2 September - iG Tab - 9

 

Utopia – you are standing in it!

• Sloped armor: A simple feature that saved many lives

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• Billy Connolly – Colonoscopy – World Tour of New Zealand

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• Trench Warfare in World War 1 I THE GREAT WAR Special

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TARPLEY.net

• Biden launches powerful kickoff for Democrats’ fall campaign under watchword that MAGA Republicans represent “SEMI-FASCISM”!

  President provides intellectual clarity and leadership far superior to timid and vacillating academic historians in diagnosing the scourge of fascism in contemporary US; Democrat Pat Ryan wins NY-19 House seat with campaign based on abortion...

  6 days ago

• Putin presses nuclear blackmail against Ukraine using occupied Zaporizhia nuclear complex-UN calls on Russian forces to leave area, but threat of nuclear contamination is high; IAEA inspectors must supervise reactors!

  Terrorist gambit may be Kremlin warlord’s main bid to retain initiative despite looming fall of Kherson; Radioactive clouds would drift east, showing Putin’s cynical contempt for Russian people;The grotesque lies of Putin, Lavrov...

  13 days ago

• Eleven sets of classified documents seized by FBI at Trump’s chateau include top secret/sensitive compartmented information (TS/SCI), with possible violations of Espionage Act and Atomic Energy Act; What did Don plan to do with these secrets? Garland shows signs of life-

  Media exaggerate the rally round the Don effect among Republicans deriving from raid, with skepticism growing as his legal position deteriorated during the week; Ill-considered ultra-left slogan of defunding the police was one of the most...

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Sustainable Pulse

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  Florida University Study Shows Glyphosate Causes Convulsions in Animals

  A recent report by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found more than 80 percent of urine samples from children and adults in the U.S. contained the herbicide glyphosate. A study by Florida Atlantic University...

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  FDA Finds Majority of Foods in America Contain Pesticide Residues

  Over half of all food samples tested by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) contain the residues of at least one pesticide, and one in ten samples have levels that violate legal limits established by the U.S. Environmental Protection...

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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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sunshine hours

• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 242 – 2023

  South / North

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 242 – 2022

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 238 – 2022

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Stagecraft and Statecraft

• India has a stake in Taiwan’s defense

  Chinese territorial claims in Himalayas are much bigger than the island Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia Chinese military drills are rarely empty shows of force. In 2020, China’s unusually large winter exercises on the Tibetan Plateau...

  7 days ago

• The Afghan Abyss

  The Taliban regime is behaving as expected, turning the country into a breeding ground for international terrorism, narcotics trafficking, and mass migration. There is no justification for attempts by US President Joe Biden’s administration...

  18 days ago

• Will US-China Tensions Boil Over?

  BRAHMA CHELLANEY, Project Syndicate China’s strategy has been to advance its foreign-policy objectives largely through bluff, bluster, and bullying. Without sparking direct armed conflict, China’s leaders have sought to intimidate...

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Ramani's blog

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• Siva Stuthi in Islam By Prophet’s Uncle

  Watch video. Translation.The man who may spend his life in sin and irreligion or waste it in lechery and wrath If at least he relent and return to righteousness can he be saved?If but once he worship Mahadeva with a pure heart, he will attain the...

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• Sundara Kanda How To Do Parayana

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

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Diane Ravitch's blog

• Ohio: Charter Connected to Hillsdale Plans to Open in Rural Area

  Parents in Athens County, Ohio, are concerned that a planned new charter school will drain funding away from their local public schools. The proposed classical academy is relying on conservative Christian Hillsdale College to deliver its...

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• Gary Rubinstein: Success Academy’s Backhanded Backfill Policy

  Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy Charter chain has won national plaudits for its extraordinarily high test scores. SA is a fundraising dynamo, attracting the support of leading figures on Wall Street and the financial sector. She and her...

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• Why NAEP Scores Plummeted During Pandemic

  Every major newspaper carried a story this morning about the sharp decline in NAEP scores because of the pandemic. The moral of the story is that students need to have human contact with a teacher and classmates to learn best. Virtual learning...

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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• The Summer of 2022

  By Paul Homewood   It’s been a summer of record breaking hype, if little else. We have been hearing for weeks that this summer has been unprecedented, how it “proves” global warming, and how it is a template for the future. It turns out...

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• Greenland Ice Loss “Worse Than We Thought”

  By Paul Homewood   It’s worse than we thought!!     https://theconversation.com/whats-going-on-with-the-greenland-ice-sheet-its-losing-ice-faster-than-forecast-and-now-irreversibly-committed-to-at-least-10-inches-of-sea-level-rise-185590...

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• California doesn’t have the capability to support the electric car push: Shellenberger

  By Paul Homewood From Fox News: (Click on link)     https://video.foxnews.com/v/6311693805112

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NoTricksZone

• With Record Sunshine, Germany’s 2022 Summer Was One Of The Warmest, Driest Since 1881

  By Die kalte Sonne Too warm and too dry, was the 2022 summer according to the German DWD national weather service. The DWD still calculates with the comparative period 1961-1990 and deliver these anomalies to the media headlines. A temperature...

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• Scientists Identify 3 More Regions That ‘Global’ Warming Has Not Touched Since The 1800s

  New studies identify sites in Portugal, southern Africa, and Arctic Svalbard that have not warmed in the last few centuries. Daily temperature records in northern Portugal indicate no net warming from 1863-2004 (Nunes, 2022). Also, the...

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• Energy Shortages Continue Powering Inflation In Europe…Reaching “Record 8.9 Percent”!

  Zurich’s online NZZ daily warns that come autumn, inflation in Germany could reach “double-digit figures for the first time since 1951”. The inflation rate in Germany in August rose to 7.9 percent, up from 7.5% a month earlier. Chart...

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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...

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• 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...

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• 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...

  2 months ago

The Moderate Voice

• Americans think they know a lot about politics – and it’s bad for democracy that they’re so often wrong in their confidence

  Overconfidence about their political knowledge is common among Americans. FXQuadro/iStock/Getty Images Plus Ian Anson, University of Maryland, Baltimore County As statewide primaries continue through the summer, many Americans are...

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• FULL VIDEO of Biden speech on Trump-GOP “extremist threat” to democracy (with full text)

  Here’s a video of President Joe Biden’s full speech on the threat to democracy and equality. Biden bluntly threw down the gauntlet to Donald Trump–he called out Trump by name–and Trump-supporting Republicans. Here’s the full...

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• Biden targets ‘extremist’ Trump allies as democratic threat in fraught political moment

  Published by Reuters By Steve Holland, Trevor Hunnicutt and Jarrett Renshaw PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden charged Republican allies of Donald Trump with undermining the country’s democracy and urged voters on Thursday...

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Marginal REVOLUTION

• Trade Adjustment Assistance might be going away

  The program that Mr. Ogg looked to for help, known as Trade Adjustment Assistance, has for the past 60 years been America’s main antidote to the pressures that globalization has unleashed on its workers. [TC’s aside: this first sentence...

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• Friday assorted links

  1. The Sailing Scribes: Circulating Law in the Twentieth-Century Indian Ocean. 2. Bryan Caplan contra schooling (NYT). 3. Economist Elizabeth Bailey has passed away. 4. The culture that is Edison, New Jersey Indian. 5. Elad on transformers...

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• The Cream Rises to the Top

  NBER: Can efforts to eradicate inequality in wealth and education eliminate intergenerational persistence of socioeconomic status? The Chinese Communist Revolution and Cultural Revolution aimed to do exactly that. Using newly digitized...

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Lloyd Lofthouse

• The trail that may lead to Traitor Trump’s Alleged Guilt

  I think there is interesting circumstantial evidence that may offer proof that Traitor Trump’s theft of classified documents has led to the mysterious deaths of 7 (or more) Russian oligarchs that may have been assets working for the CIA...

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• Mom in Texas Shuts Down Extremists and Joins the Honor Roll

  Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: The superintendent of schools in Granbury, Texas, made clear that he didn’t want any books about LGBT characters or LGBT issues in the school library. He agreed with the angry conservatives who...

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• The Infected Republican Party

  I’ve been asking myself for several years if insanity is contagious like a bacterial or virus infection (COVID, Polio, HIV, et al), so I decided to find out. And, here’s what I learned today. “Recent studies in the medical literature...

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MintPress News

• Giving Voice to the Voiceless: Tales from the Parents of Tortured Palestinian Children

  Faced with HR 2590, - a law intended to protect the lives of Palestinian children - the United States House of Representatives' submission to Israel and Zionism has been both pathetic and enraging. The post Giving Voice to the Voiceless: Tales...

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• Deliberate Misrepresentation: Western Media Bias Makes Israeli War on Palestinians Possible 

  On August 16, the Israeli military finally admitted that it was behind the strikes that killed the 5 young Palestinian boys of Jabaliya. Whether the NYT reported on that or not matters little. The damage has been done, and that was Israel’s...

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• How the CIA has Infiltrated Social Media Companies, with Alan MacLeod

  Big social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter and Google, have gone on a hiring spree, recruiting dozens of CIA officers to run their most important, politically sensitive departments – and almost no one is talking about it...

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2 September - iG Tab - 8

 

Chicago Boyz

• Speaking of Surveys

  An extensive collection of political polls, current and historical.  Use the ‘poll type’ and ‘state’ scroll bars, or the free-form search field.  Remarkably fast search.

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• Who Knows?

  So, by a curious coincidence, my address has been tagged by a long-time and established polling organization, to receive increasingly plaintive pleas for any adult in the household to participate in whatever line of questioning on important...

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• Miscellaneous Business/Economics/Energy Items

  Apple is going to make Watches and MacBooks in Vietnam.  (More precisely, Apple suppliers will make the products there.  “Make” in this context meaning mostly “assemble”, I think.)  Apple is also planning to produce the iPhone...

  9 days ago

Centinel2012

• Episode 1056: Holiday!

  Revenge of the Cis Published originally on Rumble on September 1, 2022 – Gov. Greg Abbott sends busload of migrants from Texas to Chicago– Reed Coverdale joins us

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• US Oil Reserves Nearly Depleted

  Armstrong Economics Blog/Energy Re-Posted Sep 2, 2022 by Martin Armstrong The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) has been at its lowest level since, ironically, 1984. The reservoirs are composed of four underground sites constructed...

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• Germans Stockpiling Firewood

  Armstrong economics Blog/Energy Re-Posted Sep 2, 2022 by Martin Armstrong We are quickly reverting back to the Dark Ages. Cooking and keeping warm with fossil fuels may become a luxury as the energy crisis spreads across the West. Reports...

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The BRAD BLOG

• See You in September...

  if (window.document.getElementById('post-14389')) window.document.getElementById('post-14389').parentNode.className += ' adhesive_post';We're standing down from The BradCast (and Green News Report) this week for an attempt...

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• CA's New Insulin Plan a Shot in the Arm Toward Socialized Medications, Ending Patent Abuse

  The state of California is embarking on a ground-breaking effort to manufacture and distribute a life-saving drug. The plan also deals a first major blow to private pharmaceutical companies that have long abused the nation's legal system...

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• Sunday 'Redacted' 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...

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bluebird of bitterness

• Perfectionism or OCD?

  You be the judge.

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• Friday happy dance

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• Find the crabs!

  Four crabs lurk among the lobsters. See if you can find them. The solution will appear in the comments section later today.

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BlackListed News

• U.S. officials order Nvidia to halt sales of top AI chips to China

  Chip designer Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) said on Wednesday that U.S. officials told it to stop exporting two top computing chips for artificial intelligence work to China, a move that could cripple Chinese firms' ability to carry out advanced...

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• Jon Stewart and the Pentagon honor Ukrainian Nazi at Disney World

  Defense Department-sponsored “Warrior Games” featured liberal comedian Jon Stewart awarding a member of Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion at Disney World. The Pentagon refused to tell The Grayzone whether US taxpayers funded...

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• FBI Official Accused Of Blocking Probe Into Hunter Biden Says He Retired, Wasn’t Fired

  An FBI official who has been accused of blocking an investigation into President Joe Biden’s son stepped down this month, lawyers representing the official confirmed to The Epoch Times on Aug. 31.

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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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

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  Onsala Space Observatory in Onsala, Sweden

  Radio telescopes are one of the more impressive types of telescopes mainly due to the enormous size of the dishes. While the biggest radio telescopes these days are large arrays of small telescopes, visiting a radio observatory still feels...

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  Why Birds Changed Their Tune During the Pandemic

  In the spring of 2020, as eight million residents of the Bay Area hunkered down at home hoarding toilet paper and dried beans, the natural world sprang to life. By night, San Francisco’s darkened, deserted streets echoed with the howl of coyotes...

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  Helicopter Crash Memorial in Salt Wells, Nevada

  Fallon, Nevada is the unexpected site of the Naval Air Station Fallon, one of the US Navy's largest training facilities for naval aviation. Presumably, it's somewhat safer for aviators-in-training to practice over the desert rather than...

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Accidental Deliberations

• Friday Afternoon Links

  Assorted content to end your week.- Martha Lincoln writes about the needless harm caused by public health messaging about being people being "tired" of pandemic precautions which many (if not most) are entirely willing to take. Rachel Gilmore...

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• Thursday Morning Links

  This and that for your Thursday reading.- Rachel Aiello reports on Health Canada's approval of COVID booster vaccines targeted at the Omicron variants. And Andrew Romano discusses the hope that the updated vaccines will result in a turning...

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• Wednesday Afternoon Links

  Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Liz Szabo examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has evolved - and the reality that the large number of infections in the Omicron wave is overwhelming the benefit of existing immunity.  And...

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2 September - iG Tab - 7 - MSM

 

WIRED

• The Best iPad to Buy (and a Few to Avoid)

  New slates are on the way, and we're here to help you choose the right Apple tablet for your needs.

  10 hours ago

• Put Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power in Theaters, Dammit

  OK, this probably won’t happen. But hear me out.

  11 hours ago

• TikTok Users Were Vulnerable to a Single-Click Attack

  Microsoft disclosed the flaw in the Android app’s deep link verification process, which has since been fixed.

  11 hours ago

NYT > Home Page

• Pennsylvania Stakes Its Claim as Center of the Political Universe

  Few states feature as many high-stakes, competitive races, each pulsing with the political currents that are shaping midterm campaigns across the country.

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• Price Cap on Russian Oil Wins Backing of G7 Ministers

  The proposal aims to stabilize unsettled energy markets in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But it faces considerable obstacles.

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• Against Fierce Resistance, Ukraine Makes Small Gains in the South

  Stepping up an offensive in the region near Kherson, Ukraine has retaken small villages. But officials predict a brutal winter ahead.

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

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  Senior CPI(ML) leader Kavita Krishnan cut ties with party over 'troubling political' issues

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  Russia lauds India for following own interests on energy issue

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  Bid to hit polls: Congress on electoral rolls demand

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BBC News - UK

• Tory leadership: Voting closes in race to decide next PM

  Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak must wait until Monday to find out which of them will be crowned leader.

  7 hours ago

• Unions call off Scottish school and bin strikes

  Hundreds of schools had been due to close next week alongside a fresh round of strikes by refuse workers

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• Cressida Dick: Sadiq Khan wrongly ousted Met chief - report

  The mayor of London Sadiq Khan has criticised the review, describing it as "clearly biased".

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