Links 10/28/2025

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1. The Rev Kev October 28, 2025 at 7:13 am

   “U.S. Steps Up Pressure on Hungary to Cut Off Russian Oil”

   I still find this hard to understand. During the US elections last year all the EU leaders were trashing Trump and were backing Kamala to win. The UK even sent a staff group of 100 people to help make it so. There was only one leader in the EU that was really defending Trump and that was Orban of Hungary. And yet now between cancelling the Hungarian summit and demanding that Orban halt all Russian oil deliveries, this would wreck Hungary economically and may help Orban be defeated in next year’s elections and it would be an EU-approved globalist that would replace him. To top it all off, Trump is now siding with all those EU leaders that were trashing him. There is no sense of gratitude with Trump – nor even common sense. He would lose his eyes and ears in the EU when Orban goes and be dependent on what the Europeans tell him.

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   1. Christopher Fay October 28, 2025 at 7:56 am

      Planning three hours ahead is not a capability for U S leaders, check “Pivot to Asia “ and rare earth materials along with upstream medical feedstocks for confirmation

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2. Christopher Fay October 28, 2025 at 7:48 am

   Regarding First Brands “ It is still too early to tell what the final loss total is for First Brands. With nearly $12 billion in debt, the losses will be substantial and will hit CLO managers, private credit fund managers, insurance companies, which insured some of the off-balance sheet transactions, investment banks (primarily Jefferies), and public accounting firms (BDO). All will get a dose of pain and humility.” I predict the first line of loss will be the workers whether factory floor or management office that bite the bitter sausage that our political economy makes

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3. The Rev Kev October 28, 2025 at 8:08 am

   “When Science Met the Supernatural: The Strange History of the Fourth Dimension”

   When this article mentioned Edwin A. Abbott’s satirical novella “Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions”, I noted that it made an appearance in popular culture not that long ago-

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wqtqo3DFdo (1:30 mins)

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4. Steve H. October 28, 2025 at 8:08 am

   > Mushrooms show promise as memory chips for future computers Phys.org

   >> can be grown and trained to act as organic memristors, a type of data processor that can remember past electrical states.

   What could go wrong?

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   1. The Rev Kev October 28, 2025 at 9:09 am

      What happens if they accidentally use “magic mushrooms”?

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5. tomk October 28, 2025 at 8:10 am

   The Maine Wire is right wing propoganda. If you read the article you will find that the new resignation is because of a child on the. way, and no other evidence of a free fall is shown. He continues to draw large crowds, I don’t see road signs disappearing. His polling is still strong where it matters, here in Maine.

   I had dinner with an old friend, far more conservative than I am, though a good liberal, a few nights ago. I wasn’t planning on bringing up Platner, because she is an ardent Zionist, and I didn’t want to engage. She did bring him up, though, and said, “my mother was a holocaust survivor, and I had no idea what a totenkamf was. I don’t give a shit what kind of stupid tattoos he got. He’s saying the right things and we need more candidates like him.”

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6. Christopher Fay October 28, 2025 at 8:13 am

   Again on First Brands and losses we can look at the defensive lines to take losses. If private general partners bit first, then the private co. workers before the limited partners get hit (will have to forego the third home). If public the share holders lose first with falling stock price, then the company employees, and finally the C suite takes a scratch. The executives worse case scenario lose the company then have to search for board positions.

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7. The Rev Kev October 28, 2025 at 8:21 am

   “Hurricane Melissa collides with U.S. military mission in Caribbean”

   Trump is in trouble now. He could use those ships to aid those people in the storm ravaged parts of the Caribbean. Or he could make them stay on station to continue to threaten Venezuela with. Either way, Trump is going to have to make a decision. Since he is loath to make decisions like this, that is why I say that he is in trouble. My guess is that he will announce that he will help the people there but only cut one ship from that task force to do so for publicity purposes.

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8. Wukchumni October 28, 2025 at 8:34 am

   Goooooooood Mooooooorning Fiatnam!

   It was a greed that couldn’t be quenched, he who ends up with the most digital entries of 0’s & 1’s prevails, devil take the hindmost.

   Talking of money, you don’t want to go into battle with a bunch of small change a jingling and a jangling in your BDU, giving away your position in lowest entry monetary units, so everybody in the platoon had long ago gone to Bitcoin, secure since the teens-and silent like a Swiss banker.

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9. Wukchumni October 28, 2025 at 8:42 am

   Hurricane Melissa collides with U.S. military mission in Caribbean WaPo
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   Loves me some historical comparisons, and here’s a beaut!

   The Great Hurricane of 1780 was the deadliest tropical cyclone in the Western Hemisphere. An estimated 22,000-30,000 people died throughout the Lesser Antilles when the storm passed through the islands from October 10 to October 16. Specifics on the hurricane’s track and strength are unknown, as the official Atlantic hurricane database only goes back to 1851.

   The hurricane struck Barbados likely as a Category 5 hurricane, with one estimate of wind gusts as high as 200 mph (320 km/h), before moving past Martinique, Saint Lucia, and Saint Eustatius, and causing thousands of deaths on those islands. Coming in the midst of the American Revolution, the storm caused heavy losses to the British fleet contesting for control of the area, significantly weakening British control over the Atlantic.

   Among the ships lost from Rodney’s fleet were the frigates HMS Blanche, which disappeared without a trace, and HMS Andromeda and HMS Laurel, which were wrecked on Martinique with heavy loss of life. By far the worst losses in the Royal Navy, however, were those ships under the command of Vice-Admiral Peter Parker and Rear-Admiral Joshua Rowley. At the time of the hurricane, Rowley was off the coast of New York with a portion of the fleet, including HMS Sandwich, while Parker was in Port Royal, Jamaica. Many of their ships, however, were in the hurricane’s path. The ships of the line HMS Thunderer and HMS Stirling Castle, frigate HMS Phoenix, post ship HMS Deal Castle and sloop-of-war HMS Endeavour were lost, and seven other warships were dismasted.

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hurricane_of_1780

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10. The Rev Kev October 28, 2025 at 9:08 am

    “IDF Disposes of Huge Piles of Construction Waste and Rubble From Israel Inside Gaza”

    ‘One of the soldiers Haaretz spoke with said he had asked his commanders why the waste was being dumped randomly inside Gaza instead of a proper disposal site. According to him, the commanders replied that since foreign countries would soon enter Gaza to begin reconstruction, they would also deal with the waste the IDF had left behind.’

    Yeah, pretty typical that. The Israeli government has always had an aversion to putting their hands into their own pockets. But Israel has been doing stuff like this for decades – like when Settlers divert their sewerage onto Palestinian farmlands because who is going to stop them?

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