22 September - iG Tab - 9

 

Utopia – you are standing in it!

• Power mad: This devastating audit lays bare the costly errors

  Originally posted on NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT: By Paul Homewood ? Matt Ridley has got this article in the Mail today: ? ? Had it not been so exceptionally calm in the run up to this autumn equinox, one could call the energy crisis a perfect storm...

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• British Shorthair Cat is getting his daily brushing

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• The Lethal Tank Destroyers (Not Tanks) of World War II

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TARPLEY.net

• California shows US future once again!

  Newsom’s landslide win in California recall marks failure for GOP‘s anti-social ”health freedom” demagogy: Silent Majority of Vaccinated emerges despite media focus on loudmouth rejection front; Time for Dems to take gloves...

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• Biden cements alliances with Australia and Great Britain to secure Pacific, ward off China

  United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|September 16, 2021 Protest march Saturday in support of MAGAt January 6 defendants is wild card that could go in any direction: Gen. Honore warns DC authorities...

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• Webster G. Tarpley TARPLEY.net September 14, 2021 September 14 marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, one of the greatest architects of civilization: Onorate l’altissimo poeta.

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Sustainable Pulse

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  Did Illegal Global GMO Rice Contamination Come from Indian GMO Field Trials?

  As GMWatch recently reported, five hundred tons of Indian GMO rice have been mistakenly used in many countries to make, among other things, sweets for Mars, the world’s leading confectionary manufacturer. No GMO rice has been authorized...

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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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sunshine hours

• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 264 – 2021

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 261 – 2021

  The Arctic is closer to being 1 STD than it is to 2012s record low. . South / North

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 258 – 2021

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Stagecraft and Statecraft

• A Crippling Blow to the Global War on Terror

  The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, the greatest jihadist victory in modern times, will give rise to a terrorist super-state that serves as a magnet for violent Islamists from around the world. The US-led global war on terror, which...

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• Biden has made the world’s deadliest terrorists great again

  The U.S.-led war on terror, in the global imagination, has become associated with U.S. surveillance excesses, torture, renditions, and regime-change military interventions. America’s Afghan defeat, drenched in the blood of betrayal...

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• 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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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

• Today: The Salem Witch Trials

  The following appeared in The Writer’s Almanac: On this day in 1692 eight citizens of the colony of Massachusetts were hanged for their supposed connections to witchcraft. Theirs were the last of the deaths caused by the Salem Witch Trials...

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• Aaron Regunburg: Rhode Island Governor McKee Awards Fat Contract to Political Donors

  Aaron Regunburg began his career as a leader of the Providence Student Union. He subsequently served in the legislature and ran in the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor, capturing 49% of the vote. He lost to Dan McKee, who is now Governor...

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• Iowa: School Board Rejects Mask Mandate After Some Parents Threaten to Remove Their Children

  The school board of Waukee, Iowa, planned to mandate masks, but then a campaign started in the community against the mandate. Faced with threats to “make the district pay” by withdrawing students, the board voted down the mask mandate...

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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• Moray East Offshore Windfarm Costings

  By Paul Homewood Andrew Montford has updated his costings for Moray East offshore wind farm: A year ago, I looked at the acccounts of Moray East, the first of the (allegedly) very cheap offshore windfarms that are supposed to be saving us from...

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• Don’t Upset China, Say Greens

  By Paul Homewood   Roger Harrabin talks to his green chums, and comes away more confused than ever!         China will be urged at the UN next week to speed up the timetable for curbing its planet-heating carbon emissions. It will be nudged...

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• The Impossibility Of The 1.5C Target

  By Paul Homewood As you will recall, the Paris Agreement set a target of 2C warming from pre-industrial levels, but parties agreed to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C. These of course were only “wishes”, and the...

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NoTricksZone

• Preposterous Projection By German Green Party Chancellor Candidate: 7 Meters Sea Level Rise By 2100!

  German Green Party chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock warn sea levels will rise 7 meters by the year 2100… The German Greens, who weeks earlier surged to the No. 1 position in opinion polls, before falling back behind the socialists...

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• Shortening Northern Europe Summers…August Temperatures Have Been Cooling Since, JMA Data Suggest

  Late summers have been cooling across far northern Europe…September: Finland braces for one of its coldest this century, mercury drops to -6.4°C  By Kirye and Pierre Last month we looked at July mean temperature data from the stations...

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• Oceans Were More ‘Acidic’ In The 1730s…Today’s CO2 Levels Are Geologically Trifling

  A new study shows ocean pH (“acidification”) levels naturally vary seasonally and decadally at rates and magnitudes far exceeding those attributed to anthropogenic activity. In recent decades the oceans’ average pH level has fallen...

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NEPC Blog Post of the Day

• Answer Sheet: Charter Schools Are Publicly Funded — But There’s Big Money in Selling Them

  Answer Sheet: Charter Schools Are Publicly Funded — But There’s Big Money in Selling Them Back in March, I wrote about a report by a public education advocacy group, the Network for Public Education, that explained how many for-profit...

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• School Finance 101: What Does Research Say About Charter–District School Spending Differences?

  School Finance 101: What Does Research Say About Charter–District School Spending Differences? Many of us are frequently bombarded with claims that district schools have a huge revenue and spending advantage over charter schools, and...

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  Curmudgucation: PA: A Different Tax Credit Approach

  Curmudgucation: PA: A Different Tax Credit Approach One of the great voucher-promotion dodges is the Tax Credit Scholarship. In this, I give a bunch of money to a "scholarship organization," and they use the money to foot some student bills...

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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...

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• 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...

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The Moderate Voice

• ChartJunk of the day, from the NYTimes

  I saw the headline in Memeorandum, but skipped the click because I anticipated fearmongering. Never in my wildest dreams could I have anticipated that bar chart on the right. It came my way via Twitter. How bad is this? Let’s count the ways...

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• Who Sent the Men on Horseback with Whips to Hunt Down Black Haitians Like Cattle?

  Whomever ordered this atrocity, is responsible. The men on horseback, in several photos I saw are also jerking the heads of the horses so hard, the metal bits are cruelly cutting into the horse’s mouths. No care for human beings let alone horses...

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• Stop, Look and Don’t Touch By Thomas Hoffman

  A new way to get people to respect your personal space is on the market. This new safeguard is called “ Social Bands.” These “social distancing” wristbands are color-coded to reveal a person’s comfort level with touching. A red wristband...

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Marginal REVOLUTION

• How the game of *Life* evolved

  The game underwent numerous updates over the years. The early emphasis on money to determine the winner had been “indicative of what sold in that era,” George Burtch, the former vice president of marketing for Hasbro, which acquired Milton...

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• Wednesday assorted links

  1. Vitalik Buterin fellowships in existential safety. 2. I wanted to send this article to someone, yet no one is really an appropriate recipient, so I am putting it here (NYT). 3. Chess problem of attacking Queens is solved. 4. Memorial to a Swedish...

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• My Conversation with Amia Srinivasan

  I am pleased to have had the chance to do this, as in my view she is one of the thinkers today who has a) super smarts, b) breadth and depth of reading, and c) breadth and depth of thinking.  That combination is rare!  That said, I don’t quite agree...

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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...

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MintPress News

• Eric Schmidt Cashes in on Artificial Intelligence Arms Race

  As the Pentagon drives a hi-tech arms race to maintain its global military superiority, ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is the man at the center. Behind The Headlines’ Dan Cohen investigates how the U.S. empire’s drive to control the world...

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• Havana Syndrome, Directed Energy Weapons, and the New Cold War

  While the jury is still out on who committed the attacks against U.S. officials, or even whether there were any attacks at all, directed energy weapons certainly do exist. Havana Syndrome might be science fiction, but directed energy weapons...

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• From Glorious Millennia to Death and Destruction: Zionists Rewrite Palestine’s Story

  The Zionist narrative is arguably responsible for the welcoming and forgiving attitude the entire world has towards the horrendous, unforgivable crimes committed by Israel since its founding in 1948. The post From Glorious Millennia to...

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Made from Truth and Lies

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  I need to know when you last experienced physical media

  View poll: #26151 Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there.

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  Interesting Links for 22-09-2021

  "Why I Can't Write Competence Porn"(tags:competency scifi writing )We are living through a Russia-controlled fossil fuel shock. Net zero is the solution - not the problem(tags:electricity energy russia uk europe renewables )r/BritishFoodShortages...

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  Interesting Links for 21-09-2021

  Watch the Russian election being stolen, in real-time!(tags:russia corruption elections )Apparently liberals tricked Republicans into not getting vaccinated.I...I think we might be living in the stupidest timeline.(tags:politics...

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www.gurukalehuru.com

• Thoughts on Emma Raducanu

  Up until about a week ago, I’d never heard of Emma Raducanu. That is not surprising. I’m not a huge sports fan, and tennis less than most sports. But that’s not really the point of this blog.I just read an … Continue reading →...

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• The Point of Religion

  I was just reading a tweet and it started off with a complaint about Rabbis being so persnickety with the rules of Kosher and I thought she (the tweeter) was going to touch on one of my favorite beefs with … Continue reading →...

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• Conspiracy Theories

  Conspiracy theories are the biggest straw man among all the straw men that get employed in almost every argument, sooner or later. It is repeated, over and over, with a sneering expression, until everybody’s against it, whether or not they...

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