Sunday, September 13, 2020

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  • The “Targa Florio” from Sicily is the planet’s first sports car race being founded in 1906. A touchstone for petrolheads, it’s also world famous for its dangerous combination...

  • British Museum Moves Bust of Founder – But did he Deserve It?

    2 days ago
  • A prominent Anglo-Irish figure who was the founder of the British Museum in London has had his bust moved in an ongoing battle over history and Empire. Physician Sir Hans Sloane donated...

  • Champion Skier Finds Eerie 400-yr-old Mummified Goat Frozen in the Alps

    4 days ago
    • A 400 year old mummified goat has been discovered frozen in the Alps by a hiker. And it just might be the most important goat in human history! Experts believe the ice-coated chamois...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!

  • Originally posted on STOP THESE THINGS: California’s sweeping blackouts are a fair indication of what happens when sound engineering gets trumped by woolly-headed ideology...

  • Why the Left Coast is Still Burning

    an hour ago
  • Originally posted on Science Matters: Update September 13, 2020:  This reprint of a post two years ago shows nothing has changed, except for the worse. It is often said that truth...

  • David Hume canceled

    an hour ago
    • Originally posted on Why Evolution Is True: UPDATE: Over at his website, my Chicago colleague Brian Leiter, a philosopher and legal scholar, has a good take on Hume. An excerpt: What’s...

      TARPLEY.net

  • Trump May Now Attempt to Play Chaos Card Once Again by Blocking Continuing Resolutions and Shutting Down Federal Government as Fiscal Year Ends on September 30 Race May Not Be Tightening...

  • Corporate Media Offer Meager Coverage of Biden’s Landmark Speech on Offshoring US Jobs, Made in America, and the Role of Labor Unions; To Reach Audience of Working People, Biden Should Launch Listening Tour on Economic and Other Issues, Going from Union Hall to Union Hall Across Midwest Rust Belt, and Listening to Concerns of Real People; The Issues Raised Could Then Be Used to Challenge Trump in Presidential Debates; Listening Tour Tactic Was Used Successfully by Hillary Clinton in Upstate New York to Win Senate Seat in 1999-2000

    3 days ago
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, September 10, 2020 Humiliation, Resentment, and “Rank in Society” Play Important...

  • Biden’s Michigan Speech Can Be Historical Turning Point as Most Pro-Labor Talk by a Presidential Candidate in Recent Memory

    4 days ago
    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, September 9, 2020 He Slams Trump’s Failure to Deliver on Election Promises to Working...

      Sustainable Pulse

  • As Colombia prepares to restart its aerial fumigation program, the global Center for Reproductive Rights and its local partners at the Cali, Colombia-based Universidad del Valle...

  • Belgium’s Superior Health Council Call for Phase-Out of Glyphosate Herbicides

    6 days ago
  • Belgium’s Superior Health Council has called for the use of herbicides containing glyphosate (the world’s most used herbicide) in the country to be phased out before December...

  • Food Safety Experts Reveal First Open Source Detection Test for a Gene-Edited GM Crop

    6 days ago
    • A group of non-governmental organisations, non-GMO food associations and a food retailer have announced that the first-ever public detection method for a gene-edited crop...

      sunshine hours

  • South / North  

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 254 – 2020

    2 days ago
  • South / North  

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 246 – 2020

    10 days ago
    • South / North  

      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • Beijing has nurtured long-standing ties with the Taliban to help Pakistan call the shots in Afghanistan. Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asian Review On the day two airplanes crashed into...

  • China’s expansionist agenda takes shape on the Indian border

    12 days ago
  • BRAHMA CHELLANEY, Special to The Globe and Mail As the past weekend’s latest skirmishes between rival troops underscore, relations between the demographic titans, China and...

  • China Alone

    15 days ago
    • As long as the costs of expansionism remain manageable, Chinese President Xi Jinping will stay the course, seeking to exploit electoral politics and polarization in major democracies...

      Ramani's blog

  • For the benefit of those who do not know Tamil,  no 2 ,says  Devi as ' Christava Darsana Vidya Devi and no 5 reads as 'Islamya Darsana Vidya Devi'

  • Chandragupta II Chalukya Defeated Umayyad Second Caliphate

    6 days ago
  • Between 724 and 810 CE, a series of battles took place between the Arabs and the north Indian King Nagabhata I of the Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty, the south Indian King Vikramaditya...

  • Subha Thithi Punya Thithi Difference

    9 days ago
    • However,days do not determine what happens to you , either Good or Bad.

      Diane Ravitch's blog

  • I just finished reading Michael Cohen’s new tell-all about his years as Donald Trump’s “fixer.” It is called Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to...

  • Texas: State Board Approves Five Charter Chains, Vetoes Three

    6 hours ago
  • The Texas State Board of Education approved applications from five charter chains, including the Gulen chain (Royal Public Schools) operated by Soner Tarim, who was compelled to...

  • Richard Phelps Reviews Michelle Rhee’s Reforms, Part 2

    7 hours ago
    • Richard Phelps was in charge of assessment in the last year of the reign of Michelle Rhee as superintendent of the District of Columbia Public Schools. In this post, he describes how...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood   h/t Robin Guenier     A frequent flyer tax, phasing out polluting SUVs and restricting cars in city centres are among climate change solutions suggested by members...

  • Speaker Hoyle Wants Lockdowns For Climate Change

    10 hours ago
  • By Paul Homewood   Speaker sets the alarm bells ringing:   THE TYPE of restrictions on daily life introduced to fight coronavirus could command public support if brought in to tackle...

  • California Has Always Had Fires, Environmentalism Makes Them Worse

    a day ago
    • By Paul Homewood   [Editor’s Note – This post appeared earlier without any body! Sorry for the confusion! Also the previous post failed to download some NOAA graphs, so I have...

      NoTricksZone

  • By Kirye and Pierre Gosselin Today we plot the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) data for Northern Europe for the month of August, 2020. We have selected this region because it is the...

  • Schizophrenic German Wind Power Output In August, Plagued By Wild Volatility

    a day ago
  • Here’s another example illustrating just how volatile and unreliable wind energy really is. Wind energy proponents like to claim that although turbines installed on land don’t...

  • Austrian Analyst: Things With Greenhouse Effect (GHE) Aren’t Adding Up…”Something Totally Wrong”

    2 days ago
    • Something is rotten with the GHE By Erich Schaffer Introduction The greenhouse effect (GHE) is a well established theory which most people consider a solid fact, even those who are...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day

  • David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Public Schooling as Social Welfare This post is a follow-up to a piece I posted three weeks ago, which was Michael Katz’s 2020 essay, Public...

  • Gadfly on the Wall: Parental Choice Won’t Save Us From Unsafe School Reopening Plans

    4 days ago
  • Gadfly on the Wall: Parental Choice Won’t Save Us From Unsafe School Reopening Plans I am the parent of a public school student. And I have a choice. I get to decide whether my daughter...

  • Code Acts in Education: The Social Life of Artificial Intelligence in Education

    4 days ago
    • Code Acts in Education: The Social Life of Artificial Intelligence in Education Artificial intelligence is becoming a major feature of educational practice and policymaking...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Victor Davis Hanson // Bozeman Daily Chronicle Almost daily, Greek and Turkish aircraft and ships fight mock battles over disputed oil and gas rights in the eastern Mediterranean...

  • Trump, Race, and Class

    3 days ago
  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review There are some stunning indications that the supposedly satanic racist Donald Trump could be polling in some surveys around a 35-40 approval...

  • Don’t expect Europe to hold Putin accountable in Navalny poisoning

    4 days ago
    • The following article is from my colleague, Paul Roderick Gregory, in The Hill Vladimir Putin is a notorious risk-taker. Many of his ventures have paid off for him, but did his...

    The Moderate Voice

  • Dreamstime.com During this primary season, former New York mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomerberg, who spent more than $900 million on his unsuccessful Democratic presidential...

  • Poop wine? Vile alcohol on show at Swedish museum

    4 hours ago
  • Poop wine and scorpion vodka are just some of the stars of a new exhibit on revolting alcohol at the Disgusting Food Museum in Malmo in Sweden.A large jug of a yellowish semi-translucent...

  • David Skal offers 31 ‘Fright Favorites’ films for Halloween season

    14 hours ago
    • Review by Doug Gibson David J. Skal has a long resume of writing genre-intensive books on the horror genre. I’m sure many readers have enjoyed his film, etc., critiques in The Monster...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • 1. The culture that is Singapore golf club script theft punishment. 2. Very good thread on some Matt Rognlie results, paper here.  The whole “market power lowering the returns...

  • Against digitalized subscription services for the movies

    5 hours ago
  • Quality public taste is a public good, and right now we are taxing it: Another response to my whining might be to tell me that I live in a world of cinematic plenty, especially considering...

  • This is Not Fine

    11 hours ago
    • Why is California burning? The experts all know the answer–CA was made to burn and if you don’t do controlled burns, CA will burn uncontrolled. Here’s ProPublica in an article...

      Lloyd Lofthouse

  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: I just finished reading Michael Cohen’s new tell-all about his years as Donald Trump’s “fixer.” It is called Disloyal: The...

  • RAGE! Trump RAGE! Trump RAGE! Trump

    4 days ago
  • “This is deadly stuff,” the president told Woodward in a Feb. 7 conversation, Continue reading →

  • Trump’s Sister Told Mary Trump that Donald is a Liar with “No Principles”

    21 days ago
    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: The Washington Post published an explosive story based on audios supplied by Donald Trump’s sister, Maryanne, a retired federal judge...

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  • Anti-police protesters block hosptial emergency entrance, shouting they hope two deputies die --- who had been shot while simply sitting in their patrol car in southern California...

  • The CDC Admission: Mask Effectiveness up in Flames

    a day ago
  • Now, even the CDC itself has admitted that wearing cloth masks of the type it recommends for COVID are not effective for small particles. On August 30, the CDC posted a warning on...

  • Court-appointed Advisor Urges Judge to Deny Motion to Dismiss the Michael Flynn Case, and to Sentence Him for Perjury

    a day ago
    • Except for the Deep State's war against Donald Trump, this case would never have seen the light of day.

      MintPress News

  • Calls to overhaul the legacy bureaucratic systems of the U.S. with cutting-edge AI-driven mass tracking and surveillance technologies are intensifying at the top echelons of the...

  • How a Senate Inquiry Revealed the Israeli Surveillance Industry’s Role in Orchestrating Russiagate

    2 days ago
  • A Senate investigation reveals that a consortium of Israeli hacking and surveillance firms coordinated and facilitated meetings between Trump campaign operatives and Russia...

  • Why is the US Government Using Stolen Cash To Pay Doctors in Venezuela?

    2 days ago
    • The US government is using cash stolen from the Venezuelan government as part of a hearts and minds campaign on behalf of opposition figure Juan Guaidó. The post Why is the US Government...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • Terrifying reindeer in someone's front garden. I wonder if the have a wicker man out the back. Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there...

  • Interesting Links for 13-09-2020

    11 hours ago
  • On Harvard and slaveryhttps://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1304472217133121538.html(tags:slavery university USA OhForFucksSake )The Anatomy of a Potential Constitutional...

  • instagram cross-post

    a day ago
    • You know, I'm not sure he is Thor. When you put the hammer on his chest he can't get up. Maybe he just has to grow into his worthiness. We can try again in a month. Original is here on instagram...

      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • Using a teleprompter during a speech is no big deal. It’s expected that your going to do it. Before teleprompters were invented, people read their speeches off paper, or at least...

  • Books that Don’t Work as Movies

    a day ago
  • I just watched Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas for the first time, believe it or not, although I read the book a long time ago. It was about what I expected, and reasonably entertaining...

  • Woodward, Shmoodward

    2 days ago
    • Usually I tend to see a news item and have a strong opinion on it one way or another, right away. Sometimes all it takes is a headline. I should probably be a bit more cautious about jumping...

      Fragments from Floyd

  • Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll post short entries from the observations, images and thoughts that have come from two back-to-back early September visits to a local walking...

  • Life in The Cloud

    12 days ago
  • Ah yes. Now I remember. Life in the cloud. It was mysterious and eerie and the relentless fog lent a kind of drama to the aloneness that first year in Floyd County living, just me and the...

  • California: Building an ARK

    14 days ago
    • I have always been fascinated by weather. The atmosphere we experience brings the physics of the cosmos up close and personal and into our daily lives, for good or ill. And climate is...

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    13 September - iGoogle Portal - Tab 8

    8 Things Gifted People Experience

    5 days ago

  • We’re all gifted in some way or another. While some gifts are easily recognized, some are subtle and can even make you feel weird. Gifted people vary from being somewhat too intense...

  • Why Leaving A Toxic Relationship Can Be Hard

    6 days ago
  • Ever been stuck in a dead-end relationship? Did you find it extremely difficult to move on from it? Well, most of us have been unfortunate enough to deal with toxic relationships or...

  • Benefits Of Schools Having A Year-Round Gardening Program

    7 days ago

    • In the past, gardening played a vital role in our lives. But now most of us buy our food from supermarkets, giving little consideration to where it comes from or how it’s grown.  Children...

      Have You Heard



  • TweetThe achievement gap has driven education reform for the past twenty years. Guest David Stevens says it’s time to stop talking about the achievement gap and focus instead on...

  • Contract Talk: New Research on Teachers Unions

    24 days ago
  • TweetTeachers unions are the biggest impediments to fixing schools and improving student achievement. That mantra has been at the heart of school reform efforts for more than a decade...

  • Pandemic Pods: Parents, Privilege, Power and Politics

    a month ago

    • TweetPrivate pandemic “pods” are the latest edu-craze to sweep the land. But turns out there’s nothing new about privileged parents fleeing the public school system—or...

      Chicago Boyz


    • IQ

      a day ago

  • I have written a lot at my own site. I don’t know how strong the interest is here. It is a topic I know a fair bit about, both the Mythbusters and the recent-thinking-and-research varieties...

  • Chicagoboyz Waiting Room Series: 31

    a day ago

  • The Giants of Flight 93 – Plus 19 Years

    2 days ago

    • This is a short post commemorating the 19th anniversary of the 9/11/2001 Terrorist attack on America.

      Centinel2012



  • The NFL took a major hit in their ratings for opening week. Rating were down 16% with many fans tuning out the social justice lectures from virtue signaling millionaire players. We...

  • The Plot to Create a Terror-State following Hitler’s Playbook

    5 hours ago
  • Armstrong Economics Blog/Uncategorized Re-Posted Sep 13, 2020 by Martin Armstrong The Wolds New Hitler — Bill Gates We are in the midst of an all-out psychological war being wages...

  • Tucker: Democrats, fires and the climate misinformation campaign

    5 hours ago

    • Fox News In the hands of Democratic politicians, climate change is like systemic racism in the sky: You can’t see it, but it’s everywhere and it’s deadly. #FoxNews #Tucker Subscribe...

      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...

  • GOP Gains Ground in Their War Against Voting and Voters in FL, WI, TX, NC, PA: 'BradCast' 9/11/2020

    2 days ago
  • On today's BradCast, it was not a good day for those who believe in free, fair, honest, overseeable and safe democracy. On the other hand, it was a great day for Republicans! [Audio link...

  • Woodward Goes Wayward in What Sirota Calls 'The Biggest Scandal in Modern Journalism': 'BradCast' 9/10/2020

    3 days ago

    • We warned you weeks ago to "buckle up" for what was to come between then and Election Day. On today's BradCast, a mountain of reminders as to why we issued the warning, as we hope that everyone...

      bluebird of bitterness




  • Sunday musical offering

    9 hours ago


  • Caturday funnies — basket case edition

    a day ago


    •   Home



  • Russians who risk freedom to oppose nuclear sector rewarded Fedor Maryasov and Andrey Talevlin, four others, win 2020 Nuclear Free Future Award Munich, Germany, September 8, 2020—Fedor...

  • A message from the most bombed nation on earth

    14 days ago
  • Ian Zabarte speaking at a press conference at a Nuclear Forum event he organized at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas in 2016.More than 900 nuclear tests were conducted on Shoshone...

  • Duane Arnold atomic reactor shutting down for good two months earlier than scheduled after damage from derecho

    19 days ago

    • NRC file photo of Duane Arnold atomic reactor.As reported by CBS 2 Iowa. Duane Arnold, a Fukushima Daiichi twin design (a General Electric Mark I Boiling Water Reactor), had long been...

    BlackListed News



  • Two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies were shot repeatedly at point-blank range in an ambush on Saturday and Black Power protesters responded by gathering outside the hospital...

  • A new Great Game has begun in the Eastern Mediterranean

    18 hours ago
  • After centuries of marginalisation, the Mediterranean Sea is back in the international spotlight. A new Great Game is unfolding in its eastern part, similar to the 19th century machinations...

  • COVID-911: From Homeland Security to Biosecurity

    18 hours ago

    • 9/11, as we were told repeatedly in the days, weeks, and months after the attack, was the day that changed everything.

      Research Digest



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

  • The Process Of Psychological Recovery Begins While A Stressful Event Is Still Going On, According To Study Of Early Stages Of Coronavirus Pandemic

    3 days ago
  • By Emma Young. Feelings of autonomy increased across early weeks of pandemic, suggesting at least some aspects of psychological recovery begin during stressful experience...

  • People Often Don’t Understand The Psychology Of Confessions — And This Could Contribute To Wrongful Convictions

    4 days ago

    • By Emily Reynolds. Survey shows that lay beliefs about criminal confessions often don't match up with what experts believe.

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places



  • Beth Campbell remembers long days working on various family farms as a child. Along with her parents and siblings, as well as her aunts, uncles, and cousins, she would go from one farm...

  • Vicolo Inferno in Imola, Italy

    2 days ago
  • It is the year 1504, Cesare Borgia has fallen and Imola, his headquarters, is wracked by violence. Two families, as in many Italian stories, are facing each other: Sassatelli and Vaini...

  • The Site of Yatate Hajime in Adachi City, Japan

    2 days ago



    • One of the most renowned poets from Japan's Edo period (1603–1868), Matsuo Bashō is known for his travelogue Oku no Hosomichi (The Narrow Road to the Deep North), a collection...
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    13 September - iGoogle Portal - Tab 7 - MSM News


  • WIRED Tested. Shopping for a new phone can be an ordeal. Let us take some of the pain out of it with these picks and tips.

  • Knife Aid Review: A Decent, but Not Great, Mail-in Sharpening Service

    9 hours ago
  • This mail-in knife-sharpening service is a great convenience, but the quality of its work doesn't always make the cut.

  • Skin Care and Makeup Get the High-Tech Treatment

    9 hours ago

    • Allure and WIRED teamed up to create this guide to the technology transforming beauty and wellness.

      NYT > Home Page



  • At least 24 people have died in the fires. In Oregon, which has taken the biggest blow in the last few days, officials have warned that the toll could climb...

  • As Fires Disrupt Schools, ‘the Pandemic Has Actually Helped’

    3 hours ago
  • After wildfires consumed an entire town, students and teachers who had planned for remote classes found some comfort in staying connected amid the chaos...

  • Vaccine Makers Keep Safety Details Quiet, Alarming Scientists

    3 hours ago

    • Researchers say drug companies need to be more open about how vaccine trials are run to reassure Americans who are skittish about getting a coronavirus vaccine...

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





  • 5 NEET special trains run with just 21 passengers

    in 3 hours
  • Sitaram Sonkar, station superintendent at Dehradun railway station, told TOI that “since there were over 18 centres for NEET in Dehradun and 12 in nearby Roorkee, the Railways...

  • Umar Khalid held for Delhi riots ‘conspiracy’

    in 3 hours

    • Police claimed to have found “crucial evidence”, including Khalid’s movement during the riots, after interrogating him about meeting members of ‘United Against Hate’...

      BBC News - UK



  • Justice Secretary Robert Buckland says he would resign if the UK broke the rule of law in a way he found unacceptable.

  • 'Firm and strong' EU response expected - Taoiseach Martin

    9 hours ago
  • Taoiseach Micheál Martin cautioned the UK government over "playing politics" with negotiations.

  • Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: New trial postponed in Iran

    10 hours ago

    • The British-Iranian woman was expecting fresh charges in court - four years after her initial arrest.

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