4 August - iG Tab - 9

Utopia – you are standing in it!

• Nichelle Nichols in National Air and Space Museum Promotional Film

  21 minutes ago

• My Problem With Mansplaining: Jonathan Pie

  6 hours ago

• Rescue Cat Cafe in Tokyo

  7 hours ago

TARPLEY.net

• Concrete signals emerge that Department of Justice is finally investigating the actions of Trump and his faction!

  Pence staffers Short and Jacob testify to federal grand jury; contents of Eastman’s phone under FBI scrutiny; ex-Pentagon chief Miller says Defense Department never got order to post 10,000 guardsmen on Hill for January 6; Under Trump’s...

  5 days ago

• Trump’s in-house strategist Bannon convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress, and now faces 2 to 24 months in prison!

  Ukrainian diplomacy successful in lifting Putin‘s genocidal blockade of Black Sea grain ships leaving Odessa and other ports; Accord mediated by Guterres and Erdogan, who provides safe exit through Bosporus; 5 million tons of grain per...

  12 days ago

• Trump threatens the American people with another lunge for the White House!

  He says his decision is already made, but the date for the announcement is not yet set; Bring it on, well before the mid-term elections, and set up a referendum on the fading MAGAt Duce! Crude oil price is down 20% in a month, but gasoline price is...

  19 days ago

Sustainable Pulse

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  Glyphosate Crosses Blood-Brain Barrier and Exposure Correlates with Alzheimer’s Symptoms – New Study

  In a new study, Arizona State University (ASU) and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGEN) have explored the effects of glyphosate exposure on the brains of mice. The research demonstrates, for the first time, that glyphosate...

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  Glyphosate & Roundup: Poison In Our Daily Bread – Fork the System Podcast

  It’s not surprising that glyphosate, the so-called active ingredient in Bayer-Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller, is found in foods made with glyphosate-tolerant GMO crops like corn, soy and canola. But why is glyphosate herbicide showing...

  9 days ago
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  Biden Administration Refuses Phase Out of Pesticides on US Wildlife Refuges

  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last week denied requests by conservationists and members of Congress to phase out the use of agricultural pesticides on national wildlife refuges. The Service’s decision was issued in response to...

  9 days ago

Stagecraft and Statecraft

• Will Taiwan be the next Ukraine on Biden’s watch?

  Brahma Chellaney, The Hill President Biden has still to grasp that Taiwan is far more important than Ukraine to the future of American power in the world. Yet the likelihood is growing that, on Biden’s watch, Chinese President Xi Jinping...

  3 days ago

• Ukraine war hastens Sri Lanka’s economic meltdown

  Internal factors alone cannot explain Sri Lanka’s economic collapse. In a forewarning of wider international instability, Sri Lanka slid from a serious balance-of-payments crisis to bankruptcy due to the spiraling global fuel and food...

  18 days ago

• The Fall of the House of Rajapaksa

  Through a combination of authoritarianism, nepotism, cronyism, and hubris, the Rajapaksa family weighed down Sri Lanka’s economy with more debt than it could possibly bear. The country’s next leaders will have to address shortages...

  24 days ago

Ramani's blog

• Sundara Kanda How To Do Parayana

  https://soundbite.speechify.com/bite/4Nc1

  2 days ago

• Siva in Lebanon, Petra Jordan?

  3 days ago

• Kaaba Opens at Sivas Pradosha Time Pakistani website Audio

  There is Kaaba Stone which is believed to have been of Abrahamic times. People are not permitted to take videos or photographs of the inside of the room. The room seems to contain an Idol, the worship of which is prohibited in Islam. Now let us see...

  11 days ago

Diane Ravitch's blog

• Senator Sinema Agrees to Deal By Protecting Richest and Corporations

  The Washington Post reports that Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema signed on to the “Inflation Reduction Act”—which provides funding for climate change/health care. Her demand? She blocked taxes on the wealthiest and on corporations...

  3 hours ago

• Leonie Haimson: Parents Win Court Ruling Against City Budget Cuts

  Leonie Haimson, executive director of the advocacy group Class Size Matters (and a board member of the Network for Public Education), reports that parents won their lawsuit against the City of New York and the Department of Education for budget...

  4 hours ago

• Mimi Swartz: Freedom Is Now More Fragile in Texas

  Mimi Swartz writes in Texas Monthly that the Dobbs decision banning abortion has unleashed a broad assault on freedom in Texas. And it will get much, much worse as long as Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick, and Ken Paxton remain in office. I guess you could...

  13 hours ago

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• India Electricity Mix

  By Paul Homewood       We concentrate on energy and emissions data in China for obvious reasons – it is such a big country. We consequently tend to ignore the rest of Asia. So let’s take a closer look at India. BP Energy Review   Over the last...

  12 hours ago

• Evidence for heat-pump price drop fails to add up

  By Paul Homewood h/t Jack Broughton This article appeared in The Engineer this week:         The Energy and Utilities Alliance (EUA) has analysed the French heat pump market where installations average £11,000, a figure similar to installing...

  12 hours ago

• Official data confirms reef in rude good heath

  By Paul Homewood   From GWPF:     Official data released today reveals that Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is in excellent health, with coral cover reaching record levels for the second consecutive year. The increase will be surprising...

  15 hours ago

NoTricksZone

• Scientists: Enhancing Earth’s Surface Reflectiveness 32x More Effective Than Eliminating GHG Emissions

  Adding reflectors to roofs and pavements and similar strategies could globally reflect 87 W/m² more incoming solar radiation than is reflected on an annual basis currently, cooling the surface. In contrast, the sum of the accumulated annual...

  10 hours ago

• Tokyo Midsummer Hasn’t Warmed In Decades. And: The Missing Hurricanes”.

  Charts by Kirye Continuously increasing CO2 emissions into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels is supposed to be causing warming all over the globe right now, so we should be seeing it in most of the trends. But often we don’t. The...

  a day ago

• The Sahara Is Green When Warm, Desert When Cold…And It’s Drier Now Than The Last Glacial Maximum

  If wetter is warmer and drier is colder, the modern Saharan climate suggests we are not in a warm period. It is common knowledge that warmer temperatures are associated with wetter, greener climates, and cooler temperatures are linked to droughts...

  3 days ago

NEPC Blog Post of the Day

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  10th Period: Ohio School Privatization More Expensive Than Public Schools

  10th Period: Ohio School Privatization More Expensive Than Public Schools After taking a couple weeks to take my youngest son on a Great Western Road Trip, I have returned to be gob smacked yet one more time about what a problem Ohio’s voucher...

  16 days ago

• Brattleboro Reformer: William J. Mathis: The Insurrection -- Will the Center Hold?

  Brattleboro Reformer: William J. Mathis: The Insurrection -- Will the Center Hold? They say it started with Kansas irregulars attacking Missouri. Missouri replied in kind. It was an unneighborly kind of war. Little mercy was asked and little...

  17 days ago

• Cloaking Inequity: Latest Paper Focuses on School Finance Policy and Civil Rights

  Cloaking Inequity: Latest Paper Focuses on School Finance Policy and Civil Rights By Amanda Nelson  LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 8, 2022) — A newly published analysis of how dollars are distributed to schools in the U.S. posits that funding...

  20 days ago

The Moderate Voice

• BIG FAT LIAR

  If you’re a gaslighting conspiracy theorist with a national platform spreading b.s. that defames, libels, and tears apart democracy, you better have good lawyers. Alex Jones, fortunately for the rest of us who hate lies, conspiracy theories...

  9 hours ago

• Russia sentences Griner to 9 years in jail, Biden calls for her release

  Published by Reuters KHIMKI, Russia (Reuters) -A Russian court sentenced U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison on Thursday after finding her guilty of deliberately bringing cannabis-infused vape cartridges into...

  10 hours ago

• So, you want something. . .

  Positive or negative, our thoughts and words are powerful. What we say to ourselves, and others is potent. For instance, my mother faced difficult problems pertaining to the health challenges of two of her children. When she talked about the...

  a day ago

Marginal REVOLUTION

• PredictIt seems to be closing?

  Here is the CFTC announcement.  Permission to run this non-profit from New Zealand has been withdrawn.  “DMO has determined that Victoria University has not operated its market in compliance with the terms of the letter and as a result...

  3 hours ago

• The rise and fall of empires

  The last two centuries witnessed the rise and fall of empires. We construct a model which rationalises this in terms of the changing trade gains from empires. In the model, empires are arrangements that reduce trade cost between an industrial...

  10 hours ago

• Thursday assorted links

  1. A summary of some crypto frustrations. 2. Tweet storm on The Book of Mormon.  Threaded here. 3. Advice for science funders: vary what you do. 4. Can chess and alcohol really be substitutes? Maybe in India? 5. Double-blind review at the AER...

  12 hours ago

Lloyd Lofthouse

• Heather Cox Richardson: What Does the Republican Party Believe in?

  Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Historian Heather Cox Richardson writes today about some recent votes in Congress that defined what Republicans are against. Republicans believe that states should control which rights are protected...

  11 days ago

• Reader: Why The Supreme Court Is Wrong About Abortion

  Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: A reader who calls him/herself Quickwrit explains why the Supreme Court’s recent decision on abortion is wrong. The Bible is silent on abortion: The 9th Amendment gives Clarence Thomas the constitutional...

  17 days ago

• 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...

  a month ago

MintPress News

• Israeli Company and UN Human Rights Violator Energix Under Scrutiny for Environmental Violations in US

  In 2020, the UN designated Israeli company Energix as a violator of human rights, today the company is rapidly expanding into the United States. The post Israeli Company and UN Human Rights Violator Energix Under Scrutiny for Environmental...

  13 hours ago

• Major Mask Maker 3M Found To Have Harmed 200,000 Troops

  3M (Aearo) gave the troops earplugs that they knew failed to plug the ear — which is, like, their one job. So 160,000 former troops have hearing loss or tinnitus. The post Major Mask Maker 3M Found To Have Harmed 200,000 Troops appeared first...

  14 hours ago

• Why Resistance Matters: Palestinians are Challenging Israel’s Unilateralism, Dominance

  Israeli politics has historically been predicated on the need for further colonialism, strengthening the Jewish identity of the state at the expense of Palestinians, and the constant quest for war. Recent events suggest that these factors...

  a day ago

www.gurukalehuru.com

• Poznań

  I can’t believe I haven’t written this blog since we got back from Crete. Although record heat waves, the continuing debacle in Ukraine and various other topics deserve to be written about, I have become lazy. Anyway, here we are … Continue...

  5 days ago

• Home

  The trip home was long and a bit exhausting, but we are back in Prague now and I’m re-adapting to old habits quickly, and planning on a poetry reading this evening.On the twisty, narrow, mountain road up from Elaphonisi, we … Continue reading...

  24 days ago

• Last Day

  The vacation is almost over. Tomorrow morning we will drive back up to the north coast, turn in our rental car, and catch a flight to Prague, via Munich. We have seen most of the things we planned to see, … Continue reading →...

  25 days ago

4 August - iG Tab - 8

 

Chicago Boyz

• The Light of Rutupaie Going Out

  Rutupaie, the modern Richborough Castle, in Kent, England – was once the site of a notable Roman military garrison graced by an enormous marble triumphal arch visible to ships arriving in the port, a tall lighthouse, and a thriving civilian...

  2 days ago

• Random Pic

  4 days ago

• Reslience and Renewal

  We’ve often talked here about businesses and other kinds of organizations that missed the turn…that failed to react intelligently to market or technology changes and disappeared (or at least suffered great harm)…or, in the case of...

  4 days ago

Centinel2012

• Fertilizer Bans Lead to Food Scarcity

  Armstrong Economics Blog/Agriculture Re-Posted Aug 4, 2022 by Martin Armstrong Canada’s Trudeau is proposing to reduce fertilizer with the globalist goal of achieving zero emissions by 2030. Every indicator says that food scarcity...

  10 hours ago

• The Inequality of the World Economy

  Armstrong Economics Blog/Economics Re-Posted Aug 4, 2022 by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I have followed your comments on the future of inflation for the last five years at least since a friend attended your conference. I...

  11 hours ago

• When Will the Baby Formula Shortage End?

  Armstrong Economics Blog/Gov’t Incompetence Re-Posted Aug 4, 2022 by Martin Armstrong It has been about a month since Abbott Laboratories reopened its formula plant in Michigan, but the US is still in desperate need of baby formula. The...

  11 hours ago

The BRAD BLOG

• GA Dem Rep. Seeks to 'Unpack' SCOTUS, Hold 'Ethically Bankrupt' Justice Thomas Accountable: 'BradCast' 8/4/2022

  I suspect you'll get much more out of listening to today's BradCast than I can possibly share in this summary. Hearing my conversation with the Congressman --- who has a very dry wit --- is also much, much funnier than reading about it. [Audio...

  2 hours ago

• 'Green News Report' - August 4, 2022

  IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Back-to-back extreme storms reveal the U.S. is not ready for climate impacts; Climate change is increasing summertime humidity; Big corporations launch ad blitz to sink Democrats' landmark budget deal; PLUS: America's...

  11 hours ago

• UNconventional Times: Power of Abortion Rights (and Danger of Election Deniers) on the Ballot: 'BradCast' 8/3/2022

  Look at the faces in that photo. Those are the faces of people grappling to understand a profound truth that they simply had no idea about prior to Tuesday night. Those faces should serve as inspiration for every Democrat and/or progressive...

  a day ago

bluebird of bitterness

• Find the leopard!

  A leopard lurks on the savannah. See if you can find it. The solution will appear in the comments section later today.

  11 hours ago

• Happy birthday, Louis

  It’s the birthday of the American band leader, composer, and singer Louis Daniel Armstrong (1901-1971). He was the grandson of slaves and grew up in poverty in New Orleans, where he was shuttled back and forth among various relatives...

  17 hours ago

• Swelter in place

  a day ago

BlackListed News

• China Fires Missiles Around Taiwan After Pelosi 'Pours Oil On The Flames' of Regional Tensions

  China launched a host of missiles over the waters surrounding Taiwan and began aggressive live-fire military drills surrounding the island nation in the wake of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's "legacy-building" trip...

  a day ago

• How Commodity Traders Are Helping Fund Russia’s War

  Despite wide-ranging sanctions and import bans, Russia's vast energy sector continues to thrive, with the country managing to export nearly a billion dollars worth of fossil fuels per day in the first 100 days since its invasion of Ukraine...

  a day ago

• Poll: Almost 40% Of Democrat Voters Say Democrats Have ‘Run The Economy Into The Ground’

  A new poll from Rasmussen has found that a majority of voters agree that Democrats ran the economy “straight into the ground,” with close to a whopping 40 percent of Democrat voters agreeing that is the case...

  a day ago

Research Digest

• Most of us don’t have a desire for unlimited wealth

  By Emily Reynolds. Study challenges common economic assumption that we all want unlimited resources.

  a month ago

• Racial biases shape the way people interpret body poses

  By Emma Young. White participants saw Black, but not White, people as more aggressive when in Superman pose.

  a month ago

• People with no mind’s eye have less vivid and detailed memories

  By Matthew Warren. People with aphantasia also show deficits when describing hypothetical future events.

  a month ago

Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

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  Why Solar Roasting Could Be the Future for New Mexico’s Chiles

  On October 21, 2021, Kenneth Armijo, an engineer at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was at the top of a 200-foot-tall tower at the lab's Solar Thermal Test Facility. Armijo usually works on large-scale industrial...

  6 hours ago
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  Chapel of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce in Honfleur, France

  The maritime heritage of Northern France is far from subtle. The boat-lined port of downtown Honfleur is encircled by restaurants with servers donning iconic blue-and-white striped mariniere outfits; several nautical museums dot the...

  10 hours ago
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  Blue Spring in Van Buren, Missouri

  Blue Spring is deep enough to accommodate the entire Statue of Liberty. In fact, it is the deepest of all the Missouri springs. Deemed "The Spring of the Summer Sky" by Native Americans, Blue Spring now shares its name with numerous other springs...

  11 hours ago

Accidental Deliberations

• Thursday Afternoon Links

  This and that for your Thursday reading.- Bedir Alihsan et al. examine the effectiveness of face masks in preventing COVID-19 infections in both health care and community settings. And Taiyler Simone Mitchell and Catherine Schuster-Bruce...

  8 hours ago

• Wednesday Morning Links

  Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Andre Picard writes that COVID-19 remains an imminent and severe threat to our health - no matter how many people are choosing to operate in denial. Jianlyu Lai et al. examine how COVID has...

  a day ago
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  Tuesday Night Cat Blogging

  Cats hanging on.

  2 days ago

4 August - iG Tab - 7 - MSM

 

WIRED

• Amazon Workers in the UK Walk Out in a Cost-of-Living Rebellion

  After news of a “pointless” pay increase spread, workers at three warehouses stopped work to demand higher wages as inflation and interest rates surge.

  4 hours ago

• An Attack on Albanian Government Suggests New Iranian Aggression

  A Tehran-linked hack of a NATO member marks a significant escalation against the backdrop of US-Iran nuclear talks.

  6 hours ago

• Alex Jones’ Accidental Text Dump Is Hilarious—and Alarming

  The conspiracy theorist's breathtakingly silly blunder underscores the urgent need to revamp ediscovery in US law.

  12 hours ago

NYT > Home Page

• Sinema Agrees to Climate and Tax Deal, Clearing the Way for Votes

  The Arizona Democrat had been her party’s last remaining holdout on the package, now slated to move forward on Saturday and pass the Senate within days.

  2 hours ago

• Alex Jones’s Texts Could Be Given to Jan. 6 Panel, Lawyer Says

  At a hearing in the defamation case against the conspiracy theorist, the plaintiffs’ lawyer said he would turn over the materials to the committee unless the judge ordered him not to.

  10 hours ago

• As Monkeypox Spreads, U.S. Plans to Declare a Health Emergency

  The designation would free up emergency funds and lift some bureaucratic hurdles, but many experts fear containment may no longer be possible.

  10 hours ago

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

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  Dismayed by good friend Mamata's decision to abstain: Margaret Alva

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  A writer & an unsung freedom fighter

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• Indian national pleads guilty to scamming elderly citizens in US

  an hour ago

BBC News - UK

• Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss row over recession warning in latest TV clash

  Rishi Sunak says tax cuts would fuel inflation, while Liz Truss argues a recession can be averted.

  3 hours ago

• Bank of England warns the UK will fall into recession this year

  The Bank of England raises rates as it warns inflation will rise over 13% and the UK faces a long recession.

  10 hours ago

• Soham murders: Ian Huntley's press interviews alerted police

  Journalists reported Soham murderer Ian Huntley's odd answers to police after Holly and Jessica went missing.

  18 hours ago