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Manifesto For A New Prime Minister
Originally posted on NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT: By Paul Homewood ? It is a fact that politicians very rarely make U-turns, once they have committed to a policy. Boris Johnson made the huge error of enthusiastically embracing the Net Zero strategy...
The Papacy: The Great Schism (964-1054)
Originally posted on Great Books Guy: Following the death of the philanderer, Pope John XII, a schism began to emerge between the military empire of Germany and Constantinople’s imperial whims on the Italian peninsula while the Rome remained...
Adapt or Die – The Artillery Barrage I THE GREAT WAR – Week 50
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All-out political warfare in US as Supreme Court reactionary majority goes berserk with a barrage of decisions attacking traditional American freedoms
New outrages by the Junta involve Roe v. Wade, the New York State gun law on concealed weapons, Miranda rights, deregulating the Environmental Protection Agency’s measures vs carbon emissions, and other cases; Precedents trampled, suggesting...
In orgy of tyranny, Supremes strike down Roe, attack New York gun law, and weaken Miranda;
Trump-backed court majority seeks nothing less than total fascist dictatorship, with warning that more human rights will be trampled as GOP’s nightmare scenario unfolds; Task now is to galvanize a United Front of the American people for...
Momentum for indictment of Trump & Co. builds across American society in context of House January 6 hearings
Dramatic testimony by famed jurist Judge Michael Luttig leaves no doubt that Trump faction must be seen as “clear and present danger” for 2024; If Trump cannot take the presidency under color of law, forecasts Luttig, he will attempt a...
Sustainable Pulse
US Supreme Court Declines Bayer Bid to Challenge Glyphosate Cancer Rulings
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a bid from Bayer-owned Monsanto that aimed to challenge thousands of lawsuits claiming its weedkiller Roundup causes cancer – a potentially costly ruling, AFP reported Tuesday. Source...
US Appeals Court Forces EPA to Reassess Glyphosate on Health and Environmental Impact
In a historic victory for farmworkers and the environment on Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sided with Center for Food Safety (CFS) and its represented farmworker and conservation clients by overturning the Environmental...
Glyphosate Causes Fatal Damage to Bumblebee Colonies
Bumblebee colonies exposed to low levels of the weed killer glyphosate are unable to adequately regulate nest temperature, imperiling the next generation of bumblebees and long-term colony growth and survival. This latest finding, published...
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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
Have sanctions against Russia boomeranged?
BY BRAHMA CHELLANEY, The Hill With the Russian invasion of Ukraine now in its fifth month, Western leaders are beginning to recognize, if not openly acknowledge, that their unprecedented sanctions against Moscow are hurting their own countries’...
The Global Dam Frenzy
There is no question that the world must cut its reliance on fossil fuels. But building more hydroelectric dams – especially in highly biodiverse river basins, such as the Amazon, the Brahmaputra, the Congo, and the Mekong – is not … Continue...
India’s front-line battle against autocracy more important than ever
The risk of renewed skirmishes with China is growing Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia Two years after nighttime hand-to-hand combat with Indian troops resulted in China’s first combat deaths since its 1979 Vietnam invasion, the Chinese...
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Katapayadi, Indian System Improve Memory Recall Rules
One such is the Katapayadi system that helps one to enhance memory and recall.Ancient Hindus have developed systems to enhance memory and recall by designing techniques to learn by heart and recall instantly throughout one's life what one...
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Heather Cox Richardson: EU Condemns SCOTUS on Abortion
Historian Heather Cox Richardson pointed out an interesting development on her blog: There was international condemnation of right-wing policies in the U.S. today, when the European Parliament voted 324 to 155, with 38 abstaining, to condemn...
Andrew Van Wagner: Arizona is a Laboratory for Rightwing Control and Indoctrination
Andrew Van Wagner warns that the neoliberal experiment in Arizona is intended to atomize, indoctrinate, and control the population. As he writes, if you can dumb people down, you can control them. If you can declare some topics unacceptable...
Arizona: The Death of Public Schools?
Doug Ducey, the Governor of Arizona, has been funded by the Koch machine. One of his goals is to destroy public schools. Arizona voted vouchers down, by 65-35%. No matter. Kathryn Joyce wrote in Salon about Ducey’s latest effort to eliminate...
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
Manifesto For A New Prime Minister
By Paul Homewood It is a fact that politicians very rarely make U-turns, once they have committed to a policy. Boris Johnson made the huge error of enthusiastically embracing the Net Zero strategy, the poisoned chalice handed over to him...
Tesla Owner Exposes Dark Secret About Electric Cars
By Paul Homewood And here’s another environmental drawback of EVs: Economists have long understood that there’s no such thing as a free lunch, but perhaps it’s time for electric-car enthusiasts to learn that lesson as well...
The Contradictions of Battery Operated Vehicles
By Paul Homewood There’s often very thoughtful talks on TED. This one is from two years ago:
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John Deere Engineers Really Aiming To Build Battery-Powered Harvesters?
It’s hard to believe that an internationally renowned company like John Deere would be led down such a dubious technical route: electric powered heavy agricultural equipment. Consider that a battery for a typical electric car weights...
Since 2000 The Arctic’s Hudson Bay Has Cooled -0.35°C With 10 Of 15 Sites Gaining Sea Ice
A new study (Gupta et al., 2022) indicates that from 2000-2019 73% of the 15 sites considered have been cooling and 67% have experienced a lengthening of sea ice duration. Canada’s Hudson Bay extends into the Arctic Ocean and its coasts are...
Ruling on EPA “Another Defeat For President, Who Seems To Have Lost All Fortune Anyway”
One ruling, but two different perceptions. The German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) takes a very different view of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on the powers of the federal EPA than leftist Der Spiegel does. Hat-tip: Die kalte...
NEPC Blog Post of the Day
Nancy Bailey's Education Website: 6 Terms Transforming Public Schools to the All-Tech Endgame
Nancy Bailey's Education Website: 6 Terms Transforming Public Schools to the All-Tech Endgame Here are tech terms threatening teachers and public schools and how students learn. When these words or phrases appear, it’s an indication...
Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Can Principals Raise Test Scores?
Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Can Principals Raise Test Scores? Effective manager? Savvy politician? Heroic leader? School CEO? Reformers yearn for principals who can not only play these roles but also raise test...
Answer Sheet: What the Biden Administration’s New Rules for Charter Schools Say
Answer Sheet: What the Biden Administration’s New Rules for Charter Schools Say The Biden administration is moving to overhaul the federal Charter School Program with new rules finalized last week that make it harder for for-profit organizations...
The Moderate Voice
Shooting of Shinzo Abe is a huge shock for Japan and the world
Craig Mark, Kyoritsu Women’s University Japan is reeling from the assassination of its longest-serving former prime minister, Shinzo Abe. He was campaigning for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party for the Upper House elections due on...
Global reaction to killing of Japan’s former PM Abe
Published by Reuters UK (Reuters) – Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving leader, died on Friday after being shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election. Abe, who sought to lift the economy out of chronic...
Japan ex-PM Abe assassinated while making election campaign speech
Published by Reuters By Satoshi Sugiyama and Chang-Ran Kim NARA, Japan (Reuters) – Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving leader, died on Friday hours after he was shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election...
Marginal REVOLUTION
Friday assorted links
1. Japanese penguins now receiving austerity and worse sushi. Alas, no more Abenomics for them (RIP). 2. “I should have loved biology.” 3. Ethnic minority victories mobilize white voters (in the UK at least). 4. Sean Patrick Hughes...
Operation Warp Speed Should Not have Been Disbanded
Operation Warp Speed produced a new vaccine for a novel virus in record time but when Operation Warp Speed was disbanded by the Biden administration vaccine research and development slowed from warp speed to impulse power. It’s ridiculous...
Markets in everything those new service sector jobs
A woman who took about 150 theory and practical tests for other drivers has been jailed for eight months. Police said she was taking tests for people who had difficulty with English. …Det Ch Insp Steven Maloney said Kaur’s crimes were motivated...
Lloyd Lofthouse
The Koch Libertarian Project vs. America
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: What is happening to the America that we swore allegiance to every day in public school? what happened to the America that was “indivisible, with liberty and justice for all”? How did we get a rogue...
The Ignorance and Danger of Trump Republicans includes Brain-Dead Lauren Boebert
Brain-Dead Boebert is a born-again Christian and a strident advocate of guns; she and her husband own a restaurant—Shooters Grill in Rifle, Colorado, where staff are encouraged to carry firearms Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.)…says...
Traitor Trump’s Conspiracy to Dodge Justice for his Crimes
This 21st century traitor will not stop until he is the U.S. President for life or in prison. With support from his fascist worshiping MAGA enablers that adds up to about two-thirds of the Republican Party, it’s apparent that this traitor...
MintPress News
As Anti-BDS Bills Become the Norm, ACLU Takes Free Speech Fight to the Supreme Court
If certain pro-Israel and pro-fossil fuel advocates get their way, a fundamental right to free speech and protest will be removed from Americans. The post As Anti-BDS Bills Become the Norm, ACLU Takes Free Speech Fight to the Supreme Court...
15 Years of Failed Experiments: Myths and Facts about the Israeli Siege on Gaza
"The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger.” - Dov Weisglass, Advisor to Israeli PM Ariel Sharon The post 15 Years of Failed Experiments: Myths and Facts about the Israeli Siege on Gaza appeared first on...
Chomsky on Israeli Apartheid, Celebrity Activists, BDS and the One-State Solution
Chomsky believes that calling Israeli policies towards Palestinians “apartheid” is actually a “gift to Israel”, at least, if by apartheid one refers to the South-African style apartheid. The post Chomsky on Israeli Apartheid...
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The Aquarium and Heraklion
Yesterday, we went to Crete Aquarium because we’d heard it’s nice and it was. I got a senior discount, Isabel still qualifies for the children’s discount, and Sam got a student discount, so Helena was the only one who paid … Continue...
A Conflict of Interests
I have a tremendous internal struggle, a conflict between two essential parts of my nature that plays out every time I sit down at a restaurant, which happens at least once a day when we’re on vacation and sometimes more, … Continue reading...
A Tale of Two Apartments
Well, the first thing we noticed when we checked into our place in Heraklion was how different it was to our place in Chania. Well, actually, a bit outside of Chania, but we’re a bit outside of Heraklion, too, so … Continue reading →...
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