Wednesday, October 24, 2018

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  Washington's Blog



  • Trump is for nationalism. So the “Resistance” is predictably for . . . wait for it . . . the right kind of nationalism — or nationalism worn properly, as The Week advises. The problem...

  • Talk Nation Radio: Nicolas Davies on War Profiteers

    a day ago
  • Nicolas J. S. Davies writes about U.S. foreign policy, war and militarism for Consortium News and other outlets. He has been working as a researcher with CODEPINK, and co-authored...

  • Classical Conditioning for Peace

    2 days ago

    • According to the analysis of police-murder-instigator Dave Grossman, the reason that only a minority of soldiers attempted to kill in World War II and earlier wars was a general aversion...

      The Vintage News



  • When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, it opened up a dialogue that would change our understanding of life on earth. As one of the key thinkers behind natural...

  • Roller Coasters were First Invented to Distract People from Immoral Behavior

    12 hours ago
  • Riding roller coasters is one of the world’s most popular amusement pastimes. People will sometimes wait for hours to ride the newest thrill ride or an old classic. There are many...

  • Hollywood War Heroes – 5 Famous Actors Awarded Medals for their WWII Service

    12 hours ago

    • Regardless of their fame, lifestyle, and on-going movie projects, many Hollywood actors enlisted in WWII. Not only did they contribute to the war effort, but also inspired many young...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!



  • My rejoinder is TVNZ is so sloppy with the facts that it is spent most of its reply on the exemption in cases of where paternity is uncertain or disputed. That has nothing to do with my complaint...

  • The Godfather | The Tragedy of Succession

    2 hours ago

  • Why underdogs do better in hockey than basketball

    5 hours ago


    • The Truthseeker



  • Suspected postal bombs intercepted days after a suspected explosive device was posted to billionaire George Soros'

  • The White Helmets Ride Again

    16 hours ago
  • Philip Giraldi on how easy it is to give awards to terrorists

  • 50,000 NATO troops converge on Norway in show of strength to Russia

    20 hours ago

    • Trident Juncture 18 will be the biggest NATO exercise since the end of the Cold War

      TARPLEY.net



  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, October 23, 2018 Dow Dives 550 Points on Bad News from Caterpillar and 3M Before Updrafting...

  • In 2018, a Vote for Any Republican Candidate Is a Vote for Permanent Austerity Dictatorship Under Trump!

    2 days ago
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, October 22, 2018 Imagine the Nightmare of Two More Years of One-Party Rule Under a Vindicated...

  • Facing Defeat, Desperate GOP Demagogues Spout Blatant Lies to Mask Genocidal Attack on Health Care

    4 days ago

    • Trump Incites Mobs but Falls Short on Jobs; McDonnell Flaunts Plans for Killer Cuts; Gov. Scott Walker’s Maudlin Pledge He Will Not Re-Establish Pre-Existing Conditions; Decline...

      Sustainable Pulse



  • The results are in on one of the first, large-scale studies on organic food consumption and cancer risks and they are significant and encouraging.  It is widely recognized we...

  • The Specter of Genetic Catastrophe

    18 hours ago
  • I recently watched The Eugenic Crusade, a PBS documentary on “improving” human evolution. Sir Francis Galton, cousin of Charles Darwin, took two Greek words, well and born...

  • Monsanto Trial: Judge Rejects Bid to Overturn Landmark Cancer Verdict

    2 days ago

    • A California judge has rejected Monsanto’s appeal to overturn a landmark jury verdict which found that its popular herbicide causes cancer. Source: By Sam Levin www.theguardian.com...

      sunshine hours



  • South / North

  • ‘Global warming’ means less tornadoes

    11 hours ago
  • From WUWT:

  • Tabular Iceberg

    a day ago

    • Tabular Iceberg Tabular icebergs have steep, nearly vertical sides and a flat plateau top. Tabular icebergs typically break off of ice shelves, which are tabular bodies of thick...

      Stumbling and Mumbling



  • It’s become fashionable to decry “safe spaces” and echo chambers and to call instead for cognitive diversity. Instinctively, I agree: cognitive diversity is one counterweight...

  • McVey's Rumsfeld assumption

    9 days ago
  • When she was told yesterday that some Universal Credit victims were being driven into prostitution, Esther McVey replied: Tell these ladies that now we’ve got record job vacancies...

  • Brexit, Marxists & the state

    11 days ago

    • Was Marx wrong? This is the question posed by Brexit. I’m prompted to ask by this from the government’s advice to business on what to do about a no-deal Brexit: UK companies and limited...

      Stagecraft and Statecraft



  • As the trade war escalates, Donald Trump is seeking to preserve space for a possible deal and leaving his deputy to tackle the tough questions. Brahma Chellaney, The National After...

  • Maldives: India should not rest on its oars

    12 days ago
  • Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times Following President Abdulla Yameen’s surprise defeat in the Maldivian election, the air of self-congratulation that pervades in New Delhi...

  • China’s Imperial Project Runs into Resistance

    21 days ago

    • 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...

      Socio-Economics History Blog




  • YOUR EARLY WARNING: Escalated Risk Transfer

    an hour ago
  • ITM Trading Streamed live 4 hours ago Link to Slides and Sources: https://www.itmtrading.com/blog/risk-… In the current debt-based system, credit provides market liquidity...

  • Euro Doesn’t Work and It’s a Fact – Italy’s Budget Committee Chief

    an hour ago

    • Euro Doesn’t Work and It’s a Fact – Italy’s Budget Committee Chief by https://sputniknews.com/, 15 Sep 2018 The Italian government is expected to outline new public finance...

      Socialist Economic Bulletin


    • By Tom O’Leary The British workforce is undergoing tumultuous changes. It is important for both economic policy and political strategy to grasp the nature of those changes. In...

      Ramani's blog



  • You find image,when you look into the water, of seven concentric circles . Each circle is reported to have one Spatika Linga inside. There is a stupa elesewhere in the city to receive...

  • 800 Years Sculpture Child In Womb,Sundara Kamakshi, Chinna Karumbur

    8 days ago
  • There is a temple where sculpture of a Baby in the Womb is found. Accurate position of the baby, as one would find in a Scan

  • Was Lord Krishna an Irresponsible Father?

    11 days ago

    • Can we wonder if Samba was a product of his father's neglect? For was not Krishna spending most of his time with Arjuna and the Pandavas and in the politics of Kuru-kshetra?...

      Diane Ravitch's blog



  • Today, pipe bombs were delivered to people and institutions singled out by Donald Trump as targets of hatred. How many times has he railed that CNN is “fake news?” How many times...

  • NPE Action Endorses Larry Proffitt for the Tennessee House

    7 hours ago
  • The Network for Public Action Fund is delighted to endorse Larry Proffitt, veteran educator, for a seat in the Tennessee Legislature. The Network for Public Education Action is proud...

  • NPE Action Endorses Paul Theobald in Nebraska

    8 hours ago

    • The Network for Public Education Action Fund is delighted to endorse Paul Theobald for the Third Congressional District seat in Nebraska. We proudly endorse Paul Theobald for the...

      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

    a month 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



  • Last week started with one of the frequent themes in these posts – an actor from The Big Bang Theory.  Kunal Nayyar, who plays an engineer on the show, was on with Ellen on October 15...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of October 8

    11 days ago
  • Even in reruns, October is shaping up to be a record for Neil DeGrasse Tyson.  The Late Show with Stephen Colbert re-ran both of his September appearances this past week.  On the 9th...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of October 1

    19 days ago

    • 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...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT



  • By Paul Homewood     https://www.spc.noaa.gov/wcm/#data   Whenever anybody wheels out their list of extreme weather events for this year, remind them about US tornadoes. Not...

  • New Report Shows UK Weather Is Not Getting More Extreme

    a day ago
  • By Paul Homewood   I am pleased to announce that GWPF has today published my first paper for them:     London, 23 October: Met Office weather data shows that the UK’s climate is changing...

  • Dyson chooses Singapore to build new electric car

    a day ago

    • By Paul Homewood Don’t say you have not been warned! From the Telegraph:     Sir James Dyson will manufacture electric cars at a new production facility in Singapore as the billionaire...

      NoTricksZone



  • While German activists are growing hysterical over fine particle emissions from today’s relatively cleaner diesel automobiles, the German Allgemeine Zeitung here reports...

  • Climate Book By Japanese Physics Professor: “The Globe Isn’t Warming Anymore”…IPCC “Scientifically Immoral”

    2 days ago
  • By Kirye Edited by P Gosselin A climate skeptic book by Japanese physicist and Professor Emeritus Yuh Fukai released in October, 2015, was recently released in Kindle version...

  • 2 New Papers: World’s Heat-Related Deaths Are Declining…Cold Weather Is 20-42 Times More Deadly

    3 days ago

    • Observations from two new papers undermine the narrative that says recent and future warming may be dangerous and undesirable. Scientists have determined that (1) people are...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day



  • Radical Eyes for Equity: Chicken-Little Politics and the Curse of Testing (and Standards) in South Carolina I entered education as a high school teacher in South Carolina in the 1984-1985...

  • Curmudgucation: DeVos Organization Issues School Choice Guidebook

    2 days ago
  • Curmudgucation: DeVos Organization Issues School Choice Guidebook The American Federation for Children is a dark money group that advocates for school choice in general...

  • Have You Heard: Teachers are Running for Office – And to Save Public Education

    5 days ago

    • Have You Heard: Teachers are Running for Office – And to Save Public Education Teachers are running for office in unprecedented numbers. And that’s not the only thing that makes...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers



  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Why are current monotonous slogans like “white privilege” and “old white men” finally losing their currency? Who exactly is “white”...

  • Wolves in Wolves’ Clothing

    2 days ago
  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness If the New Democratic Party was smart, it would do what the old Democratic Party did long ago: always sound centrist if not conservative in...

  • Yes, Be Very Worried Over Growing Polarization

    2 days ago

    • Victor Davis Hanson // Hoover Institution My Hoover Institution colleague Morris Fiorina has recently written that I am unduly pessimistic in my appraisals of a currently divided...

    The Moderate Voice



  • Traditionally, the idiom “baked in” has been used to describe factors or circumstances that have already been taken into account, “priced in,” included in an organization’s...

  • Our new era: first Soros now Obama, Clintons and CNN receive explosives in mail (UPDATE 3)

    11 hours ago
  • Yes we are in a new era. Within a week, first billionaire George Soros received explosives in the mail. And now the Secret Service has announced that former President Barack Obama...

  • The Trump presidency is a rogue operation

    14 hours ago

    • WASHINGTON — Adel al-Jubeir, the Washington playboy cum Saudi foreign minister, on Sunday finally delivered the phrase we’ve all been expecting: They were rogue operators...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • 1. Yale to open new economics center, The Tobin Center. 2. Russ Roberts on whether the rich capture all of the gains from economic growth. 3. Trust in various institutions, by Democrat...

  • My Conversation with Ben Thompson

    11 hours ago
  • Here is the audio and transcript.  Here is the summary opener: Not only is Ben Thompson’s Stratechery frequently mentioned on MR, but such is Tyler’s fandom that the newsletter...

  • We are conformists who to some extent become regional thinkers

    20 hours ago

    • …voters appear to be sorting on non-political neighborhood attributes that covary with partisan preferences rather than explicitly seeking politically congruent neighbors...

      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”

    a month 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

    a month 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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  • Price gouging in the wake of natural disasters is often seen as evil exploitation by sellers to rip off desperate customers. Let's hold off on that conclusion until after you give thought...

  • Planned Parenthood Prepares for Overturning of Roe v. Wade

    5 hours ago
  • In fear of the turning tide in the political atmosphere, leading abortion organization Planned Parenthood is preparing for an overturning of Roe v. Wade...

  • Sued Over Creationist Debate

    5 hours ago

    • VIDEO - Polish journalist Eunicka Chojecka talks with The New American about a lawsuit filed against her by the university where she was studying for her Ph.D. Herself and 2 other...

      MintPress News



  • DynCorp’s old habits of treating human beings as commodities remain as ingrained as ever, largely thanks to the fact that the company has never been held accountable for its crimes...

  • Western Media Launch Attack on Critics of Controversial White Helmets Group

    11 hours ago
  • The media and political impact of the White Helmets show what money and marketing can do. The post Western Media Launch Attack on Critics of Controversial White Helmets Group appeared...

  • Facebook Censorship of Alternative Media “Just the Beginning,” Says Top Neocon Insider

    12 hours ago

    • At a Berlin security conference, hardline neocon Jamie Fly appeared to claim some credit for the recent coordinated purge of alternative media. The post Facebook Censorship of Alternative...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • 1. Who gained and lost the most from the Seattle minimum wage hike? (NYT)  Paper here. 2. Japan’s hometown tax. 3. Chinese leafy greens. 4. Is the Saudi influence machine running...

  • *First Man* and the great stagnation

    3 days ago
  • I enjoyed this movie, although I would not describe it as a must-see.  It is best for showing the rickety and claustrophobic nature of the moon landing program. Three points struck...

  • *Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom*

    3 days ago

    • Although it can never really be measured, he may also have been, along with Mark Twain, the most widely traveled American public figure of his century…It is likely that more Americans...

      Made from Truth and Lies



  • ‘Transgender’ Could Be Defined Out of Existence Under Trump Administration (tags: usa transgender lgbt OhForFucksSake republicans ) "After Surgery in Germany, I Wanted Vicodin...

  • Interesting Links for 23-10-2018

    2 days ago
  • Forza Horizon 4 - Exploring Edinburgh Really odd experience watching this and it almost, but not quite, matching up to real life.(tags: Edinburgh driving games ) Saudi-Led Coalition...

  • Interesting Links for 22-10-2018

    3 days ago

    • Theresa May battling to save her leadership as Tory MPs demand she faces show trial (tags: Conservatives doom ) Oral Tradition - The Oldest True Stories in the World Are Over 10,000...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • Apple cider vinegar is a popular home remedy for a variety of health issues. But can it also treat cancer? We look at the research.

  • Medical News Today: How to recognize and cope with emotional exhaustion

    10 hours ago
  • Emotional exhaustion can arise after a period of excessive stress. Some people are more at risk than others, including those in demanding jobs or with caring responsibilities. People...

  • Medical News Today: Nux vomica: Uses and risks

    10 hours ago

    • Nux vomica is a natural remedy that some people believe can treat high blood sugar, relieve pain, and have antioxidant effects. We look at the research...


      InvestmentWatch




  • by John Ward I’d been off-grid since Sunday evening, and was therefore a little phased to see the news (on the way back home this afternoon) that Theresa May pitched up ... Read more...

  • The $600 billion reason why China’s stock market crash might get a whole lot worse

    an hour ago
  • Via Business Insider   Chinese stocks have lost more than 30% of their value since the start of 2018. Fears of a slowing economy, rising debts and the impact of ... Read more...

  • Did Trump Just Lay Out The Plan To Get Rid Of The [Fed]?

    an hour ago

    • Cars sales have imploded, dealerships are seeing a drop in traffic and its getting worse. New home sales implode and it doesn’t look good for real estate. The economy is ... Read more...


      www.gurukalehuru.com




  • I got my best time ever in Sudoku today and wrote two short poems.  That’s about it, but I think it puts the day in the positive category.  The Sudoku thing happened this morning...

  • The Most Important Issue

    a day ago
  • I love Tulsi Gabbard because she’s got all the right positions and quitting the DNC to support Bernie Sanders, for which she got a really nasty e-mail from Clinton and NO DNC funds...

  • More Nukes?

    2 days ago

    • I just saw the most ironic headline I’ve seen for a long time:  Trump: “U.S. Will Increase Nuclear Arsenal Until Other Nation’s Come to Their Senses” Ha! First off, how much...
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    24 October - iGoogle Portal Tab 8


  • A Critical Tool to Address Currency Manipulation and Stem Record-Setting Trade Deficits Has Been Shirked by the Trump Administration, a New Public Citizen Analysis Shows The Trump...

  • Public Citizen Analysis: How the New NAFTA Text Measures Against Key Changes We Have Demanded to Stop NAFTA’s Ongoing Damage

    17 days ago
  • Note from Lori Wallach, Director, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Here is our initial 14-page analysis of the NAFTA 2.0 text, following up on the statement from Sunday night...

  • The Imminent Text Release is a Major Milestone in NAFTA Renegotiations, but Don’t Bet on It Being the Final Deal

    a month ago

    • Will Canada agree to a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) renegotiation deal this week given the high-stakes Quebec election occurring on Oct.1? Our Canadian friends say...

      



  • Of all realized masters I find that Rumi had a way of speaking from the heart that not many could parallel. His words radiate compassion, unconditional love for others and most importantly...

  • Jim Carrey’s Inspiring Message To The World

    13 hours ago
  • Jim Carrey is overflowing with amazing advice for living a successful life. Here is a new video created by The Journey of Purpose of Jim Carrey’s recent Viral video of his inspiring...

  • 3 Ways To Awaken Your ‘Inner Healer’ And Activate Your Powers…

    8 days ago

    • Has your heart been broken? It’s one of those tough experiences. Your world seemed to crumble and fall at first. But as the years turned into years, you slowly became okay. Then suddenly...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • Apple cider vinegar is a popular home remedy for a variety of health issues. But can it also treat cancer? We look at the research.

  • Medical News Today: How to recognize and cope with emotional exhaustion

    10 hours ago
  • Emotional exhaustion can arise after a period of excessive stress. Some people are more at risk than others, including those in demanding jobs or with caring responsibilities. People...

  • Medical News Today: Nux vomica: Uses and risks

    10 hours ago

    • Nux vomica is a natural remedy that some people believe can treat high blood sugar, relieve pain, and have antioxidant effects. We look at the research...

      Desdemona Despair



  • By Stefania Costa 24 September 2018(Imazon) – In August 2018, SAD detected 545 square kilometers of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, an increase of 199% in relation to August...

  • Next financial crash will be “worse than the Great Depression” – “The U.S. economy is in so much worse shape than it was a decade ago”

    a month ago
  • By John Aidan Byrne22 September 2018 (New York Post) – Ten years ago, it was too-easy credit that brought financial markets to their knees. Today, it could be a global debt of $247...

  • U.S. judge orders federal protection restored to Yellowstone grizzlies after Trump administration tries to strip endangered species listing

    a month ago

    • By Laura Zuckerman24 September 2018PINEDALE, Wyoming (Reuters) – A federal judge on Monday ordered Endangered Species Act protections restored to grizzlies in and around Yellowstone...

      The Daily Sheeple



  • The video of a white woman confronting a Spanish-speaking family as they were trying to enjoy a meal at a Virginia restaurant, even demanding to see their passports, has gone viral...

  • 1984: Twitter Removing Accounts That Tweet Infowars Material

    10 hours ago
  • Twitter is removing accounts that tweet out and support Alex Jones and his website www.infowars.com. Yahoo News reports the company confirmed the removal of more accounts affiliated...

  • Reliance On Broken Polling Data Will Leave “Analysts” Stumped When Republicans Hold The House

    10 hours ago

    • Similar to the 2016 election, political pundits have been stating for months that the Democratic party is all but a sure thing to win enough seats to control the House of Representatives...

      Exceptional Delaware 2017



  • Over eleven years ago, a report came out from the Delaware Department of Education.  The topic was Delaware students and what they were looking for in education.  This is a voice...

  • Delaware DOE’s Big Plan To Steal Kids From Traditional School Districts & Send Them To Charter Schools

    2 days ago
  • There are a finite number of students in Delaware schools.  Sure, the number enrolled steadily grows over the years, but there are only so many schools.  We know in Delaware that...

  • Video Shows Monique Johns Or Someone From Her Campaign Stealing Kevin Hensley Flyer From Door

    3 days ago

    • A citizen in the 9th State Representative district caught Monique Johns or someone from her campaign stealing a Kevin Hensley flyer from their door.  This is a very bad optic for the...

      Have You Heard



  • TweetTeachers are running for office in unprecedented numbers. And that’s not the only thing that makes this wave of teachers-turned-candidates unique. In the latest episode...

  • Win/Win: Why Billionaire Philanthropists are Bad at School Reform

    21 days ago
  • TweetIn the latest episode of Have You Heard, Jennifer and Jack talk to Anand Giridharadas about his best-selling new book, Winners Take All: the Elite Charade of Changing the World...

  • On the Bus: What One City Can Teach Us About School Desegregation

    a month ago

    • TweetIn 1977—please don’t do the math!—I climbed aboard a school bus headed for a newly integrated school, part of an ambitious and court-ordered school desegregation experiment...

      Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger



  • October 25, 2018 Asia Pacific Bulletin No. 444 Philippine Defense Cooperation with Russia: A Wake-up Call for the United States? By Anna Patricia L. Saberon Since the election of...

  • The Jamal Khashoggi Murder and Malaysia’s Foreign Policy

    17 hours ago
  • The Jamal Khashoggi Murder and Malaysia’s Foreign Policy by Dato Amb. (Rtd.) Dennis Ignatius http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com Malaysia’s Novice Foreign Minister Saifuddin...

  • Rejoice, for this is genuine Rule of Law

    a day ago

    • October 24, 2018 Rejoice, for this is genuine Rule of Law Opinion  |  Dean Johns http://www.malaysiakini.com  COMMENT | Feelings of schadenfreude, the expression for which...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • Apple cider vinegar is a popular home remedy for a variety of health issues. But can it also treat cancer? We look at the research.

  • Medical News Today: How to recognize and cope with emotional exhaustion

    10 hours ago
  • Emotional exhaustion can arise after a period of excessive stress. Some people are more at risk than others, including those in demanding jobs or with caring responsibilities. People...

  • Medical News Today: Nux vomica: Uses and risks

    10 hours ago

    • Nux vomica is a natural remedy that some people believe can treat high blood sugar, relieve pain, and have antioxidant effects. We look at the research...

      Chicago Boyz



  • So, several posts by the Zman blog crystalized in my own mind a partial understanding of the situation as regards the new cold civil war. The whole Trumpland/Clinton Archipelago split...

  • Birds

    2 days ago

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis, as Viewed From a Soviet Launch Facility (rerun)

    3 days ago

    • This month marks the 56th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, which brought the world dangerously close to thermonuclear war. Several years ago,  I read  Rockets and People...

      Centinel2012



  • I am a former Special Forces Green Beret from back in the Vietnam War era and since we were trained in many military skills including making improvised explosive devices my opinion...

  • September, 2018 Update, Global Temperatures Changes, Man Made or Not?

    11 hours ago
  • Nature Rules not Mankind We have been schooled over the past 40 years that Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is rising to levels never seen before on this planet and as a result the world’s average...

  • President Trump Receives Briefing Over Dinner With Senior Military Leaders…

    11 hours ago

    • Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on October 23, 2018 by sundance Tonight President Trump dined with military leaders in the Cabinet Room. The president answered a few questions...

      The BRAD BLOG



  • It was a dark day on Wednesday, but there were a few rays of light that managed to shine through anyway on today's BradCast. [Audio link to show follows below.] We'll start here with the...

  • GA Sec. of State Kemp Caught on Tape Worried 'Everybody May Exercise Their Right to Vote': 'BradCast' 10/23/2018

    a day ago
  • It's another very busy show on today's BradCast (for a change), exactly two weeks out from this year's crucial midterm elections. Among the stories covered [audio link to show is posted...

  • 'Green News Report' - October 23, 2018

    a day ago

    • IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Mexico braces for powerful Hurricane Willa --- and so does Central Texas; September 2018 was the fourth hottest September ever recorded; PLUS: Climate change...

      Below 2C



  • The IPPC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has released its most frightful and alarming report yet — Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC. The message is blunt...
  • ( The UN bafflegab brigade deserves a special award for recycling nonsense to new heights of alarming rhetoric. )

  • Children Face Unique Health Risks Due To Climate Change

    8 days ago
  • The medical profession has sounded the alarm on the potential health risks of climate change. And one demographic in particularly is vulnerable to the threats arising from a warming...

  • Climate Liability – Who Pays for Damages is on the Radar in Municipal Elections

    13 days ago

    • The images of climate change are now part of daily broadcast news. News anchors finally dare to utter the words climate change. And politicians running for office are now aware that...

      bluebird of bitterness




  • Happy birthday, Johnny

    2 days ago
  • A classic comedy skit in honor of the birthday of Johnny Carson (1925-2005).

  • Bear necessities

    3 days ago


    •   Home



  • The International Uranium Film Festival, which travels the globe each year showcasing films of every genre about every facet of nuclear power and nuclear weapons, will be back at...

  • Why haven't peace and disarmament treaties worked?

    7 days ago
  • Nuclear Age Peace Foundation president, David Krieger, writing this week on Beyond Nuclear International, asks whether all the many disarmament and peace treaties have actually...

  • Mud dumped in Welsh waters could contain plutonium

    7 days ago

    • Mud dredged from the Hinkley C nuclear construction site in Somerset, England, and dumped 1.5 miles off the Welsh capital, Cardiff, into the estuarine bay, could contain plutonium...

    BlackListed News



  • Authorities in New York are holding a press conference on 7 or more suspicious packages, some of which contained pipe bombs, sent to political targets, mostly in New York state. On...

  • Lawsuit: US Military Contractor DynCorp Accused of “Enslaving” American Employees in Kuwaiti Tent Cities

    a day ago
  • A recently unsealed lawsuit has accused two U.S. military contractors of treating American citizens working as military translators in the Middle East like “slaves.” The two...

  • Interpol Alert Issued By Turkey For Exiled Journalists President Erdogan Wants To Toss In Jail

    a day ago

    • Turkey's government has already locked up more than 70 journalists -- most of them in the wake of a failed coup. President Recep Erdogan says the imprisoned journalists are terrorists...

      Research Digest



  • By Christian Jarrett. People with ADHD seem to find it easier to break free from prior concepts and examples.

  • Story-listening shows promise as an intervention for people living with dementia

    7 days ago
  • By Emma Young. Given that there’s no cure for Alzheimer’s, anything that can help with memory is surely to be welcomed.

  • Encouraging self-compassion may help people with chronic pain lead more active, happier lives

    8 days ago

    • By Alex Fradera. The findings refine our understanding of which mechanisms are more likely to increase pain acceptance.

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