These Moths in Australia Use the Milky Way as a GPS to Fly 1,000 Kilometers ZME Science
Axolotl Discovery Brings Us Closer Than Ever to Regrowing Human Limbs Science Alert
MIT chemical engineers make potentially game-changing breakthrough with crude oil: ‘Creates a new way to apply it’ The Cool Down
Pandemics
New data show COVID-19 triggers spike in new diabetes cases News Medical
Neuroimmune pathophysiology of long COVID Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. Thread summary:
A major new review from Yale (Moen, Baker, Iwasaki, 2025) offers the most comprehensive picture yet of what SARS-CoV-2 does to the nervous system.
The conclusion is stark:
Long COVID is a chronic neuroimmune disorder affecting brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves.🧵— Zdenek Vrozina (@ZdenekVrozina) June 19, 2025
20 Signs You’re “Still Coviding” in the Friction Economy Hearts on the Horizon
Climate/Environment
California’s 2025 wildfire season was already going to be dangerous. Trump has made it worse Los Angeles Times
Erick Rapidly Strengthens into a Category 4 Hurricane, Strikes Southwest Mexico as a Major Hurricane Eye on the Tropics
Satellite data indicates recent Arctic peatland expansion with warming Nature
Stumped! Climate skeptics are misinterpreting research about mid-Holocene forests uncovered by receding glaciers The Trade Off
The Geological Sublime Harper’s
Water
The West’s ‘Climate Mayors’ call for federal help as Colorado River flows decline Los Angeles Times
China?
Chinese industrial maximalism: Lu Feng High Capacity. “Renowned Chinese scholar Lu Feng makes the case for why China needs more–not less–industrial development, particularly in its showdown with the US.”
OECD does some of the best data work on China & industrial policy.
Here they look at 14 manufacturing industries and 482 top firms—⅔ global output, ½ in OECD and ⅓ in China.
In nearly all industries, Chinese firms invest more, are more productive, but earn less profit. pic.twitter.com/u8lPsk21Ou
— Jonathon P Sine (@JonathonPSine) June 19, 2025
The Western Roots of China and the Chinese Roots of the West — Part I Hungarian Conservative
India
China’s chokehold on rare earths & its impact on India (and others) Indialog
Syraqistan
UNICEF: Over 5,000 Gaza Children Treated for Malnutrition in May Alone Common Dreams
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WHAT I HAVE BEEN TOLD IS COMING IN IRAN Seymour Hersh. Heavy American bombing as early as this weekend.
Trump to decide on Iran action within two weeks, White House says Axios. Well, this weekend is within two weeks.
Trump caution on Iran strike linked to doubts over ‘bunker buster’ bomb, officials say The Guardian. “The effectiveness of GBU-57s has been a topic of deep contention at the Pentagon since the start of Trump’s term, according to two defense officials who were briefed that perhaps only a tactical nuclear weapon could be capable of destroying Fordow because of how deeply it is located.”
Seyed Mohammad Marandi: Iran Prepares for War with America Glenn Diesen (Video). A grim prognosis: “The only path forward now is reckless escalation.”
Israel’s attack on Iran: The violent new world being born is going to horrify you Jonathan Cook
Iran FM set to meet EU officials to discuss de-escalation The Cradle
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F-22s From America’s Elite 1st Fighter Wing Heading Towards Iran: What Missions Can They Accomplish? Military Watch
How the US has shifted military jets and ships in the Middle East AP
US military aircraft no longer visible at base in Qatar: satellite images AFP
Mapped: The US bases Iran may strike if war with Israel escalates New Arab
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Treasury empties reserves to finance Iran operation Globes
PM: Israel will ‘hit all nuclear facilities,’ has destroyed half of Iran’s launchers Times of Israel
Iran used under 5% of its latent capacity against ‘Israel’: Rezaei Al Mayadeen
Iran Firing More Advanced Missiles as Israel Is Running Low on Interceptors Antiwar
Police halt broadcast of foreign outlets reporting from missile impact sites Times of Israel
‘Like the sky was torn open’: At Turkey border, Iranians recall terror in Tehran Turkish Minute
🟢 One missile. One hit.
Iran launched a single missile in its latest wave. The Israeli military confirmed it had detected the launch and announced it had activated air defense systems to intercept it.
They failed.
The missile struck in Be’er Sheva, in southern Israel.… pic.twitter.com/JPEYUhheQm
— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) June 20, 2025
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IRGC media report effort to mobilize Qom clerics for compromise with Israel Iran International
How Mossad’s network of agents helped Israel strike inside Iran The New Arab
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World War III Update Larry Johnson
Putin, Xi criticise Israel’s attacks on Iran, urge de-escalation Al Jazeera
China’s Influence Grows in Middle East: Peace Efforts Between Israel and Iran Modern Diplomacy vs. Israel-Iran war undermines Beijing’s Mideast diplomatic push France24
Boeing ghost flights: China-Iran air route raises eyebrows in Israel conflict India Today vs. Watch out for flight tracking images showing Chinese cargo planes landing in Iran France24
Xi Shows No Sign of Rescuing Iran as Trump Ramps Up Pressure Bloomberg
unconfirmed reports that two Chinese electronic surveillance ships, 855 and 815A, are in the Persian Gulf.
Satellite photos claimed to be from 6/16 are the source.
815A can track planes, missiles, guide missiles as well as conduct electromagnetic interference and intelligence… pic.twitter.com/AG7uCAtRUh
— ADAM (@AdameMedia) June 19, 2025
European Disunion
Spain threatens to block NATO’s 5% defense spending target El Pais
MPs approve Finland’s withdrawal from Ottawa landmine treaty YLE
Old Blighty
Labour pushes on with ‘catastrophic’ disability benefit cuts: ‘The government is just not listening’ Big Issue
Ready for War? London Review of Books
New Not-So-Cold War
Russian economy on brink of recession — economic development minister TASS
EU devises scheme to squeeze more profit from Russian frozen assets Politico
“Liberation Day”
‘Feelings-based recession’: More Americans fearful of finances despite economic data Housing Wire
Recovery from the next recession will depend on state and local governments Money and Things
EU increasingly resigned to 10% baseline tariff in US trade talks, European sources say Reuters
Trump 2.0
New Map Shows Public Land For Sale Under Senate Budget Reconciliation Bill The Cocklebur
“But think of how many Walmarts could we put there the GDP would be amazing”
No. pic.twitter.com/MPKZyTziCs
— UDGuy (@UtahDroneGuy) June 19, 2025
Trump’s Bid to End Union Contracts Is Unprecedented, Judge Says Bloomberg
Trump on Juneteenth: US has ‘too many non-working holidays’ The Hill
Democrats en déshabillé
How Democratic Party Leaders Quietly Support Trump’s March to War With Iran The Intercept
MAHA
The Trump administration is trying to bring back asbestos Fast Company
Antitrust
Elon Musk’s X to offer investment and trading in ‘super app’ push FT
How Corporations Can Block Abundance The Economic Populist
Fahrenheit 451
As Hillsborough book battle unfolds, other districts wonder who’s next Tampa Bay Times
Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin Public Domain Review
Police State Watch
Appeals court extends order allowing Trump to deploy National Guard to L.A. CBS News
Trump using National Guard for deportation work could go into ‘uncharted territory’ USA Today
Dodgers turn federal agents away from stadium, team says. Crowd briefly protests outside LAist
AI
The real race to Artificial Intelligence is about cheap electricity. Here’s how that’s going. Kevin Walmsley
Eat or be eaten by AI, Amazon CEO warns staff The Register
Creators say they didn’t know Google uses YouTube to train AI CNBC
Abortion
Abortion Clinics Are Closing, Even in States Where Abortion Is Legal MedPage Today
Imperial Collapse Watch
Class Warfare
The Number of Unhoused Young Children Is at Crisis Level. It’s Set to Get Worse. Truthout
Toward an Architecture of Belonging Orion
Antidote du jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
The Stupid, It Burns
Link
America cannot rule over this planet
Our Empire Of Lies never learns
One seed cannot rule the whole pomegranate
The stupid, the stupid, it burns!
Our President talks like a cheap movie mobster
Then TACO makes sudden U turns
His face painted orange like a New England lobster
The stupid, the stupid, it burns!
Israelis need something to crawl underneath
The missiles and drones land by turns
The Iron Dome’s only a colander, see?
The stupid, the stupid, it burns!
Iran has no shortage of missiles to chuck
You needn’t have any concerns
You started this war when your sneak attack struck
The stupid, the stupid, it burns!
Iran will shut down the Strait of Hormuz
All shipping of oil then adjourns
Ten dollar gas will be our headline news
The stupid, the stupid, it burns!
The carrier fleet that America sails
So bold through the water it churns
Iranian missiles will sink these fat whales
The stupid, the stupid, it burns!
A war run by CIA/MI6 spooks
The dread of the Cold War returns
They figure they’ll win it by using small nukes
The stupid, the stupid, it burns!
When Empires fall down, they go out with a whimper
A fact every wise man discerns
America’s joystick has never been limper
The stupid, the stupid, it burns!
“Trump on Juneteenth: US has ‘too many non-working holidays’ ”
Trump has, however, agreed to keep all those holidays – so long as they are are rescheduled to fall on a Sunday. ‘It’s what workers want’ he claims.
I had a former employer who had investment and insurance operations globally. It was always surprising at the holiday count being quite close, in comparing the mandated holiday schedule for investment markets here in the US vs say the Netherlands or the EU. As recently as August 2019 I was flabbergasted to learn of a UK banking holiday in late August. I thought that they were pulling a prank.
Work, business and commerce in the US never really rests though….does it ? Lambert’s rules now come to mind …Alas so it goes.
Trump on calendar: US has ‘too many non-working weekends’
“Too many non-working weekends in America. It is costing our Country $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to keep all of these businesses closed,” the president wrote in a Truth Social post. “The workers don’t want it either,” he added.
While I fully admit that Trump has easily spent more time with the riff raff than the majority of America’s politicians his time with them was also structured. So I have no problem asking when the hell did those millions of workers tell him they don’t want all these federal holidays?
Imaginary voices in his head?
If I was dictator, I would want Juneteenth celebrated on 5 July, so the US gets something like a “golden week”.
of course, I’d get yelled by for being culturally insensitive….though I think 7/5 is just as fitting as a random day in June that it celebrated because of the random progress of one military unit
If I was Trump, I would make a day have more hours, and a month have more days, and a year have more months, so businesses could make more $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS per day, and per month, and per year. I would also sign a decree that makes π rational number, so that our Country could save $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS on calculation and education, and baking.
China tried something similar to that in the 1950’s with the “Great Leap Forward”. One of the features of the plan was to create an eight day week. IIRC the days were shortened to 21 hours but the workday of course wasn’t. So instead of working six days a week they could now work 7 days a week thereby increasing productivity. After a drought and other issues with the plan, around 20 million people died and the 8 day week disappeared.
Catherine Austin Fitts and John Titus on what’s behind the US/Isr attack on Iran. Short, public excerpt from a longer video. 3+ minutes. Scroll down to the embedded video.
Where’s a False Flag When Israel Needs One?
https://solari.com/money-markets-report-june-19-2025/
I’ve noticed Reza Pahlavi, the overthrown Shah’s oldest son, popping up on the news as an important person recently. Odd. / ;)
From what I have read, in Iran Reza Pahlavi has all the appeal of a three week old sardine sandwich. This war is uniting the Iranians and they know Pahlavi for the traitor that he is. Even the female activists jailed by the government have written a letter condemning Israel and ‘foreign governments’-
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jailed-female-activists-iran-issue-letter-condemning-israeli-attacks
Pahlavi should sign some agreement with Navalnaya, to show that he means business.
> Pahlavi has all the appeal of a three week old sardine sandwich
He’s a trading sardine, not an eating sardine.
At least they are open about big tech being hand-in-glove with DoD:
US Army appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI execs as Lt. Colonels antiwar
If Mayo Pete and Hunter Biden could get commissions, why not?
It’s another way to shovel more tax money into corrupt oligarchs’ pockets. Get a commission, wait a while, then “retire” and get YA check.
Probably also makes it easier to get permission to view classified material, including info about financial markets to make juicy insider-info trades.
The Orangeman and his henchmen are inventing all kinds of new corruption avenues! One of the only things they’re good at.
So technically they could be ordered into combat? Hmm.
Or they could be bombed straight away just where they are now, along with the whole building. That are the rules I learned watching Israel and the rest of the West.
“Trump to decide on Iran action within two weeks, White House says”
I can think of four reasons why Trump announced this. The first is that based on his business career, putting off events means that he may be able to improve his own personal position. The second is that the Pentagon told him that they need to time to scrounge up all the gear that they will need from all the bases scattered around the world. The third is to put pressure on Israel – to give him leverage on them – by letting them be whacked by another two weeks of battle damage while their stocks of anti-missile missiles hit the Bingo level. And fourth he is trying to lull the Iranians once more into thinking that he won’t do anything soon so that he can Shock and Awe them with a military strike to make them surrender. Personally I am going with Door Number Four.
And Iran’s meeting with the foreign ministers of France, Germany and the UK in Geneva? A perfect time to whack the Iranians while they are negotiating.
You’re right to point out your Reason # 3: ‘The third is to put pressure on Israel – to give him leverage on them – by letting them be whacked by another two weeks of battle damage while their stocks of anti-missile missiles hit the Bingo level.’ Under the Trump administration, Kissinger’s dictum,”It’s dangerous to be America’s enemy, but fatal to be its friend,’ now even applies to Israel to some extent.
You’re wrong to apply the rhetorical device of ‘Personally I am going with Door Number Four.’ All four options simultaneously are from Trump’s benefit from his POV. As Yves has remarked, Trump has a basic low cunning which often eludes allegedly smarter folks.
Actually you are quite right. They could all of them be true at the same time, though the last one has a slippery time element to it. Thanks for pointing it out.
I think that DJT’s ego may be a “wild card.” If he is offended by a sense of having been manipulated into supporting the launching of the 6/13 war on the theory that US would not need to intervene, only to find within a few days, “oops, we miscalculated and US has to intervene after all”, he might want to punish the people who manipulated him.
Does he really want to take US to war to save the political career of the Prime Minister of Israel? This is a negative-sum game, IMO, and someone is going to be badly damaged in the end.
A fifth option, probably unlikely, is to go back to the JCPOA “plus” style proposal that was in view until Israel sank the negotiations, and ram that down Israel’s throat. Netanyahu’s government falls, war is averted, and DJT gets his Nobel Peace Prize, the second US president to do so, and the first to have actually earned it.
er, the 3rd President, Teddy was first.
As Iranian officials have said they knew since March that there will be war, but did not expect Israel to attack during the negotiations, I doubt they will make the same mistake again.
It’s noteworthy that Iran has so far committed only a fraction of it’s firepower and none of it’s ‘allies’, while Israel is operating at the limits of it’s capacity and US can’t really bring much more to the table – I believe against Yemen this year US Navy managed 20-25 sorties per day and actually lost several fighters while doing it. Israel is doing 3-4 times more and achieving nothing much except uniting Iranians like never before.
Full bore a CVN can generate about 20 strike sorties per 24 hour cycle!
The range of a loaded sortie is small, requiring they send up S-3 or F-18 buddy refuelers for each sortie.
US had strike packages from Djibouti, which also required refuelers but likely KC-135.
A CVN battle group is very expensive for thumping sand. All cost plus good fees!
Hitting Iran will be same: a lot of expense! To try and assassinate a 90 years old cleric. Other objectives are more unobtainable.
US could not “do” the Houthi.
Re deception–of course the Iranians claim they weren’t deceived by the first deception and Trump did tell people to start evacuating before last Friday. Apparently what surprised the Iranians was the initial on the ground sabotage and localized attacks, not the Israeli air attack.
But now that the previous Trump lies about negotiation have been exposed one would think he’s not going to try the same by saying two weeks and then attacking tonight. And surely to start an American war with Iran more than a week of preparation will be needed. Also, interestingly, members of the UK Parliament now say that an attack from UK controlled Diego Garcia cannot happen without a Parliament vote since it would make the UK a party to the war.
I doubt that that would stop Starmer pushing the UK into taking part in this war. A coupla days ago I heard that he was sending one of their two carries to this region. He already has the UK involved in the genocide in Gaza so taking part in an attack on Iran would be no biggie for him.
Seems that the Israeli’s have been releasing the same edited video of their strikes in Iran, tweaking them to make them look different and passing them off as multiple strikes:
Murtaza Hussain twitter
And from Simplicius:
Still no sources from Iran (at least on Twatter) of visible confirmation of Israeli aircraft actually flying over the country. Considering Iranian airspace is closed ATM, it would be pretty easy to see if it was happening. Seems that Israel’s claims of air superiority over Iran are more PR than fact, and this suggests that Iranian air defences must still be active and potent enough for the Israeli’s being unwilling to risk even their ‘stealth’ aircraft.
The reports on two Chinese electronic surveillance ships operating in the Persian gulf, assuming it’s accurate, might be pretty big if it’s possible for them to relay radar and intelligence info over to the Iranians. They would be pretty ‘safe’ assets positioned right beyond Iranian borders that would cover a huge swath of southwestern Iranian airspace, I don’t think the Israeli-US forces would dare risk attacking them. Untargettable early warning radars right outside Iranian territory.
People’s Art of War – 2x PLA 815A Electronic Surveillance ships
Maybe those ships are a warning to Bibi, there to support Pakistan if things go pear shaped and Pakistan gets drawn in.
That should read “warning to Modi”
US working to evacuate citizens wishing to leave Israel, ambassador says
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-working-evacuate-citizens-wishing-leave-israel-ambassador-says-2025-06-18/
It’s almost like… idk… USians are being held hostage.
…”Welcome to the Hotel California…Such a lovely place… You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave…”
I suggest Ambassador Huckabee load up on that Relaxium ( I believe that is the brand ) sleep aid. Not sure if he is still pitching that in advertisements or maybe not, given his appointment.
I’ve seen comments here and abroad concerned about Israel committing a “false flag” against US interests. Maybe this is that?
>Trump caution on Iran strike linked to doubts over ‘bunker buster’ bomb, officials say The Guardian
Last night Greenwald had a vid by Tulsi where she expressed dire concern about Elites and Warmongers and the use of nukes. The vid may be her resignation tome, a cryptic disclosure. Each time I believe the zio-xtians have reached peak depravity I’m proven wrong. If the GBU-57 can’t take out Fordow (and why is that necessary when the zios have at least 90 thermos and having a few is the only way to not get invaded), then of course you’re going to consider using one. But once that genie is out of the bottle, he’s not going back in.
Peak depravity may be coming into view.
Been wondering about that too. I mean, why are they even telling us about these war room “doubts” over whether the bunker-buster can really bust the bunker ?
It’s almost like a warm-up for some forthcoming lame excuse that they “had no choice” but to use tactical nukes. Again, never mind that the DNI doesn’t believe the Iranians even have any nukes down there.
Fortunately these ‘doubts’ are being removed – by sidelining Gabi Tulsard and Pete Hegseth. So-
‘Trump is now said to be relying on a smaller, more experienced ‘Tier One’ advisory group – comprising Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and Joint Chiefs Vice Chair General Dan Caine – which is now reportedly shaping US policy on Iran, rather than the traditional civilian defense and intelligence leadership.’
https://www.rt.com/news/619904-trump-gabbard-hegseth-iran/
As Gabbard and Hegseth are supposed to be responsible for giving the latest intelligence, then technically Trump Tier One group has no intelligence.
Gabbard and Hegseth were chosen by Trump because they were media personalities – they are a joke in terms of managing large organizations. You cannot read much meaning into into their freeze-out.
Gabbard is a very well know figure going back many, many years. Hegseth? Never even heard of him until last year.
I thought Hegseth was a DEI hire, they needed an illustrated man, not an illustrious man.
The vid is at 39:10
Will Tulsi Remain as DNI? Is Bombing Hospitals Permitted Only When Israel Does It? Plus: Glenn Takes Your Questions on Locals | SYSTEM UPDATE #472
the bunker buster bomb bwasn’t designed to destroy a modern, peer underground complex.
it was an ad hoc, improvised solution to bury alive insurgents in Afghan caves.
the West loves its wunderwaffe; and BiBi, politicans, media, think tanks thinkthat the GBu 57 is it. shaking my head when Trump is one of the few having 2nd doubts versus all the supposedly “adults on the room” in Panem Capitol District are silent.
no matter what happens, tulsi is playing her cards right. if thereis a US attack, she better resign the next morning
Note that igneous rock like granite is two or three times harder to penetrate than reinforced concrete.
One GBU 57 has zero chance of hurting a buried facility, 2 a 10 to minus 6 chance, 40 a 10 to minus 5.
see how General Dynamic design big bombs, aka business development.
And shoot down airplanes good for Boeing Lockheed and Northrup…..
Last tunnel hunt on Houthi was one shoot and give up!
Trump is maskarova in chief.
See Russian bomber attack, see Jun 13 regime change attempt with talks schedule in Oman for 15 May.
Two week lull……..
The country least reliable to deal with wants to “give diplomacy” cover a chance again!
“Can;\’t we all just get along” while I deploy the bombers…..
Re: Xi Shows No Sign of Rescuing Iran as Trump Ramps Up Pressure
Sounds like Bloomberg stuffed hopium into their pipe and smoked it, followed up by a couple of shots of wishful thinking.
I have an Indian friend who claims that China helped Pakistan defend itself from India in their short war, and China is calling in their chips and telling Pakistan to support Iran.
Iran/Pakistan are proxies that China can use to shoot down US planes.
Oddly enough, Iranian officials are saying they have been offered help, but Iran doesn’t need any at the moment.
Of course “The Cause” rules so strong in Israel and US I doubt they’d be swayed by anything – they think in terms of Good and Evil, and the Good will always prevail…
So there’s no point in trying to point out the escalation dominance to them, really.
“These Moths in Australia Use the Milky Way as a GPS to Fly 1,000 Kilometers”
Not only they great navigators but for thousands of years the Aborigines found them to be good eating and would feast on them when they arrived-
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-15/bogong-moth-find-reveals-indigenous-food-practices-cloggs-cave/13139704
https://australian.museum/blog/amri-news/this-month-in-archaeology-the-oldest-archaeological-evidence-of-insect-foods-on-stone-artefacts-in-the-world/
Short Zeitgeist Report from the Rancid Underbelly of the North American Deep South.
Your humble servant was out and about yesterday. While indulging a long established weakness for french fries, I went to the dreaded Mickey D’s. I paid with cash. The cashier returned no pennies. “Pennies are being phased out” was the tale told. The change was rounded down. I can see this as a source of “windfall profit” for retail vendors. Also, the prices were up again. (Almost all of the retail food vendors here have “Help Wanted” signs in the windows yet again.)
It must be Summertime. There were unusually large cohorts of homeless people congregating at the Bigg Boxx stores. I was panhandled yesterday at: the Public Library, the Winn Dixie store, the Walmart, the gas station, and our front door. My contact at the local thrift store and homeless shelter franchise stated that food donations have dropped considerably. This is not a previously seen seasonal variation in giving. Curiously, the thrift store was about the only place where I was not panhandled yesterday.
People seem to be stocking up on gasoline recently. The section in the WalMart that holds gas cans was empty. I saw a woman filling up two or three two and a half gallon gas cans when I filled up the vehicle’s gas tank. The cashier inside, (I pay with cash for gas, it’s a long and sordid story,) said in response to my query that this had been happening slowly but steadily for a week now.
The sense of fear and unease is palpable “on the street.”
Stay safe. Focus on the important things in life.
I wasn’t quite a year old when the Cuban Missile Crisis hit, so memories are on the vague side, but my mom told me that she and every other hausfrau in LA denuded supermarkets of every possible canned or dried food, and then when it ended, they all returned said foodstuffs to the supermarkets for a refund, ha ha!
“they all returned said foodstuffs to the supermarkets for a refund”
I very much doubt this is still possible nowadays.
The few days after Hurricane Helene ripped through the Carolinas, the gas lines were long and slow moving. Most places were only accepting cash as card readers were generally inoperable. Granted that occurrence was late September, but the folks at the nearby QT said there was a sustained, high demand for running generators as the power was broadly out for nearly a week. Planning ahead perhaps for potential of gasoline shortages…maybe ?
Western NC got it worse from Helene of course, but downed trees were a huge issue here in the upstate region of South Carolina. I’m not seeing more panhandling myself but it is a constant or persistent theme at most gas stations. One local restaurant chain has finally dropped off the additional or one off $0.50 fee for eggs on breakfast items.
How about keeping a few pennies in your pocket for those dreaded Mickey D’s trips. They can’t legally refuse them can they?
Say safe comment colleague. And with summer the homeless footprint here in SC is up. There’s a guy living in his car in the library parking lot. As for McD I rarely go any more but have a penchant for the McDouble when on the road.
Gooooooooooood Moooooooooorning Fiatnam!
In what some are now calling a tragicomedy, bunker buster bombs were accidentally dropped on Illionaires’ lairs in Hawaii, New Zealand and Tierra del Fuego.
Luckily for the sum of all tiers, none of them were ensconced in them when the Heinz GBU-57s tore through what some experts guessed, might be decades worth of Charmin and vast oodles of Mountain House freeze dried meals, oh the humanity!
It’s hard to imagine that Trump will take us to war against Iran based on the intel of a foreign country while US intel still maintains Iran is not building a nuclear weapon nor does it plan to. Moreover, Iran has been open to negotiations and inspections.
George W requested and received from Congress the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution. Trump has done no such thing.
Should Trump not be impeached for his actions?
“The Trump administration is trying to bring back asbestos”
In other news, the Trump regime has announced that they intend on putting lead back into gasoline and making refrigerator and air-conditioner makers to use chlorofluorocarbons in their goods once more to Make America Great Again. Lead in paint and arsenic in wallpaper will be optional however.
It’s worse than you know, apparently he has authorized the use of lawn darts, klackers and more. Yeah, these were all considered pretty dangerous when we were kids, but the fact is that most of us survive childhood.
Missed the Executive Order banning bicycle helmets? We didn’t have them when I was a kid!
(Not that Trump ever owned much less rode a bicycle- he has disdain for the outdoors and exercise– unless it is a three-yard trek from the golf cart to the place he chooses to set his golf ball).
A Teddy Roosevelt he is not-
https://nationalparksadventure.com/the-camping-trip-that-changed-the-nation/
Roosevelt saw forests. Trump would only see board-feet.
Teddy
Leaded gasoline….if we go we do it 100%, nothing is half baked (!). OK I grant that RK gets to that one first, but I have to throw in a hearty “second”, cause like it was a good idea to begin with and such.
“We need more mercury in our light bulbs and in just about everything where you can put this beautiful liquid metal”, opines the President of the U.S.A, and adds “it would be a wonderful additive to a full range of children food. This will make babies great again and mercurial. We need children that can fight! Fight, fight, fight!!!”
“Contains no artificial coloring!”
Lead in paint optional, but lead water pipes mandatory.
America fallen to the assassination of spiritual leaders!
Hersch is saying assassinating a holy man is the most concrete objective for US!
He is correct! The vague tactics are expensive and flawed will work as well as the recurrent attampts on the Houthi.
Would US used a GBU 57 on the building they hope to catch Khameini in?
I did not open a “7 day free trial…..”
Someone on MoA reported the IDF rocketeers missed Khameinin by 15 minutes yesterday, any confirmation?
Make Assassination Great Again!
Wilkes-Booth!
We are coming full circle from Ḥashshāshīyīns of Persia around a millennium ago…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Assassins
‘Hersch is saying assassinating a holy man is the most concrete objective for US’
Didn’t they try doing that in about 33 AD? So how did that work out?
You win the thread, Reverend.
I think this is a big diversion.
IMHO, they intend to pound the shit out of Tehran. The noise about the nuclear sites is to get air defense assets concentrated there.
Israel got Hezbollah to stand down (it has not been defeated militarily) by doing that to Beirut..
A couple of things from Pars Today news agency. Or its Telegram channel, rather. Demonstrating, I think, the gamut of Iranian leadership’s thinking on the prospect for a negotiated ceasefire.
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IRGC head, general Mohsen Rezai, TV interview yesterday:
“…They said – if we negotiate, there will be no war. We negotiated – and the war started. Now, even if we conclude a ceasefire, in two months Israel will attack us again…”
“…Right now, the enemy is in a weak position. If a ceasefire is concluded, he will strengthen, and attack again…”
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Deputy foreign minister, TV interview today:
“…If the aggression stops, then diplomacy becomes a possible choice…”
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I mean, either the IRGC guy is posturing, or there is a real hardline core somewhere inside the government that wants this thing to go the distance. And I bet this core would welcome (!) and American attack, because one, it would strengthen their positions internally (probably), and two, it would untie their hands in inflicting maximum damage on Israel.
Separately, I have to stress that in his meeting with foreign journalists (and Alex Mercouris highlighted this in his video yesterday), Putin underscored, that Iran “did not ask” for Russian help, was “lukewarm” towards a proposal for joint air defense development, and so on. To be sure, there is a lot of history between Iran and Russia, much of it fairly antagonistic. I have no idea what their relationships with the Chinese is at the moment – the Russians claim that 90% of Iranian oil goes to China, so that’s a thing – but I am guessing that it is at least not so straightforward as between, say, China and Pakistan. So while some people are madly refreshing pictures of boat traffic over the Caspian (one of the logical routes for military supplies), something tells me that maybe the Iranians actually think they can kind of go it alone and outlast both the Israelis and the Americans. It would fit with the thinking of a generation of generals that “grew up” during the Iran-Iraq War, but ye gods, if I were in their position I’d have been hitting up both the Russiand and the Chinese for every iota of military tech I could get my hands on…
It’s fair to say that the moral authority of the religious leadership has been the baseline for not fully developing nuclear weapons in Iran. It may be that the moral authority also makes demands about not entangling with interests that do not share the same traditional foundation.
Politicians like less wide open America, land that I love now for sale
Stand beside her and guide her
Through the giveaway with a nod from above
From the mountains to the prairies
To the oceans white with foam
Politicians like less wide open America, my home sweet home
Politicians like less wide open America, my home sweet home
Here is a link to a Wilderness Society map, with analysis. Source- Western Watersheds Alliance
258 Millions acres— federal lands ARE the west- its heritage and identity. The Montana carve- out is such an insulting, disingenuous piece of excrement.
worth a watch. It is outrageous. Mike Lee needs to strike the language, and resign.
(Haw Haw Haw nagahappin- but I do not like signing his paycheck!)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLASAeyxLUn/?igsh=enpya2ZxZG03ZW9q
“This land was your land, Now it’s our land,
We don’t care for Your Sunset heart hands,
Go hike elsewhere, or maybe hike nowhere,”
All along it’s clear, we don’t need open space or trees or centuries old hardwood forests. Hey it’s like a plot from the Eastwood film, Pale Rider isn’t it ? \sarc
It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Gaza
Melody
It’s beginning to look a lot like Gaza
Everywhere you go
Take a look at Tel-Aviv
With families starting to grieve
And border guards to bribe with gold and dough
It’s beginning to look a lot like Gaza
Bombed-out retail stores
But the prettiest sight to see, is the karma that will be, on their own front door
A pair of power plants hit
GDP gone to sh1t
Is the fate of Bibi and Ben-Gvir
Drones that deplete, air defenses that leak
All the holy rollers have fled!
And TACO flips, like a line cook, at your local Pancake Shed!
Its beginning to look a lot like Gaza
A forlorn waste-land Hell
There’s some press in a Haifa hotel
Censored by Israel
The gutless kind, who don’t mind Gaza’s smell
It’s beginning to look a lot like Gaza
Soon, the MOABs start
And the thing that will make ’em ring
Is the trouble they will bring
Right within your heart
It’s beginning to look a lot like Gaza
Blocks that have been floored
But the prettiest sight to see, is the karma that will be, on their own front door
California’s 2025 wildfire season was already going to be dangerous. Trump has made it worse Los Angeles Times
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Couldn’t believe how quickly the snow melted off in the higher climes and the rapidity of our reservoir filling up and hitting peak full about a week ago, now receding.
We’ve been getting news of Southern California Edison turning off the power to around 1,000 residents if the conditions warrant it, and they wanted to do it the other day, and frankly conditions were no different than any other day, but they are being extra cautious.
That said, it’s a hundred and hell here during the summer months in the foothills, and to deny us air conditioning is a cruel fate, but we apparently wouldn’t have it any other way.
Re MIT engineers make potentially Game Changing breakthrough with crude oil.
Reading the article indicates that 0.9% (90% of 1%) of worldwide energy consumption would be saved if all petroleum refining were changed to the new membrane method.
With the time required to change all the refineries and possible unexpected issues in the roll-out, one should expect little immediate benefit from this breakthrough.
The world needs far more breakthroughs to make a difference.
Silent night, holey might!
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon Persian missile, with withering defense
Iron Dome has gone out of style on it you can’t depend
You’ve made your bed, now lie in it
You’ve made your bed, now lie in it
Silent night, holey night!
Zionists quake at the sight
Drones and missiles stream from heaven afar
Heavenly hosts sing of defenses ajar
America the Savior is borne!
America the Savior is borne
Silent night, holey night!
Zionists lack of delight
Radiant beams from Iran
With dawn of redeeming the war plan
Harry Truman, at Thy birth
Harry Truman, at Thy birth
Port of Haifa under attack again, today in broad daylight:
https://t.me/SabrenNews22/159159
I notice that Sabereen News never says “Israel” or names any Western media outlets. It’s always “the Zionist entity” and “enemy media”.
“Boeing ghost flights: China-Iran air route raises eyebrows in Israel conflict”
Kinda funny this. For about the past three years you have had about five dozen countries pouring money, weapons and people into the Ukraine as if it was the most natural thing in the world. But now that China was sent two naval ships to this region, it’s like ‘What the hell?’ No doubt those ships will plug into the local defense grid and help out with warnings and targeting. Certainly they will plug into whatever got shipped into Iran aboard those cargo planes. But more to the point, they will be watching and recording everything that the US and it’s allies are doing so they know what to expect when the US goes for China. You can’t buy such intel.
But I did have a thought. I have a book called “Twilight’s Last Gleaming” by John Michael Greer and a major part of it starts where the US is getting ready to invade an African nation to steal their newly discovered oil. But the Chinese sneak in men and equipment, including cruise missiles which lead to an American defeat. This then triggers the dissolution of the US. But my point is that maybe China is getting a few surprises ready for the US in Iran as payback for all the men and equipment that the US is sending to Taiwan.