Saturday, December 22, 2018

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  Washington's Blog


  • U.S. President Donald Trump has announced his intention to remove all U.S. troops from Syria. If that happens it will fulfill part of the demand that World BEYOND War has been making...

  • Does Trump Lie to Say ‘We have defeated ISIS in Syria’?

    2 days ago
  • Eric Zuesse At 11:52AM on Wednesday, December 19th, CBS News headlined “White House orders Pentagon to pull troops from Syria immediately” and reported that, “Rep. Adam Kinzinger...

  • Which Nations Are State Sponsors of Terrorism?

    2 days ago

    • Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org On 30 December 2009, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent a cable (subsequently released to the public by WikiLeaks)...

      The Vintage News



  • The recent passing of Stan Lee at 95 years of age has inspired a plethora of stories about the artist who helped create many of the comic book characters that have entertained us since...

  • New Findings Suggest Vlad the Impaler was Imprisoned Beneath this Castle

    20 hours ago
  • Attempting to imprison Vlad the Impaler might seem an awfully risky move, but in the 15th century that is exactly what one Hungarian leader is believed to have done, keeping Vlad in...

  • The Domesday Book – Early England’s Most Important Document

    20 hours ago

    • The Battle of Hastings in 1066 marked the start of William the Conqueror’s rule over England when he defeated the Anglo-Saxon King Harold II on the battlefield. Less than 20 years...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!




  • Disciplining Martina: Heretics and the Church of Trans Normativity

    2 hours ago
  • Originally posted on Jane Clare Jones: Two main things turned up in my timeline this morning. One was the fall-out of Rachel McKinnon’s egregious and unconcealed bullying of Martina...

  • Woody Allen defends himself on 60 Minutes in ’92

    4 hours ago


    • The Truthseeker



  • America has become, a nation of too many totalitarian-minded sheep who don’t even know they’re being manipulated into destroying their own country...

  • As This is the Solstice, Happy Birthday, Great Master, Jesus the Christ

    3 hours ago
  • Today, writes Les Visible, I'm celebrating the birth of one of my greatest heroes

  • Call To Declare War With Russia Tabled In Ukrainian Parliament

    3 hours ago

    • If the resolution is passed it will give Poroshenko a pretext to call off the upcoming presidential election in March 2019, which he’s expected to lose by a wide margin...

      TARPLEY.net



  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, December 20, 2018 White House Fails to Consult Pentagon, Congress, or Coalition Partners...

  • At Flynn’s Sentencing Hearing, Federal Judge Asks Lawyers If Trump’s Renegade General Could Have Been Charged with Treason!

    2 days ago
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, December 19, 2018 Fed Hikes Interest Rates by One Quarter per Cent, Keeps Quantitative...

  • Trump Bear Market Is Here, Bringing Worst December for Stocks Since 1931; Friday-Monday Losses Came Just After End of Quantitative Easing by European Central Bank

    3 days ago

    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, December 18, 2018 Greenspan Advises Investors: “Run for Cover”; BIS Warns That Sharp...

      Sustainable Pulse



  • A new disclosure rule issued today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture will not help consumers easily identify food that has been genetically engineered or that contains genetically...

  • Kyrgyzstan Parliament Orders 100% Organic Agriculture within 10 Years

    4 days ago
  • Kyrgyzstan is set to become only the second country in the world to change their entire nation in to a 100% organic farming paradise, 24.kg reported last week. The move by Kyrgyzstan...

  • China Set to Shock Markets with Low Glyphosate Residue Limits in Food Imports

    11 days ago

    • China is set to introduce maximum residue limits (MRLs) of 200 parts per billion (ppb) or lower for glyphosate in all imported final food products and raw materials including grains...

      sunshine hours



  • A couple of videos of a meteor near Sacramento. I found it funny that all of a sudden a bunch of brake lights went on.  

  • Arctic Sea Ice Volume 19-Dec-2018

    2 days ago
  •   From DMI

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 353 – 2018

    2 days ago

    • South / North

      Stumbling and Mumbling



  • “The trouble with you son” said Bill Shankly once to a struggling young player “is that your brains are all in your head.” The great man had a point, and not just about football...

  • When bad government matters

    9 days ago
  • Here’s a nice contrast. On the one hand, Tim Stanley says: Britain's still absolutely fine, by the way, probably better off than its ever been. It's just politics that's a mess. If...

  • Brexit's irrelevant cost

    11 days ago

    • I can understand why some reasonable people want to leave the EU. What’s more puzzling is why so many think it is worth the bother. Is it worth dividing the country, triggering a political...

      Stagecraft and Statecraft



  • Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times From Richard Nixon to Barack Obama, successive US presidents, as a matter of policy, aided China’s rise in the naïve hope that a more prosperous...

  • Weaponizing water

    6 days ago
  • Brahma Chellaney, DNA newspaper Just as China has changed the status quo in the South China Sea through an island-building strategy, it is working to re-engineer cross-border flows...

  • Canada must stand up to China the bully

    7 days ago

    • BRAHMA CHELLANEY SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL In clear reprisal for Canada’s U.S.-sought arrest of the daughter of Huawei’s founder, China has detained two Canadians on charges...
      ( Bwahahahaha. Canada led with its chin )

      Socio-Economics History Blog




  • Human Nature: White Christmas

    5 hours ago

  • Tensions Remain High Between Israel, Lebanon

    6 hours ago

    • PressTV Published on Dec 21, 2018 Tension has intensified between Lebanon and Israel along Lebanon’s southern border after Israeli forces installed barbed wire fences in the...

      Socialist Economic Bulletin



  • - includes articles by regular SEB contributors John Ross and Tom O'Leary + many more  Get your copy here.Ten years on from the near-collapse of the global financial system...

  • Even the IMF rejects Trump’s false claim that the US economy is growing fast

    2 months ago

    • By John RossThe new US GDP growth data released by the US last Friday entirely confirms the earlier analysis of ‘US growth under Trump is the slowest under any US President since World...

      Ramani's blog



  • There is another Shiva temple near Chennai. The Shiva lingam has ,as His Accoutrement,a Stem,which resembles the Stem of Lotus.

  • Logical Base of Hinduism Sanatana Dharma Part 1

    6 hours ago
  • But apart from Vedas, there are other tools of Knowledge, Vedas come under the Tool Sabda. And veda ,as Sabda, is based on Intuition. Intution is also accepted as a tool of Knowledge...

  • Where None Dies of Poisonous Bites Severe Fever Vishahareswarar Paruthiyur.

    7 hours ago

    • There is a temple near Kumbakonam,Tamil Nadu for relief from poisonous bites and life threatening fever.

      Diane Ravitch's blog



  • Just released by the United Teachers of Los Angeles: MEDIA ADVISORY Contact: Anna Bakalis 213-305-9654 UTLA calls for immediate cap on charter school growth in Los Angeles and to...

  • New York City Gives Consulting Contract to Ousted Boston Superintendent Tommy Chang

    7 hours ago
  • Tommy Chang was a top assistant to John Deasy in Los Angeles. After Deasy was pushed out in Los Angeles following a billion-dollar iPad bungle, Chang landed a job as superintendent...

  • D.C.: Ferebee Nomination as Chancellor Questioned Because of Inaction in Sexual Abuse Case in Indianapolis

    7 hours ago

    • D.C. Muriel Bowser, hoping to build on the legacy of Michelle Rhee and Kaya Henderson, selected Indianapolis Superintendent Lewis Ferebee as the District’s new chancellor. However...

      Pasco Phronesis



  • Where science and technology on late night are concerned, 2018 is looking to go out with a whimper, and certainly not a bang. For this past week I can find little to note in this post. ...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of December 3

    12 days ago
  • The past week was, regrettably, yet another loser for science and technology content on the late night programs.  The one note of merit is Jeff Goldblum’s appearance on The Late...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of November 26

    14 days ago

    • The week following Thanksgiving saw some shows in repeats, or airing ‘specials’ pre-taped before the holiday.  Once such case was the November 27 edition of The Late Show. ...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT



  • By Paul Homewood h/t Trevor Shurmer   https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-46628832/the-texas-town-running-on-renewables   Trevor sent me this BBC link, and...

  • Next Year To Be “One Of The Hottest Years Of All Time”–Claims Pathetic Daily Mail

    2 days ago
  • By Paul Homewood   The sad decline of the Mail continues apace, with this latest juvenile story:   Forecasters warn 2019 is expected to be one of the hottest years of all time. The Met...

  • Do Fish Smell?

    2 days ago

    • By Paul Homewood   h/t Patsy Lacey   The Climate Silly Season is still going full blast!   Salmon are losing their powerful sense of smell because of carbon dioxide being absorbed...

      NoTricksZone



  • It’s doubtful Spiegel whether will ever recover its credibility now that it was revealed one of its star reporters had been fabricating stories for years. The extent of the news...

  • Arctic Glaciers ADVANCED 16 km During 2008-2016 In A Region That Was 6°C Warmer ~9,000 Years Ago

    2 days ago
  • Newly published science indicates glaciers in the High Arctic Svalbard/Barents Sea region have rapidly advanced in the last decade — surging 16 kilometers since 2008, which is...

  • Max Planck Institute Director: “Low Probability” CO2 Reductions Will Have Impact On Climate Next 20 Years!

    3 days ago

    • Jochem Marotzke, Director of Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPIM), says we would have to wait 20 years before seeing any impact on climate from CO2 reductions...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day



  • Diane Ravitch's Blog: Mauritania: Report on Privatization and Commercialization of Education This came to my email. I thought you might want to know that the battle against privatization...

  • Answer Sheet: Can Charter Schools Be Reformed? Should They Be?

    3 days ago
  • Answer Sheet: Can Charter Schools Be Reformed? Should They Be? In 2013, I published a post with this headline: “Why charter schools need better oversight.”The author of the...

  • Living in Dialogue: Slouching Toward Technopoly: A Lesson Plan

    5 days ago

    • Living in Dialogue: Slouching Toward Technopoly: A Lesson Plan In his recent novel, Purity, Jonathan Franzen nearly kills off an expert hacker who is addicted to a video game that...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers



  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review There was likely never going to be “comprehensive immigration reform” or any deal amnestying the DACA recipients in exchange for building...

  • The Departure of Mattis and Engagements in the Middle East

    9 hours ago
  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The near-destruction of ISIS in a matter of months (losing 99 percent of its landed caliphate), the restoration of sound defense budgeting...

  • The Liberal Arts Weren’t Murdered — They Committed Suicide

    4 days ago

    • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The great culture wars on the campuses of the 1980s were largely lost by traditionalists. And the question then became not if but when the liberal...

    The Moderate Voice



  • CNN’s Don Lemon on the resignation of Secretary of Defense James Mattis and what it means. The post CNN’s Don Lemon: If you are worried, you should be (Video) appeared first on The...

  • Trump is about to repeat Obama’s mistake in the Middle East

    a day ago
  • by Marc A. Thiessen Washington Post Writers Group Columnist WASHINGTON — During his time in CIA custody, 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told his interrogator something...

  • What’s the economic impact of a government shutdown?

    a day ago

    • Will Congress avert another shutdown? AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Scott R. Baker, Northwestern University President Donald Trump and Congress are once again on the verge of a partial...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • 1. Rethinking economics, by Eshe Nelson. 2. Ken Regan on Tom Lehrer. 3. Blockchain for Babies, new book. 4. Man who demolished famed San Francisco house must build replica. 5. AEI best...

  • True, trivial and yet still neglected in import

    15 minutes ago
  • “Go to More Parties? Social Occasions as Home to Unexpected Turning Points in Life Trajectories” Reviving classical attention to gathering times as sites of transformation...

  • The Top Ten Marginal Revolution Posts of 2018

    2 days ago

    • As measured by page views the most popular MR post this year was my post on how there is one law for the police and another for the rest of us, Get Out of Jail Free Cards. Second was Tyler Cowen’s...

      Lloyd Lofthouse



  • How many times did Hillary Clinton invoke the 5th amendment during her testimony during the Benghazi invitation and for the private e-mail server witch hunt? Continue reading →...

  • Russians Targeted African Americans on Social Media in 2016 to Help Trump

    4 days ago
  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Russian government operatives used social media in 2016 to help the Trump campaign. A sophisticated effort targeted African Americans...

  • Daniel Dale: How to Know When Trump Is Lying

    a month ago

    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Daniel Dale is a reporter for the Toronto Star. This article appeared in the New Zealand Herald. He is obsessed with fact-checking Trump...

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  • Georgetown, Texas, has been called a “city of the future” because of its commitment to 100-percent renewable energy. But if that's the case, then future cities can look forward...

  • Big Brother Shocker: N.Y. to Have Public Schools Decide if Private Ones May Operate

    8 hours ago
  • Would it make sense to let McDonald’s franchises decide whether Burger King can do business in their areas? This is essentially the situation created, say critics, by a November...

  • Judge: School Officials and Cops Have No Duty to Protect Students From Shootings

    13 hours ago

    • A federal judge has ruled that school officials and police officers have no duty to protect students from violence such as the Parkland, Florida, school shooting...

      MintPress News



  • While “Mad Dog” Mattis was by no means a “hero,” it is almost a given that his replacement will be far more pro-war and pro-intervention than the outgoing secretary of defense...

  • Houthis to Demand Body of Slain Journalist Jamal Khashoggi as Part of Saudi Prisoner Exchange

    12 hours ago
  • ”If [slain journalist Jamal] Khashoggi's sons ask or if they want us to demand their father's body [as part of the Saudi-Yemeni prisoner swap] then we will do it.” -- Mohammed Ali...

  • Search for Missing $21 Trillion Comes Up Empty as Pentagon Fails First Audit in 71-Year History

    13 hours ago

    • It’s difficult to tally the cost in civilian lives and mass destruction of an annual budget rapidly approaching the trillion-dollar mark, and that’s something that likely won’t...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • “Go to More Parties? Social Occasions as Home to Unexpected Turning Points in Life Trajectories” Reviving classical attention to gathering times as sites of transformation...

  • Philip Serzo on travel writing

    3 hours ago
  • Philip sent me this email, and very generously allowed me to reproduce it: Tyler, I know you’ve been going back and forth recently on travel writing. I don’t read a ton of travel...

  • From the comments, on Facebook

    13 hours ago

    • The problem with this paper is that it excludes, entirely, individuals and businesses who use Facebook as a (or The) e-commerce channel for their commercial activities. That’s...

      Made from Truth and Lies



  • Comparing Radical Feminism and Catholicism (tags: catholicism feminism ) Austerity results in 'social murder' according to new research (tags: austerity death UK OhForFucksSake...

  • Interesting Links for 20-12-2018

    2 days ago
  • Why “Just Google It” Is Now A Synonym For “Indoctrinate Someone” (tags: Google propaganda youtube OhForFucksSake ) Salazar Slytherin - Norman conqueror? (tags: harrypotter...

  • Interesting Links for 19-12-2018

    3 days ago

    • Polling for a future referendum continues to look very good (tags: UK europe referendum polls ) Women astronomers have had lower success rates with proposals to use the Hubble Space...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • Sweating at night may be a sign of low testosterone in males or menopause in females. Treatment often involves supplementing the hormone to correct an imbalance. Learn more here...

  • Medical News Today: What to know about acanthosis nigricans

    12 hours ago
  • Acanthosis nigricans is a common skin condition often caused by diabetes or hormonal conditions. Learn about the causes, symptoms, and treatments of acanthosis nigricans here...

  • Medical News Today: What is fibrocystic breast disease?

    13 hours ago

    • Fibrocystic breast disease causes a person to have lumpy, and sometimes painful, breasts. It is a very common condition and not harmful. Learn more in this article...

      Jon's Text



  • As your heart beats your heart and arteries give off X-rays radiation in time with your pulse. The pressure waves caused by contracting heart does molecular nuclear fusion.1 H2O+P+TU->He+O+E2+X-ray...

  • Free carbon zero heat

    16 hours ago
  • Every lightening strike is a 1.5 KM by 2 cm steam plasma. Set up by heavy rain or snow and doing molecular nuclear fusion.1 H2O+TU->He2++O++3e- TU=turbulence So the turbulent interaction...

  • Free natural gas and petrol

    19 hours ago

    • https://jonsthings.blogspot.com/2018/12/free-natural-gas-and-petrol.html We are used to the idea that natural gas burns in high pressure air. A gas and air mixture at low pressure...

      InvestmentWatch



  • technical defect of merkels plane via google translate: Technical problems in the government plane! On the way from Berlin to the G20 summit in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires...

  • GREG MANNARINO: The Central Banks Will KEEP You GUESSING, While They GET RICHER!

    22 days ago
  • Portfolio Wealth Global, Released on 11/29/18 Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the...

  • If You Want to Safely Profit from the Global Cannabis Boom, Invest in the Beverage Industry

    22 days ago

    • BY ROBERT ROSS “Jeff Sessions leaving office is a definite win for the cannabis industry.” That’s a quote from Jeffrey Zucker. He’s the president of Green Lion Partners...

      www.gurukalehuru.com



  • Now is the solstice, the darkest night of the year.  We don’t think about it much, living in cities the way  we do, and in houses with electricity so night does not hold the terror...

  • Headlines

    a day ago
  • Of all the headlines in all the news, the ones I like best are the ones that start with “Scientists Discover…”  It’s much more pleasant than some of the most common first two...

  • Trump Gets One Right

    2 days ago

    • He’s still a wretched excuse for a human being.  He’s a morally decrepit, barely literate, socially retarded pathological  liar who is using  the presidency as a means to...

      Fragments from Floyd



  • Last night at the Floyd Country Store (and more at a new venue perhaps next year) we viewed the 38th movie in six and a half years of this SustainFloyd program of information-sharing...

  • Where Does Your Water Go?

    16 days ago
  • There are some things about surface waters that are always true: They only flows downhill. Gravity decides the course. They cut through soft rock faster than harder rock. They carry...

  • Field To Fork: Food Choices and the Future

    17 days ago

    • Near Coles Knob in eastern Floyd County, many acres of former mature forest are being cut (down to what’s left of the topsoil) to create pasture to grow beef cattle. (Wood chips likely...
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    22 December - iGoogle Portal - Tab 8

      Eyes on Trade


  • On NAFTA’s Quarter-Century Mark, Data Reveal a Wide Gap Between 1993 Rosy Promises and 2019 Realities As the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) marks a quarter century...

  • As Battle Over NAFTA 2.0 Heats Up, New Report Documents 25 Years of NAFTA's Disproportionate Damage to U.S. Latino and Mexican Working People

    18 days ago
  • With the signing of the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on Nov. 30 as the migrant crisis at the border escalates, the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement...

  • Signing of NAFTA 2.0 Does Not End Fight for Progressive Improvements to the Agreement

    23 days ago

    • The NAFTA 2.0 text that is being signed contains some improvements that progressives have long demanded, some damaging terms we have long opposed and some important unfinished business...

      



  • Empath overwhelm is often caused by being “peopled”. Every Empath experiences it at some point and it is one of the most challenging aspects of being Sensitive. The overwhelm endured...

  • 6 Tricks To Shift Your Mental Focus From Negative To Positive

    3 days ago
  • Even if you’re not directly affected by external negative forces, your past programming may catch you off guard. A positive mind helps raise your vibration. Having a higher vibration...

  • This Is When The Universe Decides To Send You The Right Person

    5 days ago

    • Life doesn’t appear to be a random process. On the contrary. Everything that happens to us seems to be by intelligent design. There are no coincidences, no accidents, instead just...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • Sweating at night may be a sign of low testosterone in males or menopause in females. Treatment often involves supplementing the hormone to correct an imbalance. Learn more here...

  • Medical News Today: What to know about acanthosis nigricans

    12 hours ago
  • Acanthosis nigricans is a common skin condition often caused by diabetes or hormonal conditions. Learn about the causes, symptoms, and treatments of acanthosis nigricans here...

  • Medical News Today: What is fibrocystic breast disease?

    13 hours ago

    • Fibrocystic breast disease causes a person to have lumpy, and sometimes painful, breasts. It is a very common condition and not harmful. Learn more in this article...

      Desdemona Despair



  • By Shreya Dasgupta5 December 2018 (Mongabay) – A Honduran court has convicted seven men in the murder of indigenous rights activist Berta Cáceres in 2016.Until her death on March...

  • Japan to resume commercial whale slaughter after leaving International Whaling Commission – “This is the path of a pirate whaling nation, with a troubling disregard for international rule”

    2 days ago
  • By Justin McCurry and Graham Readfearn19 December 2018TOKYO (The Guardian) – Japan is to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and resume commercial whaling...

  • An Indian perspective on the Poland climate meeting: Not much help for the world’s poor and vulnerable

    3 days ago

    • By Arun Agrawal19 December 2018(The Conversation) – The international climate change conference that concluded in Katowice, Poland on 15 December 2018 had limited ambitions...

      The Daily Sheeple



  • The benefits of this push to legalize industrial hemp cannot be understated and may well fundamentally change how some parts of our country's economy work...

  • Personal Bank Accounts in Venezuela Frozen to “Fight Terrorism”

    8 days ago
  • Upon controlling the money flow, they could strangle any entity that is opposed to the totalitarian state.

  • Trump’s Border Policy Is Meant To ‘Traumatize’ Children, Says Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley

    8 days ago

    • Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon said on CNN’s “New Day” Friday that the Trump administration’s border policy is designed to “traumatize” children...

      Exceptional Delaware 2017



  • We can’t celebrate successful schools that don’t celebrate diversity, period. During the State Board of Education meeting tonight, a fascinating conversation took place...

  • State Board of Education Approves 7 Charter Schools For Renewal, Newark Charter School Gets 10 Year Renewal

    a day ago
  • Tonight, in a half hour part of their monthly meeting, the Delaware State Board of Education approved seven Delaware charter schools to be renewed. Design Thinking Academy, First...

  • Will Charter School of Wilmington Try To Have Delaware DOE As Their Authorizer?

    2 days ago

    • After the beat down and humiliation they received from the Red Clay Board of Education last night, the Charter School of Wilmington is very angry.  They were called out as a racist...

      Have You Heard



  • TweetCan listening to the Beatles “When I’m 64” make you younger? In a word, no. But listening to the latest episode of Have You Heard will definitely make you smarter. Education...

  • In a Gentrifying City, Are Some Students Expendable?

    a month ago
  • TweetThe latest episode of Have You Heard is inspired by a brand new, and must read book: Ghosts in the Schoolyard, by sociologist Eve Ewing. Ghosts excavates the long backstory...

  • The Zombie: The Undying Attacks on Schools of Education

    2 months ago

    • TweetPerhaps no issue is as deserving of ‘zombie’ status in the great education debates as schools of education and their myriad failures. [Insert specific criticism here]...

      Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger



  • December 22, 2018 Navigating the new international economic policy landscape by Shiro Armstrong and Peter Drysdale, ANU http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2018/12/19/navigating-the-new-international-economic-policy-landscape/...

  • The Dangers of Neo-Feudalism

    2 days ago
  • December 20, 2018 The Dangers of Neo-Feudalism by Dr. SharifahMunirah Alatas http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com   We Malaysians are so used to feudalism. The culture of patronage...

  • The War on Huawei

    2 days ago

    • December 20, 2018, The War on Huawei Dec 11, 2018 Jeffrey D. Sachs http://www.project-syndicate.org The Trump administration’s conflict with China has little to do with US external...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • Acanthosis nigricans is a common skin condition often caused by diabetes or hormonal conditions. Learn about the causes, symptoms, and treatments of acanthosis nigricans here...

  • Medical News Today: What is fibrocystic breast disease?

    13 hours ago
  • Fibrocystic breast disease causes a person to have lumpy, and sometimes painful, breasts. It is a very common condition and not harmful. Learn more in this article...

  • Medical News Today: How to treat paronychia (an infected nail)

    14 hours ago

    • Paronychia is the medical term for an infection in the skin around the nail, which becomes inflamed, swollen, and painful. People can treat mild paronychia at home, and a doctor can...

      Chicago Boyz



  • Pamela Garber write about her experiences. What motivates the people who are expressing such rage about the President and his supporters?  While surely some of them have thought...

  • Print the Legend

    a day ago
  • “This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” So goes the line from the Jimmy Stewart-John Wayne tale, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Spread all over...

  • Group Identification

    2 days ago

    • Cross-posted from Assistant Village Idiot. I was listening to a podcast that included female pastors talking about Methodism, both noting with approval that John Wesley encouraged...

      Centinel2012



  • Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on December 21, 2018 by sundance Following up to the earlier report conspicuously missing from MSM reports, Homeland Security...

  • White House Senior Adviser Stephen Miller -vs- U.S. State Run Media Wolf Blitzer…

    15 hours ago
  • Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on December 20, 2018 by sundance White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller appears on U.S. state run television for a policy...

  • House Votes For Short-Term Funding Bill That Includes Border Security…

    15 hours ago

    • Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on December 20, 2018 by sundance The House of Representatives voted tonight to include $5.7 billion for border security in a spending...

      The BRAD BLOG



  • if (window.document.getElementById('post-12835')) window.document.getElementById('post-12835').parentNode.className += ' adhesive_post';It has been an exhausting...

  • 'Trump, The Presidency'! Thrilling Season Finale!: 'BradCast' 12/20/2018

    a day ago
  • Every great Reality TV show needs a dramatic and gripping season finale. So too, apparently, does does every horrible Reality TV Presidency! [Audio link is posted below] Today is...

  • 'Green News Report' - December 20, 2018

    2 days ago

    • IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Climate change is expensive, particularly for the U.S. military; 2018 on track to be fourth costliest year in U.S. history for weather disasters; Polls show...

      bluebird of bitterness





  • Signs of the times

    17 hours ago

  • Friday happy dance

    18 hours ago


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  • Opposition to consolidated interim storage facilities (CISF) for irradiated nuclear fuel, targeted at the Southwest, persists. On Dec. 17, a coalition of environmental groups...

  • Vigilance needed to block federal funding for Yucca dump

    a day ago
  • Yucca Mountain, NevadaCongressional Republicans, such as U.S. Rep. Fred Upton from southwestern Michigan, have been trying hard to attach a rider to year-end budget legislation...

  • Public has till Jan. 9 to comment on DOE proposal to abandon high-level radioactive wastes in situ

    9 days ago

    • In response to a request by 76 environmental groups, including Beyond Nuclear, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has granted until January 9, 2019 for the public to comment on the...

    BlackListed News



  • At first glance of Amazon’s new patent application, one would be tempted to think it no more than a built-in “smart” security system.But no, this facial recognition surveillance...

  • Mattis is out, and Blackwater is back: ‘We are coming’

    a day ago
  • Mattis' resignation comes amid news that President Donald Trump has directed the drawdown of 2,000 U.S. forces in Syria, and 7,000 U.S. forces from Afghanistan, a U.S. official...

  • A deleted scene from Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘Who Is America?’ may have pointed to an elite pedophile sex ring

    a day ago

    • “We wanted to investigate how does someone like Harvey Weinstein gets away with doing what…get away with criminality, essentially. And the network that surrounds him. We decided...

      Research Digest



  • By Christian Jarrett. People experience love in many situations beyond just romantic relationships.

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  • By Emma Young. The implications for the real-world experience of stress is far from clear.

  • “An additional reason to abandon learning styles” – teachers and pupils do not agree on the pupils’ preferred learning style

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    • By Christian Jarrett. This is one of the first studies to look at learning styles in the context of primary age education.

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  • Thursday Morning Links

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    • This and that for your Thursday reading.- Anis Chowdhury highlights how industry-wide bargaining which avoids a race to the bottom on wages produces improved efficiency as well...
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  • Wired’s Gadget Lab team sums up this year in tech. Plus: An interview with the CEO of a futuristic fitness company.

  • The DRC's Ebola Outbreak Is an End-of-Year Nightmare

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  • Arcimoto's Electric FUV 3-Wheeler Makes City Driving a Blast

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  • Imran Khan raised Kashmir issue with UN chief: UN spokesman

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  • Two people are detained as police continue "pro-active investigations" into drone use that grounded flights.

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  • Find out how astronomy and meteorology differ on the definition, why solstices happen, and how the day is marked around the world.

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  • At least five people were killed and four wounded when a car bomb exploded in the Somali capital on Saturday, a police officer said.

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  • Iran executes businessman for economic crimes: state TV

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  • A small asteroid is flying safely by Earth Saturday (Dec. 22) and according to the folks at NASA, it looks just like the mighty hippo in new radar images...

  • Gallery: Bay Area Fireball Leaves Twisted Sky Trail

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  • Ultima Thule Shines a Puzzling Light As New Horizons Spacecraft Approaches

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    • There's something weird going on with Ultima Thule, the distant object that NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will fly by just 10 days from now.
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