The Fossorial Life – Portal to a Better Time? Fossils and Other Living Things
Adani Back in Turmoil After Tycoon Charged in Bribery Scheme Bloomberg
Archegos’s Bill Hwang sentenced to 18 years in prison for massive US fraud Al Jazeera
The undercover hedge funds financing activist short sellers FT
Climate
COP29: Rules for UN-led carbon market under Article 6.4 approved in Baku S&P Global
Water
NYC issues first drought warning in 22 years, pauses aqueduct repairs to bring in more water AP
Feds release highly anticipated options for managing overstressed Colorado River in coming years Colorado Sun
Syndemics
Preprint: Enhanced Encephalitic Tropism of Bovine H5N1 Compared to the Vietnam H5N1 Isolate in Mice Avian Flu Diary
China?
China’s loan prime rates remain unchanged CGTN
China surpasses Germany and Japan in industrial robotics adoption density: report South China Morning Post
Commentary: China’s overcapacity may become a Southeast Asia problem if Trump’s tariffs materialise Channel News Asia
Myanmar
Myanmar: Situation Update with Paul Greening The Diplomat
The Koreas
Syraqistan
The Effects of Israeli Barbarity Craig Murray
Hezbollah chief says it reviewed US truce proposal, cease-fire in Netanyahu’s hands Anadolu Aghency
The man who links Donald Trump with war-torn Lebanon FT
Israel’s Rare Merkava IV Barak ‘Supertank’ Destroyed in Gaza – 75 Percent of Crew Killed Military Watch
The pogrom that wasn’t Al Jazeera
“Multiple Worlds Vying to Exist”: Philip K. Dick and Palestine The Paris Review
European Disunion
VW workers’ union propose $1.6 billion of cuts, but no plant closures Business Standard
General strike over cost of living paralyzes Athens Anadolu Agency
New Not-So-Cold War
Zelensky’s ATACMS Gambit: Nuclear Red Alert or More Empty Provocations? Simplicius the Thinkerr
Who Is Authorizing Biden’s Nuclear Brinkmanship While The President’s Brain Is Missing? Caitlin Johnstone
Transcript of ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 19 November 2024 Gilbert Doctorow. From Russia n talk show The Great Game”: “Such attacks [the ATACMSs] will be considered, or just the whole permission given by Biden is considered, to be Biden’s legacy. It is his attempt to lock in his place in history, and it should not be viewed as having any substantial, potentially having substantial threat to Russia’s winning position in the war.”s
* * * Ukraine front could ‘collapse’ as Russia gains accelerate, experts warn BBC
Zelenskyy says Ukraine lacks strength to push Russia to borders of 1991 Anadolu Agency
What happens if aid to Ukraine collapses under Trump? BNE Intellinews
Exclusive: Putin, ascendant in Ukraine, eyes contours of a Trump peace deal Reuters
* * * A detailed Der Spiegel article on the Nord Stream sabotage Bud’s Offshore Energy
More NATO in the Arctic Could Free the United States Up to Focus on China War on the Rocks
The New Great Game
Third night of protests in Tbilisi: Opposition to rethink strategy JAM News
Trump Transition
Trump Sends Clowns to Cabinet Confirmation Circus Karl Rove, WSJ
Trump takes Washington by storm: What to make of returning president’s cabinet picks? France24
Gaetz sent over $10K in Venmo payments to 2 women who testified in House probe, records suggest ABC
* * * Trump confirms plans to use the military to assist in mass deportations New York Times. November 18.
Rand Paul breaks with Trump on using military for mass deportations: ‘Huge mistake’ Politico
Texas offers Trump land for migrant ‘deportation facilities’ BBC
Tom Homan says Trump admin will ‘absolutely’ use gifted Texas land for deportation program The Hill
Los Angeles passes ‘sanctuary city’ ordinance to protect migrants from mass deportation under Trump France24
Antitrust
US regulators seek to break up Google, forcing Chrome sale as part of monopoly punishment AP
Amazon.com Services LLC: An Explainer On Labor
Spirit Airlines CEO Got A $3.8 Million Bonus A Week Before Its Bankruptcy Matt Stoller, BIG
Groves of Academe
The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger The Atlantic
Healthcare
Fat cells have a ‘memory’ of obesity — hinting at why it’s hard to keep weight off Nature
The Final Frontier
Did NASA’s Perseverance rover really find organics on Mars? These scientists aren’t so sure Space.com
Digital Watch
OpenAI accidentally deleted potential evidence in NY Times copyright lawsuit TechCrunch. Oh.
Microsoft breaks timezones in Settings and calls on an unlikely ally for help The Register
Australia wants to ban kids from social media. Will it work? BBC
Supply Chain
Long Beach Port Traffic Surges to Record in October; Importers Rushing to Beat Tariffs? Calculated Risk
Imperial Collapse Watch
How Britain squandered the best hand in the world FT
US ‘Secret War’ remembered as Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin visits Laos Al Jazeera
Zeitgeist Watch
A Lesson Un-Learned: Two “Influencers” Drown After Refusing to Wear Life Jackets So Not to Ruin Their Tans The Old Salt Blog
Contemplation in Retreat 3 Quarks Daily
The Moral Limits of What, Exactly? (PDF) Economics and Philosophy
Class Warfare
Will International Solidarity Turn the Tables in Favor of Striking Gaming Workers in Georgia? Labor Notes
This fungus is so humongous that it can be mapped Big Think
Antidote du jour (Frank Schulenburg):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
I couldn’t disagree with Rove more strongly. He seems to fail to look at the evidence staring him in the face. The R’s in Congress clutch their pearls and wring their hands over things Trump does, then acquiesce. Every, single, time. Has the threat of being primary-ed gone away, have Trumps tactics not worked? Nope.
Rove, W’s brain, needs to exit the stage and take a few more R fossils with him. Out of the public eye for the most part, trotted out on occasion every four years to opine, more useless, practically bitter, clinging to outmoded ways of thinking. He is not alone, with plenty of company across the spectrum. Maybe tell Bernstein and a few more for some canasta to take their minds off of what they can’t change.
there is a generational turnover in the GOP. Finally the boomer-era GOP is fading away (ironically led by a septagenarian) and they’re being dragged to the exits.
I don’t see Nancy Pelosi or Chuvk Schumer giving up power
We got octogenarians
Yes we do!
We got octogenarians
How about you?
Go Teams!
If Rove hates the nominees then they can’t be all bad. Not a Dick Cheney in the bunch. oh, horrors. / ;)
adding: here’s Nicole Shanahan talking about the importance of the next head of the USDA, the importance of protecting soils for both health and the climate.
Nicole Shanahan: ” The nomination for head of the USDA is happening right this moment. And there’s an opportunity for the first time ever to get somebody in there who’s a real farmer who’s going to look out for the small family farms and who’s going to revitalize our soil systems. I came to agriculture through a very narrow lens of looking at climate change.”
https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1859256210387517803
Ahhh… “that appear to show” routine raises it’s ugly, puss filled head with eyes bulging. Whatever next? The DOJ says no dice but the allegations get out there just the same. The people who do not wish to see Gaetz as AG are the best damn reason for making him AG: “The House Ethics Committee obtained records, including a check and records of Venmo payments, that appear to show that then-Rep. Matt Gaetz paid more than $10,000 to two women who were later witnesses in sexual misconduct probes conducted by both the House and the Justice Department, according to documents obtained by ABC News”.
Any shtick to beat a
KavanaughBill Clinton?, No Waydog. The routine is essentially costless to the interlocutors, and comes with plenty of free publicity, too.> “Multiple Worlds Vying to Exist”: Philip K. Dick and Palestine The Paris Review
>> which of our multiple alternate or phantasmic “pasts” we must reject
Word of the Year candidate: Unburdened.
“Hezbollah chief says it reviewed US truce proposal, cease-fire in Netanyahu’s hands”
For some strange reason, Hezbollah is unwilling to sign up with a deal proposed by US envoy Amos Hochstein where Hezbollah will cease firing on targets in Israel, while Israel agrees that they can target anything that they don’t like in Lebanon at the same time and have their air force constantly patrol the skies over Lebanon. So unreasonable.
Hochstein. Per wiki:
Hochstein was born in Jerusalem, the child of American Jewish immigrants to Israel. He served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) prior to moving to Washington, but is not a dual citizen.[13] He was a foreign policy adviser to Democratic Party members of the U.S. government House Foreign Affairs Committee from 1994 to January 2001.[14][15][16]
Sounds like a neutral arbitrator to me. / ;)
The ICC just issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/21/middleeast/international-criminal-court-issues-arrest-warrant-for-israeli-prime-minister/index.html
You think that people wigged out when Trump got re-elected the other day. Just watch people totally lose it today as the news sinks in, especially all those Neocons. This may be the one thing that will bring Biden and Trump together as they share their outrage at this happening. The US may not be part of the ICC but the EU countries would be which means that they got some ‘splainin’ to do to the ICC. Here is RT’s report-
https://www.rt.com/news/607979-israel-netanyahu-arrest-warrant/
Some of the comments on that RT article… whew…
Missing sarc tag… or…?
Today will be neo-con meltdown day. I’ve got “illegitimate” and “rogue Court” on my bingo card.
Netanyahu can cross the EU off his “revenge travel” list.
(Or maybe, he’ll do a revenge tour and have the IDF bomb Brussels, Paris, and Berlin. With some US JDAMS)
If Brussels wasn’t already on the Samson Option short-list, its priority may soon be “reviewed”.
And this will drag down Israel with them – and so it should. Israel can no longer hide who they are or what they are all about. Just ask Caitlin Johnstone-
https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/the-real-israel-15594920af19
When I was younger people asked how the Allies in WW2 could ignore the slaughter of the Jews in the extermination camps and why did they not destroy them from the air at least. But after the past 14 months I think that those people can shut up now as we are seeing another genocide happening in real time that the Collective west is either aiding, supplying, financing or covering for. What an age we live in.
Just to round up some of the relevant background and details, so we can properly interpret this move:
Neither the U.S. nor Israel are signatories to the Rome Statues, meaning that they do not recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC, notwithstanding that the body’s authority will be invoked when it is convenient, such as when the court issued a warrant for V. Putin. As others here have pointed out, states party to the court are legally obligated to arrest those with warrants out for them should they visit those countries; recall that Putin skipped a BRICS summit in South Africa last year. The South Africans were talking about changing their laws so that they would not have to arrest the Russian president; in the end, the were saved the trouble.
The ICC has jurisdiction over Gaza and the Occupied Territories, representatives of which have recognized the court since 2015. Without having read the warrants themselves, It would seem likely to me that it is in connection with this jurisdictional authority that they were legitimately issued.
In 2002, the U.S. passed the American Service Member’s Protection Act, often referred to as the “Hague Invasion Act”. The act allows the President to use “all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court”. This measure was meant to ensure that Americans and NATO personnel who were credibly accused of committing war crimes during the invasion of Afghanistan would have impunity. I would expect this to be invoked should an (improbable) arrest of Netanyahu occur. Gallant may not be so lucky.
In 2020, Trump placed sanctions on the chief prosecutor of the court for attempting to investigate American torture programs in Afghanistan. I would not be surprised at a repeat performance.
As a rule, a law which is cannot be enforced is no law at all. This is the position we find ourselves in with respect to international humanitarian law and international law in general. There is the problem of having the largest arms manufacturers and former colonial powers with vetos on the U.N. Security Council, precluding the very idea of international justice. Beyond the formal structure, the reality is that the U.S. has maintained a world in which might makes right. Until they drop the exceptionalism, and recognize the equality of other nations, there will be no justice, using the definition of “fairness/reciprocity among equals”.
Zelensky’s ATACMS Gambit: Nuclear Red Alert or More Empty Provocations? Simplicius the Thinker
IMO StT it taking a few things wrong on the nature of the ATACMS attack. He states that “Zelenskyy deliberately chooses some defenceless ‘backwater’ showpiece to make a headline splash”. I think it is incorrect. If I am correct it is personnel from the US DoD who inputs geographic coordinates in the ATACMS missiles so it is not Z the one who chooses targets here. Intelligence is also US’s. I bet it is the DoD the one choosing a ‘backwater’ target because they possibly want these attacks to be as inconsequential as possible while satisfying the needs of the sulking President. If it was Z’s deciding targets he would probably want to choose real “headline splash” objectives. Remember, it is really the US doing those attacks not Ukraine.
and/or the capability of western targeting intelligence about Russia might have atrophied over the decades. Anything big, easily seèn ftom space, and high-priority is well-protected
Or may be, they were telegraphing in advance and the article in the NYT was intended in part as a signal.
Idk how anyone knows what they are claiming about this situation. STT’s “The third and most important thing” states Biden’s motive and Putin’s understanding thereof, his consequent choice of action and proceeds from there. Where does that knowledge come from?
Recent moves have me wondering…
The NATO countries have to make themselves more visible in the war against Russia.
Otherwise, it’s even more obvious their narrative makes no sense: their claims to be afraid that Russia will rampage throughout Europe. It makes no sense if Russia could be defeated by a Ukraine.
To secure its reason for existence, it always had to be NATO beating Russia.
At least that’s the plan…
“Third night of protests in Tbilisi: Opposition to rethink strategy. Photo/Video”
See how they go when winter kicks in and snow starts falling. Hard to have a violent Maidan-style revolution when people are freezing their butts off. That’s when you need the Molotov cocktails to come out to warm things up. Well, unless of course this is an AstroTurf protest. Would you believe that there were delegations from Germany, France, Poland, Estonia. Lithuania, Latvia, Finland and Sweden speaking to those protestors in their national language of English recently ? Check out the first 40 seconds of Alex Christoforou’s video from the other day-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYkfa_xPYPE
Not to be confused with foreign interference of course. Come to think of it, maybe that is why the Georgian authorities let them do their thing. So that the bulk majority of Georgians can see for themselves this direct foreign interference in their own country and support the government more.
Yes these PMC-types, foreign, clearly disconnected from Georgian population and needs, lecturing the populace in a foreign language. What they think they are doing apart from showing they only care about their geopolitical dreams?- Indeed that video is a must see, and scratch your eyes because it is really unbelievable.
Gooooooooooood Moooooooorning Fiatnam!
Attack ’ems (ATACMS) from a long way out was the agreed upon bulwark of democracy in the war on acronyms, in this case, missiles invented during Boy George’s heyday, boy howdy!
Nobody expected shit to go down in Danzig to kick off festivities in early September back in the day, and now it’ll be some almost meaningless town not far from the border that is the catalyst to cataclysm…
39′, by Queen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-UptzjhGSA
Biden’s Legacy: Leaving FOIA in Shambles
By Kevin Gosztola
https://scheerpost.com/2024/11/21/bidens-legacy-leaving-foia-in-shambles/
Gilbert Doctorow’s transcript of the Trump video played at about 9:00 almost made me swoon:
Why haven’t we seen this reported elsewhere? The video appears to be from a similar YouTube video dated 03-21-23.
Napolitano aired that yesterday. I was stunned.
Bibi’s on the run, now
(Sung to the tune of, “Gimme all your lovin'” by ZZ Top)
Melody
You’ve got to take a shot
Cause genocide is oh so sweet
Tribunal’s gettin’ hot
Like a boomerang, history repeats
Bibi’s on the run, now
Killin’ kids and women, too
Bibi’s on a rampage
Won’t let up until he’s through
You’ve got to whip ethnic hatred up
And hit them with a ton of lead
If Joe blows his top
Send kisses while you pile up the dead
Bibi’s on the run, now
Killin’ kids and women too
Bibi’s on a rampage
Won’t let up until he’s through
[Guitar break]
You gotta move them tanks up
And use ’em like Guderian would
Pack those civilians up
Leave rubble where a city stood
Bibi’s on the run, now
Killin’ kids and women too
Bibi’s on a rampage
Won’t let up until he’s through
Is that a rather gaunt John Malkovich attired in simian garb in the antidote, contemplating a life of crime in regards to luxury automobiles?
I think what that ape is saying is this-
‘You Maniacs! You are going to blow it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWphqA1Slrw (1:47 mins)
The simian is thinking: “They wanted me to vote for Harris? I’m not as dumb as I may look!”
Monkey see human doom?
“The great nuclear bunker race: Britons are snapping up Cold War-era lairs for more than 3 times the asking price while fallout shelters are flogged on eBay amid threat of WWIII”
Most people there would be laughing at people spending big money on those things that will never be used except to grow mushrooms in. Then they will learn that Keir Starmer has just had the British armed forces launch Storm Shadows at Russia itself to kill Russians with which will make them wonder if there is an Airbnb for nuclear fallout shelters.
Sixtyish years ago, us neighborhood kids were content to make a dugout fort, all the rage given WWII shows on TV, with a plywood top and stock it with a few cans of fruit cocktail. Before sunset, it was time to retrieve those cans and go inside for supper.
How times have changed.
The only nuclear fallout shelter completely safe from atmospheric radiation is apparently leaking out, and NASA hasn’t outsourced itself to Uber yet… so getting a ride up is tricky~
Six Months in a Leaky Boat, by Split Enz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSGpLto1yxU
But think about all the clicks and likes you would get streaming WW3 from the ISS-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH6Esz_26mI (1:21 mins)
Well, for a little while that is.
‘There is what appears to be an enormous Shiitake over what used to be the Holyland, now drifting out of view @ my 6:00 position, oh and what a Portobello belle now emerging as we cross into conflict elsewhere.’
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George’s take is that the UK will be first target of any retaliation by Russia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK6rbIsV6Bg
Daymn. Galloway packs a punch !
Those bunkers are no fun. This one is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQy89tZ-mRU
That’s what i’m talkin’ about in terms of latter-day troglodyte design, it’d be perfect for a heat shelter and being on top of a hill solves the potential for flooding, but most importantly its full of fun stuff, as you mention.
A carbon market would sell coal. A carbon credits market would sell promises.
About that military Trump wants to use for deportations……it will be his military.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-creating-maga-military-purge-generals-veterans-group-warns-1985025
Since the borderlands occupy a lot of ‘land’, wouldn’t combining Space Force with the new and improved Border Patrol, be a natural?
Space Force will be deporting space aliens only.
Puts a new twist on the term ‘illegal alien’ but isn’t that what we have the Men In Black for?
Der Spiegel’s account:
~a dozen men and one woman on a sailboat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfR7qxtgCgY (1:04 mins)
With all the artificially added buoyancy they had, one would expect that no jackets/vests/corsets are needed. No wonder that captain let it slide.
“More NATO in the Arctic Could Free the United States Up to Focus on China”
The Cliff Notes version of this article is pretty simple. The US doesn’t really do Arctic weather. Deserts are more their thing. So they are going to have the UK, Canada and the Nordic nations do and pay for any deployments there instead for them. No, seriously. That is what this article is saying.
Well, why shouldn’t Canada and the Nordic nations do and pay for the deployments in the waters that they claim as their own??
Unlike the sheep from the other day, the monkey is worried. Japanese economy must be doing really bad.
“Nooo. They’re turning off the onsen.”
Story about the two influencers drowning may be fake news.
I say this maybe fake news because the devil’s throat is near the Iguazu Falls, which are inland and not on the coast. Perhaps there’s another place with the same name but I was unable to find it, even when I plugged it in search with “Sao Paulo”.
This story was all in the news about a week or two ago so is almost certainly true. You only have to go to YouTube and put in the following search term to see the number of videos about people getting themselves killed trying to take that great selfie shot-
selfie death
What’s it all about selfie
Is it just for the moment we live
What’s it all about
When you sort it out, selfie
Are we meant to take more photos than we give
Or are we meant to be one of a kind?
And if, if only fools are kind, selfie
Then I guess it is wise to be cool
And if life belongs only to the individual, selfie
What will you lend a hand on a glorious perilous view?
As sure as I believe there’s a heaven above
Selfie, I know there’s something much more
Something even non-Youtubers can believe in
I believe in likes, selfie
Without true self-admiration we just exist, selfie
Until you find the self-love you’ve missed
You’re nothing, selfie
When you press the button let your heart lead the way
And you’ll find self-love any day selfie, selfie
Alife, performed by Dionne Warwick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NPAz8-O29U
This is interesting. Can we but hope that Bibi follows Cornpop out the door?
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/11/oct-7-2023-netanyahoo-knew-the-attack-was-coming-he-let-it-happen-on-purpose.html
The new scandal is about the cover up of Netanyahu’s foreknowledge.
“The pogrom that wasn’t”
‘We were driven to an industrial estate on the outskirts of Amsterdam and released, apart from one Arab man who was arbitrarily singled out, arrested and taken away. Afterwards, all that remained of the police operation was a drone overhead that monitored our movements. As we made our way back to the city centre, cars began circling around us and the drivers beckoned for us to get in. They introduced themselves as the Moroccan drivers whose colleague had been attacked by Maccabi fans on November 6. In a heartwarming act of solidarity after hours of police repression, they drove us back to Amsterdam, making sure that we got home safely.’
You’ll never see that story on CNN, DW or the BBC.
Adani Back in Turmoil After Tycoon Charged in Bribery Scheme – Bloomberg
NGL…it all sounds like the kind of crooked deals that oligarchs of the world have always made. Steps to become an oligarch.
I suspect investigations heated up after India and Modi didn’t break off political and economic ties with Russia after the start of the SMO.
>>>>Spirit Airlines CEO Got A $3.8 Million Bonus A Week Before Its Bankruptcy
that is standard opersting procedure with a competent legal team.
heads i win. tails i win a little less, but still i win.
Thank you, Lambert.
Further to the European disunion links, on Tuesday, I attended a conference in the City and heard from erstwhile colleagues, trade body and professional services. Three sessions, opening remarks by the trade body chairman and adviser to the consultancy (and ex Merrill Lynch board and Bank of England court member), Basel (bank safety and soundness) and ESG, addressed the issues of the EU and Brexit.
On the way home, I was wondering how to share the tidbits with you, so this link is ideal.
The City is increasingly of the opinion that, as growth rates and political outlooks diverge between the, this time, faster growing periphery and slower growing, if not stagnating, core, the Eurozone crisis could return.
The chairman and his trade body colleagues said they had not anticipated how receptive to the City Labour would be in government and how keen the government is on the City, recognised by the government as a strategic sector, to deliver its agenda and how much contact they have with the chancellor, three meetings in the past month alone.
Slowly, but surely, the remainer City is turning against the EU and no longer interested in any form of rapprochement. Only 15k of 90K jobs forecast have been lost due to Brexit. Threats to the City like moving clearing and portfolio management from London to the EU will take 10 – 15 years to achieve. This appears to Starmer’s view, too.
The City and government recognise that the UK is caught between Trump / the US and EU, but reckon that the UK, outside the EU, can ally with eastern Europe and the Netherlands to promote free trade and isolate a Germany on its knees and a France obsessed with strategic autonomy (“protectionism”). It was implied that if the UK has to choose, a deal with the US would be preferable, but it was recognised that farming and food production, not health, would be causes for concern.
There was some stuff about the UK leading the world in technology, not just AI, and the regulation thereof, which made me think of recent reality checks from Revenant on these pages.
(I have not heard so much wishful thinking, especially that the non-EU member UK can mobilise the EU against co-founding members France and Germany. I also noted that there’s a lot of Trump Derangement Syndrome as the Dixiecrats could have implemented and / or reinstated banking rules, but chose not to, and Biden kept Trump’s tariffs. There was no mention of the BRICS and global south / zone b.)
The trade body said that the government had accepted 90% of its recommendations on banking rules (capital, consumer protection and senior manager accountability), i.e. rolling back the reaction to 2008 (“self harm”), and wants the City to fund net zero etc., implying that a rapprochement with the EU would put the City’s prominence and influence in the UK and elsewhere at risk.
Last, but not least, the City grandee reckons Britons are paid too much.
It was shocking to hear the extent that Starmer and Reeves need the City to do their thinking and even some of the diplomacy.
Over supper with my parents, I told them the above and how much the government is reliant and wants to rely on the City. Mum remarked that on Tuesday the local library felt like a day care centre for the elderly escaping the cold. Library staff went to buy supplies out of their own pockets to feed the visitors. On Monday, local authorities were notified to expect an influx of refugees from Ukraine and to prioritise accordingly.
Who Is Authorizing Biden’s Nuclear Brinkmanship While The President’s Brain Is Missing? – Caitlin Johnstone
Yes, C.J., I also see the elephant.
C.J. for the headline win of the week.