Friday, July 02, 2021

2 July - Blogs I'm Following - 4 of 5

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null16 hours ago
From Peace Prize to Irrelevance: How Abiy Ahmed Failed Ethiopia
Three years ago, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was presented with a golden opportunity after the terrorist EPRDF regime that was a front company for The post From Peace Prize to Irrelevance: How Abiy Ahmed Failed Ethiopia appeared first on . read more
Electroverse16 hours ago
Santa Catarina, Brazil logs its third consecutive day of rare Snow and sub-zero Cold
According to the local weather service, this is the first time that such a meteorological event has been recorded for more than two decades. The post Santa Catarina, Brazil logs its third consecutive day of rare Snow and sub-zero Cold appeared first on Electroverse. read more
Will You Get the Child Tax Credit? This IRS Tool Has the Answer
*Ethen Kim Lieser* *economy, * [image: Stimulus Check Money] The agencies have been pressing potentially eligible parents to take advantage of newly launched online tools that can help them determine whether they qualify for the new recurring monthly payments. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *The first tool that all parents should take time to look at is the Child Tax Credit Eligibility Assistant, which is available exclusively on IRS.gov. It allows parents to answer a series of questions regarding themselves and their family members that will in the end determine whether t... read more
The Rio Times15 hours ago
Analysis: Bolsonaro administration hinders enforcement of fines key to protecting Brazil’s Amazon
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (REUTERS) Brazil under President Jair Bolsonaro has obstructed the system for environmental fines, one of the main instruments for punishing those who illegally cut down the Amazon rainforest, according to government documents and insiders. Under a presidential decree issued by Bolsonaro shortly after assuming office, individuals and companies accused of […] The post Analysis: Bolsonaro administration hinders enforcement of fines key to protecting Brazil’s Amazon appeared first on The Rio Times. read more
‘Vaccine Misinformation Mythology’- NZ MD Sam Bailey
Listen at the link:Sub her channel & keep up with developments in NZ https://odysee.com/@drsambailey:c/Vaccine-Misinformation-Mythology:5 Photo: screenshot read more
Other headlines
UK Government model states the fully Vaccinated will dominate Deaths in 3rd wave and they will blame Children and Unvaccinated for it Delta variant just hay fever and another facet of fear Dr Cindy de Villiers M.D: “We practice first by doing no harm.” Norway Says Risk Of Dying From AstraZeneca CoviShield Vaccine Higher Than … Continue reading "Other headlines" read more
Coercive propaganda from the BBC promoting the Pfizer VX for your children
From hartgroup.org In a week of very worrying developments, HART has been particularly appalled by a recent piece on BBC Newsround promoting the Pfizer vaccine for children. HART’s most senior doctors are in full agreement that this video material is heavily biased, makes a series of factually incorrect statements, could be considered coercive propaganda and … Continue reading "Coercive propaganda from the BBC promoting the Pfizer VX for your children" read more
Focus Live: Government considering mandatory QR scanning in
Keeping tabs on you … The NZ Herald “The Government is considering mandatory QR scanning in “high-risk” locations such as bars and restaurants, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/focus-live-government-considering-mandatory-qr-scanning-in/3CJS6Q4NZAVUPH3VUIDHUNOOSY/ read more
Lets co administer these two VXs for ease and convenience….but we actually have no studies, trial data or evidence of the safety of doing so in children or adults
From the Health Forum NZ @ fb NEW CDC RULING… FLU AND COVID VAX CAN BE ADMINISTERED AT THE SAME TIME Influenza vaccines can be co-administered with COVID-19 vaccines for both CHILDREN AND ADULTS, according to updated recommendations from the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) – Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practices in USA)In … Continue reading "Lets co administer these two VXs for ease and convenience….but we actually have no studies, trial data or evidence of the safety of doing so in children or adults" read more
Hear Australia’s Sen Malcolm Roberts speak on covid
Senator Malcolm Roberts speaks. Remember him speaking out about the climate change gravy train. (Video at the link, brilliant speech). Hear him here also: https://ourtube.co.uk/watch/aKaLsHvhvzXQEJH?fbclid=IwAR33ov9EDcyRqyWI9mY461i5Ot2zkwb-3H5TRpvrC1Bk3WNMZsHR6IFt74w read more
Shifting the CV VX goalposts: “Why most people who now die with Covid in England have had a vaccination – it’s ‘not a bad sign, it’s exactly what’s expected from an effective but imperfect jab'”
So we are coerced into getting jabbed to obtain ‘protection’ (touted everywhere), then when that doesn’t happen they shift the goal posts. They continue to have it both ways… because they can. After all they are controlling the narrative & woe betide any medic who contradicts it. People should be hearing before they’re jabbed, the … Continue reading "Shifting the CV VX goalposts: “Why most people who now die with Covid in England have had a vaccination – it’s ‘not a bad sign, it’s exactly what’s expected from an effective but imperfect jab'”" read more
bilaterals.org16 hours ago
UK and Israel on brink of signing trade agreement
02-Jul-2021 International Trade Secretary Liz Truss met with her Israeli counterpart ahead of an expected advanced free trade agreement being signed by Britain and the Jewish state. read more
bilaterals.org16 hours ago
US senators urge gov't to lay groundwork for FTA with Taiwan
02-Jul-2021 Forty-two United States senators across party-lines have urged US Trade Representative Katherine Tai to lay the groundwork for negotiating a free trade agreement with Taiwan. read more
Huge swathes of farmland destroyed by hailstorms, Europe
Very heavy rain, strong winds, and intense hailstorms affecting parts of central Europe during the second half of June 2021 left more than 66 000 ha (163 090 acres) of crops damaged or destroyed. The figure doubled within just a few days and it still might rise as...... Read more » read more
World War III? How America Would Fight Against North Korea
*Michael Peck* *North Korea, Asia* Spoiler Alert: Kim Jong-un might not live long enough to see the end of the conflict. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *For years, the expectation had been that a second Korean War would resemble with the first, a big-unit conventional war with U.S. and South Korean forces first stopping the enemy and then counterattacking into North Korea. But OPLAN 5015 reportedly takes a more twenty-first century approach of limited war, special forces and precision weapons. North Korea’s unpredictable leader Kim Jong-un has many ways of making war upon ... read more
Could The German Army Have Stopped An Allied Victory on D-Day?
*Michael Peck* *History, Europe* Even if the Nazis had prevailed on that day, it would not have won the war for them. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *With seventy years of hindsight, it is easy to assume that by June 1944, the Third Reich was doomed. Russian armies were relentlessly advancing from the East; Anglo-American armies were invading from the West, while German cities and factories burned under around-the-clock attacks by American and British bombers. But those who fought the Germans knew better than to underestimate them. General Dwight D. Eisenhower's face was gr... read more
Electroverse17 hours ago
Rare Summer Cold Front Means a Chilly Fourth of July for Texas, as Latest USDA Crop Figures sound the Alarm Bells and see prices “Explode Higher”
Corn stocks, for example, are down a whopping 18% when compared to the same time of last year -- this is despite a 2% increase in planting acreage on 2020. The post Rare Summer Cold Front Means a Chilly Fourth of July for Texas, as Latest USDA Crop Figures sound the Alarm Bells and see prices “Explode Higher” appeared first on Electroverse. read more
Komando.com18 hours ago
Get a great laptop for a low price thanks to Dell’s new sale
Don't miss this amazing sale from Dell! Fulfill all of your laptop or desktop needs today. read more
Komando.com19 hours ago
Fourth of July freebies you don’t want to miss
Check out this list of freebies in honor of Independence Day. read more
Komando.com20 hours ago
Tech fails! 7 devices and companies we can’t believe got the green light
7 devices and companies that turned out to be epic failures. read more
Prosecution Of Alex Saab Unjust, Illegal And Indefensible
José António Dos Reis, former minister in Cape Verde, founder of the country’s Movement for Democracy (MPD) ruling political party, and close to the current government, harshly criticized Prime Minister Ulisses Correia e Silva (of the same political party) and the judicial authorities of Cape Verde for the illegal detention and abduction of the Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab. In his article entitled “The Case of Alex Saab: Cape Verde Between Ambiguity and Schizophrenia” published by the online media outlet Santiago Magazine, the politician described the judicial process as “unjust,... read more
The Child Tax Credit: What to Know to Get That Stimulus Check
*Trevor Filseth* *Child Tax Credit, * Throughout the world, many countries provide their citizens with a tax credit to offset the high costs of raising a young child. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *After providing basic information—including name, address, date of birth, Social Security number, and email address—the IRS will determine if you are eligible for the payments or not. If you are, no further action needs to be taken; expect a check in the middle of July. Next month, on July 15, 36 million households will receive their first of six monthly payments for the Child Ta... read more
Stimulus Checks Are Coming: The IRS Is Still Sending $1,400 Stimulus Payments
*Ethen Kim Lieser* *Stimulus Check, * As the U.S. economy continues to gain momentum amid the ongoing pandemic, the IRS is busy at work issuing new stimulus payments. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *The IRS is still busy at work disbursing refunds from 2020 unemployment benefits. The IRS did issue nearly three million of these refunds earlier this month, but it appears that many taxpayers are still waiting for the next batch of payments. Private payrolls growth surged at a faster rate than expected in June, according to ADP, but even with that news, the Internal Revenue Servi... read more
Why The Spanish Civil War Was A Preview For World War II
*Michael Peck* *Spanish Civil War, Europe* What price should the international community be willing to pay for stability? *Here's What You Need to Remember: *If Britain and France wouldn’t lift a finger to help Spain in 1936, then why should they fight to save Czechoslovakia in 1938? No wonder Hitler expected the Western powers to stay quiet when he invaded Poland in 1939. The fuse for World War II might have been lit in the hills of Spain. A Mediterranean nation beset by military coup and civil war. A savage struggle marked by atrocities and fanaticism. Proxy war waged by outsi... read more
Why Hitler's Invasion of Russia Was A Fatal Error
*Michael Peck* *History, Europe* Invasions of Russia tend to go poorly. This was no exception. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *Would the capture of Moscow have altered the outcome of World War II? Losing their capital has often led nations to seek peace. Moscow was more than the administrative capital of the Soviet Union: it was also a vital rail hub and production center. In October 1941, the Second World War teetered on a knife edge. There was war in China and war in North Africa, and soon there would be war between America and Japan. But in the autumn of 1941, the only war... read more
World War I Veterans Are America’s Forgotten 'Greatest Generation'
*Michael Peck* *World War I, Americas* The Americans who fought the Great War were no less brave and faced no fewer challenges than the men who fought its sequel. *Here's What You Need to Know*: Let’s stop picking and choosing which of our generations is “the greatest.” Why does the First World War get no respect in America? After all, it’s been seventy-five years since World War II, and we still praise the “Greatest Generation.” But on this hundredth anniversary of America’s declaration of war on Germany on April 6, 1917, our nation’s participation in World War I is seldom reme... read more
Retraction Watch18 hours ago
How well do databases and journals indicate retractions? Hint: Inconsistently.
Retraction Watch readers may recall the work of Elizabeth Suelzer, a librarian at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Two years ago, she and colleagues published a study on why the infamous — and fraudulent — 1998 paper by Andrew Wakefield alleging a link between vaccine and autism had been cited more than 1,000 … Continue reading How well do databases and journals indicate retractions? Hint: Inconsistently. read more
Heh
Found via Gab (clickit to biggit), and helpful to those pondering the various states conducting or considering audits of the November 2020 votes. True dat. We have too few apples, and too many other fruits masquerading as apples. More audits, please - and may they be fruitful! Peter read more
CFACT19 hours ago
Can this “miracle tree” uproot slash and burn agriculture?
The Inga tree has properties that both fight soil erosion and help replenish nitrogen in the ground necessary for crop production. The post Can this “miracle tree” uproot slash and burn agriculture? appeared first on CFACT. read more
Is wind locking us into fossil fuels?
By Paul Homewood There’s an interesting analysis of wind power on the Energy Future blog: Full story here. read more
Virtual Mirage19 hours ago
The Holiday Weekend
Courage The Independence Day Weekend is upon us. Are you going out of town or staying home? Whatever you decide to do, I hope that you do it safely. The question of whether we have managed to keep our Constitutional freedoms and rights or not can be debated endlessly, but there is no […] The post The Holiday Weekend appeared first on Virtual Mirage. read more
naked capitalism19 hours ago
Biden Administration Issues Interim Rule Barring Surprise Billing
The health care grift knows as surprise billing is about to be largely stamped out. read more
Powerful paroxysmal eruptive episode at Etna, Italy
A new powerful paroxysmal episode started at Etna's Southeast Crater, late July 1, 2021, and lasted approximately 120 minutes. This was the 5th paroxysm since June 25 and the first since June 28. Strombolian activity at the Southeast Crater resumed at 22:40 UTC...... Read more » read more
Turning crisis into opportunity: World leaders meet at UN to help drive pandemic recovery
Leading figures from government, business and civil society are preparing to take part in this year’s High Level Political Forum on sustainable development (HLPF), where they will discuss ways to recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and turn the deadly crisis into an opportunity for a major shift towards a more sustainable global economy. Read the full story, “Turning crisis into opportunity: World leaders meet at UN to help drive pandemic recovery”, on globalissues.org → read more
naked capitalism19 hours ago
‘Megadrought’ Along Border Strains US-Mexico Water Relations
Conflicts over water are escalating. The US and Mexico are trying to mediate their claims over the Colorado River, but will that work? read more
Science 2.0 blogs19 hours ago
Two Good Opportunities For In-Person Discussions On Machine Learning For Physics
After over one year of forced confinement, due to the still ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, academics around the world seem to have settled down on the idea that after all, we can still do our job via videoconferencing. We had to adapt to the situation as everybody else, of course, and in a general sense we are a privileged minority - other human occupations which are only possible in person suffered way more. read more read more
Electroverse19 hours ago
Western Australia shivers through one of its Coldest starts to Winter on record
Many towns and cities have suffered their coldest months of June on record, with WA's capital Perth logging its second-coldest June in recorded history. The post Western Australia shivers through one of its Coldest starts to Winter on record appeared first on Electroverse. read more
Safeguarding The Rights Of Others - A Quotation from Khalil Gibran
*Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese philosophical essayist, novelist, poet and artist. He is best known for his book The Prophet — a collection of essays in prose as well as poetry, exploring the meaning of life and the condition of man. Illustrated with the author's own drawings, it was first published in 1923 and has never been out of print.* read more
Scientists Have an Update on Betelgeuse You Shouldn’t Miss
The Secrets of the Universe The supernova of Betelgeuse is one of the most awaited astronomical events. #Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star in the constellation of #Orion. It is on its deathbed. It is 550 light years away from us. In 2019, Betelgeuse mysteriously started dimming. Although it’s a semi-variable star that brightens and … read more
Jim Hunter: Is a Silver Short Squeeze Possible?
Palisades Gold Radio To subscribe to our newsletter and get notified of new shows, please visit http://palisadesradio.ca Tom welcomes an experienced commodity broker and veteran of the futures business Jim Hunter. Jim has 35 years of experience in the industry. Jim begins by explaining how futures markets function and defines many of the terms involved … read more
A Deadly Summer In The Pacific Northwest Augurs More Heat Waves
It was the most extreme heat wave on record in the Pacific Northwest. And as officials count the heat-related deaths over the next weeks, it will almost certainly turn out to be one of the deadliest. In Vancouver, British Columbia, police responded to at least 65 sudden deaths suspected to be heat-related. And the province’s chief coroner said Wednesday that at least 486 deaths likely linked to the heat had been reported since Friday. The residents of one British Columbia community, Lytton, where a temperature of 121 degrees Fahrenheit was higher than any ever recorded in Canada, ... read more
Rumsfeld Was Not ‘Controversial’
When word came down yesterday that former Defense Secretary and brazen orchestrator of mass death Donald Rumsfeld had shuffled loose the mortal coil at age 88, CNN and the other networks began to do their standard back-and-fill exercises to shore up the fiction while burying the truth after a genuine monster drops dead. “Controversial,” they called Rumsfeld, while showing footage of him scurrying around the wreckage after the Pentagon attack on September 11. “I think that’s what we’ll all remember,” said one talking head of those images. Not if I have anything to say about it. Se... read more
First Nations Replace Canada Day Fireworks With Vigils
In Keewaywin First Nation, a remote community in Northwestern Ontario of about 500 people, it won’t be dark enough to set off Canada Day fireworks until 11 p.m. But, this July 1, there won’t be any. Instead, there will be a candlelight vigil outside the band office, as the community foregoes its traditional holiday activities to honour the hundreds of Indigenous children and adults believed to be buried in unmarked graves recently uncovered at former residential schools in British Columbia and Saskatchewan. On Wednesday, the Ktunaxa community of Aqam, in B.C., announced that a pr... read more
Bad Company: The Axis Powers Couldn't Have Cared Less About Each Other
*Warfare History Network, Blaine Taylor* *Security, Europe* The internal politics of the loose alliance was telling. *Key Point: *Ironically, Hitler had feared that the hated Roosevelt would declare war on him first and had thus made his own decision on the 9th to forestall that possibility. On the evening of September 26, 1940, American radio announcer and journalist William L. Shirer noted in his later famous Berlin Diary that the next day Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano would arrive there from Rome, adding that most people thought it was for the announcement th... read more
Travel Isn’t Cheap: Why Gas Prices are Rising This Summer
*Rachel Bucchino* *economy, * The average gas price in the United States as of Tuesday reached $3.109, according to the Automobile Association of America, compared to $2.179 per gallon during the same time last year. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *Fuel prices first surpassed $3 per gallon last month following the Colonial Pipeline hack that shut off the Southeast’s major gasoline pipeline after remaining below that amount for roughly seven years. The pipeline’s shutdown triggered a panic-buying surge that emptied gas stations across the region, prompting the price of gas to ... read more
The Rio Times19 hours ago
Brazil’s Mercado Bitcoin is Latin America’s 1st crypto unicorn after raising US$200 million
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The 2TM Group, which controls cryptocurrency brokerage Mercado Bitcoin, is now worth US$2.1 billion and becomes the industry's 1st Latin American unicorn. Mercado Bitcoin, the Brazilian exchange that has become the largest Latin American platform for trading digital assets, has announced it has received a US$200 million investment from Japan's […] The post Brazil’s Mercado Bitcoin is Latin America’s 1st crypto unicorn after raising US$200 million appeared first on The Rio Times. read more
naked capitalism20 hours ago
On The Centennial Of The Chinese Communist Party
Taking stock of the Chinese Communist Party at age 100. read more
The Rio Times20 hours ago
Brazil’s Economy Minister confirms 2 new job recovery programs
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Economy Minister Paulo Guedes announced that in the coming weeks there will be 2 additional measures aimed at boosting the job market. The statement was made to the press on Thursday, July 1, after the General Register of Employment and Unemployment (CAGED) disclosed the May creation of 280,700 formal jobs. […] The post Brazil’s Economy Minister confirms 2 new job recovery programs appeared first on The Rio Times. read more