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Aug 14 2025 
Slices of Life 2
If Trump’s weapons overseas are bombs and missiles, his domestic ones are primarily words.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Biggest, Longest and Hottest Wordsmith Ever — Aug 09, 2025.
Michael Snyder’s The Economic Collapse Blog has been around for over a decade. Its gathering of raw statistics is most useful. Snyder has also published seven books on the… Continue reading
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Aug 12 2025 
Slices of Life
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Empty Bellies, Emptier Minds — Aug 06, 2025.
Arriving at Coffee Seven around 3:40AM, I sat on its one park bench to use the wifi. Five minutes later I could hear Mrs. Seven say to her white bitch, “Grandpa is here.” Knowing it already, the dog’s excited paws… Continue reading
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Nov 22 2024 
G20 knocks out G7 agendas
This G20 in Rio was all about the power of the Global South, with poverty eradication and genuine economic progress trumping the old G7 agendas of war, profit, and arm-twisting.
By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
The G20 summit in Rio earlier this week offered the quite intriguing spectacle of a deeply divided world, geopolitically and geoeconomically,… Continue reading
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Aug 28 2024 
BRICS and ASEAN: Focus on Food Security and Global Cooperation
The ASEAN+BRICS Roundtable on Sustainable Trade for Global Food Security, hosted by the Diplomatic Network (Asia) on August 14, 2024 underscored the increasing focus within Southeast Asia and Singapore on fostering collaboration with BRICS states and their institutional frameworks.
The deliberations centered on refining global governance and sustainable trade practices to enhance and safeguard food security,… Continue reading
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Mar 06 2024 
Russia’s Renaissance: at the Farm
Russian President Putin’s Day Down on the Farm in Stavropol Territory
with thanks to Karl at karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium
Clearly not a traditional farm; rather, it’s a bio-organic non-gmo “food factory” that produces much more than tomatoes. All the open ground at the top of the pic is for the next expansion phase. Krasnodar region is at… Continue reading
