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Lower Taxes on Capital = More Prosperity
Originally posted on International Liberty: Good tax policy should strive to solve the three major problems that plague today’s income tax. Punitive tax rates on productive behavior. Double taxation of saving and investment Corrupt...
Madonna – Deeper And Deeper [2022 Remaster]
Purring Kittens On My Lap
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Quisling votes ! There's a demonstration for pejorative/slander assaulting the idea of staging proxy war as a public good ! Is that how Iraq 2003 happened ? Iran (1953) ? Perspective of the Arms Merchants.
Sabotage of gun safety, attacks on Roe & other rights, the riots and coup attempts, and Quisling votes against arming Ukraine* show it’s time to abolish the GOP!
In Buffalo, supermarket security guard died fighting and police arrived at shooting within ONE minute; in Uvalde, it took Gov. Abbott’s Keystone cops SEVENTY-EIGHT minutes to enter classroom & engage killer; which of these is a more...
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...
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...
Sustainable Pulse
Court Rejects California’s Blanket Approval of Pesticide Spraying
In a major victory for health and environmental groups, a California court has ruled (see here and here) that a sweeping state pesticide spraying program is unlawful. The court found the program failed to adequately study and minimize...
UK Government Documents Reveal Disregard for Public Views on Gene-Edited Crops
Documents released by the UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), following a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by Beyond GM, highlight the extent to which Defra is ignoring and seeking to misrepresent citizens...
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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Drought? What about the Dustbowl?
Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 100 – 2022
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Eagles Die
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Stagecraft and Statecraft
The Quad’s moment of truth has arrived
Biden’s empty Taiwan rhetoric reveals Quad’s core weakness Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia Nearly five years after it was resurrected from a decadelong dormancy, and then integrated as a strategic coalition of the Indo-Pacific’s...
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...
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...
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Vedas Upanishads Sahasranama Courses Online
The six Systems of Indian philosophy,Vedas and interpreting the ancient texts in modern scientific terms including Quantum theory.Hence the classes are more of dialogues with question and answers.Questions are posted in the relevant...
Don’t Rewrite History Advice Reserved For India, Hindus?
To claim your Heritage is a Sin?Try saying it to Islam, Christianity .Still better ask the Jews,the only race with balls( sorry for the language here).Try talking to the Holocaust Survivors. Did they leave the misery heaped upon their race...
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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Russian Journalist Will Auction His Nobel Prize Medal to Aid Ukrainian Refugees
This is truly a noble gesture by an independent Russian journalist whose publication was closed by V. Putin. He says the Nobel Prize should have gone to Alexei Navalny, the bold leader of the opposition to Putin, who was imprisoned for nine years...
David Taylor: Why Not Classify Guns the Way We Classify Drugs?
Retired educator David Taylor, who lives in Texas, has a novel idea for improving gun safety: classify guns. Classify guns the way the government classifies drugs, with appropriate restrictions. He begins: In 1970, the government passed...
Uvalde and the Silence of the Faux Parent Groups
Maurice Cunningham is a specialist on dark money and its infiltration into education debates. As he watched the response to the Uvalde massacre of babies, he noticed the missing voices of the “mama bears.” He writes: Right Wing “Mama...
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No Trends In Hot Days In May, Despite Met Office Misinformation
By Paul Homewood I posted on this a couple of weeks ago here. https://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2022/05/17/are-mid-20c-temperatures-in-may-unusual/ Now we have the full numbers for this May, we can take a closer look at CET...
Prince Harry Flies In By Private Jet
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness Private jets from California and 4 x 4s? Whatever next, Harry? https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/meghan-markle-prince-harry-picked-27127499
Antarctic Sea Ice Decline May Be Due To Natural Factors
By Paul Homewood https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/ We are familiar with the large swings in sea ice extent from year to year around Antarctica. As No Tricks Zone reveals, these changes defy the computer models, and are almost certainly...
NoTricksZone
New Research Applying Scientific Method Shows The Perception CO2 Causes Global Warming ‘Can Be Excluded’
Instead of focusing on probabilistic percentages and constructed correlations between two events in efforts to determine potential causality, 4 scientists have revisited the requisite conditions for causality in applying the scientific...
JMA Greenland Mean Winter Temperature Data Inconclusive…Germany Gets a Bit Sunnier, Brighter
The latest winter (D-J-F) temperature data from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) have become available for Greenland. Data source: JMA. Chart by Kirye Though some of the data sets are fragmented and incomplete, we can still get a some...
3 New Studies Show Atlantic Tipping Point Unrealistic…”Muted Response”…”Changes To Be Viewed With Caution”
Yet another 3 recent journal publications show there’s no Atlantic tipping point taking place. Two days ago we reported on the most recent video by the German Klimaschau here, which reported there are a number of new published papers showing...
NEPC Blog Post of the Day
Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Big Error in Policymaker Thinking
Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Big Error in Policymaker Thinking As a result of inhabiting a different world than teachers, policymakers make a common but significant error. They confuse teacher quality with teaching quality. ...
Janresseger: Ohio Charter School Sector Epitomizes All the Reasons Why the Federal Charter Schools Program Must Be Reformed
Janresseger: Ohio Charter School Sector Epitomizes All the Reasons Why the Federal Charter Schools Program Must Be Reformed In its new report, Public Schooling in America: Measuring Each State’s Commitment to Democratically Governed...
Curmudgucation: I'm Not Going to Defend SEL
Curmudgucation: I'm Not Going to Defend SEL Social and Emotional Learning is the new target of the GOP attempt to set multiple education brushfires in hopes of stampeding voters towards a Republican victory (as well as one more way for the...
The Moderate Voice
U.S. Capitol riot probe to kick off with prime-time hearing
Published by Reuters By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The congressional inquiry into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by then-President Donald Trump’s supporters enters a new phase next week, kicking off a series...
Biden demands strong gun measures; says ‘can’t fail the American people again’
Published by Reuters By Steve Holland and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Declaring “Enough, enough!” U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday urged Congress to ban assault weapons, expand background checks and implement other sensible...
DON’T SAY “GUNS”
Did you know that more than 30 states have laws allowing school districts to arm teachers? Naturally, giving guns to teachers is a Republican idea, like banning doors. It’s not a great idea to arm teachers. Some states require over 150 hours...
Marginal REVOLUTION
Those new service sector jobs
Free money for you, well…it’s not quite free: I’m reaching out to see if you’d be willing to share an announcement about a contest for critically engaging with work in effective altruism. The total prize amount is $100,000, and the...
Rubin and Koyama on the Industrial Revolution
From Dylan Matthews: The big question is what drove this transformation. Historians, economists, and anthropologists have proposed a long list of explanations for why human life suddenly changed starting in 18th-century England, from geographic...
Thursday assorted links
1. Noah Smith on ESG. 2. Is Queen Elizabeth II one of the great performance artists? 3. New results on whether science is getting harder. 4. Very good A.O. Scott review of Maverick Top Gun (NYT). 5. “The more a society is dedicated to the value...
Lloyd Lofthouse
Nekulturny – A Poem
Originally posted on Plus Ultra: Say it with me: Ne-kul-tur-ny The Russians look down on us—they claim we in Asia are boorish, uncivilized And yet, Ours is not the nation that bends to the will of a rabid madman Manufactures frozen conflicts...
If the Right to Own a Gun Were Like Access to Abortion…
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: A friend sent Gloria Steinem’s solution to gun safety: “How about we treat every young man who wants to buy a gun like every woman who wants to get an abortion: 1. Mandatory 48-hour waiting period...
Why Isn’t the “Parental Rights” Movement Fighting for the Parents of Transgender Youth?
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: At the Network for Public Education conference in Philadelphia on May 1, I moderated a panel to discuss attacks on public schools and the groups behind those attacks. Peter Greene identified a long...
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Masafer Yatta: Israel’s New Annexation Strategy in Palestine
Instead of annexing 40% of the West Bank all at once, Israel is now annexing smaller tracts of land and regions, like Masafer Yatta, separately. The post The Ethnic Cleansing of Masafer Yatta: Israel’s New Annexation Strategy in Palestine...
The Uvalde Shooting and the History of American Gun Violence, with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Lowkey talks to Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz about the roots of the Uvalde shooting and America's centuries-old history of mass killing. The post The Uvalde Shooting and the History of American Gun Violence, with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz appeared...
DHS ‘Concerned’ Over Nazis Returning to US After Fighting in Ukraine. Why Isn’t the Media?
US corporate media has provided glowing coverage to Paul Gray, a notorious American white nationalist fighting in Ukraine. A DHS document warns he’s not the only US fascist drawn to Kyiv. The post DHS ‘Concerned’ Over Nazis Returning...
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A Totally Irrational Position
Like far too many Americans, I have family members who are obsessed with guns, and I respect their intelligence and character – in all other things. But, I’m tired of arguing with them about guns as if they had a … Continue reading →...
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...
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...