Tuesday, December 01, 2020

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  Utopia – you are standing in it!

  • Originally posted on No Minister: This followed an earlier incident last month at Puketona, just 10k from Paihia, where a police officer was shot at from close range. The two men involved...

  • For Lame Duck Trump, this Parthian Shot Could Provide Basis for Wag the Dog Operations to Make a Coup More Plausible; Trump-Kushner Normalization Deals by Gulf States with Israel...

  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, November 25, 2020 Rudy Giuliani Attends Whining Session of Defeated Pennsylvania Republicans...

    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, November 24, 2020 Biden Presents Experienced Foreign Relations and Security Nominees...

  • The Environmental Protection Agency released a draft biological evaluation on Wednesday finding that glyphosate is likely to injure or kill 93% of the plants and animals protected...

  • Researchers from the University of Turku in Finland have developed a new bioinformatics tool to predict if a microbe, e.g. a human gut bacterium, is sensitive to the world’s most...

    • New research is adding worrisome evidence to concerns that the widely used weedkilling chemical glyphosate may have the potential to interfere with human hormones, USRTK reported...

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      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • In a world wracked by violence, Islamist beheadings stand out for their savagery. While the absolute number of victims is relatively small, the threat this practice poses should...

  • Flip-flops are to Biden what egomania is to Trump Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and author of nine books, including “Asian Juggernaut: The...

    • But Partnership With New Delhi Is Not Guaranteed By Brahma Chellaney Foreign Affairs journal President-elect Joe Biden will inherit a U.S.-Indian relationship that is nearer...

  • It is not a View but a Way of Life, as Dr.Radhakrishnan, put it. In the journey of Sanatana Dharma, I have ascertained the following facts. Sanatana Dharma is older than what the dates...

  • https://castbox.fm/channel/id3539734?country=in Priest.Sri.Kumaraswamy. Mobile numbers.+919980980205 +919632163488. He speaks Kannada,Tamil and Malayalam. You may...

    • One of the readers has taken pains to get a reference text in Mysuru, published in the year 1900!My gratitude to him. I am providing the communication from him...

  • The Detroit Free Press reported today that Trump lawyers asked a federal court to set aside the certified election results and give the state’s electoral votes to Trump. They never...

  • When the Trump team and the president himself pressured Michigan Republican officials to overturn the vote in their state, only one man said no. He said he had to follow the law. He was...

    • The Supreme Court has taken a dangerous rightwing turn since the addition of Trump’s three religious zealot. Poor Chief Justice John Roberts has lost control. He is no longer the...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood   Timera have a fairly technical piece on the viability of CCGT plants in the UK:   UK CCGT asset owners have had a tough few years, with the impact of falling wholesale...

  • By Paul Homewood We’ve looked at power capacity scenarios for 2050, but that of course is much too far away for us to know what the grid then will actually look like. If in 2040, say...

    • By Paul Homewood   h/t Pardonmeforbreathing     From National Geographic:       Archaeologists in Norway have discovered dozens of arrows—some dating back 6,000 years—melting...

  • Scientists report they must “exclude atmospheric pCO2 as a direct driver of SST variations” after finding the Atlantic Ocean’s surface was multiple degrees warmer than today...

  • Why do so few countries in Europe follow Germany in green electricity? The answer could lie in electricity prices: Eurostat lists these for the first half of 2020. Of all countries...

    • Not surprisingly, climate alarmist and Guardian contributor Dana Nuccitelli reported in to brag about winning the recent bet. Then one day later he mustered the courage to express...

  • Diane Ravitch's Blog: Kevin Welner: The Urgent De-Vos-Ing of the Department of Education I recently had the pleasure of reading Kevin Welner’s terrific new Onion-like book, “Potential...

  • Curmudgucation: Survey: Pandemic Effects on Early Childhood Education Defending the Early Years is an organization whose stated mission “is to work for a just, equitable...

    • Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Whatever Happened To Vocational Education? Where and When Did Vocational Education Begin? In the mid-19th century, school...

    Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Almost every national Election Night reveals the same old red/blue map. The country geographically is a sea of red. The coasts and small areas...

  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness America will weather its current hysterias.  But the tensions and furor are reminiscent of the last generations of the Roman Republic...

    • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The distortions in the campaign and voting that we saw on November 3 will likely be child’s play compared with what will march through...

  • The United Nations, in cooperation with Finland and the Trump administration, has taken a few small steps towards peace in Afghanistan, which if successful will make it easier for...

  • Team Trump is getting desperate in its attempt to change the results of the 2020 presidential election. From Reuters reporter Brad Heath: Leave it to Team Trump to cite voting fraud...

    • All rights reserved. CopyrightDonar, Political Graffiti https://toons.to/go/daviddonar The post Biden comes in second to last appeared first on The Moderate Voice...

  • Alex has had numerous posts on Modern Principles, but here is my two cents.  A textbook, as the name indicates, is a book.  It has to be conceived of as a book, and thought of as a book...

  • Here is a new and very important paper by Victor Stango and Jonathan Zinman, here are some of the main results, noting that each and every paragraph is important: Our first finding is...

    • No, it’s not quite December 1st, but it is close.  And I recall a number of people, including numerous MR commentators, suggesting that once the election is over (with a modest lag)...

  • Will Donald Trump attempt to pull of a coup through the Electoral College? Continue reading →

  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: This editorial was published yesterday. Donald Trump’s presidency has been a horror show that is ending with a pandemic that is out of...

    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: In this post, Bill Moyers conducts an important interview with investigative journalist Anne Nelson, who talks about her new book, SHADOW...

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  • Sparked by a new bill that would make publishing photos of police illegal and a viral video soon after that shows French police brutally beating a black man, it appears that France may...

  • Hasbara groups represent a racist, supremacist, and violent ideology. They defend a state that is engaged in the worst type of violence against the Palestinian people, yet they feel...

    • Saudi Arabia’s use of American diplomatic cover and weapons alike has taken on a fevered pace as the Kingdom deepens the tragedy it has afflicted upon Yemen. The post Yemen: Trump...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • And this, young man, is how you do a parry. The timing is tricky, but afterwards you can do a riposte for an absolute ton of damage. Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth...

  • What Is the Signal Encryption Protocol?(tags:encryption communication Android )Secretive licensing system allows UK weapons to reach repressive regimes(tags:UK weaponry...

    • Edinburgh Castle to Arthur's Seat from the side of Blackford Hill Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there...

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  • Once again, I am just responding to the headline, so you can take my opinion on this matter with a grain of salt. I tried to read it, but got some page about ‘managing preferences’...

  • Clarity

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  • Here’s a little poem I posted a few days ago on Rattle’s Anything Goes poetry page: Bells should ring and drums should pound and trumpets boldly blare sending out a joyous sound...

    • I just finished watching First Man, a 2 hour+ made for Netflix movie about Neil Armstrong, starting in about 1960 with early astronaut training and climaxing, of course, with the moon...

      Fragments from Floyd

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    1 December - iGoogle Portal - Tab 8

     

      Have You Heard

  • TweetAre you a graduate student whose research on K-12 or higher education is ready for the podcast limelight? Then we have 30 minutes of prime audio real estate with your name on it...

  • TweetLong before the Hoover Institution was casting doubt on masks, its ‘experts’ were undermining the case for investing in public education. Special guest Bruce Baker joins...

    • TweetOur long-awaited book, A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, is finally (almost) out. To celebrate its publication, and the 100th episode of Have You Heard, we asked an expert—a...

      Chicago Boyz

  • “We should act incrementally as prudent risk minimizers and pursue any effective no-regrets options. We do not have to wait for the formulation and acceptance of grand strategies...

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  • Chicagoboyz enjoy a midnight snack.

    • It’s been a while since I posted a link collection, so here are quite a few… The highest-resolution snowflake photos ever captured.   The real kind of snowflakes, not the metaphorical...

      Centinel2012

  • Time to take the gloves off.  Play time is over, it’s time for the adults to step in Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By Jim ONeill —— Bio and Archives—November 30...

  • Their hatred of Trump is also deep and based on fictional posits, they are those who are best cast today as the conspirators in the redux of the mid-60s movie entitled “Seven Days in...

    • Posted originally on The Conservative tree house 2.0 on November 30, 2020 by Sundance “Glitches” seems like an easy catch-phrase to explain encountered problems in the...

  • On today's BradCast we try to catch you up with at least five days of important news from over the long holiday weekend. That's damned near impossible in the Trump Era, unfortunately...

  • Mike Peterson at The Daily Cartoonist has a list of cartoonists’ Patreon and other support sites. As newspapers and media companies continue to shed staff positions, direct support...

    • Hey, it's NICOLE SANDLER in for Brad and Desi today (they'll be back after the holiday weekend.) On today's BradCast, we're talking turkey. Okay, not really, but it is the day before...

      bluebird of bitterness

  • The tree of life my soul hath seen, Laden with fruit and always green; The trees of nature fruitless be Compared with Christ the apple tree. His beauty doth all things excel; By faith...

  • Cars were set alight and the Central Bank of France building was hit with a fire missile in Paris Saturday as tens of thousands of protesters took to city streets throughout France to...

  • Thousands of years ago, ancient Aztecs may have held the key to the next biotech breakthrough. During ceremonial rituals, they used a special compound they called “the flesh...

    • The Chinese Coronavirus (COVID-19) hit American shores — officially, anyway, there is significant evidence that it arrived earlier — in late January 2020. The American...

  • By Emily Reynolds. While empathy is often depicted as an uncomplicated moral good, the results suggest a more complex situation.

  • By Emma Young. Dehuminisation can lead to inhumane treatment and impair rehabilitation, so it's important to understand what leads to such views.

    • By Emma Young. "Vicarious" joy has a similar neural signature to joy we experience ourselves — but there are also important differences

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

  • On a brisk autumn flight from San Diego to Portland, Oregon, cookbook author and chef Jenn Louis was suffering from a particularly bad cold. Achy and exhausted, she came home to find...

  • Every Saturday morning, around 8:30 a.m., Munaivar Muneeswaran, 37, head of the department of history at Saraswathy Narayanan College in Madurai in southern India, gathered his...

    • Inside this museum, visitors are afforded the opportunity to observe many items and common objects that hail from 1945-1989. Many were commonplace in Bulgarian households. The...

      Accidental Deliberations

  • Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Daniela Gabor writes that there's no reason to treat the spending needed to allow people to survive a pandemic-induced recession as an...

  • This and that for your Sunday reading.- In the absence of leaders at any level of government willing to act on the scale needed to stop the coronavirus pandemic in much of Canada, Amir...

    • Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Michael Smithson examines data from 45 countries confirming that any attempt to play off COVID-19 suppression against economic activity...

    1 December - iGoogle Portal - Tab 7 - MSM News

     

      WIRED

  • Here are the very best discounts we’ve found in every category and at all the major retailers.

  • You don't need to drop a boatload of money to get a good deal today. These picks won't empty your wallet.

    • Google has discounted its new Pixel phones this weekend, along with Nest speakers and other Google smart home devices.

  • With vaccines and a new administration, the pandemic will be tamed. But experts say the coming months “are going to be just horrible.”

  • If authorization is granted, the first shots could be given as early as Dec. 21. Here’s the latest.

    • New York will implement an assortment of new emergency measures as the state shifts its focus to a sharp rise in coronavirus-related hospitalizations.

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

  • Actress Kangana Ranaut was trolled and attacked by several Punjabi celebrities, who were annoyed with her tweet on farmers’ protest. Here’s how Ranaut was trolled by Punjabi...

    • The Indian side has an edge over their Chinese counterparts in terms of battling the weather as a large number of them have already done duty in the Ladakh sector, including the Siachen...

  • The move comes after the failure of last-ditch efforts to rescue the ailing department store chain.

  • Some Conservative backbenchers are threatening to vote against the plans, but Labour will abstain.

    • The move could leave the firm on the brink of collapse, with the possible loss of up to 12,000 jobs.