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  • Doomstone: 40 song Doom-Stoner metal playlist

    Doomstone: 40 song Doom-Stoner metal playlist

    music.apple.com/be/playlist/doomstone/pl.u-d2b08zVCMPK6vW

    Phil Salmon

    March 13, 2023
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  • Fruit and veg gone from U.K. supermarkets as Russia sanctions backfire

    Fruit and veg gone from U.K. supermarkets as Russia sanctions backfire

    When Britain joined the bandwagon for extreme sanctions punishing Russia for the crime of defending its right to exist, they no doubt foresaw empty supermarket shelves and citizens going hungry or scurvied. Well now it’s happened. The sanctions have worked, surely? Those supermarket shelves are empty of fruit and veg. Take that you slavic untermenschen!…

    Phil Salmon

    February 23, 2023
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  • Rapid recovery of marine life just a million years after the end-Permian catastrophe

    Rapid recovery of marine life just a million years after the end-Permian catastrophe

    An important new palaeontological find called the “Paris biota” has been unearthed from the Bear Lake area, southeastern Idaho, USA. This high quality “lagerstatte” (with fossils so good they include soft tissue detail) shows a remarkably vibrant and diverse ecosystem in the sea, just a million years after the biggest extinction event in the history…

    Phil Salmon

    February 22, 2023
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  • Sabine’s own goal

    Sabine’s own goal

    A Sabine Hossenfelder YouTube video aimed at explaining the physics of the greenhouse effect, in fact hilariously refutes CO2 warming by contradicting itself! Sabine starts – correctly – by pointing out the simplistic model most people believe is plain wrong. CO2 does not trap some IR that otherwise would have made it out to space.…

    Phil Salmon

    February 6, 2023
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  • Is this Western war on Russia simply stupidity?

    Is this Western war on Russia simply stupidity?

    Reblogged from: https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/is-this-western-war-on-russia-simply-stupidity Not only is there no threat from Russia that is independent of American policy, but it is also the expansion of NATO to ‘meet the threat from Russia’ that creates the very threat that expansion was supposed to meet. The US proxy war on Russia is stupid. Professor of Law at the…

    Phil Salmon

    January 28, 2023
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  • Glaciation not CO2 warming caused the end-Permian mass extinction event

    Glaciation not CO2 warming caused the end-Permian mass extinction event

    Phil Salmon Abstract The End-Permian-Triassic extinction (EPTE) is the largest mass extinction in the history of the Phanerozoic – the period of time after the Cambrian 540 million years ago in which multicellular (metazoan) lifeforms have covered the earth. As many as 90% of all metazoan species on land and sea became extinct in this…

    Phil Salmon

    January 4, 2023
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  • USA is an oligarchy where data show only elites influence policy

    USA is an oligarchy where data show only elites influence policy

    The influence of elites, interest groups and average voters on American politics by Martin Maximino, The Journalist’s ResourceNovember 14, 2014 Public policy in the United States is shaped by a wide variety of forces, from polls and election results to interest groups and institutions, both formal and informal. In addition to political parties, the influence…

    Phil Salmon

    December 27, 2022
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    democracy, elites, Politics
  • What I Expect In Ukraine

    What I Expect In Ukraine

    Reblogged from E.M. Smith and his blog “Musing from the Chiefio”: How I expect things to unfold in Ukraine and some reasoning about The War & The Why. What I Expect In Ukraine

    Phil Salmon

    November 27, 2022
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  • Asia develops an alternative to the overloaded Suez Canal

    Asia develops an alternative to the overloaded Suez Canal

    Re-blogged from RT Russia suggests alternative to Suez Canal The route could cut transportation costs by up to 50% and save travel time ©  Getty Images/shih-wei The North-South corridor could become a safe substitute for the Suez Canal, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov said on Friday, adding that he expects the volume of Russian cargo…

    Phil Salmon

    October 28, 2022
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  • Trouble with diesel

    Trouble with diesel

    This article is reposted from the excellent blog run by E. M. Smith, “Musings from the Cheefio” Back about 9 June 2022 I put up a posting pointing out how central to the operation of our entire economy, technical society, and military, was a single fuel. Middle Distillate. AKA Kerosene, Diesel, Jet Fuel (and a…

    Phil Salmon

    October 28, 2022
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