Tuesday, October 09, 2018

9 October - iGoogle Portal Tab 9


  • It’s funny how unintended consequences so rarely turn out to be good. The intended consequences of central banks’ unprecedented tsunami of stimulus (quantitative easing...

  • The biggest threat to U.S. national security is the U.S. Government.

    2 days ago
  • Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org A dictatorship does not represent the public but only the aristocracy that, behind the scenes, controls the government...

  • Is there anything Nancy Pelosi would impeach a president, vice president, or justice for?

    4 days ago

    • Nancy Pelosi has consistently and adamantly opposed impeaching Bush, Cheney, Trump, or Kavanaugh. This has been her position every day of the year, in the minority, in the majority...

      The Vintage News



  • “No matter how much you think you love somebody, you’ll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.” – Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk. But Doctor Carl Tanzler...

  • Studio 54 – Where Celebrities Came to Indulge Their Wildest Fantasies

    13 hours ago
  • When the tidal wave of the Summer of Love came crashing down, it swept the hippie subculture away with it. The seventies took the United States by storm, and the age of disco was on. All...

  • Iron Age Chariot Burial Site Found – Complete with Horse and Rider

    14 hours ago

    • In the second time in two years, an Iron Age chariot has been found buried in a Yorkshire community. The discovery was made in the town of Pocklington, England, at a construction site...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!




  • Stossel: Socialism Fails Every Time

    3 hours ago

  • The 1950s

    5 hours ago


    • The Truthseeker



  • Shock resignation being reported by multiple news outlets

  • Mainstream Journos Pissed As Saudi Clown Prince Nabs One Of Their Own

    15 hours ago
  • In marked contrast to the corporate media's coverage of the incident, Moon of Alabama looks at the kidnapping of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi

  • International Team of Researchers Concerned Over US Efforts to Create Bio-Weapons

    21 hours ago

    • DARPA's development of bio-weapons in labs in the former Soviet republics may be in breach of the Biological Weapons Convention

      TARPLEY.net



  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, October 8, 2018 The Longer This Regime Stays in Office, the Greater the Danger of War; Texas...

  • Rogue Republican Senate Rams Through Kavanaugh Coup!

    3 days ago
  • Supreme Court Majority Will Now Back Permanent Austerity Dictatorship Under Trump; Nov. 6 Vote Must Mark Beginning of GOP Extinction: Sen. Collins Delusional, Should Be Ousted...

  • Trump GOP Reaches New Low of Lawlessness in Stampede to Install Kavanaugh

    5 days ago

    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, October 4, 2018 Fraudulent FBI Report Deep Sixes Truth Worse Than Anything in Watergate...

      Sustainable Pulse



  • The Ex-Director of J.R. Simplot and team leader at Monsanto, Caius Rommens, has revealed the hidden dangers of the GMO potatoes he created, in a wide ranging interview for Sustainable...

  • Scientists Warn US Military Could Use GMO Insect Project to Create an ‘Agricultural Bioweapon’

    4 days ago
  • In an opinion paper published Thursday in the journal Science, researchers say the U.S. needs to provide greater justification for the peace-time purpose of its Insect Allies project...
  • ( 'Could Use' - sounds like a questionable presumption that they have not already used )

  • US FDA and Cornell University Reports Show Glyphosate Residues in Corn, Soybeans and Pet Food

    6 days ago

    • The world’s most used herbicide, glyphosate, has been found in corn, soybeans and pet food by two different testing studies released by the The U.S. Food and Drug Administration...

      sunshine hours



  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 279 – 2018

    2 days ago
  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 278 – 2018

    3 days ago

    • South / North

      Stumbling and Mumbling



  • There are only three economies in the world – the UK, US and Venezuela. Or at least, this is what you’d think listening to the recent reaction to Labour’s plans for nationalizing...

  • The state & profits

    4 days ago
  • Has British capitalism become more dependent upon the state in recent years? I ask because of a curious development in how profits are made. First, let’s remind ourselves of a basic...

  • What counterfactuals (don't) tell us

    7 days ago

    • Imagine if Labour had won the 2015 general election. What would the country look like now? We’d probably have had less austerity and therefore higher incomes and perhaps higher...

      Stagecraft and Statecraft



  • By Brahma Chellaney, Washington Times Grand on ambition but short on transparency, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s marquee project, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), seeks...

  • No easy escape from Afghan war for Trump

    8 days ago
  • Russia, China and Iran now backing Taliban and stymieing U.S. peace efforts Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asian Review Not for the first time, the U.S. is showing signs of desperation...

  • The China Backlash

    11 days ago

    • US President Donald Trump’s headline-grabbing trade war with China should not obscure a broader pushback against the country’s mercantilist trade, investment, and lending...

      Socio-Economics History Blog



  • NATO to Conduct Largest Exercise Since Cold War in Show of Strength to Russia by AFP/ec, via https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news BRUSSELS: NATO’s largest exercise since...

  • David Morgan: Does The FED Already Have A Replacement For The U.S. Currency?

    an hour ago

  • Russia Wants to Ditch US Dollar in Trade with European Partners

    an hour ago

    • Russia Wants to Ditch US Dollar in Trade with European Partners by https://www.rt.com/ The Russian Ministry of Finance said on Monday it may shift to the use of local currencies...

      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...

      Ramani's blog



  • It is also reported that as one sets his sights on the Peak ,the peak keeps shifting. And one ages 28 Times faster in Kailash than under normal conditions in Two weeks!...

  • Shiva Linga Design Atlantis City Found Spain

    2 days ago
  • Sanskrit references to Shiva's Three Rotating cities and Tamil Classics's reference and description of Kumarikandam,it's boundaries, population Trinetra Dance of Shiva among...

  • Will Not Back Down On Conversion, Vatican Classified Document

    2 days ago

    • Reproduced here below is a report Published by The Hindu dated 22 April,2011. Note the Dates. 65975: Holy See reponds to Indian criticism over conversion issue 22 APRIL 2011 03:56...

      Diane Ravitch's blog



  • The Network for Public Education Action Fund endorses Tony Evers, currently Wisconsin’s superintendent of schools, for Governor! Voters must kick Scott Walker out. He is an enemy...

  • DeVos Ally, New Leader of For-Profit K12 Inc. Promises to Clean Up Its Shoddy Record

    9 hours ago
  • Over the years, it has become obvious that virtual charter schools are a sham. ECOT in Ohio was a spectacular failure, which made millions for its for-profit owner (“the ECOT man”)...

  • Maine: NPE Action Fund Endorses Janet Mills for Governor!

    11 hours ago

    • The Network for Public Education Action Fund Endorses Janet Mills for Governor of Maine. Janet Mills is the real deal. The Network for Public Education Action gives its strongest...

      P U L S E



  • Julian Assange barely even knows the far-right, Holocaust-denying Russian kook with six different names, the latest being “Israel Shamir.” That was the line in March 2011...

  • Trump, the Saudi-Iranian Rivalry and the Geopolitics of Sectarianization

    19 days ago
  • Nader Hashemi and I have an essay titled “Playing with Fire: Trump, the Saudi-Iranian Rivalry, and the Geopolitics of Sectarianization in the Middle East” in the Mediterranean...

  • Despite the Violence, Trump Keeps on Deporting Nicaraguans

    a month ago

    • More than 200 Nicaraguans are in U.S. custody and facing imminent deportation back to a country where the White House, the United Nations and human rights organizations say the government...

      Pasco Phronesis



  • Perhaps the biggest news in late night circles this past week was the end of an era (of sorts) for Conan O’Brien.  The October 4th edition of Conan marks the last time the show will...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of September 24

    11 days ago
  • Given the week in politics in the United States, it’s not that surprising that there was little this week in science and technology bookings during late night.  Thankfully, not...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of September 17

    15 days ago

    • It was a weak week for late night science and technology guests, as my only draw is a doctor.  Freddie Highmore plays the title character on The Good Doctor, which started its second...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT



  • By Paul Homewood So the pretence that Paris solved any problems has finally been exposed as a lie. And the IPCC have had to present us with the bill for what they want us to do.   From Bloomberg...

  • BBC censorship and the man-made global warming scam

    6 hours ago
  • By Paul Homewood     A brilliantly incisive article from Melanie Phillips:   melaniephillips.com BBC censorship and the man-made global warming scam It’s only fair to share…...

  • Receding Swiss Glaciers Reveal 4000 Year Old Forests – Warmists Try To Suppress Findings

    16 hours ago

    • By Paul Homewood   I ran this story in 2014, but it is worth re-posting:   As many sources, including HH Lamb, have pointed out, back in the Bronze Age around 2000BC, the climate in the...

      NoTricksZone



  • As Germany moves to phase out coal power, more focus is being placed on relying on wind energy to fill in the gap. Recently German business daily Handelsblatt here reported that despite...

  • Reliable? CRU, NASA, BEST, NOAA Land Temp Data Conflict By Up To 90% (0.8°C), Spawning ‘Large Uncertainty’

    2 days ago
  • A new paper documents “remarkably different” land temperatures from one instrumental data set to another. In some regions there is as much as an 0.8°C conflict in recorded temperature...

  • Scotland 800-Year Reconstruction Shows Temperatures Were As Warm Or Warmer In The Past!

    3 days ago

    • Scotland climate over past 800 years: Pre-industrial warm phases provide answers By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin)...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day



  • Diane Ravitch's Blog: New York: Common Core Produces Massive Failure in Writing Remember all the bold promises about Common Core? Remember the claims that it would increase achievement...

  • Yong Zhao: Problems with Evidence-based Education: Side Effects in Education

    a day ago
  • Yong Zhao: Problems with Evidence-based Education: Side Effects in Education The following is the Introduction of my book What Works Can Hurt: Side Effects in Education published...

  • Janresseger: What to Do to Support Students Who Are Chronically Absent from School?

    5 days ago

    • Janresseger: What to Do to Support Students Who Are Chronically Absent from School? Two new reports—from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) and from Attendance Works—explore...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers



  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review When the Christine Ford saga finally ended with the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, a lot of truth had distilled...

  • One Ford Narrative Too Many

    a day ago
  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness In the end, the Christine Blasey Ford accusations collapsed. With them went the last effort to destroy Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination...

  • Angry Reader 10-04-2018

    5 days ago

    • From An Angry Reader: it is painful to see or read your columns. I usually ignore them;today’s on Nunes was pathetic. Mr. Hanson,you are a fraud and in a just world you’d be condemned...

    The Moderate Voice



  • How did the GOP put all of our defense spending on the credit card this year? And why does no one notice? The post Putting the entire military budget on the credit card appeared first on...

  • The Ralph Club (Cartoon, Column and Video)

    21 hours ago
  • I wasn’t alone in feeling sick to my stomach Saturday with the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. There’s just something especially nauseating about an entitled...

  • New climate report reveals planetary horror story

    21 hours ago

    • WASHINGTON — Here is how to interpret the alarming new United Nations-sponsored report on global warming: We are living in a horror movie. The world needs statesmen to lead the way...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • Rising crude oil prices are set to send Nigeria’s bill for fuel subsidies rocketing, threatening to exacerbate the already precarious economic situation of Africa’s largest...

  • Assorted Tuesday links

    11 hours ago
  • 1. Old Paul Romer talk, which even presents the Nordhaus graph on the price of light, see for instance 5:45.  Via Kari Kohn. 2. New criticism of charter cities, and Mark Lutter’s...

  • Against talk of tribalism

    12 hours ago

    • Could we come up with a better term than “tribalism” please? Indigenous peoples have tribes. Politics has something quite different. That is a tweet from the excellent Stewart...

      Lloyd Lofthouse



  • Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: Guest post by Lisa Bonnington Robbie spent four years as a US Marine before he became a Green Beret Special Forces medic in the Army...

  • Washington Post on Kavanaugh: “What Goes Around Comes Around”

    14 days ago
  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: In a column by Post opinion writer Helaine Olen, she points out the “staggering hypocrisy” of Brett Kavanaugh. He has said he doesn’t...

  • Charles Foster Johnson: Why Evangelical Support for Trump Is Eroding

    18 days ago

    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Charles Foster Johnson is a pastor, a supporter of public education, and a great advocate for separation of church and state. He founded...

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  • The thousands of Venezuelans hoping to flee the sewers of socialism must wait in lines for days to get passports — unless they have $2,000 for a bribe...

  • Heitkamp Believed Kavanaugh’s Accusers, Collins Didn’t, And His Women Clerks Haven’t Quit

    7 hours ago
  • Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp said Kavanaugh’s demeanor turned her off to the federal judge. Maybe, but it didn’t turn off Senator Susan Collins, or, apparently, the four...

  • Cost of Border Wall Less Than Cost of Illegal Immigration

    7 hours ago

    • You think Trump's wall would be too expensive? Try not building it.

      MintPress News



  • “In an atmosphere of atrocities that happen daily -- whether by an airstrike or through the blockade, famine, and cholera epidemic -- the anniversaries of these attacks serve as...

  • The US Has No Legitimate Reason to Impose New Sanctions on Iran

    10 hours ago
  • The UN’s position against Iran is in bad faith. All the member states and the UN secretariat know that Iran has no nuclear weapons programme. Yet, they have allowed the US and Israel...

  • American College Student Held in Israel for Support of BDS Movement

    11 hours ago

    • Her “crime”, according to Israel's Strategic Affairs Ministry, is that while studying for her bachelor’s degree in Florida, she was president of an organization that supported...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • Donna Strickland (at right) was on Tuesday named one of the three winners of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics. Many have noted that she is the first woman in 55 years to win the prize. The BBC...

  • Wednesday assorted links

    7 days ago
  • 1. Why do snipers open their mouths when about to shoot? 2. The left-wing case against tenure. 3. Current policies to promote car pooling often increase social cost. 4. Register for...

  • They solved for the equilibrium, China equilibrium of the day

    7 days ago

    • China will be less severe with its smog curbs this winter as it grapples with slower economic growth and a trade war with the United States, according to a government plan released on...

      Made from Truth and Lies



  • Saudi Arabia arrests economist after he criticises Crown Prince's plans (tags: saudiarabia OhForFucksSake ) Doctor Who: Jodie Whittaker's debut is most watched launch for 10 years...

  • Interesting Links for 08-10-2018

    2 days ago
  • How the English Failed to Eradicate the Scots Language (tags: scotland language England history ) A “Burma Brexit” – why Remainers should allow the Brexit mandate to be discharged...

  • Interesting Links for 07-10-2018

    3 days ago

    • SNP could back second Brexit referendum tied to independence vote (tags: Scotland Europe UK independence ) Why big companies squander brilliant ideas (tags: business organisation...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • Elderberry fruit is a traditional natural remedy for colds and flus. Some research backs up these claims, though more research is needed. In this article, we look at the possible health...

  • Medical News Today: Does high altitude affect COPD?

    10 hours ago
  • Flying or traveling to high elevations can present difficulties for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Changes in altitude can cause high blood pressure, a lack...

  • Medical News Today: First period after having a baby: What to expect

    10 hours ago

    • Many women wonder what to expect from their first postpartum period, as well as when to expect it. In this article, learn about the first period after having a baby, including how to...

      Jon's Text



  • Carbohydrateshttps://www.saylor.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/BIO101-Carbohydrates.pdfCarbohydrates have the general molecular formula. CH2O, and thus...

  • Emissions cool the climate

    8 hours ago
  • Here we are talking about carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen oxides (NO/NO2=NOx)and sulphur dioxide (SO2). Since the 1980s truck drivers have been tricked into using the massively...

  • Nuclear fusion is in you

    14 hours ago

    • This came out of my PHD at Sheffield University 2001. Which suddenly ended, as I told my supervisor how to do nuclear fusion on earth. As grass grows in the light, it gives off X-rays and...

      InvestmentWatch



  • Global liquidity is rapidly shrinking as more central bankers begin to taper. The central banks know that they system cannot go any further so they need to bring it down ... Read more...

  • The World As We Know It, Is About To Change

    2 hours ago
  • Trump confuses press with paid protestors remark and then says some didn’t get check. Maxine Waters under investigation regarding her campaign.Assad grants amnesty to army deserters...

  • Middle Class Erosion: 33 Million Americans Will Not Travel During The Holidays Because They Can’t Afford To Do So

    2 hours ago

    • by Michael Snyder We have repeatedly been told that the U.S. economy is “booming”, but meanwhile the middle class in the United States continues to be hollowed out.  The financial...

      www.gurukalehuru.com



  • Nobody except Nikki Haley knows why Nikki Haley resigned, but there is plenty of speculation.   It could be about the investigation that was about to open up on her (and  I don’t...

  • Humans

    a day ago
  • This blog is not going to change the world, but I’m kind of sick of talking about the real world anyway.  There is no rational way to explain the right wing wave that’s sweeping the...

  • Proofreading

    2 days ago

    • I’ve spent most of the weekend on proofreading, and an awkward exercise it was.  A lot of changing a to the and the to a, of course, and rearranging sentences so the subject comes first...

      Fragments from Floyd



  • Because I my interest in the topic had been ramped way up by a SustainFloyd Movie Night last year, I stopped my morning browse-fest to read an article from Ensia (highly recommended...

  • Leaf-Peepers Are Readers

    6 days ago
  • Every autumn, I tend to get a little bump in book sales. This autumn, I’m pleased to let visiting leaf-peepers know that my books can be found in an additional location: the new Maggie...

  • Fruits of Florence: Fecundity of Fungi

    7 days ago

    • I happened through a fairly mature oak-hickory forest on the grounds of Warm Hearth Retirement Community yesterday. With the road being surfaced, the woods became the alternative...

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    9 October - iGoogle Portal Tab 7


      WIRED



  • When writers swap Trump for Cheeto and 45, it's not just a put-down. Removing a keyword is the anti-SEO—transforming your subject into a slippery, ungraspable, swarm...

  • Google Pixel Event Highlights: Pixel 3, Home Hub, Pixel Slate, Chromecast

    9 hours ago
  • From the Pixel 3 and its AI-powered camera, to the Home Hub display, to the Chrome-powered Pixel Slate tablet, here's all the new Google hardware.

  • Google Home Hub Smart Display: Specs, Price, Release Date

    11 hours ago

    • The 7-inch, voice-controlled display is a home base for the Google Assistant.

      NYT > Home Page



  • Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.

  • Asia and Australia Edition: Saudi Arabia, #MeToo in India, Skripal: Your Wednesday Briefing

    7 hours ago
  • Here’s what you need to know to start your day.

  • Nikki Haley to Resign as Trump’s Ambassador to the U.N.

    12 hours ago

    • A representative of the Republican mainstream, Ms. Haley had criticized Mr. Trump’s demeanor. But she said she would campaign for Mr. Trump’s re-election in 2020...

      India News, Latest News in India, Live News India, India Breaking News - Ti




  • Singer Nitin Bali dies after accident

    3 hours ago


  • MCI website down for 2 weeks, doctors & students left guessing

    3 hours ago


    •   BBC News - UK



  • Theresa May says "too many lives" are being taken, as she pledges £1.8m in funds for the Samaritans.

  • Davis warns May of 'dire consequences' without Brexit rethink

    7 hours ago
  • Theresa May is told the Tories face "dire electoral consequences" if she does not rethink her approach.

  • Vodafone's Martin Freeman break-up advert banned

    4 hours ago

    • The Advertising Standards Authority says the advert implied customers could leave their contract any time.


      National Geographic News




  • We dove into 115 years’ worth of past laureates, and the data revealed some striking trends.

  • These countries changed their names. Here's how it worked out.

    8 days ago
  • Macedonia's movement to rename itself is the latest in a series of shifts in country names around the world. Here's a look back at some of the most famous...

  • Who Are the Nobel Prize Winners? We've Crunched the Numbers.

    8 days ago

    • We dove into 115 years’ worth of past laureates, and the data revealed some striking trends.


      Reuters: World News




  • Urumqi, capital of the largely Muslim Chinese region of Xinjiang, will crack down on activities that blur the boundary between religion and secular life and encourage "extremism"...

  • Turkey says will search consulate where Saudi journalist vanished

    an hour ago
  • Turkey said on Tuesday that it would search Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul where Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi vanished last week, and close ally Britain called on Riyadh...

  • China Communist Party to take action against excessive inspections

    2 hours ago

    • China's ruling Communist Party said late on Tuesday that it would impose limits on the number of central government inspection campaigns directed at local authorities, saying local...


    SPACE.com




  • In the opening scene of "First Man," moviegoers find themselves in the cockpit with Neil Armstrong aboard an X-15 rocket plane. The screen is filled with a lot of true-to-life details...

  • 'Definitely Not Aliens': These Photos of SpaceX's Night Rocket Launch and Landing Are Amazing!

    19 hours ago
  • A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket spawned a gorgeous, glowing cloud shortly after lifting off from Vandenberg Air Force Base on California's Central Coast Sunday night (Oct. 7), wowing folks...

  • In Photos: SpaceX's Fantastic Nighttime Launch of SAOCOM-1 & Rocket Landing!

    20 hours ago

    • A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the SAOCOM-1A radar-imaging satellite on Oct. 7, 2018, creating a spectacular plume in the California sky. The rocket's first stage also pulled...
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