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Rashida Tlaib has nothing about war or peace on her website. And she’s going to be elected to the seat held by Congressman John Conyers, famous for giving speeches for things like...
Since elections are extremely profitable for traditional media / social media corporations, your sanity will gleefully be sacrificed in the upcoming election–if you are gullible...
A part of a U.S. Destroyer hit by a Japanese mine in World War II was finally discovered in the waters off the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, almost 75 years to the day since it was sunk. Sonar...
The Most Famous Duel in American History
9 hours ago
In 1836, Alexander Hamilton’s son avenged his father’s death thirty-two years earlier by disparaging Aaron Burr in court, as Burr’s wife’s divorce attorney. Burr was accused...
Yom Kippur War | 3 Minute History
4 hours ago
The Kamand has been dubbed the "Iranian Phalanx" after the U.S. naval defence system that shreds incoming missiles with automated machine guns
Allegations of "anti-Semitism" within the Labour Party have achieved their aim. Party members now endlessly obsess about alleged "anti-Semitism" in their ranks while ignoring...
United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, August 16, 2018 Comey Told AG Lynch of “Cadre of Senior People” at FBI New York Field...
United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, August 15, 2018 DC Sees Desperate “Tyrant,” “Autocrat,” and “Despot”...
Professor Channa Sudath Jayasumana from Rajarata University announced earlier this week that a group of farmer organizations, researchers, patients and the families of deceased...
The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to hear a challenge to a key provision of the state’s landmark chemical consumer-disclosure law, Proposition 65, brought by Monsanto...
South / North
The electrical pricing is setting old people up to not use the air conditioning that they may truly need at some point to save their life. Steeply tiered electricity costs can nail people...
Simon has a good discussion on whether fiscal or monetary policy is better at stabilizing output. I’d suggest, though, that neither is in practice particularly good and that what...
Over- and Under-reactions in politics
4 days ago
You will all have had experience of somebody flying off the handle on the slightest provocation – brushing against them in a crowded pub, or pulling out in front of them in traffic...
Our broken politics
8 days ago
As unpredictable as Trump can be, several of his key foreign-policy decisions suggest that his administration is pursuing a coherent vision aimed at reviving America’s global...
Brahma Chellaney, Panorama Journal, Vol. 01/2018 In the four years that he has been in office, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has animated domestic politics in India and the country’s...
The Western Financial System Teeters on the Brink — Only a New Bretton Woods Agreement Among the Four Powers Can Prevent Chaos by https://larouchepac.com/ The Western monetary...
Greg Hunter’s Weekly Update: Brennan Loses Security Clearance, Big Tech Killing Free Speech, Dollar, Trade War And Global Reset by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (WNW...
US Seeks NAFTA Deal with Mexico Without Canada
19 hours ago
By Tom O’LearyThe multi-faceted attack on Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party continues to include unjustified attacks on his economic policy. The liberal press...
By Tom O’LearyThe latest release of key data for Northern Ireland (NI) has had business organisations wringing their hands about the weakness of the economy. The CBI said the economy...
Though many books and articles have used and are using Ramani's blog as one of the sources to validate ancient thoughts, I am particularly happy when Scientists take reference to my...
There is a saying in Tamil that there is none who has prospered continuously for ten years,nor one who has suffered for ten years. Life ,which includes Nature,is a Cycle. Every thing...
Aaron Regunberg is running for Lt. Governor of Rhode Island. He is 28, and he is part of the new wave of progressive Democrats trying to remake the party. If you live in Rhode Island, please...
Gail Collins on The Bane that Is Betsy DeVos
5 hours ago
A very welcome column about our odious Secretary of Education by the brilliant Gail Collins. The Bane That Is Betsy DeVos https://nyti.ms/2MvmgC5?smid=nytcore-ios-share Today...
Twenty years ago today, on August 9, 1998, I delivered this eulogy at the dedication ceremony, or unveiling, of Eugene Zucker, my next-door neighbor growing up and a formative influence...
Guest post by Dr. Mary Ellsberg, a Professor of Global Health and International Studies, and Founding Director of the Global Women’s Institute of the George Washington University...
If it wasn’t for Harry Connick Junior’s daytime show Harry, I’d have nothing to write about for this past week. This time it’s the August 7th repeat of a show from January. ...
You know it’s the doldrums of summer when even The Tonight Show is cutting back its new episodes during the summer. The week of July 30 continued the season’s trend (echoed throughout...
By Paul Homewood The BBC has news of the terrible floods in India: At least 324 people have been killed in flooding in the southern Indian state of Kerala in what local officials...
By Paul Homewood Today’s offering from the dumbed down Telegraph is from silly little girl called Lucy Mangan: I’m on holiday in Norfolk at the moment, and was standing on...
To keep informed on how the Atlantic hurricane season is developing, I find that hurricane expert Philip Klotzbach of the Colorado State University does a good job at that at Twitter...
Aerial photos show that the 15 temperature observation stations the JMA is using to determine mean temperature anomalies are likely impacted far more by urbanization than the agency...
Have You Heard: A Star-Powered Promise: LeBron Takes a Shot at School Reform When LeBron James announced that he was opening a new school in his hometown of Akron, OH the crowd went crazy...
VAMboozled!: ACT Also Finds but Discourages States’ Decreased Use of VAMs Post-ESSA Last June (2018), I released a blog post covering three key findings from a study that I...
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Some 450 days ago we were treated to melodramatic announcements from the media about the start-up of Robert Mueller’s “dream” and...
The Deflation of the Academic Brand
4 days ago
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Trumpism is sometimes derided as an updated know-nothingism that rejects expertise and the input of credentialed expertise. Supposedly...
08-13-2018 Angry Reader
5 days ago
The post Cartoon: John Brennan appeared first on The Moderate Voice.
Joseph Graf, American University School of Communication Mainstream press coverage of President Trump has been unfavorable. Thomas Patterson found that 80 percent of stories...
Contemporary art had taught them [young Iranian artists] that there is always a different way of seeing. That is from The Dawn of Eurasia, by Bruno Maçães, and it is worth more than...
Saturday assorted links
5 hours ago
1. A Bitcoin joke. 2. Are there hot streaks in individual careers? 3. Claims about populism (pdf, slides). 4. NPR: “The Story Behind the Numbers”: Full Episode: https://n.pr/2L2c13m...
Drifter
10 hours ago
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: When I read something this powerful, I am moved to share it. I find the last line strange. Donald Trump will never become “the leader we...
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Rudy Guiliani and Trump have recently contended that “collusion is not a crime” but real lawyers know that “collusion” is a straw...
“Social Media is totally discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices,” and “the Trump administration ... won’t let that happen.” So wrote President Trump...
The Q "conspiracy" phenomena on the Internet raises a larger question: Are all conspiracy theories just bunk, or could some of them be true?
The warning is contained in an annual Pentagon report prepared for Congress called Military and Security Developments Involving The People's Republic of China 2018, which further...
On Thursday, the Pentagon announced that the parade would not move forward this year, after estimates for the events cost jumped more than 600 percent from previous proposals. The...
1. The Volokh Law School. 2. Bahamas guitarist Joseph Spence (New Yorker). 3. Those new service sector jobs: intimacy directors. 4. Robot peers. 5. Nearly half of the mud volcanoes...
What should I ask Bruno Maçães?
3 days ago
I will be doing a Conversation with him. Bruno is the author of Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order, published earlier in the United Kingdom but just now in the United...
The Next Ten Billion Years (tags: thefuture short_story scifi ) Job interviews are worse than useless (and so are academic ones) (tags: interviews fail research psychology work...
Israel has turned into a police state (tags: Israel rights OhForFucksSake ) Rare jumping spider discovered in UK for first time ever (tags: spiders uk ) First biomarker evidence of...
Listening to a rhythm can produce synchronized rhythms in the brain. According to new research, low-frequency sounds help the brain lock onto the beat...
Having a preference for evening activities, as well as sleeping at different times in the weekdays and weekends, may lead to weight gain in some people...
The UK generates 45 GW of power. That use 44,000,000,000,000 pounds of power every year. That is trillion. If we link a 50x1cm plasma tube to a thermoelectric generator the national...
Ben Franklin discovered electricity in a lightening involved. No combustion involved. He actually stumbled across light element nuclear fission1 H2O+TU->2H++O++3e-2 H++e- ...
by legitqu So at the moment barely a day goes by when we’re not coming across some new argument for why we’re due a downturn and/or recession [*] It got ... Read more...
Will the Fed cause a crash on purpose? Or is everything happening naturally? The Federal Reserve and other central banks had printed trillions but what happens when they turns off...
There’s another scandal of Catholic priests molesting small children, mostly boys. Of course, this scandal comes up now and again. But it seems this is a ...
The Most Classless Person Ever
2 days ago
The presidency, I’m sure, is a tough job. Trying to protect the environment, not tank the economy, negotiating with foreign powers who all have different interests, and...
Isle of Dogs
3 days ago
I promise. Not fake news. Not an alternative fact. I did see this. On Goose Creek. Yesterday. It’s Planet Floyd. Trust me. I’m a stable genius. The above is true. Except for the stable...
All in a Day’s Web
2 days ago
Yet another spider web. This one, freshly minted, just opened for business. Another day, another web. If you’re an orb-weaver, it’s your work. It’s what you do. No big deal...
Balm of Gilead
3 days ago
- Neither of these words in the title are likely too familiar, and less so in these parts the tree that sometimes goes by that common name. Balm of course is a soothing ointment, and Gilead...