What Jay Powell should say at Jackson Hole FT
TD Bank Sets Aside $2.6 Billion for Possible U.S. Anti-Money Laundering Penalties WSJ
Revisiting How Many People Have Filed Bankruptcy Credit Slips
Climate
How to Force Capitalism to Stop Climate Change Foreign Policy
AI tech giants hide dirty energy with outdated carbon accounting rules Business Standard
The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud Bert Hubert’s Writings
‘We’re changing the clouds’: Unintended geoengineering test is warming the Atlantic Earth.com
Water
Large number of customers starting lawn-watering cycles on Mondays is stressing Denver Water’s system Colorado Sun
The Strange Heat Island Lurking Beneath Minneapolis Atlas Obscura
TechCrunch Minute: This startup wants to mine water on the moon TechCrunch
Syndemics
A new Covid vaccine is expected soon. Here’s the best time to get it NBC
Novavax Stock Rocketed This Year, But Challenges Persist. Is It A Buy Or A Sell? Investor’s Business Daily
* * * Health officials recommend curfew in Mass. town as community faces critical EEE risk Boston25. EEE = Eastern Equine Encephalitis.
Could Mpox Become Established in the Indo-Pacific? The Diplomat
China?
China says it is ‘seriously concerned’ about US nuclear strategic report Channel News Asia
Humanoid robots steal limelight at WRC 2024 CGTN
PwC braced for 6-month ban in China over Evergrande audit FT
India
COMMENT: India booms, but is it structural growth story of the century or domestic investors’ irrational exuberance BNE Intellinews
Syraqistan
USS Abraham Lincoln strike group arrives in Middle East Anadolu Agency
A Look at Iran’s First Ever Aircraft Carrier: Shahid Bagheri Promises to Expand Reach of Stealth Drone Fleet Military Watch
America The Ugly Clyde Prestowitz (!), Clyde’s Newsletter. Commentary:
Gaza is covered in 42 million tonnes of rubble.
The enduring human, environmental, and economic consequences of the immense toxic detritus of genocide—towering piles of debris that also bury an estimated 10,000 dead—are just staggering https://t.co/VW0v9nCSiQ pic.twitter.com/locMxt7Vbd
— Thea Riofrancos (@triofrancos) August 17, 2024
Africa
Koch Invests in Massive Land Grab From West African Herders Exposed by CMD
European Disunion
France’s summer break is ending – and the bitter fight to form a government is back France24
New Not-So-Cold War
Scholz believes Ukrainian troops are unlikely to stay in Russia’s Kursk Oblast for long Ukrainska Pravda
Russia Seeks to Turn Humbling Incursion Into Military Gains NYT
Russia says Ukraine’s incursion into Kursk region has ended any possibility of peace talks Anadolu Agency
Ukrainian incursion into Kursk paralyses Russia’s railways BNE Intellinews
* * * Russia and Ukraine Can’t Mount Major Offensives Against Each Other, US Says Bloomberg
* * * As Conflict Escalates, Secret Russian Files Reportedly Reveal Lowered Nuclear Threshold Training (excerpt) Simplicius, Simplicius the Thinker
Ukraine’s Offensive Bolsters Russia’s Separatists Foreign Policy
South of the Border
Fraud Foretold? New Left Review. Venezuela. “A careful consideration of the evidence, then, suggests that the election results are not just difficult but impossible to believe.”
2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to address nation Friday amid reports he will endorse Trump Anadolu Agency
* * * Meet the ‘uncommitted’: How Gaza hangs over Democratic National Convention AL Jazeera
Republicans Kill Civilians For Bad Guy Reasons, Democrats Kill Civilians For Nice Guy Reasons Caitlin Johnstone
* * * Trump or Harris? Moscow Does Not Care Valdai Discussion Club
Who is Philip Gordon, the foreign policy pragmatist with Harris’s ear? FT. See NC here.
* * * Police and FBI investigate maggot incident at DNC breakfast in Chicago WGN
The planet the Democrats live on sounds nice The Guantlet
Spook Country
U.S. Investigating Americans Who Worked With Russian State Television NYT
The right to be left alone Andrew P. Napolitano, New Jersey Herald
Digital Watch
‘Wartime CEO’: Urbit’s Founder Returns in Shakeup at Moonshot Software Project CoinDesk
No Exit Opportunities: Business Models and Political Thought in Silicon Valley American Affairs Journal
An Age of Hyperabundance n+1. Excerpt:
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— alex (@genossse) August 21, 2024
* * * What margins? AI’s business model is changing fast, says Cohere founder TechCrunch
Antitrust
What Happens When a CEO Destroys Evidence in an Antitrust Trial? Matt Stoller, BIG
Zeitgeist Watch
US hospital told family their daughter had checked out when in fact she’d died Guardian (DS). DS writes: “CalPERS isn’t running the only cover-up in Sacramento. Waiting a year to file a Death Certificate (required in 15-days by law) suggests hiding malpractice, and failing to ever inform the family who spent a year searching for her smacks of wanton cruelty. No mention of any investigation by the State Medical Board here or in the SacBee coverage. Words fail me.”
Supply Chain
US uranium production bounces back from steep decline in recent years: EIA S&P Global
The Final Frontier
Robotic Russian Progress 89 cargo ship docks at ISS with tons of fresh supplies (video) Space.com
Sports Desk
‘More and more’ – The unusual cosmetic step Man City star has taken to improve athletic performance Manchester Evening News
Class Warfare
How US Big Tech monopolies colonized the world: Welcome to neo-feudalism Geopolitical Economy Review
You Say You Want a Revolution Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds
Bioaccumulation of Microplastics in Decedent Human Brains Assessed by Pyrolysis Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (preprint) Research Square. N = 12. From the Conclusion: “The parallels between the present data showing an increasing trend in [Micro- and NanoPlastics (MNP)] concentrations in the brain with exponentially rising environmental presence of microplastics and increasing global rates of age-corrected Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia, given the potential role of anionic nanoplastics in protein aggregation, add urgency to understanding the impacts of MNP on human health.” Musical interlude.
Antidote du jour (Ltshears):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
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GENERAL STRIKE
(melody borrowed from A Day In The Life by The Beatles)
We’ll all revolt today, O joy!
A new world waits beyond the barricades
This crowd is huge and really mad
We’ll push the fences back
Demanding what we lack
Gas mask and ten granola bars
No more false promises of hope and change
Adverse perspectives can’t be squared
It’s change we’re looking for
No more harsh austerity from beating plowshares into swords
We won’t pay bills today, O joy!
They take it all and yet they must take more
We’re out on strike and here we’ll stay
It is our lives you took
Stuffed in your chequebook
But now those days are gone . . .
The joke that goes unsaid
Is that we’re easily misled
What our Congresscritters cover up
Is cash comes first while you and I can wait
Congress works on tit for tat
Money gets the welcome mat
Our nation’s way past way past broke
The donor class keeps skimming off the cream
(Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh)
We’ll all revolt today, O joy!
There’s going to be a lot of changes here
We won’t accept the same cabal
We want our wherewithal
No more hungry people working hard for nothing much at all
But now those days are gone . . .
Working link for “US hospital told family their daughter had checked out when in fact she’d died” article at-
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/21/sacramento-hospital-patient-death-checked-out
Somebody would have had to have signed off on her body going to that off-site morgue. Maybe the police had better check the identities of the other bodies at that site in case there are similar cases.
jeezus h. christ. What is happening in this country?
Dignity is the former Dominican Hospitals network. They are the only hospital and ER in my medium-sized town. They are generally pretty awful, but the best part is that as a Catholic hospital, they not only refuse to offer contraception and abortion and gender transition services, they routinely deny floor privileges to doctors who do.
The enshittification of everything.
When I clicked the link posted in the original links it goes directly to my email. I tried it 3 times and it was the same. How on earth can that happen?
It went originally to Yahoo I think so if you have an account with Yahoo and are logged on, perhaps that is why.
Ok, yes that’s what happened. Thanks!
>France’s summer break is ending – and the bitter fight to form a government is back – France24
As long as a substantial number of Europeans enjoy their long "summer break" not much political change will occur. In Italy Ferragosto, is sacred. Those with the means head for the coast or the mountain to enjoy the beach or cool air. Talk of politics is put aside and the business of enjoying life proceeds undisturbed. And who can blame them? The mind-numbing platitudes of genocide enabling politicians only raise the blood pressure and horrify. No, take the whole month of August off and enjoy yourselves, forget the bombs blowing up innocent women and children or poking the bear…while you can.
I don’t know, nor do I care, whether or not Maduro won the election fairly. I do know that no US-based or aligned organization can be trusted to tell the truth about Venezuela. But my real beef is this: who the f’ do we think we are to be going around playing the arbiter of right and justice when we’re currently funding and arming a genocide? We have no moral authority left, if ever we had any. Maybe these leftists should focus on their own countries and trying to affect those politics, rather than opining about what’s wrong with governments in their former colonies. People like the author seem to care more about reigning in Maduro than they do about reigning in their own governments who, as the author even states, have a long history of fomenting right-wing military coups in that (and many other) countries. Our epic blindness to Western hypocrisy would be funny if it weren’t so harmful.
We have been funding genocide since the 1930s…I guess we can sdy US elites gave been funding genocide since the 1930s. We officially started to fund genocide in the 1980s when military dictatorships in Central America slaughtered native people.
Every genocide since then has US money or arms fueling to he conflict. I don’t think we can take credit for Pol Pot but his genocide is not possible with out our involvement in Vietnam.
The only difference now is that you can easily see the images and videos.
Iirc, latin America has been at the mercy of imperialist rule for hundreds of years. In more contemporary times, American meddling in the region dates back to at least the 1820s, around the time the Monroe doctrine was adopted.
Related:
https://hir.harvard.edu/the-dark-side-of-bananas-imperialism-non-state-actors-and-power/
https://soaw.org/about-soa-watch
https://x.com/KawsachunNews/status/1616594222865334272/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1616594222865334272¤tTweetUser=KawsachunNews
The US had a hand in supporting Pol Pot.
https://gsp.yale.edu/case-studies/cambodian-genocide-program/us-involvement/united-states-policy-khmer-rouge-regime-1975
Some quotes from the gruesome twosome:
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger discusses the Khmer Rouge regime with Thailand’s Foreign Minister Chatichai, November 26, 1975
Kissinger: “You should also tell the Cambodians that we will be friends with them. They are murderous thugs, but we won’t let that stand in our way. We are prepared to improve relations with them.”
Former US National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, on China and the Khmer Rouge, 1979:
“I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. Pol Pot was an abomination. We could never support him, but China could.” According to Brzezinski, the USA “winked, semi-publicly” at Chinese and Thai aid to the Khmer Rouge.
Both US and China were very upset when the Vietnamese troops removed the Pol Pot gang from power in Cambodgia…
Same here. Why do these people have such a hard on for Venezuela?
‘oil’ in big letters
There’s a very cool visualisation of the importance of Venezuela’s oil reserves here.
https://nitter.poast.org/MyLordBebo/status/1825113907628855495#m
Not only oil – don’t they also have minerals including lithium?
I was wrong about lithium, but Venezuela is a major producer and exporter of minerals, notably bauxite, coal, gold and iron ore.
Ok but this is in the New Left Review. Judging from their style I suspect the article is in the great tradition of leftist infighting.
The US would not fare too well if the same criteria for elections were applied to itself.
I do think it’s prudent to wait until the Venezuelan Supreme Court finishes its investigation and conclusion of the elections before declaring fraud. Could it be that the CNE and ruling party are not sharing the voting details and tallies until after this process, to make sure the opposition does not have time to ‘correct’ the codes or results of any fraudulent tallies they have posted? Can we blame them for acting defensively given the boldness of the Machado led opposition to declare itself the winner and usurp the functions of the CNE? The continuing cyberattacks the state is under must also influence these decisions.
It is unfortunate Edmundo Gonzalez did not submit those tallies to the Supreme Court or request the Court to overturn the ruling of the CNE.
We had to wait over a month back in 2000 I think for US Supreme Court to rule on the Bush-Gore election and know the winner.
Thank you and well put.
There are definitely some fishy things going on from Maduro’s side that need an explanation. But the author of that piece fails to question the extremely dubious claims of the opposition, namely that they won 2/3 or so of the vote.
I’ve followed events in Venezuela pretty closely for a generation now, and Chavez’ policies did greatly improve the lives of many Venezuelans from what I understand. Given that and all the US actions against Venezuela during that time, I find it extremely difficult to believe that the right wing opposition openly supported by the US would garner that high a percentage, even if Maduro has become more unpopular.
Since I readily understand that the Venezuelan people might be ready to try a different government, I also understand that sanctions, constant interference, and blatant blackmail upon the country by the US and its Latin allies, has created the circumstances allowing and nurturing that discontent. The creator of chaos has no right to blame the victim for that chaos, and thus no right to call the shots about any election. To say the US is the destroyer of worlds and nations is sufficient to block their desires, no matter the “legality” of processes undermined “illegally”. Frankly, New Left Review seems to be not so “left” anymore if it says nothing about that.
Gooooooooood Mooooooorning Fiatnam!
Nobody expected Bob Hope to make an appearance @ the DNC convention in Chicago, but there he was larger than life, in particular for a guy who’s been pushing up daisies for decades. Luckily it’s a fairy short flight from second city to Jackson Hole, where Hope springs eternal, at least as far as Jay Powell is concerned.
Turns out the hopester was only there to pitch his latest effort:
The Road to Partition
Lol, I see what you did there. Yesterday the Atlantic was cooling, yet today it is warming?! Ah what tangled webs :)
>Trump or Harris? Moscow Does Not Care – Valdai Discussion Club
Trump’s possible victory in the 2024 elections will change little for Russia… Trump’s threat to force European allies to pay for their security will not break NATO solidarity. Such threats could not undermine it even during his first term, and today, against the background of the crisis in relations with Russia, they will not lead to any changes, even less so.
And I don’t care much either, I won’t waste a vote on either. Little will change for Russia, and little will change for the majority of U.S. citizens. The oligarchs, “the inner circle,” will still decide public policy and determine the (mis)allocation of the nation’s wealth. The Trump/Harris theatrical production is a dialectical “alchemical” process of instilling the belief that the people are sovereign.
When Entities like the “Grayzone” are banned on Youtube for a week so that they cannot broadcast their coverage of the DNC convention and Jackson Hinkel and Scott Ritter past videos are purged, what is there left to care about? Maybe if there was a viable, adversarial press to press the issues of the day, people here and countries there, would care.
While Russia is directionally correct, 2024 is not 2016. Look at how Germany has said no to more Ukraine funding due to budget rules. Shifting NATO costs onto European members who are in recessions or facing low growth to pricier energy isn’t as viable for NATO as it was in Trump’s first term. This is a prescription for “Atlanticists” and internationalists to be voted out of office. That turnover is unlikely to get very far during a second Trump term, though, and so Russia can’t expect any meaningful shift.
“TechCrunch Minute: This startup wants to mine water on the moon”
‘Starpath is building robots that it hopes will be able to autonomously mine liquid oxygen from the moon. That liquid oxygen can then be used to develop fuel for spacecrafts, which could make it possible for humans to travel farther through space than they have thus far.’
To extract that oxygen from Luna rocks and soil would be prohibitively expensive, especially when all the mining gear would have to be shipped to the Moon first. And we have only ever sent small payloads to the Moon – not industrial equipment weighing many tons. But this mob want to use this stuff for flights to Mars as if the Moon was some sort of free gas station. Maybe they had better work on getting to the Mon first. Sort of like baby steps.
I am starting up a startup for mining water on the Sun. In order to avoid the heat, we will be working only at night.
Joker, this comment was very funny, thank you for making my day!
https://english.news.cn/20240822/45e1288fc24b47c8938c623b5b9a0795/c.html
August 22, 2024
Researchers propose massive water production method on Moon
BEIJING — Chinese researchers have developed a new method of massive water production through the reaction between lunar regolith and endogenous hydrogen. Their study * was published in the journal The Innovation on Thursday.
The study of the Moon’s water content plays a vital role in the construction of future scientific research bases and human survival.
Research results from previous lunar explorations have revealed that ice may exist in a natural state at the moon’s north and south poles and in its permanently shadowed regions.
However, the natural water content in lunar minerals is extremely low, ranging from 0.0001 percent to 0.02 percent, according to the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). It remains challenging to extract and utilize water in situ on the moon.
Recently, researchers from the NIMTE, Institute of Physics of the CAS, China Academy of Space Technology, Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Nanjing University and Harbin Institute of Technology used lunar regolith samples brought back by the Chang’e-5 mission to conduct related studies on various lunar minerals.
They found that the solar wind has irradiated the minerals in lunar soil for billions of years and stored abundant hydrogen. When heated to high temperatures, the hydrogen reacts with the iron oxides in the minerals to form elemental iron and large amounts of water…
* https://www.cell.com/the-innovation/fulltext/S2666-6758(24)00128-0
UFC 86
Teetotalitarian Dictator-the Ayatollah of Diet Coca-Cola versus a 3 liter Black Box of red blend consisting of grapes mostly sourced locally from Lodi-the most awarded boxed wine, by the way.
Both go into the Octagon, one might risk a WUI if she emerges on foot.
Letttttttttt’s get ready to Tipple!
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Um.
Charles Hugh Smith and revolution–
Charles and I are very much on the same page. Here are a few examples of our concord with comments:
Smith is actually quoting from a NYT article about homesteaders with Youtube channels that in turn was quoting a homesteader on Youtube. After years of trying to organize locally and get something positive going in my poor, urban neighborhood, I’m ready to throw in the towel and move to where the Amish live. I finally found a book that investigates why the Amish live as they do, eschewing electricity and Happy Motoring:
Donald Kraybill, The Amish Way: Patient Faith in a Perilous World (2010)
The Amish are undeniably Christian monotheists who believe that humans have been handed “dominion” over Nature, but the best among them come close to recognizing the interdependence of humans and the rest of life on Earth, including this Amish bishop quoted in Kraybill’s book:
Community, humility, simplicity. Renouncing the status game of conspicuous consumption. Valuing solidarity above the “achievement” extolled by the disparagers of “slave morality,” These are all values I can get behind even if I see the monotheism they profess as more of a hindrance than a help in attaining a healthy understanding of who we humans are and how we relate to this planet and the life on it. The Amish are astute observers of modern culture’s dangers as well as faithful adherents to the best values they find in the teachings of Jesus and Paul.
Among those who come from Western traditions, I think the Amish and their somewhat more assimilated theological cousins, the Mennonites, have more going for them as the Jackpot approaches than the rest.
the hardest part of dropping out/pursuing autarky/homesteading…is “Finding the Others”.
especially if one didnt have much choice in the location of the property one has to work with.
of course, once the balloon goes up, and its obvious to everyone that the age of excess is over…it will be no problem finding people to fill the farm ranks. the issue at that time will be sorting out the good ones.
but until then….well, i dont have any idea….aside from online meet-up things like Wwoof
https://wwoof.net/
ive mentioned before my attmpts at “online dating”…among them “Farmers Only”…where, out of thousands of profiles(mostly 350 miles away in the big texas cities) maybe 4 of the potentials had what looked to me like the necessary attitude to do what i do…and live like i live.
the vast majority had “Likes Horses” prominently displayed.
about a third were involved in cattle….and another third, overlapping with that, were into roping.
i do not have a youtube acct…nor do i want one…but surely some of these “influencers” that CHS is talking about have non-google online spaces.
still on-line…which i am leery of…but where else does one begin?
There’s an Amish colony in southwestern Wisconsin that manages quite well using methane and water powered mills and saws. Their products are so superior to anything mass produced that they can ask quite a premium. Recommend visiting if you’re in the area. I once saw a man plowing a field with an ox and traditional plow. Edifying.
I’m not sure the Amish take recruits and if you leave and come back you are shunned. It’s all well and good to want to turn one’s back on out mechanical world but that previous one was a lot of hard work. We live like we do–including the cars–for a reason.
Amish people take a big vacation generationally about every 15 years, and when you can’t fly but you can have somebody drive you, it works but is kinda complicated.
My buddy does sightseeing tours in Sequoia NP and gets Amish tourists every now and then, and it encompasses all age groups, if you’re 75 this is probably your 5th or 6th holiday, that sort of thing.
Some years ago he had an Amish group from Ames, Ohio (where 95% of the non-Amish are van drivers-they laughingly told him) that was coming by Amtrak, and the train got derailed and they were fine, but their luggage was lost in the wreck and they showed up a couple days late @ Hanford Ca. and were offered $200 a piece by Amtrak for clothing and healthcare items, and my buddy says all 14 of them assembled in a circle and the leader said ‘$200 is too much, lets tell them we’d be good with $100’, and so it was done, and then he asked them where did they want to go for clothes and whatnot, Target or Wal*Mart, and they went with Wal*Mart, and at this point I asked him, what did they look like?
He says ‘Have you seen that Amish film with Harrison Ford? they look just like the Amish in that movie’.
So somewhere there is a video of a gang of 14 Amish entering the Visalia Wal*Mart, ha ha.
They wanted to find a Sequoia tree where all 14 of them could hold hands around the tree, and have my friend take the picture, but got cold feet and persuaded him to join them, making him included in their trip which was more important than any photo, they assured him.
Their trip included I think 8 National Parks in total…
Yet like a lot of other “Christian monotheists,” they have some cultural problems with sexual predation and abuse, especially of children: https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/child-sexual-abuse-amish
Why is it that folks who claim “Christianity” apparently, in reading Luke 18:16, or Mark 19:24, just add a full stop after “Suffer the little children”? One wonders if maybe all the monotheists harbor and foster this same impulse. See, eg, all the well-documented behaviors of “the most moral army” and the “most moral nation.” And how about them Baptists, hey? https://www.christianpost.com/news/hundreds-of-sexual-abuse-allegations-revealed-in-fundamental-baptist-churches-investigation-finds.html And don’t forget the priestly predators hiding within the pious cassocks of the One True Church..,
And in my own middle class Presbyterian church, growing up, we had our own manifestations.
And it appears DEI and inclusiveness among the Liberals now includes the “full acceptance” of the “preferences” of groups like the North American Man/boy Love Association, https://www.nambla.org/welcome.html. (NAM/bLA: Note the cute use of the lowercase “b.”) Which wiki characterize s thus: NAMbLA “is a pedophilia and pederasty advocacy organization in the United States. It works to abolish age-of-consent laws criminalizing adult sexual involvement with minors[2][3] and campaigns for the release of men who have been jailed for sexual contacts with minors that did not involve what it considers coercion.”
So you want to live “like the Amish?” Maybe down at the end of “Tobacco Road?”
“And it appears DEI and inclusiveness among the Liberals now includes the “full acceptance” of the “preferences” of groups like the North American Man/boy Love Association”
That’s really not a thing. I don’t like Liberals but I hope this was sarcasm because it’s sort of libelous.
Friend of mine who grew up in Amish country doesn’t have much good to say about them for the reasons you describe above.
That being said, they did get the agriculture right if you ask me, and are an example to follow.
The Amish care so much for the earth and their fellow humans that the streets and parking lots of Middlefield Ohio are covered with gifts from their horses’ rear ends.
Odd. The Amish farmers I see in my area have bags on the horses’ rears to catch the excrement so that doesn’t happen. Perhaps the Amish in your area need some lessons in manners.
Still, it is just organic fertilizer. Coming from a farming family it doesn’t bother me much, but your mileage may vary.
I think horseapples are great for extending the growing season along with cold frames and such. I’d rather not step in them on my way into the hardware store. Or on my way out for that matter. While it’s kinda cute and quaint that the Middlefield Walmart has a stable (for a moment or two anyway), it’s less so to see that not only the stables are Augean.
Don’t forget about their puppy mills, and other animal issues. There were also problems with them using human manure on their farms and the produce would be contaminated. They would get someone to drive them to our farmers market and they’d undercut the rest of us. Folks would buy from them because they thought their …schtick was cute and that somehow they were special and better. They(the amish/mennonites) refused to interact with the rest of us farmers there. I have no love for those people.
Human beings have trouble with sexual and many other kinds of predation. Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Atheists, Agnostics, or the “Chosen People” — and I can’t imagine Buddhists or any other group is exempt.
Precisely, the Amish are “human, all-too-human.” The romance burns away in a little bit of sunlight, a little bit of repeat exposure.
Maggot incident at a Chicago hotel. Well the edict has been pushed forward after all. Pretty hilarious from this armchair view of things and modern America in 2024.
“You will own nothing….and also, be sure to eat the insects whilst you exist with your nothing!”
Go ahead, bite that Toddlin’ Town … don’t mind the maggots!
(Paraphrasing Mick)
As Hornblower and Patrick O’Brian fans know you have to tap the bread first so the weevils will leave–unless you want the extra protein.
Maybe if the maggots are lightly coated in a chocolate sheen, so instead of a small bar with just a hint of rice krispies bar texture…it’s more akin to a Whatchamacallit bar?
Tasty, and chocolate is good too! Sounds like a flavor upgrade from those Soylent green bars. To be clear, neither suggestion sounds all that appealing.
And if one is larger than the other, be sure to eat the lesser of two weevils.
Don’t blame me, that was a scene in the film of Master & Commander and all I can remember of it.
My spouse, who grew up sailing, still marvels at the joy in the scene where the ship gets the wind in her sails.
I love that movie. As do many apparently although it wasn’t a big hit when it came out.
It’s a fine film, I think one of Russell Crowe’s best efforts.
My Sequoia hunter buddy works for a hydraulic firm that farms out work to films, and their stuff was used quite a bit in the movie.
His website which is fun to poke around in…
https://sequoiaquest.com/atwell-mill-east-fork-may-25-27-2024.html
Fox built a giant tank in Baja that was used for Titanic and also for this movie. It was hoped that there would be sequels but it didn’t do well enough for that to happen. Not too long ago TAC did a three article lookback honoring the film’s 20th anniversary
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/run-up-the-colors/
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/mastery-and-command/
and some bah humbug from Peter Hitchens
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https://www.theamericanconservative.com/a-great-film-that-wasnt/
Or as Dr. Zoidberg once said to his young assistant . . . ” Go out to the dumpster and get me a ham sandwhich . . . and leave the maggots on it!”
“Hungary law could make Ukrainian refugees homeless”
I would imagine that the EU would be having a stress attack about this story and would be demanding answers from the Hungarians. So what happens if the Hungarians say that they were forced to do so because the EU has illegally withheld funds from Hungary forcing them to make cutbacks, namely to non-citizens. But the Hungarians could cheerfully offer to ship those Ukrainian refugees to the rest of the EU where their funding hasn’t been cut if they so desire.
…would you pull yourself up by your galoshes in Hungary?
Goulashes for the pun to work, surely? Unless you are trying some sort of double-bluff to make us pun ourselves, Wuk?
Nah, that would be silly trying to pull yourself up by the paprika.
I imagine it plays well on both sides. Orban is exuberantly despised in Germany and he’s useful for that in consolidating good pro-EU people behind whatever the UvdL types want to do next. In Hungary, apart from the cosmopolitans in Budapest, the insults and punishments from the EU are evidence of the perfidy that Fidesz talks about and shapes its policies of being only one foot in.
Is this going to be a problem with the EU? My take is that this is Hungary’s subtle way of getting the Ukrainians to return back to Ukraine, which surely will provide all the able body refugees with 3 hots and a cot in Eastern Ukraine.
Specific policies on housing and welfare for refugees is a national competency, it has nothing to do with the EU. Plenty of EU countries have dramatically cut back on their initial generosity to Ukrainian refugees – they don’t have to consult the EU on this, its entirely a domestic matter.
The main issue for the EU is that it is considered legally a ‘common area’ for refugee movements – i.e. if a refugee is accepted in one country, they are accepted (in theory anyway) in another, and each EU country recognises other countries decisions on refugee status. So if one country simply tosses refugees on the street, then inevitably this will lead to them going to a country that treats them better. This of course results in an inbuilt incentive to treat refugees badly, unless you want the cheap labour (which quite a few EU countries do).
If you read the small print, the ones this is aimed at are the Hungarian-Ukrainian Roma with dual citizenship, which seemed to be about 7% of the Ukrainian refugees. This is basically all about Hungary treating it’s Roma population like dirt, not depraving any blue-eyed blonde people of their human rights.
And so it will be soon forgotten.
Since 1992, Ukraine population has declined by some 15 million or 28%:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1qbRe
January 30, 2018
Total population of Ukraine and Georgia, 1988-2023
(Indexed to 1988)
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1qXfK
January 30, 2018
Age dependency ratio for Ukraine and Georgia, * 1988-2023
* Older dependents to working age population
Regarding the Aeon piece about C L R James — imagine what he may have made of contemporary America with its slavish devotion to the Marvel universe and its associated movies, grossing as much as they do?
Getting my mouth fixed and wallet lightened, and my next appointment is November 5th, and I of course realized it will be on election day-hope it doesn’t hinder my performance behind a closed curtain.
In light banter I gave away my platform to the gaggle of women working there:
Fridays & Mondays off, 4 day weekends
Full dental coverage
Free lunch
Free daycare
Military spending cut back 65% to accommodate my plank
I have at least 5 write-in votes now.
What? No brunch included? Get a lot of Democrat voting women that way.
You give ’em brunch and the next thing you know is they’ll be demanding lunner.
At least you didn’t start with the free lunch…
After all – TANSTAAFL
re: What Happens When a CEO Destroys Evidence in an Antitrust Trial? Matt Stoller, BIG
In my world (fintech) when legal issues a preservation notice the identified emails are locked, not deletable, and automatically diverted to a preservation vault, cannot be released without triple signoff initiated by legal and the RMO’s (record management officers). Emails from execs are pretty much always in the vault, email exchanges are for soft topics. Iffy topics are discussed via channels or in person.
The execs of these food chains are morons, and their legal departments amateurish. I’d question their entire operation and fundamentals.
Back when I was working for one of the Big Eight firms, the margin for a chain grocery store was, on average, about 2%. I’m too lazy to look it up, but I wonder if it’s still that low.
“Ukraine’s Offensive Bolsters Russia’s Separatists”
Yeah, can you imagine the American equivalent? Unreconstructed Confederates, Native American tribes, displaced American-born Mexicans, militia groups, sovereign citizens – all wanting America broken up into its fifty States so that they can get to run things their way? You think that the Russians and the Chinese would fund conferences for these groups like the US/EU does for these Russian ones? Of course Americans would accuse those former groups as being guilty of treason-
https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/06/15/last-colonial-empire-in-europe-must-fall-nations-subjugated-by-russia-call-in-vilnius/
I wonder if Native American Tribes would take part in that delamination scenario for the United States, given that they emphasize so strongly their Sovereign Treaty Relationship with the United States Government.
I once remember an Indian being quoted as saying: ” Of course Indians believe in the Constitution. In fact, we are the only people in America who do believe in it.”
The Clyde Prestowitz article “America the Ugly” is from January. It’s still a good read and all the more impressive for it’s being from January. His point about the USA being and appearing to rest of world weak and isolated has only gotten stronger. Congress’ flogging of university presidents did indeed produce a chilling effect.
The Minneapolis city councilman quotes in the Uncommitted article, Jeremiah Ellison, is, as you may have guessed, Keith Ellison’s son.
The Blob wasn’t wrong when it blocked Keith Ellison from heading up the DNC. They couldn’t have rigged the primaries for Biden with him in charge.
Not kidding, if the base ever retakes control of the party, everyone currently serving needs to be fired.
Two questions on Mpox that we really should know by now:
1) What is a description of mild symptoms? Is it rash without the other physical symptoms?
2) Is live virus present in feces and therefore aerolyzed during flushing?
2) Is live virus present in feces and therefore aerolyzed during flushing?
And this is important considering how many public restrooms in places like airports (where people from all over the world intersect) have the non-lid, auto flushing toilets.
The stupidity!!
Yet moar reasons to mask up when traveling!
At the public restrooms, I not only mask up…I hurry up.
I don’t even linger to wash my hands. (Not caring what people think!) I carry hand sanitizer, wipes, and apply as soon as I exit.
I have a secret hope that the mpox will finally bring about some changes in the policies of putting lids on public bathrooms
“As Conflict Escalates, Secret Russian Files Reportedly Reveal Lowered Nuclear Threshold Training”
This whole thing about Russian nukes seems to be a planned propaganda campaign I am beginning to suspect. So on the TV news this news presenter was talking to some think tank wonk and said that Putin has threatened to use nukes and what did he think. Putin has never said that – ever – and it is the west that keeps on going on about nukes. Why would he use nukes on what is soon to be Russian territory? He sure as hell won’t use them in Kursk. And using them on NATO territory is a one-way ticket to WW3. So I wish that they would shut up about nukes. All it does is make the idea more acceptable and I have already lived through the 80s and have no desire to do so again with this idea.
It could be the thinking goes as follows
premise 1: Russia has stated it will use nukes only if there’s an existential threat.
premise 2: Ukraine is kicking Russia’s proverbial behind (says The Narrative).
therefore, Russia will eventually use nukes.
You see, it’s all logical and fine as long as you accept The Narrative. The odd thing, if you actually do, is that you’re following a path that leads inevitably to a nuclear war. Why would anyone with more than a handful of functional synapses accept that as a preferred end game?
USS Lincoln strike group relieving Roosevelt is likely hanging out in the Gulf of Oman, safe from Houthi and others.
CENTCOM has big AOR.
While US proxies wandering Kursk have about 6 weeks before half their takings become wetlands.
About “Ukrainian incursion into Kursk paralyses Russia’s railways BNE Intellinews”…
Paralyses is a rather strong word to describe the situation. Apparently Russian ministry of transport told Belarus that no Belarusian trains will we accepted in the Kursk region until further notice, because all the local marshaling yards are too full at the moment.
The reason being that most Kursk region locomotive engines are at the moment occupied with hauling Russian military from Moscow and central Russian areas to Kursk region. Already the previous military transports have caused the marshaling yards to start filling up, but now the situation is such that no new railway cars can be received.
Now, there are at least four tracks between Belarus and Russia, and most of the Belarusian traffic is towards St. Petersburg area in the north, wagon loads of fertilizer to Baltic Sea harbors. The rest can still go trough Moscow to BRICS, or where ever it’s destined.
Can’t find anything in the Russian language news sites about rail traffic being paralyzed anywhere. I’d think if was a nationwide thing, it would warrant a mention or two. Maybe I’m just looking in all the wrong places, who knows.
You are looking at the wrong place, bne IntelliNews.
This article spends some time talking about the fact that the ukrainians overran a local Russian train station, and thus gained access to the network used throughout Russia to monitor and control trains.
As someone who has set up the requirements and specifications for a number of complex systems, I have to admit that the possibility that part of the system would be overrun by a hostile power never occurred to me. Not an easy thing to guard against, since it requires being able to infallibly separate the good guys from the bad guys amongst the users of the system. A lockout provision used to keep the bad guys out could also be misused by the bad guys to keep the good guys out. Biometric locks could easily be bypassed by cutting off a legitimate user’s hand or digging out their eye or whatever.
Hard to know what to do when the rules no longer apply!
To be honest, the article speculates a lot about possible access to the network. If I’m not mistaken, the system is called SIRIUS (developed by Gorgyi Region Railways?), and it has been in operation since 2004. Not to put too fine a point on it, but between 2004 and 2019 Ukraine, as a member of CIS, had access to that network for interoperability between the railways.
Fun fact: Russian railways had to lease a railway station from Ukraine, since the Soviet era tracks between Moscow and Rostov crossed 50 km in Ukraine. The station in Luhansk was not connected to the Ukrainian rail networks.
Considering it’s still accessible by other CIS members, I’m quite sure that the system has proper access controls to prevent unauthorized access. That is, if there’s power in the station (there being a war all around it) and if the information network works (and nobody cut the cables).
How about cutting the wires?
Obama, Kamala, ooh, I wanna take ya
Oprah & Michelle, come on pretty mamas
Key cargo, amigo
Baby, why don’t we go?
Jamaica no mistake-a
Off the Cape Cod Keys
There’s a place called Barry-O
That’s where you wanna go
To get away from it all
Bodies in the sand
Like Joe’s chances being putty in your hand
We’ll be falling in love
To the rhythm of the last decade’s brand
Down in the Barry-O
Obama, Kamala, ooh, I wanna take ya
Oprah & Michelle, come on pretty mamas
Key cargo, amigo
Baby, why don’t we go? (Ooh, I want to take you up to Barry-O’s)
We’ll get there fast
And then we’ll take it slow
That’s where we wanna go
Way down in Barry-O’s
Magnifique, that mangled syntax mystique
We’ll put Donald out to sea
And we’ll perfect our chemistry
By and by we’ll defy
A little bit of lack of gravity
Afternoon delight
X screeds on moonlit nights
That dreamy look in your eye
Give me a 2008 election contact high
Way down in the Barry-O
Obama, Kamala, ooh, I wanna take ya
Oprah & Michelle, come on pretty mamas
Key cargo, amigo
Baby, why don’t we go? (Ooh, I want to take you up to Barry-O’s)
We’ll get there fast
And then we’ll take it slow
That’s where we wanna go
Way down in Barry-O’s
Kokomo, by the Beach Boys
That is nicely done. Obama and his gravitational pull.
I’ll humbly suggest alternately…a different classic offering… California Girls…\sarc
“I wish they all could be like the K-Hive girls…the Midwest good old boy governor really makes us feel all right…and the high tech donors with the funds they give make donations rise high…”
Row, row, row your oratory gently downstream
Empty promises that sound good
But have no meaning
Do any of the older musicians here remember when Nady Systems came out with the first wireless Mics and instrument pick ups?
I was their first credit manager after they had been in biz for 3 years, growing at a compound rate of 300% per year.
There were NO policies or procedures in place when I started and it was easily the craziest place I ever worked.
I do. Those things were magical when they worked and useless when they didn’t. I was a sound tech at the MN State Fair back in 88-91, and got hands-on experience with these things fairly early on. When they didn’t work there was often no clues as to why they didn’t. I’m glad they’re gotten smaller and a lot more resilient+reliable over the years, but I still only use cables when I play out with my band or run sound for events.
I do too. I remember more uselessness than magic. Richard Lloyd was tortured by the Nady for his strat one night in November 1987 at the Riviera in Chicago. Which was a damn shame cause he was seriously On when his guitar was audible.
‘We’re changing the clouds’: Unintended geoengineering test is warming the Atlantic Earth.com
“Air pollution cools the climate”
They certainly managed to twist the crap out of this one to, I guess, to please the geoengineering investor community while encouraging the resumption of burning the dirty bunker fuel of the past.
The unintended geoengineering test and the ‘We’re changing the clouds’ is describing how the removal sulfate from bunker fuel has lowered the content of particles like sulfate in the clouds which lower their reflectivity and thus allow the ocean to absorb more energy – thus warming the ocean.
‘F’ing misleading garbage – The first Unintended geoengineering test that is warming the Atlantic is the mass burning of hydrocarbons, which by the way was also first to ‘We’re changing the clouds’
This reduction in sulfate in the clouds does not “Air pollution cools the climate” but rather, masks or tamps down the effects of warming from the burning of dirty hydrocarbons by chemically altering the cloud albedo with sulfates.
The article otherwise reflects long understood effects and is somewhat edifying – but the twist is mealy mouthed and misleading to the point of (gee- why are we so hard on the polluters)
Coal combustion sulfate and particles should be the focus, especially when coal combustion plants have no emission controls, i.e. smokestacks belching black clouds like what was common a century ago.
The 5th largest city in Cali is really too easy of a target for ridicule, America’s drunkest* large city, and now this…
* Full Disclosure: I’d drink like a fish too, if forced to be a Fresnan
At least i hope there are ash trees in Fresno being this the meaning of the name. A nice name for a city IMO.
They had no translation for meth-infested hellwhole in Spanish at the time.
“Robotic Russian Progress 89 cargo ship docks at ISS with tons of fresh supplies (video)”
I guess that they would have had to pack extra food as they have a coupla free-loaders up their right now. And you know what they say about guests and fish after three days. And now it has been, what, three months now? Boeing really screwed up here and now everybody’s plans are having to be redone. When they eventually come back on one of Musk’s ships, you think that Musk will seek to humiliate Boeing on X?
I heard said supplies are mostly little bags of peanuts and 50ml airplane bottles of hooch.
There will one day also be small lemon soaked paper napkins. Till then, there will be a short delay. Astronauts are kindly requested to please return to their seats.
https://if50.substack.com/p/1984-the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy
I think I read their spacesuits were incompatible with SpaceX. But have not see that since. Funny/tragic if true. Maybe they can 3D print a solution?
Reminds me of the scene in “Apollo 13” where the engineers are handed a couple rolls of duct tape and some tubing, and they’re told (IIRC) “This is what the astronauts have on the spacecraft. Figure out how they can use it to get their air scrubbers to work.” And the engineers do. Today’s tech is probably a lot tougher to jury-rig.
Novavax. The latest vaccine doesn’t target the latest variants? I’ve had two without any issues at all and was hoping that they would release one for the prevalent variants.
An Age of Hyperabundance n+1.
“I was especially alarmed by that turn of phrase: These traits are generally universal. Without meaning to, the cofounder had summarized the prevailing logic of AI. The AI industrialists envisioned a future where large language models would replace search engines. Instead of rummaging through a heap of Google hits, we would pose questions and receive answers. Though the answers would be no more than a statistical averaging of existing texts, they would be packaged as authoritative comments and give the impression of thought. All the gnarls of individual style, the eccentricities of argument, the anomalous notions, would be smoothed away, and the resulting summary — mediocre, adequate — would be peddled as absolute knowledge.”
(sigh) I envision a future where I get multiple library cards.
“If ChatGPT reduced texts into summary, Canary Speech aimed to do the same with individual mentalities. To say that vocal biomarkers were generally universal predictors of mood admitted the existence of outliers that for whatever reason did not matter. So what about those outliers? If your voice test indicated an anxious disorder, but you did not suffer from anxious feelings, whose truth was to be believed? To me, this all had an odious whiff of physiognomy and race science. It was the same logic that compelled white men to fashion their avatar’s face as the ghostly average of non-Caucasian women, a de facto stereotype, like some Victorian eugenicist’s photography experiment.”
Hopefully, it will be no more admissible in court than the clunky lie detector test.
Indian Air Force Faces Challenge: AH-64 Apache helicopter Stuck at High Altitude Amid Heightened China Border Tensions
https://theasialive.com/indian-air-force-faces-challenge-ah-64-apache-helicopter-stuck-at-high-altitude-amid-heightened-china-border-tensions/2024/08/22
It has been over four months since an AH-64 Apache helicopter, often referred to as the “Tank in the Air,” was stranded in the high-altitude Ladakh region along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China. This formidable U.S.-made heavy attack helicopter, known for its prowess in combat, was forced to make an emergency landing on April 4 due to a technical malfunction during an operational training sortie. The situation has since posed significant challenges for the Indian Air Force (IAF) and the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), Boeing, in efforts to repair or recover the aircraft, primarily due to the challenging high-altitude environment.
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“U.S. Investigating Americans Who Worked With Russian State Television’
I guess that they will also do this for people that have contacts with countries like China, Cuba, Venezuela or any other country on the State Department’s hit list. The EU blocked RT and Sputnik so I guess that they want to eventually do the same in the US so its people do not have to listen to other people that do not agree with them. That kinda makes it sound like an echo chamber but for the purposes of propaganda, that is the ideal form that they want people to live in.
Jesse Ventura had a show on RT America — could the Blob now use that to pressure him?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/taxnotes/2024/08/19/now-that-the-coca-cola-tax-appeal-can-begin-whats-at-stake/
A very long, pretty dense article makes a convincing case that can be summarized as:
“Coca-Cola plays profit allocation games, may end up on the hook for an unplanned 17B in taxes”
Took me a couple days to digest this one.
Couldn’t happen to a better bunch of sugar water pushers. At least they took the cocaine out (probably?).
We rightfully bag on politicians on here an awful lot, and deservedly so.
I want to do a shout-out for my Tulare County Supervisor Eddie Valero, really the best politician i’ve ever had under my belt, a great guy who really has his constituency at the forefront of things. A local guy raised in the Central Valley who went out and got an Ivy League education and then came back to his roots.
https://tularecounty.ca.gov/board/county-supervisors/eddie-valero-district-4/
Health officials recommend curfew in Mass. town as community faces critical EEE risk Boston25. EEE = Eastern Equine Encephalitis.
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There must be 300 horse power here in Tiny Town and you never see ’em being ridden all that much, I drive by one place that has around a dozen horses and in 20 years have never seen anybody on saddle astride their pride and joy.
Why keep horses if you don’t ride ’em?
They may have been put out to pasture for a monthly fee for their old age by owners who could afford to do that. I had a neighbor who did that with a horse that she couldn’t ride anymore.
What Jay Powell should say at Jackson Hole – FT
This mess is kinda hilarious. They want to present a positive economic picture because of the election, but they don’t want to present a positive economic picture because gamblers on all sorts of derivatives and people with outrageously bad loans want rate cuts.
I’m not convinced any of it actually has a thing to do with concern for what’s happening on the ground level with most people.
What is the US Ruling Class currently personally do for Covid mitigation?
I recall the report that the Davos conference with significant anti-Covid safety NPIs, including mandatory Covid testing with the digital hotel room key would Fail with a positive test (even for a Billionaire attendee), & using ventilation/UV light equipment.
Another Ruling Class serious anti-Covid safety anecdote if the several US MNCs Execs or company founders deciding to just be the Chairperson or major investor, foregoing their CEO/CTO/etc daily job, including relatively young persons like the 50ish Google Founders.
There was the report that Biden had special ventilation equipment running when traveling at his events indoor buildings. The Biden Admin required White House visitors to Covid test.
OTOH it seems the DNC Convention is in full let-it-rip mode, a crowded indoor setting with seemingly no NPIs like masks or ventilation. Some seeming Davos-class persons like IL Gov Pritzker & pontentially some other Billonaire campaign funders are at the event.
What do you think?
I’m guessing those at the top of the DNC pyramid are ok with losing some of the attendees (at any level) to sickness as they can be easily replaced as needed.
LA County tackles unaffordable housing…oh, wait…
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-08-22/plans-to-turn-last-commercial-citrus-grove-in-san-fernando-valley-into-housing-move-forward/
https://archive.ph/KkjiO/
A century-old orange grove in Tarzana appears on its way to becoming the site of luxury homes…
It’s remarkable compared to when I was a little kid and Orange County was so named as aside from Disneyland, it was mostly citrus orchards, and the Haas avocado was invented in nearby La Habra Heights, and we had a gajillion avocado trees* everywhere.
Now the closest orchard in the food desert that is Los Angeles, is probably the citrus orchards in Fillmore.
* avocados and other fruit trees objected to paying property taxes, so they had to go
Family owned the golf course in Fillmore, but it’s gone now, making way for new homes.
The “Fraud Foretold?” article is just recycled right wing talking points. Nothing new or interesting or persuasive. Implies that Maduro is hiding election results, and points to protests as evidence that the vote went against Maduro.
Never once questions why the US regime would have a right to decide who is the leader of Venezuela.
And they call themselves left wing? Maia if you consider the likes of Bernie Sanders to be left wing lol.
[ The “Fraud Foretold?” article is just recycled right wing talking points… ]
Yes and no. What were Republican-conservative talking points after the World War have now become Democratic-liberal talking points. The model for the change was the former “Goldwater Girl” Hillary Clinton:
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/opinion/sunday/are-neocons-getting-ready-to-ally-with-hillary-clinton.html
July 5, 2014
The Next Act of the Neocons
Are Neocons Getting Ready to Ally With Hillary Clinton?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/magazine/how-hillary-clinton-became-a-hawk.html
April 23, 2016
How Hillary Clinton Became a Hawk
Throughout her career she has displayed instincts on foreign policy that are more aggressive than those of President Obama — and most Democrats.
https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1826520447803904350
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🇷🇺🇺🇦🚨‼️ Ukrainian soldiers looted churches in Kursk region and are now selling holy icons from $90 – $200 a piece.
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https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ukraine-bans-orthodox-church/
Ukraine Banned Orthodox Church in August 2024?
Rating: Mixture
RE “Gaza is covered in 42 million tonnes of rubble”
Twitter/X is stubbornly refusing to serve up this post and many other Gaza related threads. Anyone experiencing the same?
No. I saw it on X and continue to see many Gaza-related posts. Sorry you’re having a problem.
Re. Groundwater heat island
No matter how much we know about the world around us, there’s always something that nobody’s thought to look at.
Disclaimer: I work with Greg Brick and have published some work with him. It’s nice to see this featured here, because it’s important work that should be investigated worldwide.
“Groundwater heat island”
China has been methodically exploring underground heat gradients, and setting standards for applicability for geothermal energy sources:
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-09-18/China-sets-world-s-1st-geothermal-industry-standard-for-green-growth-1nc1uHBfU6Q/index.html
September 18, 2023
China sets world’s first geothermal industry standard to boost green transition
China released the world’s first geothermal industry standard to boost the global green and low-carbon transition.
https://english.news.cn/20240408/ae681538940c4e86ac9783f69ec59242/c.html
April 8, 2024
China’s deepest geothermal well drilled to 5,200 meters
My ex concluded his revenge tour the other day when the candidate he lavished great sums on couldn’t defeat Matt Gaetz, leaving him 1 out of hateful 8 Republicans ousted, who ousted him last year
How much did Kevin McCarthy contribute in the effort?
Maybe $10 million…
He was the epitome of a do nothing politician, and this was really the first time he attempted to do something of note, which ended on a sour note.
This is an important one person interview with an american doctor. I hope it’s ok I post. Amy goodman from a few days ago, with horrible photos/video too. I know NC, and all the readers know this, but I revisit the horror at least once a week, to remind myself, of the ‘blood on my hands’ due to our two parties. I kept abreast of the facts since the 80’s through 90’s due to Chomsky and Cockburn, who constantly published columns by Uri, Gideon, and Said. …but I never thought the entire almost, USA political system would cheer the cleansing and genocide. Cori Bush, and Bowman, even had to be kicked out by the party and other forces….while the party celebrates their first woman for president. Indeed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsmOCcyl8Gs