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A Hundred Years Of Climate Change
Originally posted on NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT: By Paul Homewood ? Last month was unusually mild in England. Indeed it was the 16th warmest in the Central England Temperature Series, dating back to 1659. Curiously though it was not even as...
Miliband Wants To Stop Domestic Flights
Originally posted on NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT: By Paul Homewood ? Ed Miliband wants domestic flights stopped “as much as we can”: ? ? ? As is typical, his answer is to spend billions of taxpayers’ money on things they don’t want. Notice...
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House ultra-lefts must vote to pass $1.2 trillion for infrastructure, preferably before Tuesday’s crucial Virginia vote!
Social investment bill needs to restore paid family leave, two years of free community college, and tax on the assets of the super-rich; Ultra-left rejection of Biden’s pre-flight appeal is new low in their lack of message discipline; Beware...
Trump clones are losing power worldwide!
Virtually unnoticed by US media, the reactionary-populist-dictatorial wave of the past half-dozen years is ebbing away, with Trump, Netanyahu, German CDU/CSU, Babis of Czech Republic, and Kurz of Austria already ousted and Duterte leaving...
Biden calls on Garland’s Department of Justice to prosecute January 6 figures who defy subpoenas!
House scheduled to vote on criminal referral for Bannon next Tuesday; Garland must defend nation, not his own vanity; Fascist armed militias and death threats (aka coercion) are illegal in all states; Following same unity method used by Navalny...
Sustainable Pulse
Women Farmers and Farmworkers Have Higher Risk of Blood and Skin Cancer
A study published in Environment International finds higher rates of various cancers among agricultural workers, with multiple myeloma (blood cancer) and melanoma (skin cancer) disproportionately impacting female farmers. Although...
Judge Advances Bayer Shareholder Class Action over Monsanto Merger
Bayer investors can sue the German pharma giant for misleading them about the quality of its due diligence leading up to a multibillion-dollar deal to acquire the beleaguered agrochemical company Monsanto, a federal judge ruled last week...
Public Outrage at Planned Massive GMO Mosquito Release in California
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering a proposal by Oxitec, a UK-based corporation, to introduce billions of genetically engineered (GE) mosquitoes across 12 undisclosed counties in California. Thousands of comments...
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Stagecraft and Statecraft
Why the U.S. let Pakistan nuclear scientist AQ Khan off the hook
Decision could still come back to haunt Washington Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia The incredible story of A.Q. Khan, the Netherlands-trained Pakistani metallurgist who — with impunity — ran an illicit global nuclear-smuggling network...
Saving Tibet
Chinese President Xi Jinping seems eager for Taiwan to go the way of once-autonomous Tibet, which was gobbled up by Mao Zedong’s regime in the early 1950s. This would constitute the biggest threat to world peace in a generation, and … Continue...
Biden shifts to a more conciliatory approach toward China
BY BRAHMA CHELLANEY, The Hill In a defiant speech on Aug. 31, President Biden claimed that his precipitous exit from Afghanistan, which facilitated the terrorist takeover of that country, would allow the United States to focus on...
Ramani's blog
7000 Year Old Nuclear Shelter In India
Yes, these are surprising. Equally astonishing is the information that Atomic explosions had taken place in olden days, during Ramayana period.Despcription matching Post Atomic blast scenes are found when the effects of Brahmastra are...
Meditation OM Chanting Causes Epilepsy or Cures? Research Study
.Mind is not to be controlled consciously as the more you try to control, the more it would go out of control.So , the technic is to cheat the Mind,as it were, by appearing to go along with it and direct it subtly towards Self Realisation.This may...
Rig Vedic Women Sexually more Confident Than Men No Dowry Sati
Women had Upanayan ceremony conducted for them to initiate them into study of Vedas.They were allowed to choose their partners.They had swamvars conducted to choose their husbands.( There were five types of Marriages according to Shastras...
Diane Ravitch's blog
Jennifer González: What Teachers Need Now to Survive
There have been many reports in the media of teachers quitting their classrooms because of stress. This may be the hope of the groups funded by Charles Koch and other rightwingers, who would like to destroy public education and open new opportunities...
Kevin Ohlandt: Listen to Teachers Before They Burn Out
Kevin Ohlandt is a blogger in Delaware. In a recent post on his blog ”Exceptional Delaware,” he reported on the testimony of a teacher who was nearing the brink of his endurance for teaching conditions. Ohlandt wrote: Last night, a teacher...
Bob Shepherd: The Absurdity of Reading Instruction Today
Bob Shepherd wrote this essay about reading instruction in 2019. It has aged well. It is a long discussion about the futility of the “reading wars.” Shepherd explains how useless and counterproductive the current emphasis on “reading...
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
EU must be joking! VDL shamed for 31 mile private jet flight while hailing climate deal
By Paul Homewood No surprise that the EU troughers are at the front of the hypocrisy queue! The President of the European Commission has reportedly flown aboard a private jet on 18 out of her 34 official trips since taking up office in December...
‘Guess the climate rules don’t apply to them’
By Paul Homewood From The Mail: Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos were slammed as hypocrites for lecturing the world on the need to combat climate change by reducing carbon footprint while at the same time reportedly vacationing on superyachts...
Jetsetting Sport Stars Demand Climate Action!
By Paul Homewood https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/59108940 Could this be the same Andy Murray, who was eulogising about stopping in luxury resorts around the world a few weeks ago? https://www.mandarinoriental.com/mo-magazine/luxury-travel/meet-celebrities-and-experts/2021/07/01/interview-andy-murray...
NoTricksZone
CDC Reports 28x More Fully Vaxxed Than Unvaxxed Were Hospitalized With COVID June-Sept
A new CDC study (inadvertently?) finds 28 times more fully vaccinated patients (5,213) were hospitalized with COVID from June to September than the unvaccinated with prior infection (189) in nine U.S. states. The CDC was apparently hoping...
New Study With Groundbreaking Results: “Connection Between Cosmic Rays, Radiation Budget Reaffirmed”
Connection between cosmic rays, clouds and radiation budget is reaffirmed…CO2 role thus has to be much smaller. There have been a flurry of recently published studies on radiative forcing and its variation due to cloud changes. The latest...
Swiss Analysis: Climate Models Running Too Warm, Falsely Calibrated…IPCC Needs “To Review Its Findings”
Satellite data raise doubts about man-made climate change Climate models do not represent reality. They sre running too hot. Climate modeling has been awarded the Nobel Prize. But two German researchers prove that observations are more...
NEPC Blog Post of the Day
School Finance 101: Toward a Unified Conception of Equity, Equal Opportunity, and Adequacy
School Finance 101: Toward a Unified Conception of Equity, Equal Opportunity, and Adequacy Below is an excerpt from my 2018 book Educational Inequality and School Finance . In many ways, I think this one passage is among the most important...
Stories from School AZ: The Problem of Choice
Stories from School AZ: The Problem of Choice In nearly every teacher-led meeting I’ve ever attended, the conversation tends to revolve around the same issues: test scores, grades, curriculum, standards alignment, and how these relate...
Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Cutting Through the Hype: Can Principals Be Instructional Leaders?
Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Cutting Through the Hype: Can Principals Be Instructional Leaders? Jane David and I wrote a book called Cutting through the Hype: (Harvard Education Press, 2010). One chapter is on principals...
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.
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...
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...
The Moderate Voice
The Truth About Afghanistan: No One Knows The Truth
While watching the disaster of the Afghanistan pullout unfold, and witnessing images like the person falling from a plane taking off, one may wonder how is FOX news covering this? One may guess the FOX headlines would read “BREAKING NEWS...
New research suggests cat and dog ‘moms’ and ‘dads’ really are parenting their pets – here’s the evolutionary explanation why
Pet parenting can provide love and companionship to both human and animal. Willie B. Thomas/DigitalVision via Getty Images Shelly Volsche, Boise State University A pup out for a stroll, without paws touching the ground. Shelly Volsche...
Virginia governor’s race could show the way for Republican congressional campaigns
Published by Reuters By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican Glenn Youngkin is within striking distance of Democrat Terry McAuliffe in a Virginia governor’s election that will test a strategy of trying to woo suburban moderates...
Marginal REVOLUTION
Pseudoviruses and Luciferase
Testing whether a drug or vaccine inhibits a virus can be especially difficult if the virus is dangerous and thus requires cumbersome biosafety level-3 conditions. A now common alternative is to create a pseudovirus, a harmless, non self-replicating...
The welfare effects of eviction policies
This paper studies the implications of rental market policies that address evictions and homelessness. Policies that make it harder to evict delinquent tenants, for example by providing tax-funded legal counsel in eviction cases (“Right-to-Counsel”)...
What I’ve been reading
1. Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage. I read this as a kid, and was surprised how well my reread held up. To the point, subtle, and with an economy of means. I hope the new Paul Auster biography of Crane (which I will read soon) will revive...
Lloyd Lofthouse
“Never for Glory,” a work in progress, the sequel to “The Patriot Oath”
Never for Glory is the unfinished sequel of The Patriot Oath. With 25 completed chapters, there are about 10 to 15 left to finish the first draft. The first five chapters have already been presented to two of the four … Continue reading →...
Don’t Gamble with your Life or Health
During a regular video conference last Wednesday morning, one of the six that showed up that morning said that being vaccinated didn’t end up offering as much protection as those who were infected by COVID. He said that people that … Continue...
Denis Smith: If We Lose Public Schools, We Lose Our Democracy
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Denis Smith worked for many years in the Ohio State Department of Education, finishing his career in the Office of Charter Schools. He writes in the Ohio Capital Journal about the existential threat…...
MintPress News
The United States is Organizing a Color Revolution in Cuba for November 15
It remains an open question as to how successful the upcoming action against the Cuban government will be. But who is behind the protests is hardly in doubt. The post The United States is Organizing a Color Revolution in Cuba for November 15 appeared...
John Pilger: Justice for Assange is Justice for All
Julian Assange is a truth-teller who has committed no crime but revealed government crimes and lies on a vast scale and so performed one of the great public services of my lifetime. The post John Pilger: Justice for Assange is Justice for All...
Lee Camp: The Four Layers of Reality — and Why We’re Only Allowed to Talk About One
There are at least four different aspects of our daily American lives that affect everything from how we think to where we live — not that anyone in corporate media would tell you so. The post Lee Camp: The Four Layers of Reality — and Why We’re...
Made from Truth and Lies
Interesting Links for 02-11-2021
Google's 'Be Evil' business transformation is complete. It's time for the endgame(tags:google corruption )Sea appears to boil in unexplained 'water eruption' off the coast of Scotland(tags:Scotland Doom sea wtf )How much of China's CO2...
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Morning everyone! (I do like that the clocks going back means I'm not leaving the house in darkness) Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there.
Interesting Links for 01-11-2021
France is still waiting for 40% of the fishing licenses it applied for(tags:France UK Europe fishing )No, neither trans people nor trans activism are in retreat(tags:transgender LGBT protest uk )Bed Bath & Beyond Made the Worst Hanukkah...
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A Simple Plan
A lot of people are predicting that Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse will be kind of boring, and fail. They could be right, I don’t know, but a lot of it sounds like wishful thinking. They are hoping it will fail, which … Continue reading →...
Meta, Meh
When I first heard that Mark Zuckerberg wanted to change the name of Facebook, I didn’t quite believe it. Then, I thought “Well, if that isn’t the stupidest business decision since Tesla failed to get Edison’s promise in writing, I...
A Feeling of Power
I have often noticed that peaceful, calm, rational people, when placed in the driver’s seat of an automobile, can become, almost immediately, total rage monsters who can be triggered into violent streams of profanity by rather minor infractions...
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