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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!…

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…

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.…

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 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…

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

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…

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…