Pumpkin weighing 2,471 pounds wins California contest Associated Press
Human Geography Is Mission-Critical War on the Rocks
Counter-mapping Complicity The New Inquiry
Climate
Signs of Life Avian Flu. After Milton.
When Butterflies Fall by the Wayside The Guiness Pig Diaries
* * * Deep ocean marine heatwaves may be under-reported, study says Channel News Asia
Hidden comet tails of marine snow impede ocean-based carbon sequestration Science
* * * West Coast climate activists battle the false ‘solution’ of forest biomass Waging Nonviolence
Greening of Antarctica Is Another Sign of Significant Climate Shift on the Frozen Continent Inside Climate News
Water
Half the world’s food production at risk due to mounting water crisis BNE Intellinews
The Sahara Desert flooded for the first time in decades. Here’s what it looks like Accuweather
China?
China’s economic slowdown deepens BBC
China’s money supply recovers China Daily
Why did China’s police chief make a rare foray into economic policy? South China Morning Post
* * * Why China now wants to put some limits on its ‘no limits’ friendship with Russia The Conversation
The View From the Ground: China’s Evolving Strategy in South and Central Asia The Diplomat
* * * The moon, Mars, asteroids and Jupiter: China reveals ambitious space exploration plans Space.com
A US-China science pact has expired after 45 years. How is the world poorer for it? Channel News Asia
The Yamanote Line: Crown Jewel of Tokyo’s Transportation System Nippon.com
Vietnam death row tycoon jailed for life in separate trial Channel News Asia
Syraqistan
Bowen: Sinwar’s death is serious blow to Hamas, but not the end of the war BBC. Commentary:
Biden: "There is now the opportunity for a 'day after' in Gaza without Hamas in power, and for a political settlement that provides a better future for Israelis and Palestinians alike. Yahya Sinwar was an insurmountable obstacle to achieving all of those goals. That obstacle no…
— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) October 17, 2024
US hails Israeli announcement of killing Sinwar, calls for Gaza ‘day after’ Al Jazeera
Gaza war: Who will be the next Hamas leader after Yahya Sinwar’s killing? WION
How Israel’s military found and killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar PBS
Biden says US helped Israel track Hamas leader Sinwar Anadolu Agency
* * * As Israeli Tanks Take Aim at Irish Peacekeepers, Weapons Fly Illegally Over Irish Territory DropSite
* * * Israeli F-15s vs. Iranian MiG-29s: Which Cold War Era Fighters Would Prevail? Military Watch
The New Great Game
The results of Georgia’s “geopolitical” elections will affect the entire region. A view from Baku JAM News
European Disunion
Hollow Steel New Left Review
Dear Old Blighty
The backlash to Labour’s crony Carbon Capture and Storage plans just went up a gear Canary
The Notional Health Service Craig Murray
New Not-So-Cold War
Zelenskyy denies plans to restore nuclear weapons in Ukraine but Zelenskyy tells Trump that Ukraine will have either nuclear weapons or NATO membership Ukrainska Pravda
Western Assessments Highlight Looming Catastrophe For Ukraine’s War Effort Military Watch
The Supremes
Supreme Court Rules 6-3 To Open Evil Tomb Of Batibat The Onion
Dissenting Authority (PDF) Journal of Law & Humanities. From the Abstract: “White’s conception of authority as collaborative engagement explains how dissenting voices contribute authority to law. Law earns our allegiance by remaining open to contestation, and by inviting rather than repressing our critical judgment.”
Digital Watch
Andreessen Horowitz defense tech investor Katherine Boyle says ‘Ukraine changed everything’ Fortune
The Final Frontier
Euclid ‘dark universe’ telescope reveals 1st breathtaking images from massive ‘cosmic atlas’ map Space.com
NASA’s Europa Clipper JSTOR Daily
When Earth Had Rings Nautilus
Our Famously Free Press
The Israeli Spies Writing America’s News Mint Press
Realignment and Legitimacy
L.A. Catholic Church payouts for clergy abuse top $1.5 billion with new record settlement LA Times
‘We vote, you get the paycheck’: Cleveland resident wants results from public officials Signal Cleveland
In Texas’ Third-Largest County, the Far Right’s Vision for Local Governing Has Come to Life ProPublica
What the Story of Richard II and Henry IV Reveals About the Nature of Power Literary Hub
The controversial origins of war and peace: apes, foragers, and human evolution (PDF) Evolution and Human Behavior
Class Warfare
Why the American Labor Movement Matters Kim Kelly, Literary Hub
The Power of Sugar Beets: Long-time Labor Organizer on Politics in the Red River Valley Workday Magazine
* * * The Conspiracy Capitaliser, formalising the business of belief Neural
Why has recent inflation been so unnerving? Kevin Drum
The Old-School Spy Tactics Helping to Set Your Grocery Prices WSJ
The Secretive Dynasty That Controls the Boar’s Head Brand NYT
Antidote du jour (K Fink):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
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LIVING THROUGH HUNGER
(melody borrowed from Angel From Montgomery by John Prine, as performed by Bonnie Raitt)
This cart that we’re pullin’
Belonged to my brother
Who knows what he suffered?
We pray for his soul
The olives are ripening
But soldiers brought fire
Our orchards were torn down
And they told us to go
It’s just too painful
We worked through the summer
Orchards much older
Than anyone knows
War’s such a dumb thing
Hell we have gone through
There can be no forgiving—
And every Jew needs to know
We’re trapped in this Hell world
A world that’s been destroyed
A world full of combat—
We hide where we can
Just scraps for each mealtime
Hunger isn’t dignified
There’s no fuel for cooking
So we eat what we can
My hunger’s shameful
My stomach so fluttery
Death has an odor
It’s like nothin’ you’d know
We live by cunning
By garbage we’ve gone through
And by taking what’s given
If a UN truck shows
We’re filthy and itching
Our lives they mean nothing
Our souls have been toughened
By living this way
Just to breathe is a burden
We have lost all our moorings
Slowly losing our reason
Every road leads one way
It’s just too painful
We worked through the summer
Orchards much older
Than anyone knows
War’s such a dumb thing
Hell we have gone through
There can be no forgiving—
And every Jew needs to know
There can be no forgiving—
And every Jew has to know
Thanks for that.
sidd
With regard to almost liquid cats… I think Maru demonstrates that cats are not always aware of their own size
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XID_W4neJo
Financially, Maru is probably more liquid than I.
Is today wacky font Thursday?
I noticed the change in font as well
I thought I had posted this earlier this morning but it was lost in the ethers. Will attempt this link again. It is a discussion about the difference between typeface and font.
https://www.creativebloq.com/features/font-vs-typeface
I wondered if I was the only one seeing the ‘new’ comment font. Weird!
It’s not new. The elements that normally appear to the right side of the page are now appearing at the bottom through an alignment problem. Maybe an unclosed tag? The font change is just a side effect of this. In any case think of it as a challenge. To read the comments and take part in them while ignoring the font used. :)
We have 2 threads on the font but I’ll post here … it kinda reminds me of the font on old dot matrix printers. Anyone remember those? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgxrLMmyGhw
I see your dot matrix printer, and I raise you a daisy wheel printer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIDZYxevW6Q&t=70s
Anyone remember gelatine stencil copies made from a typewriter? Probably in a font much like this one.
This?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6SyMbzRbmM
;-)
Thank you; there is a serious problem in the links thread with font and absence of side column.
Side column is at the bottom.
Yes it is an unclosed html tag.
Many programmers use Courier font in their text editor. I use Courier and vi.
(vi with [my industry] characteristics.)
After Lambert fixes his tag none of this thread is going to make any sense.
I think you can change the font in your browser by changing the “fixed-width” Font selection. For instance, if you use a Chromium-based browser this can be found by going to chrome://settings/fonts (among other ways).
mrsyk: It is Courier, which is based on the font used in typewriters (I assume you remember typewriters). As a writer of various things, I still use Courier in manuscripts. For a play, for instance, there’s a rule used in estimating that a manuscript page in Courier 12 point is roughly one minute of stage time. Handy.
So today we are more writerly. Pass the cognac and the pack of Gauloise Bleu.
I do remember courier. I had a class in university that required 2 page papers on a weekly basis. We very quickly figured out the widest spaced font. Courier saved us quite a few words every week.
I also remember typewriters … one of my more useful high school classes was typing
Still got mine in storage. An Olivetti Lettera 32 I think-
https://typewriterreview.com/2013/03/10/olivetti-underwood-lettera-32/
Carrington Effect-proof of course. :)
Sometimes I turn on my IBM Selectric typewriter just to hear the hum of another era.
I stashed several Selectrics away for future entertainment. Watching the bouncing ball twist and turn to put ink on the page was impressive. Many years ago I worked in an area that was “secured”. They would lock up the carbon typewriter ribbons at night to prevent malevolent actors from reading what had been typed during the day.
Word processing killed IBM’s dominant typewriter business in a short time period.
I had one of those IBM Scalectrix. It was like a lover: sometimes loved her other times was heartily hated. I was never a keen typist. A forced one.
Courier is a monospaced typeface [all the characters are the same width] for use in tabular material, technical documentation, and word processing. It was designed in the mid-1900s by Howard Kettler of IBM as a typewriter face, and was later redrawn by Adrian Frutiger for the IBM Selectric series.
Thanks, particularly for not pointing out it”s Friday.
I think that somehow the “fixed column” switch got turned on. I like it!
Yes, kids…in the before-times, I used a keyboard that had no screen to type things—it was very loud and you hoped that you didn’t make a mistake—otherwise you had to smear white paint onto your paper
Would you believe that the inventor of white out – Bette Nesmith Graham – was also the mother of Michael Nesmith? One of the 1960s group The Monkees?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkees
It’s a time warp. I’m back in college with my trusty Royal. It’s 3 am, my paper is due at 8:30 am. I have run out of ink and have no ribbons left. How will I explain this to my professor? The world is ending.
Economics people (of a certain age at any rate) amongst us will have fond(?) memories of Stata looking at the Courier font!
No, but only because it’s not Thursday.
Somehow an unclosed <code> tag got in right after the antidote, and code is formatted in a monospaced font. The post was OK, since the open code tag was at the end of the post, but everything after it became, well, austere.
Fixed now. And sorry for the delay.
I enjoyed it. Somehow it made the atmosphere more personal.
That was odd to me. Just odd. Have these people ever met any animals or been outside? Birds fly through brush. Rabbits and deer race through brush. Hamsters learn the dimensions of a run-around ball very quickly. (Humans, not so much but they could be overthinking it.) And there is the famed Walker created by Survival Research Labs at the dawn of time. (80s, if the internet is to trusted.)
Have the people who did this study never seen a cow with big horns walk through a doorway? Known anyone with freakin goats? Getting from place to place on the earth requires knowing your own dimensions. The might include understanding how you differ from others, beyond knowing where you can hide from them, but it might not.
Bull elk with magnificent headgear can run through thick timber as though it was tilted prairie…
“Getting from place to place on the earth requires knowing your own dimensions“
Not only dimensions, but also the relative location and orientation of the various parts capable of independent movement.
Proprioception is one of my favourite “smart-a*se” words, right up there with petrichor.
Petrichor is the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil. The word was coined by Richard Grenfell Thomas from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra) ‘rock’ or πέτρος (pétros) ‘stone’ and ἰχώρ (ikhṓr), the ethereal fluid that is the blood of the gods in Greek mythology.
from wiki. might be true.
Just looked up petrichor — wow — thanks.
(typing in courier emits an odourless, colourless, substance-less petrichor-like typographic elixir not evident when merely reading it.)
Kinesthesia should also be right up there.
“Israeli F-15s vs. Iranian MiG-29s: Which Cold War Era Fighters Would Prevail?”
The question that they should be asking is if the Russian fighters now in Iran will take part in defending Iran and if they are armed with those extra long-range anti-air missiles as well which they have successfully used in the Ukraine. And I won’t get into the radars and the S-400s that they have also sent. Israel will be flying at full range like the Luftwaffe did in the Battle of Britain so they will not be able to hang around long. Russia has now shown that they will not let Israel and the US destroy Iran but will help defend it.
I think they mean the su-27, mig-29 is more of a counter to the f-16.
The Su-27 is (or was) the F-15 equivalent, but they were never sold to Iran. The Mig-29 was intended as the ‘low’ part of the ‘high-low’ mix in the old Soviet air force and so the equivalent of the F-16 or F-18. The Mig-29 was never considered a complete success by the Soviets/Russians, it was mostly relegated to export markets in favour of focusing on the Sukhoi range.
So in terms of kinetics, the F-15 is far more capable than the Mig-29, and most likely the Israeli’s have gradually upgraded a lot of the older ones, while the Iranians don’t seem to have done much with the Mig-29 (significantly, they’ve been trying to buy Sukhoi’s, not Migs from Russia recently). Plus the Israeli pilots probably have a lot more quality operational hours logged, which is a very significant factor in combat, arguably more significant than the aircrafts theoretical capability.
However, in real world combat, there are many factors involved above and beyond paper capabilities. The fact that any battle is likely to be over Iranian or Syrian airspace would play very much into Iran’s favour, which is why the Israeli’s will most likely try to avoid any air to air contact if possible.
Beg to disagree. More Mig-29s were build than all the Sukhois put together. Less than a third were exported.
Soviet Air Force did not really have high-low mix, it had three different requirements for fighters. Mig-31 was capable of independently controlling the huge swatches of the northern Soviet Union, Su-27 was the heavy fighter intended for strikes in the enemy controlled air-space and Mig-29 was the fast climber for the air-defense getting instructions from the ground-controller.
They never competed against each other – they did have fight with TSaGI and ministry, though, because both had unconventional (at the time) design – they had completely different concept of operations.
Lots of MiGs were built by default – they started with a huge order, but it was immediately apparent that it wasn’t satisfactory (for reasons that became apparent in the 1990’s when western airforces tested them against F16s and F18s). They were urgently working on a successor within 5 years of the Mig 29 becoming operational – the Mig 1.44. It was the failure of this project that led to the Mig 29’s longevity, not the qualities of the aircraft. The all aspect superiority of the basic Sukhoi design is apparent by its longevity and that Russia has been content to take its time with its successor. In reality, the older Su will almost certainly in the long run stay in production as the ‘low’ part of an Su-57 mix. Quite similar in a way to how the F-15 has lived on far beyond expectations in the US.
Using the Mig-29 to fill the wider gaps in air cover needs is the very essence of the high-low mix strategy. This is the mirror image to how the US intended to use the F-14/F-18 and F-15/F-16 (in particular the former – the F-18’s being spread widely using air bases as well as carriers, with the F-14’s focusing on the key carrier strike forces). The differences in operational strategy are in the detail, not the broad brush elements.
Which Cold War Era Fighters Would Prevail?
Tom Cruise in a stolen Iranian F-14 will prevail.
Maybe they can ask Tom Cruise to bomb Iran as wasn’t that the plot for “Top Gun 2”?
I haven’t watched it, but I know that Tom Cruise prevailing in an F-14 is the top of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igaXsfQlYy8
I know it’s only on paper, but the Iranian F-14 – even if has an unimproved original radar – can see an Israeli F-15 from about 270 km, while the F-15 can see the F-14 from about 170 km.
The Iranian F-14 will also be carrying their reverse engineered AIM-54/MIM-23 hybrids, with a range of 150 km.
So, on paper, Iranians can target and launch first, and have enough separation to afterburn back to the safety of Iranian air-defenses.
…and bring all his fighters home alive while killing, blowing up, shooting down, and otherwise out-smarting all the bad-guys (Russians, Iranians, whoever). Then, of course, get the girl! Such schlock for a narcotized public!
Plenty of history of this sort of thing going on over Vietnam from 1965 to 1975…..
The attrition in that war was significant.
Would you believe that during the Vietnam war that-
‘In total, the United States military lost in Vietnam almost 10,000 aircraft, helicopters and UAVs (3,744 planes, 5,607 helicopters and about 1,000 UAVs.’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_losses_of_the_Vietnam_War
What’s even more stunning is the % of losses that were ‘non-combat.’ For some types like the A7, F4, or F105 it’s north of 50% if I remember.
The first 2 F-111 sent out from a base in Thailand were lost due to mechanical fail.
Grounded them all for a long time.
F-35 issues are not unique
This is big…
Rail services reform bill passes Congress, ending decades of privatization
Go Claudia! Railroads run for the public good and not foreigner “investors” that are PSR crazed US class 1s (which are really asset strippers). Obviously the US class 1s with ownership stakes will try lawfare to prevent this. Fortunately Mexico is reforming its judicial system to root out corruption. Viva Mexico!
Gasp! But that’s undemocratic that! Won’t somebody please think of the private profiteers? For ages Mexico was mocked as being run like a shambolic operation and there was even that term of a “Mexican Fire Brigade”. Now? The way that Mexico is going, it will probably be better run than either the US or Canada in a few years time. Yeah, I know. Not exactly a high bar that.
Nailed it! Thanks so much for your fine comments. Always read anything you leave here! This country has gone to hell, when you have an old geezer running things that is NOT fit to run a campaign but making decisions that could get us blown to
Smithereens, while a completely incompetent person, not elected to run for anything is running to take his place.
God speed to you and yours, our goose looks cooked.
We’re not supposed to assign work to our host or contributors, but not being fluent in Spanish, perhaps this is fodder for Nick Corbishley’s investigations?
The Israeli Spies Writing America’s News — Mint Press
You mean we have Israeli fifth columnists in our midsts. Columnists, get it? Nevermind.
You mean, someone has put drugs in the heroin.
using American Typewriter font now?
I’m feeling rather sentimental. Where’s the whiteout.
Whiteout is discontinued, and replaced with rainbow-colored-out. Instead of hiding mistakes, you are supposed to be proud of them.
They aren’t mistakes, they are innovations, unless you mistake a pronoun, in which case it is a micro-aggression.
You win the Internets today Antifa!
Funny story here. About 150 years ago offices started to use typewriters and were using them to send communications to other companies instead of handwritten messages. One guy who did not get the memo was outraged upon receiving one and told the offending company that he refused to be written to in a circus broadside.
“circus broadside”, I was thinking “ransom note”.
Having read some bureaucratic 19th century forms, they do look like circus broadsides in their love for using all the types. Bit like 90ies webpages.
Explanation of the difference between font and typeface: https://www.creativebloq.com/features/font-vs-typeface
Embarrassed to say I didn’t know the difference despite at one time having collected 100s of, um, typefaces (each with a full font family : )
(emoticons look longer/taller? in Typewriter)
I have a special fondness (fontness?) for that pedantic distinction. I’m so old, the shop class in my public high school included typesetting and printing. To me, a font is a drawer full of lead type. But I’m also old enough to know that language changes, so I only deploy my pedantry with sympathetic audiences.
Actually just forgotten unclosed
html tag at the end of article, which switches font to monospace, i.e. every letter has the same width. Programmers use it do display program code since it makes columns on different lines aligned so you can easily arrange things vertically.Also, ASCII art.
(“`-”-/”).___..–””`-._
`6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`)
(_Y_.)’ ._ ) `._ `. “-..-‘
_..`–‘_..-_/ /–‘_.’
((((.-” ((((.’ (((.-‘
LOL! Love it. It’s easier on these old eyes also.
re: Supreme Court Rules 6-3 To Open Evil Tomb Of Batibat The Onion
Will Geraldo be there at the opening to give us a breathless report?
Isn’t that right next to the Dry Powder Repository in the basement of the Senate Building?
“He added, “We are calling on the Biden administration to do everything it can to codify into law the entombment of these accursed spectral creatures of the night for all Americans—not just the wealthy.””
This is why we *must* vote for the Democrats! Only they will support codifying demon entombment into law. Maybe they’ve neglected this issue in the past when they’ve had majorities, but I know they will do it *this* time! Vote Blue!
Aren’t you overstating it, pjay?
Surely they will tirelessly _work for_ the codification of demon entombment into law.
Nah, they’ll “fight for” it! Probably the demons are big donors, so there will be the usual outcome.
Wait, there’s more!
Mexico Moves to Amend Constitution to Favor State Power Firm oil price
Slash and burn pruning of Salinas Gotari’s neoliberalism. Go Claudia! Viva Mexico!
Go Mexico! Whatever is catching down there, I hope it’s contagious. Interesting that this bill had some opposition while the train reform passed unanimously.
Poor Uncle Sam! So close to Mexico, so far from God.
It is so appropriate that we have Barak Ravid providing commentary on Sinwar’s desth, followed by the Mint Press News article “The Israeli Spies Writing America’s News”. Well played.
I never heard of Sinwar before yesterday, and If I did, it didn’t stick in my mind, but now I do know who is now and how and why he died. And for that I thank Israel for releasing the video clip of his last moments. Releasing that video was educational and only deepens my disgust with Israel and the West.
I knew of him, information I had was he was basically political with input into negotiations. I may be wrong.
Seeing senile Biden grandstanding about this – and my assumption is compliant media and elected officials cheering as well. Dying Empire/rogue state behavior. Bread and circuses political moment between sporting events and other activity which Americans feel is important to them. I share your disgust.
100% in agreement.
He died with courage.
If you wanted to know more about Sinwar, here’s a decent profile:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/12/yahya-sinwar-profile-hamas-gaza-war-israel
Good men and good fighters will emerge from Yahya Sinwar’s death. Just as Tertullian believed that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church, so too with Palestine – and the Arabs outraged by the feebleness and sheer wickedness of their “leaders”. We are held together by faith, and soldiers are no different. Soldiers believe in the justice of their cause when their officers take the same risks as they do themselves.
Sinwar’s death will be a source of strength for generations, just as Wallace has been for every man with a single of Scottish blood in him for more than 700 years since he was publicly tortured to death by the English Crown. Sinwar is in good company and the life he lived and the death he expected and accepted bring a light to the world and the world will change and much of of it will be a better place because of his sacrifice.
Tsibbi’s latest, public excerpt:
Media Falls Below Congress in Trust Survey
Gallup’s annual confidence survey shows 69% of Americans will not relieve themselves on a journalist in flames
https://www.racket.news/p/impossible-dream-realized-media-falls
An alternative headline for that piece is: “Public Rejects Trickle Down Theory.”
“Yes Citizen Consumer, it is raining.”
I believe you omitted tax-mule
Yes Citizen Consumer Tax Mule, it IS raining..
Thanks for link. Apparently journalists these days deal with their low status by only hanging out with other journalists and telling each other how great they are. If the masses disagree it must be Trump’s fault. He’s the all purpose whipping boy.
Unfortunately my estimation of Taibbi has fallen greatly in recent years, especially since I saw the dismissive way he brushes off any question regarding the official narrative o 9/11.
He is in part part of the problem I’m sorry to say.
This Tucker Carlson interview of Mark Halperin was posted in comments the other day highlighting a portion on another subject, TDS I believe and a possible mental health crisis in the US with a Trump win, a comment started with IMdoc
Why the media has no respect?
Halperin’s thoughts on the worst scandal in American Journalism start at 28:45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV_WDBqE8VI&t=6912s&pp=2AGANpACAQ%3D%3D
Thanks for the story about the workers at American Crystal Sugar (The Power of Sugar Beets). I grew up in Moorhead, Minnesota, and there was an American Crystal plant a couple miles to the north of our house. At this time of year there was always a distinctive odor originating from the plant as they processed the harvested sugar beets.
Why China now wants to put some limits on its ‘no limits’ friendship with Russia was thin gruel.
It is mostly based on unsourced rumblings in social society (analysis based on rumors), and the one named and photo-ed professor argues that China should back away from Russia because Russia will lose Ukraine. SMO! Why cite someone who was so obviously wrong? A propaganda tell?
Along with the author asserting there is a stalemate in Ukraine (!!), I wonder if Congress brought this to us as the new billions of anti-China propaganda flood our Infowars. Or is the author burnishing credentials to get a bite of the federal largess?
“Along with the author asserting there is a stalemate in Ukraine…”
I was wondering about that too. The author was mainly referencing an academic/analysts from about 6 months ago when the small invasion into Russia’s Kursk region took place and everyone was wondering what it meant.
While there is reason to think about motives for such views, outside of the perception of the state of the Russia/Ukraine conflict, none of these discussions should be surprising considering China’s history of non-military intervention.
And China produces a huge number of exports that need to be absorbed in the present and they need trading partners with the wealth and infrastructure – in the present – to absorb them.
It’s going to be an interesting BRICS conference.
What’s the bet that the Ukraine/NATO will try something to disrupt that BRICS conference. Something spectacular, or stupid – or both.
I’ve wondered. However, keeping participants focused on war more so than development is a significant disruption. Even if it’s not a show stopper.
Not just Ukraine and nato, I think also Israel with the US support would want to disrupt Iran from meeting with the BRICS
“Israel with the US support would want to disrupt Iran from meeting with…”
Iran is a full BRICS member.
BRICS = Brazil, China, India, Russia, South Africa and Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, United Arab Emirates
Palestine will be a major topic of discussion tho, per Pepe Escobar
Just to clarify: “China’s history of non-military intervention” – meaning China’s history of avoiding military intervention.
I don’t know why people keep saying this…when historically it is not true. First, the Chinese have plenty of history of invading neighbors, whether it is there invasions of Yunan (“Dali” kingdom) in the southwest, Xinjiang in the west, or Manchuria in the northeast. Chinese history is full of multiple invasions, withdrawals, and co-mingling of these areas. In the more modern era, look to the Chinese invasion of Tibet and Vietnam. Or, less robust, look at how China pushes around Filipino fishing trawlers and sends their fishing fleet out to essential pillage the world’s fisheries. If modern China has an image of non-military intervention, it is far more due to inability rather than desire. Hell, they’ve essentially colonized Eastern Africa.
A number of those are on that fine line of territorial disputes. No?
“A number of those are on that fine line…”
No, the entire comment is crudely false and the whole obviously intended to be racially offensive.
“Hell, they’ve essentially colonized Eastern Africa.”
Forgive this objection, but this entire comment is completely incorrect and completely offensive.
Yea, right. China is a projection of USA, that lacks ability. As a matter of fact, everyone outside USA is USA wannabe that is just not as exceptional as the Empire of Lies is.
Yeah, right. It is because the support for Russia that Chinese EVs were slapped with high tarrifs in the US/Canada/EU…
“Zhao Long, deputy director of the Shanghai Institute of International Relations, says there is an important difference in how they view the world:
Russia wants to destroy the current international system to build a new one. China wants to transform the current system by taking a more prominent place in it.”
This seems at odds with reality in the sense that the current system arose from neoliberal economics. Neoliberal economics doesn’t take to being transformed. It does the transforming. It may be rebranded, but not transformed.
Also what does it means Russia wants to destroy international system? Like cancel UN or what? Russia has veto on UNSC and I don’t think they will able to create something else where they will have more power.
It just looks they found among 1.5 billion people someone who says the same things that they print in the pages of Western press.
Oddly enough, Zhao Long studied international relations in Moscow. I guess the Russian universities are lacking in indoctrination…
The same Zhao Long told Der Spiegel (I think), that he doesn’t understand why Europe is US vassal and won’t choose sovereignty. Almost as if he preferred multipolar world to the bipolar we have now.
Anyway, there are, of course, numerous pundits in both China and Russia, who don’t like the way the two countries are pulling together. Obviously this kind of discourse on options and possibilities – and even disagreement – is typical of the authoritarian regimes and unknown here in the democratic world. /snark
The general argument seemed to be that China does not wish to be allied to a country which is not triumphant, strong and glorious. The further implication: China can pick and choose its allies and doesn’t need just anybody.
In the real world, of course, countries accept the allies they can find. It would be interesting to see what the background of the author, a Russian emigrant to the US, is. My guess would be either Yeltsin-era, or perhaps a refugee from one of Putin’s clampdowns on corruption.
The author also points to a supposed recent deceleration in the growth (no numbers presented, of course) of the (admitted) record trade between China and Russia as further evidence of alliance wobble – yet, given the global deceleration including incipient European recession or worse, a deceleration of trade is expected – could the author be that ignorant or is it written deceptively (by not providing context, i.e., propaganda.
“Why China now wants to put some limits…”
This is simply a type of Australian fakery; anti-China and anti-Russia. There is a strain of persistent anti-China, anti-Russia, Rupert Murdoch fakery in Australia that can be disconcerting when first encountered, but should be immediately dismissed.
From the “Witches article, this paragraph caught my eye;
‘Inversion’, where witches do things in a way opposite to what is proper or normal, is another idea found just about everywhere. European witches were supposed to plant crosses upside down, perform rituals backwards, dance counterclockwise (the inauspicious direction), and do things with the left hand that should be done with the right – just as latter-day satanists have been described as doing. Outside the West, witches are conceived as equally inverted beings. The Nagé people of the Indonesian island of Flores, among whom I conducted fieldwork between 1984 and 2018, describe witches as dancing in the ‘wrong’ direction during their nocturnal cannibalistic feasts. Nagé witches also sleep with their heads pointing the wrong way (towards the sea rather than inland). Similarly, Navaho and Western Apache witches cast harmful spells by reciting ‘good prayers’ backwards; some witches in India are credited with inverted feet; in East Africa witches walk about upside down; Burmese witches sleep on their bellies rather than their backs; ancient Roman writers described witches as capable of reversing the course of rivers – and the list goes on.
Remember this children next time you think of behaving outside of a “proper or normal” manner.
No wonder left-handed kids were punished decades ago and had their hands slapped with a ruler to make them use their right hand when writing. It was for their own good of course. /sarc
My dad was born left-handed, raised to be right handed. We are a superstitious lot despite our wokeness.
They tried to do that to me as well in first grade. When getting to second grade there was a sea change, “Let them be left handlers”. I saw that as a win against the establishment,even at that young age.
Sinister means left handed in Latin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RFo1knXFlE&ab_channel=AITOR/
So Voodoo child indeed?
Yes! A great moment (such as they were) in the Carry On Cleo entry in the Carry On… franchise — a Roman Legion in a marching drill, keeping cadence with “sinister; dexter; sinister; dexter…”
I mean no disrespect, but this print is simply too difficult for me to read. The entire thread is a physical problem for me to read readily, but this print is more so.
Please do not be offended.
Totally not, my bad. Never happened before!
“A US-China science pact has expired after 45 years. How is the world poorer for it?”
For many years the US and other countries have tried to cut the Chinese out on research collaborations of any sort and in fact there is a law forbidding the Chinese from going to the International Space Station. I suppose the idea was that if they stop the Chinese from “copying everything” that Chinese science would wither on the vine and western technology would be always superior. You see this too with Trump and Biden passing laws to cripple Chinese technological development by denying them any access to modern western technology.
I’m going to put this idea into the box marked ‘What Could Possibly Go Wrong.’
I keep thinking of all the decades it took to develop and propagandize the type of consumer (especially the American consumer) that helped to provide China with the funds for their current projects.
“A US-China science pact has expired…”
We are returning to the thoroughly race-based “Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to 1943. * This new race-based turn will prove highly damaging to America in physical and moral effect. Imagine America officially fostering racism even after what should be the enduring legacy of a Martin Luther King.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act
Re Richard II and Henry IV
“What I didn’t foresee was that, during the years I’ve spent in Richard and Henry’s company, the conflict between them would come to feel so topical.”
Not very foresightful then? While stories about the nature of power may seem fascinating to the powerless and those who serve princes (i.e. Shakespeare) it’s really a tale without many plot twists. Lord Acton summed it up with two words. And while the background and personality and above all intelligence of the power wielders may produce socially beneficial results, it is at base a drive like its handmaiden sex. Shakespeare the poet did his job in prettifying the subject (“a little bit of Harry in the night”) but history suggests that Henry V was a much more bloodthirsty character than in the play.
But if one insists on analogies then surely our Richard II is sitting on the US throne at the moment and the inarticulate Biden is not a very poetic character at all. Power is a banal thing, red in tooth and claw, but we enjoy stories to help to deal with the reality. The main thing is to always know that the stories are just that.
This part of English history has become a fascination for me as it essentially kicks off the War of the Roses. . . which strangely, the author only mentions in passing, possibly because she seems to believe that Bolingbroke was on the side of the angels (debatable). That war caused all kinds of suffering and problems for the people who had to endure it, so it’s hard to see how Henry IV was so much better in the long run.
Perhaps she’s a huge fan of the Tudors? They became legitimized by the Lancasters (through the Beaufort family) which is how they got any claim to the throne at all. Certainly Shakespeare must have understood that history, given the differences in his portrayals between the monarchs from each side.
And as the author is a British historian, and even wrote a book about the queens before Elizabeth I, how can she say:
“To depose the king, therefore, was to risk everything—worldly security and immortal soul—by challenging the order of God’s creation. . . could anyone but God rightfully remove a sovereign He had anointed?
“Before Richard and Henry were born, that question had been answered in the affirmative only once in England in the 300 years since their ancestor William the Conqueror won his crown on the battlefield at Hastings. During the early decades of the fourteenth century, their great-grandfather Edward II had prioritized his favorites over the needs of his kingdom so consistently, to such appalling effect, that he undermined the rule of his own law. His wife led the resistance that, in 1327, put his son on the throne in his place.”
This statement cruises right past the civil war of 1135-1153 between Stephen and Matilda. Furthermore, that son of Edward II was Edward III, who really is the epicenter of the War of the Roses – though that wasn’t necessarily his intention; unusually for the time, he had so many children live to adulthood, that he started marrying them off to the English nobility, which subsequently gave them claims to the throne.
Not that he had much choice… these scions of the apparently sociopathic Plantagenet family expected power, but so many were far behind in the succession and so were not considered as strong a match as may have been, among European royal families.
Sorry for the long post. As I said, fascination….
Zelenskyy tells Trump that Ukraine will have either nuclear weapons or NATO membership- Ukrainska Pravda
“Among all these great powers, all the nuclear nations, which one has suffered? Was it all of them? No, only Ukraine.”
Z just used “great power” and “Ukraine” in the same sentence.
Whole thing is amazing. Would be easier to belive from a character invented by Peter Sellers.
If Peter Sellers had played Zhelenski he would have been a lot more convincing, plus a good deal funnier.
“Eeet ees a newclear beaum!”
I was thinking more along the lines of Sellers in “The Mouse that Roared”, but I’m not sure whether Zelenskyy is Duchess Gloriana XII, Prime Minister Count Rupert Mountjoy, or Tully Bascombe.
Greening of Antarctica Is Another Sign of Significant Climate Shift on the Frozen Continent – Inside Climate News
Just spitballin’, but what if that article would’ve been more appropriately placed under the “WATER” heading?
Here is a link to NASA on a tangential subject, the sun and a related one on its solar maximum. Heliocentricity, a feature for earth inhabitants, even Galileo’s descendents. ;)
Those 11-year solar cycles give one pause to consider the state of space across the decades, as in 2013, 2002, 2035 and maybe even your own preferred interval or target year. When might the next CME and what might happen?
petal posted this yesterday in Water Cooler, and Henry Moon Pie commented.
From our conservative friends:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-blob-blames-its-victims/
This article is worth thinking about when we have to listen to blabbering, particularly from white liberals, about how no one heeds their words and submits to their tender mercies (like ACA / Obamacare). There are plenty of people willing to have a “conversation.” But one must be willing to do so.
A good article but it mostly talks about Elliot Abrams and we jaded would contend that even the worst of the libs aren’t as bad as him. Wasn’t he supposed to be indicted at some point long ago?
The real strategy of the blob is to stay off the radar screen as much as possible. They hate the web because it might shine a little “misinformation” sunlight into their dark corners.
President Biden appointed Elliott Abrams to the Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. Joe showing his true “liberal” neocon colors.
Eliott Abrams is a diplomat by US standards? Wow.
I remember when Begin (God, he seems like such a wimpy liberal by current Israeli standards) won the Nobel Peace Prize and an Israeli nuclear physicist nominated him for the Physics prize — when queried, he said Begin deserved it as much as the peace prize.
Abrams reminds me of that.
Interesting article. Surprised at it’s common sense, would be worth a conversation. Liberals can convert too but they always come home. “you can never go home again” doesn’t apply with democrats. witness Coates. he changed his mind on zionism, even wrote a book which had truth on Palestine. then he flipped the switch and is team harris again, his major concern now (other than book sales) is the genocide continuing into 2028 and how it might affect that election. burning children, not so much.
Wowsers. “Human Geography Is Mission-Critical.”
If you’d like to read a piece of pure propaganda, with many blobbish assumptions of superiority, by someone also touting his own brand, this is the article for you.
I happen to have worked with some human geographers. They tried to remain objective, much as anthropologists do.
Key morally deformed paragraph (winner of an A. Eichmann award?):
Believe me, brethren and sistren, warmongering isn’t what the discipline of human geography is about.
Unless somebody can find a way to make it profitable like these people are trying to do. Good god, man. They are using AI. AI I tell you. It won’t help. Right now the opinion of the US in the Middle east is lower than whale s*** because of giving the Israelis the bombs to murder Palestinians. No ‘human geography’ is going to be able to turn that around any time soon. And can that ‘human geography’ tell them why the US can’t train up forces to stand and fight in the countries that they are in? Would they have predicted the sudden collapse of Afghanistan? These people are just hustlers trying to make a quick buck on the next big thing which they think in this case is ‘human geography’. It won’t work but they will get a lot of money out of this idea first.
You see! I was impressed by the pic used to illustrate the article: some crowded marketplace in some African city one can guess. With AI you can instantly guess who in that picture is the one that handles a gun or a bomb, or the one you need to kill because the HG App identifies him or her as the enemy you were looking for.
And this is it, the American blobby AI-fed military-intelligence complex obsessed with Hegemony turned into AI-informed maniacs with an obsessive-compulsive disorder: We need total control! This is critical! My guess is that this is intractable with antidepressants.
Yes, this is what is so dangerous about this mentality. They *think* all this ‘intelligence’ is going to identify the bad guys. So they take action. But look at the examples shown in the article. They’re impressively detailed, very granular, down to the block or street; but what are they graphing. Survey data! It’s garbage in – garbage out, same as it ever was. But it’s so detailed! Surely that means it’s right!
And in the meantime, some poor taxi driver gets murdered, bystanders lose an arm or eye, and they pat themselves on the back and brag that they ‘successfully prevented a terrorist attack’.
Sorry, but I’d prescribe Zyklon B.
Good for you for having the stomach to finish. I got to the bit about will to fight and almost lost my breakfast. I started out in university studying geography and I agree, the human side of it seemed to be about maintaining objectivity.
They’ve been throwing this “will to fight” concept around for 10 years or more now. It’s like they can’t come to grips with the fact that they aren’t the good guys, and it blows their mind why people fight back and not for them.
LOL, so I posted this before I went and read the article. Good to know my 10 years estimate was correct.
> If you’d like to read a piece of pure propaganda
Yeah. Wasn’t it great?
Re the West coast complaints about the biomass industry–I look out my window and suggest said companies look East instead. Take our biomass–please!!
Something like 20 or so bio-mass plants in Cali have closed down in the past decade, so those few hundred million pine trees in the Sierra Nevada that the bark beetles have killed since then will have to decompose on their own terms, until a wildfire puts them out of their misery.
I think that the technical name for that process is ‘fire-loading.’
Liberal Democrats explore why black people aren’t coming home:
How Is the Economy for Black Voters? A Complex Question Takes Center Stage.
And
(bold mine)
I guess telling people that inflation isn’t really happening has not been working on blacks, either? Or when Krugman suggested that people just don’t understand how good their wages have been under Bidenomics?
And re-emphasized again. A community of people that care about each other — maybe that’s a foreign concept to liberal Democrats?
I think many things are a foreign concept to liberal democrats. Just today, talking how interest rates for a 30 year loan has went up to X percent, a liberal democrat had to let us know that this rise in rates is the downside of a booming economy.
Typical from the stereotypical elite snob who hasn’t a clue what living paycheck to paycheck is like for so many millions of Americans. We’ll just continue to spew BS talking points while ignoring reality. They will believe the Krugman’s, Stein’s, and press secretary’s propaganda and ignore the data that prove otherwise.
These people are living in their own self made up reality.
It works for them until it doesn’t. Then it gets interesting. As a distant relative was fond of saying after a few too many a holiday gatherings, “they steal everything they can but at least every few generations we get to line them all up against a wall…”
Let’s talk about another historically Dem group that may be having issues this year.
Catholics ( think JFK )
Trump brought up the Gretchen Whitmer Eucharist fiasco in his Al Smith Dinner speech last night. I now realize fully that there is a reason for this.
On top of that, my very first patient this AM is a very prominent member of the Catholic community here. I was quickly informed without hesitation that the elevated BP was very likely from the revulsion of Kamala’s taped thing last night. I watched it – and yes – I can see how that would be problematic for some Catholics.
It did not go over very well in the Catholic Al Smith party – you could tell by the booing and groaning. Even the Master of Ceremonies – the guy that plays Tim Walz on SNL – was really making haymakers with the dismay.
But here is the other thing that the Whitmer Eucharist has started in my little community – 2 things
1) We have a large Lebanese Maronite community here. With a monastery I guess. Most of these people have never voted before. I would say every one of them has registered and practicing early voting – I hear it from the election officials.
2) Even more dramatically – there are American Indian tribes and missions all around. They are very involved with the Catholic Church. I understand from the same sources that they too have never really bothered to vote before. Well, that is different this year – coming out of the wood work – and are resource heavy – because many of them do not have ID papers, etc. But they are registering and voting early – in huge numbers. Thousands.
I have not even gotten to the Latino issues yet.
I guess what I am saying is when the margin is going to be 0.2 % or so if the polls are correct – is this the kind of thing you want to have happening? What is the bet that there are American Indian Catholic communities in AZ and NV? How many conservative Catholics in MI WI and PA have never bothered to vote before but now will crawl over glass to do so when you have personally offended them?
And Trump and more importantly the Kamala video last night – brought it all up again.
Again, if you are a Dem campaign, would you want this self own to be happening? I would think not – but then what do I know? I am naive enough to remember when campaigns were always about building coalitions – not offending swaths of the electorate.
That Molly Shannon video—-wowsers, indeed.
Even before even touching upon the religion content—-how many layers of decision-making did “it will be a great idea if we use a 30 y.o. SNL meme” pass through before finally reaching Kamala?!?? (And of course, Kamala could’ve said—this idea is ridiculous)
What kind of bubble are the campaign managers in?
From the video –
Can someone explain to me how having smelly armpits, sniffing said smelly armpits 2-3 times, arms crossed over chest with hands in smelly armpits etc —- the very act of which is then stated to be possibly offensive and would make Kamala have to apologize to Catholics? Huh?
It must be one of those jokes that only 5% of the country understand. Anyone with a brain would know that the audience for the comedy would be limited at best. I still do not understand it.
Actually it’s traditional for the speakers to do a comedic roast. Here’s a 10-minute video of Trump’s roast. It’s pretty good actually, for a dictator!
https://youtu.be/zAZa_Ry3zwE
As i interpret your post it looks like Kamala is repeating a few of the mistakes made by Hillary before. Kind of making the Catholics feel like they are deplorable? Can you win elections alienating parts of the electorate?
“Let’s talk about another historically Dem group…”
The crude prejudice that is being expressed and fostered seems unthinkable in a society that honors Martin Luther King.
But fitting for one that honors a crude caricature of MLK.
Regarding China and Russia and the limits. This paragraph makes me think this is just BS
“The relationship still heavily favours Beijing. Russia accounts for only 4% of China’s trade, while China accounts for nearly 22% of Russia’s trade.
Many Chinese experts are now warning against an over-dependence on Russia”,
– 4% overdependence? What would 16,5% share of all US import coming from China be then?
instead calling for more cooperation with neighbouring countries. This echoes a recent concern Russia has been using its natural resources as a bargaining chip to extract greater benefits from China
– The Chinese are of course well-known for not using any haggling tactics but taking any offer at prima vista.
https://x.com/CDCFlu/status/1846314128576503879
(bold mine)
In Why has recent inflation been so unnerving? is he trolling?
If you’re living paycheck to paycheck, and groceries go up 14% and stay there, as food inflation does, you wouldn’t notice that? You wouldn’t notice your bank account getting closer to zero than usual by the end of the month?
Yeah, this is a troll post then. TDS.
The higher costs of rent and many forms of insurance over the past 4 years is impossible to ignore. Gas prices did spike mightily as well, before settling down at low levels. To hand wave that away is simply obstinance in blind support of the liberal Democrat party.
Plus, people have different baskets of goods that they buy. The poorer they are, the larger proportion of their purchases come from food and fuel. The usual core inflation measures systematically miss this.
I vividly remember a moment from my past, where the engine in my ‘99 econobox died, and all I could think was “Dammit, I just filled the tank.” A whole different set of problems at those levels.
Heartwarming article on how poor Kroger diligently visits other stores to keep prices down. I especially loved the old chestnut about how “Large grocery companies, which typically operate with razor-thin margins..”. I don’t think so. Long ago that was true. But no longer.
Think about it. Where did all the money for gobbling up lots of smaller chains come from? The stock buybacks? The dividends? The merger lawyers? Fighting labor? Adding store after store after store? It came from charging all of us more than the cost of delivering the goods and more than a ‘razor-thin margin’.
Grocers used to charge enough for operating expenses and a modest profit, and it was all kept in check by price wars. Now they charge enough to get large enough to become too big to fail. And the price checks on competitors are just to see how much greedflation they can get away with.
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is well worth a look. Best view is tonight in deepening twilight before (almost full) moonrise. Look SW at Venus then N 20 deg. Last night 10 deg long tail was easily visible from central Tucson and easily imaged with even a cellphone. It’s now 84 million km distant, moving & fading away.
The “Stellarium” phone app (free-mium) is great for very beginner skywatchers.
When the kids were small, we’d sit in the park/front lawn and use the app to find Venus, etc. So much fun and easy!
Trending on Twitter today is the Al Smith Dinner last night. I guess it depends on where you stand politically, it was either a big hit or a big bust. The comedian was funny, as was Trump, or just the opposite. Kamala was a no show, but sent in a video. She was booed. The video, according to some was great, others, not so much (me included). There is a clip of Trump and Chuck Schumer having a conversation at the table. Would love to see the lip reader who did Obama and Biden take a look at that clip as well.
Less than 20 days and my phone is going crazy with spam and robo-calls.
for anyone who’s curious: one of Trump’s zingers (ghostwriter, presumably):
“Chuck Schumer is looking so glum tonight. Don’t look so glum, Chuck
“If Kamala loses Chuck, your party is so woke you still have a shot at becoming the first woman president…”
Like it or not, the “progressive” folks in DC decided that for the Progressivism movement in America, identity politics is the proverbial hill to die on—not health care, not equitable taxation, not global interventionism.
the entire speech (63 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D5M7CKVMf0
On the joke you cited, what was striking to me was that immediately after the delivery Trump proceeds to disarm it:
“And I actually said do you mind if I do that. He [Schumer] said no, you got do what you got do. He’s a pro, he’s a professional. No, he’s a good man actually. I hate to say it. Don’t ever use it against me, please…”
I refuse to believe that even someone with full blown TDS can look at the interaction between the two of them last night and conclude that Chuck Schumer thinks Donald Trump is threat to democracy.
And if Schumer doesn’t actually think Trump is threat to democracy and it’s all “just part of the game” as Trump says later in the speech, then the Democrat party is doing itself (and the country) a catastrophic disservice by playing with/on the mental health of their constituents.
The speech & performance as a whole are worthy of a deeper dive, not just the jokes – which were vicious and biting (not bitter).
Here’s 10 minutes of just Trump
https://youtu.be/zAZa_Ry3zwE
“the Democrat party is doing itself (and the country) a catastrophic disservice by playing with/on the mental health of their constituents”
That’s hardly unique to Democrats, why, just the other day Trump said Haitians were eating pets. Do you think the Haitian-American community was put at ease by this? Haha, it was just for the lolz, no big deal waking up to find yourself mid-air as this season’s political football.
The bar is so low, Trump really could shoot someone, and many here would ask, “But were they a Democrat?”
@ssu: Odd that you didn’t question why Trump was so comfortable with the arrangement…
Holed up in Escalante Utah for a couple days thanks to a cold storm passing through, and I’ve seen more Trump/Vance signs in front of homes here, than I’ve seen altogether in my travels this election season.
Some years ago when I first entered Utah the slogan on the welcome sign had been spray paint altered from “Welcome to Utah, the right state” to “Welcome to Utah the rightwing state.” Edward Abbey used to poke fun at the Mormons but they are a tidy bunch. Unfortunately their somewhat anti Fed govt attitude is not entirely protective of our national properties. But it’s hard to tear down giant cliffs and mesas to put up condos, so only so much pillaging possible.
Here in Medford OR all the rental places that have man-lifts have put large cardboard cutout Trumps on them in their lots, set as hi as they go
“As Israeli Tanks Take Aim at Irish Peacekeepers, Weapons Fly Illegally Over Irish Territory”
There is going to have to be a reckoning of all those countries which have aided the Israeli genocide and not just the US or even the Irish here. I know that Oz is helping the IDF with their F-35s but no idea if we are shipping them weapons at all but I would not be surprised. So how many other countries are shipping Israel weapons and ammo? That I would really like to know.
There are numerous lists of who gives weapons to Israel and they are all somewhat different.
I don’t see Oz as a supplier.
But maybe there are ways around the lists: IE the US gives weapons to OZ which then gives them to Israel so there is a kinda of a back channel that shows rhe US gave less than it does.
Not much would surprise me.
Interesting and informative.
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/10/18/transcript-of-judging-freedom-edition-of-17-october/
Watch the dog fight between John Helmer and Gilbert Doctorow on The Duran. Doctorow gets bent out of shape about Helmer’s first monologue and for the rest of the show he keeps coming back to an accusation of “character assasination” on Helmer’s part. Interesting tete-a-tete with some good insights from both of them but the professional jealousy is evident.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV0FhnePgYk
I would call it professional frustration. Helmer spoke first and opened with a rebuttal, and scathing critique of Doctorow’s position before he was given a chance to make it. I got the impression the only reason John had heard of Russia is because Gilbert writes about it, lol.
“We’re not talking about Doctorow, we’re talking about Doctor Zero.” – John Helmer, opening remarks
couldn’t make it past the first ten minutes
I don’t disagree essentially, but Doctorow should have dropped it.
They both came off badly, imho.
Then again, I’m not a huge fan of either. Helmer’s essays are mostly unreadable and Doctorow thinks he’s the smartest kid in class, although i prefer the latter’s take on Putin
So, I guess the new font is a feature, not a bug?
It seems it is only for the Links postings of today, but not for other postings.
Pretty sure the font change was not intentional.
Looks like in the posting of today’s Antidote du jour, the class got changed to “code” which uses monospace font. This setting got propagated to the rest of following Links postings.
One stupid-wonkish note on Google Earth vs. KalibratedMaps for maps obsessed individuals like me. It seems Google is trying to make it difficult to visualize the maps produced by KalibratedMaps (here) in google earth. It is a recent thing. The maps open correctly with the google map viewer but if you now try to open it with Google Earth (the online version), which is an option in the map viewer menu, the G.E. map does not load entirely, you can see the zones as delineated by Kalibrated but you don’t get the earthly details, you cannot measure distances etc. This started to happen about one week ago. An alternative is to download the KML file, open G.E. online and then load the KML file. Sorry for this.
This is the real masterpiece, not the fakery of the hierarchies that dominate us.
An amateur took this. Very long exposures of months, means more detail.
We can see the explosions of past Novae. They are far more common and that is what they have been hiding.
https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2021/03/000-GrandeMosaic120DegreesLONG.jpg
A follow-up on the story of the Starmtroopers raiding Asa Winstanley (of Electronic Infitada)
Via his twitter:
“On Monday I watched horrified as a young, living man burned to death in a fire caused by Israeli bombing of tents for the displaced outside of a hospital in Deir al-Balah. Shaaban al-Dalou was only one of dozens of Palestinians massacred in Gaza that day, with barely a word spoken in British media outlets.
On Wednesday I watched from the backend of the
@intifada livestream as our regular guest @abubakerabedw— a football journalist just trying to survive — told us he had eaten only three meals all week. This is caused by Israel’s deliberate policy of starving Gaza. Viewers had already been commenting how thin he looked . He smiled and said “Alhamdillilah” — thank God for everything. He apologised for leaving us on the verge of tears and instructed @norabf and @AliAbunimah to smile.
On Thursday just before dawn, about 10 police barged into my home and seized all computers, phones and other similar devices I use for my journalism. They did not arrest me or charge me with a crime, but explained they were from Counter Terror Command (SO15).
I asked why they were doing this. The senior officer would say only “social media” postings I’d made. He refused to be any more specific.
I told them that this is the Holocaust of time and that in years to come they and their children will look back on their actions with regret.
Some of them looked ashamed.”