Fears of ‘rogue rewilding’ in Scottish Highlands after further lynx sightings Guardian (Kevin W)
News – DNA Study Rules Out Possible Identity for Burial at Jamestown Archaeology Magazine (Anthony L)
The scientist who believes he’s found the answer to permanent weight loss Telegraph. While I absolutely agree with the general premise, he ignores (or at least this article does) the trick of keto, which is that if you don’t eat enough carbs, your body goes into a ketogenic state to make blood sugar from fats and/or proteins, which is inefficient and results in needing more caloric intake to produce the needed blood sugar than if one ate enough carbs. The issue with keto is that you restrict the types of foods you eat, particularly fruits and veg. Those foods have a lot of micronutrients. So IMHO keto is a good device if you go on a keto diet for one month or maybe a bit more (or similarly, do keto intermittently to hit a target weight) But he’s right about long term sustainability.
Climate/Environment
Climate change’s hidden cost: Mental health crisis among Montana’s farmers and ranchers Bozeman Daily Chronicle
Early ‘Forever Chemicals’ Exposure Could Impact Economic Success in Adulthood, Study Says Guardian
Japan EV Sales Plummet 33% in 2024, First Decline in Four Years Nikkei
South Korean Battery Giants Face Steep Losses Amid Global EV Slowdown Korea Bizwire
China?
China to keep tapping coal to meet its energy security needs Mining Weekly
India
India’s Payments Push is Cutting Out Visa and Mastercard Techcrunch
Africa
Mozambique’s default risk rises as unrest persists Semafor
Zambia’s currency stuck at record low as drought persists Reuters
The Zambian Debt Default: A Structuralist Perspective Georgetown Journal of International Affairs
South of the Border
US announces $25m reward for arrest of Venezuela’s Maduro BBC (Kevin W)
A Sinkhole Is Threatening to Consume Ecuador’s Main Source of Power Bloomberg
European Disunion
Germany records highest company insolvencies since financial crisis Reuters
Progress in the trial against Ursula von der Leyen Cocominute (Micael T)
Working Class Front Lines 2025 Prolitarian [Sweden], via machine translation (Micael T)
Israel v. The Resistance
7 hours ago, the premies in Nasser hospital had no more oxygen. There has been no update on their situation since. https://t.co/5YgeHYWQoW
— Bedazzling Bearer of Bad News (@PixieOfDeath) January 10, 2025
Kevin W: “Must see video”:
Regular, everyday, peace-loving Israeli women were asked if they knew the number of children killed in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/VXQAk0pctM
— John P (@Johnpatrick500) January 2, 2025
Deaths from traumatic injury in Gaza ‘exceptionally high’ and under-reported Scimex (Dr. Kevin)
Will There Be a Gaza Deal Before Trump’s Inauguration? Drop Site (Robin K). Helps explain why Trump is fiercely criticizing Netanyahu, something that likely has blindside Netanyahu. Could not happen to a nicer guy.
Loss of Syria and financial stress preclude Iranian strike on Israel, generals say Iran International. Note this differs from what other experts have said. Disinfo? Internal debates?
New Not-So-Cold War
Olaf Scholz blocked €3B Ukraine aid proposal, German report says Politico
Russia Will Liberate The Donbas In 2025; The Ukraine War Ends At The Polish Border, more Mark Sleboda
🇫🇷🇺🇦 It turns out that the French did not train the Ukrainian Armed Forces for free, they took 7,000-10,000 dollars for training each soldier. This is the kind of help from the West.
But that is not the whole problem, the problem is that the training does not correspond to the… pic.twitter.com/6SNUx9wFSR
— Zlatti71 (@Zlatti_71) January 10, 2025
Exclusive: China’s Shandong Port, entry point for most sanctioned oil, bans US-designated vessels Reuters (guurst). From a few days ago, still germane.
European imports of liquefied natural gas from Russia at ‘record levels’ Guardian
US Treasury imposes ‘sweeping’ sanctions on Russian oil industry RT
Japan sanctions 11 individuals, 54 entities in Russia, some companies in 7 other countries TASS (guurst)
View from Britain: “It’s a proxy war with Russia in West Africa, whether we say so or not” International Affairs (Micael T)
Syraqistan
‘Separatist terrorists’ in Syria ‘increasingly cornered, looking for new patrons’: Turkish president Anadolu Agency
Big Brother is Watching You Watch
See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked To Spy On Your Location 404media
As the agricultural drone industry takes off, federal regulators struggle to keep up Investigate Midwest (Robin K)
Imperial Collapse Watch
Cost Of Navy’s Newest Arleigh Burke Destroyers Is Ballooning WarZone (guurst)
Crippling Conditions: The IMF and Global Inequality Harvard International Review
Defining the Deep State Larry Johnson. He sees outsourcing as seminal.
False-flagging surges as global conflicts stoke shipping fraud Tradewinds News
Trump 2.0
Trump sentencing: Judge gives Trump ‘unconditional discharge’ to respect presidency ABC. Lambert covered in Water Cooler…
Looting The ‘Allies’ Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
Why does Trump want Greenland? Resource-rich country has a key place due to climate change EuroNews
The Great Elon Musk Pie-in-the-Face Fest Continues: When the empire gets bratty, the vassals get trampled Tarik Cyril Amar
What Happens in Greenland Need Not Stay in Greenland Tarik Cyril Amar (Micael T)
Biden
Key Republican claims Bob Woodward told him Biden was financially corrupt Guardian (Paul R)
Democrats kick off fight to protect ObamaCare subsidies in new Congress The Hill
California Burning
Supreme Court appears inclined to uphold TikTok ban in US Reuters (Kevin W)JUST IN: Los Angeles Fire Department chief Kristin Crowley turns on Los Angeles leadership, says they failed her.
Remarkable interview.
Crowley called out the city for having no water in the Santa Ynez Reservoir.
Reporter: "Did the city of Los Angeles fail you and your… pic.twitter.com/fUQPoW32QA
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 10, 2025
LAFD and Mayor’s office refutes speculation Chief Crowley was “dismissed” amid fires CBS
California bans insurance cancellation, non-renewals in LA areas affected by fires Fox
Home Losses From the LA Fires Hasten ‘An Uninsurable Future’ Time. We discussed this problem in general terms in a recent post; experts are even more blunt.
Here’s Everything You Still Can’t Say on “Free Speech” Meta Platforms Reclaim the Net (Micael T)
Zuckerberg says Biden officials would ‘scream,’ ‘curse’ at Meta team over COVID takedown requests The Hill (Kevin W)
What happens when someone subpoenas Cloudflare to unmask a blogger? This… The Register
Billionaires should not own media Julian Macfarlane (Micael T)
AI
Biden to further limit Nvidia AI chip exports in final push Bloomberg
Wall Street Job Losses May Top 200,000 as AI Replaces Roles Bloomberg
The Bezzle
DOJ Cleared To Sell $6.5 Billion In Bitcoin Seized From Silk Road Cryptobriefing
Guillotine Watch
Praising Pozzo Persuasion (Micael T)
Class Warfare
“All Our Future Money Is Gone”: The Impossible Task of Providing Child Care in Rural Illinois Propublica (Robin K)
Antidote du jour (via):
And a bonus:
A parrot plays peekaboo with a neighbor's cat. pic.twitter.com/FNlMC1QVx1
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) January 9, 2025
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
I’ve been wanting to time travel recently…
I’ve been doing it recently, but haven’t managed much more than about 60 mins/hour. I can’t really recommend it.
I’ve been doing it in the future, and now i’m here.
I find it hard enough to travel to the here&now. Travel back and forth in time makes it even harder.
I’ll be the dystopian Pangloss chiming in. I’ll take now over any rose-colored Golden Age.
Though I understand if someone wants to time-machine back to 1991 to 99.
I want to back to 1972 and ride my Schwinn Sting-Ray again after receiving it for my 11th birthday…
Rosebud, and all that.
You’re my lucky older brother. I got a Typhoon.
I’m so sorry to hear that, my dad would often threaten me that he’d send me to military school or get me a Typhoon if I misbehaved.
200,000 job losses on Wall Street?
I am finding it extremely difficult to feel the slightest sympathy.
Agreed. Boo effing hoo. Wahbulance is on standby if they need it.
Maybe they will jump now?
During the Occupy Wall Street days I asked the police where the best spot to watch the bankers jump. They told me that sadly nobody jumped. They were highly amused when asking them to say “jump mother%{#!+, jump” instead of “cheese” when taking a photo with them.
Not meant to be at all antagonistic but I’m not exactly sure why anyone losing their job to AI is a good thing. For one thing, I’m sure this is not your top level people at risk but rather lower level workers trying to survive in an expensive city while paying off student debt in many cases. And secondly, with fewer workers to pay, profits go up and where does that money go if not into the hands of workers who would circulate that money around the city? I have a very suspicious feeling that the people behind AI, which admittedly I have a very shallow understanding of, do not overall have benevolent intentions.
This goes with my first reaction, which was this is only good if those 200,000 jobs were senior VPs and officers and above who all supported the development of AI to begin with. Let the mopes who do the grunt work on Wall Street and all the secretaries and assistants keep their jobs. It is a long shot either way, but those folks may be able to see that AI should die and gum up the works. Those at the top are too busy counting their ill gotten gains to fully realize how bad both they and AI are at doing anything worthwhile with so-called investing.
Now might be a very good time to evangelize for ‘new members’ for the “Confraternity of Saint Luigi the Adjuster.” Especially in the New York City metropolitan region.
Back office, middle office and operations are likely to be most at risk,
This would include compliance, know your customer, and auditing, introducing more black boxes to hide unsightly behavior. Who needs live eyes here, lol.
These are the lower paying jobs in finance.
This can only further entrench the “old boys club” environment.
Who’s responsible when rules and regulations are not followed?
How efficient will Chat GDP be at cooking the books?
Anecdotally I can highly suggest that if such roles can be moved or relocated outside the country that has already happened. Thinking back to about 2010 during a protracted job search, I was living in the Dallas and Ft Worth metro when I interviewed for a contractor role at a large JP Morgan Chase office center for back office operations and the like near Addison, Texas. While I did not land a role then, several years later the company announced that most of those job functions were being moved overseas to India, I believe.
AI just may accelerate such corporate hiring trends but the tendency of Wall Street firms and the larger employers was already in place and in practice. Maybe the AI functions do serve to provide efficiencies in certain functions…. I would add as well, there is always some manner of Audit functions happening whether it’s internal or an external year end audit.
1/11/25 links.
Hey, if you can get the job done a day early and turn the work in, why not and take the day off?
About the most expensive real estate in LA, and the reservoir right smack dab in the middle of it all is empty, kind of similar to Hollywood emptying out and outsourcing most everything to computers.
Kismet met its match…
I guess that the city felt safe draining the Santa Ynez Reservoir as it was wintertime but you think that they could have given the Fire Department a heads up first. But even if full, I doubt that it would have stopped all those homes burning down as conditions were just too feral.
A few prescient homeowners saved their domiciles by using a gas powered water pump in draining out their swimming pools to fight the fire, and that’s around 30,000 gallons, the full reservoir would perhaps saved 100-200 homes, not much in the scheme of things unless one of those was yours.
And in the below link is a photo of none other than Richard Nixon working to save his Calif home in the 1961 Bel-Air fire.
https://la.curbed.com/2017/12/6/16742976/bel-air-fire-history-brentwood-nixon
Nixon is using a garden hose.
That makes Richard Nixon better than former Aussie PM Scott Morrison – aka Scotty from Marketing – who said during the ferocious fires here a few years ago ‘I don’t hold a hose, mate’ while explaining his secret holiday trip to Hawaii during the fires.
…they didn’t call Nixon ‘Drippy Dick’ for nothing, you know
I do not see a single mention of how pressured towns are to permit building in places where they know are inappropriate. Yes, engineers can build anywhere, and that is a problem. But governments need to be resolute about this and not be cowed by claims of the need to relax building codes which stand in the way of progress
So, these well-to-do folks get the permit and then the taxpayers pay for ramping up to put the fires out.
‘Zlatti71
@Zlatti_71
🇫🇷🇺🇦 It turns out that the French did not train the Ukrainian Armed Forces for free, they took 7,000-10,000 dollars for training each soldier. This is the kind of help from the West.
But that is not the whole problem, the problem is that the training does not correspond to the realities of modern warfare and these newly-minted fighters, according to speaker Denis Yaroslavsky, are trained a little better than the musketeers.
– FRWL’
This has got to be one of the most remarkable stories of this war. No, not the French charging the Ukrainians for that training so that they could get some of their money back but the type of training given. This war has been going on for nearly three years now. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity for NATO to entirely revamp their training to 21st century standards. Each Ukrainian formation sent back to the front could have been a test-bed for how well that training matched modern warfare conditions and the training regimes adjusted accordingly. If the French are typical, they have not changed their NATO doctrine at all and are still training for the Fulda gap scenario from the 80s with those Ukrainian formations. I suspect that the really good training was reserved for those Ukrainian formations specializing in sabotage assassination, etc. instead.
Gooooooood Moooooorning Fiatnam!
We were pinned down near Pacoima, the platoon that is. A firefight had broke out on the slopes positioned north of Ventura Blvd, Vanowen and the rest.
Nobody had expected the debt offensive to occur during the Slavic holiday period-normally a period of calm, but was then and this was now. We didn’t hesitate twice or think once in repositiong ourselves on the flanks of Magic Mountain.
Most enigmatic, Wuk. Not sure if you mean the amusement park or something more Mannish.
Ambiguity happens…
It just happened to be set in Davos, as luck would have it-
Somehow it figures that it would take Wuk to let us know that it was time to Mann up. Next up, the Steppenwolf of Wall Street? (With apologies to Whitley Strieber, aka. Witley the Grey. [I would love to read the correspondence between Tolkien and Jung.])
A dissertation on the theory that the Elves and Wizards from Numenor are archetypes of very early Terran human interactions with “Them” would be peak magical thinking and thus the epitome of Cognitive Deconstructionism. Defending such a dissertation would be a Master Class in freely associative ideation.
…we eat our Jung
Somebody got too keen calling in the napalm strikes.
Re: Iran striking Israel
IMO Iran can’t strike Israel first, because in any war Israel will have full backing of West (and the Sunni Arab dictators wont be far behind), which will want to improve its self image after the Ukraine fiasco. So Iran will absolutely need support of China/Russia and of the Global South, and for that it has to be able to present itself as defender against Israeli aggression in unambiguous terms. I don’t think massively striking Israel as retaliation for something that happened months ago and what Iran downplayed as largely ineffective, fits the bill. Iran isn’t Russia and can’t go by Putin’s maxim “if there is going to be fight, it’s better you strike first”.
The best play for them is to supply Houtis with missiles to take pot shots at Israel and see if Netanyahu overreacts.
You appear not to be up to speed on this topic. Iran made a pre-negotiated retaliatory strike on Israel, with times and targets identified. Ian even put its launch of IIRC 300 slow-moving drones on TV so everyone, including the West, could see.
The drones were intended to and did draw fire.
The serious missiles got through and hit every target precisely. This included the most heavily defended spots in Israel.
The cost to Iran was estimated at $90 million. The cost to the West (here, Israel, US, UK, France all participated) of its failed defense has been reported at $2.35 billion.
Israel and the West cannot defend against Iran.
As for an attack on Iran, Israel tried that. Most of the air force reportedly stopped flying well short of Iran’s borders due to recognizing they’d been “seen” and were being locked on by Iran’s air defense systems. Despite press noise otherwise, experts have concluded very few missiles were launched and they did very little damage. And that damage may have been done entirely by the falling air defense missiles or deflected/fragmented Israel missiles and not the Israel missiles making a hit.
Russia reportedly has supplied
Where do you put the possibility of a nuclear response strike on Iran by Israel?
It’s always left out of the discussion.
Israel will have the full backing of tve US whether Irán strikes first, second, or never. People Who think otherwise are dilusional.
Parrot antidote… peekaboo yes but the gaze from the cat speaks to very different and wild motive. “I’m a cat that kills birds and mice, if it weren’t for this glass I wouldn’t play nice…”
In other words the cat is channeling an infamous Mike Myers character, Fat Bastard. “I’m gonna eat ya, get in ma belly!”
Having been around a few parrots, they are smarter than you might think. I am pretty sure the parrot was both having fun AND taunting the cat while doing it.
Frankly anyone who allows their cat to roam freely off leash into the neighborhood or other yards is partially responsible for the deaths of millions of songbirds a year.
When my doberman rips your cat’s entrails out after chasing it down at 35mph in my 2 acre backyard don’t whine to me about how the thing is suddenly just a cuddly non predator.
Cats hunt for food. What is your excuse for bloodlust?
[have to be quiet as a mass murderer is innocently ensconced on my lap purring contentedly]
Einstein (brains of the outfit) eats everything but the entrails on his kills, and notified me early on that it’d be nice if I did stencils on his food bowl, in order to count coup.
Why is there no outrage regarding Pit Bulls, which killed 3 Americans last month?
I must now regret not adding that crucial tag….for my sarcasm. In my defense it’s cold outside so lack of fresh air this morning is my best at a weak tea defense…
I don’t own any pets so I must slink back under the rock I crawled from….heh
Frankly, bird feeders are just as to blame. Create a watering hole and the lions will come.
Your doberman sentence is, to put it politely, distasteful. Should your neighbors take a similar stance on your dog?
WTF?
“DNA Study Rules Out Possible Identity for Burial at Jamestown”
Looks like we have a challenging mystery here. They know that it was a 40 year-old guy who must have been well off as he did not experience heavy manual labour in his life. They even know what he looked like. I have no doubt that buried somewhere in the archives – probably in the UK – is mention of a guy that hopped a boat to the Jamestown colony. And the beauty is that if they get a name, then perhaps that will be able to confirm it using DNA analysis of modern descendants. But you would think that the guy would have married and left a wife in the colonies – unless he was fresh off the boat. That is the thing about the Jamestown archaeological site. It is the gift that keeps on giving-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown_Rediscovery
Jimson Weed is one of the nicknames for Datura, and it derives from an incident at Jamestown where after ingesting it, colonists went a bit batty.
The article on Africa does not say the proxy war takes place there, the proxy war refers to Ukraine.
Not that Africa is not a theater of the war currently.
I do not understand your point. We did not locate the article under the “Africa” heading but under “New Not-So-Cold War”.
This is a Links section, so we do not change headlines provided by the publication, which is what you seem to want us to have done.
Thanks, useful to know.
Climate and weather, news alert for those of us in southern and Southeast US. Ice is never friendly and driving abilities can definitely relapse into panic steering or braking when it’s encountered on major highways but especially on those secondary roads that are less likely to be treated.
Snowfall here in South Carolina was measured in mere micro amounts, nearby we clocked at under 1″ but then overnight the precipitation changed to rain and sleet….which can make for a hellish mixture. Glad I don’t fly in these winter months!
Added, a warm serving of grits* is sounding tasty this cold morning but I will settle on plain oatmeal instead. Some chatter yesterday about CA fire adjacent refugees fleeing over to these southern states and perhaps learning to embrace the iconic southern breakfast staple.
Be careful walking outside as well. It’s going to be slick, be wary of falling.
Maybe some of those Californian fire refugees can introduce their coffee culture to the South-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqqXCiPJTXE (18 secs)
Loss of Syria and financial stress preclude Iranian strike on Israel, generals say – Iran International
He also criticized Assad’s military leadership, saying, “His army commanders were corrupt and accepted bribes from everyone.” Esbati further accused Russia of betrayal, saying, “Russia betrayed both Assad and Iran.” He added that “after Iran’s first retaliation against Israeli attacks, Russia was aligned with Israel.”
There has been much discussion about the a new comprehensive and defense cooperation agreement between Russia and Iran. But, NGL, I’ve also not been certain about where Russia would stand in a no punches pulled Iran vs Israel situation.
They have already been there. When Israel/US launched that massive attack against Iran a few months ago it was probably those Russian radars that lit up those stealth F-35s like a Christmas tree forcing that attack to be mostly aborted. In the coming days a treaty will be signed between Russia and Iran that will have military provisions at the heart of it. So Iran will probably get more radars and anti-air missiles along with the training for the Iranian pilots to use modern Russian fighters that are being delivered. And for the US and Israel, that will make Iran be a much harder nut to crack and may make the price of doing so to be prohibitive.
Will the treaty with Russia leave Iran like Hezbollah? I mean that in the sense of having to adhere to agreements that Israel doesn’t have to respect. Like that particular ceasefire.
Quite bluntly, I’m wondering: Is Russia’s agreement with Iran only on the condition of tempered and telegraphed responses against Israel?
There is no doubt that Israel and the US want to set Iran on fire and preferably balkanize it like was done with Syria. Of course if this happened the entire Middle east would be completely destabilized for years to come which I guess is the plan. Russia could not stop Syria collapsing so it was not a red line for them but I think that Iran is because of the blowback that could result from this which would also involve Russian security interests. in addition, I think that both countries have a lot to offer each other.
EV sales. All the information I read says ev sales world wide are up lead by Chinas car companies. Batteries for storage and EV’s also lead by China companies.
Here is just one example as of November 2024.
In short:
World sales up 22%. China up 35%
China is making by far the most cars and they have a huge manufacturing capacity surplus ready to expand.
https://www.warpnews.org/green-tech/ev-sales-increase-while-gas-car-sales-continue-to-decline-2/#:~:text=The%20global%20electric%20vehicle%20market,shows%20growth%20of%2025%20percent.
After the fire, the insurance battles: LA victims’ ordeal may just be beginning, Well worth a read.
Some numbers;
“…estimates of the economic damage from the fires now reaching $52bn-$57bn,”
“According to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, US insurers made record profits of $87.6bn in 2023 from their property and casualty business alone. In 2024, they were on pace to shatter that record again, making about $130bn in net income in those sectors in the first three quarters.”
Estimate for losses in North Carolina from Helene is $53bn.
Estimate for LA will only get larger.
Make of this what you will. Doesn’t look sustainable to me.
Then there is this:
Many top insurers, citing the destabilising effects of the climate crisis, have been refusing coverage to property owners in areas deemed high risk for wildfires and other natural disasters – areas including Pacific Palisades and Altadena..
Knowing how many houses were uninsured would be useful color, confirming how they came to be uninsured useful as well.
In Pacific Palisades, for example, State Farm dropped 70% of its homeowner business last summer, affecting 1,600 property owners,
To add insult to injury, the Rams-Vikings game will be held at State Farm Stadium in Arizona.
One more reason stock buybacks should be illegal. Throwing billions in cash at the mirror, then having no funds to cover the disasters people pay to be insured against.
https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/breaking-news/allstate-capital-levels-facing-potential-crisis-438257.aspx
Re: What Happens in Greenland
Tarik Cyril Amar pulls no punches. A bracing read.
Greenland’s opportunity to become Puerto Rico.
So is Tarik Cyril Amar’s other piece: The Great Elon Musk Pie in the Face, or the Vassals Get Trampled.
Witty, tart, insightful: The great leaders of the Western Democracies have been so busy deferring and résumé-building that they forgot (deliberately) that they have the task of protecting the populace.
Now they are all highly offended, having honed their professional offendedocity.
Musk is having gab fests with Alice Weidel in which they agree that Hitler was a commie, and none of these great leaders of Western Democracy have a political program that will appeal to their own bases, let alone build coalitions.
On the other hand, live by the twiXt, die by the twiXt. It is time to call out Musk for what he is: A gas bag. A Foghorn Leghorn with none of Mr. Leghorn’s poultryish charm.
Also recommending Praising Pozzo by Shalom Auslander.
Auslander does a good tour of human servility.
Dip your toe in the comments section to his article: Laughable offendedocity. Are Americans truly that prissy?
Early ‘Forever Chemicals’ Exposure Could Impact Economic Success in Adulthood, Study Says
“Economic Success”? There I was worried about my immune system, cancer and heart disease.
We’ve known PFA’s and their ilk are all shades of bad for a long time now. Attempting to measure its effect on future economic success seems unnecessary. If you’re laid up or dead, that’s pretty easy to measure.
Please file under “Studies that should not have received funding.
«The data also showed declines in birth weight starting in the late 1970s, with an average birth weight decrease of nearly eight grams by the 1980s.»
But that’s not what the Guardian thought was important…
“Exclusive: China’s Shandong Port, entry point for most sanctioned oil, bans US-designated vessels”
The root cause of this is Biden trying to make things as difficult for Trump as he can in the days remaining. That new raft of Biden sanctions probably triggered this but there will be blowback from it. Biden himself said ‘It is probable that gas prices could increase by as much as three or four cents a gallon, but the sanctions will have a more significant impact on Russia’s ability to continue its actions in the conduct of war’ but I bet that it will be a lot more than just 3 or 4 cents a gallon. But Biden won’t care as any gas price increases will be something that Trump will have to deal with and in any case it is all the fault of Americans for not voting his party back in. A final gift from Biden.
Re Greenland story–this link (Bloomberg via Yahoo) suggests that Greenland might not be opposed to switching patrons if we can best Denmark’s 600 million Euro subsidy.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/greenland-eyes-benefits-trump-proposed-050000243.html
Denmark’s claim goes back to Viking times and of course the Vikings never seized anything.