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Rashida
Tlaib has nothing about war or peace on her website. And she’s going to
be elected to the seat held by Congressman John Conyers, famous for
giving speeches for things like...
Since
elections are extremely profitable for traditional media / social media
corporations, your sanity will gleefully be sacrificed in the upcoming
election–if you are gullible...
The Vintage News
A
part of a U.S. Destroyer hit by a Japanese mine in World War II was
finally discovered in the waters off the Aleutian Islands in Alaska,
almost 75 years to the day since it was sunk. Sonar...
The Most Famous Duel in American History
9 hours ago
In
1836, Alexander Hamilton’s son avenged his father’s death thirty-two
years earlier by disparaging Aaron Burr in court, as Burr’s wife’s
divorce attorney. Burr was accused...
Utopia – you are standing in it!
Yom Kippur War | 3 Minute History
4 hours ago
Dirty Harry IV – Too much sugar is bad for you
5 hours ago
The
Kamand has been dubbed the "Iranian Phalanx" after the U.S. naval
defence system that shreds incoming missiles with automated machine guns
Allegations
of "anti-Semitism" within the Labour Party have achieved their aim.
Party members now endlessly obsess about alleged "anti-Semitism" in
their ranks while ignoring...
United
Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System
Network|Thursday, August 16, 2018 Comey Told AG Lynch of “Cadre of
Senior People” at FBI New York Field...
United
Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System
Network|Wednesday, August 15, 2018 DC Sees Desperate “Tyrant,”
“Autocrat,” and “Despot”...
Professor Channa
Sudath Jayasumana from Rajarata University announced earlier this week
that a group of farmer organizations, researchers, patients and the
families of deceased...
The
California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to hear a challenge to a key
provision of the state’s landmark chemical consumer-disclosure law,
Proposition 65, brought by Monsanto...
sunshine hours
South / North
The
electrical pricing is setting old people up to not use the air
conditioning that they may truly need at some point to save their life.
Steeply tiered electricity costs can nail people...
Stumbling and Mumbling
Simon
has a good discussion on whether fiscal or monetary policy is better at
stabilizing output. I’d suggest, though, that neither is in practice
particularly good and that what...
Over- and Under-reactions in politics
4 days ago
You
will all have had experience of somebody flying off the handle on the
slightest provocation – brushing against them in a crowded pub, or
pulling out in front of them in traffic...
Our broken politics
8 days ago
Stagecraft and Statecraft
As
unpredictable as Trump can be, several of his key foreign-policy
decisions suggest that his administration is pursuing a coherent vision
aimed at reviving America’s global...
The Modi Phenomenon and the Remaking of India
14 days ago
Brahma
Chellaney, Panorama Journal, Vol. 01/2018 In the four years that he has
been in office, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has animated domestic
politics in India and the country’s...
Socio-Economics History Blog
The
Western Financial System Teeters on the Brink — Only a New Bretton
Woods Agreement Among the Four Powers Can Prevent Chaos
by https://larouchepac.com/ The Western monetary...
Greg
Hunter’s Weekly Update: Brennan Loses Security Clearance, Big Tech
Killing Free Speech, Dollar, Trade War And Global Reset by Greg
Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (WNW...
US Seeks NAFTA Deal with Mexico Without Canada
19 hours ago
By
Tom O’LearyThe multi-faceted attack on Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of
the Labour Party continues to include unjustified attacks on his
economic policy. The liberal press...
By
Tom O’LearyThe latest release of key data for Northern Ireland (NI) has
had business organisations wringing their hands about the weakness of
the economy. The CBI said the economy...
Ramani's blog
Though
many books and articles have used and are using Ramani's blog as one of
the sources to validate ancient thoughts, I am particularly happy when
Scientists take reference to my...
There
is a saying in Tamil that there is none who has prospered continuously
for ten years,nor one who has suffered for ten years. Life ,which
includes Nature,is a Cycle. Every thing...
Diane Ravitch's blog
Aaron
Regunberg is running for Lt. Governor of Rhode Island. He is 28, and he
is part of the new wave of progressive Democrats trying to remake the
party. If you live in Rhode Island, please...
Gail Collins on The Bane that Is Betsy DeVos
5 hours ago
A
very welcome column about our odious Secretary of Education by the
brilliant Gail Collins. The Bane That Is Betsy DeVos
https://nyti.ms/2MvmgC5?smid=nytcore-ios-share Today...
P U L S E
Twenty
years ago today, on August 9, 1998, I delivered this eulogy at the
dedication ceremony, or unveiling, of Eugene Zucker, my next-door
neighbor growing up and a formative influence...
Guest
post by Dr. Mary Ellsberg, a Professor of Global Health and
International Studies, and Founding Director of the Global Women’s
Institute of the George Washington University...
Pasco Phronesis
If
it wasn’t for Harry Connick Junior’s daytime show Harry, I’d have
nothing to write about for this past week. This time it’s the August
7th repeat of a show from January. ...
You
know it’s the doldrums of summer when even The Tonight Show is cutting
back its new episodes during the summer. The week of July 30 continued
the season’s trend (echoed throughout...
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By
Paul Homewood The BBC has news of the terrible floods in India: At
least 324 people have been killed in flooding in the southern Indian
state of Kerala in what local officials...
By
Paul Homewood Today’s offering from the dumbed down Telegraph is from
silly little girl called Lucy Mangan: I’m on holiday in Norfolk at
the moment, and was standing on...
NoTricksZone
To
keep informed on how the Atlantic hurricane season is developing, I
find that hurricane expert Philip Klotzbach of the Colorado State
University does a good job at that at Twitter...
Aerial
photos show that the 15 temperature observation stations the JMA is
using to determine mean temperature anomalies are likely impacted far
more by urbanization than the agency...
NEPC Blog Post of the Day
Have
You Heard: A Star-Powered Promise: LeBron Takes a Shot at School Reform
When LeBron James announced that he was opening a new school in his
hometown of Akron, OH the crowd went crazy...
VAMboozled!:
ACT Also Finds but Discourages States’ Decreased Use of VAMs Post-ESSA
Last June (2018), I released a blog post covering three key findings
from a study that I...
Victor
Davis Hanson // American Greatness Some 450 days ago we were treated to
melodramatic announcements from the media about the start-up of Robert
Mueller’s “dream” and...
The Deflation of the Academic Brand
4 days ago
Victor
Davis Hanson // National Review Trumpism is sometimes derided as an
updated know-nothingism that rejects expertise and the input of
credentialed expertise. Supposedly...
08-13-2018 Angry Reader
5 days ago
The post Cartoon: John Brennan appeared first on The Moderate Voice.
Joseph
Graf, American University School of Communication Mainstream press
coverage of President Trump has been unfavorable. Thomas Patterson found
that 80 percent of stories...
Marginal REVOLUTION
Contemporary
art had taught them [young Iranian artists] that there is always a
different way of seeing. That is from The Dawn of Eurasia, by Bruno
Maçães, and it is worth more than...
Saturday assorted links
5 hours ago
1.
A Bitcoin joke. 2. Are there hot streaks in individual careers? 3.
Claims about populism (pdf, slides). 4. NPR: “The Story Behind the
Numbers”: Full Episode: https://n.pr/2L2c13m...
Drifter
10 hours ago
Lloyd Lofthouse
Originally
posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: When I read something this powerful, I
am moved to share it. I find the last line strange. Donald Trump will
never become “the leader we...
Originally
posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Rudy Guiliani and Trump have recently
contended that “collusion is not a crime” but real lawyers know that
“collusion” is a straw...
“Social
Media is totally discriminating against Republican/Conservative
voices,” and “the Trump administration ... won’t let that happen.” So
wrote President Trump...
The
Q "conspiracy" phenomena on the Internet raises a larger question: Are
all conspiracy theories just bunk, or could some of them be true?
MintPress News
The
warning is contained in an annual Pentagon report prepared for Congress
called Military and Security Developments Involving The People's
Republic of China 2018, which further...
On
Thursday, the Pentagon announced that the parade would not move forward
this year, after estimates for the events cost jumped more than 600
percent from previous proposals. The...
What’s Left in Nicaragua after Ortega
a day ago
1.
The Volokh Law School. 2. Bahamas guitarist Joseph Spence (New Yorker).
3. Those new service sector jobs: intimacy directors. 4. Robot peers.
5. Nearly half of the mud volcanoes...
What should I ask Bruno Maçães?
3 days ago
I
will be doing a Conversation with him. Bruno is the author of Dawn of
Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order, published earlier in the
United Kingdom but just now in the United...
The
Next Ten Billion Years (tags: thefuture short_story scifi ) Job
interviews are worse than useless (and so are academic ones) (tags:
interviews fail research psychology work...
Israel
has turned into a police state (tags: Israel rights OhForFucksSake )
Rare jumping spider discovered in UK for first time ever (tags: spiders
uk ) First biomarker evidence of...
Listening
to a rhythm can produce synchronized rhythms in the brain. According to
new research, low-frequency sounds help the brain lock onto the beat...
Having
a preference for evening activities, as well as sleeping at different
times in the weekdays and weekends, may lead to weight gain in some
people...
The
UK generates 45 GW of power. That use 44,000,000,000,000 pounds of
power every year. That is trillion. If we link a 50x1cm plasma tube to
a thermoelectric generator the national...
Ben
Franklin discovered electricity in a lightening involved. No combustion
involved. He actually stumbled across light element nuclear fission1
H2O+TU->2H++O++3e-2 H++e- ...
InvestmentWatch
by
legitqu So at the moment barely a day goes by when we’re not coming
across some new argument for why we’re due a downturn and/or recession
[*] It got ... Read more...
Will
the Fed cause a crash on purpose? Or is everything happening naturally?
The Federal Reserve and other central banks had printed trillions but
what happens when they turns off...
www.gurukalehuru.com
There’s
another scandal of Catholic priests molesting small children, mostly
boys. Of course, this scandal comes up now and again. But it seems
this is a ...
The Most Classless Person Ever
2 days ago
The
presidency, I’m sure, is a tough job. Trying to protect the
environment, not tank the economy, negotiating with foreign powers who
all have different interests, and...
Isle of Dogs
3 days ago
Fragments from Floyd
I
promise. Not fake news. Not an alternative fact. I did see this. On
Goose Creek. Yesterday. It’s Planet Floyd. Trust me. I’m a stable
genius. The above is true. Except for the stable...
All in a Day’s Web
2 days ago
Yet
another spider web. This one, freshly minted, just opened for business.
Another day, another web. If you’re an orb-weaver, it’s your work. It’s
what you do. No big deal...
Balm of Gilead
3 days ago
- Neither of these words in the title are likely too familiar, and less so in these parts the tree that sometimes goes by that common name. Balm of course is a soothing ointment, and Gilead...
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