Tuesday, September 11, 2018

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  Washington's Blog


  • A new report by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies “focuses on the five largest U.S. arms manufacturers — Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics...

  • 9/11 In Context

    9 hours ago
  • Only with context can we gain insight and perspective into the horrible, barbaric 9/11 attack. Presidents, Prime Ministers, Congressmen, Generals, Spooks, Soldiers and Police...

  • Prelude to World War III

    12 hours ago

    • Eric Zuesse Unless Syria will simply hand its most heavily pro-jihadist province, Idlib, to adjoining Turkey, which claims to have 30,000 troops there and is planning to add 20,000...

      The Vintage News



  • The SS Baychimo launched in 1914 under the name of Ångermanelfven. She was last seen in 1969 floating in the Arctic. For all we know, she still wanders the vast waters around the globe...

  • Pablo Escobar’s Son Claimed Frank Sinatra was a Cocaine Dealer

    4 hours ago
  • Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was a Colombian drug trafficker who, during his peak in the ‘80s, controlled over 80 percent of the cocaine shipped to the United States, according...

  • The Classic ‘French Connection’ Car Chase – Many of the Close Calls in Traffic were Real

    4 hours ago

    • It is one of the most famous car chases in cinema history, in a film famed for its gritty realism about drug crime and cops in New York City in the early 1970s. More than halfway into the...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!




  • Christopher Hitchens on 9/11 & Becoming an American (2010)

    44 minutes ago

  • Primordial @NZGreens

    3 hours ago


    • The Truthseeker



  • No one would think twice if you questioned the Resurrection. However, you cannot question what Israel Shamir calls the "mother of all dogmas" without risk...

  • Jews and Gentiles

    9 hours ago
  • Introduction to a talk Gilad is due to give in New York on Tuesday, Sept 11

  • Will World War III Start This Week?

    10 hours ago

    • We don't think so but the WSJ has published claims that Assad plans to launch gas attacks on civilians, which will signal a go-ahead for the US to strike at Syria, and maybe Iranian and...

      TARPLEY.net



  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, September 10, 2018 Tenant of Oval Still a Useful Idiot for Kim, Who Is Building Nukes Faster...

  • Tell Collins, Murkowski, and Scott to Stop Kavanaugh, Block Shift of Supremes Toward Permanent Austerity Dictatorship

    2 days ago
  • Kavanaugh No Conservative, but Radical Reactionary on Roe, Obamacare, Unitary Executive, Discrimination, Unions; He Won’t Recuse, Won’t Come Clean, so Reject Him!; Constitutional...

  • New York Times Op-Ed Is Damage Control for Desperate Republicans!

    4 days ago

    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, September 6, 2018 Subtext Is That GOP Bigwigs Have White House Under Control, So No Need...

      Sustainable Pulse



  • New testing conducted by an independent lab found glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup, in common children’s lunch foods and snacks sold in Canada. The testing...

  • France Becomes First Country in Europe to Ban All Bee Killing Neonics

    5 days ago
  • France took a radical step towards protecting its dwindling bee population last Saturday by becoming the first country in Europe to ban five pesticides researchers believe...

  • Bayer Slashes Earnings Forecast over Rise in Roundup Cancer Cases

    6 days ago

    • Bayer has slashed its earnings forecast Wednesday due to, amongst other things, a growing global legal battle surrounding the carcinogenic weedkiller Roundup. The weaker earnings...

      sunshine hours



  •   South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 250 – 2018

    3 days ago
  • Arctic is 1.3 million higher than 2012 on day 250. South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 249 – 2018

    4 days ago

    • South / North

      Stumbling and Mumbling



  • Lord Blunkett made an interesting point on Friday’s Today programme (2’18” in): Nobody below their mid-50s will remember the early 1980s…The problem for the group who think...

  • Doubts about wage-led growth

    3 days ago
  • “Higher wages prompt improvements in productivity”. This is one of the central claims in the IPPR’s report this week. But I wonder: how true is it? Certainly, it can be for individual...

  • Short-termism: what's the problem?

    5 days ago

    • There’s a widespread consensus that corporate short-termism is a problem. Many have welcomed Donald Trump’s call to end quarterly reporting in the hope that it might lengthen...

      Stagecraft and Statecraft



  • Communist-ruled Nepal’s troubling tilt toward China — as exemplified by latest developments — is a reminder of the costs India is incurring for its blunder in engineering...

  • A shadow over the ‘two-plus-two’ meeting

    8 days ago
  • Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times, September 4, 2018 The US has emerged as India’s most important partner. The inaugural India-US “two-plus-two” ministerial dialogue...

  • A Global Environmental Threat Made in China

    19 days ago

    • 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...

      Socio-Economics History Blog



  • Operation Freedom Published on Sep 10, 2018 The spotlight of this Briefing focusses on yet another FAILED coup attempt of President Trump and his Administration. end...

  • Bolton Threatens Sanctions Against ICC Judges Who Probe US War Crimes

    10 hours ago
  • PressTV Published on Sep 10, 2018 White House National Security Adviser John Bolton has threatened sanctions against International Criminal Court (ICC) judges who plan to probe...

  • China Vows Retaliation if US Approves More Tariffs

    10 hours ago

    • RT America Published on Sep 10, 2018 As the economy is on everyone’s mind, President Trump says leaders of several countries have contacted him to discuss new trade deals. RT America’s...

      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

    a month 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

    2 months 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



  • God does not have Religion. Madurai Meenakshi spoke to a Britishers and saved him. Raghavendra swamigal spoke to Britishers.

  • Shiva Lingam Design Teotihuacan Temple Mexico Vatican City

    a day ago
  • The featured image is the aerial view of Sun Temple in Teotihuacan Mexico and the Courtyard of Saint Peters Cathedral in Vatican. More information about the presence of Sanatana Dharma...

  • Temple Construction Pdf Texts Not Veda Upa Veda Temple Construction 3

    6 days ago

    • I seem to landing on controversies when I start writing in detail. I have written on Temple construction History. I have mentioned that temple Worship is not mentioned in the Vedas...

      Diane Ravitch's blog



  • Andrew Cuomo is a disgusting politician. His campaign distributed flyers calling his underfunded opponent Cynthia Nixon an ant-Semite. This is absurd on many levels, since Nixon...

  • Fawning Over Billionaire Laurene Powell Jobs and Her XQ Competition to “Reinvent” the High School

    19 hours ago
  • Politico Morning Education reports on Laurene Powell Jobs venture into redesigning the American high school: FIRST LOOK: A GUIDE FOR STATES ON REVAMPING HIGH SCHOOL: A private philanthropic...

  • Do You Live in Tulsa? “Backpack” Is Coming to You!

    20 hours ago

    • Lucky you! TulsaKids magazine is hosting a screening and panel discussion of Backpack Full of Cash on September 20th followed by a week long run of the film at the Circle Theater there...

      P U L S E



  • These are extracts from Hasan Almossa’s as-yet unpublished book “I Was Born Twice”. Hasan is the founder of Kids Paradise, an NGO supporting vulnerable people and implementing...

  • Left-Wing Orientalism: The Curious Case of Patrick Cockburn

    17 days ago
  • 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

    a month 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...

      Pasco Phronesis



  • Even with most shows returning from a late summer break, this past week was notable for the repeats.  On Monday the 3rd, you could have re-watched the recent appearance of Silicon...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of August 27

    8 days ago
  • We’ll start the listings for last week with noting yet another appearance from a cast member of The Big Bang Theory who plays a scientist.  As the show recently announced it will...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of August 20

    10 days ago

    • The summer repeats continued the week of August 20.  The repeat of note that week was Jeffrey Wright’s May appearance with Carson Daly.  Wright plays an android on Westworld...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT



  • By Paul Homewood   Anybody unsure about the safety of fracking should read this article in the Telegraph in 2013:   Wytch Farm in Dorset is in the heart of an Area of Outstanding Natural...

  • Hurricane Florence: Nature’s Business as Usual, Not Climate Change

    3 hours ago
  • By Paul Homewood   From Roy Spencer:   Although it is still 3-4 days away, rapidly strengthening Hurricane Florence is increasing the threat of a major hurricane landfall somewhere...

  • BBC’s Country File & Fracking

    20 hours ago

    • By Paul Homewood   Yesterday the BBC’s  Country File broadcast a shamelessly anti-fracking segment:   https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bk6n4x/countryfile-essex...

      NoTricksZone



  • Even though CO2 concentrations hovered well below 300 ppm throughout most of the Holocene, newly published paleoclimate reconstructions affirm that today’s surface temperatures...

  • German Green Energy Debacle: “Self Deception”…Dependence On Coal “Cemented For Years To Come”!

    2 days ago
  • Germany used to be regarded as a global leader in the transition to renewable green energies — especially wind and solar power — a project dubbed the “Energiewende”. But this...

  • Get Ready For Insane Climate Ambulance Chasing Headlines: Global Warming Causing “Unprecedented Hurricane” Florence!

    3 days ago

    • My daughter will be visiting Wilmington next week, and so Hurricane Florence has been very much on my mind. Days ago, almost all weather models showed the cyclone curving out into the...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day



  • Answer Sheet: If You Don't Know What a 'Community School' Is, You Should. Take a Look at This One Students at Broome Street Academy Charter High School in New York City have fun with a...

  • OurFuture.org: It’s Back-To-Underfunding, Charter-Scandal School Time

    4 days ago
  • OurFuture.org: It’s Back-To-Underfunding, Charter-Scandal School Time Some of the most memorable education news stories from the 2017-18 school year were the photos spreading...

  • Answer Sheet: The Real Story of New Orleans and Its Charter Schools

    5 days ago

    • Answer Sheet: The Real Story of New Orleans and Its Charter Schools New Orleans, seen from a ferry on the Mississippi River. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) School choice proponents...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers



  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Using funerals for political purposes has a long, but not distinguished, tradition. In 44 B.C. eulogist Mark Antony claimed to Roman mourners...

  • Strategika Issue 53: U.S. Engagement with Russia

    6 days ago
  • Toe-to-Toe with the Russkis: Is Realistic Engagement with the Russians Still Possible? Please read a new essay by my colleague from the Military History Working Group, Ralph Peters...

  • Res Ipsa Loquitur

    6 days ago

    • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Donald Trump in his Twitter storms apparently has no idea that he is winning. The Brett Kavanaugh opening hearing turned into a progressive...

    The Moderate Voice



  • The post Cartoon: 9/11 appeared first on The Moderate Voice.

  • 17 Years On, Al Qaeda Is Stronger Than Ever & The 9/11 Cover-Up Remains Firmly Intact

    8 hours ago
  • Who doesn’t remember what they were doing 17 years ago today as the first fragmentary reports dribbled out about one aircraft and then a second hitting the Twin Towers of the World...

  • Trump’s radically un-American agenda

    8 hours ago

    • WASHINGTON — President Trump’s antics in his “Crazytown” White House inevitably dominate the headlines. Meanwhile, however, his wrongheaded policies are damaging far...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • A paper in Science covering over 80 thousand articles in 923 scientific journals finds that rejected papers are ultimately cited more than first acceptances. We compared the number...

  • The elasticity of science

    a day ago
  • From Kyle Myers: This paper estimates the degree to which scientists are willing to change the direction of their work in exchange for resources. Novel data from the National Institutes...

  • Taxes and innovation: shout it from the rooftops

    7 hours ago

    • We find that taxes matter for innovation: higher personal and corporate income taxes negatively affect the quantity, quality, and location of inventive activity at the macro and...

      Lloyd Lofthouse



  • Originally posted on Crazy Normal - the Classroom Exposé: When the privatization of public education is at the heart of an election, billionaires spend record breaking sums to bend...

  • Navy Admiral: “Dear Mr. President: Revoke My Security Clearance Too”

    a month ago
  • 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”

    a month 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...

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  • New York Times best-selling author Dinesh D’Souza explains the truth that Democrats hide and lie about: It it is their party that has been anti-black...

  • Anti-Gun Rights David Hogg Calls for Canadians to Intervene to Save America

    5 hours ago
  • Apparently, David Hogg and liberals like him are not so sure they and their Democratic Party allies can win back Congress, and are now resorting to calling for foreign intervention...

  • Alamo Defenders Are Latest Target in Left’s Attack on American Heritage

    7 hours ago

    • According to a curriculum advisory group, Texas schoolchildren should not be taught that defenders of the Alamo are heroes.

      MintPress News



  • The State Department said “the PLO has not taken steps to advance the start of direct and meaningful negotiations with Israel." The post US Shutters Palestine Liberation Organization’s...

  • Ortega Warns of US Military Intervention, Open to Meeting Trump

    13 minutes ago
  • In an interview aired Monday night, Nicaraguan President Ortega said he will talk to U.S. President Trump, but wants the U.S. government out of Nicaraguan affairs. The post Ortega...

  • ‘Major Victory’: Legal Challenge Halts Construction of Bayou Bridge Pipeline

    13 minutes ago

    • While celebrating the win, activists noted that "construction of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline continues in other parts of the Atchafalaya Basin" and vowed to keep fighting to completely...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • We find that taxes matter for innovation: higher personal and corporate income taxes negatively affect the quantity, quality, and location of inventive activity at the macro and...

  • What is tragedy? (response to a query)

    8 hours ago
  • So what is tragedy? “A work is a tragedy, Aristotle tells us, only if it arouses pity and fear. Why does he single out these two passions?” That seems wrong to me. For one thing, it...

  • Monday assorted links

    19 hours ago

    • 1. Black in the USSR. 2. The musical philosophy of Henry Flynt. 3. EconSpark, new AEA discussion forum. The post Monday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION...

      Made from Truth and Lies



  • Ancient farmers spared us from glaciers by profoundly changing Earth's climate (tags: globalwarming farming prehistory ) "I survived the Warsaw ghetto. Here are the lessons I’d...

  • Interesting Links for 10-09-2018

    a day ago
  • The NYT “Part of the Resistance ” piece is strategic conservative propaganda, not self-promotion. (tags: republicans politics usa ) "Cuts in income tax, business tax, capital...

  • Interesting Links for 09-09-2018

    2 days ago

    • Nike’s online sales jumped 31% after company unveiled Kaepernick campaign (tags: advertising racism protests marketing ) Is there an Afro-futurism for South America? (tags...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • While many women know that they should avoid sushi during pregnancy, they may wonder whether or not sushi is safe to eat while breastfeeding. There is no reason to avoid eating sushi...

  • Medical News Today: What makes aggressive brain cancer 'immortal?'

    3 hours ago
  • Aggressive brain cancer cells are able to prolong their own lifespans indefinitely. How does this happen, and what strategy might curb this mechanism?

  • Medical News Today: What do gut decisions reveal about us?

    6 hours ago

    • A new study compares the psychological effects of intuitive decisions based on the proverbial gut feeling with decisions made after careful deliberation...

      Jon's Text



  • This idea also stops diabetes and heart disease. We want ½ minute of 8 W 1 MHz ultrasound to have her size to the chest when we have an infection.  This clears the viral and bacterial...

  • Doctors turn murderers

    18 hours ago
  • Every Dr. has promised to strike themselves off, the first day they use defective medicine.  They further promised by aware of and validate new medical advances.  And then use them...

  • Doctors murderers

    21 hours ago

    • Eight million British people.  In 2002 three medical professors from the Moffitt cancer centre published the use of high intensity ultrasound to cure cancer. They did the work on...

      InvestmentWatch



  • by Alexander Trigaux, Editor, GoldSilver Mike Maloney’s father had passbook savings accounts (those are his actual passbooks in the video) that returned 13.1%. Mike Maloney...

  • In early January there were 42 cryptocurrencies valued at >$ 1 billion. Today there are 15.

    7 minutes ago
  • In early January there were 42 cryptocurrencies valued at >$ 1 billion. Today there are 15. pic.twitter.com/W1zAwv7UvX — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) September 10, 2018...

  • Sour Mood In Europe And Asia, The Financial Elite Are Dumping Stocks, Downward Impulse Cycle Is Appearing Likely

    8 minutes ago

    • professionals continue getting blown out pic.twitter.com/7h1mJnzADm — Alastair Williamson (@StockBoardAsset) September 11, 2018 ugly global equity futs pic.twitter.com/OTZfnTDHBd...

      www.gurukalehuru.com



  • I didn’t write a blog last night because I was too stoned.  It’s not that I  haven’t written blogs stoned before, I do  it all the time, it’s probably more than half of them...

  • Serena’s Temper Tantrum

    2 days ago
  • First, the disclaimer:  I don’t know jack shit about tennis, the scoring system is as incomprehensible to me as Czech grammar, and I didn’t watch the match in question. Nonetheless...

  • Kavanaugh Should be Impeached

    3 days ago

    • Impeachment is rare in American politics.  It’s only  been done to two presidents throughout American history.  Both of those were political hit jobs.  Neither one succeeded...

      Fragments from Floyd



  • It disturbs me not a little that Japanese Stilt Grass, Autumn Olive, Oriental Bittersweet, Garlic Mustard and (Alabama horror come true) Kudzu is invading Floyd County. As a biology...

  • Hotter Than It Was: Not Your Imagination

    6 days ago
  • …or a liberal hoax after all. Granted, human memory can be a leaky sieve and the tendency to make things markedly WORSE or BETTER “when I was a boy” is pretty common. But here is...

  • Humankind: Finding Our Place in the Natural World

    12 days ago

    • Where are we headed in the love-hate relationship of HumanKind with Nature (that is: the biotic and abiotic parts of the only planet we have from which all our resources are drawn)?...

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    11 September - iGoogle Portal Tab 8


      Eyes on Trade



  • Statement of Lori Wallach, Director, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Note: The Trump administration gave notice to the U.S. Congress on Friday, Aug. 31 of its intent to sign...

  • U.S. Trade Deficit for First Half of 2018 Likely to Be Largest Recorded in Years, With China Deficit on Track to Be Highest First-Half Ever Recorded

    a month ago
  • 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?

    2 months 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...

      



  • 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

    20 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

    20 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



  • While many women know that they should avoid sushi during pregnancy, they may wonder whether or not sushi is safe to eat while breastfeeding. There is no reason to avoid eating sushi...

  • Medical News Today: What makes aggressive brain cancer 'immortal?'

    3 hours ago
  • Aggressive brain cancer cells are able to prolong their own lifespans indefinitely. How does this happen, and what strategy might curb this mechanism?

  • Medical News Today: What do gut decisions reveal about us?

    6 hours ago

    • A new study compares the psychological effects of intuitive decisions based on the proverbial gut feeling with decisions made after careful deliberation...

      Desdemona Despair



  • By Ellen Knickmeyer and John Raby4 September 2018GRANT TOWN, West Virgina (AP) – It’s coal people like miner Steve Knotts, 62, who make West Virginia Trump Country.So it was no...

  • Trump eases U.S. methane rules as Colorado claims its own work

    5 days ago
  • By Dan Elliott31 August 2018 DENVER (AP) – The Trump administration is rolling back some U.S. regulations on climate-changing methane pollution, calling them expensive and burdensome...

  • We asked 11 climate scientists where they’d live in the U.S. to avoid future natural disasters — here’s what they said

    5 days ago

    • By Aria Bendix1 September 2018(Business Insider) – 2017 was a record year for natural disasters in the US, with 16 severe weather events causing at least $306 billion in damages...

      The Daily Sheeple



  • It has been 100 years since the Spanish Flu (also known as the 1918 flu pandemic) spread across the globe, infecting 500 million people and causing the deaths of 50 million – which...

  • CLINTON CAMPAIGN FINANCE SCANDAL EXPOSES MEDIA DOUBLE STANDARD

    12 days ago
  • Know what else is extraordinary? Hillary Clinton’s well-documented $84 million campaign finance scandal, which the liberal media simply refuses to cover. That’s right...

  • Researchers Are Offering $300 Each For 1,000 People To Eat Avocados Daily

    13 days ago

    • Researchers at American universities are offering 1,000 people $300 each to eat an avocado every day. Participants are required to eat one avocado every day for six months as a part...

      Exceptional Delaware 2017



  • As many are dealing with the ramifications of the Delaware Primary, one reader felt there were reasons for how some votes were cast.  Without further ado, Eric Morrison from Newark...

  • 16 Very Tough Questions With Capital School District About In-School Alternative Placements

    20 hours ago
  • A month ago, I posted an article about an In-School Alternative Program the Capital School District Board of Education would be voting on at upcoming board meeting. When I read the...

  • Christina Teachers Don’t Like That MOU! Will The Board Agree?

    a day ago

    • I put up the new Christina MOU the other day.  Since then I have heard nothing but outrage from Christina teachers.  Everything from pay to a change in seniority.  Veteran Christina...

      Have You Heard



  • TweetIn the latest episode of the Have You Heard podcast (episode #49 to be precise), Jack and Jennifer explore the rich history of edu-preneurialism. Bob Hampel, author of Fast and...

  • A Star-Powered Promise: LeBron Takes a Shot at School Reform

    a month ago
  • 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

    a month 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...

      Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger



  • September 11, 2018 How ASEAN can be resilient Borge Brende and Justin Wood / Khmer Times ASEAN has long been praised for its ‘open regionalism’ whereby it pursues economic integration...

  • What Termites Can Teach Us

    6 hours ago
  • September 11, 2018 In 1781, Henry Smeathman wrote a report for the Royal Society celebrating termites as “foremost on the list of the wonders of the creation” for “most closely...

  • Time for Malaysian Bar Council to act against Shafee Abdullah

    14 hours ago

    • September 11, 2018 Time for Malaysian Bar Council to act against Shafee Abdullah by Malaysiakini Arrogance is this outstanding lawyer’s Waterloo. I watched Tan Sri Shafee Abdullah...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • New research reveals that, to fuel tumor invasion of nearby tissue, ovarian cancer cells recruit supporting cells to supply energy from glycogen.

  • Medical News Today: Why do we really smile?

    a day ago
  • Smiling is often an unconscious reaction, but what does it indicate? Researchers from the United Kingdom tried to answer this question in a recent study...

  • Medical News Today: Brain study shows why mindfulness eases pain

    a day ago

    • A new study delves into the neurological mechanisms that explain why people who are more mindful experience less pain than those who are not.

      Chicago Boyz


    • 25%

      10 hours ago

  • BSKing over at Graph Paper Diaries referenced an interesting study in her What I’m Reading September 2018 post, concerning tipping points in social conventions.  I could link...

  • Hate Crime Speech

    16 hours ago
  • When it first became politically trendy to back passage of ‘hate-crime’ legislation, I privately thought it a bad idea, while understanding completely why it was an appealing...

  • Summer Rerun: That Hideous Strength, by C S Lewis

    2 days ago

    • That Hideous Strength, by C S Lewis This was the first thing Mark had been asked to do which he himself, before he did it, clearly knew to be criminal. But the moment of his consent almost...

      Centinel2012



  • He’s back and conservatives should be delighted. Barack Obama is stumping for the Democrats and his arrogance and condescension are on full display. Obama’s recent speech provides...

  • Deep State Using Discredit Strategy to Drive Trump from Office to What End?

    21 hours ago
  • Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Sep 10, 2018 by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: With Bob Woodward joining the plot to overthrow Trump, do you think he can survive? KA ANSWER...

  • Pattern Repeats – Political Imprisonment followed by Leadership

    21 hours ago

    • Armstrong Economics Blog/Greece Re-Posted Sep 10, 2018 by Martin Armstrong I really do not think people realize that they are just extras in a political film which is an endless struggle...

      The BRAD BLOG



  • We catch up with quite a bit on today's BradCast, after being buried for much of last week in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for dishonest and disingenuous GOP operative...

  • Sunday Anonymous Toons

    2 days ago
  • Truth: Why the world is full of buttons that don't work * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually on topics concerning the strange brew of Texas politics. He's also...

  • The Unsettling Truth About 'Settled Law', Brett Kavanaugh and Roe v. Wade: 'BradCast' 9/7/2018

    3 days ago

    • On today's BradCast: Some encouraging election news. More disturbing news about the Republican's "sham" rush rob to ram through another GOP activist onto the U.S. Supreme Court...

      Below 2C



  • “If you care about debt, you wouldn’t leave credit-card debt to your kids. That’s exactly what climate change is,” said Catherine McKenna (Minister of the Environment...

  • Staring Into the Face of Climate Change – Summer of 2018

    7 days ago
  • The summer of 2018 will be remembered as the first time global warming became front-page news around the world. “The impacts of climate change are no longer subtle. We are seeing...

  • Where is Canada’s Climate Leadership?

    11 days ago

    • During this summer of 2018, hundreds of millions of people around the world are suffering from the effects of global warming. The impacts of climate change are no longer subtle...

      bluebird of bitterness




  • Musical offering for Rosh Hashanah

    a day ago

  • Sunday funnies

    2 days ago

    • You might be in a country church if… …four generations of the same family sit together at worship. …people wonder why Noah let those two coyotes on the ark. …the preacher asks...

      Home



  • CounterSpin, the popular radio program created by FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) features Beyond Nuclear board member, Karl Grossman, discussing President Trump's...

  • Locals on the march in India to protest nuclear power plant

    14 days ago
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