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  • MAGA: Mainly the lonely?

    United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|July 26, 2021 As House select committee begins probe of January 6 putsch attempt, psychology of isolation and alienation plays central role among residual Trump...

    a day ago

  • Will GOP senators keep promise to vote for long-delayed jobs and infrastructure bill next week, or will they revert to their usual sabotage? Republicans shamelessly resist making tax evaders help pay for nation’s obsolete roads and bridges...

    3 days ago

  • Americans welcome $300 checks enabled by Advanced Child Tax Credit.

    United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|July 22, 2021 Facing all-out GOP sabotage of House January 6 select committee, Pelosi must push forward with investigation to build case against kingpins; Summer...

    5 days ago

Sustainable Pulse

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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...

    14 days ago

  • 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...

    19 days ago

  • 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...

    a month ago

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Diane Ravitch's blog

  • Paul Waldman: Trump Supporters Will Not Believe the Capitol Police or Their Own Eyes

    Paul Waldman is on the staff of the Washington Post. In this excerpt of his column, he says that Trump zealots will refuse to believe what the police officers said about the events of January 6. Nor will Trump devotees in the Congress be moved...

    6 hours ago

  • The January 6 Hearings Began Today, with Harrowing Testimony by 4 Police Officers

    The hearings about the January 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol opened with testimony by four police officers who were beaten and brutalized by the pro-Trump mob, trying to stop the certification of the election of President Biden. This story...

    8 hours ago

  • How to End the Pandemic

    Everyone knows how to end the pandemic: mandate vaccinations for everyone over the age of 2. When vaccines are available for children under 2, vaccinate them too. Almost everyone is vaccinated against other infectious diseases, like smallpox...

    14 hours ago

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • Net Zero by 2050 is dead in the water. So what’s plan B?

    By Paul Homewood     The media is finally starting to wake up. Pity they did not years ago:       Boris Johnson has always tried to take a ‘cakeist’ position on Net Zero. We can drastically cut carbon emissions while boosting living standards...

    10 hours ago

  • Road Pricing Will Cost Motorists Dear

    By Paul Homewood    I want to return to yesterday’s story about road pricing:         Road pricing – charging drivers for their “use of roads” -  is a glib concept. After all, why should not people pay for what they use? But how much...

    13 hours ago

  • Boris Johnson kicks gas boiler ban into the long grass after mounting backlash

    By Paul Homewood According to news reports, the Prime Minister is set to delay the gas boiler ban by 5 years, shifting it to 2040. Boris Johnson’s about-turn is a big win for critics who have been campaigning against this extremely costly and...

    16 hours ago

NoTricksZone

NEPC Blog Post of the Day

Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

The Moderate Voice

  • I Told You So When No One Would Listen

    In "exposing" one kind of hate crime, an entire national media deep-sixed an equally deadly, and far more wide-spread social disease. The post I Told You So When No One Would Listen appeared first on The Moderate Voice...

    4 hours ago

  • ‘Hugs and Kisses’ or ‘To Hell and Back’?

    I am sure that most Americans who watched the first Congressional hearings by the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 insurrection were once again appalled by the horrific videos they saw, but this time personally and chillingly...

    6 hours ago

  • House January 6 committee hears of ‘medieval’ Capitol violence by pro-Trump rioters

    Published by Reuters By Richard Cowan and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A congressional committee held its first hearing investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack on Tuesday with testimony by four police officers who struggled...

    13 hours ago

Marginal REVOLUTION

  • What should I ask Amia Srinivasan?

    I will be doing a Conversation with her, her forthcoming book The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century is already making a big splash.  Here is an excerpt from her Wikipedia page: Amia Srinivasan (born 1984) is an American philosopher...

    8 hours ago

  • Tuesday assorted links

    1. Where Elon Musk lives/lived. 2. Are Treasuries undervalued (in absolute terms)? 3. On Medici and Thiel.  On the need to radically scale genius grants.  And Hou Yifan update. 4. Applied Divinity Studies wishes to reform the Olympics...

    11 hours ago

  • The Farrago of International Travel Restrictions

    International travel restrictions are a farrago built on fear, statistical confusion, and out-dated information. The US, for example, is still requiring a virus test to enter the US but not proof of vaccination. In other words, a fully vaccinated...

    16 hours ago

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...

    16 days ago

  • 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...

    20 days ago

  • 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…...

    2 months ago

MintPress News

  • Chris Hedges: The Price of Conscience

    Drone warfare whistleblower sentenced to 45 months in prison for telling the American people the truth. The post Chris Hedges: The Price of Conscience appeared first on MintPress News.

    9 hours ago

  • Suheila’s Story: The Two-Year Quest to Reclaim and Bury Her Martyred Husband’s Body

    “You must keep out of our ranks all who do not belong to them, all mercenaries and skeptics, all who join the revolution for private gain.” -- From the Will of Palestinian revolutionary Ali Taha The post Suheila’s Story: The Two-Year Quest...

    15 hours ago

  • Chris Hedges: The Collective Suicide Machine

    The return of the Taliban to power will be one more signpost of the end of the American empire — and nobody will be held accountable. The post Chris Hedges: The Collective Suicide Machine appeared first on MintPress News...

    15 hours ago

Made from Truth and Lies

  • Interesting Links for 27-07-2021

    How do we account for reinfections? And what counts as one?(tags:pandemic Epidemiology )Spiral shark intestines work like Nikola Tesla's water valve(tags:Tesla sharks valve ) Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there...

    17 hours ago

  • Interesting Links for 26-07-2021

    The UK government isn't including reinfections in their Covid stats(tags:pandemic statistics OhForFucksSake )The Best Time Travel Movies of … All Time(tags:timetravel movies )What's the moral (and pragmatic) approach to dealing...

    2 days ago

  • Interesting Links for 25-07-2021

    UK Government: Ministers can use personal email to avoid oversight(tags:email transparency corruption government uk )UK government orders councils to display EU flag as condition of receiving Covid high street cash(tags:uk europe flags...

    3 days ago

www.gurukalehuru.com

  • The Separation of Sex and Sports

    There have been a few stories, from a few different sports, about the women’s uniforms, as in the women (not the spectators, the athletes themselves) don’t like them. A little bit too close to actual nudity for comfort, for some. … Continue...

    a day ago

  • The Good Doctor

    In my ever widening search to find anything left worth watching on Netflix, I have stumbled on another hospital show. Nothing great, I’m not saying it’s a must watch (although I’m still watching it). That’s not what this blog is …...

    3 days ago

  • Thoughts on Cuba

    First of all, what’s going on? Why is Cuba suddenly the center of attention? Was there some major change, did they take some aggressive action? It just seems to me that the U.S. is fighting a war that they lost … Continue reading →...

    4 days ago
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