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1. The Rev Kev June 9, 2026 at 7:35 am

   “Entire submarine fleet protecting UK from nuclear attack ‘unfit for use'”

   Five subs are stuck in port awaiting maintenance and repairs. There is a sixth sub that has just been commissioned into the fleet but it is not ready for deployment yet. And then there was this-

   ‘The fact that there has not been money invested in dry docks, in the maintenance facilities, in the men required to maintain and repair the submarines, in the spare parts for those submarines is why we have got to this position.’

   It was not that long ago that all of Germany’s boats were stuck in port for maintenance & repairs too. But you still wonder if this was negligence at work by the Royal Navy or maybe those Astute-class subs are just not maintenance friendly. They are not that old either-

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astute-class_submarine
   1. vao June 9, 2026 at 8:53 am

      Well, the USA has a similar problem: 11 Years Of Waiting for Repairs: The Navy Has A Nuclear Attack Submarine ‘Trapped in Port’, and America Has 49 Nuclear Attack Submarines And 18 of Them Cannot Leave Port — China Is Building Submarines as Fast as It Can.

      The French were also facing trouble with the number of docks suitable for the maintenance of their nuclear submarines — just one in their major naval base of Toulon to accommodate 5 vessels. They have been busily building two additional docks; the last one is due to be completed only in 2029.

      Investing in infrastructure, maintaining an industrial basis, educating and training people, keeping stocks of spare parts… all unglamorous activities that cost a lot of money (that does not necessarily end in the pocket of major armaments suppliers), but is unavoidable if one wants to maintain a substantial fleet of complex vessels in order. Those four countries failed to do it, they are now paying the price.
      1. Skip Intro June 9, 2026 at 9:24 am

         Neoliberalism beats Neoconservatism once again as fantasies of dominance and empire are slapped silly by an invisible hand.
         1. mrsyk June 9, 2026 at 10:16 am

            Hard to win a war with a just-in-time inventory strategy, lol.

            “These bullets were supposed to be delivered last week.”
         2. Camelotkidd June 9, 2026 at 10:17 am

            More evidence that it’s impossible to run an empire with neoliberalism as the operating system
            1. JMH June 9, 2026 at 12:35 pm

               Won’t be a problem when it finally collapses the empire.
      2. Rabid groundhog June 9, 2026 at 12:28 pm

         Could it possibly be that one of the problems is inability to obtain the so called “rare earth elements” that modern submarines probably require in prodigious quantaties?
         Seems like the PLA Navy would be in a much better position if Collective West subs never put to sea again.
         1. vao June 9, 2026 at 2:05 pm

            Many of the problems are caused by the lack of suitable dockyards and the necessary qualified personnel; nothing to do with rare earths. Remember that naval construction in the USA and in Europe is a sector that has been relentlessly shrinking for something like 65 years first because of the competition from the Japanese, then the Koreans, and now the Chinese.
   2. JP June 9, 2026 at 5:11 pm

      The big joke in the piece was the statement that the US would be in grave danger from China if not for these subs. The biggest threat to the US is undoubtedly the US
2. Rolf June 9, 2026 at 7:54 am

   Correct link for Times of Israel supermarket story?

   Thanks as always for NC!
3. vao June 9, 2026 at 7:55 am

   The link “How do Israelis in the north feel about renewed fighting with Iran? Check out the supermarket” points to the article on “7 Ideas That Should Make You Distrust Your Own Mind”.

   The link “Algiers has opened a new front against Morocco—and it’s no longer in the Sahara” returns a “403 forbidden”.
   1. The Rev Kev June 9, 2026 at 8:06 am

      Working link for “How do Israelis in the north feel about renewed fighting with Iran? Check out the supermarket” article at-

      https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-do-israelis-in-the-north-feel-about-renewed-fighting-with-iran-check-out-the-supermarket/

      The cope is strong with this article. And that Algiers article opens up fine here.
      1. vao June 9, 2026 at 8:34 am

         It looks as if the entire http://www.atalayar.com site prevents me from accessing it (tried two different browsers with different configurations on linux, from a European country).

         Thanks for the correct link to the Israeli on-the-ground report. If (if) it is representative, then it means that contrarily to all those vocal Northern Israeli settlers squealing about the situation and opposition politicians claiming that the complete failure of Netanyahu’s offensive is inflicting insufferable hardship on the population, the Israelis are orders of magnitude less affected materially by war than Palestinians, Lebanese, possibly even Iranians, and prior to that Yemenis.

         As long as this holds, Israel will probably be able to endure the conflict for significantly longer than generally assumed; all depends on whether Iran (in synchronization with Hezbollah and Ansarallah) will start striking hard on a much larger scale.
         1. The Rev Kev June 9, 2026 at 8:43 am

            With that Atalyer site, perhaps it is being blocked in your region. I have the link open in a tab right now here in Oz. Try clicking this link to make sure that you can’t get it to open-

            https://www.atalayar.com/en/articulo/politics/algiers-has-opened-new-front-against-morocco-and-it-s-longer-in-the-sahara/20260606184651226281.html
            1. Krautsalat June 9, 2026 at 8:50 am

               Same problem

               I have created this: Archived version
               1. vao June 9, 2026 at 8:56 am

                  Thanks, the archived version works!

                  Alas, the link provided by the Rev Kev returned another “403 forbidden” message.
                  1. jefemt June 9, 2026 at 9:07 am

                     Major Blockage on the 403. Drivers are encouraged to pursue other Routes in their tele commute…
         2. Rui June 9, 2026 at 11:00 am

            Out of curiosity, it works here in Portugal.
            1. Ignacio June 9, 2026 at 12:44 pm

               And in Spain. El Atalayar is quite a conservative site and the news are about Morocco and Algeria competing to provide commercial routes from the Sahel Northwards. Particularly Nigerian gas pipelines and that kind of stuff. It says Morocco want’s to open an “Atlantic corridor” through its ports and thus break the “monopoly” Algeria supposedly enjoys now on this. The article goes further as to suggest a “silent alliance” between Algeria, Qatar and Iran against Morocco interests. Conspiranoid Geostrategy?
               1. vao June 9, 2026 at 6:00 pm

                  I do not know enough about the politics of the Sahel to criticize the article, but it provides interesting elements. My impression is that

                  1) Landlocked countries will probably try to get connected both to the Nigeria-Morocco and to the Senegal gas pipelines, logistic hubs, and transport networks. They would be foolish to just depend on one party.

                  2) If Algeria cannot offer connection to energy, commercial, and logistical infrastructure, what can it concretely bring to those Sahel countries? On the other hand, the Algerians are diplomatically shrewd and their intelligence services redoubtably capable, so they cannot be dismissed out of hand.

                  3) The author states that “a Moroccan Atlantic gas pipeline is a direct alternative to Algerian gas exports to Europe”. Given the dearth of suppliers to Europe (exierunt Russia and Qatar because of wars, USA not being entirely reliable), that new source of gas will probably be a welcome complement to Algerian gas, not an alternative.
4. farmboy June 9, 2026 at 8:35 am

   learn to muscle test https://medium.com/change-your-mind/how-i-use-my-body-as-a-lie-detector-7709bf7c6fb6
5. The Rev Kev June 9, 2026 at 8:46 am

   ‘Wolf of X
   @WolfofX
   Champale Anderson, a mother of six from North St. Louis, has dedicated years to making sure children in her neighborhood never go hungry. Every school day, she prepares about 100 lunch bags packed with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, fruit, juice, cookies, and other snacks for any child who needs one.’

   Hard for kids to learn in a class room when their belly button are slapping against their backbones. Hungry kids are an obscenity wherever it exists.
6. JohnA June 9, 2026 at 9:13 am

   Re They are isolated … they are alone’: Zelenskyy on Russia, Putin’s lies – and fighting back

   The lead interviewer for this puff piece for Zelensky is Luke Harding, who embarrassingly admitted in an interview with Aaron Mate that he was a storyteller [rather than a journalist]. As such, this article can be safely stored as stenographic propaganda rather than any kind of proper facts on the ground investigative journalism.

   And predating his disastrous encounter with Mate by several years, Private Eye wiped the floor with Harding over his plagiarism and fantasies about his time as Guardian correspondent in Moscow. https://archive.is/UUCBD
   and smartly summed up by offguardian https://off-guardian.org/2015/09/09/luke-harding-enemy-of-the-state/
7. JohnnyGL June 9, 2026 at 9:17 am

   God bless Champale Anderson, what a big heart, and love her ambition, too!!!
8. The Rev Kev June 9, 2026 at 9:45 am

   “EU authorizes ships in Mediterranean to detain tankers carrying Russian oil — Kallas ”

   Nobody ever accused Kaya Kallas as being a rocket scientist but what she is talking about is blockading Russia’s ships. And that a blockade is actually an act of war. And let’s not even mention that what she wants is illegal under international law and is considered piracy unless it has been authorized by the UN – which it hasn’t. As the EU is running out of oil soon, maybe they are thinking that hijacking Russians oil ships is one way to top themselves up a bit.
   1. Rui June 9, 2026 at 10:57 am

      Not to mention the EU has no say in that matter as they aren’t the EU ships but national ships and external policy is (still) national. The EU has no armed forces and God forbid it will ever get them, judging by the acephaly of Kalas.
9. chris June 9, 2026 at 9:52 am

   Re: credentialism and the electrical contractor Twix story… not sure what the person heard or what they think is going on, but they picked a strange hill to fight on.

   Credentialism in the context of building trades, medicine, engineering, etc. is because the state has decided only certain people should be allowed to do the work or approve the work. Because there have been so many mistakes that have damaged life, public health, and property. Credentials in these areas have multiple routes to be accessed that do not require a degree from any institution too. For example, the Maryland professional engineer board will review applications and can approve the person for sitting for the exam even if the applicant does not have an engineering degree. 12 years of good engineering experience will be considered.

   By contrast, you can be a licensed engineer and never be able to qualify as a licensed electrician. Being a contractor is one thing. Being an electrician or a plumber or a boilermaker is something else entirely. The character in the story must have had to have been an electrician and a contractor. If they were just a contractor nothing in the story makes sense. In which case, they were a highly credentialed individual!

   Credentialism in the context that I believe is damaging, is telling someone they need a degree to do anything. It is turning away promising people from jobs because they don’t have the right pedigree for their education. It is telling someone that they’re not allowed to have a public opinion about X because they didn’t graduate/work/intern at Y. To the point where no aspect of a critique is considered because they can’t get over that bar. Credentialism is also putting a barrier between people and their goals to benefit entrenched interests. Like making people pay a lot for cosmetology education to be licensed as barbers.

   I’m fully on board with people who want to argue that MBAs and pretentious consultants have ruined this world. But I don’t want people to start claiming that requiring good design in gas distribution systems is opppresion, or that the person doing that design shouldn’t be licensed by the state they’re working in.
   1. PVDSteve June 9, 2026 at 2:49 pm

      Totally agree with this, way too many people take the correct observation that *dogmatic* credentialism among political and economic elites to the extent that they ignore common sense derived from experience is far too prevalent in our society too far in rejecting any sort of requirements for technical judgement and expertise at all.

      I’ve worked with way too many contractors in construction with a track record a mile long to supposedly justify a lack of credentials who still confident made major mistakes that looked good initially and then led to disasters later on.

      A credential on its own never justifies summarily shutting down a fair question from someone without one. But the only way we get a modern industrial economy where things aren’t constantly exploding and breaking down is by having a system to independently certify that the designers of our critical infrastructure actually know what they’re doing.
   2. Santiago B June 9, 2026 at 10:01 pm

      As an Electrical Engineer, I too have issues with this strange post. No step down XFMRs? As a design error? I don’t buy it. Are we to believe that a room full of engineers was there to discuss a design of theirs that for some crazy reason fed 4160V to the entire facility? Huh? Not a chance. I think something went over our electrician’s head. How were the lights in the place going to work? Or anything else for that matter?

      He was the Publix headquarters (located in our hometown) electrical contractor for decades, his father was before him. As they built out their massive compound in Lakeland, he did all the electrical work. There was not a single electrical engineer ever used during that time; just his design/build. No fancy degrees on the wall, no charge for the design, just dependable electrical work that never failed. He put in there industrial freezer of 600,000 sq ft, their massive data center, all the original ATMs in the state of Florida, among many other projects.

      Not a single P.E.? OK. Except that’s against state law, I’m sure. And where does he think the plans that he worked on came from? Design-build is a project delivery method in which a P.E. or registered architect must work as a subcontractor to the builder/contractor (GC) in stages, often working from a 35% design which is developed by a third party A/E prior to soliciting or awarding the DB project. There is ample time devoted to questions from bidders, and as the design inevitably changes during the project’s lifecycle, it must be approved by credentialed professionals – usually on the client side and contractor side. Design-build implies that a registered P.E. will be there to stamp the final design.

      I have no idea why this woman’s post got so much traction, and I don’t have a Xitter account so I am not able to read any responses, but yeah…something is ‘off’.
   3. Santiago B June 9, 2026 at 10:09 pm

      P.S. I’m not in that industry, but I’ve never heard of a 4160V freezer. Neither has “AI”.
10. Carolinian June 9, 2026 at 9:54 am

    It required voting in the Republican primary but I just voted against Lindsey for the mere satisfaction of it. Some say he may even be vulnerable in the general.
    1. The Rev Kev June 9, 2026 at 10:03 am

       You take your victories where you can.
       1. Carolinian June 9, 2026 at 9:55 pm

          Last I checked Graham ahead of his Repub opponent with 59 percent. We’ll get him in the general.
          1. The Rev Kev June 9, 2026 at 11:40 pm

             Trump was happy at this result-

             ‘Congratulations to Senator Lindsey Graham of the Great State of South Carolina on his BIG WIN tonight. With almost 60% of the vote against a large field of very capable candidates, there will be no runoff. Now Lindsey will be able to devote his time to passing the desperately needed, and long overdue, SAVE AMERICA ACT! President DJT’

             https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116723301122482300
11. Argon of Sakkad June 9, 2026 at 10:18 am

    The link for the Texas screwworm story under “Economy” doesn’t work.
    1. Yves Smith Post authorJune 9, 2026 at 12:01 pm

       Sorry, had a second http:. Fixed!
12. The Rev Kev June 9, 2026 at 10:31 am

    That story may appear under this title-

    “Food supply ‘not at risk’ after new Texas screwworm cases, USDA secretary says” at

    https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/08/texas-screwworm-cases-food-supply-brooke-rollins.html

    And if you believe that, I can get you a good price on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
13. The Rev Kev June 9, 2026 at 10:42 am

    “China Triples Nuclear Submarine Production Capacity to Lead the World in Output: Next Generation Ships Shift Power Balance at Sea”

    At this point I am wondering if Oz should ask China to build our nuke boats for us. they would be brand new and we wouldn’t have to wait a coupla decades for them to arrive.
    1. Rui June 9, 2026 at 10:52 am

       And they would be a cent to the dollar…
       1. flora June 9, 2026 at 11:04 am

          And they would have backdoor China kill switches, not to mention backdoor computer telecom routing. / ;)
          1. Rui June 9, 2026 at 11:16 am

             Because the Americans would never do that…
             1. cfraenkel June 9, 2026 at 4:14 pm

                The US doesn’t use concealed backdoor killswitches….. theirs are right out in the open.
14. Rui June 9, 2026 at 10:51 am

    We have the coming energy and supply shock, while a large, yet uncontrolled, Ebola outbreak spreads in Central Africa, a soon to burst AI stock ‘one and only’ bubble (to rule all bubbles) and a coming unprecedented El Nino. Did I miss something? Sep 2026 to Aug 2027 is looking very, very dire.
15. The Rev Kev June 9, 2026 at 11:00 am

    ‘ColonelTowner-Watkins
    @ColonelTowner
    Story time to prove this point. My husband is a commercial electrical contractor. He has been an electrician since he was 18 yrs old. His dad and granddad were electricians. He has a high school degree and one of the earliest #’d electrical contractor licenses in the State of Florida that is still active.’

    This sounds like it happened a coupla years ago. These days those people who attended impressive universities with their credentials on the wall probably used AI to go through uni so would have even more dismal knowledge of what they are supposed to be expert in.
16. juno mas June 9, 2026 at 11:08 am

    RE: Steroid Olympics

    While the use of anabolic steroids has utility in body-building, that is not the case in other activity (sports). Olympic swimmers, for example, have a specific body-type that diminishes hydrodynamic drag (long and slim) where too much muscle size is a detriment, as the propulsion medium (water) cannot be ‘overpowered’ and a long arm stroke (not arm strength) is the optimal propulsion source.

    Most Olympic swimming events optimize for full body stamina and muscle coordination; things steroids do not refine.

    Hydrodynamic drag is a cubic function and requires a greater increase in propulsion (stroke and kick) to swim faster. That is why the ‘sharkskin’ swim suits were banned. Hydrodynamic drag is the limiting factor in swimming fast.
    1. vao June 9, 2026 at 2:09 pm

       “Olympic swimmers, for example, have a specific body-type that diminishes hydrodynamic drag (long and slim) where too much muscle size is a detriment, as the propulsion medium (water) cannot be ‘overpowered’ and a long arm stroke (not arm strength) is the optimal propulsion source.”

       Is that an application of the Froude number to swimmers?
       1. juno mas June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm

          No. It is not. The hydrodynamic drag of a swimmer moving through water is a surface drag. As a swimmer attempts to increase speed (s)he will also create more turbulence/hydrodynamic drag from each arm stroke (propulsion). (That is why Olympic swimmers use an underwater dolphin-kick for 15M, after making a flip-turn: it allows propulsion w/ less drag- – – faster speed.)
17. Christian B June 9, 2026 at 11:35 am

    “Consciousness Researchers Are Tripping ”

    “The Mimosa pudica, a tropical plant that folds its leaves when touched, can be taught to ignore certain stressors, and can “remember” these instructions for up to twenty-eight days. […] Pollan asks the obvious question: How is that possible, given that plants possess neither neurons nor a nervous system?”

    It is the scientists prior knowledge and lack of creativity that has them stuck.

    Electromagnetic Fields are consciousness. (This is the new thinking that no one wants to think about, but it is trying to break through, feel free to read about it.)

    There are may ways to make an electromagnetic fields, both plants and humans use, in part, calcium ion flow. Anything that can create its’ own EMFs is conscious.

    I do not know what is keeping Pollan from investigating electric fields. For a smart guy he is pretty dumb.
18. pjay June 9, 2026 at 11:50 am

    – ‘Consciousness Researchers Are Tripping’ – Commonweal

    – ‘7 Ideas That Should Make You Distrust Your Own Mind’ – Skeptic

    This was an interesting juxtaposition of articles for me. Long ago in another life I spent a lot of time looking into the subject of consciousness, including the “hard problem.” This review of Michael Pollan’s book renewed my interest in a captivating but also frustrating debate. One of the most frustrating aspects of this controversy was nicely captured in this passage:

    “I found large chunks of these early sections [of Pollan’s book] trying—not because of Pollan’s writing, which is taut and lively throughout, but because of the unreflective reductionism of his interlocutors. Early on, one consciousness researcher warns Pollan to “be wary of the desire for magic.” But as I see it, the desire to explain away “magic”—that is, to dismiss upfront anything that cannot be made to fit some very limited, preconceived notion of the way reality must just be—is equally foolish. The idea that our mind-bogglingly rich and elaborate first-person experiences of reality … can be reduced to something like homeostasis is laughable. It requires a willful lack of introspection.”

    Reading this took me back to my own encounters with such “unreflective reductionism” posing as science saving us from “magical” thinking. As it did I immediately thought of Skeptic magazine and its founder, Michael Shermer. Then I went back to Links and what did I see? The article from Skeptic magazine! An experience of ‘synchronicity,’ perhaps? No, just a coincidence I’m sure.

    The thing is that I pretty much agreed with everything in the Skeptic article, as far as it went. In fact I probably agree with the Skeptics Society worldview 90 percent of the time. But over the years I sometimes find these people serving as professional “debunkers” defending the status quo rather than acting as actual “skeptics” who are truly open-minded and unbiased in their inquiry. As the Skeptic article emphasizes itself, it is easy to see the flaws in the arguments of *others,* but difficult, indeed against our “natures,” to recognize the biases in our own.
    1. Lefty Godot June 9, 2026 at 4:36 pm

       The Skeptic faction, when I encounter them in media stories, often seems to take an unwarranted position based on an exaggerated association between a claim (or study approach) they don’t like and a clearly ridiculous other claim, sort of like the Eulerisms in the thought-stopping jargon article. “Uri Geller was caught bending spoons mechanically…therefore consciousness is an illusion or can be totally explained reductively!” “Some people even believe the earth is flat…therefore everyone who doesn’t totally accept the 9/11 Commission Report is an ignorant conspiracy theory dupe!” Being a skeptic in this version of reality seems to me “always believing what the eminent authorities are telling you”, which comes across as entirely backwards to me, once they get beyond talking about spoon-bending and astrology. Some of the heuristics they describe for evaluating arguments are quite sensible, but they twist the application of those when talking about specific issues.
19. Jason Boxman June 9, 2026 at 11:56 am

    LOL. What a beautiful attack on LLMs, combing the inability to truly secure something that stole all the darkest parts of the Internet, and human inattentiveness. Buckle up. From a high priority security alert at an employer I know.

    We are actively containing a supply chain breach involving malicious commits injected into our GitHub repositories. This is not theoretical — this is happening now, and every engineer who reviews or merges code needs to act on the guidance below immediately.

    What is happening
    Threat actors are exploiting default behaviors in GitHub’s UI to smuggle malicious content into pull requests. Specifically, GitHub does not automatically render large diffs — instead it displays a collapsed notice:

    Attackers are using this behavior to hide malicious payloads in files that reviewers are unlikely to expand and inspect. This means a PR can appear clean at a glance while carrying compromised code.

    We have had at least one user manually merge a PR with malware, hence the urgency of this note.

    Do NOT clone or download suspicious branches and run them through AI tools. This is a proven infection vector. Malware such as Miasma specifically targets this behavior — downloading and analyzing a malicious branch locally is exactly how it spreads.

    Expand and review every collapsed diff. Do not approve any PR without inspecting all changes, including files GitHub chose not to render.

    Reject any PR containing .claude/ or .vscode/ directories. These are active attack vectors. If you find a .claude/settings.json file containing “command”: “node .claude/setup.mjs” — that is confirmed malware. Do not interact with it further; report it immediately.

    Scrutinize all changes to CI/CD configuration. Review every modification to GitHub Actions workflows, CI job definitions, and any other pipeline configuration with extreme care.

    This timeline is lit.
    1. tegnost June 9, 2026 at 12:11 pm

       I’ve been calling AI a bullshit generator, but chaos generator may be more apt over time.
    2. ChrisFromGA June 9, 2026 at 2:08 pm

       Expand and review every collapsed diff. Do not approve any PR without inspecting all changes, including files GitHub chose not to render.

       In other words, as the immortal NFL Coach Hoodie (Bill Belichick) said: DO YOUR JOB!
       1. albrt June 10, 2026 at 12:55 am

          Tell that to the AI who is doing the former employee’s job.
20. AG June 9, 2026 at 12:08 pm

    re: Cannes

    JACOBIN interview

    Class War on the Red Carpet

    Interview with Tangui Perron

    The Cannes Film Festival might seem like an elite event, but it has deep roots in anti-fascism and the labor movement. Its early history in the years after World War II tells us how cinema can truly belong to the working class.
    https://jacobin.com/2026/06/cannes-film-festival-communists-unions
21. Ann June 9, 2026 at 12:31 pm

    0930 PDT

    300 migrants bound for UK kidnapped and threatened with kidney removal

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xwxdgvx8lo
22. Chris June 9, 2026 at 12:31 pm

    Not only is the absolute poverty rate in the US higher than in China, infant mortality is higher in the US than in Russia.

    It is a new world.
23. flora June 9, 2026 at 12:35 pm

    From Breaking Points.

    ‘UNHINGED’: Pentagon Says Israel Spying ‘CRITICAL THREAT’

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJcXh9tAfzg
24. AG June 9, 2026 at 1:18 pm

    re: JFK

    CIA Drug Pilot Claims to Have Flown JFK Assassins Into Dallas
    https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/06/09/cia-drug-pilot-claims-to-have-flown-jfk-assassins-into-dallas/
    1. Henry Moon Pie June 9, 2026 at 5:50 pm

       I ran into a Youtube movie that I had never seen, even though it’s been out since 1973. It’s called Executive Action, it’s written by blacklisted writer, Dalton Trumbo, and it stars Burt Lancaster from Seven Days in May and blacklisted actor Will Geer (who was resurrected into Grandpa Walton). It presents a plot involving H. L. Hunt types, disgruntled CIA because of Bay of Pigs, and professional killers. The assassination scene is portrayed as carried out by a 3-man hit team posted in the Book Depository (instead of patsy Oswald), the grassy knoll and a rooftop site on another building. It’s quite amazing to me this movie came out before the Watergate hearings got going, and well before the House Committee on Assassinations and the Church Committee. It was really more blunt in its accusations than Stone’s movie about Jim Garrison.
       1. Tom Stone June 9, 2026 at 7:02 pm

          I think the presence of Mitch WerBell at Dealey Plaza that day was an interesting coincidence.
          I don’t know what actually happened that November day, but I do know the official story is a pack of lies.
          I can say the same about RFK’s assassination, the MLK murder, building 7…
25. Jason Boxman June 9, 2026 at 4:22 pm

    The Milkman (Pro Publica)

    I dunno man, industrious and stupid. Very dangerous. It does take willing buyers, though. This is like the anti-vax nonsense.

    Many attendees were unbothered by the recent illnesses. They said they consumed raw dairy because they wanted to reduce their inflammation, and avoid additives, and prevent lactose intolerance, and clear their skin, and bring their hormones into balance. They wanted nutrients that didn’t exist in “boiled to death” milk. They wanted to drink it “the natural way.”

    Alyssa Wolfer, a 42-year-old mother of two from Bakersfield, viewed raw milk as a symbol of “true American freedom,” she said. “I very much lean on the side of freedom of people to choose what they consume and less regulation.”

    “I’m seven months pregnant, and I drink raw milk because that’s how God has created it to be,” said Lindsay Espinoza, 34, reclining on a bale of hay with her husband and young son. “There’s so much fear behind raw milk, but it makes sense to us.”

    Some, like 58-year-old Melanie Copeland from Huntington Beach, questioned whether the outbreak had occurred at all. “The odds of it being true are slim to none,” she said, “and people need to do their research.”

    McAfee mingled among his flock. Some stopped him for pictures as he beamed down the camera and flashed a thumbs-up.
    1. Jacktish June 9, 2026 at 7:47 pm

       Every year there are at least two if not more recalls of healthy foods like spinach and lettuce because they have something like salmonella or e.coli, and occasionally there are deaths involved. So following the milk industry’s logic, we should ban organic greens?

       The issue is health standards of the product and how it is procured. The reason for the many deaths back in the early 1900s is because they started putting cows into stalls where they could not move. They fed the cows “distillery slop,” the remains of grain and water left over from fermentation of whiskey, not a healthy food. Sick, unhealthy cows produced unhealthy, low quality milk that could transfer diseases from the cow. Pasteurization makes sense for milk produced in these crappy conditions. But if you go back before this industrialization of cow’s milk, I see little evidence of danger. Everyone before then drank raw milk and I’ve never read anything indicating that people on farms often died because they drank their cows’ raw milk. And pasteurization of milk destroys beneficial enzymes and nutrients not found in present day milk.

       There is nothing inherently evil about raw milk. All other food production is overlooked by government health authorities, and raw milk should be too. I don’t see any reason why it shouldn’t be available to people who want to buy it. By the way, I am not an anti-vaxer or a republican (I’m a socialist if anything).
26. flora June 9, 2026 at 4:22 pm

    Judge Napolitano and Lt. Col Karen Kwiatkowski

    LtCOL. Karen Kwiatkowski – When Israel Attacked the US

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJJmNMmR_Ro
27. Lee June 9, 2026 at 4:30 pm

    Big Brother is Watching You Watch

    FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs. 404media
28. jonboinAR June 9, 2026 at 4:40 pm

    This is in regards to the NDAA of 2027, section 224. That’s the section of the NDAA that calls for combining to some degree our military with Israel’s, I believe in terms mostly of procurement. I’m an Arkansas resident, American citizen. Tom Cotton is my Senator. I understand that the bill is before the Senate Armed Services Committee today.

    I called the closest to me of his several Arkansas offices . I told them that I was very much against Section 224 of the NDAA of 2027 on the grounds that the US does not need to integrate its military more closely with Israel or any other nation as this affects our national sovereignty. I was about to go into my opposition to the US-Israel Defense Cooperation Initiative that he’s sponsored when they thanked me and hung up. For whatever all that’s worth!

    I sent a follow-up email, again, FWIW!
29. Lefty Godot June 9, 2026 at 4:52 pm

    “The whole point of AI is surveillance.” That’s assuming it ever makes it beyond the Ponzi scheme stage. Surveillance is one of the major points of AI, and social media, and many “apps” that people download and run without worry. And when it comes to “protecting children” from these things, surveillance, control, and restriction of civil liberties are the main goals. Nobody in power really cares about your kids.
30. motorslug June 9, 2026 at 4:59 pm

    https://www.commondreams.org/news/bovino-2028
    “Bovino’s plan to purge the country of one-third of its population has been described as an “ethnic cleansing” proposal. He recently discussed it at a conference with European neo-Nazis.”

    Ya gotta love the imagery, straight out of 1984.
    Or if Rommel was running for office in 2028.

    https://static.wixstatic.com/media/41a737_37483956148d46c8ba092abc31d4e4a7~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_654,h_809,al_c,q_90,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/ChatGPT%20Image%20May%2030%2C%202026%20at%2004_04_56%20PM.png
31. AG June 9, 2026 at 5:38 pm

    re: Israel – French Documentary Film Festival Marseille disinvites director Nadav Lapid

    HAARETZ

    ‘Guilty by Virtue of My Identity’

    Israeli Director Dropped From French Festival Jury Amid pro-Palestinian Pressure
    Nadav Lapid, a frequent critic of Israeli policy in both his films and public comments, was set to head the jury at Marseille’s FID festival before 10 filmmakers threatened to withdraw their films. Hundreds of colleagues signed a petition backing him

    https://archive.is/pNDq7

    p.s. It should be addd that unlike most prestigious European film festivals FID MARSEILLE has been publicly opposed Israel all along. This includes regular FID programming outside the festival event itself.

    “(…)
    The festival’s director was the person who, several months ago, asked Lapid to head the jury. She also said the festival would devote an event to his films and a recently published book about his work.

    But a month ago, he said, she contacted him again and said his presence as an Israeli at the festival was generating opposition, and that several filmmakers had threatened to withdraw their films because of him. To lower the flames, the two agreed that he would not serve on the jury, but the event in his honor would go ahead as planned.

    Then, around 10 filmmakers announced they would still withdraw their films from the festival, which is slated to open on July 7. According to Le Monde, they said they had decided because Lapid received funding for his film Yes! from the Israel Film Fund, which is financed by the state.

    Lapid has lived in France since 2021, and in his recent films, as well as in media interviews, he has consistently criticized government policy, both regarding the war in Gaza and more broadly. His latest film, Yes!, which has received international acclaim, is a biting satire of the nationalism, militarism and extremism that have spread through Israeli society since Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack.
    (…)
    “I was appalled. I told them I wouldn’t come. I had no desire to give a master class guarded by police forces,” he said.
    At the same time, colleagues in the French and European film industries who learned of the festival’s actions told Lapid that the matter could not pass without a response. They drafted a petition, gathering around 300 signatures from film professionals – most of them French – which, he said, is expected to be published in Le Monde tomorrow.

    The petition, titled Cinema Is Not an Embassy, condemns what it describes as an “intimidation campaign” aimed at preventing the Israeli filmmaker from participating in the festival.

    Israel’s Culture Minister Miki Zohar, who has frequently criticized Lapid in the past, was quick to weigh in on the controversy.

    “Lapid does not understand that Israel’s enemies do not distinguish between us,” Zohar said. “No matter how hard he tries to win their approval, they have never seen him as one of their own. To them, he will always be an Israeli Jew. We must hold our heads high with Jewish pride and proudly carry our country’s flag. No film festival, no matter how prestigious, will break us or make us ashamed of who we are.”
    (…)”
    1. Carolinian June 9, 2026 at 10:35 pm

       But if you do terrible things shouldn’t you be ashamed? Somehow I am unmoved by this turn about fair play act by Palestinians who of course are themselves boycotted and blocked at every other opportunity. Those good Israeli liberals–and I include even the far more prominent, celebrated and talented Daniel Barenboim–doth protest not nearly enough. It’s interesting how many of them don’t even live there.
    2. vao June 10, 2026 at 4:28 am

       To provide a different perspective on Lapid’s much acclaimed “Yes!”, here is a in-depth evaluation (in French) of his movie. I do not know how well an automatic translation would work. To summarize the fundamental criticisms put forth by the author:

       1) It is a kind of “pornography of disaster” from which Palestinians and Palestinian territories are crucially absent; only Israelis play a role.

       2) The tragedy is presented as a personal crisis of conscience of the main characters, forced to accept work which they find deeply objectionable; the fundamental material causes of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are not dealt with.

       3) At no time is resistance proposed as a possible way out; the main character ultimately capitulates and flees to a safe foreign place — just like Nadav Lapid himself did.

       4) The aesthetics and scenario are chosen to ensure recognition and acquire “symbolic capital” amongst the Western middle class by proposing a comfortable criticism of Israel, without touching the role of Europeans and Americans in the situation there, or addressing the concrete ways in which they, and the Israelis, benefit from it.

       To make an approximate comparison, it is a bit like those American movies denouncing the Vietnam war by focusing on how much suffering the GIs had to endure, reducing Vietnamese to NPC or at best simplified caricatures, and providing plenty of war porn (napalm on the jungle, machine gunning Vietcongs, etc — but definitely not strategic hamlets, for instance).
32. AG June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm

    re: Chomsky

    Mar 16, 2026

    Chomsky’s Assistant of 24 Years: “I Saw Every Message He Sent”

    This statement will be seen by some merely as an act of loyalty. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have grappled, struggled deeply, over this situation, while seeking to remain faithful to the truth. It is in the service of truth–the very thing Noam Chomsky wanted us to hold in high esteem, rather than himself–that I write this.

    By Bev Stohl / bevstohl.substack.com

    https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/im-no-longer-waiting-for-the-storm-to-pass/
33. The Rev Kev June 9, 2026 at 8:37 pm

    This is just plain nuts-

    “Oil prices fall to seven-week low as Iran and Israel halt attacks”

    https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/commodities/articles/oil-rises-slightly-investors-await-004702356.html

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