Originally posted on Science Matters: President-elect Joe Biden looks to have the US rejoin the Paris Accords. AP Bjorn Lomborg explains in his NY Post article Joe Biden’s climate-change...
I did that too
Behind on my blasphemy
United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|January 11, 2021 House Democrats Introduce Resolution for Second Impeachment of Trump for Inciting...
House Will Vote Monday on Impeachment Resolution by Democrats Cicilline, Raskin, and Lieu with Single Article Focused on Trump’s Attempt to Steal Georgia Electoral Votes and...
New York State is set to prohibit on December 31, 2021 the use of glyphosate on all state property after Governor Andrew Cuomo signed bill S6502A/A732b late last year. The...
The US Dept of Agriculture (USDA) has proposed that it take over the regulation of GM animals from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Agriculture secretary Sonny Perdue said this...
South / North
South / North
America’s Tibet law should spur New Delhi to reclaim lost leverage on China Brahma Chellaney, The Times of India America’s Tibetan Policy and Support Act (TPSA), which became...
A precious natural resource under pressure
Brahma Chellaney, The National The global shock brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, with its major economic and social disruptions, has ensured that 2020 will go down in history...
Will China Turn Off Asia’s Tap?
It is worth noting that the 28 days correspond to 28 days of Margazhi month in Tamil and one extra day in Marghazhi was used in preparation for the Pongal,Indira Vizha Festiy.This is...
I had rebutted all this point by point with evidence.What shocked me today, on Christmas of 2020,an advertisement in the Deccan herald by a Christian missionary group, quoting Rig...
The Bidens will bring two dogs, Champ and Major, with them to the White House. And they plan to get a cat as well. Both of the Biden dogs are German Shepherds. Major, the younger one, was...
A Historian of Fascism: What Comes Next?
Timothy Snyder, a historian at Yale University, specializes in the history of fascism, wrote a powerful essay about Trump and his Insurrection for the New York Times. It is called...
In the Public Interest: Betsy DeVos Lives On
By Paul Homewood h/t MrGrimNasty There has been a nice discussion on Twitter, regarding the GWPF’s latest bulletin inconveniently pointing out that there has been no...
By Paul Homewood Repost from Climate Realism Cancel all the claims by climate activists that global warming is decimating Antarctica. A peer-reviewed study recently published...
Record Atlantic Hurricane Season?
More than 400 cows have died mysteriously since a wind park was built near a herd in 2012. Local residents also suffering health issues: “permanent fatigue, muscle aches, headaches...
Although Germany sees about as many hours of sunshine as Alaska, the country is pushing for ever larger solar farms. Germany business daily Handelsblatt here reports that power...
Hack Education: Behaviorism, Surveillance, and (School) Work I was a speaker today at the #AgainstSurveillance teach-in, a fundraiser for Ian Linkletter who is being sued...
David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Do No Harm: Reflections on the Impact of Educational Research This post is a short piece I wrote in 2011 for a special issue of the journal Teacher...
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Two days after the 2020 election, a defiant Kathy Griffin retweeted the notorious picture of her holding a prop that looked like the bloody...
Victor Davis Hanson // The Patriot Post Amid the current hysteria of toppling statues and renaming things, we keep mindlessly expanding the cancel culture. We are now seeing efforts...
Defenders of Civilization?
If you believe the Trumps will leave the White House without stealing some shit, then I got a bridge to sell you. Here’s a spoiler, not a prediction: In the coming weeks, we’re going...
by John L. Micek When Donald Trump became only president in our tangled history to be impeached twice, Americans found themselves asking, “What now?” The better question is “What’s...
In Keynesian economics, “running the economy hot” boosts employment by lowering the real wage. In Lucasian economics, “running the economy hot” boosts employment by fooling...
Saturday assorted links
1. The power of suggestion things as they ought to be. 2. Economist William Allen has passed away. 3. The evolution of Ivor Cummins. 4. Ayn Rand on the Fairness Doctrine. 5. A critique...
Praise the British
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Trevor Potter is a Republican who was former chairman of the Federal Election Commission and president of the Campaign Legal Center. He...
In the 1980s, the US imposed a 100% tariff on virtually all Japanese electronics and forced Tokyo to sign a one-sided trade deal that reserved much of its domestic semiconductor sector...
The events at Capitol Hill provided the perfect excuse for Twitter and other social media companies to advance the agenda of their benefactors in the permanent government of the United...
Everything We Know Now About Schools, Kids, and Covid-19(tags:pandemic school children )US grid will see 80 percent of its new capacity go emission-free in 2021(tags:renewables...
Emergency measure planned at ports to prevent food shortages because of Brexit(tags:food trade UK Europe Doom )US police three times as likely to use force against leftwing protesters(tags:protest...
I must admit, Tom Hanks is among my favorite actors. Not because of any one brilliant role, although he was pretty great in Forrest Gump, and not because he can blend into the part and...
That is Cool
There are a handful of people who get all sorts of quotes attributed to them on the internet – Churchill, Twain, Lincoln, Edison – and partly it’s because they did come up with...
Censorship
The wife and I are living under the jurisdiction of a new Energy Domain: new to solar panels, new to heat pumps and new to Generac propane generators. We are not so new to power outages...
Space is a Crowded Place
Space satellites may soon have to be capable of parallel parking if it gets any more crowded. And it definitely WILL!
Digital Maps to Nature Literacy
TOOLS TO MEET OUR NEEDS We create tools to work for us: to dig foundations, to hoist steel girders for bridges, to record our words and thoughts for others or capture a likeness of another...
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