I have seen zero evidence of damaged cables, only claims. If the managing operator wants a cable to stop working he has only to take a trivial action. Who is in a better position to cause a cable to “fail”, a ship’s operator, or the cable operator?
Wiki gives 4 popular methods of fentanyl synthesis. China may be at this time a simple source of precursor materials, but this is not a sole source. Any bright chemist can figure additional pathways, if the profits are there. see> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fentanyl
In the happy days of the DDR the commie boffins invented an unbreakable glass. With the invasion by the fascist west development of this glass (and many other useful materials) came to a stop. Almost! Here is a report on the current state of development of a new process to make this glass.
Shatterproof glass? Sounds almost too good to be true! But something like this has already existed. In the GDR under the name “Superfest”. But the process was lengthy and expensive – and disappeared from the market after the fall of the Berlin Wall. 37-year-old Martin Groß from Freiberg has spent years tinkering to revive and further develop this process: He mixes the old chemical process used in GDR glass with a different hardening process. According to Martin, the treated glass is four times stronger than conventional glass.
But what is Martin’s invention worth? Jacob Herenz, content creator and aspiring glassmaker, and engineer Matthias Seel from the TU Darmstadt are testing how great the potential of this process is and whether it can survive on the market in the future. Can the new method convince the experts in practical tests?”
The criminal proposal of Orange fellas to steal Gaza and build casino resorts reminds me of a smaller but similar crime spree… Most y’all never heard of Chavez Ravine… If I recall correctly, essentially the city made a deal with a sports team to steal private property, evict the people, and build a stadium and then give it to the team…a private corporation and claim that this was legal according to eminent domain.
Of course the claim of eminent domain cannot apply to the Gaza Casino Plan… Recalling that nazi is what nazi does…
Thanks, I read the transcript. Doctorow’s view is grander, overarching…and incidentally dismisses the Gaza “ownership” stuff. The two views are not in alignment. Gilbert’s analysis may be somewhat comforting. I found it so.
Yes, I too noted the bull, and considered the “need” to attack “some shitty little country”. Well, we discussed loose cannons… As to the attack on Mexican cartels, let’s bear in mind all those mysteriously disappeared weapons from project 404… 😉 and recall that the assumption of asymmetry is not valid… things in CONUS can happen too. My own personal view, based on contretemps in parking lots or bars, is that the cure for a bully is sudden and massive. I suppose it scales up. And suppose we’ll see,
