Saturday, June 27, 2020

27 June - iGoogle Portal - Tab 9

  • A 16th century shipwreck has been found in Northern Italy. But is it a long lost galleon people have been searching for since the 1970s? Gabriele Succi and Edoardo Sbaraini of Rasta...
  • A Viking settlement has been discovered in Iceland, thought to be the country’s oldest. Sounds straightforward? Not at all! The structure was found under another one. And it may...
    • The Cannonball Run, the drive across America, has a new record holder. While most folks were either just emerging from lockdown or still staying at home, a bunch of car enthusiasts...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!



  • US Jobless Now Well over 50 Million after 1.5 Initial Insurance Claims Last Week; GDP Drops at 5% Rate in First Quarter, with Worse to Come; Day of Reckoning Approaches by End of July...
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, June 25, 2020 Biden Plan Includes Ceiling of 8.5% of Personal Income Spent on Health Care...
    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, June 24, 2020 In Majority Opinion by Trump Appointee Judge Neomi Rao, Legal Deference...
  • The Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT), Mexico’s Environment Ministry, has announced that glyphosate-based herbicides will be phased out of use in...
  • Bayer-Monsanto have announced that the company will make a total payment of $10.1 billion to $10.9 billion (€9.1 billion to €9.8 billion) to settle the non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma...
    • A federal judge in California has blocked efforts by the state to require cancer warning labels on Bayer-Monsanto’s signature weedkiller, Roundup. Glyphosate, the active...
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  • RCP8.5

    4 days ago
    • Worst case scenario … just like the outrageous claims made by the Imperial College about COVID-19. “Whenever you read a media story about how we’re heading toward catastrophe...

      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • Brahma Chellaney, OPEN Magazine FIGHTING TWO BATTLES simultaneously — one against Chinese aggression in Ladakh and another against the China-originating coronavirus — India...
  • From Hong Kong to Himalayas, Xi Jinping seizes on disarray to expand China’s global footprints Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asian Review President Xi Jinping, seeking to press China’s...
    • Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times India extended the hand of friendship to China but was repaid with stealth aggression in Ladakh. The Chinese incursions into strategic areas...

      Ramani's blog

  • Wherever Shiva is present Devi is there and wherever Devi is present Shiva IS.
  • A nation that convinces itself that it's history is a myth; it's heroes were mere legends;which considers teaching young from earliest School level it's history is a Sin...
    • This is not related to only healthcare. Technic for viewing the Sun direct  with the naked eye by intertwined fingers is one such practice I recollect right now...
  • Jan Resseger writes here to refute Trump and Betsy DeVos’s ridiculous claim that school choice is a “civil rights issue.” As she points out, charter schools and vouchers divert...
  • Maria Popova is a voracious reader. She posts her reflections on literature, which she calls “Brain Pickings.” She reads widely and writes about whatever interests her. Her...
    • John Thompson is a retired teacher and historian in Oklahoma. He writes: I previously posted on the Profiles in Courage of Tulsans who resisted President Donald Trump’s hideous...
  • The week of May 18th marked two months since most late night and daytime talk programs had ceased normal production of their shows.  Some of them aired repeats, as would have been customary...
  • With a continued focus on the coronavirus (or in the case of Conan, an interest in avoiding it) and a decreasing amount of new entertainment content to promote, the late night and daytime...
    • I’m a little surprised it took this long into the shutdown portion of the pandemic for these postings to get really, really thin.  For the first week in May, the only science and technology...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood   Much to the joy of Matt McGrath, Ireland is on the verge of committing economic suicide. Ireland stands on the brink of putting climate change at the heart of its government...
  • By Paul Homewood   h/t Patsy Lacey    The Conversation has now got involved in the Arctic heatwave scare, with this article by Jonathan Bamber, Professor of Physical Geography...
    • By Paul Homewood   Given the renewed interest in the Swansea Tidal Lagoon, it is worth republishing a post I published in June 2018. It still seems as valid now as it did then:   This...
  • By Kirye and Pierre Gosselin This is how alarmists operate today: Find one single extreme weather event and immediately behold it as proof of an impending climate change catastrophe...
  • The myth of increasing European drought By Frank Bosse (Translated, edited by P Gosselin) It sounds so simple: it is undoubtedly getting warmer in Central Europe, and this is leading...
    • Due to the expansion of wind energy projects in the United States in the last decade, a conservative estimate for yearly bat fatalities from wind turbines ranges between 1.7 to 3.7...
  • Answer Sheet: New Concerns Raised About a Well-Known Digital Learning Platform Over the past five years, the Summit Learning Platform has become one of the best-known online platforms...
  • Jersey Jazzman: On Comparing Education Spending Across Time I’ve noticed a lot of back-and-forth recently on social media about education spending – specifically, on how spending...
    • Cloaking Inequity: Breaking News: New Study Finds Online Charters Perform Poorly The University of Kentucky College of Education has some breaking news. A new study by one of our...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The old 2020 election was supposed to be about many familiar issues. It is not anymore. Up until now, the candidates themselves would supposedly...
  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review In Aesop’s Fables and Horace’s Satires a common classical allegory is variously retold about the country mouse and his sophisticated...
    • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness When something cannot go on, it certainly will not go on. But what are the symptoms of what cannot go on and when?  There are two historic red...
  • Paris (AFP) – French cosmetics giant L’Oreal announced Saturday it was removing words like “whitening” from its products, against the backdrop of global anti-racism protests...
  • Not to worry Texas. On Friday, an even higher authority told you so. None other than the vice president of the United States told the country once again not to worry. As coronavirus numbers...
    • The Sahara was once completely covered with vegetation, as the following science reports explain. “Enhanced summer insolation during the early and mid-Holocene drove increased...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • 1. Another shoutout to Progress Studies School (for high school students, though not only). 2. “Today’s most serious problem, which annihilates thoughtfulness about all others...
  • That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, easier read through than excerpted, but here is one bit: When no one can see our countenances, we may behave differently. One study found...
    • From Nate Silver, I am smushing together his tweet storm: Something to think about: re-openings have been occurring gradually since late April in different states/counties. If...

      Lloyd Lofthouse

  • Originally posted on GFBrandenburg's Blog: This is a very important piece. Please read it and share it. It’s by a 10-year veteran of some city in California, who calls himself a bastard...
  • City workers attempted to clear out barriers at the edge of CHOP, but were sent home empty-handed after protesters blocked their machinery.
  • The current unrest convulsing our nation certainly does reflect treason, sedition, and insurrection, though some may wonder how many are noticing. But President Trump certainly...
    • The two states placed renewed restrictions on bars and alcohol consumption after being the subject of intense media criticism amid growing COVID-19 cases...
  • At a time when the world is crying out for justice, it behooves Israel to reverse its destructive policies toward Palestinians – and responsible journalism to ignore the bullies...
  • COVI-PASS will determine whether you can go to a restaurant, if you need a medical test, or are due for a talking-to by authorities in a post-COVID world. Consent is voluntary, but enforcement...
    • According to the Yemen Oil Company, at least 15 tankers carrying over 419,789 tons of fuel have been trapped at sea for over a month despite being checked and issued permits by both...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • Why the earliest sign of civilisation is a healed femur(tags:civilization )Last of Us Part II: Is this the most accessible game ever?(tags:games disability accessibility )Scottish...
  • The Best Dad Jokes to Tell on Father's Day(tags:jokes fatherhood )Britain's role in slavery was not to end it, but to thwart abolition at every turn(tags:UK history slavery )Why does...
    • On Finding Out Your Heroes are Monsters (How Warren Ellis is a symptom of a toxic culture)(tags:WarrenEllis society comics abuse )LGBT+ groups from all major parties unite to condemn...

      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • Doxxing is not very nice. I don’t know if it’s actually illegal. That’s kind of a gray area, because on the one hand it’s freedom of speech and freedom of information, on the...
  • So, The Dixie Chicks have shortened their name to The Chicks, which is not too surprising, it goes along with all the Confederate flag banning and statue trashing which I’m generally...
    • This is a breaking story, just found out about it five minutes ago and even the news stories on it don’t give a lot of detail, so I will try to rein in my outrage and just make a couple …...

      Fragments from Floyd

  • We walked through our tiny patch of forest (compared to Goose Creek) in the rain–of course, in the Monsoon of June–on our third full day at what I used to refer to as The Other Place...
  • Vietnam: How this country of 95 million kept its coronavirus death toll at zero – CNN Why can’t we learn to do what successful states and nations do that is working? Business as usual...


  • Path of least resistance AND looking at new ways of getting information (mostly for me) out of my “second brain” of Roam Research (“networked tool for thought) and into a place...

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