Thursday, April 07, 2022

UN votes on Russian suspension on Human Rights Council. SUSPENDED!



Tuesday, April 05, 2022


Austria and the pain of higher rates .. 
and probably not over..




Mushrooms -  vocabularies of up to 50 words,
and that the distribution of these “fungal word lengths” closely matched those of human languages.

Notes today:


  • President Zelenskyy tells UN Security Council: Act now on Russia or dissolve yourself altogether.

  • 63 Republicans Vote Against Resolution Expressing Support for NATO 

  • Bill Browder:  While nearly every Western business has exited Russia, the American Chamber of Commerce in Moscow continues to hold business events.

  • Forbes says the total wealth of the world's billionaires has dropped to just $12.7 trillion. I feel for them. 

  • FT: 'They are already carrying out an active campaign to hide their guilt of mass murders of civilians in Mariupol,' Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address. 

  • Denmark is temporarily shelving its debt ceiling to help finance costs related to the war in Ukraine. 

  • Kinzinger on his party: "We are being governed by a bunch of children ... There's a genocide going in Ukraine -- and the outrage is what's happening in a Walt Disney" world..
  • Russian Embassy in Ireland is running out of fuel for heating and hot water as Irish oil companies refuse to deliver supplies.

Cost of insuring against Russia default



Sunday, April 03, 2022


Notes today:

  


Why is this regime still a member of the United Nations "Security" council with veto rights?

 


  • AP: Lithuania says it has cut itself off entirely of gas imports from Russia, apparently becoming the first of the European Union's 27 nations using Russian gas to break dependence from Moscow. In 2015, it was almost entirely dependent on Russian gas imports.


  • It is high time, for ALL Europeans to stop all oil and gas purchases from Russia.

Wednesday, March 30, 2022


@claytoonz 

A looming solar storm is putting electric grids and airlines on notice while bringing prospects of dazzling Northern Lights to U.S. skies


Notes today:

 

  • Mitch McConnell just said Clarence Thomas should NOT recuse himself from 1/6 cases even though his wife directly participated in the effort to steal the election. He says Thomas and the Supreme Court “should feel free to ignore” elected officials calling for his recusal.
  • FT: “In the first meeting between the countries since Russia started the war a month ago, China’s foreign minister Wang Yi told his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, that “the two sides’ will to develop bilateral ties is even firmer..." 

  • Big new green energy and LNG programs in EU, especially Germany…AND big rearmament programs in EU, especially Germany. 

  • David Corn: The former president of the United States just asked a brutal dictator who is destroying cities and killing civilians in an illegal and barbarous war to help him dig up dirt on a political opponent. - I told you: there is no bottom. 

  • "Give Koch Industries credit for consistency: It’s aiding the foes of democracy at home AND abroad." - Dana Milbank (in the WaPo) 

  • A star has been discovered some 13 billion light years away from earth — almost 4 billion light years further than the edge of what has been seen so far. 

  • Concrete is the second-most used resource on Earth after water, and is responsible for 8% of man-made carbon emissions. 

  • Water levels at Lake Powell, the 2nd largest manmade reservoir in the U.S., dropped to their lowest level ever since the lake was created by damming the Colorado River in 1963. 
  • Citizens for Ethics: After the insurrection Coca-Cola  suspended all political giving, pledging to consider January 6th in future giving. But Coca-Cola has now given $15,000 to the NRSC, which could help elect Sedition Caucus members like John Kennedy. Shame on Coca-Cola.

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Monday, March 28, 2022


Notes Today:

  • Kaspersky blacklisted by FCC alongside China Telecom and China Mobile
  • All three were added to list as they posed national security risks. 

  • The Pentagon plans to accelerate production of Stinger anti-aircraft missiles and Javelin anti-tank missiles so it can refill its own depleted stocks as it continues to send the vital systems to Ukrainian forces fighting the Russian invasion.”   --  made by Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.. (semi log scale below)













AP: Nebraska state Sen. Bruce Bostelman apologized Monday after he publicly cited a persistent but debunked rumor alleging that schools are placing litter boxes in school bathrooms to accommodate children who self-identify as cats.  

Share of consumer expenditure on food




Top 50 brands continuing to operate in Russia









Bloomberg suspends operations in Russia and Belarus.👍

Sunday, March 27, 2022

Yen  is having a bit of trouble: Overdone?



















and long term..