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Scientists stunned to find large sharks hunting each other in world-first study Independent
How an economist optimises their morning routine FT
Climate
Summer of 2024 was world’s hottest on record, EU climate change monitor says Reuters
Five charts: How climate change is driving up food prices around the world Carbon Brief
‘My jaw dropped’: Bat loss linked to death of human infants Science. The deck: “In places where bat populations crashed, farmers sprayed more insecticides, and baby mortality spiked.”
Water
AI’s thirst for water is alarming, but may solve itself The Register
Syndemics
Tess Finch-Lees: If parents don’t fight to protect children from Covid in schools, nobody else will Irish Independent:
When masks were dropped in the “Omicron’s mild” phase of the pandemic, Cara continued as the lone masker at school to protect her immunocompromised mother, who was undergoing chemotherapy. It was tolerable until a child psychotherapist said on the national airwaves that some girls would continue to mask anyway “to hide their acne”.
His words were used to bully her. Cara left, but without support from teachers she struggled. Her parents pleaded with the school to use the Hepa filter they bought. The school refused.
Cara eventually returned to school unmasked, caught Covid and infected her mam. It killed her. Cara self-harms because she blames herself. She hasn’t been to school since.
Research shows that more than 70pc of Sars-CoV-2 transmission in households started with a child.
Who’s afraid of public health? Closed Form
Russian disinformation campaign working to undermine confidence in Covid-19 vaccines used in US CNN
China?
Can globalisation survive the US-China rift? FT
Replacing Russia’s T-90 on World Markets: China’s High Tech VT-4 Tank Excels in Trials in Algeria Military Watch
Made by the Revolution Perry Anderson, London Reivew of Books. Zhou Enlai.
America Is Losing Southeast Asia Foreign Affairs
Analysis: Malaysia cosies up to Russia and invites Putin to ASEAN summit, but ‘bold’ move could ruffle feathers Channel News Asia
India
Brutal rape and murder of doctor in India renews concerns of sexual violence against women Channel News Asia
What killing of Hindu teen by India cow vigilantes tells us about Modi 3.0 Al Jazeera
Africa
Game meat for hungry communities in Southern Africa Al Mayadeen
Syraqistan
Netanyahu’s Map Shows Israel ‘From the River to the Sea.’ It’s No Accident Haaretz. Here it is:
Israel to classify West Bank as ‘combat zone’ amid dramatic escalation Israel Hayom
ICC prosecutor says world leaders ‘threatened’ him over Israel arrest warrants The Cradle
US Silence Despite Americans Attacked in Occupied West Bank Prem Thakker, Zeteo
European Disunion
New PM Barnier vows to address ‘anger and grievances’ of French France24
Of what value is democracy when those in power ignore it? Funding the Future
* * * Deutsche Bank CEO urges Germans to work harder to pull the country out of its economic lull Fortune
Dear Old Blighty
Labour’s cabinet has taken over half a million in donations from private healthcare lobbyists Canary
Key aspects of Palantir’s Federated Data Platform lack legal basis, lawyers tell NHS England The Register
On Leadership by Tony Blair — things should only get better FT
Something Monstrous New Left Review
New Not-So-Cold War
Ukraine Needs a New Storyline Foreign Policy
When will the war in Ukraine end? Responsible Statecraft
Glenn Diesen – The Increase in Ukrainian Casualties Brave New Europe
As The War Drags On, Gaps In Ukrainian Society Widen Radio Free Europe
* * * Russians intensify offensive on Vuhledar and will not slow down quickly Institute for the Study of War
Go inside Ukrainian drone training facility known as the ‘kill house’ CNN. Commentary:
CNN produced a new puff piece about the neo-Nazi Azov movement's 3rd Assault Brigade, with no hint about the true nature of this "elite" unit. This time CNN interviewed its deputy commander Rodion Kudryashov, a founding member of the Azov Battalion. https://t.co/sgOFRIJfpu pic.twitter.com/qcQd5HCt9R
— Moss Robeson 🇵🇸 (@mossrobeson__) September 5, 2024
* * * Michael von der Schulenburg, Ruth Firmenich – The EU must change course on Ukraine, or risk breaking itself apart Brave New Europe
Why the West ignored Mongolia’s refusal to arrest Putin and what consequences it will bear Brave New Europe
South of the Border
Chinese migrants flock to Mexico in search of jobs, a future and, for some, a taste of freedom AP
Biden Adminsitration
Feds to probe frequent flyer programs for American Airlines, Delta, Southwest and United CBS
2024
The final stretch of the election in a content-moderation void Columbia Journalism Review
Republicans set stage for state challenges if Trump loses election PBS
Democrats en déshabillé
Mayor Eric Adams Faces Crisis as U.S. Investigations Reach Inner Circle NYT
Our Famously Free Presss
The Internet Archive Loses Its Appeal of a Major Copyright Case Wired
FT CEO John Ridding on ‘three moments’ that changed everything – and what’s next Press Gazette
Digital Watch
Ilya Sutskever’s AI startup raises more than $1 billion Axios
Threads is trading trust for growth Werd I/O
* * * Regularly using mobile phones linked to heart disease risk Study Finds
Do Phone Bans Help Students Perform Better in School? Scientific American
Gunz
Students help drag shot teacher back into classroom after gunman opens fire inside Apalachee High WSB
The father of the Georgia school shooting suspect has been arrested and charged, authorities say CNN
Vance calls for tightened school security after shooting: ‘I don’t like that this is a fact of life’ The HIll
Zeitgeist Watch
Party of one: Restaurants are catering to a growing number of solo diners AP
Everyone In Restaurant Jealous Of Toddler Who Gets To Wear Pajamas And Watch iPad The Onion
* * * How Dating Apps Contribute to the Demographic Crisis Kyla Scanlon, Kyla’s Newsletter
Imperial Collapse Watch
Conditioning Americans for War With Russia Ray McGovern, Consortium News
Overweight Ford F-750 Plunges Through Historic Wooden Bridge in Maine The Drive
Antidote du jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
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TAL VEZ MAÑANA
(melody borrowed from Lady Madonna by The Beatles)
(‘Tal vez mañana’ means ‘maybe tomorrow’ in Spanish. Who hasn’t had a day like this?)
Tal vez mañana
Siesta is sweet
Barely after noon and my day’s complete
Brunch in my tummy
Now I feel content
Who knows where the working hours of daylight went?
Something useful really ought to take place—
Finish off that other sticky bun!
The cat cabal is on a wild goose chase . . .
Nap time has come!
Maybe tomorrow
When I’ve had some rest
I’ll invite some friends and have to clean this mess
(musical interlude)
Faineance is fun!
Tal vez mañana
I’ll just stay in bed
Start in on that stack of books I haven’t read
To Do List says everything is pending
Chores on there from 2021!
Everything’s in dire need of mending
Nothing gets done!
Tal vez mañana
I embrace defeat
I’m the Lord of Lazy with a front row seat
CNN article re: Russian disinformation campaigns against US Covid vaccines is from 2021.
…and Russia was right again.
Interestingly, CNN’s article is just a minute part of the most gigantic disinformation campaign I’ve ever witnessed. Let’s blame the Russians for what we are trying to inflict in the populace
I thought Chinese are guilty for the virus.
In part they are though not because a lab leak but for promoting wildlife as food. Guilt for ignoring the risks that such trade had. They tried to erase the prints burning all those farms.
Ironically it was the Pentagon that was caught a running a disinformation campaign in the Philippines about Chinese Covid vaccines-
https://theconversation.com/us-military-launched-a-secret-anti-vax-campaign-in-the-philippines-heres-why-im-not-surprised-232639
Note, it’s targeted at the brand, not the mechanism. The empire stands on business, and access to quality+ healthcare.
“Overweight Ford F-750 Plunges Through Historic Wooden Bridge in Maine”
Driver regrets missing out on the chance to win a Darwin Award. Promises to try harder next time.
Don’t know what it is with people who buy F series trucks. The only thing I see in the truck is it is very aggressively styled and most owners seem to have attitudes.
An old girl friend of mine who tended bar part time at a small town VFW said she thought they bought them because they were equipment challenged.
>Don’t know what it is with people who buy F series trucks. The only thing I see in the truck is it is very aggressively styled and most owners seem to have attitudes
Any suggestions then on what to use to haul lumber, tools, equipment, tow trailers, plow snow, move hay, etc.? I gotta make a living and I’m not sure the little compact trucks will do it.
As far as the guy going through the bridge, just a dumbass not paying attention pure and simple.
By the way, along these lines, half the time up here in the Green Mountain State when a covered bridge gets hit by a truck too large, it’s due to people not knowing or being from the area, not paying any attention to the warning signs and over relying on a dime store GPS that while gives the shortest route, it gives no warning of hazards like small bridges or tight roads with switchbacks along the way.
https://www.wcax.com/video/2022/06/28/why-do-trucks-keep-getting-stuck-notch-road/
What I’m seeing with the more recent trucks though (not just the F-Series) is the the beds now look smaller and narrower (due to the extra large wheel wells), and too high up to easily fill.
My family on my dad’s side had orchards and ranches and always used F-100s, but I remember them as being more utilitarian back then.
Any suggestions then on what to use to haul lumber, tools, equipment, tow trailers, plow snow, move hay, etc.?
Yes, use a pickup truck. Most users don’t use them to do so though. The shiny paint and lack of dents is a dead give-away. It’s a testosterone thing.
many, many decades ago when i cut wood i had a 1970 something F500 with dual rear wheels and a single-post lift bed – it use to be used to haul grain – great truck with a split shift – could haul quite a lot of weight – it was a big truck – the height of the sides of the bed would not have fit into that opening – yeah RK definitely Darwin award material –
Yes, buy a Chevy Silverado. Ford is a champion of dubious engineering.
Oil pans in which the crankshaft protrudes into the pan necessitating 2 cork gasket pieces on the sides which require silicone goop to mate to the rubber pieces on the front and back of the engine that accommodate the crank. a guaranteed oil leak. I HATE oil leaky vehicles and Fords were guaranteed to leak oil. Other brands used a one piece cork gasket for the whole pan – no problems.
A friend had a Ford Exploder with running boards. The vehicle rusted, the running board fell off. The brake lines were integrated into the running boards. Oh, shit!
Ford placed oil filters right behind the front bumper of earlier F-150’s, wife hits a deer and is unaware that she just smashed her filter and oil lines drives home but doesn’t make it there because she just toasted the engine.
I could go on and on and on about Ford’s dubious engineering practices, there are many more, not to mention Ford’s poor reliability. I don’t have enough days in the year to report about all of it. Over my 70 years of life I have learned to avoid Ford vehicles like I try to avoid Covid. The only truck worse than Ford is the Chrysler RAM product.
Your comment could be paired up with that article on Boeing in today’s Water Cooler-
https://archive.md/ismUL
So it seems that the fuel-tank location on the Ford Pinto was not an anomaly after all but standard form.
I am not talking about using pick up trucks in making their livings. Ford knew EXACTLY what they were doing when they started the-pickup-on -steroids design war. The suburban and city twits who need to assert themselves on the road. Hell,
I have owned Willys Wagonner with plow, two IH Scout IIs, a K5 an S10 and now a Canyon that just turned 15. I can probably put more in the back of either these two small trucks than these full blown POSs. I don’t use my vehicle for lively hood but I have sure hauled a lot of things with my trucks over the years.
Not to mention they have priced a lot of working folks out of new truck market.
Not the truck owner. It was an employee of the truck owner. The truck owner and employer is the guy who will have to pay to repair the bridge.
Sometimes cheap labor can be very expensive.
BM,
News reports indicate that this was a fully loaded dump truck, used for work by a paving company; laden weight 36,000 lb at time of accident. Bridge rating 6,000 lb; 12×12 wooden beams covered with planking. Poor bridge never had a chance. Driver has a Polish last name…
Real men ignore warning signs.
Or stop to ask for directions.
Our Bankhead Tunnel in Mobile has been voted Alabama’s best truck stop, as the signs warning of only 12′ clearance continue to fool inattentive drivers.
There is a bridge in Portage, WI that is low clearance. If a truck approaches that can’t make it underneath they have to deflate tires. Air to reinflate tires on the other side is VERY expensive.
That was long ago, I assume most truckers are aware now.
Trump admits he lost in 2020, leading white nationalist Nick Fuentes to disavow him
“So, why did we do Stop the Steal? Why did did anyone go to Jan. 6? Why did any one go to jail? … It would have been good to know that before 1,600 people got charged,” Fuentes said on his podcast, referring to the criminal charges for those who invaded and ransacked the Capitol. “It would’ve been good to know that before (I) had all my money frozen, put on a no-fly list, banned from everything, lost all my bank and payment processing.”
Ladies and gentlemen, a voter.
Massive gaslight!
A lot of citizens (me, too) thought there was enough ballot count ‘anomalies’ for Pence to put the election into the House!
That “they” got away with jailing anyone is fascism!
Pence will be remembered! Along with a lot of others
I love the taste of MAGA tears in the morning. This poor sap has finally realized he wasted his youth supporting a grifting conman. Well, at least he’s young enough to do something with what’s left of his life. Sadder and wiser.
I think this is quite significant. There is a general assumption that the Ukraine war has been good for Russias arms industry – in fact, quite the opposite. Russian international arms sales were stagnant before the war and have declined sharply. Partly of course a supply issue, but it does seem that many former customers (most obviously Algeria) have decided to diversify their sourcing. Add to this that the most successful weapons (such as Kinzhal) are not likely to be available for international sales, and many ‘basic’ Russian weapons haven’t necessarily been seen as successes – not least the T-72 and T-90’s, which have featured more often in ‘look at that big explosion’ videos than the manufacturers would no doubt have liked.
China has been looking to break into the worlds arms markets for some time, but with quite limited success (only Pakistan has been a major customer). Many of those arms are unauthorised re-engineered Russian designs, including the J-11 and J-16 (based on the Su-27) and the HQ-9 (based on the S-300). This is a particular sore point in Russian/Chinese relations and likely to get worse if Russia loses more customers.
Add to this that newcomers to the international arms industry, including Iran, Turkey and South Korea are all trying to take customers off the West and Russia, its likely that things are going to get very competitive, in more ways than one.
‘Russian international arms sales were stagnant before the war’
As I mentioned in a comment below, the US has used their muscle to try and make it illegal to buy Russian weaponry around the world and which the Chinese are also about to experience. For certain Algeria are under time constraints which is why they are buying now as they can see that there might be a fight between themselves and Morocco down the track.
mmm Phosphorous!
Russian international arms sales were stagnant before the war, maybe because they were stocking up for the war they had coming. Russian existence does not depend on selling weapons, but it does on winning wars. US is more into the opposite thing, losing wars and selling weapons.
Your opening thesis has an internal contradiction. The war has, in fact, been exceptionally good for the Russian arms industry, but at the same time quite bad for Russian international arms sales. The two concepts are in no way mutually exclusive. In fact, one would expect that even after the Ukrainian conflict ends, and eventually it will end, Russian weapons manufacturers will maintain elevated levels of production for quite a long time, not the least to “stock up” for the next conflict and to outfit the newly created divisions and corps, e.g. for the Leningrad Military District opposite Finland. However, virtually all of this production will likely be consumed domestically rather than exported, so yes, expect to see Chinese, Korean, whatever other tanks and aircraft being marketed to countries like Algeria.
Second, the success of a given vehicle on the arms export market has a very weak correlation with its combat utility or performance. Witness all the Leopard-1s and AMX-30s the Germans and the French had managed to sell all over the world; the two tanks (having grown out of the same joint project) were a pile of horse manure even back in the 1970s-1980s, never mind now. And I believe only the AMX-30 was ever tried out in combat, during operation Desert Storm, literally once or twice. That’s not even counting “friends and family” types of arms deals, whether the US shedding its surplus vehicles to its “allies”, or – and here I am just guessing – Algeria taking a close look at buying Chinese tanks at precisely the moment when they are seeking to join BRICS and attract large-scale Chinese investment. Must be a complete coincidence, that…
So the point is – yes, Russia will likely lose its status of top arms exporter for a while. I am not sure if that actually means anything, aside from a loss of export revenues, which in any case were never nearly as large as in the oil and gas sector. Besides which, I would expect that Russian arms manufacturers would have trouble getting paid in dollars or euros at this juncture, so that is another complication for them.
BAR and Ajamu Baraka on the Uhuru 3 trial that began jury selection this week:
«It is only in the imagination of white supremacists that African people would need smart white people from Russia to guide our people and movement to oppose the U.S./EU/NATO proxy war against Russia and analyze and comment on all aspects of U.S. foreign policy.»
https://www.blackagendareport.com/black-alliance-peace-condemns-federal-indictments-uhuru-3-and-denial-their-fundamental-human-rights
The attacks against the Uhuru Movement, anti-genocide protesters, and free speech in general bring to mind the days COINTELPRO, where organizers assumed that everything we did was monitored by the system, and that every organization was likely to be infiltrated by informants and provocateurs. If anything, the situation is much worse today with conservative and mainstream dissident voices being ruthlessly silenced, in addition to left voices.
Dems say we must vote for them in order to stop Trump’s fascism, but the question seems to me to be which party actually represents the greater threat of fascism? To paraphrase Glen Ford, the Democrats are the more effective fascists.
Thanks for this link.
I think tax free tips has something to do with the recent Supreme Court decision.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/supreme-court-greenlights-corrupt-gratuities-snyder-decision-1235046848/
Tipping politicians allowed, then no taxes on tips means no documentation, which means no repercussions for supporting the worst offenders of society.
As it is now, the proposal is for tax returns based on tipped wages and the exemption wouldn’t be available for salaried work.
I think it’s just useless noise or, because Ted Cruz is a strong supporter, a way to weaken and discredit social security somehow. Def an effort to not raise minimum wage for servers.
My thoughts on it were that the restaurants would use the tax free tips to screw over waitstaff even more than before (“you can use our accounting systems for x% of the tip money”) and moreover, great way to hide revenue and money launder, if you’re into that kind of thing.
> Scientists stunned to find large sharks hunting each other in world-first study Independent
Land sharks.
*Bonus* Primary source for Fat Crocodile.
“Replacing Russia’s T-90 on World Markets: China’s High Tech VT-4 Tank Excels in Trials in Algeria”
The US already threatens countries that try to buy Russian weaponry so that they are forced to buy US weaponry or at worse, something like British and French weaponry. So are they threatening countries yet that want to buy Chinese weaponry? That might get harder. One country was testing US missiles like the Javelins on their coastline recently and I think that they experienced something like a 60% failure rate as multiple missiles dove into the sea instead of their targets. Thing is too, why do those tanks in those images not have anti-drone cages built over them. Do they imagine that no enemy will think of using drones against their tanks?
“Cope cages” are a premium add-on feature requiring an upcharge.
And a subscription fee if they can work that one out. Plus it can only be repaired by the manufacturer. At least on the US tanks…sarc off
Subscription model:
[Tank operator attempts to start engine to repel enemy attack, warning light comes on]
“You are late on your monthly payment. Vehicle will be disabled until payment made. Raytheon accepts MC, Visa, and Discover.”
“Cope cages” will be an add-on feature for US tanks but if you want the ones made out of steel rather than aluminium, you will have to pay the premium price. :)
I think it was Taiwan doing the testing…
Yep. Video is third from the bottom.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-9224-zermak-on-escalation
… TOW ATGMs massively failed in Taiwan tests, …
I beg your pardon
I never promised you a Presidential pardon
Along with the sunshine
There’s gotta be a little refrain sometime
When you take you gotta give so live and let live or let go
Oh-whoa-whoa-whoa
I beg your pardon
I never promised you a Presidential pardon
I could promise you things like Kamala coming through
But don’t expect on her respect, if I was you
So you better think it over
Well, if by sweet-talkin’ word salad you could make it come true
I would run the world right now on a silver platter
But what would it matter
So smile for a while and let’s be jolly
Jail shouldn’t be so melancholy
Come along and share the good times while we can
I beg your pardon
I never promised you a Presidential pardon
Along with the sunshine
There’s gotta be you doing some time
I beg your pardon
I never promised you a Presidential pardon
I could sing you a tune and promise you the moon
But if that’s what it takes to hold you
I’d just as soon let you go
But there’s one thing I want you to know
You better look before you leap, still waters run deep
And there won’t always be someone there to pull you out
And you know what I’m talking about
So smile for a while and let’s be jolly
Jail shouldn’t be so melancholy
Come along and share the good times while we can
I beg your pardon
I never promised you a Presidential pardon
Along with the sunshine
There’s gotta be you doing some time
I beg your pardon
I never promised you an ironclad Presidential pardon
Rose Garden, by Lynn Anderson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXHsWBKKNbI
I wonder if it will really be possible for Zelensky to survive when this war really falls apart and he plans to flee. Will he be allowed to live in peace at one of his Villas? With so many knowing he bought it with stolen funds siphoned off while his fellow countrymen died in huge numbers and even more had their lives destroyed?
My expectation is that he will retire in the US
He will be kept alive as long as he is considered useful, and then snuffed out because he knows too much.
What’s the over-under on him being Diem-ed?
The official story is that no one in the American government (I suppose that includes the CIA) expected what happened to Ngo Dinh Diem. Yeah, right.
Odds are low for this month. :)
https://polymarket.com/event/will-zelensky-remain-president-of-ukraine-through-september?tid=1725827670881
Zelensky may try to flee by train but when you get down to it, is it not in western interests that something “happens” to him before he gets to the border? If he gets killed in a bombing for example, they can always blame it on the Russians.
Stop that train, I wanna get on …
OK Joker –
i’ll see your Keith & Tex- Stop That Train
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnQTGNcNpI4
with Jimmy Cliff – The Harder They Come
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Znh0OM9ji
and raise you a The Slickers – Johnny Too Bad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRm7j2UL3YY
btw one of you song-smiths out there….Johnny Too Bad is just made for one about little Z
and let’s mention the Pressure Drop that is going to fall on little Z eventually –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw66FA6OTqA
it’s a reggae Friday night folks!
Hey. If it works out for American “leaders” like Bush the Younger, Obama, and Biden, then the “Big Z” should be all right.
Z is not an American and, besides, I suspect that there are plenty of people in US who want to shut him up for good when he’s fleeing. He’ll sleep with the proverbial fishes sooner than later.
My fervent wish is that, after a brief trial in Kiev (not Kyiv), he gets sent to one of those numbered penal colonies in Siberia, never to be seen again.
I am hoping that he, Poroschenko, and others of their ilk who attempted the ethnic cleansing of Donbass, face a trial in Mariupol (which freely voted to leave Ukraine, was besieged by Azov, and is being built back better by Russia), and face what an infamous Nazi called in one of his last words at Nuremberg, “Purimfest”.
I am not much of a fan of capital punishment, but I want the Nazis of today to meet the fate of their fathers.
It will solve itself by bubble bursting, or maybe something from the The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse repertoire. Nature always find a way.
In Boston we even have a term for that, “Storrowing.” Storrow Drive, along the Charles River, built in its present form shortly after WWII, has a series of very low (I think maybe 10 feet) bridges, followed (heading eastbound) by an equally low tunnel. Trucks get Storrowed almost every day, and, Massachusetts being Massachusetts, no effort is made to reconstruct the bridges. As Rev Kev pointed out, this situation is sort of an ongoing Darwin Award competition, which is part of the larger (and successful) effort by Massachusetts drivers to retain their long-held title as Worst Drivers in the World.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USu8vT_tfdw
That bridge gets hit more often than a urinal in a bus station…
Wow! That’s 10 mins that I’ll never get back! My favourites are when the little dome-like appendages on top of RVs get delicately skimmed off.
RE: Bat Loss Linked to Death of Human Infants.
Bad bats! I have been nattering on about the abysmal infant mortality rate in the US (5.1 deaths per 1,000 births, compared to 1.5 for Slovenia, and 2.3 for Sweden, for example.)
The study cited in the ScienceAdvisor article, links an increase in the use of agricultural pesticides in New England, with an increase in infant deaths in the area. The theory is that white nose fungal disease killed off bats, leading to an increase in the insect population, leading to farmers using more pesticides to kill off the insects that the bats would have eaten.
So why does the headline dance around pointing out a correlation between increased pesticide use and increase in infant mortality? Oh ….. Syngenta, Bayer, BASF ……
The framing of The Narrative is King.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1p7yR
January 30, 2018
Infant Mortality Rate for United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and United Kingdom, 2017-2022
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1quXm
January 30, 2018
Infant Mortality Rate for European Union, United States and China, 2017-2022
Large Scale Looting of Sudan’s National Museum
http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2024/09/large-scale-looting-of-sudans-national.html
One can only hope this turns out like the Iraqi museum after the ‘shock and awe’ war crimes committed by the US. Lots of precious artifacts were reported as looted at first, but it turned out the museum staff had removed many artifacts to a safe house ahead of time. Looters definitely took some, but not as much as was originally reported.
Fuxed it for ya Columbia. Never mind any censorship, where is any reporting on actual party policies?
The parties who get the reporting don’t have any policies, and the parties who have policies don’t get any reporting.
Labour’s cabinet members are good value for money. What policy favors would a mere 500k in donations buy you in DC?
Regarding dating apps, the big impact they make is reducing all aspects of attraction to metrics–especially age, height, and weight. Match was a sincere effort in the 1990s, but it started on the wrong foot its criteria obsession. Nobody (who matters) cares about hair color or your favorite songs. Truth is that attraction and compatibility don’t come from measurable characteristics. I used all the apps for several years, but met my wife IRL through activities. There are no dating app metrics by which we are compatible, but the chemistry is amazing. If you meet someone great through a dating app you are either near the center of desirable metrics, or lucky, or most likely both.
Upgrade with the optional on-camera DNA swab test!
Requires extra bandwidth, another measure of compatibility
/s
It’s another supporting data point for the old adage: You will find love when you stop looking for it.
The post leaves out the lopsided nature of online dating. If you aren’t a top 10% guy, you perform extremely poorly overall. You wouldn’t believe it, unless you saw it, but pre-Pandemic, my good looking guy friends had their phones explode with interest. You just have to see it. Meanwhile, I’d get few matches, as an average looking, average height, not overweight guy. It’s psychologically damaging. Women might claim otherwise, but looks are clearly extremely important to women as well.
And after the apps came on the scene, you couldn’t just go meet women at bars or whatever. It became a cultural no-no. Events like Meetups that previously might have single women, they ceased to show up anymore. I had a friend that had moved up to Boston from NYC, and said it was like nuclear winter after the apps came out, before that Meetup was hopping.
That the best looking guys match all the women, and that everyone else is out of luck, is a real phenomenon on these services.
America is such a broken country culturally, I don’t know what the solution is.
In addition to this, Match Group and their apps are absolutely predatory. It’s a monopoly as well. The executives that profit from this are evil people.
Thanks for the comment. I’ve been out of the scene for a while now myself, but I suspected something had changed based on what I was seeing online. Lots of complaints about “creepy” guys “stalking” at bars, but the descriptions given sounded to me a lot like what we used to call “saying hello to someone”. We used to go out to meet people – now it sounds like people go to a bar together after they’ve already “met” first online. I met my better half by going out, but every single younger couple I’ve met in recent years has met through a dating app. Definitely a cultural change, and I’m not sure it’s for the better.
I met my wife online 15 years ago — but not through a dating app. We met on a bulletin board discussing our mutual favorite artist and author of manga and anime. We’ve now been happily married for the latest 13 of those 15 years.
– ‘The final stretch of the election in a content-moderation void’ – Columbia Journalism Review
This was a very frustrating article, as most such articles are these days. For example:
“And Musk, who calls himself a free speech “absolutist,” has drastically backslid on content moderation efforts at X since acquiring the platform in 2022. This has included ditching an election integrity team and reducing the platform’s trust and safety staff by a third.”
There is no indication whatsoever by the vaunted CJR here that the “content moderation” and “election integrity” effort referred to was a censorship and propaganda operation by staff in coordination with government officials. To read this one would conclude that the “content moderation” that has been rejected by Musk and apologized for my Zuckerberg was simply aimed at removing hate speech or disinformation.
Once again, I don’t trust Musk, Zuckerberg, or any of these guys at all. But for me this is just another example of a liberal “watchdog” claiming that only the right-wingers do this stuff. The author should go back and read some of the Twitter Files stuff by Taibbi et al., or the CJR’s own excellent series on Russiagate.
I can’t speak for the writer, but there are many PMC type who don’t believe in the Twitter files. He might be like them.
It’s like people are living in alternate universes. Twitter files/censorship = not true. Russiagate 1 and now 2 = true. They were going to hang Mike Pence with those gallows (same gallows Lambert proved was nothing but a prop) = true. Hunter Biden/Burisma (among other things) = false. Etc.
What a world.
re: Something Monstrous
I read the first para thinking there would be some “there” there from the self-described left thinker, and the author/narrator. I was disappointed but read on, thinking that might come farther into the piece. No such luck. This is what passes for the left today? What I read sounds to me like comfortable, complacent, academic nonsense; the PMC class who are sheltered for the effects of out-of-control immigration lecturing the working class.
This is from Due Dissidence guys. Same issue in different form in California. utube,
Protesters FURIOUS as Newsom SHUTS DOWN Reparations Vote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCxRit3hgqc
When you here the part about anger of California proposing to give “all this money” to illegals to help them buy a home (See Pelosi’s proposal) when citizens have been waiting in line for years sometimes for financial) that’s the reference.
adding: Tucker Carlson interviews historian podcaster Darryl Cooper. This link starts at about the 1hr, 20 minute mark, where they talk about illegal, mass migration into the EU and the UK and its effects. Segment lasts about 20 minutes.
Darryl Cooper: The True History of the Jonestown Cult, WWII, and How Winston Churchill Ruined Europe
https://youtu.be/vOTgPEGYS2o?t=4754
First time I’ve ever heard someone take a stance for the civil rights of Oswald Moseley as a “leader of the opposition party”. Tucker breaking new ground here. Or maybe just pulling up the dead.
I hate this timeline.
Cooper’s history of Jim Jones and Jonestown at the start of the show is equally counter-MSM narrative and seems well researched and well sourced. Of source, with his analysis. / my two cents
I hear you flora, but we’re talking about the actual British Union of Fascists and Oswald Moseley here. I don’t think there’s a counterintuitive non MSM version of the actual well documented history that Moseley was a fascist in heart, name and fact, as well as a quite literal traitor.
Churchill was a bastard and many other nasty things but he was no Oswald Moseley.
The party opposing mass immigration, perhaps? Although in the 1920s he was seen as the potential Leader of the Labour Party and it was only his support of Hitler in the 1930s which really destroyed any possibility of a role for him in wartime or postwar mainstream politics. Too much ambition, too few dues.
Roosevelt died, Truman was not competitive with Churchill. The Morganthau accords were crushed at Potsdam and they blamed Stalin!
Then Winston sells his Iron Curtain ploy!!
I do enjoy a Churchill (cigar size) on occasion!
https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1831844733175632056
Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
How condescending and out-of-touch is France’s new Prime Minister?
This condescending and out-of-touch. Literally calling the people “the people from below” in his very first address as PM
https://x.com/portes_thomas//Portes_Thomas/status/1831747548035608812/video/1
Full translation: “In my long public life, I have learned that good ideas come from everywhere, often from the most modest, the simplest people when one takes the care to listen to them. I have many examples in mind of progress, small or large, that has been accomplished thanks to good ideas brought by people from below.”
He’s the very caricature of a politician who’s so entrenched in his ivory tower and so mired in his class contempt that he believes tossing a few scraps of attention to the ‘common folk’ makes him a man of the people.
That’s DEFINITELY not what the French voted for…
7:59 PM · Sep 5, 2024
The French voted for someone from the left so of course Macron chose somebody from the right. Barnier is going to have to hit the ground running as I read that there will be a motion of no confidence in him as soon as Parliament meets. The left sold out the French people to stop Marine le Pen getting into power and now they themselves have been sold out by Macron who is ignoring the results of the election to keep the centralists and the right in power.
The Zapatistas have a philosophy of “Leading from below.” They believe that their mandate is from the people & that the leadership should listen to the voices of the people. Not calling Barnier a Zapatista, but I think this criticism is overblown.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapatista_Army_of_National_Liberation
The Zapatista Army of National Liberation, often referred to as the Zapatistas, is a far-left political and militant group that controlled a substantial amount of territory in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico. Since 1994, the group has been nominally at war with the Mexican state.
The language he used is very coded and doesn’t exactly translate into English. It essentially meant “sometimes even the peasants have a charming idea that I’m willing to entertain”.
No, it’s derogative. As in “the little people”.
But there’s nothing quite like enjoying Macron’s highly indulgent slow reputational and political suicide
Russian disinformation campaign working to undermine confidence in Covid-19 vaccines used in US
my goodness. every accusation really is a confession. Do they think we’ve forgotten that that is exactly what the US did to the Chinese vaccine in the Philippines and Muslim countries?
The spooks put their thumb on the scale in 2016 and 2020 and they have become much more overt in 2024 as the recent crackdown on those disputing the narrative shows.
It’s revealing that we see this happening simultaneously in the USA, OZ, the UK and France roughly 2 Months before the US Election.
The velvet glove has been replaced by a calving glove and there doesn’t seem to be any limit to what our beloved reptilian overlords will do to ensure the smooth functioning of the machine.
Which ensures things will go completely off the rails sooner than later.
Analysis: Malaysia cosies up to Russia and invites Putin to ASEAN summit, but ‘bold’ move could ruffle feathers
Rather surprising that acting as an accessory to genocide (according to the ICJ) really hurts your international influence and standing in the world. Maybe Blinken can give a speech reminding the world that the US are the good guys to compensate. Although I suppose just vaguely threatening with regime change probably has some persuasive power as well.
From the people who share our values, according to the Democrats: Atrocity # infinity…..
American activist shot dead during protest in West Bank
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/06/middleeast/american-activist-killed-west-bank-intl/index.html
“They are one of the most advanced armies in the world,” Chen said. “They have weapons from America. It is not an accident that they hit her in the head. That was on purpose. It’s not that they shot a hundred shots at the same time, and she was hit with one. We were all standing still, not moving. Just standing there, and they shot her through the head.”
Obvously, they saw her as an existential threat, and her death might prove to make it true.
If you haven’t looked into the RealPage/Yardi lawsuits linked here recently it is going to be a very big deal.
This is a classic “Hub and Spoke” price fixing conspiracy that was “OK” because the algorithm did it rather than the Butler.
I have a background in Real Estate and Finance and my best guess is that apartment rents across the USA are no less than 25% higher than they would be absent this conspiracy, one that involved more than 31,000 participants at RealPage alone.
That’s about $500 per month per one bedroom unit in Santa Rosa Ca, $6,000 per year.
Multiply that by tens of millions of Apartments and you get an idea of the scale.
Every one of the participants in this scheme face both actual damages and treble damages, for big operators like Trammell Crow it’s going to be a big hit.
Keep in mind that the “Value” of these apartment complexes is dependent on their net income… if the reversion to a competitive market reduces the amount of rent that can be charged and thus the value, it also affects the lenders who finance these properties.
My best guess is that apartment rents will not drop precipitously, rather I expect a return to a “heads in beds” approach and fewer, smaller rent increases.
I admit not listening to every catbird so far, but I’m surprised that none of them sound like cats. Here in Eastern Iowa they are literally cat-calling all day and night.
Duh, sorry for posting this in the wrong place :(
“Scientists stunned to find large sharks hunting each other”
They just discovered Wall St.?