Week 31

"@beka_valentine@kolektiva.social

the whole west coast is under tsunami watch right now btw. Seattle and Bay Area included

due to an 8.7 earthquake off Kamchatka. keep your phones on so you can receive the warning signal if it comes"

Another massive eq

eq = u.eq_at(51,154,1000,ago=4,minmag=8.0)
u.map_coords([51,154], eq, zoom=3, outfile="map11.html")

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"The Peace and Justice Project, launched by Jeremy Corbyn, is to hold its first annual conference later this year"

You are not good enough for neoliberalism man.. If you were better, grinding more, hustling more, neolib would have worked. It's your fault.

Murphy: "If neoliberalism works, why is everything falling apart? Neoliberalism has dominated economic thinking in the UK and across the Anglosphere for over 40 years. But what do we have to show for it? Rising poverty, broken housing markets, stagnant wages, failing pensions, and growing inequality."

CarExpert: "EVs banned by global shipping company due to fire hazard.. A major transport company has told customers it will no longer allow EVs or PHEVs on its ships, citing fire risks from lithium-ion batteries."

Interesting Engineering: "Saudi plans new hydrogen-to-ammonia facility twice Neom’s plant size"

Russia's actions in Ukraine exploited NATO's weaknesses.. Ukraine could not be taken into NATO bcz of such action's provacative side effect. Russia could then attack it. And nearby NATO countries could not defend Ukraine openly bcz that would bring other NATO nations in to the war. NATO failed in its original mission. Now your org is a farce, nothing but a club for arms manufacturers.

Pokrovsk's days are numbered..

#Ukraine 07/24 - 07/30

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"Inside the Army's report on how Russia is fighting in Ukraine"

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"Who’s Really Buying Up Britain?"

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"India’s first hydrogen powered coach successfully tested at ICF"

#F4 Except the stuffy 60s decor, the movie was ok... The Woke reports seem to be overblown. Was it good enough though to provide a good seque into the Doom saga? We'll see

Some rivalry-focused encyclopedic dump:

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Freer access would be good, but in the current geo environment everyone perceives things differently... Iran is a demonized actor by the West, TR/AZ is their stooge, so them talking abt access is perceived as an attack by the next-door neighbor. Sad.

"[06/15] Tehran has announced it successfully thwarted plans to establish the Zangezur Corridor, a proposed land route linking Azerbaijan to Turkey via Armenia’s Syunik province, which Iranian officials view as a major geopolitical threat. In a televised interview on June 10 with Tasnim News Agency, Ali Akbar Velayati, the senior foreign policy adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned that the corridor was “a geopolitical maneuver disguised as a transportation project”, intended to isolate Iran and contain Russia by severing critical regional connections. Velayati alleged that the corridor, if completed, would have blocked Iran’s only direct land access to Europe through Armenia, undermining Tehran’s strategic position in the South Caucasus."

AFAIK Iran is against that shit

Wiki: "The Zangezur corridor is a concept for a transport corridor which, if implemented, would give Azerbaijan unimpeded access to Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic without Armenian checkpoints via Armenia's Syunik Province and, in a broad sense, for the geopolitical corridor that would connect Turkey to [AZ]. The concept was not part of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement but was introduced to geopolitical lexicon later by Ilham Aliyev.. Armenia has steadily objected to it, asserting that 'corridor logic' deviates from the ceasefire statement, and that it is a form of propaganda"

Part of BRI goes through the Zanzegur Corridor.. How's that gonna work cheech

(Competing?) Econ Corridors

import json
corr = json.loads(open("corridors1.json").read())
colors = {"BRI1": "red", "BRI2": "red", "Zenzagur": "red", "IMEC":
          "blue", "IDR": "purple", "INTSC": "orange", "Traditional Route": "black"}
u.map_coords([25,46], {}, lines=corr, zoom=3, colors=colors, outfile="map10.html")

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Reuters: "Blackstone executive among dead in Manhattan shooting"

"Who Owns America (It's Not Who You Think)"

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