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1. The Rev Kev March 13, 2025 at 7:22 am

   “Volkswagen open to building military equipment for German army”

   I suppose after totally losing the Russian market, military sales of vehicles will help VW keep going. Nothing new in any case. Back in WW2, VW produced military vehicles for the Wehrmacht including the lightweight transporter Kübelwagen and amphibious four-wheel-drive vehicle Schwimmwagen. One VW plant even made parts for the V-1 flying bomb so I suppose a present day one can be re-purposed to making parts for newer cruise missiles-

   https://www.rt.com/business/614098-volkswagen-open-military-production/

   But if car plants are being re-purposed to military equipment, then where are Germans going to get their new cars from? Ursula won’t let it be from China after all.

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   1. Terry Flynn March 13, 2025 at 7:51 am

      Won’t be getting their new cars from Tesla, that’s for sure ;-)

      Since VW owns so many other car making companies that were formerly “state icons” I’m sure VW can multitask and have Germans buy SEAT cars etc whilst those currently very annoyed German VW workers voting AfD in droves can produce military stuff.

      Two birds with one stone! Make those pesky AfD supporters realise their jobs depend on VW largesse and fund/get support for a stupid war!

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      1. Terry Flynn March 13, 2025 at 8:30 am

         PS & following on from my comment and walking/bussing more often than driving, I definitely get a better sense of the general view round here.

         My particular section of this suburb was one of the “Labour Islands” that enabled Labour to take back the seat last year after the disastrous Tory experiment. I noticed several long-standing commenters (and I’ve been here myself on the site in one form or another for 10-15 years) yesterday note lots of metaphorical red flags regarding what’s going on around them. I’m seeing them too round here. It’s like a powder keg. I don’t say this lightly and if mods wanna ban it, so be it.

         However, raising that flag on a main road is ASKING for trouble. People round here are severely p!ssed off. I myself was door-knocking yesterday at properties behind our house since it wasn’t clear which house was using a clearly professional tree-surgeon to sort out their garden issues and we need services of one – we’d already had to have low level work done by order of the council to stop road issues – the 15cm potholes are a bigger issue IMNSHO but they don’t seem so keen to deal with those. I really don’t think people round here are sympathetic to Starmer or his little minion (our local Labour MP who lives a few streets away). Things have a “calm before the storm” feeling to them.

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   2. Wukchumni March 13, 2025 at 8:15 am

      Seeing as Adolf & Co. appropriated the original design for the VW from the Czechs, let them drive Škodas! er wait, VW owns them.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_V570#/media/File:V570a.jpg

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_V570

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2. Wukchumni March 13, 2025 at 7:37 am

   In Altadena and Pacific Palisades, burned lots are hitting the market Los Angeles Times
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   Not so sure i’d be interested in Schrödinger’s Lot, sure it sells for a discount from what the lot would be worth if there was stucco surrounding a wood framed house on it-or what some might call a closed box, but you’re buying a blank canvas surrounded by thousands of other not so clean slates.

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   1. The Rev Kev March 13, 2025 at 7:43 am

      Be a bit embarrassing if you purchased one of those blocks on a cliff-side at Pacific Palisades as it would give you great views of the Pacific once you built a house there – only to find that through a massive mudslide that your block was now down at the bottom of that hillside.

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      1. Wukchumni March 13, 2025 at 8:09 am

         Lido Isle mentioned below is a man-made island in Newport Beach and on it rests homes with an average value of $7-8 million, and guess what bicentennial is upon us?

         The creation of the Balboa Peninsula by major flooding~

         Newport Harbor was created naturally. In 1825, heavy flooding changed the course of the Santa Ana River. It began emptying into the sea in the area now known as West Newport. Sand carried downcoast by the prevailing currents and by the river during the rainy season, began to build up into the peninsula which now forms the outer perimeter of Newport Harbor. By 1857 the peninsula had spread to half its present length. In 1861 another great flood started the silt deposits that later became islands in Newport Bay.

         In LA/OC it boiled down to getting as close to the coast as possible, in terms of Location Location Location!

         You might have been in Norco only because that’s where your parents lived, and a dragging yourself up by your equity bootstraps tale of owe might include homes in Fullerton, Costa Mesa and then a small place in Newport Beach, followed by an even smaller place on Lido Isle, game so over.

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      2. Terry Flynn March 13, 2025 at 9:18 am

         I am reminded of a YT video from only yesterday about the vanishing East Coast of the UK. Due to sea level rise and the “rebound effect” following retreat of the glaciers (which is making the west of the British Isles rise whilst the east fall) the UK has to deal with towns literally falling in to the sea.

         Which it isn’t doing. Duh. Of course it isn’t. We need (as part of a new written constitution) a second chamber that is “somewhat” (note quotes) like the Senate in USA. A chamber that protects the regions, takes a societal view, etc. Perhaps put into a constitution an automatic rule that “if you don’t ensure some Gini-coeffient level of regional equity within 5 years then funding from London is automatically cut and redistributed to worst off regions”. That’d concentrate minds.

         I’m increasingly in favour of automatic rules based on hard statistical criteria. Take elected morons and judges out of the equation entirely because if there’s one thing we can take from the USA, (and arguably from the UK): These people aren’t qualified to do the job.

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3. Vikas March 13, 2025 at 7:46 am

   Re: Larry Fink and longevity. Having dealt with this issue for 40 years of medical practice, I can say he’s not wrong. The key question to ask is what type of job?. Epidemiological data shows that work stress is a function of “locus of control” and those whose jobs curtail their autonomy have higher mortality.

   I would add that some sense of meaning or purpose to the work is also a key ingredient for longevity enhancement. We would often encourage our patients to start writing the next book or painting to keep them going, and it did — often into their nineties.

   Of course this underscores the need to explore the utopian terrain at the intersection of longevity science, technological development (ie AI and robotics), the prospects for abundance, and the persistence of bullshit jobs……

   Assuming we still have a planet…..

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   1. Terry Flynn March 13, 2025 at 8:42 am

      Yeah

      people who retire early can suffer b/c they become isolated/lack purpose

      I’d say this is completely backwards: people in jobs who are isolated and PARTICULARLY if they feel they lack purpose, will retire early if they can. I think the pandemic caused a significant proportion of people to realise just how miserable their job really was and thus why they won’t return.

      I worked for many years for the guy who literally wrote the rheumatology textbook used in UK medicine for decades. He taught me all about a phenomenon I saw in my research: among married MF couples. if the woman dies first, the guy usually will follow in short order. Whilst that seems to undercut my point, it actually (and my boss firmly believed this after, you know, talking to patients), showed that too many men relied on their career for validation; their social networks were based on/maintained by their female partner and if she goes, kaboom.

      These guys relied on empty jobs and tenuous networks. When their only fallback died, they did too.

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4. Afro March 13, 2025 at 8:00 am

   Re: banning Chinese nationals from getting student visas,

   I think I get the administration’s “logic”, if Chinese nationals come to American universities, many of them will take their training back to China and help Chiva develop.

   But this is quite a dim approach, I say this as an academic, and a STEM faculty, for the following reasons:

   1) A lot (most? all?) of Chinese nationals pay the full international tuition. They subsidize American students. They also subsidize the rental markets around universities which keeps one of Trump’s bases (landlords) happy.

   2) At both the undergraduate and graduate level, many of the best students are Chinese nationals due to their culture of academic excellence. Far in excess of their numbers. They raise intellectual standards in the classroom, and scientific productivity in the laboratory.

   3) It’s no longer the case that American universities are overwhelmingly the best in the world. Tsinghua, Beijing Normal, Nanjing, etc etc are rapidly catching up to and surpassing their American peers. I doubt many Chinese students get a better education by going to MIT or Washington. But, they do get international cultural exposure.

   Though it won’t happen, I think that one thing that would help the USA would be if a billionaire set up a Rhodes -like scholarship program to send young American elites to Chinese universities for a few years. Give them exposure.

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5. Zagonostra March 13, 2025 at 8:15 am

   >Climate – NC H.B. 362 Clean Skies Geoengineering Ban

   Another state submits legislation prohibiting “atmospheric modification”

   The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
   7 SECTION 1. G.S. 143-213 is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:
   8 “(5b) The term “atmospheric modification” means stratospheric aerosol injection
   9 (SAI), cloud seeding, electromagnetic radio frequency or microwave radiation
   10 emissions, or other atmospheric polluting activity affecting temperature,
   11 weather, intensity of sunlight, the environment, agriculture, wildlife, human
   12 health and safety, aviation, state security, or the economy of the State. The
   13 term does not include the application of pesticides via aircraft under a license
   14 issued by the Pesticide Board pursuant to Article 52 of this Chapter.”

   https://www3.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H362v0.pdf

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6. Lieaibolmmai March 13, 2025 at 8:15 am

   Double Antidote?

   Large study shows drinking alcohol is good for your cholesterol levels

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   1. Louis Fyne March 13, 2025 at 8:35 am

      I love booze….but IMO, it’s pretty clear that overall booze is net negative, and that any positive alcohol-related effects can be achieved via other means.

      The countries with longest life expectancies generally have punatitive alcohol taxes (the Scandis) or the populace (on aggregate) just doesn’t drink to any extreme (East Asia).

      ymmv. that said, Happy St Patrick’s Day. Slainte

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      1. Lieaibolmmai March 13, 2025 at 8:52 am

         it’s pretty clear that overall booze is net negative, and that any positive alcohol-related effects

         Maybe, if you do not have heart disease in your family. When it comes to diet and health, genetics plays a large role.

         In Scandinavia, the taxes did not eliminate alcohol use, but lowered consumption. But then that means only the rich benefit from alcohol as a medicine. Most deaths from alcohol are from heavier drinkers (AUD), and moderate drinkers have better health outcomes. Two shots of vodka a day is the sweet spot for me.

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         1. Terry Flynn March 13, 2025 at 9:36 am

            Yeah alcohol usage has a HUGE number of confounding variables that contribute to the ever changing messaging about whether “a bit is good or bad for you”.

            Let’s be clear. It impairs your liver. However, lots of other things we do/take also do that. Alcohol in moderate amounts can also mitigate certain things (thus resulting in thinner blood and fewer blood clots etc). However, this is VERY much a difficult issue in terms of getting that “perfect maximum effect” so I absolutely do not condone it. People like KLG on here are the ones who can give a more informed view.

            Alcohol impairs brain function. Not just in short term but in memory etc over long-term. This isn’t controversial. However, if you’re “coming from a high baseline” (like certain people I know) then a deterioration takes them down from “fanstastic” to merely “OK”.

            Postscript: the TYPE of alcohol matters too. I’m on an antidepressant which prohibits me from taking alcoholic drinks that are “darker” (hypertensive crisis). I can drink, in moderation, “colourless” ones. The whole issue of digestion of different types of booze is frankly above my paygrade. I just stick to rules I’ve been told or researched.

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      2. PlutoniumKun March 13, 2025 at 10:12 am

         Teleb was writing on this subject recently with his usual tact. He seems to think that most population based alcohol studies are ‘detecting’ non existent negative impacts.

         Every time someone harps on about the dangers of alcohol I usually ask them why there are no non or low- alcohol consuming countries (e.g Middle east, north Africa), Indonesia) high on the list of countries by life expectancy. If anything, the top 10 is dominated by heavy drinking nations like Japan, South Korea, Australia, Spain and Italy.

         Clearly, excess alcohol consumption is dangerous, and so too probably is mid-range consumption (i.e around the usual recommended limits of 20 or so units a week). But there are so many confounding factors I doubt very much if moderate drinking has significant health impacts.

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         Teleb was writing on this subject recently with his usual tact. He seems to think that most population based alcohol studies are 'detecting' non existent negative impacts. Every time someone harps on about the dangers of alcohol I usually ask them why there are no non or low- alcohol consuming countries (e.g Middle east, north Africa), Indonesia) high on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy" rel="nofollow ugc">list of countries by life expectancy. </a> If anything, the top 10 is dominated by heavy drinking nations like Japan, South Korea, Australia, Spain and Italy. Clearly, excess alcohol consumption is dangerous, and so too probably is mid-range consumption (i.e around the usual recommended limits of 20 or so units a week). But there are so many confounding factors I doubt very much if moderate drinking has significant health impacts.

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7. ChrisFromGA March 13, 2025 at 8:17 am

   I am feeling contemplative on March 13th. It’s a day of anniversaries – for me, the pandemic hit full force on March 13, 2020. That was the day both kiddos were sent home from school, and my boss sent us all home as well, to work from home and never to see an edifice wreck again except to turn in some equipment.

   Happy Pandemic Fifth Anniversary, or “pan-niversary.”

   March 13th was also the date of the 1993 “Storm of the Century” that hit the entire E. Coast. I was living in Maryland at the time and we only got 3 inches of slush that turned into ice. But parts of Pennsylvania and Virginia got 2-3 feet, a squall line spawned tornadoes in Florida, the Atlanta ‘burbs got 8″ of snow, and the cold front blasted all the way south of Cuba, bringing frost to the mountains.

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   1. Wukchumni March 13, 2025 at 8:35 am

      Wow, 5 years ago… Tempus Fugit

      We were quite hep to Kung Flu goings on from January on-here on NC, and I was mostly prepared for something wicked this way comes, there’d been a group of LA skiers in Italy that got sick and a few died and that freaked me out, and maybe a few days before March 13th I decided that I needed to fill my chest freezer and bought $400 worth of frozen food at the supermarket, and was the 22nd person in a very long line of shopping carts that wound down an entire aisle, one of 4 conga lines of sorts heading to the checkouts.

      People were freaked…

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      1. ChrisFromGA March 13, 2025 at 8:41 am

         And who can forget the great toilet paper shortage? Fights breaking out in aisles over the last 6-pack of Charmin.

         “hey honey, how was your day?”

         “Just fine, sweet cakes. I used my patented Ali left jab to fend off a little old lady and grab the last roll. But she got me with an upper cut as I tried to make my escape …”

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      2. The Rev Kev March 13, 2025 at 8:48 am

         Correct me if I am wrong but I seem to remember that at the time, that a bunch of your friends were planning a skiing trip and you were debating whether to go or not as you knew it it be a bad idea.

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         1. Wukchumni March 13, 2025 at 9:02 am

            Yeah, it was our March trip to Mammoth with the Dartful Codgers and I was struggling with going or not going and finally opted out a few days before-and everybody else was going-and then the ski resort closed for good the day before the usual 4 day skein on skid row, and everybody was told to pack their bags and get gone.

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   2. Steve H. March 13, 2025 at 8:45 am

      > The Body Snatching Years ¡Do Not Panic!
      >> And from the beginning of the pandemic the after was forced on us.

      > Against Nihilism NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS
      >> I guess this turn to cynicism coincided with the collapse of the Bernie movement and Covid

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   3. flora March 13, 2025 at 8:54 am

      5 years. Almost like a WWIII. Dr. David Martin has the receipts.

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8. The Rev Kev March 13, 2025 at 8:31 am

   “Ukraine war briefing: Putin visits Kursk as Trump threatens consequences if ceasefire not agreed”

   Well it looks like Trump now owns the Ukraine war. It is no longer Biden’s war – which he could have walked away from – but it has now become Trump’s war. He has jumped with both feet into the Ukrainian rasputitsa and may not be able to get out. That article, by the way, had the following headline-

   ‘The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said Washington wanted Moscow’s agreement with no strings attached.’

   No strings attached? That is not how diplomacy works – or any negotiation for that matter. But then it got worse, Much worse. I heard Rubio talking in a video a little while ago and he said this-

   “What is the point of spending all this time to get a ceasefire hopefully and then a negotiated end to the war only to see it respark up again in about six years, four years three years?” Rubio said. “We’re not interested in that. They certainly aren’t either.”

   I thought great, they get it. A final settlement. But then he said the following-

   “I think the question is really more about a deterrence. Can Ukraine create a sufficient deterrent against future aggression, against future attack, against future invasion? Because every country in the world has a right to defend themselves and no-one can dispute that. So that will most certainly have to be part of the conversation. But again, there isn’t a peace to secure until you have a peace. But there’s no way to have an enduring peace without the deterrence piece being a part of it.”

   Thud! He is talking about building up a new massive Ukrainian military after this war which would be their fourth I think. But a major reason that Russia went to war was the NATO trained & equipped Ukrainian military that had been built up to attack Russia with. This new one would constantly threaten the new Russian Oblasts including Crimea and would leave the Russians back at square one. Where would the Ukrainians get the manpower for this new army? I am sure that the US and the EU would force all military-age Ukrainian men and women back to the Ukraine to ‘rebuild’ but who would quickly find themselves in this new monster army. And the US military and NATO would be on the ground training them and equipping them so there are your boots on the ground waiting to be a trip wire for the next planned war. Trump – you are such an idiot.

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   1. ChrisFromGA March 13, 2025 at 8:46 am

      The strategy parallels Joe Biden and Antony Blinken’s “dead cat” Gaza diplomacy.

      Create a plan so odious that you know the other side won’t accept it. Then drop the dead cat on your opponents door step, rancid and reeking. When they won’t take the “deal”, yell “look – they killed muh cat!”

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   2. timbers March 13, 2025 at 8:55 am

      Have listened to Duran guys debating which of the Euro “peace/ceasefire plans” Trump’s is closest to. Point being they noted this could be seen as Euro Critters out-smarting the famously “smart” Trump and bring him back into their agenda. Not a good look for the famously crafty deal maker President.

      One this is for sure: The West is once again The Collective West and united against Russia on Ukraine. For now.

      Which means Trump will likely be blamed when Ukraine loses in a way even The West calls it a lose.

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   3. Carolinian March 13, 2025 at 10:12 am

      It seems you can pick and choose what Trump’s policy is on any issue depending on what day he said it. He may not even remember what he said the day before.

      And of course the first time around there was zero message discipline as underlings–i.e. Nikki Haley–would announce their own positions on controversies.

      At any rate reports this morning say that Putin himself has already rejected the cease fire.

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9. mrsyk March 13, 2025 at 8:36 am

   I like today’s antidote. Is that Rick Wakeman’s cat?

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   1. Steve H. March 13, 2025 at 8:51 am

      Must be named Anne Boleyn.

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   2. flora March 13, 2025 at 8:54 am

      It’s the ghost in the machine. / ;)

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   3. The Rev Kev March 13, 2025 at 9:06 am

      What is it about black cats in that they will appear out of nowhere and the least likely places?

      ‘They’re creepy and they’re kooky
      Mysterious and spooky
      They’re all together ooky
      The black cats we all know’

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10. Chas March 13, 2025 at 9:03 am

    That was a very good story about Spartacus and the Palestinians but I would like to point out one inaccuracy. IIRC there was a black actor in the movie. He was the gladiator who actually started the rebellion when he jumped out of the pit into the royal viewing box and ran a spear through the Roman governor of the province.

    Also, there was another Spartacus rebellion which happened when the US government ordered the major publishing companies not to publish Howard Fasts’s book. Fast and his Communist friends published it themselves. They set the type and arranged for the printing and found bookstores to sell the book. It is probably the most important first edition ever published in US history. Kirk Douglas bought the book in one of those heroic bookstores and saw its potential as a movie.

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    1. JMH March 13, 2025 at 10:11 am

       Woody Strode and the Roman governor got what was coming to him.

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11. DJG, Reality Czar March 13, 2025 at 9:13 am

    Politico: Rahm Emanuel is gearing up to inflict a presidential run on the U.S. voter.

    Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

    [I wonder how many “ha”s I can get in the comment before the Esteemed Founder of the Site gives me a conk on the head.]

    Having lived through years of Rahm, including the Dubious Age of his mayorship of Chicago, I can’t see how he has a way forward.

    Then there’s this: ‘ “In seventh grade, if I had known I could’ve said the word ‘they’ and gotten in the girls’ bathroom, I would’ve done it,” he said. “We literally are a superpower, we’re facing off against China with 1.4 billion people and two-thirds of our children can’t read eighth grade level.” ‘

    Typicaly Rahm. Kick down (bathrooms). Go belligerent (China). And lie about it: I lived in the Edgewater neighborhood near the Trumbull Elementary School when Rahm shut down fifty-one public schools. In an amazing coinkydink, fifty where in minority neighborhoods, mainly black. Trumbull was sacrificed as the “white school,” that supposedly didn’t have enough students enrolled.

    Can’t read? Someone can’t read. And it may not be the typical U.S. adult.

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12. DJG, Reality Czar March 13, 2025 at 9:17 am

    Professor at Center of Columbia Human-Rights Abuse Is a Spook. Mintpress News.

    Click through just for the glorious photo up top of two creeps laughing at you.

    I am detecting a pattern here in the rubble of U.S. feminism.

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    1. wol March 13, 2025 at 9:42 am

       ‘Click through just for the glorious photo up top of two creeps laughing at you.’

       There went breakfast.

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13. The Rev Kev March 13, 2025 at 9:24 am

    “Ruling elite demands massive increase to Australian military spending for war”

    Would you believe that our present PM said that he was willing to send Aussie troops to the Ukraine? WTF? Because of the size of our continent, our military needs long-range fighter-bombers and a force of submarines to protect our coastlines. So what have we been buying? Short range F-35 fighters with only one engine of dubious reliability. I see that the Canadians are buying helicopters to be used to rescue their F-35 pilots if they go down because of that single engine. And those submarines? We just sent a boatload of cash to Washington to help pay for those subs. And now some people there are saying that maybe we won’t even get them but we will be allowed to paint a kangaroo on the side of a coupla US Navy subs and pretend we control them – unless there is some spat and they sail away leaving our 25,760 kilometers (16,010 miles) long coastline with no protection. Surprised to see Robert Gottliebsen still writing articles as quoted here. They guy was supposed to have retired ten or twenty years ago. His idea of ‘dragooning young people accused of crimes into the army’ shows his age.

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    1. Wukchumni March 13, 2025 at 9:30 am

       On the Breech (or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb)

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14. DJG, Reality Czar March 13, 2025 at 9:26 am

    Against Nihilism. Evgenia at Nefarious Russians.

    Excellent diagnosis. Wonderfully written. Insightful.

    There’s this: “But the surprising thing is that a lot of people buy this act. They really think that being cynical and nihilistic and being on the side of powerful corporations is some sort of transgressive act. That’s how warped the culture is here.”

    I am seeing nihilism seeping into US culture, just as Evgenia points out. In Italy, the philosopher Donatella di Cesare has named it necropolitica, the politics of death. I suppose it is why I am following Antonio Gramsci as well as Giacomo Matteotti closely — they had hard lives and went down fighting rather than give in to a tendency to worship what destroys us.

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15. The Rev Kev March 13, 2025 at 9:40 am

    “Why health experts fear the West Texas measles outbreak may be much larger than reported”

    If a measles outbreak sweeps across America this year for the first time in I don’t know how many decades, what will RFK jr say about that? Not his fault as people were free to decide to take the measles vaccine or not? People should have consulted their doctor to assess their risks, not his department? So all those deaths were entirely on them, not him?

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    1. Wukchumni March 13, 2025 at 9:59 am

       In our version of Back to the Future, Marty McFly is sent back in time to bring back highly contagious-once thought eradicated maladies, watch out for that ring around the Cholera. Marty!

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16. Jason Boxman March 13, 2025 at 9:47 am

    Washington’s accelerating preparations for war with China are fuelling the conflict in the Philippine elite…During his term as president, Duterte attempted to orient Philippine foreign policy away from Washington, announcing an end to a number of joint military exercises with the United States and refusing to pursue sovereignty claims against China over disputed waters in the South China Sea.

    Thanks for this — it seemed very very odd that Duterte is being held to account for this crimes against humanity, and I assumed it had some link to displeasing the United States.

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17. The Rev Kev March 13, 2025 at 9:59 am

    “Poland president urges US to move nuclear warheads to Polish territory”

    Ummm, has he really thought this through? If there were US nukes in Poland and general war broke out, the Russians would have to hit the sites where those nukes were stored with nukes themselves to be sure that they were eliminated for good. And what that would mean is that Poland would then possess some of the biggest car parking spaces in the world – that just happen to glow in the dark.

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