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Utopia – you are standing in it!

• The Cranberries – Zombie 1999 Live Video

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• New Rule: Progressophobia | Real Time with Bill Maher

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• 5 week old kittens squeaking

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TARPLEY.net

• World Crisis Radio

  Urged on by Biden, G-7 will offer developing countries a superior alternative to Beijing’s insidious Belt and Road debt trap! US leads G-7 in pushback against China on human rights, Taiwan security, Covid-19 truth, pandemic preparedness...

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• Black Rock and other Wall Street parasites are bidding up housing prices despite shortage of dwellings

  United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|June 10, 2021 Finance oligarchs get Federal Reserve loans under obsolete practices left over from 2009 subprime derivatives crisis; Biden should order the...

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• United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|June 9, 2021 Heading for Europe, Biden cites current inflection point (punctum saliens) in struggle between democracy and dictatorship Providing 500 million...

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Sustainable Pulse

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  EU Trade Unions Call for Immediate Ban on Glyphosate Herbicides to Protect Workers

  The European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions (EFFAT)  has called for an immediate ban on glyphosate-based herbicides and other harmful pesticides. In a press release on Friday EFFAT stated “Protecting agri-workers’...

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  Bayer Set to Rethink Selling of Glyphosate to US Gardeners after Loss of $2 Billion Future Cancer Claims Deal

  Bayer’s share price crashed over 4% on Thursday after Judge Vince Chhabria of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California threw out their attempted $ 2 Bilion deal to settle future cancer claims against their top selling...

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  Glyphosate Herbicides Significantly Associated with Preterm Births – University of Michigan Study

  Exposure to a chemical found in the weed killer Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides is significantly associated with preterm births, according to a new University of Michigan study published Wednesday. The study, published...

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sunshine hours

• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 161 – 2021

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 156 – 2021

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 153 – 2021

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Stagecraft and Statecraft

• China rubs its hands amid international divide over Myanmar

  Punitive sanctions policies should be recalibrated Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia International calls for the restoration of democracy in strategically located Myanmar obscure an important divide between that country’s neighbors...

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• Did China get away with creating a pandemic?

  The genesis of a virus  Brahma Chellaney  | OPEN magazine THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, much like a world war, has become a defining moment for the world. Our lives have profoundly changed since 2020. The pandemic-triggered economic and social...

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• 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...

  a month ago

Ramani's blog

• Balarama Visited Tirupati Balaji Srirangam Agastya Mahabharata

  Lord Balarama then proceeded towards Dravida-desa and visited the temple of Balaji in Venkatachala.

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• Madurai Meenakshi’s Father Sarangadwaja Killed By Aswathama Mahabharata

  Piercing the bodies of the elephants and steeds and men with sharp shafts, that foremost of smiters overthrew and deprived them of life. Cutting off with his own shafts the diverse weapons hurled at him by many foremost of foes, Pandya slew his...

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• Krishna Killed Meenakshi’s Grandfather Kulasekara Pandya 3200 BC

  Krishna slew king Kulasekhara Pandya by striking his breast against his, and moved down the Kalingas in battle (5:48).

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Diane Ravitch's blog

• Beware the Phony Parent Astroturf Groups in Your State!

  Jeanne Melvin of Ohio’s Parent Education Partners has provided a useful guide to help readers discern the differences between actual parent groups and billionaire-funded astroturf parent groups. Actual grassroots parent groups rely...

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• William Gumbert: Dallas ISD Public Schools Significantly Outperform Dallas Charter Schools

  William Gumbert has written a series of posts demonstrating that students who attend public schools in Texas consistently get better results than those in charter schools. In this post, he shows that the regular public schools in Dallas outperform...

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• Who Should Pay for College?

  In recent decades, states have reduced their subsidies to institutions of high education, shifting the financial burden to students and families. After World War II, the federal government recognized that investing in higher education...

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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• Sea Level Rise Fastest in 2000 Years (Or Not!)

  By Paul Homewood       The rate of sea-level rise in the 20th century along much of the U.S. Atlantic coast was the fastest in 2,000 years, and southern New Jersey had the fastest rates, according to a Rutgers-led study. The global rise in sea...

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• Electric coach stranded at Eden Project due to no charge points

  By Paul Homewood   h/t Philip Bratby   Monty Python could not have improved on this!   A fully-electric coach has found itself stranded in Cornwall after being unable to charge at five different locations across the Duchy. The Carbon Battle...

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• Greenland Temperatures & The AMO

  By Paul Homewood       https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2021/06/12/greenland-temperatures-2021/   It’s not new, but it’s worth going over it again. We have seen how Greenland temperatures rose sharply in the...

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NoTricksZone

• Several More New Studies Show Drought Is Now Less Common And Severe Than Centuries, Millennia Ago

  Scientists continue to publish new drought reconstructions indicating there were far more frequent and severe drought periods in the past several thousand years than anything observed in the modern period. A new study (Berg and McColl...

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• “Beating Climate Change Into Our Heads”…Swiss Office Issues Heat Warnings For Days Averaging 25°C!

  “Another hot day in the forecast for Bern, Switzerland, today. Meteorologists have issued another heat warning as temperatures are expected to average 25°C in Bern today. Authorities advise people to stay indoors and to drink plenty...

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• German Green Party Election Program Can Serve As Warning To USA – An Economy Killer

  A look at the naïve platform of the German Green Party, who currently stand no. 2 in German polls after briefly occupying the top position – ahead of Merkel’s CDU/CSU party.  In March the German “Alliance 90,  The Greens” – or simply...

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NEPC Blog Post of the Day

• Janresseger: Eliminating Federal Charter Schools Program Would Curb Academic and Financial Abuses by Charter Operators

  Janresseger: Eliminating Federal Charter Schools Program Would Curb Academic and Financial Abuses by Charter Operators Charter schools are a form of private contracting, but across the 45 states which have authorized charter schools...

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• Nancy Bailey's Education Website: The Science of Reading Ignores the Importance of Picture Books to Early Learning

  Nancy Bailey's Education Website: The Science of Reading Ignores the Importance of Picture Books to Early Learning Increasingly, parents and teachers are embracing the controversial Science of Reading (SoR), pushing for State policies...

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• Radical Eyes for Equity: Should South Carolina Ban Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project?

  Radical Eyes for Equity: Should South Carolina Ban Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project? “In total, lawmakers in at least 15 states have introduced bills that seek to restrict how teachers can discuss racism, sexism, and other social...

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Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

• Anatomy of the Woke Madness

  Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Wokeism has become our most popular secular religion—at least for a moment dethroning climate change. It reduces all of the past and present into puerile binaries between “whites” and “non-whites.”...

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• The Culturalist: Finding Ancient Greece’s Homer and Tragedians

  Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News

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• Optimism, Inc: Dante’s California Inferno—Nine months later.

  Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Two weeks ago, I drove up Route 168 to Huntington Lake, sometimes known as Lakeshore, California.  I had not been there since winter. I have a small house up there, at nearly ground zero of the “Creek Fire”...

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The Moderate Voice

• Passive Racist

  All rights reserved. CopyrightDonar, Political Graffiti https://toons.to/go/daviddonar The post Passive Racist appeared first on The Moderate Voice.

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• Merrick Garlanding Biden: McConnell suggests blockade of any 2024 Biden high court nominee

  By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Monday that President Joe Biden would not get a Supreme Court nominee confirmed in 2024 if Republicans regain control of the chamber and a vacancy arises...

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• Does Political Correctness Really Contradict Pixie Dust?

  Recently a disgruntled Disney fan named Jonathan VanBoskerc has gone off on a semi-rant in the Orlando Sentinel about how the politically correct changes at Disney theme parks are ruining his Disney experience and stripping Disney of it’s...

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Marginal REVOLUTION

• Fully public tax information?

  Our model predicts that transparency reduces the individual bargaining power of workers, leading to lower average wages. A key insight is that employers credibly refuse to pay high wages to any one worker to avoid costly renegotiations with...

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• Monday assorted links

  1. “A Gujarat government official has claimed that he is Kalki, the tenth incarnation of Vishnu, and can’t come to office because he is conducting a “penance” to “change the global conscience”.” 2. Fergus McCullough on Sarah...

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• Mission Protocol

  Business is the most important way in which human beings cooperate. In his Philosophical Letters, Voltaire explained to his French compatriots how the British had achieved religious toleration by focusing on business: Go into the London...

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Lloyd Lofthouse

• My Choice for Mayor of New York City

  Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: I endorse Maya Wiley for the Democratic candidate for Mayor of New York City. There are many candidates in the Democratic primary for Mayor of New York City. Whoever is chosen will be…...

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• My View of the 1619 Project

  Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: When I grew up in Houston, Texas, I attended segregated public schools. Everything was segregated, including movie theaters, drinking foundations, churches, restaurants, public transit (the...

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• The Extremist Danger to Our Country

  Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Neil MacFarquar wrote this story in the New York Times. It is a chilling warning. Many Americans fought and died to protect our democracy and preserve our rights. Sadly, there extremists within the…...

  14 days ago

MintPress News

• On ‘Conflict’ ‘Peace’ and ‘Genocide’: Time for New Language on Palestine and Israel

  It will not be easy to deconstruct the seemingly endless edifice of lies, half-truths and intentional misrepresentations of Zionist Israeli colonialism in Palestine. Yet, there can be no alternative to this feat. The post On ‘Conflict’...

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• Where Infrastructure Means Prisons: A Drive into the Naqab and the Illusion of Israeli Democracy

  Out of close to 250,000 Palestinian Beduin in the Naqab, about half live in “unrecognized villages.” This means they get no roads, no electricity or running water, no schools or medical facilities -- no services at all. The post Where Infrastructure...

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• Grenfell Anniversary: Activist Rapper Lowkey Takes Aim At Boris Johnson and UK Neoliberalism

  Four years after the Grenfell Tower fire, rapper and activist Lowkey revisits the tragic fire that tore through the North Kensington tower block on June 14, 2017 -- killing 72 low-income residents of housing owned by real-estate moguls. The...

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Made from Truth and Lies

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  Interesting Links for 14-06-2021

  So your grandmother is a starship now: a quick guide for the bewildered(tags:grandparents space short_story scifi )'Jupiter's Legacy': Battles Over Budgets, Executive Purge Factor in Cancellation(tags:superheroes TV netflix fail...

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  Interesting Links for 13-06-2021

  How to Mute Twitter's Suggested Tweets on Your Timeline(tags:twitter )Can't See Pictures in Your Mind? You're Not Alone. And Now We Know There Are People That See Particularly Vivid Ones.(tags:vision imagination memory brain neuroscience...

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  Interesting Links for 12-06-2021

  Sperm DNA methylation epimutation biomarker for paternal offspring autism susceptibility(tags:autism epigenetics genetics )The Connecticut deli that won't let you discuss mathematics in the line(tags:mathematics food sign viaNancyLebov...

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www.gurukalehuru.com

• Biden’s Speech

  I don’t think enough is being made of Joe Biden’s speech at the G7 conference, where he said Libya when he meant Syria, because Syria is an issue now and nobody’s even talking about Libya, and he repeated the mistake … Continue reading...

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• Van Gogh and Others Like Him

  I have a lot of artists among my Facebook friends, in my cybercommunity so to speak, and so of course they often post paintings, drawings, photographs, etc…, sometimes their own and sometimes somebody else’s, so it was nothing out of …...

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• Facebook’s Big Flaw

  Well, it’s late and I’m uninspired so I’ll just write down a couple of lines here about one of my pet peeves with Facebook. I’m sure everybody has a list of things they would do better if they were Mark … Continue reading →...

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