22 May - iG Tab - 9

 

Utopia – you are standing in it!

• Kittens enjoy the taste of fried chicken thighs for the first time

  6 hours ago

• George Moves Back In With His Parents

  8 hours ago

• Blade Runner • Main Theme • Vangelis

  10 hours ago

TARPLEY.net

• In wake of Buffalo massacre, US must focus on strategic imperative of national unity to meet totalitarian threats from Russia and China; Fascist ideologues peddling crackpot replacement theory are doing the work of enemy despots Putin and...

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• Kremlin responds with rocket-rattling to looming NATO membership for Finland and Sweden

  Expansion of 1949 North Atlantic Pact is once in a century event made possible by Putin’s fanaticism and stupidity; Russians forced into humiliating retreat from Kharkiv, blowing up bridges as they go; Ukrainians close to border at Belgorod...

  9 days ago

• Alito draft ending Roe v. Wade declares war on all rights in US, but backlash builds!

  Supreme Court leak reveals GOP’s creeping coup to overthrow democracy; Mass mobilization, not ultra-left sectarian fratricide, needed to decimate Republicans in Congress, end filibuster, pass Roe as a statute, and add new justices...

  16 days ago

Sustainable Pulse

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  Human Activities Have Degraded 40% of Land on Earth – UN Report

  Human activities are damaging and degrading the lands of the Earth to the point where up to 40% of global terrain has been devalued, according to a new and comprehensive UN report. Source: Earth.Org By Olivia Lai The second edition of the Global...

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  Another Legal Blow to Bayer in Roundup Case as US Solicitor General Weighs In

  The U.S. Solicitor General on Tuesday dealt a blow to Monsanto owner Bayer AG, advising the U.S. Supreme Court that it should deny the company’s request for a review of a key Roundup cancer trial loss, Carey Gillam on UnSpun reported. Source...

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  Florida Approves Release of Billions of GMO Mosquitoes

  Overlooking potential public health risks, lingering scientific questions, and deficient public data, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) approved the extension of Oxitec’s two-year field trial on...

  18 days ago

sunshine hours

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  Drought? What about the Dustbowl?

  21 days ago

• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 100 – 2022

  . South / North

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• Eagles Die

  https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-firm-fined-8m-after-150-eagles-die-its-wind-farms-1699331

  a month ago

Stagecraft and Statecraft

• European scramble for energy comes at Asia’s expense

  EU moves to wean itself off Russian oil and gas is creating a self-defeating trap Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia The era of cheap oil and gas is over. In an increasingly risky and turbulent world, geopolitics more than supply chain … Continue...

  9 days ago

• The Quad at a Crossroads

  The Indo-Pacific’s four leading democracies can hold as many leaders’ summits as they want, but without a clear strategic vision – and an agenda to match – they will have little impact. The group’s purpose is to act as a … Continue...

  12 days ago

• Why sanctions against Russia may not work

  BY BRAHMA CHELLANEY, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR, THE HILL The unprecedented U.S.-led Western sanctions against Russia have been likened to economic weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) that would ultimately destroy the Russian economy...

  20 days ago

Ramani's blog

• Rajaraja Chozha Killed Elder Brother Aditha Karikala? Epigraphy Evidence

  So, it is probably, by the process of elimination,that Rajaraja Chozha was behind the conspiracy to kill Adhitya Karikala with the help of Kundavai,Vandhyath Thevan and planning by Aniruddha Brahmaraya. This would account for the meek acquiescence...

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• Kashi Vishwanath Gynavapi Mosque Aurangazeb’s Firman Command Images

  There this cry is not heard because even the memories of earlier civilizations have been wiped out. Nor would you hear this in Africa for here also the people have been brainwashed into believing that they had no culture or history, as is often...

  6 days ago

• Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Lectures

  Lectures on Sri Vishnu Sahasranama with word by word meaning and philosophical analysis. Series of Lectures, Eight in a week. Premium .

  15 days ago

Diane Ravitch's blog

• Sandy Hook Parents May Finally Get Justice in Legal Battle Against Alex Jones

  The parents of children who were victims of a massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, moved a step closer to getting justice done in their legal battle with Alex Jones. Jones claimed on his broadcasts that the Sandy...

  12 hours ago

• FAIR: Jonathan Chait Should Have Disclosed Conflict of Interest When Writing About Charter Schools

  A progressive media-watch organization called FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) criticized New York magazine writer Jonathan Chait for failing to report his wife’s role in the charter industry when writing about (and defending)...

  13 hours ago

• Andrea Gabor: How Biden’s New Regulations Will Help Charter Schools

  Andrea Gabor is Bloomberg Professor of Business Journalism at Baruch College of the City of New York. She writes often for the Bloomberg website, where this article appears. Michael Bloomberg has written in opposition to Biden’s proposed...

  14 hours ago

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• Correspondence With BBC

  By Paul Homewood   Ken Pollock, one of our readers, forwarded this correspondence he had with the BBC regarding Justin Rowlatt’s Panorama programme last November:   Following his letter to Tim Davie, who promised to get his team to look...

  19 hours ago

• Are Mid-20C Temperatures In May Unusual

  By Paul Homewood   What an utterly absurd question!   https://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2022/05/17/are-mid-20c-temperatures-in-may-unusual/   Temperatures in the mid 20s in the South East may be common in May, but probably not in Cromarty...

  2 days ago

• Go Organic, And Starve!

  By Paul Homewood   h/t Dennis Ambler   Unintended consequences (or maybe they were intended?)   From Foreign Policy News:       Faced with a deepening economic and humanitarian crisis, Sri Lanka called off an ill-conceived national...

  2 days ago

NoTricksZone

• GFS Analysis Shows Zero Warming: For Every Hot-Spot On The Planet, There’s Also Been A Cold-Spot

  By Die kalte Sonne Currently much is being reported on extreme heat reaching from North Africa to Europe. In some places in Morocco and Spain, new temperature records for May have been set. However, it’s worth taking a look at the whole world...

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• Climate Change At Bottom Of List Of Worries For German Households, Comprehensive 8-Year Survey Shows

  “Surprising results”: Germans are much more worried about the economy, peace and health than they are about “climate change”, a comprehensive series of surveys reveals.  Part 3 of the most recent German Klimaschau here looks at...

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• The Southwest Atlantic To West Antarctic Peninsula Region Has Been Cooling Since The 1990s

  Scientists continue to document a sea surface cooling in the vast waters above Antarctica. As recently as a few thousand years ago the Sub-Antarctic (South Georgia) region was 5 to 10°C warmer than it is today (Xia et al., 2020). Image Source...

  4 days ago

NEPC Blog Post of the Day

• Psychology Today: Instruction About LGBTQ People in Elementary School Is Age-Appropriate

  Psychology Today: Instruction About LGBTQ People in Elementary School Is Age-Appropriate KEY POINTS Trans kids know their identity as young as age 2. Kids in GLBTQ families are in every school. Teachers have an opportunity to reduce stigma...

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  Teacher in a Strange Land: Pedagogy, Lesson Plans, Instructional Materials—and Politics

  Teacher in a Strange Land: Pedagogy, Lesson Plans, Instructional Materials—and Politics This is a blog about Teacher Stuff—the pedestrian daily tools of successful instruction. The boring and ordinary instruments of professional...

  4 days ago

• Gadfly on the Wall: Covid Has Hobbled Public Schools. Here’s Why They’re Worth Saving

  Gadfly on the Wall: Covid Has Hobbled Public Schools. Here’s Why They’re Worth Saving Is public education worth saving?  That’s the question in the air these days.   In the last century, the US academic system helped us reach the...

  4 days ago

The Moderate Voice

• What is monkeypox? A microbiologist explains what’s known about this smallpox cousin

  What is monkeypox? A microbiologist explains what’s known about this smallpox cousin Monkeypox causes lesions that resemble pus-filled blisters, which eventually scab over. CDC/Getty Images Rodney E. Rohde, Texas State University...

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• Appealing to Trump (and his base) might have worked in Pennsylvania primaries – but it won’t play so well in the midterms

  The doctor is in … with Trump, at least. AP Photo/Gene J. Puska Daniel J. Mallinson, Penn State The Pennsylvania primaries of May 17, 2022, proved a good night for Donald Trump, a better one for “Trumpism” and a problem for moderates hoping...

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• SAFE HAVEN

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Marginal REVOLUTION

• Job security is not getting worse

  There is a widespread belief that work is less secure than in the past, that an increasing share of workers are part of the “pprecariat”. It is hard to find much evidence for this in objective measures of job security, but perhaps subjective...

  10 hours ago

• Sunday assorted links

  1. MIE: The Kiss Kasket. 2. Long Rob Henderson review of Talent.  And Arnold Kling answers Cowen/Gross questions. 3. The mechanics of the Industrial Revolution. 4. Very good Samuel Hammond thread on Talent as a work of Austrian economics...

  11 hours ago

• Testing Freedom

  I did a podcast with Brink Lindsey of the Niskanen Center. Here’s one bit on the FDA’s long-history of banning home tests: Brink Lindsey: …it’s on the rapid testing that we had inexplicable delays. Rapid tests, home tests were ubiquitous...

  16 hours ago

Lloyd Lofthouse

• Heather Cox Richardson: The Radicalization of the Republican Party

  Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: This post by Heather Cox Richardson aims to explain the bizarre transformation of the Republican Party. To those of us old enough to remember Republicans such as Dwight D. Eisenhower, Earl Warren...

  a day ago

MintPress News

• From UK Troll Farms to Covert Psyops: The Troubling Past of Nina Jankowicz

  Kit Klarenberg exposes the troubling past and murky connections of Nina Jankowicz, head of Biden's recently shuttered “Disinformation Governance Board." Jankowicz, Klarenberg reveals, has a long history of acting as a de facto government...

  2 days ago

• Guantanamo Bay and the US Global Empire with Former Cold Warrior Todd E. Pierce

  Todd E. Pierce served with the 349th Psychological Operations Company and the 205th Infantry Brigade as a senior NCO. In the installment of “The Watchdog," Lowkey speaks to Pierce about the global reach of the US empire and its totalitarian...

  2 days ago

• New documentary trailer: Gaza Fights Back

  Gaza Fights Back is the latest documentary from MintPress journalist and filmmaker Dan Cohen. It tells the story of Israel’s 11-day war on the Gaza Strip in May 2021. The post New documentary trailer: Gaza Fights Back appeared first on MintPress...

  4 days ago

www.gurukalehuru.com

• The Future of Sci-Fi

  I’ve seen the first couple of episodes of Picard, which was largely the justification for subscribing to Amazon Prime, and I’ll watch more, it’s not a complete train wreck, although I am enjoying Lower Decks more, and that’s just a...

  10 days ago

• Depp v. Heard

  I’m not following the case of Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard closely but, since it’s the biggest controversy since Smith v. Rock, I suppose I’ll write a blog about it.Actually, my opinion in the Depp case (because it really is … Continue...

  23 days ago

• Crossing the Line

  Of course trans people are people and, as such, should be treated as individuals, with the same amount of respect you’d give to anybody else. Of course I am not attacking transgender people as a group.But holy fucking shit, this … Continue...

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22 May - iG Tab - 8

 

Chicago Boyz

• Septoplasty, Part One

  Last Thursday I had a Septoplasty. I thought it might be interesting to some of our readers to read about it from beginning to end. Of course it isn’t really over yet as I’m still in the recovery phase, but I can’t really do much as far as any...

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• An Interesting Startup

  Here’s a company, Hadrian, which is planning to build a series of factories for manufacturing of precision metal components.  Their first factory is in Hawthorne, CA, and they’re building the next one nearby in Torrance. One of the lead...

  11 hours ago

• Just a Question

  Has modern history shown that invaders who have lost are less greedy for land after they’ve been given a partial parcel of the land they invaded but could not conquer?

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Centinel2012

• How the Democratic Party Abandoned Liberals | Dave Rubin | POLITICS | Rubin Report

  Re posted from the The Rubin Report  Published on Rumble on May 20, 2022  Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to Tucker Carlson, Lewis Howes, Larry King, and the Babylon Bee about why the Democratic party is turning so many liberals...

  11 hours ago

• Kissinger on Ukraine

  Armstrong Economics Blog/Geopolitical re-Posted May 22, 2022 by Martin Armstrong I am sure he would never remember me, but we met a long time ago in Washington and he taught me a lot. I had asked him the question about … Continue reading →...

  12 hours ago

• How to Speak Bidenese

  Armstrong Economics Blog/Humor Re-Posted May 22, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

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The BRAD BLOG

• Sunday 'The Replacements' Toons

  Support a disappearing craft with a subscription to a political cartoonist. * * * 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...

  14 hours ago

• Longtime Election Observers Barred from Wake County, NC Primary Count, Threatened w/ Arrest: 'BradCast' 5/20/2022

  Compare and contrast on today's BradCast. Shoddy treatment of real election observers versus velvet glove treatment of wingnut con-artists claiming the 2020 election was stolen. In one case, longtime non-partisan election integrity...

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• GOP Senate Candidates Used Same 'Replacement' Rhetoric as Buffalo's White Supremacist Shooter: 'BradCast' 5/19/2022

  What's the difference between a white supremacist mass murderer in Buffalo, NY and a GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate? Well, in terms of their racist rhetoric not a heck of a lot, it seems. That and many more reasons to both pay close attention...

  3 days ago

bluebird of bitterness

• Sunday funnies

  An oldie but goodie. ❧ ❧ ❧ ❧ ❧ After Fr. Gregory’s beloved old tabby died, he adopted a kitten from the animal shelter and named her Frances. While chasing a squirrel one day, Frances ran up a tree, and then refused to come back down...

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• Sunday musical offering

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• Happy Armed Forces Day — Caturday edition

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BlackListed News

• WATCH: Iran Rolls Out Digital Food Rationing

  Iran is set to be the first country to roll out a food rationing scheme based on new biometric IDs. Where vaccine passports failed, food passports will now be eagerly accepted by hungry people who can’t afford rapidly inflating food prices...

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• Dubya: Wholly Unjustified Invasion of Iraq

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• Elites Meet to Plan Your Health: The Role of the Council on Foreign Relations

  The grisly Shanghai lockdown, now entering its eighth week, has forced a reckoning among members of Democratic America’s expert class—even if very few are willing to publicly admit it. Liberal media outlets like the New York Times, which...

  4 days ago

Research Digest

• Hallucinations are surprisingly common and varied experiences

  By Emma Young. General population reports high rates of hallucinations, including experiences previously thought to be associated with certain mental health disorders.

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• Parenting Instagram accounts can make mothers feel supported, but also less competent

  By Emily Reynolds. Negative feelings particularly likely to arise among mothers prone to social comparison.

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• We tend to see our political opponents as stupid rather than evil

  By Emily Reynolds. Study also finds that we overestimate how negatively our political opponents view us.

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Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

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  Strawberry Curry Is a Modern Twist on an Old Tradition

  Every year, during the weekend of Wimbledon tennis finals, I make a curry from the two ingredients most strongly associated with the championships: strawberries and cream. It’s my way of celebrating a British summertime tradition with...

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  The Bridge Collection in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal

  Humans have been drinking alcohol for about ten million years. That history is on vibrant display at the Bridge Collection, a permanent exhibit of vessels stretching across millennia at the World of Wine museum.  With its oldest artifact...

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  United Memorial Gardens in Plymouth, Michigan

  Though it might look like an ordinary cemetery at first glance, when you walk through the grounds of United Memorial Gardens in Plymouth, Michigan, you'll notice quirky landmarks like a birdhouse mausoleum and a life-sized replica of the...

  2 days ago

Accidental Deliberations

• Sunday Afternoon Links

  Assorted content for your Sunday reading.- Irelyne Lavery reports on the increasing number of Canadians needing medical attention for the flu as COVID-related protections have been scrapped. And Wallace Immen reports on some of the possibilities...

  9 hours ago

• Saturday Afternoon Links

  Assorted content for your weekend reading.- William J. Barber and Tope Folarin write that the U.S.' grim milestone of one million COVID-19 deaths already serves as a searing indictment of its policy choices and disregard for people living...

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• Musical interlude

  PVRIS - Old Wounds

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22 May - iG Tab - 7 - MSM Narratives

 

WIRED

• 20 Outstanding Online Co-Op Games to Play With Faraway Friends

  Make a long-distance connection. These cooperative multiplayer games let you and your friends play together online.

  14 hours ago

• The Best Rain Jackets to Help You Brave the Elements

  When it rains, it pours. Here are our picks for cold, wet days—plus expert tips on deciphering product specs.

  14 hours ago

• This Updated Curtain-Opening Robot Offers a Taste of Luxury

  This retrofit robot makes your drapes smart, so you can open or close them on a schedule or with a voice command.

  15 hours ago

NYT > Home Page

• Kushner’s and Mnuchin’s Quick Pivots to Business With the Gulf

  Weeks before the Trump administration ended, Jared Kushner and Steven Mnuchin met with future investors on official trips to the Middle East.

  4 hours ago

• ‘Such Bad Guys Will Come’: How One Russian Brigade Terrorized Bucha

  A particularly fearsome unit of Moscow’s invading army arrived in the Kyiv suburb in mid-March. The soldiers’ reputation preceded them.

  18 hours ago

• The Michigan Mink Mystery: How Did an Interspecies Outbreak Unfold?

  The puzzling coronavirus cases highlight ongoing surveillance challenges and blind spots.

  18 hours ago

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

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  PM Modi in Japan to attend Quad summit, bilateral meetings: Key points

  Modi, who is visiting Tokyo at the invitation of his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida, will hold separate bilateral meetings with Biden, Kishida and Albanese on the sidelines of the summit.

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  India-Japan key pillars of stable, secure Indo-Pacific region: PM Modi says in op-ed in Japanese newspaper

  Japan's developmental strides have always been admirable, he said, adding that Japan is partnering with India in key sectors including infrastructure, technology, innovation, start-ups and more.

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  PM Modi arrives in Japan on 2-day visit to attend Quad summit, bilateral meetings; interacts with children outside hotel in Tokyo

  PM Narendra Modi on Monday arrived in Japan on a two-day visit to attend a summit of the Quad leaders which is aimed at further bolstering cooperation among the member nations of the influential grouping and discussing developments in the strategic...

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BBC News - UK

• Monkeypox contacts advised to isolate for 21 days

  Official guidance recommends quarantining for those who have had unprotected direct contact with the virus.

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• Newspaper headlines: 'Time for rescue plan, Rishi' and City comeback win

  Calls for action on the cost of living crisis and Manchester City's dramatic Premier League victory lead the papers.

  4 hours ago

• "I was repeatedly ignored" - report finds maternity racism

  The charity Birthrights conducted a year-long investigation into "racial injustice" in maternity care.

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