Oh, neet! I like traaiiinnnzzz!

Wait, what?

Sinclair is doing “local news” sites now, in addition to TV?

Something something Ten Commandments in public schools. I’d include the 613 Mitzvot. At a minimum.

https://www.jewfaq.org/613_commandments

«Moscow has purged some of the leading nationalist voices who had been allowed to criticise the country’s war efforts. It has jailed Igor Strelkov, a popular nationalist blogger and former FSB officer who had become a vocal critic of how the Kremlin has handled the invasion»

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/16/russian-soldier-says-army-suffering-heavy-losses-in-kharkiv-offensive

Oh, they got Strelkov. Did not know.

Re those “Biden wandered off” and “Biden freezes” headlines. Lies, basically, from right-wing media with axes to grind. Intentionally deceptive video cropping.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/14/cheapfake-biden-videos-enrapture-right-wing-media-deeply-mislead/

«Samir Saran, the head of the Indian thinktank the Observer Research Foundation, who described himself as an atheist in a room full of believers, nevertheless agreed that something bigger than Europe was at stake as he almost mocked the inability of the west’s $40tn economy to organise a battlefield defeat of Russia’s $2tn economy.

He argued: “There is one actor that has reorganised its strategic engagement to fight a war and the other has not. One side is not participating in the battle. You have hosted conferences supporting Ukraine and then do nothing more. But when it comes to action, Russia 2.0 is grinding forward.

“It tells countries like us that if something like this were to happen in the Indo-Pacific, you have no chance against China. If you cannot defeat a $2tn nation, don’t think you are deterring China. China is taking hope from your abysmal and dismal performance against a much smaller adversary.”»

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/08/putin-war-ukraine-forgotten-lessons-of-history-europe

«Flowers, not tomatoes, greeted the French prime minister Édouard Daladier, to his surprise, when he returned from Munich in 1938. Knowing full well the threat posed by Hitler, and that he and Chamberlain had betrayed Czechoslovakia, the only democratic country in central eastern Europe, he turned to his counsellor and said of the cheering crowds: “Bunch of fools.”»

https://www.axios.com/2024/06/12/microsoft-brad-smith-china-hack-congress

Commencez le damage control.

https://www.newsweek.com/truth-social-stock-price-donald-trump-1911635

«”Maybe instead of asking whether Truth Social’s stock deserves to fall below $40 a share, we should be asking whether it deserves to be above zero.”»

Ha.

I almost didn’t read this because of The Guardian‘s sensational-sounding headline.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/jun/12/the-grab-documentary-review

«“The 20th century had Opec,” says Halverson in the film. “In the future, we’re going to have Food Pec.”

That trend is already under way, from Mexico’s avocado militias to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which the film argues was motivated, in part, by Putin’s desire to control a bread basket.»

Emphasis mine.

«“If you use the words ‘climate change’, in a lot of these films, 50% of the country turns off,” she said. “The people that need to be hearing this are not just in blue states and not in this sort of environmentalist echo chamber, but just people, farmers who are walking out and seeing their wells dry.”»

Gotta end on a positive note:

«The Grab suggests doom, and the climate emergency is here, formidable and devastating. But the question of producing enough food to feed the planet is “totally solvable”, said Halverson. “There’s enough water to grow enough food, to make enough calories to feed everybody on the planet today.” The question, instead, is whether people can see the problems and overcome self-interest or profit motives to solve them. “The hope with the film is that we’ve connected together the pieces so that people can see the problem,” said Halverson, “and with good information now in hand, we can all begin to work and put together a world that we all want to live in.”»

https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-golden-saml-data-breach-russian-hackers

Part of the problem is Microsoft (and, yes, unregulated capitalism), but the other part is magical thinking among customers who just don’t want to be bothered and will accept the vendors’ promises.

Feel like I need to bookmark this.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/10/us/us-violent-crime-rates-statistics/index.html