9 February - iG Tab - 9

 

Utopia – you are standing in it!

• Christopher Moltisanti, The Intervention

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• SR-71 Blackbird | Cold War icon

  5 hours ago

• Canada’s 100-Foot Freight Railway To Nowhere

  9 hours ago

TARPLEY.net

• At Olympics of genocide & aggression, Putin and Xi launch Beijing-Moscow Axis with ultimatum against US policy & NATO; Pentagon reveals Kremlin’s likely false-flag scenario to trigger attack on Ukraine: Plan has uncanny similarity...

  5 days ago

• Biden will move US forces to NATO front lines on eastern flank; media defeatists and appeasers on parade

  US GDP increased by 5.7% in all of 2021 and by 6.9% in fourth quarter, a stunning success for Biden which the corporate media are loath to report; House January 6 Committee sends subpoenas to 14 Electoral College imposters as DoJ admits investigation...

  11 days ago

• A Different Kind of Civil War: The French Wars of Religion, c. 1560-1600

  The response to any Putin attack on Ukraine must include a crash program for US and NATO strategic defense based on lasers and other new physical principles; Proofs of extensive January 6 coup plot are rapidly emerging, but Merrick Garland’s...

  18 days ago

Sustainable Pulse

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  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...

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  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...

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  Colombia Constitutional Court Suspends Re-Start of Glyphosate Aerial Fumigation Program

  Rights groups and politicians in Colombia have welcomed a decision by the country’s Constitutional Court, which ruled this week that the government failed to consult local communities over its plan to restart aerial fumigation of coca...

  14 days ago

sunshine hours

• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 23 – 2022

  . South / North

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• Snow- Rutgers Snow Lab

  http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/index.php

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  Snow Mass

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Stagecraft and Statecraft

• The Great COVID Coverup

  As the world attempts to figure out how to live with COVID-19, it must also commit to identifying the missteps – accidental and otherwise – that caused the pandemic. That means, first and foremost, turning a critical eye toward China. …...

  11 days ago

• India must give Taiwan a helping hand

  Do you know that Taiwan plays an indirect role in the defense of India because its autonomous existence ties up a sizable portion of China’s armed forces? If China succeeds in recolonizing Taiwan, India’s security will come under greater...

  21 days ago

• The Quad needs an economic pillar to stand on

  The Quad, a partnership of democracies that had once appeared more concept than reality, has been fortified. But it faces important challenges, including an expansive agenda that could dilute its focus and the absence of an economic pillar...

  a month ago

Ramani's blog

• Narayana Balatripura Sundari In Vaasi Yoga

  I have, as is usual with me,while searching for something else to write on Vaasi Yoga,  I landed  on information that speaks of Yoga and Sri Narayana in the same breath. Not only that it identified Narayana with Devi  as Bala Tripurasundari...

  2 hours ago

• How To Surrender To Devi Appaya Deekshita

  Many Gods, Goddesses are worshipped in Bhakthi Yoga.What is needed in Bhakthi Yoga is total emotional attachment to the Deity.In this article, I shall illustrate life instance from a great Bhakti Yogi, well versed in Sanskrit and Gnana Yogi...

  15 hours ago

• Meditate On Eyes Not On Centre of the Forehead Siddhas

  Agasthya says that 'Do not go after the  Center of the eyebrow,( Your ) Eyes are Full of Divine Light and the tip of the nose is  The End( that it is the End, I am unable to decipher). What is clear is one should concentrate on the eyes , specifically...

  a day ago

Diane Ravitch's blog

• Free Shani Robinson!

  Tomorrow at 9 a.m., the Atlanta chapter of the NAACP, the Southern Center for Human Rights, and the Abolitionist Teaching Netwotk will host a press conference at the Fulton County Courthouse. They will be asking the judge and district attorney...

  9 hours ago

• Oakland School Board Votes to Close Schools, Despite Overwhelming Public Opposition

  A reader watched the Oakland school board meeting to the bitter end. Despite overwhelming opposition by students, parents, and educators, the board voted to close the schools. Maybe the decision was foreordained. Reader comment: The Board...

  13 hours ago

• Valerie Strauss: Remember the Atlanta Cheating Scandal?

  A few years ago, I reviewed Shani Robinson’s book “None of the Above,” about the Atlanta cheating scandal. Teachers were charged as racketeers for allegedly changing answers from wrong to right. When questioned by investigators...

  14 hours ago

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• Smart meter overhaul to open gates for ‘surge pricing’

  By Paul Homewood     h/t Philip Bratby/Ian Magness     Smart meters are to automatically send energy suppliers half-hourly updates on their customers’ power use in a revolutionary move that will allow "surge pricing" in millions of...

  11 hours ago

• UK Needs Climate Heroes!

  By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness     From the Telegraph:       As Ian says, it’s beyond parody! It actually conjures up images of the Soviet Union’s Heroes of Labour, who exceeded harvest targets in their tractors, or produced record...

  12 hours ago

• National Grid scheme to ration households’ power use at peak times

  By Paul Homewood   h/t Ian Magness       Households will be paid to ration their power usage at peak times as the National Grid scrambles to reduce pressure on Britain’s energy infrastructure. From Friday up to 1.4m households will be paid...

  a day ago

NoTricksZone

• Germany Electricity Prices Soar To World Record Highs After Years Of Energy Policy Folly…Expensive, Unreliable

  Germany’s power supply, once mostly made up of a mixture of coal and nuclear power, used to be among the most stable and affordable in the world. Power outages were rare and grid interventions were infrequent. German consumer electricity...

  10 hours ago

• The World’s First Black-Smoke-Emitting Nuclear Power Plant! …Presented By Germany’s Flagship ZDF Public Television

  Today we have an anecdotal example of how Germany’s mainstream media regularly misleads the public with manipulative crafted reporting. Nuclear power is hated and viewed as evil by the German media, so any possible trick to make it look...

  a day ago

• 5 Nigerian Physicists Predict Global Cooling In The Next 80 Years: 2100 Will Be 0.5°C Colder Than 2018

  Scientists: Due to the decline in solar geomagnetic activity the Earth is poised to endure a cooling period over the coming decades, with the coldest temperatures arriving by 2038 or 2039 ±11 years. Human greenhouse gas emissions are not...

  2 days ago

NEPC Blog Post of the Day

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  Gadfly on the Wall: The Same People Who Think Antiracists Have Gone Too Far Think Standardized Testing Hasn’t Gone Far Enough

  Gadfly on the Wall: The Same People Who Think Antiracists Have Gone Too Far Think Standardized Testing Hasn’t Gone Far Enough Some folks are fed up with modern anti-racism. Why? For one, all this focus on equity has made it harder to support...

  12 hours ago

• Shanker Blog: Allied Around Student Success

  Shanker Blog: Allied Around Student Success I see multiple stories published daily about the fragile state of the teaching profession and educators themselves. There is also concerning anecdotal evidence suggesting that the work of other...

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  Curmudgucation: Research: Yes, Common Core Was Bad

  Curmudgucation: Research: Yes, Common Core Was Bad Did Common Core fail so badly that its failure is visible from another continent? Did it have negative effects on education as a whole? Can fancy research prove what teachers knew a decade...

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The Moderate Voice

• Mountain glaciers may hold less ice than previously thought – here’s what that means for 2 billion downstream water users and sea level rise

  Mountain glaciers are under threat from global warming. Phunjo Lama/AFP via Getty Images Mathieu Morlighem, Dartmouth College Mountain glaciers are essential water sources for nearly a quarter of the global population. But figuring out...

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• US National Archives requests legal probe of Trump: media report

  Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – The US National Archives, which manages the preservation of presidential documents, requested that the Justice Department investigate former president Donald Trump for his handling of official documents...

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• Trump Sent ‘Burn Bags’ Of Sensitive Documents To Be Destroyed At Pentagon

  Published by uPolitics.com Former President Donald Trump‘s habit of destroying documents didn’t stop at tearing them up. The Washington Post has reported that Trump also used burn bags. The torn-up documents would be stuffed into bags...

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Marginal REVOLUTION

• My Conversation with the excellent Sebastian Mallaby

  Venture capital most of all, hedge funds as well with the Fed tossed in.  Here is the audio, video, and transcript.  Here is one excerpt from the Conversation: COWEN: What do you think of the view that in recent years, there’s been a huge...

  10 hours ago

• Wednesday assorted links

  1. Caetano Veloso profile (New Yorker). 2. Harvard and privacy? 3. Douglas Trumbull, RIP. 4. How it started, and now how it is going. 5. Who are some of the leaders of the Truckers Convoy? The post Wednesday assorted links appeared first on Marginal...

  13 hours ago

• *The Jesuits: A History*

  That is the forthcoming book by Markus Friedrich, a kind of definitive history at 671 pp. of text but also interesting throughout.  It is the book this year I am so far most excited about, and it is highly likely I read the entire thing. The Jesuits...

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Lloyd Lofthouse

• Reader: The Founding Fathers Loathed the Filibuster

  Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: A reader who identifies as Quickwrit posted the following comment about the filibuster. For most of our history, debates in the Senate could be used to delay consideration of a bill, even to…...

  8 days ago

• Peter Greene on the Diversification of the Koch(topus) Brand

  Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Peter Greene explains how the Koch machine is creating new brands to hide its identity from the unsuspecting. The billionaires Charles and his late brother David were infamous for funneling Dark...

  15 days ago

• Robert Kuttner: Look Up!

  Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect reviews the Netflix movie Don’t Look Up! “Appreciate the brilliance of the season’s most profound, category-busting movie.” Don’t Look Up is...

  18 days ago

MintPress News

• Israel Pumps $30M into “Concert,” a Revamped Propaganda Campaign to Fight Apartheid Label

  Israel's cabinet recently approved 100 million shekels (about $30 million) in funding to revive "Cabinet," a defunct government propaganda program targeting Western countries. The post Israel Pumps $30M into “Concert,” a Revamped...

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• MintPress Study: NY Times, Washington Post Driving US to War with Russia Over Ukraine

  This MintPress study reveals that ninety percent of recent opinion articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal have taken a hawkish view on the Ukraine conflict written by pundits tied to the national security...

  6 days ago

• No Sign that Amnesty Apartheid Report Will Shatter Pan-Israeli Denial of “Palestinian Problem”

  The general attitude taken by Israeli politicians – and one dares say the people who voted for them – is that the Palestinian problem is not their problem. If the Palestinians misbehave, the Israeli war machine will know how to deal with...

  6 days ago

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...

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  instagram cross-post

  Sophia was delighted by the skateboarders Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there.

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  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...

  17 days ago

www.gurukalehuru.com

• What is Hunter’s Role?

  Do you remember a couple years back, during the Democratic primaries, when I, and a lot of other Bernie supporters, were saying “Hey, isn’t it strange how Joe Biden’s son works for a Ukrainian oil company, and back when Joe … Continue...

  15 hours ago

• Rogan’s Latest Apology

  More on Joe Rogan, which might be counter productive, because I’m keeping the argument alive, adding fuel to the fire, when it must be best to just let the argument die, he’s going to continue with his podcast and the … Continue reading...

  3 days ago

• Billionaire vs. City

  As the wealth of the wealthiest continues to grow, as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and a couple of dozen others continue to amass fortunes which are greater than the economy of many nations, a conflict such as this was bound … Continue reading →...

  5 days ago