“the Re-Arm Europe project (later more soberly rebranded Readiness 2030”
There’s that year again.

Posted by: Mary | Apr 10 2025 14:18 utc | 3

As usual Yankee firms – want to assets strip countries and leave the countries or someone else to clean up their mess – and if the countries ask for funds up front to clean up the mess – one of the Yankee playbooks the IMF cuts-off any funding to them.
“US lawmakers have introduced legislation to block International Monetary Fund (IMF) support for certain Central African countries in protest of a controversial regulation imposed by local fiscal regulators on foreign oil companies.
The Bank of Central African States (BEAC) requires international oil companies (IOCs) to deposit environmental restoration funds – estimated between $5 billion to $10 billion – into accounts controlled by the regional bank. The funds, intended for post-production environmental cleanup, are currently held in foreign banks.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 10 2025 14:29 utc | 5

top unelected eu regime nazi bitch kallas:

[The] Republika Srpska leadership is threatening the fundamental freedoms of all Bosnia-Herzegovina citizens…We will not tolerate any threats to the territorial integrity, sovereignty and constitutional order of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

not that “territorial integrity” bullshit these nazis love throwing around, when her estonia recognized kosovo. she is also a strong supporter of an “independent kosovo”, whatever that means in her orwellian doublespeak.
eu and their values, goebbels and adolf are celebrating that their legacy lives on.

Posted by: Justpassinby | Apr 10 2025 14:34 utc | 7

Senate reconciliation bill is more deficit spending. Kicking the can down the road = dramatic „insolvency“ crisis in 2027.
Monitor treasury interest rates. If they continue to be higher-than-expected as is currently the case; then my prediction remains valid.

Posted by: Exile | Apr 10 2025 14:37 utc | 9

It wouldn’t surprise me – if the Neo-Nazi dictatorship in Ukraine, somehow attempted to shootdown the ISS – afterall, they have form in shooting down unarmed passenger jets; no doubt they’d blame it on the Russians, or the Chinese or North Koreans – and the West would back the little comedian who is now a little Hitler.
“Ukrainian-born Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Zubritsky, who arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, faces a possible 15-year jail term for treason if he is ever apprehended by Kiev, according to media reports.
His sentencing by a court for treason was reported just weeks before he traveled to space alongside fellow Russian Sergey Ryzhikov and NASA astronaut Jonny Kim.
The Ukrainian newspaper Dumska has denounced the retired military pilot as a “traitor-cosmonaut” and deserter following his criminal conviction by a court in Vinnitsa in mid-March. A judge also ordered the confiscation of his property.
According to Zubritsky’s biography, he was born in 1992 in a village in Zaporozhye Region, which is now part of Russia but is still claimed by Kiev. He graduated from a military school in Kharkov as a pilot and served at an airbase in Sevastopol, Crimea during the 2014 Western-backed coup in the Ukrainian capital.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 10 2025 14:39 utc | 11

“Senate reconciliation bill is more deficit spending. Kicking the can down the road = dramatic „insolvency“ crisis in 2027.
Monitor treasury interest rates. If they continue to be higher-than-expected as is currently the case; then my prediction remains valid.”
Posted by: Exile | Apr 10 2025 14:37 utc | 9
I am with you and your prediction.
Watching gold explode while US long terms are giving more yield-something is fucked.
Methinks the Bank of Enland, the City are short the gold, massively.

Posted by: canuck | Apr 10 2025 14:43 utc | 13

If they [USraeli overlords] are irrational, all bets are off.
@ JessDTruth | Apr 10 2025 14:26 utc | 4
All bets are off. T-Rex’s motto for Russia China Iran (not to mention us woebegone US Americans) is “Beatings will continue until morale improves!” Nothing is ever absolutely crazy on the intelligibility gradient, but we’re pretty close to the edge here, JDT.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Apr 10 2025 14:45 utc | 15

A great short speech from Ibrahim Traore
https://x.com/AfricanHub_/status/1910296171907608988

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 10 2025 14:52 utc | 17

You have to tip your hat to the courage of the Yemeni people – who are being bombed by the Zio-Monsters enablers – for doing the right thing with regards to the genocide in Gaza; the Yemeni’s put the rest of us to shame.
“At least three civilians have been killed in new US airstrikes on Yemen’s capital, bringing to 107 the total number of people killed in such attacks across the country since mid-March.
The al-Masirah television, citing Yemen’s health ministry, said the strikes hit the al-Sabeen district early Thursday.
The ministry said the death toll from the attack has not yet been finalized, but based on initial reports, “three civilians have been martyred and a number of others have been wounded”.
Al-Masirah, in a separate report, said US warplanes bombed the Bani Hushaysh district northeast of Sana’a in four attacks.
The Yemeni network also reported a US airstrike on Kamaran Island west of Hudaydah in the Red Sea.
According to the ministry, US air raids have killed a total of 107 civilians, including women and children, and injured 223 others between March 15 and April 9.
The US signaled on Monday that it is planning to step up its violent campaign of airstrikes on Yemen.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 10 2025 14:56 utc | 19

Its probably true – that the P5+1 sell more weapons around the globe than any other nations – leading to a huge number of deaths.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P5%2B1
“A former US State Department analyst, who resigned over American complicity in the Gaza genocide, says the US government ignores human rights issues when it comes to weapons sales to allies.
In an article for Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, Annelle Sheline outlined how the US uses human rights as a tool against adversaries while ignoring such issues for friendly governments.
“American leaders have consistently instrumentalized human rights concerns to target perceived adversaries while tossing aside such concerns when they apply to us partners” Sheline wrote.
Sheline also said the US government’s desire for global military primacy and weapon sales overrides concerns for human rights and even US law.
“[US] law stipulates that the United States will not provide security assistance to any country whose government engages in a “consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights.” Yet this law, Section 502B of the Foreign Assistance Act, which Congress passed in 1976, has never been applied.””

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 10 2025 15:01 utc | 21

Re – the last paragraph below – if any country is threatening not just a region, but the entire world – with its uncalled for military presence – its the USA – and not China; and well done to President Mulino for saying in no certain terms to Hegseth to F*ck-off.
“Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth has floated the idea of establishing military bases in Panama, during a visit to the Central American country.
In a speech during the Central American Security Conference in Panama City, Hegseth proposed establishing US military bases in Panama, although he stated that such deployment would happen with the consent the Panamanian government.
Hegseth’s proposal included American troops controlling the strategic Panama Canal on a “rotational” basis with Panama’s own armed forces.
The idea, however, was quickly slapped down by the Panamanian government.
“Panama made clear, through President Mulino that we cannot accept military bases or defense sites,” said Panama Security Minister Frank Abrego.
Hegseth also called for American warships to be given free passage through the Panama Canal.
His calls for American military presence and special privileges in Panama were accompanied by statements against China, accusing the country of capturing land in Latin America and threatening the region with its military presence.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 10 2025 15:06 utc | 23

>Hegseth also called for American warships to be given free passage through the Panama Canal.
>President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pledged a first ever $1 trillion defense budget proposal on Monday, a record sum for the military.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 10 2025 15:30 utc | 25

Re: Bosnia-Herzegovina
The Dayton Accords created a de-centralized state of 3 autonomous provinces. This has infuriated the EU War Party and Bosniaks ever since; whose war goals were a powerful central Gov’t. They‘ve been trying for 30 years to destroy the peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
SFSN

Posted by: Exile | Apr 10 2025 15:55 utc | 27

Something is Broken!!!
Posted by: canuck | Apr 10 2025 14:41 utc | 12
—
The pump don’t work ’cause the vandals took the handle.

Posted by: too scents | Apr 10 2025 16:10 utc | 29

The US signaled on Monday that it is planning to step up its violent campaign of airstrikes on Yemen.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 10 2025 14:56 utc | 19
Because when blowing a billion to bounce rubble and kill wedding parties doesn’t work, blow two billion!

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Apr 10 2025 17:00 utc | 31

https://x.com/jasonhickel/status/1852731325498744990
Jason Hickel @jasonhickel
Every year, we perform 9.6 trillion hours of labour for the world economy. But the vast majority of this is controlled by capital and deployed to produce whatever is most profitable to capital. As a result we languish in conditions of mass deprivation and ecological breakdown.
Under conditions of economic democracy, by contrast, we could deploy our massive productive capacities instead toward improving human well-being, social progress, green transition, and ecological regeneration. We could address our social and ecological crises in very short order.
We live in a mere shadow of the world we could have.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 10 2025 17:17 utc | 33

Posted by: canuck | Apr 10 2025 15:06 utc | 22
########
The God Emperor did to the Fremen what he was doing to all of humanity. Building up explosive creative energy for the time after his death to guarantee mankind’s survival.
The Fremen were special because they were to help teach the descendants of Duncan Idaho and Siona how to survive in a universe without him. Also part of his breeding project combining Siona’s unique Atreides genetics with older more robust Fremen stock.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 10 2025 17:27 utc | 35

@ Eighthman | Apr 10 2025 13:41 utc | 1
re: What do they have to throw at Iran?
The US has stationed six B-52 bombers at Diego Garcia. That would be a round trip of over 6,000 miles, less than the plane’s range. For more than 60 years, B-52s have been the backbone of the strategic bomber force for the United States.
The Persian empire and Iran date back hundreds of centuries, so they know a few things. An Iranian nuclear storage facility is so deep underground that US airstrikes likely couldn’t reach it
AP:- 2023
A different set of images analyzed by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies reveals that four entrances have been dug into the mountainside, two to the east and another two to the west. Each is 6 meters (20 feet) wide and 8 meters (26 feet) tall.
The scale of the work can be measured in large dirt mounds, two to the west and one to the east. Based on the size of the spoil piles and other satellite data, experts at the center told AP that Iran is likely building a facility at a depth of between 80 meters (260 feet) and 100 meters (328 feet). The center’s analysis, which it provided exclusively to AP, is the first to estimate the tunnel system’s depth based on satellite imagery.
A smaller group of bombers carrying GBU-57s might attack deeply buried targets. The targets could include underground bunkers dug in Iran to house missile launchers, fighter squadrons, and critical parts of its growing nuclear program.
The Institute for Science and International Security, a Washington-based nonprofit long focused on Iran’s nuclear program, suggested last year the tunnels could go even deeper.
Experts say the size of the construction project indicates Iran likely would be able to use the underground facility to enrich uranium as well — not just to build centrifuges. Those tube-shaped centrifuges, arranged in large cascades of dozens of machines, rapidly spin uranium gas to enrich it. Additional cascades spinning would allow Iran to quickly enrich uranium under the mountain’s protection.
“So the depth of the facility is a concern because it would be much harder for us. It would be much harder to destroy using conventional weapons, such as like a typical bunker buster bomb,” said Steven De La Fuente, a research associate at the center who led the analysis of the tunnel work.
The new Natanz facility is likely to be even deeper underground than Iran’s Fordo facility, another enrichment site that was exposed in 2009 by U.S. and other world leaders. That facility sparked fears in the West that Iran was hardening its program from airstrikes.
Such underground facilities led the U.S. to create the GBU-57 bomb, which can plow through at least 60 meters (200 feet) of earth before detonating, according to the American military.[sure] U.S. officials reportedly have discussed using two such bombs in succession to ensure a site is destroyed. It is not clear that such a one-two punch would damage a facility as deep as the one at Natanz. . .here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 10 2025 18:01 utc | 37

During the pandemic summer of 2020, the president of Wesleyan College Michael Roth “thought it would be great if colleges and universities took civic responsibilities more seriously and incentivized students to participate in the public sphere: work on a campaign or for a zoning commission.” Claiming the intent was to be “rigorously agnostic about what” students chose to work on—and also nonpartisan—he organized a network of “a few hundred schools that agreed in principle.”
Tilting one academy, his own, toward activism is strange—but such a broadly organized effort is stranger still. It assumed a common investment in “civic responsibilities,” which in itself seemed peculiar. That such a common investment could happen during a heightened period of political divisiveness & strife—which the summer of 2020 surely was, what w/ the George Floyd protests, the taboos about probing the coronavirus lab leak, the embargo on any pragmatism regarding Joe’s non compose mantis status—was impractical & ironic @ once.
By summer of 2020, we were soon to learn that interrogating the information found on the Hunter Biden laptop was “a non-story,” a way to play right into the Kremlin’s hands. By summer of 2020, the mendacity & disingenuousness under which the American public struggled made a mockery of “civic responsibilities.”
Wesleyan College’s president Michael Roth sees “authoritarianism” in 2025, attaching the term specifically to DJT’s admin—but he did not notice *authoritarianism* in the speech repressions & censorship suppressions, and even the vaccine mandate of 2021—long *before* it was understood that DJT would ever be on the scene again as a political force.
During that period, when he was failing to see an essential *authoritarianism* in civic repressions/suppressions, he was expanding the purpose of the academy to include “civic responsibilities” that in themselves were blind to a kind of authoritarian mission creep.
DEI programs began to proliferate in that environment, intensely race-conscious & exclusive in their own right.
When I noticed this week students lamenting the loss of Queer Mentorship on campus via the shuttering of an office for Queer Mentorship, I thought how strange it was that anyone believed a university’s mission might include Queer Mentorship. Such a focus has over-stretched the university’s purpose to a distorting extent.
Michael Roth speaks of intellectual & political insularity in the academy, especially among the elite schools, & liberal assumptions—a kind of smug stance of superiority: *I* went to a school w/ a 97% rate of rejection. And he states that JD wants his children to be treated by Ivy League doctors when they’re ailing, as if to say there is no medical excellence, a wasteland indeed of medical excellence, between that found in Ivy League programs and—his example—Viktor Orban University.
A part of me seriously wonders what planet this guy lives on.
When the grad student @ Tufts was nabbed on the street by ICE agents, Wesleyan College’s president believed every citizen and every university person should express outrage.
He saw antisemitism as a tool “for persecuting researchers and institutions that are not aligned with with the ideology of the person in charge.” But when Collective Biden was in charge and DEI initiatives were being written even into Infrastructure Acts, the Wesleyan College president did not identify that particular *ideology* as persecuting non-adherents in its own unique but unmistakable way.
I remember how chilling and nonproductive it was to have 40 minutes of our faculty in a Zoom meeting—70 people—focus on DEI, as if suddenly along w/ our other responsibilities we had to tackle this complexity. And what if many of us were not “aligned” w/ the “authoritarian” *ideology*-? Repercussions were unspoken, a murk all their own. Come up w/ a plan, faculty. *Our* problem, the DEI reps seemed to be saying, is *your* problem.
Moreover, they—the DEI reps—always exhibited a *talking down* behavior, as if they were tasked not only w/ identifying the non-DEI elements of our department but also w/ insisting by example of how to ameliorate this. There was always an “Eat your spinach” aspect to this, which no doubt bred resentment… That the resentment had to remain unexpressed went without saying.
This occurred during an environment in which Collective Biden had declared that white supremacy was the most critical domestic threat our nation faced. Suddenly the spotlight was on white supremacy, the domestic terrorism of white supremacy. This seemed to take in antisemitism, too—but the antisemitism of Collective Biden always hovered over white rural lone-wolf grievances against synagogues, for instance.
After 7 October, we were still laboring under the repressions of Collective Biden’s ideology, but suddenly the antisemitism angle had shifted to elite universities, where Jews felt unsafe in a place where free speech permitted pro-Palestinians to chant “From the river to the sea.”
“Antisemitism is a very useful tool of the right,” the Wesleyan College president says in April 2025. He identifies his “job as a leader of the university” as speaking “up for the values that we claim to believe in, especially when they’re at odds with people with enormous power.”
With Elon’s roll-out of the Twitter Files, we learned about state-sponsored speech repressions governing The Things We Couldn’t Talk About during the rise of Collective Biden: Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, Lee Fang & others who delivered that information were routinely skewered.
But those investigative journalists were *speaking up for the values* they and we believed in. Not *everyone* believed in these values, however, so the lambasting of the messengers continued. Even today, weirdly, Matt Taibbi has had to file a defamation suit against a member of Congress. The message is that what you’re doing is forbidden—you’ve breached a taboo—and you will pay the consequences.
During dangerous times, which some like Glenn Greenwald say began in 2001 w/ the War on Terror and others say sharpened particularly during the Russiagate hoax (2016-2020,) the president of Wesleyan College believes “that someone who is at a university and has a platform and can call an editor”—-well, they should do that: “because,” he says, “the missions are at stake.” He claims it is what the Kalven Committee should do, or the members of it who remain. The Kalven Committee @ the University of Chicago ultimately recommended a neutral stance for the academy in 1967 @ the height of protests against the Vietnam War.
Besieged @ Columbia for its climate of antisemitism, one of the colleagues of the Wesleyan College president asked him to network together a group of university presidents, but he was unable to do so. He sees complacency, maybe even compliance. He definitely sees other university presidents not embracing *the missions* and the *values.*
The government involves itself in academia through its funding & grants. The Israel Lobby steers the U.S. government. When academia becomes symptomatic of antisemitism, even seeming to foster it, then that is going to be a casus belli for the Israel Lobby to pressure the government to crack down.
“The government’s not going to tell you how to run your business,” the president of Wesleyan College, Michael Roth, says. He says that “Americans and the past governments we’ve had realize it is better if people can practice freedom.”
But he is wrong on both counts. First, the government *is* going to tell academia how the business gets run: we saw this w/ DEI initiatives under Collective Biden and we’re seeing that now w/ the collision of free speech & antisemitism.
It is not the case that “Americans,” whoever they are, and “past governments” have supported freedom—because we dwelled under the repressions of Collective Biden, for instance, which intensified the climate of fear.
Ultimately, the president of Wesleyan College seems like a simpleton: he says, “Autonomy of these different areas, like universities & the Kennedy Center, even if they’re entangled economical with the government or with rich people, is so important.”
The degree to which academia & the Kennedy Center got into bed w/ government & power, however, is the degree to which they relinquished autonomy.
By the way, Wesleyan College receives $20mn each year from the federal government. Its budget in total is $300mn.
“To use the tools of the government to make people align ideologically,” Michael Roth says, “is really different”—-and that is the simpleton speaking, or the guy who only sees the mote in DJT’s eye, not the beam in Collective Biden’s eye. The essence of what Collective Biden’s government was doing w/ DEI alone was in itself a tool for making “people align ideologically.”
Wesleyan College’s president wants to pretend that state-mandated ideology has uniquely begun in the first 80 days of DJT’s second term in office, but that is not credible. He failed to see the *tool* 4 years ago, because he believed so thoroughly in the ideology, in the “civic responsibilities,” that he didn’t recognize the *tool.* The *tool* was working its soul-crushing enforcement, but he was “aligned with the ideology.”

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Apr 10 2025 18:34 utc | 39

Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 10 2025 18:01 utc | 37 Tactical nukes.
@39 Clearly, gibberish aka word salad is not the only symptom of mental pathology. I would love to know how the damage from so-called soul crushing is measured, an estimate of the number of victims and comparison to the amount of soul crushing inflicted by racism etc. to that inflicted by DEI…after of course somebody proving that DEI was actually a thing rather than a performance.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Apr 10 2025 19:04 utc | 41

Edit, adding.
Natanz if famous for its granite. The Iranians have burrowed into solid granite.
https://www.google.com/search?q=natanz+granite

Posted by: too scents | Apr 10 2025 19:20 utc | 43

Relative compressive strengths (rough values)
25,000 PSI Granite
3,000 PSI dirt soil

Posted by: Exile | Apr 10 2025 19:29 utc | 45

Re: 2027 Federal Budget Crisis:
Barflies – help me figure out the various possible paths the Trump regime might take once 30-40% of Federal Income is devoted to axing interest on federal debt.
A thought exercise if you will
Thank you

Posted by: Exile | Apr 10 2025 19:44 utc | 47

@34
Cash! Stagflation is the risk, that drives term and rate risk up. The long bonds suffer.
That said traders are slow to flee stocks.
Short rates not appealing, and Powell seems to be neutral.
Look for change to balance sheet after 16:30 EDT today.
Trump is offering stock swings by tweet, if yohave an “in”

Posted by: paddy | Apr 10 2025 19:49 utc | 49

Karloff @ 40
Subsonic cruise missiles and pure ballistic missiles of any type are not much of a challenge for AD designed with more modern threats in mind. Only question is can Iranian AD be overwhelmed by sheer volume? US inventories are not large. We shall find out what they can do with decoys. My suspicion is the available decoys are easy to spot trash. I’d not want to bet on that, it is my opinion.
US could barely fight Afghanistan, cannot fight Yemen. Iran should be fine.

Posted by: oldhippie | Apr 10 2025 20:05 utc | 51

Iran is the only nation that really understands Pozzolons.
Iran has aggregates that are not available elsewhere and has unique distribution methods.
Now use a geometry that has incredible inherent strength and old reliable high strength/top grade structural steel as reinforcement to create the composite material commonly referred to as “concrete”.
Place that under granite.
https://www.concrete.org/publications/internationalconcreteabstractsportal.aspx?m=details&i=51664217

Posted by: LosBanos | Apr 10 2025 20:07 utc | 53

So much for Trump fixing the government deficit. In the first six months of fiscal 2025, the deficit was US$1.3 trillion vs. US$1.14 trillion in 2024. Only the COVID affected 2021 deficit was higher.
It is also obvious that the tariffs will not produce a lot of tax revenue as Trump says, because they will significantly reduce imports upon which the tariffs will be paid. Only the imports that cannot be replaced and are absolutely essential will remain after a few years at the most.
All the while, Trump is pressing for the renewal of his 2017 tax cuts plus adding new tax cuts, and has just announced the first US$1 trillion military budget. Any recession triggered by the tariffs will reduce tax revenues (to add to the effects of the firing of so many at the IRS) and increase social spending. Bigger Deficits!
The US government is on the path to exceed the deficit levels of 2021, in a much higher interest rate environment. When does the shit hit the fan? Here is Adam Tooze discussing how close the US Treasury bond market came to a full “bond market meltdown” on Wednesday morning. No wonder Trump immediately took a step back. This problem has not gone away, the underlying conditions have not been treated.
The Fed money printing in 2021 was ten times the scale of that in 2008, what will it take this time? If (when) the Fed flips from QT to massive QE, the precious metals and crypto will explode. There could also be one last leg up to the peak for the stock market a la 2000.
https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-370-is-a-treasury-market

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Apr 10 2025 20:14 utc | 55

”
The Fed money printing in 2021 was ten times the scale of that in 2008, what will it take this time? If (when) the Fed flips from QT to massive QE, the precious metals and crypto will explode. There could also be one last leg up to the peak for the stock market a la 2000.”
If one regards the tariffs as a threat of dollar scarcity. Everything has to be tight. They cant have dollar leaks from liquidity fountain of youths.
catch 22.

Posted by: LosBanos | Apr 10 2025 20:25 utc | 57

“Concrete made with crushed granite, which is a matrix containing mica and quartz, is way Way WAY stronger than concrete made with sand.”
Yes. But the Portland wants to separate as higher percentages of crushed aggregates are used. The ultra sharp aggregates that create high strength squeeze the portland out with conventional mixing methods. even gravity squeezes it out. Use of a vibrator at all for consolidation totally separates the mix in seconds. It seems a easy recipe for super mud but it wont mix and wont stay mixed. No free lunch. Which doesnt mean crushed aggregates have no place in super mud. They are a necessity for super mud. But they are not without tradeoffs and require accommodation in other ways none of which are conducive to placement. . Super mud is one thing. Super mud that can actually be placed on large projects another. If you are giving up vibrator use you are giving up a lot. This is the art of aggregate geometry and distribution.

Posted by: LosBanos | Apr 10 2025 20:52 utc | 59

Ironic that Nixon started the War on Cancer and went to China, and in 2025, China may have won that war.

🇨🇳Chinese Scientists Can turn Off Cancer
A team at Tianjin University cracked the code behind MCT1’s transport mechanism – and found a way to break it.
Tumors shrank in both petri dishes and mice.
Source: CGTN

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 10 2025 21:41 utc | 61

Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 10 2025 18:01 utc | 37
Israel is within reach of Iranian missiles.

Posted by: horseguards | Apr 10 2025 21:45 utc | 63

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 10 2025 19:00 utc | 40
Given the Chinese interest and presence in Iran, it would be interesting to know their military and technological contributions.

Posted by: horseguards | Apr 10 2025 21:53 utc | 65

oldhippie | Apr 10 2025 20:05 utc | 51–
Thanks for your reply. Yes, but has such a hard on for attacking Iran and believes his own propaganda, he’ll probably try anyway.
Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 10 2025 20:11 utc | 54
Seems that way. Agreed. Can’t help but wonder who what might be pulling Netanyahu’s strings?

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Apr 10 2025 22:15 utc | 67

@56…
“Concrete made with crushed granite, which is a matrix containing mica and quartz, is way Way WAY stronger than concrete made with sand.”
sand is quartz you phuckwit

Posted by: AleaJactaEst | Apr 10 2025 22:41 utc | 69

Posted by: AleaJactaEst | Apr 10 2025 22:41 utc | 69
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Surely there is a difference between solid quartz and sand.
Before you start insulting, make sure your argument is solid, or you end up looking dumb.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 10 2025 22:50 utc | 71

Try this instead:
https://johnhelmer.net/

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 10 2025 23:20 utc | 73

“Materials science is where it’s at–from the outer skin of hypersonic missiles to producing a ceramic or other material capable of withstanding the intense levels of intergalactic radiation.
Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 10 2025 21:18 utc | 60”
Material science is a appreciation of the wonder of our world. Everything really only comes from the natural world humanity just puts a tweak or two on it.
As the inevitable opening of the Caspian area happens who knows what resource wonders it will reveal. Perhaps even the tragedy of Ukraine can have some ensemble of justice as the logical terminus of the Caspian area opening. In fact I wonder if the stans could find themselves quite pleased with their standard of living as the value of resources becomes understood. Everything hinges on evolving beyond our use of resources for war. A unbelievably bright future shines if we can somehow against all odds change our nature. We will always compete but augmented pathogens and sucking chest wound serve no society now.
As far as “intergalactic”. Humans will never be allowed to leave in their current state of consciousness. OK maybe just Putin and a handful of hottys. 🙂

Posted by: LosBanos | Apr 10 2025 23:49 utc | 75

🇨🇳Chinese Scientists Can turn Off Cancer
A team at Tianjin University cracked the code behind MCT1’s transport mechanism – and found a way to break it.
Tumors shrank in both petri dishes and mice.
Source: CGTN
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 10 2025 21:41 utc | 61
If we were mice we would have conquered cancer little after nixon…
Not a joke, the quantity of treatments that work for them but don’t work for humans…
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/04/10/522775456/drugs-that-work-in-mice-often-fail-when-tried-in-people
P.S. Not against animal testing, just careful about its limitations

Posted by: Newbie | Apr 11 2025 0:06 utc | 77

“…sand is quartz you phuckwit”
Posted by: AleaJactaEst | Apr 10 2025 22:41 utc | 69
Sand refers only to the grain size distribution of sediments derived from the erosion of rocks. It is virtually never entirely pure quartz. Other common minerals in sand are feldspar, mica, olivine, ilmenite, and others. It depends on the source rocks from which the sand was derived, and the varying abilities of diffrent minerals to withstand the weathering processes.
So please don’t insult other posters over technical matters on which you yourself are ill-informed.

Posted by: Spectator | Apr 11 2025 0:17 utc | 79

Materials science is where it’s at–from the outer skin of hypersonic missiles to producing a ceramic or other material capable of withstanding the intense levels of intergalactic radiation.
Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 10 2025 21:18 utc | 60
Interesting fact – Gold is the only element that reflects infrared radiation.

Posted by: osi not ossi | Apr 11 2025 0:30 utc | 81

The Trump (n Dump) administration has ordered CBP and ICE to prevent (illegal)”IDEAS” from crossing the border.
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-illegal-ideas-border-security-social-media-post-2058217
Geez, I guess I just have TDS or something, but this sounds an awful lot like Big Brother and the Thought Police. Not as if the UK hasn’t been doing this for a while, but they don’t openly advertise it. See flyer at the link. LOL

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 11 2025 0:42 utc | 83

Cancer. Cancer research. Funding and fund-raising for “cancer research”.
At one time I was very involved in local/family history.
I was reading the local newspaper from about 1910 IIRC. There was a largish article about cancer research and a benefit concert to raise funds for the American Cancer Research Center or similar/whatever.
By then I was cynical enough to wonder why our (then) remote community on the other side of the planet was raising funds for an American group.
*) so much opportunity for overhead skimming
*) how much oversight? How could organisers in our location be sure some or any of our money made across the seas to actually fund “cancer research”.
1910: I thought, How long has this “raise funds for cancer research” scam been operating ?
I think I was reading the old newspaper in about 2005. So, a century of funds from every tiny tinpot bumfuk nowhere all over the planet, being harvested for “cancer research”, and still, we are told, there is “no cure”.
Hmmmmm.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Apr 11 2025 0:58 utc | 85

Meanwhile, down on planet Earth, countless pipes spew poison and plastic all over everything. All over and inside your inevitably “cancerous” body.
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Apr 11 2025 0:30 utc | 80
Yes, post industrial cases seem to have increased significantly (even at younger ages , discounting the extended lifespan factor)
Would probably say that even agriculture might have done the same in a smaller scale thousands of years ago.
(Many things we eat from agriculture contain a non negligible amount of poisons)
But there were always cancers. Maybe they also overlap with other frailties that would kill the person before the cancer was visible.
Well, not too important, I just mentioned that cures for cancer are a dime a dozen… in mice

Posted by: Newbie | Apr 11 2025 1:37 utc | 87

It is very easy to predict. China will keep selling its finished goods and industrial inputs (e.g. pharma base components) to US via one of the low tarrif countries but with a surcharge (US inflation). This is perfectly analogous to Russia selling oil and gas to the Collective Waste via India etc. The same as the hydrocarbons are a sellers market, so are the Chinese goods which no-one else could produce in the short term and at a similar price (the economy of scale already achieved).

Posted by: Kiza | Apr 11 2025 2:23 utc | 89

LosBanos | Apr 10 2025 23:49 utc | 75–
“Thanks for your reply. I’ve wondered about your moniker since it’s the name of a town in California I’m very familiar with.”
Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 11 2025 1:44 utc | 88
When I was in college and taking Spanish lessons, I was told than “baños” is bathroom or toilet. Obviously there are other and much better interpretations of the word. Just saying that the word can bring up images that aren’t very good among non-Spanish speakers.

Posted by: Spectator | Apr 11 2025 2:38 utc | 91

TOLOnews
Trump Slams Afghan Withdrawal, Highlights Strategic Bagram Air Base Value
1 day ago

Posted by: denk | Apr 11 2025 3:04 utc | 93

There’s method in Trump’s seemingly extreme tariff madness..

South China Morning Post
‘Where can I go now?’: Chinese factories in Vietnam hammered by US tariffs
2 days ago
Rest of World
Trump’s tariffs test Vietnam’s role as manufacturing alternative to China
17 hours ago

Posted by: denk | Apr 11 2025 3:41 utc | 95

Trump Slams Afghan Withdrawal, Highlights Strategic Bagram Air Base Value
1 day ago
Posted by: denk | Apr 11 2025 3:04 utc | 93
He’s so anti-war, ain’t he? Or anti imperial. Anti globalist. Oops, there is my TDS flaring up again. The old definition, not the new one. LOL

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 11 2025 3:57 utc | 97

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 11 2025 3:57 utc | 97
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As we all know, maga is against war against white Russia, its wet dream is an 8NA revival against the yellow peril !

TOLOnews
Trump: The US Should Not Have Lost Bagram Airbase
According to Trump, the US was interested in keeping Bagram Airbase due to its strategic proximity to China, but now, he claims, China controls…
.4 weeks ago

Posted by: denk | Apr 11 2025 4:18 utc | 99