Related from a couple months ago...

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... Papperger was one of a number of defense industry chiefs in Europe to be targeted but the plot against him was believed to be more advanced, the sources said.

The revelations followed recent warnings from NATO's secretary-general, European governments and U.S. officials about an expanding effort by Moscow to disrupt arms deliveries to Ukraine as it tries to defend itself against invading Russian troops.

The White House National Security Council would not comment directly on the specific case involving Rheinmetall, but council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said the Biden administration was concerned about the growing threat of Russian sabotage.

"While I don't have a comment on this specific report, Russia's intensifying campaign of subversion is something that we are taking extremely seriously and have been intently focused on over the past few months," Watson said. "The United States has been discussing this issue with our NATO Allies, and we are actively working together to expose and disrupt these activities. We have also been clear that Russia's actions will not deter Allies from continuing to support Ukraine." ...

@#2 ... It's +2.1 to +5 Trump depending on the average. ...

Interesting look at the swing states on the right side of this page...

No wonder the GOP was so hysterically against the IRS receiving the money for better enforcement.

@#5 ... The poor Houstonians that have flocked to the cooling centers aren't exactly Trump's demographic. ...

Probably why Gov Abbott does not seem to be all that concerned about them...

@#7 ... Hate drives him more than money and power. He has no use for money, he never pays for anything anyway. ...

Yeah, I've not thought about that aspect.

But hatred driving him instead of self-adulation?

I'll have to ponder that.

@#5 ... I've often wondered if Trump is still nursing his manic hatred of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in that simmering caldron. ...

My view is that fmr Pres Trump does not even look at it in that light.

He just looks at how much power he can grab for his own benefit.

Transactional, not strategic.

@#8

@#1

Yer gonna need to be more specific...

@#49 ... People interject sarcasm, snark and emotion when they type words. Sometimes you need to read between the lines a bit ...

... or just talk to yourself.

;)

@#1

puppet-mater,

-- should be --

puppet-master,

:)

So, Pres Biden appears to be in favor of democracy.

As opposed to fmr Pres Trump, who would just hand over Ukraine to his puppet-mater, Pres Putin.

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... In the summer of 2022, I skied across the flat, smooth, and white plateau of the icefield, accompanied by other researchers, sliding in the tracks of the person in front of me under a hot sun. From that plateau, around 40 huge, interconnected glaciers descend towards the sea, with hundreds of smaller glaciers on the mountain peaks all around.

Our work, now published in Nature Communications, has shown that Juneau is an example of a climate "feedback" in action: as temperatures are rising, less and less snow is remaining through the summer (technically: the "end-of-summer snowline" is rising). This in turn leads to ice being exposed to sunshine and higher temperatures, which means more melt, less snow, and so on.

Like many Alaskan glaciers, Juneau's are top-heavy, with lots of ice and snow at high altitudes above the end-of-summer snowline. This previously sustained the glacier tongues lower down. But when the end-of-summer snowline does creep up to the top plateau, then suddenly a large amount of a top-heavy glacier will be newly exposed to melting.

That's what's happening now, each summer, and the glaciers are melting much faster than before, causing the icefield to get thinner and thinner and the plateau to get lower and lower. Once a threshold is passed, these feedbacks can accelerate melt and drive a self-perpetuating loss of snow and ice which would continue even if the world were to stop warming.

Ice is melting faster than ever ...

@#43 ... try to "hear" what is being said ...

I do try not to "hear" what I want to hear when I read comments.

But your current aliases may have a differing view.

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... On June 27, the candidates met in Atlanta for the first presidential debate of this election cycle. Following his poor performance, Biden has faced calls to step down as his party's candidate. However, the president has remained defiant, refusing to drop out of the race.

Now, political commentators are drawing parallels between Biden's defiance and Trump's behavior. Speaking to Newsweek, Thomas Gift, an associate professor of political science and the director of the Centre on U.S. Politics at University College London, said, "Biden is absolutely taking a page out of the playbook of Trump."

He added, "Increasingly, one could argue that his public statements have been giving off an air of entitlement and even selfishness." ...

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... "President (Joe) Biden and I remain committed to using our strong investment screening tool to defend America's national security, including actions that protect military installations from external threats," Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement.

Under a proposed rule, more than 50 facilities will be added to a list of sites where surrounding property transactions may be reviewed by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) -- taking the total figure to 227. ...

@#38 ... The protests are happening on college campuses, comprised largely of students. The arguments of the protesters are not rational, and do not stand up to critical thought. ...

I do not disagree. But when did rationality become a criterion for a rational protest?

It is opinion, not rationality.

... Someone somewhere signalled that this is OK. ...

Someone somewhere signaled that this is OK.

That protests are OK? yeah, I'd say, OK to that.

Back in the 70's when I was attending college, I protested against the Vietnam war. Vigorously. Back then, I was called a long-haired commie hippie freak. (probably not a surprise to you. :)   )

Yeah, the school signaled that those protests were OK.

Those protests had little to do with the education I received at that college.

So, what's yer point?

That protests should not be allowed on college campuses?

@#16 ... I did not cite DISAPPROVAL RATINGS ------- - I cited NET APPROVAL, which in all cases had a net negative number for each - which is probably causing your confusion now. Truly, how dumb are you? ...

So, your current alias admits to the issue I had pointed out.

Your #8 post...

...
US Supreme Court: +17.2% negative
Congress: +49.1% negative
Biden: +19.5% negative

My comment stands as correct.
...

So now, for your current alias, negative ratings are now an approval?

Yeah, do try harder.

@#11 ... But, that election was taken on the backdrop of an unprecedented pandemic - economic shutdowns and fear - and with the mistaken idea that Biden could handle it better ...

... and Pres Biden did handle it better.

What else yer got?

But yeah...

@#3 ... Or, people become morbidly obese and smoke as a result of the stresses incurred from being a slave in a bourgeoise capitalist society. It's not their fault at all. ...

I remain to be convinced that " It's not their fault at all."

What's yer got?

@#34 ... Colleges appear to be teaching students what to think. They should be teaching them how to think. ...

One thing I noted about my college (and NYC high school) endeavor, is that it taught me how to think, how to approach and solve problems.

So, my experience seems to run counter to the opinion you proffer.

... I have a tough time believing that colleges would be overrun would be overrun with students calling for the genocide of jews, unless it was being presented as a philosphy acceptable to learned people. ...

Are you confusing protests with education?

@#13 ... But rather than you getting spun up on this point ...

So your current alias seems to admit that it blew it. Big time.

OK, let's go with that.

... Congress is net -49.1% - or ~3x more unpopular than the US Supreme Court. ...

Good, your current alias is actually looking at numbers.

But, as I noted in my #7

...
From the links your current alias provides...

Supreme Court: 36%
Congressional approval: 18%
Biden approval: 37%
...

So, what's yer point?

That the House of Representatives does not represent Americans?

Given the recent GOP, I'll say, meandering in election results, I'd agree.

But what say ye?

@#12 ... You can go to the links I sent you and you will see this called the "Adjusted Net Approval" - again, the standard way this is reported. ...

I did go to those links.

So, if your current alias says that "Net Approval" is the touchstone, then why in its #8 post cite disapproval ratings?

Your current alias' comment seems to negate, indeed, even say as clueless, a prior comment of your current alias.

Something I have been noting for a while.

It is good to see it finally admit what I have been saying.

@#45 ... by deflecting a bigger missile. ...

OK.

Then there are the remnants of a Russian missile.

Complete with serial numbers (#33).

Given Pres Putin's disregard for Ukrainian children, my current view is 80-20 that the hospital was the target.

Pres Putin seems to be getting desperate. His two or three week war is now in it's, what, third year?

My guess is that he no longer wants to annex Ukraine, but he now wants to destroy Ukraine, and the will of its people.

How better to do that than to bomb the Okhmatdyt children's hospital?