Monday, February 15, 2021

15 February - iGoogle Portal - Tab 9

 

  Utopia – you are standing in it!

  • Pyrrhic Acquittal for GOP by 57-43 in Trump Trial: Republican Extinction is Brought Closer as Party Suffers 7 Defections: Burr, Cassidy, Collins, Murkowski, Romney, Sasse, Toomey...

  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|February 11, 2021 Rapid Extinction of GOP Hangs in Balance as Verdict in Trump Trial is Expected this...

    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|February 10, 2021 Impeachment Managers Show January 6 Fascist Assault on Capitol Occurred at Moment...

  • In September 2020, India’s Narendra Modi government circumvented parliamentary procedures to push through three bills that eased restrictions on private players in agricultural...

  • A French court on Monday started hearing a case against more than a dozen multinationals accused by a French-Vietnamese woman of causing grievous harm to her and others by selling...

    • Glyphosate and the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup disrupt the gut microbiome by the same mechanism by which the chemical acts as a weedkiller, and these effects happen even...

      sunshine hours

  • BREAKING: Nearly half of Texas' wind power generation capacity has been offline because of frozen wind turbines in West Texas, grid operators report 1/ https://t.co/Qfi25KN37n—...

    • The headline says wood pellets are “renewable”. Nonsense. https://www.castanet.net/news/Business/324419/British-utility-buying-BCs-Pinnacle-Renewable-Energy...

      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • Donald Trump’s tough China policy is his most consequential – and constructive – foreign-policy legacy. Unless President Joe Biden pursues a similar approach, the erosion...

  • US President Joe Biden’s administration must not ignore how often American sanctions against other countries have worked to China’s advantage. In this light, the US must take...

    • BY BRAHMA CHELLANEY, The Japan Times Large parts of the world are still reeling from the rampaging spread of the coronavirus, with renewed lockdowns in effect in many places. With...

  • Rama.As the date of birth of Poigai Azhwar is 4025 BC,these temples should have existed before 4025 BC

  • Pururavas introduced the dynasty's emblem - a pair of fish, and shared his throne and taxes with Indra.

    • Poigai Azhwar is dated at 4205 BC. The Thiruvaklikkeni temple about which Peyazhwar sung, should therefore be older than Fifth Century BC.

  • As someone who graduated high school in 1956, this film reminds me of the world I grew up in.

  • Gary Stein, a teacher in his last year of teaching, read the post by retired superintendent Teresa Thayer Snyder and was inspired to share this message: After reading Ms. Snyder’s...

    • Distinguished economist Helen Ladd and her husband, journalist Edward Fiske, studied the accountability system for charter schools in Massachusetts. They specifically addressed...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood   h/t Patsy Lacey    If you can’t beat it, tax it!     Household heating bills could be hiked to fund green energy projects for the fight against global warming...

  • By Paul Homewood   h/t Robin Guenier    I have covered this issue recently, but now it appears the EU is finally waking up as well as the US:     Nearly every solar power panel sold...

    • By Paul Homewood     Across the world, politicians are going out of their way to promise fantastically expensive climate policies. President Biden has promised to spend $500 billion...

  • Why have sea surface temperatures and proxy temperature reconstructions so strongly diverged from the instrumental land record in recent decades? Because “0.36 ± 0.04...

  • Southeast Greenland sea surface temperature was warmer than today in the 1940s, scientists find. A team of Danish scientists led by David Wangner published a paper a year ago about...

    • Data show the month of January has been cooling across the northern hemisphere over the recent decades as winters make a comeback. Charts by Kirye (photo right) and Pierre German research...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day

  • Diane Ravitch's Blog: Farewell to the SAT! We Hope. The SAT is in trouble. Its business model is threatened by the more than 1,000 colleges and universities that no longer require it...

  • David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: The Problems That Accountability Metrics Pose for Schooling This is a new piece I wrote as the foreword to a book by J. M. Beach — Can...

    • Answer Sheet: Teacher: What’s Missing From Calls for Summer School to Stem ‘Learning Loss’ School districts concerned about how much learning students have missed since...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The Democratically-controlled Senate spends thousands of collective hours conducting an impeachment trial against a president who...

  • Listen to Victor Davis Hanson on the Trevor Carey Radio Show here

    • An article by my Hoover colleague Dr. Paul Gregory in The Hill On Feb. 2, the Moscow City Court sentenced Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny to two years and eight months...

  • The Republican Party was born on March 20, 1854, the green shoots of a political spring. Unlike America’s other parties that were often shotgun weddings of convenience, the Republicans...

  • Houston (AFP) – An “unprecedented” winter storm system gripped much of the United States on Monday bringing snow and ice to the southern state of Texas and bitter-low temperatures...

    • Children who study our era a century from now will watch the videos we all saw of the Capitol attack, the unleashed barbarity of it, the mob searching for the politicians President Trump...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • 1. Profile of Caroline Shaw, who is good (Atlantic). 2. Sentences to ponder.  And only one point, but a good point about SSC vs. NYT. 3. The new vitamin D results appear quite suspect. ...

  • I’ve long argued that if a drug or medical device is approved in another country with a Stringent Regulatory Authority it ought to be approved in the United States. But, of course...

    • So what would you all like to hear about?  It can’t hurt to ask, right? The post Requests for requests appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.

      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...

  • Originally posted on GFBrandenburg's Blog: This is by David Sirota and Julia Rock, published in The Guardian. “Support from Democratic lawmakers for the liability shield legislation...

    • Will Donald Trump attempt to pull of a coup through the Electoral College? Continue reading →

  • “Our quotes are intendedly twisted casting shadows over important scientific work.” -- Danish epidemiologist Thea Kølsen Fischer The post “Shame on You, New York Times!”...

  • Elites and their courtiers who trumpet their moral superiority by damning and silencing those who do not linguistically conform to politically correct speech are the new Jacobins...

    • Bill Gates' prediction that the next threat to humanity will come from a bioterror attack is giving war hawks and corporate America a reason to get excited. The post Atlantic Council...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • I had no idea quite how awful Rick Berman was(tags:StarTrek sexism abuse OhForFucksSake )Half Doses of Moderna Vaccine Seem To Be As Good Full Ones(tags:vaccine pandemic GoodNews...

  • Something bad happened here. Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there.

    • Google hasn't updated their iOS apps for 2 months to avoid new privacy labels(tags:Apple privacy Google )Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform(tags:funny...

      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • Normally, I don’t consider Politico a good source of information. They are rabidly pro status-quo and were never nice, or even fair, to Bernie Sanders. Also, they say “according...

  • Hypocrisy

    a day ago
  • Mitch McConnell’s speech after Trump was acquitted was one of the most glaring examples of hypocrisy ever, but we should not be surprised. Hypocrisy is no longer enough to lose an...

  • A Good Idea

    2 days ago
    • I saw a meme yesterday that I thought was sort of brilliant. Not because of the meme itself, which was one the the standard ones, the pensive dinosaur, but because of the actual text...

      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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