7 November - iG Tab - 9

 

Utopia – you are standing in it!

• Madonna – Into The Groove

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• Sonny and Cher: The beat goes on

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• UK to be ‘clean energy superpower’?  

  Originally posted on Tallbloke's Talkshop: CO2 is not pollution Without sufficient dispatchable electricity generation the UK could become a low-energy power on windless nights. Alarmist talk of ‘worst droughts in 500/1000 years’...

  12 hours ago

TARPLEY.net

• 1933 in Germany or 1934 in US? The choice Is in Your Hands!

  36 million early voters nationwide by late Friday, a midterm record, while Trump is reportedly preparing to announce a new bid for power on November 14; That makes this is a referendum — on Trump! MAGA is now the party of Quislings appeasing...

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• On hundredth anniversary of Mussolini’s march on Rome, attacker targets Speaker Pelosi

  Would-be killer severely wounds husband Paul Pelosi, showing fascist threat is real today; Pelosi demonized in countless GOP cable ads; Corrupt corporate media reach new low with their fatuous narrative of red wave and Democratic defeat...

  1 week ago

• Biden pledges to enact Roe into law on first day of new Congress!

  McCarthy shares his nightmare agenda with Punch Bowl News — Woe to the vanquished: Speaker wannabe plans early betrayal of Ukraine, citing exorbitant costs to justify treachery; National ban on abortion looms, with no exceptions likely...

  2 weeks ago

Sustainable Pulse

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  Indian Government Restricts Use of Glyphosate in Massive Blow to Agrichemical Lobby

  The Indian government has restricted the use of glyphosate-based herbicides due to the risks to human and animal health. On Tuesday the Agricultural Ministry stated in a notification that “the use of glyphosate is prohibited and no person...

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  Secret “Paraquat Papers” Reveal Corporate Tactics to Protect Weed Killer Linked to Parkinson’s Disease

  For decades, Swiss chemical giant Syngenta has manufactured and marketed a widely used weed killing chemical called paraquat, and for much of that time the company has been dealing with external concerns that long-term exposure to the chemical...

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  Roundup Affects Vital Fine Color Vision of Bumblebees – New Finnish Study

  Finnish researchers have discovered how Roundup, a herbicide containing glyphosate, affects the learning and memory of bumblebees. A small dose affected their ability to learn and memorize connections between colors and taste. This weakened...

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sunshine hours

• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 310 – 2023

  South / North

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• Fanaticism Of The Apocalypse

  In Europe, they’re burning garbage to stay warm. “It’s so bad this season that you can smell trash burning every day, which is completely new,”  said the 35-year-old mother of three from Jablonna, Poland, near Warsaw. “Rarely…...

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 309 – 2022

  South / North

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Stagecraft and Statecraft

• The Red Emperor

  Brahma Chellaney, OPEN magazine Chinese President Xi Jinping’s tenure has already been marked by high ambition and aggression, including territorial and maritime expansionism. Xi’s vision, the “Chinese dream,” is to make China...

  1 week ago

• The US-India Partnership is Too Important to Lose

  Tensions stemming from the war in Ukraine and the American withdrawal from Afghanistan have strained the strategic partnership between the US and India. But President Joe Biden cannot afford to alienate America’s most important partner...

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• China’s expansionism creeps along as West distracted by Ukraine

  India retreats further into own territory with Himalayan buffer-zone pullbacks Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia China’s relentless expansionism in the frigid high Himalayas through furtive territorial encroachments has fostered a...

  1 month ago

Ramani's blog

• Sanyasis Should Not Perform Yagnya?

  While the meaning is that those who show off as one who is a Yogi ,is not really a Yogi but a pretender, the translation shown in the image conveys the exact and mischievous misinterpretation of the Bhagavad Gita...

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• Reverse OF Aryan Invasion Why English Dictionaries Do Not Credit Sanskrit Etymology

  Reverse of Aryan invasion. From India , Details. While the Oxford people wrote back that they wouldn’t like to drift away from teir 150 year-old etymological moorings, Wedster’s argued that since Englishmen were not even aware of the...

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• Abhirami Andhadhi Classes Online

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Diane Ravitch's blog

• Miami Herald Endorses Crist for Governor

  Ron DeSantis is a bully and a braggart. Under his autocratic rule, the people of Florida are “free” to do what he tells them to do. The Miami Herald endorsed his opponent Charlie Crist. Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Florida is a place of meanness...

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• Texas: Public Schools Are on the Ballot

  Texas Republicans have been longing to pass a voucher bill, but they have been stymied by grassroots opposition and by our friends, Pastors for Texas Children, who believe in separation of church and state. This year, Governor Greg Abbot and...

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• Please Vote Tomorrow! Every Vote Counts!

  Many of the contested seats for the House and the Senate are very close. I stopped watching the polls a week or so ago, and I no longer believe in them. They are often wrong, and they tend to depress the vote if your candidate is either far ahead or...

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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• Matt Ridley: Green zealots are threatening real conservation

  By Paul Homewood     Obsession with climate change is now actively harming the environment Environmentalists are increasingly finding themselves at odds with conservationists. Last week the head of the National Grid said the planning...

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• Dominic Lawson: You can have green or growth — but not both

  By Paul Homewood Dominic Lawson nails it:     Just think of all the important world leaders that Rishi Sunak could persuade to join the UK in the great “net zero carbon” campaign when the British PM makes the trip this week that he originally...

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• Would We Be Better Off Now, If We Had More Renewables?

  By Paul Homewood h/t Paul Kolk   For a change, a slightly more objective analysis of our energy policy from the BBC:     https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63477214 It covers some of the main factors, such as:   The dash for gas in...

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NoTricksZone

• New Paradigm-Shifting Study Finds Annual CO2 Flux Is Driven By Temperature-Dependent Sea Ice Flux

  Annual carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) change rates lag behind changes in sea ice extent by 7 months and 5 months, respectively. This robust correlation is consistent with the conclusion that CO2 (and CH4) changes are responsive to...

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• Germany Sees Record Warm October, Helps Ease Heating Costs And Gas Shortage

  How was October in Germany in 2022? An extremely warm October, 2022, with record potential is how the German Weather Service describes the month from a weather and climate perspective. October 2022 was extremely warm in Germany. It is still...

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• Tokyo Mean October Mean Temperature Has Been Falling For Decades

  Charts produced by Kirye This October, according to the (untampered) data from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the mean temperature in Tokyo came in at 17.2°C, making it it one of the coolest over the past decades: Data source: JMA. ...

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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...

  3 months ago

The Moderate Voice

• ‘Impeachmentpalooza’: Rick Wilson previews House Republicans’ agenda with control of Congress

  Published by Raw Story By Matthew Chapman On Monday, former Republican strategist and Never Trump conservative Rick Wilson took to Twitter to outline what House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and his allies will do with a House majority...

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• Midterms: Five examples of online misinformation ahead of the polls

  Published by Euronews (English) Fears have been raised once again that an election in the United States could be marred by online misinformation. False claims about voting and elections have spread widely on social media ahead of the midterms...

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• Mastodon: What is the social network hailed as a Twitter alternative?

  Published by Reuters By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) – With Twitter in disarray since the world’s richest person took control of it last week, Mastodon, a decentralised, open alternative from privacy-obsessed Germany, has seen...

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Marginal REVOLUTION

• China fact of the day (with the usual grain of salt)

  Nucleic Acid Testing 'Now Accounts for 1.3% of China’s GDP' https://t.co/sFw8zdNdk1 — That's Shanghai (@ThatsShanghai) November 7, 2022 The post China fact of the day (with the usual grain of salt) appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION...

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• Lu Wei Peter Zhang

  If you want to open a new Peter Chang restaurant in Fairfax, but not quite tell people it is Peter Chang…call it Peter Zhang!  (Isn’t that a bit like hiding the kid from Anakin Skywalker and calling him Luke Skywalker?) This is the most casual...

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• Monday assorted links

  1. Are people in rice-farming areas less happy on average? (speculative) 2. Individualism and the decline of homicide (but does this hold in the broader cross-section?) 3. Earlier Twitter markets in everything. 4. The economics of writing...

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Lloyd Lofthouse

• The Scourge of the Internet: Political Panhandlers

  This is a rant about political panhandlers sending out emails asking for donations. When I was still a child, I remember my dad’s reason for not voting. He said, “All politicians are liars and crooks and can’t be trusted.” But as soon...

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• Is this an Indie Troll or a Russian, Iranian or North Korean Hacker trying to trick me with a Trojan Horse?

  A few weeks ago, two e-mail alerts landed in my Gmail inbox telling me new comments had been submitted to two of my four blogs. This isn’t anything new. My four blogs have had more than one million views over the years, and I get e-mail alerts like...

  1 month ago

• 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...

  2 months ago

MintPress News

• Chasing a Mirage: How Israel’s Arab Parties Validate Apartheid

  By remaining loyal participants in Israel’s democracy charade, Palestinian citizens of Israel continue to validate the Israeli establishment, thus harming, not only Palestinian communities in Israel but, in fact, Palestinians everywhere. ...

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• The Truth About Cargill, The World’s Most Evil Company

  Let’s learn a little more about Cargill. Known to friends as the evilest company in the world – and to enemies as even worse than that – Cargill Inc. is the biggest privately owned company in the U.S., and they own a large chunk of every portion...

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• The BBC’s Connections to the Conservative Party, and Unit 8200 Infiltrating Social Media, with Alan MacLeod

  Lowkey talks to Alan MacLeod about the BBC’s extremely close links to the UK ruling Conservative Party and MacLeod’s latest findings on Israeli military surveillance organization Unit 8200. The post The BBC’s Connections to the Conservative...

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