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Retired agricultural scientist. Plant pathologist, so have killed many plants; maybe saved a few. Frequent sprayer of glyphosate. New Brunswick 🇨🇦 nbdatapoints.ca Also on Mastodon: @NBdatapoints@mstdn.ca
"The toppling of the democratically-elected PM sowed lasting resentment not only in Iran but the wider Middle East"
2019 doc reveals the tragic repercussions of US imperialism in Iran:
dmovies.org/2019/09/23/c...
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I thought it must have been a tanker of landfill leachate that sorubg6a leak.
Kamala Harris:
Let me just say, I predicted a lot about what's happening right now.
I'm not into saying I told you so, but we did see it coming.
The government in Havana has claimed that the 10 people on board speedboat planned to 'unleash terrorism' in Cuba.
“You may be grieving at first, but, believe me, you’ll be smiling when you see how much less you’re shelling out every month,” said President Donald Trump
Screenshot from FT story by Katie Martin, with final 20 or so words highlighted: "And yet, every conversation I have had with analysts and investors in the past few days, and the tone of almost every research note, has been something like this: “Don’t worry. Yes, this could get bad. Very bad. But Donald Trump doesn’t want high petrol prices in the run-up to the midterm elections in November, so his military will not stick around. The conflict won’t last long, oil and gas supplies will quickly get back to normal. History says the wisest path is to keep a cool head and stay invested, especially as the US, home to the world’s dominant financial markets, is nicely insulated from any energy supply shock.”
I mean it's just extraordinary that all these fund managers, analysts etc had no idea that any huge shock to the energy complex will absolutely mess with the US gasoline price regardless of how "self-sufficient" they are with oil
BREAKING: The Lebanese justice minister Adel Nassar will request the arrest of Hezbollah’s secretary general Naim Qassem.
Entertainment is winning. Postman was right.
this isn't just a MAGA thing, it's a cross-American one and *especially* a lot of people who came of age in politics or punditry in the 1990s. the idea that the news could happen to them - that the world might not be all going their way - is genuinely brain-breaking to a lot of them
Three weeks to go before opening day.
Up @sportsnet, let’s take a closer look at the three biggest questions facing the Blue Jays: www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/...
This is almost exactly what I said would happen on yesterday’s show. The conflicting & contradictory reasons given for the war, coupled with client journalists & pusillanimous politicians on both sides of the Atlantic, will enable him to claim ‘success’ when nothing remotely successful has happened.
Modi-Carney at the crease, India, Canada reset for a powerful innings
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi invoked the spirit of T20 cricket at the India-Canada CEO Forum
app.indiatoday.link/d/PCHc6xXUE5
On the left: a photo of a man on a stage in front of an audience while wearing a Hudson’s Bay point coat. On the right: text that reads Is it offensive to wear the Hudson's Bay point coat? The vintage garment commands big prices. But it’s tied to an ugly history.”
“What we wear is a representation of who we are, but that can get muddled by the competing contexts that come embedded in the clothes that we put on,” writes Rollie Pemberton. “When I wear my Carhartt J165 jacket in Hamilton, is it industrial cosplay?” https://ow.ly/4AVs50YpWsQ
Before the 2024 election, I kept saying that Trump et alia would break things people didn't realize could be broken and things people didn't even know *existed*, but were important. It's so frustrating.
The U.S. is urging Sri Lanka not to send back Iranian sailors from two ships involved in a recent incident where a U.S. submarine sank the Iranian warship IRIS Dena near Sri Lanka, killing dozens.
Zoetis, which produces veterinary pharmaceutical drugs, buys a genomics company. Goal seems to be to get into tailored pharma products.
www.producer.com/livestock/zo...
War in middle east region is driving up fertilizer prices just as Canadian farmers get ready for planting.
The region accounts for 50 per cent of global sulphur exports and 34 per cent of urea shipments
www.producer.com/crops/iran-w...
The White House position is that it is no big deal that Putin is helping Iran try to kill US soldiers.
Always remember rule #1. Putin can do no wrong in Trump’s eyes.
Wonder why that is?
The Alberta Utilities Commission has rejected a proposal for a massive rural data centre that would have consumed as much power as the city of Edmonton. It cited missing information and a lack of public consultation. thenarwhal.ca/olds-data-ce...
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘The tools to regulate AI exist, and they are also precisely what is being targeted. What is missing is the political will to apply them and the coordination to make that will count.’ @policyalternatives.ca
More on the struggle over control of an animal shelter in Chilliwack BC.
www.pauljhenderson.com/look-what-th...
'Maine lobsters flee US and want to immigrate to Canada. Critics say not enough housing'
The siege of Quebec was grinding on, 250 yrs ago, through the winter of 1776. Smallpox ravaged the American army outside the city & it was said that sex workers known to have smallpox were sent out by the British garrison to spread disease.
If true it makes it an early example of biological warfare
A Timbit a barrel!
