Swiss chocolate: Scientists cut waste and sugar BBC (Robin K)
FDA Expands Probe of Ecstasy-Based Drug Studies ars technica
A neural network for religious fundamentalism derived from patients with brain lesions PNAS (Steve K). Sigh. I am not a fan of fundamentalists given their view of the role of women. However, studies like this take the premise that religious fundamentalism is a pathology. They ignore that it is generally pro-survival on a large group/societal level. Religious convictions and beliefs that a higher power backs what you are doing would generally produce internal cohesion and greater tenacity in battle (of course, those who withdraw somewhat or totally to pursue their beliefs like monks, nuns, and Israeli Haredis are important exception).
France To Trial Ban on Mobile Phones At School For Children Under 15 Guardian
#COVID-19
Long COVID is a “public health crisis for kids,” experts say Salon (ma)
Climate/Environment
Earth’s Temperature Could Increase by 25 Degrees: Startling New Research Reveals That CO2 Has More Impact Than Previously Thought SciTechDaily (Chuck L)
China Unveils ¥300 Billion Subsidy Blitz That’ll Drive Hydrogen Vehicle Growth Hydrogen Fuel News. Robin K: “A friend just returned from China. He reports that hydrogen-powered vehicles are everywhere to be seen.”
The Powerful Potential Of Tiny Conservation Plots Nomea (Micael T)
Climate Change Contributing to Shift in Lake Erie’s Harmful Algal Blooms Cleveland SCENE. Carla R: “Somehow I missed this 10 days ago or so, but it’s still informative. However, there should never be a mention of the 2014 algal bloom without a reference to the Lake Erie Bill of Rights (LEBOR) !”
China?
China accuses Canada of protectionism over 100% tariffs on electric vehicles Associated Press (Kevin W)
China restrictions on rare earths has caused pricing to double over the past year — critical elements are used in processors, solar cells, and more Tom’s Hardware (Micael T)
Leaked – CIA backed color revolution in Indonesia Mint Press (Allen K). On one level, wowsers, on another, not surprising.
‘I have lost everything’: Bangladesh floods strand 1.24 million families Aljazeers
European Disunion
The neoliberal Single Transferable Party is panicking in France Richard Murphy:
There is a rightful condemnation of Trump’s contempt for democracy. But are we so sure that this contempt is not also happening much closer to home when it is so obvious that people are very deliberately being denied the chance to be represented by those who they would like to govern?
Germany to prevent irregular migration, without suspending asylum rights: Chancellor Scholz Anadolu Agency
Economics Minister Habeck – climate protector or lobbyist? Nachdenkseiten via machine translation (Micael T)
Campact is the largest donor to the Greens and the Left Party Nachdenkseite (Micael T)
The citizens cannot stand for the stupid money Aftonbladet (Micael T)
Old Blighty
Israel lobby funded 15 new MPs before election Declassified (Kevin W)
UK PM warns of ‘deep rot’ at heart of country RT (Robin K)
Gaza
Israeli hospitals record over 5,000 wounded in fight against Hezbollah The Cradle
Israel says will evacuate Palestinians from northern West Bank, akin to measures taken in Gaza Anadolu Agency
Under cover of war, extremists are seizing Palestinian land – they hope permanently
BBC (Robin K)Since the start of the war, Israel has been trying to lure people of Gaza to gather information about resistance fighters. There are many cases of people being ambushed and killed by the army after recieving notifications of humanitairian aid. Here is an example. pic.twitter.com/Pr5jF8dzSu
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) August 28, 2024
After State TV interviewed families where one partner's Jewish and the other one isn't, Israeli Minister of Communications @shlomo_karhi says the station's board will be replaced with one that's "zionist" and which won't feature the voices of miscegenators https://t.co/v9sG70KjkQ
— David Sheen (@davidsheen) August 27, 2024
Biden pushed Gaza pier over warning it would undercut other aid routes, watchdog says Associated Press
The Greek Tanker Struck by a Houthi Missile Is Now Leaking Oil OilPrice
New Not-So-Cold War
KURSK, BELGOROD, BRYANSK — IS PRESIDENT PUTIN PREPARING FOR ISTANBUL-II? John Helmer. Today’s must read. Suggests Putin is way way behind on the implications of where the way the war has gone, that Russia will be less secure if it leaves a meaningful rump Ukraine, which here would be a large one, by virtue of merely takeing the four oblasts that Russia has deemed to be Russia. But Putin per Lavrov pulled the deal offered from the table after the Kursk attack, so Putin may be in the process of the sort of unduly long recalibration he took in deciding to undertake the partial mobilization after the Istanbul talks were sabotaged by the West. Also confirms our thesis that Russia could win the war and lose the peace.
The Ukrainian endgame New Statesman. Ignacio:
I believe that we can consider this article as a genuine representation of the views of those “centrist-liberal” globalists who consider themselves the voice of reason when they are again and again confusing instruments with ends and producing lots of propaganda. Yet, with his mixture of The Narrative with a few reality bites the read is much less toxic compared with the typical RAND or Torygraph BS, though still misguided and dangerous. Besides, Munchau has been very often cited with better reasons at NC on financial subjects. This shows the gradual conversion of former reasonable people into propagandists.
Kyiv Prepares Target List for Long-Range Strikes in Russia in Effort to Convince Washington Kyiv Post
Lavrov slams as blackmail Kiev’s demands for letting it use Storm Shadow against Russia TASS (guurst)
Ukraine Develops ‘Its Own’ Cruise Missile Moon of Alabama
Ukraine to present ‘victory plan’ to US next month, Zelensky says BBC (Robin K)
The US is changing the logistics of its bioweapons research in Ukraine Anti-Spiegel (Micael T)
Playing President: Mr. President, Why Kursk?! Scheerpost. Chuck L: “Simulated presidential briefing by an ex-CIA presidential briefer Ray McGovern.”
Imperial Collapse Watch
All US Military Bases Are Your Enemy Orinoco Tribune (Robin K)
John Kiriakou: The Slide Into Authoritarianism Scheerpost (Micael T)
Col. Larry Wilkerson: Is America DESTINED for DISASTER? Dialogue Works, YouTube. IMHO, Wilkerson is always worth a listen. Early on, he confirms our assessment of the Israel-Hezbollah mutual attacks of last weekend.
Kamala
Reporter Who Asked Kamala A Question Charged With Hate Crime Babylon Bee (Li)
Harris Promises “Most Lethal” Military on Earth Ken Klipperstein
Trump
Trump charged in superseding indictment in election interference case following SCOTUS ruling ABC (Kevin W)
Why Do So Many Workers Love Trump? Jacobin (Robin K)
2024
Lawsuits Fly Over Election Rules and Who Gets to Vote Wall Street Journal. Lead story.
Trump says he’s accepted rules for September 10 debate, which include muted mics CNN. Help me. It was KAMALA who objected to the muted mikes.
Our No Longer Free Press
I need you to absorb everything I told @NewsMax here about NATO's military, intelligence & political reasons for seizing control over Telegram and using this new political prosecution of Pavel to finally get it. pic.twitter.com/eBznYnSqBq
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) August 27, 2024
How Telegram chief Pavel Durov miscalculated on moderation Financial Times
How Telegram’s Founder Pavel Durov Became a Culture War Martyr 404Media (Micael T)
Durov’s arrest is ‘hallmark of dictatorship’ – Tucker Carlson to RFK Jr RT
Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, has been arrested. The woman in the photo appears to have caused a complete OSINT disaster.
She was posting real-time updates about the hotels they stayed in, the cities they visited, and even the tail numbers of the helicopters they used.… pic.twitter.com/xsIhJeWln1
— Tamer Sahin (@tamersahin) August 26, 2024
State media authority takes action against Multipolar after disclosure of RKI protocols Multipolar. Micael T: “So much European Values in action now!”
Big Tech: Malaysia won’t let us set our own rules and that’s not fair and makes us grumpy The Register
Woke Watch
Lowe’s changes some DEI policies amid legal attacks on diversity programs and activist pressure Associated Press (Kevin W)
Antitrust
Matt Stoller Explains Monopolies Ed Zitron
AI
California AI bill sparks debate in Silicon Valley as some tech giants call it a threat to innovation Yahoo (Bill B)
Guillotine Watch
Hundreds of private planes are touching down at a makeshift airport for billionaire favorite Burning Man Business Insider (Kevin W)
Class Warfare
Credit Card Debt Spikes in NYC as Working Families Feel Post-Pandemic Pinch THE CITY
There’s a place for everyone Experimental History (Micael T)
Antidote du jour. Stephen T:
A banana slug I encountered along US 101 just north of my home. Surprised to see one so yellow, like the ones I used to see in Santa Cruz; most of those I’ve seen here in Oregon are more greenish. It’s a handsome fellow for sure.
And a bonus (Chuck L):
Woman reunites a baby bat that fell on the street, with its mum
pic.twitter.com/cbCWe9Kr4T— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) August 27, 2024
A second bonus (Chuck L):
One of the biggest news stories today: An Ostrich was loose in Sioux Falls. pic.twitter.com/kiZbYjGS2u
— Tyler Roney (@TylerJRoney) August 27, 2024
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
WHEN WE WERE KIND
(melody borrowed from Gentle On My Mind by John Hartford, as performed by Glen Campbell)
Our problem is the questions we can ask go way beyond the words we talk
We each look at the stars and wonder how and why a me can come about
Inner questions humans tackle gazing upward through the fronds
As the seasons flow we watch the stars align
We seek answers down some long roads and we seek them so intently
Till we realize truth waits beyond our lies
We build temples out of stone blocks and we hope to find a God there gazing kindly
With a heaven when we’re dead where we can dance among the clouds instead of walking
When we hear the afterlife is endless happiness and giving
We can toss these endless questions from our mind
Or do scriptures and these legends only serve as a placebo?
Seeking your own answers makes a human wise
In the timber and the tall pines there the diehards on their best days think God sees us
In the wild you’re human just like every other in the quiet before dawn
When our wizardry and science all the crazy things we chase
In our fourscore lifelong journey come to mind
All the mad things we agree to while we’re carrying some big loads
Consequences coming to the undersigned
You are born to pass away there is no turnin’ back no pardon from the graveyard
When life means struggling we howl and we curse the day we landed in this place
In a lifespan full of grand plans as we walk our path to happiness we find
When we look back at our own road
From the moment of our entry
We were at our very best when we were kind
The US is changing the logistics of its bioweapons research in Ukraine (Anti-Spiegel)
“According to reports, the United States is continuing to develop biological warfare agents that can specifically target different ethnic populations.”
A Nazi’s wet dream. Or a Zionist’s.
It’s ok, Senator Rubio, with some prompting, made sure that Undersecretary Nuland inform us those bioweapons research facilities in Ukraine were strictly for peaceful purposes. I’m sure the change in logistics will not affect their intended use.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5005520/senator-rubio-questions-undersecretary-nuland-biolabs-ukraine
On one of those charts there is a marking for a lab here in Oz involved with this program. When I took a closer look, I saw that it is the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity. Most people won’t recognize that name but I as sure as hell do. This was the mob that was giving the previous government their advice on how to deal with Covid and it amounted to open up the country and ‘let ‘er rip.’ For the good of the economy of course. I should not be surprised at all that they are involved with bioweapons but now I wonder if there might not be some secret biolab here in Oz. You would hope, if so, that it would be in the middle of the desert but more likely it is in the middle of one of our larger cities – just like in China.
“According to reports, the United States is continuing to develop biological warfare agents that can specifically target different ethnic populations.”
Par for the course.
[1] All actors — state or non-state — that have ‘biodefense’ programs (per V. Nuland’s comments, biodefense equals bioweapons, because to beat the bad bug you must understand the bad bug, mustn’t you?) are doing this. The Russians included.
[2] Targeting specificity — not only of specific populations, but of specific physiological/mental functions — enables unprecedented possibilities thanks to advancing biogenetic technology. Moreover, no reliable attribution regarding who released a biological agent, as there would be with a nuclear or conventional attack, is usually possible. We’re still having discussions about COVID’s origins, aren’t we?
[3] The fact that 16 percent of global deaths from COVID were US persons even while the US is only 4 percent of global population has confirmed to interested parties that the US is uniquely vulnerable to biological attack. Simultaneously, the US is uniquely committed to displays of global military aggression.
Out of the global field of enemies the US has created for itself, expect someone to solve the problem of US belligerence in the obvious way. The US will see progressively increasing outbreaks of hitherto novel biological agents. It already is, isn’t it?
Bio-mass rot is the natural fertilizer of an eco-system. I am not ready to accept this as “sustainable.” The use of the processed sugars may be a step in a good direction. Time, and product, will tell.
I do not understand why the article talks about “scientists” investigating how to make chocolate out of whole cocoa pods in “laboratories”. This is not some kind of R&D going on; the products are ready and have been on sale for a couple of years already (yes, that sort of chocolate is expensive).
“The Greek Tanker Struck by a Houthi Missile Is Now Leaking Oil”
Maybe people should be asking just why that shipping company sent an oil tanker through a shooting gallery after seeing all those other ships hit by missiles, drones and rockets. Who chartered it? That ship was traveling from Iraq to Cyprus. So was Cyprus the final delivery point or was it going to go to Israel first? Who picked up the insurance on that ship? It would have been hefty you can be sure. So many questions that the media will never ask.
I would love to know if some insurers are starting to wise up by putting clauses in their policies for shippers such as:
“If you travel through the Red Sea within range of Ansar Allah’s navy, you waive your right to be insured and assume all risk”
That ship will be a total loss.
Re: Gaza
Ethnic cleansing by Israel spreads to the West Bank:
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/08/israel-starts-ethnical-cleansing-in-west-bank.html#more
In legal terms, “bad faith” refers to a situation where one party intentionally deceives or acts dishonestly towards another party, typically during negotiations or contractual obligations. This can include lying, withholding important information, or making promises with no intention of keeping them.
Every day I keep wondering why the media do not take a more critical view of Israel, and by extension, the Biden Administration’s bad faith behavior in fraudulently pretending to be interested in a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel. I believe the word “perfidious” comes close to capturing the essence, but I am still somewhat unsatisfied and maybe we need to invent a new word in the English language to describe Netanyahu, Blinken, and Biden.
1.) Hamas has clearly stated that they will no longer negotiate with Israel, and will only accept the July 2 Biden “framework.”
2.) Israel has continuously acted in bad faith, using various forms of deception such as sending low-level representatives to talks who lack the authority to sign off on any agreement. Or, perhaps they have some authority, but Netanyahu can easily repudiate any putative deal. Which he has done.
3.) Hamas has essentially said they no longer trust the United States as a mediator, by refusing to join talks.
4.) Israel killed Hamas lead negotiator during one of the talks. This is perfidious. No real world actor would ever do such a thing if interested in a true negotiation. Israel should just come out and tell the truth, that they aren’t interested in negotiations, only the complete extermination of the Palestinians and turning Gaza into a parking lot.
5.) Feigning an interest in a peace process to allow one of the adversaries to continue to prosecute war crimes ought to be a war crime, in and of itself.
6.) The United States State Department resorted to fraud back in June because they surreptitiously took a draft Israeli proposal that had not been approved by the Netanyahu government and presented it as an official proposal with Netanyahu’s backing to Hamas. This was essentially “Fraud in the Factum” where a party takes a document that they know does not represent the true position of another party, and presents it to another third party as a legitimate offer. Imagine if my realtor dug up an old offer I made for your house 10 years ago, with no signature. Then, the realtor gets me to sign it under false pretenses (“hey, can you sign this form, it just means you agree to keep me as your realtor”)
7) Viewed in totality, all the actors in this fraudulent “ceasefire” talks that never end, as in the movie “Groundhog Day” are engaging in bad faith. Not only the US and Israel, but Egypt, Qatar, and the media too.
>The Ukrainian endgame New Statesman
I struggle to see how Russia can occupy more Ukrainian territories beyond a few villages…
From a military perspective, both sides’ stated goals appear unrealistic. My baseline scenario is that they will agree somewhere in the middle, maybe next year. There is still a lot to play for, but nobody will get everything they want. It will be a deal that will have no winners, yet one that allows both sides to claim victory. It will be a dirty deal, full of compromises
Ignacio’s take on this is correct in my view, that, this represents a “centrist-liberal globalists” viewpoint. As far as capacity, it’s no struggle at all to see how Russia can indeed occupy more Ukrainian territories. It’s the intention of Putin/Russia in not taking more territory that I struggle with, of not putting an end to the conflict quicker.
If Scott Ritter and the other eminent guest on Judge Napolitano’s channel are to be believed, the “dirty deal” will be dictated by the Russia when their grinding of Ukraine is finished. Of course, if NATO enters the fray in a move overt way, then we all are heading for scenario where there are “no winners.”
If only that lady in the (Tel Aviv) bat video cared for Palestinian children the way she cared about a random bat…
I wish I could tell if the Babylon Bee story about a reporter getting arrested was real or not. Hmmm?
Ukraine to present ‘victory plan’ to US next month, Zelensky says – BBC
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his troops’ incursion into Russia’s Kursk region is part of a “victory plan” that he will present to US President Joe Biden next month.”
The guy who called off his Presidential election is meeting with the guy not fit for election about “a victory plan.”
Somebody else will have to fill me in on the remainder of the article. I can’t…
Zelensky knows that after November, that both parties will likely dump him. So my guess is that is why he is going now – while Biden is still technically President. He knows that Biden is probably raging that Putin will win this war and not be regime-changed. That Project Ukraine is going down in flames. So Zelensky will likely try to convince Biden to do something both radical and stupid. Long range missiles to hit Moscow with? Maybe. US troops in Odessa? Sure as hell hope not.
Technically…I doubt the two of them personally control anything. At the end of this show, they will read statements prepared by whoever is running things.
They are meeting to discuss retirement plans, which counts as victory for both.
>All US Military Bases Are Your Enemy Orinoco Tribune (Robin K)
Bradley considers that part of the success of US hegemony in the world is what could be described as a policy of “obfuscation” or creating a “mirage” in how it spreads its military bases around the world
What is lacking in this account is an historical context. How is it that the U.S. became the hegemon? I think that LaRouche organization, for all their political baggage of the founder, has it right when they trace it origins to the British empire morphing into and absorbing the U.S. Not so much capitulating it’s role in global dominance, but in some ways, still acting as controlling partner. The fiction of the reluctant world policeman, is just that a fiction. To trace this global geopolitical transformation of British empire, who historically has done all it could to tamp down/weaken Russia, you encounter some strange familial relationship of the respective heads of both England/Great Britain and Russia.
Harris Promises “Most Lethal” Military on Earth – Ken Klipperstein
She’ll even have the military shoot parents of truant children.
“Slay, Queen!”
Big Tech: Malaysia won’t let us set our own rules and that’s not fair and makes us grumpy – The Register
The AIC warns that the proposed policy will “hinder ongoing investments and deter future ones due to the complexity and cost of compliance” and its introduction “risks destabilizing” the industry ecosystem.
“Complexity and cost of compliance”
So no faith that “AI” could handle the paperwork?
That’s what the Malaysian govt should quip.
But it’s really about these monopolistic, ideological loonies wanting to be above everyone else.
One can tell that the drawing is made by a graphical designer and not an engineer, just by looking at those wings/stabilizers.
The Hollywood-style ending of the video calling them rocket drones, right after saying that they are turbojet powered, is on AI-generated-level ridiculous. Now that I think of it, replacing Zelensky with AI would be an improvement.
re: A neural network for religious fundamentalism derived from patients with brain lesions PNAS (Steve K). “Sigh. I am not a fan of fundamentalists given their view of the role of women. However, studies like this take the premise that religious fundamentalism is a pathology.”
This study, such as it is, and the warnings about Christian nationalists and about Christians and religious people in general, what is this?
Is it the assertion of belief by the Dem estab’s state there is no higher power than the state?
Ken Klipperstein’s piece is certainly worth your while, just for the gallery of ghouls
And then there’s this paragraph: “[Kamala, Kali-Goddess of Death, Harris] obviously stood by a muscular US presence in the world,” Brookings Institution senior fellow in governance studies, Elaine Kamarck, says. Saying that Harris’ speech conveyed that she “understood the stakes in Ukraine” as well as “the need for continued support and security for Israel,” Kamarck opines that she was “pleasantly surprised at just how strong her words and tone were when she got to foreign policy.”
Oh. “Muscular.” As in sending someone else’s son to end up as a box of ground meat. Kamarck is another white-feather patriot, pleasantly surprised at the politics of slaughtering other people.
I am also reminded that Michael Moore wrote a book called Stupid White Men. I see an opportunity for a companion piece…
Michael Moore wrote that book back in about 2001 and it was a good read. But would the Michael Moore of 2024 even go near writing a book called “Stupid White Women?” With jokes about how Kamala is receiving the support of whine moms? I am afraid that he tends to flip flop. One time he tells people “shame on you” for supporting Hillary Clinton and then a few months later he is supporting her.
…a muscular US presence in the world…how strong her words and tone were when she got to foreign policy
Can anyone explain the functional difference between Kamala and Nikki Haley?
*Rhetorical question, not an assignment.
‘David Sheen
@davidsheen
After State TV interviewed families where one partner’s Jewish and the other one isn’t, Israeli Minister of Communications @shlomo_karhi
says the station’s board will be replaced with one that’s “zionist” and which won’t feature the voices of miscegenators’
No surprises there. The subjects of marriage in Israel is nuts as they want religiously pure couples and there are all sorts of hoops to jump through. So this is why-
‘According to a 2016 Pew Research Center survey, more than 98% of Israelis are married to a partner of the same religion. 97% of Israeli Jews would be uncomfortable if their child married a Muslim and 89% would be uncomfortable if their child married a Christian. The vast majority of secular Israeli Jews oppose interfaith marriage’
So it is not just the religious nuts but the majority of secular Israelis that do not want interfaith marriages and inter-faith marriages performed within the country are not legally recognized. So are they still the only democracy in the Middle East?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_in_Israel
That fella seems to be aiming for a “Darwin Award” via ostrich. I guess common sense and spelling skills are short in supply around Sioux Falls.
And that guy’s reply would have probably been ‘So Sioux me!’
But no way would I ever approach something that reminds me of a Velociraptor.
He seems mesmerised by the size of those chicken wings.
Helmer’s must-read is full of detail on how the story about the Ukrainian invasion of Russia evolved in media. In the middle he gives this definition that I thought worth singling out for us here.
He goes on to describe Martyanov’s Russian exceptionalism.
There’s a difference between religiosity and religious fundamentalism. Religious behavior in general does usually promote group cohesion. The pursuit of religious experience is what monks do. Religious fundamentalism, however appears to me to be very clearly pathological in most contexts in that it causes reality denial in most of the people who experience it. If it wasn’t placed in a religious context, we would unambiguously call this “psychosis.”
If beliefs are socially mediated, then the reasonableness of holding belief X or Y is socially mediated. If you beliefs correspond to those of other members of your social group, irrespective of the fact of whether those belief are well grounded in evidence or elite consensus, that is entirely different from an individual just believing completely eccentric things. (In addition, if you really deal with a psychotic you will find their web of beliefs is incoherent and inconsistent to a degree you generally don’t find in groups or even drunks.)
A majority of Democrats believe that Russia and Trump colluded to win the 2016 election. Are they psychotic? Are they cranks? Do we need to do brain studies to discover the origin of TDS? Or is it about power and social control and legitimacy?
re: A neural network for religious fundamentalism derived from patients with brain lesions PNAS (Steve K). “Sigh. I am not a fan of fundamentalists given their view of the role of women. However, studies like this take the premise that religious fundamentalism is a pathology.”
Yes, religious people believe “irrational things” that are contradicted by “science” as if there wasn’t some benefit by virtue of belonging to a collective which bases identity around adherence to a set of collective beliefs/practices. Further, in order to show commitment to the group, subscribing to those beliefs/practices should involve some level of sacrifice to demonstrate loyalty to the group. Hence, if you believe in Creationism, you subject yourself to scorn by elites, and if you subscribe to ritual circumcision, well that one is obvious.
What is more irrational-believing things that demonstrate your belonging and commitment to a mutual aid society that are scorned by social elites or analyzing collective beliefs divorced from understanding the behaviors and functions of collectives?
It should also be noted that the so-called “irrational beliefs” generally have little cash value in the lives of ordinary people. Why would it matter to a car salesman or a gas station attendant if humans evolved or were created by Almighty God 6,028 years ago? Why is Creationism more popular in America than traditional ethical teachings against usury?
Its almost all billionaires here at Burning Man, don’t come unless you’ve got 10 figures of wealth or hopefully more.
Our camp of about 35 people includes families and there are 8 kids aged 6 to 16 included, none of them unfortunately being Silicon Valley moguls, but who can know the future, the 6 year old is pretty darn sharp.
Perfect weather and amazing art this year-
Air Traffic Control sounds busy at Burning man-
https://www.businessinsider.com/burning-man-private-planes-landing-billionaire-tech-black-rock-city-2024-8
Before I forget, came across an article that might spark your interest-
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/26/style/denmark-le-bruun-coin-collection-auction/index.html
You can have the kids to run around kicking billionaires in their groins as a thank you for their theft and the silicon valley-driven entshittification. That would be a good use of time and opportunity.
I’d like to share an anecdote from my commute home yesterday.
I take the T (Boston’s public transportation system), and a man in his sixties got on. He was wearing a Trump tee-shirt (I believe the one from the assassination attempt) and had a little trouble walking so someone got up and let him sit. Then he started to complain, and I heard him mention Labor Day and how government workers get it off. But it got interesting when he was mentioning how unfair it was to supermarket workers who don’t get the day off, listed the other [low-wage] workers who have to work on Labor Day, and concluded that either everyone should get the day off or no one should. I’ve made the same argument many times before but didn’t expect to hear it from someone in a Trump tee-shirt.
Full disclosure: he also made some immigrant comments that I didn’t agree with and made some rather extreme jingoistic comments but the comments about everyone getting the same holiday surprised me from a follower of the Republican nominee. And I can’t imagine a Romney or Bush supporter saying the same thing.
Ahh, the Jacobin again. “Supporting workers as if we knew one.”
More about ‘those stupid workers’, but not a mention of the TPP. That, above all, is the reason the MSM hates him.
Ukraine Develops ‘Its Own’ Cruise Missile – Moon of Alabama
Basically, Ukraine develops “its own” cruise missile like Israel “defends itself”.
So if there was a factory fire in say, Poland, would all production of this Ukrainian cruise missile come to a stop? I am more likely to believe that these things are powered by twisted rubber bands.