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The Geostrategy that Guides Trump’s Foreign Policies 11 hours ago

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org According to Alastair Crooke, writing at Strategic Culture, on June 5th: “Trump’s US aims for ‘domination’...

U.S. Challenges Russia to Nuclear War 2 days ago

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org Now that the United States (with the cooperation of its NATO partners) has turned the former Soviet Union’s states other...

The Three Crises That Will Synchronize a Global Meltdown by 2025 4 days ago

To understand the synchronized global meltdown that is on tap for the 2021-2025 period, we must first stipulate the relationship of “money” to energy:“money” is nothing...

The last meal: What happened when a crime boss sat down to lunch in a Brooklyn restaurant 2 days ago

A hot day in New York City feels like no place else. The heaviness of the air weighs on you as you trudge down the blinding bright streets crisscrossing Gotham. It could be the concrete...

“Super Father” Genghis Khan has up to 16 million male descendants 2 days ago

The Mongolian leader Genghis Khan was known to have fathered many children with different women. One study suggests that up to 10 other men in Asian history have rivaled the procreative...

Abandoned but pack your ruby slippers and head to 1970s OZ theme park 2 days ago

Somewhere over the rainbow … lies a theme park called the Land of Oz. It’s in Beech Mountain, North Carolina, to be precise, the dream-child of 1970s developers. And though it is...

History: BBC – The Great War – E10/26 – What Are Our Allies Doing 4 minutes ago

Originally posted on The Inquiring Mind: https://youtu.be/rJFFIjPW9kw From Wikipedia The Great War is a 26-episode documentary series from 1964 on the First World War. The documentary...

Creative destruction in music sales 2 hours ago

and another one .. am I spoiling you too much? 16 Years Late, $13B Short, but Optimistic: Where Growth Will Take the #musicbiz https://t.co/Gik7oHnL81 via @REDEF pic.twitter.com/FXvk7MCuQJ...

Tommy Robinson and ‘controlled opposition’ 2 hours ago

Irish Savant explains why he is not ready to dismiss Tommy Robinson entirely.

Will Bilderberg still be relevant as the future of war is transformed? 7 hours ago

According to Charlie Skelton much of the focus at this year's Bilderberg was on Artificial Intelligence, and the impact that it will have on future armed conflicts...

Why don’t we hear more about the gang ‘grooming’ of girls? 8 hours ago

On the reluctance of the mainstream media to expose underage grooming gangs and the failure of the police and the authorities to protect their victims

At “G-6 + 1” Summit in Canada, Trump Sabotages Alliance System It Took Two World Wars to Construct 2 days ago

Kremlin Pawn Wants to Re-Admit Putin with No Preconditions; Appeasement of Kim Sets Up 1938 Munich Sellout Redux; The Savage Servility of Scott Pruitt Slides by on Grease, Thanks...

Eighty Years After Original, Trump Bumbles Towards New Munich Sellout to Kim of North Korea 3 days ago

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, June 7, 2018 Summit Prep Focuses on Slandering Traditional Allies at G-7 in Quebec; French...

Democratic Candidate for Governor of California Gavin Newsom Demands Universal Health System with Guaranteed Care for All 4 days ago

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, June 6, 2018 Supports Marshall Plan for Affordable Housing, an End to Child Poverty, Help...

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French Beekeepers Accuse Bayer after Glyphosate Found in Honey 3 days ago

A beekeeping cooperative in northern France has filed a legal complaint against German chemicals giant Bayer after traces of the controversial weedkiller glyphosate were detected...

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GMO Golden Rice Offers No Nutritional Benefits Says FDA 5 days ago

The biotech industry and its supporters have promoted GMO Golden Rice for decades as an urgently needed solution to vitamin A deficiency. Source: www.independentsciencenews.org/...

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Monsanto Relied on These ‘Partners’ to Attack Top Cancer Scientists 7 days ago

This fact sheet describes the contents of Monsanto’s confidential public relations plan to discredit the World Health Organization’s cancer research unit, the International...

Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 160 – 2018 21 hours ago

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Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 159 – 2018 2 days ago

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Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 157 – 2018 4 days ago

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Measuring competition 3 days ago

How do you measure competition? I ask because on yesterday's PM programme Lynsey Hooper claimed (15 min in) that Amazon's broadcasting of some Premier League games next season means...

Britain's open borders policy 6 days ago

Whilst cycling the other day, I crossed the Leicestershire-Rutland border. And I was shocked to see…nothing. No border controls, no passport checks, no customs officials. Here...

Why the MPC needs experts 10 days ago

There’s no doubt that Jonathan Haskel is an excellent appointment to the MPC. What we should be asking is rather: isn’t he over-qualified? What I mean is that not much hangs upon...

The challenge of America’s new extraterritorial sanctions 3 days ago

The United States, by imposing extraterritorial sanctions, seeks to effectively extend its jurisdiction far beyond its borders. However, such sanctions — which it euphemistically...

The World According to Trump and Xi 4 days ago

Trump’s “America First” strategy and Xi’s “Chinese dream” are founded on a common premise: that the world’s two biggest powers can act in their own interest with impunity...

Can democracy and communism coexist? 4 days ago

Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asian Review When Nepal’s new pro-China communist prime minister, Khadga Prasad Oli, shortly pays obeisance in Beijing, he will seek not only greater...

Canada to Impose Retaliatory Tariffs on US a day ago

PressTV Published on Jun 10, 2018 The Canadian prime minister says he warned US President Donald Trump that his country will go ahead with imposing retaliatory tariffs on US goods...

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An Outbreak of Crass Cross-Party Economics a month ago

By Tom O’LearyThere has recently been a spate of cross-party economic initiatives. Ostensibly they are designed to reach a ‘non-political’ consensus to address some areas...

Kashmir,Kasyapapura Kaspapyros Kaspeiria 50000 Years Old Mammoth Fossil. Missing a day ago

Indian geologists say they have unearthed the 50,000-year-old fossil of an elephant in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The fossil was discovered in a field of saffron at Gallander...

Nataraja,Shiva In Orion Constellation, Cave Arts As Hunter Kratha Shiva 2 days ago

The Nazca Lines of Peru looks like Shiva's Trishul. It also seems to be OM in Tamil Brahmi Script. Orion Constellation resembles Hunter. Lord Shiva is called Kratha,The Hunter and...

Akasa,Cloud Application of The Universe. 18 days ago

At the Macro level all elements lie dormant and can be traced back to Akasa. Everything, including the Human body and the Universe. They draw out from Akasa as we download from Cloud...

Why Does Reed Hastings Hate Public Schools? 13 minutes ago

Reed Hastings is a tech entrepreneur, a billionaire, and founder of Netflix. He is assimilate about replacing public schools with charter schools. He served for a time as president...

My Speech at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo 20 hours ago

I am no longer giving lectures because I am devoting full time to writing a book. So, if you want to see the lecture I gave at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, here it is. What...

New York: Who Was Behind the State’s Beneficence to Charter Schools? Cuomo. 20 hours ago

  Governor Andrew Cuomo has never been a friend to public schools or to public school teachers. He pushed for the harsh and ineffectual test-based teacher evaluations that everyone...

Arab Revolution: It happened before, it’ll happen again 7 days ago

Palestinian intellectual Iyad el-Baghdadi spoke at the first Oslo Freedom Forum in Johannesburg on why the Arab Spring failed to produce tangible results, but also how Arab youth...

Are there really “no good guys” in Syria? a month ago

A version of this article first appeared in The New Arab.  Following the Syrian regime’s recent chemical attack on Douma, US, Britain and France took swift but symbolic action...

Disagreeing on the Internet: The New McCarthyism? a month ago

Originally published at Muftah on December 19, 2016. What if the United States carried out daily bombing raids in a foreign country for over two years, killing hundreds of innocent...

Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of May 28 7 days ago

The Memorial Day holiday on the 28th prompted more repeats for late night and other shows.  Last week’s repeats offered a chance to re-see Silicon Valley actor Zach Woods on Late...

Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of May 21 15 days ago

Some programs took off the whole week for the Memorial Day Holiday, and others opted to air a repeat on the 25th.  The Daily Show decided to air best of episodes featuring their correspondents. ...

Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of May 14 21 days ago

While many shows will take time off later this month for the Memorial Day holiday, some programs got an early start this week, or took a break just because they felt like it.  Of those...

Global Cooling Led To More Extremes Of Rainfall a day ago

By Paul Homewood   We are constantly told that global warming has led to more extreme rainfall and other weather. As HH Lamb showed though, monthly extremes in rainfall actually increased...

Hydrogen fuel cell trains herald new steam age 2 days ago

By Paul Homewood   The Times reports:   Britain’s railways are to enter a new steam age with up to 100 ageing commuter trains poised to be converted to run on eco-friendly hydrogen...

Chris Landsea Urges Caution Linking Hurricanes To Warming 3 days ago

Thank goodness for honest climate scientists, such as Chris Landsea.   From CFACT:   The news media should be cautious about linking hurricane activity to global warming, according...

New Hell Climate Change Gets Certified …Schellnhuber Prophesizes “End Of Civilization” a day ago

There’s capital to be derived from climate change, and now spiritual leaders and organized religion are getting in the act. And they offer a real Hell you can believe in – even certified...

100-Year Russian Arctic Temperature Reconstruction Shows 1930s Just As Warm As Today! 2 days ago

Russian Arctic in 1920-1940 was warmer than today By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated/edited by P. Gosselin) The topic today is the temperature...

The Heat Is Gone! Hurricane Expert: “Tropical Atlantic 2nd Coldest”…”Could Suppress Hurricane Activity” 3 days ago

Unusually cold tropical Atlantic could suppress hurricane activity this year, says Colorado State University hurricane expert Phillip Klotzbach. However cold tropical Atlantic...

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Education Law Prof Blog: The Washington Legislature May Have Gotten the Supreme Court Off Its Back, But Is It Funding Schools Adequately? 3 days ago

Education Law Prof Blog: The Washington Legislature May Have Gotten the Supreme Court Off Its Back, But Is It Funding Schools Adequately?   Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Washington...

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Sam Chaltain: To (Re)Design School, We Need New Metaphors. Let's Start With These Five. 4 days ago

Sam Chaltain: To (Re)Design School, We Need New Metaphors. Let's Start With These Five. I spend most of my waking hours in schools of the present that are working to recalibrate themselves...

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Answer Sheet: At This School, Being 'Different' is an Asset 5 days ago

Answer Sheet: At This School, Being 'Different' is an Asset Students and staff at Denver South High School, a gold winner in the Schools of Opportunity project. (Denver South High...

A Reply to Ronald Radosh’s Smear 4 days ago

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review In a strange attack on my criticism of former CIA director John Brennan’s lack of veracity, Ron Radosh alleges that I have engaged in a...

Ten Paradoxes Of Our Age 4 days ago

Victor Davis Hanson // Hoover Institution The 21st century is reminding of us of some uncomfortable truths. Abroad, recent controversies over the rise of Chinese mercantilism...

Europe’s Vanishing Calm 4 days ago

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Europeans claim to be building a new democratic culture but the governing elites of the European Union consider voters little more than members...

It’s Time For Paul Manafort To Trade In His Designer Threads For A Prison Jumpsuit 3 hours ago

Of all the bad actors who attached themselves to Donald Trump in the course of the Russia scandal, former campaign manager Paul Manafort may be the baddest, and so it would be fitting...

Of Special Relationships and ‘Special Places’ 13 hours ago

“There’s a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad-faith diplomacy with President Donald J. Trump and then tries to stab him in the back on the way out the...

Solo (2018) 17 hours ago

In the years to come, Solo will have to go solo and be relegated as a footnote in the Star Wars cinematic universe — or, galaxy. The post Solo (2018) appeared first on The...

What should I ask Vitalik Buterin? 17 minutes ago

I will be doing a Conversation with him (no associated public event), what should I ask him? If you have been living under a rock, here is his Wikipedia page.  Here is his Twitter account...

We will never disapprove of current levels of animal cruelty 2 hours ago

Not fundamentally, no.  However terrible our current treatment of animals may be, most of us don’t seem to mind very much, and I suppose that is consistent with what a Darwinian...

The long-run consequences of male-biased sex ratios 9 hours ago

From Pauline Grosjean & Rose Khattar, forthcoming, Review of Economic Studies: We document the short- and long-run effects of male-biased sex ratios. We exploit a natural...

Boredom a month ago

People who are often bored are at a greater risk of developing anxiety, depression, and drug or alcohol addiction. Continue reading →

Anya Kamenetz: “A Nation at Risk” Cooked the Books a month ago

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: ? In this report by NPR journalist Anya Kamenetz, we learn that the famous 1983 report “A Nation at Risk,” we learn that the Reagan-era...

Queen Eva’s Gambit 2 months ago

Originally posted on Gary Rubinstein's Blog: In the New York Post today there was a headline that read “Charter school upsets juggernaut Stuyvesant HS on way to chess crown” It...

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Protests Seek Release of UK “Political Prisoner” Tommy Robinson 3 hours ago

Growing demonstrations in the United Kingdom and beyond are seeking the release of British activist and journalist Tommy Robinson, who gained international notoriety after being...

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Who Owns New Land in Hawaii Created by Kilauea? a day ago

As lava from the Kilauea volcano continues flowing, the question has been raised as to who will own the new land created by the cooling lava.

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NFL Team to Host Gay “Inclusion” Summit 2 days ago

The Minnesota Vikings are hosting a summit to promote lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer inclusion in sports.

Colombia’s NATO Membership About More Than Just Venezuela 2 days ago

Faced with questions about the continued relevance of the North Atlantic alliance, NATO has sought justification for its existence from Central Asia to Sub-Saharan Africa and has...

Israel Pushes FIFA To Punish Argentina Over Solidarity with Palestine 3 days ago

Israel is working overtime to pressure FIFA to boot Argentina from the World Cup in retaliation for a recent decision by Argentina’s Football Association to cancel a “friendly”...

Don’t Call It Fake News! Facebook to Fully Fund Streaming Mainstream News Shows 3 days ago

By betting on content that is easily found on cable or network television -- or even YouTube -- Facebook may be making a miscalculation. After all, Anderson Cooper or Shepard Smith...

The Carnivore Diet: Pros, Cons, and Suggestions 19 days ago

All-meat diets are growing in popularity. There are the cryptocurrency carnivores . There’s the daughter of the ascendant Jordan B. Peterson, Mikhaila Peterson, who’s using...

Summer Preview: What’s In Store For Mark’s Daily Apple 20 days ago

Where I’m from, snow showers aren’t unheard of over graduation weekends. To this day, I hold to the traditional “Memorial Day to Labor Day” timeline—and, well, here we...

Dear Mark: More On Women and Fasting 21 days ago

Last week, I updated an older post on women and intermittent fasting . For today’s edition of Dear Mark , I’ll be answering some of the comments and questions from that post. First...

What I’ve been reading a day ago

Gregory Claeys, Marx and Marxism, a better than expected take on where Marxism came from and how Marx’s different intellectual periods fit into his life.  One of the better introductions...

Income inequality has stabilized as of late 2 days ago

But from 2007 through 2014, the figure stabilized. Looking at market income, inequality increased by only 3 percent. Once you add in cash payments and in-kind transfers from government...

Saturday assorted links 2 days ago

1. The link between pay and productivity is still largely intact. 2. An exceptionally effective lobbyist. 3. Referenda tend to be anti-business. 4. Mister Rogers fixed old shows...

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Interesting Links for 10-06-2018 a day ago

Brexit causes surge in support for united Ireland (tags: ireland ) Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there.

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Interesting Links for 09-06-2018 2 days ago

Talkin’ Treble: How Android engineers are winning the war on fragmentation (tags: android ) EU Brexit chief rejects plan for Northern Ireland backstop to apply to whole UK (tags...

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Interesting Links for 08-06-2018 3 days ago

Belfast woman to challenge NI abortion law (tags: NorthernIreland abortion ) Breakthrough pregnancy blood test can predict delivery date and help tackle risky premature births...

Medical News Today: Bacteriophages: A replacement for antibiotics? 3 hours ago

A new study tests the possibility of using bacteriophages — viruses that kill bacteria — to treat gastrointestinal problems. The results are encouraging...

Medical News Today: How to stop anxious lip biting 3 hours ago

Many people bite their lip when they are anxious or uncomfortable, which can result in redness and sores on the lips. In extreme cases this is called body-focused repetitive behavior...

Medical News Today: What causes chest pain that comes and goes? 3 hours ago

Chest pain can have many origins, including problems with the heart, muscles, and lungs. When this pain comes and goes, a person may suspect a problem with the heart. In this article...

Cryptocurrency Conference May 2018 24 days ago

Agenda – Cryptocurreny Conference, 24 May 2018 (3)   At Anglia Ruskin University, Thursday 24 May 2018 09:00 – 09:30 Registration and refreshments 09:30 – 10:00 Welcome and...

a-Fisking we shall go: Jonathan Stanley in Think Scotland a month ago

Sometimes an article so boneheadedly wrong appears one has to take an hour or so to see if its a mistake, pisstake or real. Thus it is with this risible piece of nonsense in Think Scotland...

a-Fisking we shall go – Hugh Bennett in Brexit Central, again!. 2 months ago

Hugh Bennett (@hughrbennett) is the gift that keeps on giving. A rambling piece, devoid, nay utterly ignorant, of history and full of nonsequiturs and misdirection, his latest in...

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Diesel the cleanest power 4 hours ago

It produces 25% less CO2 and NO/NO2 (NOx) than burning petrol. It runs off by vegetable oil. Which takes in CO2 and NOx as it grows. It is a carbon and nitrogen zero fuel. CO2is plant food...

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High Intensity UltraSound and cancer 19 hours ago

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Drugs illegal a day ago

In 2002 the Moffitt cancer centre published by 100 patient double blind trial on High Intensity UultraSound clearing cancer at one application. Iuse 8W 1MHz ultrasound from a massage...

United States citizens have been sliding into a huge economic hole for a long time. a minute ago

1972 until 2018. Private corps took over healthcare, Housing & Student Debt Up,up,up! Incomes &savings not so much. I thought capitalism was supposed to make prices go down?...

As Snopes ‘Debunks’ Child Trafficking Camp, 160 Kids as Young as 3 Rescued in Georgia 12 minutes ago

via thefreethoughtproject: North Fulton County, GA — A massive sting operation carried out by the FBI in metro Atlanta captured dozens of child traffickers and rescued 160 children...

CorbettReport NWNW: Bilderberg (important links to new info of past meetings), CIA spy card game leaked and more. 13 minutes ago

CorbettReport: New World Next Week discusses Bilderberg’s increasing vagueness regarding actual information available to the public from the meetings. Why don’t they want...

Creativity 15 hours ago

It was a creative day, in a few small ways.  I woke up from a dream in which I was teaching, and got an idea for a great game, emphasizing repetition of the ‘th’ sound, which all non-English...

The Arrest of Sam Ronan 2 days ago

Once again, a major story is being practically  ignored by the MSM so, just to piss into the wind, I’m going to talk about it.  If you Google ‘Sam Ronan arrested’ you  see an...

A Perfect Life is Not Enough 3 days ago

Anthony Bourdain’s death surprised me and shocked me.  Perhaps we will  find out more in  the coming days about why he killed himself.  I’ll be surprised if  we don’t. ...

The Smaller-Hammer Approach 18 days ago

Don’t get me wrong: the bigger-hammer folks still prevail in the arena of strip-mining the soil for maximizing profit from monoculture-derived soy, corn, cotton and the like...

E(mesis) Pluribus Unum 19 days ago

Or…Whatever you want to do you have to do something else first. One from the many–interruptions, distractions, diversions and alteration of so-called plans. Source: various...

Aging in Place 20 days ago

And so this is where the actuarial rubber meets the road. Baby boomers appeared of a sudden, historically. We swelled the ranks of the middle class. We demanded and got affordable housing...