oldephartte(in training): 11 September - Blogs I'm Following

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September 12th – 2022 Presidential Politics – Resistance Day 601

In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the JoeBama Administration and Presidency. “This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. […] The post September 12th – 2022 Presidential Politics – Resistance Day 601 appeared first on The Last Refuge. read more

The Last Refuge48 minutes ago

Monday September 12th – Open Thread

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL. […] The post Monday September 12th – Open Thread appeared first on The Last Refuge. read more

Rangitikei Environmental Health Watch1 hour ago

“Manufacturing Dissent”: The Anti-globalization Movement is Funded by the Corporate Elites

From globalresearch.ca RELATED: What is “controlled opposition”? Read this, then look around The People’s Movement has been Hijacked “Manufactured Consent” vs. “Manufactured Dissent” The term “manufacturing consent” was initially coined by Edward S Herman and Noam Chomsky. “Manufacturing consent” describes a propaganda model used by the corporate media to sway public opinion and “inculcate individuals … Continue reading “Manufacturing Dissent”: The Anti-globalization Movement is Funded by the Corporate Elites → read more

Vox - All2 hours ago

House of the Dragon’s moral lesson of the week: Sex is always political

Milly Alcock and Matt Smith as Rhaenyra and Daemon Targaryen in *House of the Dragon*. | Ollie Upton/HBO The HBO show finally addresses its sticky sexual subtext. *House of the Dragon*’s fourth episode dives headlong into the quagmire of sexual politics that thus far have haunted the series but remained largely offscreen and subtextual. “King of the Narrow Sea” yanks Rhaenyra out into the gritty city, and yanks all of us into a confrontation with age and consent issues, power dynamics, and, of course, incest. In short, a whole lot of sex gets had, but it’s difficult to call much ... read more

Vox - All2 hours ago

Ukraine’s surprising counteroffensive forces Russian troops to flee

[image: Ukrainian army takes control of town in southeast] Ukrainian flag waves after Ukrainian army liberated the town of Balakliya in the southeastern Kharkiv oblast, Ukraine, on September 11, 2022. | Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Ukraine’s second largest city and several strategic hubs were liberated in the operation. A surprise counteroffensive over the weekend saw Ukrainian troops push into areas around Kharkiv in the northeast, liberating villages and cities, and catching Russian troops flat-footed. The swift maneuvers threatened to encircle a portion of the R... read more

Gangsters Out Blog2 hours ago

George Christie: Outlaw Riding Through The Storm

Outlaw Riding Through The Storm, a book of true short stories. Front and back covers. Available at Amazon or Order Direct signed or unsigned… https://t.co/DQ8Vcw7ttM pic.twitter.com/8CPb7cPMYS — George Christie (@georgeFPC) September 11, 2022 read more

War News Updates2 hours ago

Russia - Ukraine War: Military Summary And Analysis For 11.09.2022

*WNU Editor*: Another must watch analysis on the Russia - Ukraine war from the Military Summary channel. read more

War News Updates2 hours ago

Russia - Ukraine War Maps -- September 111, 2022 (Click on Images to Enlarge)

War News Updates2 hours ago

Tweets On The Russia - Ukraine War

Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 11 September 2022 Find out more about the UK government's response: https://t.co/XE7QGQnZeh 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/88KnwEqDNj — Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) September 11, 2022 Ukraine says its forces are pushing back Russia's military from strategic holdouts in the country's east as Kyiv's counter-offensive deals a heavy blow to Moscow. pic.twitter.com/TaVa7COoFA — DW News (@dwnews) September 11, 2022 The shock advance by Ukrainian forces in the past four days has seen Russia order its t... read more

War News Updates2 hours ago

Tweets Of The Day

US President Joe Biden vows to continue the fight against terrorism as the country remembers the 21st anniversary of the September 11 attacks. https://t.co/4th010CpXp — DW News (@dwnews) September 11, 2022 An exit poll gave Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson's center-left bloc 49.8% of the votes against 49.2% for the right-wing opposition parties. The final outcome will only be known once all votes are tallied. https://t.co/o8NcqpaaJU — DW News (@dwnews) September 11, 2022 Sweden's right wing look set to oust Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson's left-wing bloc in Sunday's general e... read more

War News Updates2 hours ago

Tweets On The Royal Family

Hour-by-hour guide to the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II https://t.co/m8MO9Vt84p — Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) September 11, 2022 The Queen's coffin arrives in Edinburgh to the sound of applause from the large crowds gathered along the streets. Its arrival marks the conclusion of its six-hour journey from Balmoral. Latest: https://t.co/8AFWhoW82a 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube pic.twitter.com/8W4RHzmBhN — Sky News (@SkyNews) September 11, 2022 VIDEO: Thousands gather to place flowers, messages and balloons in tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II in Windsor p... read more

The Rio Times3 hours ago

Thousands pay tribute to Allende on 49th anniversary of Chile coup

Thousands of people on Sunday paid tribute to former Chilean President Salvador Allende on the 49th anniversary of the bloody military coup that overthrew his democratic government and installed the bloody civil-military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1989). Leftist groups, former colleagues of the president, relatives of the victims, and of the more than a […] read more

The Rio Times3 hours ago

Bolsonaro confirms attendance at funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in London

The President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro (PL), has confirmed his participation in the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, which will take place in London on Sept. 19, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Queen died on Thursday, July 8, at the age of 96, after 70 years on the throne, the longest reign […] read more

Real Climate Science3 hours ago

The Bambi Syndrome

Governments have known for thousands of years they can control the population through the use of fictional stories. The climate religion is just one more example. read more

The Duran3 hours ago

Illegal Immigration v NIMBY Culture

Back in January 2019, the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper asked the 14 candidates for Mayor where they stood on Chicago’s sanctuary city policy. One of those candidates was Lori Lightfoot, who would shortly become the city’s first black mayor, its first lesbian mayor and its first certifiable lunatic mayor. Lightfoot’s response was in part: “I support […] read more

The Duran3 hours ago

“Stability in Iraq depends on true representation”, interview with Rafid Sadeq

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Thousands of Iraqis flooded the streets on Friday demanding a political overhaul. In scenes reminiscent of similar past protests in Lebanon, the Iraqi people are frustrated by the endemic corruption of political leaders. This anti-government protest began in October 2019 and has remained a constant source of unrest […] read more

Susan on the Soapbox4 hours ago

Danielle Smith and the Free Alberta Strategy

We’ve been so focused on the unconstitutionality of Danielle Smith’s central campaign promise, the passage of the Alberta Sovereignty Act (ASA), that we’ve forgotten that the ASA is part of the Free Alberta Strategy’s grand plan to renegotiate our place … Continue reading → read more

Not PC4 hours ago

"Today is one of the greatest days in modern history"

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has unravelled. Due to Ukrainian ingenuity and resolve. Due to Russia's now-widely revealed incompetence and cowardice. Russia's Kharkiv front has completely collapsed. In just 72 hours, Ukrainian armed forces has retaken over 2,500 sq km of Russian-occupied Ukraine, cut Russian communication and supply routes to occupied-eastern Ukraine, and routed and destroyed the equivalent of three combat divisions of the Russian occupiers. Russian military and occupiers on the Kharkiv front are fleeing, many in civilian clothes, leaving behind weapons and eq... read more

Climate Collections4 hours ago

Bizarre ‘Fact Check’ of World Climate Declaration Claims No Natural Climate Change For Almost 200 Years

Originally posted on NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT: By Paul Homewood ? ? Inevitable really, but the Daily Sceptic‘s recent article on the World Climate Declaration (WCD) has attracted a green-activist ‘fact check’, and on that flimsy basis has been labelled “false information” by Facebook. On August 18th we published an article reporting… read more

All Posts - LaRouchePAC5 hours ago

Lyndon LaRouche and the Future

"As the student defines the student's personal relationship, through the methods of the Socratic dialogue, to living notable persons long since deceased, so the student is impelled to come to see himself, or herself, in respect to those who have yet to be born." —Lyndon LaRouche, "Shrunken Heads In America Today," March 25, 2001 This week marks two singular anniversaries, the 100th anniversary of the Lyndon LaRouche's birth and the 60th anniversary of John Kennedy's Rice University speech, which sent mankind soaring into our solar system. Both men, each in their own way, acted for... read more

UnderwaterTimes.com - Front Page3 hours ago

Five dead after fishing charter boat capsizes off Kiwi coast

UnderwaterTimes.com - Front Page3 hours ago

Shipping company changes course around Sri Lanka to protect blue whales

UnderwaterTimes.com - Front Page3 hours ago

Patches, iconic dolphin make appearance off Dana Point; 'Such a great way to end our day'

UnderwaterTimes.com - Front Page3 hours ago

Explained: NASAâ€™s Rocket Booster Recovery From Ocean After Space Shuttle Launch

UnderwaterTimes.com - Front Page3 hours ago

Film everything: Mystery surrounds Steve Irwin's 'death tape' that caught his final words on camera 16 years after he was stabbed in the chest by a stingray

UnderwaterTimes.com - Front Page3 hours ago

Steve Irwin's underwater cameraman explained horrifying moment stingray attacked the Crocodile Hunter; 'Hang on, hang on, hang on'

UnderwaterTimes.com - Front Page3 hours ago

In the Mind of a Whale: How can we make sense of the biggest brains on the planet?

UnderwaterTimes.com - Front Page3 hours ago

We have the technology: Underwater robots are studying the 'Doomsday Glacier' in Antarctica. What can we learn from them?

UnderwaterTimes.com - Front Page3 hours ago

Vacation Hell; 'Rare' shark attack kills US cruise passenger in Bahamas; bull shark eyed as suspect

UnderwaterTimes.com - Front Page3 hours ago

Underwater Garbage Doesn't Stand A Chance Against These Ladies; 'time to be passionate and a time for adventure'

UnderwaterTimes.com - Front Page3 hours ago

Author joins protesters calling for plan to build Scotland's biggest fish farm in Orkney to be scrapped; 'Salmon cages are spreading... like a malignant cancer'

UnderwaterTimes.com - Front Page3 hours ago

Go to shell: Fury in Maine as woke 'seafood watch' program red lists state's famous lobsters and warns against eating them because lobster pots put whales in danger

UnderwaterTimes.com - Front Page3 hours ago

Judge rules against lobstermen, says federal rules protecting right whales donâ€™t overreach

Climate Collections4 hours ago

The Fantasy World Of Renewable Energy

Originally posted on NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT: By Paul Homewood ? ? It is difficult to avoid concluding that the whole story of the falling costs of renewable generation is sheer fantasy, a sort of energy industry Game of Thrones taking place in a parallel universe that bears an accidental similarity to… read more

Climate Collections4 hours ago

Earth Just Dodged a lot of CMEs

Originally posted on Spaceweather.com: Aug. 30, 2022: It seemed like sunspot AR3088 would never stop exploding. Over the past four days, the strangely-magnetized active region produced more than a dozen M-class solar flares: Each X-ray peak in the graph above produced a corresponding shortwave radio blackout on Earth. No part of our planet was… read more

Climate Collections4 hours ago

Global Financial System at Risk From Flawed Climate Models

Originally posted on Tallbloke's Talkshop: An unflattering analysis of climate models. Using mean values from numerous models is questioned. Climate attribution studies don’t fare any better: “these approaches are likely to be flawed”. – – – A team of Australian scientists, financiers and economists have issued a stark warning over the use of “flawed”… read more

Climate Collections5 hours ago

More droughts and flooding predicted as La Niña weather pattern goes into third consecutive winter

Originally posted on Tallbloke's Talkshop: A media campaign to point the finger at the ‘greed of rich countries’ for local weather conditions is already underway in Pakistan. But NASA gave the game away after the last time this happened, in 2010: ‘The rainfall anomaly map published by NASA showed unusually intense monsoon rains attributed… read more

Climate Collections6 hours ago

While Rest Assured It Can Never Happen, What Would Global Decarbonization Actually Cost? Part III

Originally posted on PA Pundits - International: By Robert Lyman and Dr. Jay Lehr ~ The Future Even more guesswork is involved in estimating the costs that the countries of the world will bear to attain decarbonization by 2050. The International Energy Agency in 2021 projected that, to achieve a “clean energy pathway”, international public… read more

Climate Collections6 hours ago

Listening to European Electricity Traders Is Very, Very Scary

Originally posted on NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT: By Paul Homewood h/t Dave Ward ? ? ? ? Every week, the people who trade electricity in the UK get to quiz the managers of the national grid for an hour. The conference call, which anyone can monitor, offers an insight into what the… read more

Climate Collections7 hours ago

Dutch record highest solar radiation levels since 1970s

Originally posted on Tallbloke's Talkshop: Netherlands beach [image credit: dutchreview.com] Dutch meteorologists expect ‘we will have more cloudy summer weather again’ sometime in the future. For now: more sun = more heat. Who knew? – – – The Netherlands this summer has had the highest amount of solar radiation recorded since 1976, the Royal… read more

UnderwaterTimes.com - Front Page3 hours ago

Recent attacks by 'aggressive' gators shake up Houston neighborhood where they've lived for years

UnderwaterTimes.com - Front Page3 hours ago

Owner of Bahamas boat tour speaks out after shark attack; 'I just hate the outcome is what it is'

UnderwaterTimes.com - Front Page3 hours ago

More bad ideas from the 1970's: The Time Florida Dumped 2 Million Tires In The Ocean To 'Help' Fish

UnderwaterTimes.com - Front Page3 hours ago

Combat condoms and rubber fins: The underwater demolition teams of WWII

UnderwaterTimes.com - Front Page3 hours ago

Round and round: Basking sharks found to choose mates by swimming in giant circles