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Utopia – you are standing in it!

• CCC’s Net Zero Plans Rely On Dramatic Rise In Windy Days

  Originally posted on NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT: 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...

  2 hours ago

• Several German cities halt use of e-buses following series of unresolved cases of fire

  Originally posted on 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...

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• Socialism explained

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TARPLEY.net

• Trump clones are losing power worldwide!

  Virtually unnoticed by US media, the reactionary-populist-dictatorial wave of the past half-dozen years is ebbing away, with Trump, Netanyahu, German CDU/CSU, Babis of Czech Republic, and Kurz of Austria already ousted and Duterte leaving...

  a day ago

• Biden calls on Garland’s Department of Justice to prosecute January 6 figures who defy subpoenas!

  House scheduled to vote on criminal referral for Bannon next Tuesday; Garland must defend nation, not his own vanity; Fascist armed militias and death threats (aka coercion) are illegal in all states; Following same unity method used by Navalny...

  8 days ago

• Time to aggressively prosecute Trump machine to the fullest extent of the law!

  House AND Senate committees close in on GOP crimes of January 6 and in months-long effort to use Department of Justice to subvert November vote count; Mitch blinks on debt default; Jobless rate falls from 5.2% to 4.8% in a month, but Wall Street’s...

  15 days ago

Sustainable Pulse

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  Expert Groups Urge European Health Commissioner to Base Glyphosate Assessment on Independent Science

  41 civil society organizations, including several of the organizers of the successful European Citizens’ Initiative #StopGlyphosate, have urged the EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides to guarantee that the ongoing assessment...

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  Switzerland Extends its GMO Ban Explicitly Covering Gene-Editing

  The Swiss National Council (lower house of the Swiss Federal Assembly, the parliament of Switzerland) has extended the moratorium on the cultivation of genetically modified plants in agriculture by another four years until the end of...

  18 days ago
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  Don’t Call Mother Nature a Sink!

  Guilty! Many of us in the regenerative agriculture movement describe the world’s soils as a “sink” into which excess atmospheric carbon can be stored, and we’ve been wrong. That mistake has diminished the appeal of our concepts and...

  24 days ago

sunshine hours

• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 288 – 2021

  . South / North

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 291 – 2021

  . South / North

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• Wind Turbine Fall Down Go Boom

  Only 13 years old. They die so young. “the company is asking the public to avoid the remote area, along with the sub-stations, access roads and more than 50 other wind turbines that populate the vast… More...

  10 days ago

Stagecraft and Statecraft

• Saving Tibet

  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...

  5 days ago

• Biden shifts to a more conciliatory approach toward China

  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

• A Striking Paradox: The U.S. Engages Taliban But Isolates Myanmar

  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

• Rig Vedic Women Sexually more Confident Than Men No Dowry Sati

  Women  had Upanayan ceremony conducted for them to initiate them into study of Vedas.They were allowed to choose their partners.They had swamvars conducted to choose their husbands.( There were five types of Marriages according to Shastras...

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• Shiva Temple Arizona US 10,000 Years Old Study By NATURE

  Now I have come across a research article in Nature and I am reproducing except from the expedition undertaken. The Shiva temple is dated at least 10,000 ago.

  22 days ago

• Navantika Ancient Indian Medical Text On Drugs In Oxford

  One important point is to find out where the ancient texts are now . One must remember that most of Indian philosophy,nay nearly all of it, has been transmitted orally since five thousand years ago.We should thank our ancestors for their foresight...

  22 days ago

Diane Ravitch's blog

• ProPublica: 11 Black Children Were Arrested in Rutherford County, Tennessee, for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist

  ProPublica and Nashville Public Radio investigated a case that happened in 2016, when the police arrested 11young children for a crime that doesn’t exist. What they found was not simply an outrageous miscarriage of justice, but a county...

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• Maryland Creates “Shadow” State Education Department, But Why?

  In this opinion piece in the Baltimore Sun, Kalman R. Hettleman describes the creation in Maryland of a new state agency that has the same functions as the Maryland State Department of Education and the power to override local control. This...

  an hour ago

• SomeDAM Poet: How to Be Free and Unvaxxed

  Our blog poet reverses the state motto of New Hampshire (“Live Free or Die”). “Die Free or Live” They made their bedAnd there they lieMay soon be deadBut free they’ll die

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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• Several German cities halt use of e-buses following series of unresolved cases of fire

  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

• CCC’s Net Zero Plans Rely On Dramatic Rise In Windy Days

  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

• AEP Loses The Plot (Again)!

  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

• German Energy Prices “Going Through The Roof”, Supply Tightens As Leaders Botch Energy Policy

  Political energy mismanagement in Germany now risks inflicting tremendous pain on citizens as energy shortages intensify and prices skyrocket.  Coming winter of discontent? Energy prices going through the roof By Fritz Vahrenholt...

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• German Energy Experts Warn Of Deindustrialization: “Saving World’s Climate From German Soil Is Illusory”

  German experts are warning new upcoming government that German energy woes are very serious. “Exploding prices”…”plant closures irresponsible”…”dramatic de-industrialization”…saving climate from German soil...

  2 days ago

• GBR, Indian Ocean, South China Sea Corals Have Experienced No Obvious Modern Warming

  New temperature reconstructions using coral skeletons as proxies reveal there has been no apparent net warming in the Great Barrier Reef, central Indian Ocean, and South China Sea since the 19th century – or even in recent decades. Coral...

  3 days ago

NEPC Blog Post of the Day

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  Shanker Blog: Returning to School During the Pandemic: An Opportunity to Integrate Social-Emotional AND Academic Learning

  Shanker Blog: Returning to School During the Pandemic: An Opportunity to Integrate Social-Emotional AND Academic Learning As we return to school in an ongoing pandemic, how do we support all learners to heal from what has been an overwhelming...

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• Alfie Kohn: Is Learning “Lost” When Kids Are Out of School?

  Alfie Kohn: Is Learning “Lost” When Kids Are Out of School? Anguish and even anger are entirely appropriate reactions to the fact that Covid-19 infection rates are still too high in most areas to permit the safe reopening of schools. Not...

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• Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Why Many Top-Down School Reforms Fail: Elementary Math in One District

  Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Why Many Top-Down School Reforms Fail: Elementary Math in One District Examples of top-down mandates from district, state, and federal policymakers without significant teacher or community...

  4 days ago

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.

  2 months ago

• 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...

  2 months 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...

  2 months ago

The Moderate Voice

• Higher Education and the Biden Bubble

  Here in Baltimore, Thursday evening, CNN hosted a Town Hall with the 46th President of the United States Joe Biden. During this 75 minute very structured and very scripted Q and A session, there was clear indication of who would be allowed to...

  a day ago

• Alec Baldwin says ‘my heart is broken’ after fatal movie set shooting

  Published by Reuters By Adria Malcolm and Alexandra Ulmer SANTA FE, N.M. (Reuters) – Hollywood star Alec Baldwin said on Friday “my heart is broken” after a cinematographer died when he fired a prop gun on a New Mexico movie set, adding...

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• We are filmmakers who work with firearms. This is what is important in on-set safety

  In a tragic accident, Alec Baldwin has fatally fired a prop gun on a film set in America. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP Christopher Gist, University of South Australia and Sarah Mayberry, The University of Melbourne In a horrendous accident...

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Marginal REVOLUTION

• Ports and Tolerance

  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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• *Dune*, the movie (no real spoilers)

  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

• Janos Kornai and the soft budget constraint

  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...

  9 hours ago

Lloyd Lofthouse

• Denis Smith: If We Lose Public Schools, We Lose Our Democracy

  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

• 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...

  2 months 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…...

  2 months ago

MintPress News

• Biden Administration Is Undermining the Venezuela Dialogue

  The Venezuelan people deserve better than another administration sabotaging a dialogue and imposing more deadly sanctions. The post Biden Administration Is Undermining the Venezuela Dialogue appeared first on MintPress News...

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• Report Reveals European Firms Have More Than $255B Entwined in Illegal Israeli Settlements

  The continuous settler takeover of Palestinian land has prevented Palestinians from developing and utilizing their resources and therefore significantly depleted their economy. The post Report Reveals European Firms Have More Than...

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• Facebook ‘Whistleblower’ Frances Haugen Represented by US Intelligence Insiders

  The background of Frances Haugen’s Whistleblower Aid legal team indicates she was cultivated to complete Facebook’s transformation into a vehicle for the US national security state. The post Facebook ‘Whistleblower’ Frances...

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Made from Truth and Lies

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  Interesting Links for 24-10-2021

  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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  Interesting Links for 23-10-2021

  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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  Life with two kids: The eternal sunshine of the three year old mind

  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

• Weekend Goal

  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

• Life Isn’t Fair

  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

• The Nuclear Argument

  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 →...

  5 days ago