Can you think without words? Neuroscientist explains why language isn’t required for deep thinking ZME Science
‘De-Extinction’ Company Says It’s Very, Very Close to a Complete Tasmanian Tiger Genome Gizmodo
US startup charging couples to ‘screen embryos for IQ’ The Guardian
Climate/Environment
Scientists create plastic that degrades 15 times faster than paper in the sea Interesting Engineering
Biotech Breakthrough: Trees Engineered to Replace Fossil Fuels SciTech Daily
Could injecting diamond dust into the atmosphere help cool the planet? Phys.org
It’s Time To Give Up Hope For A Better Climate & Get Heroic Noema
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No place to stay. Helene deepens housing crisis in Western NC. Carolina Public Press
Water
Running dry – US Army base under fire for high water use in drought-stricken Arizona The New Lede
Pandemics
Bone density loss, osteoporosis lesser-known long-term impacts of Covid-19: AIIMS prof Deccan Herald
FOLLOW-UP: Alasdair Munro’s “Immunity Debt” Fantasy is Back Pandemic Accountability Index
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Avian flu is spreading through Central Valley dairies. Is human-to-human transmission likely? The Fresno Bee. Commentary:
We’ll likely see close to one thousand herds infected with H5N1 in California before this is over. https://t.co/S7ZwEdmTmF
— Roland Baker (@RolandBakerIII) October 15, 2024
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U.S. boosts passenger screening as Africa grapples with deadly Marburg and mpox outbreaks CBS News
Africa
Over half of African nations spend more on interest rates to creditors than public health: Report Down to Earth
Five Eyes on India
Canada’s Five Eyes partners back probe into Nijjar’s killing Hindustan Times
Air India serial bomb threats: Why is it significant amid Canada tensions? Al Jazeera
Japan
Ishiba to test Washington and Asia Warwick Powell’s Substack
China?
China is trying to revive its economy. Is it too little, too late? Channel News Asia
US investigates whether TSMC has really cut ties with Huawei Asia Times
JD.com chickens out to masculinist “boy”cotts The East is Read
Old Blighty
Why aren’t young people working? Funding the Future
Who governs Britain (in 2029)? Wrong Side of History
Who Are the Terrorists? Craig Murray
European Disunion
Norway, Germany put critical underwater infrastructure on NATO agenda The Barents Observer
Germany Honors Biden for His Contribution to Trans-Atlantic Ties as the U.S. Election Looms Time
Italy’s Albania migrant plan hits legal stumbling block Deutsche Welle
Syraqistan
Drone hits Netanyahu’s home as Hezbollah rockets target northern Israel Al Jazeera
Hezbollah Moves from Confusion to Control Lebanon’s Invasion. Elijah J. Magnier
Lebanese PM criticises Iran for ‘shameful interference’ over UN resolution BNE Intellinews
The Death of Shock and Awe is Greatly Exaggerated The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
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Israel says attack on Iran’s nuclear sites still on the table Iran International
America’s Most Dangerous Bomb May Have Just Seen its First Combat Use in Yemen: GBU-57 Built to Strike Deep Underground Military Watch
Iran Readies New Oil Outlet To Bypass the Strait of Hormuz OilPrice
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Resistance attack hits US occupation base at Syria’s Conoco oil field The Cradle
Why Sisi is shaking up Egypt’s security services Middle East Eye
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‘There is no day after’: What US, Israel want for Gaza after Sinwar’s death Al Jazeera
Sinwar’s killing looks set to boost Netanyahu, the Houdini of Israeli politics NBC News
335,500 Gaza Dead Ignored By Western Mainstream Media: Input To Special Rapporteur Report To Human Rights Council Countercurrents
Trump: Biden is Too Tough on Netanyahu The New Republic
The Madness They Suffer From Hauntologies by Elia Ayoub
New Not-So-Cold War
US expected to pay up to $20bn into G7 loan for Ukraine FT
Zelensky Once More Puts Allies Under Nuclear Shadow Simplicius the Thinker
N. Korea decides to send around 10,000 soldiers to support Russia in Ukraine war: Seoul Yonhap News Agency
Reports of N. Korea sending troops to Russia may prompt Yoon to reconsider its support for Ukraine: US expert The Korea Times. Commentary (1):
🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇵 BREAKING STUPIDITY: Ukraine shows a North Korean POW! The problem is he speaks Ukrainian, LMAO.
They explain it, that Koreans live close to the border with russia so they learn Russian, ok … sure but he speaks UKRAINIAN … LMAO
They took some student from Kiev or… pic.twitter.com/fL3V5GTLcn
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) October 18, 2024
(2):
Russia is using Iranian and Chinese weapons and North Korean troops to invade and destroy a European country. Meanwhile, Ukraine is expected to stand alone and even has artificial limitations put on its ability to defend itself by its allies. https://t.co/Ch47gjHeC9
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) October 18, 2024
(3):
An entire NYT article https://t.co/KMnUM4iySk based on the premise that North Korean troops are fighting in Ukraine. Not until the 15th paragraph does the reader learn there’s no evidence for this whatsoever. pic.twitter.com/hkDxXB2nkO
— Left I on the News 🇨🇺🏳️⚧️ (@leftiblog) October 16, 2024
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Azov Lobby Goes to Brussels Bandera Lobby Blog
The Caribbean
US-backed, Kenya-manned police mission in Haiti is struggling Responsible Statecraft
Complete power outage hits Cuba RT
Terrorist Attack on National Electrical Grid Disrupts 25% of Venezuela’s Power Supply Orinoco Tribune
Biden Administration
Lina Khan vs Planet Fitness BIG by Matt Stoller
2024
🚨 NEW: Nearly 100 current and former Labour Party staff are going to battleground states in the US election to campaign for Kamala Harris, with the party offering to ‘sort your housing’ pic.twitter.com/12EBTkuNL5
— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) October 17, 2024
Democrats en Déshabillé
Endangered Democrats brag about Trump ties in final stretch Axios
The Political Transformation of Corporate America, 2001-2022 Columbia Law and Economics. Confuses Left with Democrats and assumes it’s corporate America shifting allegiances rather than the Democrats who have shifted, but interesting for the data if not the analysis. Same with this commentary:
The recent political polarisation of Silicon Valley is really striking.
25 years ago most big tech and VC execs were moderates. Then the whole sector shifted gradually leftwards up until 2020, and now suddenly we have a sharp divide into Democrat-backers and Trump backers. pic.twitter.com/WdG3VJYaGt
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) October 18, 2024
The Supremes
Supreme Court hints at sweeping ruling that could gut the Clean Water Act 48 Hills
Abortion
UNDELIVERED: Drug-Sniffing Police Dogs Are Intercepting Abortion Pills in the Mail The Intercept
Our Famously Free Press
UK police raid home, seize devices of EI’s Asa Winstanley Electronic Intifada
Imperial Collapse Watch
Can We Fix American Diplomacy? Inkstick
AI
AI can help humans find common ground in democratic deliberation Science. Authors are from Google DeepMind.
The Pentagon Wants to Use AI to Create Deepfake Internet Users The Intercept
Bye bye, reality. Archedelia
The Bezzle
Tesla Makes ‘Autonomous’ Robot Look Cooler With Sped-Up Video Gizmodo
Class Warfare
The Lucas Plan: When workers showed what could be done with technology Counterfire
Antidote du jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
BABY SHREDDER
(melody borrowed from Peg by Steely Dan)
(On Friday, 10/18, Judge Napolitano showed a brief clip of an unidentified man approaching American and Israeli sales reps at an arms convention in Washington DC, and asking them if they knew where he could find a Baby Shredder. “Do you guys sell Baby Shredding technology? Who has it around here?” The reps were not amused, and booted him out of the place. But here’s the thing—these guys actually DO sell all the weapons that shreds babies in Palestine and Lebanon every day and night, and for good profits, too. Hmmmm . . . if Baby Shredders existed, would the IDF use them? Oh, Hell yes!)
It’s in our Scripture
Our ancestors have done it
They all smashed babies, too
It’s what we get to do
We’re gonna raise such a clamor
Our drone is right above it!
(Beg!)
It’s David’s slingshot—
Our brand new Baby Shredder!
We’ve made great progress through
Sniping at children, too
Revenge for our Diaspora—
Our brand new Baby Shredder!
Beg and we will laugh at you!
Beg and we will laugh at you!
Gaza protocols (protocols)
And now you’re bleeding (bleeding)
Call for help when you get woozy!
(musical interlude)
It’s now a fixture
Our brand new Baby Shredder!
It takes a three man crew
The mess gets all on you
You’ll need a while with the drama
Our brand new Baby Shredder!
Beg and we will laugh at you!
Beg and we will laugh at you!
Babies are so small (all so small)
They fuss while weeping (they’re so choosy)
And we turn ’em into sushi!
Beg and we will laugh at you!
Beg and we will laugh at you!
Don’t give in to schmalz (in to schmalz)
This work is ballsy (it’s so ballsy)
It’s like makin’ Arab smoothies!
Beg and we will laugh at you!
Beg and we will laugh at you!
And when Bibi calls (when Bibi calls)
If he gets greedy (he’s so moody)
You can tell him we’ve been looting!
Beg and we will laugh at you!
Beg and we will laugh at you!
They’re Neanderthals (Neanderthals)
They don’t need feeding (starving’s groovy)
Baby Shredders running smoothly!
“Israel says attack on Iran’s nuclear sites still on the table”
Iran says that’s cool. That they were about to release a statement saying that an attack on the Negev Nuclear Research Center is also on the table. That video of twenty or thirty ballistic missiles slamming into that Israeli air base? Imaging that that was the Negev Nuclear Research Center. Iran says do not choose poorly.
Is it just me, or does Obama look emaciated recently?
Pics?
He’s probably being eaten from the inside by the aliens that live there.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/10/19/can-barack-michelle-obama-save-kamala-harris-experts/
It’s not just you.
Steve Jobs came to mind… before the end.
Accelerated after his chef drowning?
Missing that home cooking?
Or maybe the vanity is catching up and the gray hair is not a good look.
Too many pols hang around long after their sell-by dates.
He’s 63 and smokes. Also, unlike so many other politicians, he doesn’t look strung out on botox.
> Can you think without words?
This article addresses a fascinating topic but it completely ignores maybe the best real-world example: human infants. Before they even begin to acquire language there is undeniably something going on in their heads but what? how?
I have a novel by Robert Heinlein and in it he has a main character say something interesting. I have never forgotten it and many years ago typed it out-
‘Man lives in a world of ideas. Any phenomenon is so complex that he cannot possibly grasp the whole of it. He abstracts certain characteristics of a given phenomenon as an idea, then represents that idea as a symbol, be it a word or a mathematical sign. Human reaction is almost entirely reaction to symbols, and only negligibly to phenomena. As a matter of fact, it can be demonstrated that the human mind can think only in terms of symbols.
When we think, we let symbols operate on other symbols in certain, set fashions—rules of logic, or rules of mathematics. If the symbols have been abstracted so that they are structurally similar to the phenomena they stand for, and if the symbol operations are similar in structure and order to the operations of phenomena in the real world, we think sanely. If our logic-mathematics, or our word-symbols, have been poorly chosen, we do not think sanely.’
You’ll note that language can also be a representation of ideas and would explain how human infants, which you so neatly pointed out, cannot yet use language.
RK: Do you remember the title of that novel? (I have several buts it’s been years since I read Heinlein)
And, of course there are non-verbal thoughts, tho there may be adhoc symbols involved. I, too, agree w RG: Induction is a form of thought (I’d say) and infants use it to learn language. Then there are animals…
@ hardscrabble
It was his 1940 short story “Blowups Happen” so it would be bundled up with other stories in one of his books.
Forgot a link-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowups_Happen
I read something once about this concept that prompted me to think without words. It was:
“think about taking apart a bicycle”
and since I’ve done that a few dozen times, it hit me that no words were really needed unless I was just going to talk to myself while doing it.
You’re absolutely right, the authors should have considered human infants’ process of language acquisition. Child development researchers, both psychoanalytically-oriented and not, have long argued that before being able to use symbols to communicate about their experience infants establish representations of behavioral sequences. For example, a baby that wants to be fed builds up an understanding of what should follow their squawky expression of discontent.
This much seems obvious. The interesting questions hinge on how much these systems of behavioral representation persist in relation to a picture of the child in the world that is framed in language. For example, one of the weaknesses, in the view of many, of Lacan’s heavy emphasis on language – “the unconscious is structured like a language” — was that he ignored these behaviorally framed memories, believing that they were subsumed by a language framework. That simply didn’t correspond to experience, both clinical and in everyday life, in which people react to vaguely defined aspects of situations, e.g. the way a room is set up, body postures, etc.
Of course one can think without words. As I’ve opined here before, even rocks can “think”: cleave a lump of magnetite. Does the rock not sense a a change in its magnetic field? Is that not thought?
The interesting questions all concern the interactions of thought and language. These can be observed behaviorally or modeled analytically, although the latter requires commensurate models of both thought and language.
We should all keep our attention on the evil Zionist ethnic cleansing going on now. I know there is a lot of other stuff happening but…:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/10/19/ywfa-o19.html
Truly evil depravity happening here. With an organised political agenda!
Dear oh dear.
This seems to have been posted in the wrong thread. Apologies.
Seems to happen a bit here.
Re: US startup charging couples to ‘screen embryos for IQ’
One word: Gattaca.
Adding: aside from Ernest Borgnine appearing as a NASA janitor, the most obvious touch of perverse humor in that film is casting Ethan Hawke as the “generic reject” sibling.
A must see film that. Good on every level. In that film Ernest Borgnine played a character named Caesar who was the head janitor. I wondered if the implication was that you might have a person born into that world with the talents of the original Julius Caesar but if they did not have the right “genes”, then they were all out of luck.
Re: AI can help humans find common ground in democratic deliberation
JFC these Google bots are naïve.
“Drone hits Netanyahu’s home as Hezbollah rockets target northern Israel”
‘Of course, there is no way to verify that or to say for sure that this was an assassination attempt, but that’s how gravely the Israeli security establishment is viewing this incident’
This must be the same drone that an IDF AH-64 Apache attack helicopter was chasing over Caesarea. But it wasn’t an assassination attempt. It was a message. That even if the war ends he will never know if there will be a drone coming for him in his own home. He will never be safe again – ever.
Keep It Up!!
The triumphant celebrations by Bibi and Biden over Sinwar’s death are likely to prove embarrassingly premature ejaculations. Biden obviously does not know his Irish history, or else he would recall with dread the famous oration by Patrick Pearse at the funeral of O’Donovan Rossa, the Fenian leader who sparked Irish independence, and whose career parallels Sinwar’s in so many ways:
“Life springs from death: and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations. The Defenders of this Realm have worked in secret and in the open. They think that they have pacified Ireland. They think that they have purchased half of us and intimidated the other half. They think that they have foreseen everything, think that they have provided against everything; but the fools, the fools, the fools! — they have left us our Fenian dead, and, while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.”
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Speech_at_the_Grave_of_O%E2%80%99Donovan_Rossa
I found all the celebrations by western leaders very unseemly if not crass including our own here in Oz. Say what you will about the guy, even when wounded by the explosion of a tank shell, he went down fighting for his cause, giving ‘his last full measure of devotion.’
Caitlin Johnstone’s latest.
What’s Happening In Northern Gaza Proves Israel Lied About Everything
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/10/19/whats-happening-in-northern-gaza-proves-israel-lied-about-everything/
That is a most excellent cat photo featured today. He’s a little wet, but so handsome! Our cats like to play in a trickle of water from the tub tap as well.
>Israel says attack on Iran’s nuclear sites still on the table
I find it difficult to understand Netanyahu’s confidence, even with US involvement, fighting a war against Iran. There are two fundamental facts: Israel is a small country and Iran has demonstrated it can penetrate Israel’s air defense system.
If we consider the basics like, water, electricity, fuel, transportation, food, and security, then the question becomes how many targets does Iran need to destroy in order to turn Israel into a miserable country to live in? Imo, for reasons below, it would be roughly 20 targets which is remarkable considering Iran has thousands of drones and missiles.
Though Israel has access to water via groundwater pumping, it also relies on 5 desalination plants: Hadera, Sorek, Ashdod, Ashkelon, and Palmachim.
Natural gas from Israel’s own offshore gas fields is used to produce its electricity. The main electrical power stations in Israel are: Dalia, Reading, Eshkol, Dorad, and Mishor Power Stations.
According to OEC World, Israel imports Crude Petroleum primarily from: Azerbaijan ($1.67B), Brazil ($1.07B), Kazakhstan ($777M), and Nigeria ($213M). Israel refines the crude oil for its transportation sector and military. And according to Investigate, “Valero (Energy Corp) is the main supplier of military-grade jet fuel (JP-8) to the Israeli military. Between 2020-2024, the company has sent every other month a JP-8 tanker from its Bill Greehey refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas, to Israel.” https://investigate.info/company/valero-energy#:~:text=Valero is the main supplier,Christi, Texas, to Israel.
Israel has 6 ports: Haifa, Ashdod, Eilat, Tel Aviv, Hadera, and Ashkelon. It’s my understanding only Haifa and Ashdod have oil terminals. The others are small and Eilat is currently inactive.
I’m not a military expert but of the potential targets listed above: Israel’s desalination plants, electricity power stations, oil refineries, off shore gas platforms, and ports, amount to less than 20 targets. Of course, military bases and airfields are targets, but if the Haifa and Ashdod oil terminals, as well as the refineries are destroyed, fuel for military vehicles will not be available.
Iran has thousands of missiles and drones and it seems to me the destruction of two dozen important targets will be catastrophic and would be enough to make the country a miserable place to live; daily activities like hospitals and schools are difficult without water and electricity.
Thus, I don’t know what the Israeli government is counting on to defeat Iran and walk away unscathed.
Israel is an ethnostate. That explains it. The Baltic states are a good comparison. Those nutters think that now the French and Germans have let them into the “white” club they will do what Addie from Germany couldn’t do.
Math is put aside for faith.
Thus, I don’t know what the Israeli government is counting on to defeat Iran and walk away unscathed.
The US.
Oh, and God, I guess, jews being the Chosen People. There’s an eschatological element to all this.
They’re mistaken in both cases — in the case of the US’s military capabilities, stupidly so, as besides the evidence of its stark failures in Afghanistan and Yemen, any consideration of the real world evidence indicates the year is 2024 and not 1990-91 (Gulf One) nor even 2003 (Gulf Two, the Iraq incursion), and US military kit is now inferior, except in the realms of global satellite oversight and nuclear submarine technology, to, forex, Russian kit, especially Russian missiles, EW, and air defense technologyy. Which the Russians, to greater or lesser extent, have been flying into Iran for the last few months.
This is besides all the other points you rightly make. It’s going to be interesting.
Yahweh. They are counting on Yahweh to make an appearance.
Iran can’t fight the guy who created this planet.
On the other hand, Iran’s very constitution mentions Him in the first sentence, while Israel doesn’t actually have constitution – because they never could agree on one.
While I’m not a Christian myself, I doubt any righteous God would find Israel’s actions pleasing and make His face shine upon them.
If I was Iran, my answer would be to send the coordinates of three of Israel’s nuclear sites and any video they have of the largest bunker destroying hits they have had on Israeli to both Israel and the US, and remind them that attacking the wrong country is guaranteed mutually assured destruction. In Israel’s case within twenty minutes of any such attack on Iran. Chernobyl South beach front properties, agricultural products, and tourist destinations just will not sell well.
How can the Axios story about Bob Casey and Tammy Baldwin and Jon Tester and Sherrod Brown (PA, WI, MT, OH) making nice about Donald Trump mean anything other than the accurate polls these pols depend on for life show the Harris/Walz ticket is circling the drain and that by Halloween it may be out of sight? Asking for a friend.
Either I’ve completely lost it, or the news has just gotten too damned bad. I used to spend an hour, minimum, on NC daily Links. This morning, I didn’t click on a single one.
>>>>US startup charging couples to ‘screen embryos for IQ’ The Guardian
layman’s opinion, as a fan of historical smart people, my opinion is that once you get to true genius levels (99.99+% percentile), those genes start correlating with behavior of what Normies would call autism or spectral disorders.
then throw in the environmental (see Montessori), diet, and womb-epigenetic aspects….that may affect final IQ.
just selecting for intelligence genes may turn out like having a car with a 900-horsepower engine, but fragile transmission and balding tires.
I wonder if all of those biologists are parents….parenting gives you insights into genetics, lol. seriously.
“Hezbollah Moves from Confusion to Control Lebanon’s Invasion”
Hezbollah’s Operations Room released a statement on 18th saying that they were facing 5 divisions of Israeli soldiers with more than 70,000 troops and hundreds of military vehicles but in the past week alone they have killed 10 soldiers and wounded 150 more. In addition, they have destroyed 9 Merkava main battle tanks and 4 military bulldozers. I find that believable and not the Israeli statement today that they have killed over 2,000 Hezbollah soldiers. Scott Ritter has said that Hezbollah has had nearly 20 years to walk all over that territory to identify ambush sites, fallback positions and has zeroed in mortars and the like on any place that the IDF might seek shelter.
That’s absurd. The prevalence of autism is like 3% max
“Roughly half of the 38 per cent of young people between the ages of 16 and 24 who aren’t working – I stress that – 38 per cent not working – roughly half of those aren’t working because they have autism or some condition related to it.”
Listening to the kids while at work, I am constantly amazed how many of them say they are on this or that prescription mood altering medications and if they should tweek the dosage or try something else and constantly referring to there psychologists doctors telli-consultations or whatever they’re called. (Talking openly about such stuff is cool and acceptable you will hear them say). It’s like the entire young generation is emotionally malady afflicted. No such thing as good hardy human stock anymore that is ridiculously healthy until at least their 30’s, I suppose. I suspect drug profits are a big part of this but it a world I know nothing of but what hear come out kids mouths. It’s alarming depressing and mystifying to me all at once.
RE: Dairy herds and H5N1 Virus.
I know more than I really want to know about mega-dairy farms, because my husband’s cousins, on both sides, are multi-generational dairy famers, one in north-western Pennsylvania and one in coastal southern Washington. The latter has recently given up and sold out, because, with a couple of hundred milkers, they just could not complete with the 1,000+ herds that have taken over the industry. The cousin in Pennsylvania soldiers on.
A couple of years ago, we visited a newly ‘mechanized’ dairy farm just up the road in our corner of New York State. This, we were proudly told, was the ‘future of dairy farming.’ The cows are lodged, from birth, in an enormous shed; no grazing in grassy pastures. They are milked, on demand, by robotic machines, that identify each cow by the markers implanted in them.
The their bedding and manure (and liquids) are shoveled out into a central concrete passageway, where it is swept by robots, into a channel, from which it is piped to a composting/fermenting/heating facility. The odor is palpable; fresh manure is perfume, compared to this smell, which clogs airways and becomes embedded in clothing. When the manure/bedding/straw mixture is heated and dried into a rough mix, it is piped back into the cow shed, where it is re-used for bedding.
So, you have 1,000, 5,000, or up to 15,000 cows, all in close confinement for their entire lives after they leave the calf barn, breathing on each other and excreting into their bedding. Then the bedding and excrement is ‘recycled’ and the cows live in the mixture of straw and their own excrement. What could go wrong?
That’s an important Craig Murray on why “the state” cannot be trusted as an arbiter of truth. He talks about how Mandela was declared by Thatcher to be a terrorist and how all of her bureaucratic underlings had to toe the line. Cut to now and here’s Murray’s summer upper
“Panicked Zionist ‘elites’ who run western states are lashing out in fear at their opponents. As their popular support evaporates in the face of clear evidence of appalling Israeli atrocities, they are resorting to the methods of fascism.”
One suspects that should Thatcher’s ghost reappear and endorse Kamala she would be “honored.” And Harris supporter Meryl Streep even portrayed Thatcher in a not unsympathetic movie version. For many of our so called thought leaders toeing the line is what it is all about. And when it comes to the public at large, who have ideas of their own, they hate us for our freedom.
Kirn says he has been traveling with Vance who draws good crowds with a talk that puts heavy emphasis on the importance of free speech. “Freedom” was once a staple of American politics regardless of whether sincerity accompanied it. Now the elites would have us believe all those people came here to become rich. And they did. But they also came here to be free.
And those sheds are well ventilated, so when the Shit Hits The Fan . . .
Craig Murray was saying how those working for the government had to toe the line and this was in the 80s. I see now that the media have to toe the line and not disagree with the government as well. Here in Oz our government lists Hezbollah as a terrorist organization because the US and Israeli told us to do so. You can be arrested for carrying their flag in public. The result? On the TV news whenever they mention Hezbollah they automatically say the line how ‘many nations, including Australia, regard it as a terrorist organization’. Every. Single. Damn. Time. And as Hezbollah is on the news every night, this is said like some sort of religious rite every single night as well.
Having a swell time in Utah, really stunning sights and things to do-
When I was growing up, perhaps my biggest fear was quicksand, which played prominently in my nightmares, as it was everywhere according to tv shows & movies, typically the leading cause of death as far as bad guys went, yet I’d never come across any by the time I was all growed up.
I’m pleased to say that although I’ve yet to see any, the trailhead sign on the Buckskin Gulch trail informed me that yes indeedy there was quicksand occasionally, with the silver lining being that you’d only sink to your waist, no biggie.
I’m having difficulty conveying how much disdain I have for Gary Kasporov and other Russian “liberals” like him. He’s calling for the killing of his own people.
“(5th LD) N. Korea decides to send around 10,000 soldiers to support Russia in Ukraine war: Seoul”
Yep, this is totally true as it is coming from the South Koreans. And when those 10,000 North Koreans hit the lines, they will have an Iranian division on their left flank and a Chinese Division on their right with a Syrian Division behind them acting as a reserve. Yessiree, totally true and you can take that to the bank.
As a guess as to what is going on, I would think that there are North Korean troops in far eastern Russia but they are there for training. The North Koreans have not fought a war in 70 years so perhaps there was a deal made where in exchange for military goods, that the Russians would train them up in modern warfare in case they are called to arms. Now that would be a worry for South Korea.