Monday, August 27, 2018

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  Washington's Blog



  • At the Veterans For Peace Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, on August 26, 2018, the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation awarded its 2018 Peace Prize to David Swanson, director of World...

  • Have an Active Kellogg-Briand Day

    14 hours ago
  • Remarks at Veterans For Peace Convention, St. Paul, Minnesota, August 26, 2018. There are a lot of things named Kellogg around here, and few who know why. The two biggest names in the...

  • US-UK Chemical Weapons Plot in Syria Exposed

    a day ago

    • Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov says the UK is plotting a chemical attack in Syria to be blamed on Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian Arab Army.  He said this will...

      The Vintage News



  • Neil Simon, who wrote some of the most popular plays in the 20th century American theater, died at age 91 on August 26, 2018, at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. His comedies...

  • Royal Karma: The King who was Accidentally Burnt Alive

    17 hours ago
  • Karma, the doctrine of inevitable consequence. The universal principle of retributive justice determining one person’s state of affairs. King Charles II of Navarre, infamously...

  • Bronze Age Fashion – The “Egtved Girl” Showed Remarkably Modern Taste

    17 hours ago

    • Do you have any idea who was one of the most fashionable figures of Bronze-Age Europe? Hint: She was buried in Denmark, but could have been born in Germany. Another hint? In popular culture...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!



  • HT: Lindsay Mitchell

  • Sounds like a good fellow

    4 hours ago

  • 14,000 Abandoned Wind Turbines Litter the United States

    6 hours ago

    • Originally posted on American Elephants: The towering symbols of a fading religion, over 14,000 wind turbines, abandoned, rusting, slowly decaying. When it is time to clean up after...

    The Truthseeker



  • Russian Ministry of Defence says "foreign specialists" are preparing to stage a chemical weapons attack in Syria in the next 48 hours to be blamed on Assad...

  • Russia Sends Largest Naval Armada of Syrian War in Response to Reports of Imminent US Attack

    4 hours ago
  • Reports of Russian warships sailing through the Bosphorus to thwart a possible U.S. strike on Syria

  • Russian Warships Heading For Syria

    4 hours ago

    • The war in Syria may be far from over

      TARPLEY.net



  • Nixon Had Just Two Months Left in Office When Public Learned in June 1974 He Had Been Implicated by Watergate Grand Jury, Which Wanted to Indict Him; Trump Under Attack on Eight Federal...

  • Trump’s Great Unraveling: Mueller Gains 11% in Approval in Single Month, Now Backed by 59%

    3 days ago
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, August 23, 2018 Sessions Rebuffs Don’s Attack, and Gets Some Cover from Hill Cronies...

  • Lawyer Says Cohen Would Give Mueller Evidence About 2016 Hacking Ops

    4 days ago

    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, August 22, 2018 Trump Struggles with His New Life as Unindicted Co-Conspirator: Lauds...

      Sustainable Pulse



  • Three U.S. NGOs jointly announced Thursday that they have resolved a consumer-protection action filed by the groups against General Mills in 2016, concerning General Mills’...

  • Vietnam Set to Increase Legal Pressure on Monsanto for Millions of Agent Orange Victims

    a day ago
  • Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry has stated that they will re-visit legal channels in an attempt to receive damages for over one million people, from a group of chemical companies including...

  • St Vincent and the Grenadines Government Suspends Imports of Glyphosate Herbicides over Health Fears

    2 days ago

    • The Government of St Vincent and the Grenadines has placed an immediate suspension on the importation of herbicides that contain the active ingredient glyphosate, following...

      sunshine hours



  • Hunger stones and Megadroughts   “The drought in Central Europe has shrunk the rivers & exposed “hunger stones”, where people of the past recorded droughts & the...

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 237 – 2018

    18 hours ago
  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 236 – 2018

    2 days ago

    • South / North

      Stumbling and Mumbling



  • One thing I especially like about Jesse Norman’s Adam Smith is his description of the social and intellectual climate in which Smith grew up. In doing so, he tells us that Smith’s...

  • Socialism in one country

    4 days ago
  • When I tweeted the other day that the crisis of capitalism consists of a decade-long stagnation in productivity (which has given us falling wages), a wise man replied that this is true...

  • Rebuilding commercial society

    5 days ago

    • We need Adam Smith more than ever. That’s the thesis of Jesse Norman’s new book, Adam Smith: What He Though And Why It Matters. To establish this, Norman first rescues Smith from...

      Stagecraft and Statecraft



  • From large-scale dam-building to unbridled resource-exploitation, human activity is causing serious damage to Himalayan ecosystems. While all the countries in the region are...

  • Divided Asean spins its wheels as great powers become back-seat drivers

    7 days ago
  • Brahma Chellaney says recent multilateral discussions in Singapore did little to advance preventive diplomacy or conflict resolution. Brahma Chellaney, South China Morning...

  • U.S. injects new irritant in ties with India

    8 days ago

    • Brahma Chellaney, Mail Today U.S. President Donald Trump’s first round of Iran-related sanctions has come into force this week, with no waiver for India in sight as yet. The U.S...

      Socio-Economics History Blog



  • INTERVIEW WITH DR DAVE JANDA AT OPERATION FREEDOM by http://goldenjackass.com/main5.html August 25th:  topics covered include the USDollar threatened in global currency...

  • Italy: Sicily’s Mount Etna Reawakens with Torrents of Ash and Lava

    7 hours ago
  • PressTV Published on Aug 25, 2018 Mount Etna in Sicily sprung into action on Saturday, spitting out lava and sending columns of ash into the sky, after the volcano initially reawoke...

  • US to Start Rejecting Palestinians’ Right to Return

    7 hours ago

    • PressTV Published on Aug 25, 2018 The US government is reportedly planning to announce that it will NOT recognize the right of return to the occupied territories for millions of...

      Socialist Economic Bulletin



  • By Tom O’Leary  Portugal is finally on the brink of ending the slump that began with the Great Recession at the start of 2008. But the economy remains far from a full recovery and important...

  • Jeremy Corbyn is right - manufacturing matters

    25 days 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...

  • The crisis in the NI economy never really ended

    a month ago

    • 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



  • One such intimate relationship is Mother. This relationship is universal and supersedes all relationships. Therefore Hinduism relies heavily on this concept...

  • Gayatri Mantra Celestial Doppler Phenomena of Sun Research Proves

    10 days ago
  • 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...

  • Mantras To Stop Rains, Floods Natural Calamities.

    11 days ago

    • 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



  • Mike Klonsky reflects on our current gun-happy Secretary of Education, who wants to let schools buy guns with money intended for education, and her predecessor Arne Duncan, who bought...

  • The Walls of Trump’s Castle Are Crumbling, As Once-Trusted Aides Flip

    15 hours ago
  • A team of Washington Post reporters wrote this story. The veil of secrecy is falling away. Yesterday a writer compared him to MacBeth. Maybe he should be compared to Lady MacBeth. “Out...

  • Maryland: The Network for Public Education Action Fund Endorses Ben Jealous, Democratic Candidate for Governor

    16 hours ago

    • Politico reported that Ben Jealous, who won the Democratic primary for governor in Maryland, is no fan of charter schools. His opponent, Republican Governor Larry Hogan, appointed...

      P U L S E



  • The following is an excerpt from an interview with me and my collaborator Nader Hashemi that will be published soon by the excellent online magazine Qantara.de. The interviewer...

  • Eulogy for a Formative Influence

    17 days ago
  • 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...

  • A Massacre, Not a Coup: A Response to Misinformation on Nicaragua

    24 days ago

    • 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



  • Once again, it’s the repeats that bring the content this past week.  Tuesday (August 14) you could have seen Bill Nye on a repeat of Last Call, or revisit Conan’s trip to Israel...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of August 6

    9 days ago
  • 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. ...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of July 30

    14 days ago

    • 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   http://www.dmi.dk/en/groenland/maalinger/greenland-ice-sheet-surface-mass-budget/#   As I pointed out the other day, the surface mass balance (SMB)...

  • Drought In Central Europe Reveals Cautionary ‘Hunger Stones’ In Czech River

    20 hours ago
  • By Paul Homewood   We are familiar with flood markers, which record high points of floods. Apparently droughts also have their own version, hunger stones as NPR reveal:   A lengthy...

  • The 1930s – The Decade Arctic Alarmists Forgot!

    2 days ago

    • By Paul Homewood   Further to recent posts on the Arctic, No Tricks Zone posted a relevant graph yesterday, showing historical Arctic sea ice  extent trends. It is based on a reconstruction...

      NoTricksZone



  • Parts of Europe woke up to near record low temperatures, snow and surface frost this morning as cold air swept across the continent from the north. Just a couple of weeks ago the climate...

  • Scientists Blame Warming For “Plummeting” Siberian Winter Temperatures! Mysterious Sea Ice-Stratosphere Interaction

    2 days ago
  • The contradictions we see in global warming science are often staggering. And climate scientists wonder why so many are skeptical. Some years ago I published 30 contradictory pairs...

  • Arctic Summer Sea Ice Growth Trend Extends Another Year …Greenland Summer One Of Coldest In 30 Years!

    3 days ago

    • As the Arctic summer ice melt approaches its peak, we can say with high certainty that this year’s ice melt will extend the trend of a rebounding Arctic ice mass by another year. Arctic...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day



  • UCLA Center X: Mitchell Chang: Affirming Diversity In this week’s Just Talk, John Rogers sits down with Mitchell Chang, professor of higher education at UCLA.  Professor Chang...

  • Answer Sheet: Will LeBron James’s New School Work Well? Here’s What the Research Says.

    3 days ago
  • Answer Sheet: Will LeBron James’s New School Work Well? Here’s What the Research Says. Basketball great LeBron James is putting millions of dollars from his family foundation...

  • Shanker Blog: Why Teacher Evaluation Reform is Not a Failure

    4 days ago

    • Shanker Blog: Why Teacher Evaluation Reform is Not a Failure The RAND Corporation recently released an important report on the impact of the Gates Foundation’s “Intensive...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers



  • Victor Davis Hanson // Hoover Institution I live on farm beside a rural avenue in central California, the fifth generation to reside in the same house. And after years of thefts, home...

  • The Bombs of August

    4 days ago
  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped a uranium-fueled atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, another U.S. Army Air Forces...

  • The Reexamination of Security Clearances Was Long Overdue

    5 days ago

    • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Much has been written about former CIA and FBI official Philip Mudd’s recent unhinged outburst on CNN against Paris Dennard for the latter’s...

    The Moderate Voice



  • When House Majority Leader Harry Reid wrote to FBI Director James Comey two years ago today to complain that the FBI was foot dragging on mounting evidence “of a direct connection...

  • The Loss of John McCain Is Personal

    4 hours ago
  • He told me that to get into public service, one must have a desire to do what is right. That, while political issues may be popular, they mustn't be the motivation to devote oneself to...

  • John McCain (Column, Cartoon and Video)

    5 hours ago

    • A lot of conservatives are aghast that many liberals, Democrats, and critics of John McCain are praising him today. Some are even accusing liberals of using his death to attack Donald...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • “Realizing this, we decided to turn the standard solution to self-control on its head: What if instead of seeking advice, we asked struggling people to give it,” write Eskreis-Winkler...

  • My Fall Industrial Organization reading list

    4 hours ago
  • This is only part one for the class, do not panic over whatever you think might be completely left out. That said, suggested additions are welcome I am putting the (long) list under the...

  • Sunday assorted links

    14 hours ago

    • 1. Paperwork pollution. 2. MIE: “Cornish public toilet with sea view up for auction for £15,000.” 3. DeLong on Corey Robin and socialism. The post Sunday assorted links appeared...

      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...

  • Trump’s “Preposterous ‘Collusion is Not a Crime’ Defense”

    13 days ago
  • 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...

  • An American Allegory Revealed through Stargirl

    14 days ago

    • What defines a fake Christian? Continue reading →

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  • No matter how hard they try, pinning something substantial on the President is a losing effort by the major media.

  • Two New Midterm Polls: Democrats May Sing Blues With Fizzling Blue Wave

    11 hours ago
  • “We learn from history that we do not learn from history,” the saying goes. That the same can be said of current events brings to mind the much ballyhooed midterm “blue wave,”...

  • McCain Was No Maverick on POWs

    16 hours ago

    • One would think that McCain’s nearly six years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam would have made him a natural to lead the effort to recover the POWs the Nixon administration left behind...

      MintPress News



  • All political parties in independent Yemen, including Houthis, have condemned the latest attack, saying that the blood of children had again been spilled before the blood of those...

  • Israeli Law Would Ban Public Display of Palestinian Flag Within Israel

    3 days ago
  • While the proposed law specifically bans the use of such flags during protests and demonstrations, it defines a protest as any gathering where three or more people are present, essentially...

  • US Imposes New Russia Sanctions “Until Change in Russian Behavior”

    3 days ago

    • Among the most stringent measures being proposed in Congress are ones that would impose curbs on Russian sovereign debt sales and tougher limits on some of the country’s biggest...

      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

    9 days 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

    9 days ago

    • Studio Drift had a great exhibit at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam featuring drifter, a monolithic block that levitates, rotates and moves around and in space. Drifter personifies...

      Made from Truth and Lies



  • Drive-in 'sex boxes' for prostitution are a wild success in Switzerland (tags: Switzerland prostitution ) The risks of alcohol (again) (with actual details of how dangerous, and...

  • Interesting Links for 25-08-2018

    2 days ago
  • Orangemen, priests and the limits of freedom of expression (tags: freespeech religion scotland ) Eerie Skyglow Called 'Steve' Isn't an Aurora, Is 'Completely Unknown' to Science...

  • Interesting Links for 24-08-2018

    3 days ago

    • Holed up: man falls into art installation of 8ft hole painted black (tags: art safety funny ) Brexit will cause disruption with or without a deal, EU warns (tags: uk europe doom ) Why...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • According to new research, after a certain point, ‘good’ cholesterol becomes bad for you, raising the risk of heart attack and cardiovascular death...

  • Medical News Today: Dogs: Our best friends in sickness and in health

    a day ago
  • Dogs really are a person's best friend — not least because they impact both our physical and our mental health. In this Spotlight, we explain why and how...

  • Medical News Today: The brain uses its 'autocorrect' feature to make out sounds

    a day ago

    • New research in spoken word recognition shows how the human brain uses an 'autocorrect' function to distinguish between ambiguous sounds.

      Jon's Text



  • Mel B Discusses PTSD Diagnosis, Reveals Intention To Enter 'Therapy Programme' I have never heard of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder causing memory loss people.  Still less that...

  • the Dr. will kill you now

    15 hours ago
  • In 200023 medical professors proved high intensity ultrasound will clear cancers at one appointment. 1 minute of 8 W 1 MHz ultrasound will do the job.1Mhz ULTRASOUND ULTRASONIC MASSAGER...

  • Curing Ischaemic/Coronary heart disease and stroke

    17 hours ago

    • Not even hard.  The world's biggest killers for the last 15 years.  2012 medics published the use of High Intensity UltraSound to the top left to the chest and the kidneys to clear...

      InvestmentWatch



  • This was cropped out of my previous video. Posted it due to popular request! I just went in all directions, just sharing what I was feeling about all this we ... Read more...

  • Donald Trump Just Shut Down Chuck Schumer’s Impeachment Scheme

    11 hours ago
  • The Great American Daily reports, Liberals pounced on the news that Michael Cohen claimed Trump ordered him to violate campaign finance laws. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse...

  • To Understand America’s Neofeudal Economy, Start with Extortion

    11 hours ago

    • by Charles Hugh-Smith Here is the result of America’s neofeudalism: soaring wealth and income inequality. Let’s spin the time machine back to the late Middle Ages, at the height...

      www.gurukalehuru.com



  • Try to remember back to a time long ago, in the last millennium even, when George Bush was president – the first one, who was as much of an evil war monger as anybody but not quite as obvious...

  • A Win, a Loss, or a What?

    a day ago
  • The Democratic Party has decided to limit the role of superdelegates, a little bit, and I’m not sure if it’s a win for progressives or not. On the one hand, Bernie Sanders seems to...

  • Memories

    3 days ago

    • One feature of Facebook that I’ve hated from the  beginning  has been ‘memories.’  It’s  not really about  personal memories, or  shared memories of great  events...

      Fragments from Floyd



  • Labor Day for many marks (or used to mark) the end of summer and the return of the kids to school. By that time, Floyd County students will have been in sweltering classrooms for almost...

  • Giant Hogweed is Here

    5 days ago
  • I recently had the opportunity to ask one of the most knowledgeable botanists I know as many pertinent questions out of my confused and confusing plants folder as I could tastefully...

  • We Once Lived Large. So Long, Energy Slaves

    7 days ago

    • I had an epiphany some years back, and until this morning, I had thought that this particular insight had been free of any influence but the AHA observation: how much human or animal...
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    27 August - iGoogle Portal Tab 8


      Eyes on Trade



  • Contrary to Donald Trump’s claim last week that he has reduced the trade deficit by $52 billion, the United States is on track to post a record high goods trade deficit for the first...

  • Will the U.S. and EU Revive the Damaging Pro-corporate, Anti-people TTIP Agenda?

    a month ago
  • Trump promised a new approach on trade policy that would fix past damage to working people. But what his administration and European Union officials said this week in their joint statement...

  • Today’s D.C. Visit by Top Mexican Trade Officials May Reveal Whether a Renegotiated NAFTA Deal Can Be Signed in 2018

    a month ago

    • Statement of Lori Wallach, Director, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Note: Today, the top Mexican trade officials of the current Peña Nieto and incoming López Obrador administrations...

      



  • Have you ever had the feeling that the same numbers keep showing up over and over again? Your morning coffee at your corner cafe cost $2.22. You have two missed calls on your mobile from...

  • 3 Ways To Empower Your Solar Plexus Chakra And Find Personal Power

    5 days ago
  • Having a balanced solar plexus chakra is of utmost importance because it’s the balancing point of all the 7 chakras. Your solar plexus chakra is the seat of your personal power that...

  • 11 Inspiring Stories Of People Who Gave The Planet A Second Chance And Did Miracles

    5 days ago

    • For the past century, planet Earth has been seriously damaged. More and more of us realize that our world is in danger. However, some people are actually doing something about it. People...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • According to new research, after a certain point, ‘good’ cholesterol becomes bad for you, raising the risk of heart attack and cardiovascular death...

  • Medical News Today: Dogs: Our best friends in sickness and in health

    a day ago
  • Dogs really are a person's best friend — not least because they impact both our physical and our mental health. In this Spotlight, we explain why and how...

  • Medical News Today: The brain uses its 'autocorrect' feature to make out sounds

    a day ago

    • New research in spoken word recognition shows how the human brain uses an 'autocorrect' function to distinguish between ambiguous sounds.

      Desdemona Despair



  • By Likhitha Butchireddygari11 August 2018(NBC News) – Daryl Peterson's farm has been in his family for as long as he's been alive. His father passed down the 2,500-acre spread...

  • British Columbia wildfire season in 2018 now second worst on record, behind only 2017

    14 hours ago
  • 26 August 2018 (The Canadian Press) – Government statistics indicate this year's wildfire season is the second worst in British Columbia's history, burning 945 square kilometres...

  • Hurricane Lane brings record rain to Hawaii, inundates parts of Big Island

    14 hours ago

    • By Mark Thiessen26 August 2018(AP) – Hurricane Lane secured its place in the history books before it quickly dissipated into a tropical storm and moved off from Hawaii. The storm...

      The Daily Sheeple



  • A lot of people obsessively focus on the vitamin content in fruit but they forget that it’s the unique combination of flavonoids, polyphenols, anthocyanins, tannins and other...

  • Before Public Roads, Private Companies Did It Better

    2 days ago
  • The best roads at the time were privately funded, for-profit businesses.

  • This Liberal Carried an American Flag to Protest Fascism in Portland. Antifa Cracked His Head Open With a Bat.

    2 days ago

    • Masked Antifa agitators told Welch, a Hillary voter, to hand over the flag. He resisted. They attacked.

      Exceptional Delaware 2017



  • Next up in the Candidate Message series is Seymour F. Ungus from the 42nd State Rep District.  He is running on the Delaware NOW ticket. Good evening Delaware.  I AM Seymour F. Ungus. ...

  • Candidate Message: Robert Mitchell, State Representative 35th District, Republican

    10 hours ago
  • Exceptional Delaware reached out to ALL candidates in the Delaware election through a post today.  Next up is Robert “Bob” Mitchell, running in the 35th State Rep District...

  • Breaking News: State Rep. Mike Ramone Is Having A Pool Party!

    10 hours ago

    • State Representative Mike Ramone from the 21st Representative District is hosting a pool party for constituents on September 9th, three days after the Primary Election.  In lieu...

      Have You Heard



  • TweetWhen LeBron James announced that he was opening a new school in his hometown of Akron, OH the crowd went crazy. James got cheers from public school advocates who applauded his...

  • Janus and the Future of Teachers Unions

    25 days ago
  • TweetWhat will the Supreme Court’s recent Janus ruling mean for teachers unions? Jon Shelton, author of the recent (and excellent) book Teacher Strike! Public Education and the...

  • The Problem with Fear-Based Education Reform

    a month ago

    • TweetDid you hear the one about how schools should be run more like businesses? In the latest episode of the Have You Heard podcast, Jennifer and Jack are joined by business journalist...

      Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger



  • August 24, 2018 Congratulations. Dr Khalid PM appoints Muhammed Abdul Khalid as economic advisor http://www.malaysiakini.com    Dr Abdul Khalid and Hwok-Aun Lee Economist...

  • When we will ever learn to do things on our own,nothing is gained from giveaways

    4 days ago
  • August 23, 2018 When we will ever learn to do things on our own, not depend on others for help. Face it, nothing is gained from giveaways By T K Chua http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com.my...

  • New York Times : Malaysia pushes back against China’s Vision

    4 days ago

    • August 24, 2018 New York Times :Malaysia pushes back against China’s Vision on account of Najib Razak’s stupidity KUANTAN, Malaysia — In the world’s most vital maritime...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • Using eye-tracking devices and complex data analysis, a new psychology study shows how two predictive minds collaborate to create the Ouija board effect...

  • Medical News Today: Why are my eyebrows itchy?

    2 days ago
  • Itchy eyebrows can be annoying, but they are rarely a cause for concern. Some people may also notice red, flaky skin or dandruff in the eyebrows. Common causes include skin conditions...

  • Medical News Today: Signs and causes of leaking amniotic fluid

    2 days ago

    • Many women experience an increase in vaginal discharge during pregnancy or find that they leak urine at times. However, a clear and odorless fluid coming from the vagina could be leaking...

      Fast Company



  • A gripping tech comeback story that began back in 2014 is now complete: Intel has completely beaten out Qualcomm to provide the modem chips inside of iPhones. Fast Company has reported...

  • Facebook stock hammered after earnings miss, slow growth forecast

    a month ago
  • Poof. There goes a quarter of really impressive stock gains. Over the last month, Facebook’s stock reflected investors’ apparent lack of concern about potentially damaging...

  • These InfoWars videos banned by YouTube are still alive on Facebook

    a month ago

    • YouTube announced today that it had removed four videos—which express hatred toward liberals, Muslims, and trans children—by right-wing bullshit artist (proper media reference...

      Chicago Boyz



  • It strikes me that the complaint against judicial elections (as voiced on this listserv) is rooted in the absence of life tenure — not elections per se. You could have elections filling...

  • The DIY ‘Assault Drone’ Siege of Russian Bases in Syria

    13 hours ago
  • Since New Years 2018, there have been 23 attacks with 45 (+) home brew do it yourself (DIY) assault drones in Syria aimed at Russian and Assad Regime bases.  Three to four separate...

  • Two Short Recents @ AVI

    19 hours ago

    • Humanities Degrees: Emailed from a familiar source, there is this new data and opinion on humanities degrees.  The writer is able to say ” I made a wrong prediction, the data didn’t...

      Centinel2012



  • Armstrong Economics Blog/The Hunt for Taxes Re-Posted Aug 26, 2018 by Martin Armstrong People really think we have free trade and somehow Trump is reversing that fact. This, of course...

  • Australian Politics – 6 Prime Ministers in 13 years

    18 hours ago
  • Armstrong Economics Blog/Australia & Oceania RE-Posted Aug 26, 2018 by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Dear Mr. Armstrong, I don’t know if you’ve heard the news but here down...

  • Paul Wood: “I have spoken to one intelligence source who says Mueller is examining ‘electronic records’ that would place Cohen in Prague.”…

    18 hours ago

    • Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree house on August 25, 2018 by sundance It is an inarguable fact that ideologues within the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation...

      The BRAD BLOG



  • "A man in his position can't afford to be made to look ridiculous". Oh, and strip superdelegates of power ... Women (and everyone who loves and supports them) will take to the streets...

  • EPA Admits Trump's 'Dirty Power Plan' Will Kill Thousands of Americans: 'BradCast' 8/24/2018

    2 days ago
  • Before we get to our guest on today's BradCast, a number of news items (and that may be an understatement) of note. [Audio link to show is posted below.] First, the latest in the quickening...

  • 'Trump Tripped Up By His Own Pecker' and MUCH More News of the Day: 'BradCast' 8/23/2018

    3 days ago

    • Like the news cycle, we're all over the place on today's BradCast with politics, accountability and corruption news, democracy and voting news, green news and court news and much...

      Below 2C



  • Lynne Quarmby is a professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Simon Fraser University. She was arrested for civil disobedience protesting the Trans...

  • The Best Way To Create Jobs: Reduce Fossil Fuel Use

    6 days ago
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