27 June - iG Tab - 9

 

Utopia – you are standing in it!

• Daniella Lock: Three Ways the Bill of Rights Bill Undermines UK Sovereignty

  Originally posted on UK Constitutional Law Association: The Bill of Rights Bill is framed by the Government as necessary to ensure ‘meaningful democratic oversight’ of human rights protection in the UK, with Conservative MPs keen to...

  2 hours ago

• Kiri warms towards tougher party funding restrictions (perhaps encouraged by the Nats warning of the “chilling effect”)

  Originally posted on Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive The National Party’s strong objection to plans to overhaul New Zealand’s political donations regime, expressed in submissions on the Government’s proposed sweeping changes...

  9 hours ago

• ERIC CRAMPTON, YOU ROCK!

  Originally posted on No Minister: A piece of posting that will never be seen by almost each and every one of the vainglorious sycophants who decline in many special ways to inform themselves of the degree dysfunction as an integral part of the...

  11 hours ago

TARPLEY.net

• In orgy of tyranny, Supremes strike down Roe, attack New York gun law, and weaken Miranda;

  Trump-backed court majority seeks nothing less than total fascist dictatorship, with warning that more human rights will be trampled as GOP’s nightmare scenario unfolds; Task now is to galvanize a United Front of the American people for...

  2 days ago

• Momentum for indictment of Trump & Co. builds across American society in context of House January 6 hearings

  Dramatic testimony by famed jurist Judge Michael Luttig leaves no doubt that Trump faction must be seen as “clear and present danger” for 2024; If Trump cannot take the presidency under color of law, forecasts Luttig, he will attempt a...

  9 days ago

• 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...

  16 days ago

Sustainable Pulse

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  US Supreme Court Declines Bayer Bid to Challenge Glyphosate Cancer Rulings

  The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a bid from Bayer-owned Monsanto that aimed to challenge thousands of lawsuits claiming its weedkiller Roundup causes cancer – a potentially costly ruling, AFP reported Tuesday. Source...

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  US Appeals Court Forces EPA to Reassess Glyphosate on Health and Environmental Impact

  In a historic victory for farmworkers and the environment on Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sided with Center for Food Safety (CFS) and its represented farmworker and conservation clients by overturning the Environmental...

  9 days ago
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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...

  19 days ago

sunshine hours

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  Drought? What about the Dustbowl?

  2 months ago

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

  . South / North

  3 months ago

• Eagles Die

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

  3 months ago

Stagecraft and Statecraft

• India’s front-line battle against autocracy more important than ever

  The risk of renewed skirmishes with China is growing Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia Two years after nighttime hand-to-hand combat with Indian troops resulted in China’s first combat deaths since its 1979 Vietnam invasion, the Chinese...

  4 days ago

• Why is Biden appeasing China?

  BRAHMA CHELLANEY, The Hill President Biden is yet to make his long-anticipated China strategy speech to define his approach to a country that has emerged as the greatest rival that the United States has ever faced. Instead, Secretary of State Antony...

  5 days ago

• 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...

  19 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

  20 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

  24 days ago

• 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...

  a month ago

Diane Ravitch's blog

• Slate: How Christian Conservatives Use Fear to Build the Home School Movement

  Molly Olmsted wrote in Slate about the role of Christian conservatives in promoting the home school movement. Their blunt instrument is fear. Public schools, they warn, will expose your children to all sorts of dangers: secular education...

  36 minutes ago

• NYC: Officials Stunned by Supreme Court Gun Rights Decision

  The U.S. Supreme Court struck downNew York’s century-old concealed-carry gun law Thursday, removing restrictions on carrying guns in public and delivering a win to gun enthusiasts. The 6-3 ruling, which has been anticipated in the...

  a day ago

• NY Times: How the Proud Boys Organized and Led the 1/6 Insurrection

  The New York Times created a 17-minute video showing conversations and actions among the leaders of the odious Proud Boys as they directed the mob on 1/6/21. The PB referred to the other members of the mob as “normies,” people who were naively...

  a day ago

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• Bee-eaters in Norfolk ‘worrying sign of climate change’

  By Paul Homewood   h/t Joe Public       Rare "rainbow birds" trying to breed in the UK was a "worrying sign of how our climate is changing", the RSPB said. The charity said bee-eaters had been making nest burrows in a small quarry at Trimingham...

  4 hours ago

• BP Energy Outlook 2022

  By Paul Homewood BP’s Energy Outlook 2022 is now out: https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/energy-outlook.html Here’s the highlights: It’s based around three scenarios. They stress these are not in any...

  19 hours ago

• Shepherd’s Bush fire: Apartment blaze near Grenfell Tower sparked by e-bike

  By Paul Homewood   h/t Ian Magness If a small electric bike battery can do this, heaven help anybody living near an electric car charger!       An e-bike sparked a fire on the 12th floor of a West London tower block, less than a mile away from Grenfell...

  a day ago

NoTricksZone

• Extreme Weather In The Past: Germany’s Great Drought Of 1947 And Its “Catastrophic” Consequences

  Some regions in Central Europe have been suffering from a shortage of rain this spring and summer, so not surprisingly the media are blaming manmade climate change, often implying that droughts in Germany never happened before. But of course...

  19 hours ago

• Distinguished Professor: “Fed Up” With “Religious Climate Claptrap”…”Green Energy Fantasies”

  Prof. Dr. Knut Löschke, (photo above) Member of the University Council at the University of Leipzig, Member of the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, came out and stated at Facebook not so long ago...

  2 days ago

• Glaring Inconsistency In Estimating CO2 vs. Solar Forcing Suggests CO2 Impacts Are Wildly Exaggerated

  From about 11,000 to 9,000 years ago the summer solar irradiance absorbed by the Earth’s surface has been estimated to be 40-60 W/m² greater than today from latitudes 40°N to 70°N (Ullman et al., 2015). These values seriously undermine...

  4 days ago

NEPC Blog Post of the Day

• Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Kids and Screen Time (Part 2)

  Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Kids and Screen Time (Part 2) Part 1 revealed that most toddlers through teenagers watch multiple screens during the day and night. This time on devices, experts say, may have harmful effects...

  4 days ago

• Gary Rubinstein's Blog: TFA Podcast Celebrates Denver Students Who Fought Reforms That TFA Once Supported

  Gary Rubinstein's Blog: TFA Podcast Celebrates Denver Students Who Fought Reforms That TFA Once Supported If you want to know which way the wind is blowing in education politics, watch what TFA is doing. In the 2010s when ‘Waiting For Superman,’...

  5 days ago
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  Curmudgucation: The (Not a) Mystery of Class Size

  Curmudgucation: The (Not a) Mystery of Class Size The most fundamental issue of education in this country, the issue that underlies virtually all other issues, is that we want to have it and we want it to be good, but we do not want to pay for it...

  6 days ago

The Moderate Voice

• Trump’s Lasting Legacy

  Excluding Trump’s role in changing America’s relationship with NATO and other nations, his largest and lasting domestic impact is and will be his three appointees to the Supreme Court. These appointments transformed the Court from...

  an hour ago

• OUR DYSTOPIAN FUTURE

  OUR DYSTOPIAN FUTURE 16 Votes The people who argue that you can’t ban guns because people will still get guns are the same troglodytes who support banning abortion. But you don’t ban abortion, you just outlaw it. This is a momentous occasion...

  21 hours ago

• With Roe overturned, U.S. Democrats turn abortion battle to November midterms

  Published by Huff Viral WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) – Leading Democrats sought to turn Friday’s Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade into a rallying cry for the November elections, warning of grim consequences for women...

  a day ago

Marginal REVOLUTION

• What should I ask Hanif Abdurraqib?

  It will be a conversation, though not a recorded CWT.  Here is Wikipedia on him: Hanif Abdurraqib is an American poet, essayist, and cultural critic. He is the author of 2016 poetry collection The Crown Ain’t Worth Much (published as Hanif...

  2 hours ago

• What I’ve been reading

  1. Andrea G. McDowell, We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush.  An important law and economics study of an “anarchistic” episode, going much deeper than some earlier accounts on matters involving Native Americans...

  9 hours ago

• How much pilot training should be required?

  [Derek} Thompson: To what extent do you think regulatory policy is making America’s airlines particularly fragile to the sort of problems we’re currently experiencing? [Scott] Keyes: One of the front-and-center issues discussed...

  20 hours ago

Lloyd Lofthouse

• Traitor Trump’s Conspiracy to Dodge Justice for his Crimes

  This 21st century traitor will not stop until he is the U.S. President for life or in prison. With support from his fascist worshiping MAGA enablers that adds up to about two-thirds of the Republican Party, it’s apparent that this traitor...

  4 days ago

• A growing Army of Public School teachers is fighting to save Pub-Ed

  Originally posted on Crazy Normal - the Classroom Exposé: Yes, there is an army of public school teachers across the United States already fighting to save public education from greedy, autocratic billionaires like Bill Gates and Betsy...

  13 days ago

• 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...

  a month ago

MintPress News

• Lina Hidalgo and the Arnolds: Billionaire Influence Network Crafts Lockdowns Across US

  With policies crafted by the nationwide influence network of billionaire couple John and Laura Arnold, Lina Hidalgo has turned the Houston area into a laboratory for the emergent biosecurity regime. The post Lina Hidalgo and the Arnolds...

  4 hours ago

• A Lemming Leading the Lemmings: Slavoj Zizek and the Terminal Collapse of the Anti-War Left

  The left has sunk a long way since the Iraq war. The renowned public intellectual Slavoj Zizek is the latest recruit to the war hawk camp The post A Lemming Leading the Lemmings: Slavoj Zizek and the Terminal Collapse of the Anti-War Left appeared...

  4 days ago

• Cognitive Warfare: Israel Targets Journalists Who Threaten Its Reality-Creation Tactics

  When Karl Rove was alleged to have said how the United States is now “an empire, we make our own reality,” he was not just making a hubristic statement. Rather, it can be seen as an indication that he was aware of how powerful a “cognitive...

  4 days ago

www.gurukalehuru.com

• Thoughts on Fermi and Drake

  I read an article a week or so ago which got me thinking, and I don’t recall where I read it and I’m too lazy to look it up, but the idea was that and developed, global society, certainly any … Continue reading →...

  3 days ago

• Don’t Hold Your Breath

  Yeah, there’s a lot of talk about the January 6th hearings. But don’t expect anything to come of them.For one thing, that’s January 6th, 2001. It’s an event that took place a year and a half ago. Most people have … Continue reading →...

  15 days ago

• 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 →...

  19 days ago