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Keep climate policy focused on the social cost of carbon
Originally posted on Great Society: A new paper in the journal Climate Policy says “Keep climate policy focused on the social cost of carbon”. Its abstract: In the context of climate change, the application of cost-benefit analysis to...
GM recall of all Chevy Bolts due to battery fire risk likely to cost $1 billion
Originally posted on Tallbloke's Talkshop: Chevy Bolt [image credit: GM Authority] No hope of ever breaking even on that model now, if there was any to start with. Another edition of the recurring lithium-ion safety issue in the world of EVs...
An Interview with Friedrich von Hayek by students
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The Blob attacks Biden!
United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|August 19, 2021 The Blob, the foreign policy establishment of Washington DC, is a herd of one-trick ponies devoted to foreign aggression, occupation, and endless...
Beyond the Burqa: The Taliban, Women and NGOs
United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|August 17, 2021 Those who fail to mention Pashtun nationalism when discussing the Taliban show that they do not understand anything about Afghanistan and its...
Afghan collapse started under Trump in February 2020
United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|August 16, 2021 Trump’s Doha pullout pledge to Taliban triggered surrender deals by tribal and province chiefs, setting stage for disintegration of Afghan...
Sustainable Pulse
US EPA Bans Use of Neurotoxic Insecticide Chlorpyrifos on Food Crops
In a historic victory for farm workers, environment, and public health, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today it will be revoking all tolerances of chlorpyrifos, effectively banning all food uses of the toxic, brain-damaging...
Bayer Files Petition with US Supreme Court over Roundup Cancer Case
Multinational chemical company Bayer filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court this week, seeking a reversal of a lower court verdict that established Bayer liable for damages from the use of its weed killer Roundup, Beyond Pesticides...
New Study Finds Link Between Glyphosate Exposure and Pregnancy Length
Women exposed to the herbicide glyphosate were more likely to experience shorter pregnancies, according to a study published recently in the journal Environmental Research, Environmental Health News reported. Glyphosate is the active...
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Stagecraft and Statecraft
America’s self-inflicted defeat and humiliation
The US has grievously hurt its international credibility with a self-inflicted defeat and humiliation in Afghanistan. Its enemies can only be celebrating. The security and humanitarian disaster that the Biden administration has unleashed...
Biden surrenders Afghanistan to terrorists
BY BRAHMA CHELLANEY, The Hill Robert Gates, who served as defense secretary under presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, wrote in a 2014 memoir that Joe Biden “has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security...
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...
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Will Bring Up New Indian National Literature For India for 200 Pounds Max Mueller
You have so thoroughly adopted the English disguise that it will not be easy for any one to suspect you of having written this ‘curious article.’ It especially delights me to see how ingeniously you contrive to say what you announce you do...
First Pandya King During Ramayana Expert Horse rider Vadimbalambaninra Pandyan 5100 BC ?
In the Pandya lineage ,the four Pandyas who ruled before, Sarangadwaja PandyaI have been able to trace, are Vadivalambaninra Pandyan,Palyaagasalai Mudhukudumipperuvazhthi, Nilanthiruvir Pandyan and Perumpeyar Vazhuthi...
Four Pandya Kings Of Ramayana Names Date
Chola Muchukunda was an ancestor of Rama.We have references to Chera and Pandyas in Ramayana.We shall now attempt to trace the Pandya Kings who were present before Mahabharata , because we have traced Tamil Kings after the Kurukshetra battle...
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Texas: Disability Advocates File Federal Lawsuit Against Governor Abbott’s Masking Ban
In Texas, a federally authorized organization filed a federal lawsuit to block Governor Greg Abbott’s ban on masking mandates. Abbott has repeatedly said that the decision to wear a mask should be made by parents, not by school boards. CONTACT:Edie...
Texas Supreme Court Rejects Gov. Abbott’s Intervention, Allows Districts to Mandate Masks, for Now
CNN reported last night that the Texas Sypreme Court denied Governor Gregg Abbott’s effort to intervene in a court case overruling his decision to block mask mandates. The Supreme Court of Texas refused Gov. Greg Abbott’s request to intervene...
We Have Lost a Dear Friend: Laura Chapman
Laura H. Chapman was a devoted supporter of public education, the Network for Public Education, and this blog. I was honored to post her carefully researched and well documented comments on this blog. Although her health clearly was in decline...
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Express Readers Rebel Against Its Green Agenda
By Paul Homewood One of the strangest phenomena this year has been the sight of the Daily Express embracing far left climate policies, courtesy of their ex-Mirror, Remoaner, left wing editor Gary Jones. The Express is famous for its Putinesque...
Another Round Of Anti-Science From The IPCC
By Paul Homewood Francis Menton writes about the latest Hokey Stick! What with the ongoing catastrophe in Afghanistan and the earthquake in Haiti, among other news, you may have failed to notice that the IPCC came out on Monday with...
Fact Checking The BBC–John Redwood
By Paul Homewood MP John Redwood highlights some perverse behaviour by the BBC: I was surprised to receive an email from the BBC after my interview on Monday of last week. It asked me to prove that German carbon dioxide emissions were...
NoTricksZone
Strong Demand For Jackets…Northern Europe Sees Very Little Midsummer Warming Over Past 2 Decades
By Kirye and Pierre Gosselin Has anyone ever wondered why many Swedes like going south for their summer holidays? Today to answer that question, we look at the July, 2021, mean temperature data for the stations in northern Europe for which...
New Study: Retreating East Greenland Glaciers Uncover Plant Debris Dating To The 16th – 17th Centuries
Exposed moss and willow shrubs buried beneath today’s receding East Greenland glaciers can be dated to 400 to 500 years ago, suggesting this period (the early Little Ice Age) was as-warm or warmer than today. It is widely accepted that Greenland’s...
Two Dozen Top Scientists: IPCC “Premature” Blaming CO2 Emissions…Warming Mostly From Natural Cycles
How much is the Sun’s influence? An ongoing debate Center for Environmental Research & Earth Sciences Most of the energy in the Earth’s atmosphere comes from the Sun. This new study found that the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on...
NEPC Blog Post of the Day
BuzzFlash: Jeff Bryant: Industry Lobbying Firm Rushes to Defend Charter Schools That Think of Children as a Business
BuzzFlash: Jeff Bryant: Industry Lobbying Firm Rushes to Defend Charter Schools That Think of Children as a Business The top lobbying group for the charter school industry is rushing to preserve millions in funds from the federal government...
Gadfly on the Wall: Economists Worry Covid-19 May End Standardized Testing Altogether
Gadfly on the Wall: Economists Worry Covid-19 May End Standardized Testing Altogether The sky is falling for standardized test enthusiasts. Economists Paul Bruno and Dan Goldhaber published a paper this month worrying that the Coronavirus...
Curmudgucation: Can We Close the Billionaire Learning Gap?
Curmudgucation: Can We Close the Billionaire Learning Gap? Imagine you had a student in your class, for some reason, for ten, fifteen, even twenty years. Imagine that you gave that student multiple opportunities to learn some central concepts...
Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers
Conceived in Liberty: Season 2, Episode 1 – Victor Davis Hanson
Conceived in Liberty: Season 2, Episode 1 – Victor Davis Hanson from Ben Hannemann on Vimeo.
American Armageddon
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Americans are growing angrier by the day in a way different from prior sagebrush revolts such as the 1960s Silent Majority or Tea Party furor of over a decade ago. The rage at the current status quo this...
The Great Leftist Bully Boy Hope
By any empirical measure, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has proven utterly disingenuous, and far more so than average politicians. Unlike other political mediocrities, his inanities have led to roughly 13,000 unnecessary deaths or more...
The Moderate Voice
UN chief insists on international unity to confront Taliban
The United Nations has little capacity to run Kabul airport to help in the American and allied exit from Afghanistan, although it is using diplomatic influence to the maximum to protect human rights and the freedoms of women, provide humanitarian...
Biden’s excruciating foreign policy learning curve
After nearly half a century in powerful jobs and the practice of international diplomacy, President Joe Biden is relearning the core principle that foreign policy is a quicksand that sucks in successive American governments and never lets...
NEW AND IMPROVED TALIBAN (Cartoon and Column)
The Taliban is trying to reassure the world they won’t suppress and subjugate women like they did the last time they ruled the Afghanistan. A Taliban spokesman said, “If the international community is worried about these issues, we will...
Marginal REVOLUTION
*Against White Feminism*
In Zero Dark Thirty (and the truish story behind it), American feminism — once a movement that existed in opposition to the state, as a critique of its institutions and mores — was recast as one that served the state’s interests through...
Friday assorted links
1. Local news writers come to Facebook’s Bulletin. 2. Julia Galef interviews Raymond Niles and Amihai Glazer about price-gouging, with transcript too. 3. Stanislaw Lem centenary (NYT). 4. Chuck Close, RIP. 5. “The Quiet Rage of the Responsible”...
The Most Impressive AI Demo I Have Ever Seen
This is jaw-dropping. It starts slow but watch the whole thing. I don’t think I would have been more amazed had I witnessed the first flight of the Wright Brothers. The post The Most Impressive AI Demo I Have Ever Seen appeared first on Marginal...
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...
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...
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...
MintPress News
US Leery as Talks Proceed Between Venezuela Govt and Opposition
Russia’s facilitation of the talks has greatly aggravated Washington, which has long been wary of Russian involvement in South America. The post US Leery as Talks Proceed Between Venezuela Govt and Opposition appeared first on MintPress...
My Visit to Lyd, Where Historical and Contemporary Zionist Oppression Meet
Palestine stretches from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean and goes right through the ancient Palestinian city of Lyd. The post My Visit to Lyd, Where Historical and Contemporary Zionist Oppression Meet appeared first on MintPress News...
Freezing Afghanistan’s Wealth: US Scrambles to Hit Hard with “Soft” Power
The U.S. may not have a physical presence inside of Afghanistan in the future, but the fear is that its economic sanctions may end up being more deadly than its armed forces. The post Freezing Afghanistan’s Wealth: US Scrambles to Hit Hard...
The history of Afghanistan - a nation whose borders were drawn by others - is one of starvation. The place is an easy target for murder by people ready to declare their own currency worthless. China ( and Russia ) are likely to find a new client state sooooo fast.
Made from Truth and Lies
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On the way to Gideon's third settle, with Sophia trying out the new buggy board. Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there.
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For the second time in two days (three will be a certain harbinger of the apocalypse) an event has happened which scientists have described as ‘unprecedented in recorded history.’ Yesterday was the chimpanzees attacking, killing, and...
Chimps v. Gorillas
I like animals. Some make great pets, some make for great meals, and some are just beautiful and fascinating to watch. In the 3rd category, my favorite animals are the apes. Monkeys too, but monkeys are cute and funny, whereas … Continue reading...
The Need for a Truth Commission
Now that the whole world is aware that the whole Afghan war has been nothing more than a huge money suck, a deliberate orgy of violence with the sole purpose of enriching weapons contractors, isn’t it about time that Julian … Continue reading...
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