Monday, February 01, 2021

1 February - iGoogle Portal - Tab 9

 

  Utopia – you are standing in it!

  • Speculative Mania in Heavily Shorted Stocks is Probable Harbinger of Brutal Day of Reckoning for Current Dizzying Asset Bubble; The Story of Joseph P. Kennedy and the Bellboy in 1929...

  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|January 28, 2021 Pelosi Will Push Forward with Urgent $1.9 Billion Pandemic Relief Bill Despite No...

    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|January 27, 2021 The Big Short: Online Chat Rooms Inspire Panic Buying of Stock Options in Mall Retailer...

  • A French court on Monday started hearing a case against more than a dozen multinationals accused by a French-Vietnamese woman of causing grievous harm to her and others by selling...

  • Glyphosate and the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup disrupt the gut microbiome by the same mechanism by which the chemical acts as a weedkiller, and these effects happen even...

    • In January, twenty-six environmental organizations in Italy launched a powerful campaign that prevented the government from passing four bills inspired by the agribusiness lobby...

  •     South / North

  • I don’t usually agreee with The Guardian. But they are right. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/14/carbon-neutrality-is-a-fairy-tale-how-the-race-for-renewables-is-burning-europes-forests...

    •    South / North

      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • BY BRAHMA CHELLANEY, The Japan Times Large parts of the world are still reeling from the rampaging spread of the coronavirus, with renewed lockdowns in effect in many places. With...

  • Brahma Chellaney, World Politics Review President Joe Biden faces a slew of important foreign policy challenges. But with India, he has a historic opportunity to forge a strategic...

    • Brahma Chellaney, Open magazine At 78, Joe Biden is the oldest president in US history to assume office. The unprecedented security at his inauguration, which included neutralising...

  • Rama.As the date of birth of Poigai Azhwar is 4025 BC,these temples should have existed before 4025 BC

  • Pururavas introduced the dynasty's emblem - a pair of fish, and shared his throne and taxes with Indra.

    • Poigai Azhwar is dated at 4205 BC. The Thiruvaklikkeni temple about which Peyazhwar sung, should therefore be older than Fifth Century BC.

      Diane Ravitch's blog

  • The Wall Street Journal has the details on the money behind Trump’s incendiary “Stop the Steal—Save America” rally of January 6, which preceded a violent attack on the nation’s...

  • How close we came to a bloody coup. Only a few yards and a few minutes separated the terrorists from their targets, the leaders of Congress and the Vice-President. Thanks to the overwhelmed...

    • The ultimate killer of robograding os Dr. Les Perelman of MIT, who recently retired as a professor teaching writing to students at MIT. Les Perelman and his students cracked the code...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood   h/t ianprsy   More BBC lies:       England’s last surviving population of mountain hares may be under threat due to global warming, a conservation group has...

  • By Paul Homewood     https://www.thegwpf.com/antarctica-ice-stable-not-losing-ice-nasa-researcher-finds/   You might recall Jay Zwally’s inconvenient study published...

    • By Paul Homewood     If you want the coal mine at Whitehaven to go ahead, sign the petition:   https://www.change.org/p/cumbria-county-council-confirmation-of-mining-in-whitehaven/u/28329044...

  • Despite the thousands of scientific publications refuting  alarmist climate change scenarios, governments, activists and the IPCC continue to insist that we’re headed for...

  • A world renowned astrophysicist says the IPCC’s climate warnings cannot be taken seriously and that climate models use tricks to put the blame on CO2 Pierre Heumann at Weltwoche...

    • In 2020, more than 400 scientific papers were published that cast doubt on the position that anthropogenic CO2 emissions function as the climate’s fundamental control knob…or...

  • Cloaking Inequity: Using Data and Research to Unlearn Chait’s False Opinion About Charter Schools In this blog I respond to Jonathan Chait’s grossly unfounded opinions in the...

  • Answer Sheet: How Much Learning is Really ‘Lost’ When Children Aren’t in School Buildings? Here is a counterintuitive argument around the issue of learning loss, or, more...

    • Diane Ravitch's Blog: Three Big-City Superintendents: We Need a Marshall Plan for Our Schools: Now! This article by the superintendents of New York City (Richard Carranza), Chicago...

     Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Anew buzzword on social media, cable news, and among leftist activists is “deprogramming.” Along with terms like “reprogramming,”...

  • ( old notes on 'what seems reasonable'  Perception Alteration )

  • Victor Davis Hanson // The Patriot Post The new AT age — “After Trump” — began on either Election Day, Nov. 3, or on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20. But either way, reality as we had...

    • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Riotous rogue Trump supporters who broke into the Capitol on January 6 were properly and widely condemned by conservatives. They were somewhat...

  • By Maria Tsvetkova and Tom Balmforth MOSCOW (Reuters) – Riot police broke up protests across Russia on Sunday in support of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, detaining more than 4,500...

  • Donald Trump has lost his legal team a week before his impeachment trial in the Senate. According to CNN, the lawyers left when Trump insisted his defense should be re-litigating the...

    • WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An heiress to the Publix Super Markets chain donated about $300,000 to fund a rally that preceded the deadly storming of the U.S. Capitol this month by supporters...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • Here is an interview with Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and the lead developer of a COVID vaccine being produced in...

  • Sci-Founder Fellowship is a program to help early career scientists start companies of their own. We believe that companies can often be the best way to pursue translational research...

    • This paper reports the results of the first systematic attempt at quantitatively measuring the seminar culture within economics and testing whether it is gender neutral. We collected...

      Lloyd Lofthouse

    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Trevor Potter is a Republican who was former chairman of the Federal Election Commission and president of the Campaign Legal Center. He...

  • Despite Trump's decision to remove troops from Somalia, ramped-up airstrikes and record death tolls prove that America’s bloody legacy in the region is not over. The post America’s...

  • Anyone familiar with the Israeli occupation and the violence of the settlers would find the following story impossible and unthinkable, however, Issa Amro was able to pull it off...

    • Within hours of a move which saw Small Street making money to the detriment of Wall Street, authorities rushed in to shut the system down, with free marketeers in the financial world...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • Nine Russian adventurers mysteriously froze to death in Dyatlov Pass —a new theory explains why(tags:history snow Russia death )New study provides evidence for Modified Newtonian...

  • View poll: #25203</poll-25203> Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there.

    • Constantly downward trend since the 7th. Halving about every two weeks.This is still a lot higher than I'd like, and going down slower than I'd like. But I am very grateful that things...

      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • I saw The Dig a couple of days ago, and liked it pretty well, but many of my Facebook friends are praising it as well, so it’s a popular show and let me just jump on the old bandwagon and...

  • Exposure

    3 days ago
  • I feel like maybe I’m running this topic into the ground, this is the third blog in a row I’ve written about it. In my defense, it’s the topic everybody’s talking about it and...

    • A bit of mixed feelings re: Alexendria Ocasio Cortez lately. On the one hand, I agree with Jimmy Dore that she’s too conciliatory with Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, but on the other...

      Fragments from Floyd

  • The wife and I are living under the jurisdiction of a new Energy Domain: new to solar panels, new to heat pumps and new to Generac propane generators. We are not so new to power outages...

  • Space satellites may soon have to be capable of parallel parking if it gets any more crowded. And it definitely WILL!

    • TOOLS TO MEET OUR NEEDS We create tools to work for us: to dig foundations, to hoist steel girders for bridges, to record our words and thoughts for others or capture a likeness of another...

    1 February - iGoogle Portal - Tab 8

     

  • To be misunderstood is painful. It can leave you feeling angry, shameful, and helpless, especially at the person you want to share something with. You recognize that feeling when...

  • The zodiac signs are one of the oldest universal symbolical languages. Each sign reflects the sun’s position when you were born. Yet little is known about the specific origins of...

  •   Have You Heard

  • TweetHave You Heard wades into the pitched debate about reopening schools. We hear from an epidemiologist, then tour the land to talk to parents and teachers who are trying to navigate...

  • TweetWhat does the selection of Miguel Cardona for Secretary of Education portend for K-12 education? Kevin Welner, head of the National Education Policy Center, joins Jack and...

    • TweetIn the latest episode of Have You Heard, we talk to Rick Perlstein, author of the monumental new history Reaganland, about America’s ‘right turn’ against public education...

      Chicago Boyz

  • William Shirer, on his experiences in Germany during the early Nazi era: I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian...

  • I have been rewarded with many correct calls so far while watching the botched and hilarious clownshow that is the vaccination rollout. Just about every single thing I predicted would...

    • We read this with much amusement earlier in the week in the Daily Mail– the lamentations of one Brett Alder, a California sales exec who moved his family to Austin apparently in haste...

      Centinel2012

  • Armstrong Economics Blog/Q&A Re-Posted Feb 1, 2021 by Martin Armstrong COMMENT #1: Nobody is suggesting that we should “destroy all capital”. Right wing nonsense. We...

  • Re-Posted from GrrrGraphics.com JAN 30, 2021 AT 8:48 AM The big-footed hedge funds thought it would be easy as usual. They planned to stomp GameStop into the ground. They were...

    • A DIFFERENT TYPE OF SECESSION IS ALREADY HAPPENING IN THE USA Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By Jeff Crouere —— Bio and Archives—January 30, 2021 Lately there has...

      The BRAD BLOG

  • Please read this essay by Jack Reilly about the slow demise of political cartooning.  And support the craft if you can. * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually...

  • NOW CELEBRATING THE BRAD BLOG'S 17th ANNIVERSARY!WE WELCOME YOUR ANNIVERSARY SUPPORT/DONATIONS HERE! We're off today, but we've got a BradCast 'RECOUNTED' for your listening...

    • NOW CELEBRATING THE BRAD BLOG'S 17th ANNIVERSARY!WE WELCOME YOUR ANNIVERSARY SUPPORT/DONATIONS HERE! Some pretty huge news on today's BradCast, for the American economy and for...

      bluebird of bitterness

  • An archaeologist was digging in the Negev Desert and came upon a casket containing a mummy. After examining it, he called the curator of a prestigious museum. “I’ve just found a...

  • “Ständchen” was one of the last compositions of the prolific but short-lived Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828). Originally composed for piano and vocal soloist, it...

  • Transparency International has released its 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index which gauges levels of perceived public sector corruption in 180 countries and territories...

  • BGI Group, the world’s largest genomics company which provided COVID-19 tests worldwide including India, has been exposed as a front for the Chinese military. According to Bill...

    • A dozen people were arrested after armed protesters attempted to forcibly take over the Red Lion Hotel in Olympia, Washington. A SWAT team cleared out the hotel and escorted guests...

  • Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web

  • By Emily Reynolds. Among people who felt relatively deprived, greater hope was related to less risk-taking behaviour.

    • By Emma Young. American kids were more likely than adults to say they'd save the life of a dog or pig over that of a human.

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

  • This story is excerpted and adapted from Megan Rosenbloom’s Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin, published in...

  • Editors' note: This story contains images of metal badges depicting human genitalia. In medieval Europe, Christian pilgrims walked all the way from England to Spain (with a brief...

    • Serve spaghetti and meatballs to an Italian, and they may question why pasta and meat are being served together. Order a samosa as an appetizer, and an Indian friend might point out...

      Accidental Deliberations

  • This and that for your Sunday reading.- Linda Geddes discusses the problem with people approaching COVID-19 restrictions based on the question of what's permitted (or worse yet...

  • Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Jerusalem Demsas discusses the strong popular support for affordable social housing even as governments continually fail to provide...

    •  Joywave - Doubt

    1 February - iGoogle Portal - Tab 7 - MSM Narrative

     

      WIRED

  • Lauren Oyler's Fake Accounts and Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This ask the same questions about the internet. Their answers sound nothing alike...

  • Given the hundreds of ways your phone could come into life-threatening contact with liquid, you should know what to do when it happens (because it will)...

    • On the 9th, the first of three spacecraft will arrive at the Red Planet and inaugurate a new era of Martian exploration.

  • Hours after the United States voted, the president declared the election a sham — putting himself at the center of a movement that would shatter democratic norms and upend the peaceful...

  • At least 19 state and local elected officeholders from across the country attended the Jan. 6 rally and, in some cases, stormed the Capitol.

    • The sense of a dysfunctional, if not entirely broken, democratic system in the United States has foreign rivals crowing — and suggesting that it has no business lecturing other...

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

  • The country’s first unmanned space flight under the Gaganyaan programme before the final human spaceflight mission is scheduled to be launched in December this year, Union finance...

    • The government on Monday proposed a budget outlay of Rs 2,23,846 crore for health and well being in 2021-2022. This is an increase of 137 per cent from the previous year, with Rs 35,000...

  • Testing will start in Surrey, but London, Kent, Hertfordshire and Walsall also being targeted.

  • Deliveries will come towards next winter when people may need to be revaccinated.

    • An article claiming he snubbed the Royal Marines was "false and defamatory", the duke's lawyer says.