Friday, October 15, 2021

15 October - Blogs I'm Following - 5 of 5

10:15 pm MDT

Need To Know21 hours ago
Healthy 16-year-old boy Dies During Online Class after Second Pfizer Jab
A healthy 16-year-old boy reportedly received his second shot of Pfizer’s COIVD-19 injection on April 3, and the boy died on April 27, according to a VAERS entry posted by his mother. read more
Need To Know21 hours ago
Get Vaccinated or Starve: German State Allows Grocery Stores to ban the Unvaccinated
In Hesse, Germany, all retailers including grocery stores can now decide whether they want to allow the unvaccinated in their stores. Hesse includes Frankfurt, the second-largest metropolitan region in Germany. read more
The Rio Times21 hours ago
U.S. lawmakers urge Biden to review ties with Brazil over Bolsonaro
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Lawmakers sent Biden a letter urging him to pressure Brazil's president to prevent electoral manipulation, corruption and deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. In the letter, they urged Biden to send "a clear message" to Bolsonaro that should he pursue his attacks on the electoral process in Brazil, bilateral ties would […] The post U.S. lawmakers urge Biden to review ties with Brazil over Bolsonaro appeared first on The Rio Times. read more
The Rio Times21 hours ago
LATAM seeks new extension of time to submit restructuring plan
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The company said in a statement that the petition "supports continued progress in negotiations with the several stakeholders in the Chapter 11 proceeding" of the U.S. Bankruptcy Act, which it voluntarily resorted to in May 2020 after the economic blow delivered by the pandemic. The decision, which allows a company […] The post LATAM seeks new extension of time to submit restructuring plan appeared first on The Rio Times. read more
The Rio Times21 hours ago
Brazil Police deport former diplomatic representative of Venezuela dictator Maduro
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The chavista general is accused of corruption, and has been hiding in the Venezuelan embassy to Brazil for the past two years. Barroso was not always engaged in diplomatic activities. Between 2006 and 2013, that is, for 7 years, he was president of the Foreign Exchange Administration Commission (CADIVI), the […] The post Brazil Police deport former diplomatic representative of Venezuela dictator Maduro appeared first on The Rio Times. read more
The Rio Times21 hours ago
Brazil São Paulo lifts minimum distancing in schools, cinemas and theaters
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - With the decision, all seats and chairs in these spaces may be occupied. However, the municipal administration recommends that proof of vaccination against Covid-19, with at least one dose, be requested. This requirement is mandatory for events gathering over 500 people. The spacing requirement will also be waived for schools, […] The post Brazil São Paulo lifts minimum distancing in schools, cinemas and theaters appeared first on The Rio Times. read more
The Rio Times22 hours ago
Uruguay confirmed vaccination with booster doses for foreign tourists when reopening borders
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The measure was agreed yesterday afternoon in a meeting between President Luis Lacalle Pou and Minister of Tourism Tabaré Viera, the latter said at a press conference. The agreement entails offering foreigners entering the country from November 1 both third doses for adults and first doses for children under 18 […] The post Uruguay confirmed vaccination with booster doses for foreign tourists when reopening borders appeared first on The Rio Times. read more
Australian Daily Wind Power Generation Data – Thursday 14 October 2021
By Anton Lang ~ This Post details the daily wind power generation data for the AEMO coverage area in Australia. For the background information, refer to the Introductory Post at this link. Each image is shown here at a smaller size to fit on the page alongside the data for that day. If you click […] read more
White House Fakery Defended By Fact Checkers
By Tim Graham ~ When is a fake setting not a fake setting? When Joe Biden sits in front of it. The “independent fact checkers” – a phrase that in itself strains credulity – leaped to defend President Biden after he received a COVID booster shot in the Old Executive Office Building on September 27. […] read more
A Mad Rush For Coal As China And India Suspend Climate Correctness
By Vijay Raj Jayaraj ~ During the first week of October 2021, both India and China made desperate attempts to buy the stranded Australian coal shipments in China’s port warehouses. The coal shipments, which were originally intended to be imported into China, were left stranded at the port after China banned the import of Australian […] read more
Coming Thru The Windows
A Dry Bones Cartoon ~ Remember when Windows 10 was the LAST Windows? Read more by Yaakov Kirschen at Dry Bones . http://drybonesblog.blogspot.com/ read more
bilaterals.org20 hours ago
Africa-Turkey forum to promote investment and trade under AfCFTA
15-Oct-2021 On October 21 to 22, Turkish and African leaders together with corporate business directors, industrialist and investors are meeting under the theme “Deepening Turkey-Africa Strategic Partnership: Trade, Investment, Technology and Logistics”. read more
bilaterals.org20 hours ago
Petronas files for arbitration over Sudan's assets seizure
15-Oct-2021 PETROLIAM Nasional Bhd (Petronas) has led a request for arbitration at the International Centre for Settlement of Dispute in the absence of positive development on Sudan's transitional government's decision to confiscate the company's assets in Khartoum, Sudan. read more
GREENIE WATCH21 hours ago
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* UK: Electric trains ditched for diesel as green power costs skyrocket 200%* ELECTRIC trains are being ditched for diesel alternatives as the price to power them is said to have skyrocketed 200 percent in a worrying step backwards during a global energy crisis. Rail freight operators are now reportedly being forced to halt their electric locomotives and revert back to diesel trains in a move set to increase carbon emissions and journey times. Logistic firms have said soaring wholesale energy prices and a boost to track access charges has made electric, low-carbon trains impossib... read more
Modern Tokyo Times21 hours ago
Iran and Nuclear deal is a luxury that bypasses the fear of everyday life!
Iran and Nuclear deal is a luxury that bypasses the fear of everyday life! Kanako Mita and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The central state of Iran rules by fear. This concerns the most basic things in life – from how females dress, holding alternative political ideas, questioning political cronyism, seeking to follow a […] The post Iran and Nuclear deal is a luxury that bypasses the fear of everyday life! first appeared on Modern Tokyo Times. read more
War News Updates21 hours ago
Tweets Of The Day
VIDEO: Heavy fighting claimed at least six lives and left dozens wounded in Lebanon's capital as an escalation of tensions around last year's massive portside blast turned parts of Beirut into a war-zone pic.twitter.com/45CfytB3IG — AFP News Agency (@AFP) October 15, 2021 New World Health Organization group may be last chance to find Covid origins https://t.co/14wKXAOA54 — BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) October 14, 2021 #UPDATE Tens of thousands of Georgians flooded onto Tbilisi streets to demand release of jailed ex-president and opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili. Saakashvili ... read more
The Duran21 hours ago
How Vaccine Mandates Are Laying the Ground for a Civil War
Vaccine mandates are a particularly hot issue. Unlike many other key issues, this issue stretches directly into the personal lives of every citizen. The decision on whether or not the government should forcefully inject a vaccine into millions of Americans hits the personal lives of many more people than issues concerning taxes, the budget, education […] read more
The Duran21 hours ago
GOP Using TRUMP to Stop 2022 Populist Takeover
The aftermath of the 2020 election was a historic moment for the Republican Party. For the first time in recent history, a Republican President managed to convince a large chunk of his own Party to solely support him and withdraw their support for the GOP. The Republicans unexpectedly went on to lose their majority in […] read more
The Duran21 hours ago
Sistahs Are Doin’ It For Themselves
Men are more violent than women; they commit the vast majority of violent crimes, including murders, but in this age of equality, the ladies are catching up. Even so, they are appalled at “male violence”, “gendered violence”, misogyny…Take the Labour MP Claudia Webbe, for example. In July last year, an off-duty police officer assaulted a […] read more
OrientalReview.org22 hours ago
Soft Power In Politics And Diplomacy (II)
Part I The factors of soft power’s influence It has been already two last decades recognized worldwide that soft power is an extremely significant instrument in both politics and diplomacy in the hands of many states but especially those whom we can call as great powers as they are the […] read more
Dances With Bears22 hours ago
WHO’S TO BLAME FOR THE GAS SHORTAGE & RISING PRICES IN EUROPE – IT’S THE EUROPEAN UNION STUPID
Translated and introduced by John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with In official testimony to the European Parliament last week, the European Union Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson, attacked Russia for “exacerbating the tight [supply] balance” and thus causing “the rising prices”. Responding to allegations against Gazprom, Simson promised an investigation. “We are looking into this claim, through our […] read more
Scientists Say Mysterious Radio Waves Are Coming from the Center of the Milky Way
See also: – ‘Unique’ radio waves coming from heart of Milky Way discovered An ‘unusual’ radio wave sent from the middle of the Milky Way has experts confused Strange radio waves emerge from the direction of the galactic center ‘Extraordinary’ radio waves from the heart of the Milky Way discovered by scientists – Scientists Say … read more
Gravitas: ‘Strange’ Radio Waves Detected from the Heart of the Milky Way
Mysterious radio waves coming from the heart of the Milky Way baffle astronomers by CHRISTOPHER BRITO, https://www.cbsnews.com/ Astronomers have detected mysterious radio waves coming from the center of the Milky Way, but so far they have no idea what’s causing it, according to a new study published Tuesday in the Astrophysical Journal. – A team … read more
Modern Tokyo Times23 hours ago
Japan election preparations: Opposition need apathetic non-voters to vote
Japan election preparations: Opposition need apathetic non-voters to vote Kanako Mita, Sawako Utsumi, and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) usually wins the general election in Japan apart from the odd shock. Hence, in 2009, the inept leadership of Taro Aso (LDP) lost to the estrange Yukio Hatoyama, representing the […] The post Japan election preparations: Opposition need apathetic non-voters to vote first appeared on Modern Tokyo Times. read more
Steve St Angelo: The Squeeze in Natural Gas Now Will Happen in Silver
Silver Bullion TV SBTV spoke with Steve St Angelo of the SRSRocco Report about how the squeeze in natural gas supplies in Europe right now has sent prices soaring and how the same just-in-time inventory mechanics will eventually happen in silver. Steve St Angelo’s SRS Rocco Report: https://srsroccoreport.com Discussed in this interview: – 00:00 Introduction … read more
Analysis: Hurricanes Have Not Gotten More Intense, Frequent Over Past 170 Years
Originally posted on NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT: By Paul Homewood ? ?Yet another study gives the lie to the claim that hurricanes are getting worse because of climate change: ? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24268-5 ? It is significant that all of the study’s authors are acknowledged to be leading experts on hurricanes, unlike the theoretical… read more
New study confirms Sun/Cosmic-Ray climate connection 
Originally posted on Tallbloke's Talkshop: Credit: Institute of Physics This looks like progress, although more research will be needed to try to better understand how the relevant effects work in practice. – – – A new study published in Nature Scientific Reports by researchers at the Danish National Space Institute at the Technical University… read more
Why The Left Cancels Any Climate Questioning
Originally posted on Science Matters: (KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images) Daniel Turner writes at The Spectator Big Tech is censoring the climate change debate. Excerpts in italics with my bolds. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1922 Wittgenstein wrote that as an ontological and epistemological foundation for his larger belief in freedom of speech. He who controls… read more
These Military Leaders Suffered Some of the Worst Defeats in History
*James Jay Carafano* *History, * The "inevitable general" sure had a disapointing career. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *War is an extension of politics, and if commanders don’t help secure the desired political ends, they get a failing grade. And if they not only fail to deliver, but wind up sinking their own side in the process, and change history, they earn a spot in the Hall of Military Shame. How do you measure military leaders? When all is said and done, it doesn’t matter how nice, brave, courageous, gutsy, loyal or brilliant commanders they’ve been. It doesn’t matte... read more
New Mandala21 hours ago
Alatas and autonomous knowledge
Ideas for an autonomous social science tradition have influenced scholars for two generations. The post Alatas and autonomous knowledge appeared first on New Mandala. read more
Strong and shallow M6.4 earthquake hits Solomon Islands
A strong and shallow earthquake registered by the USGS as M6.4 hit Solomon Islands at 02:44 UTC on October 15, 2021. The agency is reporting a depth of 22.6 km (14 miles). EMSC is reporting M6.4 at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles). The epicenter was located 147 km (91...... Read more » read more
Other news
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War News Updates22 hours ago
US Army’s Precision Strike Missile Breaks Distance Record
Lockheed Martin conducted a flight test of the Army's Precision Strike Missile in May 2021. (Photo courtesy of Lockheed Martin) *Defense News:** US Army’s Precision Strike Missile breaks distance record in flight test* The U.S. Army’s Precision Strike Missile broke its distance record in a flight test at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, Oct. 13, according to an Oct. 14 Lockheed Martin statement. Lockheed Martin is the PrSM developer. The company and the Army have conducted five consecutive successful flight tests. The company did not disclose the distance the PrSM tr... read more
What the pesticide industry’s been hiding from you – DIOXINS in diapers among other things: The Poison Papers expose decades of collusion between industry and regulators
Originally posted on Rangitikei Environmental Health Watch: For example, a secret high-level dioxins working group at the EPA acknowledged that dioxins are extraordinarily poisonous chemicals – yet the agency suppressed the fact that dioxins were found in everyday products such as diapers and coffee filters. And, the EPA suppressed its own research that found high… read more
Communication towers kill about 6.8 million birds every year (University Sthn California)
Originally posted on Rangitikei Environmental Health Watch: We’ve all seen these towers around the countryside in NZ. They too are killing birds. Add to that the emfs from the phone masts, then 1080 in our environment is it any wonder some of our birds face extinction? EWR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWlr_UEWOiY&fbclid=IwAR3I_CyCq7CAkj4YStE06Hgv4HDhZtGWo3OghUX3sghdjBx8NNmOEQUDhWg USC 24.4K subscribers Visit USC on YouTube:… read more
Planting Seeds
Originally posted on SMARTER THAN CROWS: With lockdown continuing and spring approaching I’m focusing on the present. It’s helping me to stay focused and grounded, and not to spiral into the increasingly distressing land of ‘what if’. I love growing plants from seed. There is something magical about these tiny, dry marvels that lifts my… read more
We don’t give up
Originally posted on LANDBACK Friends: This first video is an update about what is happening now on the Wet’suwet’en territories. The video at the end, INVASION, was released in November, 2019, and gives an excellent overview of the struggles of the Wet’suwet’en peoples to protect their land and water. The story is well told, but… read more
Small Dead Animals22 hours ago
Oddments For The Weekend
Including scenes of DIY policing; a masterclass in stealth redistribution; an illustration of ocean depth; and a surprisingly lively leaf-blowing drama. All this and more. read more
Small Dead Animals23 hours ago
Courage Rising
But the Leftist hordes are out in force in the comments. #EnemiesAtTheGates read more
It’s Probably Nothing
Satellite imagery of LA Palma pic.twitter.com/wL6uZRFv1i — Adam (@AdamK1ger) October 15, 2021 La Palma Volcano Eruption Webcam More images and video here. read more
October 15, 2021: Reader Tips
This evening we present Special Mission Lady Chaplin, a fun, action filled film from 1966. Your equally fun, or more serious, tips of the past 24 hours are most welcome! read more
Snopes.com1 day ago
Bill Clinton in Hospital for Non-COVID-Related Infection
Former President Bill Clinton was admitted to a Southern California hospital with an infection but he is “on the mend,” his spokesman said. read more
Aggie Climate Joke
After failing badly with their climate forecasts ten years ago, Texas A&M professors are back with even more nonsensical prophecies. read more
ClimateCite1 day ago
Climate Science: Let the Data Speak
Friends of Science Society’s 18th Annual Event, online, is pleased to present Dr. Guus Berkhout, president of CLINTEL, as our first speaker on Oct. 2, 2021 at 10am MDT. CLINTEL is the international climate intelligence unit operating out of The Netherlands which has more than 900 signatory scientists and scholars who state there is no climate emergency and we do … read more
ClimateCite1 day ago
Inconvenient Tornado Data Disappears
Not A Lot of People Know That By Paul Homewood | October 13, 2021 For years NOAA have included this page on the tornado section of their website: One of the main difficulties with tornado records is that a tornado, or evidence of a tornado must have been observed. Unlike rainfall or temperature, which may be measured by a … read more
Interstitial lung disease – Diagnosis and treatment.
Interstitial lung disease – Diagnosis and treatment – Mayo Clinic https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/interstitial-lung-disease/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20353113 read more

Seven oiled Western Snowy Plovers have been recovered from beaches in Orange County. Thankfully, Bird Rescue has years of hands-on rehabilitation experience caring for this threatened bird species. The post Details Make a Difference for Snowy Plover Patients appeared first on International Bird Rescue. read more 

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