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Tributes have been paid to American actor and comedian Fred Willard, who died on Friday aged 86. Arguably best known for his work with director Christopher Guest (Waiting for Guffman...

Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg, the German girl who would become Catherine the Great, one of Russia’s greatest rulers, was born poor but aristocratic...

Originally posted on Legal History Miscellany: Guest post by Katy Barnett, 18 May 2020. This blog has recently featured a fascinating post on whether it is possible to steal a peacock...

At Trump’s White House Court of Miracles, “Operation Warp Speed” Dishes Out Magical Promises of Millions of Effective Vaccine Doses by the End of This Year; Skeptics on Display...

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, May 14, 2020 FBI Search Warrant for Senator Burr Reeks of Retaliation for Senate Intelligence...

In a time when the COVID-19 pandemic is dominating the global psyche, it is of course important to delve deeper into the background reasons for the failure of our immune systems to be...

Researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health have found that use of the pesticide dicamba can increase the risk of developing numerous cancers, including liver and intrahepatic...

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Brahma Chellaney, The Japan Times The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the global geopolitical landscape, including triggering a growing backlash against China. The world wants...

BY BRAHMA CHELLANEY, The Hill China insists it has been fully transparent and hidden nothing on the killer coronavirus, whose international spread from Wuhan has turned into the...

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This site is a benchmark in Archeology as the group of sites yielding tools of this period,old stone age ,is called Madrasian Culture,so named after the capital of the state ,near which...

TIME magazine has a depressing expose about the $160 billion in tax breaks that the CARES Act awards to the real estate industry, including the family business of Jared Kushner. The...

Erik Wemple of the Washington Post criticizes the New York Times for not allowing its reporters to tell the unvarnished truth. The Times suffers from “both side-ism.” The Times’s...

I’m a little surprised it took this long into the shutdown portion of the pandemic for these postings to get really, really thin.  For the first week in May, the only science and technology...

Not much to pass along for the week of April 27th.  The bookings do remind us of some shows that have passed on.  Jim Parsons, often noted here for his work on The Big Bang Theory, made...

By Paul Homewood   https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/16/guardian-language-changes-climate-environment It’s a crisis, says the Guardian! Meanwhile...

By Paul Homewood   h/t Stuart Brown We need 10,000 signatures by September, and its currently up to 6608. Pass the word round! Click on the link to sign:   https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300316...

Scientists suggest relative sea level changes are well-correlated with natural variability and accelerated sea level rise is a “recurring feature” of what has been observed...

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed how scientific dissent is not only being suppressed and marginalized in Germany when it comes to climate science, but with virology and public health...

Hack Education: Educational Crises and Ed-Tech: A History I was a guest at Desmos today. No, I won't speak at your startup. Thank you very much for inviting me to speak to you today. I...

Yong Zhao: From “Yes, but” to “Yes, and…:” Reimagine Possibilities and Obstacles of Educational Change My encounters in recent weeks’ discussions (virtual meetings...

The following article is from my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in The Hill Walter Duranty, the New York Times’s Moscow correspondent from 1922 to 1936, was awarded a Pulitzer...

Here is the latest video from The Lincoln Project which states its mission is “Defeat President Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box.” It’s title: “This Week.” The post...

For some reason a sound truck drove up a silent and empty Eighth Ave the other morning below my window loudly blaring Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” which echoed up the windy...

Nursing homes account for 81 percent of the country’s covid-19 deaths, according to Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief public health officer, a far greater proportion than in the United...

One in four low-wage workers face marginal net tax rates above 70 percent, effectively locking them into poverty. Over half face remaining lifetime marginal net tax rates above 45...

Why are mad dogs shot or euthanized when they are a threat to other animals and humans? Continue reading →

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: I have one good reason to support Joe Biden. It can be summed up in one five-letter word: Trump. Reader Randy Abraham offers more reasons...

The notion that there is no treatment available for COVID-19 is simply not true, as several doctors in the United States and abroad have developed treatment protocols that they say...

VIDEO - Watch this video before the Deep State takes it down!. In this episode of Behind the Deep State, host Alex Newman exposes the escalating efforts by Deep State social media companies...

As the Trump show continues and each side of the political aisle takes aim at each other, the economy's freefall is quickly reaching catastrophic levels. The post The Dem’s $3 Trillion...

Many Latin American countries have been hollowed out after decades of neoliberal “reforms,” leaving them weaker than ever. The post Latin America Braces for Major Spike in COVID-19...

LJ appear to have banned the crossposter - possibly by accident. The IP address has been banned for too many false passwords - which are probably mostly down to individuals.In any case...

Coronavirus: The Risks - Know Them - Avoid Them(tags:virus biology pandemic advice )President Trump nicely captures the spirit of Mother's Day(tags:mother politics USA wtf )An...

If everybody got what they deserved, we would not exist. All that we are and all that we will ever be we owe to the pre-existence of existence. Every human being, every dog, every cat...

Somebody posted a picture of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez wearing a mask, and the reason for the posting was that the poster had made the mask, and was therefore very proud of the fact that...

The future of food will be different after COVID19. We should be planting our Victory Gardens NOW!

I not uncommonly fall asleep on the love seat in the front room at bedtime, especially if the wood stove is glowing and radiating sleepiness into the darkness. As usual, last night I...