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Parallel 1940 headline: “Great Britain calls for ‘peace talks’ with Nazi Germany”. Via LI:  Merkel’s government wants to kick off “peace talks” with Jihadist terror group Taliban while Germany’s Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel revealed his country’s involvement in negotiations with Afghanistan-based terrorist group. “We are involved in finding a political solution between the hostile camps,” German

Filmmaker Michael Moore is urging White House staff and members of law enforcement to leak information about misconduct in the US government to his new website TrumpiLeaks. The website contains encrypted messaging services such as Signal, Peerio and WhatsApp for whistleblowers to pass on sensitive data or documents anonymously. Moore, famous for political documentaries such as ‘Fahrenheit

“One woman once told me that she could use statistics to determine how many of my friends were rapists.” Campus culture has become hostile to young men in many ways and they’re responding by not going. It’s time to step in and provide them a college education without all the liberal harassments. Men saying “no

Trump is doing to Warren what he does best: branding her. Her nickname is “Pocahontas”. She won’t shake that label. Read the whole story. Trump is derailing Warren for a 2020 run for POTUS.  Elizabeth Warren has claimed at various points in her life to be Native American, most notably when she was climbing the

Send. Them. Home.  An Afghan asylum-seeker who stabbed a five-year-old Russian boy to death in the German town of Regensburg was wearing an ankle monitor after being convicted of arson in 2009 and serving time in jail, local media report.  Read Full Article

He told them what he believed and what he was going to do. He is your “jihadis next door.” They made him into an entertainment star.  A documentary on British jihadists has been removed from Channel 4 and Netflix after it was revealed that it featured one of the men who carried out Saturday’s terrorist

Let me guess: California must start it’s Carbon cutbacks now. China doesn’t have to do anything until 2030, when it will be required to freeze it’s carbon outputs. Oh, and that happens after the world has reached the apocalypse. Brilliant.  California has signed a cooperation agreement with China on clean energy technology, emissions trading and

Merkle said everyone that represented one of the businesses in the central business district downtown spoke in favor of the conditional use permit at the April public hearing. He also noted that none of the five appellants were downtown business owners. Moscow city staff to conduct second downtown parking survey for Board of Adjustment review. The

More counter-examples.  According to the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), the last time May daytime temperatures were this low was in 1969. Daytime highs for the month are already unusually low, said Yle meteorologist Seija Paasonen. “Between April and May we generally have the kinds of temperatures we are seeing now.” According to FMI, May temperatures

He’s got a sense of humor! 2 June 2017 – Wet snow is falling in the center of Moscow today, an Interfax correspondent reported. Commenting on Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, Russian President Vladimir Putin joked that Trump’s move made him a convenient person to blame for any

It’s worth watching all 90 seconds of this. You’ll get more data now than you have in the last 30 years. 

Stephan Lewandowsky warns that academics can ‘lose control’ of their data and see it used as ‘political propaganda’. “Openness and transparency facilitate science, and obstruct climate science.” That’s all you need to know.  Via The World University Rankings:  Independent national bodies should be set up to adjudicate on how much of the data underpinning research

Changing story on melting Antarctic ice. And their numbers still don’t add up.  NASA/NOAA has seriously burned through any integrity they may have had left. Look at this story from NASA produced in retaliation for Trump’s Paris withdrawal, which I consider to be complete nonsense. According to the story, satellite measurements supposedly show that Antarctica

A federal contractor for a US intelligence agency has allegedly admitted to copying classified materials and sending it to a news source. The charges reportedly stem from the publishing of top secret NSA documents by The Intercept.  Read Full Article

Innovation by the entrepreneur, argued Schumpeter, leads to gales of “creative destruction” as innovations cause old inventories, ideas, technologies, skills, and equipment to become obsolete. The question is not “how capitalism administers existing structures, … [but] how it creates and destroys them.” This creative destruction, he believed, causes continuous progress and improves the standards of

This is a unanimous victory for religious rights.  Justices side with religious hospitals in pension dispute Mon., June 5, 2017, 9:59 a.m. WASHINGTON – Religious hospitals don’t have to comply with federal laws protecting pension plans, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday in a case that affects retirement benefits for roughly a million workers nationwide.

Still want electronic voting? Via the AP:  Russian hackers attacked at least one U.S. voting software supplier days before last year’s presidential election, according to a government intelligence report leaked Monday that suggests election-related hacking penetrated further into U.S. voting systems than previously known.  The classified National Security Agency report, which was published online by the