Tuesday, November 10, 2020

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  Utopia – you are standing in it!

    • Originally posted on STOP THESE THINGS: Back in 1983 the American Wind Industry Association claimed that solar and wind would be “competitive and self-supporting on a national...

  • Dancing in Streets of US Cities with Music, Joy and Laughter as Americans Celebrate End of the Nightmare; Merkel of Germany, Macron of France, Conte of Italy, Irish Prime Minister...

  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, November 5, 2020 Rupert Murdoch Dumps Obnoxious Parvenu Trump, with Whom He Clashed Over...

    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, November 4, 2020 Biden on Track for Biggest Popular Vote Total in US History; Electoral...

  • On Thursday, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) violated core environmental laws in approving the GMO salmon...

  • Environmental groups will be heading to the Federal Court of Appeal in support of a case related to the Pest Management Regulatory Agency’s (PMRA) decision to continue registration...

    • A group of researchers from France, led by Prof. Gilles-Eric Seralini, have identified toxic levels of undeclared ingredients such as heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons...

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      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • Beijing’s debt-trap diplomacy likely to cost it dearly over the long term Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and author of nine books, including...

  • Despite US President Donald Trump’s undermining of US alliances, his administration has made significant progress in bringing together the Indo-Pacific’s leading democracies...

    • Xi Jinping appears to have underestimated New Delhi’s capacity to fight back Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia Is China’s insecurity over the restive Tibetan Plateau, which has...

      Ramani's blog

  • Muslims Worship Shiv Lingam At Mecca Masjid Al Haraam Says Islamic Site, Prophets Uncle wrote Siva Sthuthi, A Prayer On Lord Shiva, Sapthapathi of the Marriage ceremony of the Hindus...

  • Kaaba doors open at Pradosha Time, between 4. 30 and 5. 30 PM. 1.The perambulation in the anti clock wise direction around the Kaaba is the Hindu practice of perambulating Shiva in the...

  • James Hohman writes in the Washington Post about Trump’s nefarious and defiant actions during his lame-duck days in office: He writes: Perhaps as consequential as President Trump firing Defense...

  • Slate is posting a series of farewell to the odious cast of characters in the Trump administration. Dan Kois wrote this goodbye to Betsy DeVos. He writes: So long, Secretary of Education...

    • Slate is running a series of goodbyes to the odious cast of characters in the Trump administration. This one was written by Dahlia Lithwick. She writes: Whereas once I expended anger...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood       Fourteen Tory MPs have written to Grant Shapps to stop the war on motorists. They have asked him, amongst other things, to stop the roll out, and withdraw the...

  • By Paul Homewood h/t Patsy Lacey   A SIGNIFICANT investment of £195m in a zero-carbon council housing project has been approved. The council house new build programme will see a...

    • By Paul Homewood   h/t Me GrimNasty   This latest report from the BBC shows just how out of touch with reality they really are:     The Russian Navy has defended the shooting of a mother...

  • The pitfalls of planned economies… Power shortages, power surpluses, seas of milk and mountains of butter By Reinhard Storz (Translated/ edited by P. Gosselin) Some of the older...

  • Only a few thousand years ago, when CO2 levels were both stable and low (~265 ppm), the  (1) Arctic had far less ice and more vegetation than it does now and (2) the massive rate of ice...

    • Have Trump/Barr led the Biden campaign into a lethal trap? Was a legal FISA warrant obtained to surveil campaign? If you watched the Trump Team’s press conference yesterday like...

  • Curmudgucation: Is It Time for the Internet to Be a School-Managed Public Utility? School has opened across the country, but in many districts that means class via internet—if...

  • Answer Sheet: Teaching Kids to Spot Misinformation on Social Media — And Whether Enough is Being Done to Get Rid of It This is the latest installment in the 2020-2021 school year of...

    • Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Does Classroom Use of Computers Cause Gains in Students’ Academic Achievement? A decade ago when a surge of interest in placing...

     Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

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  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Until Donald Trump’s arrival, the globalist revolution was almost solidified and institutionalized—with the United States increasingly...

    • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review A republic is not just a nation of laws. It also relies on its good-faith watchdogs, such as honest pollsters, the media, and bipartisan institutions...

  • Joe Biden’s character and decency are the needs of this time not only in the US but also for Europe and most of the world. His skills when he occupies the Oval Office next year will be...

  • US President Donald Trump has fired Mark Esper as the defence secretary and announced an acting replacement, making the announcement over Twitter.The step was not entirely unexpected...

    • The moment Lester Holt of NBC News cut into a statement from President Donald Trump. NBC News via YouTube Chris Lamb, IUPUI When CBS, NBC and ABC cut away from President Donald Trump’s...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is the closing bit: What kind of bargain is it for the country for the U.S. election to be the object of such global interest? We Americans...

  • 1. Don Boudreaux on me on Covid. 2. Wayne Rogers and Liberty Fund. 3. Mass mink cull is cancelled.  And the second (or in some cases third) wave. 4. Firearms and violence under Jim Crow...

  • Where We Stand

    8 hours ago
    • There is good news and there is bad news. Let’s start with the good news.The early results from the Pfizer vaccine are very good, 90% efficacy. That will probably fall a bit but it’s...

  • Will Donald Trump attempt to pull of a coup through the Electoral College? Continue reading →

  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: This editorial was published yesterday. Donald Trump’s presidency has been a horror show that is ending with a pandemic that is out of...

    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: In this post, Bill Moyers conducts an important interview with investigative journalist Anne Nelson, who talks about her new book, SHADOW...

  • If the EU is successful, users will no longer enjoy protection from the prying eyes of government and criminals on popular messaging apps like WhatsApp and Signal. The post In Blow...

  • It’s been days since the U.S. election, and there is still no official winner. But no matter the result, President Trump is determined to stay in office. Behind The Headlines correspondent...

    • The United States gave Mexico no warning about the imminent arrest of one of its top generals following Attorney General Bill Barr's failure to provide the Mexican government information...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • They tried to fit me with a smart meter last December. It didn't commission properly, so I had to do manual readings until about a month ago when they got the electricity working.Only...

  • Sleepy day today Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there.

    • Number 10 Says The UK Will Have Ten Million Doses of Covid-19 Vaccine By The End Of This Year If Pfizer's Trial Is Deemed Safe(tags:UK pandemic vaccination GoodNews )Feral wallabies...

      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • It’s a bit different watching it now, after many years. Of course, it’s no longer groundbreaking, because so many sci-fi series have followed, but the big change is not in the series...

  • Trash Talk

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  • Most people use Facebook to stay in touch with their family and friends, maybe to post some pictures from their latest vacation, or their children, or to talk about food, or music, or...

  • The New Look

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  • Much has been written about Facebook’s new look, almost all of it negative – in fact, all of it I have seen has been negative – and I basically agree. None of the changes were necessary...

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  • Are you feeling drained because your mind is full of negative thoughts? Are you feeling physically and mentally exhausted?  The truth is everyone feels down and mentally and physically...

  • Have you experienced the pain of not feeling good enough? Have you pushed people away who would do anything for you, for the person whose attention and love you crave, only to find out...

    • To be in the company of a toxic person is not easy. Toxic people always demand priority. They only think about themselves, as they think everything is about them. One thing you will come...

  • TweetOur long-awaited book, A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, is finally (almost) out. To celebrate its publication, and the 100th episode of Have You Heard, we asked an expert—a...

  • TweetThe hosts of your favorite education podcast have written a book! A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door will be out on November 17 and is available for pre-order now. If America’s public...

    • TweetHave You Heard talks with legal scholar Derek Black about his new book Schoolhouse Burning: Public Education and the Assault on American Democracy. Despite the title (not to...

  • (I don’t usually rerun posts that are less than a year old, but in this case…) Free speech…free expression generally…is under attack in America and throughout the Western...

  • Conceptually, a welcome wagon is just two things, information and free stuff. The welcome wagon provider gets paid to distribute the free stuff and the new resident looks at the free...

    • In early 2020, Joe Biden advised coal miners facing unemployment to learn to code, saying: Anybody who can go down 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well… Anybody...

      Centinel2012

  • Most Corrupt Election Ever! NOV 9, 2020 AT 10:41 AMUnlockedEarly Look, We are watching an election being stolen before our eyes–the Devil always overplays his hand. Greedy...

  • “Do they want to have a civil war? Because this is how you get civil wars. If the soap box is suppressed, and if jury box doesn’t work, and the ballot box is rigged, what’s left other...

    • Armstrong Economics Blog/AI Computers Re-Posted Nov 10, 2020 by Martin Armstrong QUESTION #1: Hello MartinDo you think that Trump has something up his sleeve in regards to the...

      The BRAD BLOG

  • IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris win the pivotal 2020 Presidential Election; Biden's climate agenda faces huge hurdles in a Republican Senate; Tropical Storm...

  • Well, it took long enough --- much longer than media usually wait --- but by Saturday morning, they finally recognized the obvious by calling Pennsylvania, and thus the Presidential...

    • Pre-Call: * * * * * Post-Call:

      bluebird of bitterness

  • In honor of the birthday of Italian conductor and composer Ennio Morricone (1928-2020), here is one of his greatest hits performed by the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain...

  • Sheep thrills

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  • A biotech sector expert has suggested that the announcement of a new successful COVID-19 vaccine was deliberately delayed until after the presidential election so it didn’t boost...

    • Michigan's governor Gretchen Whitmer is asking the State Legislature to codify the current order requiring people to wear face masks and make it law.

  • By Emily Reynolds. Participants reported better wellbeing after portraying themselves authentically rather than in a self-idealised way.

  • By Emily Reynolds. But some aspects of narcissism are related to less political participation, complicating the picture.

    • Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web Christmas is likely to be very different…

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

  • Hoi An is an old port city in central Vietnam that flourished from the 16th to 19th-century, attracting traders from Japan, China, and Europe. Its historic district, designated as...

  • When a ceramic relief depicting the Madonna with Child was returned to the church of Scansano in Tuscany, Italy, after five decades of absence, the town threw a solemn celebration...

    • The Monument to the Fallen of Dogali (Monumento ai Caduti di Dogali) is a memorial, located in Rome, dedicated to  the fallen Italian soldiers of the Battle of Dogali. This battle...

      Accidental Deliberations

  • Just where could Scott Moe have picked up the idea that a glaring lack of judgment, flagrant disregard for the law and reckless endangerment of the public are somehow acceptable characteristics...

  • This and that for your Tuesday reading.- The Globe and Mail's editorial board is rightly aghast at Doug Ford's choice to facilitate the spread of the coronavirus as a devastating fall...

  • On first steps

    5 hours ago
    • Hey look, some positive election results! Congratulations to everybody who ran in Regina's municipal elections (and in those around the province) - and particularly the progressive...

    10 November - iGoogle Portal - Tab 7 - MSM News

     

  • The company showed off three new Mac computers Tuesday, all powered by its newly designed M1 chip.

  • The company will hold a media event at 10 am PST to announce the debut of Apple-made silicon in its computers.

    • We'll talk about the different types—kinetic energy, electrical potential energy, etc.—and different sources, from fossil fuels to solar.

  • At a Supreme Court argument Tuesday, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kavanaugh suggested that striking down one provision would not doom the balance of the law...

  • Mr. Biden will speak on Obamacare today as the Supreme Court hears arguments on President Trump’s effort to overturn it. Here’s the latest.

    • Some lawyers at Jones Day and Porter Wright, which have filed suits about the 2020 vote, said they were worried about undermining the electoral system...

      India News, Latest News in India, Live News India, India Breaking News - Ti

  • In a tidal sweep of byelections in seven out of 11 states, the BJP or an ally on Tuesday won 41 of the 59 seats at stake –– as many as 31 of them at Congress’s expense. Madhya Pradesh...

  • Overall, the Congress, which had sitting MLAs in more than 40 seats, won 11 seats and was leading in one, while two seats were won by the BJD. One seat each was won by the Samajwadi Party...

    • Hailing the BJP's strong performance in assembly bypolls in various states, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday praised the party's leadership there and expressed his thanks...

  • The health secretary also announces that, from Tuesday, NHS staff will be tested twice a week.

  • Assessments done under teacher supervision will replace exams, the education minister confirms.

    • Areas including Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire and parts of the West Midlands will receive new rapid tests.