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He has built the world’s smallest Dala horse – can only be seen under a microscope. TV4 via machine translation Background to the Dala Horses. Micael T: “Fun and impressive but I also see the next art scam after NTFs: Nano-art”

Asians made humanity’s longest prehistoric migration and shaped the genetic landscape in the Americas ScienceDaily (Kevin W)

Dark matter formed when fast particles slowed down and got heavy, new theory says Dartmouth College

Gateway Books Point Magazine. Anthony L: “Still traumatised from Cat’s Cradle”

All Yesterday’s Parties Literary Review (Anthony L)

The Hobo Handbook The Paris Review (Anthony L)

FDA Clears First Blood Test for Alzheimer’s Diagnosis Medpage Today

#COVID-19/Pandemic

Texas’ measles outbreak is starting to slow. The U.S. case count climbs slightly to 1,024 cases Associated Press

Quick takes: H5N1 in dairy cows and poultry, polio in 5 nations CIDRAP

Climate/Environment

W.A.S.T.E. Not The Baffler (Anthony L)

Large Cloud Feedback Confirms High Climate Sensitivity James Hansen and Pushker Kharecha

How Climate Change Is Impacting People’s Ability to Have Healthy Pregnancies Time

Plastic may be warming the planet more than we thought Washington Post

Eurasia Has a Major Methane Problem EurasiaNet

Summer-like slug of heat pushes across much of North America Yale Climate Connections

China?

Trump to Keep 30% China Tariffs Through Late 2025, Analysts Say Bloomberg. *Sigh* Bessant said 30% was the baseline for China.

China Launches First of 2,800 Satellites For AI Space Computing Constellation Space News

India-Pakistan Row

Kashmir: the new rallying point for global Islamism Spiked

India

If China can rise, why can’t India? Asia Times (Kevin W)

Indian security forces have killed 31 Maoist rebels in what the country’s home minister called the “biggest operation against Naxalism” Aljazeera

Africa

Ugandan troops breached South Sudan arms embargo, Amnesty International new report says France24

South of the Border

Stricken Leviathans New Left Review (Anthony L)

Extortion Gangs Overrun Colombia’s Biggest Oil-Producing Region Bloomberg

European Disunion

Trade war, high debt, market volatility among top risks for euro zone, ECB says Reuters

Old Blighty

How Starmer careened from honourable left to racist right Middle East Eye (Anthony L)

Israel v. the Resistance

White House Working on Plan to Send 1 Million Palestinians to Libya Antiwar.com (Kevin W)

Israeli airstrikes kill at least 80 as Trump talks of turning Gaza into ‘freedom zone’ Guardian

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Israeli army fire hits UN south Lebanon base for first time since ceasefire Aljazeera

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Dimitri Lascaris: The Reason Israel Will Cease To Exist In “My Lifetime” Jarmal Thomas, YouTube

IDF pounds Houthi ports in Yemen, threatens to kill leader, after missile, drone attacks Times of Israel

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Trump says Iran has received US nuclear proposal Anadolu Agency

New Not-So-Cold War

In case you missed it:

“Puzzled” is one of my favorite words for taking issue with stupidity:

Ukraine confirms that Russia made unacceptable demands in Istanbul Ukrainska Pravada

Ukraine and Russia agree prisoner-of-war exchange after first direct talks in years BBC

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Ukraine – Negotiation Failure Plus Other Items Moon of Alabama (Kevin W). IMHO, this is the correct frame. The fact that the two sides sat down and confirmed that there is no overlap in bargaining positions should not be depicted as negotiating.

Russia Stands Firm in Istanbul as EU-Cabal Runs Out of Options Simplicius. Alexander Mercouris, in his talk on Friday, argued with evidence (staff changes in Moscow and the composition of the Istanbul negotiating team) that the military has insisted on a strong voice in any negotiations

The Odessa Moment Scott Ritter

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Mark Sleboda: How Long Can Ukraine Survive? The Clock Is Ticking Dialogue Works. Sleboda points out, as we did at the get-go, points out Russia can win the war and lose the peace….as it just did in Syria.

Russia Promises to Double Down if Ukraine Does Not Take the Offer on the Table Larry Johnson

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Financing the Russian War Economy Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (Micael T). With help from the Kyiv School of Economics

How Ukrainian secret services found traitors in Hungary Vzyglad via machine translation. Micael T: “I look forward to the Polish-Ukrainian bunfight.”

Russian-Malaysian talks President of Russia

Big Brother is Watching You Watch

YouTube and Netflix Deploy AI and Behavioral Tracking to Intensify Targeted Advertising Reclaim the Net

Imperial Collapse Watch

With Moody’s downgrade, US loses treasured Aaa credit rating Reuters (Kevin W). As is usual, the downgrade happened only after Mr. Market made the downgrade via the sustained increase in 10 and 30 year yields.

America’s Weaponization of Space Continues Whilst NASA Sees Budget Cuts Antiwar.com (Kevin W)

DC military-air traffic control hotline hasn’t worked for over 3 years Military Times (Kevin W)

No rules, no rulers: The unraveling of the old world order and the role of Russia RT (Chuck L)

Trump 2.0

Trump Tax Cuts Rejected by House Panel as GOP Hardliners Dig In Bloomberg

Schumer slams Trump-led deals to sell AI chips to Saudi Arabia, UAE The Hill (Kevin W)

Flatter or confront? How world leaders are dealing with Trump Financial Times

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Erm, Twitterati point out that the infamous number is also the number of days since 9/11. But the fast removal is a guilty look:

Versus

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“We Study Fascism…We’re Leaving the U.S.”: The NY Times Runs Video of Yale Professors Fleeing to Canada Jonathan Turley. ZOMG, Timothy Synder is so rabidly anti-Russia as to regularly resort to fabulism. Good riddance. He’ll find a happy home with Banderite lovers like Chrystia Freeland.

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Shadow SEC: The PCAOB Should Be Carefully Reviewed, Not Hastily Abolished The CLS Blue Sky Blog. Adrien F:

Dismantling public service and cultivating lawlessness at the top is now a well publicized staple of this administration. Abolishing the SEC would be their wet dream but a tad bit too obvious even for them..so let’s start with abolishing the nearest one: the PCAOB.

Here is the response from my favorite Columbia law professor extraordinaire Jack Coffee and others.

Tariffs

Trump’s trade beef more with Global South than China Asia Times (Kevin W). Erm, this is a stretch. There’s a big difference in typical value added and product sophistication (even before considering the transshipment question). The US, like all colonialists, is perfectly happy to import commodities and minimally processed products from poor countries.

Pharmacists Stockpile Most Common Drugs on Chance of Targeted Trump Tariffs KFF Health News

Immigration

Supreme Court blocks Trump from restarting Alien Enemies Act deportations CNN

Student who earned Ph.D. while DHS tried to deport her over minor traffic violation is granted injunction NBC (Kevin W)

DHS mulls reality show for immigrants seeking US citizenship The Hill. Oh, so they will have to win gladiatorial battles to prove fitness?

Democrat Death Wish

Exclusive: Prosecutor’s audio shows Biden’s memory lapses Axios

Groves of Academe

Financial Reckoning Hits Universities: Pay Cuts, Layoffs and No Coffee Wall Street Journal

Mr. Market Is Moody

A credit crunch is coming soon Seeking Alpha

US Spring Homebuying Season Has Its Weakest Start in Five Years Bloomberg

AI

Student Demands Tuition Refund After Catching Professor Using ChatGPT Fortune

FBI: US Officials Targeted In Voice Deepfake Attacks Since April Bleeping Computer. Vovan and Lexus show this is overkill.

Families of victims appalled as Boeing seems likely to avoid prosecution over 737 Max crashes Guardian

The Bezzle

Feds ask Musk’s car company how its driverless taxis will avoid causing accidents in Texas rollout Associated Press (Kevin W)

Class Warfare

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  1. The Rev Kev

    “Trump’s China Tariffs Seen Staying at 30% Through Late 2025”

    That 30% needs to be broken down a bit. The true tariff on China, in a way, is the 10% tariff that Trump is putting on every country as a base standard. But then stacked up on top of that is a 20% tariff that the US has placed on China to pressure them to crack down on the illegal fentanyl trade. Added together gives that 30% tariff which lets Trump show his supporters that he is being tough on China-

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czx0ry7kdk5o

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    1. Unironic Pangloss

      tbh, the 30% rate is “fair” (ymmv) and manageable.

      If I was dictator, I just would have gotten there in 10% steps over 3 years….not by threatening to drive the entire world over a cliff, and kicking that Sword of Damocles down the road for 90 days

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      1. The Rev Kev

        But you don’t understand. Trump had to prove to the whole world his virility and what a tough guy he is so that all those countries would line up to kiss his ***. His words, not mine. You are talking about a classic shakedown here and Trump and his team are just a bunch of Goodfellas. It’s a good thing that this will never, ever backfire on the US, even after Trump has left the scene. (eye roll)

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      2. snafu

        Threatening to drive the entire world over a cliff, and kicking that Sword of Damocles down the road for 90 days is why a dictator would bother with the whole thing in the first place. It’s ego boosting show of power, that can only be topped by bombing some defenseless people.

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    2. Psychic Meep

      “On the War Room, Jason Miller explained what is actually happening. According to Miller, “we have 50 percent tariffs on China, they have 10 percent on us”.
      He got to that figure by adding the 10 percent baseline tariff rate plus the 20 percent fentanyl tariff rate plus the 20 percent tariff rate from Trump’s first term.”

      Per The Daily Doom Substack

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  2. Unironic Pangloss

    ooooo, dark humour time. I really hope that there is a “full” blockade of the Houthis

    as then perhaps the world will see if the Houthis were really holding back its punches.

    Grab your beer and popcorn, fellow war nerds.

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  4. hemeantwell

    Seconding Yves’ cheer over the departure of Timothy Snyder, the World Socialist Website recently provided a thorough lambasting of his Bloodlands screed. The review makes it clear that he’s nothing more than an academic apparatchik insulated from responsible peer criticism, of which there’s quite a lot.

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    1. Paleobotanist

      Wait a minute! Why should us Canucks have him inflicted on us, USA? What has gotten in to you Southerners lately? You have become quite the trial as neighbors lately!

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      1. The Rev Kev

        Don’t worry. He may be heading to Canada but that doesn’t mean that he will necessarily get there. (ominous music starts playing)

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        1. Wukchumni

          He’ll need a safe house in the Gulag Hockeypelago and a new identity, I suggest Uri Snyderchuk.

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  5. VTDigger

    Gateway books? Navel gazing.

    Grew up in the usa during the most peaceful and prosperous time in all of human history (I’m guessing 1975- 2000) and all this poor sap can do is whine that he feels unfulfilled.

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    1. lyman alpha blob

      Thank you. The author cites Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, J.D. Salinger, Ken Kesey, Hermann Hesse, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus and George Orwell and later on Hunter S and Aldous Huxley as his “gateway” authors. I read all these myself in my teens and early twenties, but not in any attempt to seem “cool” or because I couldn’t get a date – I was introduced to Camus by my high school French teacher, to Hesse by a college girlfriend. After the initial introduction, I kept reading them because they were good, and I still display all these books on my shelves right beside the more “mature” writers the author also cites.

      The handwringing episode about whether Hunter S is joking or might be a racist just goes to show that the author has absorbed all the conventional “wisdom” of current academia and ones suspects that the lessons of those “gateway” books didn’t sink in and he might just be what he was warned about becoming – a phony.

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  6. upstater

    Fixed Time’s title. They need to update their style book.

    How Climate Change Is Impacting People’s Women’s Ability to Have Healthy Pregnancies

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  7. Steve H.

    > Financial Reckoning Hits Universities: Pay Cuts, Layoffs and No Coffee Wall Street Journal
    >> Schools in red states are facing the same problems, he said, but aren’t being vocal about it.

    An update from Indiana University (known for snipers on the roof):

    > GUEST COLUMN: Transfer before it’s too late
    >> the University was unable to secure a commencement speaker for the spring undergraduate ceremony, a role previously held by the CEO of Disney and President of Ireland.
    >> In a midnight coup, Governor Mike Braun seized control of the three alumni-elected Board seats. He now has direct control of the entire Board of Trustees, a body meant to hold Whitten and other University leadership accountable.

    [idsnews.com/article/2025/05/optransfer050825]

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  8. Wukchumni

    Its comforting that there were Long Suffering Bills Fans in France 14,000 years ago, and who knows how many ice age Super Bowls they won in that stretch?

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  9. The Rev Kev

    “Ukraine confirms that Russia made unacceptable demands in Istanbul”

    It is my understanding that the Third Reich negotiating team of Generaloberst Jodl, Major Wilhelm Oxenius and General Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg also claimed that the Allies were making unacceptable demands in Reims in May of 1945. The only thing acceptable to the Ukrainian team would be Zelensky’s 10-point peace plan of a Russian surrender. But if the Russians ever agreed to that, then the Ukrainians would claim that it was not enough. Not when they have the UK, France, Poland and increasingly the US behind them. As much as I despise Zelensky, you have to admit that he has somehow bent all these countries to his will and align with him.

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    1. ilsm

      The military events of the past two years suggest that Kiev has no footing to make demands. No matter what Trump is told!

      What failed in Istanbul was the Atlanticist tactics employed in 2014 in the two Misk accords.

      Kiev likely wanted to keep going to Normandy twice a year to sample the spring and autumn on the English Channel and be rearmed to gut Russia for the US.

      Russian is welll served blowing up western weapons along the Dneipro…..

      US’ clown show keeps going!

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    2. Potemkin

      Zelensky isn’t bending anything, except maybe straws that he is clinging to. Those countries are increasingly behind him/them just to prevent backing up. Slava to the last Ukraininan.

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  10. Wukchumni

    The war on science is continuing apace in our National Parks, I was informed the lead scientist for Sequoia trees accepted the buyout offer, as it made more sense than being fired with no compensation.

    This is coming as Giant Sequoia trees are being inundated with bark beetles in many groves, with a small amount of them so far dying from the angry 1/8th inch invaders.

    We’ll just have to be content watching the Brobdingnagians die, as research into how, why and what could be done to stop the spread would be too science’y for this administration.

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    1. The Rev Kev

      If your National Parks get privatized, then they would probably fell those last remaining Sequoia trees to turn into exclusive furniture for wealthy people to buy. I can see it now-

      ‘Yessire. This here coffee table was made out of timber from the very last Sequoia tree to be chopped down. You can’t buy timber like that at any price anymore. Not in America at least. Makes me proud to own it.’

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      1. wendigo

        Well, they probably will clone the last tree and replant the clear cut areas,calling it a renewable resource. As well as noting how much faster the renewed trees grow due to the increased amount of plant food in the air.

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  11. The Rev Kev

    “Israeli airstrikes kill at least 80 as Trump talks of turning Gaza into ‘freedom zone’”

    To Trump’s way of thinking, he was speaking the truth. Gaza will be a ‘freedom zone’ – one free of Gazans that is. Have the Gazans packed into one corner with aid promised by the US but where the Israelis will still bomb them. And then forcibly grab them and put them on a plane to Libya or South Sudan or some other under-developed country where they can go rot. Out of sight, out of mind as they say and where the media will never send reporters to see how they are going. Of course Jihadist groups may find them a fertile source of motivated, hardened recruits for use up and down the continent and do we really want to go there?

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    1. vao

      “And then forcibly grab them and put them on a plane to Libya or South Sudan or some other under-developed country where they can go rot.”

      If they get to be put on planes (or ships) at all.

      I fear that the fate of the Palestinians will mirror the ones of the Armenians during the 1915-1922 genocide: driven out of their homes, forced on grueling marches across inhospitable terrain, slaughtered along the way, and finally left to die in some arid region (then: the Syrian desert).

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    2. Polar Socialist

      Come to think of it, why on earth would Israel want to have couple of million extremely aggravated Palestinians anywhere out of Israels control? Can anyone else envision Israeli embassies, airplanes, tourist busses and you-name-it going boom the next 2-3 decades, when these nothing-more-to-lose-Palestinians implement their very personal vendettas once out of the open prison camp know as Gaza.

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      1. The Rev Kev

        They won’t stop there. They will not differentiate between the Israelis and those that armed and equipped them. And not just the US either but having so many US bases in Africa will make them targets of first choice.

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        1. anahuna

          I recall reading of assassinations carried out after the Armenian genocide. The first, I believe, was of Talaat Pasha, one of the Young Turks considered most responsible for the massacres.

          “Along with other leaders, he was court-martialed in 1919 and sentenced in absentia. He was not returned by Germany to Ottoman authorities, but he was assassinated there in 1921 by Armenian Revolutionary Federation [ARF] member Soghomon Tehlirian,” said Çorlu.

          The assassination was part of Operation Nemesis, a revenge plan by the ARF against members of the Ottoman government responsible for the Armenian genocide during World War I. Tehlirian, an Armenian whose extended family had been killed in their hometown of Erzincan, was found not guilty by a German court and freed.”

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      2. Emma

        I really don’t think Israel has more than a few years left. It’s clear that without the 1,000 percent support of the US, they would likely have been militarily defeated within a few months by 30,000 orphans using scavenged weapons. Their society has gone full crazy and full of hatred for each other. The US under Trump is quickly relieving itself of any moral, organizational, or economic capacity so we’re all going down together, quickly.

        The fascist iron hand becomes obvious when the velvet glove of liberal nonsense gets too worn to hide the underlying reality. I think we’re there except for the most myopic.

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        1. vao

          There is a famous quote by Keynes stating that “the stock market can remain irrational a lot longer than you can remain solvent”.

          I am afraid that in the current conditions Israel can remain in existence a lot longer than the Palestinians can keep surviving.

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  12. griffen

    DHS mulls a reality show approach…cue some middle 80s to early 90s science fiction turned into a real competition. The Running Man, updated for our modern times? Come to think of it, the movie The Hunt isn’t that old of an idea after all. I am far too cynical on what American leadership might think of next.

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      1. The Rev Kev

        More like the Hunger Games. The winner gets Citizenship, second place gets a Green Card while the losers get deported but they get to take home a set of steak knives with them-

        ‘Place your bets!’

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  13. The Rev Kev

    ‘NEWS: Israel attempting to impose a full naval blockade on Yemen’s Ansarallah (Houthis), Israeli outlets citing military officials reported after latest attacks.’

    Now that’s going to be a neat trick imposing a full naval blockade – but without using your navy. For more than six years, Saudi Arabia imposed an air and sea blockade on Yemen with the full support of western nations with supplies & training. But Yemen held. So does Israel think that it can do so by occasionally sending up their aircraft – in between bombing helpless civilians that is – and lobbing some bombs at them? I have been reliably informed that this region is acquainted with such practices as a “black markets” and “smuggling” so how effective with the Israelis be? Of course the media here said that the Israelis are only bombing ‘Houthi-controlled ports’ and ignoring how the Israelis want to starve Yemen like they are doing in Gaza

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  14. Screwball

    The Comey 8647 thing is interesting. I saw a picture online yesterday of Gretchen Whitmer in some interview with a stacked 8647 trinket in the background. They must be related? No matter, most of the people I know think it’s just fine because most of them wish Trump gone or dead anyway and are not shy about saying so. To them, the real scandal is Trump’s life threatening words to Bruce Springsteen and the Russian lady named Gabbard saying Comey should be put in jail.

    And this shit show is still just getting started.

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    1. amfortas the hippie

      but thats kitchen jjargon…and not from high end kitchens, either.
      how would these people even have that in their lexicon?
      i mean, i sure do…and thus, my boys…and a generation of folks ive trained and yelled at in an hundred kitchens…but comey and gretch?
      have they ever even walked past a working kitchen’s door?

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    2. griffen

      Reading a quick summary from Axios, sounds like a term picked up from earlier demonstrations against Trump or Musk about this that and the other I do suppose. So going from that it reaches upward to some bigger Democratic party figures and leaders of variable, or valuable standing…

      Latest efforts I suppose, serves to remind Trump that his nemesis Mr. Comey still living and breathing.

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  15. Neutrino

    Axios Biden Tapes, as expected. They reinforce ample video evidence of enfeeblement.
    The rest of the release should be fun given that Merrick Garland classified them as double secret pinky swear. How bad could they be? /s

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    1. Screwball

      I guess Jake Tapper has written a book about the Biden decline which might also validate these tapes. I am told by some deep blue people that it is all lies and innuendo. Tapper is making things up just to sell a book and nothing within the book is valid.

      Never mind our very own eyes and ears. We have a lot of people living in alternate realities.

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  16. Culp Creek Curmudgeon

    I had to stop reading “If China can rise, why can’t India?” after the author called Germany Europe’s “moral anchor.”

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    2. Quintian and Lucius

      Rather more of a moral pool toy, if anything, but I suppose there’s some minor contribution to relative coherence and stability, sort of.

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  17. The Rev Kev

    “Families of victims appalled as Boeing seems likely to avoid prosecution over 737 Max crashes”

    I suppose you could call this standard operating procedure. Through indifference and recklessness, some corporation poisons or kills a whole bunch of people. Then after being dragged through the law courts for a decade – fifteen years tops – a settlement is made where the corporation makes a big payout but admits no guilt or responsibility. No-one in that corporation goes to jail or has their name dragged through the mud and all is well. The corporation may even have to make an additional payout (bribe?) to the Federal government for some minor crime but stuff like this can be claimed back on taxes which is legal. And those effected people? They or their survivors get a small payout – just as soon as legal expenses from all those years of being in court are deducted from that big payout. Seen this movie a coupla times so does not surprise me in the least.

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  18. The Rev Kev

    ‘Lord Bebo
    @MyLordBebo
    May 14
    🇺🇦🇷🇺🇩🇪 Germany arrests Ukranians for sabotage attacks and instantly blames Russia!’

    Well, yeah. Not long ago about 11 Ukrainians burned down a massive shopping center in Warsaw and who were arrested so the Poles accused Russian secret agents of doing this. And you just had a Ukrainian guy start three fires targeting Starmer. As they say – once is happenstance, twice in coincidence, three times is enemy actions and it ain’t the Russkies doing it-

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgegj1rvq84o

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  19. IM Doc

    With regard to the Biden – Hur tape.

    There were those of us who are diagnosticians who saw all the signs of dementia from Biden as far back as 2019. The gait, the blank stares, the constant confused answers, the wandering off, the inability to pay attention to things in public, I can go on and on.

    I can sleep at night. I did everything I could to warn all those around me at the time. This was completely unappreciated – I was called every name in the book. But as my grandma always told me, reality will always prevail.

    Now there is another symptom that has been laid bare on this tape. Anosognosia. The complete denial on the part of the individual that they have a problem. And then subsequently, often aggressive behavior when confronted by others of the deficits.

    This is such a classic example of this symptom, which is often hard to suss out, that I will be using his tape from this day forward for medical students.

    The timing of the appearance of this symptom is also somewhat important. In most of our dementias, this happens in the early to middle phases of the disease. The patients have often been having symptoms for 2-4 years at this point. As a clinician, this is a very important symptom to pick up on – it is one of several things that herald the time in the dementia patient’s life that they are no longer cognizant enough to handle their affairs, sign papers, or get involved with anything important where they could be held accountable or have consequences. Mr, Hur, although not a physician, was exactly correct in his determination – Biden at this point was exhibiting symptoms that made him unable to understand the consequences of the charges against him, and made him unable to testify in his defense, so any charges were dropped.

    This deposition was in October of 2023, at least that is what is being told. Therefore, for almost a year and a half, we had a President signing legislation, executive orders and pardons, that any and all of my patients in this status would never have been allowed to be done alone. I insist that patients in this status have guardians or powers of attorney – I have seen too many tragedies in my life – and this is just standard operating procedure at this point.

    This had to be apparent to everyone around him. They had a golden opportunity given to them by Hur to utilize the 25th Amendment, Yet all of the media, all of the Dem politicians, all of the DNC types, instead of doing their Constitutional duties ran to the microphones to not only bash Hur but to also slime any and every one who dared to say anything about it. They also constantly told the world that Biden was as sharp as he has ever been.

    I don’t know. This is a large part of why they lost the election. But I have a very bad feeling that the consequences are just starting. If it is like my patients, judges are very quick to undo documents signed by anyone in this condition. And I mean people who are in far better condition than Biden was at this time. Are the pardons, legislation, executive orders, etc – signed by someone in this condition actually valid? I have a feeling we are about to find out. I am certainly not a Constitutional Law expert by any means – but it does seem to me to be a relevant issue given all the times in my life I have seen documents signed by a dementia patient overturned. If these documents are disputed, it would appear to me that it would be on a completely rational basis medically. I have had to testify in depositions to these issues repeatedly in my life. Also at issue are the dozens of Dem politicians who are on tape stating how bright he was – the political ads can write themselves.

    The absolute fury I have at the Democratic Party honchos and the media for allowing this to happen – well, my fury is just overwhelming. I cannot be too angry with regular citizens – they were robbed of any kind of democratic process by the “Party of Save our Democracy, Bro” – the polls at the time were stating clearly that 70-80% of Dems thought he was too old.

    Whatever…….I have this bad feeling this is going to blow up into something making Watergate look like a Sunday School lesson.

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    1. Culp Creek Curmudgeon

      In 2019-2020, I remember saying that Biden was mentally unfit and people telling me I was being “ableist” because Biden stuttered.

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