2:00PM Water Cooler 10/25/2022
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IEA: The Current Energy Crisis Is Unprecedented
The IEA has finally, late in the game, goten the nerve to sound alarms about energy shortages. But nary a word about the role of sanctions
Read more...Colombian President Says the Unspeakable Out Loud: “The US is Ruining Economies Around the World”
Until recently Washington’s closest ally/client state in South America, Colombia is now under new management. And that management has a different perception of US influence in Latin America and the wider world.
Read more...“The US Signals Readiness to Launch Nuclear Strike Against Russia”
How Russia is reading Western, particularly US, nuke talk.
Read more...CDC, In Yet Another Data Debacle, Fails to Protect You by Butchering Reveal of Covid “Escape” Variant BQ.1*
CDC failed to alert the public to a rapidly doubling and dangerous new variant, BQ.1.* I look at the timeline that shows CDC’s failure to warn, then do a post mortem. Is CDC’s latest betrayal due to malevolence or operational incapacity? Finally, I look at the software CDC depends on, Pangolin.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 10/24/2022
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Read more...Links 10/24/2022
Texas Revamps ‘Active-Shooter’ Drills at K-12 Schools to Minimize Trauma
Many students say that the way Texas schools are currently conducting drills has a lasting impact.
Read more...What U.S. Africa Command Doesn’t Want You to Know
The US is trying to pretend it’s playing a kinder, gentler military game in Africa. If so, why the need for extreme secrecy?
Read more...“Let Me See Your Smile” as Ugly Power Trip and Classification Struggle
I cannot recall such a combination of hoity-toity disparagement and society-wide officiousness in my lifetime
Read more...Links 10/23/2022
Debunking Net Zero, Carbon Offsets, Nature-Based Solutions, Climate Smart Agriculture, Bioeconomy…
Researcher Devlin Kuyek identifies greenwashing terms that confuse people and block real solutions to climate change.
Read more...It No Longer Makes Sense for the Bank of England to be Independent
The Bank of England engaged in a mini-coup. But no one seemed to mind because Truss. Will it be reined in?
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