23 November - iG Tab - 9

 

Utopia – you are standing in it!

• Regressive left alert

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• Fleetwood Mac – Everywhere

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• Monkey grooming dog

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TARPLEY.net

• House passes Build Back Better bill, 220 to 213; together with bipartisan infrastructure bill, these two measures add up to a second Franklin D. Roosevelt New Deal; So contact your senator and demand immediate action with no more cuts! House...

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• Trump’s ideologist Bannon finally indicted on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress by DC grand jury

  Move could open door to forcing cooperation from ex-chief of staff Mark Meadows, Gen. Michael Flynn, Stephen Miller, ex-DoJ official Jeffrey Clark, and other honchos of January 6 subversion; Will Garland eschew his abject appeasement of...

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• 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...

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Sustainable Pulse

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  California Supreme Court Finds in Favor of Roundup Weedkiller Cancer Victims

  California’s highest court rejected on Wednesday a challenge by Monsanto Co. to $86.2 million in damages to a couple who developed cancer after spraying the company’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed-killer in their yards for three decades...

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  US EPA Reveals Massive Damage to Endangered Species from Glyphosate and Atrazine

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has determined that the endocrine-disrupting pesticide atrazine and cancer-linked pesticide glyphosate are each likely to harm more than 1,000 of the nation’s most endangered plants and...

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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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sunshine hours

• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 318 – 2021

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 316 – 2021

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 315 – 2021

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Stagecraft and Statecraft

• Biden’s Taiwan test is coming

  BY BRAHMA CHELLANEY, The Hill Chinese President Xi Jinping, in power since 2012, has become increasingly emboldened in pursuing his expansionist agenda, in part because three successive American presidents have allowed him to act with...

  5 days ago

• App bans not enough. India must start imposing calibrated costs on China

  Brahma Chellaney, The Times of India In 1962, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) set out to “teach India a lesson” by waging a surprise war. Now, by stealthily encroaching on border areas in Ladakh and then deepening and broadening the …...

  5 days ago

• The steadily increasing risk of war between China and India

  Beijing’s use of domestic law underpins its international expansionism Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia The spotlight on the growing Chinese military threat against Taiwan has helped obscure China’s more serious military confrontation...

  11 days ago

Ramani's blog

• Spider’s Web Sounds Music Study

  We have Veda as Sapda pramana, that is a source of Knowledge, Sound meaning testimony. Sapda,Nadha precedes everything in the Universe. All things, Matter which comprise the Universe is in Perpetual Motion.And this is proved and attested...

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• Halal Jaggery For Sabarimala. Details

  Adminstration of Hindu temples must remember that it is not merely money that matters in running of temples,though it is necessary,but the sentiments and practices of the Temples and Hindu Agama are followed strictly.We have evidences of...

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• Piles Jaundice Mental Illness Treatment Temple Hospital Rajaraja Cholan Grandson

  What is special about Thirumukkodal Hospital is that it was located in the temple and inscriptions state details of donations given by the Chola King to run day today adminstration of the temple.Not only this. The inscriptions detail diseases...

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Diane Ravitch's blog

• Rittenhouse Benefitted from a Well-Funded Defense Team

  We have had some animated discussion on this blog about whether the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse was “fair,” since he walks away a free man despite murdering two men and maiming a third. Paul Butler, a law professor at Georgetown University...

  18 hours ago

• Arthur Camins: Tell It to Your School Board: We Demand Science and Care

  Arthur Camins is a retired science educator. In this post, he emphasizes the importance of teaching students to ask the right questions, rather than memorize the “right answers.” Camins begins his article: It is inescapable: Truths...

  19 hours ago

• Gratitude for a Celebration of Educators

  We are accustomed to reading depressing stories about demoralized teachers who are leaving their profession. They were demonized before the pandemic and during the pandemic, accused of not working hard enough and expecting more pay, blamed...

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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• In its rush to net-zero, the West is aligning itself with Chinese human rights abuses

  By Paul Homewood   Wise words indeed from IDS:   As the dust settles on the merry-go-round of Cop26, it is becoming very clear that the Chinese Communist Party has emerged in an even stronger position than it was in before the conference. Those...

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• Dozens of ships stuck in Arctic as ice freezes early

  By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby   More than two dozen cargo vessels are stuck in Russia’s Arctic ice, waiting for ice-breakers to come to their rescue, after an inaccurate forecast from the country’s Met Office. Maritime traffic in...

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• Britons face £15,000 bill for heat pump upgrade – report exposes ‘significant’ hidden cost

  By Paul Homewood    Perhaps the Express should have been reading this blog years ago, which has been warning about these astronomical costs:     BRITONS have been warned they face forking out up to £15,000 for the installation of heat pumps...

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NoTricksZone

• Physicists: Climate Model Error Overestimates CO2 Impact On Global Temps By Factor Of 5

  A new study suggests CO2 molecules have little consequential impact affecting outgoing radiation, and that climate models attribute global temperature effects to CO2 that are fundamentally erroneous. Russian physicists (Smirnov and...

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• German Physician Warns Already Vaxxed: “Don’t Get Another Shot Under Any Circumstances!“

  German public health expert, physician, warns those who have already been vaccinated: “Don’t get another shot under any circumstances!“ German physician and public health expert Wolfgang Wodarg is a leading critic of COVID-19 panic...

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• Below Normal Extremes…2021 Northern Hemisphere Cyclone Activity Below Normal…US Tornadoes Below Normal

  By meteorologist Paul Dorian The accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) is the best measure of overall tropical activity and it is below-normal for the 2021 season across the Northern Hemisphere. Data: Colorado State University, NOAA Overview...

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NEPC Blog Post of the Day

• Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Universal Pre-K? Good Idea But Concerns About the Curriculum

  Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Universal Pre-K? Good Idea But Concerns About the Curriculum Most politicians, including presidential candidates, highlight Universal Pre-K (UPK). President Biden is no different. It’s good that...

  19 hours ago

• Radical Eyes for Equity: Conservatives Seeking Education as a Buffet of Ignorance

  Radical Eyes for Equity: Conservatives Seeking Education as a Buffet of Ignorance Several decades ago, the following true story about teaching in a small, conservative Southern town, seemed like a once-in-a-career experience: A new social...

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• Janresseger: National Education Policy Center’s New Brief on Critical Race Theory Is a Must-Read for All Americans

  Janresseger: National Education Policy Center’s New Brief on Critical Race Theory Is a Must-Read for All Americans The National Education Policy Center’s new brief, Understanding the Attacks on Critical Race Theory,  is essential...

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The Moderate Voice

• The American Economy Needs More Immigrants

  Even prior to the Covid 19 pandemic, American businesses needed more workers. But since the pandemic started, more workers have retired and have decided not to return to work. Not only is there a current need for more workers, but the future...

  19 hours ago

• Anti-Rittenhouse Hysteria

  People displaying anti-Rittenhouse hysteria haven’t proven that Kyle Rittenhouse intended to kill someone when he went to Kenosha, Wisconsin. At the same time, Rittenhouse is no hero. Sure, the 2nd Amendment says that he has a right to...

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• Hero or vigilante? Rittenhouse verdict reignites polarized U.S. gun debate

  Published by Reuters By Joseph Ax (Reuters) – Kyle Rittenhouse’s acquittal on murder charges on Friday opened yet another front in America’s longstanding fight over gun rights: Is it acceptable for a teenager to bring an assault-style...

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Marginal REVOLUTION

• Best non-fiction books of 2021

  What an incredible year for non-fiction books!  But let me first start with two picks from 2020, buried under the avalanche of Covid news then, and missed because I was less mobile than usual.  These books are not only good enough to make this...

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• By any other name

  The Northern Territory’s Covid-19 outbreak is expected to grow beyond locked-down areas after nine new cases were detected in the remote community of Binjari, about 320km south of Darwin. Binjari and nearby Rockhole have been placed into...

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• From John Harland on Quora

  Identity confusion is a potential hazard for autistic people. Neurotypical people characteristically develop a “personality” that they use to define and to ground themselves. That is the mask through which they interact with society...

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Lloyd Lofthouse

• Rittenhouse Benefitted from a Well-Funded Defense Team

  Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: We have had some animated discussion on this blog about whether the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse was “fair,” since he walks away a free man despite murdering two men and maiming a third.…...

  15 hours ago

• 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...

  17 days ago

• “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 →...

  21 days ago

MintPress News

• The Ultimate Dog Whistle: World Misses Israel’s Hebrew-Language Incitement Against Palestinians

  Israeli State-sponsored terrorism and incitement against the Palestinians are not new. The intensity that we currently see, particularly since the uprising of May 2021, is a serious cause for concern.  The post The Ultimate Dog Whistle...

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• Raids, Arrests and Death Threats: Israel’s Strategy of Silencing Human Rights Defenders

  Now that Israel seems to have accepted that there is little it can do to reverse this brand, it is accelerating its colonial efforts, while hunkering down for a long fight ahead. The post Raids, Arrests and Death Threats: Israel’s Strategy...

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• “No Mas!” Nicaragua Quits OAS as EU Tries to Undermine Venezuela Elections

  Countries like Nicaragua and Venezuela should be applauded for rejecting the overt hypocrisy, hubris, and cruelty of the West, and for asserting their right to national sovereignty. The post “No Mas!” Nicaragua Quits OAS as EU Tries...

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Made from Truth and Lies

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  Interesting Links for 22-11-2021

  Wearing socks in bed increases your chance of orgasm(tags:clothes orgasm socks )Wolves make roadways safer, generating large economic returns to predator conservation(tags:wolves cars economics viaCharlesStross )When younger siblings...

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  Interesting Links for 21-11-2021

  TDoR 2021: Remembering the 462 transgender people killed in the last year(tags:murder transgender LGBT viacmcmck )Wired's 90s predictions of how the future could go wrong have basically all happened(tags:thefuture predictions Doom...

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  instagram cross-post

  The castle looked quite nice from the wheel yesterday Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there.

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www.gurukalehuru.com

• No Pets for the Persians

  O.K., I need to start off with a bit of a conditional apology. Yesterday, I called a few people right wing liars for saying that Rittenhouse’s victims had criminal records. This morning I checked Snopes (which had nothing – they … Continue...

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• The Ugly Verdict

  Like decent human beings everywhere, I am extremely distressed by the verdict in the trial of the murderer, Kyle Rittenhouse. Sure, we knew this verdict was coming, but that doesn’t really soften the blow. More than that, I am extremely …...

  3 days ago

• Why was Red Notice a Hit?

  A couple of days ago I watched ‘Red Notice’ on Netflix, an entirely forgettable film starring The Rock, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot. Exactly what I expected, and what the trailers had portrayed. It was a totally formulaic film about …...

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