Written By:
notices and features - Date published:
6:24 pm, July 23rd, 2019 - 24 comments
Categories: Daily review -
Tags:
The server will be getting hardware changes this evening starting at 10pm NZDT.
The site will be off line for some hours.
Electric car?
Good grief. I didn't know our country roads were that bad.
Bloody hoons. Car should be crushed.
Freshly disinterred.
https://twitter.com/stonecold2050/status/1153431300746833920
A sentence? How about 10 years?
Now I know why I prefer B & W photos and low-resolution.
Snapped mid-shapeshift.
Trump is just an old man who wants to be loved, by his daughter. ~ Frankie Boyle
I doubt Frankie has read this thread.*
(careful, conjectured awfulness, possible trigger)*
Many a true word eh.
I think the emotional read is probably pretty good, but everyone in the thread is reaching way too far for the causes of the read.
dolt45 is probably a little bit bored and cranky, and when they showed him Curchill's bed with reverence I think he just realised that he would never, ever be treated with that level of respect. This is a POTUS who gets outright shade from his staff – e.g. "I'm a real lawyer, sir", as documented in the Mueller report. His bed is going in a skip (or a biowaste container).
Ivanka's just doing a learned "respectful" posture – but she is focussed on dolt45, and knows he's close to being a fucking tool, again, in a UK national monument, so it's more exagerrated.
Where’s Ivanka?
Taking the photo?
https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/users/user1368/unwanted_moon_d-x6kmwx4aen303.jpg_large.jpg
That is Ivanka— before botox.
Amazing! How many injections did that take?
I was actually referring to the photo at the top 😉
"Just before 6pm, the two protesters were wearing head lamps and writing messages on the windows of the 20th floor. The blinds inside the offices had been pulled down."
I wonder if they'd "pull the blinds", betted they would and am glad they did; the symbolism is perfect for the activists.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/114430112/greenpeace-activists-climbing-the-majestic-centre-in-central-wellington
The climbers are still on the building, but heading slowly down to the ground.
https://youtu.be/mAdC0z7AsRQ
We're going to roast ourselves.
Heatwaves fuel fires
Since the start of June, the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) has tracked over 100 intense and long-lived wildfires in the Arctic Circle. In June alone, these fires emitted 50 megatonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which is equivalent to Sweden’s total annual emissions. This is more than was released by Arctic fires in the same month between 2010 and 2018 combined.
Although wildfires are common in the northern hemisphere between May and October, the latitude and intensity of these fires, as well as the length of time that they have been burning for, has been particularly unusual, according to CAMS Senior Scientist and wildfires expert, Mark Parrington.
The ongoing Arctic fires have been most severe in Alaska and Siberia, where some have been large enough to cover almost 100 000 football pitches, or the whole of Lanzarote. In Alberta, Canada, one fire is estimated to have been bigger than 300 000 pitches. In Alaska alone, CAMS has registered almost 400 wildfires this year, with new ones igniting every day.
The average June temperature in the parts of Siberia where wildfires are raging, was almost ten degrees higher than the 1981–2010 long-term average.
https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/unprecedented-wildfires-arctic
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/395025/departments-review-policies-after-ssc-report-into-political-leanings-survey-questions
New Zealand Politics 2:18 pm today
Departments review policies after SSC report into political leanings survey questions
Questions about political leanings in surveys by Inland Revenue, the Department of Conservation and Statistics NZ were inappropriate and had the potential to undermine political neutrality, the State Services Commission has found.
Charlie Stross reads the tea leaves.
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2019/07/whoops-apocalypse.html
And Alan Beresford B'Stard is an MP.
https://twitter.com/IanDunt/status/1153214644573618178
https://twitter.com/Turloughc/status/1152881429589704704
The butchers have been busy.
/
AMMAN (Reuters) – Air strikes on a popular market and residential neighborhoods killed at least 32 people and wounded dozens on Monday in an attack on one of the main opposition-held cities in northwestern Syria, rescuers and residents said.
The raids, believed to be carried out by either Syrian or Russian jets, targeted Maarat al-Numan, a densely populated city in the south of Idlib province, leaving a trail of destruction and carnage, they said.
[…]
Busy marketplaces and residential areas have been frequently targeted during a campaign waged by Syria and Russia since the end of April. Assaults on civilian areas have killed hundreds, rescuers say. Airstrikes killed another six people in the town of Saraqeb on Monday.
Russia’s Ministry of Defence on Monday denied its planes had carried out the latest air strikes, saying they had not flown any missions in Idlib.
Allegations of Russian involvement were “a fake” pushed by the White Helmets rescue workers, it said in statement.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-raids-idUSKCN1UH0QD
Digital mapping or "pilot error"?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/114453541/south-korea-fires-warning-shots-at-russian-planes-after-airspace-violation
Hormuz is not the only space in contention it seems.
General election before Christmas?
https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1153626709503160321