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The fierce battle over the ‘Holy Grail’ of shipwrecks BBC (Kevin W)

‘Sensational breakthrough’ marks step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers AAAS (Dr. Kevin)

Measures to prevent golf cart–related injuries are urgently needed CMAJ (Dr. Kevin)

CDC conducting extensive probe into bird flu contracted by Missouri resident Kansas Reflector (Robin K)

#COVID-19

Australia detects the first case of the highly transmissible COVID-19 strain dubbed XEC ABC Australia (Kevin W)

Climate/Environment

Innovative method targets removal of PFAS from wastewater PhysOrg (Chuck L)

New Coral Discovery May Solve the Ocean’s “Missing Plastic” Mystery| SciTech Daily (Chuck L)

Making waves: Boxwall Flood Barrier leaves sandbags high and dry Thaiger (furzy)

China?

Chinese hackers access US telecom firms, worrying national security officials CNN

Asian NATO’ calls, Taiwan moves: should Beijing worry as Japan’s Ishiba gets going? South China Morning Post

China’s Options for Retaliation in Highly Charged Dispute With EU Over EVs Sputnik (Kevin W)

Breast cancer in China Lancet (furzy)

South of the Border

The mayor of a state capital in Mexico is killed less than 1 week after he took office Associated Press. Robin K: “Sheinbaum will have a rough six years, even with huge popular support.”

Africa

Chagos islanders displaced for a US military base protest a deal on their future made without them Associated Press (Robin K)

European Disunion

EU needs faster migrant returns, say 17 countries including Germany, France Politico

German government’s 2025 cultural budget: An attack on the freedom of art WSWS (Micael T)

The S-top takes out a government income guarantee – despite a fat ambassador’s salary Aftonbladet via machine translation (Micael T)

Old Blighty

Who is Morgan McSweeney? The Labour election guru replacing Sue Gray as chief of staff Independent (Kevin W)

Israel v. The Axis of Resistance. FWIW, I told Lambert a few days ago that I did not believe Israel would attack until after Yom Kippur, which starts Oct 11. Everyone is supposed to be in shul then. It would be an own goal to give Iran the opportunity to launch a counter-strike then.

Israel’s Genocide Day 367: Israel orders new evacuations in Gaza, expands bombing on Lebanon Mondoweiss (guurst)

Israel sends thousands more troops into Lebanon Financial Times. Note that the “into” may be a stretch. Alastair Crooke claimed on Judge Napolitano on Monday that not on is Israel making what amount to short border incursions that it cannot make stick, but it is also improving appearances by focusing on getting to hamlets known not to be unfriendly to Israel (perhaps Christian dominated?) taking pix, and departing. Note headline on the archived version is outdated; perhaps readers can send a fresh version later.

Over 100 rockets fired at Haifa in heaviest attack on city since start of war Times of Israel

Israel strikes military sites in central Syria, killing 5 Xinhua

‘Death sentence’: Asbestos released by Israel’s bombs will kill generations Aljazeera

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Scott Ritter : The Middle East One year after October 7th 2023. Judge Napolitano, YouTube. Many important tidbits, such as why the seismic event in Iran was highly unlikely to be a nuclear test. Ritter also describes how Israel will need to re-do any strike plans in light of possible addition of S-400s to Iran’s defenses. Ritter thinks Israel has to find a way to de-escalate with Iran because it knows doing so would result in the destruction of Israel. But Norman Finkelstein has described Israel as a crazy country and Alastair Crooke, along with others, has said how many Israelis see the country as on an eschatological path. So assuming rationality may be way too generous.

A look at Gaza City before and after October 7, 2023 Associated Press (Robin K)

A year of horror, 76 years of oppression: a visual guide to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Thomas Fazi (Micael T)

How Netanyahu stole defeat from the jaws of victory Middle East Eye (guurst)

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Blinken Approved Policy to Bomb Aid Trucks, Israeli Cabinet Members Suggest Drop Site (Chuck L)

Israel reveals its military losses RT (Kevin W). Have yet to see commentary as to whether this is seen as an undercount

Irish troops ‘determined to fulfil mission’ in Lebanon as Israel invasion continues Irish Times

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Perfidy in Tehran Alastair Crooke. Aurelien gets a shout out!

General Qassem Soleimani wins: Israel falls into the trap of the Axis of Resistance Lucas Leiroz (Chuck L)

Legal Experts Criticize Biden for Praising Israel’s Extrajudicial Killing of Hassan Nasrallah Orinoco Tribune (Robin K)

Exposing The IDF’s Insane Level Of Incompetence | Greg Stoker, TMR YouTube. Makes Scott Ritter’s assessments look charitable.

What an Escalating Middle East Conflict Could Mean for the Global Economy New York Times

Year of war creates cracks in Israel’s borrowing strength Reuters

New Not-So-Cold War

What if Russia blocks the export of its raw materials? DW

Exclusive: Russia’s Lavrov Warns of ‘Dangerous Consequences’ for US in Ukraine Newsweek. I plan to post on this.

Over 1,000 people evacuated after Ukraine’s drone attack set ablaze Russian fuel storage in Crimea Anadolu Agency

Ukrainian official filmed lying on bed of money RT. Robin K: “Probably readying it to send to North Carolina where the US doubtless originally intended it to go.” Moi: “If this is not a deepfake, someone has really awful judgement or alternatively, everyone in Ukraine of any importance is in on the stealing, so this sort of thing does not register there as provocative.”

Why Europe’s leadership wants war Al Jazeera (Kevin W)

Syraqistan

Pakistan: Imran Khan’s supporters clash with police as army seals off capital, internet cut Economic Times

The Chinese Embassy in Pakistan has said at least two of its citizens were killed and a third injured after their convoy was attacked near Karachi airport. Aljazeera

Big Brother is Watching You Watch

Former UK PM suggests Netanyahu planted listening device in his bathroom The Cradle (Chuck L)

American Water, the largest water utility in US, is targeted by a cyberattack ABC (Kevin W)

Imperial Collapse Watch

Future of US airpower in turbulent disarray Asia Times (Kevin W)

Kamala

2024

The Most Important US Presidential Election of Our Lifetime: The Rightward Trajectory of the Two-Party System Orinoco Tribune

NC tweaks voting rules in counties ravaged by Helene Axios (Kevin W)

Hurricane Milton is a Category 5. Florida orders evacuations and scrambles to clear Helene’s debris Associated Press (Kevin W)

Immigration

U.S. approving citizenship applications at the fastest speed in years Los Angeles Times. Robin K: “‘Immigration officials said the timing is not driven by the election or any political agenda.'”

Abortion

The Supreme Court has let stand a lower court decision barring emergency abortions in Texas. New Republic (furzy)

Our No Longer Free Press

Meta Is Aggressively Censoring Criticism Of US-Israeli Warmongering Caitlin Johnstone (furzy)

The Censorship Industrial Complex Is US Government Counterpopulist Blowback Michael Shellenberger (Robin K). Interview with Mike Benz

Mr. Market is Giddy

The S&P 500 is almost never this expensive. It’s a disaster waiting to happen. MarketWatch (ma)

Global markets surge as $8 trillion rally faces key tests WION

The stagnation of the world economy MROnline

Antitrust

Monopoly Round-Up: The Fed Took $3k From You and Gave it to Jamie Dimon Matt Stoller. Note that the practice of having the Fed pay interest on bank reserves as a way to manage interest rates is new, a post GFC gimmie. Before, the Fed used open market operations, which did not enrich banks.

Guillotine Watch

I Worked for Democrats for Years. Billionaires Have Unfettered Influence Newsweek (Li)

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One more bonus (Chuck L):

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  1. Antifa

    KAMALA
    (melody borrowed from My Sharona  by the Knack)

    How we gonna get it done, get it done?
    Gotta sell the voters on my persona!
    We could sell ’em anyone, uh anyone
    If I lose I’ll be back in Pomona

    Biden did a swap, he dried up, now he’s been confined
    So now I’m stepping up, pretty much, but I’m flying blind
    My my my I I—(Wooh!)
    Muh muh muh my persona!

    We know I’m a poser—I’m underdone
    I’ve got people fixing up my persona!
    I say words that I can see, I can see
    Words to paint a picture of my persona!

    Biden did a swap, he dried up, now he’s been confined
    So now I’m stepping up, pretty much, but I’m flying blind
    My my my I I—(Wooh!)
    Muh muh muh my persona!
    Muh muh muh my persona!

    (musical interlude)

    Gravitas and dignity—instantly
    Things they say will flatter muh my persona!
    All these things are dense to me, dense to me
    People find me lame without my persona!

    Biden did a swap, he dried up, now he’s been confined
    So now I’m stepping up, pretty much, but I’m flying blind
    My my my I I—(Wooh!)
    Muh muh muh muh muh muh my my my I I—(Wooh!)

    Muh muh muh my persona!
    Muh muh muh my persona!
    Muh muh muh my persona!
    Muh muh muh my persona!

    (guitar and a glass or two of Chablis . . .)

    Ooooaaahhhhh my persona!
    Ooooaaahhhhh my persona!
    Ooooaaahhhhh my persona!

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  2. The Rev Kev

    “Exclusive: Russia’s Lavrov Warns of ‘Dangerous Consequences’ for US in Ukraine”

    ‘The United States will face “dangerous consequences” if it presses on with growing military aid to Ukraine rather than backing a proposed Russian settlement that would see Moscow take over swathes of territory’

    Hard to parse this article. Between shipping arms and ammo to the Ukraine and Israel, the US cannot have that many arms left to ship. The idea of the US shooting missiles directly at Russia from the Ukraine seems to have faded away too. And I doubt that the US will send troops direct into the Ukraine like they did in Syria when they were losing there as that would have zero appeal, especially with the election just round the corner. So perhaps this is part of a Russian campaign to tell the Biden White House to wake up and smell the coffee as reality is about to be a calling.

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    1. Randall Flagg

      >So perhaps this is part of a Russian campaign to tell the Biden White House to wake up and smell the coffee as reality is about to be a calling.

      A ridiculous thought but I can amusingly imagine the Russians presenting the reality in Ukraine as bluntly as this, adding to the last words of Clint Eastwood’s character in the final scene in the movie ,Unforgiven. , ” . This SMO is over. No more support of Ukraine. No more support of the Nazis. No acceptance of Ukraine into NATO. Leave us alone. Or I’ll come back and kill everyone of you sonsabitches”

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv_cBlJHW98

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    2. ilsm

      US’ “ammunition pantry” is very big! It is established to supply 2.5 wars at the same time, stock is spread around the world, some prepositioned, some in US for shipment.

      The numbers of stocked are classified, but I suspect the Biden draw of ammunition has not put a small hole in the “half war” set of stocks.

      Expensive items like PAC 3/AIM 120 (ground launch) intercept missiles may be an issue with Israel needing them as well.

      The problem with US/EU military supplies to Ukraine is they do not fit the prospects for success nor match the depleted order of battle of the Ukraine armed force.

      Besides US is agreement incompetent.

      Lavrov may be saying get over your perfidy!

      Pray for peace.

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      1. The Rev Kev

        They use to plan and prepare for 2.5 wars at the same time but I was reading years ago that they gave that idea up. Don’t know what it is right now so maybe one war and a police action or something. That would imply that the reserved ammo supply was run down accordingly.

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  3. Mikerw0

    Re: The Stock Market is Expensive.

    I always find it interesting that a significant portion of elite measure the health of society, the economy and basically everything by the performance of the market. So how can the elites let it fall.

    But, as we know there have been massive structural changes over the last couple of decades. These include the rise of index funds and ETFs, and the massive growth in PE. The result is a reinforcing loop. As there are fewer stock to buy, as PE takes companies public at ever higher valuations, and money continues to flow into the system, at a minimum via mechanisms such as 401k’s, it has to buy something. Prices get bid up — inflated.

    Now add the likelihood that the Fed will reduce interest rates, effectively increasing demand for limited supply.

    What could go wrong?

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    1. NotThePilot

      I think you’re exactly right that it’s ultimately a story of structural changes encouraging inflows & bid-side pressure. The plumbing has been controlling the system instead of the system controlling the plumbing. I’m not sure the Fed can directly juice things much more even if they turn on the taps though (the feedback loop of negative consequences is too immediate now).

      Behind it all, the gravitational force of long-term fundamentals still strikes me as very negative. The only real fundamental argument for these valuations I can see is monopolistic pricing power, which Veblen pointed out is directly correlated to things like Tobin’s Q. Even then though, you have to believe that pricing power is sustainable to justify current valuations. Between foreign competition and domestic politics though, I just don’t see it.

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  4. Wukchumni

    Blinken Approved Policy to Bomb Aid Trucks, Israeli Cabinet Members Suggest Drop Site
    ~~~~~~~~~~~

    Then: Live Aid

    Now: Dead Aid

    There comes a time
    When we heed a certain call
    When the world must come together as one
    There are people dying
    Oh, and it’s time to lend a hand to the Zionists
    The chosen people of all

    We can’t go on
    Pretending day-by-day
    That someone, somewhere soon make a change
    We’re all a part of the MIC great big family
    And the truth, you know, lock & load is all we need

    We arm the world
    We harm the children
    We are the ones who do what AIPAC says, so let’s start giving
    There’s a choice we’re making
    We’re saving our own lives
    It’s true we’ll make a better day, just you and me

    Oh, send them your bunker busters
    So they know that someone cares
    And their lives will be stronger and free
    As Israel has shown us by turning cities to rubble
    And so America must lend a helping hand

    We arm the world
    We harm the children
    We are the ones who do what AIPAC says, so let’s start giving
    There’s a choice we’re making
    We’re saving our own lives
    It’s true we’ll make a better day, just you and me

    When you’re down and out, there seems no hope at all
    But if you just believe there’s no way we can fall
    Well, well, well, well let us realize
    Oh, that a change can only come
    When we stand together as one with Israel, yeah, yeah, yeah

    We arm the world
    We harm the children
    We are the ones who do what AIPAC says, so let’s start giving
    There’s a choice we’re making
    We’re saving our own lives
    It’s true we’ll make a better day, just you and me

    We Are The World USA for Africa

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AjkUyX0rVw

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    1. ChrisFromGA

      Well done … captures the current spirit of utter obliviousness to suffering and death on a scale not seen since WWII. Not to mention, Perfidious Blinken and his pack of neocon ghouls.

      USA! USA! USA!

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    2. Steve H.

      The post Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson: Middle East Exploding, Ukraine Crumbling! The US Take Action? from a couple days ago was clarifying:

      > in order to have an army that’s willing to fight to the last member of its country – the last Afghan, the last Israeli, the last Ukrainian – you really need a country whose spirit is one of hatred towards the other

      > The whole idea of the Ukrainians and Israelis is to bomb civilians, not military targets, but civilians. It’s a fight literally to destroy the population under an ideology of genocide. And that is absolutely central. It’s not an accident

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  5. The Rev Kev

    ‘tern
    @1goodtern
    Had anyone noticed that the spectator has finally removed the childish ‘lockdowns’ line from this graph?
    Look at that hideous growth in UK disability benefits caseload caused by the long term effects of covid infections.’

    In all fairness, this is what the UK government worked so hard to achieve. They went with herd immunity – because political pundits said that it would totally work – and that everybody would have to learn to live with the virus. And now that graph showing UK disability benefits is exactly what learning to live with the virus looks like. One aspect at least.

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  6. Mike

    I almost had a severe golf cart injury. I was volunteering at a community festival and I was getting a ride in a golf cart to a different location. My leg was hanging out the side when the driver veered toward a building. I pulled my leg up just before she scraped the building at high speed.

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    1. Carolinian

      My neighbors have a fondness for golf carts–trying to turn our abundantly sidewalked neighborhood into the new Hilton Head. Sadly I have yet to see any of the things crushed under a giant oak tree. SC law says they are legal on sub 25mph streets despite the lack of tag and–probably–insurance. Sometimes you see them driven by children which is undoubtedly not legal. But then my neighbors also like to gun their Range Rovers through stop signs since only the little people worry about traffic laws.

      May be getting an attitude.

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      1. mrsyk

        Sadly I have yet to see any of the things crushed under a giant oak tree. Glad I put my coffee down for that one. What do you have against oak trees?

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      2. The Rev Kev

        ‘But then my neighbors also like to gun their Range Rovers through stop signs’

        Put a coupla speed cameras on those intersections and see how long that practice continues. Bonus points in that SC gets a new revenue stream targeting only idiots.

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          2. hunkerdown

            That doesn’t prohibit sharing of clips to your local PD’s social media page, if that is the sort of thing you’re into. Arguably that is a more social way to go about it than letting Amazon do it by algorithm.

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        2. t

          In the US, we’ve had problem with the private companies that do stoplight cameras setting the sequence to guarantee violations which is even less safe than idiots in brodozers and Range Rovers.

          There’s a concern they train drivers to consider a yellow light red (conservative drivers) or green (wreckless) which decreases safety.

          SC still has cameras in intersections for various reasons.

          My cousin works for Florida DOT and these cameras are, internally, debated. We’ll see how many are restored after this year’s storm season, and to what extent the state pays v the vendors.

          I don’t suppose they’ve been used to ticket golf carts rolling on the wrong roads. Maybe I’ll ask when things calm down.

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      3. doug

        At the coastal town I am familiar with, there are two golf cart rental agencies. EMS folks find they get a lot of calls from the tourist driven rentals. And yes, kids driving them, despite not legal at all. Wait til folks start hot rodding them….

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      1. The Rev Kev

        Somebody should do a mod for Grand Theft Auto where all the vehicles are golf carts – with unstable Lithium batteries.

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    3. amfortas the hippie

      aye.
      rule #1 definitely applies.(dont do stupid sh&t)
      wife almost fell out of th Falcon in the front pasture on one of our date afternoons(tm), due to vodka…but i(just as drunk) grabbed her just in time.
      since the charge lasts so much longer at slow speeds, ive inadvertently trained myself to not go very fast.
      even on the dirt road.
      its a tool, not a toy.

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    4. KLG

      A definite “first world” problem. But golf is one of my character flaws, though absolutely never in a golf cart when avoidable. Golf carts are a peculiar American perversion of the game. I have seen things, carts flipped, carts in lakes and ditches, carts colliding with trees, carts colliding with other carts and people. Drunk driving in a golf cart is a sport. Regarding the leg hanging out of the cart, I know of one golf course where it is an immediate, no-questions-asked firing offense for an employee to be seen the second time without both legs and feet in the cart, for just the reason Mike states in the first comment. Walls, curbs, trees…all lie in wait to remove a foot. This has happened, and Workers’ Comp should not pay for abject stupidity.

      Golf carts are a menace on the road. Where I grew up on the Georgia coast they have become quite the status symbol, on a par with the category mistake that is the 4-door Porsche. And also in the neighborhood surrounding my current golf course. A few weeks ago I saw a 10-year-old driving one on a public road, albeit with mom beside him. What could go wrong? Let me count the ways. Ditto for the cart full of tween girls earlier this summer. Entitlement, much?

      And then there was the case on one of the islands of South Carolina in May 2023 when I was attending a conference at Kiawah. Bride and Groom, just married in the afternoon, driving a golf cart on a very dark street later that night. Hit by a drunk driver. Bride killed instantly, groom severely injured. The driver of the car was completely at fault…but: (1) golf carts are practically invisible in the dark, not so for cars, (2) in a collision with any motor vehicle the golf cart has as much chance as one of us has in the ring with Mike Tyson in his prime, or dotage. It would be no contest between my 2011 MINI Cooper convertible and any golf cart or similar vehicle. Four-wheelers in the country are just as lethal, by the way, and more often.

      I’m with Carolinian on seeing them crushed under trees, without anyone in the carts, of course.

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  7. Zagonostra

    >The Censorship Industrial Complex Is US Government Counterpopulist Blowback Michael Shellenberger

    … governments are waging war on free speech. Australia is at risk of passing sweeping censorship legislation in November. The Irish government has abandoned its hate speech legislation for this term, but governing parties are promising to bring it back. And the European Union is well on its way to implementing the most aggressive censorship agenda in the West.

    I happened to be getting my “free” breakfast at a Hilton near PIT airport yesterday morning around 8:00 am. Two TV’s in the breakfast buffet area, one had NBC Today the other FOX. I thought I would see some reporting on Gaza death toll, but instead I was reminded that it was the anniversary of the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust. I thought I’d see some images of NC Helene devastation, nothing, I did see a clip of Bolton trashing Trump, but the main focus of NBC Today was a long piece on some tall skinny black man called Snoop Dogg (two g’s) dressed in Pittsburgh Steeler worship clothes strutting/swaggering with a young, attractive NBC star-struck female journalist in tow with adulation and cloying smile on her face who was struggling to keep the mic close to Snoop who towered over her and who was dispensing words of wisdom about his football team, the Steelers, as he high-fived adoring fans.

    Censorship is the more obvious tool used in, as Jacques Ellul’s subtitle to his book Propaganda, the “formation of men’s attitudes.” Who are these couch creatures expounding on war to other couch creatures on the other end of the viewing device, TV? Having given up TV decades ago and having NC and other platforms as my source of what is happening in the world, this 20 minute exposure was jarring. I forgot who said that America went form barbarism to decadence without the advantage of culture/civilization in the middle.

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    1. The Rev Kev

      ‘… governments are waging war on free speech. Australia is at risk of passing sweeping censorship legislation in November.’

      And I have to hear about it here on NC because our own main stream media in Oz is totally useless. As for the lack of images of Helene devastation, I’m sure that the US main stream media will be telling you to forget about it and stop living in the past. It’s yesterday’s news. /sarc

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  8. The Rev Kev

    “EU needs faster migrant returns, say 17 countries including Germany, France: Report”

    This Politico report talks about this happening across many countries and even includes the obligatory picture of a bunch of poor black people while saying ‘The push comes amid a rightward and anti-immigration shift in multiple EU countries’ however – and this is just a guess – what if this is happening in anticipation of another bunch of immigrants. One that two and a half years ago was described as blue-eyed and blond-haired so “just like us.” It is only a matter of time until the Ukraine collapses and you might have a coupla million people trying to flee west. So maybe this return of migrants is really talking about the expected wave of Ukrainians?

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  9. mrsyk

    Making waves: Boxwall Flood Barrier leaves sandbags high and dry. Ugh. Sandbags are great because you can make them on site with sand from the local highway department. Where are you going to store these? Crafted from tough-as-nails ABS plastic and aluminium, this barrier is not just effective but built to last. So, not a eco-friendly footprint. However, there’s a slight hiccup: the Boxwall shines brightest on even ground. For bumpy terrain, you’ll need additional gear to ensure it’s up to snuff. Would that additional gear be — sandbags?

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  10. ProNewerDeal

    any chance there will be a Policy October Surprise from either duopoly candidate? Given early/mail voting, it seems a candidate would need to make it asap to have any effect.

    I wish Harris would publicize her federal cannab1s legalization and removal from Controlled Substances list, plus her legislate Roe v Wade as Federal law policy. Repeat this in every speech and interview, instead of low/no-substance crap on how as a kid her nanny was an entrepreneur and this is why she loves small business, etc.

    Combine this with some SIGNIFICANT “concrete material benefits” ( (c) Lambert) economic benefits, even if watered down from the Sanders 2020 or Greens/Stein policy. Pick at least 1 of these examples

    1 Medicaid open to anyone as Public Option at actuarial cost

    2 Medicare age eligibility lowering to 55

    3 Walz MN-implemented policy of free public university/ community college/trade school tuition

    4 Federal minimum wage to $15 or $20/hr, CPI-inflation-adjusted every 1 or at least 3 years

    5 Massively fund Covid R&D for better (nasal?) vaccines, long Covid research funding Dr Al-Aly requested, and NPIs including ventilation/UV light (I have the least hope on this item, as the duopoly has decided “Covid is over”)

    Give the swing state voters enough policy to vote for, not just vote against OrangeManBad TM.

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  11. DJG, Reality Czar

    The Due Diligence guys (Keaton and Russ) read this piece on their show, and I caught that portion.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/06/palestinian-us-friends-job-opportunities-humanity-gaza

    Arwa Madhawi on living in America as a person of Palestinian descent.

    She calls out the racism, which is more than obvious. But heck aren’t Americans in post-racial America?

    By implication, the article also shows that [patented] U.S. helplessness at the savagery of Israelis is a sham.

    To listen to Keaton Weiss read the article:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeJxE5g04KM

    Meanwhile, as the video-twiXt above about Israelis admitting complicity in the massacre on 7 October reinforces, what we saw this weekend was thousands and thousands worshipping propaganda. Edifying, brethren and sistren, edifying.

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  12. mrsyk

    Ukrainian official filmed lying on bed of money One might wonder why this person was singled out for prosecution. ….as part of an investigation into the forging of fraudulent disability certificates allowing men to avoid military conscription. That’s why.

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  13. Es s Ce Tera

    re: Scott Ritter : The Middle East One year after October 7th 2023. Judge Napolitano

    Scott explains the seismic event in Iran cannot be a nuclear blast because the IAEA monitors Iran’s stockpiles of enriched uranium which apparenlty haven’t moved. Ok, but what if Iran was given nukes? As I’ve said, this would be a very good option for deterring Israel, promoting ME stability and ending Israel’s aggression. If I was a nuclear power I would be doing this forthwith and posthaste to avert the impending catastrophe.

    So what other methods are there for checking other than watching a stockpile of enriched uranium? Has SEAL team whatever HALO dropped onto the location to take radiological readings? Or duct taped a Geiger counter to a drone. Is every intelligence agency and their U.N.C.L.E. converging on the spot as we speak….

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      1. Jester

        That is no obstacle for a serious conspiracy theorist. Putin gave them a nuke, and an improved drilling machine, last year. :)

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      3. ilsm

        Drill bits tend to “soften” as the temperature of the rock rises at depth. Research is (has been?) being done at MIT to use powerful microwave sources to “drill” down/deeper into the crust.

        If they can overcome the materials issues of keeping the drill holes open they could generate huge amounts of steam!

        I doubt Iran has a microwave drill that can put a device 10 mile deep.

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  14. Zagonostra

    >Perfidy in Tehran – Alastair Crooke

    The ‘professional permanent class’ (the western deep state) eschews any moral underpinning. It makes a virtue of its nihilism. Perhaps the last leader capable of real diplomacy that springs to mind was JFK during the Cuban Missile Crisis and in his subsequent dealings with the Soviet leaders. And what happened? … He was killed by the system…

    The West is in the throes of at least one, potentially two, crushing defeats at the moment – and so the question arises: Will lessons be learned? Can the right lessons be learned? Does the professional world order class even accept that there are lessons to be learned?

    [my emphasis]

    System, world order class? Admire and respect Crooke and the familiar constellation of commentators, but they have to do better in unveiling and exposing these forces, masters of the universe, oligarch’s, “inner circle,” deep state actors, etc… otherwise it’s hopeless.

    https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/10/07/perfidy-in-tehran/

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  16. ChrisFromGA

    Gazatown

    Sung to the melody from “Allentown” by Billy Joel

    Melody

    Well we’re living here in Gazatown
    And they’ve leveled every inch of ground
    Out in Bethlehem, they’re killing kids in their prime
    Stealing our land, laying land mines

    While the Knesset cheers for a Third World War
    Spent their shekels buying Congress whores
    They invested in the U.S.A.
    See how their bets really have paid

    And we’re living here in Gaza town
    But the ethnic hate was handed down
    And it’s getting very hard to stay

    Well, we’re waiting here in Gazatown
    For the rules-based order we never found
    All the promises the bastards made
    If we worked hard, if we behaved

    So the phony peace deals hang on the wall
    But they never really helped us at all
    No they never taught us what was real
    Thousand-pound bombs, IDF steel

    And we’re waiting here in Gazatown
    But they’ve put 50k stiffs in the ground
    And the U.N. people crawled away (way, hey)

    Jimmy Carter gave it a pretty good shot
    He got a peace accord with Anwar Sadat
    But something happened on the way to that place
    They put an Israeli flag in our face
    Whoa-oh-oh

    Well, I’m living here in Gaza town
    And I saw another kid on the ground
    And he won’t be getting up today

    And it’s getting very hard to stay
    And we’re living here in Gazatown

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  17. Wukchumni

    A Mega-Millions lottery ticket will go up 150% in price in April, I hope that it isn’t part of the CPI index.

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    1. ChrisFromGA

      Hedonic pricing. You can substitute for that good with a sniff of airplane glue in the back-alley behind the Seven-Eleven.

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  18. The Rev Kev

    ‘Nature is Amazing ☘️
    @AMAZlNGNATURE
    This is the best thing I have seen today!!’

    Re that dog helping that little kid. As so many other people say, we don’t deserve our dogs.

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  19. Wukchumni

    There hasn’t been a boy named Milton or good old Milt for probably at least a few generations, and Milt is a fine name, but Milton conjures up the junior high school class nerd with polyester white shirt and black pants, with plastic protector at the ready in shirt pocket, just in case of an inopportune ink stain.

    I suggest we give him a second name as we await storm surges up to the attic in Tampa…

    Milton Badly

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  20. The Rev Kev

    “Israel bombards Lebanon as it prepares to expand ground operations”

    The IDF has sent a fourth division north from which I take it that Hezbollah resistance has been much fiercer that expected. But there seems to be internal pressure in Israel to go into Lebanon so that all those Israelis can go back to their homes in the north. How many Israelis? Maybe 100,000 to 200,000 and that is a lot of unhappy people which the government has to pick up the tab for in their hotels. The past coupla days I have noticed more than a few ‘human pieces’ on the news about how hard it is for these people in their interviews and it’s not fair. Of course these very same people are demanding that the IDF occupy Lebanon up to the Litani river so that they are ‘safe’ which did not work out well when the IDF did that decades ago. Hezbollah is a result of those occupation years-

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/08/israel-lebanon-ground-offensive-hezbollah-gaza

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