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Utopia – you are standing in it!

• July 16, 1951: Abdication of Leopold III, king of the Belgians. Part I.

  Originally posted on European Royal History : Leopold III (November 3, 1901 – September 25, 1983) was King of the Belgians from 1934 until 1951. On the outbreak of World War II, Leopold tried to maintain Belgian neutrality, but after the German...

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• Split Enz – My Mistake – Countdown – 1977

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• Sunset & Calm Weather: Why Fossil Fuel Companies Love Intermittent Wind & Solar

  Originally posted on STOP THESE THINGS: The penny is starting to drop for the anti-fossil fuel squad: reliance on chaotically unreliable wind and solar guarantees dependence on fossil fuel. No bad thing in our view, mind you. The wind and solar...

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TARPLEY.net

• Schumer trying to move infrastructure bill this Wednesday

  United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|July 19, 2021 Cassidy holds out hope measure can be passed, but beware traditional GOP treachery; In apparent anonymous interview, Milley alleges that Trump...

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• Time is right for peaceful mass demonstrations to assert the alienable right to vote against GOP state legislatures!

  Upcoming August recess is opportunity to confront Congressional Republicans during town hall meetings on model of summer 2017 protests that saved Obamacare; Making voting rights bills exempt from filibuster like judges, top officials...

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• The best day since the New Deal for America’s working people!

  United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|July 15, 2021 Today, tens of millions of families get the first round of IRS checks and direct deposits thanks to Biden’s expanded child tax credit, now fully...

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Sustainable Pulse

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  Organic Farming Massively Reduces Dietary Risks from Pesticide Residues on Food

  A new Heartland Health Research Alliance (HHRA) paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Agronomy reports significant impacts of organic farming systems on pesticide use and the risks stemming from pesticide residues on food. “Organic...

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  EU Glyphosate Authorization in 2017 was Based on Flawed Science – New Expert Analysis

  A new scientific analysis concludes that the European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA) claim that glyphosate is not genotoxic cannot be justified on the basis of manufacturers’ studies. Of the fifty three industry-funded studies used...

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  Sri Lanka Wins Policy Oscar as Ban on Agrochemicals Leads to Massive Drop in Suicide Rates

  Regional advocacy group PAN Asia Pacific (Pesticide Action Network) congratulated Sri Lanka on Wednesday for winning the Future Policy Special Award 2021 in relation to two policies that have led to the banning of Highly Hazardous Pesticides...

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sunshine hours

• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 188 – 2021

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 181 – 2021

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

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Stagecraft and Statecraft

• Biden’s Afghan Blunder

  Former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates wrote in 2014 that Joe Biden “has been wrong on nearly every major foreign-policy and national-security issue over the past four decades.” The hasty US withdrawal from Afghanistan is set to...

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• China’s hostility ensures the rise of a more antagonistic India

  Military standoffs along the Himalayan border enter 15th month and continue to intensify Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia Chinese President Xi Jinping recently said that China should strive to “make friends” rather than enemies and be...

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• 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...

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Ramani's blog

• 650 Vedic Manuscripts 60000 Books Sanskrit Pali with British Museum.

  But majority of the  works are abroad, mainly in museums. I had written  in earlier lost as to what are  available with USA  Library of Congress and Canada

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• Where To Look For Ancient Indian Texts US Canada

  The Digitized copies  of The Rigveda Brahmanas: the Aitareya and Kausītaki Brāhmanas of the Rigveda are in American Libraries.

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• Vaishnava Pharaoh Image Tampered Louvre Sculpture Page Missing. With Upaveeda is at Budapest

  I am providing the communication below. It looks as though, not only the image had Vaishnava marks on the body, but it had Upaveeda, Janu as well! This image is the Featured image of this article.

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Diane Ravitch's blog

• Two Pro-Public School Organizations Are Merging

  In the education world, currently controlled by a coalition of billionaires and the rightwing think tanks and legislators they finance, public schools have some valuable friends. Among them are the National Superintendents Roundtable...

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• The Teen Who Inspired Zaila Avant-Garde to Win the National Spelling Bee

  The Washington Post wrote about the teen who inspired Zaila Avant-Garde, the first African American to win the national spelling bee. A 13-year-old girl from Akron, MacNolia Cox, was among the first Black Americans to make it to the national...

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• Ohio Governor Signs Bill To Ban Schools and Universities from Requiring COVID Vaccinations

  America, we have a problem. The COVID is spreading, largely through a highly contagious variant called Delta, but only 48.3% of the population is vaccinated. More than 600,000 Americans have died. In five states—Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi...

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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• Record Heat In Antarctica, Claims The Absurd Jonathan Amos

  By Paul Homewood   h/t Ian Magness     A new record high temperature for the Antarctic continent of +18.3C has been confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). It occurred on 6 February last year at Argentina’s Esperanza...

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• Big Bad Tech: When censorship goes corporate

  By Paul Homewood   Donna Laframboise has a new paper out with GWPF:     Free speech advocates have traditionally battled government censorship. But corporate censorship by the global Big Tech behemoths is now the larger threat, a paper...

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• Bob Ward’s Fake Claims Of Heatwave Deaths

  By Paul Homewood     h/t Ian Magness   More garbage from the Telegraph:       To attempt to compare the UK climate with the Pacific Northwest is not only absurd, but highly irresponsible. The latter frequently sees temperatures well over...

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NoTricksZone

• The HadCRUT4 Global Temperature Dataset Now Unveils A Cooling Trend For The Last 7.5 Years

  Since the last day of 2001 CO2 has risen from 372 to 419 ppm. However, there have been two cooling periods of 12 years (2002-2014) and 7.5 years (2014-2021), separated by a 1.5-year El Niño-induced warming event (2015-2016). Temperature changes...

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• Germany’s “Katrina”: Officials Left Dams Full For Weeks Even With Heavy Rains In The Forecast

  Officials left dams full to the brim at least 3 weeks long during a rainy period and then failed to undertake a controlled release even when 150 mm of rain were forecast 4 days before the floods.  Now they want to hide their gross incompetence...

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• Criminal Negligence? Authorities Failed To Heed Flood Warnings…”Let People Drown”…”Monumental System Failure”

  Harsh criticism of German authorities failing to act is mounting in the aftermath of the recent deadly floods. Germany’s New Orleans Many of the over one hundred people who died in the recent flood disaster in Central Western Germany could...

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NEPC Blog Post of the Day

• Answer Sheet: No Systemic Racism? Look at Student Achievement Gaps in Reading.

  Answer Sheet: No Systemic Racism? Look at Student Achievement Gaps in Reading. Juneteenth, the new federal holiday commemorating the date, June 19, 1865, that has come to symbolize the end of slavery in the United States, is an appropriate...

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• Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Rubik’s Cube and School Reform

  Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Rubik’s Cube and School Reform When the Rubik Cube appeared in the early 1980s, I tried twisting and turning the colors to get them all aligned. I failed. Finding out that there are 3 billion...

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• Our Schools/BuzzFlash: Jeff Bryant: Why Are Federal Funds Flowing to "White Flight" Privatized Charter Schools and Contributing to the Re-Segregation of Education?

  Our Schools/BuzzFlash: Jeff Bryant: Why Are Federal Funds Flowing to "White Flight" Privatized Charter Schools and Contributing to the Re-Segregation of Education? In June 2018, when the North Carolina state legislature enacted a law...

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Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

• The American Descent into Madness

  Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Nations have often gone mad in a matter of months. The French abandoned their supposedly idealistic revolutionary project and turned it into a monstrous hell for a year between July 1793 and 1794...

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• A Child’s Garden of Animals: Barnicide

  Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part One Barn Owls really do like barns. And they are invaluable predators of mice, squirrels, rats and such who all do their small part to wreck a barn and its environs. And yet they are not the fierce Great-Horned-Owls...

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• The Classicist: Democratic Policy and Culture

  Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News

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The Moderate Voice

• U.S. House Minority Leader McCarthy picks five Republicans for Jan. 6 panel: Jim Jordan is one of them

  Published by Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy nominated five members of his party, including staunch Trump ally Jim Jordan, to serve on a special congressional panel probing the Jan. 6 riot at the...

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• A POX ON YOUR HOUSE (Cartoon)

  The post A POX ON YOUR HOUSE (Cartoon) appeared first on The Moderate Voice.

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• US and allies condemn China for ‘malicious’ cyber activity

  Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – The United States on Monday led allies in fierce condemnation of China’s “malicious” cyber activity, accusing Beijing of extortion and threatening national security, and promising consequences...

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Marginal REVOLUTION

• Review of Abutaleb and Paletta’s Nightmare Scenario

  Nightmare Scenario opens with Anthony Fauci stripped to his skivvies and wondering whether the white powder he has just been exposed to in his NIH office is anthrax, ricin, or a hoax. The first and last he can survive, ricin is a death sentence...

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• Ray C. Fair on price inflation

  This paper uses an econometric approach to examine the inflation consequences of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Price equations are estimated and used to forecast future inflation. The main results are: (1) The data suggest that price...

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• Biden, COVID and Mental Health in America

  Using US Census Household Pulse Survey data for the period April 2020 to June 2021 we track the evolution of the mental health of nearly 2.3 million Americans during the COVID pandemic. We find anxiety, depression and worry peaked in November...

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Lloyd Lofthouse

• Twitter Reflections from Reporter Who Broke Nikole Hannah-Jones Tenure Story

  Originally posted on deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog: Joe Killian is the reporter with NC Policy Watch who broke the story (byline shared with Kyle Ingram) of Nikole Hannah-Jones’ UNC-Chapel Hill tenure slight. He was also the first...

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• If We Want Better, We Must Do Better

  Originally posted on Restore Reason: Hello. Let me reintroduce myself. Linda Lyon. Retired Air Force Colonel, school board member, very happily married to my best friend, who is also a woman. Previously married to a great guy. Enthusiastic...

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• 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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MintPress News

• The Bay of Tweets: Documents Point to US Hand in Cuba Protests

  The U.S. government can cause economic misery for the Cuban people, but it cannot, it appears, convince them to overthrow their government. The post The Bay of Tweets: Documents Point to US Hand in Cuba Protests appeared first on MintPress...

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• Legalized Apartheid: The Israeli Supreme Court Just Cemented Jewish Supremacy into Law

  Only a few years old, the nation-state law has already proven it can serve as a legal tool for discrimination, racial segregation, and outright apartheid. The post Legalized Apartheid: The Israeli Supreme Court Just Cemented Jewish Supremacy...

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• Breaking through the Western Media Propaganda Coverage of Cuba Protests

  While there are plenty of reasons for ordinary Cubans to currently feel disenchanted about life on the island, there are also strong suspicions that these protests were not quite the grassroots uprising they were made out to be in the U.S. press...

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Made from Truth and Lies

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  Interesting Links for 20-07-2021

  These astonishing Minecraft Builds Were Years in the Making(tags:minecraft lotr impressive )This beach does not exist(tags:sea ai photos )Pub Songs Of Ireland: The Fresh Prince Of Bel-air(tags:music Ireland funny video WillSmith )The...

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  Interesting Links for 19-07-2021

  Evidence of the Elements - Finding Euclid on scattered pot shards.(tags:history mathematics prehistory archeology )Long Covid might strike half a million people during current wave(tags:pandemic )How dog reacts when they are kissed(tags:video...

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  instagram cross-post

  Today the family has been mostly walking through rivers (or, in Gideon's case, sitting in). Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there.

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www.gurukalehuru.com

• Go, Greta!

  I’ve spent the better part of the morning arguing with people about the environment. That would not be a bad thing, if we were arguing about the best way to save the environment, talking about the merits of various sources … Continue reading...

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• The Relevance of Potato Salad

  Of course it is an insidious and self-destructive habit to look at the number of likes, and shares on your posts, because it’s only going to make you feel bad. It’s like looking, long and pointedly, into the mirror, looking … Continue reading...

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• Weekend at Kotelsko

  We are at the cottage this weekend, which is something I generally avoid but Helena was not having it this time because it’s her Mom’s birthday. Well, it’s the weekend everybody decided to celebrate her Mom’s birthday, anyhow. That’s...

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