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Open thread 2/24/2025 — 5 Comments

  1. I sure wish there were trustworthy information about foreign affairs. Everything I see, even if it’s on a blog, ultimately came through legacy media, which we’ve known for years has been acting as stenographers for their fellow Democrats in government.

    But we didn’t learn until recently how venal that government has been domestically, and its venality does not plausibly stop at the water’s edge. We know now that high-sounding government programs were really slush funds for the connected and for progressives, and that the legacy media did it all it could to cover that up. It seems pretty obvious that our government’s high-sounding defense and foreign policy have also been slush funds for the connected and progressives, and that the legacy media still does all it can to cover that up.

    Having new leadership actually willing to try to do something about it, instead of pretending that nothing can be done, could slowly change these things, but the world we’re looking at now is the result of what has come before and not what has changed since January 20.

  2. I had read about the Gilbralter Flood, but not the second one around Scilly. Happened to far back to be Noah’s Flood.

  3. that really is fascinatinghttps://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-marine-021723-110155

    i thought they associated the second one with santorini, and the collapse of the bronze age,

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