31 December - iG Tab - 9

Utopia – you are standing in it!

• Little Children Suing 33 Governments

  Originally posted on NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT: By Paul Homewood ? Using children for political purposes is child abuse. So why is the BBC giving credibility to this latest venture? ? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-59776108...

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• Cold Chisel – Wild Thing

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• Try A Little Tenderness, Max Merritt

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TARPLEY.net

• Christmas 2021 in the shadow of fascist coup, dictatorship, and civil war

  Garland is massively derelict in his duty to defend the US Constitution; AG’s soft on fascism policy cannot enable the rule of law; Public outcry demands decisive action against coup plotters past, present, and future; Non-feasance equals...

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• Russian ultimatum to US demands rollback of NATO in eastern Europe

  30 years after breakup of USSR: Russian ultimatum to US demands rollback of NATO in eastern Europe and limited sovereignty for Ukraine, Georgia, and other nations under new Brezhnev doctrine; direct threat of military action included; Parts...

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• Biden boom: lowest jobless claims since 1969 cuts unemployment rate to 4.2% !

  End phase of globalization rolls on as press fixates on mild inflation, ignoring the wisdom of Anton Erkelenz in late Weimar: deflationary austerity & unemployment are far more likely to produce fascist dictatorship than even the most...

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Sustainable Pulse

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  France’s Railway Company SNCF Bans Glyphosate Use on National Network

  The Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF), France’s national state-owned railway company, has announced that it will ban the use of glyphosate on the whole of its rail network in 2022. SNCF is currently the largest user...

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  How Biotech Crops Can Crash – and Still Never Fail

  The United Nations Food Systems Summit held last September was eclipsed by a powerful countermobilization effort led by farmers and scientists, as well as civil society groups allied with Indigenous communities and small-scale food...

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  RIP Árpád Pusztai: A Courageous Scientist who Outed the Dangers of GMOs

  Dr. Árpád Pusztai, one of the most courageous independent scientists of the modern era, has passed away after a long battle with ill health at the age of 91. Dr. Pusztai was one of the first scientists to reveal the potential dangers of GMO crops...

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sunshine hours

• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 357 – 2021

  . South / North

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 343 – 2021

  . South / North

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  Megadrought

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Stagecraft and Statecraft

• Regional consequences of Biden’s Afghan debacle

  BRAHMA CHELLANEY, InsideOver Afghanistan represents more of an American political capitulation to a terrorist organization (the Taliban) than a U.S. military defeat. By overruling his military generals, who forewarned that a precipitous...

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• China’s Trojan Gift: Creditor Imperialism

  We are witnessing the end of China’s happy days when a positive image and almost unlimited capital helped its push for global influence and assets. The scale and ambition of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is staggering. Credible...

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• The Quad’s Geo-Economic and Geostrategic Implications

  Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi famously mocked the Quad as a “headline-grabbing idea” that will dissipate “like the sea foam in the Pacific or Indian Ocean.” But far from dissipating, the Quad is strengthening, largely in response...

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Ramani's blog

• Siva Color Change Timings Directions Panchavarneswara Thirunallur

  6 am to 8.24 am Copper. 8.25 am to 10.48 am Pink 10.49 to 1.12 pm  Molten Gold 1.13 to 3.36 pm. Emerald Green 3.37 pm to 6 pm. Indescribable Color .

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• Middle East Sumerian Harappa ,Tamils DNA Study Reveal

  Contrary to what was found earlier,the first human migration was from Asia, specifically from South of Vindhya Mountains. The earliest DNA has been traced to Madurai,Tamil Nadu,India. There is more. One finds there is variety and yet at the...

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• Porkaip Pandya in Sanskrit Inscription in Laos. Details

  The inscription says' The King Kanaka Pandya,( mean the Pandya with Golden Arm) was as Righteous as Yudhishthira; Bhagirath in protecting his subjects,Arjuna( Vijaya) in conquering enemies;Indrdhyumna in performing Yagnyas; Protector...

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Diane Ravitch's blog

• Heather Cox Richardson Looks Back on 2021

  Heather Cox Richardson is an American historian at Boston College. I enjoy reading her views, which are always well-informed. She writes: December 30, 2021 Heather Cox RichardsonDec 31 On January 6, insurrectionists trying to overturn...

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• Reflections by Blogger Robert Hubbell

  This is a blogger whose thoughts and writings I enjoy. Personal Reflections on 2021 December 31, 2021 Robert B. Hubbell Dec 31 [Audio version of newsletter here] Legendary House Speaker Tip O’Neill was fond of saying that “All politics...

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• My Suggestions for Your Entertainment

  It being New Year’s Eve, it is not a time for serious thinking. Thus, I take this opportunity to offer my suggestions for good things to watch on television. Or, to put it another way, things that I really liked watching. My favorite was the Belgian...

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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• Energy policy has failed – says TIM NEWARK

  By Paul Homewood     IF BORIS Johnson has seen his approval ratings dip recently, they’ll go into freefall when we receive our inflated household fuel bills in April, yet this has been a crisis waiting to happen. Governments across Europe...

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• More Moths Munching Away In Palaces

  By Paul Homewood   h/t Philip Bratby     Do they think we are all idiots?     Tapestries, furniture and soft furnishings in some of Britain’s most historic buildings are at risk from a surge in household pests driven by climate change...

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• EU Energy Policy Is A Trainwreck

  By Paul Homewood   This is how the EU energy crisis looks to a US investment analyst:     Investment thesis The current high energy price environment in Europe risks becoming more or less permanent, given recent events that center around...

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NoTricksZone

• Germany Drought Ends. 2021 Was “An Average Weather Year,” Reports German DWD Weather Service…0.2°C Cooler

  Germany 2021 – “an average weather year” Despite drought-ending wet periods, Germany saw “an average weather year” in 2021, says the German DWD National Weather Service. Photo: P. Gosselin “Quite average” Offenbach, Germany...

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• Scientists Now Confirm mRNA Vaccines Produce NEGATIVE Effectiveness Against Omicron

  Multiple scientific studies and testing data compiled by national health centers expose the harrowing truth: injection with COVID-19 vaccines actually increase the likelihood of infection with the Omicron variant. There were 1.61 million...

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• Arctic Ocean Warming Began Already In Early 20th Century, Meaning Natural Factors Strongly At Play, Not CO2

  In a recent paper, scientists expressed their surprise that the Arctic had started warming already back in the early 20th century, 100 years ago. This, along with the obligatory CO2 climate warming lip service, is described in a Cambridge...

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NEPC Blog Post of the Day

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  Radical Eyes for Equity: Reading Matters

  Radical Eyes for Equity: Reading Matters Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord. Hamlet: Slanders...

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  Code Acts in Education: PISA for Machine Learners

  Code Acts in Education: PISA for Machine Learners A new report from the OECD explores how human skills can complement artificial intelligence. Source: OECD                         This version of the future is reflected in influential...

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• AlterNet: How Community Schools Are Helping a Hard-Hit City Dig Out of Tough Times

  AlterNet: How Community Schools Are Helping a Hard-Hit City Dig Out of Tough Times Days after the GE Transportation plant in Erie, Pennsylvania, announced a round of crippling layoffs in 2013, an employee was found hanging from a crane...

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The Moderate Voice

• Ending 2021 on a Positive Note

  Up to the beginning of this year, while there are several local and state monuments and memorials commemorating the more than four million Americans who served in World War I, there was no true “national” monument. On April 16 of this year...

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• RADAR TRIBUTE — Thank You For Being Our Friend: How Betty White Stole Our Hearts

  Published by Radar Online She grew up surrounded by laughter, then went on to become one of the best — and most beloved — comedic actresses ever. Betty White’s big break came in 1949 when she took a job as the “Girl Friday” to host Al Jarvis...

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• Betty White, iconic working actress into her 90s, dies just shy of her 100th birthday

  Published by Reuters By Bill Trott (Reuters) -Comedic actress Betty White, who capped a career of more than 80 years by becoming America’s geriatric sweetheart after Emmy-winning roles on television sitcoms “The Golden Girls” and...

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Marginal REVOLUTION

• What has Jasper Johns done for us lately?

  What has Johns done for us lately?  Pretty much what he did for us in the first place: he continually disrupts the mental shorthand that converts complex visual experience into simpler mental categories, with all their buttressing opinions...

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• Friday assorted links

  1. Brandon now has a crypto sponsor. 2. Short essay on web 3.0.  Good. 3. Good thread on Russian strategy. 4. Henry Oliver on understanding Conversations with Tyler. 5. David Brooks Sidney Awards (NYT). 6. Man begs for positive Covid test to...

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• Ethnic discrimination on Airbnb

  We use data from Airbnb to identify the mechanisms underlying discrimination against ethnic minority hosts. Within the same neighborhood, hosts from minority groups charge 3.2 percent less for comparable listings. Since ratings provide...

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Lloyd Lofthouse

• Holding Parents Accountable When Their Children Kill

  Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: This very important story appeared in the Washington Post. She had seen her grandson’s red, spiral-bound notebook before that night, but now, as Catherine O’Connor sifted through its pages...

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• Capital & Main: The Story of an Unlikely Alliance

  Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: In this article, Marcus Baram of Capital & Main describes a surprising alliance between a veteran labor organizer and his chief nemesis, a man who was a master of union-busting. He begins: They…...

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• 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.…...

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MintPress News

• Biden’s “Diplomacy Is Back” Falls Flat as 2021 Middle East Policy a Miserable Flop

  By no means has voting blue meant a change for the better; in fact, the only real difference between Biden and Trump in terms of foreign policy is that instead of mean tweets, more respectful language is used to give the new president the veneer...

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• American Gulag: Inside the U.S.’ Massive Prison System, with Chris Hedges

  Of the 46th president, Hedges, who teaches in a prison in New Jersey, said, “Half of my students (or more) would not be in that classroom but for Joe Biden.” The post American Gulag: Inside the U.S.’ Massive Prison System, with Chris Hedges...

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• Yes, There Were 10 Good Things About 2021

  2021 was, indeed, a disastrous year, but we do have some reasons to cheer. The post Yes, There Were 10 Good Things About 2021 appeared first on MintPress News.

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Made from Truth and Lies

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  instagram cross-post

  Unlikely wildlife in John Lewis Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there.

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  Interesting Links for 31-12-2021

  Sausage wars and rotting food: 14 impacts of Brexit from this year(tags:trade UK Europe OhForFucksSake )An FAQ About Your New Birth Control: The Music of Rush (totally unfair and very funny)(tags:music contraception viaJackie )Heads of...

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  Interesting Links for 30-12-2021

  1 in 14 people in the Bay Area have Covid(tags:Pandemic usa Doom )What Enters The Public Domain in 2022? (Winnie The Pooh, for a start!)(tags:copyright )Do *you* open doors correctly? (subtitles necessary)(tags:funny video doors Finland...

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www.gurukalehuru.com

• Budapest Day 3 and Thoughts on Ghislaine Maxwell

  Back in Prague after a brief, but experience filled vacation in Budapest. The plan was to get up early this morning to beat the breakfast rush, then check out of the hotel and leave all our stuff in the car … Continue reading →...

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• Budapest Day 2

  I do not approve of Fitbit. My wife informs me that we have walked 16 kilometers today and I thought for sure it was 60, at least. The more we allow machines to rate us, to judge us, the more … Continue reading →...

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• Budapest, Day 1

  It was an uneventful drive down, we got up and out at 7 a.m. with total precision, like the well-oiled unit we usually are not, traffic was light most of the way, there were no roadworks on the D1 anywhere … Continue reading →...

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