Monday, January 25, 2021

25 January - iGoogle Portal - Tab 9

 

  Utopia – you are standing in it!

  • Trump Impeachment Trial to Take Place on February 8: Majority of Americans Want Trump Convicted and Barred Forever from Holding Federal Office; Zero Tolerance Here for Fascist Coup...

  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|January 20, 2021 Biden Tells Nation and World that “Democracy Has Prevailed” in Spite of Its Fragility...

    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|January 19, 2021 On Eve of Biden-Harris Inauguration, Alt-Right, Q Anon, and Fascist Clowns Who Have...

  • In January, twenty-six environmental organizations in Italy launched a powerful campaign that prevented the government from passing four bills inspired by the agribusiness lobby...

  • A group of indigenous and afro-descendant communities in the Nariño region of Colombia has successfully taken legal action to suspend the national glyphosate aerial fumigation...

    • 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...

  • I don’t usually agreee with The Guardian. But they are right. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/14/carbon-neutrality-is-a-fairy-tale-how-the-race-for-renewables-is-burning-europes-forests...

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      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • Brahma Chellaney, Open magazine At 78, Joe Biden is the oldest president in US history to assume office. The unprecedented security at his inauguration, which included neutralising...

  • BRAHMA CHELLANEY, Project Syndicate China’s recent encroachments on Indian territory in the Himalayas could pose a significant threat to Indo-Pacific stability. But regional...

    • 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...

  • he current date of Ayodhya Ram temple is around 12 century.This date is incorrect and it can be dated much earlier. Obfuscation about Ayodhya Ram temple date abounds. I shall be writing...

  • 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...

      Diane Ravitch's blog

  • The Washington Post fact-checkers have kept a meticulous record of Donald Trump’s lies, and there were so many of them that it became a nearly full-time job. Every time he spoke at...

  • Ann P. Cronin is a former Connecticut Distinguished English Teacher of the Year, a school district administrator, and creator of award-winning programs for the teaching of English...

    • This is the scariest article of the week or month, not counting the violent rampage of Trump allies on January 6. Dominik Dresel writes in Edsurge about Jeff Bezos’ entry into the...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood     It did not take long for the Environment Agency to blame Storm Christoph on climate change! .   The flooding caused by Storm Christoph is a harbinger of worsening...

  • By Paul Homewood     h/t Philip Bratby   Yet another flagrantly biased article by Harrabin, who apparently cannot even count up to seven now! (Clue – there are seven questions...

    • By Paul Homewood   h/t Joe Public    The National Grid have greeted the opening of its second interconnector with a fanfare!     After almost three years of construction – and...

  • Oceans cover 71% of the Earth’s surface. An analysis of CO2’s radiative effect on ocean temperatures finds CO2 forcing is negligible even after reaching a concentration of 1,071...

  • If Al Gore had been an activist in the 1940s, he would have certainly predicted an ice-free Arctic by 1960, or at least by 1980. And of course, as usual, he would have been wrong. Al Serial-Exaggerator...

    • It’s been shown that adequate levels of Vitamin D and zinc really do make a difference against COVID 19 and cold viruses in general. It’s also clear that good nutrition just doesn’t...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day

  • Curmudgucation: More Teacher Effectiveness Mirages The Fordham Institution has a new report entitled "Teacher Effectiveness and Improvement in Charter and Traditional Public...

  • AlterNet: A Flood of New Charters Shows How the Industry May Try to Thrive — Despite the Pandemic As the COVID-19 pandemic began closing school buildings and forcing schools to quickly...

    • Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Does the Pandemic Help Us Make Education More Equitable? (Pasi Sahlberg) (Guest Post by Pasi Sahlberg) “Pasi Sahlberg is a...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Donald Trump was impeached again on Wednesday, a week before leaving office in one of the great travesties of modern politics. Here are reasons...

  • Victor Davis Hanson // The New Criterion Sparta’s check of imperial Athens in the inconclusive so-called First Peloponnesian War (460–445 B.C.) foreshadowed a remarkable...

    • An article by my Hoover colleague Dr. Paul Gregory in The Hill To understand the events of Russian dissident Aleksei Navalny’s near-fatal poisoning and his Jan. 17 return to Russia...

  • Science and facts took a back seat during the Trump era. Who am I kidding? Back seat? Facts weren’t even along for the ride. Sean Spicer’s very first press conference was about the...

  • Attorney general nominee Merrick Garland speaks during an event with President-elect Joe Biden. AP Photo/Susan Walsh Joshua Holzer, Westminster College Five years after he was...

    • Former Fox News host Shepard Smith has been outspoken about his former colleagues after his resignation last year. Smith is the former host of the Fox News’ show Shepard Smith...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • Jeff Kaufman has some good parenting tips: A few weeks ago Anna (4y) wanted to play with some packing material. It looked very messy to me, I didn’t expect she would clean it up, and...

  • Armin Laschet, the newly elected leader of Germany’s Christian Democrats, is coming under mounting scrutiny over statements he has made in the past defending Russian president...

    • Voters in the North would like to see a referendum on a United Ireland sometime in the next five years, while voters in the UK believe Scotland is likely to become independent within...

      Lloyd Lofthouse

    • 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...

  • Biden has made the reopening of schools, colleges, and universities a key priority and made clear that his decision was based on the same “save the economy” logic as Trump’s...

  • The same media that behaved as attack dogs against Trump for four years (unless he was carrying out aggressive actions abroad) are likely to turn into lap dogs now that there is a Democrat...

    • A critical look at Biden's first Executive Orders set against the backdrop of Operation Peaceful Transition in Washington, DC. The post Despite What You Heard, There Was No Peaceful...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • 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...

    • Oh no, the music stopped and I was left with this! What do they eat? Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there...

      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • There’s a comment that’s been seen in multiple places, with absolutely identical wording so it obviously comes from a troll farm, and it goes something like: “I admit that all...

  • One of the worst things Biden’s done in his first two days in office is to recognize Juan Guaido as president of Venezuela. One reason, the obvious reason, that this is silly is because...

    • I’m sure you’ve all seen the memes. Bernie Sanders, at the inauguration, seated, looking maybe a bit grumpy as he’s got every reason to be, and wearing warm, woolly mittens...

      Fragments from Floyd

  • 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 satellites may soon have to be capable of parallel parking if it gets any more crowded. And it definitely WILL!

    • 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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