Thursday, February 20, 2020

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  • An giant rat the size of a human has been found in South America. Thankfully for the squeamish, it wasn’t alive. Archaeologists working at the Acre dig site in the western Brazilian...

  • Mummy Burial of Egyptian Priests Found Together with Afterlife ‘Servants’

    21 hours ago
  • Khaled al-Anani, the Minister of Antiquities in Egypt, has revealed that a large mummy burial site has been discovered at Tuna el-Gebel, an ancient necropolis located near Luxor...

  • Pablo Escobar’s Mad Hippos are Polluting the Water with their Droppings

    2 days ago

    • Pablo Escobar’s hippos are causing a ruckus in Columbia. The man left an unusual legacy involving hippos that is causing problems many years after his demise. His huge former ranch...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!




  • Spot on @BillMaher

    2 hours ago

  • Nobel Prize Winner in Economist 1995 – Robert Emerson Lucas

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    •   TARPLEY.net



  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, February 19, 2020 Time to Dump the Mnuchin Faction of Crackpot Profiteer Ideologues...

  • In Suspicious Reversal, Trump Proclaims US Is Open for Strategic Sellout: His Regime Will Freely Sell Sensitive Technologies to China and Other Enemies, Endangering American Lives in Future Conflicts; If Nothing Changes, Beijing Aggressors Will Get General Electric Jet Engines Interagency Experts Had Sought to Deny; Chipmakers Resent Ban on Sales to Huawei; China Appeasers Around Mnuchin Lobby for Demands of Renegade CEOs; Critical Meeting of February 28 Cabinet Meeting, Expected to Approve New Measures Against Huawei Technology Pirates, plus Closure of Loophole Used by Intel and Micron to Continue Deliveries, Now Called Off; In Two Tweets, Trump Mocks Regulations Being Developed by Congress; Key Obstacle to Chinese World Domination Seemingly Removed; Xi’s Colossal Human Rights Violations, with 3 Million Mainly Moslem Inmates in Concentration Camps in East Turkestan, Count for Little

    a day ago
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, February 18, 2020 Trump’s Latest Flip-Flop Calls for a Vigorous Campaign of Lobbying...

  • American Society Rejects Trump’s Dictatorship and the Politics of Revenge: Over 2,000 Department of Justice Veterans Call on AG Barr to Resign; Former Deputy AG Donald Ayers, Barr’s Colleague in Bush 41’s DOJ, Calls Him “Un-American”

    2 days ago

    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, February 17, 2020 On Sunday Shows, Dem Candidates Spout Usual Platitudes, Not Grasping That...

      Sustainable Pulse



  • A jury on Saturday awarded US$ 250 million in punitive damages to a southeastern Missouri peach farmer who argued that weedkiller dicamba that had drifted onto his orchards from other...

  • Fraud in German Laboratory Casts Doubt on 2017 EU Re-Approval of Glyphosate

    8 days ago
  • Fraud in a German laboratory has cast additional doubts on the 2017 re-approval of glyphosate and on the entire EU pesticide safety evaluation procedure, Pesticide Action Network...

  • Chemical Toxicity and The Baby Bust – Jeremy Grantham

    9 days ago

    • In today’s society people are choosing to have fewer children, and delaying having children at all into later, less fertile years. These two factors have driven fertility rates...

      sunshine hours



  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 48 – 2020

    2 days ago
  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 47 – 2020

    3 days ago

    • South / North

      Stagecraft and Statecraft



  • The world’s rivers are under unprecedented pressure from contamination, damming, and diversion, which are straining water resources, destroying ecosystems, jeopardizing...

  • The China Factor Behind India’s Pullout from RCEP

    13 days ago
  • The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership was set to become the world’s largest free trade agreement. But India’s withdrawal from it has thrown the negotiated trade...

  • Interview with Brahma Chellaney

    14 days ago

    • Brahma Chellaney Says More… Project Syndicate, Feb 4, 2020 This week, Project Syndicate catches up with Brahma Chellaney, Professor of Strategic Studies at the New Delhi-based...

      Diane Ravitch's blog



  • If Senator Bernie Sanders wins the Democratic nomination, you can be sure that Trump will redbait  him on a daily basis. Sanders will be “red meat” for Trump’s ridicule. If...

  • Study: Stop-and-Frisk Increased Dropout Rate

    14 hours ago
  • Matt Barnum and Alex Zimmerman of Chalkbeat report that a new study of Bloomberg’s stop-and-frisk policy found that it increased the dropout rate, especially for black boys, who...

  • Heather Gautney and Eric Blanc: Bloomberg’s Ed Reform Ideology Would Be a Disaster for Public Schools

    15 hours ago

    • Heather Gautney and Eric Blanc warn in the Guardian the Michael Bloomberg’s ideas about education would be a disaster for the nation. He is the only candidate whose ideas about education...

      Pasco Phronesis



  • This past week was a clear break from the recent months of limited science and technology content.  “Science Bob” Pflugfelder returned to Jimmy Kimmel Live! on February 10 (Monday). ...

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

    11 days ago
  • This past week has been dominated in late night (and daytime) talk with a lot of political content.  Of note for these pages is the failure of the Iowa Democratic Party to effectively...

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

    17 days ago

    • Things ticked up for science and technology on late night in the last week of January.  On the January 26 repeat of The Late Show, you could catch host Stephen Colbert lacerating a recent...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT



  • By Paul Homewood   This has to go down as one of the most fraudulent climate studies yet!   Want to know how sea level in your area is changing due to global warming and other factors?...

  • Delingpole: Britain’s Floods Have Nothing to Do With Climate Change

    a day ago
  • By Paul Homewood     Boris Johnson’s Greenest Government Evah has come up with a brilliant new excuse to duck its responsibilities for all the floods now swamping parts of Britain...

  • UK airports must shut to reach 2050 climate target

    a day ago

    • By Paul Homewood   h/t Keith Holland   UK airports must shut, says UK Govt backed research group:   All UK airports must close by 2050 for the country to reach its target of net zero...

      NoTricksZone



  • Arctic Surprise By Professor Fritz Vahrenholt A few days ago, an international research group from the USA, Canada and Switzerland led by Lorenzo Polvani of Columbia University...

  • Is “All-Time Antarctic 20.75C Record High Temperature” Just A Sensational Hoax? Station Data Show Only 16C

    2 days ago
  • In Germany there have been rumors that the alleged Antarctic Seymour Island “all-time Antarctic record high” of 20.75°C set on February 9th is a hoax – originating by the AFP...

  • New Study: Greenland’s Largest Glacier Has Rapidly Thickened Since 2016…Fueled By 1.5°C Regional Ocean Cooling

    3 days ago

    • Greenland’s largest glacier (Jakobshavn) has quite abruptly thickened since 2016. The thickening has been so profound the ice elevations are nearly back to 2010-2011 levels...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day



  • Our Schools: How Corporations Are Forcing Their Way Into America’s Public Schools In the expanding effort to privatize the nation's public education system, an ominous, less-understood...

  • Janresseger: Ohio House Passes Emergency Amendment Which Would Solve Some EdChoice Voucher Problems

    2 days ago
  • Janresseger: Ohio House Passes Emergency Amendment Which Would Solve Some EdChoice Voucher Problems Ohio’s House Speaker Larry Householder is leading his chamber expeditiously...

  • VAMboozled!: NCTQ on States’ Teacher Evaluation Systems’ Failures, Again

    2 days ago

    • VAMboozled!: NCTQ on States’ Teacher Evaluation Systems’ Failures, Again In February of 2017, the controversial National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) — created...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers



  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness In 2020 we have finally hit peak progressivism. The adjective “peak”—apex or summit— is often used to describe something that...

  • The Democrats’ February Blues

    6 days ago
  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review All political parties and candidates have bad days. But the new progressive Democratic Party had four of its worst days in recent memory in...

  • Limbaugh: A Genius at Radio

    7 days ago

    • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Genius is often defined in myriad ways. One trusted criterion is the ability to do something extraordinary in a field where others could not...

    The Moderate Voice



  • Las Vegas (AFP) – Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg got hit Wednesday with a barrage of attacks from rivals during his debut Democratic presidential debate who savaged him...

  • Trump ‘offered pardon’ to Assange if he denied Russia leak, court hears

    9 hours ago
  • London (AFP) – US President Donald Trump promised to pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange if he denied Russia leaked emails of his 2016 election rival’s campaign, a London...

  • Houston Astros have targets on their backs.

    10 hours ago

    • The Houston Astros have targets on their backs. Perhaps not literally, but they are going to be targeted if not already. From Evan Bleier at Inside Hook: “Oddsmakers expect Houston...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • Here is a new paper from Joy Buchanan, Emergent Ventures winner: Having a larger high-skill workforce is good for economic productivity, so it is useful to understand how workers...

  • In praise of art books

    3 hours ago
  • Running out of things to read?  Do you ever have the sneaky feeling that books might be overrated?  Well, for some variation at the margin try reading art books.  That’s right...

  • Education sentences to ponder

    12 hours ago

    • The unemployment rate for young college graduates exceeds that of the general population, and about 41 percent of recent college graduates — and 33.8 percent of all college...

      Lloyd Lofthouse



  • Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: When I joined the Marines in 1965, I wasn’t thinking of the flag or what freedom meant. I joined for another reason. I wanted to know...

  • Jackie Goldberg: Lies the Billionaires Tell

    6 days ago
  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Jackie Goldberg is running for re-election to the Los Angeles Unified School Board. She is an experienced public official who has supported...

  • Teresa Hanafin: Trump Reduces More Environmental Regulations, While Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Hides Trump’s Travel Expenses

    a month ago

    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: I fear we are becoming insensitive to shock in the Trump era. And the very concept of “government ethics” seems to be an oxymoron in this...

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  • A federal judge has ruled against a Health and Human Services’ pro-life rule that includes multiple provisions to ensure Americans’ taxpayer dollars are not used to fund abortions...

  • Bloomberg Spent Millions to Staff State AG Offices With Climate Radicals

    10 hours ago
  • A program founded with millions from Bloomberg’s foundation provides Democratic state attorneys general with lawyers trained to advance the climate agenda...

  • Boys Scouts Have Muslim Troops — Who Don’t Pledge Allegiance to America

    11 hours ago

    • Some years ago the BSA allowed openly homosexual boys in its ranks, then openly homosexual adult leaders; next came “transgender” kids and girls. Interestingly, though, most...

      MintPress News



  • Michael Bloomberg’s campaign has called on the other “moderate” candidates, such as Amy Klobuchar, Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg, to step down and unite behind him as the only...

  • Netanyahu “Optimistic” Israel Can Use Political Pressure To Shut Down ICC War Crimes Probe

    16 hours ago
  • Netanyahu’s frenzied lobbying efforts to halt the ICC probe suggests that the probe greatly worries him, particularly as he has linked his current reelection bid to illegal acts...

  • Mistrial Declared in Kafkaesque D.C. Trial of Venezuela Embassy Protectors

    5 days ago

    • Judge Beryl Howell has declared a mistrial following a hung jury in the case of the four Venezuela Embassy Protectors charged with "interfering with the protective function of the...

      Made from Truth and Lies



  • Sabisky isn't the problem. Cummings is.(tags:fascism UK politics )7000-year-old well is the oldest wooden structure ever discovered(tags:prehistory wood archeology )An optical...

  • Interesting Links for 17-02-2020

    3 days ago
  • Uber and Lyft said they would ease congestion. Instead they made it worse.(tags:transport taxi fail )Prime numbers do not like to repeat themselves(tags:PrimeNumbers mathematics...

  • Interesting Links for 16-02-2020

    4 days ago

    • Children hiding. Badly.(tags:children psychology development funny )New Downing Street adviser called for 'universal contraception' to stop 'permanent underclass' (and various...

      www.gurukalehuru.com



  • This business of Mike Bloomberg running for the Democratic nomination is bullshit. He is a Republican. He was a Republican when he held his only political office, mayor of New York...

  • Bloomberg and Pelosi are Fucking Snowflakes

    2 days ago
  • I’ve been hearing a lot about how us Bernie Bros are rude, and argumentative, and divisive, and constantly attack other candidates’ supporters, and use bad language, and I really...

  • 3 days ago

    • Binge watching is a change in our lives which I would never have predicted. It’s different, when you swallow a show in big chunks, rather than in bite sized weekly increments. And...

      Fragments from Floyd



  • Non-native earthworms are perhaps the most serious of invasive land pests. Learn about them and avoid spreading them when possible.

  • The Children-Avatars of Goose Creek

    15 days ago
  • It is a fact (barring worse-case outcomes in the real estate realm) that this date a year from now, I will not be sitting at this desk in this room at these coordinates on Planet Earth...

  • More Shorts for Cold Weather

    16 days ago

    • Here is served more high-fiber roughage, I suppose, that helps keep the old information digestion system moving regularly. One has to take the time to slow down and spend a few moments...

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    20 February - iGoogle Portal - Tab 8

    Mercury In Retrograde – What To Expect

    2 days ago
  • Oh, no! – Mercury is about to retrograde again. Mercury is going Retrograde on February 17, 2020, in Pisces and will go directly on in Aquarius on March 4 till the range of March 10...

  • Ways Narcissists Gets Away With Hurting People And Becomes The Good Person

    3 days ago
  • When Narcissists engage and talk in social groups, they are usually like by all. However, you should beware as the narcissist have many faces, each more cunning than the former. Generally...

  • Love Is Not Forcing Them To Change But Pushing Them To Do Better

    14 days ago
    • Finding love these days is not easy, yet when we do, it seems everyone wants the other person to change. Accept your partner for who they are, cause that is who you feel in love with. Why...

      Have You Heard

  • TweetThe raging debate about whether public money should fund private religious education is a very old one. What’s new is the increasingly complex education landscape and the...

      Chicago Boyz

  • COVID-19 Update, Morning 2-19-2020. This update is a horror show of numbers involving "super spreaders" and public health incompetence in and around the Diamond Princess cruise...

  • Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate the Origins of the 2008 Financial Crisis and Systemic Failure

    a day ago
  • Are greedy racist “Wall Street” bank lenders responsible, or progressive politicians? The housing finance systems of some developed countries have failed, but only the U.S...

  • COVID-19 From a Business Perspective

    2 days ago
    • I live in the world of HVAC distribution, which is basically a subset of industrial distribution. The information flow concerning COVID-19 is interesting. There are some of my vendors...

      Centinel2012

  • BELLY UP TO THE SWAMP  Multi-billionaire and former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg once tried to ban “Big Gulp” sodas in his city. He also wanted saltshakers removed from...

  • Michael Egnor Demolishes the Myth of Materialism (Science Uprising EP1)

    13 hours ago
  • Discovery Science 48.9K subscribers SUBSCRIBE Has science proven we are all just matter? Or does reality extend beyond what we can see and touch? Be sure to visit https://scienceuprising.com/...

  • Michael Egnor Shows You’re Not A Meat Robot (Science Uprising EP2)

    14 hours ago
    • Discovery Science 48.9K subscribers SUBSCRIBE Are we simply robots made out of meat? Or is there an inescapable “I” who makes real choices that can change our lives? This episode...

      The BRAD BLOG

  • In the hours just before former Republican and current billionaire Michael Bloomberg makes his bought-and-paid-for debut on the Democratic debate stage in Las Vegas, our guest...

  • Trump Empties Gotham Prison: 'BradCast' 2/18/2020

    a day ago
  • We've got a lot to catch up on on today's BradCast after a long holiday weekend, as the crisis of rot and corruption inside the once-revered U.S. Dept. of Justice continues to metastasize...

  • 'Green News Report' - February 18, 2020

    2 days ago
    • IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Yet another state now grappling with extreme rains and floods; Antarctica hits another record high; Trump EPA trying to gut yet another public health pollution...

      bluebird of bitterness

  • Mickey and Minnie Mouse made their film debut in 1928 in “Plane Crazy.” Like most cartoons of the era, it has something to offend almost everyone, including violence, cruelty...

  • Many are cold, but few are frozen

    2 days ago

  • Monday chuckles

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  • As reported by South Carolina's Aiken Standard. This is a remarkably fast policy reversal-reversal (sic), even for the Trump administration! Trump tweeted that the Yucca dump was...

  • Action urgently needed to block irradiated nuclear fuel consolidated interim storage facilities!

    6 days ago
  • In the decades-long "game" of radioactive waste whack-a-mole, when the Yucca dump goes down (see related entry, below), proposed consolidated interim storage facilities (CISFs)...

  • Broad coalition intervenes against Holtec takeover of Indian Point for decommissioning & HLRW management

    7 days ago
    • This includes the State of New York, the Town of Cortlandt, Village of Buchanan, and Hendrick Hudson School District, Riverkeeper, and Safe Energy Rights Group. These intervenors...

    BlackListed News

  • Jewish American pedophiles are escaping justice by fleeing to Israel and automatically attaining Israeli citizenship under their right of return laws, CBS News reports...

  • Netanyahu “Optimistic” Israel Can Use Political Pressure To Shut Down ICC War Crimes Probe

    a day ago
  • Since the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced it would investigate war crimes committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank last December, Israel’s Prime...

  • Syria - Turkey's Bluff Is Called - Media Opposition Sources Run By British Intelligence

    a day ago
    • Russia has called Turkey's bluff of a wide ranging attack on Syrian government forces. The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan will now have to find a way out of the Idleb trap...

      Research Digest

  • By Emily Reynolds. People who see willpower as a limited resource are particularly prone to bedtime procrastination when stressed.

  • Sexist Ideologies May Help Cultivate The “Dark Triad” Of Personality Traits

    2 days ago
  • By Emma Young. Sexism is related to higher dark triad scores — but direction of causality remains unclear

  • Here’s How We Perceive The Political Leanings Of Different Fonts

    3 days ago
    • By Emily Reynolds. Sans serif fonts are seen as more liberal — but our own political ideology also influences our judgements

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

  • Harvey A. Moyer got into the carriage-making business about a quarter-century before the Ford Motor Company started making cars. It was a hard time to bet on the horse-hauled market...

  • For the Madagascan Aye-Aye, the Rule of Thumb Comes in Two

    10 hours ago
  • In the small hours of the night in the jungles of Madagascar, nightjars croak in the canopies, and hordes of chocolate-colored cockroaches skitter through the undergrowth, hissing...

  • The ‘Pie Designer’ Baking Up a Diverse Vision of America

    10 hours ago
    • When Lauren Ko says she’s a pie designer, she often gets quizzical looks—until she opens Instagram. Her account, Lokokitchen, which functions like a baker’s portfolio, is...

      Accidental Deliberations

  • Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- John Miller takes note of the corporate media's bias against Wet'suwet'en land defenders and others engaged in demonstrations...

  • Tuesday Night Cat Blogging

    a day ago
  • Horizontal cats.

  • Tuesday Morning Links

    2 days ago
    • This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac offer a stark look at the plausible worst-case scenario for a climate breakdown over just the next...
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    20 February - iGoogle Portal - Tab 7 - MSM News

  • Six candidates take the stage in Las Vegas tonight, including Mike Bloomberg with his DNC debate debut.

  • The Democratic Debate, a New Plan for Student Debt, and More News

    9 hours ago
  • Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less.

  • How to Watch Tonight's Nevada Democratic Primary Debate  

    11 hours ago
    • Six candidates take the stage in Las Vegas tonight, including Mike Bloomberg with his DNC debate debut.

      NYT > Home Page

  • The sharp exchanges in the Nevada debate reflected the urgency of the moment as Michael Bloomberg, in his first presidential debate, was repeatedly criticized in personal terms...

  • 6 Takeaways From the Democratic Debate in Nevada

    39 minutes ago
  • Warren carved up her opponents, Bloomberg was on the defensive, and Klobuchar and Buttigieg tried to take each other down. The fiery debate signals a harsher campaign as Super Tuesday...

  • Fact-Checking the Las Vegas Democratic Debate

    3 hours ago
    • Our reporters followed all of the exchanges and fact-checked the candidates, providing context and explanation.

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

  • India ranked 77th on a sustainability index that takes into account per capita carbon emissions and ability of children in a nation to live healthy lives and secures 131st spot on a...

  • Radicalism disturbing world peace, only India has solution: Mohan Bhagwat

    in 3 hours

  • Melania Trump to visit Delhi govt school during India visit: Sources

    in 3 hours

    •   BBC News - UK

  • Downpours continue as some areas struggle to cope with flooding in the wake of Storm Dennis.

  • Coronavirus: Britons on Diamond Princess cruise ship to be flown home

    5 hours ago
  • Only those who are well can travel, and they will be quarantined on their return, it is understood.

  • Tony Blair: Labour needs 'head-to-toe renewal'

    8 hours ago
    • The ex-prime minister will urge Labour leadership candidates to adopt a new "radical" politics.

      Reuters: World News

  • Mainland China reported on Thursday the lowest number of confirmed cases of a new coronavirus since late January, partly because of a change in diagnostic criteria for patients in...

  • Coronavirus fears grip South Korean city; China reports drop in new infections

    2 hours ago
  • Coronavirus fears spread to South Korea on Thursday where the mayor of the country's fourth-largest city urged residents to stay indoors after a spike in infections linked to a church...

  • Gunman suspected of killing nine in Germany found dead in home

    2 hours ago
    • A gunman suspected of shooting nine people dead at two shisha bars in a southwestern German city has been found dead at his home, police said on Thursday...
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