Utopia – you are standing in it!
(QE) — the Fed’s massive purchases of Treasuries and other assets to push down long-term interest rates
From https://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/econ_focus/2013/q3/full_interview
House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha/Windsor: George V (1910-1936)
Originally posted on Great Books Guy: Prince George Frederick Ernest Albert was distinct in nearly every way from his wayward, philandering father. He was a slim man –shy, and abstemious– and he often wore the same elegant clothes to public...
Energy Insecurity: Biden’s Policies Leave Americans Vulnerable to Unreliable Wind & Solar
Originally posted on STOP THESE THINGS: With the magnitude of the renewable energy-driven disaster playing out in Europe hard to ignore, it seems incredible that American Green New Deal Democrats remain fixated on chaotically intermittent...
TARPLEY.net
Russian Attack on Ukraine Begins with Cyber Ops & Flurry of Staged False Flag Provocations in Donbas Hyped by Pro-Putin Media
Biden announces US finding that Putin has chosen war; Kremlin’s nuclear drill adds another layer of grave danger; Hungary and Bulgaria get US ground forces as NATO Eastern Flank buildup continues; Berlin signals awareness that Nord Stream...
Biden issues War Warning for Ukraine
Russian attack likely within days, before end of Olympics; Biggest signal yet of institutional resistance to Putin’s war policy from inside Russia: well-known Russian strategist Gen. Leonid Ivashov demands Putin’s resignation...
Famous Russian General Leonid Ivashov Issues Dramatic Call for Resignation of Putin, Demands No War with Ukraine
Open Letter from General Leonid Ivashov Address of the All -Russian Officers’ Assembly to the President and citizens of the Russian Federation Today, humanity lives in anticipation of war. And war is the inevitable human sacrifice, destruction...
Sustainable Pulse
Glyphosate and Roundup: All Roads Lead to Cancer – New Study
Glyphosate and Roundup lead to changes in gene regulatory microRNAs (miRNAs or miRs) linked with cancer, newly published data show. The analysis, of a type known as small RNA profiling, was conducted in liver tissue from rats exposed to...
GMO Wheat in Argentina Suffers from Low Yields
Developments in Argentina regarding genetically modified (GM) wheat show that however determined governments are to boost GMOs in agriculture, the inherent weaknesses of the technology undermine their efforts. Although the Argentine...
Canada Appeals Court Orders Government to Reassess Glyphosate Registration
The Federal Court of Appeal in Canada has issued a decision in favour of Safe Food Matters in a court case concerning the re-registration of the world’s most used weedkiller, glyphosate. The decision remits the matter back to the Pest Management...
sunshine hours
Stagecraft and Statecraft
America Is Focusing on the Wrong Enemy
US President Joe Biden is treating a “rogue” Russia as a peer competitor, when he should be focused on the challenge from America’s actual peer, China. Not only is China more powerful than Russia; it also genuinely seeks to supplant …...
Beijing Winter Olympics were a troubling reminder of 1936 Games
The success of the Beijing Winter Olympics is another feather in Xi’s cap. Like Hitler’s 1936 Olympics, Xi’s Games succeeded after an international boycott campaign collapsed. Will an emboldened Xi now embark on fresh repression...
The US is letting China off the hook over its COVID-19 coverup
By Brahma Chellaney, The Hill America’s death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic, now in its third year, is closing in on one million, with Americans continuing to succumb to the disease at internationally high rates. Both in total case...
Ramani's blog
SEBI Officials Locked Up NSE Scam Lakhs Of Crores PC Cabal
The other gentleman is a Learned, erudite was a central minister in the UPA, occupying very important portfolios. Any allegations against him is dismissed by him derisively with a waving of arms. Those who followed 2 G scam would recall his...
Numbers Arithmetic Geometric Sequences In Vedas
One shall find references to Numbers in the Vedas. The decimal system and expressing numbers in terms of Tens is mentioned in the Vedas. For instance, the Chamakam Anuvaka refers to Numbers
Mathematical Concepts In Vedas Sulaba Sutras
Several Mathematicians and Historians mention that the earliest of the texts were written beginning in 800 BCE by Vedic Hindus based on compilations of an oral tradition dating back to 2000 BCE.
Diane Ravitch's blog
Tennessee Charter Scandals: Tweets by Amy Frogge
Amy Frogge was elected twice to the Nashville Metro school board. She is a lawyer, a public school parent, and executive director of Pastors for Tennessee Children. As a board member, Amy quickly learned about the big money behind charter schools...
Putin’s $100 Million+ Super-Yacht Heads Back to Russia
Vladimir Putin’s super-yacht, worth at least $100 million, left its port in Hamburg before repairs were finished. It is heading for a safe port in Russia. Putin wants to make sure it is not seized as new sanctions are imposed by NATO governments...
Poll: Half of Americans Don’t Want Students to Learn About the Effects of Racism Today
Education Week reported the results of a poll that showed that half of Americans don’t want children to learn about racism today. How will they understand the events of the day? What will they make of the national protests after the murder...
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
Harrabin Misleads Over Fossil Fuels
By Paul Homewood A blatantly one sided piece even by Harrabin standards: The best way to ease consumers’ pain from high energy prices is to stop using fossil fuels rather than drill for more of them, the government’s climate advisers...
Net Zero Costs–Latest BBC Propaganda
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby Another grossly one-sided piece by the BBC, which might just have been written by Carbon Brief (indeed part of it was!): With the cost of living rising, are Britain’s plans to cut greenhouse gas...
Analysis Of Winter Extreme Rainfall
By Paul Homewood Is climate change making winter floods getting worse in England? This is a question that is often posed. There are many reasons why river levels may be reaching higher levels than in the past, including the concreting over...
NoTricksZone
Shocking Surprise At Munich E-Car Charging Stations: Electricity Prices To Surge 81%… “Total Madness!”
As energy and electricity prices surge — in large part due to Germany’s messy transition to renewable energies — electric car owners are getting the price shock of their lives at e-car charging stations. Munich e-car owners to getting...
The “World’s Dumbest Energy Policy” Just Got Dumber…The Frightening Race To Reset By World War
Just when we thought leaders couldn’t possibly screw things up more…now Europe faces a massively crippling energy shock and the German Chancellor closes pipeline…NATO’s frightening race to war with Russia. The inflation rate...
Bad News For Climate Alarmism: Global Warming Of 4.9°C Will Make The Earth Greener, Not Browner
A simulated global warming of nearly 5°C will actually lead to more greening, more vegetation, more gross primary productivity…even if CO2 fertilization is held constant at present levels. A 2021 observational analysis (Cortes et al.)...
NEPC Blog Post of the Day
Radical Eyes for Equity: Science Supports Balance, Not Intensive Phonics, for Teaching Reading
Radical Eyes for Equity: Science Supports Balance, Not Intensive Phonics, for Teaching Reading [See version here: The Statehouse Report] For about three years, states across the U.S., including South Carolina, have been adopting new...
Janresseger: Federally Mandated Standardized Testing: If Nothing Is Done to Change a Bad Public Policy, It Never Goes Away
Janresseger: Federally Mandated Standardized Testing: If Nothing Is Done to Change a Bad Public Policy, It Never Goes Away The beginning of the new year is a good time to look around and consider that the way things are is not how they have to be...
Shanker Blog: Constructing and Animating the Infrastructure for Reading Instruction
Shanker Blog: Constructing and Animating the Infrastructure for Reading Instruction The Albert Shanker Institute is talking with educators and school leaders daily. Our conversations range from attention-grabbing issues of the moment...
The Moderate Voice
Russia invades Ukraine – 5 essential reads from experts
Damaged radar arrays and other equipment is seen at a Ukrainian military facility outside Mariupol, Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022. AP Photo/Sergei Grits Naomi Schalit, The Conversation This is a frightening moment. Russia has invaded Ukraine...
Former comic actor Zelenskiy is unlikely war leader for Ukraine
Published by Reuters By Matthias Williams KYIV (Reuters) – Volodymyr Zelenskiy swept to power three years ago promising to end a war with Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. He now faces a Russian invasion that could result in...
Analysis-Putin’s Ukraine assault confounds Biden strategy, puts leadership to the test
Published by Reuters By Matt Spetalnick, Simon Lewis and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – He threatened to impose the harshest sanctions ever on Russia. He worked to galvanize U.S. allies into a united front. He supplied Ukraine with...
Marginal REVOLUTION
The GEZ: A Digital Special Zone
The Catawba are a federally recognized tribe of Native Americans with land in South Carolina, near the city of Rock Hill. The Catawba nation has just voted to establish a new digital special economic zone, the Green Earth Zone...
Trudeau has turned off the invocation of the Emergencies Act
After two days it is no more. I was and remain completely opposed to this invocation of the emergency powers. I think they simply should have arrested the protestors early on, before the whole thing became such a big deal. Here is a good short...
My Conversation with Chuck Klosterman
Excellent stuff, we had so much fun we kept on going for an extra half hour, as he decided to ask me a bunch of questions about economics and personal finance. Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is the CWT summary: Chuck joined Tyler...
Lloyd Lofthouse
Living with PTSD One Day at a Time – a book review
If combat or abuse of any kind, mental or physical, has traumatized you, I’m suggesting you read this memoir, even if it is the only one you real in your life. If you hate to read, then listen to the … Continue reading →...
Tennessee: “Instead of Raging Over MAUS, Support Local People Who Are Fighting the Ban”
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Whitney Kimball Coe, director of national programs for the Center for Rural Strategies, advises those who are outraged about the removal of MAUS from the eighth grade curriculum by the McMinn County...
A Site That Unmasks the Leading Anti-Vaxxers
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: The New York Times recently wrote about Twitter’s suspension of the personal (not the official) account of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. Twitter applied its rule of “five strikes...
MintPress News
Perpetual Tyranny: Endless Wars Are the Enemy of Freedom
Two years after COVID-19 shifted the world into a state of global authoritarianism, just as the people’s tolerance for heavy-handed mandates seems to have finally worn thin, we are being prepped for the next distraction and the next drain...
My Day in Palestine: The Stunning Beauty and Cruel Reality of an Occupied Land
Walking through the low hills of the Naqab as the sun sets and the moon comes up is an experience that allows us to imagine what Palestine was like before it was torn apart by Zionists and what can still be saved if we act fast. The post My Day in Palestine...
Lee Camp: New Data Shows US Government Has Been Bought For $14 Billion
No wonder the latest polls show both corporate parties are thoroughly disliked. It’s time to acknowledge that our system has been 100% purchased by the One Percent, and that even the best candidate on their best day is still no better than...
Made from Truth and Lies
Livejournal Crossposting is dead - possibly forever
There's a post on the maintenance page saying that it's been failing for about a week, and that LJ won't even respond to emails about it.And apparently Livejournal have updated their Terms of Service to ban automated posting.So that's that!Sorry...
instagram cross-post
Sophia was delighted by the skateboarders Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there.
Interesting Links for 24-01-2022
How does it feel when someone uses your life as a basis for fiction?(tags:writing relationships life viaSwampers )The Price Cap is not responsible for the demise of UK energy companies - they were behaving riskily(tags:electricity UK investment...
www.gurukalehuru.com
Ukraine: What Now?
Well, to all of my friends who said Putin would invade Ukraine: you were right, I was wrong. I think it’s totally a bonehead move on Putin’s part, he gains absolutely nothing from this. Even if Russia was to totally … Continue reading →...
Headlines Matter
Rolling Stone ran an article with the headline “Joe Rogan Seems to have Disappeared from Spotify,” and I saw that on Facebook. So, the first thing I did was to go to Spotify and check and, lo and behold, Joe … Continue reading →...
Metamates
Who knows what goes on in the mind of Mark Zuckerberg? I sure do not but, since he is a public figure and, unlike the Kardashians or many other public figures, very important to all of our lives in a … Continue reading →...
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