7 September - iG Tab - 9

 

Utopia – you are standing in it!

• NASA’s Mega Hubble – The Roman Space Telescope

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• Hayek on the Use of Knowledge in Society

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• Western Front Artillery At The Outbreak of World War 1 I THE GREAT WAR Special

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TARPLEY.net

• US enjoys blessings of first Labor Day holiday of Golden Peace after twenty years of futile warfare

  President ends two decades of Afghan conflict based on false pretenses; Warmongers rail against the incipient Pax Bideniana; Time for scofflaw Supreme Court justices to stand in the dock of public opinion, leading to court reform; majority...

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• Biden ends Afghan war after two decades of needless, futile warfare promoted by neocon Blob!

  United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|August 30, 2021 US-NATO airlift rescues over 125,000; Awareness grows of nefarious role of Trump and Miller in sabotaging humane and orderly withdrawal; US...

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• Opinion-mongers descend into cynical nihilism as Afghan nightmare ends

  The same depraved corporate media that brought you Trump are now vying to tear down Biden over his work to end neocon-Bush-Trump Afghan tragedy; US and NATO evacuate about 120,000- As Florida shows worst pandemic performance in nation, ex-Gov...

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Sustainable Pulse

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  Risky GMO Wheat Trial Gets Green Light from UK Government

  The UK Government has given Rothamsted Research consent to plant highly experimental GM wheat in an open field near St Albans, GMWatch reported last Wednesday. GM Freeze, which led the opposition to the trial, joined by GMWatch and...

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  Consumer Groups Urge Lowe’s and Home Depot to Stop Sale of Cancer Causing Roundup Weedkiller

  124 consumer, health and environmental groups sent letters in late August calling on Lowe’s and Home Depot to immediately end the sale of Roundup following Bayer’s recent decision to remove cancer-causing glyphosate from weedkiller...

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  Breakfast at Monsanto’s Sheds Light on Health Dangers of World’s Most Used Weedkiller: Exclusive Interview

  Sustainable Pulse interview with Lee A. Evslin, M.D., author of the new eye-opening book Breakfast at Monsanto’s and board-certified pediatrician and Fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics. What led to your interest in Monsanto...

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sunshine hours

• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 249 – 2021

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 245 – 2021

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 243 – 2021

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Stagecraft and Statecraft

• Has Biden’s Afghanistan debacle sown the seeds of another 9/11?

  BY BRAHMA CHELLANEY, The Hill President Biden’s Afghanistan blunder has spawned the greatest victory for terrorists in the modern history of global jihadism. Notwithstanding his claim in a defiant speech on Tuesday that the exit...

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• Biden’s Afghanistan fiasco is a disaster for Asia

  Taliban fighters patrol inside the city of Kandahar on Aug. 15: historians will be baffled that the world’s mightiest power waged war for two decades to make the Taliban great again.    © AP Self-inflicted defeat sends message that...

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• Pax Americana Died in Kabul

  Biden’s Afghan disaster ranks as one of the biggest foreign-policy failures of any US president since World War II. Yet Biden remains tone-deaf to the realities, including damage to America’s international credibility and standing...

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Ramani's blog

• Gandhari Curse To Shakuni Afghanistan ?

  Krishna pays a left handed compliment to Sakuni when Krishna went to Duryodhana's court, before Mahabharata war, to avert it.Krishna even calls Sakuni as Maama,Uncle, saying that they are partners in the scheme of things. Only that Sakuni...

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• Gangaikonda Chozhapuram Temple Architectural Marvel

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• Mantra For Offering Food To Crows.

  The offering of food to Crows , is not limited to Sraddha days. Food has to be offered to Crows daily. Food has to be offered to Deities daily. Freshly cooked food is to be offered. There are different views on whether one can offer the food offered...

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Diane Ravitch's blog

• New Hampshire: GOP Plans for Voucher Expansion Before Program Starts

  Ethan DeWitt of the New Hampshire Bulletin and NPR reported on the partisan divide surrounding vouchers. Republicans budgeted for 28 students but expect between 1,000-5,000 to enroll. Democrats worry that the cost of vouchers will spin...

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• New Hampshire: Republicans Laud New Voucher Program While Ignoring International Evidence

  Jeanne Diestch, a former Democratic state senator in New Hampshire, recently wrote about the attention showered on the state’s new voucher program by Republican conservatives like Mike Pompeo, a likely Presidential candidate, and Betsy...

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• Dana Milbank: Texas Shows What a Post-Democracy Society Looks Like

  Dana Milbank is a regular opinion writer for The Washington Post. As a native Texan, who still has strong emotional ties to the state, I found his analysis to be deeply upsetting. Since the Supreme Court’s decision not to overturn the Texas...

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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• CET 30-Year Averages

  By Paul Homewood   The World Meteorological Organisation is clear about defining climate average: It is disappointing then that the Met Office still continues to use the 1981-2010 period as its base. By doing this, of course, it exaggerates...

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• Britain forced to fire up coal plant amid record power prices and winter squeeze

  By Paul Homewood   h/t Ian Magness   Young Rachel seems surprised!!       The UK has turned to a coal-fired power station to help boost its energy supply after global gas and power prices hit new highs and wind farms produced very low levels...

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• JCB Heir Goes Subsidy Hunting

  By Paul Homewood     Green entrepreneur Jo Bamford has joined forces with multi-family office Vedra Partners to launch HYCAP, a hydrogen investment fund which has set its sights on raising £1bn. The capital, which already stands at more...

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NoTricksZone

• Austria: 20% Hospitalized “Fully Vaccinated”. Germany: 3 In Nursing Home “Had To Be Resuscitated” After 3rd Jab

  It’s becoming increasingly clear that the vaccines against COVID are falling far short of what they were promised to be. Oberhausen-Germany: “Three seniors had to be resuscitated” after 3rd jab Germany has started administering...

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• Until Recently Scientists Believed Climate Change Has Been Melting Antarctic Glaciers. Now They Do Not.

  According to a new study, 36% of 1979-2017 Antarctic ice loss was from the Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers. Scientists believed this glacier melt was due to anthropogenic climate change “until recently”. Now they say the glacier mass...

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• Call For German Television To Censor Climate Science/Green Energy Critics After Fritz Vahrenholt Appears On Talk Show

  Reaction to German Phoenix television talk show with Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt By Axel Robert Göhring Many viewers were surprised: Phoenix, the joint news channel of ARD and ZDF (“Das ganze Bild”), invited Fritz Vahrenholt to a climate...

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NEPC Blog Post of the Day

• Gadfly on the Wall: Why Does Your Right to Unmask Usurp My Child’s Right to a Safe School?

  Gadfly on the Wall: Why Does Your Right to Unmask Usurp My Child’s Right to a Safe School? “Daddy, I’m afraid.” My 12-year-old daughter just had a nightmare, and I was sitting on her bed trying to calm her down. “What’s wrong, Sweetie?”...

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• Nancy Bailey's Education Website: How Corporate School Reforms and Ed-Tech Cause Dangerous Distrust About Covid-19

  Nancy Bailey's Education Website: How Corporate School Reforms and Ed-Tech Cause Dangerous Distrust About Covid-19 Last year, when Covid-19 drove teachers to switch to remote learning, the antennae of those following corporate school...

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• Janresseger: Jeb Bush’s Pitiful Attempt to Defend Federal Funding of Charter Schools Managed by For-Profit Companies

  Janresseger: Jeb Bush’s Pitiful Attempt to Defend Federal Funding of Charter Schools Managed by For-Profit Companies It’s clear that the charter school lobby is upset about the House of Representatives’ effort in its proposed budget...

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Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

• Conceived in Liberty: Season 2, Episode 1 – Victor Davis Hanson

  Conceived in Liberty: Season 2, Episode 1 – Victor Davis Hanson from Ben Hannemann on Vimeo.

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• American Armageddon

  Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Americans are growing angrier by the day in a way different from prior sagebrush revolts such as the 1960s Silent Majority or Tea Party furor of over a decade ago. The rage at the current status quo this...

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• The Great Leftist Bully Boy Hope

  By any empirical measure, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has proven utterly disingenuous, and far more so than average politicians. Unlike other political mediocrities, his inanities have led to roughly 13,000 unnecessary deaths or more...

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The Moderate Voice

• Editorial: The whole truth: 9/11 victims’ families, and all of America, deserve to know much more about Saudi complicity in the attacks

  Published by New York Daily News Eight days before the 20th anniversary of the darkest day in New York City history, President Joe Biden honored a promise to the families of Sept. 11?s victims and initiated the impending release of classified...

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• TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK

  Published by BANG Showbiz English TikTok has overtaken YouTube for average watch time in both the US and UK for Android users. According to a new report from data monitoring firm App Annie, the average time per user spent on the respective apps...

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• Justice Dept. says will protect Texas abortion clinics that come under attack

  Published by Reuters By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Monday said it would not tolerate attacks against people seeking or providing abortions in Texas, as the agency explores ways of challenging the state’s...

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Marginal REVOLUTION

• Tuesday assorted links

  1. Redux of my 2006 post on global warming. 2. Interview with Steven Pinker about his new rationality book (NYT). 3. What is wrong with book reviews? 4. Overstated, unreasonable, and too polemic, but if you wish to read a critique of the Bangladesh...

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• U.S.A. facts of the day

  At the close of the 2020-21 academic year, women made up 59.5% of college students, an all-time high, and men 40.5%, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse, a nonprofit research...

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• Organic Disaster

  Sri Lanka’s President abruptly banned chemical fertilizers earlier this year in a bid to become 100% organic. The ban has resulted in reduced production and soaring prices that, together with declining tourism and the pandemic, have created...

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Lloyd Lofthouse

• The End of the Forever War, leaving Afghanistan in 2021

  I’m a former U.S. Marine and was sent to Vietnam in late 1965. I returned home to the states in December 1966. At the end of the Vietnam War, according to History.com, about 7,000 people were evacuated by helicopter from various … Continue...

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• George Washington Was First to Mandate Vaccinations

  Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: To all those patriots out there who are “resisting” mandates for vaccines and masks, please read this. George Washington was not only “First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts…...

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• The Patriot Oath post I should have written 8 days ago.

  On August 8, my latest novel, The Patriot Oath, was published and released. The e-book is still on sale for $0.99 until Monday, August 16, ends at midnight. The Patriot Oath’s launch is the best I have ever experienced. When … Continue reading...

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MintPress News

• Revealed: Mercer Street’s Parent Shipping Company a Front for Israeli Intelligence

  Zodiac Maritime, the Mercer Street’s operator, has a long history of working closely with both the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) and Israeli intelligence unit Mossad, using its ships to ferry arms and operatives around the region for covert...

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• Privatizing the Occupation: How Israeli Corporations Came to Police the Palestinians

  “The options for these retired [Israeli] generals are narrowing and they either become arms dealers or they set up security companies.” -- Dr. Shir Hever, author of “The Privatisation of Israeli Security” The post Privatizing the...

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• How the US Trained the Afghan Mujahideen To Produce War Propaganda

  Behind The Headlines’ Dan Cohen explains a little known effort to train Afghan Islamic fundamentalists in propaganda, and how that effort created a blueprint for the White Helmets in Syria. The post How the US Trained the Afghan Mujahideen...

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Made from Truth and Lies

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  Interesting Links for 07-09-2021

  A riddle that no longer works on children(tags:children gender )Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards - Finalists 2021(tags:funny animals photos )On Five Fallacies I Have Encountered When Disccusing 100% Renewable Energy(tags:renewables...

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  Interesting Links for 06-09-2021

  Covid: Breast milk of vaccinated mothers contains antibodies(tags:vaccination children breastfeeding pandemic )"Gender Critical" People Don't Even Know What The Gender Recognition Act Is(tags:law UK Scotland transgender bigotry...

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  instagram cross-post

  The tiny speck atop this monstrosity of intellectual property violation is, in fact, my daughter. Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there.

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www.gurukalehuru.com

• Socialism

  Another day, another argument about socialism, and as long as we’re bogged down on socialism v. capitalism, left v. right, and other such paradigms, our arguments will remain bogged down in the swamp of alternate definitions and never rise...

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• The Darkness

  Yesterday was a bleak day on TV but, I suppose, that’s partly a question of my own choices. Kids are watching cartoons, women are watching sappy romances, and a lot of people, obviously, are happy with the fare. That’s O.K. … Continue reading...

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• Alternate Universes

  Of course, some times I’m just wrong, and it’s not surprising. We all form impressions of actual events from our own position of individual bias, and memories of the past fade and blend into other memories, but twice in about … Continue...

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7 September - iG Tab - 8

 

Chicago Boyz

• ChicagoBoyz Waiting Room Series: 36 – With Bonus Covid Observation

  Uh oh, we all know what that is… I took a walk with the “pups” through one of our fields today as I so often do. Mind you, the “pups” are 130 pounds each. We just have always called them that. Anyways on this walk that I have taken the pups...

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• Labor Day Thoughts

  My discussion question for today: In a world with global and highly-efficient transportation and communications…and billions of people who are accustomed to low wages…is it possible for a country such as the United States to maintain...

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• Cone of Silence

  It looks as if with the official departure of the US military from Kabul, a media cone of silence perpetuated by the National Establishment Media has descended over the whole ghastly mess, leaving a good many of us who have been following the...

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Centinel2012

• Australia Government Ignoring the Truckers

  Armstrong Economics Blog/Australia & Oceania Re-Posted Sep 7, 2021 by Martin Armstrong The Premier Gladys Berejiklian of New South Wales in Australia will probably go down in history as one of the most tyrannical politicians of all time...

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• Pfizer Creating COVID Pills you Take Daily + Vaccine

  Armstrong Economics Blog/Vaccine Re-Posted Sep 7, 2021 by Martin Armstrong Pfizer Pills Pfizer is now looking to come out with a pill you take daily in addition to your vaccine for COVID. Clearly, this virus has been so exploited it … Continue...

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• Will Canada Ditch Trudeau to Save the Nation from WEF?

  Armstrong Economics Blog/Canada Re-Posted Sep 7, 2021 by Martin Armstrong Spread the love Maxime Bernier is a Canadian businessman, lawyer, and politician who served as a cabinet minister of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and as Member...

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The BRAD BLOG

• Sunday 'Texas Hold 'em Down' Toons

  Please support the work of editorial cartoonists here. * * * 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...

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• 'Emergency Action Warranted' to Protect CA Recall Election After Vote System Software Leak, Experts Warn SoS

  Eight of the nation's top cybersecurity and voting systems experts warned in a letter sent to California's Secretary of State on Thursday night that "emergency action is warranted" in response to a recent leak of key voting system software...

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• Everything You Wanted to Know About Socialism But Were Afraid to Ask: 'BradCast' 9/1/2021

  It's NICOLE SANDLER, back one more time this week to fill in for Brad & Desi, guest hosting today's BradCast. I have a fascinating, timely show for you today. But I had to start with the news that broke overnight as the Supreme Court did nothing...

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bluebird of bitterness

• Signs of the times

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• Musical offering for Rosh Hashanah

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• Happy National Read-a-Book Day

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BlackListed News

• More than 100 Ontario youth sent to hospital for vaccine-related heart problems: Report

  A report quietly released last week by Public Health Ontario (PHO) tallies the number of people in the province who have presented to hospital with heart inflammation following mRNA vaccination, and it skews heavily towards young people...

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• How the US Trained the Afghan Mujahideen To Produce War Propaganda

  By now, everyone knows about the White Helmets – the State Department’s propaganda operation to manufacture consent for the U.S.’s dirty war on Syria. But long before the White Helmets were the Afghan mujahideen...

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• 70 percent of unvaccinated Americans would quit their job if vaccines are mandated

  More businesses are expected to require vaccinations following FDA approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. A new poll suggests a significant share of unvaccinated Americans may be resistant to COVID-19 vaccine mandates put in place by...

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Research Digest

• Hand Gestures Help Students Mentally Organise New Information

  By Emma L. Barratt. Gestures allocating spoken information into physical spaces may help students to construct a mental framework of lesson material.

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• People Are More Likely To Misread A Black Child As Angry When They Believe The Child Is Older

  By Emily Reynolds. Study extends our understanding of the "anger bias" as it applies to Black children.

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• Diversity Grants Can Discourage Diverse Candidates From Applying For More Lucrative Scholarships

  By Emma L. Barratt. Diversity opportunities could inadvertently siphon diverse talent away from more lucrative awards and opportunities, study suggests.

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Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

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  Church Pillars of Sai Island in Wadi Halfa, Sudan

  Sai Island is a tiny island in the Nile stretching just five kilometers across and 12 kilometers long, but it contains ruins spanning thousands of years and several empires. Though Sudan is now primarily an Islamic country, a medieval Christian...

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  Hall's Hill Wall in Arlington, Virginia

  The neighborhood of Halls Hill emerged from the plantation owned by Basil Hall, a slaveowner whose family was infamously cruel. To wit, Hall became a widower when his first wife, Elizabeth, was so abusive to an enslaved woman named Jenny Farr...

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  Richmond Bridge in Richmond, Australia

  Bridges are commonplace, so what makes the Richmond Bridge in Tasmania such a unique destination? It has the distinction of being Australia's oldest existing stone arch bridge. Bigge's Bridge was named after Royal Commissioner John Thomas...

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Accidental Deliberations

• #Elxn44 Roundup

  The latest from Canada's federal election campaign. - Sam Hammond argues that we should expect our federal parties to strengthen public education in the wake of a pandemic which has exposed the iniquities faced by disadvantaged students...

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• Tuesday Afternoon Links

  This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Peter Hotez writes that the U.S. is facing a new nightmare phase in responding to COVID-19, while Frank Newport reports on the strong public support for far more public health protections than have been...

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• #Elxn44 Roundup

  Assorted content from Canada's federal election campaign.- Mitchell Thompson offers a reminder as to why voters can't trust Justin Trudeau's election promises based on both his party's track record of austerity, and his suspicious insistence...

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7 September - iG Tab - 7 - MSM

 

WIRED

• Amazon Fire Tablets And Kindles Are on Sale Right Now

  Need a cheap slate or ebook reader? These prices are some of the best we've seen outside of Prime Day.

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• El Salvador’s Bitcoin Gamble Is Off to a Rocky Start

  Enthusiasm, fear, and light shows usher the country into the age of cryptocurrency.

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• Pigeons, Curves, and the Traveling Salesperson Problem

  Mathematician Ian Stewart explains the twisty history of combinatorial optimization.

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NYT > Home Page

• Taliban Appointees Signal an Afghan Government Like the One Decades Ago

  The Taliban, who promised an inclusive leadership, drew from its own ranks to fill key government positions. For the second time in less than a week, protests that included hundreds of women were crushed...

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• Mexico’s Supreme Court Votes to Decriminalize Abortion

  The ruling sets a precedent for the legalization of abortion nationwide.

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• How the Netherlands is Avoiding River Flooding

  Extreme rainfall is causing deadly and destructive floods globally. The Netherlands averted disaster this summer by creating flood plains.

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India News, Latest News in India, Live News India, India Breaking News - Ti

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  Portal to help Kashmiri migrants file plaints & reclaim properties

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  Namaaz room: Stir in Jharkhand & ripple effect in UP, Bihar

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  For third time in 9 months, China changes top commander overseeing disputed border

  China has once again replaced its top military commander handling the contested border with India, in the third such change in the last nine months amid the continuing troop confrontation in eastern Ladakh since May last year, raising eyebrows...

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BBC News - UK

• Boris Johnson outlines new 1.25% health and social care tax to pay for reforms

  Boris Johnson says it is a "responsible decision" but Labour calls the plan a "sticking plaster".

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• Social care: Wales to get extra cash from Boris Johnson overhaul

  Boris Johnson's social care spending plans for England to raise more money for Wales.

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• Whitehaven coal mine: Planning inquiry risks being 'hijacked'

  The planning inspectorate is told objections to the scheme amount to "emissions offshoring".

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