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It seems self-evident that the divisiveness that characterizes this juncture of American history is manifesting profound social and economic disorders that have little to do with...

Leonid Pasichnik, the acting Head of Lugansk People’s Republic (LNR)has been in office for almost one year. With the state of his reforms in LNR, you want to judge him against leaders...

For some children out there, and a fair few grown-ups, a plastic doll is more than just a plaything. People frightened of dolls find those happy smiling faces take on the aspect of something...

Some people really love Disney World. In fact, they want to be reminded of it every minute of the day and night. A Disney-themed house with two Mickey Mouse-shaped pools is up for sale...

Originally posted on Inforrm's Blog: Judges have their role to play, and Parliamentarians theirs, and “it is for the public to judge whether what I have done is right or wrong”...

Originally posted on UK Constitutional Law Association: Peter Hain’s decision to breach an interim injunction granted by the Court of Appeal in the case of ABC v Telegraph Media...

Gearoid O Colmain -Jews have nothing to fear from Christian critique of political Judaism

Nothing whatsoever has been presented that proves the synagogue massacre even happened

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, October 30, 2018 Dead Cat Bounce for Stocks, but Mediocre Facebook Results Set Stage for...

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, October 29, 2018 89 Years After 1929 Panic, Wild Swings in Stock Prices as Dow Gyrates Across...

Sustainable Pulse interview with Christine Fitzgerald, Owner of SmartVine, the first ever Glyphosate Residue Free certified wine. When did your company start to produce wine and...

The entire family of widely used pesticides known as organophosphates causes brain damage in children even at low levels of exposure ― and should be phased out. Source: By Alexander...

South / North

A bit of a jump in Arctic/Global South / North

Our tastes are seasonal. As winter approaches, we eat less salad and fish and more stews, and I for one listen to less swamp pop and more Leonard Cohen and Townes Van Zandt. What’s true...

Was Mill right? This, ultimately, is the question raised by the argument over whether centrists should debate with rightists whether diversity is a threat. Mill thought that: [Mankind’s]...

Over the last couple of years, the China-policy debate in the US has begun to reflect more realism, with a growing number of voices recognizing China’s ambition to supplant its American...

Brahma Chellaney, The Japan Times The spotlight on the Beijing summit between Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping cannot obscure the more substantive discussions starting...

Zionist war propaganda to portray themselves as righteous victims reacting defensively to the aggressive actions of the Palestinian terrorists. The opposite is true. The propaganda...

France Sends Top Envoy to Push Restarting Israel-Palestinian Talks by RAOUL WOOTLIFF, https://www.timesofisrael.com/, 31 Oct 2018 National security adviser reportedly...

By John RossThe US is fighting the trade war against China on two fronts.·         The first is the US external economic attack on China, primarily centred at present...

By Tom O’LearyThe claim for the latest Tory Budget is that ‘austerity is coming to an end’, and has been dutifully echoed by the Tory press and the BBC.In reality austerity policies...

2. Azhwars's dates are also based on Tamil kings' List. 3. Tamil Kings's List is mainly based on Temple Epigraphy and Tamil literature. It is a fad to dismiss Epigraphy as nonsense if...

One would find a lot of anamolies in the landmass presently called as India. Though there are more than twenty eight languages and over 3000 dialects, there is an undercurrent … Continue...

You need a laugh today.

We will never find out how low they will go. This one, at least, is funny. Mike Pence held a rally in Michigan. He wanted to show his respect to the victims of the massacre at the Tree of Life...

Julian Assange barely even knows the far-right, Holocaust-denying Russian kook with six different names, the latest being “Israel Shamir.” That was the line in March 2011...

Nader Hashemi and I have an essay titled “Playing with Fire: Trump, the Saudi-Iranian Rivalry, and the Geopolitics of Sectarianization in the Middle East” in the Mediterranean...

While I have complained regularly this year about the (relative) dearth of late night and other talks how bookings of science and technology related guests, this past week was one...

Last week started with one of the frequent themes in these posts – an actor from The Big Bang Theory.  Kunal Nayyar, who plays an engineer on the show, was on with Ellen on October 15...

By Paul Homewood   h/t Robin Guenier   Once again, the IEA is trying to stir things up re “fossil fuel subsidies”:   Worldwide fossil fuel consumption subsidies almost halved...

By Paul Homewood   Matt Ridley writes in The Times:   Last Saturday, BBC Radio 4 ran throughout the day with headline news about the shale-gas company Cuadrilla causing “micro-earthquakes”...

While German activists are growing hysterical over fine particle emissions from today’s relatively cleaner diesel automobiles, the German Allgemeine Zeitung here reports...

By Kirye Edited by P Gosselin A climate skeptic book by Japanese physicist and Professor Emeritus Yuh Fukai released in October, 2015, was recently released in Kindle version...

Educating. Institutional Mourning: Chicago School Closings and the Supreme Court The Children Are Watching In 2013 Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel closed 49 public schools at one...

Answer Sheet: Education Professor: My Students Asked Who I Would Vote For. Here’s What I Told Them. Voters read sample ballots outside the Pulaski County Regional Building in Little...

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness A“caravan”—the euphemism for a current foot-army of more than 10,000 Central Americans—of would-be border crossers has now...

Please read this piece by my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in Ricochet Christopher Steele deliberately constructed his Trump dossier to be unverifiable. As long as it remains...

WASHINGTON — Eleven Jews are dead in Pittsburgh, gunned down during Shabbat services allegedly by a man who shared President Trump’s paranoia about a migrant caravan. Pipe bombs...

Raging Moderate by Will Durst Be careful out there folks, because we’re in the middle of that scary time of year when spooky, hollow-eyed, costumed creatures come begging for treats...

The original Sears mail-order catalogue changed how African Americans in the South shopped: …the catalogue format allowed for anonymity, ensuring that black and white customers...

While some say wisdom comes with age, younger Americans are better than their elders at separating factual from opinion statements in the news, according to a new analysis from Pew...

When the Republican Party endorses a Democratic candidate running against another Democrat, you know who the fake Democrat is. Continue reading →

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: In 2016, Trump’s campaign ads appealed to (very) thinly disguised anti-Semitism. He let his friends in the Alt Right know that he was...

After the tragic Saturday shooting that claimed 11 lives at a Pittsburgh synagogue, there has been, lamentably, a predictable response.

Until birthright citizenship is eliminated, efforts to get a handle on the country's problem of illegal immigration, might be doomed to failure.

“Most of the Arab regimes in question are corrupt, extremely repressive and beholden to imperialism, and have no great political differences with Israel.” -- Lebanese-American...

“How unfair it is for me to have food when millions of people, including pregnant women and children, don’t have any food because of corrupt people in my complicit media hiding...

1. Cryptocurrency pump-and-dump schemes. 2. No Coase theorem: “Opinion polls show more than 50 per cent of Greeks oppose the June deal because the government controversially...

Appointing female managers is a common proposal to improve women’s representation and outcomes in the workplace, but it is unclear how well such policies accomplish these goals...

How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language (tags: programming language history design ) German ex-nurse admits killing 100 patients (tags: murder germany healthcare ) The...

The U.S. Catholic Church is facing an unprecedented wave of sex abuse investigations (tags: abuse catholicism usa crime ) Remainers shouldn't assume EU leaders will welcome another...

While vaccines exist for hepatitis A and B, researchers are still developing a vaccine for hepatitis C. Learn more about future treatments in this article...

Treating severe eczema can be challenging, but certain intensive treatments can help reduce symptoms. Learn about what doctors can do for severe eczema in adults and children here...

I helped cure all cancers, heart disease, diabetes, the common cold, mental health problems and AIDs.Ultrasound - cancer cureBy Jonathan M ThomasonView this Author's SpotlightPaperback...

Due to my time doing PhD work at Sheffield University 2000, I thought the idea of using High Intensity UltraSound to clear cancer. But no medic will admit it. They want to prescribe drugs...

by Mac Slavo of SHTFplan The so-called “Godfather” of market chart analysis said that the damage already done to the stock market is much worse than most people are talking...

by: Zoey Sky (Natural News) Have you noticed that the nutrition labels on your favorite fruits, vegetables, and other commercially preserved foods often contain sodium and different...

I posted a post two days ago (I’ve looked at the time, in fact it’s almost exactly 48 hours as I’m writing this) on what I think is the most important issue facing  us at this moment...

Donald Trump is in Pittsburgh right now, offending as many people as egregiously as possible, either because he’s retarded or he’s just that much of a jerk or (and in his case, this...