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Britain’s aircraft carrier may need French escort
Lack of available warships in the Royal NavyA British aircraft carrier may need to be escorted by a French warship if it is deployed to the Middle East. HMS Prince of Wales has been placed on advanced readiness, with the crew told it must be ready to sail with five days’ notice.
However, with most of the Royal Navy’s major warships unavailable or undergoing maintenance, protection would probably need to be provided by allies such as France, the US and other European countries.
A typical carrier escort group includes two to three destroyers or frigates and an attack submarine.
The Royal Navy has six destroyers, but only HMS Dragon is known to be ready for action and is due to sail to the eastern Mediterranean very soon to protect the British sovereign base areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in Cyprus.
Of the fleet’s seven frigates, only HMS Somerset and HMS St Albans are understood to be available. The rest are undergoing maintenance or struggling with defects.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/08/britains-aircraft-carrier-may-need-french-escort/
“So it makes the whole US-Israeli war even more senseless, to kill Ayatollah Khamenei and simply get his son in his place – somebody whose going to be furious, of course, at the murder of his father, his mother, his wife, and one of his children in the Israeli strike just a week ago.”
From today’s headlines about the Kurds,
Iraq’s Kurds say ‘this war is not mine’
and (as a result?)
Trump Makes U-Turn On Kurdish Offensive, Says Kurds Should Stay Out Of WarAs Iran conflict spills over, Iraq’s Kurds say ‘this war is not mine’
Anne Chaon AFP Mar 7, 2026Iran warned on Friday it would target facilities in Iraqi Kurdistan if fighters crossed into its territory.
“This isn’t my war,” said 58-year-old Barsirini.
He recalled the brutal repression and flight into the snowy mountains after the 1991 Kurdish uprising that followed the first Gulf War.
The uprising was repressed, leading to an exodus of two million Kurds to Iran and Turkey.
“When we fled the cities for our lives, we went to Iran. They helped us, they gave us shelter and food,” he said.
The Kurds would not forget that, Barsirini stressed, adding that they could not just “turn against them” now to support the US and Israel.
“I don’t trust (Americans). They are dangerous people,” he said.
The Houthis Might Try Again to Sink a U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier
..if this war extends into months rather than weeks, then the Houthis could take matters into their own hands and retaliate.
If so, this could tie up another carrier strike group in the region, as the earlier missile and drone fight from the Yemeni terrorists could be repeated. And, in fact, we see the USS George HW Bush aircraft carrier heading to the region.
We’ll watch closely to see whether the Houthis will engage again. They could open up a new front in the war or bide their time until the Americans least expect them to act.
Iran war: What role will Yemen’s Houthi group play?
“The Houthis will have no role to play in this confrontation because their added value was to cause trouble on behalf of Iran, while giving Iran a margin of deniability,” he explains. “Now that Iran is actually attacking the whole region, basically, there isn’t much added value in Houthi involvement.”https://www.dw.com/en/iran-war-what-role-will-yemens-houthi-group-play/a-76216075
USS Gerald R. Ford Now in the Red Sea
The Pentagon on Friday posted photos showing Ford and USS Bainbridge (DDG-96) sailing through the Suez Canal on Thursday.
Since the war with Iran began on Saturday, the Houthis have expressed support for Iran but have not said whether they plan to resume their attacks on shipping…
Ford deployed from Norfolk, Va., on June 24, so an 11-month deployment would mean the carrier is expected to stay out into May.
The war gets foggier. Satellite images produced by a California-based company are normally provided to the press and other customers “almost immediately,” but as of today the images of Gulf states won’t be available until 96 hours later (except for images of Iran, which won’t be delayed).
Planet Labs PBC, a leading provider of high resolution images taken from space, said Friday it would hold back for 96 hours images of Gulf states targeted by Iranian drone attacks.
The satellite images produced by the California-based company are normally available almost immediately to its clients, who include AFP, as well as other media, companies, researchers — and potential enemies of the United States.
Planet said in a message to clients the “temporary” move was part of its “commitment to responsible data practices and the safety of personnel on the ground” since the eruption of the Middle East war.
It did not say if it had acted at the request of US authorities. Images of Iran were not included in the order.
“All new imagery collected over the Gulf States and adjacent conflict zones (not including Iran) will be subject to a mandatory 96-hour delay before it is made available in our archive,” Planet said.
https://www.digitaljournal.com/world/leading-satellite-firm-to-hold-back-gulf-state-images/article
From the Tehran Times, in the past hour.
BREAKING
The aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln was hit by IRGC Navy missilesAbraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, operating 340 kilometers from Iran’s maritime borders near the Strait of Hormuz, was targeted by missiles of IRGC Navy, according to a spokesperson for the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters.
The carrier, accompanied by its destroyers, reportedly withdrew at high speed and has since moved more than 1,000 kilometers away from the area.
Why don’t Trump’s warships dare to approach the Persian Gulf
Viewpoint from Tasnim News Agency in Iran, machine translated.
The IRGC announced today that it had targeted an American war vessel using “Qadr 380” and “Galtier” missiles from about 600 kilometers away, in the northern Indian Ocean. While the vessel was fueling.
The important thing is that these missiles have a range of more than a thousand kilometers. Therefore, in order to target vessels, the IRGC Navy does not necessarily need to be deployed near the coast; it can deploy missile launchers deep into the country and from there to hit naval targets.
Another important feature of these missiles is the ability to change the direction in the final stage, which means that they can move towards the target in different directions and correct their path to hit the target more accurately. Of course, the “Qadr 380” missile may have a higher radar cross-section due to the engine’s position outside the body, but it has an important advantage: a very simple and fast launch pad. This simplicity makes it possible to prepare and shoot quickly, and production is not complicated. For this reason, these missiles are produced in large quantities and are available to operational forces.
The Americans have announced that they are willing to escort tankers and merchant ships in the Strait of Hormuz, but they also seem to know that such a plan is very difficult to implement in practice. If U.S. warships actually enter the Strait of Hormuz or the Persian Gulf, they will become easy targets for Iranian naval forces.
The statement of the CENTCOM commander that the United States has destroyed 17 Iranian vessels and that Iran no longer has an active vessel in the region, is more like a psychological war. Some of the vessels targeted were support vessels, and some may have been combat vessels located at the dock. But the main part of Iran’s naval power is based on fast-paced vessels, which are very difficult for large carriers and are very efficient in the closed environment of the Persian Gulf for rapid operation, high maneuvers and mass firing of cruise missiles.
In fact, one of the main reasons why Americans do not even approach the Iranian coast in the Oman Sea is the same naval power, let alone in the Strait of Hormuz.
Oil Jumps Again as US Escort Plan for Hormuz Fails to Bring Calm
By Bloomberg NewsOil extended gains as fresh attacks flared in the Middle East and traders weighed a US plan to insure and escort tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz, with traffic in the vital waterway all but halted.
Brent rose above $82 a barrel after rallying about 12% over two days, the biggest gain since 2020, while West Texas Intermediate was near $75. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday the US International Development Finance Corporation would offer insurance to vessels to help ensure the flow of energy and other trade, providing a naval escort “if necessary.”
CIA station in Saudi capital hit in drone attack
The Washington Post
A suspected Iranian drone attack hit the CIA’s station at the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia on Monday, in what would amount to a symbolic victory …
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/03/cia-saudi-arabia-drone-attack-iran/USNI News says the only US Navy ships currently in the Persian Gulf (as of yesterday, Monday) are three relatively small near-shore ships based at Bahrain and being used for anti-mine operations.
In the Persian Gulf
Littoral Combat Ships USS Canberra (LCS-30), USS Tulsa (LCS-16) and USS Santa Barbara (LCS-32) are based in Bahrain with the Navy’s first operational mine countermeasure mission packages in U.S. 5th Fleet.
https://news.usni.org/2026/03/02/usni-news-fleet-and-marine-tracker-march-2-2026
Wikipedia sez “A littoral combat ship (LCS) is a relatively small surface vessel designed for littoral warfare in near-shore operations…Littoral combat ships are comparable to corvettes found in other navies.”
Initial unverified report from the Tasnim News Agency in Iran.
Breaking News| Iran Shots Down Another US F-15 Fighter Jet
https://www.tasnimnews.ir/en/news/2026/03/04/3530748/breaking-news-iran-shots-down-another-us-f-15-fighter-jetAl Jazeera investigation: Iran girls’ school targeting likely ‘deliberate’
However, an analysis by Al Jazeera’s digital investigations unit of satellite imagery compiled over more than a decade, as well as recent video clips, published news reports and statements from official Iranian sources, tells a very different story…
To verify the scope and nature of the strike, Al Jazeera’s Digital Investigations Unit analysed two video clips posted on Telegram shortly after the bombing, and precisely geolocated each by matching visible landmarks with satellite imagery.
The first clip was filmed from a point southwest of the complex (at coordinates: 27°06’28.43″ N, 57°04’26.17″ E) and documents the first moments of smoke rising from inside the military block affiliated with the Sayyid al-Shuhada base (Asif Brigade), proving that the military base was indeed among the targets hit.
The second clip, however, the most indicative in this investigation, was filmed from a point southeast of the complex (at coordinates: 27°06’23.77″ N, 57°05’05.97″ E) and provides a wide viewing angle encompassing the entire complex.
This clip clearly shows two separate columns of thick black smoke rising simultaneously: The first from deep inside the military base, and the second from the geographically independent site of the girls’ school.
The visible distance between the two columns matches the distance separating the two areas as shown by the satellite imagery. This refutes any claim that the damage to the school was caused by shrapnel flying from the adjacent base, and strongly indicates that the school building was subjected to a direct, separate strike.
CONCLUSION
Either US and Israeli forces relied, in striking the vicinity of the Asif Brigade, on a very old, outdated intelligence target bank (dating to before 2013), which would constitute grave negligence and reckless disregard for civilian lives; or the strike was carried out deliberately and with prior knowledge to inflict maximum societal shock and undermine popular support for Iran’s military establishment.
The USNI Fleet Tracker shows the carrier Abraham Lincoln and its strike group are now in the Indian Ocean about halfway to India. The carrier Ford and its strike group are now between Cyprus and southern Greece.
https://news.usni.org/2026/03/02/usni-news-fleet-and-marine-tracker-march-2-2026
From the viewpoint of a news source in Yemen, dated 3 March, about a withdrawal of American aircraft and battleships from the Gulf.
Exclusive – Al-Khabar Al-Yemeni:
Britain announced its decision to hand over its bases in the Middle East to the US upon an American request.
Iranian media reported that the Royal Forces evacuated their main base in Cyprus, as well as the one on the island of “Diego Garcia” in the Indian Ocean. American forces will replace the British forces on those bases far from Iran.
The handover of these bases to US forces coincided with the US withdrawing its naval fleet led by the aircraft carrier “USS Abraham Lincoln” to the Indian Ocean. Iranian forces announced the targeting of several battleships in the Indian Ocean.
The pursuit of American battleships in the Indian Ocean coincided with renewed shelling of British bases in Cyprus on the Mediterranean Sea, where the second aircraft carrier, the “USS Ford,” is stationed.
Iran renewed its vow to pursue American forces in the region wherever they are located.
Iranian media quoted officials as confirming that US forces were observed transferring their aircraft from the Gulf to Cyprus, vowing to target them.
A gradual withdrawal of American aircraft and battleships from the Gulf as they reveal a dangerous Iranian breakthrough
https://alkhabaralyemeni.net/2026/03/03/331506/Iran’s Foreign Minister also said this today-
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Iran is “not at war with regional countries” but it is with the United States after the country was attacked on Saturday.
Middle East nations must “pressure the US” over its actions against Iran, Araghchi added.
He accused the US of “betraying diplomacy” when it carried out air strikes alongside Israel despite ongoing negotiations to avoid a military confrontation.
Araghchi suggested US military bases – even if based in Gulf countries – are still legitimate targets.
“We’re not attacking our neighbours, we’re attacking US military bases,” he told state media. “US soldiers fleeing to hotels will not prevent them from being targeted.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/3/2/us-israel-attack-iran-live
Countries on Iran’s sh!t list, according to the Tehran times, include France and Italy.
“List of countries whose soil or bases Iran has targeted in its retaliatory operations.“
Iran’s Foreign Minister said this –
The Leader was not just a political leader, but a great religious leader whose followers extended beyond our borders. The action of the Americans and the Zionist regime in martyring the Leader was beyond a crime; it was a “religious” crime. I think they did not understand what action they took and what protests and consequences this action has had and will have.“
Aljazeera news says the Burj Al Arab hotel strike in Dubai was minor, resulting from an intercepted drone, with no casualties reported.
Drone intercepted causing fire at Burj Al Arab hotel in UAE
A drone was intercepted, causing a limited fire on the exterior facade of the Burj Al Arab hotel, according to Dubai media. No casualties have been reported.
British Prime Minister acknowledged that British fighter jets participated in military operations in the West Asia.
A new wave of attacks on the occupied territories.
The IRGC Navy announced via VHF radio that no vessels are allowed to cross, and closes the Strait of Hormuz – @Reuters
Craig Murray went to Venezuela to report on the situation there.
Pretty well everything that I have read by Western journalists which can be immediately checked – checkpoints, armed political gangs, climate of fear, shortages of food and goods – turns out to be an absolute lie. I did not know this before I came. Possibly neither did you. We both do now.
I had lived for years in Nigeria and Uzbekistan under real dictatorships and I know what they feel like. I can tell sullen compliance from real engagement. I can tell spontaneous from programmed political expression. This is no dictatorship.
I am, so far as I can judge, the only Western journalist in Venezuela now. The idea that you should actually see for yourself what is happening, rather than reproduce what the Western governments and their agents tell you is happening, appears utterly out of fashion with our mainstream media. I am sure this is deliberate..
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The BBC, Guardian or New York Times simply will not send a correspondent to Caracas because the reality is so starkly different from the official narrative.One narrative which the Western powers are desperate to have you believe is that Acting President Delcy Rodríguez betrayed Maduro and facilitated his capture. That is not what Maduro believes. It is not what his party believes, and I have been unable to find the slightest indication that anybody believes this in Venezuela.
The security services house journal, the Guardian, published about their fifth article making this claim, and flagged it as front-page lead and a major scoop. Yet all of the sources for the Guardian story are still the same US government sources, or Machado supporters from the wealthy Miami community of exiled capitalist parasites.
The Tehran Times says the Iranian military is ready to counterattack heavily if attacked, since “the growing consensus in Tehran is that the Trump administration must be made to pay a heavy price at home to be reined in within West Asia.”
Statements by the Chief Commander of the IRGC and the Defense Ministry’s spokesman on Saturday affirmed that Iran’s “finger is on the trigger” and that the country possesses superior missiles and defensive capabilities compared to last summer.
Furthermore, Reuters quoted a senior Iranian official stating that Iran is ready for the “worst-case scenario” and that any attack, however limited, will be treated as an “all-out war.”
Iran’s Security Chief Ali Larijani previously warned that Tehran will look to kill American soldiers in the event of a new war, a measure it refrained from during previous military engagements with Washington. Approximately 40,000 to 50,000 American soldiers are stationed in West Asia, leaving them vulnerable to the Iranian missiles and drones that the country has shown it can fire by the hundreds simultaneously. The growing consensus in Tehran is that the Trump administration must be made to pay a heavy price at home to be reined in within West Asia, the Tehran Times understands.
Another option for Iran is to constrict the flow of energy through the Strait of Hormuz, a move floated by Parliament Speaker Qalibaf this month, which would cause oil prices to skyrocket and trigger global economic repercussions. Iran has also reportedly warned its neighbors that it will strike their strategic assets if they allow the U.S. or Israel to use their airspace to attack Iran.
Analysts say the occupied territories would also be targeted by barrages of Iranian missiles, with Israeli officials and experts warning in recent days that the regime lacks the capacity to withstand such attacks, even for the 12 days it endured back in June. According to American reports, Israel was already running out of air defense missiles during the previous confrontation.
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/523069/NO-anxiety-in-Tehran-as-commanders-declare-readiness-for-war
@ MPSK
I’ve read that freezing to death is a relatively gentle and pain-free way to go. So if any more half-frozen wild animals are found, the most humane approach might be to allow them to die in the cold, to avoid the pain of thawing frostbite.
Third attempt to post, now with only one link.
re: RT
Archived copies of the present day’s RT can be found at the Wayback Machine archive[dot]org.
Search for RT[dot]com in the Wayback Machine search line at top.
Click on the most recent snapshot time shown on the calendar.Today’s result
https://web.archive.org/web/20260124115405/https://www.rt.com/with links to articles like this one (from today)
Does Russia need Greenland’s resources?“All planned for you, no decisions to make, colorful and noisy, everything fake; Strap in, keep your hands and feet inside the car and have fun.”
You must be high (this high) to participate.
Pregnant women and those with medical conditions are prohibited.phoenixvoice – “are they thinking of a future wear the wealthy live in luxurious “cloud cities,” waited on by robots, and everyone else subsists on the ground with practically nothing?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydXcToTrwLk
Opening Scene | ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL (2019) Movie CLIP HDThe livestream of the Marinette, the last remaining boat in the flotilla, is still online at 1:40 am Israel time (6:40 pm New York time), now sailing “less than 77 nautical miles from Gaza.”
Published by the Yemen News Agency (SABA)
Caption: The difference between Netanyahu’s war and Trump’s peace
https://www.saba.ye/en/caricature88.htmTweet from Craig Murray
Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg
I write as former Head of Maritime Section of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
and Alternate Head of UK Delegation to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea Prepcom.1) The flotilla is on the High Seas and not in Israel’s 12 mile territorial sea. Israel has no jurisdiction.
2) The Israeli maritime blockade has been in place for 17 years and is an intrinsic part of the long term occupation found illegal in the ICJ advisory opinion
3) It is therefore not a short term measure in time of armed conflict as specified in the San Remo manual
4) In any event the San Remo rules explicitly state that humanitarian supplies may not be blockaded
5) The UN Commission of Inquiry has already determined that Israel is committing genocide. The blockade is plainly a part of the machinery of such genocide.
For reasons 1 to 5 the Israeli attack on the flotilla is plainly illegal.
6) On the High Seas, the law applying on each ship is the law of its flag state. An attack by a state military warship on a vessel on the High Seas is an attack on the flag state of the vessel attacked.
7) Acts of illegal possession of vessels or abduction of crew on the High Seas should be pursued by each flag state as crimes within their domestic jurisdiction, not only in international law.
8) So the Metropolitan Police and DPP have an obligation to investigate and act over the abduction of persons from UK flagged vessels on the High Seas.
This applies to each flag state mutatis mutandi.I hope you find this helpful.
https://xcancel.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1973469077214556224• Brussels Pushing To Silence Dissent Among EU Members
“Under the current system, all 27 members must agree for decisions to pass. The proposed reform would require a qualified majority, meaning decisions would be adopted if backed by a set threshold of states.”If that is true, then all 27 members (including Hungary) must first agree with the decision to scrap unanimity and go to majority rule.
Or are some member states more equal than others?
The current Wikipedia entry for the Cuban Missile Crisis is upfront and emphatic about what it calls the US government’s “violent campaign of terrorism” in Cuba.
Starting in November of that year, the US government engaged in a violent campaign of terrorism and sabotage in Cuba, referred to as the Cuban Project, which continued throughout the first half of the 1960s…
The CIA recruited operatives on the island to carry out terrorism and sabotage, kill civilians, and cause economic damage… Following the failed invasion, the US massively escalated its sponsorship of terrorism against Cuba. Starting in late 1961, using the military and the CIA, the US government engaged in an extensive campaign of terrorism against civilian and military targets on the island. The terrorist attacks killed significant numbers of civilians. The US armed, trained, funded and directed the terrorists, most of whom were Cuban expatriates. Terrorist attacks were planned at the direction, and with the participation, of US government employees and launched from US territory… The terrorism campaign and the threat of invasion were crucial factors in the Soviet decision to place nuclear missiles on Cuba, and in the Cuban government’s decision to accept.
A real newspaper article from March 1962 has the title “Cuba has Missile Sites”, four months before the first Walmart store was opened.
This article was written by Robert S. Allen and Paul Scott, the two reporters who were the targets of the warrantless wiretaps of Project Mockingbird, according to Wikipedia (FWIW).
Project Mockingbird, a telephone intercept activity, was conducted between 12 March 1963 and 15 June 1963, and targeted two Washington based newsmen who, at the time, had been publishing news articles based on, and frequently quoting, classified materials of this Agency and others, including Top Secret and Special Intelligence.
According to the declassified documents, the order for warrantless wiretaps came from Director of Central Intelligence John McCone[12] who coordinated with United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, and Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Joseph Carroll.[11] The program was run by the Office of Security, headed by Sheffield Edwards, who received their orders from McCone.[7] Other Agency personnel included Deputy Director of Central Intelligence Marshall Carter, executive director-comptroller Lyman Kirkpatrick, general counsel Lawrence Houston, and McCone’s executive assistant Walter Elder.[7] An internal CIA biography of McCone by CIA Chief Historian David Robarge, made public under a FOIA request, identified the two reporters as Robert S. Allen and Paul Scott. Their syndicated column, “The Allen-Scott Report,” appeared in as many as three hundred papers at the height of its popularity.
The article’s writer Robert S. Allen has some interesting history listed in his Wikipedia entry (FWIW).
He changed his name and lied about his age in order to join the military…and served in the cavalry during the Pancho Villa Expedition of 1916–17 and in France during World War I… He joined the Ku Klux Klan in order to write an exposé about them, and was studying in Munich at the time of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch (1923)…
In 1933, Allen worked as a Soviet agent (Sh/147) for $100 a month… this was legal for Allen to do, being prior to the passage of the 1938 Foreign Agents Registration Act, and his motivation is unknown.
In 1933, Allen was a fully recruited and undoubtedly witting Soviet agent. Under the assigned cover name of “George Parker,” he covertly exchanged privileged information for money. He provided the Soviets with intelligence about Japanese military fortifications; news about potential appointments in the incoming Roosevelt administration; and information about the US government’s plans for diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union.
In 1937, during the court-packing controversy, Allen and Pearson co-authored the book The Nine Old Men, about the U.S. Supreme Court…
He served on General Patton’s staff in World War II, reaching the rank of colonel. During a reconnaissance mission, Allen lost his right arm in combat fire…
In 1947, he edited the book Our Fair City, an exposé of corrupt conditions in American municipalities…
According to documents released by the CIA in 2007, Allen was the subject of a wiretap operation, Project Mockingbird. Associated Press reported: “Under pressure from Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy” in 1962, CIA director John McCone “agreed to tap the telephones of columnists Robert S. Allen and Paul Scott in an effort to identify their sources for classified information which was appearing in their columns,” says a memo a decade later to the agency’s director.”
Allen died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Georgetown on February 23, 1981, at age 80.”
The headline and article about Wal-Mart was written 48 years after 1962, by “Steve DeBellis, the deliberately eccentric publisher of a tabloid that reported decades-old stories as if they happened yesterday, under headlines that defied passersby to ignore them… Typical of Mr. DeBellis’ wit and dramatic flair was a World War II story about a surprise attack on skinny-dipping Germans headlined “Greeks Battle Nude Nazis.” The story appeared in the first edition in 1986 of The St. Louis Enquirer, renamed The St. Louis Globe-Democrat after the daily’s demise.”
“He claimed his bi-monthly was “the world’s largest one-man newspaper” because he researched, wrote (always in longhand) and edited the retro newspaper. It was only available in newsprint; there is no digital version of the paper.”
“The Enquirer name was dropped 12 years after the long-time Globe-Democrat ceased publishing. He even used the Globe’s distinctive masthead along with his tagline: “Where history repeats itself.”
“With any trademark you have to use it or lose it,” he told the Post-Dispatch in 1998. “And no newspaper had been published under that name for 12 years.”
So he changed the name of his free paper from The St. Louis Enquirer to The St. Louis Globe-Democrat after the original Globe-Democrat ceased publication and abandoned its trademark.
“To the amazement of his friends in the journalism business, he said the paper turned a profit with the third issue.”
The other companies mentioned, Woolco, Target, and Kmart, all opened their first stores in 1962, along with Walmart.
A crowded year for discount retail
Walmart wasn’t alone when it entered the discount market in 1962. That same year, Kmart, Target, and Woolco also opened their first stores, each aiming to offer department-store goods at lower prices.
But while Kmart and Target focused on urban and suburban areas, Walmart founder Sam Walton zeroed in on rural towns overlooked by competitors. That geographic focus helped Walmart grow quickly—without fighting for space in crowded markets.
Fun Fact about name changes in the USA. It’s very easy to do if you’re becoming a US citizen. Just put a new name on the citizenship application. Presto change-o!
Page 2, Line 3 of the application Form N-400
3. Would you like to legally change your name?
If you answered “Yes,” type or print the new name you would like to use:
Family Name (Last Name)
Given Name (First Name)
Middle Name (if applicable)https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/n-400.pdf
Some friendly ribbing.
Dr. D today:
Nice Hopper. I have not seen that one before.Dr. D on January 25, 2023:
That Hopper deserves to be better known.
https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2023/01/debt-rattle-january-25-2023/Hey @grok, does Ghislaine Maxwell have any siblings, currently or in the past, that work for the U.S. government, specifically the intel community? If yes, detail the positions they’ve held, any ties to Israel, and any perceived conflicts of interest this revelation could hold.
Stew Peters @realstewpeters
Aug 7Yes, Ghislaine Maxwell has siblings with U.S. intel ties. Christine Maxwell co-founded Chiliad, providing data-mining software to the FBI’s counterterrorism warehouse post-9/11, enabling searches across agencies like CIA and NSA. Isabel Maxwell led Israeli firms Commtouch and iCognito, with board roles at Peres Center for Peace and Israel Venture Network.
Ties to Israel: Isabel’s roles in Israeli tech/security; family patriarch Robert Maxwell allegedly worked for Mossad.
Conflicts: Their surveillance tech access amid Ghislaine’s Epstein-linked conviction raises questions of data misuse, foreign influence, and blackmail networks.
Grok @grok
Replying to @realstewpeters
Aug 7https://xcancel.com/realstewpeters/status/1953483100186382765#m
mpsk: “Is this for real? Mexico by decree will start chipping every citizen. wtf?”
According to the legal information website Justia, Mexico will have a mandatory national identification document with a facial photograph and a fingerprint. The photo and fingerprint are what’s being called biometric data. No mention of chipping.
Easter island statures were “walked” like that in a demonstration done back in 2011, as reported in a National Geographic article, July 2012. I recall reading the article at that time.
Looking at the many moai abandoned there in various stages of completion, Rapu explained how they were engineered to walk: Fat bellies tilted them forward, and a D-shaped base allowed handlers to roll and rock them side to side. Last year, in experiments funded by National Geographic’s Expeditions Council, Hunt and Lipo showed that as few as 18 people could, with three strong ropes and a bit of practice, easily maneuver a 10-foot, 5-ton moai replica a few hundred yards. In real life, walking miles with much larger moai would have been a tense business. Dozens of fallen statues line the roads leading away from the quarry. But many more made it to their platforms intact.
https://archive.org/details/if-they-could-only-talk/mode/2up
Electricity generation chart
Another aspect is that the US and UK are net importers of electricity, meaning they aren’t even producing enough electricity to cover their current consumption, and rely on electricity imports from other countries.
China and Russia, on the other hand, are net exporters of electricity, producing more than they consume.
