23 June - iG Tab - 9

 

Utopia – you are standing in it!

• Kitten eating meat while growling

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• Defending Capitalism, Part II

  Originally posted on International Liberty: Last week, I shared Part I of my discussion with John Stossel about “capitalism myths.” Here’s Part II. In the first video, we discussed three myths about free enterprise. Myth #1 – Capitalists...

  38 minutes ago

• IEA’s Net Zero By 2050 Report: Credible Roadmap Or Unhinged Advocacy?

  Originally posted on NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT: By Paul Homewood ? From Forbes: ? ? ? It is a month since the International Energy Agency – the rich world’s energy advisory body established in the wake of the oil price shock of 1973 — issued...

  2 hours ago

TARPLEY.net

• Tuesday Roundtable

  United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|June 22, 2021 Tuesday Roundtable – June 22, 2021 [...]

  20 hours ago

• Trendy forms of race theory may boil down to sophisticated counter-insurgency

  United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|June 21, 2021 Great viewing on Juneteenth: 2016 Oscar-nominated movie Hidden Figures, the story of African-American women working for NASA as mathematicians...

  2 days ago

• GOP fails again, Obamacare is here to stay!

  After some 70 failed attempts at Congressional repeal of increasingly popular Affordable Care Act of 2010, Supreme Court rejects legal challenge for third time, by 7-2 vote; centerpiece of GOP demagogy for last decade wiped out. Reactionary...

  4 days ago

Sustainable Pulse

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  FAO Slammed for Use of Highly Toxic Pesticides to Control Desert Locusts in Africa

  As the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Conference convened its 42nd Session on Monday, Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific (PANAP) called on the FAO to review its desert locust program and stop the use of chlorpyrifos, a pesticide...

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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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sunshine hours

• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 171 – 2021

  . South / North

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 169 – 2021

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

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Stagecraft and Statecraft

• One Hundred Years of Devastation

  The Communist Party of China’s 1951 annexation of the water-rich Tibetan Plateau – the starting point of Asia’s ten major river systems – gave China tremendous power over Asia’s water map. In the ensuing decades, the country has...

  5 days ago

• Will China be let off the hook over its cover-up of COVID’s origins?

  Wuhan lab leak theory needs to be fully explored Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia For more than a year, the Wuhan lab-leak hypothesis was treated as a pure conspiracy theory by major U.S. news organizations and social media companies. Facebook...

  7 days ago

• 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...

  20 days ago

Ramani's blog

• Veda References To Nadis

  Though the concept of Prana is found in Vedic texts there also some references of Nadi in Ancient Vedic texts. Nadi references are found in Tamil texts of Siddhas, Thirumandhiram and Texts dealing with Saiva Siddhandha to cite a few...

  17 hours ago

• How Breath Moves In Nostrils Timings

  Though it appears that we breathe through both nostrils, if we observe our Breath, we will notice that quantity of Air/Breath that pass through is not the same for both nostrils, Left and Right. Sometimes, breath passes more through the left...

  20 hours ago

• Kayenavacha Mantra Equivalent Tamil Poem Siva

  However much we try to convince ourselves that we perform because we choose actions,the truth is that we act, because we are impelled to act,either by instinct or reason.

  4 days ago

Diane Ravitch's blog

• New Hampshire: What Happens When Society Stops Caring for Its Children?

  Jeanne Dietsch writes regularly about politics and social welfare in New Hampshire. She is a former legislator. The Republican legislature recently voted to cut public school funding, to launch vouchers for private schools and homeschooling...

  9 hours ago

• Economic Policy Institute: CEO Pay Rose by 16% in Last Year, While Worker Pay Rose by 1.8%

  The Economic Policy Institute unabashedly advocates for workers and unions and publishes accurate data about inequality. It recently revealed that CEO pay rose by 16% between 2019 and 2020, while the average worker saw a pay increase of only...

  10 hours ago

• The U.S. Has a Long History of Banning Controversial Topics and Blaming Teachers

  Historians Gillian Frank and Adam Laats write in Slate about the long history of suppressing textbooks that discuss race and class and investigating or firing teachers who veer away from the standard patriotic view of American history. They...

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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• Offshore Wind “Virtually Subsidy Free”- Justin Rowlatt

  By Paul Homewood   Even by BBC standards this is a grossly deceitful report from Justin Rowlatt:     https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-57519392   From start to finish, the video is no more than a puff piece for the wind...

  7 hours ago

• IEA’s Net Zero By 2050 Report: Credible Roadmap Or Unhinged Advocacy?

  By Paul Homewood   From Forbes:       It is a month since the International Energy Agency – the rich world’s energy advisory body established in the wake of the oil price shock of 1973 — issued its astonishing report calling for the end...

  12 hours ago

• Why Everything They Said About Solar Was Wrong-Michael Shellenberger

  By Paul Homewood   How often do we hear that solar power is cheap and clean? Michael Shellenberger bursts that bubble! .   Three years ago I published a long article at Forbes arguing that solar panels weren’t clean but in fact produced 300...

  14 hours ago

NoTricksZone

• Power Grid Operators, Experts And Federal Audit Office Warn Of Blackouts As Coal, Nuclear Get Phased Out

  As wildly fluctuating, weather-dependent green energies come increasingly online, German grid operators and the German Federal Audit Office are warning the German government of power blackouts. But the government is ignoring the warnings...

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• New Study: Southern Ocean Sea Surface Salinity Level “Unexpected”…Climate Models “Very Much A Construction Site”

  The 44th climate report by Die kalte Sonne here looks at the CO2 intake by the Southern Ocean, which absorbs about a tenth of man’s CO2 emissions. A new study by a team of climate researchers from the University of Bern in Switzerland published...

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• Seal Numbers Increased 700% Since The 1970s – But Models Project Future Declines Due To Sea Ice Loss

  Sea ice has been declining in the Canadian North Atlantic since the 1970s, and yet the harp seal population has been estimated to have risen from a little over 1 million in 1971 to about 7.5 million in 2012 to 2019. But model projections suggest...

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NEPC Blog Post of the Day

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  Teacher in a Strange Land: Is Critical Race Theory Dividing the Country?

  Teacher in a Strange Land: Is Critical Race Theory Dividing the Country? When people start referring to a cultural phenomenon with initials—CRT for ‘critical race theory,’ say—you know that whatever that thing once was, it’s...

  6 days ago

• Gadfly on the Wall: Top 6 Administrative Failures of the Pandemic Classroom

  Gadfly on the Wall: Top 6 Administrative Failures of the Pandemic Classroom This school year has been a failure in so many ways. But don’t get me wrong. I’m not going to sit here and point fingers. The Covid-19 pandemic has tested the public...

  6 days ago

• Ed in the Apple: Making Tough Choices: The Board of Regents, Equity, Charter Schools and Content-Rich Curriculum

  Ed in the Apple: Making Tough Choices: The Board of Regents, Equity, Charter Schools and Content-Rich Curriculum Over the last few weeks states and school districts across the nation have been busy “canceling” the use of the 1619 Project...

  7 days ago

Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

• A Child’s Garden of Animals

  Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part One: The Fear of and Reverence for the “Hoop Snake” I don’t know when and how Joe Caron (I have slightly altered the name) moved to our farm in the 1950s, or maybe it was earlier right after the war...

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• The Traditionalist: 1984 Redux

  Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News

  a day ago

• The Ross Kaminsky Show with Victor Davis Hanson: This Isn’t Your Father’s Left-Wing Revolution

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The Moderate Voice

• The Lazy, Hazy Days of Summer

  Has the GOP reached a point yet where they accept that climate change is real and that America and all nations must do something about it before we are all baked in place. Temperatures above 100 degrees have become the norm intermittently in much...

  12 hours ago

• Nobody grifts quite like the U.N.

  Nobody grifts quite like the U.N. From The Guardian, 20 June 2021: “The head of climate change at the UN has warned that world leaders are still ‘far away’ from securing a deal to limit the disastrous effects of global heating, with less...

  19 hours ago

• Senate Republicans block Democrats’ sweeping voting rights measure

  Washington (AFP) – US Senate Republicans on Tuesday torpedoed a Democratic effort to protect voting rights and expand ballot access for all Americans, a flashpoint issue months after an election marred by Donald Trump’s baseless allegations...

  21 hours ago

Marginal REVOLUTION

• The economics of peer review

  Springer-Nature, the Anglo-German publisher of the world’s leading scientific journal Nature, announced in 2017 that in some of its publications it was censoring articles that used words like “Taiwan”, “Tibet” and “cultural...

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• Wednesday assorted links

  1. Noah Smith interviews @pmarca. 2. Glad to see so many economists waking up to the potential tyranny of administrative law (in Spanish).  If there should be a jury trial for anything, it is sedition. 3. Early days of the comic book industry. ...

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• Rent-seeking within organizations

  What are the best books and articles to read on this public choice topic?  I am not looking for critiques of democracy per se.  Your recommendations would be most welcome, government, corporate, and non-profit settings are all welcome…...

  8 hours ago

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…...

  12 days ago

• 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...

  17 days ago

• 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…...

  23 days ago

MintPress News

• Losing Finders: The Buried Documents that Linked the Infamous Cult to the CIA

  Why label intelligence reports “Secret” then lie about it if no evidence of criminal activity or an intelligence-led cover-up existed? The post Losing Finders: The Buried Documents that Linked the Infamous Cult to the CIA appeared first...

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• Bennett’s Fragile Hookup with the Zionist Left Offers Little Promise for a Post-Apartheid Israel

  On the racist reality of Israeli politics, the absurdity of calling any Zionist party “Left,” and why the so-called Zionist Left could join a coalition government headed by Naftali Bennett: their differences are inconsequential. The...

  a day ago

• With Bezos at the Helm, Democracy Dies at the Washington Post Editorial Board

  In the Soviet Union, everybody was aware that the media was controlled by the state. But in a corporate state like the U.S., a veneer of independence is still maintained, although trust in the media has been plummeting for years. The post With...

  5 days ago

Made from Truth and Lies

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  instagram cross-post

  We got a pack of onesies for an 18-24 month old. Here we can see them modelled by Gideon (10 months) and Sophia (3 years). Now taking bets for when he overtakes her. Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments...

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  Interesting Links for 23-06-2021

  EU can shut off flow of data and 'slow down' UK exports in a Brexit trade war, Boris Johnson warned(tags:europe uk trade doom )Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, And It's Making Inflation Worse(tags:trade shipping )Scotland lockdown easing delayed...

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  Interesting Links for 22-06-2021

  Volcano Fortress versus Meteor: Fight!(tags:volcano meteor photos )Negativity about political opponents is twice as likely to go viral as positivity about your own side(tags:Twitter politics viral psychology )New system for complaints...

  2 days ago

www.gurukalehuru.com

• Moving in Two Directions

  I’ve often heard politics described as a pendulum, one side is in, then the other side rises, and back and forth it goes. It doesn’t feel like that today, and I mean literally today, not today in the sense of … Continue reading →...

  2 hours ago

• Cuteness

  I just totally binge-watched a 10 episode nature documentary on penguins. African penguins, aka Jackass penguins, from the sound of their braying, but there were a lot of scenes of them falling down stairs, or walking right through people’s...

  a day ago

• More on Teplice

  One of the first signs that somebody is lying is when they change their story. There could be legit reasons, I suppose you always have to judge on a case by case basis, but at the very least one of … Continue reading →...

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