By: Russell Klier
Sorry to be scatterbrained about this, but things are happening fast… 30 minutes ago, Maia Sandu made it official, they are in it, BOOM: “Moldova is ready to provide its territory to the Armed Forces...
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Yep. One of the dance teachers at “former dance studio” is from Moldova. Of course, one avoids discussing all this at dance competitions. The place is crawling with Russians and Ukrainians. Some...
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The plot thickens: “The breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria has probably the largest weapons depots in eastern Europe.” “there are still around 20,000 tons of ammunition for artillery and...
View ArticleBy: Mike M.
My source on the anti-Putin militias: https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/05/25/who-are-the-militias-raiding-russias-belgorod-region
View ArticleBy: Ed Forbes
One of the better analyses of the problems Ukraine faces in attacking Russian defenses in their projected coming offensive. . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4tzu9FzuxY
View ArticleBy: Tom Scharf
Hopefully the Supreme Court will kill the student loan forgiveness give away, but both the Senate and the House have now passed a bill to kill it through the legislative process....
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That low pressure system in the Gulf now has a 70 % chance of becoming a tropical storm. It is currently in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico. The spaghetti has is wandering South toward Cuba then...
View ArticleBy: Phil Scadden
Steve – I think paxlovid availability is also helping keep deaths down.
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NHC says the tropical storm will likely be nothing, dropping to a tropical depression within a couple of days, and never reach the USA:...
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Phil Scadden, You may be right. I didn’t know Paxlovid was used in NZ. The pre-vaccine death rate in NZ and Australia (albeit a small sample) was about 3% of confirmed cases. Currently the death rate...
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Tom Scharf, The east coast of Florida had a wetter winter than usual, and already lots of summer-like rainfall… the lakes are higher for this time of year than I can remember in the last 25. A zero...
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Extreme weather! Wetter wets and dryer dries!!!! Climate apocalypse!!!!!!!!!! Never mind that nobody tracks records for consecutive years of normal weather.
View ArticleBy: angech
RK “Moldova has been staying out of the fray. There is a breakaway Russian enclave in Moldova, Transnistria, on the border with Ukrainian. Stay tuned. – Surely you mean Transylvania?? (Rocky Horror fan)
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Steve F Yes there seems to be a resurgence of Covid here with deaths but as you say a lot lower percentage of cases. Friends, children and grandchildren coming down. A few nursing home deaths as...
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Tom Scharf, Odd how global warming/climate change/climate disruption is able to cause both very dry and very wet conditions within 200 miles or less. One of the terrifying mysteries of global warming.
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angech, Let’s do the time warp again https://twitter.com/rklier21/status/1664407533694361603?s=61&t=ZyQdkbznbK5mZr6llgvE8g
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test– see if I can edit [edit]Editing is back. I tweaked the editing plugin the people in the “willard plugin” shouldn’t be able to edit. This is to prevent a work around the moderating features of...
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Willard, Thanks for (inadvertently) testing the changes to my moderation plugin. You’ll notice it adds the number of words etc. That was supposed to be in green… but alas, things that happen downstream...
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