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The largest meteorite ever found in Germany was just identified 31 years after being first discovered. Meteorites are one of those unusual objects from the heavens that have fascinated...

The house Hernan Cortes had built over the vanquished Aztec palace in the former capital of Tenochtitlan has been unearthed. Over the past twenty years, remodeling projects in the...

Originally posted on Climate Etc.: by Judith Curry Two important new books to discuss. Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarm Hurts Us All, by Michael Schellenberger [amazon] ...

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, July 23, 2020 Obsession with Pedophilia Is Traditional Feature of Such Myths Going Back...

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, July 22, 2020 “Operation Legend”: In Blatant Violation of the Tenth Amendment, Trump...

A growing number of chemicals in pesticides, flame retardants, and certain plastics have been linked to widespread health problems including infertility in women and men, diabetes...

In yet another court loss for Monsanto owner Bayer AG, an appeals court rejected the company’s effort to overturn the trial victory notched by a California school groundskeeper...

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The fall of Tibet was one of the most far-reaching geopolitical developments in post-World War II history, emboldening China’s still-continuing expansionism. And as China’s...

Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times China’s territorial revisionism has been unrelenting. Under Mao Zedong, China more than doubled its size by annexing Tibet and Xinjiang...

And the irony is that Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was a Brahmin ,the community which EVR vilified as having been the cause for all the social issues including Widows plight...

What I have found,though suspected, is a deep rooted  conspiracy to to spread hatred against Hinduism and the rest of India , especially North India.

Twenty years ago, I edited a collection of speeches, songs, and statements that in my opinion defined the nation. It is called “The American Reader: Words That Shaped a Nation.”...

Trump decided a few weeks ago that he could help his prospects for re-election if he could get schools across the nation to reopen fully, regardless of the state of the pandemic in their...

By Paul Homewood    The same thing happens very year. Out comes the sun for a couple of days and the press and bookmakers start their “hottest month evah” scam:     This was the...

By Paul Homewood   h/t Robin Guenier   Greta and her chums have issued their latest demands:   https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/16/pandemic-shows-climate-has-never-been-treated-as-crisis-say-scientists...

By Kirye and Pierre Gosselin COVID 19 deaths in Japan diverts attention from growing number of suicides   It’s a long known but also a tragically long ignored problem in Japan...

It is claimed Earth’s surface has warmed by 1°C in the last 140 years – which is a supposedly rapid climate change. But a new study suggests the Northern Hemisphere surface naturally...

Our Schools/Naked Capitalism: After Years of Underfunding, Now Public School Teachers Are Supposed to Save the Nation’s Economy? Yves here. This piece on the difficulty and risk...

Curmudgucation: AEI And The Commodification Of Education The American Enterprise Institute comes from that part of the ed reform spectrum devoted to free market approaches. But...

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The United States and indeed the Western world face four quite different challenges on the horizon: China, Iran, Russia, and North Korea. All...

Victor Davis Hanson // Fox News In the 1960s and early ’70s, the U.S. was convulsed by massive protests calling for radical changes in the country’s attitudes on race, class...

Last week’s Daily Camera featured a guest column by Frank Walsh, criticizing the movement to acknowledge the central role of slavery in building our country. He often writes to...

by Sustainability Times If you want to know why jaguars are disappearing from the wild in the Americas, you have to look further afield for an answer. China, to be more precise. The iconic...

Human activity causes vibrations that propagate into the ground as high-frequency seismic waves. Measures to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic caused widespread changes in human...

anonymous I am still waiting for the new conventional wisdom about what is happening to emerge, and I believe it will be as follows. A particular ancestral betacoronavirus emerged...

Disruption: disturbance or problems which interrupt an event, activity, or process Last Saturday, July 18, 2020, my blogging was disrupted by WordPress, and my temper, calm for...

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Several groups of Never Trumpers have created a media campaign that has gotten under Trump’s skin. He responds to them on Twitter, enlarging...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot's administration removed two statues of Columbus the same night hundreds of Black Lives Matter protesters demonstrated at her house...

Far-left representative Maxine Waters, who in 2018 called on supporters to confront and harass Trump administration officials and hence intensify our cold (un)civil war, now says...

A non-profit organization that supports IDF soldiers received a $2.5 million PPP loan under the guise of a "religious organization," but adds up to a mere pittance of the continued...

In response to the delayed elections, Bolivian trade unions have given the government 72 hours to reverse the decision, threatening “indefinite mobilizations” to restore...

Why the UK shouldn't want a trade deal with the USA(tags:trade usa uk canada )Swiss police automated crime predictions but has little to show for it (terrible false positive and false...

Sophia loves to be measured. This afternoon she, without any prompting,grabbed her copy of Stick Man, dragged it to the measuring spot, stood onit, and demanded to be measured.https://instagr.am/p/CC_ZvDWD5_b/...

It was a lovely day. We toured a 14th century castle in the morning, and then went to the ‘hot springs’ in the afternoon. I put that in quote marks because, while I had visualized sitting...

I guess we’ll get to the hot springs tomorrow. We spent the day today hiking around in the mountains, we saw a couple of beautiful lakes, clear enough you could see the rocks at the bottom...