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Utopia – you are standing in it!

• The Problem with Faster Highways (Downs-Thompson Paradox) | Game Theory Puzzles

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• ‘CO2 levels’ and your ‘carbon footprint’ — NOT the problem you’ve been told

  Originally posted on Tallbloke's Talkshop: CO2 is not pollution Irrational fears about essential carbon dioxide in relation to the Earth’s climate have long since degenerated into superstition or old wives’ tales, for which we’re...

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• Craig Mackinlay MP: Did Boris Johnson tell the truth about Net Zero?

  Originally posted on NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT: By Paul Homewood? ? Please can we have more MPs like Craig Mackinlay? ? ? The MP described his constituents of the future as “sitting around a tepid radiator” powered by an expensive heat...

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TARPLEY.net

• Control of Washington and Sacramento at stake in Tuesday’s California recall election–Last chance to vote NO!

  United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|September 13, 2021 Beware GOP front-runner and radio demagogue Larry Elder, who is worse than Trump! Will fascist march on Capitol scheduled for Saturday escalate...

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• Last days to fight back against fascism by voting to keep Newsom as governor of California!

  20 years after 9/11, focus has shifted to domestic terrorism under heading of #CERTUNREST2021 on eve of September 18 threat; On January 4 conference call, security officials were warned of danger of “mass casualty event” on Capitol Hill...

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• Commemorating the Man of the Second Millennium

  United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|September 9, 2021 Next Tuesday marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Italian poet and statesman Dante Alighieri, who died of malaria in Ravenna on September...

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Sustainable Pulse

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  Risky GMO Wheat Trial Gets Green Light from UK Government

  The UK Government has given Rothamsted Research consent to plant highly experimental GM wheat in an open field near St Albans, GMWatch reported last Wednesday. GM Freeze, which led the opposition to the trial, joined by GMWatch and...

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  Consumer Groups Urge Lowe’s and Home Depot to Stop Sale of Cancer Causing Roundup Weedkiller

  124 consumer, health and environmental groups sent letters in late August calling on Lowe’s and Home Depot to immediately end the sale of Roundup following Bayer’s recent decision to remove cancer-causing glyphosate from weedkiller...

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  Breakfast at Monsanto’s Sheds Light on Health Dangers of World’s Most Used Weedkiller: Exclusive Interview

  Sustainable Pulse interview with Lee A. Evslin, M.D., author of the new eye-opening book Breakfast at Monsanto’s and board-certified pediatrician and Fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics. What led to your interest in Monsanto...

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sunshine hours

• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 253 – 2021

  Arctic Lowest 10 (2021 being the lowest): 2012 2020 2016 2007 2011 2019 2015 2008 2017 2010 2021 . South / North

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 252 – 2021

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 249 – 2021

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Stagecraft and Statecraft

• Lessons Unlearnt

  America has always fought its war on terror selectively, and now Joe Biden has delivered a victory for global jihad  Brahma Chellaney  | OPEN magazine Taliban Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid makes his first-ever public appearance at...

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• Has Biden’s Afghanistan debacle sown the seeds of another 9/11?

  BY BRAHMA CHELLANEY, The Hill President Biden’s Afghanistan blunder has spawned the greatest victory for terrorists in the modern history of global jihadism. Notwithstanding his claim in a defiant speech on Tuesday that the exit...

  10 days ago

• Biden’s Afghanistan fiasco is a disaster for Asia

  Taliban fighters patrol inside the city of Kandahar on Aug. 15: historians will be baffled that the world’s mightiest power waged war for two decades to make the Taliban great again.    © AP Self-inflicted defeat sends message that...

  13 days ago

Ramani's blog

• Best Probiotic For Gut , Immunity Recepie Saar Theertham, Nutritionists

  This water is called Saar Theertham, Essence of Rice and Water.This used to be consumed daily in Our homes daily.We eat the rice, which we have kept aside from the water with Pickles preferably,Tender mango,மாவடு. This is called...

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• Gandhari Curse To Shakuni Afghanistan ?

  Krishna pays a left handed compliment to Sakuni when Krishna went to Duryodhana's court, before Mahabharata war, to avert it.Krishna even calls Sakuni as Maama,Uncle, saying that they are partners in the scheme of things. Only that Sakuni...

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• Gangaikonda Chozhapuram Temple Architectural Marvel

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Diane Ravitch's blog

• California: Online Charter Operator Pleads Guilty to Fraud, Fined $18.75 Million

  It’s true that there are occasional stories of embezzlement or fraud in public schools, but none compares to the sheer audacity of California’A3 online charter chain. Its two cofounders—Jason Schrock and Sean McManus—concocted...

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• Nurse: The Seven Stages of Coronavirus

  This is an arresting article that was written by respiratory therapist Karen Gallardo and published by the Los Angeles Times. I wish it was compulsory reading for everyone who refuses to wear a mask or to get vaccinated. She writes: I’m a respiratory...

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• Texas Eliminates Accountability in Charter Schools for ELLs and SPED

  Texas has gone overboard for charter schools, even though they consistently post worse results than public schools. In the state’s new plans, charter schools will not be held accountable for the performance of English-language learners...

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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• Craig Mackinlay MP: Did Boris Johnson tell the truth about Net Zero?

  By Paul Homewood    Please can we have more MPs like Craig Mackinlay?     The MP described his constituents of the future as “sitting around a tepid radiator” powered by an expensive heat pump and worrying about the payments for an electric...

  5 hours ago

• BBC’s 50C Days Rubbish

  By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness The BBC are now making it up as they go along!   The number of extremely hot days every year when the temperature reaches 50C has doubled since the 1980s, a global BBC analysis has found. They also now happen in more...

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• E-car chargers will turn off to prevent blackouts

  By Paul Homewood   h/t Dennis Ambler   From The Times:     Electric car charging points in people’s homes will be preset to switch off for nine hours each weekday at times of peak demand because ministers fear blackouts on the National Grid...

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NoTricksZone

• New Study: No Trend In Compound Natural Disasters Across Australia Since 1966

  Three new studies affirm there has been no significant change in natural disasters, precipitation, or bushfire across Australia for the last several decades. Instances when perilous flooding, drought, bushfire, cyclones, storms, heatwaves…occur...

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• Reality Jolt: Arctic September Minimum Sea Ice Extent Trend RISING Over Past 10 Years – Norwegian Data

  Norwegian data show September minimum Arctic sea ice has risen over the past 10 years, contradicting earlier predictions of a death spiral By Kirye and Pierre Friday NTZ posted on Arctic sea ice extent. This year Arctic sea ice has just about...

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• Scientists: Boys Aged 12-15 Are Hospitalized Up To 23x More Due To COVID Vaccines Than Due To COVID

  A new study asserts “vaccine associated cardiac harms” to children resulting in 7-day hospital stays are 143% to 280% more common than the Center for Disease Control (CDC, US) has claimed. The CDC estimates 43% of children under 18 across...

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NEPC Blog Post of the Day

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  Radical Eyes for Equity: Moving from “All Students Must” to “Each Student Deserves”

  Radical Eyes for Equity: Moving from “All Students Must” to “Each Student Deserves” Since publishing my book, How to End the Reading War and Serve the Literacy Needs of All Students, that examines the current “science of reading”...

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  Teachers College Press: How Charter Schools Control Access and Shape Enrollment

  Teachers College Press: How Charter Schools Control Access and Shape Enrollment What does “public” mean for a “public charter school”? The state charter school statutes that allow charter schools to exist invariably designate...

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• Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Teaching Then and Now (Part 1)

  Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Teaching Then and Now (Part 1) Teaching has been central to my professional and personal life. I taught high school history for 14 years in public schools and 20 years as a professor at a private...

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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.

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• 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...

  a month ago

• 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...

  a month ago

The Moderate Voice

• Why the GOP-led drive to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom will flop today

  Californians go to the polls today and unless there is a political upset akin to Harry Trump defeating Thomas E. Dewey or Donald Trump defeating Hillary Clinton the GOP-led effort to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom will flop lounder than...

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• UN’s Guterres wins $1.1 billion for Afghan humanitarian aid but forward moves remain perilous

  The United Nations chief raised more than $1.1 billion in pledges for humanitarian aid for Afghanistan today despite the Taliban takeover but uncertainties continue about how soon it can be delivered and whether it will reach the right hands...

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• I Have Not Known a World Without the War in Afghanistan. Here is My Perspective.

  by Noah Jenkins In a political environment mired with hyper-partisanship, one would think it would be a relief to see a unifying issue. Although it was before my time, I have read much of how political arms were laid down after the September 11...

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Marginal REVOLUTION

• What to Watch

  A few things I have watched recently: The Courier–a taut, spy drama about the true story of Greville Wynne, an ordinary British businessman who was recruited by the British and American spy services to courier information in the 1960s from...

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• Tuesday assorted links

  1. Mike Makowsky good career advice for those economists (and others?) coming out of non-elite schools. 2. Bryan Caplan on his home schooling experience. 3. BBC covers EV India winner and his fight against air pollution. 4. Why young Koreans...

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• Derry notes, Northern Ireland’s second largest city

  People in Derry are still talking about the 1680s…it is bad to be a “Lundy,” namely a traitor to your cause but the bar here has become a high one.  You are either with them or against them. The 17th century city wall seems fully intact, the...

  10 hours ago

Lloyd Lofthouse

• The End of the Forever War, leaving Afghanistan in 2021

  I’m a former U.S. Marine and was sent to Vietnam in late 1965. I returned home to the states in December 1966. At the end of the Vietnam War, according to History.com, about 7,000 people were evacuated by helicopter from various … Continue...

  8 days ago

• George Washington Was First to Mandate Vaccinations

  Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: To all those patriots out there who are “resisting” mandates for vaccines and masks, please read this. George Washington was not only “First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts…...

  17 days ago

• 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...

  a month ago

MintPress News

• British Soldier Arrested for Protesting Against Yemen War & Arms Support for Saudi Arabia

  “ I’ve seen too much not to speak out and I’d rather sleep peacefully in a cell than stay silent for a paycheck” -- Former British Soldier Ahmed Al-Babati The post British Soldier Arrested for Protesting Against Yemen War & Arms...

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• 9/11 and the Politics of Fear and Self-Preservation

  We will either be remembered as a country that took freedom and liberty for all seriously or we will be remembered as a nation of cowards who, driven by fear, were willing to deprive this group, then that group, of their freedom -- before losing...

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• Why Israel’s Gilboa Prison Break has Palestanians Celebrating

  Opportunities for Palestinians to celebrate as a nation are few and far between, so when news broke of the escape of six high-profile Palestinian prisoners from one of Israel’s most notorious prisons, people took to the streets in triumph...

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Made from Truth and Lies

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  Interesting Links for 14-09-2021

  Hands-on with Facebook's first smart glasses(tags:transparentsociety glasses cameras facebook )UK's Chief Medical Officers Give Green Light To Covid Vaccines For All 12 To 15-Year-Olds(tags:uk pandemic children vaccination )American...

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  Interesting Links for 13-09-2021

  No indyref2 until all Covid restrictions lifted(tags:pandemic independence referendum )Early Data Shows Booster Jab Is "Very Effective" At Driving Down Covid(tags:vaccination ) Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there...

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  Interesting Links for 12-09-2021

  The man who saved 2,700 lives on 911(tags:terrorism heroism )The story behind Labour's latest bit of infighting(tags:labour Doom OhForFucksSake corruption )Covid in Scotland: Infection rate jumps to record one in 45(tags:Scotland pandemic...

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www.gurukalehuru.com

• Back in Prague

  We are home again after an absolutely brilliant two day trip to Berlin. The last thing we did was take a boat tour on the river Spree (I think Spreefahrt is an absolutely hysterical word – the joys of the … Continue reading →...

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• Being Banned

  I just attempted to post the following comment, in response to the direct question “Do you believe in God?” and was immediately met with a red outline around my comment and ‘you have been banned from posting or commenting for … Continue...

  a day ago

• Berlin, Day 1

  What a happening city this is! Like Prague in that you’re likely to see something artistic and interesting just walking down the street, but maybe even more so. After checking into our hotel and meeting my brother and his family, … Continue...

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