sean foo

(a good overview.  @ 9:10 there’s a chart displaying russia’s status…also canada’s appeal.

xinhua

china focus: Chinese scientists find evidence for existence of intermediate-mass black holes

https://english.news.cn/20250222/ae1365124514431faa018a5f62b5f682/c.html

thank you, dear AHH, for sharing brigadier-general pierre marie gallois.

i lived in yugoslavia when i was in my late teens, early 20s.  i loved it, it was beautiful but it was the people, the people were wonderful, intelligent & generous & genuinely happy, embracing life & each other with a joy & openness usually the sole domain of children.   for me there was no other place like it & i vowed to immigrate as soon as life & career allowed.

in 1990 i returned…enroute from russia, ignoring news reports & advice, determined to fulfill my dream of a home near the sea.  what i found was a country no longer recognizable.   it made no sense but malevolence hung like pesticide, every station, every waiting room & restaurant was packed with people circling the walls, milling, glaring, reeking hatred & every corner, every street screamed GET THEE GONE!

reason2resist

dimitri, nasrallah’s funeral

sputnik africa

senegal announces second batch of measures to lower cost of living

https://en.sputniknews.africa/20250222/senegal-announces-second-batch-of-measures-to-lower-cost-of-living-1070776384.html

thank you, dear crone, for following the biolabs.  sputnik (@ 52396) had a post on the 20th.  africa has been the preferred lab for decades, possibly a century.  the axis of resistance will assure the war tribunals will be long & so exhausting to never be forgotten.

ancient craft

US never expected this: Thailand officially joins BRICS, signalling the end of dollar dominance