…the era of censorship; Big Brother and Sister and Robot; planned pandemic; cleaved furins; Blinken-Yellen-Kagans-Nuland-Garland White House waging total war!!!!

Recent research has revealed that nearly half a million years ago, ancient human ancestors, predating Homo sapiens, were already engaging in advanced woodworking.

Well well, what will future scientists or AI robots be studying from our day and age?

[On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency put out a statement that several community systems in the state had stopped supplying drinking water and that the agency was monitoring for potential contamination. And on Friday, state officials in North Carolina said they were monitoring hog lagoons and working with water treatment plants and water systems “and responding to any releases or issues that impact public water supply.”

In an interview with Science, microbiologist Rachel Noble said that while “municipal systems have regular testing protocol,” it will still take time to get results for larger systems as well as the approximately 900,000 households that get their drinking water from private wells.

“To be safe, people should stick to bottled drinking water until their well can be tested,” Noble told Science.]

[Recent examinations of the health and environmental impacts of mountaintop mining – stripping the tops off of mountains to extract coal – has the practice looking pretty guilty. It apparently spikes birth defects, worsens chronic conditions like heart disease, and ruins land, and it doesn’t look like it will be clearing its name anytime soon. And PNAS has added one more strike to the list with new research that further demonstrates how mountaintop mining erodes long-term water quality and causes deformities in aquatic life. ]

[The key has been demonstrating the differences between conventional crude and tar sands oil. “We were one of the leading groups to look at the unique risks tar sands oil poses during extraction, refinement, and transportation via rail and pipeline,” Droitsch says. Tar sands extraction emits up to three times more global warming pollution than does producing the same quantity of conventional crude. It also depletes and pollutes freshwater resources and creates giant ponds of toxic waste. Refining the sticky black substance produces piles of petroleum coke, a hazardous by-product. “This isn’t your grandfather’s typical oil,” she says. “It’s nasty stuff.” ]

[If you find yourself driving down South Kolb Road in the Arizona city of Tucson, you’ll find the houses give way to a much more unusual view; rows of military aircraft, still and silent, spread out under the baking desert sun. On and on, everything from enormous cargo lifters to lumbering bombers, Hercules freighters and the F-14 Tomcat fighters made famous in Top Gun.

This is Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, run by the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (309 AMARG). It’s home to some 4,400 aircraft, arranged over nearly 2,600 acres (10.5 sq km). Some look like they were parked only a few hours ago, others are swathed in protective coverings to keep out the sand and dust. Inside the facilities’ hangars, other planes have been reduced to crates of spare parts, waiting to be sent out to other bases in the US or across the world to help other aircraft take to the air again. To those who work here, Davis-Monthan is known by a far less prosaic name, one more in keeping with the Wild West folklore from Arizona’s earlier days. They call it The Boneyard.]

[The worst oil spill in history, the Gulf War oil spill spewed an estimated 8 million barrels of oil into the Persian Gulf after Iraqi forces opened valves of oil wells and pipelines as they retreated from Kuwait in 1991. The oil slick reached a maximum size of 101 miles by 42 miles and was five inches thick. ]

[LARGEST WW1 CEMETERY

After Tyne Cot, other large WW1 cemeteries include Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium (10,786 burials), and Serre Road Cemetery No.2, France (7,137 burials).

LARGEST WW2 CEMETERY

The largest CWGC cemeteries commemorating World War Two casualties are the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery in Germany (7,671 burials) and El Alamein War Cemetery in Egypt (7,368 burials).

LARGEST WAR CEMETERY IN BELGIUM

The largest CWGC in Belgium is Tyne Cot Cemetery (11,978 burials). The next largest are Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery (10,786 burials) and Poelcapelle British Cemetery (7,478 burials). ]

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Oh the legacy of modern man, and I could include a thousand images of a thousand different examples of the hell on earth homo bellum and homo economicus and homo consumpethicus has unleashed on the world.

Versus =

[“My father was 79,” says Donaldo Gomez, who lives in the steep Andes Mountains of Colombia. “He wasn’t sick a day in his life. And then he gets killed by a mine!”

Gomez, whose father died in 2003, lives in an area that was once swarming with guerrillas. When the Colombian army moved into the region a few years ago, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, planted land mines to try to stop them. The same thing happened in many parts of the country.

As a result, some 11,000 Colombians have been killed or injured by mines over the past 25 years. These days, only Afghanistan racks up more annual land mine casualties: 451 people killed and injured in the past year. Colombia’s total for deaths and injuries last year was 285, including 45 children.]

Not Built by Homo sapiens – Scientists Discover “Extraordinary” 476,000-Year-Old Wooden Structure

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Look for this book by Richard Wrangham

Cooking is a human universal that must have had widespread effects on the nutrition, ecology, and social relationships of the species that invented it. The location and timing of its origins are unknown, but it should have left strong signals in the fossil record. We suggest that such signals are detectable at ca. 1.9 million years ago in the reduced digestive effort (e.g., smaller teeth) and increased supply of food energy (e.g., larger female body mass) of early Homo erectus. The adoption of cooking required delay of the consumption of food while it was accumulated and/or brought to a processing area, and accumulations of food were valuable and stealable. Dominant (e.g., larger) individuals (typically male) were therefore able to scrounge from subordinate (e.g., smaller) individuals (typically female) instead of relying on their own foraging efforts. Because female fitness is limited by access to resources (particularly energetic resources), this dynamic would have favored females able to minimize losses to theft. To do so, we suggest, females formed protective relationships with male co‐defenders. Males would have varied in their ability or willingness to engage effectively in this relationship, so females would have competed for the best food guards, partly by extending their period of sexual attractiveness. This would have increased the numbers of matings per pregnancy, reducing the intensity of male intrasexual competition. Consequently, there was reduced selection for males to be relatively large. This scenario is supported by the fossil record, which indicates that the relative body size of males fell only once in hominid evolution, around the time when H. erectus evolved. Therefore we suggest that cooking was responsible for the evolution of the unusual human social system in which pair bonds are embedded within multifemale, multimale communities and supported by strong mutual and frequently conflicting sexual interest.

Ahh, coal.

Barack Obama’s pledge to cut carbon emissions has not stopped North Antelope Rochelle mine in Wyoming. In fact, production is booming – and climate change is off the agenda. The Guardian’s Suzanne Goldenberg gets a rare look inside the biggest coal mine in the world.

And it’s all about sitting in your heated or air conditioned home, that office a la Zoom and five huge screens and powerful microprocessors and all that shake rattle and roll in the cloud. Fuck.

Data centers are booming. Their need for power is causing utilities to retreat on green energy =

[ChatGPT cause data centers to consume about 500 milliliters of water each time a user poses 5 to 50 prompts or questions. Considering that the chatbot has been the fastest-growing tech site visited on earth since the creation of the internet, that’s not an insignificant amount of water, prompting experts and environmentalists to ring alarm bells. As they race to capitalize on a craze for generative AI, leading tech developers including Microsoft, OpenAI and Google have acknowledged that growing demand for their AI tools carries hefty costs, from expensive semiconductors to an increase in water consumption.

But they’re often secretive about the specifics. Few people in Iowa knew about its status as a birthplace of OpenAI’s most advanced large language model, GPT-4, before a top Microsoft executive said in a speech it “was literally made next to cornfields west of Des Moines.]

Oh, those anthropologists like Wrangham, what dreams come true for humanity. Then all these techno-fascists? Mengele on steroids.

Ahh, the Jewish Legacy, a world without them?

We remembered all the miseries, all the injustices, our people and the conditions they lived, the coldness with which world opinion looks at our cause, and so we felt that we will not permit them to crush us. We will defend ourselves and our revolution by every way and every means.

George Habash (1926-2008) [ The Wise Man, The Doctor’; 1 August 1926 – 26 January 2008), was a Palestinian Christian politician and physician who founded the Marxist–Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). George Habash. جورج حبش General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. ]

A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle, and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor.

Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)

The Israeli military’s firing of white phosphorus shells over densely populated areas during the Gaza offensive “was indiscriminate and is evidence of war crimes,” Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Wednesday.

“In Gaza, the Israeli military didn’t just use white phosphorus in open areas as a screen for its troops,” said Fred Abrahams, a HRW senior emergencies researcher.

“It fired white phosphorus repeatedly over densely populated areas, even when its troops weren’t in the area and safer smoke shells were available. As a result, civilians needlessly suffered and died.”

Entitled “Rain of Fire: Israel’s Unlawful Use of White Phosphorus in Gaza,” the 71-page report provides “witness accounts” and “presents ballistics evidence, photographs, and satellite imagery, as well as documents from the Israeli military and government.”