Wednesday, May 19, 2021

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  • Time for a truce in Gaza!

    United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|May 17, 2021 Peace action urgent before existing conflict degenerates into wider war; dangers shown in 1972 Kippur War, when rapid escalation loomed; US must...

    2 days ago

  • Israel close to sectarian civil war as communal violence flares!

    Netanyahu goes berserk in Gaza City, attacking TV tower with offices of BBC, Associated Press, al Jazeera, and other international media; Israel absurdly claims Hamas military intelligence was major tenant; goal includes leaving world...

    4 days ago

  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|May 12, 2021 Colonial pipeline starts pumping again, but adequate gasoline is several days away; Biden orders shift to preventive defense; reckoning with Russian...

    7 days ago

Sustainable Pulse

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Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • Why is China making a permanent enemy of India?

    Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia When India, currently fighting a devastating second COVID wave, was similarly distracted a year ago with enforcing the world’s strictest coronavirus lockdown, China took advantage to stealthily infiltrate...

    7 hours ago

  • Colonization by other means: China’s debt-trap diplomacy

    Brahma Chellaney, The Hill American statesman John Adams, who served as U.S. president from 1797 to 1801, famously said, “There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country: One is by the sword; the other is by debt.” China, … Continue...

    4 days ago

  • The Lurid Orientalism of Western Media

    By trafficking in images of death, suffering, and private acts of mourning, Western media coverage of the COVID-19 crisis in India has broken one of the first rules of journalism. And while a Western double standard is nothing new, applying...

    11 days ago

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  • Joe Root Leaves His Brain In His Kit Bag!

    By Paul Homewood   h/t Ian Magness   Heaven help us all!!     England captain Joe Root says it is "scary" to think that cricket may not be played outdoors in certain parts of the world in 30 years’ time because of the impact of climate change...

    9 hours ago

  • British Geological Survey Warns Of Climate-Related Subsidence

    By Paul Homewood   h/t Ian Magness It is sad to see what used to be a serious, scientific body prostitute itself to global warming scaremongering:     New maps launched by the British Geological Survey (BGS) reveal how climate change is likely...

    13 hours ago

  • EPA’s Updated Climate Change Data Shows Global Warming’s Impacts Are Already Here

    By Paul Homewood h/t Dennis Ambler   We’ve known for a long while, but this proves the EPA is not an objective, scientific organisation, but a purely political one: The Environmental Protection Agency has revived its dashboard of key climate...

    14 hours ago

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  • AlterNet: How a Florida School Improved Test Scores With a Simple but Powerful Community Approach

    AlterNet: How a Florida School Improved Test Scores With a Simple but Powerful Community Approach "What I'm working on—like making sure students have access to food, clean clothing, and streetlights—may not look like what I'm working...

    9 hours ago

  • Curmudgucation: Accountability Whiplash

    Curmudgucation: Accountability Whiplash It's one of the little inconsistencies in the reformster movement.  Some will point at charts showing that spending on public education has increased steadily (in constant dollars) and ask, "What...

    a day ago

  • Teacher in a Strange Land: Student Appreciation Week

    Teacher in a Strange Land: Student Appreciation Week So here we are, once again ‘celebrating’ Teacher Appreciation Week, with all the teachers saying—no, no, don’t get me a $10 Starbucks card or (better yet) a $50 bottle of champagne...

    2 days ago

Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

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Marginal REVOLUTION

  • Wednesday assorted links

    1. Project Starline. 2. The Yale Review. 3. Endowing plants with the capacity for autogenic nitrogen fixation. The post Wednesday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.

    5 hours ago

  • My Conversation with Pierpaolo Barbieri

    Here is the audio, visual, and transcript.  Here is part of the summary: Pierpaolo joined Tyler to discuss why the Mexican banking system only serves 30 percent of Mexicans, which country will be the first to go cashless, the implications...

    9 hours ago

  • Born to be Managers?

    The paper’s subtitle is “Genetic Links between Risk-Taking and the Likelihood of Holding Managerial Positions.”  It is hard for me to verify or assess this kind of result, but I pass it along for its interest: Do genes determine who...

    18 hours ago

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  • Interesting Links for 19-05-2021

    The Limits Of Humanity - The Final Border We Will Never Cross(tags:space video thefuture viaSwampers )Another media acquisition? This one would involve Amazon, MGM, and ~$9B(tags:Amazon movies business )St James Quarter: Edinburgh's...

    14 hours ago

  • All family organiser apps are terrible - can you suggest something better?

    I have been using a nice simple to-do list to keep track of the things I need to do around the house, and make sure they all get done (feed the cat, brush my teeth*, get the laundry on, make sure I have biscuits in my pocket before I pick Sophia up from...

    a day ago

  • Interesting Links for 18-05-2021

    Want To Know Whether A Movie Or Book Will Be A Hit? Look At How Emotional The Reviews Are(tags:emotion reviews psychology movies books advertising )Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate(tags:russia language hacking )Fungi are more...

    2 days ago

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  • An Argument Against the Existence of God

    In the argument about whether or not there is a God, I look at it very much the same way I look at the Grandfather Paradox in time travel, i.e. there is no such thing as time travel, therefore there … Continue reading →...

    3 hours ago

  • Where is the Line?

    I like to write poetry, although some would say I write doggerel, which is fair. I tend to adhere to strict rhyme schemes, and my poems are often short. I’m cool with that criticism. I like children’s books, and advertising … Continue reading...

    2 days ago

  • The Power of Lying

    What do Donald Trump, the internet, America’s insanely lax gun laws, Black Lives Matter, capitalist greed and the corporate ownership of the U.S. government, the rigging of the Democratic primaries in 2016, Brexit, and what’s currently...

    3 days ago
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