Sunday, August 15, 2021

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    • Utopia – you are standing in it!

    TARPLEY.net

    Sustainable Pulse

    sunshine hours

    Stagecraft and Statecraft

    • Exiting Afghanistan will go down in history as Joe Biden’s big blunder

      BRAHMA CHELLANEY, SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL Afghanistan is turning out to be U.S. President Joe Biden’s first foreign-policy disaster. Ending America’s 20-year war there made sense, but the sudden and poorly planned U.S. military...

      2 days ago

    • Can Japan really trust America?

      Taiwan tensions underscore Tokyo’s growing sense of insecurity Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia Japan, America’s most pivotal ally in Asia, faces pressing security challenges due to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s expansionist policies...

      3 days ago

    • The Great COVID Stonewall of China

      BRAHMA CHELLANEY, Project Syndicate COVID-19 has now been with us for more than a year and a half. It has stopped societies in their tracks, triggered sharp economic downturns, and killed more than 4.2 million people. But we still do not …...

      8 days ago

    Ramani's blog

    Diane Ravitch's blog

    • Censoring “Persepolis”

      Chicago Public Schools was first to ban the popular graphic novel Persepolis,” in 2013. The book has sold millions of copies. The author, Marjane Satrapi, was born in Iran and used the book to tell her story. Chicago school officials decided...

      14 hours ago

    • Peter Greene: What’s Wrong with For-Profit Charter Schools?

      Peter Greene writes in Forbes about the furor that erupted when House Democrats passed legislation to ban federal funding of charters managed by for-profit organizations. The charter industry and its lobbyists went bonkers, falsely claiming...

      15 hours ago

    • Racism Flourishes in This Michigan Town

      There’s been much discussion around the nation about racism. Is it persistent? Is it systematic? Is it behind us? Read this story that appeared in the Washington Post and it should end the debate (although it won’t). An African American...

      2 days ago

    NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

    • Worst Frosts Hit Brazil Adjusted Away!

      By Paul Homewood       https://inews.co.uk/news/world/brazil-frosts-and-its-coffee-region-coldest-weather-in-decades-ravages-crop-for-worlds-biggest-producer-1130618    You will recall this story from 1st August...

      11 hours ago

    • New Spanish Record Temperature Set At “Laughably Poor” Weather Station

      By Paul Homewood     Further to that “new Spanish temperature record” supposedly set yesterday, Anthony Watts wrote about the last supposed record set at the same station three years ago:     In Spain, Paco Eslava García has been following...

      12 hours ago

    • New Temperature Record Claimed In Spain

      By Paul Homewood       Data from Spain’s State Meteorological Agency said the potential new record was recorded at Montoro, Cordoba, at 5:10pm. If confirmed, that would exceed the country’s previous record of 46.9 degrees Celsius...

      18 hours ago

    NoTricksZone

    NEPC Blog Post of the Day

    Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

    The Moderate Voice

    • If, When, As Afghanistan Collapses

      I started working on this piece a couple of days ago. I have had to change the starting paragraph twice. Two days ago, it was “If Afghanistan falls….” Yesterday it became, “When Afghanistan falls…” Today, tragically it is “As...

      6 hours ago

    • Afghanistan War Consquences (Cartoon)

      The post Afghanistan War Consquences (Cartoon) appeared first on The Moderate Voice.

      9 hours ago

    • Taliban enters Kabul, Afghan president flees: 4 essential reads

      U.S. personnel were evacuated from the U.S. embassy in Kabul, the Afghan capital, as Taliban insurgents broke through the city’s defensive line, Aug. 15, 2021. AP Photo/Rahmat Gul Catesby Holmes, The Conversation Under siege, President...

      9 hours ago

    Marginal REVOLUTION

    • Sunday assorted links

      1. A problem in Baumol’s cost-disease argument. 2. Further fluvoxamine coverage.  With a dose of Canadian nationalism.  And Andy Slavitt agrees with the Israelis. 3. The culture that is Tlaxcalan the Tlaxcalan view of the Conquest and...

      11 hours ago

    • Shame. Shame. Shame.

      The Afghanistan war was an epic disaster. Nothing good came of it. The least we can do as we evacuate, however, is to help all the Afghanis who helped us and who are now under death threat from the Taliban. But our record on Afghan refugees is shameful...

      16 hours ago

    • Eating out for big occasions is correlated with a lower quality of food

      This paper incorporates applied econometrics, causal machine learning and theories of reference-dependent preferences to test whether consuming in a restaurant on special occasions, such as one’s birthday, anniversary, commencement...

      20 hours ago

    Lloyd Lofthouse

    • The Patriot Oath post I should have written 8 days ago.

      On August 8, my latest novel, The Patriot Oath, was published and released. The e-book is still on sale for $0.99 until Monday, August 16, ends at midnight. The Patriot Oath’s launch is the best I have ever experienced. When … Continue reading...

      6 hours ago

    • 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...

      a month 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...

      a month ago

    MintPress News

    Made from Truth and Lies

    • Interesting Links for 15-08-2021

      Covid: Four Scottish health boards pause non-emergency surgery(tags:Scotland NHS pandemic )Incels, a short history(tags:relationships men terrorism internet )Incels: The Radicalised Extremist Community of White Male Supremacists(tags:men...

      17 hours ago

    • Interesting Links for 14-08-2021

      Afghanistan: How the Taliban gained ground so quickly(tags:Afghanistan taliban )Forgotten anniversary: The birth of Western imperialism(tags:history Mexico Spain ) Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there...

      2 days ago

    • instagram cross-post

      Jim is sitting in the porch watching the rain. He does not approve. Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there.

      2 days ago

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    • How to Do Things Differently Next Time

      There is a lot of talk about the U.S. not doing enough to help those Afghans who have worked alongside U.S. forces over the last 20 years. The State Department has said they’re prepared to help the approximately 20,000 who … Continue reading...

      17 hours ago

    • What is to be learned?

      The sudden and seemingly total collapse of Afghanistan, the way the Taliban are taking immediate control, has kind of surprised me. But, it shouldn’t have. The purpose of the war wasn’t to build up Afghanistan, because apparently that...

      2 days ago

    • Forget 9/11

      “We cannot in good faith, and with veneration to those lost, sick, and injured, welcome the president to our hallowed grounds until he fulfills his commitment,” said a recent letter to President Biden. It was signed by 1,800 family members...

      4 days ago
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