Idaho Man Injured and Arrested After Allegedly Kicking a Bison While Drunk in Yellowstone Field and Stream
Pandemics
Texas Veterinarian Helped Crack the Mystery of Bird Flu in Cows Time. The story beneath the headline is not the heroic individual, but that potentially exposed people are refusing testing (a result of the collapse of the of the public health establisment + libertarianism). As a result, we have no idea of how far tranmission has spread (and we aren’t taking measures according to the Precautionary Principle, either).
The bird flu is uncontrolled, and it keeps showing up in the scariest places MSNBC
‘Sluggish’ flu vaccine uptake has experts worried Dermatology Republic. Australia.
New SARS-CoV-2 KP.2 variant defies vaccines with higher spread, study warns News Medical
China?
Rural Chinese workers become unlikely livestreamers amid slowing economy, fewer prospects Channel News Asia
China’s migrant workforce getting older as pay rises lag behind general population South China Morning Post
China’s C919 passes ‘deep level’ post-flight safety tests, ramps up rivalry with embattled Boeing South China Morning Post
Scientist who gave world the Covid sequence is locked out of his lab by Chinese Telegraph
Over 40% of Americans now see China as an enemy, a five-year high, a Pew report finds CNBC
Philippines summons China envoy over water cannon attack Channel News Asia
Myanmar
China launches sea trial of its largest-ever aircraft carrier Anadolu Agency
A sanctioned strongman and the ‘fall’ of Myanmar’s Myawaddy Al Jazeera
Japan will use AI to find out what bears do in the woods The Register
India
‘Fairly Confident R&AW Ex-Chief Was Fully in Picture’: Gerry Shih on Pannun Murder Plot The Wire
Syraqistan
House passes bill to expand definition of antisemitism amid growing campus protests over Gaza war AP. Commentary:
My statement on voting against H.R. 6090: pic.twitter.com/XtxQ1iHatW
— Congresswoman Sara Jacobs (@RepSaraJacobs) May 1, 2024
H.R.6090 – Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023 Congress.gov. Key passage:
Working definition of antisemitism IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance). Key passage:
But here we are!
Reject Definitions of Antisemitism that Encompass Protected Speech ACLU
What Is Wrong with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s Definition of Antisemitism? Res Publica. From 2022, still germane.
How a Leading Definition of Antisemitism Has Been Weaponized Against Israel’s Critics The Nation. From 2023, still germane.
Antisemitism and Zionism: The Internal Operations of the IHRA Definition Middle East Critique
Labour should ditch the IHRA working definition of antisemitism altogether Open Democracy Readers will recall that Parliamentary Labour, the press, the spooks, and the Israeli Embassy used the IHRA to take down Corbyn.
* * * Jewish Anti-Zionists Fight Slander Against Their Pro-Palestinian Advocacy The Maple
* * * The Council on Foreign Relations, the Israel Lobby, and the War on Gaza Monthly Review
For Whom Do Biden and Blinken Work? The American Conservative
Biden administration ‘ignoring US laws’ on arms transfers to Israel: Ex-senior official France24
European Disunion
More than 120,000 take part in May Day protests across France, dozens arrested France24
US deliberately provokes crisis on European continent Infobrics
Live Pro-Palestinian mobilizations: Sciences Po Paris organizes an internal debate on the war in Gaza, the Lille campus closed (Google translate) C-News
New Not-So-Cold War
Putin’s crushing new offensive could be the end of Ukraine Independent
Ukraine Retreats From Villages on Eastern Front as It Awaits U.S. Aid NYT
In Western Ukraine, a Community Wrestles With Patriotism or Survival NYT
* * * How Globalization Rose and Fell With Nord Stream Foreign Policy
US sanctions 31 China-based companies over Russia Anadolu Agency
* * * Ukraine Introduces AI-Generated Spokesperson For Foreign Ministry NDTV. Next, the trenches!
Protests erupt in Georgia as parliament passes ‘foreign influence’ bill Anadolu Agency
Global Elections
Missing in action: How two key parties in India’s largest state collapsed Al Jazeera
The Caribbean
The unexpected announcement of a prime minister divides Haiti’s newly created transitional council FOX
Biden Administration
Potatoes retain USDA classification as vegetable, not grain, in bipartisan effort FOX
Antitrust
Message to Congress on Curbing Monopolies Franklin D. Roosevelt. April 29, 1938.
Groves of Academe
UCLA encampment:
Pro-Israel counter-protesters attempt to storm encampment, sparking violence Daily Bruin
I’m a UCLA professor. Why didn’t the administration stop last night’s egregious violence? Forward
Strike Authorization Vote Announcement UAW 4811. “Last night, an armed group of counter-protesters attacked the Palestine Solidarity encampment at UCLA, hitting protesters including members of UAW 4811with sticks, spraying them with bear spray, and pelting them with bottles and fireworks.”
Israeli pro boxer identified as assailant intimidating UCLA protestors in video Sports Politika
Jessica Seinfeld and Bill Ackman Fund Pro-Israel Counterprotests at Colleges Daily Beast
Cal Poly Humboldt encampment:
[Update 4:38 A.M.: Live Stream From the Campus] Arrests of Students at Cal Poly Humboldt as Law Enforcement Pours Onto Campus (video) Redheaded Blackbelt
Digital Watch
Google Search results polluted by buggy AI-written code frustrate coders The Register. Autocoprophagy proceeding more rapidly than even I imagined.
Google lays off hundreds of ‘Core’ employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico CNBC
The $21 billion influencer industry has an ad fraud problem Business Insider. Wow, good thing I was already sitting down.
STATEMENT: Colorado lawmakers approve broad, nation-leading Right to Repair law PIRG
Zeitgeist Watch
Deliveroo rider Jenniffer Rocha who bit off thumb seen working after conviction BBC
Apocalypse Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow Literary Review
Class Warfare
Should Billionaires Exist? Robert Reich
The Age of Cloud Capital Yanis Varoufakis, Persuasion
Thousands of mysterious jellyfish-like creatures wash up on California shores FOX
Antidote du jour (via):
Bonus antidote (desert dog). I hope this works; may take a clickthrough:
Desert dog writes: “May Day surprise! Tilford the turtle comes out for a feeding for the 19th year. It’s springtime in Missouri and he came for a snack after a long winter sleep.”
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
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BLACK SWAN
(cold sweat @ 4 AM)
No one saw him wander in
His face a mask of mortal sin
A black swan waddled by his side
Satin wings spread high and wide
No noise no flash no fire no smoke
Just traders staring till he spoke
“I’ve got a good grasp what goes on”
The wraith reined in the big black swan
“Pump the Dow it is no use
This bird is not your golden goose
Like you it loves some Acts of God
Floods and fires for fine print fraud
Spreadsheets full of fairy tales
All the thumbs on all the scales
Jumping on each fresh disaster
So the money gets here faster
Naked shorts and stock buybacks
Quants who see things parallax
Algos – false trades – HFT –
Light years from reality
A working man must toss the caber
Make or break by honest labor
None of that is true up here
High in the financial sphere
Distant from the earth below
An occult archipelago
Digital and globalized
Numbers keep you hypnotized
Ritalin or snort a line
Chasing down that dollar sign
If you think you think this week
That’s the furthest out you seek
Profit now or lose the chance
Risk the rates and happenstance
Scoring deals like it’s a game
Frantic efforts with one aim
Get out right now in the black
Rooting like a razorback
For the morsels left behind
Lust and greed so intertwined
Forgetting there’s this ancient bird
That longer cycles undergird
Your hasty hungry worldview
Patterns from out of the blue
Cycles no one can contrive
Patterns that no one can drive
Crashes come like clocks that tick
Like up down on a pogo stick
You own this swan,” said its drover
“I’m only here to hand it over.”
He released that big black swan
It took flight
He was gone
Especially like ” like up down…”
You’ve been on fire as of late, Antifa.
I want to emulate you…
Wuss. A Florida man would headbutt a bison.
Oh, this is too easy . . .
I KICKED A BISON
(melody borrowed from I Shot The Sheriff by Bob Marley as performed by Eric Clapton)
I kicked a bison
Then that bully made a mess of me
I’m on Terramycin
Got pulled over by some deputies
All around in Bozeman town
People laugh till they fall down
A DUI from that deputy
Looks like prison is my density
I screwed up so splendidly
(I must pay)
I kicked a bison
Twenty Thousand is a big expense
I kicked a bison
How could I know not to jump the stupid fence?
That ugly buffalo he baited me
Scraped the ground with his toe
Body language is not hard to read
So I matched him blow for blow
That was a nasty old buffalo
(Which way?)
I kicked a bison
Then went running from the deputies
I kicked a bison
At the time it seemed like common sense
Each of us can have a real bad day
Beer’s so tasty going down
When all at once I saw great big brown
Pawing there at the ground
So I went over there to knock it down
(Anyway)
I kicked a bison
Then that bully made a mess of me
I’m on Teramycin
There’ll be a rematch I can guarantee
My exes never want to talk to me
Now that I’m famous we’ll just see
My head is ringing like an iron bell
I wish I’d knocked that bison out
Yes I shoulda knocked that bison out
(Anyway)
I kicked a bison
Got pulled over by some deputies
I kicked a bison
Looks like prison is my density
Shoulda done the deputies, buffalo holder!
“Then that bully made a mess of me” LOL!!
I was just referencing that great Homer Simpson quote the other day to a brewery owner talking about violence in his parking lot.
“To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems,”
That quote would make a nice epigraph for a drinking cup.
He’s lucky that zebras are not native to North America.
You’ve never been to Tijuana, I take it.
Say what now?!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zonkey_(Tijuana)
Hold my beer.
Hey, y’all, watch THIS!
This Spud’s for ewe…
A friend told me about another human incident from her days as a Ranger in Grand Teton National Park, back in the 80s. A bull bison was peacefully lying down, ruminating over his own business, when a man approached. The man wanted a photograph of a standing bison, so he kicked him. The bison sprang up and began tossing the man in the air — I think the human lived. The DOJ settled out of court, as they always do in such cases.
Classic case. He effed around and found out. He’s lucky that he did not pick himself up a Darwin Award.
“Israeli pro boxer identified as assailant intimidating UCLA protestors in video”
‘David Kaminsky, an Israeli boxer who goes by the moniker “The Lion of Zion” was seen hurling racial slurs and spitting at pro-Palestine demonstrators during a UCLA protest on Sunday.’
Pretty sure that under American law that those are arrestable offenses, especially as he is a foreign residing in America. So why is he still walking around free? Wait, if he feels so strongly about Israel, then why hasn’t he jumped on a plane back to Israel to join the IDF? I’m sure that they will find a place for him fighting in the ruins of Gaza.
Max Blumenthal was on Judge Napolitano’s show yesterday, and he said that anti-Palestine protesters were populated with ex-IDF who were armed with fireworks, metal pipes and hammers. The police just looked on while they were attacking the encampment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U12Ozd3s3C8
I guess it is much easier to fight students than to go and fight with someone who can fight back.
How do we know that those ex-IDF are not really there on “detached duty” as ordered by Netanyahu’s government? Sending IDF goons to beat up protestors in America itself is something that I can very easily see him doing. You think that the Biden regime could give a rat’s if he did?
I could certainly believe it, but it would be irresponsible not to speculate in any case!
I’m reminded of the opening scene in Ulie Edel’s Der Baader-Meinhof Komplex, when a cohort of goons organized by SAVAK, the Iranian “security” service, attack Germans protesting the Shah’s motorcade during a state visit in 1967. SAVAK and German cops synched very well. The incident served to push some of those on the receiving end of their truncheons and bullets over the radicalization threshold.
If you had listened to Blumenthal, he says there are Israelis in the communities on either side of Westwood, where UCLA is, and they have shown up at and have effectively disrupted pro-Palestine/pro two state solution events in the area, including one he was involved with. So they are locals.
That was a shocking interview. I had never heard of neoconservative Iranian expat communities before. I suppose it shouldn’t have surprised me, Blumenthal mentioned their Venezuelan and Cuban counterparts, but still. We just appear to be a magnet for weird and violent expat communities from everywhere. Looks like you got out just in time.
The LA Persian Mafia is definitely a thing (per Clueless and a close ‘Valley Girl’ college friend with a Persian father) though I imagine most of the families have ran through the money they took out in 1980 and degraded into undifferentiated Miami Cuban style reactionaries.
Very strong emphasis on being ‘Aryan’ with that lot. My friend has a white mother and her father left to escape the Shah so she and her siblings were outcasts.
The LA Persian Mafia is definitely a thing
Not just LA.
If you were around Silicon Valley back in the days when serious engineering expertise in chip design was required — or indeed you’re around Big Pharma now — it was very noticeable that a bunch of former Persians fled the country to the US when the Ayatollah took over, and either took some serious technical expertise with them or acquired it in the West.
I imagine most of the families have ran through the money they took out in 1980 and degraded into undifferentiated Miami Cuban style reactionaries.
All the former Iranians I met were smarter than your Miami Cubans, and they weren’t all reactionaries either.
All of the Persians I knew that fled Tehran and made their way to LA were Jewish, and every last one of them it seemed had brought an awful lot of Pahlavis with them, and many cashed out near the top of the market in 1980, and turned it into LA real estate, smart cookies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pahlavi_Gold_Coins
Ha! If they did invest heavily in LA real estate around 1980, they probably have generational wealth to keep this grudge going indefinitely.
Their grudge was against the usurpers to the Peacock throne, they were still very pro-Shah.
Interesting, I had never heard about those coins before.
They were all net sellers into a generational bubble in all that glitters…
My sense and this is from impressions formed years ago, is that the LA core that left with the Shah’s ouster was quite reactionary. The ones who left earlier and later can be a heterodox bunch. My friend’s father was certainly not a reactionary though he was charmingly old fashioned and chivalrous.
I actually don’t have any Iranian family background (how I became partly Persianized is a much weirder story, lol), but my impression matches yours.
Within the Iranian-American community (“ABC = American Born Confused” I was once told), the former courtier families around the Shah are a resentful, ultimately decadent core. A lot like I imagine Russian emigres were a century ago.
The one complication though is that I think there’s a generational mellowing out too. Even in the reactionary families, at least the smarter kids have assimilated enough to form their own opinions. I think they recognize the West isn’t the bed of roses nor is Islamic Iran the hellscape their parents say it is.
I did both back in the 80s Calif, Persian GF first, whooboy as they were lesser, but still projected faux superiority and were obviously raw about their ouster from a higher social status back in Iran. Flash backs of that old L.A. movie about a U.S. female losing her house over taxes to such and the Persian family presenting better than was true too marry off the daughter to a wealthy Persian ex pat family. Going to that house was like doing a HALO into a red hot zone. Sadly she like nose candy too much and welp ….
Then years of dating [almost married] an incredibly sweet Jewish West Lake Girls School sort for years, I was totally immersed in the community. In L.A. the well to do are off Sunset Blvd in the surrounding burbs from Westwood to Malibu Bch. Second class are scattered around in cottages offset from them depending on location.
I have no illusions about why sorts like the Seinfeld’s ponied up or any others. There was always a nascent undertow about ethnicity within the group, polite, but there never the less. Per se just sitting at her family house in Brentwood for weekly dinners and dad would jokingly point out the lack of facial distinction in my face. Rocking up too a Jewish holiday gathering at a family members house and have it been one of my ex executives from C-Corp – lol. He had a moment when he saw me and then came over to tell me she was a nice girl … not that I was more ethical than most her mobs boys at the time.
Goes on and on and on … until a moment shines a light on it … eh …
The first part is that so many of them form when their US handlers gets ousted from the old country.
The second part is that they mentally freeze frame their memory of the nation and its culture from the day they leave.
The US is the enforcerer of Oligarchy Inc. arround the world.
Alexander Mercouris has mentioned the bad political juju that fossilized diaspora politics brings to the host country, those wealthy Iranian Jews on the West Side of LA – the “Persian Mafia” as Cher/Alicia Silverstone memorably refers to them in Clueless – being a case in point.
Just finished listening to that great interview. One thing that I wonder about now. In the same way that there is no such thing as an ex-CIA person, can it be also the same for an ex-IDF soldier as well? There are about 140,000 Israelis in America and a lot of them must be ex-IDF. So are they always ready to provide physical muscle when needed as mentioned in that Blumenthal interview?
When traveling around the world, I sometimes had the misfortune of running into incredibly rude gaggles of newly released from duty IDF Israelis, who seemed to tick every ugly Jewish stereotype on the list in their approach to diplomacy with the local population. They would typically be in groups of 4 to 6, and you avoided them like the plague.
I wonder if Israel sent said envoys to the USA to bust heads and light off ire works on campus?
Reminds me of when we were at places like the Louvre back in the Seventies, you had to use active situational awareness techniques to avoid the Japanese Hoplite phalanxes or they would mow you down and take pictures of the carnage. But, somehow, I suspect that they were a lot more polite than your IDF on leave.
A Japanese tourist with a Nikon in their hands at all times was more of a caricature, whereas Israeli tourists were a menace to anybody that got in their way.
Atypical reactions to Israeli tourists:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PERU/comments/13ka190/what_to_do_when_you_encounter_rude_travelers/?rdt=57750
The Asian flashbang bus is becoming a bit of a meme around my parts.
Nowadays it’s the Chinese in the Prado, at least in the room with Goya’s black paintings. Fortunately, my favourite painting there (The dog) didn’t seem to be in their guidebooks, so I could look at it undisturbed.
I once was taking the train to Munich, sharing the compartment (that will date this…) with a tour guide from Nepal. Knowing that Nepal was a popular destination with Israelis after the army, I asked him if he ever had Israeli groups. His response: “Thank God, no”
BTW, he wasn’t that impressed with the Dolomites….
Not just muscle.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MGyPEt2sucY
I think they are outside agitators.
Why go through all that trouble when there are plenty of homegrown thugs who are happy to pitch in?
The AIPAC Brigade…
> Max Blumenthal was on Judge Napolitano’s show yesterday
Thanks for this link, I could’nt find it.
So why is he still walking around free?
You must have written this rhetorically I’m guessing. It seems to me that when Col. Douglas McGregor, Scott Ritter, and many other credible commentators say that Congress, the MSM, and other institutional positions of leadership are bought by Zionist financial leverage (and blackmail as documented by Whitney Web) most who hear this simply shrug it off and chock it up to hyperbole.
The “Revelation of the Method” is now complete.
Seems like the Israelis got their own Freikorps out there doing dirty work Stateside.
Wait, I maybe violated the IHRA definition there. Arrest me.
The defining element of fascism is the use of armed gang violence to suppress political opposition.
P.S.
I’m not able to post using my regular nome so I’m trying again
And yet that the local “communist” party keep the option of an armed takeover open is supposed to make them the scary ones.
“He’s a sonuvabitch, but he’s our sonuvabitch!” was said of one of the two brutal and corrupt father and son Somoza dictators of Nicaragua. The United States overthrew the elect government and kept them in place because they were anticommunist.
The American government keeps toppling elected governments and putting in corrupt ones, then is surprised when there are communist revolts.
B is going to make a statement about the “anti-Isr violence raging on college campuses.” Doesn’t look like that to me. UCLA sure doesn’t look like that. The violence is coming from the other side. / my 2 cents.
I guess that old Joe can forget getting young people to vote for him this November. I seem to recall that they helped push him over the line back in 2020 but he said himself that he had no sympathy for them – and now he has proven it.
Listen to Bibi in this clip on JImmy Dore / Due Dissidence guys show. utube.
Bernie HITS BACK After Netanyahu DEMANDS Campus Protesters’ Arrest!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTITVFMZnuI
Biden is hoping that loosening marijuana laws will buy a few kids off.
His statement is now out, and, predictably, it sounds like a lot of drivel.
“So let me be clear,” Biden said as he asserted peaceful demonstrations are protected while violent protests are not. He called out vandalism, trespassing, and forcing the cancellation of graduation or intimidating people as not constituting peaceful protest.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-speaking-campus-protests-says-150900576.html
He appears to not understand, or not want to, that all of these protests were peaceful until the cops and other outside agitators showed up. Having it both ways will in no way clarify the situation.
Since when the hell is trespassing a ‘violent’ protest?
And part of me wishes a bunch of closeted fratbot women exploiters and jackoff wannabe tough guys had ever attacked any march I was in or encampment I visited while in college or grad school. But I guess even the sockpuppet conservative clown element was smarter in those days.
I may need to take time out from even skimming these enraging headlines and links, let alone their unconstitutional, hatefulcontent.
These stories are definitely hard to read.
The day after the Emory protest I was on the line to Glenn Memorial (where my card is) asking what was being done to protect the students. I got largely the same response we are reading about now.
How is it possible for students and staff to “trespass” on grounds that are dedicated to such things, and since when were they not able to invite their friends onto campus? Emory is a large enough campus that it would be easy to bypass the quad if one was so disposed, and what need had Emory for shock troops on its’ own campus?
No good answers were forthcoming, but I suspect that she was reading from a script and was not allowed to deviate from the talking points much. I am old enough to remember when they brought Nelson Mandela onto the campus and feted him, so what changed?
Anyway, since then I have heard that the President is in hot water with the faculty, so something good may ultimately come of this.
He, and the class he represents, believe that any threat to property is violence. Much narrative work needs doing in this struggle; those I’ve talked to who watch corporate news seem to think that these occupations are violent; they’re picnics, until they’re attacked.
Well, those guys are beating up plenty of Jews…just not the ones Netanyahu and company are talking about.
If beating up Jews is the only criterion for “antisemitism,” I would imagine that “pro Israeli” mobs are far more “antisemitic” than the other folks.
So the LATimes is covering the UCLA student protest extensively. Here’s but one of today’s articles: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-01/la-me-ucla-camp-police
Racial slurs generally are not a crime under American law.
A lightly edited version of The American Conservative article will run in The Nation in February when the GOP can again play the villain.
It is never a good morning for me when I can read something in the American Conservative and am nodding in agreement rather than feeling my blood pressure rise five paragraphs in.
Unfortunately, while I am not saying it is not possible or even likely for a Trump2 admin to be as despicable as the Biden/Blinken GenocideRUs one, I do think it is unlikely they could make as many war crime decisions and actions in a matter of weeks after inauguration. But then again The Nation stopped being credible years ago…
If memor serves, Trump’s few words on the deal were,
“Finish The Job!”
RFK Jr. eerily silent.
Hikikomori is an very understandable human condition. We suck.
I recall the same.
Trump wants to wash the blood out of the carpet before he moves back in.
Vile creatures run our State.
Here’s where Trump’s ability to read the room and the effectiveness of a captured media will get interesting. January is more than six months away. It is only seven months since October 7. Things move quickly. Despite our certainty that Israel owns the American government, nothing may change, or it all could. And I think change is more likely with Trump than Biden, frankly I think Biden gets off on it.
I have no doubts horrors, this and others, await us no matter who is elected. I just don’t see that article being written in February more like April or May.
I have been wondering if the violent police attacks on students protesting genocide is actually a trial run, planning ahead for future, the election and beyond.
It looks like a demonstration project: unrestrained brutality against any expression of opposition against The Powers That Be.
The message is “we know our actions won’t stand scrutiny, so we’ll pound the snot out of anyone with the temerity to scrutinize them in public. You remain free to think what you want, but if you act on it we’ll clobber you.”
That only works if the protestors are a small part of the population. As the distrust and dismay broadens, then it is the police who fear to go home.
We have hikikomori in this country too. We call them gamers. Everybody knows somebody who stays home immersed in video games, because the real world they find themselves in is unbearable.
I would say that the far left and the far right have more in common than might first appear.
This concerns their establishment enemies greatly, who would just as soon they not figure this out.
Actually, whenever they talk about foreign policy, I find myself nodding in agreement. Unfortunately, they also talk about other things.
heh… The Nation…
That said it does, still, occasionally publish a serious opinion unlikely to be found in other faux-left fish wrapping.
Case in point, the brave, contrarian voice of Joann Wypijewski:
Harvey Weinstein’s Reversal of Fortune
Though the movie mogul’s acquittal stunned the New York media, anyone who attended the trial without blinders could have seen it coming.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/harvey-weinstein-rape-acquittal/
I hadn’t read that. Thank you. I didn’t follow the trial, and frankly wouldn’t have been considered fair anyway. (Too many stories from people I know and trust. Don’t ask me about Schwarzenegger either.) But that gives a very cogent analysis of both prosecutorial and judicial overreach in a weak case.
I’m waiting for someone to wear a t-shirt that says:
AMERICA FIRST
NOT ISRAEL
and then get arrested for anti-semitism!
RE: Ukraine/collapse
I got about one paragraph into the Independent before the paywall kicked in.
That was enough to see that they’re still clinging to that old chestnut about Russia getting help from China, Iran, and N. Korea. They just can’t bring themselves to admit that Russia is outproducing the West in weapons and the sanctions have failed miserably.
As Bugs Bunny would say – “whadda maroon!”
I heard it from a trustworthy source (Ukrainska Pravda) that half of the North Korean artillery shells are duds. Because, you know, they’re North Korean – or something like that.
I heard the same compliant by Ukrainian soldiers about the artillery rounds that they had received from Pakistan. Lots of duds and some that blew the barrels when fired. Saw a video where this actually happened. I guess when they had to fire Pakistani-supplied shells, that they would have used an extra long lanyard and pulled from inside a trench. That is what I would have done.
USA proclaimed a goal to bring down the governments of these 4 countries — and few more. There are signs that these countries exchange goods and even — gasp — weapons, violating prohibitions that were inserted to the list of rules that form world order.
Those exchanged are named “help”, but there are no indications or even suggestions that “help recipients” get those goods for free, least of all, Russia. One may conjecture that N. Korea could get some credit… In short, this is not “old chesnut” but a linguistic manipulation of the type and purpose described by George Orwell.
It really hasn’t dawned on the West, or maybe it is the Upton Sinclair effect, that the only thing that really held concepts like “international law” or “world order” together was good faith and fair dealings by all parties, including adversaries.
Because there is no equivalent of a “Supreme Court” to at least somewhat act independently of the executive and legislative branches in the US (the UN being a total failure in this regard) there is no way to impartially arbitrate disputes such as the one between Ukraine and Russia or the Palestinian issue. The West has nobody to blame but themselves for poisoning the well by either refusing to join institutions like the ICC, or compromising and destroying them. Witness the way that the OPCW was compromised by the Brits and the “White Helmets.” Then there is the current trend of simply ignoring rulings coming from the ICJ, or selective enforcement (Putin bad, Bibi good.)
Sanctions are another own-goal by the West. I remember the 90’s when it was argued that “because markets” all trade should be free. It worked as long as the geopoltical situation seemed to be going in the favor of total spectrum domination by western economies, but then came China.
If you want to keep your rules-based order, you have to be willing to abide by third party decisions that don’t go in your favor. Even the WTO now seems to be collapsing.
There is no way to defend things like supporting a genocidal Israeli regime that kills kids with impunity while simultaneously claiming that North Korea, China, Russia and Iran are somehow worse for banding together. It’s so obviously morally bankrupt that it speaks for itself.
So, yeah, it is down to linguistic manipulation which is apparently all they’ve got left.
the W.T.O. is a kangaroo court, run by corporations(fascism) that gut sovereignty, and takes away countries abilities to craft their own trade policies and internal regulation of their economies.
thank god its dying.
Russia can have both: allies who help them and a strong industrial policy that outproduces in areas.
But, even with a fall of Ukraine, Russia will still be at war with NATO and the USA.
China and Iran have to come to terms with they are at war with the same alliance, different name possibly.
And the NATO and other alliance countries don’t care about the costs. That’s also their personal gravy and it will go on and on…just to keep the money flowing.
If NATO and the US are at war, they’re sure not acting like it. They’d need to switch to war economies just to have a hope of limiting Russia’s gains in Ukraine. They have absolutely no chance of outproducing China. I don’t understand this delusion west worshippers have that you don’t have to care about costs, of course you do, of course they do.
“I don’t understand this delusion west worshippers have that you don’t have to care about costs, of course you do, of course they do.”
The costs are also “their gravy”…their “skim.” These are short term thinkers. They do not care.
And of course NATO and the USA are acting like they are at war. They are tip-toeing enough to keep Russia, China, and Iran thinking there could be diplomatic solutions. It buys them time. But still there are sanctions (often considered an act of war), blowing up pipelines, the censorship creep looking to put the Creel Committee to shame, etc…they just haven’t finished preparations for the use of more weapons. A great deal of excitement about the alleged “AI” is military capabilities.
I think the calculation of some is that the more Russia expands in Ukraine, the less resources they will have to expend in the rest of the world. That’s what they think. And it’s global upheaval that is the goal.
I’m not saying what plans will or won’t work, just that the war is ON.
Matt Taibbi pointed out the other day that the era of Quantitative Easing has overlapped nicely with the era of newly minted billionaires.
The MIC money machine is a self licking ice cream cone where money circulates from the Feds to Military Industry to rich people to Congress Critters, or to Israel to AIPAC to Congress Critters, or to Ukraine to Congress Critters (and The Big Guy’s clan) to legislate more money to keep the circulation going. That there isn’t an actual industrial base or skilled workforce to operate it should it suddenly appear is irrelevant so long as the image of “Western Hegemony” can be sustained for the increasingly coerced and deceived captive population.
In the increasingly closed world of the Atlanticist system, there’s yet to be real, direct feedback from failure to those responsible for it. Until that time, “the economy is fundamentally sound”, which means it is whatever people say it is and the people with control of the “narrative” will say whatever they need to say to keep the circulation going.
It really seems to me that the US and NATO are talking and acting like they are at war and the rest of the world is pretending that they are only in regional wars with proxies or insurgents of some kind. They think there is some kind of good-faith negotiation to be had down the road.
US and NATO may be somewhat de-industrialized war-mongerers but they’ll live and die by divide and conquer.
And this is all complicated by EU/NATO being loaded with vassal states to the US.
It’s exactly the opposite of what you say, it’s the empire that’s acting like these are regional conflicts that will somehow magically get sorted out by negotiations, while the axis is attempting to create a new world order and knows it will be done by force and not diplomacy. Like many westerners, you still buy into the west’s mighty military, but where is it? What are these mysterious preparations? Because it looks like they are having serious issues ramping up production of the absolute basics needed, certainly within a reasonable timeframe. Sanctions, industrial sabotage, censorship, these are all incredibly weak moves with questionable strategic benefits. You are far too bullish on American power and are in for a rude awakening.
This is something that many still fail to acknowledge. Russia is not rushing to finish off Ukraine, because that would not finish this WWIII thing we got going on. Once Zelensky takes the last train out of Kiev, things won’t magically return to some “pre war state”, nor instantly transition to Cold War 2.0. We are all in for the long haul.
What I find hallucinating is that those individuals feel entitled to have the rest of the world at their feet and obey orders. Imperialism by and for the idiots?
Of course the United States acts, not as first among equals, but as Hegemon. Eurogovernments are the fawning bootlickers.
What does anyone propose to do about it?
I ask this, because the sociopaths who run things are unimpressed by our clever word games, our cute memes, our tightly reasoned arguments and close readings of texts, unmoved by facts, logic, evidence or morality.
They care solely about power. Unless you can *make* them stop, they will not stop.
> What does anyone propose to do about it?
For a start, how about backing whoever and whatever it is The Powers That Be feel threatens their power the most?
In the U.S., that seems to be any and all forms of anti-genocide protest.
In Germany and the Netherlands, that would be the farmers’ rebellion and the anti-war, anti-empire wing of populist parties. (E.g. not the 110% pro-Israel Dutch politician Geert Wilders and his PVV.)
Channel support towards those whom they try to cancel, marginalize, or crush via government action and lawfare. Whether that’s an Assange, a Trump, student protesters, or whistleblowers, they’re all targets and, along with us 99% and our civil liberties, are all in the same boat.
Good to see our Potato Heads in Congress are still vegetables!
Congress is not composed of vegetables, but rather it is decomposed of what is produced after vegetables make there way through the alimentary tract, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small and large intestines, rectum and comes out the anus.
And here I was thinking that the “Mysterious Jellyfish-like Creatures” referred to the denizens of Congress.
Spineless tingling!
The real question is: when members of Congress drop into the toilet bowl, do they float or sink?
Important because if they float, they might be witches.
Some of them start off with good intentions, but if they try to maintain their principles, they are ousted.
If the establishment is good at nothing else, it is very good at determining whom to buy off, whom to co-opt, whom to neutralize, whom to ignore.
Forgive me for repeating myself.
Looks like another round of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup_as_a_vegetable
Our last PM in UK couldn’t outlive a lettuce!
All the YouTubers I watch, when discussing the basketcase politics in the UK insert the Daily Star Lettuce picture, complete with googly eyes, to represent she-who-can’t-even-give-her-book-away.
Polling station here in Capital of the East Midlands was not what you’d call busy just now when I voted for our “yes of course I’ll have money to do stuff!” joke of a directly elected Mayor. The polling officer took no more than one second to simply get my name and address from my Driving Licence, with absolutely no attempt to hold it up to check if wasn’t forged or anything. A banana republic is what we now aspire to be. I deliberately had left mum’s and my polling cards at home (since you don’t need them to vote), partly to see how the new ID checks were working, or in this case, not working.
For the Brits: Carol Vorderman liked this comment when I posted it to Twitter!
(Bet her successor on Countdown didn’t) ;)
Re: China
The underlying Pew report on USians’ attitude toward China.
Since 2016, the Trump-Biden consensus.
Within DC, China has been ‘adversary’ since shortly after Obama took office. I remember my DC low/mid level functionary friends quickly going from friendly curious (“China is the future”, “China is growing so fast”) on China to always associating it with ‘autocracy’, ‘dictatorship’, and ‘Tiannanmen Massacre’
I can only assume that I didn’t make that phase switch because I had already given up on NYT, WaPo, and NPR by that point.
bill clinton poured the kool aid to millions, and they drank deeply.
the incredible arrogance and stupidity of bill clinton:
“The Chinese Communist party, in this storyline, were a bunch of suckers, who were inviting in the very forces which would overthrow them.
The line in poker is that if you don’t know who the sucker at the table is, it’s you, but the real danger is when you think someone else is the sucker, and they aren’t.
https://www.ianwelsh.net/the-supreme-stupidity-of-the-end-of-history-and-its-consequences/
“The CCP had understood Americans and the West very well. Ironically they were aided in this by Marxism and their belief that capitalists were blinded by greed. They offered Western elites cheap labor and high profits and dangled the dream of access to a market of a billion people.
There was a time when it was understood that what made countries mighty was industry, and that you kept the industry at home. In the post-war era that was relaxed: by you still didn’t send your industry to anyone who might well become an enemy.
But history was over and there were no enemies and the West, with its transnational elite largely shorn of patriotism figured they’d co-opt Chinese elites and make them no longer nationalist.”
the western capitalists dim wits have figured it out now, to late of course, and they are so so stupid and greedy, they can’t change course.
Everything’s going to plan. With the previous government here in Oz, they were really ramping up the anti-Chinese agitprop – with the help of the media of course. After the change of government things cooled down a lot but as the Ukraine closes out, I can see the anti-China agitprop ramping up in the US and here as the Neocons have a run at the Chinese using Taiwan as an excuse. They figure the Ukraine was a bust so maybe this time it will work with China. And that means getting people riled up about anything to do with China. Better start ordering in your Taiwanese flags to beat the rush.
The ‘Taiwanese’ flag is the flag of the Republic of China and was adapted in China in 1921. You can’t get more OG China than that flag!
But maybe they could insert a quarter sized Union Jack into the upper left quarter of it?
Here in Oz we have to settle for the Union Jack taking up only a quarter of our flag. New Zealand has the same problem. But the Eureka Flag works for me, even though it is anathema to our establishment-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Flag
It is our equivalent of the Gadsden flag.
So we have on the one side Europe which is committing economic suicide through its thoroughly hostile attitude towards Russia — one of its largest, if not the largest, supplier of superfluous raw materials such as gas, titan, oil, phosphate, enriched uranium, nickel, neon…
And on the other side, we have Australia which seems ready to commit economic suicide through a thoroughly hostile attitude towards China — one of its largest, if not the largest, customer of superfluous raw materials such as coal, iron and copper ore, wheat, aluminium, mineral fuels, meat…
I am reminded of that fungus that takes hold of ants’ brains and compells the little critters to actively seek their own demise.
Gonzalo Lira did try to warn us-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYMhIe14uF0 (9:58 mins)
‘Know what’s going on.’
As long as the rulers are comfortable, as long as the police and army will still follow orders, they do not care in the least.
Are those Taiwanese flags made in China, just like everything else?
Propaganda works?!
Every time I watch the 2015 movie “The Martian” I marvel at how much change a decade can bring. The popular perception of China is being slowly transformed from a rival but friendly nation offering its rocket to help save the Martian to an enemy bent on seizing Taiwan.
Makes me wonder if ‘Arrival’ could still be made today or if even that portrayal would be considered too sympathetic to the Chinese.
It wasn’t about western perception of China, but about movie targeting Chinese market too. They have a big market. I bet the movie got some nice cash there.
I’ve noticed similar thing in even older movie called Looper (2012). Some scenes in Shanghai seemed so out of place. It turned out that they were put there “in order to further appeal to Chinese audiences. Several of these scenes were shortened or cut for the American release.” (quote from Wikipedia)
US has no friendly nations. Only vasals and enemies.
“In Western Ukraine, a Community Wrestles With Patriotism or Survival”
I can see how this will play out over the years. When the war is over that place will build a war monument with the names inscribed on it of all those locals that had been killed. There will be annual gatherings at that memorial but which will grow smaller over time. The men who survived this war who have not moved away will marry and have kids. They will grow old and weary unlike those killed. And there will come a time when that monument will be half forgotten and hardly any stop to read the names.
But the dead will not complain.
You would think that we’d eventually figure it out…
I also thought this and would have posted it if you hadn’t. Kudos
You left out the attribution, Bob (and bum).
Here it is, for those who might not know the song (or its underlying theme – Anzac Day) :
http://www.pogues.com/Releases/Lyrics/LPs/RumSodomy/Waltzing.html
Worth a listen…
“The men who survived this war who have not moved away will marry and have kids.”
You imply that the 40-60 year old vets who survived will find women who actually stayed in Ukraine, and want to breed with them.
The EU is moving to not so subtly “encourage” refugees of military age to “voluntarily return” to Ukraine where they can be press-ganged into the army immediately upon arrival.
Expect to see the median age of the Ukrainian army fall.
Re How Globalization Rose and Fell With Nord Stream Foreign Policy
I wonder if the plucky Swedish pensioner living on Gotland had similar fears about Baltic Pipe, a gas pipeline that runs from Norway, across Denmark and then along the Baltic Sea floor to Poland.
Or even if like Nord Stream, that she claims ‘was part of Russia’s power plan all along’, that Baltic Pipe is part of Norway’s power plan all along. One has to wonder!
It’s good that this “power plan” was foiled and now Europe is getting poorer and Russia wealthier. Oh, wait…
NATO power plan was to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down. Still checks out. The pipeline broke because iron curtain fell on it.
I think this article is almost complete denial of the neoliberal/neocon policy failure in it’s mad pursuit of global domination and maximal profit. The Atlantic Council is never going to admit that by the time the Nordstream pipeline was blown up (most probably by America), globalism was over. It was almost officially acknowledged as over ever since Obama was pushing hard to get the Trans Pacific Partnership. The TPP was signed in 2016, but the treaty had been in work since 2005. Somewhere in that period of time American elites realized that neither China or Russia were stupid enough to follow down the same path as America and the West.
Now, let’s get back on cracking down to any dissent in America and the West, and that further destruction of the middle class, especially the blue collar middle class. After all, this is now the core competency of American and Western elites, impoverishing your own people so that billionaires can continue to (hm, I’m not sure WHAT billionaires do, suck money out of all the lower classes to do what?) improve the country. After all, with the BRICS telling Blinken to [family blog] off, there’s a lot more billionaire
raping and pillagingimproving of our country that needs to be done!It was quite the feat to make it appear that it “was part of Russia’s power plan all along” by not even broaching the subject of who blew up the pipeline once in the entire article and subtly insinuating it was Russia who destroyed it, despite it being patently obvious it was the US.
Globalization has not fallen and Neoliberalism is not dead. I believe the Nord Stream pipeline is one of the least significant aspects of Globalization. I would wait at least until Industry returns to the u.s. before I bury Globalization. For the longer run I believe Globalization will die as the cost of diesel increases, the availability of diesel decreases, or the ocean storms and giant rogue waves increase in prevalence and impact — whichever comes first. Neoliberalism will be dead when the Elites go to their bunkers.
from the guardian live ME blog today :1254 BST
targeting staving children with booby-trapped canned food….
“targeting staving children with booby-trapped canned food….”
Pointing this out is antisemitism. I guess I am now an antisemite, in spite of the fact that my opinions towards Jews has not changed since I had physical confrontations with bonafide self-proclaimed nazi skinheads in Keiv.
Come to think of it, all food not clearly labeled as ‘Israeli’ is anti-semitic.
https://twitter.com/sahar_tartak/status/1734430189730340978
And more recently.
https://twitter.com/0rf/status/1784221477144863004
“Google Search results polluted by buggy AI-written code frustrate coders”
Don’t know why I never thought about it before about Google until I started to read this article. There has been a lot of well deserved complaints how AI is trained on data sets on the internet without having to pay for it. Now when I checked with Google how it worked, it stated ‘Google Search is a fully-automated search engine that uses software known as web crawlers that explore the web regularly to find pages to add to our index.’ Others more savvy may disagree but how Google works – is that not a form of theft of the commons like AI does? It does not really create more content but sucks up the content that is there and then monetizes it.
Of course if you really wanted to push this idea, you could claim that corporations like Facebook are really an enclosure of the commons. Something to think about.
Historically, I always thought of Google as the card catalog to the internet: like the physical one in the library, it points me to the right shelf with the content I’m looking for – it wasn’t stealing content, it just provided an index.
That said, I often need to look up regulations, and, becuase I can be lazy, will sometimes type the regulation’s name or common reference into Google’s search bar. This used to always return the regulatory agency’s web site and the text of the regulation as the first result, often with the link to the US Federal Register as the second result. A perfect answer. Now, the regulatory agency’s results show up on the 2nd page, or lower. For US regulations / laws I now rely on Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (https://www.law.cornell.edu/) as my ‘go to’ for clearly laid out, cleanly formatted legal references. (and I write them a contribution check every year, in thanks).
Just now? I’ve had this problem for years. Started right around when search started helpfully striking out terms. Like a search for “title 4” agriculture Utah would kill both title and 4 and scroll up click-bait with the terms Utah and Ag.
A few months ago, searches for VBA and Excel tricks would spool up a bunch of AI generated pages with a wall of text (similar to those recipes pages with a looooong story and ads to prefacing the recipe) concluding with a weak answer and a little note about being AI generated.
This seem to have died out and my searches find Stack Exchange and Overflow and other useful results. Was a wild couple of months though.
A few coworkers have told me Bing is now worth using.
But Search has been polluted with automatically generated garbage for ages now; I’ve done so many searches for things and web sites that can’t possibly be the product of a sentient human being are returned. Like do any “whatever vs” search and it’s 90% web sites that just seemed to scrape review sources to generate an A vs B page for the product or service category you searched for. This is all before LLMs, but couldn’t possibly not have been automated.
Now it’s even worse, because Google itself, and Bing, inject their own LLM-generated garbage at the top of searches, which honestly always seems suspect.
Today you’d almost be better trying to type in random domain names in your browser URL bar, might get better content!
“you could claim that corporations like Facebook are really an enclosure of the commons”
It’s a capture and enclosure of the commons. Fact.
There has been on again off again jousting between Google and larger media outlets regarding how much Google can “quote” from articles as part of their search results etc.
And Google from the outset has been about automation and piggybacking on the work of others.
Their initial impressive results leaned on the value of a page being based on how many other pages linked to it. More links, higher in the search results.
But no sooner did we see link farms sprout that very just masses of pages linking to each other while showing ads and a bunk of keywords.
Since then there has been a tug of war between SEOs and Google tuning their algos.
Ebay has now incorporated some kind of AI for searches and the results are terrible. I had email alerts set up for certain things but now the results they send are trash and very far off the mark, like not even in the same category. There have been many complaints about it and I can’t understand why ebay wants to continue the program.
The enclosures are paradigmatic of so much recent economic behaviour — an event well worth examining in order to understand “privatization of profits and socialization of risks”
So … Mike Johnson says to his caucus, don’t worry about all those times I folded like a cheap tent (warrantless spying on US citizens, spending bills, etc.) and please don’t remember my bromance with Hakeem, 2025 will be the year I really give up airplane glue!
https://thehill.com/newsletters/morning-report/4638163-speaker-assures-gop-critics-of-big-2025-plans/
He’s morphing into Bob Michel. That minority leader post is pretty sweet, you don’t have to worry about much, just bend over and take it.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Johnson would seem to be not long for the world, but the Donkey Show is only too happy to extend the length of Chicken Kiev Little.
So the International Holocast Remembrance outfit is about remembering how to do it? If Gaza looks like a Holocaust and walks like a Holocaust…….
As some recent histories have pointed out the early Israelis didn’t seek to make so much of the WW2 slaughter and it was the rise of the Likud in the 80s that began emphasizing that tragedy as a kind of get out of jail free card for Israel’s own attacks on Lebanon and war against Fatah. So Congress, including many Democrats, are not just endorsing Zionism but also a particularly right wing form of Zionism in their attempt to virtue signal. The students aren’t buying it so they have to be demonized.
Or at least that’s the apparent goal. Here’s suggesting the Pandora’s Box is flapping open and even Thomas Friedman was right that the Israelis are making a mistake that can’t be taken back. For Americans our problem is what to do about Congress.
Everything has to be done to make sure that no Zionist need ever be sad again because somebody somewhere actually disagreed with them, even if the US Constitution has to be rewritten and a new Amendment added. After all, we all know that Zionist tears are worth more than Palestinian blood going by what the media shows. Maybe it would have been simpler to add Zionists to the Endangered Species Act of 1973 which ‘provides a framework to conserve and protect endangered and threatened species and their habitats both domestically and abroad.’ You are right about this opening up a Pandora’s Box. The implications of this act is that not only will Israeli-Americans now have more rights than most Americans but even just plain Israelis staying in America.
The campus protests crackdowns and going all in on the destruction of First Amendment does feel like a Rubican is being crossed. Before now, everything could be fudged and memoryholed. But now it’s full mask off for all of them, over one of the very few things that most Americans still have some comprehension about. What’s the day after going to look like after all this?
Is there a cunning evil plan to use bird flu to lock the population down and declare an unending state of emergency (including cutting off Internet)? Would that even work considering the decrepit state of the American apparatus? Or are they just so stupid and trained to behave in a certain way that they truly don’t understand what they’ve done?
They got away with it under Obama. This is part of the rationale. The whole plan is to shout “Drumpf” and “Decency”. These people are just vile, so to a large extent, they don’t care about genocide monikers.
The long term lack of accountability is so bad that besides the police crackdown, the mayor of NYC (not some hick town) is willing to say people who aren’t high on the US are radicalized. The obvious answer is he and his Team Blue friends simply suck.
They might get jumpy when they start to go to campaign events and only find old people suffering from various dementia like issues willing to say they are Democrats.
18M university/college students in the US, 1.4M in Canada, 3M in the UK, are now getting the kind of education I would highly recommend, about schools, police, politics, government, Israel and the so-called “constitution” and what it’s good for, what it has become. They are bearing witness to a holocaust in their time, witnessing how it comes about, how it is sustained, the conditions under which it happens. And these are the future generations, they will one day run the corporations, the banks, sit on the supreme courts. Some of them will become politicians, this landmark event will be the birth of their careers, their public record begins now. Most have already witnessed BLM, and Occupy is still fresh, and the helplessness anyone and everyone experiences in stopping climate change. They’re witness to the failure of democracy as democracy, the failure of capitalism as capitalism, the failure of government, the corruption of power.
You can almost see the course this will take. I agree a Rubicon has been crossed.
“Vladimir Putin’s crushing new offensive could be the end of Ukraine”
Well the version of the Ukraine that existed at the beginning of 2022 in any case. That Ukraine is gone because, like Georgia back in 2008, they believed the promises of the west. But the article itself is typical Telegraph material like where it refers to an ‘unholy alliance of hostile states’ aka the new Axis of Evil 2.0. And in the end it settles for this sentence-
‘Just as Russia must be denied victory in Ukraine, so Iran’s attempts to destabilise the Middle East must be resisted, and China’s plan to conquer Taiwan be denied.’
If Russia closes out the war in the Ukraine, I would expect to see the Telegraph stacking sandbags in their windows and at their front doors of their HQ building.
I can’t imagine what the Middle East would look like if Iran managed to destabilise it!
If they succeed, what is their next dastardly plan? Making water wetter? Warming up the sun?
All their problem will come in after Iran and the Axis of Resistance, with assist from Russia and China, stabilizes the ‘Middle East’.
Ha! Thanks for this delightful antidote to my tea break doom scroll.
“Blue on Black“
The media in the UK has been consistently agitating for war and moves by NATO that would inevitably lead to mushroom clouds if they were acted on as the conventional ability of NATO to affect the situation is so limited. Insanity runs through the editorial staff at the likes of the Times of London, Telegraph and Guardian, the first time I have ever seen them so obviously subservient to their ‘masters’. Not even during lockdowns etc was there so much consistency.
Ah yes, the Guardian, that bastion of liberalism.
From the article Jewish students condemn ‘toxic’ anti-Israel protests on UK campuses
The leader of the Commons, Penny Mordaunt, condemned the “disgusting” scenes in the US, which resulted in the arrest of more than 1,000 protesters, and said UK protesters should be met with an “extremely strict response” if they attempt to replicate the violent pro-Palestinian demonstrations seen on US university campuses.
Reading that made me feel physically sick. Only 4 of the above words are quotes from Penny Mordaunt – I’ve no idea what she actually said, it might even be less vile than the Guardian’s paraphrasing, but the paper clearly thinks the facts of the situation are not open to dispute.
I’m not old enough to remember UK press coverage of student anti-Vietnam War demonstrations. I don’t suppose it was anything like this.
Console yourself (if possible) with the knowledge that plenty of members of the NC commentariat publicly call out the “modern Guardian” hypocrisy.
Some of us were online and in real time taking screenshots of the highly amusing meltdown of the Guardian as they were caught out in blatant nepotism which was but one example of their co-opting by the PMC and the death of the Manchester Guardian. That piece has had all comments deemed “wrong” deleted by the Guardian but I remember that afternoon and how it was one of the most hilarious episodes of a so-called progressive “newspaper” being shown up in modern history.
The Guardian is a comic. Just bear that in mind and it will help prevent spikes in your blood pressure. I may have Long COVID but I maintain an automatic 1 millisecond ability to click the X on the “Please give us money!” pop-up that regularly appears on a Guardian article. Plus they know I run Linux stuff to cut their advertising. But I will never, ever give them a penny. As Yves has pointed out, even the Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday has better quality health journalism.
The UK has a vested interest in stirring up strife so that the United States can intervene, which in turn gives the UK the opportunity to show its American Master who their loyalest little buddy is, to march shoulder to shoulder, all stirring and resolute!
The dynamic is similar to that of the yappy little dog that follows Spike The Bulldog around in Looney Tunes cartoons.
Poland plays a similar role, albeit on a regional and not a global scale.
32nd President of the United States: 1933 ‐ 1945
Message to Congress on Curbing Monopolies.
It goes further than curbing monopolies – and should – IMHO – be required reading
remember, FDR got away with it because of smoot-hawley, the factories were still here, as well as the skilled labor and machines. in fact, FDR even raised tariffs more, and Truman refused a W.T.O. after the war.
today trying to tax and regulate the rich, will only result in failure, as so many are really offshore, if not, can easily move money off shore in a variety of ways because of free trade policies.
“The $21 billion influencer industry has an ad fraud problem” Business Insider
I assume the bot influencers must not be “influencing” as advertised?
Maybe it is my Irish roots, but potatoes are not a grain. They may not be entirely vegetable either, but some wondrous thing that defies classification. But if they aren’t going to be given a class all their own they can just stay vegetables.
And if being starchy is going to lead to these discussions, I cannot wait until we get peas are a grain. (I know too simplistic but every thing I have just read invariably has a big starch factor or bias.) Frankly I think the USDA there are far bigger problems in our agricultural system to focus on, this is an unnecessary distraction.
yeah i cant get behind calling a potato a grain regardless of social consequences. are we really fighting the good fight by insulting tubers?
A spud by any other name would fry as well.
I agree. In a world of unnecessarily stupid controversies that has to be one of the least intelligent. Grains are seeds, and potatoes left to flower can go to seed. Potatoes produce seeds, they are not seeds themselves. “Seed potatoes”, by contrast, are an example of asexual reproduction largely used to protect the strain previously developed through hybridization techniques involving sexual selection.
That whole things sounds like a bunch of MBA’s that have never had a garden getting together over a beer and talking about things they know not of in a feeble attempt to sound relevant.
This seems to be all about the overly simplistic “food pyramid” thinking of nutrition.
Likely with potato being in the vegetables category, big food can use more of it in their concoctions and still claim to be within guidelines.
But if it was categorized as a grain, in particular now that the issues of sugar/starch/flour no longer being concealable, they would have to rework their products. Likely in ways that would negatively affect their profit margins.
https://english.news.cn/20230505/d4c12627cebc4024bcd23386d8074a91/c.html
May 5, 2023
Chinese scientists achieve new breakthrough in hybrid potato breeding
BEIJING — Chinese scientists have made a new breakthrough in hybrid potato breeding by using evolutionary genomics to identify deleterious mutations, which may help shorten the breeding process and generate more and better potato varieties.
The breakthrough, made by a research team from the Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen under the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, was published online * in the latest issue of the scientific journal Cell.
Potato is the most important tuber food crop and one of the staple crops in most countries around the world, including China. Compared with other staple crops, potato needs less water and can be planted in a wide range of areas, said Wu Yaoyao, a key member of the research team.
“But breeding a new potato variety takes too long. The potato variety used for McDonald’s fries was bred over 120 years ago,” Wu said.
The main reason is that potato is tetraploid, which means it has four sets of genomes, and depends on asexual propagation through tubers, which has a long breeding cycle and low reproduction efficiency, while the tubers are also easily infected with diseases and prone to pests, Wu said.
The research team launched a “Ubiquitous Potato Project,” aiming to transform potato reproduction from asexual to sexual, and from reliance on tubers to reliance on seeds, and guide potato breeding by using genomics and synthetic biology.
In order to breed consistent high-quality potato varieties, scientists need to obtain high homozygous inbred lines by continuous self-fertilization, so that hybrid commercial lines can be produced with consistent properties, Wu explained…
* https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(23)00405-1.pdf
Clarifying this important breakthrough; China has developed a way of breeding potatoes through seeds rather than tubers, and this should make for far faster breeding of better potato varieties.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2024-01-16/Space-exposed-potato-seeds-enter-experimental-planting-stage-in-China-1qp2sG2anxm/p.html
January 16, 2024
Space-exposed potato seeds enter experimental planting stage in China
Chinese researchers have started breeding experiments on 66,500 potato seeds that were taken into space aboard the Shenzhou-16 crewed spaceship and stayed for over 180 days…
Potato is closely related to tomato, right? (Speaking of unclear classifications)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden
Parkinson’s Law. Work expands to fill the time available for it. In order to expand their sub-section, middle managers will create work to require more employees, increasing their own status/value.
Lambert, photos and 2 short vids sent just now. Best I could do last night due to distance, eventual darkness, and lights.
Thanks!
~Robert Reich Should Billionaires Exist?
So, I have to dig in on this one, with the phrase free-market capitalism being the first hurdle. Can such a thing even exist?
I like Robert Reich, sort of, he makes some good observations but always stops a little before that painful conclusion.
I’ll be back, today is grocery day and as I am presently without a car, it is à pied for me. Well, there is also a bus.
This is a week’s worth of links today.
So, back from my bus and walking adventure with groceries in backpack and big shoulder bag. Hobnobbing with my fellow denizens of the lower order. They all have a life story to tell, sometimes deeply ingrained in the face, sometimes in twisted and worn out bodies, sometimes verbally. I listen and watch.
One afro fellow was telling me he had just learned that he could monetize a youtube video of himself doing his (one man) yard service (he mows lawns for a living). He was excited to imagine that if he had a million hits he could make $2,000. I thought he was overshooting by a factor of 10, but I didn’t say anything.
Another euro woman was concerned that she had dropped a quarter (25¢) on the bus floor and couldn’t find it. The first person and I looked around and found it. I had a quarter in my pocket and also gave it to her, but said I had found it looking for hers. She smiled.
Another afro fellow came aboard and he was really having difficulty just walking down the aisle. Since I was sitting in the first row senior section and I was off at the next stop I really should have gotten up and given him my seat.
These are people living very close to the ground, some just barely staying above it.
So Robert Reich and billionaires?
He lists 5 ways they get their lucre. As a remedy, each time he suggests tougher regulations and/or enforcement of the current ones. He concludes with this, but I’ll notate:
There’s the rub, how about we have state enterprises, but perhaps locally controlled, where a one time license can be granted to entrepreneurs and inventors. I’m sure there myriad complications I can’t imagine, but yes, you should argue against big rewards.
It all comes down to money, which no one should hoard.
Beyond what is necessary to live, money becomes about power. If life’s basic necessities were provided (not in the miserly fashion we have now, with the hoops one has to jump through) then how much more would you need.
The dodos were killed off by unthinking and cruel humans.
I don’t even know what capitalism working properly means. I do hope that whatever takes out the billionaires is well thought out.
Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died
Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems and one of the first whistleblowers to allege Spirit leadership had ignored manufacturing defects on the 737 MAX, died Tuesday morning after a struggle with a sudden, fast-spreading infection.
Known as Josh, Dean lived in Wichita, Kan., where Spirit is based. He was 45, had been in good health and was noted for having a healthy lifestyle…
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/whistleblower-josh-dean-of-boeing-supplier-spirit-aerosystems-has-died/
Is Boeing getting more creative in dealing with whistleblowers? Enquiring minds….
Over 40% of Americans now see China as an enemy, a five-year high, a Pew report finds
The never ending propaganda by the politicians and the media is working.
But is the poll a push poll, in the sense of trying to make people think: “…hmm…maybe China is an enemy?”
It would still be a part of the never ending propaganda that you mention.
I’d like the pollsters to ask people to name one hostile action China has taken…
Hey, hey, hey. They are aggressively pushing up against American bases-
https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1784123161392668938
Same thing playing out in Europe, in particular now that NATO got new members.
If some desiccated corpse in DC do not start something in the arctic in my lifetime i would be highly surprised.
Too late!
https://news.usni.org/2024/03/06/fleet-forces-commander-focused-on-arctic-increased-naval-presence-in-region
Caudle, a career submarine officer, said that means having ice-strengthened surface ships present, as he urged industry to build warships that can operate “in a very challenging environment.”
LOLZ. He wants USA to start building icebreaking warships. I’m sure they will be done in no time, and fully seaworthy.
They make all the stuff we don’t make anymore. Must be bad, they are Morlocks to the west’s Eloi. They keep things going but they eat us!
Tibet…the Uyghurs…South China Sea… As said by people who can’t find them on the map. And if you ask them what the Chinese actually did, it’s some mix about forced sterilizations, CCP brainwashing, and fishing all the fishes out of the ocean (probably true unfortunately, but indiscriminate trowler fishing is certainly not limited to one nationality).
“CCP brainwashing, and fishing all the fishes out of the ocean (probably true unfortunately…”
Forgive me. Fish and associated marine products such as mussels, sold domestically through China and exported by China are over 80% farm raised. Where overfishing was found, China closed the entire Yangtze to fishing for 10 years…
I think Emma is talking here about international and coastal waters of other nations from which Chinese fleets of trawlers have found to be poaching…
And I hope they stopped consuming shark fins in quantities… I heard that the CCP has done that at its banquets…
I much appreciate your comment and that of Emma:
As far as my experience extends, and I dearly favor animal protections, the Chinese are official parties to every international animal protection convention. When a convention is found to have been violated by a Chinese citizen or resident or Chinese employee in any position, official action is taken sharply opposing the violation.
For instance, an illegal animal-abusive banquet would surely come to be publicly known about and as surely lead to significant official penalty no matter the supposed importance of the abusive parties.
Animal protection is important to me and officially important for the Chinese state.
1.4 billion people can easily eat anything into extinction. I do agree that the Chinese have a very extensive aquaculture industry for fresh water fish and shellfish, but they also eat a lot of wild fish to the point of adversely affecting many fisheries.
For Emma and Kouros; thank you:
https://english.news.cn/20230304/a53c1c4d7a18412184b4a818413c0ec0/c.html
March 4, 2023
Guardian of marine species in China’s Hainan
HAIKOU — When Pu Bingmei failed to save the life of a stranded pilot whale named Yaya in 2019, she cried like a child.
“The medical team and their equipment were prepared already that night and they were planning to fly to Hainan the next morning. But Yaya didn’t make it,” said Pu in tears, as she recalled the woeful loss of the whale.
“I’ll try my best and make more contributions to the protection of wild marine animals like you,” Pu said when she bid farewell to Yaya.
Pu, 36, is the secretary general of the BlueRibbon Ocean Conservation Association (BROCA), a non-profit organization based in Sanya City, south China’s Hainan Province. For more than a decade, she has been dedicated to the protection of marine species such as stranded dolphins and whales.
Over the years, she has not only been helping with the protection of marine species, but also raising public awareness of environmental protection.
Pu came to the coastal resort city of Sanya in 2007, when she entered college. Hailing from northwest China, she had never seen the ocean in person before.
“I was so excited when I saw the clear seawater,” she said. “I could see little fish swimming around, and I just wanted to dive in.”
As years went by, however, she gradually found that the condition of the seawater began to worsen and that it “smelt bad.”
“I accidentally got to know about BROCA and started doing volunteer work such as picking up garbage at the sea,” she said. After graduation, she became a full-time volunteer for BROCA, engaging in all kinds of environmental work.
On June 6, 2019, when she was celebrating her daughter’s birthday, Pu received an emergency call about a pilot whale that was found stranded in Sanya. She immediately set off to go to the scene…
Fishing is what is keeping Norway and Iceland out of EU, as becoming members would make the waters subject to Brussels “regulations”.
The same Brussels that tried recently to null the Svalbard Treaty as Norway didn’t give them enough of a fish quota after Brexit.
“Fishing is what is keeping Norway and Iceland out of EU…”
Really interesting, I had no idea:
https://english.news.cn/20240105/981ba999dde545aab5d3483242154bbd/c.html
January 5, 2024
Norway’s seafood exports reach record high in 2023
Seafood exports in 2023 secured its position as Norway’s second-largest export after oil and gas, Norwegian Seafood Council said…
Dried cod, Norway’s oldest export:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockfish
The insanity is that i never developed a taste for it.
Be grateful that your countrymen did not have access to the Greenland shark and develop a taste for rotten shark meat! Quite possibly the worst smelling food I ever encountered.
heh, this thing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A1karl
Norway makes due with Lutefisk:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutefisk
(How anyone came up with the idea of soaking dried cod in lye will forever puzzle me)
Though there is always Sweden’s chemical warfare adjacent Surströmming:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstr%C3%B6mming
Best opened while held under water.
Perhaps WWIV will be fought with fermented fish.
What, no lutefisk?
Stockfish is the raw material, and easier to store and transport.
Lutefisk plays an important role in “Babette’s Feast” where the refugee Babette is taught how to prepare a nearly inedible lutefisk stew by the Lutheran Pietist sect sisters, Martina and Phillippa. Later, after winning the French lottery, Babette spends her money to buy ingredients for a “French dinner” which she serves to the villagers accustomed to lutefisk stew along with a distinguished guest who, as the dinner is unveiled, declares the chef can only be the famed best chef in Paris.
“Babette’s Feast“
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2024/04/25/china-blinken-us-visit-us-taiwan-chinese-navy-pla-air-force/
April 25, 2024
China is the enemy of the world
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/40-americans-now-see-china-enemy-five-year-high-pew-report-finds-rcna150347
May 2, 2024
Over 40% of Americans now see China as an enemy
I considered China an enemy of America’s self sufficiency and American Workers, but in actuality they were merely the dudes buying merchandise that”fell off the truck”. The real enemy was the Financial sector and Corporate oligarchy of America itself.
China merely took advantage of the greed, stupidity and sociopathy of our elite. Can’t blame them for that.
Today, manufacturing productivity data for 2014 came in. Look to what has happened to manufacturing productivity since the beginning of 2011. Productivity has now fallen for 13 years:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=m2mB
January 30, 2018
Manufacturing Productivity, * 1988-2024
* Output per hour of all persons
(Indexed to 1988)
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=Of7F
January 30, 2018
Manufacturing Productivity, * 2000-2024
* Output per hour of all persons
(Indexed to 2000)
Forgive a mistake in year, 2024:
Today, manufacturing productivity data for 2024 came in. Basic research and development in manufacturing in America has been neglected from 2000 on. The result has been a sustained lag in and absence of manufacturing productivity growth.
UAW 4811 represents academic researchers and teachers across the UC system representing almost 50k workers, not just UCLA. It’s a huge number of people.
Gooooooooood Moooooooooorning Fiatnam!
Anti-Semantics was on the rise, words had lost meaning and those promulgating the use of hackneyed phrases were rampant, particularly in Congress as if by writ of conjugation, the elected congregation.
Anti-Semantics! That’s a keeper, that.
“US deliberately provokes crisis on European continent” Infobrics
“The logic of US-EU relations is very simple to understand: Washington demands from its “partners” absolute “free” market, end to cooperation with “enemy” countries and an increase in investment in defense…”
And the demand that anything public or in the commons is privatized. The defense spending just helps drive the countries in the hole to sell other things as well as buy weapons.
Non-paywalled link for WSJ article on record office CRE defaults:
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/commercial/office-buildings-past-due-loans-record-51a373a6?st=wjtv151ssn5sj9z&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
HFL (higher for longer, not a new football league) means that the misery is going to be prolonged. CRE can-kickers need more steel for their boots or maybe those shiny metal things the cartel guys like to put on their cowboy boots.
A rather tedious interview with Macron in The Economist where he puts forward the alternative theory of the world, according to probably les RG and USDoS. Draws a line where he will put in French troops – when Russia crosses the established front lines. This is delusional.
http://archive.today/2024.05.02-090805/https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/05/02/emmanuel-macron-in-his-own-words-english
Let’s hope nobody tells him Russia already crossed the front lines in Ocheretyne, Rabotino, Chasov Yar and Kislivka. Especially in the Ocheretyne direction there doesn’t seem to be any front line anymore.
This just in:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/turkey-halts-trade-israel-bloomberg-151729784.html/
Turkey Halts All Trade With Israel, Officials Say
Is it real or is it Erdoğan doing his slippery slide thingy again?
I’ll take him more seriously when he provides naval escorts for the Freedom Flotilla and cuts off transit of Azeri oil. Until then, meh
Things are really blowing up on campuses across the land, all in lockstep against the genocidal Palgrom (Palestinian pogrom).
How long before it moves to the streets and just regular Joes (not that one) and Janes get involved?
I figure Biden officially killed any organizing efforts for Team Blue for a long time.
“How long before it moves to the streets and just regular Joes (not that one) and Janes get involved?”
Tell those regular Joes and Janes that the protesters are spoiled snowflake college rich kids and not regular Freedum Luvin ‘Merican Tough Guys Like Us. They’ll fold in a heartbeat.
Easy peasy.
Except most of “freedom luvin’ ‘murican tough guys” aren’t Democrats and in fact have been insulted by Dems for a long time. Are they no longer deplorable now?
Have you heard Trump rhetoric on Israel?
If anything he and his cult are even more gung-ho on genocide and murder.
Just a quick word on France yesterday.
The May Day demonstrations aren’t really “protests,” they are historically more like processions, organised by what were Left-wing parties to celebrate May 1 and the long and violent history of fighting (yes, fighting, with fists and clubs) for workers’ rights. Until quite recently they were large, peaceful, and generally fun (I went on one or two years ago.) Lots of singing and chanting, but, because this is France, separate and mutually detesting cortèges for different parts of the Left. In recent years attendance has been up and down, because of things like the Gilets jaunes, but the transformation of the Left into middle-class boutique political parties has discouraged people from attending, and given the demonstrations over to any group that wants to attend. This year, some of the processions were taken over by Palestine protesters.
The Institute for Political Studies (“Sciences Po”) is a fixation with the French media because it’s traditionally the recognised pathway to the higher functions of the State and politics. Three of the last five Presidents are graduates (Sarkozy failed the entrance exam.) There has been a certain amount of activity on its various campuses, and some occupations in Paris. The students left, having extracted that there would be a general meeting (“townhall” in French apparently) to consider their demands, which included an investigation into links between Sciences Po and universities in Israel. That meeting was today, and your link goes to a “live” which has now changed and is reporting that the meeting didn’t get far, as might have been expected.
C News is not the site I would first turn to. It has a reputation here much as I understand Fox News has in the US: it does provide a platform for speakers who aren’t otherwise heard, mostly on the extreme Right, but as a news source it’s not especially reliable. Le Monde has the story here with lots of quotes:
https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/05/02/mobilisation-pour-gaza-un-debat-interne-dur-et-avec-beaucoup-d-emotion-jeudi-matin-a-sciences-po-paris_6231155_3225.html
It’s hard to say how representative the students are of opinion generally: at least part of it is the typical desire to ape the US. The running appears to have been made so far by the La France Insoumise party of Mélenchon, which has inherited what has always been a fashionable cause with parts of the Left. From my own observation the protesters are noisy (though peaceful) but not very numerous. We’ll have to see if they manage to mobilise more support.
From Texas Veterinarian Helped Crack the Mystery of Bird Flu in Cows
In a functional country, we’d immediately nationalize the entire dairy industry and get that testing going, nationwide. What’s at stake is much greater than capitalist profits. So, lol, no. Maybe this time we really will all die for markets.
I’ve got 450,000 vectors down in Godzone and i’m only 50 miles away from bovine H5N1 intervention…
Way too close, man.
When Dr. Russo suggested testing for avian influenza, why didn’t Dr. Petersen simply pick up the phone and call USDA or the relevant Texas state animal health agency?
Rhetorical question of course.
Dr. Petersen describes numerous untested humans with probable infections, including persons unlikely to have direct contact with cattle. If CDC were the agency it plays in the movies helicopters full of people in moonsuits would have descended on the Texas Panhandle back in March.
Exploiting migrant labor in our “green” economy. In an area with chronically high unemployment, Solar farm builders hire illegals, with tragic consequences.
They came to America to make a living. They died on a bus that was outside the law archive syracuse.com
Gotta love the green economy and open borders. It’s a win-win?
…a whinge-whinge
We must be at peak stupid, the MSNBC op. ed. on H5N1 includes an MSNBC poll:
(Not enough or Too might; looks like a dynamic slider from the former to the latter, a continuous scale!)
Like, literally they’re asking the brunch crowd whether the government should pay attention to what might constitute the next global Pandemic. Genius. This is the stupidest timeline.
At the risk of triggering those who have not yet recovered from the psychological trauma inflicted on them during the Covid fiasco, I will suggest that most of the West’s problems could be solved by listening carefully to Van Morrison’s 42nd album.
Don’t go stealing the highlights.
Khrist, you’re more than right. I had my doubts but Wiki shows this output:
Studio albums 45
Live albums 7
Compilation albums 9
Video albums 6
Singles 80
Remix albums 1
He’s produced nearly as many albums as were in his da’s record shop on Bolinas Ave. in Fairfax! Leaves me wondering which one you have in mind. Three Chords and the Truth?
Van Morrison’s 42nd album is “Latest Record Project, Volume 1” (2 CD set).
Among the songs on the album are:
“They Own the Media”
“Western Man”
“The Long Con”
“Big Lie”
“Where Have All the Rebels Gone?”
“He’s Not the Kingpin”
“No Good Deed Goes Unpunished”
“Why Are You on Facebook?”
The Duran with Aaron Mate`. Utube, ~1hr 30 minutes.
Forever wars w/ Aaron Maté
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAE4u9p1Je0
Thanks, I watched.
My prior heroine addiction: Lauren Boebert…
…showed up @ GWU with bullhorn to shout the protesters down, but was taunted with ‘Bettlejuice’ chants, nice play students!
> Palestine campus protests
This is going to haunt Democratic party for a very long time. Dems will end up losing a core voting group for a generation. Could see rise of the Greens at local government levels in US which will sap broader Dem support at national level. Will Jill Stein be the real spoiler for Dems in upcoming Nov election?
It looks like the new backdoor censorship laws are working
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/my-show-on-the-real-news-has-been
thx for pointing this out!
Here the email he sent. It´s getting worse week by week
“(…)
I was just informed by Max Alvarez, the Editor-in-Chief at The Real News, that they will no longer run my show. The reason for the cancellation, he said, is that my critiques of Biden, especially for the genocide in Gaza, jeopardizes his nonprofit status. My last show with Dennis Kucinich, who is running as an independent for Congress in Ohio, was removed from the site.
I will resurrect the show on an independent platform, although it make take me a few weeks to get this set up.
(…)”