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Zoe's Insights

• Global Sea Ice Area 2

  I found two more sources of sea ice concentration data. One is the Hadley Centre, in the UK (Description

• Global Sea Ice Area

  According to many sources (including National Snow and Ice Data Center), global sea ice has been

• Real Global Snowfall Trend

  In a previous post, I tried measuring the global snowfall trend over the last 41 years using a pixel color

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Most recent blog entries

• The Nazis Are Back

   

• The Public's Right To Know Nothing

   

• Dystopia Is Defending "Public Trust" Against "Threat Actors&

  On the left, Chinese-dictatorship-blacklisted individuals with low "social credit scores." On

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Sharyl Attkisson

• (POLL) 'Removing soft-on-crime prosecutors would improve safety'

  With crime on the rise nationwide, a new poll finds that that 58% of likely U.S. voters support a proposed

• (READ) Trump on 'even more voter fraud' in Wisconsin; Maggie

  - February 11, 2022 -  Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America

• When green isn't clean; the chip shortage; and outsmarting cyber

  When it comes to green energy, we'd like to think we're operating in away that's entirely clean

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BlackListed News

• Global Freedoms Hit 'Dismal' Record Low Amid Pandemic

  The state of democracy worldwide fell to a record low in 2021, largely due to pandemic restrictions that

• Another Banner Year For The Military-Industrial Complex

  Twenty twenty-one was another banner year for the military-industrial complex, as Congress signed off on a

• Jon Stewart: “Who Gets to Decide” What’s ‘Misinformation’?

  Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart has expressed his concern about ‘fact checkers’ and the legacy media

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naked capitalism

• Links 2/12/2022

• Faster Internet Displaces Social Capital in the UK

  Confirmation of the notion that the Internet displaces social time with real people.

• What Are Taxpayers Spending for Those ‘Free’ Covid Tests? The Government

  The officialdom is not giving straight answers to simple questions about how much it spent procuring those

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NEPC - Blog Post of the Day

• Teacher in a Strange Land: Six Gigantic Problems, Six Wrong Solutions in

  Teacher in a Strange Land: Six Gigantic Problems, Six Wrong Solutions in Public Education So

• Janresseger: Kevin Welner: In Our Alarmingly Unequal Society, Public

  Janresseger: Kevin Welner: In Our Alarmingly Unequal Society, Public Schools by Themselves Cannot Be the

• Gadfly on the Wall: The Same People Who Think Antiracists Have Gone Too Far

  Gadfly on the Wall: The Same People Who Think Antiracists Have Gone Too Far Think Standardized Testing

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Energy

• Pipeline spills 300,000 gallons of diesel near New Orleans

  An inspection of the 42-year-old Meraux Pipeline in October 2020 revealed external corrosion along a 22

• ExxonMobil discovers more oil off Guyana's coast

  The company said a vessel that arrived in Guyana late last year is expected to start production in upcoming

• Texas pipeline company charged in California oil spill

  A Houston-based oil company and two subsidiaries were indicted for a crude spill that fouled Southern

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Politics, Policy, Political News Top Stories

• Soak up the February sun? Not without climate change guilt in California

  Californians are seeing a dark side to balmy February temperatures.

• No, you haven't heard the last of Andrew Cuomo

  A dozen former aides and allies say the former governor has been conferring with them to determine his best

• 'Swift and severe costs': Ukraine tension ratchets up as Biden and

  Biden promises decisive response by U.S. and its allies, warning that a "further Russian invasion of

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Navajo Times

• Alchesay, Chinle girls to meet in 3A North finals

  In a pair of mild upsets, the 3A North girls’ championship game will feature No. 3 seed Alchesay and

• 3A North: Top-seed Chinle, No. 2 MV advances to title game

  The two top seeds in the 3A North will meet in tonight’s boys' championship game. The post 3A North

• Rock Point girls advance to state quarterfinals

  On Wednesday night, Rock Point hosted the Duncan High Wildcats in their first leg of the 2021 Arizona 1A

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Ancient Code

• Woolly Mammoth ‘Proxy’ Could One Day Roam the North American Tundra

  The woolly mammoth may have gone extinct as recently as 4,000 years ago on Wrangel Island near

• NASA’s Bill Nelson Pushes for Scientific UFO Research 1 Month into Office

  Bill Nelson, 78, the former Florida senator and spaceflight veteran, became the NASA Administrator on 

• Harry Reid: We May Be Close to Finding Out Truth About UFOs

  Former Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid continues to call for leading with science when studying UFOs

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DutchNews.nl

• The Hague lorry drivers’ coronavirus demo ends peacefully

  The truckers’ demonstration against the coronavirus rules in the centre of The Hague ended peacefully on

• A first for the Dutch: Kimberly Bos wins bronze in the skeleton

  Kimberley Bos was the surprise winner of the bronze medal in the skeleton at the Winter Olympics on

• The Netherlands calls on all Dutch to leave Ukraine, including most embassy

  The government is urging Dutch nationals in Ukraine to leave the country as soon as possible and the

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BleepingComputer

• The Week in Ransomware - February 11th 2022 - Maze, Egregor decryptors

  We saw the Maze ransomware developers reemerge briefly this week as they shared the master decryption keys

• Croatian phone carrier data breach impacts 200,000 clients

  Croatian phone carrier 'A1 Hrvatska' has disclosed a data breach exposing the personal information

• Twitter is down with "Something went wrong" errors

  Twitter is currently experiencing a worldwide service disruption that makes it impossible for users to read

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Accuracy In Academia

• Parents blast school officials over separating children over mask mandate

  One of the hotbeds of the mask mandate debate is the northern Virginia suburb of Loudoun County, where

• Charter school fires teacher over controversial post on police

  A private charter school in New York City let go one of its math teachers when he posted anti-police

• Georgetown University suspends legal scholar over Supreme Court tweet

  Georgetown University placed a newly-hired law professor on leave after one of his social media posts led

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altahrir, news of Islam, Muslims, Arab Spring and special Palestine

• Israel Forces An Elderly Palestinian To Demolish His Home In Silwan

  The Israeli authorities in the occupied capital, Jerusalem, forced an elderly Palestinian man to demolish

• Israeli Soldiers Close Main Intersections In Jenin

  Israeli soldiers installed, earlier Saturday, many military roadblocks, closing main sections south of

• Palestine NGO sends aid convoy to Syria refugees

  Palestinian charity KindHearts has sent 80 truckloads of humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees in the north

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BBC News - Home

• Ukraine tensions: A dozen nations tell citizens to leave Ukraine

  US President Joe Biden again warns Russian leader Vladimir Putin against invading Ukraine.

• Ukraine tensions: After eight years of war, an eastern city unifies against

  Separatists tried to seize Kharkiv in 2014. Now the city is turning away from its old neighbour.

• Ambassador Bridge: Police launch bid to clear Canada trucker blockade

  Police in Windsor, Ontario, are working to move protesting truckers off the Ambassador Bridge.

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Bartholomew's Notes

• Court Finds For Former MP in Counterclaim Against “VIP Sex Abuse” Accuser

  From the Daily Mail: A former Liberal Democrat MP is to receive libel damages from an alleged fantasist who

• Sandy Hook Conspiracism: A Note on Moon Rock Books

  From CBS News, in June: The father of a victim of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre has won a

• BBC News Probes “Annie Tacker”

  This one is being widely reported – from Phil Kemp at BBC News: There are many unanswered questions

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CBPP Comprehensive Reports and Blog Posts

• In Case You Missed It…

  This week at CBPP, we focused on poverty and inequality, housing, health, and the economy. On poverty and

• Housing Investments in Build Back Better Would Address Pressing Unmet Needs

  Build Back Better includes funds for about 300,000 new housing vouchers, a particularly urgent measure

• Tracking the COVID-19 Economy’s Effects on Food, Housing, and Employment

  Hardship in 2020 and 2021 would have been far worse without extraordinary steps taken by the federal

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Coyote Blog

• Christmas Wonder, with Penguins

  I always enjoy Christmas day with the family.  But no matter how good a day we have together, it can never

• Regional Variations in COVID are SEASONAL, not Correlated with Party of the

  If you want a pointer towards the seasonality of the COVID virus, check out the NY Times per capita case

• An Open Letter to California Public Recreation Officials

  New California rules are set to effectively end the ability of RVers to use generators to produce power in

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Dandelion Salad

• The Workings of Commodified Education, by Yanis Iqbal

  by Yanis Iqbal Writer, Dandelion Salad Aligarh, India February 12, 2022 Under the neoliberal accumulation

• America’s Real Adversaries are its European and other Allies, by Michael

  by Michael Hudson Writer, Dandelion Salad February 11, 2022 The U.S. aim is to keep them from trading with

• Chris Hedges: The Cruelty of Animals and People Locked in Cages

  Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges RT America on Feb 10, 2022 On the show, Chris Hedges discusses veganism

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Inter Press Service

• Science Academies and Disciplinary Groups Have Work to do on Gender

  Women remain under-represented in science careers and research all over the world. There are several

• The Global South Moves Towards Vaccine Sovereignty

  In 2021, Global South countries came out on the short end of vaccine supply deals. In 2022, they are

• Nobel Prizes and Donation Pledges

  While living and working in Paris I joined the Cercle Suédois, a social club founded in 1891, at a time

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INTERNATIONALIST 360°

• Covid-19 and Democracy – Nicaragua v Canada

  Stephen Sefton Nicaragua 2018 – police officer Gabriel de Jesús Vado Ruiz, tortured, murdered and set

• Canada: Multi-Ethnic Protesters, Ottawa Residents, Challenge Mainstream

  Jamil Jivani Jamil Jivani Stop Calling the Truckers Racist. Many Black Canadians Support Them! In fact

• From U.S. to Honduras: Socialism is Vital to Black Liberation

  John Parker On Jan. 27, I was fortunate to be one of a handful of delegates from the U.S. to attend the

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New Content on CO2 Science

• Crop Breeding for High Production, Water Use Efficiency & Albedo

  It's a good way to confront mankind's growing need for food and the water needed to produce it

• Biospheric Productivity (Global: The Recent Past) -- Summary

  Since 1980 the Earth has weathered three of the warmest decades in the instrumental temperature record, a

• Catastrophic Floods of Dartmoor, South West England

  Are they few and far-between? ... or are they growing ever more frequent ... and ferocious?

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MercoPress

• Britain, China and the Falkland Islands: Why the US must weigh in

  By Dov S. Zakheim (*)This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War

• Police raid at Rio favela leaves 8 civilians dead

  Eight people were killed Friday after a Rio de Janeiro police raid at a local

• Scientific survey of penguins response to climate change in Falklands

  An international team of scientists, including two from the University of Bath, has

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National Wind Watch: Wind Energy News

• Disputed access to Manawatū wind farm goes straight to court #NZL

  Objections to increased volumes of construction traffic using narrow, winding Palmerston North roads to

• Critics blow off new wind power plans #NOR

  Criticism is flying once again after the Norwegian government finally launched development plans this week

• Legal action to be raised against OIC windfarm planning approval #SCT

  Legal action is set to be raised at Scotland’s supreme civil court as a Kirkwall man launches an appeal

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www.thenewfederalist.eu

• Cancer in Europe: Where are we now?

  The etymology of the word ‘cancer' shows us that it is connected to the word ‘crab'. Isn't that

• 2022 FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: A RE-ELECTION FOR EMMANUEL MACRON?

  The Élysée Palace welcomed its youngest ever resident in May 2017. Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron, a

• Differentiation within the Economic and Monetary Union 20 years on: where

  30 years after the signing of the Maastricht Treaty, we host a contribution from Diane Fromage, Marie

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Big Picture News, Informed Analysis

• Veterans Stand on Guard for Freedom

  This morning, at 11am, armed forces vets assembled in front of Canada’s Parliament in support of the

• Dispatch from Ottawa

  I’m currently in downtown Ottawa in the midst of the truckers’ freedom protest. Many of the

• Northern Miracle

  The Truckers Freedom Convoy is being called the 'Northern Miracle' south of the border. Here a '

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Online Cancer Blog

• The Survival Rate of Each Lung Cancer Stage

  We all know that there are many stages of lung cancer and you might be wondering how each stage is like and

• Chocolates Help Fight Cancer- Myth or Truth?

  How amazing (and difficult) is it to love something that is also supposed to do you a world of good

• Top 6 Symptoms That Indicate Breast Cancer

  Cancer is one of the fastest growing cause of deaths in the world. The most common type of cancer include &

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Signs of the Times

• Hannah Jewell's new book tells us 'We Need Snowflakes'. No, we

  Hannah Jewell has mounted an impassioned defence of the easily offended, but it's only left me more

• 'White supremacy' is the left's hammer of choice, and you'

  The Trump presidency sent the left into paroxysms of hysterical terror. How could that self-made

• Sergey Karaganov: It's not really about Ukraine

  Russian troops near the border of Ukraine are not going to move into the country. To do so would be simply

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Stuff.co.nz - Stuff

• 'Not a tactic we would encourage': Police didn't play role in

  The occupation at Parliament will enter its seventh day on Monday, with several central Wellington streets

• 'This will make people angrier': Top negotiator criticises

  Speaker Trevor Mallard's efforts to drive out protesters with Celine Dion love ballads and Baby Shark

• Covid-19: No cases at Wellington protest despite rumour, ministry confirms

  There are 810 new community cases across the country.

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Freethought Blogs

• It’s Day 12 of Black History Month and We Whites Are All Going to STFU and

  [CONTENT NOTE: descriptions of racist taunts and anti-LGBTQ+ vandalism; no anti-Black or anti-LGBTQi

• Democracy is something you do every day: A video on worker cooperatives

  I’ve long felt that our best hope for a peaceful transition away from capitalism into a truly

• Science Vs limiting their output

  I have listened to the Science Vs podcast for a while, but had somehow missed the fact that they had become

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