Thursday, June 26, 2025

When Greenland Was Green: Ancient Soil From Beneath a Mile of Ice Offers Warnings for the Future

Scientists unlock findings about the past and the future using frozen soil extracted during the Cold War from beneath a nearly mile-thick section of the Greenland ice sheet.

Links 7/21/2023

Latin America Again Refuses to Fall In Line With the Collective West on Ukraine, This Time from Brussels

Another attempt by the Collective West to isolate Russia from the rest of the world — or the “Jungle,” as the EU’s chief “diplomat” Josep Borrell calls it — fails spectacularly. 

“Bidenomics” Has No Answer for Eviction Crisis – Or Much Else

Most recent announcement has rental platforms promising to increase transparency of how much you’re being gouged but do nothing to lower costs.

Revealed: Media Blitz Against Heat Pumps Funded by Gas Lobby Group

Gas-linked companies’ attack on electric heating confuses consumers and leaves UK trailing behind Europe.

If MRSA Is Airborne, then CDC Guidance on “Enhanced Barrier Precautions” in Nursing Homes Is Wrong (and Lethal)

More massive resistance to airborne transmission from CDC and the Infection Control community.

2:00PM Water Cooler 7/20/2023

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Why Psalm 23 Gives Me the Creeps

Happyville? Or Pain City?

Links 7/20/2023

‘Baked tnto the Frameworks’: Archeologist Reveals ‘3 Pervasive Myths’ That Blind Us to the Past

Long-term perspectives on cities, states, and empires are now much fuller and more regionally diverse than was known decades ago. Synthetic, comparative analyses have been undertaken. We now know what worked and what did not.

John Helmer: The Mosquito Swarm and the Violent Pinprick Are Zelensky PR To Beat NATO’s Christmas Deadline

Warmaking as public relations.

2:00PM Water Cooler 7/19/2023

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Energy Destinies – Part 6 Energy Policy And Emissions – Hot and Hotter

Based on the current state of science, technology, policy development and implementation, the probability of meeting emissions targets is doubtful. This means that global temperature rises will, in all probability, exceed the recommended levels, most likely substantially and earlier than projected. The consequent changes in planetary geo-physics and meteorology will be substantial.

Links 7/19/2023

KLG: Owning the Sun: A People’s History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to COVID-19 Vaccines – A Review-Essay

Unless we figure out a way to spend our wealth on what gives life instead of what takes life, the oncoming crisis that has been called the “Jackpot” here will most certainly be a crisis without a solution.