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The Value of Nature Dissent

Rats in Australia may have genetic mutation that increases resistance to widely used poisons Phys.org

Climate/Environment

New simulations show how much colder European winters would get if AMOC collapses Phys.org

Toxic chemical leak at Ohio explosives plant prompts no-fly zone, mass evacuations New York Post

Evacuation orders lifted after leak at Ohio plant WSAZ3

Pandemics

J. Gen. Virology: H5N1 2.3.4.4b: A Review of Mammalian Adaptations & Risk of Pandemic Emergence Avian Flu Diary

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The Worst Case Scenario Pandemic Accountability Index

China?

China appears to downplay US trade deal Trump said was ‘done’ ABC News

Top Chinese scientists flee Boston area as Harvard, MIT fall in rankings ; Silicon Valley also hit Inside China / Business

Huawei Founder on US v China and Basic Research ChinaTalk

Will China Force a Rethink of Biological Warfare? War on the Rocks. Projection?

Old Blighty

Ten times more bullshit Ian Proud. “No one will be scared by the UK Strategic Defence Review but British people should be.”

Things Can Only Get Greyer Tribune

Why OnlyFans has young British women in its grip The Spectator

European Disunion

What Makes Europe Better than America? Chris Arnade, The Free Press

Spanish premier asks for forgiveness after right-hand man implicated in corruption Anadolu Agency

Syraqistan

Israel Attacks Iran Larry Johnson

SPECIAL BULLETIN: Israel Launches Major Strikes on Iran Simplicius

Report: US helped lull Iran into belief no attack imminent Times of Israel

Israel’s strike on Iran was 8 months in the making Axios

Iran launches hundreds of drones toward ‘Israel’ to overwhelm systems Al Mayadeen

Trump urges Iran to reach nuclear deal ‘before there is nothing left’ CNBC

Mossad set up drone base in Iran, UAVs took out missile launchers overnight Times of Israel

War with Iran: Is War Immanent or is all this Posturing for Negotiations? Alastair Crooke (Video). Recorded prior to Israel’s attacks, but details how divorced from reality either way just like Project Ukraine.

“Iran strike could boost markets long term” Globes

Oil Prices Soar After Israel Attacks Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Oil Price

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Egypt detains over 200 activists ahead of Gaza aid march, organisers say New Arab

Gaza Tribunal in Sarajevo Documents How Genocide Has Eroded International Law Truthout

Greta Thunberg tried to shame western leaders – and found they have no shame Jonathan Cook

Netanyahu, Argentina’s Milei storm al-Aqsa, perfom Talmudic rituals Al Mayadeen

New Not-So-Cold War

Time of Heros Program: A Key Russian Meritocratic Educational Program Karl Sanchez

Russia to become world leader in convenience thanks to digital ruble Edward Slavsquat

Chernobyl looking to develop tourism post-war World Nuclear News

The Caucasus

Democracy in Georgia Is Under Threat by the US Congress and the Helsinki Commission Landmarks

“Liberation Day”

Trump’s Tariffs Push Nissan And Stellantis Supplier To Bankruptcy Car Scoops

Trump 2.0

CBO: GOP budget bill would take from the poor, give to the rich Roll Call

Trump’s Authoritarian Leap Andrew Napolitano

Democrats en déshabillé

Democrats march to Thune’s and Johnson’s offices after Padilla’s ‘brutal handcuffing’ at Noem press conference Washington Examiner. But neither was available, so presumably they just marched on home.

Democratic strategist David Plouffe to become Coinbase’s newest adviser Politico

How Kamala Harris is processing the LA unrest Politico

Immigration

Exclusive: Trump administration tells migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela their legal status is terminated CNN

Trump will target US employers in next phase of immigration crackdown, Homan says Semafor

Big Brother Is Watching You Watch

Imperial Collapse Watch

Delusion or Design? Rethinking the Logic of Madness Mad in America

Police State Watch

Judge says Trump illegally deployed National Guard to help with LA protests, must return control AP

Trump administration can keep control of California National Guard troops for now, appeals court rules NBC News

PALESTINIAN ACTIVISTS CAME TO SPEAK AT CALIFORNIA SYNAGOGUE — BUT FACE DEPORTATION AT THE AIRPORT The Intercept

Minnesota’s Labor Movement is Demanding an End to ICE Raids Workday Magazine

Military Crackdown on LA Protests Portends Further Erosion of Everyone’s Rights Truthout. “Governments at all levels from both parties have paved the way to an authoritarian response to dissent.”

Silencings: The Transformation of the American Public Sphere Liberties Journal

Air India / Boeing

One of the Dreamliners That Gave a Boeing Manager Nightmares Just Crashed Maureen Tkacik

Did a hydraulic failure doom Air India Flight 171? Asia Times

Miracle in seat 11A: Apparent sole survivor of Air India crash walks away from wreckage USA Today

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‘The Families Wanted Boeing to Face Real Accountability’ FAIR

AI

AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting ‘Illegal Behavior,’ Digital Rights Organizations Say 404 Media

The Meta AI App Lets You ‘Discover’ People’s Bizarrely Personal Chats Wired

Will The Fear Of Being Confused For AI Mean That We Will Now Write Differently? 3 Quarks Daily

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Minnesota lawmakers extend tax breaks for Big Tech data centers Minnesota Reformer

How to Stop Big Tech From Jacking Up Utility Costs Boondoggle

The Bezzle

Class Warfare

Seattle Considers Ban on Rent-Setting Algorithms Amid Collusion Allegations PYMNTS

‘Supper’s Ready:’ Inside the Bloody Feud Between L.A.’s Rival Armenian Mob Factions Los Angeles Magazine

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  1. Antifa

    War

    One side has no choice,
    Another one has no voice,
    This side cannot refrain,
    That side can’t bear the pain,
    Lying liars use fire and smoke
    To push the myths that they invoke,
    Round and round the murder grows,
    As bodies decompose.

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    2. griffen

      Among other angles on the topic of wars and generally the very nature of borders and bloodlines there in the ME; but to reference a track off their double album release in early 1990’s the rock band GNR pretty nailed the idea of war… Civil War.

      I don’t need your Civil War,
      It feeds the rich while it buries the poor…

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  2. The Rev Kev

    Working link for “China appears to downplay US trade deal Trump said was ‘done’ ” article at-

    https://abcnews.go.com/International/china-appears-downplay-us-trade-deal-trump/story?id=122763770

    If I heard it right, the US and only the US will get refined rare earths but for only six months pending review. And only US corporations will get them and not the Pentagon. I would imagine if some of that material was ‘diverted’ to the Pentagon, then China will pull the plug on shipments in that six months – just as the US goes into the midterm election cycle.

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    1. leaf

      Wonder if China will make American companies provide information on their network, operations and suppliers to ensure that rare earths are not somehow sent to defense companies, just like how the US made China fill out those same forms to provide proof that they weren’t using Uyghur “forced labour”. And in the end, they can just reject the results anyway like the way the US did and maintain the restrictions

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  3. Colonel Smithers

    Thank you, Conor.

    Further to the Air India links, I was just chatting to dad, a retired Royal Air Force doctor, forensic science expert and aircraft accident investigator*. He thinks there will be a cover up and is increasingly concerned about the deskilling and politicisation of such services in the UK, a trend going back a dozen years.

    *Including racing driver Graham Hill and Lockerbie.

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    1. AG

      “be a cover up”
      re: engineering fault by Boeing or something political (that one spy on the plane)?
      Andrei Martyanov opinioned yesterday that those were generally reliable GE engines but adding that he is no FAA expert.

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      1. Colonel Smithers

        Thank you.

        There have been concerns about Boeing production even before the move to Carolina and Chicago.

        The UK authorities are involved. Its forensic services are in a terrible state, thanks to austerity and privatisation, and often leant on. In addition, the government is infatuated with the US.

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    2. The Rev Kev

      Thank you, Colonel. I wonder where the black boxes will be sent when they are retrieved. India should be loath to send them to the US. The EU too for that matter. But with Modi you never know.

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      1. scott s.

        Seems to me Annex 13 investigation is as good as you’re going to get. Don’t see how governments would accept an “impartial” (if such a thing can be said to exist) investigator.

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    3. lyman alpha blob

      I highly recommend the Maureen Tkacik article. The “just get it out the door and damn the engineering flaws” attitude from Boeing from management is absolutely appalling.

      I also highly recommend not flying a Boeing plane if you can avoid it. From the artcle –

      “But until today, the contrarians could always demand to know: if the Dreamliner is so unsafe, why hasn’t it ever crashed?

      The late John Barnett, who died last March in an apparent suicide two days into a three-day deposition stemming from the insane practices he witnessed and tried vainly to stop as a quality manager at the Dreamliner’s final assembly plant in Charleston, South Carolina, had a ready answer for this question: Just wait a bit. Most planes aren’t designed to dive nosefirst into the ground like the 737 Max. It generally takes, he’d say with audible sadness, ten or twelve years for assembly-line sloppiness to culminate in a plane crash.”

      And ‘suicide’ my sweet aunt Fanny, so kudos to Tkakic for adding ‘apparent’ and linking to one of her previous articles on the topic.

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  4. Trees&Trunks

    OnlyFans is also no safer than banks nowadays and possibly the latest tech-precariat.
    The Bonnie Blue lady has been permanently banned.

    https://metro.co.uk/2025/06/12/bonnie-blue-gone-far-onlyfans-permanently-bans-platform-23396585/

    If your business is dependent on a platform, you don’t have a business.

    On the other hand, the OnlyFans technological functions should be very easy to replicate. If she earns the money she says she does, she can build her own site and attract other high performers.

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    1. The Rev Kev

      I can see how this will play out going forward-

      2025 – ‘Hey honey, I just found grandma’s foto from the 1920s when she was a flapper. Cool hat she’s wearing.’

      2075 – ‘Hey, honey, I just found grandma’s OnlyFans account from the 2020s. Umm, nevermind.’

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      1. Neutrino

        Or have to discount fares for certain planes like the 787, or some lingering concerns over the 737-Max?

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        2. scott s.

          Personally, I would be more concerned about the quality of the wetware in the front seats than the software.

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    2. ChrisFromGA

      BA stock price Jan 2020: $330/share

      BA stock price today: $202/share (Pre-market)

      S&P up roughly 100% in the same time period.

      BA stock has been a complete dog and under-performed the S&P over longer time periods.

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      1. griffen

        I love to quote the excellent movie Wall Street…where a young analyst pitches his stock ideas to middle 80s investing icon Gordon Gekko….

        “it’s a dog with fleas, pal”
        Or
        “and if you want a friend, get a dog…”

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    2. JohnA

      AI is banned for racehorses, not sure about other horses in general. However, these two look a bit too stocky for the turf. And impossible to see if the male is intact, as it were. Tis a mystery perhaps.

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    3. Old Jake

      More likely both are mares in a herd, the stallion having been moved on to other places for stud services.

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  7. ciroc

    >Mossad set up drone base in Iran, UAVs took out missile launchers overnight

    According to the official, Mossad agents set up a drone base on Iranian soil near Tehran. The drones were activated overnight, striking surface-to-surface missile launchers aimed at Israel.

    In addition, vehicles carrying weapons systems were smuggled into Iran.

    These systems took out Iran’s air defenses and gave Israeli planes air supremacy and freedom of action over Iran.

    Ukrainians and Israelis invented the same tactic around the same time. What a coincidence!

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  8. Trees&Trunks

    The Armenian gangs:

    ”ripping off Amazon for $83 million in an elaborate scheme during which his crew “enrolled with Amazon as carriers, contracted for trucking routes, and then, while transporting the goods, diverged from the route and stole all or part of the shipment,”

    I fully support this if it hurts Amazon. Well deserved pain for a company inflicting pain on its workers.

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    1. Wukchumni

      I knew somebody in LA that really despised the mostly ex-Soviet era Armenians that settled there.

      He used to say:

      ‘Mean is their middle name.’

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      2. wanabbruin

        Huh! The Armenians I knew in LA and the one I met in New York, or from New York, were all really cool.

        edit: Oops! This is jonboinAR. That’s my sports-message-board user name. Sorry!

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  9. MicaT

    The normal flap position for a 787 on take off is 5° as is most airliners. It is not normal at all to have almost max flaps on take off as the Asia article says, way too much drag.

    We will find out the take off info soon from actual airplane experts. What would the actual take off distance be with the specific weight, weather, etc.
    what is the takeoff reject specifics. Do the flaps ( which from the low quality video you can’t tell if the flaps are at 5° or zero) have an indicator. We will find out how the systems work on the 787. How they are redundant, how many failure modes would have to occur to cause a problem.
    Speculation is not helpful

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    1. mrsyk

      Quote published by the NY Post, from last night,

      The Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliner appeared to not achieve sufficient thrust as it lumbered down nearly the full length of an 11,000-foot runway, a distance that should have been more than enough to take off, said Bob Mann, head of aviation consultant RW Mann & Co.

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      1. The Rev Kev

        They had enough time to send out a ‘mayday’ so it sounds like whatever happened was happening during their whole take-off sequence and late enough for them to pass the point of no return. Poor buggers.

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        1. mrsyk

          Going too slow to get off the ground, too fast to abort.
          When I die on an airplane, I demand at least a half minute of free fall for some final reflections.

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          1. The Rev Kev

            Feel sorry for the guy that somehow survived. His brother was also aboard and he may have a massive survivor’s guilt problem going forward.

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            1. Wukchumni

              Very similar story to the lone survivor of a jet that crashed in Czechoslovakia in 1972, she was a stewardess.

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            2. JohnA

              Reminds me a bit of the film Intacto, starring Max von Sydow, about trading in luck with people who are incredibly lucky.

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              1. Michaelmas

                If we’re going to talk fictive non-documentary type movies, I’d recommend Fearless, from 1993 and one of Peter Weir and Jeff Bridges’s best efforts.

                Maybe a career best for both of them, actually, as its theme is the extraordinary psychological and spiritual effects of surviving a plane crash in which almost everyone else — including people you were close to — dies horribly. It goes places you wouldn’t expect, certainly from a Hollywood movie.

                Those who’ve seen it will remember it.

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    2. PlutoniumKun

      Early commentators are pointing to the flaps as the issue – it seems from the video clips that they were fully retracted when the crash occurred and so a lack of lift (i.e. a flat stall) was the ultimate cause of the crash. This points to either a serious error by the pilots, or some form of multiple systems/power failure.

      Its an unfortunate coincidence that in links yesterday here there was an article on the multiple crashes in the early days of the B-17 which were attributed to bad cockpit design (stressed crews confusing the controls for flaps and landing gear). There may have been a different root cause, but the outcome seems to have been very similar.

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      1. The Rev Kev

        I hope that it does not turn out to be another Boeing 737 MAX design flaw. And hopefully the cockpit voice black box survived.

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        1. ChrisFromGA

          It was a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, so the MAX is not involved.

          But that doesn’t rule out another design flaw in the Dreamliner series.

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          1. The Rev Kev

            No, what I meant was that it turned out that it was an inbuilt design flaw like happened with the MAX and that you also have the same with the Dreamliner. This is Boeing that we are talking about here after all.

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            1. scott s.

              If you’re looking for something with no possible “inbuilt design flaw” I think you will have a long wait. Best we can say is that we have, over time, developed processes to reduce the realization of flaws.

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        2. PlutoniumKun

          From what I can see from Flightradar, it was a 12 year old aircraft, which would make it one of the first of the major batches of 787s- they started operations in 2011, but fully ramped up to production around 2013. Most aircraft require a full refit at 12 years old – its not clear if this particular 787 had its full refit – I assume this is one of the key things that will have to be examined.

          I doubt if there are any design flaws in the 787 – they’ve accumulated millions of hours of (up to now) safe flying. But there have always been concerns about build quality, and it can take years for inbuilt flaws to become apparent. But you’d expect a good quality maintenance regime to spot these in time.

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    3. scott s.

      <"Speculation is not helpful"

      Not helpful to whom? I find it very helpful. Why? Because it forces thinking in a systems approach and I build a fault tree mentally. Various observers contribute background that can help prune the tree. Of course there is going to be uninformed or intentionally misleading speculation but I find it isn't that hard to figure out which voices to discount.

      Over time as new evidence becomes available we narrow down the possibilities, in some cases like AF 447 might take years or for MH 370 maybe speculation is all we're left with.

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  10. upstater

    Re. Delusion or Design? Rethinking the Logic of Madness Mad in America

    Requires registration and payment. But the few accessible paragraphs and underlying referenced abstract are probably all that is needed. Physical or mental stress can cause episodic psychosis and delusions. But chronic psychosis are a disabling dysfunction. As a “coping strategy, or a movement toward the goal of reconciling “anomalous experiences” with routine life” it is a big fail.

    Have the authors of the referenced article ever lived with or cared for a schizophrenic with florid delusions? The streets and prisons are unfortunately filled with mentally ill people.

    Sure, recognize that some schizophrenics are “sensitive people in a cruel world”, as one schizophrenic described his condition. The majority, however, do not have tidy explanations. And a person in a constant state of delusion needs compassionate medical and social care.

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  11. ex-PFC Chuck

    Exclusive: Trump administration tells migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela their legal status is terminated CNN

    Does this mean that Mark Rubio will be sent back to Havana?

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  12. The Rev Kev

    “New simulations show how much colder European winters would get if AMOC collapses”

    Kinda expecting something like these results but what should happen next is for a study to be commissioned on the effects on agriculture in these regions. It sounds like that there will have to be a massive reorganization of what is possible to grow in these regions based on those temperatures.

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    1. mrsyk

      Considering the track record of prediction modeling of the climate one can only conclude it will be worse than predicted, but in what way? There are hints in that last paragraph,
      The researchers also note that temperatures in the summer would not change much because temperatures over the continent during the warm months are not impacted by ocean temperatures. That means that the contrast between summer and winter would be extreme. Additionally, other models have suggested Europe would have less precipitation if the AMOC were to collapse, along with a speed-up in sea-level rise.
      Do I smell smoke?

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  13. ChrisFromGA

    Noem

    Melody

    I hear a scrum,
    wrestlin’ in,
    the press conference,
    Kristi dear …

    Boy, mercury’s shootin’ through every degree
    Oh, girl dancin’ down those dirty and fascist trails
    Shootin’ from the hip, cuffing angry Senate twits
    Around the world, her trip begins with a glove kiss

    [Chorus]

    Noem, if you want to
    Noem, you nasty girl
    Noem, if you want to
    Without scruples, without brains
    Noem, if you want to
    Noem you nasty girl!
    Noem, if you want to, without anything but the cuffs you’ll feel

    Skip the Miranda rights strip to the Cuban sunset
    Yeah, ride the Airbus to Guantanamo
    Shootin’ from the hip, cuffing angry Senate twits
    Around the world, her trip begins with a glove kiss

    Noem, if you want to
    Noem, you nasty girl
    Noem, if you want to
    Without scruples, without brains
    Noem, if you want to
    Noem you nasty girl!
    Noem, if you want to, without anything but the cuffs you’ll feel

    Fly the great big sky, see the great big sea
    Kick through meat plant doors, bustin’ legal boundaries
    Shootin’ from the hip, in her Annie Oakley dress
    Around the world, her trip begins with a glove kiss

    Noem, if you want to
    Noem, you nasty girl
    Noem, if you want to
    Without scruples, without brains
    Noem, if you want to
    Noem you nasty girl!
    Noem, if you want to, without anything but the cuffs you’ll feel

    Shootin’ from the hip, like a modern Bernie Goetz!
    Shootin’ from the hip, like a modern Bernie Goetz!
    Shootin’ from the hip, like a modern Bernie Goetz!
    Oh boy

    Shootin’ from the hip, cuffing pols and immigrants!
    Ow!

    Shootin’ from the hip, cuffing pols and immigrants!

    (You go girl, Noem! You go girl, Noem!)

    Shootin’ from the hip, cuffing pols and immigrants!

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  14. Terry Flynn

    Poundland in UK is being sold for (ironically) £1 (probably due to a boatload of debt on the books). I knew this but it finally hit the trashy daytime TV mum watches so I moved fast. Mask on, cap on and stick in hand, I went to our local branch. B&M are major competitor and opened new branch next door just a year ago.

    Whilst we don’t know that our local Poundland will be one of the branches to be closed, everyone round here is pretty sure it must be. It was packed. I stocked up on toiletries, miscellaneous stuff and (from experience) the t-shirts and underwear that have maintained their quality for a surprisingly long time and bought more.

    Then I passed the independent pound shop. Last trading day will be 30th June. This suburb was posh when I was a kid. It’s turning into a suburban slum.

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  15. The Rev Kev

    “The Meta AI App Lets You ‘Discover’ People’s Bizarrely Personal Chats”

    This is really bizarre this as who would expect private chats being shown to the whole world. Oh wait, it’s Meta. Its always been their aim since they were just Facebook that everything is open to everybody. Who knew that Zuckerberg would bring back the party line-

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_(telephony)

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  16. Wukchumni

    If the Zionists had waited a day to attack Iran, they could have used Triskaidekaphobia as a reason, but it was only Riskaidekaphobia.

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  17. herman_sampson

    Trump card: it just says 5M or 5,000,000 but no dollar sign – is it dollars, pesos, shekels of silver, barrels of oil? Or it the number of cards DJT wants to sell, to the highest bidder?

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  18. Tom Stone

    Is it Covid?
    The widespread reckless and irresponsible behavior of World “Leaders”, to the point of insanity, is striking.
    These people have been repeatedly “Vaccinated”, however they have taken few if any other precautions to avoid infection and most have had repeated infections.
    The simplest explanation is Covid induced Agnosognosia.

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    1. Old Jake

      Interesting. Ian Welsh expounds today on the rank stupidity that is running rampant among world leaders (apparently excluding Putin and Xi). He actually singles out Iran, but also points to the UK, US, and iirc Israel. Of course that’s political leaders. If it’s a real pattern other kinds of leaders might be expected to follow the pattern. Ackerman (OpenAI)?

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  19. Lisel Blash

    How Kamala Harris is processing the LA unrest

    “First, she’s coming at this as a lifelong Californian…”

    Melanie Mason who wrote this, is not aware that Harris grew up in Montreal,
    that’s in Canada, not California, from fourth grade through college?

    And this is their “Senior reporter?”

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  20. moog

    Meanwhile, in UK Ministry of Defence.

    https://x.com/DefenceHQ/status/1933096580476796932
    Russia has suffered 1 million combat losses in Ukraine since the full-scale invasion.
    This is the devastating human cost Putin is inflicting on his own people.
    This invasion is a betrayal of his people who are bearing the true cost of this war.
    #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

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  21. XXYY

    Did a hydraulic failure doom Air India Flight 171? Asia Times

    Looking closely at the video linked in this article, it’s clear that the flaps at the rear edge of the plane’s wings were not deployed on takeoff. This is a pretty well-known cause for commercial aircraft failing to achieve altitude after takeoff; the flaps-extended configuration is the only way the jet liner’s wings can produce enough lift to get into the air at the relatively slow takeoff speed.

    Seems pretty certain this will be identified as the cause of the crash. This may be an error by the pilots who messed up the takeoff checklist, or there may be some technical reason the flaps didn’t deploy after being commanded to by the pilots. Most modern planes have alarms that go off if the flaps aren’t deployed during takeoff, though this doesn’t seem to stop it from happening every now and then.

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  22. Tom Stone

    I have been considering the effects of the assault on Alex Padilla ( Who is a corrupt political hack) and I believe that there are a lot of very serious conversations going on within the military, and not just the brass.
    It also seems inevitable that we will go to the guns, and there are NO good outcomes to that.
    The feds do have total information awareness, they do have Thomas Fugate ( Age 22) and his magical AI determining who is likely to be a Domestic violent extremist, Law enforcement does have tanks, machine guns, grenade launchers, Etc.
    However there are @ 22,000,000 factory built AR15’s, a large but unknown # of home built AR15’s, no less than 5,000,000 AK variants, SKS, Ruger mini 30’s and mini 14 rifles…and several million veterans of Amerca’s forever wars who swore an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.
    Chaos is not controllable and once you invite Murphy to the party he won’t leave until he is damn well ready.
    Anosognosia?
    It is certainly insanity of some sort.

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