The mystery of wildlife and a world beyond our understanding High Country News
Scientists may have finally ‘seen’ dark matter for the 1st time Space
These century-old apple trees could have rare genes to fight off new threats Points North
Thanksgiving
Tariffs trickle into cost of Thanksgiving dinner, jilting consumers and farmers Kansas Reflector
Small retailers face holiday supply chaos due to tariffs Reuters
This Thanksgiving, Ohio workers and families are holding on by the skin of their teeth Ohio Capital Journal
Who really owns your Thanksgiving turkey? Investigate Midwest
Climate/Environment
The Last Ice University of Manitoba Today
Scientists warn mountain climate change is accelerating faster than predicted, putting billions of people at risk University of Portsmouth
The ocean is undergoing unprecedented, deep-reaching compound change Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Seeing The Wendigo 3 Quarks Daily
Pandemics
Economic burden of long COVID: macroeconomic, cost-of-illness and microeconomic impacts NPJ Primary Care Respiratory Medicine
Africa
US Is Aware of Reports That It Killed a Civilian Clan Elder in a Somalia Airstrike Antiwar
How the Nile Water Dispute Threatens Counter-Terrorism Efforts National Interest
Japan
Trump urged Japan to avoid escalation in China dispute, sources say Straits Times
China?
Hong Kong fire: Death toll rises to at least 44 with hundreds still missing; police arrest 3 Straits Times
Syraqistan
Trump Gaza Plan Condemned as ‘Concentration Camps Within a Mass Concentration Camp’ Common Dreams
Israeli army, Shin Bet begin ‘large-scale’ operation against West Bank resistance The Cradle
‘We will disarm Hezbollah’: Israeli war chief threatens new war in Lebanon The Cradle
United States to inaugurate its largest Middle East diplomatic facility in Iraq’s Erbil New Arab
Old Blighty
UK: the ‘make or break’ budget Michael Roberts
UK Labour’s budget piles on suffering for workers, but not enough to satisfy ruling class WSWS
Justice secretary wants jury trials scrapped except in most serious cases BBC
European Disunion
European Parliament agrees to dilute and postpone EU deforestation rules Euronews
Top EU official accuses US of ‘blackmail’ in trade talks Politico
German Chancellor Merz’s approval plummets to 23%, poll shows TRT World
Germany’s Secret Plan for War With Russia WSJ
Why Europe No Longer Matters Larry Johnson
New Not-So-Cold War
Fighting for Peace and Fighting for War in Ukraine Gordon Hahn
SERGEI LAVROV HAS THE “WE ARE LOSING SYRIA” LOOK – NEW PODCAST WITH NIMA ALKHORSHID BREAKS THE NEWS John Helmer
Zelensky strikes back Events in Ukraine
Who is Dan Driscoll, suddenly at the center of Ukraine peace talks? Responsible Statecraft
EU ‘ready’ to propose Russian assets loan despite Belgian doubts Euractiv
As potential Ukraine deal looms, France and Britain map out boots-on-ground role Politico
EU top diplomat says Russian military size should be capped Euractiv
You Can’t Get There From Here. Aurelien
South of the Border
The $30 Billion Identity Theft of Venezuela Maureen Tkacik, The American Prospect
Dominican Republic authorizes US to use its territory ‘for a limited time’ to combat drug trafficking Anadolu Agency
Panama Canal presses forward with port tenders despite US unease over Chinese bidders Intellinews
L’affaire Epstein
🇺🇸 WOAH!!! REP. MASSIE says FBI staff threatened a member of his staff with a criminal investigation if he “didn’t straighten up and play ball.”
WTF is going on in DC?!?!? pic.twitter.com/KtYejUnKCq
— DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics) November 26, 2025
Trump 2.0
Has the bailout of generative AI already begun? Gary Marcus
Prosecutor drops Trump’s criminal case in Georgia The Hill
Trump policies ignore basic business principles, threaten U.S. economy Bleeding Heartland
Farmworkers sue over Trump’s low wages for foreign guest workers Washington State Standard
Economy
Tyson’s beef plant closure in Nebraska will impact Lexington and ranchers nationwide Flatwater Free Press
From Silicon Valley to Hollywood, why California’s job market is taking a hit Los Angeles Times
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy CNBC. “Device hoarding.” That’s a new one I think.
Weimar Republic
Immigration
US halts all Afghan immigration processing after shooting of two National Guard members Anadolu Agency
Relative of sneering White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt snatched by ICE Canary
Democrats en déshabillé
Illegal Orders, Liberal Hypocrisy, and Fake Outrage Black Agenda Report
By The People? For the People? Ian Welsh
Fascism in America Dublin Review of Books
Wars Come Home
Zionist humor is very highbrow and sophisticated, so just in case this went over anybody’s head the joke here is that they want to murder Norman Finkelstein for his political beliefs. https://t.co/ZC015f9EtK
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) November 25, 2025
Accelerationists
Flock Safety’s CEO Garrett Langley just called the transparency activists at https://t.co/7vYVNCDLR6 “terrorists.”
So, if mapping cameras is “terrorism”… what do we call mass surveillance of millions of innocent drivers? pic.twitter.com/eEVbk7Sn5X
— Jason Bassler (@JasonBassler1) November 24, 2025
Our Famously Free Press
THE SEVEN RICHEST BILLIONAIRES ARE ALL MEDIA BARONS MintPress News
PUBLIC MONEY, PRIVATE SECRETS: RETHINKING FOIA IN THE AGE OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE GOVERNANCE LPE Project
Healthcare?
Medicare Prices to Drop Up to 85% on Drugs for Weight-Loss, Cancer, Asthma, and More MedPage Today
Imperial Collapse Watch
Putting Callousness First Arthur Goldhammer
In a looming nuclear arms race, aging Los Alamos lab faces a major test Searchlight New Mexico
Navy Shows Why The U.S. Is Losing Its Relative Power Moon of Alabama
Hitler Ahoy: The Third Reich’s Surface Fleet Big Serge
Groves of Academe
In world of AI, Michigan State University Extension bets on human expertise Bridge Michigan. Some good news!
The Claims of Close Reading Boston Review
The Dying Art of Being a Bum Hickman’s Hinterlands
Class Warfare
New “Who Owns America” Report Maps Corporate Ownership of Residential Land Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Antidote du jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
Re ‘The mystery of wildlife and a world beyond our understanding’
This thought of Henry Beston’s in ”The Outermost House’ came to mind:
“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.”
Beautiful.
I re-read Beston’s book from time to time – his sojourn in Cape Cod is one I wish I could experience. Unfortunately a long-ago, very different Cape Cod.
Me too, as well as ‘Sand County Almanac’ by Aldo Leopold. Beautiful writing in both. Wendell Berry ain’t a slouch in that department either.
You might like “The Living Mountain” by Nan Shepherd.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/03/19/the-living-mountain-nan-shepherd/
Speaking of nature’s mysteries, today’s antidote, which I take to be a hyrax, is a good example of just how surprisingly shape shifty evolutionary development can be. The hyrax, which resembles a marmot, is in fact in a lineage much more closely related to elephants and manatees than it is to rodents.
shape shifty -> convergent
Thank you for that.
“living by voices we shall never hear”
And apparently without the voice humans hear that drives them to build H-bombs and data centers. They live, raise their young and die, all the time staying within the niche provided them by a beneficent Earth and millions of years of evolution. I would wager that not one of them, not the great whale or powerful lion or soaring eagle, thinks he should embark on the project of remaking the planet in his image.
“EU top diplomat says Russian military size should be capped”
The whole thing is weird. The European nations want the Ukraine to have the biggest army in Europe. Since the Ukraine is broke, it will be the Europeans who will pay for it, equip it, train it and all the rest of it. Then there is the question of the demographics. After the war, can the Ukraine afford to have 800,000 people in the military which will take away so many from any workforce? Since the whole thing is dodgy, they want the Russians to reduce their military to give the Ukrainians a better chance to win in SMO 2.0. Only a Kaja Kallas would consider this to be a great idea.
“EU top diplomat says Russian military size should be capped”
And children and morons babble meaninglessly. How much do the adults care?
Though granted — these people are supposed to be the adults, Europe’s top policymakers.
Eurostan is mildly insane, mildly bc they have no power.
That said all their peace sayings are moot!
Russia will not talk to the Eurostani past president of Kiev.
No one in Eurostan could afford to arm and sustain a huge army in banderastan.
I strongly disagree! Kaja Kallas is far from being the only one that would consider this to be a great idea. EU is full of mad dogs salivating because of this eureka moment.
To reinforce your point, I’d recommend reading that WSJ article linked above, ‘Germany’s Secret Plan for War With Russia.’ It also nicely corresponds to the observations by Rev, Michaelmas, and ilsm (and I’m sure others to follow). The delusional beliefs described about Russian aims, European military capability, and just about everything else is insane. The article itself does consider some of the, um, contradictions in these beliefs. For example, there is a rather hilarious discussion of plans for mobilizing an 800,000 person army to send East against a potential Russian invasion – adjacent to a description of the multiple problems faced during a mobilization exercise involving 500 people. As is often the case these days, I was torn between laughing at these clowns and being horrified at the fact that such delusional idiots are in positions of power and could trigger a World War.
Who is to do the capping? This is deeply moronic and on the same level as the WSJ article about the German plan for war with Russia. Aurelien’s weekly essay, published yesterday, cited above in Links puts paid to all the “Europe is arming for war” fantasies. The desperate and failing elites can shout, The Russians are coming” to their hearts content. It will not improve their electoral prospects nor dull the pitch forks if they keep annulling electoral losses a la Romania.
Would “device retention” be a better descriptor?
Maybe ‘frugality’ would be a more apt description.
You have it right, Rev. ‘Frugality’. “Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without” was the motto in the day. Repair, reuse, reduce waste, save resources. What a load of horse-feathers that article is peddling…
It’s not just the device but the added effort to point work VPNs and all the other needed apps that have to be installed and paired to “smart” external devices like cars and Ring products. It’s why I’m going on 5 years on my HUAWEI and have no plans to purchase a new one.
I prefer the term, resource constraints.
I’m just now giving up on my 2009 HP laptop, I’ve done all I can to keep it going (Linux Mint helped a lot) but now I am going to have to replace it because of hardware issues. The replacement won’t be a new laptop, just not as old as my original. Even if we had the money to constantly “upgrade” we wouldn’t because it just seems so wasteful. Since all of the tech in our house is largely obsolete, I guess we as a family are pretty heavy into “device retention”.
I have a laptop that totters on as the repository for pictures that I have not gotten around to moving. My middle one is providing a bit of baroque as I type this on the most recent. Collectively they span nearly 20 years. My other device is an I Phone-7. It serves well enough. My son told me that to function well in today’s world requires a more or less up to date mobile phone. His is necessary to keep up with offices in Europe and the east and west coasts of the US. Listening to my grandson mention the uses he has for his, I must agree while reminding myself to avoid those circumstances for which the more, to me, esoteric uses of the mobile phone are de rigeur.
What I have functions to my satisfaction. The economy will have to limp alone without me.
For long-lasting phones I use Fairphone. They are modular so you can switch out parts that break, repairable with a standard screwdriver and are built with chipset they use in internet of things stuff, so they should go a decade without being obsoleted.
But of course, that is only a tip for someone who needs a new phone.
Keeping a laptop running that long is impressive. Unless you spend big bucks to get a rugged one, these things are not well built. My wife was using C clamps to hold the screen up on the one she kept running the longest (almost ten years) back in the 00’s.
You can get up-gradable laptops now, but you pay a bit of a premium to get one:
framework https://frame.work/
Plus, there do seem to be more places where used and refurbished laptops and cell phones are available with tech support.
Thank you! Frustrated with my System 76 with crappy swelling battery, and little Dell with too few USBs crammed too close together. Looks like there is a good alternative now.
Until last month I had a Canon laser printer/fax/copier that had served me very well for 14 years. It’s still in terrific working order but I had to replace it.
Why? Because the very last Windows 10 upgrade bricked its drivers and none are available that are compatible with the “improved” Windows 10. I tried to back the upgrade out, but like a cockroach it kept coming back no matter what I did.
My current Linux system circa 2024 has no problem communicating with my 20-year old Brother laser. More and more people are finding Windows to be too hostile to stick with.
“New “Who Owns America” Report Maps Corporate Ownership of Residential Land”
Henry George to the white courtesy phone; Mr. Henry George to the white courtesy phone, please …
re: Tyson’s beef plant closure in Nebraska will impact Lexington and ranchers nationwide – Flatwater Free Press
And who is a major shareholder of Tyson?
BlackRock.
https://www.gurufocus.com/news/2651040/blackrock-inc-increases-stake-in-tyson-foods-inc
BlackRock is a major stakeholder in the 3 or 4 remaining major beef processing plants in the US. Is this the same old “reduce the supply and increase the price” play?
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/10/us-taxpayers-bail-out-argentinas-bank-as-trumps-tariffs-help-it-steal-american-farmers-largest-market/
I take exception to the “rare”…
Now, although rare, it’s not unheard of for the U.S. government to step into the finances of a foreign country under dire circumstances to safeguard American interests. For example, 30 years ago the United States (that time in conjunction with the International Monetary Fund) intervened to prevent Mexico from defaulting on its debt so as to protect significant American investments, prevent a collapse of global markets, and avert a true crisis at the U.S. southern border.
Obviously, Argentina is not adjacent to the United States, meaning there are not the same border concerns this time. There are indeed American investors with stakes in Argentina — the most heavily invested are wealthy hedge funds including Fidelity, BlackRock, and Pimco.
The globalist flexnet at work
The US territory of Puerto Rico is right next door, why isn’t a facility for refueling setup there? Perhaps compromising Latin American solidarity is part of the goal?
Reporting from PR – there are what appear to be F-16s flying around the capital daily over the past week. Practicing bombing runs? This was not the case over this past summer.
For what it’s worth, last year, before it was decided that Venezuela was to be sacrificed on the alter of the Monroe doctrine, there were reaper drones patrolling the western side of the island.
Hard to relax when the drones are buzzing along the beach :^(
“How the Nile Water Dispute Threatens Counter-Terrorism Efforts”
‘The United States should push for a binding water-sharing agreement among Nile River nations that sets clear drought-management rules, guarantees minimum flows, and establishes dispute-resolution mechanisms.’
And once that is done, Trump can claim to have solved another conflict so can he please finally have his Nobel Peace Prize? Next on the agenda. Do the same for the Colorado river.
re Los Alamos
What fun. I’ve been to the Savannah River Site when I was in high school and even got to wear a radiation badge. Didn’t need yellow booties like Jimmy Carter at Three Mile Island. It’s very comforting to know that the home turf will once again be turning out the nukes.
On a brighter note Happy Thanksgiving…..
Happy Thanksgiving to those of you in the U S of A celebrating today.
I cooked for relatives on the holiday for some thirty years, although I dispensed with the turkey ten or twelve years ago, when I realized that turkey reeks. Even more so the leftovers. So I calmed down the rellies and, afterwards, made capons and ducks.
Here in the Undisclosed Region, Thanksgiving is a work day and slightly exotic. Many USanians in Italy shift the big dinner to the weekend, so that their friends can relax. I found some excellent duck. And I’m off to find some plums, which are highly seasonal here — but I want to make a real plumcake.
I have been contemplating, between buying duck and potatoes and chicory — the moral degradation that is Sarah Hurwitz. One curious point of her speech is the use of “love,” as in one must love her, somehow. Yet love isn’t the issue — certainly not so during a genocide. Love isn’t even an issue here in our “salon,” where we talk over things in the comments. I’m not sure how degraded love has forced its way into the discourse except as emotional blackmail.
She also fails to separate Judaism, the religion, from government structures using Judaism as a pretext to oppress. She talks about Holocaust education. Yet she can’t figure out why the Inquisition used religion as pretext and ended up devaluing the Catholic Church? So we’re not talking about anti-semitism. We’re talking about raw displays of power dressed up with some thoughts and prayers.
An incisive analysis by Allison Glick:
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/11/sarah-hurwitz-and-liberal-zionisms-hail-mary/
Best wishes to all. I also recommend sweet potato pie for dessert — using one trick that an editorial supervisor of mine taught me, a refinement from black American cookery (naturally): It needs a dash of orange juice in the filling.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and to all! I wanted to celebrate it but here fresh turkeys are timed to be available for the Christmas holidays. What’s available this time of the year are frozen Romanian turkeys that are always missing a wing, and show various other signs of abuse, so I’ve decided to vote against that outrage with my wallet.
Good article. I’ve seen that viral clip of Hurwitz a few times over the last week and found it so similar to Van Jones’s viral clip on Bill Maher. perhaps a distributed talking point gone awry!
Enjoy your Thanksgiving.
All I could think about when I first saw it was Arendt’s comment about the “banality of evil”, but somehow the phrase doesn’t fit the IDF, the squalid inhuman immorality of the settler colonists and their accomplices, the governments acting as arm dealers to The Great Realtor in the Sky. These aren’t casual bureaucrats doing their jobs as best they can. They are the embodient of Evil on Earth and the genocide in Gaza has convinced me that Evil really does exist and it has reached its most complete expression in the devilry of the settler colonists, their accomplices and their vile and grotesque apologists like Sarah Hurwitz. Long may they all swing from a three inch drop.
Cheers to capon! I will never forget the first time I smelled one roasting. I was visiting a friend in high school and his Mom was roasting their annual capon (celebrating many family December birthdays a couple of weeks before Xmas). It smelled heavenly. I have been a fan ever since.
Happy Thanksgiving to the USians of NC.
Happy Thanksgiving’s to all.
Never tried capon (difficult to find where I live, because not part of the culinary tradition), but if you are many sitting around the table, goose, and if few, guinea fowl.
You won’t feed many off a goose, unless you belong to one of those tribes that count “one, two, three, many”.
The UK rule of thumb is one goose for six at Christmas. Most of the bird is fat!
I expect that love, as in love for one’s own group, to the extent of sacrificing just about anything for its interests, is a good part of the story here.
I have a book buried somewhere, by a religious studies scholar, about violence perpetrated by Muslim groups. Sufis—mystical sects that strangely have a sweetness-and-light reputation among Westerners—were some of those most likely to indulge in spectacular violence, because their religious practices focused so much on religious love and suppressing the self in favor of something larger. Under some circumstances (these things are never without context), such forms of religiosity can sometimes express themselves in the form of violent self-sacrifice to defend the community of love.
Perhaps in the Christian tradition, with its famously incoherent pronouncements such as “God is love,” it’s easier to think of love as a uncomplicatedly positive emotion. From where I stand, though, Hurwitz-style genocide-endorsing love of a religious or ethnic community doesn’t seem that odd.
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 From The Bayou 🐊
Sucks I have to go to work, but I’m thankful to eat some Turducken, Oyster Dressing, and Hot Sausage Stuffing with my family!
“The Claims of Close Reading”
Setting aside for the moment how “special” would have been pronounced by Wyatt’s Renaissance readers (setting off a snarling pack of critics in my head — linguistic, historicist, and reader response leading the charge, but there, in the shadows lurk other furtive figures waiting to pounce …) at least the author knows the heritage of “close reading” and names the New Criticism. In high school in the mid-70s this is just how we were taught to “analyze” literature — it wasn’t given a name, nor was there any acknowledgment that there might be other ways of interpreting a text.
So it wasn’t until after drinking myself out of an undergraduate biochemistry program and found myself “slumming” in an honours English program (where my bibulousness was rather less of an obstacle) I discovered to my surprise that what I had been doing all those years when I read literature had a name.
After two degrees I left the academy, something of an apostate, I suppose. The prospect of making a life in the atmosphere described in David Lodge’s Small World just seemed empty, somehow.
“Justice secretary wants jury trials scrapped except in most serious cases”
This is a really bad idea this. If there are too many delays and backlogs in courts, then maybe they should stop arresting people in the UK for looking cross-eyed at Zionists. Years ago I heard a formal suggestion that you have professional jurors and not just random people. The trouble there was it was quickly realized that such professional jurors would get jaded over time and convict more often. The same would have to be true of a judge that was acting as a judge and jury. So I got an idea. Get rid of the judge and just have a randomly picked jury to not only find if a defendant was innocent or guilty but what their sentence should be. Long term you may save a lot of money on judges and I suspect that sentences would be fairer.
You know, they could also switch over to the civil law. Or as they say, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. More procedure, less drama.
It is more than a bad idea. It is what Starmer was born to do – to destroy even the most remote possibility of justice in this septic isle.
This proposal is a head-fake. They want to abolish jury trials for “minor” offences so they can more effectively lock people up for protest and thought crimes and this proposal to abolish jury trial almost completely is the old technique of proposing something outrageous and then compromising for your true demand. I first learnt about that as a child from an Agatha Christie novel!
Examples of what they really want to remove from the protection of juries are Section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000 (supporting terrorism, being used against Palestinian Action and in court at the moment on judicial review of those charges and its proscription) and the various public nuisance / criminal damage offences that they are using against the protestors against climate change and weapon sales to Israel.
The recent charges against Mo Chara of Kneecap for displaying a “terrorist item” would have taken place in a magistrate’s court without a jury because s13 is only a magistrate’s offence but if he had been charged under s.12 (and validly charged so it wasn’t a nullity!) he would have been entitled to a jury and could have been acquitted (“jury perversity”) even if guilty by all the elements of the offence.
Common-law jury trial is a genuine bulwark against fascism and authoritarianism and even legislators sleeping on the job. Juries can simply refuse to convict and cancel the law, if they feel it is not being used for the commonweal or is no longer in line with the morals of society. Juries have famously refused to convict whistleblowers charged under the Official Secrets Act in the past and pacifists causing criminal damage to warplanes and weapons.
The Zionists clearly feel there is a great danger that future juries will acquit defendants because the crime of genocide is worse than criminal damage or supporting a proscribed organisation and they will lose control of the narrative. I suspect the War on Russia party feels the same way.
– ‘Hong Kong fire: Death toll rises to at least 44 with hundreds still missing; police arrest 3’ – Straits Times
I have seen several videos of this fire. It was terrible, the worst nightmare for those who live in such high-rise buildings. But as I watched the images of this fire engulf these structures and read of the intense heat met by firefighters, one thought kept forcing itself into my mind: I wonder if these buildings are going to collapse into their footprint at near free-fall speed at some point? They did not.
I truly do not mean to distract from the human tragedy of this event. But such fires, fortunately, do not occur often, and when they do my brain is conditioned to ask the same question. Perhaps I’m the only one to have this reaction.
Properly built concrete structures are usually capable of surviving structurally intact in a fire. It takes a very intense heat to structurally weaken concrete, although it can happen – this usually occurs is something very flammable is involved – there are examples of bridges failing when gasoline tankers go up, or in at least one case, a tunnel concrete lining failed when a cargo of plastic cups caught fire. In other cases, very sustained fires of over 400C can cause failures in concrete structures.
Steel is more likely to fail as steel beams rapidly go all noodly in heat (over 400C) – this is why nearly all construction codes require fireproofing (usually just concrete lining). A collapse can occur if the lining is ripped off exposing the steel, as happened on 9/11.
Counterintuitively, probably the most resistant structure to a fire is timber – the external charring of heavy timbers actually protects the inner core, slowing down any failure.
Another advantage of timber is that a failure is more likely to be slow – unlike concrete and steel which tend to fail catastrophically once their limits are exceeded. This is why firefighters need to be very careful after a fire, and why it will probably take many days for them to go through the ruins of the HK fire. So sadly we probably won’t know the true death toll for some time.
Here’s another high-rise that took a beating without collapsing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ušće_Towers#NATO_bombing
On 21 April 1999, NATO airstrikes hit the building, setting the upper floors on fire. Days later, several Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired at it. Despite the heavy damage, the building did not collapse and remained structurally intact.
You are not the only one.
“Hong Kong fire: Death toll rises to at least 44 with hundreds still missing; police arrest 3 ”
As fires go, this is a bad one. There are eight buildings in this housing estate and seven of them have gone up in flames. So think of the 2017 Grenfell fire and then multiply it by seven. There are over 4,000 people living in those buildings and they still can’t get to most of them. I guess that we will have to wait to see if people will go to jail for what they did or whether it will be a just another Grenfell whitewash.
“Prosecutor drops Trump’s criminal case in Georgia”
proves the old adage
“He isn’t really a big time crook unless you must let him alone to prevent the loss of public confidence.”
WTF is going on in DC?!?!? As the Massie X post inquires. As I see it, Gangsterism.
Ran across this today, which I found interesting. From Robert Reich and his substack.
How to Get Rid of “Citizens United”
Not sure I buy what Robert is selling.
Me neither. Corporations can get a charter in one state and do business elsewhere. Unless every state changed how it issues its charters simultaneously, the squillionaires will just pay off one state to keep the status quo.
Re Americans holding onto devices longer and costing the economy: “We cannot let the terrorists achieve the objective of frightening our nation to the point … where people don’t shop!” Buy, or else! Otherwise you’re with the terrorists!
Written on old Apple hardware rejuvenated by OCLP.
“Dying art of being a bum” is a must read.
Seconded. Excellent article which reminded me of one of the characters from my college days, Calvin the Gluehead. He was well known around town and supposedly his preferred attitude adjustment came from huffing inhalants from a brown paper bag. I bought him a beer once right after I turned 21 and he showed up at the bar. We sang along to Sly Stone while he drank his beer and then the bartender cut him off and made him leave. I thought it was a hoot.
A decade or so later I saw Calvin’s obituary in the paper. Turns out there was more to Calvin than what we ignorant college kids ever saw. There was a lot of talk about his kindness, and the one I remember was how he would show up with boxes of diapers to give to young mothers having a hard time making a go of things. He had a rough life and didn’t have much, but somehow he still found a way to help others. He was definitely a character, but not a caricature.
re: ICE vs. immigrants
‘This Is the Scandal’: DHS Data Show ICE Mostly Targeting People With No Criminal Convictions
https://scheerpost.com/2025/11/27/this-is-the-scandal-dhs-data-show-ice-mostly-targeting-people-with-no-
criminal-convictions/
p.s. There used to be a popular German slogan “no human is illegal”.
It´s astonishing how easily the LEFT has been split and thus mostly destroyed as viable force for now. Those in favour of minority laws and immigrants are eclipsed via Ukraine shenanigans. The others via this new conservative nonsense over immigrants. As if raising new walls would solve anything. They do not recognize how over these fakeries the true dangers arise..
On the Campbell’s Soup drama… the company statement https://www.thecampbellscompany.com/newsroom/news/company-statement-on-the-garza-lawsuit-and-alleged-audio-recording/ says:
“The chicken meat in our soups comes from long-trusted, USDA approved U.S. suppliers and meets our high quality standards. All our soups are made with No Antibiotics Ever chicken meat. Any claims to the contrary are completely false.”
Colour me very cynical, but they could have said ‘chicken’ instead of ‘chicken meat’. Adding ‘meat’ actually makes the wording non-colloquial to my eye.
So, where does their chicken stock come from? Does MRM aka pink slime feature, and if so do they not call that ‘meat’?
It certainly leaves open the reading that the chicken stock is made from any old bones….
There’s another one in there: “The comments heard on the recording about our food are not only inaccurate—they are patently absurd. ”
1. ‘Inaccurate’ means somewhat wrong as opposed to false which means totally wrong, but the inaccuracies are not pointed out.
2. ‘patently absurd’. The audience is dump if they allow any credibility to the horrendous attacks on our products
Not-quite-denial denial?
From this piece:
Both Russia and Australia seem to be in the same situation. Their countries encompass far more land than their relatively small population needs or can make use of. As a result they have few expansionist dreams or practical interest in taking on more territory.
There has been tremendous fear-mongering since World War II that Russia would somehow take over Europe, and indeed they did take over much of Europe in the process of driving out European invaders. It looks to me that Russia is now engaged in the same operation once again, driving out Nazis moving in from the West.
It’s not about Russia’s surface, but the resources. EU also has land but not much oil, gas, gold, diamonds, uranium, titanim, whatever. That’s why EU is so set on Russia. Hitler went so hard in Staligrad because oil fields were beyond. Looting Russia would have saved German economy today too.
Whilst I agree with your general point, the Soviet Union invaded Finland and Poland, annexed the Baltic States and intimidated Romania into giving up Moldova. This all happened prior to being invaded by Germany, so had nothing to do with driving out European invaders.
It had eveything to do with driving out (Western) European invaders, just like the SMO does. History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Who were the western European invaders the Soviet Union wanted to drive out of Finland in 1939?
I believe even the Soviet Union later condemned their 1940 occupation of the Baltic States, albeit only in 1989. Did they forgot they only did it to drive out western European invaders?
The same Western European invaders have been doing the same thing for centuries, under different flags. There is nothing new under the sun, but those with a memory of a goldfish may struggle with understanding.
Soviet Union wanted to prevent impending siege of Leningrad by The Nazis (the flavour of Western European invaders of the time). They failed, because it did happen. Nazi Fins and Germans killed more than a million people as a consequence. Fins ended up without punishment, and now even pretend to be victims. Nazi propaganda is as strong as ever, and is as successful as ever.
You are free to believe whatever you want. I sure ain’t gonna give historical education in the comment section. Uprovoked full scale invasions is what those Rooskies are all about.
Consumer credit continues to destroy Americans
Irresistible Deals Put Them in Debt. Now They’re Trying to Manage Their Overspending. (NY Times via archive.ph)
I feel no urgency. As America collapses I need to save every penny that I can, in case it might help ease collapse just a bit.
My thanks to Yves and the crew for doing a magnificent job over several decades, is is an extraordinary accomplishment.
As far as what’s happening in DC, the gloves are coming off, those who are “In Control” are clamping down in an attempt to keep control at an enormous cost to the commons.
It won’t work, but it will get very messy indeed.
Murphy always shows up at the party,invited or not.
“Anything that can go wrong will go wrong,usually at the worst possible moment”
While I do appreciate that the MSU extension service is eschewing “AI” for the human touch, I couldn’t help but noticing that the article discussing it leads off with a few summary bullet points which, if I’m not mistaken, are “AI” generated.
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https://nypost.com/2025/11/27/world-news/politician-named-adolf-hitler-re-elected-in-southern-african-country/
Adolf Hitler easily wins election for fifth time in southern African country
man that deflock.me map site is nuts … just starting looking, in Fla there are Plate Readers in rural areas … but Stetson College of Law, which is tiny, has EIGHT cameras ringing it … the University of South Florida in north Tampa has a bunch ringing it, but the shopping center adjacent to campus has SIX inside the perimeter of the shopping center …
i don’t know what to make of it, could be “gotta track school shooters” … or could be “gotta track activist students and professors”?
no way those Flock camera ALPRs are gonna help me….
They are also going to start banning books. The UK is in for a very british coup in the near future.
Showtime
Trump says US land action against alleged drug trafficking networks in Venezuela will start ‘very soon’
Wrestlemania. He is all about talking smack.