Thursday, June 04, 2020

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  • A Norwegian couple renovating their house found a Viking burial under their floor. In a country as old as Norway, with a history steeped in the Vikings, construction sometimes reveals...

  • Rhinestone-Studded Jockstrap Worn by Elvis Presley Goes Up For Sale

    2 days ago
  • The jockstrap of Elvis is going up for sale. Fans of the king can now get closer to him than ever before…thanks to his rhinestone-encrusted jockstrap! This intimate item is up for...

  • History Behind the Launch: How NASA and SpaceX Redefined Space Travel

    2 days ago
    • NASA and SpaceX made history with the first successful launch from American soil in 9 years. The American space program can be broken into two parts. The first part involves space exploration...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!


  • Jack Hirshleifer on public good composition

    9 hours ago
  • From https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=VbrKgDK-rioC&pg=PA526&lpg=PA526&dq=economics+best+shot+public+goods+%22vaccines%22+JACK+HIRSHLEIFER&source=bl&ots=J7PiyCNVdi&sig=ACfU3U0cJyMKnKI4qlvc0wxNhKlWUxPlhA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj94tqi5N3pAhUSxzgGHWwFBXwQ6AEwAnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=economics%20best%20shot%20public%20goods%20%22vaccines%22%20JACK%20HIRSHLEIFER&f=false...

  • What is BDS?

    11 hours ago

    •   TARPLEY.net

  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, June 3, 2020 Defense Secretary Esper Repudiates Trump’s Plan to Unleash Troops Against...

  • Barr and Trump Trample First Amendment with Order to Oust Peaceful Demonstrators from Lafayette Park Monday Evening; Episcopalian and Roman Catholic Bishops Condemn Don’s Cynical Exploitation of Religious Buildings; Will the Bible Survive Trump’s Posturing?

    a day ago
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, June 2, 2020 Reports of Federal Troops in and Around Washington DC; Military Helicopters...

  • Trump Demands Governors Trample First Amendment with Indiscriminate Repression of Legitimate Protesters over Actions of Violent White Supremacist Infiltrators; White House Engaged in Obscene Replay of Nixon’s Long Hot Summer and Hoping for Racist Backlash at Polls; Barr’s Targeting of Amorphous Antifa Could Expand to Include Anti-Trump Dissent

    2 days ago
    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, June 1, 2020 New Attention for Early March Intelligence That Weakened Putin Regime Wants...

      Sustainable Pulse

  • Bayer AG has reached verbal agreements to resolve a substantial portion of an estimated 125,000 U.S. cancer lawsuits over use of its Roundup weedkiller, according to people...

  • US Government Weakens Regulations on GMOs Despite Public Distrust

    16 days ago
  • On Monday the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) released final regulations overhauling the nation’s decrepit regulatory system for genetically engineered (GE) organisms...

  • Glyphosate Overuse Leads to Serious Immune System Concerns

    22 days ago
    • In a time when the COVID-19 pandemic is dominating the global psyche, it is of course important to delve deeper into the background reasons for the failure of our immune systems to be...

      sunshine hours

  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 151 – 2020

    4 days ago
  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 146 – 2020

    9 days ago
    • South / North

      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • BRAHMA CHELLANEY, Project Syndicate The global backlash against China over its culpability for the international spread of the deadly coronavirus from Wuhan has gained...

  • The world faces a moment of truth on China

    25 days ago
  • Brahma Chellaney, The Japan Times The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the global geopolitical landscape, including triggering a growing backlash against China. The world wants...

  • If there was no coverup, why is China opposing an inquiry?

    a month ago
    • BY BRAHMA CHELLANEY, The Hill China insists it has been fully transparent and hidden nothing on the killer coronavirus, whose international spread from Wuhan has turned into the...

      Ramani's blog

  • My grandchildren are so caught up that they have made a video on this and though sounds funny,disturbed me on the fear felt by children.

  • Women Pandya Kingdom Madurai Meenakshi? Pliny Greek Historian

    13 days ago
  • Greek Historian Pliny mentions tha Madurai was ruled by Pandya and the Kingdom was A Republic run by Women.

  • Rama Krishna Before Ramayana Mahabharata Why How

    17 days ago
    • This is the explanation taking reference to Time and Quantum physics.

      Diane Ravitch's blog

  • The Washington Post Fact Checker, Glen Kessler and his team (it takes a team), has written a book about Trump’s lies. James Hohmann of the WaPo writes about it here: President Trump...

  • What Is the Bougaloo Movement?

    an hour ago
  • There has been persistent speculation that peaceful protests against racism and police brutality may have been infiltrated by white provocateurs. The members of this movement...

  • Robert Kuttner: Reasons for Optimism

    18 hours ago
    • Robert Kuttner is editor of The American Prospect. He writes a blog called Kuttner on Tap. If You Can Stand It, a Little More Optimism. Now we find out what America is made of. And what...

      Pasco Phronesis

  • The week of May 18th marked two months since most late night and daytime talk programs had ceased normal production of their shows.  Some of them aired repeats, as would have been customary...

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

    8 days ago
  • With a continued focus on the coronavirus (or in the case of Conan, an interest in avoiding it) and a decreasing amount of new entertainment content to promote, the late night and daytime...

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

    22 days ago
    • I’m a little surprised it took this long into the shutdown portion of the pandemic for these postings to get really, really thin.  For the first week in May, the only science and technology...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood     The GWPF have published a new paper analysing trends in weather extremes:

  • Pandemic is chance to reset global economy, says Prince Charles

    5 hours ago
  • By Paul Homewood   h/t Dennis Ambler   Prince Charles is interfering again!     The recovery from the coronavirus crisis represents an opportunity to reset the global economy...

  • The Coming Dark Age & The Death Of The Scientific Method

    5 hours ago
    • By Paul Homewood   The Appeal Hearing in the Peter Ridd case has now been heard, but judgement could still be months away. GWPF take up the story, originally published in The Australian...

      NoTricksZone

  • In a controversial interview, German doctor Wolfgang Wodarg – now Germany’s science public enemy No. 1 – called the response to the COVID-19 virus by governments and health...

  • Public Manipulation: German ARD Television Using Red Hot Weather Charts For Showing Cool Temperatures

    2 days ago
  • German public television is splashing red on its weather forecast charts to make people think it’s hot.  At Facebook, Akinom Dnagiew posted two fascinating side-by-side weather...

  • Renewable Energy Threatens Thousands Of ‘Globally Important Biodiversity Areas’ – And It’s Worsening

    3 days ago
    • An “especially worrying” new study finds 2,206 onshore wind, hydropower, and solar PV energy generation facilities have “already encroached on many of the world’s most...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day

  • Answer Sheet: Did Some Charter Schools Double-Dip in Federal Coronavirus Relief Funding?  When Congress passed a huge economic assistance aid package in March, known as the Coronavirus...

  • Alfie Kohn: Out of Control: Taking Liberties with Autonomy During a Pandemic

    2 days ago
  • Alfie Kohn: Out of Control: Taking Liberties with Autonomy During a Pandemic Warren Buffett famously commented that when the tide goes out, we can finally see who has been swimming...

  • Sherman Dorn: Will the Cultural Script of “School” Change?

    3 days ago
    • Sherman Dorn: Will the Cultural Script of “School” Change? A colleague asked me over the weekend if there is any guidance from the history of education on what may change permanently...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review It is now conventional punditry that should Joe Biden win in November, his vice president, in 1944-style, will sooner rather than later become...

  • Victor Davis Hanson: The spreading debt virus — 5 potential cures for $30 trillion problem

    6 days ago
  • The current U.S. budget deficit could soon exceed a record $4 trillion. The massive borrowing is being driven both by prior budget profligacy and a hurried effort by the Donald...

  • The Doctrine of Media Untruth

    8 days ago
    • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness As a general rule, when the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Public Radio, Public Broadcasting Service, NBC, CBS, ABC...

    The Moderate Voice

  • Here’s the latest video released by The Lincoln Project, a group stated by prominent Republicans who oppose Donald Trump. It deals with the demonstrations, looting and Trump’s...

  • ANOTHER ANTIFA TERRORIST (Cartoon, Column and Video)

    8 hours ago
  • Last Sunday, Donald Trump tweeted, “The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization.” Trump’s tweet is more catnip for his base than policy...

  • General James Mattis Excoriates Trump as a Threat to the Constitution and Accuses Him of Trying to Divide the American People

    14 hours ago
    • "Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • 1. Karl Friston responds on immunological dark matter.  And more on Friston, again highly speculative, use with caution. 2. From a well-known epidemiologist — yikes.  And yes...

  • That was then, this is now, *Mayday 1971* edition

    7 hours ago
  • That forthcoming book is authored by Lawrence Roberts, and the subtitle is A White House at War, A Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America’s Biggest Mass Arrest. ...

  • Chesapeake travel notes

    9 hours ago
    • Now is an ideal time to visit Maryland’s Eastern Shore, if only for a few days.  There are open vistas, water birds, charming old homes, and plenty of signs of Revolutionary and 19th...

      Lloyd Lofthouse

  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: These are the worst of times. Police brutality in Minneapolis murdered a black man who allegedly used a fake $20 bill. Petty crimes are adjudicated...

  • Trump’s Dangerous Malignant Narcissistic Ignorance will kill Some and might kill Many

    7 days ago
  • The facts prove that COVID-19 will not go away through the hot Summer months. Continue reading →

  • Trump’s Mad Dogs Should Not be allowed to Roam Free

    17 days ago
    • Why are mad dogs shot or euthanized when they are a threat to other animals and humans? Continue reading →

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  • A guaranteed income may or may not be an improvement over the current state of affairs, but either way, a massive wealth transfer and regulatory state harms the poor...

  • Armed Citizens Defend Town: "Rioters, Looters KEEP OUT!"

    13 hours ago
  • Spokane smolders while Coeur d'Alene is calm, peaceful.

  • Media, Democrats Lie About Tear Gas Being Used Against “Peaceful Protesters” in Lafayette Park

    16 hours ago
    • Breathless media reports that President Trump personally ordered peaceful protesters at Lafayette Park across from the White House disbursed, and that tear gas and rubber bullets...

      MintPress News

  • Journalists and dissidents alike are being targeted by American police in the land of the free. Is it as simple as an out of control police force, or something more? The post Manipulating...

  • Attorney Resigns From Use of Force Committee After Being Shot, Gassed by Denver Police

    21 hours ago
  • While police nationwide have been escalating violence against protesters, Denver law enforcement appear to be some of the worst offenders. The post Attorney Resigns From Use of...

  • Democrats Recently Voted to Give Trump Even MORE Police Power

    21 hours ago
    • Even amidst an unprecedented nationwide crackdown on protesters, the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted to reauthorize the questionably...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • Victorian Engineering Connections (everyone, apparently, knew everyone)(tags:engineering history visualisation )Feminist action, not feminist identity(tags:Identity...

  • A question of time

    20 hours ago

  •   Made from Truth and Lies

  • Victorian Engineering Connections (everyone, apparently, knew everyone)(tags:engineering history visualisation )Feminist action, not feminist identity(tags:Identity...

  • A question of time

    20 hours ago
  • I said "Hang on ten seconds" to Sophia, which then had me wondering when the "second" became a common unit, and then going looking for other time keeping systems, discovering that both...

  • Interesting Links for 03-06-2020

    a day ago
    • Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is WrongTurns out that reality is complex(tags:ocean earth globalwarming complexity )Financial Times shares its Coronavirus excess mortality...

      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • A few of my friends online, intelligent people whose opinions I respect even if I sometimes disagree with them, have offered up the thought that the current wave of protests, and violence...

  • About Damn Time

    15 hours ago
  • Well, this is good news. The charge against Derek Chauvin has been bumped up from 3rd degree murder (which is basically manslaughter) to second degree, and the other three officers...

  • Morning Movie Review

    a day ago
    • Over the last two or three days, I have seen 5 dystopian science fiction movies. If I focus on news from the United States, instead of on the lovely green view outside my window in this...

      Fragments from Floyd

  • Vietnam: How this country of 95 million kept its coronavirus death toll at zero – CNN Why can’t we learn to do what successful states and nations do that is working? Business as usual...

  • On Herd Immunity: or Not

    6 days ago
  • Path of least resistance AND looking at new ways of getting information (mostly for me) out of my “second brain” of Roam Research (“networked tool for thought) and into a place...

  • The Future of Feeding Ourselves

    a month ago
    • The future of food will be different after COVID19. We should be planting our Victory Gardens NOW!
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    4 June - iGoogle Portal - Tab 8

  • Having empathic abilities could be genetically passed on from generation to generation. It allows you to understand people’s energy. Most empaths are unaware that they can...

  • Setting Boundaries – Introverts Struggling With Being Social

    3 days ago
  • Do you struggle with being social? People, in general, don’t understand why you struggle with being social, but to change that, you need to set healthy boundaries. Being an introvert...

  • How Letting Go Of Attachments With Love, Can Improve Relationships

    4 days ago
    • Emotionally detaching from a loved one doesn’t mean you emotionally unavailable. Neither does it mean that you won’t have a healthy relationship again. It merely means that...

      Have You Heard

  • TweetA looming budget calamity worse than the Great Recession could mean mass teacher layoffs and deep cuts to school spending. In our latest episode Have You Heard previews the bleak...

  • The Right to Read

    a month ago
  • TweetIn the latest episode of Have You Heard we dig into the recent – and surprising – decision by a federal court declaring that there is in fact a constitutional right to education...

  • Access Denied: Why Don’t We Have Internet for All?

    a month ago
    • TweetThe gaps between the Internet haves and have-nots have never been more glaring. Christopher Mitchell of the Institute for Local Self Reliance helps us understand the origins...

      Chicago Boyz

  • One difficulty is that everyone thinks that it is everyone else who are the rhinoceroses. I might think it’s you. And of course, you might think it’s me...

  • Deja- Poo

    3 days ago
  • Why, yes, as a matter of fact – I have seen this sh*t before; several times, as a matter of fact. The first go round of racial/political rioting, looting, arson and general mayhem that...

  • President Obama’s poor security advice

    3 days ago
    • President Obama just published an essay regarding George Floyd and policing. It’s a fundamentally flawed recommendation that funnels energy down the same old pathways that have...

      Centinel2012

  • If we stand on opposite sides and call each other names, there is no chance of peace Re-posted fro the Canada Free Press By Dr. Robert R. Owens —— Bio and Archives—June 3, 2020...

  • Why Has Bill Gates Been Pushing the “Virus” Problem so Hard?

    19 hours ago
  • This is the man what wants to be the ruler of the world and here we always thought it was George Soros that was pulling the strings. Sometime after 9/11 Bill Gates got involved with Al Gore...

  • 20 hours ago
    • If a politically naive person watched nearly a week’s worth of protests and general mayhem on MSNBC and CNN like I did, they might arrive at a logical conclusion: It’s all Trumps’...

      The BRAD BLOG

  • Sure, I admit today's BradCast is a bit breathless, but you try and keep up with all of this madness happening, breaking, changing and then changing again all at once while trying to...

  • Independent Autopsy: Floyd 'Died of Asphyxia Due to Neck AND BACK Pressure', a Homicide

    19 hours ago
  • After performing an independent autopsy at the request of the Floyd family's attorney, Ben Crump, Dr. Michael Baden, the world-renowned former NY forensic pathologist and Dr. Allecia...

  • As Police Brutality and Protests Continue, Is It Time to 'Defund the Police'?: 'BradCast' 6/2/2020

    a day ago
    • On today's BradCast (with helicopters circling overhead here in Hollywood): Massive protests around the country continue today for an eighth day following last week's police killing...

      bluebird of bitterness


  • Wednesday weirdness

    a day ago

  • Food fight

    2 days ago
    • To protect the health of its elderly patrons, a grocery store set aside an hour every morning, from 8:00 until 9:00, for shoppers aged 65 and older. At 7:45 dozens of senior citizens...

      Home


  • Space Force is a dangerous shift toward weaponizing space: New Beyond Nuclear handbook

    3 days ago
  • Beyond Nuclear today published its newest handbook -- The U.S. Space Force and the dangers of nuclear power and nuclear was in space -- the latest in its series, The Case Against...

  • New nuclear power plant planned for Suffolk coast would be devastating for wildlife

    7 days ago
    • EDF wants to plow ahead (literally) with its #SizewellC nuclear reactor plan on the Suffolk, UK coast (to be built on the beach virtually at sea level during a time of erosion and...

    BlackListed News

  • After a massive uprising in Minneapolis, Minnesota that subsequently spread to nearly every state in the country, significant change appears to be on the horizon. Several city council...

  • "Craziest Shit I've Seen" - NYPD Uses "Undercover" Taxi Cab To Arrest Protesters

    a day ago
  • As social unrest rages in New York City, a video surfaced on social media Tuesday, showing what appears to be an "undercover" police car that resembles a Yellow Cab NYC Taxi...

  • Dangerous nano-particles contaminating many vaccines: groundbreaking study

    a day ago
    • “The Lung,” Second Edition, 2014: “Nanoparticles [are] comparable in size to subcellular structures…enabling their ready incorporation into biological systems.”...

      Research Digest

  • By Emma Young. Meta-analysis comprising 45,000 participants finds openness to experience and honesty-humility most associated with pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours...

  • Parents Have More Synchronised Patterns Of Brain Activity When They’re Together

    a day ago
  • By Emily Reynolds. Couples who listened to sounds together showed more similar activity in brain areas involved in attention than those who were apart...

  • Women Are More Likely Than Men To Be Told “White Lies” In Performance Reviews

    2 days ago
    • By Emily Reynolds. Kinder but untruthful feedback defeats purpose of performance reviews and could hold women back.

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

  • These murals, painted on the walls and ceiling of the State Congress and titled Forma, Color e Historia de Quintana Roo (Form, Color and History of Quintana Roo) and Ley (Law)...

  • Celebrate the Heyday of Sweet American 'Salads' With These 7 Dishes

    14 hours ago
  • In the 1950s, a food trend swept the United States: the sweet salad. World War II had ended, and with it wartime rationing, but Americans’ penchant for canned goods persisted. The...

  • How to Make a Wild, Wondrous, and Complicated Contraption With All the Stuff in Your House

    15 hours ago
    • If you want to move a ball from one place to another, you have several options. You could roll it. You could bounce it. Or you could lob the thing. Any of these tactics would move the object...

      Accidental Deliberations

  • Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- George Monbiot opines that the UK has ceased to be a functioning democracy as unelected people exercise unchecked power. And...

  • Tuesday Night Cat Blogging

    a day ago
  • Flattened cat.

  • Tuesday Morning Links

    2 days ago
    • This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Robert Reich writes about the end of any pretense that Donald Trump was acting as a president rather than a self-serving social media influencer...
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    4 June - iGoogle Portal - Tab 7 - MSM News

  • Shelters across the country are emptying as people adopt pets while stuck at home. We've rounded up the gear you'll need for a smooth transition.

  • Tesla’s Cybertruck Could Be Ripped, Mean, and Super Green

    29 minutes ago
  • Elon Musk has a chance to create the world's first “circular car.”

  • A Drop in Commercial Flights Is Bad for Hurricane Forecasts

    an hour ago
    • Passenger jets and cruise ships normally gather key weather data. But full docks and empty skies make it hard to predict the details of incoming storms...

      NYT > Home Page

  • As largely peaceful protests stretched into their 10th day, several states are considering legislation to reform police tactics. Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis accused President...

  • Mattis Harshly Criticizes Trump’s Leadership

    3 hours ago
  • Our reporters and photographers are on the ground in cities across the country. Here’s what they’re seeing.

  • N.Y.C. Sees Peaceful Protests and Less Looting After Earlier Curfew: Live Updates

    5 hours ago
    • As 8 p.m. passed, peaceful demonstrations were continuing. The authorities soon moved to disperse them and to make arrests.

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


  • MHA blacklists 2,550 foreign Tablighi Jamaat members; bans entry into India for 10 years

    in 2 hours

  • Immediate cause of death of Kerala elephant was drowning which caused lung failure, says post-mortem report

    in 2 hours

    •   BBC News - UK

  • A German man, 43, is being investigated on suspicion of murder over the British girl’s disappearance

  • Stars back John Boyega after Black Lives Matter protest

    2 hours ago
  • Author JK Rowling, director Jordan Peele and Star Wars' Mark Hamill praise John Boyega's speech.

  • Quarantine rules a 'killer blow' for travel sector

    2 hours ago
    • The travel industry warns the mandatory two-week self-isolation will put tourists off UK visits.

      Reuters: World News

  • When Zinzi Lerefolo was sent home from her fee-paying girls' school in a leafy Johannesburg suburb in March, her family set up a virtual classroom that allowed her to continue studying...

  • Madeleine McCann is assumed dead, German prosecutor says

    13 minutes ago
  • Madeleine McCann, the British girl who disappeared in Portugal in 2007 aged just three, is assumed to be dead and an imprisoned German child abuser is the murder suspect, a German prosecutor...

  • Factbox: The 13-year hunt for missing British girl, Madeleine McCann

    13 minutes ago
    • British and German police say a German child sex offender, currently in prison in Germany, is a prime suspect in the hunt for missing Madeleine McCann who vanished in Portugal 13 years...
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