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When the ruling Elites sense their control of the populace is waning, they seek to regain full control via the imposition of a strict Orthodoxy, enforced by an Inquisition. We are living...

Four years ago, I wrote this after a meeting at the U.S. Institute of Peace: “The president of USIP Nancy Lindborg had an odd response when I suggested that inviting Senator Tom Cotton...

An uncovered Beatles recording of a conversation between John, George and Paul in 1969 sheds new light on their breakup and challenges previously accepted notions, especially concerning...

Amelia Earhart and her fateful wreck are being searched for by none other than the man who found the Titanic wreck on the ocean floor. One of the planet’s greatest sea explorers is...

From http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2012/09/wallace-neutrality-dont-fight-fed.html

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, September 19, 2019 Intelligence Community Whistleblower, Deeply Concerned About Suspect...

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, September 18, 2019 Speaker’s Policy of Cowardice Is Also Blocking Impeachment of Barr...

A new report from Friends of the Earth and Logos Environmental reveals that the use of gene editing in farm animals poses risks to human health, the environment and animal welfare. ...

When you think of the alarming public health scandals the world has endured, the curse of tobacco and asbestos quickly comes to mind. But now there seems to be another toxic villain...

South / North

South / North

Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times When US President Donald Trump joins Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 50,000-strong public rally in Houston, it will showcase the strength...

Brahma Chellaney, China-US Focus Japan has been shaken out of its complacency by the rise of an increasingly muscular and revisionist China vying for regional hegemony. But America’s...

George Packer, who usually writes for the New Yorker, recently wrote an angry tirade about the progressive elementary school in which he enrolled his child. Readers quickly  identified...

Did Los Angeles board member Nick Melvoin share privileged information with the representatives of the charter school industry? Please sign this petition to call for an investigation. ...

For the first time in a while, there’s a bit of meet in the previous week’s science and technology late night content.  The source should be no surprise. Last week The Daily Show...

Summer ended with a thud where late night science and technology content is concerned.  Last week there were a few reruns of note.  The September 2nd edition of The Talk was a rebroadcast...

By Paul Homewood   h/t Athelstan   If you thought it was only NOAA, NASA, UK Met Office, Australian BOM and Uncle Tom Cobley who have been cheating, think again. Noe Canada’s Environment...

By Paul Homewood   h/t Hotscot   Today’s silly story comes from Matt McGrath:   Ahead of the Rugby World Cup in Japan, a report from Christian Aid highlights what they term the "climate...

A growing proportion of Sweden’s energy is derived from burning biomass (wood), which increases CO2 emissions 65% and 285% more than coal and natural gas energy generation, respectively...

In a recent interview with the online Berliner Zeitung (BZ) here, economist Björn Lomborg said that 16-year old Greta Thunberg’s demands “will put people in danger”. Greta...

Janresseger: New Reports Confirm Persistent Child Poverty While Policymakers Blame Educators and Fail to Address Core Problem On Tuesday, the Cleveland Plain Dealer published a...

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Play v. Reading: How Flawed Thinking About Preschool Has Become Accepted Practice Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious...

Victor Davis Hanson // Fox News President Trump is waging a nonstop, all-encompassing war against progressive culture, in magnitude analogous to what 19th-century Germans...

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review For a while, we thought MSNBC had temporarily usurped CNN as the font of fake news — although both networks had tied for the most negative coverage...

How much coffee is too much? Well, for Mormons, any amount of coffee is supposed to be too much. From USA Today: “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has issued a warning...

Even in the physical world, it’s hard to cross partisan lines. igorstevanovic/Shutterstock.com Robert B. Talisse, Vanderbilt University When people try to explain why the United...

One brave outdoorsman will finally take a special shot of whiskey at a bar in Canada’s Yukon Territory containing his amputated, now-dehydrated big toe, which he donated to the...

1. “Bos G Farm’s entire herd of 60 yaks went missing on the eve of the owners’ retirement.” 2. The political pollution cycle in China. 3. What is optimal policy toward wild horses?...

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Jack Hassard Taught science education for many years. He used to write a blog called “The Art of Teaching Science,” but became so upset...

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:   My friend Bernadette Hoban was attending a business meeting at 120  Broadway, near the World Trade Center, when the first plane hit...

Democrat presidential candidate Andrew Yang is suggesting that Americans should do away with their own vehicles because of climate change.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may not be a racist, but he is “the biggest hypocrite in Canada,” says a liberal critic of the leader. For sure, the real problem with Trudeau is not...

Behind the campaign to silence these three critical, anti-war journalists was the same cast of characters that have become notorious in progressive circles for the viciousness...

“By protecting whistleblowers, sources, and online activists, we facilitate robust investigative journalism, hold government to account, protect the freedoms of speech...

UK cannot meet EU deadline for Brexit plan and needs another year, government says(tags:UK Europe incompetence OhForFucksSake )Reviewing Tolkien(tags:Tolkien movies review...

EU gives Boris Johnson ultimatum: Show us Brexit plan in 12 days or 'it's over'(tags:UK Europe BorisJohnson doom )Brexit: Where do the parties stand?(tags:UK Europe politics )WeWork...

Boiling water burns, or scalds, can be mild to severe. In this article, learn how to identify the severity and perform first aid for the burn. We also describe when to see a doctor...

A clinical trial has found that an innovative electromagnetic therapy device significantly reduced memory loss in seven out of the eight participants.

by Michael Snyder Are we about to see U.S. financial markets go crazy?  That is what Goldman Sachs seems to think, and it certainly wouldn’t be the first time that ... Read more...

Snapback Bloodletting in the Overripe Bond Market. This is the transcript from my podcast last Sunday, THE WOLF STREET REPORT: OK, so we’ve got ourselves one heck of a snapback...

There have been two events in recent days which show very clearly why the United States needs Universal Health Care, which was once known as socialized medicine, which is most currently...

Blue no matter who is something I see many, many times per day and it may well be it comes from well-intentioned people, but they started this shit in about February of 2015 and they haven’t...

Yes, it does sound like a medieval incantation of doom. This is one for you from Nature’s Book of Bad Dreams. Seems we have among us a fungus that infects periodic cicadas in a most bizarre...

So even with my good intentions to breathe life back into the blog, it’s been on life support in ICU for another week, hanging on by a thread (though not of active conversation) and...