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"Rearmament," Robinson Jeffers, 1935

Posted by Badlands Journa... on Sunday, 14 August 2022

Rearmament
These grand and fatal movements toward death: the grandeur of the mass
Makes pity a fool, the tearing pity
For the atoms of the mass, the persons, the victims, makes it seem monstrous
To admire the tragic beauty they build.
It is beautiful as a river flowing or a slowly gathering
Glacier on a high mountain rock-face,
Bound to plow down a forest, or as frost in November,
The gold and flaming death-dance for leaves,
Or a girl in the night of her spent maidenhood, bleeding and kissing.

Ukrainians shut down Russian pipeline to Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia

Posted by Badlands Journa... on Tuesday, 9 August 2022

This is not strategy; it's desperation and another big payday for US military-industrial complex.-- blj

8-9-22

TeleSur

News > Russia
Ukraine Stops Transit of Russian Oil Through Its Territory
Sanctions against Russian financial operations leave Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia without fuel.

How much is "free, democratic" Taiwan worth to Silicon Valley?

Posted by Badlands Journa... on Monday, 8 August 2022

8-8-22

Consortium News

Big Chip in US-China Crisis
For the U.S., it is unthinkable that semiconductor behemoth TSMC could one day be in territory controlled by Beijing, writes Maria Ryan
An employee at Intel Corporation’s wafer fabrication facility in Chandler, Arizona, moves through its cleanroom in her industrial “bunny suit,” 2018. (Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)

By Maria Ryan 
University of Nottingham

Events on the "American lake"

Posted by Badlands Journa... on Saturday, 6 August 2022

8-6-22

Consortiun News
HIROSHIMA AT 77: John Pilger — Another Hiroshima is Coming — Unless We Stop It Now
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of premeditated mass murder unleashing a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of 21st century U.S. war propaganda, casting a new enemy, and target – China.

"Give the Indians back to white-supremacist states," sez Supremes

Posted by Badlands Journa... on Sunday, 24 July 2022

Supreme Court reversed almost 200 years of US law and tradition upholding tribal sovereignty in its latest term
Published: July 21, 2022 8.25am EDT
Kirsten Matoy Carlson
Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University

https://theconversation.com/supreme-court-reversed-almost-200-years-of-u...

Post-logging politics?

Posted by Badlands Journa... on Saturday, 23 July 2022

The proble3m in Shasta County this article fails to mention is the state of the logging industry, now denied insurance and annually assaulted with more and more violent fires. Mills have been consolidated, there is less work in the woods, and these appear to be more permanent than the typical cycles of past decades. People must be very nervous about fire, not just in the woods but on the outskirts of Redding and nearby towns, which have already had one wildfire. Shasta County is a very unhappy place right now because it is ecologically and economically very  threatened.

The river and electricity

Posted by Badlands Journa... on Thursday, 21 July 2022

You can argue  that senior facilities in the Coachella Valley are not ecologically sound or even healthy, given the temperatures around Palm Sprimgs and Indio in the summertime, and, speaking as a resident of such a facility, I would agree with you but I came down here for family reasons. But, if hydroelectric power from Glen Canyon is interrupted, I can guarantee that some lives will end without air-conditioning in Southern California. -- blj

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