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United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|April 13, 2021 Is social friction around issues like race and gender simply a product of the struggle for progress, or are these divisive issues being manipulated...
World Tensions Escalate as Serious Cyber-Attack Hits Main Iranian Nuclear Center at Natanz
United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|April 12, 2021 Tehran Accuses Israel of Aggression; Denials Are Unconvincing; Washington Insists It Had No Role, but US Proximity Talks with Iran on Reviving...
Marking the 156th Anniversary of the Triumph of the Union at Appomattox Court House!
US Must Lead Free World in Comprehensive Boycott of Next February’s Beijing Winter Olympics; Both Pompeo and Blinken Have Condemned Chinese Communist Operations against Uighurs of East Turkestan as Outright Genocide Under International...
Sustainable Pulse
Glyphosate Hacks Hormones of Baby Girls after Exposure in the Womb – New Groundbreaking Pilot Study
A group of international scientists from the U.S. and EU have released a peer-reviewed pilot study that suggests the anogenital distance of baby girls is becoming more male-typical, due to their mothers being exposed to glyphosate when they...
UK Environment Agency and Local Councils Invest Heavily in Agrochemical Giants – Revealed
i News in the United Kingdom has revealed that the UK Environment Agency and Local Councils have invested heavily in the main agrochemical giants, such as Syngenta, Dow, DuPont, Bayer, Corteva and BASF. Exclusive Reports from i News Environment...
Pesticide Toxicity to Invertebrates and Pollinators Increasing in GM Crops
Some just published research in the journal Science completely demolishes claims that the impact of pesticides is declining and that GM crops are contributing to this positive trend, GMWatch reported. Source: GMWatch By Claire Robinson...
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Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 99 – 2021
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Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 98 – 2021
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Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 93 – 2021
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Stagecraft and Statecraft
U.S. sanctions often advance China’s interests
The U.S. today risks accelerating its relative decline through strategic overreach. A first step to addressing that risk is to abandon its sanctions overreach and recalibrate its sanctions so that they stop advancing China’s commercial...
U.S. sanctions often advance China’s interests
The U.S. today risks accelerating its relative decline through strategic overreach. A first step to addressing that risk is to abandon its sanctions overreach and recalibrate its sanctions so that they stop advancing China’s commercial...
Biden follows Trump’s footsteps in the Indo-Pacific
Biden inherited a coherent and realistic Indo-Pacific strategy. This explains why, while overturning his predecessor’s other policies at a rapid pace, Biden has thus far stayed the course set by the Trump administration on China and the...
Ramani's blog
This Is Where I was Hit, Hurt Sri Krishna, Parthasarathi Temple Idol
Utsavar.They will fall where I was hit and hurt. Only I know how I was Hit and Hurt'
Realize Brahman Reality Through Rama Kalyana Gunas Attributes
Thus one Finds in Sri. Rama, a short cut to Realize Brahman, One Beyond Attributes.
Sita Lake, Village in Khabarovsk Russia
The Sita River is a river in the Khabarovsk Territory . The sources of the river are swamps, located near the village of Sita,
Diane Ravitch's blog
Andrea Gabor: How Big Philanthropy Captured Media Coverage of Their Education Investments
Andrea Gabor is the Bloomberg Professor of Business Journalism at Baruch College, which is part of the City University of New York. Gabor has written insightful articles about education in the New York Times and at Bloomberg.com. She is the...
Jeanne Kaplan: The Battle Against Deformers in Denver is Always Uphill
Jeanne Kaplan is a veteran civil rights activist who was elected to serve two terms on the Denver school board. She has been active in multiple campaigns to stop privatization and over-testing and energize a genuine effort to improve the public...
The Politics Of School Choice
Julian Vasquez Heilig, Jameson Brewer, and Frank Adamson have written a peer-reviewed analysis of the politics of school choice. As Heilig wrote in his description of the analysis, “Modern notions of “markets” and “choice” in...
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
BBC Play Green Turtle Climate Card–But Ignore The Real Threats
By Paul Homewood https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-56690950 This is just a rehash of an old story, which I covered here three years ago. It is based on the fact that warmer sand temperatures lead to faster incubation...
Copper demand from auto industry expected to double as EVs ramp up
By Paul Homewood There are major concerns about supplies of cobalt and lithium in our new electric car world. But another problem could arise with copper: https://seekingalpha.com/amp/news/3677201-copper-demand-from-auto-industry-expected-to-double-as-evs-ramp-up...
The Climate Blame Game
By Paul Homewood I have long challenged attribution studies which blame extreme weather on climate change. I have however been unable to question the statistics behind it, as it is not my expertise. Fortunately the eminent statistician...
NoTricksZone
2021 German Coal Plant “Phaseout” Lasted Only 8 Days…Put Back Online To Stabilize Shaky Grid
German coal phaseout – lasted only 8 days By Blackout News (Translated, edited by P. Gosselin) Due to the government mandated coal phase-out, 11 coal-fired power plants with a total capacity of 4.7 GW were shut down on January 1, 2021. But...
New Study Suggests Southwest Greenland Was 6-7°C Warmer Than Today 9,000-5,500 Years Ago
Scientists have determined the “optimal thermal conditions” for southwestern Greenland were when summer sea surface temperatures averaged about 12°C from 9,000 to 5,500 years ago, which is substantially warmer than modern summer...
German Ministry Of Health Spokesman Can’t Cite One Single Scientific Study Showing Lockdowns Are Effective
German Health Ministry spokesman gets agitated, testy, in response to a journalist’s inconvenient question Agitated German Ministry of Health spokesman Oliver Ewald trapped by journalist, with no way out, on question of the science...
NEPC Blog Post of the Day
Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Classroom Teaching Then and Now
Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Classroom Teaching Then and Now Most policymakers, researchers, and parents believe that good teachers and teaching are the keys to school improvement yet these very same folks know little...
Curmudgucation: FL: Let's Assess Four Year Olds
Curmudgucation: FL: Let's Assess Four Year Olds We have been down this road before, but I will beat this drum till my knuckles bleed (and the older my children and my grandchildren get, the harder I'll drum). Florida is once again reporting...
Jersey Jazzman: We Don't Need Standardized Testing In a Pandemic
Jersey Jazzman: We Don't Need Standardized Testing In a Pandemic UPDATE: Just as I was finishing this post, I caught a glimpse of this news: The U.S. Department of Education extended flexibility to states today in how and when they administer...
Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers
Victor Davis Hanson blasts Delta’s CEO on ‘wokeness’: ‘If you make $17M’ you’re ‘not committed to equity’
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Eeyore’s Cabinet: Noble Lies?
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Americans are being saturated by a whirlwind of events never quite seen in recent memory. When a person with a gun or car now kills someone, the media—in anti-humanistic fashion, and quite callously—...
Can the Great “Awakening” Succeed?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness We all know that we are living in revolutionary times. The origins, ascendence, values, laws, and future of the United States are all under assault by self-described, though accurately described...
The Moderate Voice
Satire: Fillibuster, OK
By Laurie Baron Fil-li-bus-ter, to prevent DEM laws from being passed. You can troll, any gun control, who minds flags flying at half-mast? Fil-li-bus-ter, must voting rights be guaranteed? Let the states excise the franchise and simply...
U.S. calls for pause to J&J COVID-19 vaccine over rare blood clots
By Reuters staff (Reuters) – U.S. federal health agencies on Tuesday recommended pausing the use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine after six recipients developed a rare disorder involving blood clots, in a fresh setback to...
For Republicans, defending the Donald is a fool’s errand | Mulshine
What do you call a person who insists that Donald Trump is the leader of the Republican Party? These days, that’s a position more likely to be pushed by Democratic leaders who’d like to keep Trump as the face of the party . As for the conservative...
Marginal REVOLUTION
The Covid culture that is Australia
Health Minister Greg Hunt has refused to guarantee Australia’s borders will open even if the whole country has been vaccinated against COVID-19. Australia’s borders have been shut since March 2020 and will remain closed until at least...
Hearing: “Vaccinations and the Economic Recovery”
I will be testifying to the JEC of Congress today at 2:30 pm est. Witnesses: Dr. Paul Romer Nobel Prize Winning economist and NYU Professor New York, NY Dr. Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine &...
“Free-floating credibility” is underrated
The presence of a miniscule risk for some of the adenovirus platform Covid vaccines means that the FDA has put a hold on J&J and still won’t approve AstraZeneca. In response to critics, the FDA says that their credibility is on the line. ...
Lloyd Lofthouse
Election Reform: Now and Twenty Years Ago, A Personal Story
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Republican-controlled legislatures across the nation are planning to enact legislation that would have the effect of suppressing the vote. Georgia passed a law to restrict access to voting, known...
Why did America’s Founders include this Oath in the U.S. Constitution?
U.S. Constitution: Article II, Section 1, Clause 8: “Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:–I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President...
Republican Leader: The Election Is Over
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 writes here about efforts by Trump and his surrogates to promote…...
MintPress News
How Bellingcat Launders National Security State Talking Points into the Press
For a self-proclaimed citizen journalism outfit, an alarming number of Bellingcat’s staff and contributors come from highly suspect backgrounds, including high-level positions in military and intelligence agencies. The post How...
Biden’s Empty Gesture: Houthis No Longer “Terrorists” but Yemen’s Suffering Only Grows
Human rights groups have warned that levels of famine in Yemen are now among the highest recorded since 2015, suggesting that suffering in the country has actually grown worse under the Biden administration. The post Biden’s Empty Gesture...
Lee Camp: How Corporate America Supports Racism, Hatred & Exploitation (in New & Fun Ways!)
Corporations like General Mills and ExxonMobil aren’t going to save us from white supremacist violence or climate annihilation with their piddly tweets. The post Lee Camp: How Corporate America Supports Racism, Hatred & Exploitation...
Made from Truth and Lies
Interesting Links for 14-04-2021
Of 210 UDA members in West Belfast 207 were paid police informants(tags:police terrorism NorthernIreland )Why the G.O.P. Can't Quit Trump(tags:politics usa republicans viaDanielDWilliam )EU parliament again refuses to set date for...
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Gideon! Versus! Orange Slice! Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there.
Interesting Links for 13-04-2021
800-year-old medieval pottery fragments reveal Jewish dietary practices(tags:Jews diet history food UK )The 100 Best, Worst, and Strangest Sherlock Holmes Portrayals of All-Time(tags:TV movies lists SherlockHolmes )Holyrood bills...
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The Likelihood of Statehood
Everybody’s still talking about Daunte Wright, as well they should be, but my opinion hasn’t changed since yesterday’s blog (Taser! Taser! Taser! my butt, she knew she was holding a gun), so I’ll write about something else. I’m...
Daunte Wright
There is so much that is wrong and weird about this case. That might be partly because it’s fresh news and we haven’t got the whole story yet (and why haven’t we, that’s question number one), but there is definitely … Continue reading...
Restraint
I just saw this comment on Facebook: Imagine every talking head, gathered like the surface of the tongue, sounding together as the meditative Om of Being..…and I was about to reply to it with a zinger, something about sheep in … Continue...
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