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Utopia – you are standing in it!

• The Human Genome Project: The 13-Year Quest to Chart the Mysteries of Human Genetics

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• The Kapp–Lüttwitz Putsch, March 13–18, 1920

  Originally posted on Weapons and Warfare: Walther von Lüttwitz The major move by the right to overthrow the revolutionary government of the Soci left and replace it with a military dictatorship came during March 13–18, 1920 at Berlin...

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• Consolation Humor: When Leftists Finally Understand Economics and Morality

  Originally posted on International Liberty: I have three types of humor I periodically share. Libertarian Humor Gun Control Humor Socialism/Communism Humor Today, we’re going to venture into “consolation humor.” At least that’s...

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TARPLEY.net

• United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|April 29, 2021 78% to 85% of viewers approve Biden’s speech to Congress, CBS and CNN polls find. 80% say speech inspires optimism! With addition of two years...

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• FBI search warrants carried out against Trump backers Rudy Giuliani and Victoria Toensing; Intrigue with Ukrainian oligarchs at issue

  United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|April 28, 2021 Biden to address joint session of Congress with $1.8 trillion Family Plan for care, education and economic benefits: 2 years of free pre-K for all...

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• US Must Help Fight Pandemic in India!

  United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|April 26, 2021 Biden administration commits to help giant democracy as cases there top 350,000 per day for fifth day; US will ship 60 million Astrazenica shots...

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Sustainable Pulse

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  Glyphosate Herbicides Change Gene Function and Cause DNA Damage – New Study

  Glyphosate-based herbicides such as Roundup activate mechanisms involved in cancer development, including DNA damage – and these effects occur at doses assumed by regulators to have no adverse effects, a new study shows. The DNA damage...

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  Bayer Faces Glyphosate Disaster as Cancer Victims Vow to Press Ahead with Jury Trials

  More than 40,000 current claims on behalf of individuals diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma after exposure to the Bayer Monsanto glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide remain unresolved as criticism mounts that a proposed settlement...

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  Germany Sees Boom in Success of Non-GMO Label on Food Products

  In 2020, consumers in Germany spent around 12.6 billion euros on products with the “Ohne GenTechnik” (Non-GMO) label, an increase of more than 12 percent. The market share in food is thus around 5.4 percent. To secure this success in the...

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sunshine hours

• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 117 – 2021

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 113 – 2021

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 112 – 2021

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Stagecraft and Statecraft

• China’s Unrestricted War on India

  China’s shadow war seeks to employ all available means short of open war to curtail Indian ambitions and strike at core Indian interests. India, however, has yet to start countering such warfare. By Brahma Chellaney Foreign Affairs journal...

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• US fails to understand that it no longer calls the shots in Asia

  Arrogant intrusion into Indian waters was counterproductive Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia Despite being the world’s most powerful democracy, the U.S. still shares some key traits with its main competitor, China, the world’s largest...

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• Global Terror and the Taliban’s Return

  A full US military withdrawal from Afghanistan will likely deliver a rebirth of global terror By Brahma Chellaney, Project Syndicate NEW DELHI – One of the most crucial early tests for US President Joe Biden concerns Afghanistan. An emboldened...

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Ramani's blog

• Bhramari Pranayama Kills Covid Virus Scientific Paper.How To Do Bhramari Pranayama

  There have been ‘n’ number of remedies suggestions and diet recommendations for curing Covid Infection.People are resorting to steaming the nose saying that it will kill the Covid virus lurking … Continue reading Bhramari Pranayama...

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• Earlier Manus Aliens? We Are First Humans?

  It only leads to the hypothesis that the Persons mentioned in the earlier Manvantaras , when they are called as Devas or Celestial Beings from a different plane of Existence, when the post of Indra,Chief of Devas is Ex Officio,are/ were really...

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• Deceive Mind Experience Reality Brahman

  Thus one deceives one's Mind so that Heart experiences what can be experienced, which in the lexicon of Mind in Unknowable.

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Diane Ravitch's blog

• Biden’s Message: Government Must Work for the Common Good

  Michael Sean Winters of the National Catholic Reporter expressed my reaction to President Joe Biden’s speech to Congress. No boasting. No narcissism. A strong assertion that government must work for the people and use its resources to...

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• Kathleen Cashin: How Schools Should Invest the Biden Windfall

  Kathleen Cashin has been a teacher, a principal, and a superintendent in New York City in high-needs districts. She is currently a member of the New York State Board of Regents, which sets policy for the state. In this article, which appeared...

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• Biden Chooses Ex-Obama Official for Key Position in Department of Education

  During the Obama administration, Roberto Rodriguez was the White House advisor on education. He vigorously supported the Race to the Top program, the Common Core standards, and high-stakes testing. All of these initiatives failed to improve...

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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• Fake Himalaya Lockdown Footage Originated In Attenborough Film

  By Paul Homewood   The other day, I wrote about how ITV had broadcast fake, photo-shopped footage, purporting to show that the Himalayas were now visible from Kathmandu because of reduced pollution during lockdown. The same footage is included...

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• China’s Thermal Power Output Still Rising

  By Paul Homewood     While the West continues its rush to the cliff edge, China continues remorselessly to increase its fossil fuel power generation:       https://chinaenergyportal.org/en/2021-q1-electricity-other-energy-statistics/...

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• Europe’s heavy industry unlikely to survive Net Zero

  By Paul Homewood     It is becoming ever more evident that much of Europe’s heavy industry is unlikely to survive the EU’s unilateral Net Zero policy. The EU’s carbon price reached a new record high of 45 euros ($54) a tonne on Tuesday...

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NoTricksZone

• Europe’s Frosty Spring: Germany Sees Coldest April in 40 Years… Frost Frequency Of “Unusual Dimension”

  Germany’s April, 2021, was the coldest in 40 years, and the frostiest in over 90 years, according to the country’s DWD national weather service.  Solar panels covered by snow in northern Germany in early April. Photo by P. Gosselin When...

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• Debunked: New Computer Simulated Pine Island Glacier Doomsday Paper By Rosier et al Ignores Lots Of Science

  A recent paper announcing Pine Island Glacier doom failed to consider other findings showing the glacier is in fact more stable than assumed.  A new paper by Rosier et al concludes – based on model simulations – that the Pine Island, West...

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• Latest JMA Data Show France, Ireland And Finland Have Cooled In March, No Warming!

  By Kirye and Pierre Gosselin Global warming is supposed to mean a shorter winter, and thus we should expect a March warming trend for the northern hemisphere. Today we look at the latest March data now available from the Japan Meteorology Agency...

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NEPC Blog Post of the Day

• Janresseger: The Hubris of Billionaire Philanthropy and the Damage Wrought by the Common Core Standards

  Janresseger: The Hubris of Billionaire Philanthropy and the Damage Wrought by the Common Core Standards Hubris is definitely the tragic flaw in the modern, technocratic tragedy of educational experimentation by mega philanthropy. But...

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• LA Progressive: Yes, Biden Promised to End Standardized Testing in Schools

  LA Progressive: Yes, Biden Promised to End Standardized Testing in Schools But It Was Never Going to Be Easy Barely a month after President Biden was inaugurated, educators and public school advocates reeled in dismay when his administration announced it...

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  Teacher in a Strange Land: Acceleration Nation

  Teacher in a Strange Land: Acceleration Nation There it was—an ad for dealing with imaginary learning loss. Nope—your kid doesn’t need remediation to bring him up to speed after this year of screen-based semi-school. He needs acceleration! Sure...

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Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

• Eeyore’s Cabinet: Thoughts on the Economy

  Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers As I wrote not long ago, I think we can expect a big boom of pent-up demand coming that will result in 5 percent or so of annualized GDP growth, maybe as early in late second or third quarter of 2021 lasting until...

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• The Peculiar Institution of Higher Education

  Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Nothing is now stranger than the contemporary college campus.  Not too long ago, Americans used to idolize their universities. Indeed, in science, math, engineering, medicine and business, these...

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• Fragments of Memory

  Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Two days ago, I drove in a 5-square-mile radius and noticed that the 100 or so farms I grew up with are all gone. Caput. Everyone. Not one grandkid, relative, etc. seems to be farming. The acreage seems either...

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The Moderate Voice

• Republicans grapple with way out of political limbo

  Washington (AFP) – Shut out of the White House and desperate to reclaim power in Congress next year, Republicans are locked in an internal battle over their party’s direction, and whether to embrace or jettison the divisive politics of...

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• Our Society Will Be Judged By How We Treat the Migrant Children

  by Enrique Morones Children have crossed borders with and without their parents since the beginning of our history on this earth. Jesus fled with his parents, in the dark of night, when faced with sure death. Moses’s mother placed him in a...

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• Warrant for Giuliani’s phones and computers seeks communications with over a dozen people

  (Refiles to fix typo in “his” in 5th paragraph) By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) -U.S. investigators are seeking to review Rudy Giuliani’s phones and computers for communications with more than a dozen people, including a high-ranking...

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Marginal REVOLUTION

• Sunday assorted links

  1. Those new service sector jobs. 2. How much would be collected from a higher capital gains rate? 3. Fairfax County police chief under fire for earlier behavior. 4. “The Pfizer vaccine’s “280 different components, manufactured in...

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• What predicts professional philosophers’ views?

  The entire piece is interesting, but this segment caught my eye in particular: Additionally, they found that being more politically right-leaning was associated with several philosophical views, such as theism, free will libertarianism...

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• What I’ve been reading

  1. Marcel Proust, The Mysterious Correspondent: New Stories.  Yes they read like fragments, but Proust’s fragments are still better than almost anything else. 2. Michele Alacevich, Albert O. Hirschman: An Intellectual Biography. ...

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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

• In 2018 the US Was at War With Uyghur Terrorists. Now It Claims They Don’t Even Exist

  With China now in the U.S. crosshairs, the ETIM has moved from being an adversary to being a potential asset. The post In 2018 the US Was at War With Uyghur Terrorists. Now It Claims They Don’t Even Exist appeared first on MintPress News...

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• West Africa is the Latest Testing Ground for US Military Artificial Intelligence

  In its preparation for great power competition, the US military is modernizing its artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques and testing them in West Africa. The post West Africa is the Latest Testing Ground for US Military...

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• “The Present” — A Painful Short Film Tells the Whole Story of What It Means to be Palestinian

  In “The Present,” as throughout all of Palestine, soldiers, police officers, secret police, or Shabak agents, have the power -- indeed they are instructed -- to harass, humiliate, and take the lives of Palestinians in the most arbitrary...

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Made from Truth and Lies

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  instagram cross-post

  She's been admiring my dressing gown for weeks, so Jane got her her own for her birthday. Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there.

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  Interesting Links for 02-05-2021

  Colin the Caterpillar gets Scottish chippy treatment(tags:Scotland food MarksAndSpencer funny )The winner of the Best Director Oscar used to be on Livejournal and still writes fanfic(tags:writing Oscars fanfic Livejournal )516 Arouca...

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  Interesting Links for 01-05-2021

  Thoughts about making AI "explainable"(tags:ai explanations models )Covid in Scotland: Most councils on track for level 2 restrictions(tags:pandemic Scotland GoodNews )Women Who Refuse - cataloguing abuse and violence against women...

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www.gurukalehuru.com

• Missing Space

  I was watching Voyager on Netflix the other day, in which a Klingon Janeway was being murdered to death by a Hirogen hunter on the holodeck and I noticed something that I’ve noticed before, and it’s something we all know, … Continue reading...

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• Przewalski’s Horse

  When I first heard about this, I thought “Well, that’s nice,” but the more I hear about it, I’m tending more towards “That is fucking brilliant,” and it makes me proud to live in Prague.Przewalski’s Horse is a breed native …...

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• It Still Exists

  This is a bit of a cheat blog because I didn’t write one last night and it is just an internet comment which went a bit long, and since there’s no difference, in a literary sense, between a long comment … Continue reading →...

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