Saturday, September 10, 2022

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Utopia – you are standing in it!

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Sustainable Pulse

  • Pyrethroid Insecticides Shown to Cause Developmental Delays in Toddlers – New Study

    Low level exposure to synthetic pyrethroid insecticides at 6-8 months of age is associated with language development delays in two-year old toddlers, according to research published in Neurotoxicology this month, Beyond Pesticides reported...

    4 days ago

  • Food Safety Experts Slam EPA over Dicamba Ecological Risk Assessment

    The U.S. EPA last month released its draft ecological risk assessment of dicamba for its registration review of this weed-killing pesticide. Dicamba is the volatile chemical that has caused unprecedented drift damage to crops, trees...

    4 days ago

  • Gene Editing – Just Label It!

    For decades genetically engineered foods (GMOs) on sale in Britain have required a label. This label alerts consumers to the presence of genetically engineered organisms, allowing them to choose whether they wish to buy and eat such foods...

    4 days ago

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Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • India has a stake in Taiwan’s defense

    Chinese territorial claims in Himalayas are much bigger than the island Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia Chinese military drills are rarely empty shows of force. In 2020, China’s unusually large winter exercises on the Tibetan Plateau...

    15 days ago

  • 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...

    a month ago

  • 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...

    a month ago

Ramani's blog

Diane Ravitch's blog

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • Energy Price Freeze Announced

    By Paul Homewood     https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11193045/Energy-bills-frozen-2-500-TWO-YEARS-says-Truss.html We’re still waiting for a lot of detail, but there’s a few snippets of interest: First of all...

    2 days ago

  • Government must decide: Save the economy or save Net Zero

    By Paul Homewood   London, 8 September: The Prime Minister must take urgent steps to reduce the astronomical cost of her borrowing plans to limit consumer energy bills (which could cost £130-170 billion), or face potentially disastrous...

    3 days ago

  • EVs Dearer To Run Than Petrol Now

    By Paul Homewood     h/t Ian Magness   Bad news for EV drivers!     It won’t be news to anyone that energy prices have risen at a crippling rate in 2022 due to the ongoing energy crisis. The latest price rise will see the average household on...

    3 days ago

NoTricksZone

The Moderate Voice

  • WHY SHOULD I SUPPORT SOMEONE WHO DOESN’T SUPPORT ME?

    WHY SHOULD I SUPPORTSOMEONE WHO DOESN’TSUPPORT ME? A LETTER TO JIM HIMES by Don Hermann Jim Himes, you are my Congressman. Perhaps you suffer from a bad case of Democratitis. It’s contagious. I’ve taken to doing this because of your lack...

    12 hours ago

  • This is CNN. The Cowardly News Network.

    Those of us who have long tuned to CNN can’t say we weren’t warned. Incoming CEO Chris Licht decreed on Aug. 19 that “this is a time for significant change” at the news network, “and you might not understand it or like it.” Thus began...

    13 hours ago

  • Queen Elizabeth II: a moderniser who steered the British monarchy into the 21st century

    Sean Lang, Anglia Ruskin University When the late historian Sir Ben Pimlott embarked on his 1996 biography, his colleagues expressed surprise that he should consider Queen Elizabeth II worthy of serious study at all. Yet Pimlott’s judgement...

    2 days ago

Marginal REVOLUTION

  • 2022 as the year of AI?

    That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one excerpt: But the benefits of AI do not accrue only to those in the technology sector. AI makes many goods and services cheaper, and that in turn benefits the poor and disadvantaged. If...

    9 hours ago

  • US Economic Freedom is Falling

    A big drop in Economic Freedom, mostly due to pandemic policies. Not surprising but will we recover? This is from the just released Economic Freedom of the World 2022 Annual Report. The post US Economic Freedom is Falling appeared first on Marginal...

    10 hours ago

  • Saturday assorted links

    1. Differences in art appreciation in autism. 2. Korean cross-border Coase theorem, lottery ticket, with a nod to Oliver Williamson. 3. How did the 2020 airline bailouts work out? 4. Do not three-way stop signs Pareto dominate four-way stop...

    12 hours ago

Lloyd Lofthouse

  • The trail that may lead to Traitor Trump’s Alleged Guilt

    I think there is interesting circumstantial evidence that may offer proof that Traitor Trump’s theft of classified documents has led to the mysterious deaths of 7 (or more) Russian oligarchs that may have been assets working for the CIA...

    12 days ago

  • Mom in Texas Shuts Down Extremists and Joins the Honor Roll

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: The superintendent of schools in Granbury, Texas, made clear that he didn’t want any books about LGBT characters or LGBT issues in the school library. He agreed with the angry conservatives who...

    12 days ago

  • 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...

    a month ago

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