charter Schools? Cuomo. 20 hours ago

    Governor Andrew Cuomo has never been a friend to public schools or to public school teachers. He pushed for the harsh and ineffectual test-based teacher evaluations that everyone...

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  P U L S E

• Arab Revolution: It happened before, it’ll happen again 7 days ago

  Palestinian intellectual Iyad el-Baghdadi spoke at the first Oslo Freedom Forum in Johannesburg on why the Arab Spring failed to produce tangible results, but also how Arab youth...

• Are there really “no good guys” in Syria? a month ago

  A version of this article first appeared in The New Arab.  Following the Syrian regime’s recent chemical attack on Douma, US, Britain and France took swift but symbolic action...

• Disagreeing on the Internet: The New McCarthyism? a month ago

  Originally published at Muftah on December 19, 2016. What if the United States carried out daily bombing raids in a foreign country for over two years, killing hundreds of innocent...

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  Pasco Phronesis

• Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of May 28 7 days ago

  The Memorial Day holiday on the 28th prompted more repeats for late night and other shows.  Last week’s repeats offered a chance to re-see Silicon Valley actor Zach Woods on Late...

• Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of May 21 15 days ago

  Some programs took off the whole week for the Memorial Day Holiday, and others opted to air a repeat on the 25th.  The Daily Show decided to air best of episodes featuring their correspondents. ...

• Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of May 14 21 days ago

  While many shows will take time off later this month for the Memorial Day holiday, some programs got an early start this week, or took a break just because they felt like it.  Of those...

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  NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• Global Cooling Led To More Extremes Of Rainfall a day ago

  By Paul Homewood   We are constantly told that global warming has led to more extreme rainfall and other weather. As HH Lamb showed though, monthly extremes in rainfall actually increased...

• Hydrogen fuel cell trains herald new steam age 2 days ago

  By Paul Homewood   The Times reports:   Britain’s railways are to enter a new steam age with up to 100 ageing commuter trains poised to be converted to run on eco-friendly hydrogen...

• Chris Landsea Urges Caution Linking Hurricanes To Warming 3 days ago

  Thank goodness for honest climate scientists, such as Chris Landsea.   From CFACT:   The news media should be cautious about linking hurricane activity to global warming, according...

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  NoTricksZone

• New Hell Climate Change Gets Certified …Schellnhuber Prophesizes “End Of Civilization” a day ago

  There’s capital to be derived from climate change, and now spiritual leaders and organized religion are getting in the act. And they offer a real Hell you can believe in – even certified...

• 100-Year Russian Arctic Temperature Reconstruction Shows 1930s Just As Warm As Today! 2 days ago

  Russian Arctic in 1920-1940 was warmer than today By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated/edited by P. Gosselin) The topic today is the temperature...

• The Heat Is Gone! Hurricane Expert: “Tropical Atlantic 2nd Coldest”…”Could Suppress Hurricane Activity” 3 days ago

  Unusually cold tropical Atlantic could suppress hurricane activity this year, says Colorado State University hurricane expert Phillip Klotzbach. However cold tropical Atlantic...

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  NEPC Blog Post of the Day

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  Education Law Prof Blog: The Washington Legislature May Have Gotten the Supreme Court Off Its Back, But Is It Funding Schools Adequately? 3 days ago

  Education Law Prof Blog: The Washington Legislature May Have Gotten the Supreme Court Off Its Back, But Is It Funding Schools Adequately?   Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Washington...
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  Sam Chaltain: To (Re)Design School, We Need New Metaphors. Let's Start With These Five. 4 days ago

  Sam Chaltain: To (Re)Design School, We Need New Metaphors. Let's Start With These Five. I spend most of my waking hours in schools of the present that are working to recalibrate themselves...
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  Answer Sheet: At This School, Being 'Different' is an Asset 5 days ago

  Answer Sheet: At This School, Being 'Different' is an Asset Students and staff at Denver South High School, a gold winner in the Schools of Opportunity project. (Denver South High...

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  Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

• A Reply to Ronald Radosh’s Smear 4 days ago

  Victor Davis Hanson // National Review In a strange attack on my criticism of former CIA director John Brennan’s lack of veracity, Ron Radosh alleges that I have engaged in a...

• Ten Paradoxes Of Our Age 4 days ago

  Victor Davis Hanson // Hoover Institution The 21st century is reminding of us of some uncomfortable truths. Abroad, recent controversies over the rise of Chinese mercantilism...

• Europe’s Vanishing Calm 4 days ago

  Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Europeans claim to be building a new democratic culture but the governing elites of the European Union consider voters little more than members...

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The Moderate Voice

• It’s Time For Paul Manafort To Trade In His Designer Threads For A Prison Jumpsuit 3 hours ago

  Of all the bad actors who attached themselves to Donald Trump in the course of the Russia scandal, former campaign manager Paul Manafort may be the baddest, and so it would be fitting...

• Of Special Relationships and ‘Special Places’ 13 hours ago

  “There’s a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad-faith diplomacy with President Donald J. Trump and then tries to stab him in the back on the way out the...

• Solo (2018) 17 hours ago

  In the years to come, Solo will have to go solo and be relegated as a footnote in the Star Wars cinematic universe — or, galaxy. The post Solo (2018) appeared first on The...

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  Marginal REVOLUTION

• What should I ask Vitalik Buterin? 17 minutes ago

  I will be doing a Conversation with him (no associated public event), what should I ask him? If you have been living under a rock, here is his Wikipedia page.  Here is his Twitter account...

• We will never disapprove of current levels of animal cruelty 2 hours ago

  Not fundamentally, no.  However terrible our current treatment of animals may be, most of us don’t seem to mind very much, and I suppose that is consistent with what a Darwinian...

• The long-run consequences of male-biased sex ratios 9 hours ago

  From Pauline Grosjean & Rose Khattar, forthcoming, Review of Economic Studies: We document the short- and long-run effects of male-biased sex ratios. We exploit a natural...

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  Lloyd Lofthouse

• Boredom a month ago

  People who are often bored are at a greater risk of developing anxiety, depression, and drug or alcohol addiction. Continue reading →

• Anya Kamenetz: “A Nation at Risk” Cooked the Books a month ago

  Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: ? In this report by NPR journalist Anya Kamenetz, we learn that the famous 1983 report “A Nation at Risk,” we learn that the Reagan-era...

• Queen Eva’s Gambit 2 months ago

  Originally posted on Gary Rubinstein's Blog: In the New York Post today there was a headline that read “Charter school upsets juggernaut Stuyvesant HS on way to chess crown” It...

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  Protests Seek Release of UK “Political Prisoner” Tommy Robinson 3 hours ago

  Growing demonstrations in the United Kingdom and beyond are seeking the release of British activist and journalist Tommy Robinson, who gained international notoriety after being...
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  Who Owns New Land in Hawaii Created by Kilauea? a day ago

  As lava from the Kilauea volcano continues flowing, the question has been raised as to who will own the new land created by the cooling lava.
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  NFL Team to Host Gay “Inclusion” Summit 2 days ago

  The Minnesota Vikings are hosting a summit to promote lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer inclusion in sports.

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  MintPress News

• Colombia’s NATO Membership About More Than Just Venezuela 2 days ago

  Faced with questions about the continued relevance of the North Atlantic alliance, NATO has sought justification for its existence from Central Asia to Sub-Saharan Africa and has...

• Israel Pushes FIFA To Punish Argentina Over Solidarity with Palestine 3 days ago

  Israel is working overtime to pressure FIFA to boot Argentina from the World Cup in retaliation for a recent decision by Argentina’s Football Association to cancel a “friendly”...

• Don’t Call It Fake News! Facebook to Fully Fund Streaming Mainstream News Shows 3 days ago

  By betting on content that is easily found on cable or network television -- or even YouTube -- Facebook may be making a miscalculation. After all, Anderson Cooper or Shepard Smith...

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Mark's Daily Apple

• The Carnivore Diet: Pros, Cons, and Suggestions 19 days ago

  All-meat diets are growing in popularity. There are the cryptocurrency carnivores . There’s the daughter of the ascendant Jordan B. Peterson, Mikhaila Peterson, who’s using...

• Summer Preview: What’s In Store For Mark’s Daily Apple 20 days ago

  Where I’m from, snow showers aren’t unheard of over graduation weekends. To this day, I hold to the traditional “Memorial Day to Labor Day” timeline—and, well, here we...

• Dear Mark: More On Women and Fasting 21 days ago

  Last week, I updated an older post on women and intermittent fasting . For today’s edition of Dear Mark , I’ll be answering some of the comments and questions from that post. First...

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  Marginal REVOLUTION

• What I’ve been reading a day ago

  Gregory Claeys, Marx and Marxism, a better than expected take on where Marxism came from and how Marx’s different intellectual periods fit into his life.  One of the better introductions...

• Income inequality has stabilized as of late 2 days ago

  But from 2007 through 2014, the figure stabilized. Looking at market income, inequality increased by only 3 percent. Once you add in cash payments and in-kind transfers from government...

• Saturday assorted links 2 days ago

  1. The link between pay and productivity is still largely intact. 2. An exceptionally effective lobbyist. 3. Referenda tend to be anti-business. 4. Mister Rogers fixed old shows...

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  Made from Truth and Lies

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  Interesting Links for 10-06-2018 a day ago

  Brexit causes surge in support for united Ireland (tags: ireland ) Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there.
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  Interesting Links for 09-06-2018 2 days ago

  Talkin’ Treble: How Android engineers are winning the war on fragmentation (tags: android ) EU Brexit chief rejects plan for Northern Ireland backstop to apply to whole UK (tags...
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  Interesting Links for 08-06-2018 3 days ago

  Belfast woman to challenge NI abortion law (tags: NorthernIreland abortion ) Breakthrough pregnancy blood test can predict delivery date and help tackle risky premature births...

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Featured Health News from Medical News Today

• Medical News Today: Bacteriophages: A replacement for antibiotics? 3 hours ago

  A new study tests the possibility of using bacteriophages — viruses that kill bacteria — to treat gastrointestinal problems. The results are encouraging...

• Medical News Today: How to stop anxious lip biting 3 hours ago

  Many people bite their lip when they are anxious or uncomfortable, which can result in redness and sores on the lips. In extreme cases this is called body-focused repetitive behavior...

• Medical News Today: What causes chest pain that comes and goes? 3 hours ago

  Chest pain can have many origins, including problems with the heart, muscles, and lungs. When this pain comes and goes, a person may suspect a problem with the heart. In this article...

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  Brian M. Lucey

• Cryptocurrency Conference May 2018 24 days ago

  Agenda – Cryptocurreny Conference, 24 May 2018 (3)   At Anglia Ruskin University, Thursday 24 May 2018 09:00 – 09:30 Registration and refreshments 09:30 – 10:00 Welcome and...

• a-Fisking we shall go: Jonathan Stanley in Think Scotland a month ago

  Sometimes an article so boneheadedly wrong appears one has to take an hour or so to see if its a mistake, pisstake or real. Thus it is with this risible piece of nonsense in Think Scotland...

• a-Fisking we shall go – Hugh Bennett in Brexit Central, again!. 2 months ago

  Hugh Bennett (@hughrbennett) is the gift that keeps on giving. A rambling piece, devoid, nay utterly ignorant, of history and full of nonsequiturs and misdirection, his latest in...

  Jon's Text

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  Diesel the cleanest power 4 hours ago

  It produces 25% less CO2 and NO/NO2 (NOx) than burning petrol. It runs off by vegetable oil. Which takes in CO2 and NOx as it grows. It is a carbon and nitrogen zero fuel. CO2is plant food...
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  High Intensity UltraSound and cancer 19 hours ago

  1Mhz ULTRASOUND ULTRASONIC MASSAGER PAIN THERAPY ANTIAGING WRINKLE LOSS MACHINE£11.37Buy it nowor Best Offer+ £1.50 P&P55 watching|149 soldIn only 10-15 minutes...
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  Drugs illegal a day ago

  In 2002 the Moffitt cancer centre published by 100 patient double blind trial on High Intensity UultraSound clearing cancer at one application. Iuse 8W 1MHz ultrasound from a massage...

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  InvestmentWatch

• United States citizens have been sliding into a huge economic hole for a long time. a minute ago

  1972 until 2018. Private corps took over healthcare, Housing & Student Debt Up,up,up! Incomes &savings not so much. I thought capitalism was supposed to make prices go down?...

• As Snopes ‘Debunks’ Child Trafficking Camp, 160 Kids as Young as 3 Rescued in Georgia 12 minutes ago

  via thefreethoughtproject: North Fulton County, GA — A massive sting operation carried out by the FBI in metro Atlanta captured dozens of child traffickers and rescued 160 children...

• CorbettReport NWNW: Bilderberg (important links to new info of past meetings), CIA spy card game leaked and more. 13 minutes ago

  CorbettReport: New World Next Week discusses Bilderberg’s increasing vagueness regarding actual information available to the public from the meetings. Why don’t they want...

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  www.gurukalehuru.com

• Creativity 15 hours ago

  It was a creative day, in a few small ways.  I woke up from a dream in which I was teaching, and got an idea for a great game, emphasizing repetition of the ‘th’ sound, which all non-English...

• The Arrest of Sam Ronan 2 days ago

  Once again, a major story is being practically  ignored by the MSM so, just to piss into the wind, I’m going to talk about it.  If you Google ‘Sam Ronan arrested’ you  see an...

• A Perfect Life is Not Enough 3 days ago

  Anthony Bourdain’s death surprised me and shocked me.  Perhaps we will  find out more in  the coming days about why he killed himself.  I’ll be surprised if  we don’t. ...

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  Fragments from Floyd

• The Smaller-Hammer Approach 18 days ago

  Don’t get me wrong: the bigger-hammer folks still prevail in the arena of strip-mining the soil for maximizing profit from monoculture-derived soy, corn, cotton and the like...

• E(mesis) Pluribus Unum 19 days ago

  Or…Whatever you want to do you have to do something else first. One from the many–interruptions, distractions, diversions and alteration of so-called plans. Source: various...

• Aging in Place 20 days ago

  And so this is where the actuarial rubber meets the road. Baby boomers appeared of a sudden, historically. We swelled the ranks of the middle class. We demanded and got affordable housing...

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11 June - iG Portal Tab 8

  Eyes on Trade

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  For G-7, Trump’s racism and misogyny are ok, but his trade policies are intolerable 3 days ago

  Most G-7 leaders have worked with Trump despite his xenophobia and racism. But taking on the trade status quo was a bridge too far.
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  Corporate Lawyers Hijack UN Meeting, While Civil Society Is Sidelined 18 days ago

  By Melinda St. Louis As originally published in TruthOut Thanks to years of public education and organizing around the globe, the once-obscure investor-state dispute settlement...
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  NAFTA Talks Should Continue Until a Good Deal Is Achieved a month ago

  Statement of Lori Wallach, Director, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, released the following statement...

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• Levels of Consciousness and Modern Worldview 2 days ago

  By Dmitriy, Life Script Doctor Guest writer for Enlightened Consciousness Many people are looking for the answers to what is wrong with the world today. The answer could be quite simple...

• Physics of Seven Chakras and How to Balance 7 Chakras Correctly 2 days ago

  By Dmitriy, Life Script Doctor Guest writer for Enlightened Consciousness What are the seven chakras that you have probably heard about from a yoga instructor or during an energy...

• Jet Li on the 3 Levels of Self-Mastery 2 days ago

  “All your problems are on the inside, in your heart. The problems aren’t from the outside, from other people, so you need to study who you are. Who’s 100 percent you? If you understand...

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Featured Health News from Medical News Today

• Medical News Today: Bacteriophages: A replacement for antibiotics? 3 hours ago

  A new study tests the possibility of using bacteriophages — viruses that kill bacteria — to treat gastrointestinal problems. The results are encouraging...

• Medical News Today: How to stop anxious lip biting 3 hours ago

  Many people bite their lip when they are anxious or uncomfortable, which can result in redness and sores on the lips. In extreme cases this is called body-focused repetitive behavior...

• Medical News Today: What causes chest pain that comes and goes? 3 hours ago

  Chest pain can have many origins, including problems with the heart, muscles, and lungs. When this pain comes and goes, a person may suspect a problem with the heart. In this article...

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  Desdemona Despair

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  Atmospheric greenhouse gases continue inexorable rise – 2017 was sixth consecutive year CO2 rose by 2 ppm or more 2 days ago

  30 May 2018 (NOAA) – NOAA’s Annual Greenhouse Gas Index (AGGI), which tracks the warming influence of long-lived greenhouse gases, has increased by 41 percent from 1990 to 2017...
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  Yellowstone National Park’s top official, facing reassignment under Trump, is denied option to retire on his terms 2 days ago

  By Darryl Fears7 June 2018(The Washington Post) – The Trump administration issued a stern reply to Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Daniel Wenk’s offer to retire next...
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  25 percent increase in U.S. suicide rate since 1999 – Half of states saw rises of more than 30 percent – “Firearms make up about half of all suicides” 2 days ago

  By Susan Scutti8 June 2018(CNN) – Suicide rates increased by 25 percent across the United States over nearly two decades ending in 2016, according to research published Thursday...

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  The Daily Sheeple

• Interview With The Hacker Who Claims to Have “Swatted” David Hogg (Video) 3 days ago

  Someone placed a hoax call to the police which resulted in a SWAT team showing up at gun control activist David Hogg's home. A hacker claiming to be the caller spoke with independent...

• “I’ve Tarnished the Badge”: Leader of Rogue Baltimore Police Unit Gets 25 Years in Prison 3 days ago

  Former police sergeant Wayne Earl Jenkins was sentenced to 25 years in prison Thursday for leading the rogue Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF) of the Baltimore Police Department...

• Trump Says He “Really” Supports Senate Marijuana Legislation 3 days ago

  The bill, the Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Entrusting States (STATES) Act, would amend the federal Controlled Substances Act to exempt state-legal marijuana activity from...

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  Exceptional Delaware 2017

• What Is Margie Lopez Waite Doing Now? And Is A 3rd Charter In The Mix With Her Plans For DAPSS & ASPIRA? 2 days ago

  Will a Wilmington charter school become embroiled in the ongoing saga of Delaware Academy of Public Safety & Security and Las Americas ASPIRA Academy?  Many are saying yes...

• Kowalko Endorses Kathleen Davies For State Auditor 2 days ago

  Delaware Representative John Kowalko issued the following statement this afternoon: It is not often that I choose to make an endorsement in a primary election, but sometimes a candidate...

• June 2018 Shuffle 3 days ago

  There is plenty of stuff I could write about education today.  But I don’t want to.  I’m in one of those “need to purge” moods.  I haven’t done one of these in almost a year. ...

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  Have You Heard

• Teaching Machines: The Dream of Automating the Teaching Profession Goes Way Back 6 days ago

  TweetIn episode #43 of Have You Heard, Jennifer and Jack talk to Audrey Watters, expert on all things #edtech, about the age-old quest to automate teaching. You’ll laugh, you’ll...

• Wisconsin Wakes Up 21 days ago

  TweetNearly a decade has passed since Scott Walker took on teachers and other public employees in America’s Dairy Land, virtually eliminating their right to engage in collective...

• Getting Fundamental: Do Americans Have a Right to Public Education? a month ago

  TweetWhat does the 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, have to do with the teacher walkouts that are sweeping across the land today? Everything, explains law professor Derek Black...

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  Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger

• Looking Back in Time: Malaysia’s Hibiscus Revolution 2 hours ago

  June 11, 2018 Looking Back in Time: Malaysia’s Hibiscus Revolution that brought Najib’s Political Demise by Joseph Chinyong Liow (Tuesday, September 15, 2015) https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/power-plays-and-political-crisis-in-malaysia/...

• The Closing of the Cultural Mind? 8 hours ago

  June 11, 2018 The Closing of the Cultural Mind? by Giulio Meotti   In France, recently, a group of intellectuals published a manifesto asking the Islamic world to eliminate anti-Semitic...

• New Malaysia’s Underclass: What to do? 9 hours ago

  June 11, 2018 New Malaysia’s Underclass: What to do? by Dr. Lim Teck Ghee “What’s important is that we will need to think out of the box and have the courage to challenge long held...

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Featured Health News from Medical News Today

• Medical News Today: Bacteriophages: A replacement for antibiotics? 3 hours ago

  A new study tests the possibility of using bacteriophages — viruses that kill bacteria — to treat gastrointestinal problems. The results are encouraging...

• Medical News Today: How to stop anxious lip biting 3 hours ago

  Many people bite their lip when they are anxious or uncomfortable, which can result in redness and sores on the lips. In extreme cases this is called body-focused repetitive behavior...

• Medical News Today: What causes chest pain that comes and goes? 3 hours ago

  Chest pain can have many origins, including problems with the heart, muscles, and lungs. When this pain comes and goes, a person may suspect a problem with the heart. In this article...

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  Fast Company

• A brief (and depressing) history of LGBT workers’ rights 4 hours ago

  June was designated Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month, in part for remembrance of the Stonewall Uprising that occurred on June 28, 1969. LGBT patrons of New York...

• 4 questions to ask yourself when you have to make a big decision 5 hours ago

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• Amazon is under fire in Germany for destroying as-new and returned items 5 hours ago

  The business weekly WirtschaftsWoche and news show Frontal 21 have revealed the Amazon is destroying “massive amounts” of as-new and returned items, raising the ire of the German...

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  Chicago Boyz

• Chicago Boyz Waiting Room Series: 12 a day ago

• DC-3 plus 82 4 days ago

      June 7, 1936 marked the first delivery of one of the most important airplane types ever developed:  the Douglas DC-3, which has been called “the Model T of aviation.” The...

• June 6, 1944 5 days ago

  Neptunus Lex:  The liberation of France started when each, individual man on those landing craft as the ramp came down – each paratroop in his transport when the light turned green...

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  Centinel2012

• The Misconception of Central Banks 10 minutes ago

  Armstrong Economics Blog/Central Banks Re-Posted Jun 11, 2018 by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I was at the Treasury Management Association of Canada (TMAC) conference...

• Matthew Charles: Justice VS The Law a day ago

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• Perfect Timing – Part II: The Trump Doctrine… a day ago

  Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on June 9, 2018 by sundance When we ended part I... A U.S. foreign policy that provides the opportunity for fully-realized national authenticity...

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  CanadaFreePress.Com

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  New Utah State University Study helps cities budget for Water Main Breaks a month ago

  New data from Utah State University Buried Structures Laboratory quantifies water main breaks by pipe material type, helping towns and cities across Canada and the U.S. predict...
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  Trump to send $15 billion in spending rescissions later today a month ago

  You can argue it would have been better not to sign the Omnibus in the first place, but this will be a very positive end result if he can get it through Congress...
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  Former Dem Sen. Robert Torricelli: Dems don't deserve to govern, because their message isn't good enough a month ago

  There are a lot of reasons Democrats don’t deserve to govern.  Their ideas are horrible, they trend toward the destruction of the constitution at every opportunity, your rights...

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  The BRAD BLOG

• Sunday Toons Not Censored by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette a day ago

  These first two; others here from the report by FAIR. * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually on topics concerning the strange brew of Texas politics. He's also...

• HUD Scheme Will Increase Rent by 26%, Year After Year, For Lowest-Income Households: 'BradCast' 6/8/2018 2 days ago

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• Election Failure and Fallout in California, Alabama, South Dakota: 'BradCast' 6/7/2018 4 days ago

  On today's BradCast: We continue our coverage of fallout following this past Tuesday's midterm primary elections in eight states, as the counting and canvassing moves forward...

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  Below 2C

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  “White Elephants” – Canada, US, UK Wasting Billions On Energy Projects 4 days ago

  We are pleased to welcome Jeremy Leggett as a contributor to Below2°C. Jeremy describes himself as a social entrepreneur and writer. His long list of achievements and awards is...
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  Climate Action In Ontario – One Of The Parties Is Not Like The Others 7 days ago

  In a few days, Ontarians will be going to the polls to elect their next government. And following a trend started by the Liberal Party in the last federal election (October 2015), climate-related...
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  Canadians Now The Not-So-Proud Owners Of Very Own Pipeline 10 days ago

  I must admit that I did not see this coming. Canadians have been hearing for several weeks — since Kinder Morgan set its May 31 ultimatum — that Prime Minister Trudeau was considering...

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  bluebird of bitterness

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  Sunday funnies 16 hours ago

• Sunday musical offering a day ago

  Through all the world below God is seen all around; Search hills and valleys through, There He’s found. The growing of the corn, The lily and the thorn, The pleasent and forlorn, All...

• Caturday funnies 2 days ago

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  Home

• Trump orders Perry to stop coal, nuclear retirements 10 days ago

  This breaking news is reported by Utility Dive. It comes on the heels of a scoop by Bloomberg that "Trump Prepared Lifeline for Money-Losing Coal [and Nuclear] Power Plants." Public...
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  Dirty, dangerous, and expensive versus clean, safe, and affordable 11 days ago

  Wind turbine in downtown Cleveland. Ohio's Lake Erie shoreline has some of the best wind power potential in the U.S.As Dick Munson of Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has blogged...
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  Fukushima mothers visit France and the UN to demand their human rights 13 days ago

  A group of Japanese mothers and their children recently participated in a speaking tour in France and one mother, Akiko Morimatsu, (pictured above with her son) testified before...

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BlackListed News

• Net Neutrality Is Officially Repealed 9 hours ago

  Six months after the Federal Communications Commission voted to repeal federal net neutrality protections, the changes have quietly gone into effect. “There was an internet-wide...

• Musk Delivers 1,000 "Not a Flamethrower" Units: 20,000 Sold at $500 Each 9 hours ago

  Musk just delivered the first 1,000 of his "Not a Flamethrower" devices. It's a $500 toy with no practical use. It turns out, Elon Musk's flamethrower idea was not a joke as Musk’s...

• Combat Vet Posts Shocking Picture of How Many Pills He Has to Take Because Cannabis is Illegal 9 hours ago

  One veteran got so frustrated with the number of pills he had been prescribed to take on a daily basis that he decided to create a visual aid. After calculating that he took more than 9,855...

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  Research Digest

• A new study claims that, under pressure, imposter syndrome hits men harder than women 10 days ago

  The researchers said men with imposter syndrome may particularly struggle to cope with the cultural expectations that they be competent. By Christian Jarrett...

• Sending a supportive text to your partner can reduce their physiological stress levels, but only if you’re subtle about it 10 days ago

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• Taking a photo of something impairs your memory of it, but the reasons remain largely mysterious 11 days ago

  One possibility is that the effort of taking a photo tricks us into thinking we've already paid adequate attention to the target of the photo. By Alex Fradera...

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  re: The Auditors

• Speaking Engagements/Conferences a month ago

  I added a link to the details for the May 2 fraud conference in New York, where I will be a panelist with Michelle Leder of Footnoted.org, Tracey Coenen, Donn Vickrey, and moderated by...

• Mick Mulvaney, the CFPB and a “thing” a month ago

   Warning:  Coarse language, because we may get a lot of snow in Chicago but we’re no snowflakes. Last week I went to an American Bankers Association Conference for bank government...

• Update: KPMG: The Indictments 2 months ago

  Just a reminder to my readers: The mystery outside consulting firm that helped KPMG analyze the data Brian Sweet andCynthia Holder allegedly brought over from the PCAOB is still a...

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  Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

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  Sugar Loaf Ski Lodge in Cedar, Michigan 10 minutes ago

  The preserved remains of this ski resort near Traverse City, Michigan, create a quiet nostalgia you won’t find in most abandoned sites. After the mountain closed in 2000 due to heightened...
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  Limburger Sandwich 3 days ago

  Limburger cheese gets a bad reputation in modern times due to its rather pungent aroma (ranging from a yeasty funk to bad body odor, depending on its age). But for many years, a sandwich...
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  Found: A Lost John Coltrane Record 3 days ago

  On March 6, 1963, after a long day of recording, John Coltrane packed away his saxophones. Nearby, Jimmy Garrison put away his bass, Elvin Jones left his drum set, and McCoy Tyner closed...

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  Accidental Deliberations

• Sunday Morning Links 20 hours ago

  This and that for your Sunday reading.- J.W. Mason reviews Quinn Slobodian's Globalists with a reminder that the decades-long push to subjugate popular democracy to corporate interests...

• Saturday Morning Links 2 days ago

  This and that for your weekend reading.- Trish Hennessy examines the aftermath of Ontario's provincial election, while Andrew Mitrovica traces the spread of Trumpian antisocial...

• Musical interlude 3 days ago

  The Veronicas - Cruel

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