Thursday, August 04, 2022

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TARPLEY.net

Sustainable Pulse

Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

Diane Ravitch's blog

  • 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, 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 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

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

NEPC Blog Post of the Day

The Moderate Voice

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

  • 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 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
  • 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

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

www.gurukalehuru.com

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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