Author: gassasb

So Much Winning … And More

MoA In current western culture, the ‘good’ will always win. But life is not about ‘good’ versus ‘bad’: Notes on Stormtrooper Syndrome – Ecosophia: Popular entertainment in Western industrial nations today is as thickly larded with moral posturing as anything Victorian parents inflicted on their children. In most popular genres, the Good People always win, and […]

Trump posts on X, formerly Twitter, for first time since 2021

TRT World August 24, 2023 Former US president Donald Trump posted his mugshot on X with the phrases “ELECTION INTERFERENCE” and “NEVER SURRENDER” below it. The then-Twitter permanently suspended Trump after the January 6 riot, ruling he had violated the platform’s policy on glorifying violence as he pressed his claims that the election was stolen from him. […]

US government suing SpaceX for hiring Americans

Rolling Stone August 24, 2023 BY EJ DICKSON According to the suit, between 2018 and 2022, SpaceX posted 14 public job advertisements stating that the company could only hire U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents. Out of more than 10,000 hirings between September 2018 and May 2022, the suit alleges, SpaceX hired only one asylee, four months after IER […]

Will Prigozhin’s death end independent Russian militias?

DW A plane thought to be carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin and other high-ranking members of his Wagner militia crashed on Thursday. Military analyst Mark Cancian tells DW his death, if confirmed, could spell the end of independent militias associated with the Russian military. https://www.dw.com/en/wagner-chief-prigozhin-presumed-dead-in-plane-military-analyst-mark-cancian-speaks-to-dw/video-66623815

Berlin notes ‘pattern’ after Prigozhin’s presumed death

DW German top diplomat Baerbock said the mercenary leader’s presumed death follows a pattern of “unclarified” fatalities in Russia. She expected Russia to continue its “cynical game” regardless. Germany’s top diplomat Annalena Baerbock on Thursday said it was only natural to suspect the Kremlin’s involvement in the presumed death of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin , referring to […]

Tucker: Ep. 18 Into the abyss: Colonel Douglas Macgregor tells us why the Ukraine war must end now.

By webmasterAugust 22, 2023WHATFINGER NEWS https://summarynews.whatfinger.com/2023/08/22/tucker-ep-18-into-the-abyss-colonel-douglas-macgregor-tells-us-why-the-ukraine-war-must-end-now/ https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1693761723230990509?s=20 Ep. 18 Into the abyss: Colonel Douglas Macgregor tells us why the Ukraine war must end now. pic.twitter.com/a3bGLvJC4s — Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) August 21, 2023

Ukraine SitRep: Chernihiv Done Exhibition – Russian Offensive

Moon of Alabama August 19, 2023 This week the Ukrainian army committed its last reserve brigade with western equipment to its counter-offensive. It will get ground up just like the forces it is replacing. The furthest the counter-offensive has gone in total was in the south of Orkiv where it progressed some 12 kilometer. It […]

Ukraine Weekly Update

18th August 2023 DR. ROB CAMPBELL AUG 18, 2023 Last week was pregnant with the possibility of a Russian breakthrough at Kupyansk and a new conflagration in West Africa. The former remains imminent while the latter, hopefully, will never happen. We will see. Everything on the battlefronts continues in the same way it did last […]

Montana Youth Win a Historic Climate Case

THIS STORY ORIGINALLY appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A state judge in Montana gave climate activists a decisive win on Monday when she ruled that the state’s support of fossil fuels violates their constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment. District Court judge Kathy Seeley struck down as unconstitutional a state policy barring […]

How is the Russia-Ukraine war affecting the environment? | People and Power Documentary

Al Jazeera English Journalist Nick Lazaredes investigates the toxic fallout of the war in Ukraine and the environmental effects of the conflict that scientists say will be felt for decades to come. Ukraine is home to some of the most biodiverse and unique ecosystems on the planet, and its rich fertile plains provide food to […]

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