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Country’s floods batter fields, factories and fiscal plans Dawn. Pakistan.
This happened at the Fullerton Hotel Ocean Park in Hong Kong a couple hours ago. I have never seen anything like this before.
I was up at 4 am taping my windows because water was just pouring in…
Ragasa is indeed a super Typhoon 🌀… pic.twitter.com/O59FJbGLsE
— Eric Yeung 👍🚀🌕 (@KingKong9888) September 24, 2025
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Long COVID and Days of Work Missed Due to Illness or Injury by Adults in the United States, 2022 Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
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In China, Ray Dalio discusses global debt issues as Beijing seeks his counsel South China Morning Post
Trump tariffs tilt Southeast Asia towards China East Asia Forum
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We Tried to Stay in Gaza City. There Are No Longer Any Means of Sustaining Life. Drop Site
— DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics) September 24, 2025
Yemeni Drone Strikes Israel, Wounding More Than 20 Antiwar
Spain joins Italy in dispatching navy vessel to back humanitarian flotilla for Gaza Anadolu Agency
URGENT 🚨 Don’t be fooled by Meloni’s naval deployment: It is nothing but a cynical rouse to demobilize the @gbsumudflotilla — in direct coordination with the State of Israel that attacked us.
We will reject this proposal. We will keep sailing. And we will complete our mission. pic.twitter.com/7Wrcx9IzAI
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How MI6 Fabricated Iran Nuke Fraud Kit Klarenberg
Iran Sanctions Snapback Offers Chinese Oil Buyers a Lucrative Boost Reuters
Iranian intelligence has released images from deep inside the Dimona nuclear complex, exposing one of the most guarded facilities of the Zionist entity.
The material reveals how millions of classified nuclear and military documents were siphoned from inside occupied Palestine,… pic.twitter.com/vKa4B4LNrJ
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Larry Ellison’s £257m bet on Tony Blair Democracy for Sale
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Stunning Charts Tell a Whole Other Story About Canada’s Economy Dougald Lamont
Rent is $2000-$3000, parents are working from 7am to 10pm, community centers and extracurricular programs are being cut, schools are in disrepair and understaffed, groceries are $300 per person every month, and there are no jobs left for anyone without experience. https://t.co/2mQ1cnzEng
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A Europe of Nations? Aurelien
New Not-So-Cold War
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Denmark shuts second airport in a week, more ‘unidentified’ drones spotted Al Jazeera
Pistorius: Russian jet flew over German Navy frigate in Baltic Sea DPA
Shooting down Russian jets ‘on the table,’ von der Leyen says Politico
SVR Revealed That British & French Troops Are Already In Odessa Andrew Korybko
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Russia Opens New Production Line at Sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 as First Carrier Loads Cargo gCaptain
South of the Border
Ignore Ukraine (Trump Is), Pay Attention to Venezuela Larry Johnson
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The U.S. helped Argentina, then Argentine farmers made a deal with China Axios
The US government is preparing a $20+ billion bailout of Javier Milei’s failed libertarian experiment in Argentina.
This is a form of election meddling. Trump desperately needs Milei to win the election in October, and he’s planning to use large sums of US government money to do… pic.twitter.com/q09JFZAjUY
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) September 25, 2025
“Liberation Day”
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Our Famously Free Press
Trump Turns Pentagon Into Department of War on First Amendment FAIR
They would go after Patrick Henry these days Art Cullen’s Notebook
Trump 2.0
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Trump plans ‘America First’ foreign aid funding shift, document shows Reuters
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Getting Away with Murder The New York Review
MAHA
Anti-vaccine groups melt down over RFK Jr. linking autism to Tylenol Ars Technica
Democrats en déshabillé
She built a Presidential campaign from scratch, chose a VP in two weeks, and pulled off one of the most successful Democratic convention in decades in under a month.
She crushed an opponent who has stood on more presidential debate stages than anyone in history. She energized… https://t.co/e3PQLrgkPQ
— Jaime Harrison (@harrisonjaime) September 24, 2025
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Federal government accuses Kansas town of ‘aggressive and unlawful’ interference with CoreCivic Kansas Reflector
The Prison Next Door Bolts
OFFICIALS SAID THEY BUSTED A TREN DE ARAGUA PARTY. ATTENDEES BEG TO DIFFER. Texas Observer
Weimar Republic
At least two people dead after shooting at Dallas ICE facility Texas Tribune
This is the fishiest shit I’ve ever seen. We’re supposed to believe the shooter wrote “Anti-ICE” in pen on a bullet and then shot detainees but not ICE officers? https://t.co/jqgNDfVZpz
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 24, 2025
Exclusive: The ICE Shooter’s Politics Ken Klippenstein
Notes on the ‘Balance of Forces’ Unpopular Front
In the valley of the vampires Yasha Levine
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“US Will Drive Its $35T Debt Into Crypto:” Senior Putin Advisor Anton Kobyakov Karl Sanchez
Stablecoin issuer Circle examines ‘reversible’ transactions in departure for crypto FT
Accelerationists
Who’s Getting Rich Off Your Attention? Kyla Scanlon
Starbase will take partial control of beach near Elon Musk’s SpaceX launch site Texas Tribune
He spilled Peter Thiel’s Antichrist secrets. Now he’s banned from the lectures San Francisco Standard
Groves of Academe
Teachers and Unions Fight Back as UC Campuses Prepare to Fuel Trump’s Witch Hunt Truthout
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Big Brother Is Watching You Watch
The Strongman’s Surveillance State Boston Review
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Economy
Via JPM’s Michael Cembalest, AI-related stocks have driven:
– 75% of S&P 500 returns since ChatGPT’s launch in November 2022
– 80% of earnings growth over the same period
– 90% of capital spending growth
– Data centers are now eclipsing office construction spending.
– In the PJM… pic.twitter.com/tDp2QvbAT9— James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ (@JimPethokoukis) September 24, 2025
$2 trillion in new revenue needed to fund AI’s scaling trend – Bain & Company’s 6th annual Global Technology Report yahoo! Finance
the state of the AI investment bubble, in plain English:
overcapacity projected at USD 2 trillion, higher energy prices, higher water wastage, for a technology we dont need at that scale pic.twitter.com/n1TLdTWBHy
— Daniela Gabor (@DanielaGabor) September 24, 2025
Mr. Market on the Prowl
Day trading is about to get easier for smaller retail investors CNBC
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‘Eric Yeung 👍🚀🌕
@KingKong9888
This happened at the Fullerton Hotel Ocean Park in Hong Kong a couple hours ago. I have never seen anything like this before.
I was up at 4 am taping my windows because water was just pouring in…
Ragasa is indeed a super Typhoon 🌀…’
There comes a point where you have to look down and say ‘Feet. Do your stuff!’
Reminds me of Typhoon Ike back in the day…
Stuff always seemed to happen to me on those Hong Kong trips, the year before I flew on KAL 007 from LA to Alaska and then to Seoul the day after the same flight had been shot out of the sky by the Soviets. I’ve never seen so many help-yourself beverage carts on a plane, the onus was on heavy drinking, not heavy thinking.
tariff dollars are ruled out for a farm bailout, maybe sba loans and then forgiveness like 2019, Funny to see farmers going gee whiz this is bad after slurping on frump.
Can’t remember but weren’t tariff dollars used back in Trump’s first term to bail out the farmers then?
So long as the United States has a foreign policy, American farmers will need subsidies. DeepSeek gave me an inflation adjusted list of corn prices per bushel:
Year Nominal Price Inflation-Adjusted Price (2023 $)
2023 $6.50 (est.) $6.50
2022 $6.54 $6.82
2021 $5.39 $5.85
2020 $3.56 $4.02
2019 $3.56 $4.14
2018 $3.36 $4.02
2017 $3.36 $4.10
2016 $3.36 $4.20
2015 $3.61 $4.62
2014 $3.70 $4.80
2013 $4.46 $5.90
2012 $6.89 $9.27
2011 $6.01 $8.19
2010 $5.18 $7.19
2009 $3.55 $5.04
2008 $4.06 $5.63
2007 $4.20 $6.10
2006 $3.04 $4.53
2005 $2.00 $3.11
2004 $2.06 $3.28
2003 $2.42 $3.95
2002 $2.32 $3.86
2001 $1.97 $3.34
2000 $1.82 $3.19
1990 $2.28 $5.27
1980 $3.11 $11.62
1970 $1.33 $10.42
1960 $1.00 $10.18
1950 $1.52 $19.14
1940 $0.62 $13.10
1930 $0.68 $12.15
1920 $0.63 $9.54
1910 $0.60 $18.75
1900 $0.35 $12.52
1890 $0.50 $16.67
1880 $0.58 $17.64
1870 $0.52 $12.38
1866 $0.74 $13.87
The today’s price of corn is $4.27/bushel. This year’s “break even” price for corn is $5.27 or more.
What amazes me about these prices is that the health of the crop never seems to impact prices, at least not until well after the farmers have sold their crop. This list shows the highest prices which most farmers don’t receive. More good news from the Crop Report:
I’m sure much of this is on Trump but the more important point is that we’re about to lose another generation of farmers. Pushing mechanization and satellite data to let you get by with fewer farmers is Wile E. Coyote genius thinking. Generational farmers know their land and take care of it. Monster tractors and building-sized combines hard pack the soil and make the land more vulnerable to drought. Govt don’t care, they just want grain to export.
Is it possible to use BlueSky links instead of Twitter/X links when the alternative exists? For example, Aaron Rupar (linked above) also posts on BlueSky.
Maybe there are technical reasons or network-effect reasons for continuing to use X links or maybe you already switch when possible, but it would be lovely to move away from a Musk-owned property.
No affiliation or interest in it, it’s just that Musk is simply awful.
Thanks!
+1
I’m sure you can write a TamperMonkey/Userscript script or something to replace all embedded tweets in the page with the corresponding BlueSky links or some xcancel.com mirror screenshot or just use your uBlock Origin to block out the embedded tweets. Seems like too much work for the staff to cater to one person
is not just one person…
maybe you should listen instead of just saying no
Please see the comment from Steve H, quoting Lambert. BlueSky is informationally inferior to Twitter and I don’t have the time to check it in addition to Twitter.
On top of that, BlueSky demands of me more personal details than I am willing to provide to have an account. And you need to have an account to generate embed code.
Thanks for the direct response and the thinking behind the decision, Yves.
There’s little doubt that Twitter is informationally superior.
Interesting to get the various perspectives from the commentariat.
Some time ago Lambert Strether wrote a piece on how he curated his feeds, did other things, and etc. to keep twitterX useful for his purposes while dodging or turning aside all of the New Improved Musk brainsewage. Perhaps that piece could be found and re-run.
Blue Sky/twitter, Apple/Samsung, Amazon/Wayfair, Coke/Pepsi, Ford/GM — who cares?
For all of its (and Mr. Musk’s) faults, X seems to be less subject to ideologically monolithic siloing (= censorship) than BlueSky.
Lambert: And I must say, I’m glad to be back; I have some quiet little neighborhoods on Twitter I couldn’t rebuild anywhere else. Moreover, if you’re a professional doomscroller, as I suppose I am, Twitter is the far superior platform (not that platforms are good, they’re bad). Twitter is a firehose; BlueSky is a garden hose. The “hellsite,” as its users fondly call it, is like a world city, like Manhattan; BlueSky is like a provincial town (and I don’t mean like an “under-rated destination”). Even if Twitter is owned and run by a ranting thirteen-year-old tech boy billionaire hopped up on whatever it is he’s hopped up on. Of course, if you want your mellow unharshed, BlueSky is the place to be.
Of course, it might be that people like me noticed on Twitter that a) increases in followers stopped (unless you pay for a blue tick) after Muskolini took over; b) that supporting a man given to Nazi salutes is probably a bad thing, and c) that using the platform of a Henry-Ford-alike who is openly supporting fascist movements in the UK is damaging what remains of democracy.
All without mentioning the relative merits of each institution… Surprised Yves finds these issues not worth the bother on a platform like Naked Capitalism.
Nitter.poast.org
There are some other nitter spaces still active.
I’d there is a version for BlueSky, somebody let us know!
I believe Yves has said there is a technical reason why Bluesky embeds don’t work well. I don’t remember the reason.
Just for the record, I too would support Bluesky links over Twitter when possible. At some point along the line, betwen Nazi salutes and interfering in my country’s elections, I decided I could no longer in good conscience support Elon Musk. But it is your site, carry on as you wish, I am just chiming in with my personal view.
I am not using BlueSky. It is not productive and wants too much information from me.
And in keeping, none of the regulars who send me links find anything that makes the cut on BlueSky.
Moreover, Musk and his fellow Twitter investors have lost $24 billion since he bought it.
https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/musks-fellow-investors-in-x-are-part-of-a-24-billion-loss-since-2022.html
So he has effectively subsidized it.
Why not keep using Twitter and just boycott every company which advertises on Twitter?
“No affiliation or interest in it, it’s just that Musk is simply awful.”
I find this tiresome. Bluesky is a progressive Democratic bubble, run by people who are probably awful but in a different way. For a change of pace, I’d like to see someone suggest a social media platform that is a MAGA Republican epistemic bubble replace X. Or better yet, let’s stop promoting empistemic bubble services entirely.
Lol. I find this tiresome: “run by people who are probably awful but in a different way.”
Feel free to make a relevant point of comparison of general awfulness instead of simply strawmanning. Did these BlueSky people salute the Nazis, for ex, or did they slash and burn Social Security, etc?
Musk is god awful, and I needn’t support him, even in a tiny way. Your strawman is just a convenient rationalization to do nothing, removing your agency.
Musk is no more or less awful than all the other oligarchs these days. Looking at other historical car company heads, he’s even a bit better than Ford or Porsche!
I appreciate the sentiment though. However, two things are still abundantly clear in this terrible interegnum we’re all suffering through:
1-We can’t boycott or escape the large scale systems in place.
Consider what you’d need to do to boycott Amazon. Sure, you could stop using the app, and stop paying your prime membership fee. But how are you going to stop your government and other organizations from using AWS? How are you going to stop the vendors you use from relying on Amazon? Or when you buy something and find it the service was fulfilled via Amazon? You just can’t. Worrying about it and putting a further burden on our hosts seems unproductive. Im aware this kind of concentration is likely the whole point of the government supporting these behemoths. But as we are all ants here, what else can we do?
2-Xwitter is just better for information.
Bluesky would be OK if this was an art discussion board. Bluesky would be OK if Yves and others were looking to transition from Tumblr to share stories about the stuff they’re selling on Etsy. Real data is still shared mainly on Xwitter. Like all of the COVID stuff and all of the aerosol science. Musk may be awful. Musk may be an affront to your senses. Musk may be someone who has not gone anywhere far enough based on his statements regarding free speech. He is certainly using Xwitter to help pump up his stocks too. But he’s still backing more useful and more free sharing of information than his competitors. So I’ll continue to hold my nose and use/share Xweets.
I get your point on #1, but I don’t find it hard not to deal with Amazon at all. I’ve never had prime and just do not order from them. If I go to a website to order something and find that they won’t ship directly and use Amazon for fulfillment, I don’t place that order either. There may be times when I’m not aware that another party uses Amazon, and like you said, it is difficult to tell when someone might be using AWS etc. To counteract that, I occasionally “borrow from Amazon’s internet library” if there’s something I’d like to see but don’t want to pay them for.
I did open an account with them when they just sold books before they turned evil. It’s still there and I’d like to think my unused account costs them a few pennies to maintain. Hard to avoid them completely for sure, but there are wrenches to throw in the works.
Also, I’m no Musk fan but I really don’t want to have anything to do with the Bluesky echo chamber. If X is a cesspool, I can’t tell from the way posts are shown here. As Yves alluded to above, it’s quite likely Musk won’t own X forever given how much cash it’s losing.
I gotta chime in this one too. I find it hard to believe that any NC regulars would object to a platform. We should know that there is plenty of grey in the world and we should also know about Yves’ very reasonable objections to Blue Sky. No one person or business or even government is totally wrong or totally right or totally good or totally evil (although many of today’s players skew awfully close to totally bad/evil I admit it).To stay well informed means being well read and in this day and age that can mean sifting through some crap. Sure Musk is an *sshole but Twitter/X does not censor, I’ll take that over the bubble that is BlueS,y any day. I heard someone on CBC the other day saying that they find Twitter links morally objectionable! Just the links, regardless of the content or persons posting. Crazy! And let me know when you’ve stopped using Amazon, and shopping at places like Walmart or doing business with any business that underpays its workers, or supports causes that with which you disagree, started growing all your own food, living off grid, etc. We gotta pick our battles. The world is a cesspool, put on your waders and carry on.
Yep. If we were to go totally pure, there are very few sources for anything left.
I was so over the Biden cabal censorship goons. They first had to take the planks out of their own eyes, but of course they said ‘what planks?’
I try hard not to use Amazon. Sometimes they’re the only place I can find something though
I only ever read any X’s on here, and i’m not a fan of Elon, but if one of my friends has a Starlink and a Jackery on board in some utterly remote location, i’ll put in a few 30 minute stints a day online, in formerly forbidden wi-fi terra firma.
Now a query:
Sometimes I click on an X and it opens within the NC links page, other times it takes me off to X instead. Any rhyme or reason to why that happens?
> The most evil TV villain ever? Alien: Earth’s ‘demon sheep eye’ is a work of true genius The Guardian
O yes it is very creepy, and the whole show has done a superb job of creating its world. We’re already incorporating lines into our day-to-day (‘mud that goes ‘Kktt-kk-kt’). LotR and Galaxy Quest continue to be alive in this way – yesterday was ‘Rock! Rock! Rock!’, our dog likes rocks and has a chunk of limestone with a calcite corner in her bed.
But the finale is titled ‘The Real Monsters’, and they’re in a cage at the end. Two humans, two synthetics, and a cyborg. Not the Aliens. The Boy Genius just gave a speech about how he killed and replaced his father when he was six, and that the Lost Boys are just floor models for his business. The eye critter (*spoiler*) reanimated one of the two moral figures in the show, who is dead because the Boy Genius infected him with alien larvae.
“Do you want to know why I like them? The Aliens? They’re honest.”
And we wonder why the world is going to hell. Just look at our ‘entertainment’.
A steady stream of violence – way to go. Going off to git me a rifle now. Seriously.
I don’t think it really does a very good job of anything. Like most contemporary films and series it doesn’t really think about anything it does or how things are supposed to work. It’s all just hollow spectacle.
The ‘boy genius” didn’t infect the dead guy with alien larvae, one of the “lost boys” did. At least he did it because he was coerced. Wendy sicced the xenomorph on her enemies and didn’t seem to have any qualms about it, and freaked out when her brother shot another lost boy with a stun gun after she ripped off another man’s jaw and crushed his skull.
If the “real monsters” are supposed to be the caged adults at the end then that just underscores how confused the show is, because at least those adults are beholden to outside powers in at least some limited ways. Now you’ve got immortal children with superpowers and a pet xenomorph and apparently no connection to humanity or qualms about doing anything they please with a menagerie of terrors from blackest space any one of which would be a nightmare if it escaped containment. If the world is lucky one of the corporations will nuke the island they’re on and be done with it.
kid cowboy, you are right about the larvae, I had that wrong.
It’s an opinion, but I think the villains are those who mistreat children. Boy Genius had a hateful father, is hateful himself, and sent the children into a kill zone. Kirsch sends a child to do a dangerous job, which results in his death. The cyborg coerces Slighty by directly threatening his family. Dame Sylvia juxtaposes to her husband Arthur, who tried to set the children free.
The aliens didn’t consent to be there, and the children were children, manipulated with emotion and lies. They’re just adapting to the world the adults put them in.
Hi mate cowboy …
I disagree … its one thing to read a book or watch a movie and think about without the lived life behind it. Sure its a movie/series as they are today albeit that is always the way it has been, some real life person does something, sell human hotdogs to kids/family’s, curate human misery for whatever reasons then its a genre packed and sold to the minds of others for consumption and profit. I think the doco that explored shows like Cops dovetails nicely here. When the producer was interviewed and the fact that black people were well and truly over represented as criminals his response was it sells.
So back to Alien Earth … I actuality find it, not unlike the Netflix shows Barry and Apple Severance a fare depiction of the forces in play today. In Alien Earth 5 Corps run the world, uneasy accord between them, yet all push the gray areas, and profit and control of human destiny is all that matters to the Godhead’s of the 5. All the Alien moves were about corp greed and one human at the top pushing the narrative they where advancing humanity and its survival whilst not being subject to their own machinations.
In this the young genius creates a synth, kills his laborer father, personally disorder runs wild, makes a trillion, seeks young plastic minds to insert into a synth body not to save their lives or minds but as Menger test subjects which as H. describes a floor model/prototype to be debugged before offering it to select clientele. In this the first girl sees the machinations and incentives in play, sees the predator for what it is vs the humans around her, makes a decision about how to proceed for her and her compatriots. She could have killed the young genius out of spite but, did not. What, in this world and the moment, would make that choice ah the moment when killing is so profitable to the best of us in the west lmmao ,,,
Ah the Guardian, clueless as ever.
Aliens are not evil, and there has never been anything to demonstrate that. They are no more evil than a wolverine that will take on anything that gets in its way.
To each their own, but I felt the series was even worse that Prometheus and Covenant.
Would a government shutdown not allow a vote on releasing the goods on Epstein, now that the Donkey Show will soon have that extra vote they needed to make it so?
Douchebag Johnson can keep the House in recess, preventing a vote.
Once the lady from Arizona is sworn in, she will sign the petition forcing a vote, but the vote cannot take place if the House is in recess.
IN other words, the House itself may just be shut down for the foreseeable future.
Elaborating a bit, the Pachyderm’s strategy is to “jam” the Senate. They’ve already passed a 70-day CR.
So Johnson is going to keep the House out of session until at least October 1st, in theory forcing the Senate to choke like dogs and pass the clean CR.
Presuming that the Donkey’s fold like a cheap tent, the strategy works … but if not, we get a shutdown of undetermined duration. And, Johnson is under no obligation to resume regular House business during the shutdown … he can try to play “keep away” from the Epstein files discharge position, but as soon as he resumes regular order, the motion has to go to the floor in 7 days.
Valley of the Vampires: “Full Psycho Consumerist Spectacle” will be the name of my next band.
a bit related to “psycho”
Dallas ICE shooter’s only criminal issue was a marijuana charge.
It is a reasonable hypothesis that hyper-THC marijuana is a contributing factor for psychosis and mental health issues
Not holding my breath as this idea is antithetical to the pro-pot crowd and the crowd that is anti-crime, criminals are 100% culpable for their actions and state of mind
It might explain why the shooter fired at ICE detainees, instead of the ICE goon squad, using stoners logic.
I’m inclined to think the motivation is steeped in generation z culture. Dude was a gamer, haunted 4chan.
I second this. From Klippenstein’s article above:
He preferred edgy humor, video games and the message board 4chan, all of which he became increasingly steeped in as he withdrew from social life as well as their own friendships several years ago, they said.
“I mostly stopped talking to him when he took his 4chan/irony stuff into daily interactions,” one friend told me. “He was becoming unbearable … once he dropped out of college he had no obligation to be social and none of us reached out due to his edgelord behavior.”
I wasn’t able to find anyone with insight into Jahn’s more recent views, something that his friends said was unsurprising given his withdrawal from social life over the past few years.
“If you’re having trouble finding people besides immediate family who knew him, that’s part of the story,” one friend said. “Every mutual friend drifted away over that kind of edgelord behavior.”
4chan loner, went down the rabbit hole?
He may not be the first person to be a shooter, but he will definitely not be the last.
In a world of neoliberalism and neocons, is there not also a place for neohashshashins?
Smoke ’em out if you gottem’?
Any reports on other meds used?
Plenty of shooters have enough history of that to ask.
‘Daniela Gabor
@DanielaGabor
the state of the AI investment bubble, in plain English:
overcapacity projected at USD 2 trillion, higher energy prices, higher water wastage, for a technology we dont need at that scale’
And to think that we use to laugh at the Dutch getting suckered into buying overpriced tulips. Maybe I missed it but I have read nowhere how these corporations building data-centers coming out the kazoo are investing their own money into energy infrastructure such as the electrical grids that all that energy runs over. Odd that. So how long until all the smart money quietly gets out of all these investments and stashes that loot somewhere out of reach of the feds jut before it all implodes. You know that it is going to happen.
I’m thinking the unfolding energy debacle will make Enron look like a crooked popsicle stand in Peoria.
Imagine thousands of abandoned, half-built data centers, with rebar sticking up in the air.
With giant electrical sparks surging between the rebar ends like a Tesla Coil in the muck.
Believe it or not, there are historians out there who contend that there was no Dutch tulip bubble:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-tulip-fever-180964915/
And here’s an economist (from the rabidly pro-market U of Chicago) who insists there was no bubble in USA real estate back in 2008:
https://archive.nytimes.com/economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/what-it-really-a-bubble/?src=twt&twt=nytimeseconomix
So we’re sure to find plenty of apologists for what’s taking place now on the AI front. Charles Mackay wrote the book on this sort of delusional crowd behavior way back in 1841, and it’s still a fresh read even today. Technology changes, but human nature stays the same.
Why would a most excellent satirical painting in regards to the Dutch Tulip Bubble be produced in 1640, if there wasn’t one?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania#/media/File:Jan_Brueghel_the_Younger,_Satire_on_Tulip_Mania,_c._1640.jpg
I was reading “Devil Take the Hindmost” this weekend. Seemed pertinent when fintech bros like Thiel are saying things like,“’If you don’t have AI, there’s nothing going on”
And then one takes a look at the circle jerk of financing with all of it…
That’s kind of how I feel when ensconced in the back of beyond in Mother Nature’s realm, there’s no money nor electricity in it.
Writing on a blog, often in a fog
The only time I’m happy’s when everything is agog
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
Singing in regards to bon mots, what a lot I got
Happiness is something that just cannot be bought
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
I’ve been in and I’m out, I’ve been up and down
I don’t want to go until I’ve been all around
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
What’s it all about, anyone in doubt
I don’t want to go until I’ve found it all out
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
N.S.U., by Cream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsrmxWcodd0&list=RDtsrmxWcodd0
Valley of the Vampire, Yasha Levine. Recommended.
If just for this diagnosis:
“When the internet was just being developed, many people in America had a sense of what was at stake. They understood that the internet was a tool of corporate and government power…that it would be used by massive bureaucracies to centralize control over society. But even the tiny bit of skepticism that existed was jettisoned when the realization that massive amounts of money could be made from this technology — and then everyone bought into the hype…began believing in their own advertising campaigns.”
The question is this: What has to be dismantled? And isn’t it time to be heretical and bring back government regulation?
The irony is that the Internet is good at some nitty-gritty things like Etsy and its individual shops, Catalan dictionaries, Italian etymological dictionaries, Greek recipe sites, micro-history, instructional videos (how to prune an olive tree), and concert / performance videos — kabuki plays, taiko drumming, samisen masters.
And there’s Only Fans, which is a natural outgrowth of a visual medium.
Yet here we are: Joshua Jahn and Tyler Robinson were sucked into the WWW. Charlie Kirk is an Internet creation, with a highly mediated and profitable shtick. The Ukrainian government wants to prolong the war for years and survive on corruption and memes, which may be just another kind of corruption.
What is to be done?
Speaking of Etsy and memes: Is a new craft arising in the U S of A? Bullet decoration?
With Saint Luigi the Adjuster, we at least got a photograph. Of something. He at least used a stamp incise the letters in the metal. Classy. (I still wish that Luigi Mangione had thought through his escape, because he could have gotten much farther than Pennsylvania.)
With Tyler Robinson, I’m not aware of any photos of any bullet casings.
Now Joshua Jahn supposedly used a Sharpie on some bullets.
Hmmmm.
Bit of a change up to when you have had US politicians signing bombs and artillery shells about to be fired into Gaza.
The practice, or something similar, goes back at least as far to the 4th century BC and the ancient Greeks. See this “[l]ead sling bullet; almond shape; a winged thunderbolt on one side and on the other, in high relief, the inscription DEXAI [ΔΕΞΑΙ] ‘Catch!’” at the British Museum.
Bullet decoration is a part of a cunning plan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBABl0luEgo
The Internet is good at supplying, and supplying access to, NakedCapitalism and all of its off-the-beaten-path information also.
Speaking of Tylenol, the reporting keeps glossing over this: Prenatal vitamins are not the alleged cure. RFK, Jr and the White House are explicitly talking about prescription drugs, not OTC supplements.
although there is a generic.
They are very specifically touting a prescribed drug taken with close medical supervision and other therapies.
“Officials Said They Busted a Tren de Aragua Party. Attendees Beg to Differ.”
For over twenty years Americans have had to endure security theater every time they go through an airport. These sort of multi-agency raids on hapless emigrants seem to be yet another form of security theater committed against people that are almost helpless to fight back. But for the Trump regime, they provide a way to look like they are doing something, not matter how many laws and procedures they ignore.
I’ll propose that ignoring the laws and procedures is the point.
re: Study Sheds Light on Drinking and Dementia Risk
An acquaintance died this week (80s) after phases of dementia had began over the past 12 months. Kidney issues combined with heavy drinking of expensive wine. The sad thing it was completely unnecessary (no serious illness) and the person was once (long ago) an intellectual public figure. But if you are used to argue and discuss theoretical matters dementia is even worse to witness.
Novavax. Now is the time to call your local CVS and inquire. Our local is getting a “small quantity”, the number based on how many people are asking for it.
Just an anecdote… my primary care doctor recommended NOT getting the COVID vaccine based on my age and health profile.
He stated that the risk of myocarditis was too high and the reward not worth it. I’m just a few years shy of 60.
If my memory serves me well, myocarditis is mainly associated with the mrna vaccines.
I’ve had Covid once and I’m determined not to get it again. Going with the NVax.
My local CVS is not getting it so I’m calling around.
Local Walgreens says its not available yet but may be. Same with Costco.
None of my local grocery store pharmacies plan to offer.
The county doesn’t offer but if I can get a person on the phone I’ll ask why.
Only a month ago, our local said the were not going to have it. We called yesterday and now they are, in “very limited” quantity. Might be worth a shot calling around again, although it may depend what state you live in.
From what I can gather, Novavax was approved in Canada for this go around. But no supply and it seems as though Ontario has nixed it.
Is anyone relieved that the FBI director seems to be an incompetent fool who cannot even bother to use spellcheck or have a unpaid intern look at this tweets?
He’s no J Edgar Hoover.
When he wrote “idealogical” [sic], he must’ve meant that the ideas were logical. He is, after all, the author of several books. I think he should be referred to from now on as “Kash Patel, author of Plot Against the King: 2000 Mules”. I got a good chuckle out of it, at least. This generation of political figures seems to know politics as purely something that is carried out through the media. It is indeed a relief to think that those who would be responsible for our repression are fools.
That sheep in today’s Antidote du jour looks like the sort they get steel wool from.
My first thought was, “It’s Timmy Time!”
File under Social Murder
A Diminished Social Security Work Force, and Its Customers, Feel the Strain (NY Times via archive.ph)
china energy/politico.
A quick search shows china in 2024 installed 90gw of wind, the US 4 GW.
China is less than double the total energy use of the US.
Solar was close to 10X more for china than US last year alone.
150 GW of new nuclear by 2035
lot of new hydro power plants
As to the coal part, yes china is installing lots of new coal plants, but the back story is that they are retiring many old less efficient more polluting ones.
Even though energy use is going up overall in china, coal use is close to flat and even showing a downward trends at times, all new.
To some how say that china isn’t doing enough, compared to whom?
It is really amazing how much wind and solar China is installing. I don’t have a source but I’ve heard that the coal power China is installing is intended as back up in case wind and solar isn’t online.
It is not truly a one-for-one correspondence but a rough rule of thumb is that 1GW of power is the equivalent of one nuclear power plant. It takes years and years to install one nuclear power plant. Not nearly so long to install the equivalent amount of solar or wind power.
“They would go after Patrick Henry these days”
Patrick Henry? These days they would throw Tomas Paine into a supermax prison.
FWIW, I chose “Tom Paine” when I was required to use a registered alias by an employer in the 1970’s.
COVID, is that you?
What Declines in Reading and Math Mean for the U.S. Work Force (NY Times via archive.ph)
Chronic absenteeism continues at relatively high levels, compared to pre-2020 data; And this data holds for all income groups, although absenteeism among students from higher income families is less. And as of 2024 data I’ve seen from several states, this hasn’t returned to baseline yet, and there’s no reason to believe it will without improving indoor ventilation, and implementing mandatory pooled testing and masking at schools.
In rejecting that this could possibly have anything to do with a novel virus that hit the scene in 2020, the burden of proof is overwhelmingly on those that reflexively discount that SARS-CoV-2 could possibly be involved here outside of “lockdowns” in 2020. On balance, higher income students come from families with more resources, and would logically been better able to transition to temporary remote learning, and yet even these students have elevated absentee levels.
The state reports I’ve seen on absenteeism don’t acknowledge that the virus itself could ever possibly have any impact. This, to me, is insanity.
This timeline is stupid.
Monopoly Utilities Ousted America’s Best Regulator Boondoggle
On the same topic and with similar diagnostics but this time regarding Texas watch: Why Your Utility Bill Keeps Rising.
The same goes, though with its cultural differences, on the other side of the pond. Private transmission and distribution utilities, and specially distribution, asking for lot’s and lot’s of money because electrification. Bruegel signals the very same problem in Europe: Upgrading Europe’s electricity grid is about more than just money. It requires planning, coordination and finding cost effective solutions.
IMO the socialists in corporate america (that would be all corporations implicitly) want uncle sugar to rebuild the grid for them so they can make more money without doing anything. Another layer of feathers for their nest.
Alternatively, many might be trying to do too much or/and in the most expensive way, which mustn’t be the most efficient, plus their “fair share” in profits. That is the common finding in those articles linked.
Because the same approach goes down the line to the last subcontractor the bills inflate and inflate and inflate.
We need to have a national discussion on what words like socialism mean. It’s fine to talk about socializing costs (and of course privatizing benefits), but that has nothing to do with socialism.
The H1B program is such a scam; Look how abysmal this is. Look. The NY Times looks at the breakeven rates for an H1B on the new $100K fee per salary level. Look at the levels.
These are — we’re told — the best people in the world, the entire world.
Most H1Bs are paid under $200K a year. Overwhelmingly $100-125K.
This isn’t what the best of the best are paid, period. Just look at even Netflix salaries, where an L3 (entry) makes on average 221K! At Google it is 192K.
And you can’t look at tech jobs at otherwise non-tech focused companies. These are supposed to be the true innovators we don’t have in America. Real geniuses.
This doesn’t even pass the smell test, never did
$100,000 Per Employee: How the H-1B Visa Fee Could Reshape Work Forces (NY Times)
And
(bold mine)
Case in point
Body shops. I wonder what the average salary was of the Americans that these H1Bs replaced?
Yep, I worked for an insurance company that used H1-b’s in basically what were level 3 tech support positions. They were not doing complex work if you actually job shadowed them. Anybody who was a level one or two tech support position could have done their job with the right training but this kept a lid on wages as there was now basically nowhere for those level one and two techs to move up to within the company and I’ll guarantee they were paying either the same level of wages or less to them. This was ten years ago.
The offshoring loophole needs to be closed completely. In addition to the H1b fee, tax these companies on the difference in wages including SS and Medicare that they would be paying an average US worker compared to say either India, the Philippines,etc on every single job they offshore.
Interesting comment. But what really sticks out to me is the starting salaries for Netflix and Google are around $200K?
Here’s starting and average salaries for engineering professions in America:
Average Engineering Salaries https://www.mtu.edu/engineering/about/salary/
And that’s not the starting pay. We have all these articles on how America cannot build things anymore so it’s interesting to see what gets the best pay.
I’ve read within the last few days that the median salary for H-1b employees is $90,000, which means half are paid less than that, and it could be quite a lot less.
The long read: The origins of today’s conflict between American Jews over Israel Guardian)
I found this interesting.
What do you think of tattooed Sec Def Boy calling an all hands meeting of military brass…
Something sinister or the usual pablum?
My best guess: we’re getting ready to “punch down” in weight class, Hegseth is in search of a 98 lb weakling in our hemisphere. Must not have a functioning army or navy.
Let the invasion of Haiti begin!
Wouldn’t the Cayman Islands be an easier get, offshore banks seldom have much in the way of defense.
The big cruise lines all have private islands in the Caribbean, they’d be even easier gets.
“Hey, Mom, pass the sunscreen and order me another Mai-Tai. And, oh, by the way, who are those frogmen swimming up to the beach with rifles? Are they part of the Disney show?”
Haiti would be a death trap, once they land. The trees would be speaking French. He is more likely to invade Epstein Island.
I would think Panama. We did it before and now it is time to go get that canal.
but Venezuela has tons of oil. Plus the logistics are so much easier than Iran.
It also has teeth.
If I were invited to that soirée, I’d send my double.
I noticed the story didn’t say when the meeting was called for. That makes me wonder if the story is true. It doesn’t seem like “sometime next week” is enough data for a story of this magnitude.
I’m putting this here just because. Carol Kaye, a person of interest and significance in 20th century American culture —
Carol Kaye Is Being Honored by the Rock Hall of Fame. She Doesn’t Care.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/arts/music/carol-kaye-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame.html
https://archive.ph/q7coT
How many top records was Kaye on? In the mid-1960s to 1970, Kaye as a female musician doing sessions earned $75,000 a year — translating to $670,000 today.
“Kaye was finally recognized by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year, and will be included in its 2025 class via its “musical excellence” category. She promptly announced she was rejecting the honor and would boycott the induction ceremony in November … “First off, I’m not a rocker, I’m a jazz musician,” she said.
Good for her. Why the hell is there a rock n roll hall of fame in the first place?
For business reasons, what else.
Just another way to tame the beast
I’m thinking the best way forward in getting rid of AI and exposing it as the ridiculous scam it is is to take leaders and promoters at face value and use the output of AI workflows verbatim. Rather than spending hours fixing and reworking ridiculous code and documents generated by AI “co-pilots”, people should feed them directly into use. If anyone complains or anything bad happens as a result, one can easily explain that we were told AI is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Code that never manages to compile, pass tests, or run, and documents that have obvious lies and make no sense will be the best way to prove the uselessness of artificial intelligence, and if they take down stock prices and force c-suite personnel out of office, this is an appropriate outcome in a merit-based society.
Of course, the Harvard Business Review tries to turn this into a way to blame workers:
Sure, sure, some workers are just unscrupulous. It certainly can’t be the case that a random walk across hidden semantic structure inherently generates content that is incomplete, missing context, and ultimately unhelpful.
That sounds like a plan for those who are forced by management to use it. The rest of us need to shun it like the plague.
I’m curious what’s going on in Denmark. Third airport (this week?) shut down due to drone incursions. NATO and EU are blaming Russia but as far as I see it’s unknown who is doing it. The messaging around it is concerning
Ukrainian sleeper cells moving public opinion?
From a Bing response to my query:
drone incidents in Europe what type and how many drones?
Denmark (mid-September 2025 weeklong period)
Multiple drones observed near Copenhagen Airport, Billund Airport, Aalborg Airport, and several military installations such as Skrydstrup Airbase.
Billund Airport closed for 1 hour, Aalborg Airport for 3 hours due to drone activity.
Witness reports included small drones with green blinking lights, suggesting automated or controlled reconnaissance drones. (or off the shelf hobby drone, lol)
Probably a scare campaign. Like the mystery drones over the US not so long ago. Ho hum.
I’ll bet if they thought they were Russian drones, they’d be shot out of the sky in a heartbeat, collateral damage be damned
Otoh, perhaps it’s just very, very small green men from the planet Zonk
Maybe all those unexplained New Jersey drones from last year flew east to find greener pastures?
Something rotten?
Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals
The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Even top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/25/hegseth-generals-quantico-meeting/
Buy stock in pizza delivery.
This is odd for sure. I wonder what’s up. Seems like a huge risk to have everyone in one spot and also taken away from important locations, no?
Maybe this — Douglas Macgregor: “War is Inevitable” on Glenn Diesen earlier today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1FkIZaAhHE
‘Col. Macgregor argues that the decision has been made for another war with Iran. On the European front, Trump makes absurd and dangerous statements about the proxy war in Ukraine, while simultaneously pulling out. The Europeans are left with the responsibility for the losing war in Ukraine, and panic is setting in’.
Can this be the long anticipated “Coup?”
….more than likely only counting coup
chicken coup
One of my favorite New Yorker cartoons:
https://condenaststore.com/featured/chicken-coup-seth-fleishman.html
Samson targeting presentation?
French and UK troops in Odessa. One way to deal with them is with the patient attrition way used so far. The Europeans will feel safe and maybe be so stupid that they send even more troops to Odessa. Then when the front-line has moved all the way to Odessa these people will have a quick chat with Mr Oreshkin, Mr. Kinzhal and Mr. Iskander.
Mr. Iskander is regulary visiting locations all around the Ukraine, and does not discriminate. Once it knocks on a door of a military object, everyone is treated as equal (Frenchies, Brits, Ukros, …).
This seems important and NC relevant–the banking threat to Palestine
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/09/israel-is-trying-to-collapse-the-palestinian-authority-the-first-step-is-destroying-the-palestinian-economy/
Carrying on, business as usual, while the UN meets:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/israeli-strike-yemens-houthis-reportedly-194718767.html/
Looks like the data is still healthy:
What Slowdown? Q2 GDP Growth Revised Up to Hot Zone of 3.8%, Stronger Consumer Spending & Private Fixed Investment (Wolf Street)
Here’s an interesting interview on AI:
Expert’s DIRE WARNING: Superhuman AI Will Kill Us All https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YdtNljaPzo
We had one project where we recruited software engineers from the defense side of the company to help us improve the software for a factory automation project. They had been using AI in their projects, and it was interesting to have a discussion with them about AI, how it works (or doesn’t) and how it is used. They knew how to set it up, and train it, but did not know how it worked. They had experienced how it can have unpredictable results, and thus at a very low level it becomes what engineers call nondeterministic:
Nondeterministic algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondeterministic_algorithm
If I’m implementing factory automation software used to build things which cannot every single time have repeatable outputs given the same inputs, then I’m not going to use it in automation, and those engineers that were using it agreed that it should not be used in our project.
RE: the Jaime Harrison Kamala butt kissing post
Anybody else tired of this whole “candidate x received the highest vote total evah” nonsense every four years? The reason we have candidates getting higher numbers of votes is due to population increase. Of course nobody got 70 million votes when the population was 30 million, FFS. Harrison can try to varnish that dumbbell all he wants, but she will remain a midwit loser.
US in talks for $20bn Argentina swap line as Trump gives Milei full backing Intellinews
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When Enron took the state of California for $30 billion back in the day, it seemed like so very much, $20 billion is largely pocket change in the scheme of things now, and throwing good money after bad.
Loud praise for the latest South Park, oh my gosh Trey & Matt hit it out of the park firing on all cylinders, with my favorite bit being Satan chastising Donald for not showing up for the ultrasound, not to give anything away other than that.
Microsoft Azure has canceled part of its cloud contract with the Israeli Ministry of Defense following Guardian reporting and activist pressure:
They did not cancel the entire contract with 8200.
US debt investors raise alarm over lending standards FT
Nice scam, factoring. Think of the sell/buy/sell incentives of the participants. The guy who is selling the invoices sees difficulty on the horizen because his clients are simply not getting the cash up fast enough. In order to stave off certain doom down the road, he goes for the quick infusion of dough and prays with the Ukrainians for a deus ex machina. The guy who buys and packages the invoices sees a lovely two way payday. He gets a seemingly valuable ‘asset’ on the cheap in front (as well as a buy-in fee) and off-loads the ‘asset’ and liability on the back end for a good chunk of change. The guy who buys the DDD- package is looking at a substantial junky return…at least for a while. Life in Happyville.
Some of the last guys in are already taking a 50% haircut. Sorry boys…you will now have to give up the hairdresser and start seeing the barber.
Re: AI
Just re-watched John Carpenter’s Dark Star (1974) again, which aside from still being pretty funny gives a rather prescient view of a future in which various high-tech AIs cannot function together but instead bicker over mission goals and resort to petty blame shifting. E.g., the squabble between the ship’s computer and “Thermosteller bomb #20” that begins in this scene:
https://youtu.be/wj3UVQdWMh4?si=T1a8Yy-XjiP_Shle&t=868
Overall, what we see in this film is likely a more realistic take on any future space exploration than Musk’s Martian fantasies.
I love Dark Star! In addition to the cheerfully argumentative bomb trying to destroy everything and how everything is deeply shitty from a workplace perspective on the ship, you can really see the influence it played on the original Alien in terms of the employer/labor relation and the alien ‘chase’ sequence. Here is a good long form piece on the film and it’s impact. I like this quote:
Thanks much for that link. In that quotation, the analysis of Dark Star vs. other comedic SF rings true. And no question about the influence on Ridley Scott’s Alien, largely due to Dan O’Bannon being involved in both projects.
Regarding Alien, there are two other films worth watching: Mario Bava’s super-stylish Planet of the Vampires (1965), which is clearly the direct inspiration, regardless of anything O’Bannon may have said.
Second, there is a fascinating documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune (2013), with Alejandro Jodorowsky describing the whole project and how it didn’t come together, but also how it enabled the creation of Alien.
Concur and remember vividly watching it the first time long ago on some lazy weekend afternoon.
Classic line at the end of “let there be light” by the bomb after the philosophical chat with the astronaut.
Washington backing plan for Tony Blair to head transitional Gaza authority (Guardian)
The White House is backing a plan that would see Tony Blair head a temporary administration of the Gaza Strip – initially without the direct involvement of the Palestinian Authority (PA), according to Israeli media reports.
Under the proposal, Blair would lead a body called the Gaza International Transitional Authority (Gita) that would have a mandate to be Gaza’s “supreme political and legal authority” for as long as five years.
According to reports in Haaretz and the Times of Israel, the plan is modelled on the administrations that initially oversaw Timor-Leste and Kosovo’s transitions to statehood. The proposal suggests that Gita could at first be based in el-Arish, an Egyptian provincial capital near Gaza’s southern border, and would eventually enter the territory accompanied by a UN-endorsed, largely Arab multinational force. The plan envisions “the eventual unifying of all the Palestinian territory under the PA”…
…A broad version of the US-backed plan was laid out by Trump at a meeting in New York on Wednesday with the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani; the Saudi foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud; King Abdullah II of Jordan; the president of Indonesia, Prabowo Subianto; and Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Trump said the meeting had been successful, adding “we’re close to getting some kind of deal done”..
Lotta details in the article. Also f*** Tony Blair.
They cite Haaretz’s report on the plan which is here
Von Blair, the gauleiter of Gaza. Fitting.
I didn’t know he had a background in real estate…
Learn something new every day.
At some point in the last two years there was a project kickoff meeting for this vile plan. Months, maybe more than a year after that, of meetings, calls, people writing documents and reviewing them, ‘milestones’ discussed with stakeholders. And while that was going on, there were ceasefire proposals that were rejected by Israel that the US government provided cover for because they were participating in this atrocity because everyone involved expected a big payday. And there is a number of souls, dead Palestinians, that can be truthfully stated that were the price for Tony gd Blair getting his cut. I am not a religious woman but I almost wish I was just so I could believe everyone involved in this will rot in hell on death.
Civilian injuries in Gaza similar to those of soldiers in war zones, study finds (Guardian)
Civilians in Gaza have sustained injuries of a type and on a scale more usually seen among professional soldiers involved in intense combat operations, research has found.
A study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) found that some types of wounds – such as burns or injuries to legs – were more common among civilians in Gaza than among US soldiers fighting in recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan…
…Burns were particularly common and severe, in particular among children, the authors found. More than one-tenth of burn injuries were fourth-degree, meaning they penetrated all tissue layers down to the bone.
The extent of traumatic injury victims reflects “the impact of indiscriminate aerial and heavy explosive bombardment in civilian areas”, the study said…
…Data collected by the independent violence-tracking organisation Acled suggests that as many as 15 of every 16 Palestinians the Israeli military has killed since its renewed offensive in Gaza began in March may have been civilians
This year is so lit
Trump Will Slap Tariffs on Imported Drugs, Trucks and Household Furnishings (NY Times via archive.ph)
And they’re wising up
MAGA is on the March!
That’s pretty hilarious, that they’re going after industrial machinery and robots, almost as if, they really don’t understand how crucial these things are to rebuilding manufacturing in America.