Tuesday, July 20, 2021

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Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • Biden’s Afghan Blunder

    Former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates wrote in 2014 that Joe Biden “has been wrong on nearly every major foreign-policy and national-security issue over the past four decades.” The hasty US withdrawal from Afghanistan is set to...

    6 days ago

  • China’s hostility ensures the rise of a more antagonistic India

    Military standoffs along the Himalayan border enter 15th month and continue to intensify Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia Chinese President Xi Jinping recently said that China should strive to “make friends” rather than enemies and be...

    11 days ago

  • One Hundred Years of Devastation

    The Communist Party of China’s 1951 annexation of the water-rich Tibetan Plateau – the starting point of Asia’s ten major river systems – gave China tremendous power over Asia’s water map. In the ensuing decades, the country has...

    a month ago

Ramani's blog

Diane Ravitch's blog

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • Record Heat In Antarctica, Claims The Absurd Jonathan Amos

    By Paul Homewood   h/t Ian Magness     A new record high temperature for the Antarctic continent of +18.3C has been confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). It occurred on 6 February last year at Argentina’s Esperanza...

    2 hours ago

  • Big Bad Tech: When censorship goes corporate

    By Paul Homewood   Donna Laframboise has a new paper out with GWPF:     Free speech advocates have traditionally battled government censorship. But corporate censorship by the global Big Tech behemoths is now the larger threat, a paper...

    2 hours ago

  • Bob Ward’s Fake Claims Of Heatwave Deaths

    By Paul Homewood     h/t Ian Magness   More garbage from the Telegraph:       To attempt to compare the UK climate with the Pacific Northwest is not only absurd, but highly irresponsible. The latter frequently sees temperatures well over...

    2 hours ago

NoTricksZone

NEPC Blog Post of the Day

Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • The American Descent into Madness

    Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Nations have often gone mad in a matter of months. The French abandoned their supposedly idealistic revolutionary project and turned it into a monstrous hell for a year between July 1793 and 1794...

    a day ago

  • A Child’s Garden of Animals: Barnicide

    Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part One Barn Owls really do like barns. And they are invaluable predators of mice, squirrels, rats and such who all do their small part to wreck a barn and its environs. And yet they are not the fierce Great-Horned-Owls...

    3 days ago

  • The Classicist: Democratic Policy and Culture

    Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News

    4 days ago

The Moderate Voice

Marginal REVOLUTION

  • Review of Abutaleb and Paletta’s Nightmare Scenario

    Nightmare Scenario opens with Anthony Fauci stripped to his skivvies and wondering whether the white powder he has just been exposed to in his NIH office is anthrax, ricin, or a hoax. The first and last he can survive, ricin is a death sentence...

    an hour ago

  • Ray C. Fair on price inflation

    This paper uses an econometric approach to examine the inflation consequences of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Price equations are estimated and used to forecast future inflation. The main results are: (1) The data suggest that price...

    8 hours ago

  • Biden, COVID and Mental Health in America

    Using US Census Household Pulse Survey data for the period April 2020 to June 2021 we track the evolution of the mental health of nearly 2.3 million Americans during the COVID pandemic. We find anxiety, depression and worry peaked in November...

    19 hours ago

Lloyd Lofthouse

  • Twitter Reflections from Reporter Who Broke Nikole Hannah-Jones Tenure Story

    Originally posted on deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog: Joe Killian is the reporter with NC Policy Watch who broke the story (byline shared with Kyle Ingram) of Nikole Hannah-Jones’ UNC-Chapel Hill tenure slight. He was also the first...

    9 days ago

  • If We Want Better, We Must Do Better

    Originally posted on Restore Reason: Hello. Let me reintroduce myself. Linda Lyon. Retired Air Force Colonel, school board member, very happily married to my best friend, who is also a woman. Previously married to a great guy. Enthusiastic...

    12 days ago

  • My Choice for Mayor of New York City

    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…...

    a month ago

MintPress News

Made from Truth and Lies

  • Interesting Links for 20-07-2021

    These astonishing Minecraft Builds Were Years in the Making(tags:minecraft lotr impressive )This beach does not exist(tags:sea ai photos )Pub Songs Of Ireland: The Fresh Prince Of Bel-air(tags:music Ireland funny video WillSmith )The...

    2 hours ago

  • Interesting Links for 19-07-2021

    Evidence of the Elements - Finding Euclid on scattered pot shards.(tags:history mathematics prehistory archeology )Long Covid might strike half a million people during current wave(tags:pandemic )How dog reacts when they are kissed(tags:video...

    a day ago

  • instagram cross-post

    Today the family has been mostly walking through rivers (or, in Gideon's case, sitting in). Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there.

    2 days ago

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  • Go, Greta!

    I’ve spent the better part of the morning arguing with people about the environment. That would not be a bad thing, if we were arguing about the best way to save the environment, talking about the merits of various sources … Continue reading...

    a minute ago

  • The Relevance of Potato Salad

    Of course it is an insidious and self-destructive habit to look at the number of likes, and shares on your posts, because it’s only going to make you feel bad. It’s like looking, long and pointedly, into the mirror, looking … Continue reading...

    a day ago

  • Weekend at Kotelsko

    We are at the cottage this weekend, which is something I generally avoid but Helena was not having it this time because it’s her Mom’s birthday. Well, it’s the weekend everybody decided to celebrate her Mom’s birthday, anyhow. That’s...

    3 days ago
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20 July - iG Tab - 8

 

Have You Heard

  • College Behind Bars: the Case for Higher Education in Prison

    TweetIt’s the episode we’ve been looking forward to all year! Meet the winner of the 2021 Have You Heard Graduate Student Research Contest: Patrick Conway. When you listen to this episode, you’ll understand exactly why Patrick claimed...

    5 days ago

  • Not Your Parents’ School Desegregation

    TweetFive decades after Boston’s bitter battles over busing helped stall the push for school desegregation, the issue is once again a policy priority in Massachusetts. What happened? Chalk it up to a generational shift, a racial reckoning...

    19 days ago

  • Long, Hot Education Summer

    TweetSuddenly education is THE hot topic. But where there’s heat, light doesn’t necessarily follow. Jennifer and Jack discuss what’s missing from the coverage of the backlash against Critical Race Theory, as well as some stories...

    a month ago

Chicago Boyz

  • Good Eats #1

    For a number of years, I copied out interesting recipes by hand in a series of small books with lined pages and casebound covers. Many of them came from cooking magazines, such as Gourmet, but many came from the pages of various newspapers, to...

    2 days ago

  • Here’s Something Different and Fun

    James O’Keefe, of Project Veritas, will be playing the lead role (‘Curly’) in an outdoor production of of Rogers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!.  The production is ‘in solidarity with artists who’ve been cancelled.’ ...

    2 days ago

  • Pwosesis Ayiti A

    No reward for resistance; no assistance, no applause. — Neil Peart, “Lock and Key”   For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. — Paul of Tarsus, Epistle to the Romans La merde a frappé le ventilateur; my earlier...

    3 days ago

Centinel2012

  • Psaki and Big Tech BFF

    Posted originally on GrrrGraphics.com on JUL 17, 2021 AT 9:52 AM “My Big Tech Buddies will make sure you will only see the information we want you to see” “Circle back” Jen Psaki wants social media to circle their wagons and censor...

    20 hours ago

  • Cuomo & Political Corruption

    Armstrong Economics Blog/Corruption Re-Posted Jul 19, 2021 by Martin Armstrong Governor Andrew Cuomo has used campaign cash to pay nearly $285,000 in bills from the lawyer defending him against sexual harassment allegations. This...

    21 hours ago

  • Trump & Tax Evasion

    Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Jul 19, 2021 by Martin Armstrong The latest is that Trump could be criminally charged for tax evasion by paying for some benefit to an employee rather than salary. The Internal Revenue Service...

    21 hours ago

The BRAD BLOG

  • Callers Explain Their Refusal to Get Vaccinated as Deadly Delta Variant Surges: 'BradCast' 7/19/2021

    On today's BradCast: It's not only Trumpers who are wildly misinformed when it comes to the COVID vaccines. Callers ring in today (many who claim they are not Trumpers) to explain their reasons...as deadly and misinformed as they may be. [Audio...

    11 hours ago

  • Birthday. Gift?...

    if (window.document.getElementById('post-13927')) window.document.getElementById('post-13927').parentNode.className += ' adhesive_post';Sure, we put out an incredible amount of non-stop, independent, accurate, insightful...

    2 days ago

  • Sunday 'Critical Erase Theory' Toons

    Please support the work of political cartoonists if you can. * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually on topics concerning the strange brew of Texas politics. He's also on Twitter @PDiddie...

    2 days ago

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BlackListed News

  • Israeli spyware is found on cellphones of journalists

    Activists, journalists and politicians around the world have been spied on using cellphone malware developed by a private Israeli firm, it emerged Sunday, igniting fears of widespread privacy and rights abuses...

    a day ago

  • Attn: Alexa Echo and Ring Owners

    On June 8, 2021 Skynet went LIVE. If you have an Amazon Alexa Echo or an Amazon Ring Camera then your devices have now been recruited with a default opt-in to support the Amazom SideWalk.

    a day ago

  • The US Government Threatens Tech Companies To Push Censorship Agendas

    The elephant in the room with the ongoing controversy about the Biden administration’s push for more internet censorship is the fact that both the US government and the Silicon Valley tech companies who are being pushed to censor are acutely...

    a day ago

Research Digest

Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

  • Podcast: Oh the Places We Could Go!

    Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we take a deep dive into the Atlas Obscura database of unique places. There are tens of thousands of entries...

    43 minutes ago

  • Dr. Sidney Farber and "Jimmy" Statue in Brookline, Massachusetts

    Boston is famous for world-class hospitals and diehard sports fans. In 1948, those communities united to raise money so a young cancer patient could watch his favorite baseball team on TV. In the process, a charity was formed that more than...

    15 hours ago

  • Conca del Bertazzolo in Governolo, Italy

    In 1188, engineer Alberto Pitentino was commissioned to come up with a solution to the seasonal overflow of the lakes surrounding Manuta and make them stable. Water from the Minico and Po rivers created a system of lakes and swamps that was...

    17 hours ago

Accidental Deliberations

  • Monday Afternoon Links

    Miscellaneous material to start your week.- John Paul Tasker writes that Canada needs to push hard to increase the number of vaccinated people to prevent a fourth wave of COVID-19. An anonymous COVID ward worker in the UK expresses well-justified...

    18 hours ago

  • Sunday Afternoon Links

    This and that for your Sunday reading. - Kelly Grant writes that the toll from COVID-19 includes driving many workers out of the nursing profession. And Kim Siever notes that while the UCP is driving nurses and doctors out of Alberta by shrieking...

    2 days ago

  • Saturday Morning Links

    Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Robert Booth and Heather Stewart report on Boris Johnson's insistence on lifting COVID-19 protections even as case counts rise in the UK. And Annette Dittert discusses how Johnson's government...

    3 days ago
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