Tuesday, August 04, 2020

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  • A Siberian lake has uncovered a fantastic woolly mammoth with its ligaments intact. For centuries, animals and archaeological artifacts have rested deep in the frozen barrens of...
  • the bathroom routine of Prince Charles may turn a few heads. Is working for the British Royal Family all it’s cracked up to be? Reports from over the years suggest that a job at Buckingham...
    • Evidence of an ancient civilization known as the “Cloud People” has been spectacularly discovered  on top of a Mexican mountain. Villagers found what appear to be ancient Zapotec...


  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, August 3, 2020 Is Kremlin Preparing an August Surprise?: Lukashenko Regime of Belarus Says...
  • As Domestic Consumer Market Collapses, Wall Street Zombie Banks Are in Trouble Due to Some $250 Trillion in Toxic Derivatives; Fueled by Fed’s Repo Largesse, Hedge Fund Hyenas...
    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, July 30, 2020 As Lincoln Said After Winning the November 1864 Election: “…This Election...
  • Fourteen years ago, the Bill and Melinda Gates and Rockefeller foundations launched the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) with the goal of bringing Africa its own Green...
  • The Center for Food Safety (CFS) has filed a lawsuit in a U.S. federal court against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) challenging the USDA’s new rules on GMO labeling of...
    • A growing number of chemicals in pesticides, flame retardants, and certain plastics have been linked to widespread health problems including infertility in women and men, diabetes...
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      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • The fall of Tibet was one of the most far-reaching geopolitical developments in post-World War II history, emboldening China’s still-continuing expansionism. And as China’s...
  • Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times China’s territorial revisionism has been unrelenting. Under Mao Zedong, China more than doubled its size by annexing Tibet and Xinjiang...
    • Brahma Chellaney, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs While the international attention remains on China’s recidivist activities in the disputed waters of the South...

      Ramani's blog

  • 'I am saying remove the excreta emanating bad smell from the room. And you are asking me if we remove this excreta what should we place in its place?’” (Viduthalai, 1 June 1950)...
  • And the irony is that Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was a Brahmin ,the community which EVR vilified as having been the cause for all the social issues including Widows plight...
    • What I have found,though suspected, is a deep rooted  conspiracy to to spread hatred against Hinduism and the rest of India , especially North India.

      Diane Ravitch's blog

  • Arthur Camins, retired science educator, warns that the coronavirus pandemic is rivaled by an equally harmful pandemic of selfishness. He begins: Deadly as it is, the uncontrolled...
  • John Merrow thinks the White House press corps has failed to ask Trump tough questions. This was true during the 2016 campaign, he says, and its true now. The recent Chris Wallace interview...
    • Peter Greene describes in this post how charter schools in Pennsylvania manage to game the system by making money from students with disabilities even while excluding many of them...

      Pasco Phronesis

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  • By Paul Homewood   State-backed pension provider Nest is to plough £5.5billion, nearly half of its 9million members’ money, into a climate-friendly investment strategy. Nest’s...
  • Hols

    3 days ago
  • By Paul Homewood   We’re off to the wilds of Scotland for a week (well, Dalbeattie anyway). I’ve had reports that the broadband is a bit dickie where we staying, so don’t be surprised...
    • By Paul Homewood     The car nobody wants!   Indeed, over the same period, Australians bought two-and-a-half times more Rolls-Royces (158), seven times as many Lamborghinis (457)...
  • It’s been a rather cool summer in much of Europe so far. And just before some hot weather is about to sweep across Central Europe starting tomorrow, winter made a brief comeback –...
  • A new study finds that 26 to 19 thousand years ago, with CO2 concentrations as low as 180 ppm, fire activity was an order of magnitude more prevalent than today near the southern tip of...
    • The censorship of science now sweeping the globe finally gets a slap-down… Germany’s Dieter Nuhr slams “McCarthy-like mood” in science after DFB German Research Foundation...
  • Worlds of Education: "The Edtech Pandemic Shock", by Ben Williamson & Anna Hogan The Covid-19 pandemic was the context for two major disruptions in education. The first was the...
  • Janresseger: Federal CARES Act Public Education Relief Dollars Quietly Flow into the Coffers of Charter Schools and Private Schools Many charter schools are taking advantage of...
    • Shanker Blog: The Pandemic and Federal Education Policy: From the Race to the Top to the Plunge to the Bottom This post is part of our series entitled Teaching and Learning During...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness In his latest incarnation as president emeritus and corporate multimillionaire community activist, we are reminded of the earlier Barack...
  • Listen to the Classical Wisdom Speaks featuring Victor Davis Hanson here
    • ‘They want to change the system rather than work within the system,’ Hanson says of Democrats Watch the interview here

    The Moderate Voice

  • I’ve heard people say, “It is what it is” my entire life. It seems to have gained a lot of traction over the past two decades. But basically, if you’re in a conversation looking...
  • Recent reports of delays in service by the U.S. Postal Service have prompted concerns that mail-in voting and absentee ballots will be undermined by the new Postmaster General and...
    • As a young service member stationed overseas, the venerable Stars and Stripes, a “military newspaper” that traces its roots back to the Civil War, was my connection – my lifeline...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • The Great Recession was a deep downturn with long-lasting effects on credit, employment, and output. While narratives about its causes abound, the persistence of gross domestic...
  • 1. “Agriculture, generally believed to have formed the basis of the Judaean economy, could not alone have financed Hezekiah’s expenditure at the close of the 8th and the beginning...
    • Tyler and I talk about the pandemic economics in our textbook, Modern Principles of Economics. And don’t forget, Modern Principles has more materials for teaching online than...

      Lloyd Lofthouse

  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Dana Milbank watched Bill Barr testify before the House Judiciary Committee and wrote this in the Washington Post: Here comes the caravan!...
  • Disruption: disturbance or problems which interrupt an event, activity, or process Last Saturday, July 18, 2020, my blogging was disrupted by WordPress, and my temper, calm for...
    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Several groups of Never Trumpers have created a media campaign that has gotten under Trump’s skin. He responds to them on Twitter, enlarging...
  • In a shocking exposé by the National Pulse, the Transition Integrity Project is shown to be just another establishment attempt to foment a political coup to remove President Trump...
  • President Donald Trump accused the Nevada State Legislature of a “late night coup” as the lawmakers convened in a special session on Sunday to pass legislation which will vastly...
    • After Fernando Martinez and other business owners in Louisville received a threatening letter from Black Lives Matter, the Cuban immigrant said they used “mafia tactics.”...
  • The drumbeat for war with Iran seems to be intensifying as 2020 reaches its halfway point and the narrative that cyberattacks are to play an inciting role in the coming conflict is being...
  • 75 years after Hiroshima, the US is making many of the same dangerous mistakes it did in the run-up to that disastrous moment, this time, with China. The post John Pilger: Another Hiroshima...
    • America is not based on hard work. Get it out of your head that this society is set up to be fair. Fair would be everyone with a roof over their head. The post Lee Camp: A Dozen Reasons Now...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • Is Belief in God Necessary for Good Values? Global Survey on Religion and Morality(tags:polls religion society )Bacteria in the gut have a direct line to the brain(tags:microbiome...
  • Sophia is clearly not having the worst of all possible days. (Nursery posted this earlier) Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there...
    • Archaeologists Have Found the Source of Stonehenge's Boulders(tags:stonehenge )You Don't Batch Cook When You're Suicidal (The Price Of Potatoes & The Value Of Compassion)(tags:food...

      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • I don’t often do these Facebook name games, but I was bored this morning so I did. I’m not too worried about Facebook harvesting my information because they do that anyway and I just...
  • I know my blue no matter who friends will say this is no big deal. It wasn’t illegal for Jim Clyburn to endorse Biden, and it isn’t illegal for Bill Clinton to praise him for it.But...
  • 3 days ago
    • We’re at the cottage, it’s a short trip, we got here about 5, had to wait for Sam to finish work, and we’ll head home tomorrow afternoon. It’s deadly hot, but haven’t done any...

      Fragments from Floyd


    When is the last time you stretched out on your back under a sky full of clouds? Your mind literally cannot help but make sense of the seemingly random balloonings or smears or pulled...

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      Have You Heard



  • TweetWhen the pandemic shuttered schools, it also put grades on hold, and exposed an underlying problem frequently ignored before the crisis: A-F grades serve several different...

      Chicago Boyz



  • One difference between ideological worldviews and factual worldviews can be found in the depth and (dare I say) diversity of their causal models. Consider the fall of Rome, for which...
  • Paging Dr Kennedy

    20 hours ago
  • Someone on social media linked this study of Covid-19 after-effects: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2768916 …I’d be interested in your...

    • So, last week the Daughter Unit asked me when the new civil war would kick into high gear. Note she said ‘when’ not ‘if’ – for we’ve been in a cold civil war for some time now...

  • The explanation why the socialists are eagerly lining up to vote for Biden Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By Dr. Robert R. Owens —— Bio and Archives—August 3, 2020...
  • There may not have been a communist behind every bush like Joe McCarthy had us believe, but take a look now. Old Joe was right after all Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By Ray DiLorenzo —— Bio...

    • Armstrongs Economics Blog/Press Posted Aug 4, 2020 by Martin Armstrong YouTube moderators, with no medical background to even determine if what is being said is true, are censoring...

      The BRAD BLOG



  • IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Hurricane Isaias hits North Carolina amid a pandemic, and makes weather history; Rising sea levels pushing storm impacts further inland, study warns; PLUS...
  • On today's BradCast: Elections are under threat once again this year, and not just from the President of the United States. But one group of cybersecurity experts launched a new initiative...

    • * * * 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...

      bluebird of bitterness




  • Happy birthday, Louis

    9 hours ago
  • It’s the birthday of the American musician, band leader, composer, and singer Louis Daniel Armstrong (1901-1971). He was the grandson of slaves and grew up in poverty in New...


  • Criminal nuclear scandals involving financial boons to the economically collapsing nuclear power industry rocked three states last week. Beyond Nuclear reported on the most dramatic...
  • Corruption scandals in Ohio and Illinois reveal an unsavory underside to the politics of energy. An opinion column by Justin Gillis in the New York Times, focused on the nuclear bribery/bailout...

    • As reported by the Post and Courier. Not mentioned in the article is the fact that David Wright, who presided over the Summer 2 & 3 debacle as president of the South Carolina Public...

  • Homicides and shootings have surged in Chicago during the first seven months of the year.
  • Ariana Pekary accused MSNBC of amplifying “fringe voices” while forcing “journalists to make bad decisions on a daily basis.”

    • The norm that the U.S. government shouldn’t collect intelligence on a free press still has some force, it seems.

  • By Ellie Broughton. Study shows that even young Black children are affected by racialised anger bias.
  • By Emma Young. Overconfidence is transmitted between members of an in-group, outside of conscious awareness, study finds.

    • Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places



  • One hot day in May 2019, Georgie Williams went to a South London market to buy antique furniture for her new place. Later, within the vintage cabinet she brought home, she found something...
  • Since ancient times, the night sky has been full of mystery and a source of fascination. Some early civilizations, living under naturally dark skies that are far less familiar to many...

    • The Shakōki-dogū figurines were created during the Jōmon era of prehistoric Japan, noted for their depiction of human eyes, which are often compared to Inuit ski goggles or shakōki in...

      Accidental Deliberations



  • This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Vaughn Palmer discusses how British Columbia's Site C megaproject had gone awry long before the coronavirus pandemic hit. And CBC News reports...
  • Andrew Leach has pointed out how Alberta's economy has been the worst in the country since Jason Kenney took power. But it's also worth noting which provinces have seen similar results:In...

    • Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading.- Christopher Cheung examines the privilege involved in being able to stay home during the course of the coronavirus pandemic. And...

    4 August - iGoogle Portal - Tab 7 - MSM News

  • Researchers found 18 exploits that take advantage of inconsistencies in the email plumbing most people never think about.
  • A CDC report from a Georgia hotspot illuminates just how easily kids can spread coronavirus, adding to our understanding of kids' role in transmission...
    • With access to just 50,000 high-wattage smart devices, attackers could make a bundle off of causing minor fluctuations.
  • The government had stored “highly explosive materials” at the blast scene on the Lebanese capital’s waterfront, a top military official said. Thousands of people were injured...
  • Tens of millions of Americans have lost crucial jobless benefits, and lawmakers still can’t seem to agree on a relief measure. Israel’s troubled school reopenings could be a...
    • The resignation of Dr. Oxiris Barbot, the commissioner since 2018, came after Mayor Bill de Blasio stripped her agency of a key virus tracing program.

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

  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi will perform ‘bhoomi pujan’ as part of 15-minute rituals to formally mark the start of Ram temple construction in Ayodhya on Wednesday, bringing...

  • Scientists say the UK test-and-trace scheme is not yet good enough to stop a resurgence of coronavirus.
  • Grades were estimated by teachers after the coronavirus forced exams to be cancelled for the first time.
    • The Labour MP got the backing of Home Secretary Priti Patel after receiving abuse over social media.