Category Archives: Politics
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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 1
Russia’s Leadership Is In Trouble As Inevitable Economic Mobilization Looms
Escape and evasion, the new required skill for your ordinary person. Shanghai Disney: Visitors unable to leave without negative Covid test as park shuts Related: More on people trying to escape the Foxcon lockdowns.
I am not sure I understand why this is a big deal, but critics of the story I posted earlier are making it out to be so for the sake of balance…ProPublica scrambles to check translation in COVID origin story
The U.S. Diesel Shortage Is Worsening
It’s time to play “find the falling Chinese rocket” once again
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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 31
Reading between the lines, Hezbollah (which the Cradle is affiliated with) is not happy about this which is a little odd. Guess who is going to be hardest hit if this grain don’t go through? Maybe they think they can make hay off of the resulting problems? Turkey to press on with Ukraine grain deal despite Russia’s withdrawal
East Coast Diesel Prices Are Soaring
For once the headline undersells the story. This is more like escape and evasion type fleeing. Not the type where everyone gets in their car and drives because they are worried about a storm. China Braces For Covid Wave As Foxconn Staff Flee Zhengzhou
Twilight of the Tigris: Iraq’s mighty river drying up
Lula Wins Brazilian Election, but Bolsonaro Does Not Concede
Looming Copper Shortage Could Slow The Global Energy Transition
The Bee don’t only mock liberals. Report: Jesus Is Aware That Your ‘Harvest Festival’ Is Really A Halloween Party
How War in Ukraine is Destroying Russia
Basically a Peter Zeihan argument toned down for normal people. Title is a little bit click bate as the destruction of Russia and Ukraine has been baked into the numbers for a long time now (I wrote about it at least a decade ago. To lazy to go back and look at the actual date). That said, the war in Ukraine certainly is speeding the process up for both countries.
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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 30
In the grips of war, Ukraine faces bleak demographic future
Threat of Nationwide Railroad Strike Grows after 2nd Union Rejects Proposed Deal
75% Of US Winter Wheat Suffers From Drought
Flu season in the US hasn’t been this bad this early in more than a decade. Related: Second child to die from flu this season reported in Texas
Debate over possible acetaminophen-autism link heads to court
New Technique For Decoding People’s Thoughts Can Now Be Done From a Distance
Even Greenpeace now admits the obvious: recycling doesn’t work.
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Family secretly film life in Russian-occupied Ukraine
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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 28
Russia Now Has a Second Frontline Set Up Just to Kill Its Deserters
Lost In Lies: Keeping Track Of Russian Propaganda Claims
Is China’s GDP Overstated By 60%?
Credit Suisse is One of 13 Too-Big-to-Fail Banks in Europe, But It Looks Like It Could Be Failing
Japan to citizens: Get a digital ID or health insurance gets harder
EU Finalizes Ban On Gasoline And Diesel Cars From 2035
The Global Semiconductor Shortage Is Now Becoming A Glut
How a Diesel Shortage Could Cripple the U.S. Economy
Biden Administration Wants To Make It Easier To Seize Crypto Without Criminal Charges
Ancient Maya cities were dangerously contaminated with mercury
Interesting tale from Mobilized Russian
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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 27
US Hurries Upgraded Nuclear Bomb Fielding in Europe
Russian Oil Is Amassing In Asian Ports
Blasphemy is dead. Long live blasphemy
More detail then provided by the last link. It seems to me that even if this logic is upheld by higher courts it will not apply to State employees as they were not fired unless it was required by Federal regulations that also applied to the private sector (a big part of this ruling seems to be based on disparity of treatment between private and public sector employees). A New York state Supreme Court has ordered that all New York City employees who were fired for refusing a Covid vaccine be reinstated with back pay.
Lots of people in the comment section trying to make excuses. But in reality, this graphic is too chartable by far. After all, Seattle is still in the design phase and construction is unlikely to go as planned if it even happens. Space Race Versus Seattle Crawl
Is this a metaphor for American’s future? Does woke lead to a messianic great man who comes to rescue us? Frank Herbert claims he wrote the Dune series in part to warn us about messianic great men even when they seemed to be needed…. Elon Musk fires Twitter’s top brass after closing $44 billion deal Related: According to a released article in Time Magazine, Twitter employees have drafted a letter containing several ‘demands.’ In addition to demanding they are not fired, they demand assurances against discrimination for their political beliefs.