Immanuel

Posted on December 26, 2019 by The Editor

Links for Today

Posted on December 15, 2019 by The Editor

Unpacking The No Deal Not a Trade War Trade War Deal

The Most Radical Artists Today Are the Ones Who Know How to Draw

Air Force seeking commercial technologies for cislunar space operations

Links for Today

Posted on November 30, 2019 by The Editor

We live in an age when obvious things are shocking to the most educated. Says something about modern education. Study reveals music’s universal patterns across societies worldwide

James Bond Villains and Mad Max gangs are looking more plausible the older I get. The First Narco Submarine Ever Seized Off A European Coast Is A Monster Not a real submarine in spite of the headline, but the Wright brothers did not start off with 747 either.

More cheerful news from the medical world. Antibiotic-Resistant Fungi Are a Growing Health Threat

If they produce the battles in a semi-historical manner, I might watch regardless of the politics. Turkish-Saudi animosity spills over into cultural sphere

Links for Today

Posted on November 27, 2019 by The Editor

The unintended consequences of the legal decision discussed in this post is also why the US made a marked shift towards drones blowing up houses with woman and children inside rather then try to take captives to gather intelligence. Behind Eddie Gallagher’s Court Martial Is a Much Larger Issue: The 2008 No-Prisoners Policy

First third is not worth much. But the rest of it does a have way decent job of demonstrating why Solzhenitsyn works should be read.How the great truth dawned

This was funny if you watch it happen in real time. When the villain is Obama, not Trump, news suddenly becomes not worth reporting

Friday’s Lullaby

Posted on November 15, 2019 by The Editor

News for Today (4/17/17)

Posted on April 17, 2017 by ape man

Bogus News Story Of The Day

Such end-of-days gloom is puzzling. Near 10 percent unemployment and near invisible growth cannot explain it.

The tone deafness of the above sentence was really jarring to me. Technically the above link is for an opinion column so I should not be calling it a bogus news story. But its complete tone deafness exemplifies the reason that people in the New York Times don’t get the political trends that are sweeping the western world. France has double the unemployment of the US and a very high youth unemployment rate (around 25%). But the author says that those things can’t be the main problem because France is such a cool place to live. And it is if your are wealthy or upper middle class who have good jobs. But those are not the people fueling the anger he is trying to understand.

In The News

Against all odds, a leftist soars in French election polls

Navy SEAL drug use “staggering,” investigation finds

Mrs. Custer’s Tennyson

Not In The News But Should Be

Nothing for today.

Entertainment of the Day

News for Today (2/26/17)

Posted on February 26, 2017 by ape man

Bogus News Story Of The Day

Sweden, Nation of Open Arms, Debates Implications of Immigration. The main reason that this article is bogus is that it talks like the data is not clear without ever acknowledging that Sweden does not collect data on who commits the crimes. Therefor the lack of data is a deliberate policy choice that feeds conspiracy theories. That said, Sweden’s over all crime rate is lower then the US so that point is still valid.

In The News

Is the Leading Theory About Alzheimer’s Wrong?

Who’s the Real “Deporter in Chief”?

Reducing Brazil’s pension burden

The Weird Economics Of Ikea

Not In The News But Should Be

Nothing for Today

Entertainment of the Day

News for Today (12/13/16)

Posted on December 13, 2016 by ape man

Bogus News Story Of The Day.

Bipartisan Electors Ask James Clapper: Release Facts on Outside Interference in U.S. Election. People have such a hard time resisting obvious lies. In this case the lie is the word “bipartisan” (to be fair, I think there is one nominal Republican in the bunch but that would not make it “bipartisan” if the shoe were on the other foot).

In The News

One Weight-Loss Approach Fits All? No, Not Even Close

Found: A Lost City in Greece. Nothing that noteworthy. Just a reminder of how little they know about even the areas that have been study to death.

Records: Too many votes in 37% of Detroit’s precincts. I have been beating this one to death. But the rumour mill has been constantly pointing towards fraud in this city long before it became somewhat “Official”. It will be interesting to see where the “Audits” go.

After their big election victory there is nothing to stop Republicans from dismantling Obamacare. So naturally they’re figuring out how to blow it.

Viruses may have evolved to hit men hard but go easy on women

Not In The News But Should Be

Exclusive: Top U.S. spy agency has not embraced CIA assessment on Russia hacking – sources For all the fuss about the CIA saying the Russians waged cyber warfare to help get Trump elected, you have to read far and wide to figure out what the CIA thinks they actually did.

Entertainment of the Day