Monday, June 14, 2021

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  • Urged on by Biden, G-7 will offer developing countries a superior alternative to Beijing’s insidious Belt and Road debt trap! US leads G-7 in pushback against China on human rights, Taiwan security, Covid-19 truth, pandemic preparedness...

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  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|June 10, 2021 Finance oligarchs get Federal Reserve loans under obsolete practices left over from 2009 subprime derivatives crisis; Biden should order the...

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  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|June 9, 2021 Heading for Europe, Biden cites current inflection point (punctum saliens) in struggle between democracy and dictatorship Providing 500 million...

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Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • Punitive sanctions policies should be recalibrated Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia International calls for the restoration of democracy in strategically located Myanmar obscure an important divide between that country’s neighbors...

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  • The genesis of a virus  Brahma Chellaney  | OPEN magazine THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, much like a world war, has become a defining moment for the world. Our lives have profoundly changed since 2020. The pandemic-triggered economic and social...

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  • Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia When India, currently fighting a devastating second COVID wave, was similarly distracted a year ago with enforcing the world’s strictest coronavirus lockdown, China took advantage to stealthily infiltrate...

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  • Jeanne Melvin of Ohio’s Parent Education Partners has provided a useful guide to help readers discern the differences between actual parent groups and billionaire-funded astroturf parent groups. Actual grassroots parent groups rely...

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  • William Gumbert has written a series of posts demonstrating that students who attend public schools in Texas consistently get better results than those in charter schools. In this post, he shows that the regular public schools in Dallas outperform...

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  • In recent decades, states have reduced their subsidies to institutions of high education, shifting the financial burden to students and families. After World War II, the federal government recognized that investing in higher education...

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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood       The rate of sea-level rise in the 20th century along much of the U.S. Atlantic coast was the fastest in 2,000 years, and southern New Jersey had the fastest rates, according to a Rutgers-led study. The global rise in sea...

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  • By Paul Homewood   h/t Philip Bratby   Monty Python could not have improved on this!   A fully-electric coach has found itself stranded in Cornwall after being unable to charge at five different locations across the Duchy. The Carbon Battle...

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  • By Paul Homewood       https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2021/06/12/greenland-temperatures-2021/   It’s not new, but it’s worth going over it again. We have seen how Greenland temperatures rose sharply in the...

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The Moderate Voice

  • All rights reserved. CopyrightDonar, Political Graffiti https://toons.to/go/daviddonar The post Passive Racist appeared first on The Moderate Voice.

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  • By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Monday that President Joe Biden would not get a Supreme Court nominee confirmed in 2024 if Republicans regain control of the chamber and a vacancy arises...

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  • Recently a disgruntled Disney fan named Jonathan VanBoskerc has gone off on a semi-rant in the Orlando Sentinel about how the politically correct changes at Disney theme parks are ruining his Disney experience and stripping Disney of it’s...

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Marginal REVOLUTION

  • Our model predicts that transparency reduces the individual bargaining power of workers, leading to lower average wages. A key insight is that employers credibly refuse to pay high wages to any one worker to avoid costly renegotiations with...

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  • 1. “A Gujarat government official has claimed that he is Kalki, the tenth incarnation of Vishnu, and can’t come to office because he is conducting a “penance” to “change the global conscience”.” 2. Fergus McCullough on Sarah...

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  • Business is the most important way in which human beings cooperate. In his Philosophical Letters, Voltaire explained to his French compatriots how the British had achieved religious toleration by focusing on business: Go into the London...

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Lloyd Lofthouse

  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: I endorse Maya Wiley for the Democratic candidate for Mayor of New York City. There are many candidates in the Democratic primary for Mayor of New York City. Whoever is chosen will be…...

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  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: When I grew up in Houston, Texas, I attended segregated public schools. Everything was segregated, including movie theaters, drinking foundations, churches, restaurants, public transit (the...

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  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Neil MacFarquar wrote this story in the New York Times. It is a chilling warning. Many Americans fought and died to protect our democracy and preserve our rights. Sadly, there extremists within the…...

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  • So your grandmother is a starship now: a quick guide for the bewildered(tags:grandparents space short_story scifi )'Jupiter's Legacy': Battles Over Budgets, Executive Purge Factor in Cancellation(tags:superheroes TV netflix fail...

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  • How to Mute Twitter's Suggested Tweets on Your Timeline(tags:twitter )Can't See Pictures in Your Mind? You're Not Alone. And Now We Know There Are People That See Particularly Vivid Ones.(tags:vision imagination memory brain neuroscience...

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  • Sperm DNA methylation epimutation biomarker for paternal offspring autism susceptibility(tags:autism epigenetics genetics )The Connecticut deli that won't let you discuss mathematics in the line(tags:mathematics food sign viaNancyLebov...

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  • I don’t think enough is being made of Joe Biden’s speech at the G7 conference, where he said Libya when he meant Syria, because Syria is an issue now and nobody’s even talking about Libya, and he repeated the mistake … Continue reading...

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  • I have a lot of artists among my Facebook friends, in my cybercommunity so to speak, and so of course they often post paintings, drawings, photographs, etc…, sometimes their own and sometimes somebody else’s, so it was nothing out of …...

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  • Well, it’s late and I’m uninspired so I’ll just write down a couple of lines here about one of my pet peeves with Facebook. I’m sure everybody has a list of things they would do better if they were Mark … Continue reading →...

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  • In Sanskrit, ‘Purushartha’ is the word for ‘human goals.’ It is a combination of the two words’ Purusha’, which means a human being, and ‘Artha,’ which means wealth or security.  It’s said in the scriptures that there...

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  • Think about the moments in your life, from when you were a very young child until now when you encountered shame. Notice how your body language might change to feeling heavy or that unpleasant feeling you get in the pit of your gut. Do you feel shame when...

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  • Every single person faces the difficulty of making new friends at some point in their life. To build good friendships and develop interpersonal skills, you firstly need to be able to make friends. This applies to our personal as well as our professional...

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Have You Heard

  • TweetCommunity colleges get a bad rap. But recent graduates of Maryland’s Frederick Community College say that stigma is undeserved. These new and soon-to-be-teachers make a powerful case for learning – and teaching – close to home...

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  • TweetThe public school culture wars are raging more intensely than at any time since the Reagan era. Fueled by intense political polarization and the continued fallout from pandemic school closures, the culture wars now threaten public...

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  • TweetInefficient. Ineffective. Outdated. Outmoded. Unrepresentative. Sure, local school boards are deserving of all of these criticisms (and more), but they are also seedbeds of local democracy at a time when democracy is under attack...

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Chicago Boyz

  • A teacher’s letter of resignation. Of course, not all students are true believers. Many pretend to agree because of pressure to conform. I’ve heard from students who want to ask a question but stop for fear of offending someone. I have heard...

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  • The Daughter Unit and I, with Wee Jamie the Grandson Unit, made a road trip last Saturday – a completely enjoyable outing, even with the necessity of stopping several times to change Wee Jamie’s diapers on the hour-and a half drive to Kingsland...

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  • A fellow I’ve known slightly for many years is editor of the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honorary society magazine, The Pharos. He has a lead editorial in The current issue It is titled “Now is the time to enact a US Healthcare System. Now, don’t...

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Centinel2012

  • Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Jun 14, 2021 by Martin Armstrong Who in his Administration wrote that speech? Perhaps they are on the payroll of Kerry and Klaus Schwab

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  • Armstrong Economics Blog/Great Reset Re-Posted Jun 14, 2021 by Martin Armstrong The interesting thing about small dogs is they do not realize they are small. We need to think the same way. For years I have watched the pros focus … Continue...

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  • Armstrong Economics Blog/Tyranny Re-Posted Jun 14, 2021 by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Regarding the G7, which committed us to more stimulus, I can totally see where this is going. You are the historian. Do you not think this is where we end...

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The BRAD BLOG

  • Federal judge overturns California's 32-year-old ban on assault weapons Support the work of political cartoonists here. * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually on topics concerning the strange brew of Texas politics...

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  • While the nation claws its way out of a pandemic and the Republican party continues to crack up --- or carry out its slow-motion attempted coup, take your pick --- a landmark moment occurred for the planet a week or so ago, which has left the fossil...

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  • We're old enough on The BradCast to remember the days when the news got really slow during the summer months after Memorial Day. These are no longer those days. [Audio link to full show follows summary below.] Among the many and various stories...

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  • Herbie was a regular visitor at the racetrack. One day he witnessed something unusual. Right before the first race, a Catholic priest visited one of the horses in the stable and blessed it. Herbie watched the race, and the horse the priest had...

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  • On a sunny Monday morning in May, veteran arborist Eric Ong makes his rounds across the island of Singapore. Lean and tanned from years under the sun, Ong drives toward the city center. Along the way, before he’s even out of the car, Ong studies...

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  • The Truckee River flows out of Lake Tahoe, in the Sierra Nevada of California, and ends at Pyramid Lake in Nevada. For much of its length, it is paralleled by Interstate 80 with Reno, Nevada at about the halfway point. Before Euro-American settlers...

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  • This sculpture created by the artist Shane A. Johnstone was first erected in 2005. Though it was initially met with disdain by locals, the statue has now become a beloved part of the Morecambe Promenade. It was erected to commemorate the 24 cockle...

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Accidental Deliberations

  • This and that for your Sunday reading.- Tom Parkin calls out Jason Kenney's defence of genocide and its architects in an attempt to keep his party's white supremacist base onside. And PressProgress notes that Kenney's insistence on turning...

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  • Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Ed Yong discusses the preventable dangers created by a shift in COVID-19 messaging from one of public protection to one of individual choice. Moira Wyton offers some suggestions from experts as...

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