2 September - iG Tab - 9

 

Utopia – you are standing in it!

• Sloped armor: A simple feature that saved many lives

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• Billy Connolly – Colonoscopy – World Tour of New Zealand

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• Trench Warfare in World War 1 I THE GREAT WAR Special

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TARPLEY.net

• Biden launches powerful kickoff for Democrats’ fall campaign under watchword that MAGA Republicans represent “SEMI-FASCISM”!

  President provides intellectual clarity and leadership far superior to timid and vacillating academic historians in diagnosing the scourge of fascism in contemporary US; Democrat Pat Ryan wins NY-19 House seat with campaign based on abortion...

  6 days ago

• 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...

  13 days ago

• 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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Sustainable Pulse

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  Florida University Study Shows Glyphosate Causes Convulsions in Animals

  A recent report by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found more than 80 percent of urine samples from children and adults in the U.S. contained the herbicide glyphosate. A study by Florida Atlantic University...

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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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sunshine hours

• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 242 – 2023

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 242 – 2022

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 238 – 2022

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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...

  7 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...

  18 days 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...

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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

• Ohio: Charter Connected to Hillsdale Plans to Open in Rural Area

  Parents in Athens County, Ohio, are concerned that a planned new charter school will drain funding away from their local public schools. The proposed classical academy is relying on conservative Christian Hillsdale College to deliver its...

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• Gary Rubinstein: Success Academy’s Backhanded Backfill Policy

  Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy Charter chain has won national plaudits for its extraordinarily high test scores. SA is a fundraising dynamo, attracting the support of leading figures on Wall Street and the financial sector. She and her...

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• Why NAEP Scores Plummeted During Pandemic

  Every major newspaper carried a story this morning about the sharp decline in NAEP scores because of the pandemic. The moral of the story is that students need to have human contact with a teacher and classmates to learn best. Virtual learning...

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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• The Summer of 2022

  By Paul Homewood   It’s been a summer of record breaking hype, if little else. We have been hearing for weeks that this summer has been unprecedented, how it “proves” global warming, and how it is a template for the future. It turns out...

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• Greenland Ice Loss “Worse Than We Thought”

  By Paul Homewood   It’s worse than we thought!!     https://theconversation.com/whats-going-on-with-the-greenland-ice-sheet-its-losing-ice-faster-than-forecast-and-now-irreversibly-committed-to-at-least-10-inches-of-sea-level-rise-185590...

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• California doesn’t have the capability to support the electric car push: Shellenberger

  By Paul Homewood From Fox News: (Click on link)     https://video.foxnews.com/v/6311693805112

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NoTricksZone

• With Record Sunshine, Germany’s 2022 Summer Was One Of The Warmest, Driest Since 1881

  By Die kalte Sonne Too warm and too dry, was the 2022 summer according to the German DWD national weather service. The DWD still calculates with the comparative period 1961-1990 and deliver these anomalies to the media headlines. A temperature...

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• Scientists Identify 3 More Regions That ‘Global’ Warming Has Not Touched Since The 1800s

  New studies identify sites in Portugal, southern Africa, and Arctic Svalbard that have not warmed in the last few centuries. Daily temperature records in northern Portugal indicate no net warming from 1863-2004 (Nunes, 2022). Also, the...

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• Energy Shortages Continue Powering Inflation In Europe…Reaching “Record 8.9 Percent”!

  Zurich’s online NZZ daily warns that come autumn, inflation in Germany could reach “double-digit figures for the first time since 1951”. The inflation rate in Germany in August rose to 7.9 percent, up from 7.5% a month earlier. Chart...

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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...

  2 months ago

The Moderate Voice

• Americans think they know a lot about politics – and it’s bad for democracy that they’re so often wrong in their confidence

  Overconfidence about their political knowledge is common among Americans. FXQuadro/iStock/Getty Images Plus Ian Anson, University of Maryland, Baltimore County As statewide primaries continue through the summer, many Americans are...

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• FULL VIDEO of Biden speech on Trump-GOP “extremist threat” to democracy (with full text)

  Here’s a video of President Joe Biden’s full speech on the threat to democracy and equality. Biden bluntly threw down the gauntlet to Donald Trump–he called out Trump by name–and Trump-supporting Republicans. Here’s the full...

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• Biden targets ‘extremist’ Trump allies as democratic threat in fraught political moment

  Published by Reuters By Steve Holland, Trevor Hunnicutt and Jarrett Renshaw PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden charged Republican allies of Donald Trump with undermining the country’s democracy and urged voters on Thursday...

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Marginal REVOLUTION

• Trade Adjustment Assistance might be going away

  The program that Mr. Ogg looked to for help, known as Trade Adjustment Assistance, has for the past 60 years been America’s main antidote to the pressures that globalization has unleashed on its workers. [TC’s aside: this first sentence...

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• Friday assorted links

  1. The Sailing Scribes: Circulating Law in the Twentieth-Century Indian Ocean. 2. Bryan Caplan contra schooling (NYT). 3. Economist Elizabeth Bailey has passed away. 4. The culture that is Edison, New Jersey Indian. 5. Elad on transformers...

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• The Cream Rises to the Top

  NBER: Can efforts to eradicate inequality in wealth and education eliminate intergenerational persistence of socioeconomic status? The Chinese Communist Revolution and Cultural Revolution aimed to do exactly that. Using newly digitized...

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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...

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• 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...

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• 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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MintPress News

• Giving Voice to the Voiceless: Tales from the Parents of Tortured Palestinian Children

  Faced with HR 2590, - a law intended to protect the lives of Palestinian children - the United States House of Representatives' submission to Israel and Zionism has been both pathetic and enraging. The post Giving Voice to the Voiceless: Tales...

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• Deliberate Misrepresentation: Western Media Bias Makes Israeli War on Palestinians Possible 

  On August 16, the Israeli military finally admitted that it was behind the strikes that killed the 5 young Palestinian boys of Jabaliya. Whether the NYT reported on that or not matters little. The damage has been done, and that was Israel’s...

  7 days ago

• How the CIA has Infiltrated Social Media Companies, with Alan MacLeod

  Big social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter and Google, have gone on a hiring spree, recruiting dozens of CIA officers to run their most important, politically sensitive departments – and almost no one is talking about it...

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