Dear patient readers,
Due to all the Biden stories, you got an extra big serving of Links.
Researchers Make Breakthrough in Study of Mysterious 2000-Year-Old Computer Found in Shipwreck Futurism (Kevin W)
Earth’s core has slowed so much it’s moving backward, scientists confirm. Here’s what it could mean CNN (Kevin W)
The Misplaced Incentives in Academic Publishing Undark
Ghosting isn’t as cold-hearted as it seems, say psychologists — but people still hate it ZME Science (Dr. Kevin)
#COVID-19
The US Primary-Care System Can’t Withstand the Next Pandemic Bloomberg. A Bloomberg editorial. Lambert also featured in Water Cooler but deserves prominent play.
Russian experts sound alarm over post-Covid health issue RT (Anthony L)
New study links COVID-19 to lasting neuropsychiatric issues, highlights vaccination benefits News-Medical (Paul R)
Climate/Environment
The Great Oil Shortage: Are We Ready for the Next Crisis? Deep Dive
We don’t see a pathway’ to coal phaseout, says US utility Financial Times
Swiss government will allow financial institutions to self-regulate greenwashing Green Central Banking
13,000 evacuated as Northern California’s Thompson Fire burns SFGate
China?
‘Made in China’ resonating more deeply at home Asia Times (Kevin W)
EU brushes aside risk of China trade war over electric vehicle tariffs Guardian
Why Chinese banks are now vanishing. The state is struggling to deal with troubled institutions Economist
Sport US federal investigation into Chinese swimmers’ doping cases subpoeanas World Aquatics’ executive director to testify ABC Australia (Kevin W)
Koreas
‘This is very serious’: Tensions spike in the buffer zone between North and South Korea Independent
Japan
Japan declares victory in ‘war’ on floppy disks BBC (Kevin W)
Africa
Kenya’s mass protests expose African fury with IMF Financial Times
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, is grappling with a severe food crisis exacerbated by two formidable challenges: rampant insecurity and devastating floods Business Day Nigeria
European Disunion
European central bankers have warned that risks including trade tensions and high government debt are piling up for the region’s economy Financial Times
Old Blighty
Richard Seymour, Majority Without a Mandate New Left Review (Anthony L)
Consequences of the British Election Ian Welsh (Micael T)
Councils Locked Out of Funding Signal Crisis for UK After Vote Bloomberg
The Dreadful Continuity of British Foreign Policy Daniel Larison
Starmer’s role in Assange’s persecution Thomas Fazi
Gaza
Israel’s starvation policy in Gaza is forcing people to eat tree leaves Mondoweiss
Yemen’s hypersonic missiles: A West Asian military revolution The Cradle
Yemen’s Houthis ramp up Red Sea attacks Middle East Eye. From mid-week, still germane.
Mossad-led negotiating team returns to Israel after talks on Hamas offer in Doha Times of Israel
Saudi FM calls for sanctions on Israeli officials amid Gaza war Arab News
New Not-So-Cold War
Answers to Russian media questions President of Russia (guurst)
Vladimir Putin: “The issue of creating a legal framework for international security and strategic stability is still on our to-do list” International Affairs (Micael T)
Viktor Orbán meets Vladimir Putin despite EU outcry Financial Times
Putin: Ceasefire ‘Impossible’ Until Peace Talks With Ukraine Begin Sputnik (Kevin W). Russia has made clear it will not stop prosecuting the war even if talks are on, see Istanbul in March-April 2022.
Much-vaunted Patriots can’t even defend themselves TASS. This was reported by Alexander Mercouris, that Russian forces claimed to have successfully intercepted 4 Patriots. This is an indirect confirmation. That’s before getting to the fact that Russia has also been destroying the batteries.
The editorial board of the @FT calls for special treatment for the restructuring of Ukrainian bonds by private creditors, asserting that ‘this is not like any other sovereign restructuring’. They argue that ‘the country cannot be distracted by a lengthy bankruptcy deal’ and must… pic.twitter.com/wFrR2Mgps7
— Karina Patrício (@KPatricio_) July 5, 2024
Ukraine To Be Warned It’s ‘Too Corrupt’ For NATO – Telegraph RT
Big Brother is Watching You Watch
Europol Says Mobile Roaming Tech Making Its Job Too Hard The Register
Scotland biometrics commish wants ICO to look into cops use of cloud Biometric Update
Imperial Collapse Watch
He got $30K to leave the military when it needed to downsize. Now the government wants that money back.NBC. Paul R: “This is disgusting.”
The centre-right is dying a slow death. It is an epochal change for politics across the West. Eugyppius. Micael T: “Wake me up when the Ukraine-conflict, the China-confrontation, fairer distribution of wealth is happening. Until then it is just change of package with the same content.”
As Biden slips toward the edge, NATO holds its collective breath Washington Post
Immigration
Are Mass Deportations Possible? The Case Of The Dominican Republic Joseph Jordan
Trump
Biden
Masks Have a Higher Approval Rating than Joe Biden OK Doomer (Dr. Kevin)
You can stick a fork in him:
NEW: President Biden goes on incredibly confusing rant, calls himself the first black woman to serve with a black president.
He also called himself the “first president that got elected statewide in the state of Delaware, when I was a kid.”
“By the way, I'm proud to be the, as… pic.twitter.com/VMNtVe85Pz
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 4, 2024
‘In denial’: Democrats livid that Biden is digging in Politico
Biden defends health, insists he will beat Trump in high-stakes interview The Hill
The Conspiracy of Silence to Protect Joe Biden New York Magazine. Help me. An effort to depict the press as snookered. Yes, the insiders were keeping Biden in tissue paper. Even so 1. that should have been noticed and 2. he was having plenty of bad moments in public despite that.
Joe Biden Interview With ProPublica: Full and Unedited ProPublica. Robin K: “This interview was 9 mos ago. Differences of Biden then to Biden now seem to show how remarkably swift his decline has been.”
Biden tells Democratic governors he needs more sleep and plans to stop scheduling events after 8 p.m. CNN (Kevin W). More admissions against interest.
There’s a Name for the Trap Biden Faces New York Times
Biden Must Resign Atlantic (furzy). When you have lost the Atlantic…
The French Election Is a Warning for Biden The American Conservative
It’s Time For The Biden Campaign To Embrace AI HuffPo. BC: “A HuffPo op-ed calling for Biden to be replaced by an AI avatar – for ‘democracy’”.
2024
Whether It’s Biden or Someone Else, Gaza Remains Top Priority for “Uncommitted” Voters Intercept
INTERVIEW: Kamala Harris is so stupid she thinks Sinai is the plural of sinus George Galloway. ZOMG, the headline justifies a watch!
Gunz
Vending machines selling bullets at grocery stores (Carla R)
AI
I have to say AI's ideas for camping are quite unorthodox, to put it mildly. pic.twitter.com/O6g90QvlyV
— Tomasz Oryński (@TOrynski) July 3, 2024
Google Paper: AI Potentially Breaking Reality Is a Feature Not a Bug 404media
Brazil blocks Meta from using social media posts to train AI BBC (Kevin W)
The Bezzle
The Shareholder Supremacy Edward Zitron
Air travel is getting worse. That’s what passengers are telling the US government Associated Press. Kevin W: “Related story Delta flight diverted to JFK after passengers were served spoiled food CNN”. I had multiple absolutely awful domestic trips in the 12 months before I left the US, monster delays and cancellations.
Guillotine Watch
Class Warfare
Here’s Why the Young No Longer Believe in the American Dream Crisis Investing (Micael T)
The average American feels they need to earn over $180K to live comfortably, survey shows USA Today (Kevin W)
Antidote du jour (Tracie H):
And a bonus (dk):
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) July 4, 2024
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here
Earth core slowdown
Working link:
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/07/05/science/earth-inner-core-rotation-slowdown-cycle-scn
That explains those funny noises at night…
“Vending machines selling bullets at grocery stores”
Small update – The Grocery store in Alabama has removed its ammo vending machine after the legality of the machine was questioned during a pre-council meeting and the fact that ammo wasn’t really selling-
https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/grocery-store-in-alabama-removes-ammo-vending-machine-ammunition-guns-weapons-firearms-tuscaloosa-american-rounds-pell-city-grant-majors-ceo-fresh-value-360-facial-recognition-security-measures
Maybe they can replace it with a poker machine. After proving your identity, you can play it and instead of getting coins in the metal tray, you get bullets instead with smaller wins coughing up only .22 caliber rounds.
It’s the perfect headline to end the week of July 4th celebration and freedom. Mom, apple pie and ammunition…what an exceptional country, a thousand points of light. Begs a question though, what happens to all those old not in use vending machines for cigarettes? I remember those as a young kid, the ones with the old pull handles to make a selection.
Keep on rocking in the free world….
I still believe in a post-Jackpot world that .22 ammo will be one of the most valuable small trade ‘currencies’.
Not to mention having a tube-fed tack-driving bolt action Marlin or Remington .22…..
Remember when .22 ammo was scarce during Oldbummers first term? The federal 500 pack went from $9 to $29, IF you could find them…
jefemt: I still believe in a post-Jackpot world that .22 ammo will be one of the most valuable small trade ‘currencies’.
Why do you believe that in a post-Jackpot world there’d be a humanly breathable atmosphere?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_clathrate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
I’d agree with that, and keep in mind that most gun owners have barely ever fired their weapons and bought too much ammo initially, as it happened.
You need a few things to be a currency, and scarcity is important-you can’t just make bullets out of thin air, and fungibility is inherent in every cartridge, it isn’t as if brand X .22 won’t work.
During WW2 my dad told me that cigarettes were the ad hoc currency in occupied Prague, but then again everybody smoked like chimneys back then.
In Metro game/novel series, bullets are used as currency in a post-apocalyptic world.
https://www.escapistmagazine.com/metros-bullets-make-a-better-currency/
In prisons, it’s cigarettes or ramen noodles.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/08/26/491236253/ramen-noodles-are-now-the-prison-currency-of-choice
We are a consumer society without parallel. No need will go unfulfilled (for long).
This vending machine really satisfies a need. Now when some yahoo drinks his last beer and then runs out of ammo while shooting at highway signs he can just pull into a quickie-mart and stock up on both.
I also see this machine having great appeal in gang infested venues throughout the country. Now rather than having to buy ammo miscreants can just drive into a store, literally, at zero dark thirty, loop a chain around the ammo machine and drag it out to their pickup. Now they’ll have plenty of different calibers for their inventory of various stolen weapons.
Too bad it’ll be awhile before this revolutionary product penetrates namby-pamby California. Though Calis will probably be able to cross over into Nevada and use one while in Las Vegas. Just say’in.
Hey, can you imagine firefighters turning up to fight a fire in a grocery story – only to be informed that it has one of those ammo vending machines inside?
Re air travel getting worse. The following seems unbelievable but this happened to a sister of a good friend of mine so I believe the tale. Sorry, not sure which airline this was. Flying from Europe home to Vegas, she and her husband had a stopover in London with just enough time to make their connecting flight. As they got to the gate the last passengers were just heading down to the plane. They were told that were too late to check in and that their seats had already been given away and that they’d have to wait until the next day for a flight. They objected as clearly they weren’t late and they needed to be home. Then they were told that the flight was overbooked so they’d actually been bumped, not because they were late. They continued to object. They fly first class and offered to sit in regular as they really needed to get home. They were then allowed to board, they split up, she went to first class and her husband to economy. As they were taxi-ing to the runway, husband noticed empty seats! He counted 9 empty seats! WTF? What on earth was really going on?
I have friends in PEI. He flew Air Canada to BC to visit a sick friend – Charlottetown to Vancouver with a stopover in Toronto. There were inexplicable delays going out and return, both of which involved overnights in Toronto. He missed an event in Vancouver and a day of work because of the delays.
It’s Time For The Biden Campaign To Embrace AI HuffPo. BC: “A HuffPo op-ed calling for Biden to be replaced by an AI avatar – for ‘democracy’”.
The HuffPo = The SillyConHo.
Miami to Kansas City. 4 gate changes 30 minutes to boarding.
But in reply – actually related to your post :) – I’m nervous about an upcoming trip. I’m breaking my no layover rule to avoid flying on a Boeing.
“Biden Must Resign” Atlantic (furzy). When you have lost the Atlantic…
Indeed. They are calling BS on the campaign fund reasoning for keeping the current symbol in office:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/embarrassing-biden-harris-rationalizations/678893/
“…The Stetson University law professor Ciara Torres-Spelliscy told me that the Democratic National Committee could get all of the Biden-Harris cash and dispense it as the organization sees fit for use on behalf of another candidate. The Federal Election Commission is clear, she explained, that “a candidate’s authorized committee may transfer unlimited campaign funds to a party committee or organization.”
In other words: If the Democrats field a different ticket, the only way the new presidential nominee enters the race with “zero dollars in their bank account” would be if Biden wanted that to happen. The substitute candidate could ultimately have use of not only the Biden campaign’s cash but also its offices, computers, cellphones, and other campaign infrastructure, which would be treated as in-kind contributions. (The torrential downpour of donations sure to drop on any Democrat challenging Trump makes the campaign-finance argument doubly empty.)…”
In theory they would also need to get Biden to release his delegates although apparently this requirement isn’t an absolute rule. They can vote differently if they feel they were deceived (by for example him actually being senile).
Turley says it’s time for the 25th amendment and the cabinet is obligated by their oath to the US to act. But obviously the best solution for the Dems would be for Biden to voluntarily quit. He seems to like money so perhaps they should just give him a lot to quit.
yes. just offer Jill a provost/chancellor position at Penn, and Big Guy a seat on the board of Big Tech, Inc.
this ain’t quantum physics. for all the fretting among mega-donors, the path is obvious and easily solvable.
The hagiography is obvious..Joes seered the country back to normalcy, fought the good fight, blah, blah. And Trump or kamala will have the hot potato in 2025 -29 when all these structural problems in the US boil
unless Jill is legit. a clinical narcissist, psyhcopath
Is there any, even the slightest amount of self examination going on amongst all these pundits, talking heads, and twitter jockeys who were whole hog enthusiastic about uncle Joe two weeks ago and are now calling for him to step aside?
No doubt the whole lot of them have come to the sudden realization that they embraced Biden in the same way that Japanese soldiers embraced hand grenades on Iwo Jima-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l2NeCiP8b8 (3:21 mins)
It’s not so much that all those pundits, talking heads, and twitter jockeys convinced themselves that all was well with old Joe all this time but that they then turned around and tried to gaslight the whole country to their viewpoint. That is unforgivable that.
What do you mean, mrsyk? We have always been at war with Eastasia!
when I read the book, i never thought I would see it i real life.
And in a time when almost everyone was a literal supercomputer in their pocket and access to the sum of human knowledge (and near infinite cat pix and porn)
but here we are
The “At your feet or at your throat” dynamic is particularly strong in media; turning your “analysis” on a dime without acknowledgement, let alone reflection and introspection, seems to be part of the job description. “Educated fools, from uneducated schools,” as the great Curtis Mayfield wrote…
Follow-up question: if Biden had one of his increasingly rare good performances at the debate, where would we be? I think we all know the answer to that.
This article lays out the REAL problem with a biden “candidacy,” and it has nothing to do with campaign cash or “delegates”–an eventual harris presidency, most likely sooner rather than later.
Calling attention to this obvious biden bait-and-switch allows Trump to “run against” a “candidate” even less popular than biden, and to characterize her “inevitable” administration in whatever horrible way he wants.
If I were Trump, I’d consider ignoring the biden corpse, and start running hard against one of the least popular, most vacuos and unaccomplished politicians evah–kamala “I can imagine what can be, unburdened by what has been” harris.
Trump laying low, seems pretty rational for a change; being guided by better instincts on his 3rd tour de force, perhaps? Elsewhere, Biden was visiting Madison, WI, yesterday which appears to be an odd choice? My understanding is the university town is a largely enclave of Team Blue supporters. Well that is better than the 2016 strategy, which I recall was for Hillary to avoid the state in full.
Man this next 4 to 5 months are really gonna be a grind.
Somebody must have told Trump that quote from Napoleon – ‘Never interrupt your enemy while he’s making a mistake.’ But it must be hard for him to keep his mouth shut as he loves nothing more than to go on a stage and make all sorts of flaming attacks against his enemies.
If you look at it another way, this is so obvious and such an easy target that even Trump is letting it crash and burn on its own.
There’s also a lot of pretty old voters. Stay away from the geriatric jokes.
As long as the United States is focusing its neocon ideology on Russia, China, and Iran, the World Is a dangerous place. I think that Uruguay is actually one of the safest places to be right now. I posted this a couple of weeks ago, but it was late in the day so I thought I would repost it today for people who might be interested but didn’t see it:
Still, it must have made you nervous when General Laura Richardson came to visit Uruguay back in February. When she talks about the resources that South American countries have, she has a bad tendency to drool which is not an attractive look on her-
https://www.southcom.mil/MEDIA/NEWS-ARTICLES/Article/3672333/strengthening-the-us-uruguay-security-partnership-gen-richardson-meets-with-sen/
Remember when you ran Bernie away
And the DNC got on their knees and begged you
To lead because otherwise the country would go berserk?
WELL
You left Trump behind anyhow and
Then the days got worse and worse
And now I see you’ve gone completely
Out of your mind
AND
They´re coming to take you away
Haha, they´re coming to take you away
Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha
To the funny farm
Where life is beautiful all the time
And you’ll be happy to see
Those nice young men
In their clean white coats
And they´re coming to take you AWAY
HA HAAAA
You thought it was a joke
and so you LAUGHED, YOU LAUGHED!
When I had said that losing your mind
Would make Warner flip his lid
RIGHT?
They´re coming to take you away
Haha, they´re coming to take you away
Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha
To the happy home with trees and flowers
And chirping birds and Hasbara story weavers
Who sit and smile and
Twiddle their thumbs and toes
And they´re coming to take you away
HAHAAAAAAAAA
You cooked the books
You cleaned out Gaza
And this is how you pay the country back
For all your kind unselfish loving deeds
HUH?
Well, you just wait
They´ll find you yet
And when they do, they´ll put you in
the AIPAC old persons home, you mental nut
AND
They’re coming to take you away, Ha-ha
They’re coming to take you away, Ho-ho
Hee-hee-haa-haa
To the funny farm
Where life is beautiful all the time
And you’ll be happy to see those
Nice young men in their clean white coats and
They’re coming to take you away, ha-ha!
To the happy home
With trees and flowers and chirping birds
And Hasbara story weavers who sit and smile
And twiddle their thumbs and toes
And they’re coming to take you away, ha-hahaha…
To the funny farm
Where life is beautiful all the time
And you’ll be happy to see…..
Offbeat rhythm requires the original Ha-Haaa!
Funny how this song has been on my mind. I can remember hearing it over the tinny Blue Bird bus radio system on the way to school, thinking “..how appropriate…” I figured you’d put up a version eventually, thanks.
@Japan declares victory on war on floppy disks
Actually, here is the article from the Minister’s website .
He has an initiative called “Roadmap for Reviewing Analog Regulations Based on Digital Principles” (my translation, not official), where he is reviewing several thousand rules, which include rules on submitting data. To me this sounds like a normally operating Ministry, whereas the article made it sound goofy, “declaring war”.
And this: “Many Japan businesses still require official documents to be endorsed using carved personal stamps called hanko”.
This coming from a journalist who lives in a country where many American businesses still require hand-written paper documents called “checks”, which must be endorsed with “signatures”, written using plastic sticks filled with ink, called “pens”.
“How Did Silicon Valley Turn into a Creepy Cult?” Ted Gioia
Indeed. It’s time for the scales to fall from people’s eyes about these dangerous phonies.
The editorial board of the
@FT
calls for special treatment for the restructuring of Ukrainian bonds by private creditors, asserting that ‘this is not like any other sovereign restructuring’.
ha hahaha, good luck with that. And exactly what can Ukraine offer its bond holders in exchange? Little sweet nothings. Ukraine’s best path is to stare down bondholders, and seek around a 40% debt reduction, commensurate with market expectations (ft). I’m guessing that means Ukraine bonds are pricing at around 60 cents on the dollar. Sell.
Note the author of the tweet is not promoting the ft‘s view.
No doubt those calls for ‘special treatment’ are coming from those very same bond holders. Have zero sympathy for them to tell you the truth. No doubt the idea was to do to the Ukraine what was done to Russia back in the 90s and just pump all wealth out out of that country after paying off the local oligarchs to help them. The fact that there was active fighting on the eastern front since 2014 with outbreaks into major battles should have been a warning sign to them that perhaps all may not be well. But apparently greed trumps due diligence and they invested anyway. If Russia takes most of that country, you think that they will honour all those investments and the like by those bond holders?
An event of default would make quite clear that Ukraine is a charity case as far as any future “aid” is concerned.
Rev Kev: But apparently greed trumps due diligence and they invested anyway.
Let’s be clear. They did their due diligence. That’s why the US-West is there.
US senator says Ukraine is ‘gold mine’ with $12 trillion of minerals ‘we can’t afford to lose’
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/06/13/ukraine-12-trillion-minerals-west-china-russia/
A prominent US lawmaker has referred to Ukraine as a “gold mine”, insisting the West must maintain access to the trillions of dollars worth of critical minerals located in the country. “They’re sitting on $10 to $12 trillion of critical minerals in Ukraine”, said Senator Lindsey Graham.“They could be the richest country in all of Europe. I don’t want to give that money and those assets to Putin to share with China”, he added.
Arguably, Graham is correct from the viewpoint of longterm US hegemony. (Don’t laugh; you may know it’s effectively gone, but hardcore US imperialists don’t accept that.)
The above re. Ukraine, by the way, doesn’t even get into the fact that it’s also an agricultural breadbasket comparable to US-Canada
Graham Cracker is rehashing the reason to hang out in Afghanistan, with all their mineral wealth we glimpsed from the window of a C-130 leaving Kabul one last time…
I don’t think we can discount the potential role Covid has played in Biden’s decline. There is research showing especially bad brain effects for older adults. Here is Nate Bear with a view on Twitter:
https://x.com/NateB_Panic/status/1806636160061702314
And a thread by Lady Chuan about her recent experience with the medical director of a neurology group, presumably in the US:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1808479237273276667.html
Yes, Trump also had Covid, but he is not looking that great either and his extemporaneous rambles seem to be ramblier. And of course Covid affects each person differently, depending on a host of factors. Trump also received monoclonal antibodies, while Biden got Paxlovid for both original and rebound, if I recall. Monoclonal seemed (to me) to be more effective at that time.
> Lady Chuan
>>I asked why does he says destroyed and not damaged. He stated that when something is damaged, there is an awareness that it has existed. When something is destroyed,, there is no awareness. This is why people can walk around like Covid doesn’t exist.
> The Great Uncomformity
>> “Why there’s nothing instead of something. Or how. How nothing replaced something.”
This is not the Existential Crisis I was looking for.
Had the unfortunate opportunity to observe Close Family suffer from lewey body dementia for years (RIP). And let me tell you, after the first time CF caught covid, they could no longer walk unassisted, could no longer communicate (In any form), basically turned into a house plant. Terrible way to go out, but for Biden a much deserved one.
WaPo letting it all hang out
Yes that future that we all have been enjoying over the course of my lifetime has been oh so very safe. Idiots.
And it was the party that picked Truman, not Roosevelt, so they don’t even get that right.. Once re-elected FDR only met with Truman once before his death which shows how much FDR thought of him. Eleanor wasn’t a fan either.
Our press is now a propaganda shop which explains the current Biden mess. Why wouldn’t they lie about Biden’s condition when they lie about everything? Of course some corners of the MSM are better than others but surely the WaPo is one of the worst. As their own editor recently told them, nobody is reading you anymore. In that sense the NYT has won their longstanding competition.
What gets me is that all during his decline, from all accounts, FDR was mentally alert and functional. “Creepy” Joe, on the other hand….
I find it highly propagandistic that the WaPo choses to contrast, and thus associate in the readers subconscious, FDR and Biden. “See. Fearless Leader Joe is just like former Fearless Leader Frank! All Hail Fearless Leader!”
It would be funny if it wasn’t so effective.
> President Biden goes on incredibly confusing rant, calls himself the first black woman to serve with a black president.
This feels a bit like the debate, in which I had to think creatively to imagine what underlying concrete realities were being referred to (by both speakers).
In this case, it’s not hard to imagine — the speaker is conjoining the fact that he served as VP in the administration of the first black president and deserves credit for selecting a black woman to be VP when he ran for president.
There is, admittedly, the not inconsequential matter of self-identification within this conjunction, but that is easily explained by the supposition that lately he’s been listening too much to the Beatles — “I am you and you are me and we are all together.” Why might this song be on his mind? Perhaps he’s still pleased with having “beat[en] the socialist” during the “Night of Long Knives”, to which the song proleptically refers with its reference to “stupid bloody Tuesday”. But it’s not clear to me who JRB thinks is the Eggman.
Back in 2020 Joe still had his wits about him. He picked the VP most qualified to protect him against being Kennedied or Nixoned.
I’m waiting for him to blurt out: “Twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.”
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqjhHVUzl8o&ab_channel=ThingsICantFindOtherwise
I just commented below. The audio seems chopped together to me.
Listen with headphones.
Russian athlets started getting doping charges few years before the war kicked off. I guess it’s Chinese turn now.
“Starmer’s role in Assange’s persecution”
‘As head of the UK Crown Prosecution Service, the newly elected British PM Keir Starmer played a key role in setting in motion the infernal legal machinery that crushed Assange for 14 years’
If you stop to think about it, was this piece of skullduggery what got him the seal of approval from the British and US security establishments and enabled him to go into a political career with a fast track to his present Prime Ministership? He proved that he was a ‘team player’ who was prepared to break laws to ‘get results.’ I note that when he stepped down as Director of Public Prosecutions, he was given ‘honorary degrees from several universities, and he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)’ and a little over a year later went into Parliament. Nice pay-off that.
Seems like solid take to me:
“The reason so many Democratic leaders and pundits seem so bewildered about the Biden Disaster is because when one has no concrete principles other than worshiping power, and it becomes unclear where power is or going to be, one quickly becomes incoherent and confused.”
https://x.com/davidsirota/status/1809413735045357895
13,000 evacuated as Northern California’s Thompson Fire burns SFGate
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Can’t decide if my sentence is purgatory or hades, and its early in the heat dome of silence game, and what’s weird about this one is nighttime temps aren’t going down appreciably, and we are close to the longest days of the year, allowing for everything to be not only completely dried out, but bone dry after a couple of weeks nearing 110 every day in this here convection oven.
Fires are breaking out all over the state and seeing there isn’t any clouds, lightning ain’t the culprit this go round, but the hand of man.
The next 5 months promises to be incendiary~
There’s speculation that Death Valley may hit the highest recorded temperature record in a few days. The record is currently 134. Supposedly Phoenix was 117 yesterday. Three more degrees and they have to close the airport.
‘Tomasz Oryński
@TOrynski
I have to say AI’s ideas for camping are quite unorthodox, to put it mildly.’
At least that AI didn’t place that fire on top of her head. There is that. Doesn’t help to know that our society is racing to embed AI in all our computers, browsers and whatever else they can find. That is not a confidence builder that. It’s basically beta version software.
You gotta love AI camping, the hottie wearing makeup and the Coleman roasting over a roaring fire~
I spend a fair amount of time hanging out with Mother Nature, and her domain will be least affected by our artificial tomfoolery, no?
As long as you are in a place that has no signal. Of course having a hottie come along helps.
It used to be in Sequoia NP that the motel rooms had no tv’s, they really wanted you to be there for the forest for the trees, and then about 20 years ago they gave in and put tv’s in every room.
A year ago they wired up the Giant Forest and now you can be 8th in line to get a selfie of yourself and the Sherman Tree and let the world know you were there-just a few seconds before… ah, progress
Re Silicon Valley/creepy cults–there was a story yesterday about a Phoenix cop pulling over a Waymo car for driving against traffic on a divided highway. When he approached the driver’s side the window rolled down and there was no one there.
Google said confusing construction barriers forced the car briefly into the oncoming lane. But there is an air of unreality about all that futurism being imagined by people who may have only a tenuous grasp of the present. One time Valley worker Mike Judge hit this squarely with HBO’s Silicon Valley. The show was a bit uneven and is now gone but Larry David, an embarrassed shill for Bankman-Fried, continues at the channel as he has for many years. Satire it seems has a limited life while toilet jokes carry on forever (I do believe this is David’s declared final season).
The police can see it now: the bank robbery (or other crime) with the decoy get away car….
NEW: President Biden goes on incredibly confusing rant, calls himself the first black woman to serve with a black president.
He also called himself the “first president that got elected statewide in the state of Delaware, when I was a kid.”
“By the way, I’m proud to be the, as… pic.twitter.com/VMNtVe85Pz
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 4, 2024
When was this interview? I put the headphones on for this. Yes, Biden’s issues are real, but this audio doesn’t strike me as being quite right. It sounds chopped together.
If I’m wrong, is there other verification of the validity of this audio?
it’s real. Just search: Biden interview philadelphia WURD
The account I read said last night he told ABC that he won’t take or need a cognitive exam because he is “running the world” and that is his exam.
I’d say that statement alone means he flunked.
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