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The Turn of the Tide in Ukraine continues!
Russia driven back from Kiev while losing control in Kherson; in Berdyansk on Sea of Azov, missile sinks one Russian landing ship, damages 2 others; New York Times finally covers Ivashov open letter to Putin with fragmentary comments; You...
The tide is turning against Russian invaders in Ukraine!
Counter-offensive around Kiev seizes initiative, pushing Russian invaders back 45 miles from east bank of Dnieper; Ukraine needs hundreds of truck-mounted Typhoon missiles to protect its southern coast along the Black Sea, including...
The Ides of March are right around the corner!
Putin seeks scapegoats for his Ukraine failure: instability in Moscow with two top foreign intelligence bosses arrested and eight generals fired; Most Favored Nation trading status for Russia to end soon; Moscow approaching national bankruptcy...
Sustainable Pulse
FDA Sued Over Failure to Release Documents Regarding Approval of GMO Salmon
Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week, for unlawfully withholding records regarding FDA’s environmental assessment of genetically engineered...
Glyphosate Discovered in Wide Range of Essential Foods in Massive Testing Project
The results of the most comprehensive glyphosate testing of food products ever conducted in the U.S. were released by The Detox Project on last week, in a detailed report that shows the true levels of weedkiller contamination in essential...
BASF Stops Sale of Toxic Pesticide Trifludimoxazin after Court Action
In response to a lawsuit filed by the Center for Food Safety and Center for Biological Diversity, chemical giant BASF has agreed to stop the manufacture and sale of the pesticide trifludimoxazin, according to recent court filings...
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Stagecraft and Statecraft
China continues its territorial advances in Asia
Strategy relies on a steady progression of actions to outmaneuver rival states Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is helping to obscure China’s expansionism in Asia, where it continues to redraw its land and...
Putin’s War and the Mirage of the Rules-Based Order
For all the talk of a rules-based order, the world’s rule-makers have reverted unhesitatingly to unilateralism during the Ukraine war. While this will leave Russia and the US worse off, it will enable China to advance its interests and bolster...
The new US-Russia cold war will accelerate China’s rise
BY BRAHMA CHELLANEY, THE HILL President Biden has made clear that the United States has embarked on a strategy of Containment 2.0 against Russia with what he calls “the broadest sanctions in history.” But Biden is unlikely...
Ramani's blog
Summer Sloka Classes Online For Kids
Age Group 7 - 15. From 15 April,2022 To. 13 May,2022. Thrice A Week - Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Time. 15.00 to. 16.00.IST Duration. One hour. Platform - Google Meet.
Vedas Smritis On Saffron The Colour of Hinduism
Saffron colour is associated with Hinduism. Donning Saffron robes is the hall mark of a Sanyasi,one who has renounced everything in Life. Saffron color has now become a symbol of Hinduism. On careful examination of Vedic texts and Smriti does...
Hurt Souls Should be Listened To, Kashmir Files
A narrative that begins with a scene that numbs you, yet it is not gory. It portrays the helplessness of one when whom you know well behaves the way he does.What is left unsaid makes the impact.The story then,though it does not move away from the...
Diane Ravitch's blog
Carol Burris: How Charter Operators Get Rich: “Sweeps Contracts”
People often wonder how charter entrepreneurs make money. This article by Carol Burris, executive director of the Network for Public Education, appeared on Valerie Strauss’s Answer Sheet blog in 2019. It’s a cautionary tale that is...
Jan Resseger: Feds Propose New Rules to Bar Profiteers
Jan Resseger writes here about the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed new regulations for the federal Charter Schools Program. To a significant extent, the Department has incorporated recommendations offered by the Network for...
Peter Greene: Write a Letter to Support the Federal Ban on Funding For-Profit Charter Schools
Peter Greene writes here about the proposal to tighten federal regulations so that for-profit corporations will not qualify to receive federal charter funding. Greene writes: This is exactly the kind of boring policy wonk stuff that can...
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£36 Billion For Solar Panels (That Don’t Work In Winter!)
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness England faces being carpeted with solar panels covering an area close to the size of Exmoor under plans being considered as part of Boris Johnson’s green energy drive. The Prime Minister is preparing to...
( The combination of decreased elevation / shorter days and greater attenuation from longer distance traveled in atmosphere always make looking out at -30 degree C vistas a subject for musing how sunlight that does not manage to heat the land is going to heat the home. )
Rowlatt Facing Two Complaints Over Panorama
By Paul Homewood You will recall the Panorama edition last November, “Wild Weather- Our World Under Threat”. Presented by Justin Rowlatt, it attempted to show that the world’s weather was getting worse because of global warming...
Wind Power Down To 3% In Past Week
By Paul Homewood It won’t have escaped your attention that the weather has been dry,sunny and settled during the past week As a result, wind power has been negligible, averaging 1.01GW, or 3% of total demand: https://grid.iamkate.com/ ...
NoTricksZone
Climate Past Far From Settled: 7 Major Temperature Reconstructions Find No Agreement
A new paper published in open access publishing MDPI looks at seven prominent hemispheric and global temperature reconstructions for the past 2000 years (T2k). The analysis conducted by the authors found that some reconstructions “differed...
Atmospheric Physicist: CO2 Explains 0.1°C Of 1975-2000 Warming – ‘One Fifth Of The IPCC Assumption’
A new study uses existing temperature and CO2 records and albedo/natural variability attribution to suggest most of the recent warming is natural. The climate sensitivity to CO2 forcing is just over 0.2°C for a 100 ppm concentration increase...
Comprehensive European Study Finds Warmer Climate Periods Do Not Lead To More Conflict, War
Analysis of 1000 years of European wars finds that more war and conflict are not linked to warm climates. One of the scare stories used by the global warming alarmists is the claim that climate extremes produced by manmade climate change will...
NEPC Blog Post of the Day
Shanker Blog: A Recipe for Successful Literacy Instruction
Shanker Blog: A Recipe for Successful Literacy Instruction As a former high school English teacher of nine years, I know how daunting it can be to tackle literacy instruction. You stress over the lack of resources. You crave more professional...
Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Universal Preschool and the Expectation Divide: It’s Time to Talk!
Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Universal Preschool and the Expectation Divide: It’s Time to Talk! . . .the best way to improve test scores was to do for all children even more of what we already did for wealthy children–and [recognize] that...
Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Classroom Teachers Are Politicos
Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Classroom Teachers Are Politicos Besides managing a classroom of 20 to 30 or more students while teaching lessons every day, teachers are also astute politicians. Teachers, for example...
The Moderate Voice
White House logs show over 7-hr gap in Trump call record on Jan. 6 -report
Published by Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) -White House records show an unexplained gap of more than seven hours in the record of former President Donald Trump’s telephone calls the day of the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol...
Mobile phone video helped convict George Floyd’s murderer
Yet today, Russians may not believe video or reports from Ukrainian family members. The journey from a “mobile” television camera that weighed several hundred pounds to the video-camera-plus-studio found in most of our pockets took...
Will Smith’s Slapping Chris Rock Sparks Hilarious Social Media Jokefest
It was the slap heard and seen around the world — and a slap that sparked a deluge of social media jokes. When Best Actor winner Will Smith came onstage and slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars after Rock told a joke about Smith’s wife it created...
Marginal REVOLUTION
Wednesday assorted links
1. Left-center critique of State Capacity Libertarianism. 2. How Duke University Press stayed relevant (New Yorker). And what is wrong with Yale? 3. Who is Putin’s immediate successor? And is he a nice guy? 4. Which states back Will...
Bounty Hunter the Dog
I posted earlier on a NYC program where idling cars can be reported to earn a share of the fine. Tapei has just started a similar program to earn a share of the fine assessed on people who don’t pick up their dog’s poop. As before the virtue of...
The new equilibrium, solved for
Ticket sales for Chris Rock’s comedy shows have reportedly spiked since Sunday night. Live event ticketing site TickPick sold more tickets to see Chris Rock overnight than it had in the past month combined, according to a tweet from the company...
Lloyd Lofthouse
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed … with the blood of patriots & tyrants.”
The title of this post was taken from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote in Paris, on Nov. 13. 1787. He sent that letter to William Smith. Those words do not appear in the Declaration of Independence. Those words do not … Continue reading →...
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...
MintPress News
Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Naomi Klein Join Over 100 Academics Denouncing The Israel lobby’s Attempt To Cancel Lowkey
In addition, dozens of prominent Jewish voices have rejected the Israel lobby’s attempts to silence Lowkey and signed the letter. These include writer and activist Naomi Klein, Professor Peter Beinart, editor-at-large of Jewish Currents...
Michael Malarkey, Styles P, Wretch32 & FredWreck among stars condemning Israel Lobby’s Attempt to Cancel Lowkey
Among the signatories denouncing the Israel Lobby's attack as a crude attempt to silence him include “Vampire Diaries” star Michael Malarkey, rappers Styles P and Wretch 32, rock legend Roger Waters and Grammy award-winning producer...
Lies, Secret Recording and Parakeets: The Israel Lobby’s Dirty War Against Lowkey
The pro-Israel crowd may have won a small battle in forcing Lowkey not to perform this month, but they are losing the war for hearts and minds across the West. The post Lies, Secret Recording and Parakeets: The Israel Lobby’s Dirty War Against...
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The Smack
Sometimes something happens that doesn’t matter, between people who don’t matter, and yet it grabs the public attention for a day and that’s all people can talk about but you know perfectly well it will be old news by tomorrow, … Continue...
The Fierce Determination of the Ukrainian People
Sure, some people are looking at the global political ramifications, and seeing this as a proxy war between the U.S. and Russia, and they’re not completely wrong. Certainly, in retrospect, the American involvement from Maidan onward has...
The Flag
They say that war is how Americans learn geography, and I must admit I know much more about Ukrainian geography than I did a week ago. We were there, once, just for a few days, a few years back, in … Continue reading →...
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