22 May - iG Tab - 9

 

Utopia – you are standing in it!

• Kittens enjoy the taste of fried chicken thighs for the first time

  6 hours ago

• George Moves Back In With His Parents

  8 hours ago

• Blade Runner • Main Theme • Vangelis

  10 hours ago

TARPLEY.net

• In wake of Buffalo massacre, US must focus on strategic imperative of national unity to meet totalitarian threats from Russia and China; Fascist ideologues peddling crackpot replacement theory are doing the work of enemy despots Putin and...

  a day ago

• Kremlin responds with rocket-rattling to looming NATO membership for Finland and Sweden

  Expansion of 1949 North Atlantic Pact is once in a century event made possible by Putin’s fanaticism and stupidity; Russians forced into humiliating retreat from Kharkiv, blowing up bridges as they go; Ukrainians close to border at Belgorod...

  9 days ago

• Alito draft ending Roe v. Wade declares war on all rights in US, but backlash builds!

  Supreme Court leak reveals GOP’s creeping coup to overthrow democracy; Mass mobilization, not ultra-left sectarian fratricide, needed to decimate Republicans in Congress, end filibuster, pass Roe as a statute, and add new justices...

  16 days ago

Sustainable Pulse

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  Human Activities Have Degraded 40% of Land on Earth – UN Report

  Human activities are damaging and degrading the lands of the Earth to the point where up to 40% of global terrain has been devalued, according to a new and comprehensive UN report. Source: Earth.Org By Olivia Lai The second edition of the Global...

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  Another Legal Blow to Bayer in Roundup Case as US Solicitor General Weighs In

  The U.S. Solicitor General on Tuesday dealt a blow to Monsanto owner Bayer AG, advising the U.S. Supreme Court that it should deny the company’s request for a review of a key Roundup cancer trial loss, Carey Gillam on UnSpun reported. Source...

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  Florida Approves Release of Billions of GMO Mosquitoes

  Overlooking potential public health risks, lingering scientific questions, and deficient public data, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) approved the extension of Oxitec’s two-year field trial on...

  18 days ago

sunshine hours

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  Drought? What about the Dustbowl?

  21 days ago

• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 100 – 2022

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• Eagles Die

  https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-firm-fined-8m-after-150-eagles-die-its-wind-farms-1699331

  a month ago

Stagecraft and Statecraft

• European scramble for energy comes at Asia’s expense

  EU moves to wean itself off Russian oil and gas is creating a self-defeating trap Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia The era of cheap oil and gas is over. In an increasingly risky and turbulent world, geopolitics more than supply chain … Continue...

  9 days ago

• The Quad at a Crossroads

  The Indo-Pacific’s four leading democracies can hold as many leaders’ summits as they want, but without a clear strategic vision – and an agenda to match – they will have little impact. The group’s purpose is to act as a … Continue...

  12 days ago

• Why sanctions against Russia may not work

  BY BRAHMA CHELLANEY, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR, THE HILL The unprecedented U.S.-led Western sanctions against Russia have been likened to economic weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) that would ultimately destroy the Russian economy...

  20 days ago

Ramani's blog

• Rajaraja Chozha Killed Elder Brother Aditha Karikala? Epigraphy Evidence

  So, it is probably, by the process of elimination,that Rajaraja Chozha was behind the conspiracy to kill Adhitya Karikala with the help of Kundavai,Vandhyath Thevan and planning by Aniruddha Brahmaraya. This would account for the meek acquiescence...

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• Kashi Vishwanath Gynavapi Mosque Aurangazeb’s Firman Command Images

  There this cry is not heard because even the memories of earlier civilizations have been wiped out. Nor would you hear this in Africa for here also the people have been brainwashed into believing that they had no culture or history, as is often...

  6 days ago

• Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Lectures

  Lectures on Sri Vishnu Sahasranama with word by word meaning and philosophical analysis. Series of Lectures, Eight in a week. Premium .

  15 days ago

Diane Ravitch's blog

• Sandy Hook Parents May Finally Get Justice in Legal Battle Against Alex Jones

  The parents of children who were victims of a massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, moved a step closer to getting justice done in their legal battle with Alex Jones. Jones claimed on his broadcasts that the Sandy...

  12 hours ago

• FAIR: Jonathan Chait Should Have Disclosed Conflict of Interest When Writing About Charter Schools

  A progressive media-watch organization called FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) criticized New York magazine writer Jonathan Chait for failing to report his wife’s role in the charter industry when writing about (and defending)...

  13 hours ago

• Andrea Gabor: How Biden’s New Regulations Will Help Charter Schools

  Andrea Gabor is Bloomberg Professor of Business Journalism at Baruch College of the City of New York. She writes often for the Bloomberg website, where this article appears. Michael Bloomberg has written in opposition to Biden’s proposed...

  14 hours ago

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• Correspondence With BBC

  By Paul Homewood   Ken Pollock, one of our readers, forwarded this correspondence he had with the BBC regarding Justin Rowlatt’s Panorama programme last November:   Following his letter to Tim Davie, who promised to get his team to look...

  19 hours ago

• Are Mid-20C Temperatures In May Unusual

  By Paul Homewood   What an utterly absurd question!   https://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2022/05/17/are-mid-20c-temperatures-in-may-unusual/   Temperatures in the mid 20s in the South East may be common in May, but probably not in Cromarty...

  2 days ago

• Go Organic, And Starve!

  By Paul Homewood   h/t Dennis Ambler   Unintended consequences (or maybe they were intended?)   From Foreign Policy News:       Faced with a deepening economic and humanitarian crisis, Sri Lanka called off an ill-conceived national...

  2 days ago

NoTricksZone

• GFS Analysis Shows Zero Warming: For Every Hot-Spot On The Planet, There’s Also Been A Cold-Spot

  By Die kalte Sonne Currently much is being reported on extreme heat reaching from North Africa to Europe. In some places in Morocco and Spain, new temperature records for May have been set. However, it’s worth taking a look at the whole world...

  9 hours ago

• Climate Change At Bottom Of List Of Worries For German Households, Comprehensive 8-Year Survey Shows

  “Surprising results”: Germans are much more worried about the economy, peace and health than they are about “climate change”, a comprehensive series of surveys reveals.  Part 3 of the most recent German Klimaschau here looks at...

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• The Southwest Atlantic To West Antarctic Peninsula Region Has Been Cooling Since The 1990s

  Scientists continue to document a sea surface cooling in the vast waters above Antarctica. As recently as a few thousand years ago the Sub-Antarctic (South Georgia) region was 5 to 10°C warmer than it is today (Xia et al., 2020). Image Source...

  4 days ago

NEPC Blog Post of the Day

• Psychology Today: Instruction About LGBTQ People in Elementary School Is Age-Appropriate

  Psychology Today: Instruction About LGBTQ People in Elementary School Is Age-Appropriate KEY POINTS Trans kids know their identity as young as age 2. Kids in GLBTQ families are in every school. Teachers have an opportunity to reduce stigma...

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  Teacher in a Strange Land: Pedagogy, Lesson Plans, Instructional Materials—and Politics

  Teacher in a Strange Land: Pedagogy, Lesson Plans, Instructional Materials—and Politics This is a blog about Teacher Stuff—the pedestrian daily tools of successful instruction. The boring and ordinary instruments of professional...

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• Gadfly on the Wall: Covid Has Hobbled Public Schools. Here’s Why They’re Worth Saving

  Gadfly on the Wall: Covid Has Hobbled Public Schools. Here’s Why They’re Worth Saving Is public education worth saving?  That’s the question in the air these days.   In the last century, the US academic system helped us reach the...

  4 days ago

The Moderate Voice

• What is monkeypox? A microbiologist explains what’s known about this smallpox cousin

  What is monkeypox? A microbiologist explains what’s known about this smallpox cousin Monkeypox causes lesions that resemble pus-filled blisters, which eventually scab over. CDC/Getty Images Rodney E. Rohde, Texas State University...

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• Appealing to Trump (and his base) might have worked in Pennsylvania primaries – but it won’t play so well in the midterms

  The doctor is in … with Trump, at least. AP Photo/Gene J. Puska Daniel J. Mallinson, Penn State The Pennsylvania primaries of May 17, 2022, proved a good night for Donald Trump, a better one for “Trumpism” and a problem for moderates hoping...

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• SAFE HAVEN

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Marginal REVOLUTION

• Job security is not getting worse

  There is a widespread belief that work is less secure than in the past, that an increasing share of workers are part of the “pprecariat”. It is hard to find much evidence for this in objective measures of job security, but perhaps subjective...

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• Sunday assorted links

  1. MIE: The Kiss Kasket. 2. Long Rob Henderson review of Talent.  And Arnold Kling answers Cowen/Gross questions. 3. The mechanics of the Industrial Revolution. 4. Very good Samuel Hammond thread on Talent as a work of Austrian economics...

  11 hours ago

• Testing Freedom

  I did a podcast with Brink Lindsey of the Niskanen Center. Here’s one bit on the FDA’s long-history of banning home tests: Brink Lindsey: …it’s on the rapid testing that we had inexplicable delays. Rapid tests, home tests were ubiquitous...

  16 hours ago

Lloyd Lofthouse

• Heather Cox Richardson: The Radicalization of the Republican Party

  Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: This post by Heather Cox Richardson aims to explain the bizarre transformation of the Republican Party. To those of us old enough to remember Republicans such as Dwight D. Eisenhower, Earl Warren...

  a day ago

MintPress News

• From UK Troll Farms to Covert Psyops: The Troubling Past of Nina Jankowicz

  Kit Klarenberg exposes the troubling past and murky connections of Nina Jankowicz, head of Biden's recently shuttered “Disinformation Governance Board." Jankowicz, Klarenberg reveals, has a long history of acting as a de facto government...

  2 days ago

• Guantanamo Bay and the US Global Empire with Former Cold Warrior Todd E. Pierce

  Todd E. Pierce served with the 349th Psychological Operations Company and the 205th Infantry Brigade as a senior NCO. In the installment of “The Watchdog," Lowkey speaks to Pierce about the global reach of the US empire and its totalitarian...

  2 days ago

• New documentary trailer: Gaza Fights Back

  Gaza Fights Back is the latest documentary from MintPress journalist and filmmaker Dan Cohen. It tells the story of Israel’s 11-day war on the Gaza Strip in May 2021. The post New documentary trailer: Gaza Fights Back appeared first on MintPress...

  4 days ago

www.gurukalehuru.com

• The Future of Sci-Fi

  I’ve seen the first couple of episodes of Picard, which was largely the justification for subscribing to Amazon Prime, and I’ll watch more, it’s not a complete train wreck, although I am enjoying Lower Decks more, and that’s just a...

  10 days ago

• Depp v. Heard

  I’m not following the case of Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard closely but, since it’s the biggest controversy since Smith v. Rock, I suppose I’ll write a blog about it.Actually, my opinion in the Depp case (because it really is … Continue...

  23 days ago

• Crossing the Line

  Of course trans people are people and, as such, should be treated as individuals, with the same amount of respect you’d give to anybody else. Of course I am not attacking transgender people as a group.But holy fucking shit, this … Continue...

  a month ago