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Utopia – you are standing in it!

• Friendliest Cat Ever!

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• Al Pacino Breaks Down 4 of His Most Iconic Characters | GQ

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• Newman’s finest moment

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TARPLEY.net

• 20 million watch hearings of House January 6 committee, as Fox News contorts to keep its pathetic dupes in the dark!

  US moves toward November showdown of democracy vs dictatorship at polls; Trump portrayed as kingpin in coup conspiracy for violent overthrow of government to thwart the will of the voters; Gripping coup drama has potential to shift mass psychology...

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• On eve of Thursday’s hearings of the House January 6 Committee, “Green Bay sweep” putsch planner Navarro is arrested!

  Counting Tulsa, Ames, and other lethal events, national gun violence emergency is undeniable; Scowling domestic czarina Susan Rice denigrates HHS Sec. Becerra, fails to deal with baby formula crisis, blocks student loan relief and vaccinations...

  7 days ago

• Sabotage of gun safety, attacks on Roe & other rights, the riots and coup attempts, and Quisling votes against arming Ukraine show it’s time to abolish the GOP!

  In Buffalo, supermarket security guard died fighting and police arrived at shooting within ONE minute; in Uvalde, it took Gov. Abbott’s Keystone cops SEVENTY-EIGHT minutes to enter classroom & engage killer; which of these is a more...

  14 days ago

Sustainable Pulse

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  Glyphosate Causes Fatal Damage to Bumblebee Colonies

  Bumblebee colonies exposed to low levels of the weed killer glyphosate are unable to adequately regulate nest temperature, imperiling the next generation of bumblebees and long-term colony growth and survival. This latest finding, published...

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  Lowe’s Targeted by Consumer Groups for Selling Carcinogenic Weedkiller Roundup

  On the day of its annual shareholder meeting, Lowe’s is under renewed pressure to stop selling cancer-linked, pollinator-toxic weedkiller glyphosate, the key ingredient in Roundup, as a coalition of consumer and environmental groups...

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  Court Rejects California’s Blanket Approval of Pesticide Spraying

  In a major victory for health and environmental groups, a California court has ruled (see here and here) that a sweeping state pesticide spraying program is unlawful. The court found the program failed to adequately study and minimize...

  10 days ago

sunshine hours

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  Drought? What about the Dustbowl?

  a month ago

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

  . South / North

  2 months ago

• Eagles Die

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

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Stagecraft and Statecraft

• India should invite Myanmar’s foreign minister to ASEAN meet

  Giving Naypyitaw the cold shoulder is not in New Delhi’s interests Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia India not only shares long land and maritime borders with Myanmar, but it also sees the country as a strategic corridor to Southeast Asia...

  3 days ago

• The Clash of Asia’s Titans

  Chinese President Xi Jinping has picked a border fight that he cannot win, and transformed a previously conciliatory India into a long-term foe. This amounts to an even bigger miscalculation than Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s...

  5 days ago

• The Quad’s moment of truth has arrived

  Biden’s empty Taiwan rhetoric reveals Quad’s core weakness Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia Nearly five years after it was resurrected from a decadelong dormancy, and then integrated as a strategic coalition of the Indo-Pacific’s...

  14 days ago

Ramani's blog

• Sri Lalitha Sahasranama Introduction Lecture

  Explanation from The six Systems of Indian philosophy, Vedas and interpreting the ancient texts in modern scientific terms including Quantum.To join WhatsApp+919480591538

  5 days ago

• Introduction To Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Audio

  If you would like to join please click the link above or contact ramanan50@gmail.com or Whatsapp+919480591538

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• Vedas Upanishads Sahasranama Courses Online

  The six Systems of Indian philosophy,Vedas and interpreting the ancient texts in modern scientific terms including Quantum theory.Hence the classes are more of dialogues with question and answers.Questions are posted in the relevant...

  11 days ago

Diane Ravitch's blog

• Michael Gerson: The Pathetic Response of The GOP to the 1/6 Hearings

  Michael Gerson, former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, describes the response of Republicans to the first day of public hearings of the January 6 commission: The Jan. 6 committee’s riveting televised opening night might not...

  6 hours ago

• The Moral Collapse of Today’s Republican Party

  Peter Wehner, once a loyal and very conservative Republican, now excoriates the moral collapse of the GOP. He writes in The Atlantic: The sheer scale of Donald Trump’s depravity is unmatched in the history of the American presidency, and...

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• Southern Baptist Convention Rocked by Sex Abuse Allegations

  For years, the Southern Baptist Conference has played an outsized role in promoting its ultra-conservative views on sexuality, abortion, race, crime, and other hot-button topics. A recent investigation revealed that the SBC had its own...

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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• Energy Crisis Is A Taste Of What The IEA Has In Store For Us

  By Paul Homewood     Biden may call it the “Putin price hike”, but the root cause of our energy crisis has been festering for a few years now. Tilak Doshi details how the oil and gas sector in the West has been starved of investment in this Forbes...

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• Gove Blocks Shale Gas Project Because Of “Fence”

  By Paul Homewood   One step forward, one step back!     Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s energy giant Ineos is "apoplectically cross" after Michael Gove blocked plans for a fracking site in south Yorkshire. The billionaire’s bid to produce gas in...

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• Jackdaw Gas Field Given Go-ahead

  By Paul Homewood   At last a glimmer of common sense!     Development of a major North Sea gas field has been approved by regulators. The Jackdaw field, east of Aberdeen, has the potential to produce 6.5% of Britain’s gas output. The regulatory...

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NoTricksZone

• German Economics expert Sees 6 Formidable Problems With Germany’s Green Energy Push

  Leading German economist Hans Werner Sinn sees 6 major problems with Europe’s green energy transition (Energiewende) and warns other nations against following the German energy model. Problem no. 1: The Paris Accord is non-binding The...

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• South America’s Sea Levels Were Multiple Meters Higher And SSTs 2-5°C Warmer Until Recent Centuries

  Several new and recent studies have affirmed that the waters surrounding South America – from Peru to Chile to Argentina to Brazil – were several degrees warmer and sea levels multiple meters higher than today until the Little Ice Age centuries...

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• Analysis Of Data Going Back 40 Years Shows CO2 Has No Effect On Forest Fires,…Burned Area Plummets Since 2000

  In a previous post, Trend in Global Fires, data analyst Zoe Phin showed the global fire trend for the last 21 years. Since then, Zoe has taken it it a step further and found a source with more data going back to 1982: from a project funded by European...

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NEPC Blog Post of the Day

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  Code Acts in Education: New Biological Realities in the Genetics of Education

  Code Acts in Education: New Biological Realities in the Genetics of Education New research with a sample of more than 3 million individuals claims to have identified thousands of genetic differences linked with education. Photo by Rob...

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  David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Do No Harm: Reflections on the Impact of Educational Research

  David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Do No Harm: Reflections on the Impact of Educational Research This post is a short piece I wrote in 2011 for a special issue of the journal Teacher Education and Practice on “Enhancing...

  2 days ago

• Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Kids and Screen Time (Part 1)

  Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Kids and Screen Time (Part 1) Four years ago I wrote a post on the time U.S. children spend looking at screens. Phones, laptops, desktops, and television were included. I quoted CEOs...

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The Moderate Voice

• Rupert Murdoch seems to have had it with Donald Trump: Two Murdoch newspapers savage Trump

  Has mega media bigwig Rupert Murodoch had it with Donald Trump? There are new signs that he has. Two Murdoch newspapers which are major media players on the right now mince no words when it comes to Trump: The Wall Street Journal: Mr. Trump betrayed...

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• January 6 hearing attracted 20 million viewers: cable’s MSNBC soared, Fox News got 3 million viewers

  Apparently a lot of people are interested: the first hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol Hill attack garnered 20 million viewers. Fox News, which declined to run the hearings and instead ran Tucker...

  19 hours ago

• Jan. 6 hearing gives primetime exposure to violent footage and dramatic evidence – the question is, to what end?

  A video image shows the U.S. Capitol grounds being breached as the House Jan. 6 committee holds its first public hearing. Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP Mark Satta, Wayne State University; Claire Leavitt, Grinnell College, and Ken Hughes, University...

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Marginal REVOLUTION

• The Russian economy is not falling apart

  …the economic decline is not as precipitous as some experts had expected it would be after the Feb. 24 invasion. Inflation is still high, around 17 percent on an annual basis, but it has come down from a 20-year peak in April. A closely watched...

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• Saturday assorted links

  1. “We conclude that the ǣfrog in the panǥ (FIP) momentum effect is pervasive in co-momentum settings, suggesting that information discreteness (ID) serves as a cognitive trigger that reduces investor inattention and improves inter-firm...

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• Cork bleg

  Yes, Cork Ireland.  What should I do and where should I eat?  Your advice is most welcome, thank you in advance. The post Cork bleg appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.

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Lloyd Lofthouse

• Nekulturny – A Poem

  Originally posted on Plus Ultra: Say it with me: Ne-kul-tur-ny The Russians look down on us—they claim we in Asia are boorish, uncivilized And yet, Ours is not the nation that bends to the will of a rabid madman Manufactures frozen conflicts...

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• If the Right to Own a Gun Were Like Access to Abortion…

  Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: A friend sent Gloria Steinem’s solution to gun safety: “How about we treat every young man who wants to buy a gun like every woman who wants to get an abortion: 1. Mandatory 48-hour waiting period...

  17 days ago

• Why Isn’t the “Parental Rights” Movement Fighting for the Parents of Transgender Youth?

  Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: At the Network for Public Education conference in Philadelphia on May 1, I moderated a panel to discuss attacks on public schools and the groups behind those attacks. Peter Greene identified a long...

  18 days ago

MintPress News

• Forget Liberating Ukraine – We First Need To Liberate Our Minds 

  Our compassion to help is being weaponized in ways that kill Ukrainians and destroy their communities. In fighting a ‘madman,’ we are revealing our own insanity. The post Forget Liberating Ukraine – We First Need To Liberate Our Minds ...

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• Elon Musk, Proofpoint, and the Tentacles of the Surveillance State, with Alan MacLeod

  Lowkey is joined by Alan Macleod to discuss Elon Musk's ties to the Pentagon, the CIA and Israeli cyberintelligence. The post Elon Musk, Proofpoint, and the Tentacles of the Surveillance State, with Alan MacLeod appeared first on MintPress...

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• Palestine’s New Resistance Model: How the Past Year Redefined the Struggle for Freedom

  A new poll revealed that 60% of Palestinians support “a return to armed confrontations and Intifada" in the struggle against Israel's occupation. The post Palestine’s New Resistance Model: How the Past Year Redefined the Struggle for...

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www.gurukalehuru.com

• Hustle

  People talk a lot of smack about Netflix, because 90% of the stuff they have is garbage, they haven’t added a great, or even very good, TV series for a while and the sequels mostly lack the charisma of the … Continue reading →...

  3 days ago

• The Dumbest Solution

  First, let me be clear. The problem is guns, and the sooner that problem is ended, by banning AR 15s and making any guns so difficult to purchase that a questionable person would never be able to get their hands … Continue reading →...

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• A Totally Irrational Position

  Like far too many Americans, I have family members who are obsessed with guns, and I respect their intelligence and character – in all other things. But, I’m tired of arguing with them about guns as if they had a … Continue reading →...

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