Friday, October 01, 2021

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Sustainable Pulse

  • Don’t Call Mother Nature a Sink!

    Guilty! Many of us in the regenerative agriculture movement describe the world’s soils as a “sink” into which excess atmospheric carbon can be stored, and we’ve been wrong. That mistake has diminished the appeal of our concepts and...

    a day ago

  • Protests Around the World Target Global Corporate Food Empire

    Street and online people’s protests against the ‘global corporate food empire’ greeted the opening of the UN Food Systems Summit (UN FSS), as the Global People’s Summit (GPS) on Food Systems launched a Global Day of Action on the third...

    8 days ago

  • Did Illegal Global GMO Rice Contamination Come from Indian GMO Field Trials?

    As GMWatch recently reported, five hundred tons of Indian GMO rice have been mistakenly used in many countries to make, among other things, sweets for Mars, the world’s leading confectionary manufacturer. No GMO rice has been authorized...

    13 days ago

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Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • A Striking Paradox: The U.S. Engages Taliban But Isolates Myanmar

    Naypyitaw’s generals treated as bigger threat than the terrorists controlling Kabul Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia No sooner had the Taliban completed their lightning-quick conquest of Afghanistan than U.S. Secretary of State Antony...

    11 hours ago

  • Biden rewards Xi’s hostage diplomacy

    BRAHMA CHELLANEY, The Globe and Mail There is an old Chinese idiom: “Kill the chicken to scare the monkey.” And in the political crossfire between Washington and Beijing over the 2018 Canadian arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on...

    a day ago

  • A Crippling Blow to the Global War on Terror

    The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, the greatest jihadist victory in modern times, will give rise to a terrorist super-state that serves as a magnet for violent Islamists from around the world. The US-led global war on terror, which...

    10 days ago

Ramani's blog

Diane Ravitch's blog

  • Jan Resseger: Why Don’t We Value Early Childhood Education?

    Jan Resseger describes the crisis of early childhood education in this post. The importance of early childhood education for healthy development has been repeatedly documented, most recently by the Learning Policy Institute. Yet the sector...

    13 hours ago

  • Tight Labor Market Forces Minimum Wage Up to $15 an Hour for More Workers

    When candidate Joe Biden proposed raising the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $15, it seemed like pie in the sky. When labor unions demanded the same, the big employers ignored them. But then came the pandemic, and everything changed...

    14 hours ago

  • Steven Singer: Teachers Are Not Okay

    Steven Singer writes that teachers are getting sick and exhausted because of the stress of the pandemic. One week, they are heroes. Next week, they are villains. At the staff meeting the other day, one of my fellow teachers turned to me and said...

    2 days ago

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • Pleasant September

    By Paul Homewood     https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/cetml1659on.dat   For the most part, the month just gone was particularly pleasant, finishing up the 7th warmest on the CET record. However, this is not maybe as eventful...

    12 hours ago

  • Wildfires In Wales Due To Arson, Not Climate Change

    By Paul Homewood Please save us from these cretins!     Firefighter Craig Hope deals with "hundreds and hundreds" of wildfires across the south Wales valleys every year. But he has noticed recently they are changing – burning later into...

    17 hours ago

  • John Stossel Suing Facebook

    By Paul Homewood   I covered John Stossel’s experience with Facebook’s “factcheckers” a few months ago. Now he is suing Facebook for defamation:  

    3 days ago

NoTricksZone

NEPC Blog Post of the Day

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.

    a month ago

  • 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...

    2 months ago

  • 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...

    2 months ago

The Moderate Voice

  • Merck’s Covid pill hailed after cutting hospitalizations by 50%

    Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – Pharmaceutical company Merck said Friday it will seek authorization in the US of its oral drug molnupiravir for Covid-19 after it was shown to reduce the chance newly infected patients were hospitalized...

    12 hours ago

  • Democrats under pressure to save Biden’s agenda

    Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – Democrats entered a second day of likely marathon negotiations Friday to resolve splits over the scope of President Joe Biden’s domestic spending plans, knowing that failure could be crippling for...

    12 hours ago

  • The Supreme Court’s immense power may pose a danger to its legitimacy

    The Supreme Court has no army to enforce its decisions; its authority rests solely on its legitimacy. Win McNamee/Getty Images Richard L. Pacelle, Jr., University of Tennessee The first Monday in October is the traditional day that the U.S...

    12 hours ago

Marginal REVOLUTION

  • Ringo says

    “The other side of that is – I was telling someone the other day – if Paul hadn’t been in the band, we’d probably have made two albums because we were lazy boogers. “But Paul’s a workaholic. John and I would be sitting in the garden...

    6 hours ago

  • Friday assorted links

    1. How did 30,000 Haitians get to Texas? 2. “I am here.”  “Missing man in Turkey accidentally joins his own search party before realising he was the person they were looking for.” 3. LaBoissiere podcast chatted with me.  And Noah...

    12 hours ago

  • Molnupiravir against Covid

    Molnupiravir against Covid (Bloomberg).  It might cut the death rate in half, the market has been boosting the Merck share price.  And more here: “…molnupiravir works by introducing genetic errors that garble the coronavirus’s...

    15 hours ago

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...

    25 days ago

  • 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…...

    a month ago

MintPress News

Made from Truth and Lies

  • Interesting Links for 01-10-2021

    JM Straczynski talks about why the new Babylon 5 series is a reboot.(tags:TV writing Babylon5 jms )Shakira: Singer attacked by a pair of wild boars(tags:wtf pigs )The German publisher who inserted soup adverts into the translated novels...

    16 hours ago

  • Police Scotland don't seem to be much better than the Met.

    This is from a friend who works for Police Scotland, who seem to have all the same issues that the Met do.I raised concerns in 2017 about a colleague who was racist, homophobic & made misogynist comments on a daily basis. I feared raising a...

    2 days ago

  • Interesting Links for 30-09-2021

    The Mystery Box Storytelling Approach Is Broken, and Here's How to Fix It(tags:writing mysteries bad )Covid in Scotland: Latest ICU patients largely unvaccinated and young(tags:Pandemic hospital Scotland )Oh lord, Will Wright's new...

    2 days ago

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  • Reading at Medium 43

    Just came from a poetry meeting which always leaves me in a good mood, both because of the multiple breaks to partake in refreshments of the herbal variety, and because of the poetry and general good vibes, and tonight was … Continue reading...

    a day ago

  • A Day at the Cottage

    I am tired, and kind of sore all over, mostly shoulders and back, and my fingers and hands bear the stab wounds of a thousand nasty little thorns, but I feel good. I spent most of the day picking rose-hips, … Continue reading →...

    3 days ago

  • A New Nation

    A while back I joined a Facebook group called P2P, which I assume stands for people to people, or maybe person to person, or maybe I’m completely wrong about that and it stands for something else entirely, but that would … Continue reading...

    4 days ago
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Have You Heard

  • History Test: the Tangled Roots of Standardized Testing

    Tweet#121 History Test: the Tangled Roots of Standardized Testing The claim that standardized testing has racist – even eugenicist – roots is oft repeated these days. But is it true? In an episode guaranteed to please no one, friend of...

    8 days ago

  • How Pronouns Became Landmines: The Conservative War on Trans Youth

    TweetThe culture wars found a new target in 2021: trans youth. More than 100 laws were proposed to restrict the rights of trans individuals, especially kids. In this episode of Have You Heard, we’re joined by teacher, trans activist and co-host...

    23 days ago

  • The Impact of HBCU-Trained Teachers on Black Student Achievement

    TweetBlack students who are taught by teachers who attended an Historically Black College or University or HBCU fare better than their peers. That’s what Lavar Edmonds found as he dug into a trove of data from North Carolina schools. More...

    a month ago

Chicago Boyz

  • Paying for Biden’s Dreams

    President Biden says, in connection with his ‘infrastructure’ plan, that “We’re going to pay for everything we spend.” Actually, it’s you that would pay for this proposed spending.  Exactly how much you would pay, and what...

    2 days ago

  • Chicagoboyz Waiting Room Series: 37

    3 days ago

  • An Extraordinary Woman

    She was born to privilege and a degree of wealth, at the turn of the last century – Muriel Morris, an heiress of the Swift meatpacking fortune, and by most accounts conflicted over that circumstance. Like a scattering of her peers in the debutant...

    5 days ago

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The BRAD BLOG

  • DeFeating, DeLeting DeSantis: 'BradCast' 10/1/2021

    It's NICOLE SANDLER, back today to guest host the BradCast. If you didn't already know, I live in Florida (or as I refer to it, FloriDUH!). The biggest priority for me in the 2022 midterm elections is getting rid of the mini Trump Ron DeSantis...

    4 hours ago

  • Dem 'Sausage Making' Becomes 'Logjam': 'BradCast' 9/30/2021

    Hopefully today's BradCast is at least slightly less chaotic than Capitol Hill right now. We do our best to help you make sense of the Democrats' attempts to move four critical bills through to law, as they all come due at about the same time, and...

    a day ago

  • 'Green News Report' - September 30, 2021

    IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: California gas company agrees to nearly $2 billion settlement after largest methane leak in U.S. history; 23 species dropped from the U.S. endangered list because they're officially extinct; Poll shows dramatic...

    a day ago

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BlackListed News

Research Digest

Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

  • The Artist Collective That Brings Heavy Metal Fever Dreams to Life

    A dozen or so workbenches occupy a roughly 2,000-square-foot space in downtown Richmond, Virginia. They’re covered with neatly arranged tools and safety gear: jigsaws, scalpels, grinders, palm sanders, airbrushes, gloves, and goggles...

    5 hours ago

  • Welcome to Atlas Obscura's Fright Club!

    We at Atlas Obscura make no effort to hide how much we love the month of October. It gives us an excuse—not that we need one—to partake in a few of our favorite indulgences: the macabre, the supernatural, the sweet. More than that, it gives...

    6 hours ago

  • Spitz Clock in Santa Fe, New Mexico

    When the Spitz Jewelry Store opened its doors in 1881, a giant pocket watch was the ideal advertising ploy. Would-be customers could spot the massive timepiece from a far away, but there was just one problem—it didn't actually tell time...

    7 hours ago

Accidental Deliberations

  • Musical interlude

    CHVRCHES & Robert Smith - How Not to Drown

    5 hours ago

  • Friday Morning Links

    Assorted content to end your week.- Anand Giridharadas writes about the dangers of letting political discussions become primarily a matter of process and personalities, rather than the real impact decisions have on people's lives. -...

    11 hours ago

  • Thursday Morning Truth and Reconciliation Day Links

    A few links and reports for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.- Rose Lemay writes that reconciliation requires systemic change at the level of individual assumptions and awareness. Murray Sinclair notes that the proclamation...

    a day ago
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1 October - iG Tab - 7 - MSM

 

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