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Rich Nations To Poor: Fossil Fuels For Me But Not For Thee
CLIMATECHANGEDISPATCH.COM -- The rich world's self-inflicted energy crisis over Ukraine has fully exposed their fossil fuel and climate hypocrisy. While wealthy countries lecture the poor to only use renewables, Europe and America beg Arab nations to expand oil production, Germany reopens coal plants and Spain and Italy ramp up African gas production. The poor are told to "leapfrog" from no energy to a sham green nirvana of solar panels and wind turbines, while the rich don't accept off-grid, renewable energy themselves. Consider Greenpeace promoted Dharnai, India's first solar-powered community. Fridges, TVs and electric cookstoves were prohibited so villagers were forced to continue burning wood and dung, whose indoor pollution kills millions every year and WHO says is like smoking two packs of cigarettes every day. A study found ...
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End Carbon Imperialists' Impoverishment of Africa
WATTSUPWITHTHAT.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2007: "Skyrocketing [electricity] costs work to reinforce the cycle of poverty for millions ... Continuing power shortfalls can be a downward spiral of disappointment and discouragement.... It is striking [that Africa], with fully one-sixth of the world's population, produces only four percent of the world's electricity."] ARTICLE: Now, with Europeans facing blackouts, their governments are turning on their coal-fired plants. It's like vegans running to steak houses over a vegetable shortage. But what about Africa? Africans are being forced by Western elites to a fossil fuel free future rife with poverty. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò calls it climate colonialism. Globally, fossil fuels have been the predominant driver behind long-term economic development: North America and Europe during the industrial era and India and China, more recently. A British family boiling a kettle just twice a day uses 5x more electricity than Malian in a year. An American uses as much electricity in 1 month than a Tanzanian in 8 years. While a freezer uses 10x more electricity than a Liberian in 1 year. More and more African ...
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Wokeism Is Collapsing On Itself
[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] --THEFEDERALIST.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 1965: "Left-wing attitudes tend not only to destroy the Faith of a man towards his religion but also the respect of one individual towards another. When the Faith is broken down everything goes with it: the family, society, the individual, the intelligence."] ARTICLE: Arguably, wokeism is defined by its rejection of Nature on gender, sexuality, the laws of economics, energy and rationality itself. But, Nature always has the final say, and we're seeing that in the slow retreat of leftists from wokeism. Hardly a day goes by when a writer confesses some variation of, "I'm a proud progressive, but these new leftists are crazy, and I'm done with the Democrats." The cognitive dissonance created from suspending reality has become too much. But do liberals realize their dissonance is due to leftism rejecting God? All forms of leftism are a house of cards that will collapse, like Nietzsche going insane after using words his whole life only to then say words are suspect. We can only handle so much cognitive dissonance before Nature ...
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Edward Feser: Woke Ideology Is a Psychological Disorder -- Plato Shows Us Who the Real Tyrants Are
[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- AMERICANMIND.ORG -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2006: "How can we inspire people to reach beyond rampant materialism, self-indulgent individualism, and unprincipled relativism?" ~~ Hazar Imam, 1999: "It's clear that uncontrolled freedom becomes license.... It's probably the most challenging issue that I have to address today."] ARTICLE: To understand today's society, it is useful to look at Plato's four stages by which minds become progressively disordered and the corresponding four increasingly corrupt societies they create. For Plato, reason is that faculty by which we understand objective facts. He, therefore, rejects the relativist view that what a thing is, and what is good for it, are matters of human convention.... For Plato, democracy is characterized by the "diversity of its characters" and "treats all men as equal, whether they are equal or not." In particular, it treats all ways of life as equal, no matter how irrational or immoral. The young "throw off all inhibitions" and celebrate "insolence, license, extravagance, and shamelessness," becoming ever more extreme." All pleasures are equal and ...
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Republicans demand answers from Biden over grants "to promote atheism worldwide''
FOXNEWS.COM -- In a letter to President Biden, Jim Banks and 14 House Republicans are demanding answers regarding the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor's (DRL) new grant program. The letter states that the DRL's Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) announced it "would award grants of up to $500,000 to organizations committed to the practice and spread of atheism and humanism, namely in South/Central Asia and in the Middle East/North Africa.... In the NOFO, the State Department characterizes atheists as a unique religious group while then encouraging the building of 'networks and advocacy groups' for atheists ... This would be analogous to official State Department promotion of religious freedom 'particularly for Christians' in China, with the express goal being to build a corresponding missionary network." "Any such program ...
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What is blue light? The effect blue light has on your sleep and more
HARVARD.EDU -- At night, light throws the body's biological clock -- the circadian rhythm -- out of whack. Sleep suffers. Even a mere eight lux -- a level of brightness about twice that of a night light -- affects the circadian rhythm, notes Stephen Lockley, a Harvard sleep researcher. Worse, research shows that disrupting the circadian rhythm may contribute to the causation of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and obesity. Blue wavelengths seem to be the most disruptive at night and the proliferation of electronics with screens, as well as energy-efficient lighting, is increasing our exposure to blue wavelengths. Protect yourself from blue light at night: Avoid looking at screens (TV, computers, tablets, mobile devices, etc.) beginning two to three hours before bed. If ...
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8 Hacks To Reduce Blue Light
BUSTLE.COM -- Stay away from your phone two hours before bedtime. Swap out your evening Instagram scroll for a book, and you might feel a world of difference in the morning. Use software and apps that reduce blue light levels. For example, F.lux automatically adjusts your computer's display as it gets darker outside, so that the display doesn't feel as bright and emits less blue light. Similarly use the night shift setting on your iPhone to adjust the color temperature of your phone display to reduce the blue light at night. Go to "Settings," then "Display and Brightness." You should see the option for Night Shift there. Set screen time hours and ...
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Top 10 Sleep Mistakes and Their Solutions
THEEPOCHTIMES.COM -- Although we may not like to admit it, many of the sleep problems we experience are the result of bad habits and behaviors. We stay up late or sleep in late. We eat foods that disagree with us or enjoy a drink late at night, oblivious to their disruptive impact on our sleep rhythms. Over time, we teach our body not to sleep and for relief we often turn to sleeping pills, which mask rather than solve the problem, and can lead to addiction. Ultimately for real success, with insomnia as with any chronic problem, one must look for the underlying imbalances and root causes and address those. Here are the common sleep "mistakes" I see in my practice and their solutions. Mistake #1: Not ...
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When You Visit Mountains, Forests, Rivers and Lakes, Please Read the Tributes to Loved Ones on Memorial Benches, and Consider Celebrating the Lives of Your Family Members Through Bench Memorials
001: A view of the forests and Rocky Mountains from a memorial bench off Hwy 40, Kananaskis Country. See corresponding tribute in photo 002, and another view of the mountains from the bench in photo 003 below; July 1, 2022. Photo: Malik Merchant/Simerg Photos. By MALIK MERCHANTPublisher/Editor Simergphotos, Barakah, and Simerg Over the past month, I have had the good fortune of ...
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No, You're Not Imagining It. Minions Are Everywhere
VICE.COM -- Banana. Bapple. Para tú. Poulet tikka masala. Minionese is largely a gibberish language, but it also contains the odd English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, Chinese, French, Russian, Filipino and Korean word. "The magic of understanding what they're feeling or saying isn't the words, but more the music. Just by the melody of a sentence, you could understand if they were angry, if they were pissed, if one was telling a joke and the other wasn't finding it funny," says director Pierre Coffin. In hindsight, Minionese's mix of languages paved the way for global domination. But, crucially, the fact that Minions largely spoke in gibberish meant that people could easily put words into their mouths. For the better part ...
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Omar Khayyam and Tasawwuf in Rubaiyat -- BoAI Vol #3
GOOGLE.COM -- Omar Khayyam's whole being was his craving and yearning for the vision of Unity, for he full well saw that the end of Sufism was total absorption in God. He was a humble devotee of "The Existing One", i.e. God and that he was Sufi of the highest order, a Sufi of Sufis. Out of several meanings attached to the word "Sufi," I favour the following: Sufis themselves connect this word with the Arabic root "Safi" -- Saf which signifies what is pure. Now were we to judge rightly, the most wonderful fact about the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is that it contains something more than mere pessimism because beneath it lies a positive doctrine of life as well. It is only when we approach its ...
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VIDEO: Allah Tu Hazir
As part of The Ismaili Sounds Jam Sessions series, this week we present "Allah Tu Hazir," performed by the ZIKR Band. Originally released during the Diamond Jubilee year, this Hamd -- composed and written by Kamal Haji -- highlights the beautiful names of Allah and promotes the message of one humanity. #AgaKhan #Ismaili #IsmailiMuslim #IsmailiSounds #IsmailiCommunity #Islam #Muslim #Music #Musicians #Hamd #Talent #TalentSpotlight ...
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VIDEO: The Schools2030 Global Forum, 2022
Held in Dar Es Salaam in June 2022, the inaugural Schools2030 Global Forum brought together over 200 delegates from more than 30 countries. They convened under the guiding question - How might we collectively reimagine the role(s) of schools, systems and societies for the future of learning? We are pleased to share with you this short film capturing the diverse perspectives, voices and ...
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Farhan Bhanji appointed Vice-Dean, Education, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at McGill University (Montreal, Canada)
July 28, 2022 David Eidelman, MDCM, Vice-Principal (Health Affairs),Dean of the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences: I am pleased to announce the appointment of Farhan Bhanji, MD, MSc (Ed), as ...
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Think of Ismaili Digest as the Front Page of all the best Ismaili websites! Ismaili Digest automatically and continuously brings together all new articles, photos, videos, etc. from Ismaili websites -- like The Ismaili, Simerg, IIS, NanoWisdoms, AKDN, Ismailimail, etc. -- so you can see them all at once. Direct links to over 15,000 web-pages from the best Ismaili websites already available. Ismaili Digest saves you (and those who are not tech savvy, such as seniors) the effort of having to visit them one by one to keep up to date, or have your inbox cluttered with emails from each of them when they publish new content. In a busy world, our sense of belonging to our community sometimes tends to wither and fade (particularly for isolated Jamati members). We hope Ismaili Digest's simplicity and comprehensiveness will help you feel connected as well as feel the local and global pulse of the community. Like many other non-commercial, public-service thematic website aggregators, Ismaili Digest is just a thematic aggregator. We publish short 50-60 word digests of all their content and provide direct links to their original pages saving you time, extra page loads and clicks. For the website publishers, direct links ensure they'll get the maximum number of potential visitors reaching their content so their hard work gets the maximum exposure. Also featured are other important articles, research and opinions relevant to the community's well being, intellectual growth, best practises and administration. And all served with a drop of humour as well, because "we are a community that welcomes the smile!" Ismaili Digest is not associated with any private Ismaili website, whether aggregated by Ismaili Digest or not. All websites Ismaili Digest aggregates are independent websites run by their individual owners and we are not responsible for content they publish. |
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