Monday, April 01, 2019

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  Washington's Blog

  • Eric Zuesse The American dictatorship is by the aristocracy of the country’s 585 billionaires, and has been scientifically proven beyond any doubt, now, not only in the classic...

  • Some Falsehoods in John Mearsheimer’s Writings

    15 hours ago
  • Eric Zuesse As will be documented here, the scholarly political commentator John Mearsheimer is an influential writer not because he is reliably truthful, nor because he provides...

  • U.S. Congress Pushes President Trump Harder for War Against Russia

    15 hours ago
    • Eric Zuesse IntelliNews headlined and reported on February 14th (boldface emphases added by me), “MOSCOW BLOG: US threatens new round of sanctions but Russia is ready” By Ben...

      The Vintage News

  • From 1979 to 1985, a television spinoff of the movie Moonrunners, starring Tom Wopat as Luke Duke and John Schneider as Bo Duke, became very popular – not for the actors but for the...

  • 2,000-year-old Fast Food bar discovered in Pompeii

    5 hours ago
  • Due to its tragic demise, the ancient Roman city of Pompeii was left in a remarkable state of preservation, and to this day it serves as one of the most significant archaeological sites...

  • Lethal Weapon 5 May Be Moving Forward

    6 hours ago
    • After the rumor mill put the planned film at a standstill, a Lethal Weapon 5 starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover and Joe Pesci may be finally headed for production, according to a recent...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!


  • Why sports sound better in your living room

    6 hours ago

  • How To Get Rich Reporting On Idling Vehicles In NYC (HBO)

    6 hours ago

    •   TARPLEY.net

  • Trump’s New Attack on Health Care Plus Brutal Austerity Budget Foreshadow His Defeat in 2020; Britain’s Zombie Prime Minister a Three-Time Loser as Commons Rejects Her Blindfolded...

  • UK House of Commons Reaches Total Paralysis as All Eight Brexit Alternatives Are Voted Down; Only Road Is People’s Vote or Second Referendum to Roll Back Populist Insanity; Premier May Pledges to Quit Before Next Phase, but Her Secession Plan Is Dead in Water as Northern Ireland Unionists Won’t Back Her!

    5 days ago
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, March 27, 2019 U.S. House Falls Short of Two-Thirds Majority Needed to Override Trump’s...

  • Barr Justice Department Demands New Orleans Court Strike Down Entire ACA/Obamacare Law of 2010, with No Replacement; 30 Million Americans Would Lose Coverage; Trump Raves GOP Is “Party of Health Care”!

    6 days ago
    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, March 26, 2019 Republican Genocide vs. American People: All Protections for Pre-Existing...

      Sustainable Pulse

  • How badly did Monsanto want to discredit international cancer scientists who found the company’s glyphosate herbicide to be a probable human carcinogen and promote a counter...

  • American Chestnut Foundation Board Members Resign over Support for GMO Chestnut Trees

    4 days ago
  • In a statement Thursday, two board members of the Massachusetts/Rhode Island Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF), including the Chapter President announced they...

  • US Jury Punishes Bayer with $81 Million Damages Ruling in Latest Glyphosate Cancer Trial

    5 days ago
    • A jury in the U.S. has found for the second time that Bayer/Monsanto’s glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup causes cancer and awarded $81 Million in damages on Wednesday to the plaintiff...

      sunshine hours

  • From DMI

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 90 – 2019

    2 hours ago
  • South / North

  • UHI in the UK raises Tmin by 1.7C

    13 hours ago
    • UHI causes Tmin go  up by 1.7C in UK The observed increase in T min can be attributed to an increased intensity of the UHI during the hours after sunset and into the night. Many...

      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • If Tibet is at the heart of the China-India divide, water is at the centre of the Tibet-India bond. Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times Wars in space are not just Hollywood fiction...

  • The looming specter of Asian space wars

    3 days ago
  • Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asian Review When China demonstrated its antisatellite weapon capability in 2007, it spurred international concern and criticism over the potential...

  • Pakistan, China and terrorism

    12 days ago
    • Beijing’s support protects Islamabad from global pressure to suppress militants Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asian Review International calls for Pakistan to take concrete...

      Socio-Economics History Blog

  • SkyWatch TV Published on Mar 31, 2019 Jim Barfield, director of the Copper Scroll Project, explains why he believes the mysterious scroll points to artifacts from Solomon’s Temple...

  • Trump Team’s Middle East Peace Plan is Beginning to Look a Lot Like One State — Liquidation of The Palestinian Cause

    15 hours ago
  • There is NO peace plan. It is the liquidation of the Palestinian (REAL Jews) cause by expelling them into the Sinai desert. Thus, fulfilling Revelation 12:6,13-14. – Trump Team’s...

  • Trump to Meet SISI at The White House on The Eve of Israeli Elections

    15 hours ago
    • White House Mega-Zionist to Al Sisi: “How’s the clearing of North Sinai for the Palestinian people?” – Trump to Meet SISI at The White House on The Eve of Israeli Elections...

      Ramani's blog

  • However lot of Manuscripts have found their way into Foreign Museums, Smithsonian, Gallery of Arts, UK, The Louvre , Paris, Vatican. ….

  • Our Forgotten Past My Lecture Bradford UK

    3 days ago
  • I have been sharing what I have read, studied and what I found interesting, for the past ten years, through Ramanis blog. After a couple of months into writing I found that, 1. History...

  • Twenty four Rishis Meters Devatâs of Gayatri Mantra Details.

    5 days ago
    • People of three dispositions ,Brahmana, Kshatriya and Vaisya are enjoined to Chant it as a part of Sandhya Vandhana , thrice a day. Sandhya Vandhana has the following components...

      Pasco Phronesis

  • A rare appearance in these posts of The Tonight Show.  Malcolm Gladwell visited the program on March 18, promoting a documentary film called Autonomy.  The film focuses on self-driving...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of March 11

    15 days ago
  • A bit of a curveball this week.  The Hummingbird Project is a recent release in the United States that focuses on high-frequency trading.  While that’s the core of what is essentially...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of March 4

    19 days ago
    • I’ll start with a rare mention of a politician on The View.  Washington Governor Jay Inslee, who is running for President on a single issue campaign over climate change, was on the...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood   Occasional-Cortex makes a fool of herself again!   Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called for more urgency to address climate change on Friday, comparing its impact...

  • UK Government to Announce New Energy Policies

    8 hours ago
  • By Paul Homewood   Euan Mearns has news of the government’s new energy policies:     Amidst Brexit chaos, the Prime Minister will today introduce a white paper to Parliament ...

  • Booker’s Farewell

    a day ago
    • By Paul Homewood      Sadly Christopher Booker has had to give up his column for the Sunday Telegraph because of ill health.     https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/31/farewell-telegraph-readers-60-wonderful-years/...

      NoTricksZone

  • Glaciers in Sweden melted ~7 times faster during the 1920s to 1960s than from 1970 to 2015. Image Source: Holmlund and Holmlund, 2019 Image Source: Holmlund and Holmlund, 2019 “The...

  • Fabricating A Warming: NASA Now Altering ‘Unadjusted” Data To Create New, Warmer ‘Unadjusted’ Data

    a day ago
  • By Kirye and Pierre Gosselin One fellow climate blogger recently wrote on how he’s been been looking at GHCN ‘unadjusted’ data and noticed that scientists at NASA appear to...

  • California Climate Has Always Been Wild And Unstable – Even With Low Atmospheric CO2 – New Study Shows!

    2 days ago
    • A new study has just come out in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters: Biomarkers reveal abrupt switches in hydroclimate during the last glacial in southern California...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day

  • Have You Heard: Wild Wild West: Arizona’s Charter School Experiment Did you hear the one about the Arizona state legislator who made a cool $14 million from selling his network of...

  • Education Law Prof Blog: Maryland and New Hampshire Plaintiffs File School Funding Lawsuits within One Week of Each Other, What Gives?

    5 days ago
  • Education Law Prof Blog: Maryland and New Hampshire Plaintiffs File School Funding Lawsuits within One Week of Each Other, What Gives? For the second time in a week, plaintiffs have...

  • Answer Sheet: U.S. Government Wasted up to $1 Billion on Charter Schools and Still Fails to Adequately Monitor Grants

    6 days ago
    • Answer Sheet: U.S. Government Wasted up to $1 Billion on Charter Schools and Still Fails to Adequately Monitor Grants The U.S. government has wasted up to $1 billion on charter schools...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Progressive candidates and new Democratic representatives have offered lots of radical new proposals lately about voting and voters...

  • Mueller report confirms the Steele dossier belongs in the dustbin of history

    4 days ago
  • Please read this piece by my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in The Hill The Trump dossier — compiled by Christopher Steele, commissioned by Fusion GPS and paid for by the Clinton...

  • Strategika Issue 57: The Growth of Chinese Power and Influence

    4 days ago
    • China Never Was A Superpower—And It Won’t Be One Anytime Soon Please read a new essay by my colleague, Gordon G. Chang in Strategika. “The world by 2049 will be defined by the...

    The Moderate Voice

  • In an April 1st surprise, Facebook CEO and chairman Mark Zuckerberg announced today that his company will be launching a new social media platform geared towards elementary students...

  • Dumbo (2019)

    15 hours ago
  • Dumbo is worth your time and money. It is respectful of its predecessor while blazing a trail of its own and Tim Burton has done an excellent job. Aside from Dumbo, the stars of this film...

  • Mueller’s impacts could unlock allied anger at Trump’s imperial foreign policies

    18 hours ago
    • Squabbling over the Robert Mueller findings will run its marathon but other nations now perceive that the House’s recently-minted Democratic majority can no longer seriously...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • New research shows that the fear of smart phones and social media was built on a castle made of sand. Turns out almost all of previous research never bothered to validate their assessments...

  • Monday assorted links

    2 hours ago
  • 1. The case for Mayor Pete: “Buttigieg doesn’t even seem to speak the language of progressivism.” 2. New Jersey has the worst business climate in the nation. 3. Brexit and cycling...

  • When are national apologies a good idea?

    4 hours ago
    • That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, noting that lately Mexico has been demanding an apology from Spain for colonialism.  Here is one bit: Some features of good apologies...

      Lloyd Lofthouse

  • What does Make America Great Again really mean? Continue reading →

  • Hunting the thin-skinned Orange-tinted Witch

    11 days ago
  • Donald Trump has the characteristics and behavior of an evil witch. Continue reading →

  • Funding AOC’s Green New Deal

    14 days ago
    • The United States should not be allowed to spend more than twice with the European Union or China spends on defense. Continue reading →

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  • The bump stock ban ordered by President Trump has gone into effect, making hundreds of thousands of Americans felons for owning the device.

  • Biden Says He Didn’t Know He Was Creepy. Will #MeToo Accusation End His Campaign?

    3 hours ago
  • Joe Biden has felt, grabbed, touched, kissed, and smelled the hair of any female of the species he has wanted, adult or child, and gotten away with it — until now...

  • Canadian Court Fines Christian for Publishing Truth About Transgender Activist

    4 hours ago
    • A Canadian tribunal ordered a Christian man to pay $55,000 to a transgender activist after the man distributed a flyer stating, accurately, that the activist is and always will be...

      MintPress News

  • While the IDF and Israeli government have suffered few -- if any -- consequences for their excessive use of force against Gazan demonstrators, the Great Return March and the Israeli...

  • Brexit Might Lead to UK Conservative Government’s “Annihilation”

    28 minutes ago
  • A socialist at Number 10 Downing Street is not even the most radical change to the U.K. that could be set in motion by the end of this week. Brexit has also made the breakup of the United...

  • Silencing the Whistle: The Intercept Shutters Snowden Archive, Citing Cost

    2 days ago
    • The closing of The Intercept’s Snowden archive will likely mean the end of any future publications, unless Glenn Greenwald’s rather absurd promise of finding “the right partner...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • New research shows that the fear of smart phones and social media was built on a castle made of sand. Turns out almost all of previous research never bothered to validate their assessments...

  • Monday assorted links

    2 hours ago
  • 1. The case for Mayor Pete: “Buttigieg doesn’t even seem to speak the language of progressivism.” 2. New Jersey has the worst business climate in the nation. 3. Brexit and cycling...

  • When are national apologies a good idea?

    4 hours ago
    • That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, noting that lately Mexico has been demanding an apology from Spain for colonialism.  Here is one bit: Some features of good apologies...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • Vote Leave drops appeal against fine for electoral offences(tags:europe uk fraud referendum )More segregated playgrounds revealed: 'We just play in the carpark'(tags:UK children...

  • Interesting Links for 29-03-2019

    3 days ago
  • Scottish rail network spending increase in bid to improve services(tags:scotland trains transport )A surge in online child sex abuse cases is overwhelming the police(tags:police...

  • Interesting Links for 28-03-2019

    4 days ago
    • Storing time data as UTC is not a silver bullet (wish I'd read this last time I'd written something with dates in it)(tags:date calendars software data )The British government's view...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today

  • Scientists have identified a group of memory-related neurons in the hippocampus whose activation can cause mice to reduce their food intake.

  • Medical News Today: A new wearable device may detect cancer with more precision

    3 hours ago
  • Researchers are developing and testing a wearable device that can detect the presence of cancer cells in the bloodstream with greater accuracy.

  • Medical News Today: How 1 hour of brisk walking can benefit people with osteoarthritis

    4 hours ago
    • A new study investigates the impact of 1 weekly hour of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity on disability in people with knee osteoarthritis.

      InvestmentWatch

  • by Jim Quinn Left wingers are so fucking stupid. Everything they try to censor or suppress becomes ten times more popular due to their ineptitude and idiocy. Twitter banned the...

  • April Fools? The Real Joke’s On Expendable Americans When The US Markets & Economy Are Crashed This Year

    29 minutes ago
  • via silverdoctors: SD Outlook: The Deep State/globalists fool the public every single day of the year, but this year there will be an extra-special, catastrophic joke… Ha! Joke’s...

  • William Barr Upset With James Comey for Not Indicting Clinton During Email Probe

    30 minutes ago
    • Sen. Lindsey Graham: DOJ wanted Hillary Clinton to win presidency www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9isd… William Barr ‘pretty upset’ with Clinton emails investigation, Lindsey...

      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • Slovakia, our sister nation to the East, has elected a lady President.  Zuzana Čaputova’s main claim to fame is that, as a lawyer, she went up against big landfill, and she won. ...

  • Cloudy With Meatballs

    a day ago
  • We watched Cloudy With Meatballs last night and it was awesome.  Of course, it was only awesome if you like animated movies for children, which I do.  For one thing, they are movies...

  • Deep Space Nine

    3 days ago
    • Some things hold up over time.  Some don’t.  I remember watching an episode of Laugh-In, about 10 years or so ago, and being astounded at how bad it was.  It was hard to believe that...
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    1 April - iGoogle Portal - Tab 8

    10 Simple Zen Rules That May Literally Change Your Life

    3 days ago

  • Zen is something which each and every one of us should experience at a given time in our life. Regardless of your religious beliefs, Zen Buddhism is rather interesting. Zen Buddhism...

  • April’s New & Full Moons Brings a Burst of Powerful Energies

    5 days ago
  • The New Moon on the 5th of April is taking place in Aries, which is a fire sign and represents action. With the New Moon falling in Aries this would be a perfect time to start something new...

  • Great News, Europe Voted to Ban Single-Use Plastics

    6 days ago

    • Environmental campaigners have been working towards restraints on throwaway plastics for a long time. The effort to end plastic pollution in our oceans was one of the key subjects...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • Researchers are developing and testing a wearable device that can detect the presence of cancer cells in the bloodstream with greater accuracy.

  • Medical News Today: How 1 hour of brisk walking can benefit people with osteoarthritis

    3 hours ago
  • A new study investigates the impact of 1 weekly hour of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity on disability in people with knee osteoarthritis.

  • Medical News Today: Fish slime: An answer to antibiotic resistance?

    7 hours ago

    • Antibiotic resistance is an increasingly pressing issue for humanity. A recent study dives into the constituents of fish slime to hunt for new antibiotics...

      The Daily Sheeple


  • Traditionally, the White House seeks to obtain a so-called “blue slip,” or approval, from a judicial nominee’s two home-state senators before pressing on with their nominations...

  • Colorado Sheriff vows to sit in jail rather than enforce proposed Red Flag law

    6 hours ago
  • Weld County Sheriff Steve Reams told CNN recently he’s willing to be a prisoner in his own jail rather than enforce a law he feels is unconstitutional. The bill would allow a family...

  • Sen. Graham: AG Barr Upset With Clinton Emails Handling, Could Reopen Probe

    12 hours ago

    • Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suggests the Department of Justice could reopen a probe into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails.

      Exceptional Delaware 2017



  • The ongoing saga with Odyssey Charter School continues!  As the AHEPA members of the Board continue to do whatever the heck they want, attention is being drawn to their stunts by more...

  • Over Half Of Delaware Charter Schools Below Expectations

    a month ago
  • Based on the Delaware School Success Framework, well over half of Delaware’s charter schools are not meeting expectations.  Tonight, the Delaware Charter School Office will...

  • Controversial Del Tech Tax Bill Dies A Quick Death

    a month ago

    • What is it about Delaware bills with the number 50 in it?  Senate Bill #50 is going to be pulled today according to sources in the know.  The bill would have created the Delaware Tech...

      Have You Heard



  • TweetDid you hear the one about the Arizona state legislator who made a cool $14 million from selling his network of charter schools to a nonprofit that he set up, which then inked a lucrative...

  • Selective Outrage: Revisiting the Atlanta School Cheating Scandal

    18 days ago
  • TweetIn March of 2013, thirty five Atlanta educators, all of them Black, were charged with racketeering and conspiracy for allegedly changing student answers on standardized tests...

  • The Rise of the *Portfolio* Model for Schools

    a month ago

    • TweetThe portfolio model of school district management—it sounds technocratic, even a little bit weedy and yet it’s arguably one of the hottest button topics in our great education...

      Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger



  • April 1, 2019 Cambodia–-On what basis will there be reconciliation? by Thomas Fowler https://www.khmertimeskh.com A few days ago, former parliamentarians of the late CNRP launched...

  • Dr. M Bakri Musa-Make Way for Anwar Ibrahim

    14 hours ago
  • April 1, 2019 Dr. M Bakri Musa–Make Way for Anwar Ibrahim Soon after his coalition’s stunning victory in the 14thGeneral Election of May 8, 2018, Prime Minister Mahathir admitted...

  • The TOP Universities in CAMBODIA, 2019

    a day ago

    • March 31, 2019 The TOP Universities in CAMBODIA, 2019 THE University of CAMBODIA, founded 15 years ago, is ranked NO.2 in 2019. We aspire to take the totem pole a few years forward. The...

      Chicago Boyz



  • CNN and MSNBC have come in for much criticism for irresponsible reporting and political bias–merited criticism, IMO–especially in the wake of the Mueller report.  It has been...

  • Russia to healthcare in one day. What now ?

    2 days ago
  • Last Friday, the Mueller report was submitted to the DOJ. Monday, left wing media saw ratings collapse. What next ? Why Healthcare, of course. Obamacare, which is a form of expanded...

  • Pariah

    4 days ago

    • So it seems that race-hate faker Jussie Smolett walks away, free and clear. As a three-way protected person – being of color, gay and a C-list celebrity – and one with apparently...

      Centinel2012



  • US Defense News Published on Oct 9, 2017 SUBSCRIBE 276K F-35 Program Costs Jump to $406.5 Billion in Latest Estimate The cost of the F-35 jet program, already the most expensive U.S...

  • Why America’s Enemies Still Fear the B-52 Bomber?

    27 minutes ago
  • US Defense News Published on Oct 10, 2017 SUBSCRIBE 276K Why America’s Enemies Still Fear the B-52 Bomber? The B-52 Stratofortress first flew in 1952 and ended its production...

  • Does Your Mind Create The Universe? | Answers With Joe

    an hour ago

    • Joe Scott Published on Mar 18, 2019 SUBSCRIBE 423K Get a free month of CuriosityStream if you go to http://www.curiositystream.com/joescott In 2005, Robert Lanza introduced...

      The BRAD BLOG



  • * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually on topics concerning the strange brew of Texas politics. He's also on Twitter @PDiddie...

  • Unpacking the U.S. Supreme Court by 'Packing' the U.S. Supreme Court: 'BradCast' 3/29/2019

    3 days ago
  • On today's BradCast, some facts --- real ones, not Mitch McConnell's --- about our nation's healthy history of changing the number of seats on the U.S. Supreme Court, which we have...

  • McConnell's Hilarious Green New Deal Stunt Vote as His Constituents Die from Black Lung Disease: 'BradCast' 3/28/2019

    4 days ago

    • It may not be our most hilarious show of all time, but I think it's a very important one and includes more than a few righteous rants. [Audio link to full show is at end of article.]... Among...

      bluebird of bitterness





  • Sunday funnies

    a day ago

  • Happy birthday, Joseph

    a day ago

    • Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) composed his Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in 1796 for Anton Weidinger, the inventor of the valved trumpet. Here is the final movement, performed...

      Home



  • All of us at Beyond Nuclear were shocked and saddened to learn of the death on March 30th of Kitty Tucker. Kitty was well known to those of us in the anti-nuclear movement through her tireless...

  • Randy Stafford sounds the alarm on plutonium dust near Rocky Flats

    2 hours ago


  • 3/28/19: Don't Miss the Nationwide Premiere of Power Struggle

    5 days ago

    • POWER STRUGGLE – A Film About A Successful Grassroots Citizens’ Effort To Shut Down A Nuclear Power Plant — Now Available POWER STRUGGLE, an 86-minute feature-length documentary...

    BlackListed News




  • 10 Videos That Show Creepy Joe Biden Touching Women Inappropriately

    13 hours ago
  • It would be difficult to overstate how damaging this could potentially be to Joe Biden’s campaign. In the era of the #MeToo movement, even a hint that a male candidate may have been...

  • Here Comes The Splinternet: How The EU Is Helping Break Apart The Internet

    13 hours ago

    • In the wake of last week's unfortunate decision by the EU Parliament to vote for the terrible EU Copyright Directive, Casey Newton over at the Verge has a thoughtful piece about how...

      Research Digest



  • By Christian Jarrett.

  • People Who Use More Happy Words Are Not Necessarily Happier – An Awkward Finding For Language-based Emotion Research

    3 days ago
  • By Matthew Warren. The study demonstrates the importance of checking the validity of tools in psychology research.

  • How Do Blind People Who’ve Never Seen Colour, Think About Colour?

    4 days ago

    • By Emma Young. Researchers scanned the brains of blind and sighted people while they thought about colours and abstract concepts.

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places



  • Sitting atop the Mount of Olives, the Pater Noster Church is one of several buildings in the region that owes its current existence to the Carmelites, but its story extends much further...

  • Bristol Milk

    29 minutes ago
  • The Prince of Wales, who would later rule England from 1901 until 1910 as Edward VII, is said to have once remarked that Bristol “must have some damn fine cows.” His praise referred...

  • Bermiego Yew in Bermiego, Spain

    an hour ago

    • In a quiet churchyard in the town of Bermiego stands a remarkable tree. Commonly called the Bermiego Yew, it’s known locally as the “Teixu l'Ilesia,” which in the Asturian language...

      Accidental Deliberations



  • Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Roland Paulsen is rightly critical of the billionaire-funded take that we should ignore the ready availability of resources to end severe...

  • Sunday Morning Links

    a day ago
  • This and that for your Sunday reading.- Jake Bittle writes about rural homelessness as a seldom-discussed issue which calls out for a strong policy response to ensure the right to...

  • Saturday Morning Links

    2 days ago

    • Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Frank Graves and Michael Valpy discuss the contrast between Canadian voters who are rightly concerned about the gap in wealth and power...
    .Desmedoma Despair feed is not returning. Yet there is content.

    More than 1 million acres of U.S. cropland ravaged by record floods and dozens of levee breaks – “There’s thousands of acres that won’t be able to be planted”

    At least 1 million acres (405,000 hectares) of U.S. farmland were flooded after the “bomb cyclone” storm left wide swaths of nine major grain producing states under water  

    “Breaches everywhere: multiple, multiple breaches” – Midwest levees burst, and tough questions follow

    Massive disaster relief bill at risk of stalling as Trump, Democrats fight over help for Puerto Rico

    President Trump’s opposition to aid for Puerto Rico has sparked a partisan standoff over a major disaster bill covering much of the United States, threatening to derail the legislation when it faces a critical Senate vote Monday.

    U.S. judge scraps “unlawful” Trump order opening Arctic, Atlantic areas to oil leasing

    Children suffer most from deadly coal pollution in one of Earth’s most polluted cities – “I no longer know what a healthy lung sounds like”

    25th anniversary edition of WMO’s State of the Climate report shows accelerating global warming impacts – “The data released in this report give cause for great concern”

    Trump’s EPA science panel considers guidelines that upend basic air pollution science – “I just want to emphasize the fringe nature of these proposals”

    Several members of a powerful science panel for the Environmental Protection Agency expressed doubt at a hearing Thursday about the long-established scientific consensus that air pollution can cause premature death. The panel was meeting to consider recommendations that would fundamentally change how the agency analyzes the public health dangers posed by air pollution and could lead to weaker regulation of soot.

    In blow to climate*, coal plants emitted more than ever in 2018 – “We are headed for disaster, and nobody seems to be able to slow things down”

    * Measurable and proven ?

    a fleet of relatively young coal plants located in Asia, with decades to go on their lifetimes, led the way toward a record for emissions from coal fired power plants — exceeding 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide “for the first time,” the agency said. In Asia, “average plants are only 12 years old, decades younger than their average economic lifetime of around 40 years,”

    “Last-chance tourism” hastens decline of destinations threatened by global warming, like the Florida Reef and the Galapagos Islands

    Overuse is the cause of environmental degradation of fragile ecosystems - but no chance is missed to bray about climate alarm

     

     
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    1 April - iGoogle Portal - Tab 7 - MSM

  • It's April Fool's Day, but we promise that everything in this roundup is true—to the best of our knowledge.

  • Russia's Bid to Exploit Gas Under the Stunning Arctic Tundra

    3 hours ago
  • Photographer Charles Xelot documents the construction of a new liquefied natural gas plant in the energy-rich region of Yamal and shipping activities along the Northeast Passage...

  • How Much Time Would It Take to Dig an Underground Pool?

    3 hours ago
    • The key is determining the volume of the pool and the time for a single scoop-toss.

      NYT > Home Page

  • A manager in the White House’s Personnel Security Office said administration officials granted clearances to at least 25 people whose applications had been denied by career employees...

  • Lawsuits Lay Bare Sackler Family’s Role in Opioid Crisis

    10 hours ago
  • Three generations of the Sackler family were deeply involved in running Purdue Pharma and knew of opioid abuse risks, according to lawsuits.

  • China Purchases Could Undercut Trump’s Larger Trade Goal

    8 hours ago
    • A trade deal could result in China promising to buy hundreds of billions of dollars of American products. It could further cement Beijing’s role in the economy...

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

  • Majeed, a 26-year-old from Kalyan, a distant suburb of Mumbai, is accused of having indulged in alleged terrorist activities in Iraq between May and November 2014 by joing ISIL, and...

  • Air Marshal NJS Dhillon takes charge as Commander-in-Chief of SFC

    19 minutes ago

  • One-time payment from vehicle buyers to fund higher compensation to hit & run victims

    24 minutes ago

    •   BBC News - UK

  • MPs debate next steps for Brexit, including the Common Market 2.0 plan allowing free movement.

  • Violent crime: Police cannot 'arrest' the issue away - May

    5 hours ago
  • Theresa May opens a summit on violent crime, as teachers resist plans to make them tackle youth violence.

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