A smartphone app can help men last longer in bed New Scientist. Dr. Kevin: “Will wonders ever cease?”
Bitch: a history aeon
Scientists solve 12,800-year-old climate mystery hidden in Greenland ice Science Daily (Kevin W)
#COVID-19/Pandemics
Measles Is Roaring Back. We Are Not Ready. New York Times (resilc)
Baroness Heather Hallett has published her third Covid-19 Inquiry report, which concluded that the UK's healthcare systems "came close to collapse" during the pandemic and were already overstretched when the pandemic hit. @ashishskynews reportshttps://t.co/MEjlEQx65c pic.twitter.com/BTZXOTjssV
— Sky News (@SkyNews) March 19, 2026
Climate/Environment
Even without El Niño, Global Sea Surface Temperatures are already hitting daily record highs.
We're now entering a climate hotter than has existed for hundreds of thousands of years! https://t.co/SHReY6qx3m pic.twitter.com/HyjHxL6KB7
— Leon Simons 🌍 (@LeonSimons8) March 18, 2026
Super El Niño Could Push Global Temperatures Beyond Anything We’ve Recorded Altitude Magazine
Global deforestation grows unchecked as the EU weakens key law Noticias Ambientales
Refugee camps set to be uninhabitable by 2050 as extreme weather worsens Africa 24
Wildfires in carbon-rich tropical peatlands hit 2000-year high Science Daily
More record heat in the Red Sea,Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean
MINIMUM 28.8 Gizan
Second hottest March night in Saudi Arabia historyMIN 28.9 Mogadisho SOMALIA
Second in March for Mogadisho https://t.co/1865xSbBit— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) March 20, 2026
A blaring alarm’ issued for Colorado River as heat wave melts snow early Review Journal
US Home Insurance Prices Set to Keep Rising With Severe Weather Insurance Journal
China?
China finds dangerous cure for record deflation in war oil shock Japan Times
Washington signals it wants China kept out of Brazil’s largest port auction South China Morning Post
Koreas
South Korea mulls state energy merger as geopolitics recast resource security Korea Economic Daily
India
‘Waiting for days’: India feels impact of gas supply chain disruption amid Iran conflict Guardian
Southeast Asia
Cambodia calls on Thailand to adhere to frontier treaties Khemer Times
AFrica
Africa’s Sahel accounts for nearly half of global terror deaths TRT Africa
Chad warns Sudan it will retaliate after drone strike on mourners kills 17 BBC
The war in eastern Congo is escalating far from view Economist
Antipodes
‘Really significant’: analysts warn top fuel suppliers could cut exports to Australia Guardian
South of the Border
Venezuela interim president replaces top military commanders in sweeping reforms France 24
Cuban soldiers on streets amid blackouts and protests Latin America Reports
Peru gas emergency fuels LNG debate in congress BN Americas
European Disunion
Von der Leyen rules out purchases of Russian gas even in event of power outages in EU TASS (guurst). Hooray! More for Asia, which needs it bigly. But hard to get here since not by pipeline
Government bonds face ‘perfect storm’ as Iran war rattles Europe’s central banks CNBC
The oil market is in uncharted waters and signalling alarm for Europe Telegraph
Denmark reportedly flew blood bags to Greenland in preparation for a US attack Guardian
Old Blighty
Blackouts and rationing: The Iran crisis is our wake-up call to just how vulnerable the UK is Guardian
One in ten cereal acres effectively lost to extreme weather, analysis finds Farming UK
UK to double steel tariffs to 50% to save plants from collapse Guardian
Tory ex-Home Secretary Priti Patel BLOCKED the FBI from quizzing Andrew over Epstein The Mirror (Colonel Smithers
Israel v. The Resistance
Death toll surpasses 1,000 in Lebanon as Israeli bombardment continues Aljazeera
Heavy fighting between the Israeli army and Hezbollah immediately north of the state border at sea between Rosh HaNikra and Naqoura. A nature reserve with white sea chalk caves. This doesn't look good for the IDF at all. If they lose, Palestinian and Shiite paramilitaries and… https://t.co/HD76NskFBC
— Ignis Rex (@Ignis_Rex) March 21, 2026
* * * Israel is now on its own
The US has ordered the evacuation of the Kuwait airbase and the withdrawal of all naval ships. https://t.co/0UwMQWDtCy
— Ignis Rex (@Ignis_Rex) March 20, 2026
The Israeli Strike Near Iran’s Reactor is an Ominous Signal
The US and Israel find themselves cornered with dwindling options and growing desperation.
This is evident in their attacks on Iran’s electrical grid and their calculated attempt to shift the Overton Window toward the… pic.twitter.com/YYOFzHZX8c
— Patricia Marins (@pati_marins64) March 20, 2026
Iran Bushehr nuclear plant missile strike risk raises fears of Gulf-wide water crisis Intellinews
Toxic pollution from Iran war will spread and last for decades Los Angeles Times
🤡🌍 Flag Officer Imbecility
I have long argued that 95%+ of the flag officers in the United States military are blithering imbeciles, and this interview adds further evidence to my thesis.https://t.co/AHi2h9MIad
— Will Schryver (@imetatronink) March 20, 2026
Off-ramp in Iran is disappearing but US remains averse to prolonged conflict Indian Punchline (Kevin W)
💢 NEW: U.S. firing ground-based missiles at Iran from Gulf soil, WSJ reports
The U.S. has begun using ground-launched ballistic missiles against Iran – marking the first combat use of its newer, highly accurate long-range Army systems and expanding what had been largely an air… https://t.co/4neNv0CcO3 pic.twitter.com/TrDYNhWv4l
— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) March 19, 2026
Middle East conflict triggers parental strife over access to children Financial Times
New Not-So-Cold War
Russia Prepares Armed Convoys for Shadow Fleet, Threatens to Break Baltic Blockade United 24 Media
Ukraine war briefing: EU president von der Leyen vows to pay loan to Kyiv despite block by Hungary Guardian
Moldovans face drinking water cut-off as strike on Ukrainian site causes major oil spill TVPWorld
Imperial Collapse Watch
Trump 2.0
DHS shutdown stretches to 35 days as Democrats block funding bill The Hill
Our No Longer Free Press
Judge Rules Pentagon Restrictions on Press Are Unconstitutional New York Times
Economy
A new global food crisis: farmers can’t get fertilizers out of the Persian Gulf Kevin Walmsley (Kevin W)
How the Iran war has sent shocks rippling across the globe Guardian (Kevin W)
Airlines draw up contingency plans over jet fuel shortage fears Financial Times
World Trade Organization eyes sharp slowdown in global trade amid Mideast war Times of Israel
U.S. Lifts Fertilizer Sanctions on Belarus as Iran War Causes Price Surge New York Times
AI
Heads in the AI Slop Sand 404 Media
As military tensions escalate between Ethiopia and Eritrea, AI-generated images and videos are inflaming animosity online Africa Report
The Bezzle
US moves to soften capital rules: ‘Big banks can declare mission accomplished’ Guardian
Class Warfare
Almost half of all Americans fear a ‘total economic collapse’ in the next 10 years, new poll shows Independent
Antidote du jour (via):

See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.


“Russia Prepares Armed Convoys for Shadow Fleet, Threatens to Break Baltic Blockade”
Some of the countries along the Baltic are serious about imposing a blockade of Russian shipping. Forgetting the fact that a blockade without a UN mandate is illegal, a blockade by definition is also an act of war. Russia can draw upon its naval forces, its air force and especially its missile forces in this region and attempts to be the Pirates of the Baltic will not be allowed by them. If the Baltic countries attempt this, then the entire Baltic will become a no-sail zone for all the countries there, just like Hormuz. Hopefully those Baltic countries will not choose…poorly.
Drinking from the wrong cup seems to be all the rage these days. So to speak.
The blood of Baal is most foul.
As a descendant of 17th century Pirates of the Baltic, I do not appreciate your loose use of the term, sir! But I do otherwise agree with your point.
Good one here on Venezuela giving the arrogant US baseball team its comeuppance at the World Baseball Classic – Team USA Lost For The Troops
From the article –
“And here we see a shining example of the main peril of using sports as a reason to wrap oneself in the flag. When you look down and see that you’ve lost your pants, the flag makes a poor trouser substitute.
But hey, it’s the risk you run when you play that game, as Team USA and its main broadcast partner, Fox, learned to their embarrassment during Tuesday’s final of the World Baseball Classic. They assumed the best would happen because they were the United States of Baseball and their opponents were just Venezuela, whose government our government just overthrew for no real reason beyond boredom and the capacity to do so, only to find out that in baseball, if you have a choice between patriotism and a nasty bullpen, the wiser choice is to take the bullpen and skip the anthem.”
After yesterday’s draft, my fantasy baseball team is well stocked with Venezuelans. We’ll see if lightning strikes twice.
I was reading an article before the match on how the US team went all gung-ho military in their preparations. They even had an ex-Seal team six guy give them a ra-ra speech and I think that he was the one that offed bin Laden and then made bank on it.
Union Pacific has a pending application with the Surface Transportation Board to acquire Norfolk Southern. The CEO has contributed to the Trump ballroom. Now he’s painting a locomotive to honor Trump:
The design for Union Pacific’s locomotive honoring Donald J. Trump. UP
How sick is this? I think it needs a 8 foot high portrait of our leader!
That sounds like it would be begging to be a rolling graffiti imagination station. People can paint their views for all the world to see.
In SC our lege voted to name a new section of interstate highway after Trump.
Of course in California they are scrambling to un-name roads after Caesar Chavez so these things can change.
Yep, FDR, JFK, LBJ, GHW Bush all had mistresses–sometimes multiple mistresses, but it’s a big problem if it turns out a labor leader is a pedophile (and bonus! another distraction from the Epstein files).
Heck, Thomas Jefferson had a 14-year-old (slave) mistress, Sally Hemmings.
Who was the half sister to Jefferson’s “legal” wife Martha, nee Wayles.
It all falls under the case of, as Edwin “Fast Eddie” Edwards, former Governor of Louisiana said; “The only way I can lose is if I’m caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.”
The problem with the Epstein Class is that, in their herculean hubris, many of them fall into either category.
“U.S. Lifts Fertilizer Sanctions on Belarus as Iran War Causes Price Surge”
Pretty sure that if Russian fertilizers start slipping through the Belarus border too, that nobody is going to say anything as the need will be so desperate.
Once again, we get to relearn that “Economy > Politics.”
Kallas might shriek and squeal a bit, though.
Unfortunately, Kallas is from Estonia, so, no PIIGS jokes available.
I thought Estonia is one of the countries where people enjoy raw pork fat?
One would very much hope so, but after just reading that v.d.Leyen will not allow any russian gas even if Europe experiences power-outs Im not optimistic. They are so rigidly fanatic I could seen them even letting people starve to death before giving in to Russia in any way.
YVES: I’m no authority but just scrolling through the X posts from “Ignis Rex” and the source he cites called Gerçek Bu in particular, this “evacuation from Kuwait” story looks fake.
Respectfully, please explain why you think including them in Links today is legitimate. Surely such a move would be covered way beyond a couple of X accounts?
That particular video was debunked by Indian fact-checking a couple of weeks ago. https://newsmeter.in/fact-check/fact-check-us-army-evacuates-kuwait-airbase-no-old-video-from-us-goes-viral-764404
The Trailways busses are a dead giveaway that it’s not Kuwait. The embassy and “non essential” personnel were evacuated weeks ago.
The link is missing.
Working link for “DHS shutdown stretches to 35 days as Democrats block funding bill” article at-
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5793497-dhs-shutdown-funding-bill/
Fixing, thanks!
A smartphone app can help men last longer in bed, lol, is that my manliness getting called out? Better get me one of them apps.
What a depressing statement on the psychological state of men.
And what would the woman say?
‘Is that a mobile that you have in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?’
Gives a new ‘meaning’ to the Hollywood saying; “He just phoned his performance in, it was so bad.”
The “New Scientist” article has the subtitle “In a randomised trial, men who experience premature ejaculation benefitted from using an app to learn techniques for extending intercourse”
In other words, those techniques work. So, why promote the app (which isn’t free) instead of the techniques?
Why is everything a grift? Welcome to Naked Capitalism, where I think we’ve all learned the answer to that one, if we didn’t know it already.
We live in Griftopia.
Pay-for(e)-play!
Lol, you won this thread!
It also might be COVID penis.
Whatever happened to “think about baseball”? LOL
Ages ago National Lampoon magazine had an ad for sets of Ugly Baseball Player Cards to be used at the correct time.
So phoney!
“Von der Leyen rules out purchases of Russian gas even in event of power outages in EU”
Ursula and her gang may never have to worry about heating this coming winter but my prediction is that Europe will be covered by a blanket of smoke as people burn wood & coal in order to try to keep warm. And at that point Ursula and the Greens will try to outlaw people burning that wood & coal on the grounds that it is not good for the environment. Count on it.
Well, they already tried, and had to backtrack. But as usual when it comes to EU regulations, if the eurocrats want something, a “no” is always interpreted as “not yet”.
“EXCLUSIVE: Tory ex-Home Secretary Priti Patel BLOCKED the FBI from quizzing Andrew over Epstein”
I’m afraid that I have to agree with her decision. If the FBI really wanted to know about the Epstein network, they could just bring in Bill Clinton who was much closer to Epstein. Trying to talk to Randy Andy is just an attempt by the FBI to muddy the waters and hide the fact that they have yet to make an arrest of all the co-conspirators of the Epstein network except for Maxwell.
Yea, but didn’t Bill and Hillary already testify to congress and they are Sgt. Shultz? They know nothing, saw nothing, and heard nothing. I’m guessing that’s their story and their sticking to it.
Wondering how a super-El Nino will intersect with the Iran war:
Drought -> dropping river levels in Europe -> more goods/fuel have to be transported by road rather than water -> higher prices.
Drought will also compound crop losses where crops are already starved of nutrients due to shortage of fertilizer.
Fellow commenter Windall posted this yesterday. The South Pars Pulse: Why the ‘Energy War’ is Actually a Thermodynamic Singularity, Steven J. Newbury.
The strike on South Pars is not an ‘energy war’. It is an unmodelled Thermodynamic Pulse that threatens to liquidate the biological carrying capacity of the entire Persian Gulf.
Interesting thesis, localized climate change on methane steroids. This is his argument,
Because the Persian Gulf is a topographically and atmospherically semi-enclosed basin, a massive methane release will not immediately disperse globally. It will pool, creating a localised, hyper-concentrated greenhouse blanket.
Methane is buoyant and cannot pool. Its half the density of air. It rises to upper level winds where the air always moves.
“Africa’s Sahel accounts for nearly half of global terror deaths: report”
No mention in this article that the reason why there are so many terror deaths in this region is because the US, France and the Ukraine are recruiting, training, financing and equipping these local terrorists so that they can bring the Sahel governments down. That should have been worth a mention.
Degrowth is not coming. It’s here. Unfortunately, it has not arrived as a result of planning at local, regional, national and international levels, planning that would cushion the impact on the vulnerable through income and wealth distribution, the ramping up of public services, price and export controls, etc. Instead, it’s been thrust upon us by the initiation of what must go down as one of the most colossally stupid wars of modern history.
Airlines, the biggest contributors to the fact that tourism had been one of the fastest growing sources of carbon emissions, are cancelling thousands of flights”. Bangladesh has issued shockingly severe measures to deal with acute shortages of imported oil and natural gas upon which they depend. Even the carbon-spewing AI boom is threatened by several different supply chain issues created by the Iran war.
So we may well see within a few months something unseen since Covid’s impact on 2020: a reduction of carbon emissions. In and of itself, this is a critically important “good thing.” It slows down the march to 4 degrees C of warming under a Business As Usual scenario, but it is happening in a way that the pain will be inversely proportional to individuals’ and nations’ contribution to the problem. Very low emissions populations like Bangladesh will be hurting the most, confronting “wet bulb 35” temperatures while air conditioning is severely rationed or just unavailable because of electricity shortages caused by natural gas shortages arising out of the Iran war. Within nations, the burden will also fall on the those least able to buy their way out of the problem as working class Americans see the cost of the their commute to work increase dramatically while the richest 10%, who are contributing 50% of emissions, continue to “live their best lives.”
You might be thinking, “But this disruption has nothing to do with climate; it’s just Trump’s stupid war.” This sort of narrow-boundary thinking is what we’re fed constantly from corporate media who continue to pretend that we can continue with Business As Usual ad infinitum, but we were warned more than 50 years ago that the day would come when growing economies that produce growing throughput would reach a point when growing shortages of limited resources and increasing pollution would decrease the production of consumer goods and food, increase international strife and eventually produce drastic reductions of population (i.e. lots of people will die).
So human civilization is headed for destruction or at least a major reset even though we were warned in a sound and convincing way half a century ago that this would happen if we didn’t radically change course. Our elites handled this warning in one of three ways:
1) they attacked it ruthlessly, a response especially popular among neoclassical economists;
2) they ignored it; or
3) they claimed technological advances would solve the problem.
These days, as Limits to Growth projections have been largely validated, it’s becoming clearer and clearer that the top 1% privately agrees with LtG’s projections, and their plan is to shelter from the storm in elaborate bunkers located in out-of-the-way places, at least until they can build their magic flying saucer to take them to the oh-so-hospitable planet of Mars (why not red-hot Venus?).
This edition of humanity is about to go out of print. The second edition, if there is one, needs a good understanding of how humans came to destroy all they had built and how to avoid heading down the same path a second time in a kind of march-to-destruction Groundhog Day.
Interesting points but I suspect that any greenhouse gas savings from reduced travel, etc. will, for some time, be offset by the greenhouse gasses released from Qatar and all the burning oil from various strikes in the region. The Qatar leakage alone is probably a large and measurable addition to existing GHGs.
MartyH…that’s a great point….
but here’s my Pelican Brief style theory…. (however, if no one hears from me again its probably true)
In part it comes from a personal anecdote, which I will relate at the end.
By raging war and destruction, as well as emitting as much GHG as possible, (as in your comment about “The Qatar leakage”), they hope to both kill off a lot of people, (probably with some predictability if U R the one bombing places), but on a global scale by starvation and horsemen of the apocalypse processes in the near term. Of course banking on the probability NOT ALL humans go lights out, the remainder will be only realistically able to keep the heat at bay REGIONALLY, buy ANNUALLY purchasing geoengineering solutions in development now.
So if you want your supply of crops to grow, and rain to fall, BUY OUR PROPRIETARY AEROSOL GEOENGINEERING chemicals, which we deploy, and you can survive another season.
So, the two belligerents and their T-Rex sized silent funders, are looking to entrap the remaining humanity in a grift so big its hard to believe.
Some posts here a while back linked to a company based in “that entity” which was developing such a package, (sorry cant recall which post). But tellingly or not, very little could be found out about it.
The anecdote…
A few years back I did a special unit at a local University, and we had to interview a climate related researcher who was already working on solutions for climate change. Well my small group got to speak to a visiting professor of molecular chemistry (I won’t name). In short they had already found a solution to ‘capture’ atmospheric C02, by using a molecular cage system, but were waiting for markets to price it positively…. I have no idea if it was workable, because entrapping C02 molecule by molecule seemed very un-doable to me, at scale, but I didn’t want to embarrass the guy.
My point is there are probably a dozen viable fixes out there, but they just don’t make anyone any money right now, but if it was the do or die moment….then the price may be right. Additionally, most suggested fixes cannot be deployed at scale to do the tasks needed, just sayin.
So my loose suspicion is amongst the obvious contradictions of killing people, I do suspect accelerating to the end point is what desperate mad elites could be investing in…
Just to note, it is plain now that if a rapid reduction in carbon based fuel combustion is achieved, then global temps go way up very fast, due to the reduction of particulate aerosols….
This is my justification for even suggesting those investors would contemplate huge killing of people are necessary right now….. not to stay in charge, but more specifically to NOT be the one not in charge…..think it through….. that’s right…..never get told what to do…ever….and never be equal to others….
What a mess!
From the Dept. of Know Thine Enemy [sarc]
Three backgrounders about Iran:
Geography of Iran [28 minutes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xKIUpEpj0Q&list=TLPQMTkwMzIwMjbmJ1llYDXAYw&index=9
Living in Iran:
Urban.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E6sXsF4j40 [51 minutes]
Rural.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MwUwBcZlk4&list=TLPQMjAwMzIwMjasncJ-aVYAxA&index=6 [29 minutes]
Thanks! In this recent podcast, Permaculturist Geoff Lawton discusses his time spent teaching in Iran and how readily they embraced and scaled up his composting methods. Also, the ancient network of canals and waterworks for ag and residential cooling.
Satisfaction
Sung to the tune of, “Satisfaction” by Jagger/Richards
Melody
I can’t get no satisfaction
I can’t get no rate cut action
‘Cause I try, and I try, and I try, and I try
I can’t get no, I can’t get no
When I’m tweeting on the throne
And Jay Powell comes on the radio
He’s tellin’ me more and more
About some useless information
I’m ’bout to fire him for good of the nation!
I can’t get no, oh, no, no, no
Hey, hey, hey, that’s what I say
I can’t get no satisfaction
I can’t get no, Taco action
‘Cause I try, and I try, and I try, and I try
I can’t get no, I can’t get no
When I’m watchin’ CNBC
And a man comes on and tells me
How high the price of oil can be
But he can’t be a man cause he doesn’t look
The same, heavyset as me
I can’t get no, oh, no, no, no
Hey, hey, hey, that’s what I say
I can’t get no satisfaction
I can’t get no market reaction
‘Cause I try, and I try, and I try, and I try
I can’t get no, I can’t get no
When I’m bombin’ round the world
And I’m doin’ this and I’m dissin’ that
And I’m tryin’ to make Xi Jinpeng
Who tells me, “Baby, better come back maybe next week”
“Can’t you see I’m on a losing streak?”
I can’t get no, hey, hey, hey
That’s what I say
I can’t get no, I can’t get no
I can’t get no satisfaction
No satisfaction
No satisfaction
No satisfaction
I can’t get no…
Nice one.
An aside, Pink Floyd’s Animals is enjoying front of the stack status here of late.
David Gilmours black Stratocaster fetched a cool $14.5M.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Strat
In positive news, Grok had ended free videos without fanfare.
https://www.allblogthings.com/2026/03/grok-imagine-videos-just-got-paywalled-overnight.html?m=1
So now my buddy who floods our group chat with extremely dumb six- second videos will either have to pay $30/ month or go back to making inane comments instead.
lol, make’m pay for their low effort content.
Sung to the tune of ‘Times they are a changin by Bob Dylan
Hey listen up people, you, put down your phone,
If you’re starting to worry then you’re not alone.
The destruction we’re wreaking we’ll never atone,
and we never seem to be learning
And we’ll all hit the ground at the sound of a drone,
For the world she is a’ burning
if you pay attention you’ve surely deduced
Our reach is extended as grasp is reduced
We don’t recognize the fell forces we’ve loosed
As the profile of doom we’re discerning
A murder of black swans has come home to roost
So the world she is a’ burning
There’s blood in the sand and there’s blood in the street,
There’s blood in the bread but there’s none in the meat,
It still tastes OK when we’re fed on deceit
So the meat grinder never stops churning
No election is needed to vote with your feet
When the world she is a’ burning
We’ve heard all the lies and we’ve chosen the best,
Taken them in to enclose in our breast
Or minds are asleep but our bodies can’t rest
For a moment of truth we are yearning,
Then it dawns on us all that we won’t pass the test
‘Cause the world she is a’ burning
This is really good, Skip, thanks!
Wonderful effort, Skip. A very good job on an old classic.
>Before Waging War, Consult Historians First
Even without consulting historians, many experts and laypeople realized that a war with Iran would lead to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, causing immense damage to the U.S. and the global economy. Churchill may not have anticipated the unpredictable, but Trump failed to recognize that the predictable would happen as expected.
Alistaire Crooke from 3/16 but he is always worth reviewing among others of the likes of Chas Freeman, who have a depth of understanding, which the our leaders clearly do not.
Is Having No War Plan Trump’s Plan?
It’s not just the Ellisons:
Trump FCC lets Nexstar buy Tegna and blow way past 39% TV ownership cap.
So unsurprisingly, Bahrain is getting hit for allowing US short-range “ultraprecise” missiles to be fired from its territory against Iran – do I smell a wonderwaffen story? The story claims they were used on Kharg Island (did Trump report total obliteration?) yet the released videos appear to contradict the wonderwaffen story – hitting the runway (twice – 30 min to fix if Iran wants) means the US can’t use it, and despite claims of hitting munitions targets, there was no secondary explosions.
The Gulfies keep looking to rock fight inside their glass house. It will not end well.
Hmm, Iran is excellent at GPS spoofing and uses Baidu. Could that have something to do with another underwhelming wonderwaffen?
Occasionally I fantasize about an alternate history where we in the U.S. understood the Declaration of Independence. When the president or a congressperson walks into the room, everyone stays seated. Said person goes to the front of the room and bows to their leader, the American people. Like I said, fantasy…
From ZDNet:
Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes – but no apologies
Microsoft’s Windows boss just sent out a long non-apology to frustrated Windows 11 users, promising big changes. Here’s a translation of what you can really expect.
Written by Ed Bott, Senior Contributing Editor
https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-users-are-angry-and-microsoft-is-finally-doing-something-about-it/
Oh, so I have Windows 10 which I can run on my Mac (just like a Windows machine), but I never do (even though it runs just fine). Those poor folks.
:-)
Wow, what a load of nothing. All I want is the option to have the Windows 7 menu layout. And be rid of that folder indirection to cloud account morass. Not happening.
I keep hearing that Jesus is coming soon, I won’t believe it until I see the “Money Shot”
Pics, or it didn’t happen.
OMG, the burn-
‘Drop Site
@DropSiteNews
Economist Editor-in-Chief: Clearly you and I agree, and we’ve both been critical of the Israeli government.
Tucker Carlson: Well, I’ve been critical of the Israeli government.
The Economist: I’ve been plenty critical.
Tucker Carlson: What do you think of what happened in Gaza?’
https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/2035161131459686441#m
MEE: Iranian missile hits Dimona
File under First Amendment.
From Due Dissidence, utube, ~3+ minutes.
Afroman DEFEATS Bogus Lawsuit in FREE SPEECH VICTORY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AgCVWik47k
Here’s Afroman’s video that set off the defamation lawsuit.
utube,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM8Ee6pcXvQ&list=RDHM8Ee6pcXvQ&start_radio=1
He should have sung this up a third, then he would have been threatening.
But nevertheless
The the process is the punishment
The Monied Class so says.
Test … having problems posting …
I Predicted the 2008 Financial Crisis. What Is Coming May Be Worse. (NY Times via archive.ph)
Richard Bookstaber
Buckle up.
Dated 2 days ago this report shows widget vassal states, (resource quarries) like Australia are now supplementing for cancelled, or delayed Asian oil supplies by importing US Oil…. This is how POTUS plays all-in poker, the aftermath in this case is , “You will willingly buy our oil NOW!”
I can feel the trouser belt loosening, in preparation for turning around and bending over pretending to tie a shoelace…. And then, assuming no Nukes get used, (Maybe, maybe not?) they turn up every fiscal quarter and yep, on approach they say your shoe laces need fixing, again…
For those unfamiliar with whats going on down here….
The weakening, and lets face it doing-nothing-but-be-in-power National (Labor) Guberment, is very challenged by the unexpected far right One Nation party’s recent rise, (but not win) in South Australia’s election. But please indulge me here, this is how poker is played by the big guys.
Now, to avoid the pressure most Western aligned nations are feeling re oil right now, there is a nice guy around who will sell you HIS oil, at HIS price.
Very soon after, when other supplies just get obliterated, or held up for their own national use in a world shortage, so it becomes a dependency.
You can always rely on the racists to chime in at the right moment to bring unwelcome complicating pressure.
But I hasten to point out, this is also how you get ordinary, (in-debt- already, scared) people to climb back on the forget-catastrophic-climate-heating-I-need-my-car-natural-gas-electricity-in-the-same-exorbitant-quantities-as-usual bandwagon, thus shutting down debate on intelligent responses to the climate ‘issues’, let alone action.
All-in poker….
What a mess!
Et tu?
It’s disgusting enough that von der Leyen is carrying out the destruction of Europe’s welfare at the service of a collapsing USA.
But then, how much gas would Asia consume that it’s needed there so badly?