Feed your fish remotely with this Raspberry Pi-powered feeding system Tom’s Hardware
Appliance and Tractor Companies Lobby Against Giving the Military the Right to Repair 404 Media
Climate
How Global Capital Killed Climate Science George Tsakraklides
Carbon emissions from the 2023 Canadian wildfires Nature. From the Abstract: “The 2023 Canadian forest fires have been extreme in scale and intensity with more than seven times the average annual area burned compared to the previous four decades…. We find that the magnitude of the carbon emissions is…. comparable to the annual fossil fuel emissions of large nations, with only India, China and the USA releasing more carbon per year.”
New study highlights expansion of drylands amidst impact of climate change (press release) University of Bristol
Hundreds of Ancient Viruses Discovered Deep Inside Tibetan Glacier Yale Environment 360
Namibia authorises culling of elephants, hippos, other wild animals owing to worst drought in a century BNE Intellinews
How Japan Ignored Climate Critics and Built a Global Natural Gas Empire Bloomberg. Handy map:
Syndemics
Summer COVID surge shows we may have to return to 2020 pandemic measures The Hill
Column: Stanford throws a party for purveyors of misinformation and disinformation about COVID Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times
* * * Cluster of Influenza A(H5) Cases Associated with Poultry Exposure at Two Facilities — Colorado, July 2024 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, CDC. From the Abstract: “As the prevalence of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus clade 2.3.4.4b genotype B3.13 increases, U.S. public health agencies should prepare to rapidly investigate and respond to illness in agricultural workers, including workers with limited access to health care.”
New data shows long Covid is keeping as many as 4 million people out of work Brookings
* * * Strengthening community resilience: lessons from COVID-19 for mpox prevention The Lancet. “Only through collective and coordinated action can we hope to build a world better prepared to meet future health challenges, ensuring that no one is left behind. Global health is not a luxury, but a fundamental right and a prerequisite for global stability and prosperity.”
China?
Chinese offices emptier than during Covid pandemic as slowdown hits FT
China’s industrial strategy on ‘collision course’ with top German export industries Euractiv
* * * China’s Futuristic Industries: Investment Prospects in the Emerging Low-Altitude Economy China Briefing
China’s low-altitude economy spreads its wings as struggling locales look skyward South China Morning Post
China’s low-altitude economy lacks growth roadmap, says industry group Reuters
Philippines and Vietnam to sign defence agreement Channel News Asia
Indonesian app-based motorcycle taxi drivers strike in protest over low pay Channel News Asia
Africa
What Transsion tells us about Chinese investment in Africa African Business
Syraqistan
Israel Starts Ethnic Cleansing In West Bank Moon of Alabama
Is the US Trying to Pick a Fight With Hezbollah? Prem Thakker, Zeteo
Israel agrees to pauses in fighting for polio vaccine drive BBC
Houthis release footage of fighters boarding Greek oil tanker in Red Sea Al Jazeera
The Beijing Declaration is a key step to resolve the Palestinian question Al Jazeera
European Disunion
France’s unprecedented and dangerous political situation Le Monde
Dutch government to ban ASML from servicing installed wafer tools in China Tom’s Hardware
Dear Old Blighty
The UK nuclear fusion start-up helping the US develop stealth submarines FT
New Not-So-Cold War
Ukraine SitRep: The Collapse Of The Donbas Front Moon of Alabama
What the fall of Pokrovsk could mean for Ukraine Euromaidan Press
First F-16 downed in Ukraine, but confusion over how it happened BNE Intellinews
* * * Ukraine’s daring offensive intensifies pressure on US to ease cautious approach to the war AP
ATACMS and Russia’s Sanctuary WSJ
* * * Brazil did not warn Ukraine about its intention to present joint peace plan with China – Ukraine’s Ambassador to Brazil Ukrainska Pravda
Global Elections
What 2024’s Historic Elections Could Mean for the Climate World Resources Institute
2024
READ: Harris and Walz’s exclusive joint interview with CNN (transcript) CNN
Kamala Harris addresses policy shifts in CNN interview, her first as Democratic nominee CBS
Kamala Harris goes all in on fracking in testy interview exchange Politico
* * * Trump calls 2024 presidential election ‘a choice between communism and freedom’ Anadolu Agency
Harris-Trump debate rules include muted mics and no audience AP
The Supremes
The Supreme Court’s Presidential Immunity Decision Says What??? (PDF) Albert W. Alschuler, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 861. “This Article uses Justice Sotomayor’s “Seal Team 6 hypothetical” to explore the categories Trump v. United States employs in determining whether the acts of a former President are immune from prosecution. It concludes that, contrary to Justice Sotomayor’s assertion, a President who orders a military unit to assassinate a political rival can be prosecuted…. The Article describes the procedural tangle the Court’s decision has created. It concludes that if the American legal system proves incapable of bringing the most corrupt President in American history to justice, the fault will rest primarily with the Supreme Court.”
Digital Watch
Judge Rules $400 Million Algorithmic System Illegally Denied Thousands of People’s Medicaid Benefits Gizmodo. Deloitte.
* * * Why Telegram CEO Pavel Durov stands apart from other tech executives Fortune
Can Tech Executives Be Held Responsible for What Happens on Their Platforms? NYT
* * * Major Sites Are Saying No to Apple’s AI Scraping WIred
How Intel Missed the iPhone: XScale Era The Chip Letter
Zeitgeist Watch
Hiker rescued after workmates left him on mountain, says search crew BBC. During an office retreat.
Healthcare
Can the Brain Help Heal a Broken Heart? The Scientist
B-a-a-a-d Banks
Class Warfare
Dollar General warns poorer US consumers are running out of money FT
As Much Power As the President: How Billionaires Became More Influential than World Leaders Literary Hub
The emergence of monumental architecture in Atlantic Europe: a fortified fifth-millennium BC enclosure in western France Cambridge University Press
The Phantoms Haunting History Noema
Antidote du jour (Diego Delso):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
“Kamala Harris goes all in on fracking in testy interview exchange”
When Kamala Harris was saying that she could invite a Republican to be a part of her Cabinet, I wonder if she was talking about someone like Mike Pompeo. He would certainly fit in as far as the Harris/Biden agenda on Gaza is concerned. Only thing is that he would be very sad to learn that the US does not have napalm in their stocks anymore to give to the Israelis-
https://genius.com/Kaizo-slumber-napalm-sticks-to-kids-lyrics
Kamala Harris goes all in on fracking in testy interview exchange Politico
* * * Her values haven’t changed repeated several times and she has always said we must have time tables around time. How can anyone think she has any input or influence on the policies the deep state has already decided on? Why is she President and I’m not or any Joe or Jane or Laqesha you pass on the street?
Time for you to unburden from the past, T.
Rumor is that BJs made her stand out.
Yes, her values have not changed.
She values herself over anything and anyone else.
So changing her positions on fracking to get elected is completely in line with her values.
But her bit about trying to get to a peace deal between Israeli Zionists and the Palestinians while still giving one side billions in arms and building a fake humanitarian aid bridge was all I could take.
Now I read that the Zionists do not want Polio to rob them of the pleasure of bombing Palestinian children into smithereens. This is what science without morals does to the world.
Morals? I don’t believe the Israelis have a sense of universal morals that other religions have. There is a tradition in Judaism that morals are something in effect between Jew and Jew–the rest of the untermenschen do not count as humans. Thankfully, most Jews (outside Israel) don’t buy into that tradition but the current Israeli government does–this is what Americans and their Euro-flunkies need to understand. There can be no actual or theoretical solution to the Palestine problem other than ethnic cleansing–Israel will accept nothing less in my view and they are willing to do it fast or slow. This has been Israeli policy since the sabotage (by Clinton) of the Oslo Accords.
I’m thinking the word “values” is going to be required to do a lot of work over the next several months that it’s completely unqualified to do.
Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn, no paywall.
ATW Livestream Tonight, 9:15 pm ET: Harris/Walz Interview Postgame
With Tim Walz spotting, Kamala Harris fielded queries from feared CNN interrogator Dana Bash for 18 minutes. Join Walter Kirn and me in watching postgame wraps
https://www.racket.news/p/atw-livestream-tonight-915-pm-et
Fair to say, I think, that they were unimpressed. And rightfully so.
Taibbi seemed particularly “verklempt.”
I mean pancakes and bacon and weeping baby walz????
No one has to “google” the phrase “substance free,” they can just watch this.
Disclaimer: I’ve only seen clips of the interview …..but I would wager Kambot being on Xanax.
Facial expressions seemed much more relaxed than usual.
Ukraine SitRep: The Collapse Of The Donbas Front. Moon of Alabama
Fine and succinct, MoA’s trademark. As per the Kursk thingy, yesterday Mercouris (not as succinct as MoA) said something which i found clever: The Russians need only to recapture Sudhza to make the whole operation collapse in logistic terms. Not that the Russian army is far from the settlement. May be that wouldn’t take as long as many predict (like the IMO increasingly lazy Simplicius).
Mercouris (not as succinct as MoA)
And the Pope is a catholic.
The biggest cause of confusion are 15 million rubles for the one who did it.
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-military-f-16-bounty-ukraine-1926475
edit:
I’ve made the same comment with a link to a different news site, and it disappeared without enetering moderation queue. Is there a list of sites that trigger that?
Quite a bit of chatter about the loss of F-16 and its “trained” pilot a couple of days ago. Alleged that the F-16 had taken out 3 or more cruise missiles, and was after another when “lost”.
Think of gifted weapons and the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP) to employ them in battle. It is very hard to take a MiG pilot and turn him or her into a Viper pilot! It is also hard to take Patriot missiles using US TTP’s and integrating them into a foreign air/missile defense environment.
MoA poster last night related to the 2003 incident where US Army Patriot battery around Kuwait engaged a flight of USAF F-16…. A supposition that the Ukraine loss was friendly fire from a Patriot controller who had no idea Ukraine fighters were around incoming cruise missiles! TTP! No proof of this yet.
Another possibility is RF fighter aircraft was within long range air to air missile range took out the F-16. TTP, who failed on the NATO side?
My theory with no knowledge of situation. If the F-16 had a Pratt and Whitney (GE engine not much better) engine it could have flamed out, the pilot failed to restart (TTP in emergency situations) and the US made ejection system also failed. Early F-16’s with P&W were prone to flame out and not restart….
The F-16 is a half-century-old weapons platform, literally.
The first ones were manufactured in 1974 and they were discontinued in 1993, whatever updates have been made over the decades.
So the pathetic hype about the difference six of the damned things would supposedly make is just one more pathetically delusional metric of how far the West has disappeared up its own backside
Re Harris interview. She defends Israel’s ‘right to defend itself’ citing the horrible rapes. They have since been proven to be baseless propaganda and lies by the Israeli side. On the other hand, the rape of Palestinians in Israeli custody has been shown to be demonstrably true in terms of hospital treatment for appalling anal injuries suffered by such prisoners. How can the interviewer not challenge her initial claim and not also her lack of concern for genuine rape victims who happen to be Palestinian. Typical US hypocricy and why the US is by no means an honest broker.
Dana Bash has family history and early education as far as reasons are concerned to support Israel-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Bash#Early_life_and_education
Working for CNN doesn’t help either.
CNN and other mainstream news-media must keep the Israeli narrative alive at all costs or how would universities manage to repress students who believe Israel is committing genocide. So they mention the Israeli propaganda memes dozens of times and maybe report reality every now and then which we should be thankful for.
Pondering the questions never asked by the fourth estate as I took water and feed out to the hens this morning:
“Lets get into the weeds: precisely how are you going to shore up and keep social security and medicare/caid programs solvent?”
In light of the US’ industrial emphasis on arms and warfare, precisely how do you envision paying for the “security state’, including the Military, and all of the three letter agencies known and unknown?”
“If deficits don’t matter (Dick Cheney), when will the Federal government display political will to help fund basic utilities in American’s daily lives: health care (not insurance), clean water, air, education, and sustainable reliable energy sources?”
“Have you considered a ten-year ‘moon shot’ program to take on the existential threat that is anthropogenic climate change, and asking for the backing of the American populace to make it happen?”
It is a short walk to the chicken coop.
“Dutch government to ban ASML from servicing installed wafer tools in China”
My prediction? The Chinese will redouble their efforts to build their own advanced wafer fab equipment. And when they succeed, they will deliberately sell their equipment at cost if need be and drive ASML out of the market and into extinction.
I wonder whether there will be engineers from ASML (or Nikon, Carl Zeiss, Canon, etc) who will make a last career move by “defecting” to China with their know-how.
After all, there was a recent uproar about some shady corporations funneling experienced Western figher pilots as “trainers” to China. Before that, China had been busily poaching microelectronics engineers from Taiwan to bolster its own microprocessor development.
And frankly, with Intel going down the drain, European processor manufacturers completely outpaced, ASML bound to run into difficulties, and the grim general economic outlook in the EU and the USA, for an adventurous person (probably 55+ years old) with few attachments, “selling out”, getting compensations and perquisites that one can only dream of in the Western bloc, and a nice pension in some quiet place in China might be a tempting proposition (especially combined with a Chinese life partner).
I do not expect to see that many endeavouring such a momentous step, but I still think this could become a thing.
Regarding the Stanford “event” on the pandemic, Hiltzik hit that one out of the park! A must read. Will no one rid us of these meddlesome…
An Ngrams search for “and they did it to themselves” brings up this as the first instance of the phrase:
> Haldeman: Somebody will sail into ‘ em. Mining is a beautiful
thing, though, really, because that-you lay the mines down, and you
tell the people they’re there. If somebody sails into it, you didn’t do
anything to them, they did it to themselves.
Seems germane. With poetic overtones.
I can’t help but wonder what might be the motivations of the conference organizers and presenters.
The least implausible hypothesis I can come up with is that there is a desire to “double down” in order to avoid acknowledging the prior mistakes and their consequences.
It has been said that “science advances one funeral at a time.” I think that that isn’t true for the science of Public Health. That seems to require several orders of magnitude more deaths.
Re; China
Low-altitude economy
DJI is well-known, but Ehang is world-leader by far in passenger drones. Ehang is expanding quickly, not only in China, but throughout SEA, with embers burning in South America, MidEast, Europe, and even Canada as well.
Logistics drones– man, what a viscious battle!!! So many players! Even from Africa!
United Theraputics has/had many drones on pre-order for their organ-transplant/medical transport business, but I don’t know the status of this.
Ehang has partners in Thailand, but I am still waiting on info/locations. I was sent a link to this video from Thailand, but… mmmm… well, I don’t speak Thai, and I found it very difficult to pay attention to the aircraft… guys, you’ll see what I mean…
https://youtu.be/eRIz_RDE8dA?si=nOu-G4gP1RcZy0rK
Happy holiday!
I was about a third of the way through your video before I realized that she was standing next to a drone. And Happy Holidays yourself.
Yes, not sure which bird I’d rather fly on…
Oh, OK, that’s a lie.
Yeah, not the drone…
And not speaking Thai is no problem.
But I was just sent a link to a company investor relations announcement of the partnership between the Chinese and Thai companies, of help if one is in the area and wishes to do some on-the-ground reporting:
https://ir.ehang.com/news-releases/news-release-details/ehang-and-cp-group-form-strategic-partnership-introduce/
And the Chinese company does welcome visitors to their HQ.
Re LA Times–Michael Hiltzik stamps his little foot and demands suppression of Stanford meeting that disagrees with Biden admin Covid policies.They are chided for failing to advocate for strict protective measures against getting Covid–regardless of age–yet oddly no rebuke to all those people at the just finished Dem convention who weren’t wearing masks. Also, oddly, no mention of the fact that more USians died from Covid under Biden than laissez faire Trump.
Not that this mere commenter has answers about the controversy but one does wonder when Hiltzik became such a medical expert that he can declare negligent homicide by those who disagree. That said his talking point and that of Harris in new interview show 100 percent congruence. Maybe he’s hoping for an appointment.
Did you also catch the not all that subtle insinuation that the conference is somehow antisemitic?
“The date of the symposium, by the way, is the anniversary of the signing of the Great Barrington Declaration. It’s also Rosh Hashana, one of the High Holy Days of the Jewish calendar. Stanford says the “overlap” with the holiday is regrettable, but it hasn’t offered to reschedule.”
Absolutely zero reason to throw that into an article about public health and it certainly does not add to the credibility of this business writer reporting on a pandemic.
The Supremes
The Supreme Court’s Presidential Immunity Decision Says What??? (PDF) *********** Assassination for thee but not for me. Every Supreme Court Justice involved in rulings on this topic resulting from Obama’s use of this, should be slapped with rotting dead fish. What happened to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” that makes it so hard to understand?
>Ukraine’s daring offensive intensifies pressure on US to ease cautious approach to the war AP
This war is going to end exactly how Western policymakers decide it will end,’’ said Philip Breedlove, a retired U.S. general
This is almost verbatim what Scott Ritter and others are saying if you substitute “Western” with Russian. It seems that the West is really itching for an escalation. We have psychopaths in charge. I guess I should just stop worrying and learn to live with a world at constant war.
>We have psychopaths in charge. I guess I should just stop worrying and learn to live with a world at constant war.
I think George Carlin addressed this years ago. NSFW I sure wish he was around to offer his opinions today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77dDZOwt20E&pp=ygUUZ2VvcmdlIGNhcmxpbiBvbiB3YXI%3D
Re; China, Thailand, low-sltitude economy
We’re excited to have had Mr. Thanakorn Seriburi, Senior Vice Chairman of Charoen Pokphand Group
@CPGroup_Live
, join us in Guangzhou today for an autonomous ride on the EH216-S, experiencing firsthand the thrill of aerial sightseeing. And he had an amazing time: “Stable and fantastic flight!”
https://x.com/ehang/status/1763584127520092416
Thanks for that link as it was very good. When I was a kid, this is kinda what I thought the future would look like. Never thought that the Chinese would be doing it first but when I was that kid, Mao was still running the show.
It all looks great till some live thing makes contact with those unshrouded rotors.
Poof of pink mist, red striped across the door, and if it was bony enough an unbalanced flight there after.
My one trip to China I was struck by the lack of birds, so maybe that helps. In the other hand, emergency landing in densely populated areas will be just as colorful!
Most aircraft have unshrouded rotors– it’s an air-flow thing. And if one motor gets taken-out by a bird, that aircraft still has 15 motors remaining. Also, if a person is stupid enough to walk into a spinning prop, our species is all the stronger for it.
That “lack of birds” in China is because the birds are all communist secret agents who are away on a special mission to bring flu to Capitalist America.
C’mon, man. Everybody knows that Birds Aren’t Real-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_Aren%27t_Real
Birds are dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are extinct.
Makes perfect sense. If only Helen Keller had been able to speak and write, she would have told us so!
Too little, too late.
A dead end that will amount to nothing as larger issues take hold over the coming decades.
Now if this had come into existence abut 40 years ago…
“Can Tech Executives Be Held Responsible for What Happens on Their Platforms?’
Wake me up when people like Mark Zuckerburg or Elon Musk are arrested for some of the stuff that goes on in their sites. Still, if I were them I would avoid any travel plans to the EU and especially France. They are playing fast and loose with their laws these days.
Etiquette and norms around international law are shifting/disappearing as we lurch towards western feudalism. One wonders how long before the scion of said executives will be required to “vacation” at Fort Brégançon
an aside: Kim Dotcom suggests boycotting Fr (travel, tourism) and Fr products as a response to Durev’s arrest.
Introducing Independence -Trump Commercial produced by RFK jr. Team
Not voting for Republican or Democrat, but from an advertising appreciation standpoint, you have to love this commercial that riffs on Pharma and TDS.
https://x.com/iAnonPatriot/status/1829298981224251724
Tean Trump is starting to re-find its messaging foothold. A start, but it has a long way to go.
He needs to drop the “commie” rhetoric which they use in that commercial and I see it mentioned in links today too.
I watched that a little bit ago – hilarious and well done.
On a related note, while I am not a fan of Musk or any squillionaire oligarchs, this is some hilarious trolling, and once again the TDS sufferers in the reddit comments section clearly didn’t get the joke –
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1f48fb9/x_is_labeling_an_unflattering_npr_story_about/
This is perfect and clearly aimed at the professional class which is the backbone of the Democratic Party (as per Thomas Frank’s analysis). There are so many people out there suffering (literally) from TDS and have lost their reasoning faculties. Those who are, like me, of the Boomer generation laughed at Soviet propaganda organs actually take the US MSM seriously even though it functions pretty close to exactly like the Soviet media which, BTW, I did read.
>Dollar General warns poorer US consumers are running out of money FT
The growth came entirely from consumables such as food, rather than from more discretionary items such as apparel and seasonal and home goods…core customers, earning less than $35,000 a year…”.
I’m sure the fresh produce, seafood and meat section was top notch. This country’s elites tr-eats the working poor as “consumables.”
This is my town. Median family income under $40K. 17% of those under 18 are below the poverty line. We have a Dollar General and a Stewarts. Between them you might be able to purchase a banana. Otherwise, they do not sell produce. Or meat, except in the prepared/frozen department.
The DG here is a study of understaffed chaos. The aisles are often a jumble of boxes waiting to be unpacked, the line at the register takes forever, the self checkout is out of order. IMO the only reason people shop there is it’s a drive to shop somewhere better.
Setting up shop in towns too small to rate a wal mart was DG’s whole MO and made them what they are, but I think they have hit the limits of that strategy when it comes to growth
Their core customer is holding off on buying housewares because they are strapped.
I think the ‘growth in consumables (food)’ is not from the ‘core’, but from a lot of Americans having to switch their buying patterns to deal with inflation. The routine now is not to charge into the supermarket with a big list, but to stop at the dollar stores first to see what can be found at a better price; the cookies for $2.50 rather than $5.50, frozen veg at $1.50 not $4.00.
Then go deal with a supermarket for fresh food. Where their idea of ‘saving you money’ is forcing you to buy 2, 3, 4, or 5 of something.
People don’t like the idea of dollar stores proliferating, especially where there was already a functioning local market, but they are an important tool for many people to keep food in the house.
If you are shopping at Dollar General, check your reciept. Then get out fast before shooting breaks out.
‘Appliance and Tractor Companies Lobby Against Giving the Military the Right to Repair’
Made my day! :)
That our congress can’t get legislation passed that would allow our military to be prepared indicates the monopolistic power over the branches of government.
Maybe, the answer to how it happened is this right to repair- “First F-16 downed in Ukraine, but confusion over how it happened BNE Intellinews. So MIC contractors are required to participate in the Ukrain?
>Can the Brain Help Heal a Broken Heart? The Scientist
Improvements in the scientific understanding of the ways in which the brain can influence peripheral systems could also inform new therapeutic possibilities.
I think the more important question is can the “heart” help heal the “brain.” I’m specifically thinking about the work of Iain McGilchrist and his book The Master and His Emissary
This has all been well-established in decades of research official science (which gets most of its funding from you know who) tends to ignore.
Regarding “Can the Brain Help Heal a Broken Heart?”
IMH(well researched)O, the mental/immune link arises from the same source; Purines.
Purine and purinergic receptors in health and disease
Purinergic System Dysfunction in Mood Disorders: A Key Target for Developing Improved Therapeutics
Once you look at Purines, you will not stop seeing them. And who knows, maybe the fact that we add these purines to food might be part of the problem…
>Why Telegram CEO Pavel Durov stands apart from other tech executives- Fortune
In the U.S., social media companies have also shown themselves to be somewhat responsive to government inquiry, testifying before Congress in January…Those companies all behaved above board, meaning their CEOs were safe from any criminal proceedings, according to Walter.
Doesn’t take much to read between the lines, “somewhat responsive,” is that what Zuckerburg did when he recently admitted to censoring certain news stories on the behest of Biden administration? Oh, and I’m sure that everything is absolutely “above board” with Facebook, Twitter, and YTube…, these people can’t even convincingly lie.
re: France’s political danger.
Citizens in many Western countries seem determined to “throw the (current)) bums out.” UK – Tories out. Fr – Macron’s party mostly out. Germany – things aren’t looking good for Scholz. US – / ;).
The Build Back Better leaders are acting awfully nervous, petulant, even outraged, imo, not helping their case for office. Macron is maybe the most undemocratic.
Well, in the UK both major parties are pretty much exactly the same except Labour is racing to be more right-wing than the Tories, and succeeding so far. As for France and the rest of NATOSTAN, well just have to see. The question is, will the Euro vassals ignore democracy to preserve democracy? We are moving into an Orwellian-style situation–you know the boot thing.
sort of related, here’s Mike Benz to Tucker Carlson explaining the way the blob works to prevent people from talking about disfavored political ideas and voting against the blob institutions in free and open information market.
https://x.com/LibertyLockPod/status/1828990322447175757
I wonder if Macron got a call from US State Dept asking him to deny a left party prime minister appointment?
“Is the US Trying to Pick a Fight With Hezbollah?”
‘In this regard, the Administration is also committed to facilitating a diplomatic resolution to the ongoing hostilities along the Israel-Lebanon border that would ensure the return of both Israeli and Lebanese families to their homes.’
And by coincidence in today’s news-
‘”Our mission on the northern front is clear – to ensure the safe return of northern communities to their homes. In order to achieve this goal, we must expand the goals of the war, and include the safe return of Israel’s northern residents to their homes,” said Defense Minister Yoav’
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-08-29/returning-residents-to-north-israel-must-be-a-war-goal-defense-minister-says
And how do you enable those northern communities to return to their homes? By going into Lebanon and destroying Hezbollah, no matter how many civilian communities must be destroyed and civilians killed. A ‘diplomatic resolution’ would mean halting this ongoing massacre in Gaza but as the White House has no intention of doing that, then helping the IDF to invade Lebanon by providing equipment, ammo, diplomatic cover, recon & satellite data will be the way to go. Though if the IDF ends up in their very own Kursk, I doubt that the US would send in troops. Not because it is stupid, wrong and would mean lots of dead Americans but because it is too close to the elections.
PRC narcos in Toronto are “command and control” for North American money laundering networks used in TD Bank case: US investigator
Bad banks indeed. This is a must read. This quote, regarding the investigation, Our problem was we just never got the level of cooperation from Canada, that we used to have. And then when I was at the State Department from 2019 to 2021, I can’t recall us having any conversations of note with Canadian law enforcement on anything I can think of related to fentanyl. I don’t know what it was, but the Trudeau government just was not …” Make what you will of that.
“Hiker rescued after workmates left him on mountain, says search crew’
Was this one of those team-building office exercises where attendance is voluntary but if you don’t go, then your attendance at the office may soon cease? The article does not say much about that office and just hides its identity.