Most popular Soda by US state
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DEVELOPING! Adelanto, California: SBCoFD is on-scene of a large industrial battery on fire.

This battery was being tested, comprised on a new combination of materials, and was not a lithium ion battery. Incident command has been established and hazardous materials units are arriving.

@police_frequency

"Trump’s directive to rebuild and reopen the long-shuttered penitentiary was the latest salvo in his effort to overhaul how and where federal prisoners and immigration detainees are locked up. But such a move would likely be an expensive and challenging proposition. The prison was closed in 1963 due to crumbling infrastructure and the high costs of repairing and supplying the island facility, because everything from fuel to food had to be brought by boat."

https://apnews.com/article/trump-alcatraz-prison-fabe3385415ae03829d44e50efb3c1fb

Sensor Sweep: Nictzin Dyalhis, Battletech, Conan

Weird Tales (Tellers of Weird Tales): The illustration on the cover of Weird Tales for April 1925 is for “When the Green Star Waned” by Nictzin Dyalhis. The artist was Andrew Brosnatch. It shows a man who appears to be falling into a mass of aliens that have invaded Earth. In actuality, the aliens have […]

http://www.castaliahouse.com/sensor-sweep-nictzin-dyalhis-battletech-conan/

"A Family Tree" by Norman Rockwell - 1959

A labeled map of Vatican City
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Xi Jinping has faced growing skepticism and discontent within China due to strict Covid lockdowns, a slowing economy and attacks on entrepreneurs. Now Donald Trump has handed him a gift to rally support at home: an external enemy. https://archive.ph/KWIn4

The Return of the Mercenary

Which raises the natural question: if mercenaries are back, is the return of the City-State next? At my Australian High School, there was a weekly assembly of all students and time was always set aside for us to sing the national anthem. Yet almost no one sung it. Some would mouth it, others hum, while […]

https://voxday.net/2025/05/05/the-return-of-the-mercenary/

Africa In 10 Million Years
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Spinning your wheels: The Dow today is actually lower in than 1929 in real terms



“The Dow at year-end 2020 was worth less than what it was at its peak in 1929, 91 years earlier. The government and the Fed have succeeded in issuing money and facilitating the expansion of credit, thereby obscuring true values and keeping people complacent, even giddy, over their “gains” while they are in fact just spinning their wheels…
In other words, stocks are not cheap; they are historically overpriced.”


https://www.elliottwave.com/landing/read-chapter-5-of-conquer-the-crash/

Once upon a time, a trickster came to town.

Some recognized what he was doing with his jokes and pranks, but others could only see the disruption he caused.

Horrified by what they saw in the mirror he held up to their own actions, they called him names, made him taboo, and drove him into the wilderness.

And then told the story as if they were the good guys for saving the world from his pranks.

But some of us were there. We remember. https://open.substack.com/pub/fencingbearatprayer/p/pirate-guidelines

"I was there, in March 2017, when Professor Peterson described Milo as a trickster and praised his courage in the face of attack. I was there, fifteen months later, in June 2018, when Bari Weiss asked Professor Peterson whether Milo was not, in fact, a racist, to which Professor Peterson replied: “I haven’t followed Milo that carefully.” I was there—and I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.

"Fast forward to the other morning, and the renoscripting was complete. Milo, both Professor Peterson and Mr. Kirk remembered, had been there, there in the battle, there in the fray. “Too bad Milo fell off the edge of the world, but he had a pretty rough go of it,” Professor Peterson commented, more sad than critical, as if there were nothing he could have done to help. “He had a lot of trauma. A lot.”"

https://fencingbearatprayer.substack.com/p/pirate-guidelines#:~:text=I%20was%20there%2C%20in,trauma.%20A%20lot.%E2%80%9D

https://escapekey.substack.com/p/the-invisible-college

... "history is increasingly shaped not by emperors or parliaments, but by an ‘invisible college’ — a loosely networked elite of thinkers, planners, and administrators who steer civilisation through models, metrics, and metaphysical assumptions." ..."They did not seize power; they designed the logic through which power now governs."

"What made all this possible was systems theory: the translation of metaphysical unity into operational architecture. And the custodians of this balancing act — the ones who decide which mode is applied, and how — are not elected officials, but the modern heirs of Plato’s philosopher-kings. Their role is not to debate truth, but to manage the structure of the whole."

And now, the entire architecture is visible. The Sustainable Development Goals offer the unified telos: a system of measurable virtue, aligning ethics, economics, and ecology into a matrix of global targets. Governance is no longer directional — it is procedural. The SDGs are not political ideals but cybernetic endpoints: calibrated indicators guiding planetary management under the banner of the ‘common good’. This system is coordinated not by national parliaments, but by a transnational infrastructure — Agenda 21 aligning global governance structure, and the BIS-IMF-World Bank nexus managing global finance. Post–gold standard, post-democratic, and post-political, this is monism operationalised: a single architecture to balance the world."

..."For most, the result is not freedom but a classless, post-political feudalism: a managed life under fully automated systems of compliance, nudged toward the common good. Above it all, a handful ascend — initiates of a new rational order — preparing to take their seats in the cockpit of Spaceship Earth as TH Huxley in 1893 annnounced that they should, governing not by persuasion, but by programme — Permanently.

The only question is… who would be that ship’s captain 26?"

🇪🇪🏴‍☠️🇺🇦 Former Estonian president sells tie to support Ukraine.

Toomas Ilves is known for wearing bow ties. He will sell one of them at auction as part of the Haapsalu Film Festival on May 1–3. The proceeds will be donated to Ukraine.

The Balts sent all five machine guns they had in the country to Ukraine. Now they have to resort to extreme measures.