21 August - iG Tab - 9

 

Utopia – you are standing in it!

• I Learned Norwegian in 2 Weeks Then Went on Live TV in Norway

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• Elvis Presley – If I Can Dream (’68 Comeback Special)

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• Productivity shocks, especially those affecting manufacturing firms, account for much of the decline in gross output during 2008-2009, not financial shocks

  From http://users.econ.umn.edu/~erm/business_intangibles.php

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TARPLEY.net

• Putin presses nuclear blackmail against Ukraine using occupied Zaporizhia nuclear complex-UN calls on Russian forces to leave area, but threat of nuclear contamination is high; IAEA inspectors must supervise reactors!

  Terrorist gambit may be Kremlin warlord’s main bid to retain initiative despite looming fall of Kherson; Radioactive clouds would drift east, showing Putin’s cynical contempt for Russian people;The grotesque lies of Putin, Lavrov...

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• Eleven sets of classified documents seized by FBI at Trump’s chateau include top secret/sensitive compartmented information (TS/SCI), with possible violations of Espionage Act and Atomic Energy Act; What did Don plan to do with these secrets? Garland shows signs of life-

  Media exaggerate the rally round the Don effect among Republicans deriving from raid, with skepticism growing as his legal position deteriorated during the week; Ill-considered ultra-left slogan of defunding the police was one of the most...

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• Kansas referendum rejecting abortion ban is stunning landslide defeat for liberticide GOP, creating chance for Democrats to hold both Houses of Congress

  In historic vote, US Senate approves NATO membership for Finland and Sweden; Only insurrectionist Hawley votes no, with Little Rand Paul offering a profile of courage by voting present; Sinema relents, giving Schumer the votes to pass modified...

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Sustainable Pulse

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  FDA Finds Majority of Foods in America Contain Pesticide Residues

  Over half of all food samples tested by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) contain the residues of at least one pesticide, and one in ten samples have levels that violate legal limits established by the U.S. Environmental Protection...

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  Glyphosate Crosses Blood-Brain Barrier and Exposure Correlates with Alzheimer’s Symptoms – New Study

  In a new study, Arizona State University (ASU) and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGEN) have explored the effects of glyphosate exposure on the brains of mice. The research demonstrates, for the first time, that glyphosate...

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  Glyphosate & Roundup: Poison In Our Daily Bread – Fork the System Podcast

  It’s not surprising that glyphosate, the so-called active ingredient in Bayer-Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller, is found in foods made with glyphosate-tolerant GMO crops like corn, soy and canola. But why is glyphosate herbicide showing...

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sunshine hours

• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 231 – 2022

  South / North

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 230 – 2022

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 229 – 2022

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Stagecraft and Statecraft

• The Afghan Abyss

  The Taliban regime is behaving as expected, turning the country into a breeding ground for international terrorism, narcotics trafficking, and mass migration. There is no justification for attempts by US President Joe Biden’s administration...

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• Will US-China Tensions Boil Over?

  BRAHMA CHELLANEY, Project Syndicate China’s strategy has been to advance its foreign-policy objectives largely through bluff, bluster, and bullying. Without sparking direct armed conflict, China’s leaders have sought to intimidate...

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• Will Taiwan be the next Ukraine on Biden’s watch?

  Brahma Chellaney, The Hill President Biden has still to grasp that Taiwan is far more important than Ukraine to the future of American power in the world. Yet the likelihood is growing that, on Biden’s watch, Chinese President Xi Jinping...

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Ramani's blog

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• Siva Stuthi in Islam By Prophet’s Uncle

  Watch video. Translation.The man who may spend his life in sin and irreligion or waste it in lechery and wrath If at least he relent and return to righteousness can he be saved?If but once he worship Mahadeva with a pure heart, he will attain the...

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• Sundara Kanda How To Do Parayana

  https://soundbite.speechify.com/bite/4Nc1

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Diane Ravitch's blog

• Librarian Amanda Jones Is a Hero of This Blog!

  I wrote recently about Amanda Jones, the librarian in Louisiana who is fighting back against censorship and harassment in court. One of our regular readers said she belongs on the honor roll of this blog. He’s right. Amanda Jones joins the...

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• Jeff Bryant: Community Schools Are a Great Reform!

  Jeff Bryant, a veteran education journalist, writes here about the exciting promise of community schools as a meaningful reform. Jeff writes about a parent who was reluctant to send her child to a Title 1 school. But she gave it a try and was delighted...

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• Pennsylvania: Bipartisan Complaint about State’s Failure to Reform Charter Funding

  Two prominent Pennsylvanians complain that the legislature dropped the ball again on charter reform. Rob Gleason chaired the @PAGOP for 10 years prior to becoming Westmont Hilltop school board president. Democrat Eugene DePasquale was...

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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• DEBUNKED: Europe’s claimed ‘worst drought in 500 years’

  By Paul Homewood   Roger Pielke Jr debunks Europe’s “Worst Drought in 500 Years Claim”:     Europe is in the midst of what has been called the worst drought in 500 years. According to a drought expert with the European Commission in comments...

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• Green Party Opposes Carbon Capture–I Wonder Why?

  By Paul Homewood   Yes, I get the US Green Party’s emails!! This one is very telling:     Right now, Democrats in Washington DC are patting themselves on the back for passing the Biden administration’s "Inflation Reduction Act." The...

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• Is That True Or Did You Hear It On The BBC?

  By Paul Homewood   I have just bought this book, which includes some good stuff on the BBC’s climate lies and misinformation. I have only read the first couple of chapters, but I would thoroughly recommend it:   https://www.amazon.co.uk/That-True-Did-You-Hear/dp/1999359178/ref=sr_1_1?crid=7X4XWRFCL3XT&keywords=david+sedgwick&qid=1660904207&s=books&sprefix=david+sedgwick%2Cstripbooks%2C64&sr=1-1...

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NoTricksZone

• “Electricity Crisis”: German Wholesale Prices “Virtually Exploding”…2,347% Rise Over Single Year!

  Here’s more on the Great Energy Debacle, which is brought to you by the green energy masterminds who followed “the science”. Europeans, especially Germans, are already fearing massive natural gas supply shortages this coming winter...

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• German Electricity Prices Spiraling Out Of Control…Tripling Since 2000… Blackouts, Unrest Loom

  German electricity prices surge out of control, social instability threatens….German Chancellor assures police won’t open fire on demonstrators.  Sun and wind don’t send any electric bills, the green energy swindlers used to...

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• New Studies Claim The More CO2 In The Venus Atmosphere The Colder It Gets

  Early Venus is suggested to have been much colder – and thus habitable – due to higher concentrations of CO2…because CO2 drives cooling in most of the Venus atmosphere (stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere). Scientists have for...

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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...

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The Moderate Voice

• Merrick Garland, the man who could put Trump in court

  Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – Merrick Garland, the US attorney general, was denied a lifetime seat on the Supreme Court by Republicans in the Senate. He now faces a decision arguably every bit as weighty as anything he may have faced...

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• Daughter of ultra-nationalist Russian ideologue “Putin’s brain” killed in suspected car bomb attack – investigators

  Published by Reuters (Reuters) -The daughter of an ultra-nationalist Russian ideologue who advocates Russia absorbing Ukraine was killed in a suspected car bomb attack outside Moscow, Russian state investigators said on Sunday. Darya...

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• Dr. Oz should be worried – voters punish ‘carpetbaggers,’ and new research shows why

  A Fetterman campaign billboard on the New Jersey/Pennsylvania border. Fetterman campaign/Twitter Charles R. Hunt, Boise State University Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race between Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Mehmet Oz has...

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Marginal REVOLUTION

• Sunday assorted links

  1. Good conversations have lots of doorknobs. 2. Scenario planning for a Taiwan invasion and defense. 3. Sociologist of religion Rodney Stark has passed away. 4. Cooling technologies Pakistani markets in everything. 5. Medieval medicine...

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• Post-Covid excess deaths in Britain

  For 14 of the past 15 weeks, England and Wales have averaged around 1,000 extra deaths each week, none of which are due to Covid. If the current trajectory continues, the number of non-Covid excess deaths will soon outstrip deaths from the...

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• Some simple analytics of Indian growth, economic and cultural

  I think of India as, throughout much of its history, as having a surfeit of human talent but a scarcity of good infrastructure.  Infrastructure serves as a bottleneck for further advances.  Thus, many of India’s most significant advances...

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Lloyd Lofthouse

• The Infected Republican Party

  I’ve been asking myself for several years if insanity is contagious like a bacterial or virus infection (COVID, Polio, HIV, et al), so I decided to find out. And, here’s what I learned today. “Recent studies in the medical literature...

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• 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...

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• 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...

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MintPress News

• Miko Peled: Israel Blames its Victims for the Violence it Causes

  Palestinians are at a point where they can find no support anywhere, regardless of the severity of their conditions. Be they simply people who want to live their lives, fighters, activists or organizations dedicated to human rights, they...

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• Israel’s Premature ‘Victory’ Celebration: The defining War in Gaza Is Yet to Be Fought

  For years, Palestinians, as well as Israelis, have labored to redraw the battle lines and Israel's three-day Israeli war on Gaza, starting on August 5, clearly manifested this reality. The post Israel’s Premature ‘Victory’ Celebration...

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• Those Angry at Rushdie’s Stabbing Have Been Missing In Action Over a Far Bigger Threat to our Freedom

  The novelist is championed by western liberals not because he’s bravely articulated difficult truths but because of who his enemies are. The post Those Angry at Rushdie’s Stabbing Have Been Missing In Action Over a Far Bigger Threat to...

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