Sunday, May 02, 2021

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Utopia – you are standing in it!

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  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|April 29, 2021 78% to 85% of viewers approve Biden’s speech to Congress, CBS and CNN polls find. 80% say speech inspires optimism! With addition of two years...

    3 days ago

  • FBI search warrants carried out against Trump backers Rudy Giuliani and Victoria Toensing; Intrigue with Ukrainian oligarchs at issue

    United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|April 28, 2021 Biden to address joint session of Congress with $1.8 trillion Family Plan for care, education and economic benefits: 2 years of free pre-K for all...

    4 days ago

  • US Must Help Fight Pandemic in India!

    United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|April 26, 2021 Biden administration commits to help giant democracy as cases there top 350,000 per day for fifth day; US will ship 60 million Astrazenica shots...

    6 days ago

Sustainable Pulse

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Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • China’s Unrestricted War on India

    China’s shadow war seeks to employ all available means short of open war to curtail Indian ambitions and strike at core Indian interests. India, however, has yet to start countering such warfare. By Brahma Chellaney Foreign Affairs journal...

    6 days ago

  • US fails to understand that it no longer calls the shots in Asia

    Arrogant intrusion into Indian waters was counterproductive Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia Despite being the world’s most powerful democracy, the U.S. still shares some key traits with its main competitor, China, the world’s largest...

    8 days ago

  • Global Terror and the Taliban’s Return

    A full US military withdrawal from Afghanistan will likely deliver a rebirth of global terror By Brahma Chellaney, Project Syndicate NEW DELHI – One of the most crucial early tests for US President Joe Biden concerns Afghanistan. An emboldened...

    9 days ago

Ramani's blog

Diane Ravitch's blog

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • Fake Himalaya Lockdown Footage Originated In Attenborough Film

    By Paul Homewood   The other day, I wrote about how ITV had broadcast fake, photo-shopped footage, purporting to show that the Himalayas were now visible from Kathmandu because of reduced pollution during lockdown. The same footage is included...

    6 hours ago

  • China’s Thermal Power Output Still Rising

    By Paul Homewood     While the West continues its rush to the cliff edge, China continues remorselessly to increase its fossil fuel power generation:       https://chinaenergyportal.org/en/2021-q1-electricity-other-energy-statistics/...

    a day ago

  • Europe’s heavy industry unlikely to survive Net Zero

    By Paul Homewood     It is becoming ever more evident that much of Europe’s heavy industry is unlikely to survive the EU’s unilateral Net Zero policy. The EU’s carbon price reached a new record high of 45 euros ($54) a tonne on Tuesday...

    a day ago

NoTricksZone

NEPC Blog Post of the Day

Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Eeyore’s Cabinet: Thoughts on the Economy

    Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers As I wrote not long ago, I think we can expect a big boom of pent-up demand coming that will result in 5 percent or so of annualized GDP growth, maybe as early in late second or third quarter of 2021 lasting until...

    a day ago

  • The Peculiar Institution of Higher Education

    Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Nothing is now stranger than the contemporary college campus.  Not too long ago, Americans used to idolize their universities. Indeed, in science, math, engineering, medicine and business, these...

    2 days ago

  • Fragments of Memory

    Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Two days ago, I drove in a 5-square-mile radius and noticed that the 100 or so farms I grew up with are all gone. Caput. Everyone. Not one grandkid, relative, etc. seems to be farming. The acreage seems either...

    2 days ago

The Moderate Voice

Marginal REVOLUTION

  • Sunday assorted links

    1. Those new service sector jobs. 2. How much would be collected from a higher capital gains rate? 3. Fairfax County police chief under fire for earlier behavior. 4. “The Pfizer vaccine’s “280 different components, manufactured in...

    2 hours ago

  • What predicts professional philosophers’ views?

    The entire piece is interesting, but this segment caught my eye in particular: Additionally, they found that being more politically right-leaning was associated with several philosophical views, such as theism, free will libertarianism...

    11 hours ago

  • What I’ve been reading

    1. Marcel Proust, The Mysterious Correspondent: New Stories.  Yes they read like fragments, but Proust’s fragments are still better than almost anything else. 2. Michele Alacevich, Albert O. Hirschman: An Intellectual Biography. ...

    14 hours ago

Lloyd Lofthouse

  • Election Reform: Now and Twenty Years Ago, A Personal Story

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Republican-controlled legislatures across the nation are planning to enact legislation that would have the effect of suppressing the vote. Georgia passed a law to restrict access to voting, known...

    a month ago

  • Why did America’s Founders include this Oath in the U.S. Constitution?

    U.S. Constitution: Article II, Section 1, Clause 8: “Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:–I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President...

    2 months ago

  • Republican Leader: The Election Is Over

    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 writes here about efforts by Trump and his surrogates to promote…...

    4 months ago

MintPress News

Made from Truth and Lies

  • instagram cross-post

    She's been admiring my dressing gown for weeks, so Jane got her her own for her birthday. Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there.

    2 hours ago

  • Interesting Links for 02-05-2021

    Colin the Caterpillar gets Scottish chippy treatment(tags:Scotland food MarksAndSpencer funny )The winner of the Best Director Oscar used to be on Livejournal and still writes fanfic(tags:writing Oscars fanfic Livejournal )516 Arouca...

    7 hours ago

  • Interesting Links for 01-05-2021

    Thoughts about making AI "explainable"(tags:ai explanations models )Covid in Scotland: Most councils on track for level 2 restrictions(tags:pandemic Scotland GoodNews )Women Who Refuse - cataloguing abuse and violence against women...

    a day ago

www.gurukalehuru.com

  • Missing Space

    I was watching Voyager on Netflix the other day, in which a Klingon Janeway was being murdered to death by a Hirogen hunter on the holodeck and I noticed something that I’ve noticed before, and it’s something we all know, … Continue reading...

    9 hours ago

  • Przewalski’s Horse

    When I first heard about this, I thought “Well, that’s nice,” but the more I hear about it, I’m tending more towards “That is fucking brilliant,” and it makes me proud to live in Prague.Przewalski’s Horse is a breed native …...

    a day ago

  • It Still Exists

    This is a bit of a cheat blog because I didn’t write one last night and it is just an internet comment which went a bit long, and since there’s no difference, in a literary sense, between a long comment … Continue reading →...

    2 days ago
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2 May - iG Tab - 8

 

Have You Heard

  • State of Siege: What the Free State Project Means for New Hampshire’s Public Schools

    TweetTwo decades ago, the Free State Project announced an audacious plan to make New Hampshire a utopia for libertarians. Now one of their central goals – privatizing education – appears within reach. Have You Heard heads to the Granite...

    10 days ago

  • Failure to Disrupt. Again

    TweetThe pandemic gave the education technology industry the opportunity to FINALLY deliver on the bold promises it has been making for decades. What happened instead was just another failure to disrupt, says MIT’s Justin Reich. Transcript...

    24 days ago

  • What They’ve Lost

    TweetStudents from Boston tell Have You Heard what they’ve lost during this year of pandemic learning. Spoiler: what you’ll hear bears little resemblance to the discussion of “learning loss” that’s atop the agenda of policy makers...

    a month ago

Chicago Boyz

  • Father and Jack: Conversation as Life Preserver

    My grandsons wonder about life in the fifties, life in their mother’s mother’s village, state. So here’s a personal narrative. Each family was unique, but this does describe another time & place. Jack was one of my father’s friends...

    13 hours ago

  • Continuing Supply Chain Issues

    I have been sharing supply chain woe stories over the past year plus, ever since the Chinese commie crud took over the headlines. I work in the world of industrial distribution. Many of those supply chain issues remain to this very day, and some...

    a day ago

  • One Thing Government Does Right

    Today was a long day. We finally had a couple of funerals that were delayed by the Chinese commie crud. One was for my wife’s grandfather who made it to the ripe old age of 95 and the second was for one of his sons, who lived to his early seventies...

    4 days ago

Centinel2012

The BRAD BLOG

  • Sunday 'Whopper, Side of Lies' Toons

    Last: All the best to Matt Bors, who has drawn his final political toon... I will continue to run The Nib in an almost full time capacity, publishing and editing our magazine and daily comics, while making some space in my life for other kinds of...

    4 hours ago

  • Strong Women Rule!: 'BradCast' 4/30/2021

    Brad & Desi are out today. They’re getting their second Moderna vaccine. Hopefully any side effects they get will be long gone by Monday. Anyway, that's why it's me here today, NICOLE SANDLER once again guest hosting The BradCast. After...

    2 days ago

  • With Reaganesque Optimism, Biden's Address Signals End of Reagan Era: 'BradCast' 4/29/2021

    Last month on The BradCast, after Joe Biden signed his $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan with emergency COVID relief and stimulus for the poor and middle class, we suggested that passage of that bill would likely be seen in history as the beginning...

    3 days ago

bluebird of bitterness

BlackListed News

Research Digest

Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

  • The Curious Connection Between Scottish Oatcakes and Human Sacrifice

    It’s springtime in the Scottish Highlands and a bonfire blazes against the night sky. A group stands before the flames, passing around a hat containing slices of bannock, or griddled oatcake. Each person plucks out a piece, until one unfortunate...

    2 days ago

  • New Gourna Village in Al Qarnah, Egypt

    In the 20th century, Egyptian architect Hasan Fathy became well known for his work rooted in traditional craftsmanship. Instead of following the modernist works of his contemporaries, Fathy wanted to develop a style of architecture rooted...

    2 days ago

  • Eremo di San Venanzio (Hermitage of San Venanzio) in Raiano, Italy

    Just a short trip from the small town of Raiano, in the Abruzzo region of Italy, the narrow and spectacular gorges of the Aterno river carve their way through a valley where rugged mountains rise far above. Nestled on a rocky outcrop lies a medieval...

    2 days ago

Accidental Deliberations

  • Saturday Afternoon Links

    Assorted content for your weekend reading.- A group of doctors and scientists offers an open letter calling for a strategy of maximum COVID-19 suppression. - Matt Gurney writes about the latest report documenting the utter failure of Ontario's...

    a day ago

  • Musical interlude

     Filo & Peri feat. Audrey Gallagher - This Night (Max Graham Remix)

    2 days ago

  • Friday Morning Links

    Assorted content to end your week.- Miquel Oliu-Barton, Bary Pradelski, Philippe Aghion, Patrick Artus, Ilona Kickbusch, Jeffrey Lazarus, Devi Sridhar and Samantha Vanderslott examine how strategies aimed at eradicating COVID-19 -...

    2 days ago
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2 May - iG Tab - 7 - MSM

 

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