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Utopia – you are standing in it!

• ACT’s new Mobile Office

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• The Armistice (11:00AM / 11th day / 11th month / 1918 )

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• Freeman and Champ on the Asian financial crisis

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TARPLEY.net

• Time to end haggling in Congress and pass both bills!

  Dem losses in 2021 elections shaped by backlash against Washington logjam, but ultra-left Dems reject obvious lesson of unity and double down on sabotage of Biden’s program, despite direct appeal from President; Rebellion of a few right-wing...

  4 days ago

• House ultra-lefts must vote to pass $1.2 trillion for infrastructure, preferably before Tuesday’s crucial Virginia vote!

  Social investment bill needs to restore paid family leave, two years of free community college, and tax on the assets of the super-rich; Ultra-left rejection of Biden’s pre-flight appeal is new low in their lack of message discipline; Beware...

  11 days ago

• 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...

  18 days ago

Sustainable Pulse

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  Glyphosate Residue Free Certification Sees Record Growth with $336 Million Market Increase

  The Glyphosate Residue Free market grew by a massive 170% year on year, with an increase of market size from $197 Million to $533 Million. The Detox Project released their latest data on the Glyphosate Residue Free certification market on Tuesday...

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  Legal Petition Challenges US EPA Inaction on Factory Farm Air Pollution

  As President Biden continues to promise that his administration will address the climate crisis and protect the air we breathe from industrial polluters, 24 advocacy organizations are demanding his Environmental Protection Agency live...

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  What is the Relationship Between Pesticides and Sleep Disorders?

  Being heavily exposed to bug and weedkillers might render you prone to sleep disorders. According to studies published over the past decade, pesticides appear to be significant risk factors for conditions that prevent people from sleeping...

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sunshine hours

• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 310 – 2021

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 305 – 2021

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 301 – 2021

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Stagecraft and Statecraft

• Why the U.S. let Pakistan nuclear scientist AQ Khan off the hook

  Decision could still come back to haunt Washington Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia The incredible story of A.Q. Khan, the Netherlands-trained Pakistani metallurgist who — with impunity — ran an illicit global nuclear-smuggling network...

  12 days ago

• 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...

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• 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...

  a month ago

Ramani's blog

• Forging Thirukkural By Christians ,How It was Executed

  They unearthed the "originals" of all the photographs produced by Iyer as proof of his research – writings on strips of brown paper cut to resemble medieval palm frond writings, pasted on sheets of white paper...

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• How Christianity Attempted To Forge Thirukkural as Inspired by Bible Exposed By Court

  Christianity seems to have lost its Ethical works, including The Bible,which, incidentally was compiled three hundred years after the death of Christ,that the Church tried to forge Thirukkural and prove that it was inspired by the Bible!...

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• Rajendra Chola Donated Siva Temple Now Santhome Church Chennai

  Am providing images of these Epigraphs. Shocked to see that these were indexed in 1967! The department of archaeology notes in each of the Epigraphs that it belongs to 12 AD and by Rajendra Chola and yet kept quiet. What happened to history? Shameful...

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Diane Ravitch's blog

• Texas: IDEA Public Schools Have Run Amuck, and No Excuses Exist for the State’s Unyielding Support

  You may remember IDEA as a free-spending charter chain in Texas. A few years ago, IDEA got negative publicity when its board of directors decided to lease a private jet at a cost of $x million per year. Then we learned that the schools had paid for...

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• Ohio: Public Schools Outperform Charter Schools Again

  Bill Phillis, retired deputy commissioner of education in Ohio, is a staunch advocate for the state system of common schools, which is guaranteed in the state constitution. He founded the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy. The question...

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• Massachusetts: Parent Coalition Protests New Charter in New Bedford

  Two leaders of the New Bedford Coalition to Save Our Schools—Cynthia Roy and Roberto Rosa—are outraged that the state is about to plunk a new charter school into their district. They expect the state will approve the “Innovators Charter...

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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• US Department of Defence Worries About The Weather

  By Paul Homewood The US Department of Defence obviously has nothing better to do than worry about climate change! dod-climate-risk-analysis-final4846 Most of the document is gobbledygook management speak, but the Foreword sums the whole...

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• A Potted History of Glaciers

  By Paul Homewood A friend recently suggested that “melting glaciers” must surely prove “global warming is true”. It is a common belief. After all, glaciers are a visible phenomenon and it all sounds logical. As you know, I have written...

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• The Role Of Critical Minerals In The Clean Energy Transition

  By Paul Homewood   Back in May, the IEA published an analysis on the role of critical minerals on the clean energy transition:     Minerals are essential components in many of today’s rapidly growing clean energy technologies – from...

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NoTricksZone

• COVID Vaccines Falling Like Dominoes…Unsafe, Ineffective. Naïve To Think It All Could Be Rushed

  Cardiovascular side effects: Now Taiwan halts Biontech after European countries pause Moderna, Johnson & Johnson and Astra Zeneca…governments extremely naïve to think years-long process could be winged in a matter of weeks. Over...

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• Temperature Bottom Falling Out: Antarctica’s Coldest Half-Year Since Measurements Began 60 Years Ago

  Antarctica sets a record cold six month period…Neumayer station sets new winter record low, sees rapid cooling since 2000! German Die kalte Sonne here features Antarctica’s record cold winter – the coldest since temperature measurements...

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• Europe’s Post-2000 (Mini) Droughts Far Less Severe, Prolonged Than Little Ice Age Megadroughts

  A new study affirms Europe’s worst one-year droughts of the 21st century (2003, 2015, and 2018) have been far less severe than the 50+ consecutive years of “megadroughts” linked to the solar-minima-induced coldest decades of the 15th...

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NEPC Blog Post of the Day

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  Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: The Myth That Better Schools Will Reduce Inequalities in Wealth and Health

  Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: The Myth That Better Schools Will Reduce Inequalities in Wealth and Health No secret now that U.S. inequalities in the distribution of wealth has reached the highest levels since the 1920s...

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  Curmudgucation: What Can Schools Learn From Learning Pods

  Curmudgucation: What Can Schools Learn From Learning Pods This is not hard. Really. Not hard at all. But Lisa Chu somehow dances around it. She's writing for the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), an advocacy group for charter-flavored...

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• Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Cult-Like Social-Emotional Learning? Questioning Valor Charters and Powered by Compass

  Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Cult-Like Social-Emotional Learning? Questioning Valor Charters and Powered by Compass How many hours during the school day should students reflect upon how they think and act? Valor Collegiate Charter...

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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...

  3 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...

  3 months ago

The Moderate Voice

• Veterans Day 2021: A Special Tribute to Our Women Veterans

  On November 11, America will once again honor all veterans who have served in our Armed Forces. Along with Memorial Day, Veterans Day also honors and mourns those who have died serving our country. Fresh in our memory are the thirteen brave service...

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• ‘He Should Be Expelled’: Republican Paul Gosar Shares Edited Video of Him Killing AOC

  “This man should not serve in Congress,” said Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). “Fantasizing about violently attacking your colleagues has no place in our political discourse and society.” by Jake Johnson Common Dreams Far-right Republican...

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• BIG BIRD ATTACKED BY BIG TURD (Cartoon, Column and Video)

  Senator and above-ground CHUD Ted Cruz has now attacked Big Bird for assuring children they don’t have to be afraid of the vaccines for the coronavirus. After American six-year-olds, became eligible for the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus...

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Marginal REVOLUTION

• China fact of the day

  Global concerns over inflation were also inflamed by data released earlier on Wednesday, showing that Chinese producer price inflation — the measure of what businesses pay each other for goods — rose 13.5 per cent in October from the same...

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• Economics is not very socioeconomically diverse model this

  Key stylized fact: Amongst US-born PhDs, Economics is less socioeconomically diverse than *all* the major PhD fields, including math, computer science, physical and biological sciences, and other social sciences. (3/N) pic.twitter.com/YWVvGqN1Rk...

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• Wednesday assorted links

  1. Can a submerged Tuvalu still be a state? 2. Your periodic reminder to read Matt Levine. 3. Ross Douthat on why we need new universities (NYT). 4. Ten podcast episodes of Agnes Callard and Robin Hanson.  With transcripts, and here is Robin’s...

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Lloyd Lofthouse

• Harold Meyerson: Manchin and Simena are not “Moderates”

  Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Harold Meyerson, one of my favorite commentators on current events, says that we should stop calling Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema “moderates.” How can one man and one woman block every proposal...

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• “Never for Glory,” a work in progress, the sequel to “The Patriot Oath”

  Never for Glory is the unfinished sequel of The Patriot Oath. With 25 completed chapters, there are about 10 to 15 left to finish the first draft. The first five chapters have already been presented to two of the four … Continue reading →...

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• Don’t Gamble with your Life or Health

  During a regular video conference last Wednesday morning, one of the six that showed up that morning said that being vaccinated didn’t end up offering as much protection as those who were infected by COVID.  He said that people that … Continue...

  12 days ago

MintPress News

• How Britain Aids Saudi Massacres in Yemen, with Phil Miller

  “The state is very sophisticated in how it deals with these whistleblowers and it knows it can rely on a very pliant media that is not going to follow up these stories.” -- Phil Miller The post How Britain Aids Saudi Massacres in Yemen, with...

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• What Is France Hiding in the Sahel?

  Reexamining and recalibrating its foreign policy towards Africa is something that may not appeal to France right now but it’s something that must be done. The post What Is France Hiding in the Sahel? appeared first on MintPress News...

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• The Facebook Team that Tried to Swing Nicaragua’s Election is Full of U.S. Spies

  A tacit agreement between the government and Facebook appears to have been made: you can keep the profits, but we control the message. As such, a cynic might wonder what functional difference there is between Facebook and the national security...

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Made from Truth and Lies

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  instagram cross-post

  Sunset Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there.

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  Interesting Links for 10-11-2021

  Malnutrition doubles to over 10,000 cases under Tory rule(tags:food conservatives UK OhForFucksSake )Tiny cute bat wins New Zealand's Bird of the Year poll(tags:birds bats funny )Moonfall looks like an amazingly ridiculous movie. I'm...

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  Interesting Links for 09-11-2021

  Ancient wild bees found at Blenheim Palace(tags:bees )The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything(tags:advice learning teaching )Portugal makes it illegal for your boss to text you after work(tags:portugal work working_hours...

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www.gurukalehuru.com

• Another PSA from the Grammar Police

  I am often accused of being a Grammar Nazi and, I suppose, if you are really adamant about your right to spell words any way you want to, and to place them into a sentence (which may or may not … Continue reading →...

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• Time, Gender, and Race

  There are three things that I’ve heard from a lot of people recently – well intentioned, intelligent people – that I just cannot agree with, even if I were to try. Perhaps I don’t understand the science well enough. It’s … Continue...

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• It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

  I just, like a few minutes ago, finished watching ‘It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,’ which was not really a biopic of Mr. Rogers, as it focused on just a couple of weeks out of his life, when he … Continue reading →...

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