Following the Life of an Abandoned Bull in Nepal Sapiens
Social media isn’t driving the teenage “loneliness epidemic” Mike Males
Climate/Environment
COP 30: it’s no joke The Next Recession
Warning! This “Colorful Chart” is Censored by IPCC Climate Uncensored
Home Prices on a Warming Planet New York Times
An arcane type of property insurer is surging on the Gulf Coast E&E News
Pandemics
Washington DOH Statement: Grays Harbor County Resident Dies From Complications of Avian Influenza Avian Flu Diary
Two countries.
Two charts.
A very similar (and concerning) trend.
…………..
Can you think of anything that happened in 2020 which is still affecting huge swathes of people on an ongoing basis and which may help explain this worrying trend?
— Cat in the Hat 🐈⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 (@_CatintheHat) November 22, 2025
Canada’s measles setback is a symptom of deeper sickness Canada Healthwatch
Africa
US Bombs Somalia for 100th Time This Year Antiwar
Empire of gold: The UAE’s expanding grip on Africa’s mineral wealth The Cradle
Japan
Japan’s Yonaguni arming up for a Taiwan war with China Asia Times
Japan PM Takaichi Wants to Get Closer to Prabowo on Defense Jakarta Globe
India
India Turns to U.S. Energy to Shield Itself From Massive Tariffs Oil Price
1962 conflict a Tibet-handiwork by US to prevent Sino-India rapprochement? Tibetan Review
China?
China’s power equipment firms ride AI-driven boom amid demand from US, emerging markets South China Morning Post
These “rural” homes are in Zhejiang.
The neighborhood is also connected to the city by subway.
China is changing… pic.twitter.com/skK2v2p4vP
— Jason Smith – 上官杰文 (@ShangguanJiewen) November 21, 2025
Syraqistan
As It Prepares for Multifront Wars of Attrition, the IDF Faces a Manpower Crunch and Spiraling Costs Haaretz
The shadowy double dealing behind the UNSC Resolution legitimising Trump’s final solution for Gaza Vanessa Beeley
U.S. to Scale Back Command Center in Israel, Aims to Relocate Gazans to Israeli-held Areas Haaretz
Germany’s decision to take in donkeys from Gaza for treatment – but not children – has sparked outrage Middle East Monitor
NEW | Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz describes her post–October 7 campus intervention tour to save Jewish students who reject Zionism.
She describes college students who separate antisemitism from antizionism as “irrational” and confused, and in need of realignment, so they… pic.twitter.com/K1cOHrjU0p
— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) November 23, 2025
Evidence on Israel and JFK Assassination Builds as the Nukes He Tried to Stop Threaten Humanity Sam Husseini
Hezbollah confirms top commander Ali Tabatabai killed in Israeli strike in Beirut Anadolu Agency
Makran or Bust: Tehran’s water crisis gets worse Peter Frankopan
European Disunion
As US-China rivalry redefines economic warfare, Europe scrambles for its dictionary South China Morning Post
Mass layoffs and welfare cuts: Germany at the center of the European crisis WSWS
Income needed to avoid poverty: How do European thresholds compare? Euronews
Old Blighty
One number you really need to know Matt Goodwin
Royal Navy Shadows Russian Warships Through English Channel as Maritime Tensions Escalate gCaptain
New Not-So-Cold War
Ukraine Seeks NATO-like Shield From US, Counter-Plan Says Bloomberg. Negotiating among themselves further away from Russian position.
Russia Will Not Make the Same Mistake It Did With Minsk II Larry Johnson
US and Ukraine promise ‘updated’ peace framework after criticism of pro-Russian points in original plan The Guardian
Who wrote the 28-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine? Intellinews
Full text of European counter-proposal to US Ukraine peace plan Reuters
Europe’s Delusional Counter-Proposal Glenn Diesen
🇺🇦 A new piece by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius confirms earlier reports that Trump’s peace plan — at Kiev’s request — includes a clause on postwar amnesty.
According to Ignatius, this was added to “reassure Zelensky and his government members that they won’t face… https://t.co/qTiEtoXyhr pic.twitter.com/hptgaWaXbz
— DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics) November 23, 2025
The most likely outcome of a deepened Ukrainian corruption scandal is not an end to the war but an attempted escalation of it via a new Ukrainian “Kerensky Government” – probably packed to the rafters with actual Nazis – vowing to fight the war to the literal last Ukrainian. https://t.co/R6CannFoh7
— Armchair Warlord (@ArmchairW) November 24, 2025
South of the Border
White House considers leaflet drop to pressure Maduro on his birthday WaPo
Bolsonaro arrested in preventative detention months after conviction for coup attempt Brasil de Fato
L’affaire Epstein
The CPA and the Lawyer Who Served Jeffrey Epstein—and Control His Fortune and Secrets WSJ
Inside the extended courtship linking Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel, and Israeli officials San Francisco Standard
Larry Summers and the Hunger Games Ann Pettifor
Trump 2.0
Trump Makes Surprising U-Turn On Plans To Deploy National Guard To New York City Huff Post
GOP Funhouse
Marjorie Taylor Greene refutes reports that she’s considering running for president CBS News
Democrats en déshabillé
Maine’s Platner: ‘If I Had My Way’ Google and Palantir ‘Wouldn’t Exist’ Washington Free Beacon
The Uniparty
Does the US Congress know what socialism is? Richard Murphy
Our Famously Free Press
The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine The Intercept
You Don’t Hate The Mass Media Enough Caitline Johnstone
Accelerationists
Court Filings Allege Meta Downplayed Risks to Children and Misled the Public TIME
Is Marc Andreessen just flat-out dumb? NonZero Newsletter
Wars Come Home
UAW Local Forced to Pay $315,000 to 3 Zionist Union Members Payday Report
Imperial Collapse Watch
Why are military aircraft accidents spiking? Responsible Statecraft
Runaway Short-Termism New York Review
My G-20 Report Karl Sanchez
Is the Multipolar World Dead? Lily Lynch
BRICS states team up with EU to “put a price on carbon” Edward Slavsquat
Guillotine Watch
The Bezzle
Napster Said It Raised $3 Billion From A Mystery Investor. Now The ‘Investor’ And ‘Money’ Are Gone Forbes
Turkey Talk
Did the Iroquois Really Influence the Birth of the Union? Hogeland’s Bad History
The Hidden Secret of Thanksgiving that is Actually Pretty Amazing Pax Culinaria
Immigration
NEWS: Noem Moves Hard Against Legal Migrant Health Benefits Migrant Insider
Police State Watch
Border Patrol is taking the powers they want. Borderland Talk with Jenn Budd
A viral arrest, a drunken brawl and an overdose: the last days of a notorious Border Patrol agent Long Beach Post
The FBI Wants AI Surveillance Drones With Facial Recognition The Intercept
AI
Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts FT
Microsoft’s New Windows AI Feature Comes With Warnings About Malware and Data Theft It’s Foss
Figure AI sued by whistleblower who warned that startup’s robots could ‘fracture a human skull’ CNBC
Why Is Everyone’s Robot Folding Clothes? IEEE Spectrum
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality New York Times
Texas men indicted in plot to take over Haitian island and enslave women and children NPR
Class Warfare
America Is Becoming Dallas Hamilton Nolan
An alternative to capitalism is possible, at least in comic books El Pais
Antidote du jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
“Bolsonaro arrested in preventative detention months after conviction for coup attempt”
The idiot tried to remove his ankle bracelet meant for monitoring his whereabouts and when an explanation was demanded by the cops, he said that he applied a soldering iron to it to ‘see what would happen.’ As this article says, the plan seems to be for him to remove that ankle bracelet, have a huge crowd of his supporters outside his home to cover his escape, and then he would be driven to the Argentinian Embassy where he would apply for diplomatic immunity. Little wonder that the cops got tired of his antics and arrested him. It does not say but I would not be surprised that if this plan had been executed, that Ambassadors from several western nations would have escorted him to the Argentinian Embassy to give him a shield of sorts. Stuff like that has happened before.
Regarding “Home Prices on a Warming Planet”, this is interesting,
Iowa City eliminated bus fares in August 2023 with a goal of lowering emissions from cars and encouraging people to take public transit. The two-year pilot program proved so popular that the City Council voted this summer to extend it another year, paying for it with a 1 percent increase in utility taxes and by doubling most public parking rates to $2 from $1.
Ridership has surpassed prepandemic levels by 18 percent. Bus drivers say they’re navigating less congested streets. People drove 1.8 million fewer miles on city streets, according to government calculations, and emissions dropped by 24,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide a year. That’s the equivalent of taking 5,200 vehicles off the roads. — Cara Buckley
Mamdani taking notes.
I invite all “free buses destroy the economy” believers to pipe up…
On the other hand, 1.8 million fewer miles driven is enough to raise an exxon execs eyebrows, if not blood pressure, and 5200 vehicles off the road is also a nice chunk of change to the useless eaters in the banksteria. And uber is definitely p.o.’d about this. It’s almost as if those bus riders are colluding against uber, maybe a class based action is in order…
If Uber is involved, that should be a “Classless Action Suit.”
Tucson, Arizona has had free bus fares since the start of the pandemic. Lately the conservative talk radio crowd has been trying to end the policy, claiming that drug dealers are using the bus system to move around town to sell their wares.
However, the recent Tucson city election elected two fare free supporters, so the policy will stay in place for a while.
I’m hopeful that Lina Khan and other fiscal wonks will figure out a way for New York to have what us in Tucson, a poor southwestern city, now enjoy. BTW, I ride the bus frequently and I’m just not seeing the drug dealer meme. Bus riders tend to be poor, going to school or work, almost everyone looking down at their phone
I always visualize that I’m being driven around in a giant limo.
As a senior I ride for free in my locale and just hop on. Many other folks do not have their fare ready and spend time fumbling for it, it drags down service. Yes, very much to making busses free.
I take the 60 bus regularly. The regular fare is $2 or $1 for geezers. It’s very democratic and tends to keep me humble. I see a lot of people for whom $2 must be a lot of money.
I see a lot of people for whom $2 must be a lot of money.
if that doesnt jess say it all….
“Brother, can you spare a dime?”
We’re closer to those days than we realize.
Stay safe out in the hills.
Here, one who is low income can get a (centrally issued, show an EBT card or whatever to get it, I’ve been there) placard and the fare is 75¢, half the normal fare. In my beleaguered district that is most. Anyone paying can get a 90 minute location unlimited transfer ticket. Go and get around or go and come back for 75¢. Good but I’d still prefer free, as many don’t have even that fare ready (I’ve given more than a few the 75¢).
It’s been great for us bike riders as well. Yes, I just gave away my town. Look me up next time you visit.
Latest from Racket News and Greg Collard. No paywall.
The Censorship Industrial Complex’s Power Grip in Germany
New liber-net report maps an expansive network of government and private censors across Germany
https://www.racket.news/p/the-censorship-industrial-complexs
A German-language interview with A. Lowenthal by daily BERLINER ZEITUNG.
I haven´t checked but I am pretty sure it is the only serious outlet with national reach that covered the subject.
Which explains a lot about the state of affairs in the FRG on this, on Gaza, on Ukraine, on China, on BRICS.
Well, a lot 😝…
use google-translate
“Censorship Network” Germany: How the Government Undermines Freedom of Expression with NGOs
Who determines the digital discourse? An investigation shows how state-funded NGOs control online debate in Germany – and why this endangers freedom of expression.
Nov. 21, 2025
https://archive.is/OmVLZ
Really glad to see the other side of the coin in terms of social media and phones not being absolute evil. A lot of the cases I’ve seen, personally, of teachers and parents complaining of kids constantly on their phones boiled down to energetic/distractable kids just being kids. If it’s not phones, it will be something else. Tv, as was said in the article, was a big one back in my day as was playing hooky.
It’s not a linear equation where outside talking to people = good and in your room browsing Instagram = bad. They both have positives and negatives. Some applications can be addictive but in my high school gambling was a big issue before phones, and board games (outside of the generic ones) can also be addictive, even if you only play by yourself.
The Child Psychiatrist I work with sometimes (below the equator) also maintains that there hasn’t been any significant amount of patients in her clinic for problems related primarily social media/device/video game addiction. Not that they don’t exist but it hasn’t noticably increased her numbers. Many of my current patients are adult Gen Z and I’ve also had the same experience.
That article was OK as far as it went, but there is definitely a difference. Sure, kids have always felt lonely and alienated as teens, and when it was just TV parents would still tell their kids to turn it off and get outside. But you by and large knew what your kid was watching on TV.
Now kids are exposed to the worst humanity has to offer in the palm of their hands, and parents can’t keep up with the changing tech. It’s not so easy to block things without being an IT professional. Years ago I put some cute cartoons on youtube for my kid to watch after the same kids cartoon was cut by PBS and she couldn’t see it on TV any longer. Unbeknownst to me, youtube had decided to autoplay all kinds of things at her that I had not approved, and when I came back to check on her, I found her watching some artificially generated abomination. If it had been just TV, the worst that would have happened is she might have stumbled on to an episode of Mr. Rogers.
Turning the device off is not so easy either – clearly the 75 year old author has not had to ask their teen aged child to do so. Try to take the phone away and you’d think you were chopping their arm off. Try not to get them one at all and you’re the worst parent ever because everybody else has one.
I’d like to see the writer try to raise a teenager now and see if they still feel the same way.
do like i did, and randomly walk by the modem/router and just switch it off…blame it on “Them”…and break out the board games.
I never offered the chance of my daughter having a phone until she broke down in tears, the week before Middle School started. She agrees with me now (Junior in College) that younger kids should not have them.
I follow Haidt, the premise here was something of a straw man, although it may arrive at reasonable conclusions anyhow.
Haidt focuses on the addictive and psychologically exploitative aspects of social media, particularly with regard to the self image of young girls, and the uncontested damage it’s done there. To frame it as “loneliness” is to my mind straw-manning.
On the other hand, from my perspective “neoliberal feminism”, the act of taking the emotional functions of cultural reproduction out of the home, relocating them to “day care” and integrating them to the crapifying forces of neoliberal markets would in fact produce the effects actually seen. This was the result of “the two earner household” driving wages down rather than household income up, as with all aspects of neoliberalism.
chart crime: Long Covid is real, but that chart is lazy and needs to be normalized versus a denominator.
Also, throw in Tiktok and doctor shopping makes it easier to game the system if one is really motivated
“Royal Navy Shadows Russian Warships Through English Channel as Maritime Tensions Escalate”
Wait. Did the Russians just carry out a Freedom of Navigation exercise? The English Channel is an international waterway and all nations have the right to sail through it. So it is kinda funny to see the hysteria over two small Russian ships taking a leisure cruise through here. What did they think would happen? That the Russian frigate would nuke London or something? Or maybe the Russian crews would moon their Royal Navy escorts? Will the Royal Navy demand a coupla billion pounds more to guard the home waters?
The story reminds me of those store security guards who will sometimes follow browsing customers around, certain they are about to steal something. Royal Navy now reduced to mall cop?
Royal Navy is now reduced to a shadow of Royal Navy. :)
As far as shadowing ships go, it was a common practice troughout Cold War. It’s non-news, unless some incident happens (like in 2021 when Royal Navy almost got royally f-ed up off the coast of Crimea).
They’re just following up the report from the previous week of the Russian ship that was anchored within the 200 mile EEV of the UK to convince their citizens that they need to stop complaining about poverty and stifling their freedom of speech and start paying for more war.
More naval action here (this time USN in Caribbean) as reported by Sal:
Russian Shadow Tanker Blocked from Sailing to Venezuela from Cuba | USS Stockdale vs MT Seahorse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mfj2JSpng4
The Iroquois influence on the U.S. Constitution. I’ll admit that I don’t know the Iroquois as well as I do the Ojibwe people(s), because I come from Chicago and have done research on the Ojibwe for a couple of projects.
The border between the white settlers and the Native American Nations was porous. The Ojibwe intermarried with the French settlers coming down from Quebec, or to put it another way, some French traders and artisans were lucky enough that an Ojibwe family would accept them as a son-in-law. The Ottawa, in particular, were active in the Native American world as well as in the French world.
Yet one has to admit three things: The structure of the U.S. government is self-consciously modeled after Rome — Senate, popular assembly, magistrates, elected executives (presidents / consuls). This also reflects the education in classics that the Founders would have had.
Also, there seems to be some idea that the Iroquois Confederacy would have been the only federation that the Founders might have known or seen up close. Ahemmm. The United Provinces of the Netherlands (Dutch Republic — as in those who settled New York). The Swiss Confederation. So the idea of a federal republic has more than one cultural font.
‘The structure of the U.S. government is self-consciously modeled after Rome’
Got that right. You can see that with the important buildings in Washington DC that have a Rome-influenced design-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBbBLIRA4D0 (3:59 mins)
So what have the Romans ever done for us?
They gave us Caligula, the timeless role model for global elites.
Waiting for some of those global elites to select horses for the Senate like Caligula did. So far they are content to select the rear ends of horses for positions in the Senate.
Some are echoing Cato the elder with their constant cry of: Moscow delenda est.
But they are becoming farcical repeat of Hamilcar Barca instead….without his military genius son.
Ouch! An elephant party reference! Kudos!
“They gave us Caligula, the timeless role model for global elites”
The latest example are RFK, Jr.’s “love poems” to Olivia Nuzzi, a story which the Due Dissidence boys have a hard time getting through because of their laughter. Sadly, it’s a case of apple not falling far from tree going back a couple of generations.
And the aqueducts!
The US government’s structure also reflects the royal grants to the corporations that made up the colonies – a corporate governance setup needed to run the commercial operation was transformed into a civilian governing apparatus. The actions of men related to the exploitation of unlimited resources that belonged to “no one”, in their conception of the world, needed to be constrained by a clear framework. America was a business, and still is one.
Greece and Rome themselves, at least early in their histories. Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth–which some Founders joked US would become a “worse” version thereof. Confederation of nobles and/or city states used to be the norm in the Old World….
If the US Constitution was modeled after the Iroqouis Confederation, it would be a matriarchy. The mothers were the ones that voted for their sachems to represent them.
The Fascination With Robots Folding Clothes Explained – IEEE Spectrum, Lol, because PG Wodehouse introduced us to Jeeves.
Many of us who work in robotics have this ‘north star’ of a robot butler which can do all the chores we don’t want to do. Mention clothes folding, and many, many people will chime in about how they don’t ever want to fold clothes again and are ready to part with basically any amount of money to make that happen.
Wake me up when those robots can fold a fitted sheet.
Folding clothing is a benchmark for agility. In manufacturing, those tasks that have defied automation the most involve flexible items. For example, in vehicle manufacturing, cable harnesses (which have become much larger and more complex thanks to all the sensors and devices in a modern car) are installed by human workers, even if the cables themselves are cut, terminated and combined into a harness by machines. Similar for upholstery. In the clothing industry, where the shirt is one of the most difficult garments to make, human labour still dominates.
Thanks. That robots with textile folding/handling skills would be designed to target the manufacturing sector makes sense. The quote I put up caught my eye because it offers a techno-fantasy robot butler to fold the clothes while I get to spend more time bragging about it on social media.
And, the article names two companies looking to market these directly to households. I look forward to seeing them displayed here under Guillotine Watch.
re: “Wake me up when those robots can fold a fitted sheet.”
Thanks. Excellent point! This is a chore I abhor even though I have 45+ years of practice on this activity w/ the same partner, my long-suffering spouse. She cannot understand why an old, experienced, cabinetmaker is unable/unwilling to fold a simple (fitted) sheet.
lol. sorry, this “folding” fetish…i gave that up long ago.
i have shelves with clothes piled upon them…with boxes for things like socks…and nails for to hang stuff i mean to wear manana, or my robes, or whatever.
Drove Tam crazy,lol.
..until i pointed out that, even after she had carefully hung her school clothes, she still ironed them before she put them on…
as for me, i dont care if i’m wrinkled.
“all is vanity, and vexation of Spirit”
When I had to wear pressed shirts to work, I ironed them in the shower: just put the shirt on a hanger, buttoned at the top, soak it with water, pull the seams tight, and let it hang dry from the shower head. A little more casual than starched and ironed, but good enough for a tech job 20 years ago.
Lol, you’re an accidental tourist. I’m impressed. I’ve washed boxers and T-shirts that way but never graduated to work shirts.
Here are some folding machines, not humanoid robots but getting the job done nonetheless! Not fitted sheets but….
https://youtu.be/C76osXtpLeM?si=sJtXEba6fEBwYJYM
According to Wikipedia, the firm producing them folded :-( a few years ago.
Thanks for the response. I guess if you think about hospitals, prisons, etc. machines to fold sheets and towels would be great. For home, I kinda like folding laundry. One of those mindless but satisfying tasks.
I think that specific firm targeted the folding of shirts and trousers, as machines for folding what are essentially flat (two-dimensional) rectangular pieces of fabric — like towels and bedsheets as you suggest — already existed.
Perhaps some other corporation has taken over the challenge, but I did not look for it.
You got to know when to fold ’em …
…and how to hold ’em…
“Does the US Congress know what socialism is?”
Or as one person on Twitter put it-
‘Stop the Forever Wars
@DoctorFishbones
AOC sends out fundraising emails in support of moderate Democrats in exchange for House resolutions condemning socialism’
Trump too has talked about how only capitalism is acceptable in present day America. Does that mean that countries that have socialism blended into their political system will be regarded as enemies with demands that they rid them themselves of such socialistic influences like universal healthcare and four to five weeks of paid annual leave per year? Subsidized medicines and child minding services too?
Not to mention some really dangerous stuff, like free bus service in Iowa City (see above).
One thing I enjoyed about Murphy’s article is the brevity of his commentary, one of those “just read what these people signed their names under” observations that requires little additional color.
AOC clearly looking to trade in her congressional district for something more spacious.
That’s been the MO since the Korean war. The US has been fighting against populist economic practices since way before Trump. I wouldn’t be surprised that the next attempt to amend the Constitution will include capitalism as the only economic system allowed.
Here’s some footage from the ground. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m66ahElVR8w
They look like small apartment buildings. I can only guess that the locals use their mobiles to guide them to their own building rather than driving up and down different streets trying to find their own street.
Within the article, “The shadowy double dealing behind the UNSC Resolution legitimising Trump’s final solution for Gaza” is the remark, “It is certainly worth pointing out that nobody in this region that I spoke with was surprised or shocked by the abandonment of Palestinians in Gaza and in the region, by China and Russia.”
I think “abandonment” is a bit unfair and more should be said about the US.
Recall that in 2003 the US wanted to pass a resolution at the UN Security Council authorizing its intention to invade Iraq. The resolution was pulled when it became obvious it would be vetoed. Nonetheless, the US invaded Iraq anyway and still claimed it had a legal right to invade.
If you put yourself in Russia and China’s shoes, especially China, if they vetoed the resolution, then it was likely Trump and Israel would middle finger the UN and the world, and go ahead regardless with their plan. Russia and China would appear especially weak if their veto was ignored and they were unwilling, and at this point in time likely unable, to do anything.
No doubt the abstention was disappointing but holding the bag and appearing useless would be worse. Better to stand by and let the US/Israel plan collapse which it, no doubt, will do.
You got to know when to hold ’em …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hx4gdlfamo
Russian foreign ministry explicitly stated that vetoing Gaza peace resolutions so that the genocide continues is what USA does, not Russia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW37AGZ0Pj0/
The Bad Guy Speech (Scarface)
“White House considers leaflet drop to pressure Maduro on his birthday”
They are talking about having US military aircraft dropping those leaflets. But that means flying directly over the Venezuelan capital itself. What happens when those aircraft enter Venezuelan territory, they start to hear ‘missile lock’ on their aircraft? Will those aircraft be escorted by F-35s? Will they too experience being missile locked by ground anti-air? Will those planes be given the latitude to abandon their mission or will Trump and Rubio demand that they risk their lives for a publicity stunt of all things? or maybe the hope is that some of them will be shot down so that the US will have an “excuse” to attack Venezuela.
The real disaster for America would be if all the aircraft were shot down.
What would be a wake-up call for America would be for Russia to deploy an attack submarine to the Caribbean. The Venezuelan Navy itself has two diesel powered submarines. If they have Harpoon batteries aboard, they could be a nuisance to the American Navy.
Maduro would be canny if he ‘invited’ a Russian naval squadron to visit his nation in a ‘Goodwill Tour.’ The Russians might not want to be that confrontational to America, but a naval visit to Havana might be an acceptable alternative for the Kremlin.
Putin might send a Russian navy ship to perform a freedom of navigation operation (FONO) by Puerto Rico and down to Venezuela.
Or maybe just buzz the next USN P-8 that flies by Crimea ELINT targets for the Z-man in Keiv.
If the “leaflet drop” is meant to be provocative, look for Vietnam era Hueys doing the dropping.
How long before lawn placards emblazoned “Hands Off Guyana!” show up, these being printed over former “I Stand With Ukraine” signs and helpfully provided by the DNC.
Maybe the Navy can borrow some of those creative Kievan engineers to put a leaflet dispenser in place of a warhead on a tomahawk……. cheaper than flying an F-35, needing two refuelings, from Roosevelt Roads and no pilot to be captured.
Not likely the navy needs to bring the destroyer to a major naval port to load and unload the tomahawks and SM missiles.
Maduro should send them a ticket for littering. Every piece of garbage they drop will cost the US government 150,000 pesos and the perpetrators will have to serve their time picking it up.
Maduro should offer to print and distribute them —- at half the cost.
And on official US currency paper stock to boot. To really piss the Gringos off, they could put The Bearded One in the embedded hologram.
Epic – On Piers Morgan, The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal confronts former US ambassador to Venezuela James Story over his history of coup plotting and collaboration with violent opposition elements.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHNAXDvGR4A
Mr. Teeth is reminiscent of some bloke on a Dark Mirror episode or better yet that subscription streaming service movie where if one has X amount in the bank they have glow teeth just before they die …
I saw that before but had to watch again. Epic. Max is a beast.
I submitted it because is such a glaring example of what goes on in the so called field of journalism … cough punditry/gaslighting these days … on a show like Piers Morgan no less.
Max first had to contend with baseless accusations of ad hom, so he unpacked it all with independently verifiable facts. Of which all he did in the short time he had was offer a wafer thin slice. Then A typically James Story resorts to the same dialectal/rhetorical gaming he accused Max with out blinking an eye – Royal – WE – all know your are funded by Putin. Absolutely zero refuting anything Max said, lmmao you are a bad actor label. Even Morgan was visibly taken aback and could only punt to Story and hope for the best …
U2 will fly over at high altitude, piloted by Bono.
And Aurora will do a techno dance in the high stratosphere.
Naw mate … Elon’s ex wife Grimes …
I wonder if Elon’s ex-wives have to sign a Non Disclosure Agreement before getting their stipend?
And that name, Elon. Is he a secret child of George Jetson? That would explain Elon’s fascination, dare I say, obsession with Futurism.
Personally I would prefer a response to the link mate … rubber meets road thingy …
BTW I am safe ….
Re America is becoming Dallas–this sounds like a fairly accurate description of the Southern Baptist culture I grew up in. Back then my parents church was best known for the Sunday morning TV broadcasts carried by the local station. Emphasis on “wholesome” sex and “fellowship” has always been a thing. Pop music was being introduced to keep young people interested and they later built a youth center for the same purpose.
And yet that church now gives off a somewhat decayed aspect to this long departed member and seems much less an important part of the town than it once did. Many of the small business people who were a backbone of the congregation have now been displaced by megastores. The article describes the mall like aspect of Prestonwood but malls themselves are on the way out. The world has changed. These days we even have gay rights parades.
One can also suggest that Texas–so rich and religious–is a special case. To have a prosperity gospel you need prosperity. Most states don’t have an oil patch. The country, rather than moving in the Prestonwood direction, could be doing the opposite.
I too grew up surrounded in Southern Baptist culture–in a Texas city smaller than Dallas. The charm Dallas had for me as a child quickly faded as a teen and young adult, but I guess it’s still alluring for many. Let’s hope Prestonwood is not the norm.
In my mind, these two 20th century songs still sum up Dallas pretty well:
“Once you taste the geometry of a church in a cul-de-sac
you’re gonna wanna sit with the bad kids in the back…
O Dallas you shine with an evil light
Don’t you know that God stays up all night?
And how’d you turn a billion steers
into buildings made of mirrors,
and why am I drawn to you tonight?”
“Dallas” by Silver Jews, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0IgWuSiFDk
“Well, Dallas is a rich man with a death wish in his eye
A steel and concrete soul with a warm hearted love disguise
A rich man who tends to believe in his own lies
Yeah, Dallas is a rich man with a death wish in his eyes”
“Dallas” by Jimmie Dale Gilmore, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1mQvHXRlZE
I’ll add this line for equal rights:
– Evidence on Israel and JFK Assassination Builds as the Nukes He Tried to Stop Threaten Humanity’- Sam Husseini
I won’t speculate here on the degree to which Israel was involved with, or had knowledge of, a plot to assassinate Kennedy. But I do want to emphasize Husseini’s point that Kennedy’s views on Israel and the Middle East represent yet another area in which the Chomsky argument that “nothing fundamentally changed” with Kennedy’s assassination is completely misleading. This, of course, was also the view pushed by most of the foreign policy establishment and its media stenographers. The forced declassifications of documents regarding the assassination and the Kennedy administration over the years have steadily undermined this picture. They have also increased our understanding of the degree to which counterintelligence chief James Angleton worked with Israel and to a great degree represented its interests within the CIA even when it conflicted with stated US policy.
There have been a few US Presidents who have attempted to push back – gently – against certain Israeli actions since Kennedy. But in terms of our relations with Israel, you could make an argument that everything changed after the assassination.
LBJ was very much a Zionist. JFK on the other hand–perhaps with his father as an influence–was once an America Firster which goes against the Zionist preference for an America involved in world affairs and most especially in theirs.
And one should certainly remember that back in the Gentleman’s Agreement days this country’s WASP-y upper class was not very friendly to Jews in general and not just the colonizing branch. As Catholics the Kennedys were not WASPs but ruling class–no question. They made fun of Hill Country Lyndon by calling him Vice President Cornpone.
Whatever the latest and never ending JFK assassination suspicions there likely was no love lost between him and Israel.
Would Kennedy have let Israel get away with USS Liberty? I doubt that. History would have changed were he alive then.
– ‘How billionaires took over American politics’ – WaPo
When I see articles like this in the Washington Post, complete with charts, graphs and numbers, I know that the Powers That Be consider the subject to be a fait accompli. Since there is nothing forseeable that can change this trajectory, it’s ok to do their journalistic duty and report the obvious. What would we do without our Fourth Estate to keep us informed?
Thanks for the El Pais piece on comics. I’ve had a lifelong fascination with the comics format. The rebranding as Graphic Novels has lent an air of sophistication and seriousness that was never extended to, say, Doom Patrol. What’s great is the format gets people reading and the visuals can convey more than words can say. Together it’s a winning combo. Just called up the graphic novel adaptation of Piketty’s Capital from the local public library for some light reading this week.
Tucker Carlson interviews Kristen Breitweiser. utube.
Kristen Breitweiser: 9-11 Cover-Ups, Building 7, and the Billion-Dollar Scam to Steal From Victims
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSR7xKimncM
So many things just don’t add up.
re: COP 30
German economist Heiner Flassbeck with a good and harsh damnation of the West:
use google-translate
Illusionists in Belém: Perplexed after the conference frenzy
https://www.telepolis.de/article/Illusionisten-in-Belem-Ratlos-nach-dem-Konferenzrausch-11088806.html
America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem? (NY Times via archive.ph)
All about expectations; nothing about repeat COVID infections, which surely is adding to the toll.
(bold mine)
And a universal rejection that COVID can every be an issue.
Nothing about vastly elevated chronic absenteeism, either. Not a word.
Warning! This “Colorful Chart” is Censored by IPCC Climate Uncensored
James Hansen pointing out again that there was a dramatic drop in the growth of GHG’s in the early 90’s, presumably due to the banning of halogenated gases like freon, and a business recession, but then President Clinton stepped in to cut research on nuclear power and promote (intermittent) renewable energy, thus promoting the use of natural gas and fracking.
I have a solution. Grow giant pumpkins in Alaska, about 2800 pounds each IIRC, and bury them.
I have watched the Sarah Hurwitz Videos several times and she seems sincerely puzzled by the reaction to the Genocide in Gaza by young Jews and others.
If you believe that the only true Humans are Zionist Jews, which is not an uncommon belief in Israel and amongst Zionist Jews, then her attitude makes sense.
Oh man, now I really want to know what number Matt Goodwin says I really need to know. Does anyone know?
Wondering the same thing.
257_000
Well spotted!
I looked at Goodwin’s Twitter yesterday and noticed he likes to choose a statistic and then give it a Reform interpretation.
With great regret, this will be the last year of Symphony on the Flint Hills.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JG-iWz-2vs
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JG-iWz-2vs
Trump bubbles down.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/11/launching-the-genesis-mission/
Democrats really are the worst kind of people, hurting so many to virtue signal, and then of course
Trump Is Considering Push to Extend Obamacare Subsidies (NY Times via archive.ph)
It was meaningless anyway. And on top of that, Democrats folded and got nothing in return. Empty bellies for empty promises.
And this bit of stupid from the NY Times
(bold mine)
That sound is me banging my head against the wall.
If they don’t go to insurance companies, where the f**k do they go exactly? Please explain it like I’m two.
If someone that couldn’t afford premiums, suddenly can, and thus buys a policy, who gets that money if not the insurance company? This is an indirect subsidy, but a subsidy nonetheless.
Just like SNAP is an indirect subsidy to employers that pay starvation wages, and who’s employees would otherwise die.
Shoesolism?
While/as a Skunk Party supporter, it was fun to watch this new ShoeOnHead Utube episode.
How Did This Happen? | Epstein, Fuentes & The Democrats’ Revenge
Calls BS on several topics.
America’s greatest influencer.
More than 500,000 views within 24 hours.
What I like about her, besides the obvious intelligence and sly sense of humor, is that she also has training in making films. So instead of the usual talking heads, which seems to be the format of almost all of the vlogs these days (except for moments when the presenters read twiXts aloud), Shoe0nHead knows how to cross-cut, throw in graphics, and maintain that Catholic high-school girl wardrobe.
And, yes, she is a real leftist — including the bemusement, wit, and distorted joy.