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top of the heap to third world status in one generation

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St. Phatty

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armedoldhippy said:
found any black widow spiders yet? got them here...
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Yes. Got bit on the neck by one about 5 years ago.

The #1 object I think every Spider Bite patient should have ... A CAMERA.

The swelling was pretty epic. Looked like I was on the make-up set on Star Trek, and was halfway made up to be a Romulan.

Then a few days later, the swelling moved from the right side to the left side.

Then it moved to the left ear, which was swollen, bright red, looked like Yoda.

Then it moved to the top of my head and the swelling started decreasing.

The original bite was on my neck, right next to the vein/artery.

Never went to the doctor.

Damn I wish I had had more cameras.
 
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The Knackerman: the toughest job in British farming -

The knackerman: the toughest job in British farming | Farming | The Guardian

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Gry

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What Biden Didn’t Say About US in Afghanistan


When I met a 7-year-old girl named Guljumma at a refugee camp in Kabul a dozen years ago, she told me that bombs fell early one morning while she slept at home in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand Valley. With a soft, matter-of-fact voice, Guljumma described what happened. Some people in her family died. She lost an arm.

Troops on the ground didn’t kill Guljumma’s relatives and leave her to live with only one arm. The U.S. air war did.

There’s no good reason to assume the air war in Afghanistan will be over when — according to President Joe Biden’s announcement on Wednesday — all U.S. forces will be withdrawn from that country.

What Biden didn’t say was as significant as what he did say. He declared that “U.S. troops, as well as forces deployed by our NATO allies and operational partners, will be out of Afghanistan” before Sept. 11. And “we will not stay involved in Afghanistan militarily.”

But Biden did not say that the United States will stop bombing Afghanistan. What’s more, he pledged that “we will keep providing assistance to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces,” a declaration that actually indicates a tacit intention to “stay involved in Afghanistan militarily.”

And, while the big-type headlines and prominent themes of media coverage are filled with flat-out statements that the U.S. war in Afghanistan will end come September, the fine print of coverage says otherwise.

The banner headline across the top of The New York Times homepage during much of Wednesday proclaimed: “Withdrawal of U.S. Troops in Afghanistan Will End Longest American War.”

Buried in Coverage

But, buried in the 32[SUP]nd[/SUP] paragraph of a story headed “Biden to Withdraw All Combat Troops From Afghanistan by Sept. 11,” the Times reported: “Instead of declared troops in Afghanistan, the United States will most likely rely on a shadowy combination of clandestine Special Operations forces, Pentagon contractors and covert intelligence operatives to find and attack the most dangerous Qaeda or Islamic State threats, current and former American officials said.”
Matthew Hoh, a Marine combat veteran who in 2009 became the highest-ranking U.S. official to resign from the State Department in protest of the Afghanistan war, told my colleagues at the Institute for Public Accuracy on Wednesday:
“Regardless of whether the 3,500 acknowledged U.S. troops leave Afghanistan, the U.S. military will still be present in the form of thousands of special operations and CIA personnel in and around Afghanistan, through dozens of squadrons of manned attack aircraft and drones stationed on land bases and on aircraft carriers in the region, and by hundreds of cruise missiles on ships and submarines.”​


We scarcely hear about it, but the U.S. air war on Afghanistan has been a major part of Pentagon operations there. And for more than a year, the U.S. government hasn’t even gone through the motions of disclosing how much of that bombing has occurred.

“We don’t know, because our government doesn’t want us to,” diligent researchers Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies wrote last month.
“From January 2004 until February 2020, the U.S. military kept track of how many bombs and missiles it dropped on Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, and published those figures in regular, monthly Airpower Summaries, which were readily available to journalists and the public. But in March 2020, the Trump administration abruptly stopped publishing U.S. Airpower Summaries, and the Biden administration has so far not published any either.”​


The U.S. war in Afghanistan won’t end just because Biden and U.S. news media tell us so. As Guljumma and countless other Afghan people have experienced, troops on the ground aren’t the only measure of horrific warfare.

No matter what the White House and the headlines say, U.S. taxpayers won’t stop subsidizing the killing in Afghanistan until there is an end to the bombing and “special operations” that remain shrouded in secrecy.

Norman Solomon is the national director of RootsAction.org and the author of many books including War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death. He was a Bernie Sanders delegate from California to the 2016 and 2020 Democratic National Conventions. Solomon is the founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy.

The views expressed are solely those of the author and may or may not reflect those of Consortium News.
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/04/16/what-biden-didnt-say-about-us-in-afghanistan/
 
armedoldhippy

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Gry

Gry

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armedoldhippy said:
aw, it aint lost. it's in the Mississippi delta & the Gulf of Mexico, along with the uncountable tons of excessive chemical fertilizers the Corn Belt farmers waste every year...
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The size of the dead zone at the mouth of the Mississippi grows larger every year.
Love to see the hydrocarbon hustlers and Hill and Knowlton types be blessed
with a fair exchange.
 
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St. Phatty

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Gry said:
The size of the dead zone at the mouth of the Mississippi grows larger every year.
Love to see the hydrocarbon hustlers and Hill and Knowlton types be blessed
with a fair exchange.
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what would happen if they took all that ag run-off & gave it to a large parcel of land seeded with Cannabis.

2500 square miles or something, 50x50.

You'd get big plants that some people would find smoke-able.

And a whole bunch of seeds.

And maybe a cleaner Gulf of Mexico.

I have a feeling that last part is not a priority.
 
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