22 April - iG Tab 9

 

Utopia – you are standing in it!

• The Wire – The Greek tip his FBI contact on the Colombians

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• The V-2 Rocket: How Nazi Germany Created The World’s First Guided Ballistic Missile

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• BLACK ADDER II

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TARPLEY.net

• United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|April 21, 2021 Federal Judge orders Los Angeles to provide housing to all 66,000 homeless people on area streets by October 18; Unaccompanied women and children...

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• United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|April 20, 2021 Bill Gates recently became America’s top private landowner, with hundreds of thousands of acres of rich farmland owned by Gates’ Cascade...

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• Biden Promises To End Homelessness On American Streets

  United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|April 19, 2021 $1.9 trillion Emergency Rescue Act ALREADY CONTAINS the $5 billion to fight homelessness. Ultimate goal will be to get all 580,000 victims off...

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Sustainable Pulse

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  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...

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  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...

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  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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sunshine hours

• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 105 – 2021

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 104 – 2021

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 103 – 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...

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• 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...

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• 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...

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Ramani's blog

• Mantra To Protect From Covid

  Sri Ramaabhathodharana Stotram is the ultimate in fighting against the invisible enemy.This sloka is very powerful and can ward off any danger.There are finer points in this stotra,which I

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• Three Hundred Thirty Two Festivals A Year Sri Rangam Renganathar

  One relates to this concept of God easily and strongly. This is the power of Saguna Aradhana. Hindu texts state that this mode of relating to the Reality, is akin to one doing pre  Kindergarten before obtaining PhD. One can not get PhD, without...

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• 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'

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Diane Ravitch's blog

• Samuel Abrams: Why Does the New York Times Repeatedly Exaggerate the Selectivity of NYC’s Top High schools?

  Samuel Abrams was a teacher at Beacon High Schools and is now a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. He wrote a few days ago in the Columbia Journalism Review about the insistence by the New York Times that admissions to schools...

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• I’m Back, Almost!

  On April 8, I had open heart surgery to replace a heart that had a leaky valve and was regurgitating too much blood. I didn’t have any symptoms of heart failure, but the tests were clear. I needed a new heart valve. Given the nature and location...

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• How Does Forbes Select Its “30 Under 30,” Who Are Considered Leaders in Education?

  This is a fascinating paper published in the peer-reviewed Education Policy Analysis and Archives in 2018. It explores the question of how Forbes magazine selects the “edu-preneurs” who are recognized as education leaders. It is quite...

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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• Telegraph Wakes Up To The Cost Of Climate Agenda

  By Paul Homewood   The Telegraph is finally waking up, but where have they been in the last few years? Asleep at the wheel, it seems. They should have been shouting from the rooftops about this, long before Theresa May decided to go for Net Zero...

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• Electric Cars Remain A Luxury Purchase

  By Paul Homewood       Projections by the Committee on Climate Change consistently assume that electric cars will soon be cheaper to buy than conventional models. Analysis that I did six years ago showed that the mid-range Nissan Leaf, the...

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• New report reviews the state of extreme weather in 2020

  By Paul Homewood       The report, by physicist Dr Ralph Alexander, also looks at how extreme weather has been reported by others and finds much more to be concerned about. For example, Dr Alexander says that 2020 saw a number of socio-economic...

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NoTricksZone

• 42,000 Years Ago A Massive Geomagnetic Shift Plunged A Warm Earth Into An Ice Age…But CO₂ Didn’t Budge

  A groundbreaking new study in Science suggests warm interglacial-like conditions (surface temperatures within 1°C of today’s) persisted from 54 to 42,000 years ago even though CO₂ levels idled around 200 ppm at that time. A sudden...

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• Brutal 2020/21 Northern Hemisphere Winter One For Record Books…And Continues Into Late April!

  This update was written in mid-April 2021 to report even more global cooling as measured by satellites and new harsh cold events, particularly in Western Europe that have severely harmed early crops. Harsh cold events have also struck China...

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• Next Doomsday “Crisis”: GLOBAL WATER SHORTAGE…Meat Lockdown Needed, Potsdam Scientist Suggests

  The COVID crisis worked wonderfully for the cheerleaders and addicts of lockdowns. It showed that it was indeed possible to panic the pubic enough to get them to accept restrictions and lockdowns. WANTED: NEW CRISIS TO SUCCEED COVID 19 But...

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NEPC Blog Post of the Day

• Yong Zhao: New Article: Build Back Better: Avoid the Learning Loss Trap

  Yong Zhao: New Article: Build Back Better: Avoid the Learning Loss Trap My article Build back better: Avoid the learning loss trap published in Prospects on March 4 2021. Below is the abstract and you can read here. Abstract A dangerous...

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  Gary Rubinstein’s Blog: Education Reinventers

  Gary Rubinstein’s Blog: Education Reinventers For the past ten years public education has been under assault by the self-proclaimed education ‘reformers.’ Strong personalities like Michelle Rhee, Joel Klein, Michael Bloomberg...

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  School Finance 101: Filling our Nation’s Funding Gaps

  School Finance 101: Filling our Nation’s Funding Gaps Mark Weber, Matt Di Carlo and I have a new report, with data and visualizations available over at schoolfinancedata.org. For that project, we take advantage of two major data sources...

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Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

• Biden’s Domestic Doctrine

  Victor Davis Hanson // Internet Interview with Urs Gehriger While the American media swoon over President Joe Biden, historian Victor Davis Hanson is ringing the alarm bell. He warns that the radical Left has captured the White House and is...

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• The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast Episode 64: Our First Woke President

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• Did Biden blink on Russia? Limited sanctions and no summit

  An article by my Hoover colleague Dr. Paul Gregory in The Hill The U.S. media initially burst out in applause at the “sweeping” and “tough” sanctions the Biden administration imposed on Russia on April 15 under the title of “Imposing...

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The Moderate Voice

• Tucker Carlson (Cartoon)

  The post Tucker Carlson (Cartoon) appeared first on The Moderate Voice.

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• Commentary: Plastic: What we eat and breathe

  Take a deep breath, drink a glass of water, eat a snack. If you do any of these things, it’s likely that you are also inhaling and ingesting tiny particles of plastic, as much as a credit card’s weight each week. Plastic pollution is everywhere...

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• On Asian fetishization and the humanity of migrants

  by Donald H. Harrison At the end of last month, we ran an article by Korean-American Kelsey Kloza about what she described as “Asian fetishization” by which American males tend to construe any Asian woman as an “exotic and erotic two-dimensional...

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Marginal REVOLUTION

• Is this really better than borrowing?

  Or how about a VAT? President Joe Biden will propose almost doubling the capital gains tax rate for wealthy individuals to 39.6%, which, coupled with an existing surtax on investment income, means that federal tax rates for investors could...

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• Thursday assorted links

  1. Does China feel that time is on its side? 2. Further observations on the economics of nuclear power. 3. Good, short non-fiction books. 4. Novavax update. 5. Devon Zuegel Miami notes, recommended. 6. Fact of the day. 7. India’s oxygen emergency...

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• A Foreign Policy Disaster in the Making

  NYTimes: A lethal, fast-paced second wave of the coronavirus pandemic has brought India’s health care systems to the verge of collapse and is putting millions of lives and livelihoods at risk. On Sunday and Monday, the country recorded...

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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...

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• 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...

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• 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…...

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MintPress News

• Tanks and Think Tanks: How Taiwanese Cash is Funding the Push to War with China

  Twenty years ago, a group of neoconservative think tanks used their power to push for disastrous wars in the Middle East. Now, a new set of think tanks staffed with many of the same experts and funded by Taiwanese money is working hard to convince...

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• Ramadan Brings No Relief for Yemen as Saudis Block Chairties and Turks Unleash Foreign Mercanaries

  Just as it transferred mercenaries from Syria to the conflict zones in Libya and Azerbaijan, Turkey -- the financial and spiritual capital of the Muslim Brotherhood -- is now doing the same in Yemen's oil-rich Marib. The post Ramadan Brings...

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• Xinjiang Native Speaks Out: “Western Media Jeopardizing Uyghurs Interests”

  Dan Cohen speaks with Gordon Gao, an ethnic minority and native of Xinjiang native on the realities of life in Xinjiang, Western media coverage and US-China tensions. The post Xinjiang Native Speaks Out: “Western Media Jeopardizing Uyghurs...

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Made from Truth and Lies

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  Interesting Links for 22-04-2021

  James Bond: The Flowchart(tags:JamesBond flowchart charlesstross )How to make Disappointment a positive force in your life(tags:advice philosophy happiness self-improvement life )The majority of people in the UK think that transphobia...

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  I need to know how you feel about working with computers

  View poll: #25568Yes, I know, no job is perfect, and you may well not like all of the associated stuff that goes along with it. If you like the "working with computers" bit then tick option 1, even if you don't enjoy your morning huddle.Context...

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  Interesting Links for 21-04-2021

  Describing Groups To Children Using Generic Language Can Accidentally Teach Them Social Stereotypes(tags:stereotypes children psychology )Long, but good, piece on what the USA should do for its people economically (more trade deals...

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www.gurukalehuru.com

• Earth Day

  Today is Earth Day, for whatever that’s worth. It would be nice if it was a day when everyone was inspired to do something to make the Earth a better place, or at least a cleaner one. But, it never … Continue reading →...

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• Guilty

  This is good, yes. This is a huge relief. Derek Chauvin has been found guilty. There was never any doubt about his actual guilt. That was proven more than guilt has ever been proven in any murder, ever, in the … Continue reading →...

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• USA v. The World

  This is not about anything that’s happening specifically today, but rather a phenomenon which has existed for as long as I can remember, so at least the last 60 years ago. I just saw a post on Facebook this morning … Continue reading →...

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Fragments from Floyd

• Fools Rush In

  So I had some text here and saved as draft but the text was lost. Discouraging. At every step I take one increment forward, then two backwards. There remain more than a few bottlenecks, and until I get past them, I’ll … Fools Rush In Read More...

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• Swarms

  I’m sure you are familiar with murmurations of flocking birds. I am too. But I cannot look away. At times, up to a million birds move as one. I don’t understand the physics or the biology. But obviously, the starlings do...

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• Fragments: A Fresh Coat of Paint

  Same Blogger, Different Porch Stay tuned while Elderly Dog learns New Tricks,  and the dust settles on Fragments–Still from Floyd by Fred First Yes, I’m aware this is quite a bit different from what surviving Fragments readers have seen...

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