The Ruling Elites’ Chattering Classes still haven’t absorbed the key lesson of the 2016 U.S. presidential election: the percentage of the populace that’s becoming wealthier...
Life in Prison
9 hours ago
If you’re free, if you’re not locked behind bars (and I do realize that this is true of a smaller percentage of people in the so-called Land of the Free than anywhere else on earth)...
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The Vintage News
The “First Lady of American Cinema” Lillian Gish has had her name removed from a university theater and it’s not sitting well with many movie buffs. More than 50 film industry...
The “General Lee” from the TV show Dukes of Hazzard fame was back in a chase evading the law again. Though this time it wasn’t Boss Hogg it was escaping from it was the Florida police...
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Utopia – you are standing in it!
Note for @AOC @SenSanders @jeremycorbyn
39 minutes ago
United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, June 19, 2019 Bolton and Pompeo Still Pressing for Iran War; No Fed Rate Cut Today, but Greed...
United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, June 18, 2019 Trump Promises All the Horrors of Mass Deportations as Election-Year Stunt...
Sustainable Pulse
Sustainable Pulse exclusive interview with the Director of Poisoning Paradise, Keely Shaye Brosnan. Poisoning Paradise: Journey to the seemingly idyllic world of Native Hawaiians...
Austria has dramatically upped the stakes in Europe’s long-running glyphosate battle by putting itself on track to become the first EU country to fully ban the controversial herbicide...
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Stagecraft and Statecraft
The Modi government should strengthen ties with the US without allowing itself to be bullied by Trump, who is trying to arm-twist India into a closer but prescriptive partnership...
China’s Tiananmen Reckoning
17 days ago
The 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre is a reminder that the free ride China has enjoyed internationally in recent decades is ending. It should also serve as a warning...
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Ramani's blog
Sahasranama addressed to Jina and Buddha. In this connection,it may be of interest to know that there is a Sahasranama addressed to Vishnu in Sikhism. Sikh scripture “Sundar Gutka”...
This Kingdom coexisted with the most ancient Kingdoms of India,that is the Mahajanapadas,the Sixteen Kingdoms of India,which is mentioned in the Vedas. The astonishing fact is...
What Is Mantra, Definition Explanation
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Diane Ravitch's blog
The Washington Post has a story today about America’s first gay first lady. She was Grover Cleveland’s sister Rose, who acted as his first lady because he was elected without a...
Governor Gretchen Whitmer wrote a letter to the Benton Harbor school board, letting them know that it was up to them to accept the state’s offer, which meant the state would forgive...
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Pasco Phronesis
While I often bemoan the lack of science and technology content on the late night television, it’s only rarely that I have nothing to post from the past week. This past week was one...
Some shows remained off last week in connection with the Memorial Day holiday in the United States. Of last week’s repeats, I want to call out the June 4th Late Late Show repeat. ...
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood h/t Joe Public I’ve been away cycling in Norfolk for the last few days, even though it was apparently shut! While away, this familiarly hysterical story appeared...
Back to the Dark Ages Say German Greens
2 days ago
Potty greens want us all to starve: http://www.thegwpf.com/back-to-the-dark-ages-german-greens-look-to-ban-all-industrial-farming/
A new scientific paper affirms “all the long-term-trend (LTT) tide gauges of the world consistently show a negligible acceleration since the time they started recording in the...
Dry Summers Like 2018 Were Common in the Middle Ages Dry summers were not rare 1000 years ago. Researchers from the University of Greifswald’s research group ‘Landscape Ecology...
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NEPC Blog Post of the Day
Janresseger: In Florida’s Tangled Mess of School Privatization, Students Rights are Trampled, Tax Dollars Wasted An old friend in Florida recently asked me why I haven’t been...
Shanker Blog: Does College Matter? Of Course (Guest post by Stan Litow) Our guest author today is Stanley Litow, adjunct professor at Duke and Columbia Universities. At Duke, he also...
Victor Davis Hanson // Nationals Review President Trump and Secretary Pompeo have worked the U.S. into an advantageous position with a consistent policy toward bad actors. We are...
America’s First Third-World State
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Victor Davis Hanson // National Review ‘Third World” is now an anachronistic geographical term of the old Cold War. But after 1989, “Third World” was reinvented from a political...
When Normality Became Abnormal
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The top news thus far today is that Iran has – and the U.S. Central Command has confirmed – shot down a U.S. surveillance drone that allegedly violated its airspace near the Strait...
Same Old, Same Old
10 hours ago
Can Trump win using the same tactics and strategy from 2016? In his first rally of the 2020 campaign in Orlando which was held on Tuesday, it seemed as if he didn’t stray from his previous...
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one excerpt on the empirical side: It is also worth keeping in mind a number of empirical points. First, the ECB has not historically...
Thursday assorted links
7 hours ago
1. Map of medieval trade routes. 2. Japanese TV show about working overtime, or trying not to (NYT). 3. Do the banks want Libra? (FT, gated, very good piece). 4. New pro-social media...
How to Become a Federal Criminal
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Lloyd Lofthouse
Since Donald Trump won the Electoral College vote in 2016, the Republican Party lost six percent of its registered voters, and the Democratic Party grew by eight percent. Continue...
Senator Sanders: This Is Where I Came From
15 days ago
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: ? This article by Senator Bernie Sanders appeared in the New York Times. ? My father came to this country from Poland at the age of 17 with barely...
In a highly anticipated case, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Maryland’s 40-foot “Peace Cross” memorial does not violate the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause...
On Wednesday, the U.S. House passed a Labor and Health and Human Services appropriations package that included the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal funding for abortions...
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MintPress News
Almost two-thirds of the Palestinian territory, including most of its most fertile and resource-rich land, is under full Israeli control and about 400,000 Jewish settlers living...
According to Dr Gwynne Dyer who has served as a Reserve Naval Officer in the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve, US Naval Reserve, and British Royal Navy Reserve for a total of 17 years, alleged...
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one excerpt on the empirical side: It is also worth keeping in mind a number of empirical points. First, the ECB has not historically...
Thursday assorted links
7 hours ago
1. Map of medieval trade routes. 2. Japanese TV show about working overtime, or trying not to (NYT). 3. Do the banks want Libra? (FT, gated, very good piece). 4. New pro-social media...
How to Become a Federal Criminal
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Scottish alcohol sales at lowest level in 25 years after price controls(tags:alcohol scotland )No, we can't expel EU citizens after three months if they can't find a job(tags:Jobs...
The CIA Spied on People Through Their Samsung Smart TVs(tags:tv spying surveillance cia )Nigel Farage milkshake attacker pleads guilty to assault and criminal damage(tags:assault...
Chemotherapy drugs, such as methotrexate, are one of the first-line treatments for people with rheumatoid arthritis. These drugs can help relieve symptoms and prevent further...
Some people find that eating gluten can trigger rheumatoid arthritis (RA) symptom flares. In this article, we discuss the link between gluten and RA, foods to eat and avoid, and when...
- Depression is a common and serious mental health condition that can often take its toll on relationships. However, supporting a partner with depression, both emotionally and practically...
Investment Watch
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FITTON: BIGGER: LA County Begins Process to Remove Up to 1,592,066 Inactive Names from Voting List!
June 20, 2019, 4:20 PM
by TFittonJW Heavy lifting by Judicial Watch gets huge results — again. A giant mailing by LA County and other actions required by the settlement should result in the immediate ... Read more
Bill Murphy: There Are Signs The Manipulation IS ENDING NOW!
June 20, 2019, 3:13 PM
Bill Murphy interviewed on Reluctant Preppers Overt smackdowns of gold as it persistently and repeatedly tests a 6-year resistance & support limit are becoming more obvious, more desperate, and eventually will be ... Read more
Weird how anti-American regimes so often wind up needing US dollars to to keep their regimes afloat.
June 20, 2019, 3:13 PM
LATE-STAGE SOCIALISM: Venezuela Is Now Awash in U.S. Dollars. We used to catch only rare glimpses of them in public. A waiter willing to risk jail time might be persuaded to ... Read more
KINSLEY GAFFE: Kamala Harris accidentally admits why Dems are fighting to keep people in the US illegally.
June 20, 2019, 3:13 PM
via twitchy: Cloward, Piven and the Labour Party smile. h/t ED
MICHAEL TOMASKY: The Democratic Civil War Is Here.
June 20, 2019, 3:12 PM
via thedailybeast: If one of these two quarrels is going to metastasize into something ugly, it’ll be Sanders, who remains apart from the party whose nomination he’s running for. Donald Trump ... Read more
The FINAL Days Of YouTube – THIS Is Just The Beginning!
June 20, 2019, 3:10 PM
Josh Sigurdson reports on the recent claims by Google CEO Sundar Pichai that YouTube will eliminate about 99% of what they consider “bad” in the near future. He claimed that ... Read more
Fund Manager: Might Take A Debt Jubilee For All Households For Fed To Save Economy
June 20, 2019, 3:09 PM
by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics “The latest University of Michigan consumer confidence report noted that its index tracking those who think it’s a good time to buy a home has fallen ... Read more
It’s Real Simple: Your Central Bank Does NOT Serve Your Interests.
June 20, 2019, 3:08 PM
by Raúl Ilargi Meijer Gustave Courbet The village maidens 1852 I intentionally start writing this mere minutes away from Fed chair Jay Powell’s latest comments. Intentionally, because the importance ascribed to those ... Read more
Significant Activist Hedge Fund Activity (Last 7 Days)
June 20, 2019, 3:07 PM
by badpauly These are the latest Schedule 13D forms filed by activist investors in the last 7 days. Activist investors are investors that make an investment with the intention of ... Read more
US Mortgage Market Should Brace for Turmoil, Says QE Architect
June 20, 2019, 3:07 PM
Plunging government bond yields could complicate the Federal Reserve’s plans to exit the US mortgage market, according to one of the pioneers of the central bank’s bond-buying programme. The central ... Read more
The Startling Consequences of Monetary Policy
June 20, 2019, 3:06 PM
via jugglingdynamite: Stephanie Pomboy, founder and president of Macro Mavens, sits down with Grant Williams to discuss her global outlook after the Fed’s recent course-reversal. Pomboy and Williams take a deep ... Read more
There’s Not Much the Fed Can Do to Address a Liquidity Crisis
June 20, 2019, 3:06 PM
via fuw.ch: Danielle DiMartino Booth is a vocal critic of the Federal Reserve. The former analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas condemns the devotion of the unelected academics to ... Read more
Upstate NY Clerks Refuse to Grant Illegal Aliens Driver’s Licenses Despite New Democrat Law
June 20, 2019, 3:05 PM
Some upstate New York county clerks are taking a stand against the state’s controversial new lawgranting driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. Clerks in Erie, Rensselaer, Niagara and Allegany counties have said ... Read more
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www.gurukalehuru.com
Just came back from the poetry reading at beautiful Cafe Centrala, just across the Vltava river. It is practically line of sight from this neighborhood to that, but getting there...
Debate Predictions
2 days ago
With the Democratic party debates just a bit over a week away, I suppose it’s time to make some predictions. We’ll see how I do. With 20 candidates participating, the odds are...
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Fragments from Floyd
I am having a spurt of organizational drive this week, and so I’m getting around to doing a better job of books book keeping, of distributing my books beyond Floyd, and getting back...
Music, Mountains and Big Trees
17 days ago
Back in December, I was offered the opportunity to contribute a “500-700 word article on Southwest Virginia’s outdoors or nature” by the Crooked Road folks. It now appears...
Global Syn-WHAT?
18 days ago
The phrase “global syndemic” immediately drew my sustained attention when it first appeared as a result of an initiative and study produced by the science journal Lancet in January...