Sunday, October 24, 2021

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Sustainable Pulse

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Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • Chinese President Xi Jinping seems eager for Taiwan to go the way of once-autonomous Tibet, which was gobbled up by Mao Zedong’s regime in the early 1950s. This would constitute the biggest threat to world peace in a generation, and … Continue...

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  • BY BRAHMA CHELLANEY, The Hill In a defiant speech on Aug. 31, President Biden claimed that his precipitous exit from Afghanistan, which facilitated the terrorist takeover of that country, would allow the United States to focus on...

    15 days ago
  • Naypyitaw’s generals treated as bigger threat than the terrorists controlling Kabul Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia No sooner had the Taliban completed their lightning-quick conquest of Afghanistan than U.S. Secretary of State Antony...

    23 days ago

Ramani's blog

Diane Ravitch's blog

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood   h/t Dennis Ambler   The potential risks of electromobility are being closely examined in Germany after a third major fire in a bus depot apparently caused by an electric bus. Public transport companies are taking action...

    5 hours ago
  • By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby     The Committee on Climate Change have been caught cheating:     Modelling used to justify the "feasibility" of the net zero target assumed a dramatic fall in the number of days of calm weather, when many...

    5 hours ago
  • By Paul Homewood   h/t Patsy Lacey   AEP is away with the fairies again:     https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/10/20/technology-saves-us-oxford-sees-26-trillion-gain-net-zero/ Try telling that to homeowners who will...

    2 days ago

NoTricksZone

NEPC Blog Post of the Day

Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Conceived in Liberty: Season 2, Episode 1 – Victor Davis Hanson from Ben Hannemann on Vimeo.

    2 months ago
  • 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...

    2 months ago
  • 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...

    2 months ago

The Moderate Voice

Marginal REVOLUTION

  • An elegant essay by Saumitra Jha on why tolerance between Hindus and Muslims evolved in India’s port cities. [W]here do institutions of tolerance emerge? Combining the historical accounts, the fieldwork, and the data, it became clear...

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  • Score and soundtrack: A+, Hans Zimmer Visual intelligence and sophistication: A+ Beauty: A+ Drama: I thought the first half was weak here, though the movie became progressively more gripping.  But too many of the proceedings felt stagey...

    7 hours ago
  • The most developed thesis of that book was that capitalist economies were in a state of constant excess supply (overproduction) whereas centrally planned economies were in a state of constant excess demand (shortage), and he drew out with...

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Lloyd Lofthouse

  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Denis Smith worked for many years in the Ohio State Department of Education, finishing his career in the Office of Charter Schools. He writes in the Ohio Capital Journal about the existential threat…...

    21 days ago
  • 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...

    2 months ago
  • 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…...

    2 months ago

MintPress News

Made from Truth and Lies

  • New Zealand trade deal is 'disgrace', says UK government climate adviser(tags:UK newzealand trade sheep environment )White House delays release of JFK assassination files "to protect against identifiable harm"(tags:assassination...

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  • Unite policy conference backs new voting system for UK general elections(tags:voting reform unions uk )If Clouds Are Made of Water, How Do They Stay in the Air?(tags:air physics water clouds heat )On holiday in sunny, sensible Portugal...

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  • Sophia's memory surprises me.I'd assumed that memories were lost as change happened. My working theory is that memories recorded on a mind that thinks one way can't be easily retrieved by a mind that thinks another, and that so as minds learn...

    2 days ago

www.gurukalehuru.com

  • My goal for this weekend is to finish my next book, which I believe is going to be called Sentience, unless I can come up with a better title. That is the title of what’s probably the longest poem in … Continue reading →...

    2 days ago
  • There is a phrase, which is often used to end an argument, but it is inevitably a bitter and unsatisfying end. “Life isn’t fair.”Well, of course it isn’t. Life is nothing more than energized matter, which has evolved from single …...

    4 days ago
  • I just watched a documentary on Netflix about nuclear power, hoping to get some more information on the science of it all, because of all the issues in the world, from homelessness to war in the Middle East, it’s the … Continue reading →...

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