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Republicans fail to shut down federal government
Divided Hill Republicans fail to shut down federal government at midnight Friday; GOP had sought to block money for shots and masks; funding lasts through February 18; Unemployment keeps falling to 4.2%, a remarkable achievement despite...
What ever happened to the fight against Wall Street?
In recent years, predators of international high finance have run wild without accountability as spotlight was shifted to race, gender, climate, and anti-vaccine; But while campaign against Wall Street could aspire to 99% support, these...
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...
Sustainable Pulse
Global Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples Demand UN FAO Cuts Ties with Pesticide Industry
On Friday, civil society and indigenous peoples organizations delivered more than 187,300 petition signatures from over 107 countries to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General Qu Dongyu, demanding...
New German Government Confirms Glyphosate Ban and Aims for 30% Organic Agriculture by 2030
The new coalition government in Germany has confirmed that glyphosate-based herbicides will be banned in the country from the end of 2023, as part of a wider agreement to reduce the use of toxic chemical inputs in agriculture, Reuters reported...
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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Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 343 – 2021
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Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 337 – 2021
2021 Arctic was higher than these years on the same day: 2016 2020 2006 2019 2010 2017 2007 2012 2011 2018 2015 2009 . South / North
Stagecraft and Statecraft
China will regret weaponizing sports
China has long mixed sports and politics. From its boycott of the 1956 Olympics to its more recent bullying tactics against the N.B.A., England’s Premier League and others, Beijing has treated sports as politics by other means. Now its Winter...
China’s bullying of tiny Bhutan risks South Asian stability
David and Goliath struggle exposes Beijing’s expansionist intent Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia China has failed to settle the frontier with its tiny neighbor Bhutan, despite holding talks with Bhutan since 1984. Now, after nearly four...
The Narco-Terrorist Taliban
By allowing the Taliban to enrich and sustain itself with drug profits during the 20-year war in Afghanistan, the US contributed to its own humiliating defeat at the hands of a narco-terrorist organization. But it is not too late for … Continue...
Ramani's blog
Honours for Fixed Deposits Of North Indian Brahmins Veerarajendra Chola Avinasi Inscription
For such deposits as are kept with the government, the King bestowed special honors .The Avinasi temple inscription states that the Chola King Veera Rajendra Chola (1207 - 1256) bestowed special honors to Brahmins of North India for having...
Water Row Solution By Veera Rajendra Chola 1207 Perur Inscription
By practice, first lower riparian areas — known as kadaimadai — were given sufficient water for cultivation, after which areas till the upper riparian region — known as adimadai — were given water in succession...
Real Indian History Overview Webinar 11 December 2021 1930 IST
I will be delivering a lecture Online . Real History Facts and An Overview 9 December, 2021 at 7.30 pm IST. Duration . One hour. Platform .Zoom. Free .
Diane Ravitch's blog
Leonie Haimson: To Reduce Inequality, Cut Class Sizes
Leonie Haimson, executive director of Class Size Matters, is one of the nation’s most persistent advocates of class size reduction. She is the voice of many parents in New York City, who regularly tell pollsters that their number 1 wish for...
Ravitch & Burris: Mike Bloomberg Is Wasting $750 Million on Charters
The following article by Diane Ravitch and Carol Burris of the Netwotk for Public Education appeared this morning at Valerie Strauss’s “The Answer Sheet” blog at the Washington Post: Mike Bloomberg recently announced his plan to revive...
Nancy Bailey: An Overview of the War Against the Teaching Profession
Nancy Bailey has assembled a devastating review of a three-decades long effort to destroy the teaching profession and replace it with models derived from the corporate sector. She begins: The pandemic has been rough on teachers, but there...
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Sea Ice Data Tampering At DMI
By Paul Homewood Electroverse have uncovered some blatant data tampering by DMI: It would appear that the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) may have taken a leaf out of NASA’s ‘data-fudging 101‘. Sometime between late-Nov...
NY Times Claims Brazil Is Turning Into Desert, As Foliage Growth Surges
By Paul Homewood Reposted from Climate Realism: The New York Times published an article Friday titled, “A Slow-Motion Climate Disaster: The Spread of Barren Land.” The article claims global warming is causing drought in northeastern...
Japan Building 22 New Coal Power Plants
By Paul Homewood The BBC – where “news from Japan” means talking to a 70 year old eco-activist! It’s a glorious autumn afternoon and I’m standing on a hillside looking out over Tokyo Bay. Beside me is Takao Saiki, a usually mild-mannered...
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Analysis: Obura et al Coral Bleaching Study: Models Used Misrepresent Warming Rate….”30% Too High”!
A German analysis finds that the threatening scenarios about the imminent death of all coral reefs in a recent study cannot be justified. ==================================================== The corals off East Africa, doomed to...
Global Human CO2 Emissions Have Been On A Slightly Declining Trend Since 2011
Until recently, human CO2 emissions were responsible for ~10% of the variance in year-to-year CO2 growth rate. But a new analysis says human CO2 emissions have been slightly declining for the last decade. So 0% responsible, apparently. CO2...
Greece Puts Coal Power Plants Shut Down in 2019 Back Into Operation…To Avert Winter Blackouts!
Greek green follies fail…a U-turn back to coal Until recently, Greece was one of the largest operators of lignite-fired power plants in Europe, but in 2019 the new government took on the goal of shutting down all coal-fired power plants by...
NEPC Blog Post of the Day
Gadfly on the Wall: Reducing Students to Their Test Scores Will Only Increase Their Pandemic Wounds
Gadfly on the Wall: Reducing Students to Their Test Scores Will Only Increase Their Pandemic Wounds Read the following as quickly and accurately as you can: ‘I know I withought all by he middle on, ” said a between he name a buzzing, he for...
Alfie Kohn Indoctrination
Alfie Kohn Indoctrination Some years ago I gave a talk in which I outlined classroom practices that can promote caring and cooperation. When I was done, a woman stood up and informed me heatedly that she doesn’t send her child to school “to...
Ed in the Apple: Billions of Dollars Later Researchers Find Teacher Evaluation Reforms Have No Positive Effects on Student Outcomes
Ed in the Apple: Billions of Dollars Later Researchers Find Teacher Evaluation Reforms Have No Positive Effects on Student Outcomes I was working on a Network Team in New York City, about a dozen of us “supporting” twenty-five schools...
The Moderate Voice
DEMOCRATS HAVE FAILED TO PROTECT ABORTION RIGHTS
So it looks like Roe v. Wade is perched at the precipice. Gee, I wonder how that happened. Let me count the ways. Conservative Republicans started prioritizing a high court takeover, with the explicit aim of ending legal abortion, more than...
U.S. Supreme Court allows challenge to Texas six-week abortion ban
Published by Reuters By Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday allowed abortion providers to pursue a legal challenge to a ban on most abortions in Texas, with the fate of the Republican-backed...
Appeals court rejects Trump bid to withhold records on Capitol attack
Published by Reuters By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Thursday rejected a request by former President Donald Trump to withhold records from the House of Representatives probe of the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the...
Marginal REVOLUTION
And now it is over…
With both the Beatles and chess peaking this year in terms of media coverage, at times I have felt like I am thirteen years old again. But now the WCC match is over, and Magnus Carlsen has solidified his claim to GOAT. Carlsen has now won five...
Air pollution and the history of economic growth
I have not had the chance to read this through, but here goes: Documenting environmental pollution damage affects the magnitude of aggregate output, net of pollution damage, and the contribution to national product across economic sectors...
Friday assorted links
1. Stubborn Attachments and the veil of ignorance. 2. “Interestingly, our results are completely moderated in U.S. counties that forbid alcohol sales, which suggests that alcohol is a necessary channel through which exposure to violent...
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.…...
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...
“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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“Every Option Is on the Table”: US Prepping for Libya-Style Intervention in Ethiopia
While many in the Horn of Africa clearly need help, the Biden administration’s idea of “help” might not be exactly what they had in mind. The post “Every Option Is on the Table”: US Prepping for Libya-Style Intervention in Ethiopia...
The Struggles of Ofer Cassif, an Anti-Zionist in Israel’s Knesset
“The fact that I am a Jew myself drove them crazy… If you are an Israeli Jew you must support Israel and the crimes it commits.” – Ofer Cassif The post The Struggles of Ofer Cassif, an Anti-Zionist in Israel’s Knesset appeared first...
On ‘Gassing the Arabs’ and Other Diseases: Is Israel a ‘Sick Society’?
There are no indications that Israeli society, government and media - ‘liberal’ or right-wing - will, on their own, develop the necessary antibodies that will cure the disease of racism, military occupation and apartheid. The post On...
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Heading out to see Newcastle. Some of us moving fast enough to go all blurry! Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there.
Interesting Links for 10-12-2021
This New Tech Cuts Through Rock Without Grinding Into It(tags:construction tunnels technology )2 bed flat for sale in London - with ridiculously massive bunker(tags:property London wtf viaSwampers )Scots told to defer Christmas parties...
Interesting Links for 09-12-2021
The current situation in the USA is looking less and less like democracy(tags:democracy USA Doom racism )The Thick of It: Christmas Pandemic Party edition(tags:politics satire TV Pandemic funny )UK to phase out 2G and 3G by 2033 - and some...
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NZ Tobacco Ban
I truly am one of those people who tends to have an opinion on almost everything, which is why I write a blog, but there are sometimes subjects on which I hold several contradictory positions simultaneously. This can be convenient … Continue...
That Would Explain a Few Things
The Ghislaine Maxwell trial is not being televised, and I’m not seeing a lot of mainstream news reporting on it (which could be because of my own bias bubble, but I doubt it – my bias bubble should be all … Continue reading →...
Killer Robots Would Be a Very Bad Thing
As most people who have ever seen a movie would agree, killer robots are not a good thing. It’s right there in the name, KILLER robots, mindless automatons that are capable of killing, inflicting death, ending a human being’s existence.And...
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