Do Dogs Judge Human Character? Science Says Maybe Not Study StudyFinds
One man’s war against Lake Louise’s water lily infestation Cascadia Daily News
How many waterfalls are in the UP? Meet the Michigan man who keeps counting Bridge Michigan
The Mall Rats of Suburbia D Magazine
Climate/Environment
Flash flooding hits DC Metro area on Saturday Balanced Weather
Fields of destruction. Central NC farmers devastated by Chantal. Carolina Public Press
Today’s floods are tomorrow’s warnings Talking Climate
Pandemics
We demanded help for our sick children. We were accused of abuse The Sunday Times. Putting this here because:
Any parent who is concerned that Covid has damaged their child or who actively avoids Covid infection, is at serious risk of igniting CP investigations purely because the data on @LongCovidKids & covid harms is not known by most HCPs & the fallacy that “covid is mild in kids” .
— K8 (@CoastalK8) July 19, 2025
Japan
Japan ruling camp to lose upper house majority in severe blow to PM Kyodo News
How realistic is a “Grand Coalition”? Tokyo Review
Japan and Trump ChinaTalk
China?
U.S. citizen who works for Commerce Dept. ensnared in Chinese exit ban WaPo
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping tipped to meet ahead of or during Apec summit in South Korea South China Morning Post
The US Can’t Debate “Great-Power Competition” with China Un-Diplomatic
How China Became the World’s Biggest Shipbuilder Construction Physics
US Indo-Pacific allies are unhappy about Trump’s defence demands. But they have to comply Chatham House
Signs mount Xi under pressure to cede some power Asia Times
China massively overbuilt high-speed rail, says leading economic geographer Pekingnology
Bevy of Chinese mega listings propel Hong Kong to top global exchange in H1 2025 Business Times
Syraqistan
‘We dream of bread’: Gaza’s streets echo with hunger as bodies collapse from starvation Anadolu Agency
A very alarming spike in deaths from starvation in Gaza.
All the predictable result of Israeli policies: blocking aid, dismantling the international aid distribution apparatus, setting up a fake humanitarian org, murdering Palestinian seeking aid from said fake org, etc, etc. https://t.co/aHl6AillOH
— Colter Louwerse (@ColterL) July 20, 2025
It’s not a food crisis, food is sitting at the border waiting to enter.
“Israel is deliberately starving children to death,” that’s your headline. pic.twitter.com/xq6AaStVIq
— Assal Rad (@AssalRad) July 20, 2025
It’s Clear – Israel Now Has a Plan for the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians From Gaza Haaretz
“He’s a madman”: Trump’s team frets about Netanyahu after Syria strikes Axios. Same schtick as Biden team: leaks like this to Axios and then give Israel everything it needs to finish the job.
Foreign Ministry to Fund Israel Tour for MAGA, America First pro-Trump Influencers Haaretz
Flotilla Ship Heads Towards Gaza With 7 U.S. Nationals Consortium News
Egypt rejects US quid pro quo over Gaza and Ethiopia dam The New Arab
Autel denies selling drones to Israel. So why are they roaming Gaza’s skies? 972 Magazine. Chinese company.
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Will ‘Greater Syria’ and ‘Greater Israel’ Collide or Co-exist under the Al Qaeda Regime? Vanessa Beeley
How a Turkish Radar Base Provided Critical Support For Israel’s Missile Defence Efforts Against Iran Military Watch
European Disunion
The Great Wall Between China and the EU The Diplomat
A story of idiotic servility GeoPolitiQ
Warsaw gloats, Berlin balks as EU budget fight turns national Politico
New Not-So-Cold War
Convergence? Lily Lynch, New Left Review
Out of Options, West Again Floats Flushing Zelensky? Simplicius
Zelenskyy proposes new round of peace talks with Russia Euronews
German general urges Ukraine to strike Russian airfields RT
Defence secretary to call for ‘50-day drive’ to arm Kyiv and force Putin’s hand The Independent
Boris Johnson: I’m sad about lack of British interest in Ukraine The Telegraph
The Other Azov Brigades Azov Lobby Blog
L’affaire Epstein
An Accuser’s Story Suggests How Trump Might Appear in the Epstein Files New York Times
Epstein Won’t Die Ken Klippenstein
Dershowitz casts doubt that grand jury testimony will yield answers on Epstein Politico
Trump 2.0
‘Extra Cruel’: Trump Admin Ends Job Program for Seniors as Work Requirements Loom Common Dreams
Monopoly Round-Up: The Incredible Shrinking Trump Antitrust Enforcers BIG By Matt Stoller
RussiaGate
Tulsi Gabbard details bombshell claims of Obama-era cabal’s ‘treasonous conspiracy’ against Trump Fox News
Barack Obama Now Squarely in Russiagate Crosshairs Matt Taibbi
Democrats en déshabillé
Democrats in Southeast Virginia Endorse “Pro-Trump, Pro-ICE” Sheriff Bolts
Immigration
Republicans Calling for More Deportations Are Quietly Advocating for Immigrants in Their Districts NOTUS
AI
Musk Hints at Kid-Friendly Version of AI Chatbot Grok PYMNTS
Police State Watch
“Darkness descending.” Patrick Lawrence, The Floutist
🚨 Cops were caught on camera beating anti-ICE protesters on the Ohio–Kentucky state line bridge; then dragging them off in zip-ties like it was open season on dissent.
They didn’t de-escalate. They cracked down. And they made sure the cameras saw it.@BreitbartNews pic.twitter.com/vMpJ5QxURY
— Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) July 19, 2025
Perhaps we need more of these (backstory.):
I have traveled a decent amount and have never seen anything like this in an airport … until this morning in St. Louis. Am I crazy? Are these normal? pic.twitter.com/YCoJqpXUGv
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) July 20, 2025
Brave New World
The First Humanoid Robot Capable of Changing Its Own Battery Pack Without Any Human Assistance Laughing Squid
AI marks a new chapter for the battery industry The Battery Chronicle
Imperial Collapse Watch
Terminal Phase? Warwick Powell
Accelerationism
When tech CEOs are like grumpy ducklings Programmable Mutter
America in its florentine Medici
Era pic.twitter.com/Vv3VJVGfpP— Albert Pinto (@70sBachchan) July 19, 2025
Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door New York Times
Data centers are encroaching on this Pennsylvania town, so locals are taking action early Allegheny Front
Our Famously Free Press
Child Amputees, Aid Massacres, Mass Starvation—the Israeli War Crimes NYT Covers Less than Mamdani and ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Adam Johnson, The Column
EXPOSING THE NEW YORK TIMES: The Paper of Zionist Record The New York War Crimes
The struggle over AI in journalism is escalating Blood in the Machine
Who’s watching city hall? Nobody—and that should scare you Bleeding Heartland
Zeitgeist Watch
The Astronomer CEO’s Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia 404 Media
Larq Bottle PureVis 2 Review: Drinking Water as a Video Game Isn’t as Dumb as It Sounds Gizmodo
Class Warfare
Experiments in American Unions Phenomenal World
Revisiting Paul Baran’s The Political Economy of Growth for Today ZZ’s Blog
Crosscurrents Internal Exile
Antidote du jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
“Dershowitz casts doubt that grand jury testimony will yield answers on Epstein”
Says the man whose name figures prominently on the Epstein List. And Dershowitz saying Ghislaine Maxwell should be granted immunity in exchange for testifying in front of a congressional committee is just a way to spring her out early to shut her up. In front of a congressional committee, she could be counted on saying ‘List? What List? I don’t know anything about any List.’
Thank you, Rev.
That does not prevent the BBC from inviting Dershowitz to criticise victims and deny any evidence of records, not the (master) list, and without him having to declare his interest. The BBC is that rotten.
People may think that this sort of thing is mandated by the Tories at the top, e.g. CEO Tim Davey. The rot is much more widespread. There’s no need to micro manage much down the food chain.
Maxwell should beware of law geek-bearing gits.
She is probably much safer in prison than walking around with a gigantic target on her back.
Reading the related article by Klippenstein, it all makes you wonder that Trump* is just so very insistent to fight with Murdoch and the WSJ, to refute and to rebuke his own base for following this whole entirety, the tragedy of this Epstein sage and also Maxwell; the tragedy was always the outcomes for those young victims. Not for Trump, nor Clinton, neither Bill Gates nor Prince Andrew. Underage teenage girls were harmed, much of that generally ran through this enabler Ghislaine Maxwell.
*this continued defiance doesn’t present well of course, but he and these lackeys in the administration do not seem to believe in anything other than ” yes dear leader…”. \sarc. I do suppose or suggest , that the lackeys in the Biden administration deserve the scorn as well. Collectively, these are the best we got on offer ? FFS.
This sure seems like a controlled release, a pressure release maneuver. “Grand jury testimony” is a very limited category, and is not going to answer very basic questions such as why Epstein was so connected to so many powerful people and where he got his money.
So long as Trump does not make damning disclosures of the Epstein collective, he not only avoids exposing himself, as it were, but has all that evidence of miscreance to hold over others’ heads. He’d have to be crazy in ways different to what he’s widely taken to be to let such juicy stuff slither through his fingers!
Wow, notice how just about every one of the cops in the video were overweight-they sure beat the shit out of protesters on that bridge.
This is what you would have seen on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965 on Bloody Sunday.
…what sort of scary monster have we become?
Just a fatter version of same monster.
monstrous – and how they tackled that woman whose sandals flew off…
https://www.wlwt.com/article/roebling-bridge-protester-punched-covington-police-officer-arrest/65455714
“I definitely felt a lot of blows, and I just didn’t understand why, after the first few, that that didn’t stop,” Hill said….
Hill says that he did not hear the command to disperse over the police sirens and chants being shouted out by protesters.
“At that moment, I did not hear it, there was so much going on, there were so many sirens,” Hill said.
It’s come full circle, let me explain.
Covington Ky high schooler Nicholas Sandmann was exercising his first amendment rights in 2019 and got slighted by the media and got $250 million (or some portion of) for his effort.
Nobody is gonna get a thin Dime from Covington KY police department for them beating up people.
https://nypost.com/2020/07/24/washington-post-settles-250m-suit-with-covington-teen-nick-sandmann/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Lincoln_Memorial_confrontation
Not to mention that they beat him after he was on the side walk which is what they directed him to do. Same for the woman who lost her shoe, she too was on the side walk. We really don’t need to wonder whose side the cops are on do we?
Re – one man’s war against water lily infestation
the fragrant water lily is edible. Nature has provided free food by the ton!
A real pity that the article’s framing instead prioritises “beauty” and ducks.
“The First Humanoid Robot Capable of Changing Its Own Battery Pack Without Any Human Assistance”
yeah, saw that one coming
“The First Humanoid Robot Capable of Changing Its Own Ammo Pack Without Any Human Assistance”
Uh-Oh
The first humanoid robot capable of scratching its own back. :)
Wait until it licks its own ice cream cone.
IDK who thought that was a good idea… “I’m sorry Dave, I just needed a minute to change my battery… now, where were we?”
If only Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics actually existed…
They exist as much as the international law that everyone keeps talking about.
That large glass impediment in front of the Free Speech Booth resembles a 65 inch flat screen TV, your spirit of St Louis will have to be on the louder side to get an audience. I wouldn’t go as far as calling it the Cone of Silence, but Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park it ain’t.
I have a faint memory of one of these Free Speech Areas being set up in O’Hare airport back when Hare Krishna had won a 1st Amendment decision. Perhaps this is a remnant of that period?
When Bush was President, he too had organized free speech zones for protestors. They had to go into this area a coupla blocks away from what they were protesting about and it was surrounded by a chain link fence and monitored by police.
Yes, I thought the same thing. I remember similar signs in San Francisco Airport advising/alerting people that those Hare Krishna people and/or panhandlers had the right to be there. That was, oh, 40+ years ago?
> Do Dogs Judge Human Character? Science Says Maybe Not
Science should defend its brand against abuse like this. 40 dogs showed no preference between one woman pretending to be generous/friendly and another pretending to be mean.
Years ago I read in Steven R. Lindsay that dogs share certain preferences about people, specifically that it’s possible to identify some people that dogs clearly like, and some others that the dogs clearly dislike, while the dogs treat most people neutrally. Strikes me as plausible.
One thing we teach new volunteer dog handlers at the animal shelter: you have to mean it. Bluffing and faking is a bad idea because the dogs can easily tell a bullsh**er and lose trust/interest. And this, I would guess, is the single biggest flaw in the design of Hoi-Lam Jim et al’s study published in Animal Cognition.
I have a neighbours with a couple of pretty friendly labs (I know, surprise, surprise). I made a comment about them loving everyone and she said she they have their favourites. She can tell by the tone of their barked greetings how much they like the person stopping by.
Know what the favorite breed is in Fresno?
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Meth Lab
Rumour has it that after the first atom bomb was tested at Alamogordo and before the atomic strikes against Hiroshima & Nagasaki, that the United States Army Air Corp wanted to test it an atom bomb on an actual city to see what the effects would be first. The decision was taken to test it out on Fresno.
It is reputed to have cause $400 million worth of improvements.
The taste of Fresno.
Thanks. I had an Australian Shepherd that disliked certain neighbors. The common thread was that they were eventually revealed to be bullsh**ers.
The esteemed Patrick Lawrence on Scoundrel Time, that is, the McCarthyist use of antisemitism to destroy free speech and careers — and especially to force self-censorship. One must suppress thoughtcrime.
“There was no anti–Semitism at Broadway and West 116th Street before the events of 7 October 2023 and the demonstrations Israel’s terror campaign in Gaza then prompted. There was none requiring task forces, commissions, and investigations, in any case. Ms. Shipman, to make my point another way, merely caved to the Trump regime’s exercise of power in her statement last Tuesday. She implicitly associates last year’s quite honorable demonstrations—so much of this stuff must be implicit, as it cannot be said openly—with anti–Semitism according to the I.H.R.A.’s utterly unacceptable definition.”
An important quibble: Shipman isn’t just submitting to Trump. She is also submitting to the “donors” at Columbia, who, by and large, consider themselves Nice Liberals. We are seeing the convergence of upper-middle-class interest in suppressing the populace (again).
I seem to recall that Hillary Clinton is on the faculty of Columbia. Where is the fearless Hillary, ever speaking truth to power, these days? Shouldn’t she be defending academic freedom?
Or: Is she hiding out, hoping in particular that the Epstein allegations blow over? What with her base being August Ladies (of the top 5 percent) as well as Fans of Bill, she can’t afford to lose the Fans of Bill, who are already aging into Bidentude, given that her hubby’s base is bigger than hers.
Re “The Great Wall Between China and the EU”
More Atlantic Council bilge water.
Feh …
Dogs as judges of character: Why the study doesn’t prove anything.
First, dogs are creatures of habit, as the writeup admits. If dogs have positive interactions with human beings, they are not likely to become sudden skeptics watching a couple of skits. Much as human subjects are not likely to have a strong reaction.
Second, dogs have their own culture, which means that the researchers weren’t thinking clearly about what dogs perceive as lack of generosity. Anyone who has been around dogs knows that they have a sense of fairness. Don’t try giving one a slice of mortadella and then the other one a chunk of carrot. Fairness, friendliness, and generosity are related, ethically.
Third: Now these are the real dogs: “Researchers from the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna recruited 44 pet dogs ranging from 1 to 12 years old, though four dogs were ultimately excluded for lack of motivation to participate.”
Lack of motivation. Ha! They are the four members of the Border Collie Book Group Reading Marcel Proust in the Original French and didn’t have time for minor things like observational studies.
Dogs are also expert at reading body language and tone of voice of humans and other dogs and with humans they can usually tell the difference between expressions that are deceptive and sincere.
An interesting example of this is how some dogs that are inclined to be skeptical of people (as opposed to the dogs that like everyone) have this thing of occasionally choosing someone at a distance to show aggression to. It usually turns out that the people they choose for this behavior are scared of and do not like dogs. My neighbor, who was a FBI Special Agent until she retired a few years ago, explained that some expert muggers use similar skills of reading body language at a distance to choose victims.
So of those 44 dogs, after the four went off to the book club, the others the others were watching a stage play so badly acted they just couldn’t follow.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/us/organ-transplants-donors-alive.html
archive: https://archive.ph/riS6m
A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk
“The Times found that some organ procurement organizations — the nonprofits in each state that have federal contracts to coordinate transplants — are aggressively pursuing circulatory death donors and pushing families and doctors toward surgery. Hospitals are responsible for patients up to the moment of death, but some are allowing procurement organizations to influence treatment decisions.”
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“Workers in several states said they had seen coordinators persuading hospital clinicians to administer morphine, propofol and other drugs to hasten the death of potential donors.”
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“In 2022, when she was 38 and homeless, Ms. Gallegos was hospitalized and went into a coma. Doctors at Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque told her family she would never recover.
Her relatives agreed to donation, but as preparations began, they saw tears in her eyes. Their concerns were dismissed, according to interviews with the family and eight hospital workers. Donation coordinators said the tears were a reflex. (Tears can be an involuntary response to irritants.)
On the day of the planned donation, Ms. Gallegos was taken to a pre-surgery room, where her two sisters held her hands. A doctor arrived to withdraw life support. Then a sister announced she had seen Ms. Gallegos move. The doctor asked her to blink her eyes, and she complied. The room erupted in gasps.
Still, hospital workers said, the procurement organization wanted to move forward. A coordinator said it was just reflexes and suggested morphine to reduce movements. The hospital refused. Instead, workers brought her back to her room, and she made a full recovery.
Presbyterian made the treatment decisions, but hospital workers said they faced pressure from the procurement organization, New Mexico Donor Services.
“All they care about is getting organs,” said Neva Williams, a veteran intensive care nurse at the hospital. “They’re so aggressive. It’s sickening.””
Neoliberalism is horrifying. Just how widespread is this? Hopefully a more knowledgeable commenter can provide some more insight on these practices
Now I have to wonder if all the organ harvesting propaganda they attribute to adversaries are really just projection…
Stand and de-liver!
“In a bunch!”
“Hi-ho, Concorde!”
The skit by the Monthy Pythons in their film “The meaning of life” was premonitory.
This is why I stopped signing the donor part 9f my license, and have told all of my family to not allow my organs to be donated. The system is not to be trusted.
Wowsers, I applied for a driver’s license/ RealID in 2023 and checked the box to be considered an organ donor. Sidebar but during June on Father’s Day weekend, ESPN ran a 60 minute feature about organ donation and the life saving impact on a former Kansas and NBA player, Scot Pollard. Very interesting documentary , and of course a delicate subject. Someone indeed had to suddenly die for Pollard to continue life.
Pollard needed a replacement heart and received one in February 2024. He was honored at Allen Field House during a basketball home game last season I wish to recall.
“Republicans Calling for More Deportations Are Quietly Advocating for Immigrants in Their Districts”
No doubt the people in their districts were complaining that their nannies had been taken away and farmers were complaining that they no longer had people to pick the fruit and where were cheap workers to be found?.
I want to see the US population projections after the next four years. If and when there is a flatline of growth, the Republican party will toss this anti immigration part of the platform aside for their business masters.
RE: Obama story
Really want some unbiased reporting on this (Matt + Fox News are giving what I would expect, along with Dems)
My reading of it is this – they knew Russia didnt HACK the election (change results) but there is proof that they tried to influence the election through sowing distrust (similar to what I am sure the US has done to other countires)
The memo’s seem to say that they discounted the hacking thing quickly but Obama wanted a full report on what Russia was doing – and if they were doing more/less than the 2008 / 2012 elections.
I don’t remember “russia hacking the election” being the big talking point – it was always “trump colluded with Russia”
Overall very confused on what this story even is – it really feels like a deflection from the on-going self implosion of Epstein news and will amount to nothing at the end of the day.
I think care is needed to avoid losing the forest in the trees. In the same way that “client list” is used as sleight of hand to distract attention from mounds of testimony and other evidence, “hacking” may serve the same purpose.
The issue is whether resources of the federal government were employed to undermine an elected president, and how high that effort reached.
As someone who has followed this very closely from the beginning, I can say with near certainty that pretty much everything Taibbi/Fox/Gabbard is saying about Russiagate is true. There is no “proof” that I know of that Russia tried to influence the election through “sowing distrust.” What would that proof be? The “evidence” for a coordinated Russian internet offensive proved to be laughable. The “evidence” for Russian “hacking” of the DNC has also been refuted by knowledgeable experts, with the head of Crowdstrike admitting (in closed Intelligence Committee testimony) that they had no direct evidence of this. The information Gabbard is providing on the role of the Obama administration in trying to frame Trump is not really new. It’s all almost certainly true.
Having said all that, the current administration’s “revelations” about Russiagate, though true, are completely worthless. They will be interpreted – correctly – as simply more partisan propaganda for the MAGA true believers against the Evil Democrats. They lock Gabbard in the closet as they are supporting Gazan genocide, bombing Iran, gutting what’s left of the welfare state, ignoring Constitutional rights to free speech and habeas corpus, disappearing the Epstein case, etc. Then they trot her out with much fanfare to announce this big “investigation.” “Nothing to see over there – look at this!” Just another Benghazi-style performance. None of the real actors will face any consequences. This is just for the Red Team masses who might be getting a little restless about Epstein or Israel.
I am still annoyed about PropOrNot and the use of PayPal to try and curtail dissent from the McCarthyite narrative at the time. If they can get to the bottom of that then Gabbard will have retrieved some small amount of the respect I used to have for her.
“He’s a madman”: Trump’s team frets about Netanyahu after Syria strikes Axios. Same schtick as Biden team: leaks like this to Axios and then give Israel everything it needs to finish the job.
Minor quibble. “…. to finish the job.” I believe that should be in quotes. Exact words uttered by Trump before the 2024 election in October after the initial Hamas ‘breach’ . No?
Waste of time, but I do ponder where the world would be without Trump 47.
re: Stephen Colbert / Late Night shows´ demise
Late-Night TV Is On The Precipice After CBS Axes Stephen Colbert; Insiders Lament “End Of An Era”
July 18th
https://deadline.com/2025/07/stephen-colbert-ending-late-night-tv-future-1236462431/#comments
Turkish Kurecik radar station very likely was involved in missile defense of Israel.
In early 1980’s I was offered the opportunities to “volunteer” for remote, one year assignments in Turkey, I did not volunteer and somehow was not involuntarily assigned. Always had an interest in Turkish US/NATO military sites.
Subject site has a THAAD radar set (RTX< AN/TPY-2). It is capable of detecting and tracking launch phase missiles.
The site is equipped via NATO European Phased Adaptive Approach, same authority for AEGIS (LMT) ashore in Poland and Rumania. The agreement was sensitive in 2011 because of Israel. That caused the data to be limited to NATO members. Tracks from Kurecik radar station got into the US-THAAD "element" in the IDF missile defense command centers!
One more degree of support for Israel from a Muslim nation. Iran is aware!
“The rot is very, very deep” w/ Ilan Pappé
Ilan Pappé discuss whether he still believes that the Gaza genocide marks “the beginning of the end of the Zionist project”
Makdisi Street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG_JFp0MDLs
Flash flooding hits DC Metro area on Saturday Balanced Weather
Fields of destruction. Central NC farmers devastated by Chantal. Carolina Public Press
Today’s floods are tomorrow’s warnings Talking Climate
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I’ve been keeping a year’s worth of food on hand for about a decade and frankly its stuff i’d rather not eat, but would gladly if push-met-shove. Heavy on canned and dry food, typically the use-by dates are about a year or 2 out, and I know that canned food can last years later than the use-by date, but i’m a little picky in that regard, and I have a really good back up plan in that as the use-by dates come and go, usually 6 months after that I donate everything to our food bank* in town.
It starts off as insurance and ends up as an anonymous donation at Tiny Town’s food bank, keeping locals who need food assistance fed. It’s a lose-win feel good scenario.
Crops are failing all over the world on account of Hunga Tonga combined with climate change, why not do something about it?
You need space to pull it off and for a couple of people its around $2-3k in cost.
* our food bank doesn’t care about use-by dates, but no dented or rusted cans please.
“Foreign Ministry to Fund Israel Tour for MAGA, America First pro-Trump Influencers”
Now that is going to be a neat trick for those “influencers”. Yeah, they get a free trip to Israel – honey traps included – to say that Israel is really, really great. On the other hand I am seeing more and more kids openly hostile to Israel because, you know, that genocide thing. We saw that with the kids recently at that British open air concert. So what happens when these influencers come back from Israel with their thirty pieces of silver to say Israel is great and wonderful – only to have those kids trash them and abandon following them anymore. Trump may invite those influencers to the White House to support them, like Biden did with his batch of influencers, but that may just be the kiss of death by then.
I’m afraid that I am in agreement with Caitlin Johnston here when she said that if you are still supporting Israel in 2025, then there is something wrong with you as a person-
https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/if-youre-still-supporting-israel-in-2025-there-s-something-wrong-with-you-as-a-person-2e43cc369b97
We can always hope for a direct hit on Ben Gurion, just as their plane is landing.
Such a tragedy …
Stories like this make it clear who is wearing the pants in the Turkey-Israel relationship, and that all this bruhahah about a conflict between the two in Syria is simply “kayfabe”. Europe will turn on Israel before Turkey does.
The direct link to “Revisiting Paul Baran’s The Political Economy of Growth for Today ZZ’s Blog”
Waterfalls in Michigan…well once upon a time a popular band chided the listener, ” don’t go chasing waterfalls, please stick to the rivers and the streams that you’re used to…but I think you’re moving too fast…”. From the article the 49 yo has been chasing his waterfall ambitions for some time now. I beg to differ I suppose on what counts as One versus Two or more at the same proximity.
Waterfalls are popular at nearby state parks, forests and of course the Great Smoky Mountains…but the footing can get slippery! This park below has a few very good examples.
https://www.ncparks.gov/state-parks/gorges-state-park
“Egypt rejects US quid pro quo over Gaza and Ethiopia dam”
Well of course they would. If they let Trump “help”, then he would demand a price for that help such as Egypt opening up it economy to Wall Street or something. There always has to be something in it for him. And you would never know if Trump would declare in public that a deal has been made, the greatest deal ever, and that he got the job done – while both sides were still negotiating between them and hadn’t finalized anything.
Defence secretary to call for ‘50-day drive’ to arm Kyiv and force Putin’s hand – The Independent
Where’s France? They are the main ones talking about how they should be able to make their own arms.
Atlanta’s growth streak has come to an end:
https://archive.ph/aBXnp
net migration out for first time in years … add in immigration raids bringing a rein of terror and one of the worst office vacancy rates in the country … bulldoze those blasted CRE edifice wrecks or turn them into affordable housing!