4 December - iG Tab - 9

 

Utopia – you are standing in it!

• Rumpole BBC Complete – Rumpole and the Gentle Art of Blackmail – John Mortimer

  Originally posted on The Inquiring Mind: Good casts http://archive.org/download/rss_rump/03.mp3 Rumpole of the Bailey is a radio series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer based on the television series...

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• Who funds Extinction Rebellion? American & UK millionaires – ‘Some of America’s most famous families, including the Kennedys & the Gettys’

  Originally posted on NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT: By Paul Homewood ? Ever wondered who funded XR? ? ? Big American and UK Money, Global Reach Extinction Rebellion is no local grassroots NGO. Instead, it receives major financial support from...

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• Luxon and the media

  Originally posted on Barrie Saunders: My good friend journalist Karl du Fresne, took the media to task last week for its aggressive attacks on Christopher Luxon regarding his Christian faith, the abortion issue and his property ownership...

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TARPLEY.net

• 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...

  an hour ago

• 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...

  7 days ago

• 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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Sustainable Pulse

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  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...

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  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...

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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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sunshine hours

• 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

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• Early Arctic sea freeze traps 18 ships in ice near Russia

  https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/early-arctic-sea-freeze-traps-18-ships-in-ice-near-russia-c93lz7fkx

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 326 – 2021

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Stagecraft and Statecraft

• 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...

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• 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...

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• 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...

  16 days ago

Ramani's blog

• Fourteen Types Rains Tamil Classified Details.

  Tamil Grammar and Literature have analysed Rains and classified them into Fourteen types .I do not want to comment anything more. I shall write more on what Tamil says on various aspects of life, world ,nature and it's analyses...

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• Tamil Sangam Rajendra Chola Epigraphs On Kaarthigai Deepam

  This practice of lighting for Karthikai deepam has been in vogue from Tamil Sangam period.This is recorded ,among others,in Akananaanuru,Kalavazhi Naarpathu, Thevaram ( reference here is Kaarthigai in Kapaleswara temple Chennai).Seevaka...

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• Hot Water Turns Cold as It reaches Idol’s Feet Lakshmi Venkateswara Gabbur

  Many temples are astronomically aligned. Some are connected to celestial events.Some temples are aligned in the same longitude.Twelve Jyotirlinga temples form Fibanocchi Spiral.

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Diane Ravitch's blog

• Nancy Flanagan on the Killings at Oxford High School

  Nancy Flanagan, a retired teacher in Michigan and expert blogger, asks rhetorically, “Who is to blame?” Obviously the shooter and his parents, who bought the murder weapon and did not lock it away. But there are other causes of the senseless...

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• Samuel Abrams: Should France Establish Charter Schools?

  Samuel Abrams is the Director of the National Center for the Study of Privaization in Education. He writes here about his recent work on education issues in France. France has a long history of public schools, but it also subsidizes religious...

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• Andre Perry: Push Back Against Conspiracy Theories That Defame Public Schools and Teachers

  Andre Perry, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, urges parents to speak out against fake conspiracy theories that are being cynically used to undermine public schools, their teachers, and freedom to teach and learn. Perry writes...

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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• Who funds Extinction Rebellion? American & UK millionaires – ‘Some of America’s most famous families, including the Kennedys & the Gettys’

  By Paul Homewood   Ever wondered who funded XR?     Big American and UK Money, Global Reach Extinction Rebellion is no local grassroots NGO. Instead, it receives major financial support from American and UK millionaires. A 2019 New York...

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• Should everyone have their own personal carbon quota?

  By Paul Homewood    The fact that this insane idea is even being considered is something that should horrify everyone who cares about individual liberty:   Your home, sometime in the next decade. You click the heating on and receive an app...

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• Roger Pielke Slams New Hurricane Study

  By Paul Homewood   In the old days, if they did not like the data, they adjusted it. Now they simply make it up:     https://twitter.com/RogerPielkeJr/status/1466462637152256016

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NoTricksZone

• Climate Crisis AWOL: Untampered Japan Meteorological Agency Data Show No Warming In Tokyo In Decades!

  Charts by Kirye Text by Pierre The November and fall, 2021, untampered mean temperature data are in for Tokyo and its Hachijojima island  – no warming in decades! Tokyo Here’s the latest plot of November mean temperatures for Tokyo since...

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• Germans Jabbing In The Dark With The Delusional Hopes Something Works. Making It Up As They Go

  Here’s how the COVID government policy is working in Germany: They’re just jabbing in the dark with the delusional hope something will work, praying not too much carnage will result. Just take the vax, it’ll protect you – maybe for...

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• Great Barrier Reef Warming, Coral Bleaching Driven By Cloud Radiative Forcing, Not Humans

  For decades Great Barrier Reef (GBR) warming and coral bleaching have often been assumed to be driven by human greenhouse gas emissions and/or El Niño events. But a new study finds a much larger and more robust correlation between natural...

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NEPC Blog Post of the Day

• Oxford University Press: Police-Free Schools: The New Frontier in Ending the School-to-Prison Pipeline

  Oxford University Press: Police-Free Schools: The New Frontier in Ending the School-to-Prison Pipeline On 25 October 2015, a Black high school student named Niya Kenny filmed a white school police officer body slamming her classmate...

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  Curmudgucation: US News, Please Knock It Off

  Curmudgucation: US News, Please Knock It Off US News was once a magazine, but these days it's arguably most famous as a Ranker of Things, especially schools. They rank colleges and high schools annually, and despite the fact that these rankings...

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• Janresseger: Status of School Vouchers—30 Years After Milwaukee Vouchers and 25 Years After Cleveland Vouchers Began

  Janresseger: Status of School Vouchers—30 Years After Milwaukee Vouchers and 25 Years After Cleveland Vouchers Began Milwaukee, the oldest publicly funded, private school voucher program in the United States just marked its 30th anniversary...

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The Moderate Voice

• CNN fires Chris Cuomo for helping brother with sex-harassment scandal

  Published by New York Daily News NEW YORK — CNN fired Chris Cuomo on Saturday, four days after suspending him for aiding his brother Andrew’s sexual-harassment defense. Chris worked on his brother’s crisis-management team after multiple...

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• THIS JUST IN!!! NYC Cream Cheese Shortage

  Let out a challah: There’s a cream cheese shortage in NYC. Are we close to the day when there are bagels without cream cheese???? If this happens, fewer New Yorkers will masticate. Here are the shocking details on how New York City’s cream...

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• Pussy in the Hat (Cartoon)

  The post Pussy in the Hat (Cartoon) appeared first on The Moderate Voice.

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Marginal REVOLUTION

• Not the final word, but could be worse…

  A more sanguine perspective from Gauteng, the epicenter of Omicron https://t.co/FGWJXCxcwJ by @MRCza @fareedabdullah0 via @PeterHotez pic.twitter.com/0cvsRCvJSk — Eric Topol (@EricTopol) December 4, 2021 And here is an update on...

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• Saturday assorted links

  1. “A strict parent.” 2. London accent over the centuries. 3. Why are many book prices now so stratespheric on Amazon? (NYT) 4. Most expensive purchases at AbeBooks this year. 5. Advancing mathematics by guiding human intuition with AI...

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• Context is that which is scarce

  Sebastian Garren emails me the following: “I have been meditating a lot recently on “Context is what is scarce.” The amazing and ironic thing about this statement is that it is extremely low context and yet offers a gateway into a whole...

  17 hours ago

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.…...

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• 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...

  a month 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 →...

  a month ago

MintPress News

• With Symbolic Hebron Chanukah Visit, Israeli President Greenlights Al-Aqsa Destruction

  Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit to the Ibrahimi Mosque should be seen as nothing less than an invitation by the Zionist establishment to the Zionist radical elements to go ahead and burn the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The post With Symbolic...

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• What’s Left? How Greenwald, Covid and Rittenhouse Exposed a Plague Among Progressives

  Much like Julian Assange, Glenn Greenwald began to be condemned by liberals only post-Trump. The liberal visceral hatred of Donald Trump has trumped rational discourse. The post What’s Left? How Greenwald, Covid and Rittenhouse Exposed...

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• Diego Sequera Discusses the Underpinnings of Venezuelan Election and Huge Maduro/Socialist Victory

  Sunday’s result underscores the notion that the Venezuelan people blame the U.S. sanctions for their suffering, rather than purely pointing the finger at the government. The post Diego Sequera Discusses the Underpinnings of Venezuelan...

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Made from Truth and Lies

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  Interesting Links for 04-12-2021

  This is your regular reminder not to sit on unexploded WWII munitions(tags:weaponry sex hospital )Daughter, 20, who sued mum's GP for millions for allowing her to be born wins case(tags:disability healthcare advice UK )The women who wove...

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  instagram cross-post

  My Cauliflower is significantly more fractal than I was expecting Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there.

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  Interesting Links for 03-12-2021

  The US is currently levying a steel tariff on the UK because of Northern Ireland Brexit dispute. Johnson isn't happy about that.(tags:uk usa trade NorthernIreland )2nd US omicron case just traveled to NYC anime convention with 53K attendees(tags:anime...

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www.gurukalehuru.com

• Water

  I just saw a meme which was praising a store for not selling bottled water but, instead, encouraging customers to bring their own bottles and fill them at a ‘refilling station,’ which I guess is a fancy store word for … Continue reading...

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• Rednecks on the Run

  James and Jennifer Crumbley, gun enthusiasts, Trump supporters (in a badly spelled and grammatically horrific letter to Trump, Jennifer Crumbley wrote “I’d rather be grabbed by the pussy than keep getting fucked in the ass”), and...

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• Another One

  The school shooting that happened today in Michigan will not long be remembered in the annals of horrifying school shootings. Only 3 people died, which is way short of Columbine, Sandy Hook and Parkland.But, it is the first post-Rittenhouse...

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