Saturday, October 17, 2020

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  Utopia – you are standing in it!

  • Originally posted on Why Evolution Is True: I was shocked when a reader mentioned, in a recent comment, that the famous philosopher, logician, mathematician and vociferous atheist...

  • Cold Chisel – Cheap Wine – Countdown – 1980

    7 hours ago

  • THE COMMITMENTS – Trailer ( 1991 )

    9 hours ago

    •   TARPLEY.net

  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, October 14, 2020 Making a Mockery of Trump’s Claims of Diplomatic Prowess with North...

  • Disregarding Constitution and Laws, Barrett Refuses to Condemn Voter Intimidation, Opening Door to Armed Fascist Militias at Polling Places; She is Indifferent to Federal Statutory Ban on Voter Intimidation at 18 USC 594 Cited by Klobuchar; Barrett Cannot Say Whether President Has Power to Delay Presidential Election, a Timetable Which Is Clearly Set by Constitution Itself; She Refuses to Endorse Peaceful Transfer of Power Between Administrations, and Will Not Commit to Recusing Herself in Cases Growing Out of Trump Machinations Around 2020 Election; Agnostic on Whether President Can Pardon Himself; Her Nomination Must Be Rejected!

    3 days ago

  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, October 13, 2020 Sen. Whitehouse Exposes Sinister Machinery Which Has Produced Trump’s...

  • In Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Whitehouse and Dem Members Slam “Slap Dash” Hearings Called in Obedience to GOP Megadonors Despite Pandemic to Launch Extremist Ideologue Amy Barrett as a “Judicial Torpedo” to Destroy the Affordable Care Act; Her Protestations of Impartiality Reek of Hypocrisy; Dems Seek to Flip One Seat on Committee or Two Seats for Floor Vote to Stop Barrett Nomination

    5 days ago

    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, October 12, 2020 Barrett’s Fanatical Hostility to Affordable Care Act/Obamacare Is Threat...

    Sustainable Pulse

  • France’s health and environment agency announced restrictions on weedkiller glyphosate in farming, but stopped short of a full ban in the European Union’s top agricultural...

  • Argentina Becomes First Country to Approve GMO Wheat

    5 days ago

  • Argentina has approved HB4 drought-resistant GMO wheat by biotechnology firm Bioceres SA, the company and the government said last Wednesday, making it the first country in the...

  • Gene-Silencing Pesticides Pose Massive Environmental Risks – New Report

    11 days ago

    • “Gene-silencing pesticides” now under development pose unique risks to surrounding ecosystems and beneficial insects, including bees, according to a new report, released...

      sunshine hours

  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 273 – 2020

    9 days ago

  •      South / North

  • 90% of Forest Fires in California Are Man Made

    17 days ago

    •   Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • Despite US President Donald Trump’s undermining of US alliances, his administration has made significant progress in bringing together the Indo-Pacific’s leading democracies...

  • Tibet remains at the center of the China-India divide

    12 days ago

  • Xi Jinping appears to have underestimated New Delhi’s capacity to fight back Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia Is China’s insecurity over the restive Tibetan Plateau, which has...

  • Tokyo must thwart Beijing’s Senkaku strategy

    16 days ago

    • By BRAHMA CHELLANEY, The Japan Times The understanding reached between Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and Chinese President Xi Jinping to pursue high-level contacts is unlikely...

      Ramani's blog

  • webinar will be presided by the Vice Chancellor Prof. Narendra Kumar Taneja ji.And HOD Prof.  Mrs.Ajay Vijay Kaur and Prof. Vighnesh Tyagi ji will participate...

  • Sibi Chozha Surya,Chandra Yadu Vamsa? Research

    20 hours ago

  • he could have belonged to Ikshavaaku, Chandravansh or Yadava Dynasty as the latter sprang from the Ikshvaaku Dynasty, Suryavansh/Solar Dynasty.

  • Tamil Epic Silappadikaram Quotes Harivamsa Of Vyasa ,Bhasa

    a day ago

    • And the description of this nature is found in Balacharitha by Bhasa in Sanskrit in a Drama form.This description is found in Harivamsa too.Following are the relevant lines in Silappadikaram...

      Diane Ravitch's blog

  • Robert Kuttner is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect. He writes occasional columns online called “Kuttner on Tap.” Someone’s Crazy Uncle NBC redeemed itself...

  • Oklahoma: State Begins Contract Termination Process for Epic Charter Schools

    10 hours ago

  • A recent state audit of Epic Charter Schools documented many financial problems. As a result, the state’s Virtual Charter School Board has initiated a contract termination process...

  • Peter Greene: Watch Out, Maine, the Charter Pushers Have a New Name, Same Game

    11 hours ago

    • Peter Greene writes about a new push to expand charters in Maine by the same-old group that has failed in the past to disrupt the state’s devotion to public schools. Wake up, Maine!...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood. .   . This really is quite blatant propaganda from the Met Office:       “The UK’s set of climate projections are the best window we have on how climate change...

  • Carry On Doctor!

    a day ago

  • By Paul Homewood     h/t Dennis Ambler   Once upon a time, the goal of the NHS was to save lives!     The NHS today took a major step into the decarbonised future, announcing a multi-year...

  • Hydrogen Future Would Triple Energy Bills

    a day ago

    • By Paul Homewood h/t Tallbloke There has never been any disagreement that hydrogen can replace natural gas for heating homes. It has always been a question of cost and scalability...

    • ( I grew up  in a time when natural gas was considered 'un-natural' in its effects. A friend afflicted with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity could not tolerate living where it was in use - nor where 'germicides' were in use for that matter. Hydrogen famously has one residual deposit - water. Then again, my friend thrived on natural wood heat from stoves. Who knew ?)

      NoTricksZone

  • By Kirye September mean temperature in Sweden has not been warming like alarmists said it certainly would. Looking at data from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) for the 6 stations...

  • Low Solar Activity Points To Colder Than Normal 2020/21 European Winter

    a day ago

  • SnowFan here reports on the latest winter forecasts for the 2020/21 Europe winter. History and statistics show Europe could be in for a frosty winter.  Currently a significant La...

  • New Study: East Antarctica Was Up To 6°C Warmer Than Today During The Medieval Warm Period

    2 days ago

    • As recently as 2000 to 1000 years ago, spanning the Roman to Medieval Warm Periods, East Antarctica was 5-6°C warmer than it is today. The consequent ice melt resulted in >60 meters...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day

  • Janresseger: Framing a New Website Forced Us to Reconsider Public Education’s Core Principles This week the Northeast Ohio Friends of Public Education launched a new website. ...

  • Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Can Covid-19 Take School Reform in a New and Different Direction?

    16 days ago

  • Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Can Covid-19 Take School Reform in a New and Different Direction? Covid-19 offers the opportunity to think anew and differently...

  • Hack Education: Selling the Future of Ed-Tech (& Shaping Our Imaginations)

    17 days ago

    • Hack Education: Selling the Future of Ed-Tech (& Shaping Our Imaginations) I have volunteered to be a guest speaker in classes this Fall. It's really the least I can do to help teachers...

    Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review In the 21st century, hallmark American and international institutions have lost much of their prestige and respect. Politics and biases...

  • The Case for Trump: Victor Davis Hanson Makes The Closing Argument

    3 days ago

  • Ricochet Podcast Featuring Victor Davis Hanson With a little over three weeks to go before the election, we thought it would a good time to have a heart to heart discussion with our good...

  • California’s Illogical Reparations Bill

    8 days ago

    • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review California’s state legislature just passed, and Governor Gavin Newsom signed, Assembly Bill 3121 to explore providing reparations to...

    The Moderate Voice

  • The Trump administration has reversed course on its controversial decision to nix aid for the massive wildfires that scorched nearly 2 million acres and turned many parts of California...

  • Inaccurate Church Traditions: Hell

    a day ago

  • When people hear or read the word Hell, they usually think of a place that churches describe as a place of eternal fire meant as punishment for those who reject Messiah Jesus. As it turns...

  • ‘Sadistic and Depraved’: Trump Rejects California Request for Federal Disaster Aid to Recover From Catastrophic Wildfires (UPDATE)

    a day ago

    • UPDATE: The Trump administration has now reversed course. Original post: “That a sitting president—of any party—would deny their own citizens help during their time of greatest...

     Marginal REVOLUTION

  • 1. Second wave coming to Belgium.  And “The ratings decline in sports confuse us only if we fail to see connections between liturgical worship and sports.” 2. Partial protection...

  • Fama on Pornography and the Fed

    14 hours ago

  • Excellent interview with Eugene Fama. The usual stuff on efficient markets but also It’s not just the Fed, around the globe central banks are flooding the system with liquidity...

  • Keynes on what is required to make a great economist

    20 hours ago

    • The study of economics does not seem to require any specialized gifts of an unusually high order. Is it not, intellectually regarded, a very easy subject compared with the higher branches...

      Lloyd Lofthouse

  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: A government agency that has long been trusted as nonpartisan relies on public trust for the information it releases. When that agency...

  • How to stop a Coup

    16 days ago

  • Originally posted on GFBrandenburg's Blog: I am more and more certain that Trump and his racist gangs of violent thugs will attempt a coup when the polling results come in after November...

  • James Hohmann: Post-Debate Fallout

    16 days ago

    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: James Hohmann of the Washington Post gathered interesting post-debate happenings. Joe Biden left Cleveland on a chartered Amtrak train...

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  • Amy Coney Barrett is the nearly perfect candidate for Justice Ginsburg’s seat, and the Left is gearing up to turn her confirmation hearing into a circus that rivals that of Brett...

  • 1619 Project: Fake History in School to Destroy US | Behind the Deep State

    a month ago

  • VIDEO - In this episode of Behind The Deep State, host Alex Newman exposes the Deep State propaganda machine's "1619 Project" produced by the New York Times and fringe leftwing activist...

  • RBG Was an “Intellectually Dishonest” Enemy of the Constitution — and More

    a month ago

    • Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death last Friday has been followed by effusive praise, even from conservatives, and New York politicians intend to erect a statue in her honor. She’s most...

      MintPress News

  • Pro-Israel institutions and spokespeople like to claim that the Palestinian refugee issue has passed some imaginary statute of limitations, but as a comprehensive new Oxford study...

  • FCC Head and Internet’s Most Hated Man Ajit Pai Just Vowed to Kill First Amendment Rights Online

    a day ago

  • FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has vowed to reinterpret Section 230 of the Communications Act on President Trump's orders in a move that threatens to curb what's left of Americans' first amendment...

  • Bolivia: First Election Since US-Backed Coup Pits Right against Left, Rich Against Poor and White against Everyone Else

    a day ago

    • This coming Sunday represents Bolivia's best chance to secure lasting peace, with a widely anticipated MAS victory expected to be a repudiation of last November's US-backed military...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • Current status: bathing the lawn ornaments Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there.

  • Interesting Links for 17-10-2020

    15 hours ago

  • What would it look like if the UK went for "herd immunity"?https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1317046902605729792.html(tags:UK pandemic death )Babies' random choices become...

  • Interesting Links for 16-10-2020

    2 days ago

    • Microwaving plastic waste can generate clean hydrogen(tags:hydrogen plastic microwave )We have so many things to learn from nature(tags:nature comic funny )How to Keep Players...

      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • Taught my first online English lessons today. It was not as bad as I feared, but it wasn’t exactly a raging success.It was good in the sense that it happened, it was begun and completed...

  • Meaningless Thought

    2 days ago

  • The mind works in mysterious ways and we try to find analogies for it, stream of consciousness, train of thought, wool gathering, but nothing accurately describes it, or anyway we...

  • Zoom Anxiety

    2 days ago

    • I am going to make my first attempt at giving English lessons tomorrow. The first group are like 7 and 8, the second group up to about 12, I think. I’m a bit nervous about it.I’ve participated...

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