2022-03-26

Worthy

• Farmers on the Brink - Doomberg

  after spending the past two weeks traveling across the US Midwest and conferring with our contacts in the agricultural sector, even we are a little spooked by what we’ve learned. In a financial crash, the correlation between all asset classes converges to one. The coming crash in global food supply will be driven by a similar phenomenon across virtually every input into farming – they are all spiking to historic highs simultaneously, supply availability is diminishing across the spectrum, and the time to reverse the worst of the upcoming consequences is rapidly running short.

  We believe we are at the onset of a global famine of historic proportions. In a staggering defiance of logic, many US politicians are still attacking the lifeblood of our own energy production infrastructure, looking to score political points against “the other team,” blaming price-taking producers of global commodities for gouging, threatening producers of energy with windfall profits taxes, resisting calls to remove bureaucratic hurdles to new production, and refusing to open an introductory physics textbook to help guide them through the suite of policy choices that require true leadership to get right. They remain stuck in an endless loop of platitudes, blamestorming, corruption, and ignorance.

• (Jan) No, the Revolution Isn’t Over - by N.S. Lyons

  At the risk of sounding like one of them conspiracy theorists: who really controls the power centers in the United States? The intelligence agencies; the domestic security services; the military officer corps; the diplomatic service; the regulatory administrative state; the Ministry of Information [sic]; and so on. Are all these run by elected representatives accountable to the people, including an elected president and his appointees, who then set a policy direction which is faithfully executed? It may be worth considering that this is simply not the case. That, instead, these power centers are run by a certain interchangeable class of people who already staff them permanently and run them as they think best and only cooperate if they so please. And who all happen to have went to the same schools (let’s go Hoyas!), and received the same prestigious fellowships from the same foundations, and share overlapping networks, and marry each other, and hang out at the same parties, even though secretly they actually all mostly loathe one another. And who hire each other as they cycle seamlessly between the public and private sectors. And who all consume the same media, and like to send each other the same latest “must-read piece” in The Atlantic, or whatever. And who somehow all use exactly the same identical phraseology when they humble-brag on LinkedIn as when they issue a State Department press release. What if this is the real body-politic?

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• Taal Volcano Near Philippine Capital Erupts – Spewing Plume of Steam and Ash

Horseshit

• FAA delays SpaceX Starship environmental review another month to April 29

• The simplest, most revolutionary approach to ending poverty

Obit

• Foo Fighters' drummer Taylor Hawkins dies aged 50

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing

• The Marriage of Julian Assange - The Chris Hedges Report

• The Shaming-Industrial Complex

• TK Mashup: the Media Campaign to Protect Joe Biden Passes the Point of Absurdity

• NCLA Takes on U.S. Surgeon General’s Censoring of Alleged Covid-19 “Misinformation” on Twitter - New Civil Liberties Alliance

• Burying the Hunter Biden Laptop Story Was Journalistic Malpractice

COVID / VaxCult

• China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs now spreading rumors Moderna created Covid

• China doesn't have a Covid exit plan. Two years in, people are fed up and angry

• Clinical Trials to begin on two New Covid-19 Vaccines

• Diabetes Risk May Increase 40% After Having Covid-19

• Aspirin linked to lower risk for death in patients hospitalized with COVID-19.

• Biden Administration Plans to Offer Second Booster Shots to Those 50 and Up

• Diagnoses of tuberculosis dropped during COVID-19 pandemic.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Quota Plan May Destroy Oscars

• Grand Rapids theater cancels 'Sister Act' after controversy over white lead

• Grand Rapids theater cancels 'Sister Act' after controversy over white lead - StarTribune.com

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Hot Mic Catches School Board Member Asking to ‘Set Marsha Blackburn on Fire.’

TechSuck

• Security News This Week: Hunt for Lapsus$ Hackers Leads to a British Teen

Crypto con games

• SEC probes fractional NFTs for securities infringements

• The (Edited) Latecomer's Guide to Crypto

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Instacart Cuts Valuation by Nearly 40%

• IS THERE DIESEL SHORTAGE? These European Countries Could Run Out of Diesel Soon

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Ginni and Clarence Thomas Have Done Enough Damage

  • January 6 committee has text messages between Ginni Thomas and Mark Meadows

    • The “watermarked ballots” theory Ginni Thomas texted Mark Meadows.

  • Criticism of Ginni Thomas seen as backdoor, racist squeeze on Justice Thomas | Washington Examiner

  • Ilhan Omar: Impeach Justice Clarence Thomas because his wife texted Mark Meadows

  • Feminists Demand: Get Your Wife in Line, Clarence Thomas

• Hunter Biden secured millions for biolab contractor in Ukraine

  • Hunter Biden helped secure funds for US biolab contractor in Ukraine

• AP Investigation: States Wasted Biden 'COVID' Money on Absurd Projects

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Kaspersky added to national threat list by FCC

• UK exposes Russian spy agency behind cyber incidents

• Biden tells 82nd Airborne to get ready for battle in Ukraine

  • Biden tells 82nd Airborne they’ll be in Ukraine in apparent gaffe

• Biden Says "Butcher" Putin "Cannot Remain In Power" In Call For Regime Change In Russia | ZeroHedge

• State Department: Blinken Hasn’t Spoken With Russian FM Since Before Invasion

• We Have New Evidence of Saudi Involvement in 9/11, and Barely Anyone Cares

• What China means when it talks about NATO's eastward expansion

World

• Russia starts military drill on disputed islands off Japan

• Cambodia says ASEAN-U.S. summit postponed, seeking new date

• Will Ukraine invasion push Japan to go nuclear?

Health / Medicine

• High schoolers develop an inexpensive filter to remove lead from tap water

• Old Spleens Suck - by Sarah Constantin - Rough Diamonds

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• ‘I don’t know how we’ll survive’: America’s ‘forever chemicals’ crisis

• Groundbreaking set for bridge billed as world's largest wildlife crossing

Ukraine War

• Russia states more limited war goal to 'liberate' Donbass

• First phase of Ukraine war over, Russia says

• Update on the Military Situation in Ukraine

• Macron says France will spearhead operation to evacuate Mariupol

• Turkey defuses mine after Russia warns of strays from Ukraine ports

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• Puzzling Out the Drone War over Ukraine

• Putin Cares About Only One Thing, and It’s Not Oligarchs

• Viasat, still Russia hacked Ukrainian satellite communications, officials believe

• Ukraine reaches breaking point in Russia’s war

• US Should Use Force If Putin Uses WMDs in Ukraine, Former US Ambassador Warns

• Russia's days as an energy superpower are coming to an end

• Dirty bomb ingredients go missing from Chornobyl monitoring lab

• Moody's to Withdraw Credit Ratings on Russian Entities

• One month into the Russian special operation in the Ukraine

  • Quoth NC: "Pretty critical of Russians forces not doing enough in the way of post-Nazi-clearout administration. "

• Lessors worry as deadline looms for return of Russian planes

• Is Ukraine Barreling Toward a COVID Surge?

• Ukrainian President Zelensky in talks with Academy to make Oscars appearance

• The Russians Fleeing Putin's Wartime Crackdown

• Elon Musk's Starlink arrives in Ukraine but what next?

• In Bavaria, displaying the “Z” sign, will face legal repercussions

• UN’s Ukraine vote shows the racial subtext of global politics