“Show your standing! Come from your offices, your homes, your schools and universities. Come in the name of peace. Come with Ukrainian symbols to support Ukraine, to support freedom, to support life. Come to your squares, your streets. Make yourselves visible and heard. Say that people matter. Freedom matters. Peace matters. Ukraine matters…. All as one together who want to stop the war.”
Zelensky calls for global rallies to stand with Ukraine | TheHill
tune for today: Rally ‘Round the Flag
Battle Cry of Freedom, also known as Rally ‘Round the Flag, was written in 1862 by George Frederick Root. This version is from the film ‘Lincoln’
speaking of rallying for freedom, you won’t see ted or josh there.
‘toon for today
Kimmel Pokes Fun at GOP’s ‘3 Ring Circle Jerk’ During Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmation Hearings (Video) (thewrap.com)
in other news
the guardian
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/24/asia/north-korea-missile-test-intl-hnk/index.html
Somebody wants some attention.
Three ring circle jerk. LOL. Kimmel is my No. 2 in late night and is very close to Colbert for No. 1.
But in other news, Steve Ratner just mentioned something that really got my attention. 90% of the neon gas we get comes from Ukraine. Vegas aside, one of the critical uses of neon is in the manufacture of microchips. Now I’m not familiar with neon gas production but I assume it’s an extractive process from the air around us. Sounds like neon production could be an emerging industry in the US. There’s certainly a huge demand for microchips in the US and the world. Might not be the next Apple stock but sure seems like a good investment risk to me.
pogo, here’s what wiki says about neon‘s
need a getaway?
BBC:
patd, sounds like that neon gap is a great opportunity for an enterprising chemical industrialist to grab a huge chunk of the world market demand for neon, and apparently for krypton and xenon as well.
Karma, Dumbass style. Wapo.
Indeed.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/22/media/dmitry-muratov-nobel-auction-ukraine/index.html
“The Russian journalist who won last year’s Nobel Peace Prize says he will auction off his medal to support Ukrainian refugees.”
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/24/business/blackrock-globalization/index.html
Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket. Good advice.
“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has ended globalization as we know it, says the head of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager.”
“The CEO, whose company manages $10 trillion in assets, predicted that Russia’s isolation will “prompt companies and governments worldwide to reevaluate their dependencies and reanalyze their manufacturing and assembly footprints.”
“Longer-term, I believe that recent events will actually accelerate the shift toward greener sources of energy in many parts of the world,” Fink wrote.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/lindsey-graham-ketanji-brown-jackson-b2043208.html
Fragile, white man squawking.
Hmm – following the lack of news about a person who was to be discharged from a hospital a few days ago. Lots of people are waiting, with bated breath, for whether to cheer or boo. I would not be surprised that a few office pools are starting with day and time.
A couple of pundits are working the angle that he is looking for his exit now that his wife has announced she is an insurrectionist. It is plausible.
BB, yes yes, hopefully he will announce retirement ’cause he wants to spend more time with wifey. otherwise he needs to reconsider his personal rule of non-recusal. perhaps he saw the light when the current nominee declared she will recuse herself from an upcoming particular case due to appearance of conflict if she gets the job.
i have to think that the desired result would just be entirely too cosmic to actually happen right now……but stranger things have happened. And, sorry–not sorry.
Besides……most people dearly love Retirement.
BB, what do you make of this other case of someone not showing up for duty for days except for a questionable reappearance after much ado about heads rolling
Sergei Shoigu Reappears After Missing Russian Minister Prompts Speculation (newsweek.com)
Live by the Russian, die by the Russian.
Sen Whitehouse is right, there was a LOT of money changed hands over Kavenaugh.
Yeah, there’s always some sniveling little weasel there wanting to judge you.
the guardian 40 minutes ago:
Otto von Bismarck once said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes. “I learn from other people’s,” the 19th-century German chancellor said. Astonishingly, the Russian army is repeating the past mistakes of its Soviet predecessor. In April 1945, Marshal Georgy Zhukov, under intense pressure from Stalin, sent his tank armies into Berlin without infantry support. Vladimir Putin’s forces not only made the same error; they even copied the way their forebears had attached odd bits of iron—including bed frames—to their tanks’ turrets in the hopes that the added metal would detonate anti-tank weapons prematurely. This did not save the Russian tanks. It simply increased their profile and attracted Ukrainian tank-hunting parties, just as the Soviet tanks in Berlin had drawn groups of Hitler Youth and SS, who attacked them with Panzerfausts.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/putin-doesnt-realize-how-much-warfare-has-changed/627600/
In his opinion piece today at WaPo Michael Gerson has a particularly notable line regarding the repube party of today.
Add that to Kimmel’s 3 ring circle jerk line and you’ve summed them up nicely.
Oh my.
I wish I’d said that.
Trump sues Hillary Clinton and DNC, alleging conspiracy to link his campaign to Russia
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/24/politics/trump-sues-hillary-clinton/index.html
A Jan. 6 Capitol riot suspect wanted by the FBI was granted refugee status in Belarus
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/23/1088205226/evan-neumann-jan-6-insurrection-suspect-refugee-belarus-asylum
More Texas schools threaten teacher certificates for those who quit
https://www.kxan.com/investigations/more-texas-schools-threaten-teacher-certificates-for-those-who-quit/
The pandemic cost us 400,000 teachers nation wide.
I’m not sure this is the way back.
patd – My suspicions are he went through room temperature a day or so after disappearing. Perhaps another general dies in a firefight?
OM – there is a saying that the generals are always fighting the last war. There are serious concerns that KGB agent Putin has some mental disease or something which is making him do stupid. What is mentioned occasionally is that many/most Russians have close relatives in the Ukraine. KGB agent Putin is forcing his military to attack their own families. That is not a good way to get a lot of “kill the enemy” blood and guts fighting in your troops.
Something has been going on in the background about U.S. veterans who served during the Vietnam War, the Vietnam era. This is not in country, but during the time period. Just as we talked about the WWI veterans, then the WWII veterans and the Korean veterans, the VA is now changing the discussion about the Vietnam era. We are now Vietnam veterans. The time has passed for the public to identify those who served in combat regions and those who served outside of the countries, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand. Now whether you served in the European region, the countries such as Japan, Guam, stateside or Johnston Island, you are a Vietnam veteran. Getting old.
New solar carport solution from France
The PowerPark carport is equipped with 5.6kW of monocrystalline modules and one or more WallBox charging stations for hybrid or electric vehicles. French company Aterno is selling the system, starting from €19,900 – excluding VAT – depending on the project configuration.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/03/23/new-solar-carport-solution-from-france/
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/24/blackrocks-larry-fink-who-oversees-10-trillion-says-russia-ukraine-war-is-ending-globalization.html
I guess I’m now a Viet Nam veteran. I proudly served in the Memphis and North Carolina theaters.
That Bismarck article mentions that the Russian Army’s communications are being hacked by by the Kraines.
And that the Kraine’s have very good sniper teams .
That would explain 6 dead Russian generals.
This reminds me of Spain in reverse .
3,000 Americans have joined the fight , and over 30,000 from all over the world.
If these numbers are true . Franco is rolling somewhere in his grave.
The idea that 3,000 Americans are in country is a big deal , given we have a lot of vets who have a very deep understanding of how a smaller force fights a larger force.
Remember all those Russian kids are draftees.
I’m a combat veteran of the Sexual Revolution.
World’s Second-Largest Insurer Says New Fossil-Fuel Projects Are a Bad Bet
Are new fossil-fuel projects a good bet? The world’s second-largest reinsurer is saying no.
Swiss Re announced an enhanced oil and gas policy that rules out insuring most new oil and gas projects, making it the first major insurer in the industry to do so.
https://www.ecowatch.com/fossil-fuel-projects-insurance-swiss-re.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/ukranian-american-missionary-allegedly-kidnapped-russian-forces-rcna21415
“The wife of an American pastor said her husband was kidnapped by Russian forces last week in Melitopol, a city of 150,000 in Ukraine’s south.”
“They just came in in the morning,” Helen Bodyu said. “They took our phones, gadgets, computers, documents — and took him somewhere. I don’t know where.”
“Helen added that the Russian troops seemed to know he was a pastor and confiscated his U.S. passport.”
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/24/politics/ginni-thomas-mark-meadows-text-messages/index.html
“The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 riot has in its possession more than two dozen text messages between former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Virginia “Ginni” Thomas…”
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/24/politics/debra-meadows-mark-north-carolina-voter-form/index.html
“Last week, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation confirmed to CNN that its Special Investigations Unit is investigating allegations that Mark Meadows registered to vote in 2020 at a home where he never resided.”
Now Ginni Thomas is proven to be in on the conspiracy of Jan 6. Recently claimed her hubby was receiving Ivermectin even though no responsible hospital would give it to a patient. Today is day seven since Thomas entered the hospital. He has not had any interaction with the other Supremes. No update on possible release.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/24/us/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-austin-pride-week/index.html
“We aren’t worried about Paxton’s letter,” Austin ISD spokesperson Eddie Villa told CNN. “Pride Week and sex education are different. Celebrating diversity and acceptance is completely legal.”
“In a Tuesday letter to the Austin Independent School District’s superintendent, Paxton, a Republican, wrote, “The Texas Legislature has made it clear that when it comes to sex education, parents — not school districts — are in charge.”
The SCOTUS wars just took a left turn. It seems Clarence’s wife Jenny put his ass in sling .
Bob Costas via CBS tonight.
You can’t make this stuff up.
“Ginni” really ?
Let’s open that Super Jumbo Can of Worms impeachment of a sitting justice.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/23/us/california-school-anti-biden-chant/index.html
A California mother is asking for accountability after she received a video last month showing her child’s preschool teacher leading her class in a political chant against President Joe Biden. The video was taken by an unidentified teacher at Turning Point Christian School…”
The ‘vangelicals are still drinking the Kool-Aid and trying to make the kiddies drink it, too.
https://www.newsweek.com/justice-breyer-says-clarence-thomas-fine-amid-health-speculation-1691510
Here we go –
” Virginia Thomas, a conservative activist married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, repeatedly pressed White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to pursue unrelenting efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in urgent text exchanges in the critical weeks following the vote, according to copies of the messages obtained by CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa and Bob Woodward of The Washington Post.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/virginia-ginni-thomas-clarence-wife-mark-meadows-texts-2020-election/
This is quite some lowness but suppose the dipshit sues hillary after she comes up positive for covid……so basically he’s just suing her hoping she’ll not survive the disease, and then he can say he would’ve won. No way he’d go thru discovery so if she comes thru it he just drops the case.
This is well worth the time to read –
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/american-volunteer-foreign-fighters-ukraine-russia-war/627604/
As Jed sat across from me in the empty restaurant, with his shoulders hunched forward over the table and his palms cupped around the tea, he explained that since arriving in Ukraine at the end of February, he had been fighting as a volunteer along with a dozen other foreigners outside Kyiv. The past three weeks had marked him. When I asked how he was holding up, he said the combat had been more intense than anything he’d witnessed in Afghanistan. He seemed conflicted, as if he wanted to talk about this experience, but not in terms that could turn emotional. Perhaps to guard against this, he began to discuss the technical aspects of what he’d seen, explaining in granular detail how the outmanned, outgunned Ukrainian military had fought the Russians to a standstill.
Napoleon, who fought many battles in this part of the world, observed that “the moral is to the physical as three is to one.” I was thinking of this maxim as Jed and I finished our tea.
Sturg –
Putin’s playbook accuse the other side of your crimes.
Rattle a your keys , Lie, deny, rinse, repeat.
The fund raiser e-mails are in his minions inbox as I type.
Just another grift.
You know I remember my steel wheel roller skates , and thinking , “Well these aren’t very good at all”.
Later on I was told to stop making skateboard decks in 8th grade shop. Skateboards were always seen as contributing to the decline of Western Civilization.
I never under stood that , I learned about laminating wood making those decks. And how a small stone can stop a steel wheel.
Remember this when the wall came down ?
Bob, those Atlantic articles are good reads.
It Something that occurred to me as I read both of them. Both the US and the Russians have never fought against modern weapons, So tanks and armor work. Nato is supplying Ukraine with modern weapons and Tanks are setting ducks.
Evidently so are ships loaded with munitions.
Jack
Mr. Jones was wrong , the world has never woke up from history .
It just rolls over from steel roller skates , to seeing the first stars.
Faster and Faster.
Jack –
I am so glad you read them , and yes the world has rolled over since my dad drove the Red Ball in France. Hauling gas, and ammo to Sherman tanks . Which as you know was a shitty tank. We just made more of them than the Germans.
This is that moment in warfare when a whole lot of iron becomes useless.
The Kraines sunk a supply ship , off loading . Waiting for those details.
Every military in the world is up rethinking .
Pretty sobering when an nuclear aircraft carrier , turns into a duck.
All that treasure , and muscle turned into junk.
Sell Boeing , buy drones.
Bob
The other thing is you can’t wage a war from the top down, with the troops being mostly cannon fodder. You need creative warriors who can think for themselves. Those kind of warriors aren’t developed in an authoritarian system.
Jack
Why no cyber attacks ?
Maybe everyone went after the Russians weeks ago ? And I mean everyone. If I was Israel , I’d be at them hammer and tongs.
This is a hidden story of this war. I am sure there is a rich story about all this.
Jack –
I feel for all those kids in the mud asking , “What the fuck am I doing here?”
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Gas prices: ‘We’re starting to see demand destruction,’ energy strategist says
So any potential supply chain disruption for oil
The world’s biggest oil company just doubled its profits, and now it’s planning to produce even more
Tristan Bove
Mon, March 21, 2022, 4:37 PM·3 min read
In this article:
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One of the world’s biggest petroleum companies more than doubled its profits in 2021 as global demand soared. Now, it’s doubling down, and investing tens of billions more into oil production this year as prices soar.
Saudi Aramco, a major oil and gas company owned and managed by the Saudi royal family, announced it made $110 billion in profits last year, a 124% increase from 2020, according to the company’s annual financial statement released on Sunday.
And that was before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/coal-plant-owners-seek-to-retire-power-in-pjm/620781/
Gas prices –
Demand Destruction , change your ways folks , stop being ME, ME, ME.
Start being US, US,Us.
One other item about anti-tank .
The Javlins have a night vision headset . That does not stop working after they shoot the warhead.
I got to think they need more of this , and body armor .
Police around the world should buy new vests, and ship their old ones to the Krianes.
i’ve reached my monthly Atlantic free-article limit😒
Me, Me, Me. Vs Us, Us, Us .
That’s the nut of our time . Either we sink alone , or float together.
Blink –
You are not the lone ranger.
Along with all our other woes , we will see the shutdown of power from the Glenn Canyon Dam.
It is right at our door .
What I want to know is how we treat our own refugees ?
i was always more of a “Car 54, Where Are You” guy. Gunther Tooty = best tv character ever
Barney Miller –
Sgt. Detrich
The World on Fire –
As the Great Reef dies , it’s fish are losing their color.
Surly more oil will save them.
What if we harness the energy produced by kicking the can down the road???
Give my Nobel Prize to someone else that wants it ✌️🇺🇦
Think soccer-ball ice cream maker (actual product), but replace the soccer ball with a can and the ice cream with the POWER OF THE SUN.
ok ruminate on that
i’m no Da Vinci, granted, but no one liked him, either😜
Nite all –
I am juggling a bankruptcy of the mind, the heart , the soul , and the will. A place I have been before . On many occasions.
But I am not 24 anymore.
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