Saturday, December 19, 2020

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  • An anti-genocide activist, whose story was made famous in the 2004 Hollywood film Hotel Rwanda, has sued an airline company for complicity in his alleged abduction from Dubai and...

  • A large-scale cyberespionage attack targeting United States government computer systems, which some experts described as potentially being among “the most impactful espionage...

    • On 10 December 2020, the Dutch Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, Kajsa Ollongren, sent a letter to the House of Representatives to inform them about the disruption of...

  • Alan Macleod The United States and Ukraine were the only two nations to vote against a United Nations resolution Wednesday on, “Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism...

  • FOIA Research [This is the first part of a three part series that intends to shed light on Third Positionism, a far-right ideology that has given birth to a whole cluster of neofascist...

    • María Fernanda Barreto How to confront the paramilitary and mercenary invasion of Venezuela and local terrorist groups in our community. Dedication In the second part of this manual...

      Unexplained Mysteries

  • Astronomers are currently investigating a signal coming from the direction of our closest neighboring star system. The signal, which was reportedly pi...

  • A spate of unexplained power outages in the remote Scottish village of Airth has finally been solved. The peculiar mystery, that had left engineers at...

    • New Yorkers reported far more than the usual number of strange objects in the sky over the last 12 months. With a population of over 8 million people...

  • On December 14, Whistleblower Network News (WNN) hosted a webinar on how to effectively use the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The webinar featured leading whistleblower lawyer...

  • On December 18, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced three separate whistleblower awards totaling over $3.6 million. The awards stem from three separate...

    • The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is in violation of a mandatory Congressional requirement to enact rules to protect auto safety whistleblowers. The Fixing America’s...

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      Utopia – you are standing in it!

  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|December 17, 2020 Trump Still Threatening to Veto National Defense Authorization Act; Claims Bill...

  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|December 16, 2020 Last Days of Trump: McConnell Orders GOP Senators Not To Join in the Mo Brooks Rebellion...

    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|December 15, 2020 Subscribe to the American System Network podcast [...]

  • A decree was released last week on Mexico’s National Commission for Regulatory Improvement (CONAMER) website that confirms a phase-out of use of both glyphosate and genetically...

  • Prolonged exposure to environmentally relevant concentrations of the weedkiller Roundup causes significant harm to keystone species according to new research at the University...

    • Exposure to the widely used weed-killer glyphosate makes genetic changes to rats that can be linked to increased disease in their grandchildren and great-grandchildren, a new study...

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      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • Brahma Chellaney, The Japan Times U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has been wrong on China almost his entire career. Will he finally get it right after being sworn in as president? Biden’s...

  • Banking on Biden

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  • Biden has been wrong on China virtually his entire career. Will he finally get it right after becoming president? Biden’s policy will influence China’s behavior in the Indo-Pacific...

    • In a world wracked by violence, Islamist beheadings stand out for their savagery. While the absolute number of victims is relatively small, the threat this practice poses should...

  • A dedicated group from US is organising Pooja, Rudrabhishek at Kasi Viswanatha temple regularly.They also organise,as a part of it,programmes that bespeak of our culture and religion,in...

  • Thirumurukaatruppadaibelongs to Tamil Sangam Literature.It was writtn by Nakkeerar about 20,000 yeras ago.This comes under Pathinenkeezh kanakku, an anthlogy of Eighteen poetic...

    • Turvasu was the fifteenth king in Chandra Vamsa.Thurvasu  of Lunar Dynasty was a contemporary of Dundhumara of Solar Dynasty

  • With 33 days until he is out of office, Donald Trump appointed the members of his absurd 1776 Commission, who are tasked with restoring patriotism into all public spaces and presumably...

  • Andy Borowitz, a humorist for The New Yorker, says that Betsy DeVos is worried that Biden might actually appoint an educator to run the U.S. Department of Education. He begins: WASHINGTON...

    • While McKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, is handing out billions to worthy organizations, Jeff Bezos is not so generous, especially to the Amazon workers who made his fortune...

  • By Paul Homewood     Stephen Glover hots the nail on the head!     How easy it is for high-minded rich people to lay down the law for poorer folk. They often haven’t the faintest idea...

  • By Paul Homewood   Following my piece on home insulation, I have been reminded of this article by Michael Schellenberger last year (a year before he publicly fell out with the eco loons)...

  • Home Insulation

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    • By Paul Homewood     https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/sixth-carbon-budget/   I’ve been meaning to take a closer look at the plans for home insulation under the CCC’s...

  • Undisputed temperature reconstructions from around the world show the planet was much warmer over most of the Holocene (past 10,000 years) than it is today.  Kenneth recently wrote...

  • Scientists are increasingly finding that abrupt, decadal-scale temperature changes of multiple degrees Celsius can arise unforced and spontaneously. The surface temperatures...

    • A huge success has been achieved for nature and species conservation in Germany, reports the Naturschutzinitiative e.V. (NI). This means installing wind parks in nature-sensitive...

  • Curmudgucation: School Marketing Is a Thing -- But Not a Good One When school choice advocates tout their vision for the future, it has tended to be a picture of parents soberly examining...

  • Diane Ravitch's Blog: To Test or Not to Test, That Is the Question Everyone seems to have an opinion about whether the mandated federal tests should be administered this spring. When...

    • Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Schools and the Economy–Not Yet a Faddish Idea Fashions in ideas, like clothes, change with the times. But when they are in fashion...

     Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Remedies For China’s Role In The Pandemic Please read a new essay by my colleague, John Yoo in Strategika. The more we learn about the origins of the coronavirus, the more the case...

  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review America traditionally has not reinvented reality after an election, although prior presidential winners have often tried, as in the fashion...

    • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Amid plague, national lockdown, riot and arson, iconoclasm, recession, and the most contested voting in history, the country leaves 2020...

    The Moderate Voice

  • All rights reserved. CopyrightDonar, Political Graffiti https://toons.to/go/daviddonar The post Christmas Impossible appeared first on The Moderate Voice...

  • Most people who celebrate Christmas do so on December 25th. Yet, that particular celebration date doesn’t come from the Bible. Indeed, the earliest believers in Messiah Jesus...

    • With the Electoral College vote this week certifying Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election, the nation now has official confirmation that Biden and Kamala Harris...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • Many professors at universities routinely quizzed their students too, although not as commonly as faculty at smaller colleges did.  [In 1910]…a questionnaire of University...

  • 1. Shruti Rajagopalan and Rohit Ticku discuss the destruction of temples in medieval India and the effects of same-sex marriage legalization on expressions of sexual orientation...

    • I’ve been arguing that we should delay the second dose (or at least not hold back first doses) in order to hit the virus hard and inoculate more people on the first dose. I wrote: We should...

  • Originally posted on GFBrandenburg's Blog: This is by David Sirota and Julia Rock, published in The Guardian. “Support from Democratic lawmakers for the liability shield legislation...

  • Will Donald Trump attempt to pull of a coup through the Electoral College? Continue reading →

    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: This editorial was published yesterday. Donald Trump’s presidency has been a horror show that is ending with a pandemic that is out of...

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  • Former officials are practically begging Biden to revisit the controversial trade agreement, arguing that “China must be isolated.“ The post The TPP Was All but Dead, Now DC...

  • Chris Hedges joins MintCast to discuss the decline of US empire, the breakdown of society, the rise of militarized Christian fascism, and the discredited liberal class among other...

    • “Yemen is now in imminent danger of the worst famine the world has seen for decades,” -- UN Secretary-General António Guterres The post Mass Starvation Looms as Yemen’s Currency...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • Nearly a year after Jane bought us these t-shirts for Christmas we finally got around to posing in them! Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments...

  • The media lies about what women say(tags:media journalism lies women )Sony removes Cyberpunk from the PlayStation store, refunds everyone's money(tags:Sony Playstation games...

    • What do you mean "What am I up to?" Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there.

      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • I was trying to teach “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” to a bunch of 6 year olds today, attempting to corrupt their little Ježišek loving minds with the more Americanized version...

  • Partly it’s the lockdown, I suppose, and partly it’s the fact that I’m kind of a natural born couch potato, but when I binge watch, I binge watch. Today is was a documentary, in...

  • Go, Nina, Go!

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    • It’s official. Nina Turner is running for an open congressional seat, representing Cleveland. The current representative, Marcia Fudge, is leaving to serve in Biden’s cabinet.That...

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  • A person rarely enjoys conflict. Most of us hate conflict and try to avoid it. We all want to experience the feeling of belongingness and be loved by everyone around us. It is normal...

  • Courage is the key to success. As humans, we should be able to stand up for ourselves. It does not make you an argumentative person. Saying “no” to people doesn’t mean you’re selfish...

    • Regardless of how many people you’re surrounded by, sometimes you tend to feel lonely. Those people who have experienced it know that it does not feel that great.  Yet being alone...

  • TweetIn the latest episode of Have You Heard, we talk to Rick Perlstein, author of the monumental new history Reaganland, about America’s ‘right turn’ against public education...

  • TweetThe pandemic pivot to online learning has amped up accusations that teachers are indoctrinating students, as parents “see” what their kids are being taught. We talk to...

    • TweetAre you a graduate student whose research on K-12 or higher education is ready for the podcast limelight? Then we have 30 minutes of prime audio real estate with your name on it...

  • It is quite unlikely that the election fraud can be reversed before Biden is sworn in. I don’t expect any of the nonsense the left has been predicting if that occurs. Trump will leave...

  • Who are you? What do you want? Where are you going? Whom do you serve – and whom do you trust?! – TV Series Crusade I’m an American, of mostly Anglo-English descent, who mostly wants...

    • C.S.Lewis wrote about self-deception throughout his career. It was his belief that the illusions we embraced did not only damage us spiritually, but impaired our ability to reason...

      Centinel2012

  • God Speed Donald Trump, there are approximately 80 million Patriots who are right there beside you. Amen Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By Fredy Lowe —— Bio and Archives—December...

  • Coronavirus is the “tip of the spear” in the violent uprising against the United States of America Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By Daniel Wiseman —— Bio and...

    • Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Dec 18, 2020 by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: What do you mean that the electoral votes could change on the 6 of Jan? FP ANSWER: In three...

  • We're still in Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street mode on today's BradCast, with a reminder that there are still 33 long days before Inauguration Day. And even though Freddy...

  • Today on The BradCast: His days left in office only seem like years, but for Donald Trump, they are quickly waning. Trumpism, however, among the completely captured and off-the-rails...

    • IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: President-elect Joe Biden's cabinet nominations focus on jobs and climate; Trump Administration declines protections for endangered monarch butterflies...

      bluebird of bitterness

  • Wreck the halls

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  • Major corporations have actively sought to control and dominate the population under the guise of “stakeholder capitalism” for years. The World Economic Forum is the current...

  • A study by leading education focused think tank Civitas has found that free speech at the world’s leading universities is being eroded at an alarming rate owing to the rise of “cancel...

    • The Supreme Court ruled that law enforcement agencies needed a warrant to obtain cell site location info. The ability to turn third parties (like telcos) into proxy long-term tracking...

  • By Emma Young. Viewers had different perceptions of character's personality, thoughts and emotions, depending on whether scene was scored with a jazz or orchestral soundtrack...

  • By Emily Reynolds. Study suggests a way to overcome the "tragedy of the commons" as it relates to parks, lakes and other natural resources.

    • By Emma Young. Study explores the thoughts and feelings we associate with positive emotions to determine which are distinct — and which are not.

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

  • Nearly a century after a tragic Arctic expedition secured a portion of Greenland for Denmark, a final diary entry by one of the explorers has offered up a clue to how he spent his last...

  • This month, Gastro Obscura is sharing the recipes and stories behind amazing holiday dishes and drinks from around the world in the ongoing series "Home-Cooked Holidays." Imagine...

    • On a late December evening in 1880, Thomas Edison wanted to impress some city officials visiting his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. He had been working on making incandescent...

      Accidental Deliberations

  •  Lianne La Havas - Weird Fishes

  • Assorted content to end your week.- Jeremy Samuel Faust, Harlan Krumholz and Rochelle Walensky write about the false - and dangerous - assumption that COVID-19 would pose few risks...

    • This and that for your Thursday reading.- David Hope and Julian Limberg study (PDF) the effects of tax cuts for the rich  - concluding that they lead to worsened inequality while generating...