Thursday, January 07, 2021

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  Utopia – you are standing in it!

  • All self-made

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  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|January 5, 2021 Wednesday Will Mark Culmination of 2020 Presidential Election Campaign as Joint...

  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|January 4, 2021 Rep. Clyburn Predicts Victory for Warnock and Ossoff Over GOP Foes in Tuesday Georgia...

    • Senate Votes 81-13 to Reject Trump Veto of NDAA Defense Authorization Act, Following House in Completing Override of Don’s Attempt to Block Bill; Landmark Rebuke of MAGA Shows...

  • A new scientific publication shows that CRISPR/Cas gene scissor applications in animals unintentionally leave traces. The findings, as commented on by Testbiotech, are not...

  • Last Friday, Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed the opening arguments and evidence in its litigation challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) re-approval...

  •   sunshine hours

  • Pass the link around (I’ll just post #2) 2. Global emissions In 1978, The Vancouver Sun cited a paper in the journal Science. University of Washington researcher Minze...

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      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • Brahma Chellaney, The National The global shock brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, with its major economic and social disruptions, has ensured that 2020 will go down in history...

  • Brahma Chellaney, Project Syndicate Even after Asia’s economies climb out of the COVID-19 recession, China’s strategy of frenetically building dams and reservoirs...

    • Brahma Chellaney, The Japan Times U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has been wrong on China almost his entire career. Will he finally get it right after being sworn in as president? Biden’s...

  • I had rebutted all this point by point with evidence.What shocked me today, on Christmas of 2020,an advertisement in the Deccan herald by a Christian missionary group, quoting Rig...

  • A dedicated group from US is organising Pooja, Rudrabhishek at Kasi Viswanatha temple regularly.They also organise,as a part of it,programmes that bespeak of our culture and religion,in...

    • Thirumurukaatruppadaibelongs to Tamil Sangam Literature.It was writtn by Nakkeerar about 20,000 yeras ago.This comes under Pathinenkeezh kanakku, an anthlogy of Eighteen poetic...

  • Jan Resseger writes here about Montana Senator Jon Tester’s deep and well-grounded belief in public education. He says that Democrats would have greater success in red states...

  • Like everyone else, I was stunned by the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6. I followed the proceedings from the start to see what stunt Trump might pull. I watched as the mob approached...

    • At the end of a shameful day, in which Trump claimed falsely (again) that he had won in a landslide, Twitter announced that it was suspending him—but for only 12 hours. Twitter warned...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood   Finally some common sense!     Plans for the UK’s first deep coal mine in 30 years can progress after the government decided not to intervene. Cumbria County...

  • By Paul Homewood   h/t Patsy Lacey   Isle of Wight Council set out plans to save the planet!!     https://onthewight.com/isle-of-wight-council-set-out-strategy-for-island-to-become-co2-net-zero-in-nine-years/...

    • By Paul Homewood    The storm ‘Filomena’ leaves the lowest temperature ever recorded in the Iberian Peninsula: –34.1C     Temperatures in Spain this winter are reaching...

  • Alps ice-free…6000 years ago, when CO2 was much lower than today’s levels. Dr. Sebastian Lüning earlier today released his latest Klimaschau report, No. 6. In the first part...

  • Science absurdity… “Climate experts” blame climate change for Lake Victoria record high levels, after blaming climate change for the low levels in 2006.  Today we look at...

    • In 2020, scientists continued to publish papers affirming global sea levels are today about 2 meters lower than they were a few thousand years ago. During the last interglacial (~116...

  • Jersey Jazzman: New Jersey's School COVID-19 Operating Plans: Still Racially Biased, Still Inadequately Funded for Many Students Earlier this year, I posted about the racial inequities...

  • Answer Sheet: What Public Education Advocates Want to See in Biden’s Pick to Succeed Betsy DeVos (The New Press) For years we’ve heard Democrats such as Arne Duncan, education...

    • Diane Ravitch's Blog: Carol Burris: How Charter Schools Cashed in on the Paycheck Protection Program Dr. Carol Burris is the executive director of the Network for Public Education...

     Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The year 2020 witnessed a long series of writs lodged against an America beset with plague, quarantine, recessions, riot and arson, and...

  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review With the rise of the Left inevitable over the next two years, the public should become acquainted with the Left’s strange language of Wokespeak...

    • Victor Davis Hanson // Fox News After Nov. 3, the meaning of some words and concepts abruptly changed. Have you noticed how new realities have replaced old ones?   Media cross-examination...

  • Finally, Donald Trump has been defeated, roundly. But Joe Biden’s victory, though consecrated on January 20, will take a long time to settle. The win so far is for American democracy...

  • The “Only in America” days may be back again. And, yes, “it’s official. Georgia Democratic Senators-elect Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are going to Washington.” Raphael...

    • Ever heard of heavyweight boxer Lamar Clark, of Utah? Probably not, but 60 plus years ago Clark, born in Cedar City, Utah, was briefly a hot commodity in the sport. The heavyweight...

  • Here’s a new service sector job: Capitol IT admin. The staffers left their computers unlocked when the building was stormed. All it takes is one bad actor to infect the network with...

  • Neal Katyal has argued 43 cases before the Supreme Court. Until the coronavirus pandemic hit, he hadn’t once enlisted his son as an assistant. Now, Mr. Katyal and other lawyers appearing...

    • I think your column agrees with my mental model in that the actual crypto networks may not be regulated, but the on-ramps and off-ramps will be heavily regulated (and already are)...

      Lloyd Lofthouse

  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Trevor Potter is a Republican who was former chairman of the Federal Election Commission and president of the Campaign Legal Center. He...

    • Originally posted on GFBrandenburg's Blog: This is by David Sirota and Julia Rock, published in The Guardian. “Support from Democratic lawmakers for the liability shield legislation...

  • Democrats’ massive war chest came in no small part from hefty contributions from corporate America, including Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and AT&T. The...

  • “To us, that is nothing more than a pretext to keep him detained. This seems unnecessarily punitive and adding insult to injury after the 10 years of hell that he has endured” --...

    • Zohreh Kharazmi interviews the wives of Quds Force soldiers killed fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria on what Qassem Soleimani means to them and what his death represents for Iranians...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • Looks like the kids' school will have walls after all! Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there.

  • Brexit trade deal 'very unstable' and can easily be brought crashing down, legal expert warns MPs(tags:Europe UK trade Doom )Denmark launches children's TV show about man with giant...

    • Family. Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there.

      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • I thought of writing a blog last night on the storming of the capitol, but thought I’d wait until morning to get answers to some basic questions, like who was the woman who was shot and...

  • Hooray! Whoop-dee-doo! Fireworks going off inside my head! My newest book of poetry, entitled “A Country’s Just a Place” as you can see in the banner which replaces “Every...

  • Awoman

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    • We’ve had four years of mixed horror and laughter at a Republican administration, so now be prepared for four years of horror and laughter at a Democratic administration.Emanuel...

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    9 Traits of an Emotional Abuser and Choices

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  • I‘m sure many of you have all dealt with emotional manipulation at some point or another in life, and as you know, it is extremely destructive. Sometimes you might even not realize...

  • Love that relies on conditions is not very sustainable. You can’t treat love as if it were a switch that you could turn on and off whenever you wanted.  So many people seem to repeat...

    • Have you ever experienced a moment where you wanted to forgive someone close to you, a family member, friend, or a lover? No matter how much you try to forgive them, you just can’t seem...

  • TweetIn the latest episode of Have You Heard, we talk to Rick Perlstein, author of the monumental new history Reaganland, about America’s ‘right turn’ against public education...

  • TweetThe pandemic pivot to online learning has amped up accusations that teachers are indoctrinating students, as parents “see” what their kids are being taught. We talk to...

    • TweetAre you a graduate student whose research on K-12 or higher education is ready for the podcast limelight? Then we have 30 minutes of prime audio real estate with your name on it...

      Chicago Boyz

  • Well, it appears that the mullahcracy in Iran is still steamed over the death of their military mastermind Quassam Soleimani, the chief of so-called Quds Force – sort of the Iranian...

  • Year of Consent, by Kendell Foster Crossen —- This is a pulp SF novel from 1954, which has uncomfortable relevance to our present era. The story is set in the then-future year of 1990...

    • The new sermon series at church is going to be “You Can’t Handle the Truth,” focusing on Daniel. That’s a nice convergence for me after just seeing the Max McLean production...

  • Posted originally on The Conservative tree House on January 6, 2021 by Sundance Moments ago Vice-President Mike Pence made the following announcement via Twitter: “It...

  • Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on January 6, 2021 by Sundance President Trump Will be speaking live at 11:00am from The Ellipse at The President’s Park...

    • Re-Posted from GrrrGraphics.com JAN 2, 2021 AT 10:07 AM Save The Date! Wednesday, January 6 is a red letter day. I’m sure many have the date circled on their new calendars. Probably...

  • As "today" is still ongoing, we'll need to keep the summary of today's BradCast --- and the extraordinary events we find ourselves covering on the fly --- a bit more terse than usual...

  • Today on The BradCast: The last vote of the '2020' election has now been cast with Georgia's two U.S. Senate runoffs now over. The voting part anyway. Now the counting, fighting and...

    • IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: On way out the door, Trump Transportation Dept. approves natural gas 'bomb' trains; Trump EPA's parting gifts include more asthma attacks and premature...

      bluebird of bitterness

  • Througout 2020, there has regularly been claimed to be a Left-biased pandemic zealotry in operation. We see Wales’ strict corona measures. Victoria. New Zealand. Most recently...

  • John Dillermand has an extraordinary penis. So extraordinary, in fact, that it can perform rescue operations, etch murals, hoist a flag and even steal ice-cream from children...

    • Following ever louder urgings from politicians across both sides of the aisle, shortly after 1600 Trump released a video statement in which he urged protesters from the "March for...

      Research Digest

  • We take a look at the most-read Research Digest stories of the year.

  • By Emma Young. Meta-analysis finds that various aspects of psychological flexibility are related to quality of relationships.

    • By Emma Young. Viewers had different perceptions of character's personality, thoughts and emotions, depending on whether scene was scored with a jazz or orchestral soundtrack...

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

  • At the beginning of the Pennsylvania oil rush, one of the first oil deposits was unearthed just north of Pittsburgh. From that time and well into the 20th-century, Pittsburgh was...

  • A holy text, in both form and content, is an instrument of awe. The first thing one might notice about them, in many cases, can be their sheer bulk, as if heft must correspond to importance...

    • David Maxwell’s office at Simon Fraser University could easily be mistaken for a dorm room. The walls are plastered with antique beer signs, which, when turned on, illuminate the...

      Accidental Deliberations

  • Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Robyn Urback writes that the second wave of COVID-19 can be traced largely to people - including far too many political leaders...

  • Playful cats.

  • This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Andre Picard warns not to expect the end of the COVID-19 pandemic (however distant that may be) to result in any particular triumph. And Reuters...

    7 January - iGoogle Portal - Tab 7 - MSM News

     

      Lifehacker

  • Most, if not all, of us have been dealing with dizzying levels of anxiety for months now. A devastating pandemic, unemployment, an ugly and contentious election—and then, of course...

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    Pesticide Action Network

  • Content warning: This blog post contains discussion of suicide. A recent systematic review of unintentional acute pesticide poisonings found that an estimated 385 million farmers...

  • Over the last four years, this administration’s EPA has dealt numerous low blows to public and environmental health when it comes to pesticides — from reversing the planned ban...

    • The season of paperwork, repairs and planning starts at our farm during the weeks immediately following Thanksgiving. It is also the point when we have a little more time to interact...

  • Lawmakers confirm Joe Biden's election victory hours after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol.

  • A ceremony meant to showcase a peaceful power transfer turns into a dark day. Here are the key moments.

    • The party of President-elect Joe Biden will have the majority in both houses of the US Congress.