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Cleopatra VII was the last ruler of the Ptolemic Dynasty of Ancient Egypt and now her tomb may have been discovered. She was born in 69 BC and famously (and allegedly) died from the bite...

Benjamin the last Tasmanian tiger lives again in recently-uncovered film footage! Approx 3 mins of footage previously existed of this marsupial predator. The latest find adds a...

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, June 16, 2020 North Korea Blows Up Conference Center Devoted to Rapprochement with Seoul...

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, June 15, 2020 Trump Behavior at West Point Graduation Triggers Online Tidal Wave of Angry...

The Detox Project’s Glyphosate Residue Free certification for food and supplement products is growing fast in the U.S. and Canadian markets and has now received international...

Chemicals manufacturers BASF and Bayer have been given enormous payouts of  Covid-19 support cash from the British government just weeks after announcing plans to distribute...

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From Hong Kong to Himalayas, Xi Jinping seizes on disarray to expand China’s global footprints Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asian Review President Xi Jinping, seeking to press China’s...

Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times India extended the hand of friendship to China but was repaid with stealth aggression in Ladakh. The Chinese incursions into strategic areas...

And if we take into account of Lemuria,which is dated around 230 Million years ago and MU civilization abutting Lemuria and Tamil was very much in evidence,we can date these groups...

The reason for removal of the article is not really 'Off Topic' ,but the article does not show a ' Screenshot of an Indian person being Hilarious on social media'...

In 1994, the Clinton administration allocated $6 million to help start charter schools, a brand-new idea that had no track record and looked promising. That money was intended for...

This is a really fun interview with Chris Saldana of NEPC, in which we talk about the important education issues of our time. I think you will enjoy it. Tuesday, June 16, 2020 Publication...

The week of May 18th marked two months since most late night and daytime talk programs had ceased normal production of their shows.  Some of them aired repeats, as would have been customary...

With a continued focus on the coronavirus (or in the case of Conan, an interest in avoiding it) and a decreasing amount of new entertainment content to promote, the late night and daytime...

By Paul Homewood         A wave of new coal power plants are under construction or in development after the country lifted curbs on new builds, according to a study published Tuesday...

By Paul Homewood h/t Joe Public   https://gridwatch.co.uk/ [Thanks to Joe for the appropriate tag!]     And what do we get for £10bn worth of renewable subsidies? A load of capacity...

German Coal Power Plants To Be Converted: To Burn Trees Millions of trees to be shipped from around the world to Europe to be burned as “green coal”. Image cropped from “Planet...

In a new paper, atmospheric physicist Dr. Richard Lindzen summarizes the “implausible” claims today’s proponents of dangerous anthropogenic global warming espouse. Dr...

Shanker Blog: Teaching During School Shutdowns Should be a Team Sport This post is part of our series entitled Teaching and Learning During a Pandemic, in which we invite guest...

Have You Heard: The Right to Read In the latest episode of Have You Heard we dig into the recent – and surprising – decision by a federal court declaring that there is in fact a constitutional...

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The ancient Greeks created new words like “paradox” and “irony” to describe the wide gap between what people profess and assume...

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review General David Petraeus wrote an impassioned article in the Atlantic this week about the need to change the names of military bases that...

These women were released from an Oklahoma prison in 2019. AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki Cynthia A. Golembeski, Rutgers University Newark At least 77 million U.S. adults have criminal records...

Mike Peters is recognized as one of our nation’s most prominent cartoon artists for his outstanding work as both a political and comic strip cartoonist. His favorite expression...

Rachel Harmon is a Professor at University of Virginia Law School, and an expert on policing.  Here is the audio and transcript, and here is part of the CWT summary: She joined Tyler...

The common element to our twin crises is that many of the government agencies we thought were keeping us safe and secure—the CDC, the FDA, the Police–have either failed or, worse...

Originally posted on GFBrandenburg's Blog: This is a very important piece. Please read it and share it. It’s by a 10-year veteran of some city in California, who calls himself a bastard...

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: These are the worst of times. Police brutality in Minneapolis murdered a black man who allegedly used a fake $20 bill. Petty crimes are adjudicated...

Scientists are making discoveries that seem to augur for the eventual merger of human biology with machines.

Findings from the Scripps Research Institute suggest that as many as 45 percent of those infected with COVID-19 are free of symptoms.

America’s power brokers are hoping murals, kente cloth, and a series of half-baked legislative reforms will appease activists into giving up the fight for real change. The post...

Not content to sabotage Cuba’s domestic health sector, the Trump administration has been attacking Cuba’s international medical assistance, from the teams fighting coronavirus...

"Aliens" Star Jenette Goldstein Reflects on being a Jew cast as Vasquez(tags:aliens movie race )Dexamethasone is first life-saving coronavirus drug(tags:virus disease medicine...

U.S. Supreme Court bars discrimination against LGBT workers(tags:LGBT discrimination USA GoodNews )Doctors are having their insurance deferred because of COVID 19.(tags:virus...

I’ve seen a couple of people today posted this article on Facebook, which I read, and think it’s rubbish, actually. It’s as if magazines need to find articles to fill up space...

Even after the killing of George Floyd set the whole country on fire, the police, instead of doing damage control, continued beating the hell out of peaceful protesters, pushing old...

Vietnam: How this country of 95 million kept its coronavirus death toll at zero – CNN Why can’t we learn to do what successful states and nations do that is working? Business as usual...

Path of least resistance AND looking at new ways of getting information (mostly for me) out of my “second brain” of Roam Research (“networked tool for thought) and into a place...