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Glacier National Park is drip drip dripping into a puddle. People and companies and governments are cutting down trees to burn them to save the planet from global warming, mixing the...

Dave Lindorff is an investigative reporter who writes for the Nation, London Review of Books, Salon and Tarbell.org. He is founder of the collectively run journalists’ news site...

Today, much of the Landes region in southwestern France is a forest. Indeed, it is the largest forest in the country. But over a century ago (the mid-19th century to be exact) the scenery...

In the early 1900s, it was still unusual for African-Americans to become successful entrepreneurs. While slavery was abolished after the introduction of the Thirteenth Amendment...

Reuter’s makes a crucial omission, implying that Iran poses a greater threat to the West than it does

Unless America is prepared to deploy more than 100,000 troops to Afghanistan (again), everything points towards impending defeat. A combat veteran explains...

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, December 4, 2018 More Chaotic Bungling from Mnuchin and Kudlow Make Matters Worse; Yield...

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, December 3, 2018 He Sought to End Vietnam Syndrome of Reluctance to Seek Military Solutions...

Bayer, the German drugmaker that bought U.S. seed company Monsanto earlier this year, announced on Thursday the sale of a number of businesses, around 12,000 job cuts and 3.3 billion...

Chinese scientist Jiankui He has announced the birth of twin girls whose DNA he claims to have altered using the gene-editing technique CRISPR. “If true, this amounts to unethical...

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How do you stop a carbon tax increase? Riot. A six month reprieve. I was listening the the CBC (Canadas left-wing state-subsidized media) and not once did they mention the actual cost...

David Cameron’s infamous 2015 tweet that we face a choice between stability and strong government under him or chaos with Ed Miliband has long become a joke – a cliché, admittedly...

In a good article on how graduating in a recession does long-lasting damage to one’s career, Tim Harford says “it’s easy to overlook luck.” It is indeed. Evidence for this...

Brahma Chellaney, DailyO China is the world’s biggest dam builder, with the country boasting more dams than the rest of the world combined. China is also the world’s largest...

Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times The unlawful, and fatal, expedition of a young American evangelist adventurer to a remote island that is home to the world’s last known pre-Neolithic...

The Geminids meteor shower coincide perfectly with the Sigma Hydrids meteor shower out of Hydra the Serpent constellation. The Hydra constellation is the largest/longest constellation...

- includes articles by regular SEB contributors John Ross and Tom O'Leary + many more  Get your copy here.Ten years on from the near-collapse of the global financial system...

By John RossThe new US GDP growth data released by the US last Friday entirely confirms the earlier analysis of ‘US growth under Trump is the slowest under any US President since World...

Nowhere in the world would you find a similar if not identical way of social behaviour among the people of this vast country,India,be it how they eat,the practices from birth to death...

The first migration of humans was from Asia, Eurasia. It took place around 65,000 years ago. The only civilisation around that area was Lemuria. The finding of Denisovan ,a species...

Should we offer congratulations to Alice Walton? Forbes just revealed that she is now the richest woman in the world. She has a personal fortune of $46 Billion. She spends a small part...

The Color of Change, an online civil rights group, posted this online petition addressed to the newly elected leaders of California. Congratulations on your victories! Many of us...

With the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. last week, many repeats were shown for the late night programs.  None merit mention here.  The drought continues… But the big science...

The drought of 2018 continues.  The highlight this past week is the only entry for the week.  On November 16 you could see the repeat of Johnny Galecki’s September appearance on...

By Paul Homewood   http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover_30y.uk.php   Arctic sea ice extent in November was the highest since 2008, and higher than even 2006, according to DMI...

By Paul Homewood   The ONS has published the Excess Winter Deaths stats for 2017/18, and as expected they are sharply up:   https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/excesswintermortalityinenglandandwales/2017to2018provisionaland2016to2017final...

Is Germany blindly following President Emmanuel Macron in agitating its citizens with plans to impose higher fuel and heating oil taxes? Pay the carbon tax. Pay it. We will keep...

By Kirye Data have been showing that Japan has been seeing a warming hiatus going back 20 years, and at many locations, even 30 years. This is the case when using the unadjusted data from...

Janresseger: Why School Choice Ends Up Creating Injustice and Inequality In his new book, Educational Inequality and School Finance: Why Money Matters for America’s Students...

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Common Core Creator Slammed Reading Teachers for Having a Research Gap—How Ironic Teachers have enough difficulties. Sometimes you find an...

From An Angry Reader: Since you never state that POTUS lies 80-85% of the time when he speaks publicly, what are some examples of his fake news. Who has discredited the main stream news...

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Robert Mueller’s legal team may write a damning report on Trump’s ethics, based mostly on flipping minor former business associates of...

We know there’s hostility between our two political parties with conflict that’s beyond the pale, but the GOP has really gone over the top in finding ways to steal elections from...

Thirty years ago at The Philadelphia Inquirer, in the early autumn of 1988, I was handed my first assignment as a political writer. The presidential candidates, Vice President George...

Here is the audio and transcript, Paul was in top form and open throughout.  Yes economic growth, blah blah blah, but we covered many related topics too: COWEN: And you also think...

The CEOs of Germany’s top three car firms, Volkswagen, Daimler, and BMW, said they were optimistic on avoiding US tariffs after meeting US leader Donald Trump in Washington Tuesday...

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Daniel Dale is a reporter for the Toronto Star. This article appeared in the New Zealand Herald. He is obsessed with fact-checking Trump...

Originally posted on Suzie Speaks: The last few weeks have been pretty amazing, particularly with the once-in-a-lifetime experiences that The Bloke and I have participated in for...

It doesn’t appear as if Les Moonves, the disgraced former head of CBS, will get that $120 million payout he expected after the Tiffany Network fired him in September...

Is a Lavender Mafia at the root of the sex-abuse crisis rocking the Barque of Peter? A homosexual subculture wields great power in the Catholic Church...

"Netanyahu recognizes that Israeli military activity inside Israel does not lead to a confrontation. All he wants is to cause some suspense about the operation to divert attention...

"If Bin Salman went before a jury, he would be convicted in 30 minutes.” The post Saudi Crown Prince Loses Support of Key Republican Senators with CIA Briefing appeared first on MintPress...

1. What is responsible and irresponsible geotagging on Instagram? (NYT) 2. Experience-based retail. 3. Agnes Callard on “speaking as a woman.” (NYT) 4. Crazy Rich Asians bombed...

Here is one of them: 35% of Rwanda’s national blood supply outside the capital city is now delivered by drone. [Techmoran] Here is another: Advertisers place a single brown pixel...

Probably the most amazing computer graphics I've ever seen (tags: video computers graphics ) Amazon Promised Drone Delivery in Five Years... Five Years Ago (tags: amazon drone )...

The Brexit 'legal advice' is just the latest way for the deal to die (tags: UK europe law doom ) Here’s the case for reopening Edinburgh’s lost circle line (tags: edinburgh transport...

My name is Carrie Gale, and I am an Emmy-nominated graphic designer and writer. I also have bipolar II disorder. This is my story.

Researchers studying the connection between lipids and toxic protein levels have uncovered a new potential therapeutic target for Parkinson's disease.

The Moffitt centre found 2002, that applying external high intensity ultrasound to a cancerous organ, destroyed just the cancer cells. Medics had no idea why. But continued prescribing...

Cancer immunologists scoop medicine Nobel prize - Naturehttps://www.nature.com › news 1 Oct 2018 - Cancer immunologists scoop medicine Nobel prize ... is in New York for animmunology...

technical defect of merkels plane via google translate: Technical problems in the government plane! On the way from Berlin to the G20 summit in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires...

Portfolio Wealth Global, Released on 11/29/18 Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the...

Near Coles Knob in eastern Floyd County, many acres of former mature forest are being cut (down to what’s left of the topsoil) to create pasture to grow beef cattle. (Wood chips likely...

The title is the name of the first section of what I once imagined–and still sometimes am certain–will be a book whose title will be “One Place Understood.” The first chapter...