4 August - iG Tab - 9

Utopia – you are standing in it!

• Nichelle Nichols in National Air and Space Museum Promotional Film

  21 minutes ago

• My Problem With Mansplaining: Jonathan Pie

  6 hours ago

• Rescue Cat Cafe in Tokyo

  7 hours ago

TARPLEY.net

• Concrete signals emerge that Department of Justice is finally investigating the actions of Trump and his faction!

  Pence staffers Short and Jacob testify to federal grand jury; contents of Eastman’s phone under FBI scrutiny; ex-Pentagon chief Miller says Defense Department never got order to post 10,000 guardsmen on Hill for January 6; Under Trump’s...

  5 days ago

• 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...

  12 days 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...

  19 days ago

Sustainable Pulse

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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...

  9 days ago
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  Biden Administration Refuses Phase Out of Pesticides on US Wildlife Refuges

  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last week denied requests by conservationists and members of Congress to phase out the use of agricultural pesticides on national wildlife refuges. The Service’s decision was issued in response to...

  9 days ago

Stagecraft and Statecraft

• 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...

  3 days ago

• 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...

  18 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...

  24 days ago

Ramani's blog

• Sundara Kanda How To Do Parayana

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

  2 days ago

• Siva in Lebanon, Petra Jordan?

  3 days ago

• Kaaba Opens at Sivas Pradosha Time Pakistani website Audio

  There is Kaaba Stone which is believed to have been of Abrahamic times. People are not permitted to take videos or photographs of the inside of the room. The room seems to contain an Idol, the worship of which is prohibited in Islam. Now let us see...

  11 days ago

Diane Ravitch's blog

• Senator Sinema Agrees to Deal By Protecting Richest and Corporations

  The Washington Post reports that Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema signed on to the “Inflation Reduction Act”—which provides funding for climate change/health care. Her demand? She blocked taxes on the wealthiest and on corporations...

  3 hours ago

• Leonie Haimson: Parents Win Court Ruling Against City Budget Cuts

  Leonie Haimson, executive director of the advocacy group Class Size Matters (and a board member of the Network for Public Education), reports that parents won their lawsuit against the City of New York and the Department of Education for budget...

  4 hours ago

• Mimi Swartz: Freedom Is Now More Fragile in Texas

  Mimi Swartz writes in Texas Monthly that the Dobbs decision banning abortion has unleashed a broad assault on freedom in Texas. And it will get much, much worse as long as Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick, and Ken Paxton remain in office. I guess you could...

  13 hours ago

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• India Electricity Mix

  By Paul Homewood       We concentrate on energy and emissions data in China for obvious reasons – it is such a big country. We consequently tend to ignore the rest of Asia. So let’s take a closer look at India. BP Energy Review   Over the last...

  12 hours ago

• Evidence for heat-pump price drop fails to add up

  By Paul Homewood h/t Jack Broughton This article appeared in The Engineer this week:         The Energy and Utilities Alliance (EUA) has analysed the French heat pump market where installations average £11,000, a figure similar to installing...

  12 hours ago

• Official data confirms reef in rude good heath

  By Paul Homewood   From GWPF:     Official data released today reveals that Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is in excellent health, with coral cover reaching record levels for the second consecutive year. The increase will be surprising...

  15 hours ago

NoTricksZone

• Scientists: Enhancing Earth’s Surface Reflectiveness 32x More Effective Than Eliminating GHG Emissions

  Adding reflectors to roofs and pavements and similar strategies could globally reflect 87 W/m² more incoming solar radiation than is reflected on an annual basis currently, cooling the surface. In contrast, the sum of the accumulated annual...

  10 hours ago

• Tokyo Midsummer Hasn’t Warmed In Decades. And: The Missing Hurricanes”.

  Charts by Kirye Continuously increasing CO2 emissions into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels is supposed to be causing warming all over the globe right now, so we should be seeing it in most of the trends. But often we don’t. The...

  a day ago

• The Sahara Is Green When Warm, Desert When Cold…And It’s Drier Now Than The Last Glacial Maximum

  If wetter is warmer and drier is colder, the modern Saharan climate suggests we are not in a warm period. It is common knowledge that warmer temperatures are associated with wetter, greener climates, and cooler temperatures are linked to droughts...

  3 days ago

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...

  16 days ago

• 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...

  17 days ago

• 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...

  20 days ago

The Moderate Voice

• BIG FAT LIAR

  If you’re a gaslighting conspiracy theorist with a national platform spreading b.s. that defames, libels, and tears apart democracy, you better have good lawyers. Alex Jones, fortunately for the rest of us who hate lies, conspiracy theories...

  9 hours ago

• Russia sentences Griner to 9 years in jail, Biden calls for her release

  Published by Reuters KHIMKI, Russia (Reuters) -A Russian court sentenced U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison on Thursday after finding her guilty of deliberately bringing cannabis-infused vape cartridges into...

  10 hours ago

• So, you want something. . .

  Positive or negative, our thoughts and words are powerful. What we say to ourselves, and others is potent. For instance, my mother faced difficult problems pertaining to the health challenges of two of her children. When she talked about the...

  a day ago

Marginal REVOLUTION

• PredictIt seems to be closing?

  Here is the CFTC announcement.  Permission to run this non-profit from New Zealand has been withdrawn.  “DMO has determined that Victoria University has not operated its market in compliance with the terms of the letter and as a result...

  3 hours ago

• The rise and fall of empires

  The last two centuries witnessed the rise and fall of empires. We construct a model which rationalises this in terms of the changing trade gains from empires. In the model, empires are arrangements that reduce trade cost between an industrial...

  10 hours ago

• Thursday assorted links

  1. A summary of some crypto frustrations. 2. Tweet storm on The Book of Mormon.  Threaded here. 3. Advice for science funders: vary what you do. 4. Can chess and alcohol really be substitutes? Maybe in India? 5. Double-blind review at the AER...

  12 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...

  11 days 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...

  17 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...

  a month ago

MintPress News

• Israeli Company and UN Human Rights Violator Energix Under Scrutiny for Environmental Violations in US

  In 2020, the UN designated Israeli company Energix as a violator of human rights, today the company is rapidly expanding into the United States. The post Israeli Company and UN Human Rights Violator Energix Under Scrutiny for Environmental...

  13 hours ago

• Major Mask Maker 3M Found To Have Harmed 200,000 Troops

  3M (Aearo) gave the troops earplugs that they knew failed to plug the ear — which is, like, their one job. So 160,000 former troops have hearing loss or tinnitus. The post Major Mask Maker 3M Found To Have Harmed 200,000 Troops appeared first...

  14 hours ago

• Why Resistance Matters: Palestinians are Challenging Israel’s Unilateralism, Dominance

  Israeli politics has historically been predicated on the need for further colonialism, strengthening the Jewish identity of the state at the expense of Palestinians, and the constant quest for war. Recent events suggest that these factors...

  a day ago

www.gurukalehuru.com

• Poznań

  I can’t believe I haven’t written this blog since we got back from Crete. Although record heat waves, the continuing debacle in Ukraine and various other topics deserve to be written about, I have become lazy. Anyway, here we are … Continue...

  5 days ago

• 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...

  24 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 →...

  25 days ago