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• CATS Actually Love Their Humans, Here are the Proofs

  9 hours ago

• Flowers – We Can Get Together

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TARPLEY.net

• Trump’s in-house strategist Bannon convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress, and now faces 2 to 24 months in prison!

  Ukrainian diplomacy successful in lifting Putin‘s genocidal blockade of Black Sea grain ships leaving Odessa and other ports; Accord mediated by Guterres and Erdogan, who provides safe exit through Bosporus; 5 million tons of grain per...

  a day ago

• Trump threatens the American people with another lunge for the White House!

  He says his decision is already made, but the date for the announcement is not yet set; Bring it on, well before the mid-term elections, and set up a referendum on the fading MAGAt Duce! Crude oil price is down 20% in a month, but gasoline price is...

  8 days ago

• Former Japanese premier Abe assassinated

  Longest-serving postwar leader and strong US ally made clear that a Chinese attack on Taiwan would inevitably embroil Tokyo in war with Beijing; He urged US to drop ”strategic ambiguity” and clearly state that aggression vs Taiwan would...

  15 days ago

Sustainable Pulse

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  University of Idaho Researchers Find Correlation Between Pesticides and Cancer

  A correlation between agricultural pesticides and cancer in western states has been found by University of Idaho and Northern Arizona University researchers. Two studies were conducted, one that examined correlating data in 11 Western...

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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...

  a month ago

sunshine hours

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  Drought? What about the Dustbowl?

  3 months ago

Stagecraft and Statecraft

• Ukraine war hastens Sri Lanka’s economic meltdown

  Internal factors alone cannot explain Sri Lanka’s economic collapse. In a forewarning of wider international instability, Sri Lanka slid from a serious balance-of-payments crisis to bankruptcy due to the spiraling global fuel and food...

  7 days ago

• The Fall of the House of Rajapaksa

  Through a combination of authoritarianism, nepotism, cronyism, and hubris, the Rajapaksa family weighed down Sri Lanka’s economy with more debt than it could possibly bear. The country’s next leaders will have to address shortages...

  13 days ago

• Have sanctions against Russia boomeranged?

  BY BRAHMA CHELLANEY, The Hill With the Russian invasion of Ukraine now in its fifth month, Western leaders are beginning to recognize, if not openly acknowledge, that their unprecedented sanctions against Moscow are hurting their own countries’...

  18 days ago

Ramani's blog

• Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Lecture Slokas 8 to 16

  My sloka classes are more on detailed exposition of the texts,with meanings, explanation from The six Systems of Indian philosophy,Vedas and interpreting the ancient texts in modern scientific terms including Quantum theory.Hence the...

  5 days ago

• Katapayadi, Indian System Improve Memory Recall Rules

  One such is the Katapayadi system that helps one to enhance memory and recall.Ancient Hindus have developed systems to enhance memory and recall by designing techniques to learn by heart and recall instantly throughout one's life what one...

  17 days ago

• 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

  2 months ago

Diane Ravitch's blog

• Heather Cox Richardson: What Does the Republican Party Believe in?

  Historian Heather Cox Richardson writes today about some recent votes in Congress that defined what Republicans are against. Republicans believe that states should control which rights are protected inside their borders. They do not believe...

  12 hours ago

• Georgia: Will the State Ban Teaching the Truth About Racism?

  Maureen Downey of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution posted a guest column by two university scholars in Georgia, warning about the dangerous legislation now under consideration. T. Jameson Brewer is an assistant professor of social foundations...

  13 hours ago

• Mercedes Schneider: Kentucky Teacher of the Year 2022 Resigns

  Mercedes Schneider writes here about the decision by Willie Carver, Kentucky’s 2022 Teacher of the Year, to resign. Carver testified before Congress and described the indignities he endured because he is gay. Carver is a highly qualified...

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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• Emergency contingency plans for a gas or electricity supply shortage in coming months include public appeals to use less energy

  By Paul Homewood     Households could be asked to turn down their thermostats and switch off their lights under Government plans to avoid winter blackouts. Emergency contingency plans for a gas or electricity supply shortage include public...

  17 hours ago

• UK heatwave: How do temperatures compare with 1976?

  By Paul Homewood     Even by BBC standards, this article is disgracefully dishonest and misleading:       People on social media have been comparing the high temperatures in much of the UK with the heatwave of 1976, suggesting that the severity...

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• Was It Hotter In 1911?

  By Paul Homewood       https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weather-and-climate/2022/july-heat-review There has inevitably been a lot of apoplectic reporting about this week’s heatwave in Britain. Everybody...

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NoTricksZone

• Putin Mocks EU: “Looking For Culprits” To Blame For Their “Unreasonable And Unpredictable” Energy Decisions

  Putin mocks Europe: Green energy policies to blame for energy woes. European leaders make really dumb decisions, and then go blaming others. Now that Germany has rushed ahead on shutting down its baseload nuclear and coal power plants –...

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• Global Warming Has Stalled Over Much Of The Last 10 Years, Arctic Never Melted Away

  The globe hasn’t been warming and the Arctic hasn’t been melting much for almost a decade now. Recall the climate crisis loonies warned us some 20 years ago the Arctic sea ice would disappear by the summer of 2014. Well it’s still very much...

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• Cold Kills: Since 2000 There Were 85 Times More UK Excess Deaths Attributable To Cold Than Heat

  A new Lancet study ominously reports that from 2000 to 2019 in England and Wales there were an average of 791 heat-related excess deaths and 60,753 cold-related excess deaths each year. That’s an excess death ratio of about 85 to 1 for cold...

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NEPC Blog Post of the Day

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  10th Period: Ohio School Privatization More Expensive Than Public Schools

  10th Period: Ohio School Privatization More Expensive Than Public Schools After taking a couple weeks to take my youngest son on a Great Western Road Trip, I have returned to be gob smacked yet one more time about what a problem Ohio’s voucher...

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• Brattleboro Reformer: William J. Mathis: The Insurrection -- Will the Center Hold?

  Brattleboro Reformer: William J. Mathis: The Insurrection -- Will the Center Hold? They say it started with Kansas irregulars attacking Missouri. Missouri replied in kind. It was an unneighborly kind of war. Little mercy was asked and little...

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• Cloaking Inequity: Latest Paper Focuses on School Finance Policy and Civil Rights

  Cloaking Inequity: Latest Paper Focuses on School Finance Policy and Civil Rights By Amanda Nelson  LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 8, 2022) — A newly published analysis of how dollars are distributed to schools in the U.S. posits that funding...

  9 days ago

The Moderate Voice

• A Running Coach Analyzes Josh Hawley’s Infamous Sprint

  Numerous critics have examined Hawley’s disgraceful performance from every conceivable perspective. One such critic is Zoë Rom, a Boulder based journalist, a runner (“When she's not running, she's climbing… ), and running coach...

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• A rare win for Guterres: a beacon on the Black Sea to feed the hungry

  The beleaguered United Nations Chief, Antonio Guterres, celebrated a rare win today to deliver food for more than 400 million people in poor countries. He called the agreement signed between Türkiye, Ukraine and Russia to export grain a...

  2 days ago

• RUN, JOSH, RUN

  There’s no shame in running for your life from an angry racist mob. If you’re in the path of a mob of white nationalists with nooses easily led by the the b.s. of you-know-who, you better run. The day after the attack on the Capitol by Trump’s...

  3 days ago

Marginal REVOLUTION

• Sunday assorted links

  1. Timothy Snyder’s argument that Russia is losing. 2. “We provide novel evidence that poor individuals born in countries with high consumption of meat are more likely to show soccer prowess.” 3. Are young people becoming more miserable...

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• Merit, Fairness and Equality

  Noted Canadian chemist Patanjali Kambhampati on the DIE movement: My “lived experiences” as a Third World immigrant to the United States has in fact led me to be a lifelong defender of the practices of merit, fairness and equality — practices...

  16 hours ago

• The robot chess culture that is Russian

  According to the organizers of the tournament in the Russian capital, it was an “accidental” attack by the robot. A seven-year-old boy named Christopher, who, by the way, according to them, is among the top 30 chess players in Moscow under...

  19 hours ago

Lloyd Lofthouse

• Heather Cox Richardson: What Does the Republican Party Believe in?

  Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Historian Heather Cox Richardson writes today about some recent votes in Congress that defined what Republicans are against. Republicans believe that states should control which rights are protected...

  9 hours ago

• Reader: Why The Supreme Court Is Wrong About Abortion

  Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: A reader who calls him/herself Quickwrit explains why the Supreme Court’s recent decision on abortion is wrong. The Bible is silent on abortion: The 9th Amendment gives Clarence Thomas the constitutional...

  6 days ago

• The Koch Libertarian Project vs. America

  Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: What is happening to the America that we swore allegiance to every day in public school? what happened to the America that was “indivisible, with liberty and justice for all”? How did we get a rogue...

  21 days ago

MintPress News

• Crowdfunding Colonialism: Who Is Bankrolling Israel’s Latest Excursion Into the West Bank?

  Jessica Buxbaum investigates the network of government-backed organizations and political movements crowd-funding Israel's latest land grab in Palestine. The post Crowdfunding Colonialism: Who Is Bankrolling Israel’s Latest Excursion...

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• The Shameful UN ‘List of Shame’: Equating between the Israeli Perpetrator and the Palestinian Victim

  Though the deliberate harming of a single child is regrettable regardless of the circumstances or the perpetrator, it is mind-boggling that the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres found it appropriate to equate the systematic violations...

  5 days ago

• A History of Israeli Destruction of the Two State Settlement

  One has to be either ignorant or corrupt to claim that the Two State Solution is a realistic idea. It is not unlikely that Joe Biden is both.  The post A History of Israeli Destruction of the Two State Settlement appeared first on MintPress News...

  6 days ago

www.gurukalehuru.com

• Home

  The trip home was long and a bit exhausting, but we are back in Prague now and I’m re-adapting to old habits quickly, and planning on a poetry reading this evening.On the twisty, narrow, mountain road up from Elaphonisi, we … Continue reading...

  13 days ago

• Last Day

  The vacation is almost over. Tomorrow morning we will drive back up to the north coast, turn in our rental car, and catch a flight to Prague, via Munich. We have seen most of the things we planned to see, … Continue reading →...

  14 days ago

• Livadia

  What a day. The drive here was kind of nerve wracking, twisty mountain roads at points narrowing to one lane, but with traffic in both directions. Beautiful, but scary. We went through a tunnel, for instance, which was pretty much … Continue...

  15 days ago