I’m not sanguine about the positive effects of gun control. There are lots of people stirring the pot, trying to think of effective measures, but I can pretty much guarantee that they are barking up the wrong tree.
You’ve probably heard of the US Government’s strategic Helium reserve, or the fuel reserve. But, did you know that there is, under a mountain, a Tolkienesque city made of stacks of food?
There’s one stretch of road near my studio, where there are some old beaten-up miner’s homes that probably date to the 1890s – tar-paper covered, porched, coal-heated. When the mines were running, overseers and their families would be allowed to occupy such buildings. The miners’ homes have long since fallen down.
Quoted en bloc from Counterpunch [counterpunch] by Jeffrey StClair.
In 2016 I wrote a piece here that partially touched on the matter of range in warfare. [stderr]
Fascists like to broadcast their intentions; it’s part of their “thing.”
This is a very “on point” meme for me.
It seems to me that, now that we are building a better idea of the effects of inheritance on a person, that humanity needs to somewhat re-assess how we treat offspring, in both positive and negative manner.
The Taekwondo federation has stripped Putin of his black belt. [reuters]