Granite machining in the past

There are a number of granite boxes machined to a remarkably high standard.  This at least means that they were not one offs.

The method I do propose is the use of a bronze blade riding on top of placer emory sand screened to various sizes.  The sand is under pressure and will chew up brittle granite.  The sand may even be glued onto the blade.

Resurfacing every day and then working the surface may well arrive at a perfect inside corner.

My take home though is that placer emory sand does exist and can be separated by sizing and just as obviously recovered as well from cuttings..  With a bronze tool, the emory sand blocks plate damage.

Now imagine a bronze sanding block using fine emory sand.  That inner corner works using craftsmanship alone and plenty ofv time..

Granite machining in the past

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This is really good news on what has been an intractable problem.  This czan solve the problem completely.

We have spent decades mastetring plastic fabrication tech, and now we will likel yspend as much time getting all this right.

The end result will be the elimination of all forms of plastic pollution.  It will still take decades for natural processes to break down the plastics inventory but it will be done.  with this development, we can start the replacement process.

New plastic dissolves in the ocean overnight, leaving no microplastics

By Michael Irving

March 27, 2025

A sample sheet of the new biodegradable plastic

Plastics are durable and strong, which is great while they’re being used but frustrating when they end up in the environment. Scientists at RIKEN in Japan have developed a new type of plastic that’s just as stable in everyday use but dissolves quickly in saltwater, leaving behind safe compounds.

The benefit of plastics is that they’re made with strong covalent bonds that hold their molecules together, meaning they take a lot of energy to break. This is why they’re so sturdy, long-lasting and perfect for everything from packaging to toys.

But those same strong bonds become a problem after the useful life of a plastic product is over. That cup you used once and threw away will sit in landfill for decades, even centuries, before it fully breaks down. And when it does, it forms microplastic pieces that are turning up in all corners of the natural world, including our own bodies, where they wreak havoc on our health in ways we’re only just beginning to understand.

RIKEN researchers have now developed a new type of plastic that can work just as well as the regular stuff when it’s needed, and break down readily into safe compounds when it’s not. It’s made of what are known as supramolecular polymers, which have reversible bonds that function like sticky notes that can be attached, removed and reattached, according to the team.

The team wanted to make a specific type of supramolecular polymer that would be strong enough for the usual uses of plastic, but could also be made to break down quickly when required, under mild conditions and leaving only non-toxic compounds.

After screening a range of molecules, the researchers identified a particular combination that seemed to have the right properties – sodium hexametaphosphate, which is a common food additive, and monomers based on guanidinium ions, which are used in fertilizers. When these two compounds are mixed together in water, they form a viscous material that can be dried to form plastics.

A reaction between the two ingredients forms “salt bridges” between the molecules that make the material strong and flexible, like conventional plastic. However, when they’re soaked in saltwater, the electrolytes unlock those bonds, and the material dissolves.

An artist's impression of the new plastic, showing the strong bonds above the water and how they break down when submerged in saltwater

RIKEN

In practice, the team found that the material was just as strong as normal plastic during use, and was non-flammable, colorless and transparent. Immersed in saltwater though, the plastic completely dissolved in about eight and a half hours.

There’s one major hurdle with any degradable plastic material of course: what if it comes into contact with the catalyst for its destruction before you want it to? A plastic cup is no good if certain liquids can dissolve it, after all.

In this case, the team found that applying hydrophobic coatings prevented any early breaking down of the material. When you eventually want to dispose of it, a simple scratch on the surface was enough to let the saltwater back in, allowing the material to dissolve just as quickly as the non-coated sheets.

While some biodegradable plastics can still leave behind harmful microplastics, this material breaks down into nitrogen and phosphorus, which are useful nutrients for plants and microbes. That said, too much of these can be disruptive to the environment as well, so the team suggests the best process might be to do the bulk of the recycling in specialized plants, where the resulting elements can be retrieved for future use.

But if some of it does end up in the ocean, it will be far less harmful, and possibly even beneficial, compared to current plastic waste.

Was the Pandemic a CCP Suicide pact?

Was the Pandemic a CCP Suicide pact?

This is unimaginable.  To start with, the global pandemic is best understood as an attempt by forces within China to induce a serious global population contraction.  Obviously an act of WAR, but also unimaginable in the normal course of human events.  Yet understanding that the CCP was on a path leading to the elimination of at least eighty percent of china's population, tells us that their motive was to sustain relative advantage in the future.

The timing coincides with the anticipated present Chinese poulation drop underway which they can blame on the pandemic.  nothing to see here folks.  I do think that the CCP found common cause with the so called NWO who were fellow idealogues or running dogs and just as stupid.  Thus the global implimentation of the JAB which at its worse is the worst that bad science can hit us with, became the whole pkan..

The pandemic was a CCP inspired global genocide attempt that may still kill of prematurely around four billuion of us.  It is at least killing of some of us through sudden death from an inflamed heart and also turbo cancer in which our immune system is overwelmed.  not nice at all.

My point is that the Chinese CCP knows this. 

My second point is that you now know this. .

The good news in terms of conflict is that the whole business protocol for China is now imploding as businesses desparately struggle to escape what they see coming.  The streets are empty and the countryside is empty as well.  sorry folks, but that is how many have died in five years.  In fact all business, in order to survive must move directly to the south.

Chinese Population Collapse

 Chinese Population Collapse

I really should have understood this back in 1980, but i was not paying close attention and certainly did not think that the CCP would sustain the one child policy for forty years.  Yet here we are and better late than never.

Let us understand what happened.  In 1980, they had a population of 800,000,000 or so assuming that they were not lying by too much.  That poulation was then mandated to only produce 400,000,000 replacement.  which they did.  however the next generation would then only produce 200,000,000 replacements and this takes us to 2020.  The original stock was mostly alive until 2020 and normal death rates applied.  Except the 200,000,000 who smoked would have then bowed out about then.  

However you wish to play with the numbers we are experiencing a 200,000,000 population  fall off which will be additionally extended through the next twenty years for an additional 200,000,000 and so on.  This folks is a population titanic.  The rest of the world has a real population problem but we also have some time to fix it.  These guys do not..

what we see today is a chinese population built out for 800,000,000 having abruptly collapsed to a population of 600,000,000.  This will naturally empty the stores and restaurants.  We have a super surplus of infrastructure no longer necessary.

what the pandemic did was accelerate the overall death rate and got us there sooner.  Sadly this will now continue as the 1980 generation bows out.

Understand that China's future is a population likely stabalizing around 200,000,000 and their only immediate fix will be to bring in mass immigration from all of south Eaxt Asia.  otherwise they will be surrounded by the ruins of empire.  fortunately India and south East Asia is actually up for it and even able to establish better operational birthrates.

In the short term all global populations have to establish a new protcol for baby production that certainly starts now at four manadatory babies and full community support for motherhood.

I now expect that the CHINA shock will sort out everyones thinking and allow us all to establish sound practise.

Your Discomfort Means It's Working

Without question Trump is shaking the tree and it is not piecemeal because individually. opposition could coalese and slow things to a crawl.  That will still happen, but he has the luxury of shifting pressure.  All while imposing fair trade as the operative meme worldwide.  sorry china ,because anyone playing ball now attracts massive USA investment.

We still want cheap teeshirts.  But not by sole sourcing frrom an overworked factory in China where the workers are ouright exploited worse than our Southern gentlemen.

yes, playing poker is upsetting and this is no game.  In fact it is an act of war by other means that must bring the whole world itself properly into line.  Of course, we still need to end agricultyural subsidies.  Just saying.

Your Discomfort Means It's Working

Friday, Apr 04, 2025 - 06:45 PM

Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/your-discomfort-means-its-working

It has been one whole day since President Trump implemented his tariff agenda.

With the amount of squirming and outright panic in the news media, markets, and on social media, you’d think we were 50 years into a 100-year bout of famine, plague, depression, and pestilence.

Let’s all just gather our heads for a second.

At a very basic psychological level, people are opposed to change. It doesn’t matter whether it’s changing their cable provider or taking a detour in traffic. Extrapolating from this, people are really opposed to bigger, more consequential change.

Extrapolating from this, in the world of finance, I have consistently argued that market participants have been falsely conditioned by our monetary and fiscal policy in this country to always expect comfort and never expect interruptions from the market moving higher, or the quality of life status quo that we believe we are entitled to here in the United States to suffer.

This concept was the basis for my article explaining why I thought the next market crash would “break the brains” of market participants.

Now let’s zoom out and think about what President Trump is trying to accomplish with his tariff agenda. He is essentially saying that the status quo in the United States isn’t working and large changes need to be implemented—changes that will shock the global economy—to remedy the issue.

“Who is the status quo not working for?” some of you will ask me from your Porsche, driving down PCH, or from your desk overseeing your millions in the market.

If I had to venture a guess, I’d say it’s not working for people in towns like this:

Or people whose grandparents used to work at places like this:

And the status quo definitely isn’t working for the bottom 50% of Americans here, represented by the yellow section that is so small you have to zoom in to see it:

Billionaires (other than Trump, it seems) have a difficult time answering questions like “What happens when we run out of middle American towns to gut?” and “How has your quality of life been negatively impacted by monetary policy over the last 20 years?”

The reason they can’t answer these questions is because they don’t have any idea. Monetary policy helps them accrue more wealth and power, and they don’t live in middle America. But if you take a trip to a place like Flint, Michigan, or Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the answers to these questions become a lot clearer.

Abandoned Bethlehem Steel plant

The direction the country was heading in monetarily and fiscally was simply unsustainable. Deficits too big. Debt skyrocketing against GDP. Wealth gap accelerating. Drug and alcohol addiction ravaging cities.

We were walking a path that decimated the lives and the purchasing power of the people who need it most and took American jobs away from people who needed them the most.

Worse off, it made the United States dependent on adversaries like China to simply go about our day-to-day. When global supply chains were cut off during COVID, it was obvious that our quality of life was 100% dependent on imported goods—everything from consumer electronics to clothing to the ingredients used in pharmaceuticals.

Recalibrating the country away from being dependent on adversarial nations is not a simple and inconsequential thing to do. On the contrary, it’s about as consequential of a decision as we can possibly make, alongside of trying to get our fiscal house as a nation in order.

Consequential means change. Change means discomfort. Discomfort requires courage. On a positive note, to me, it seems like the first time our government has taken more than a 10-day outlook on the future of our nation.

Time and time again, I have complained on this blog that monetary and fiscal policy in this country are run like an infant in a candy store. We do whatever we want, spend whatever we want, throw a tantrum when we don’t get what we want, barely think about the decisions we make, and sacrifice and mortgage anything not nailed down to ensure that our quality of life as it exists today can continue for just one more day (speaking of which, have we audited Fort Knox yet?).

The nearsightedness of our policymaking in this country has been breathtaking.

Trump’s tariff agenda scratches to a halt the record of complacency that’s been playing over the sound system of the United States for the last 50 years. It sends a signal to the world that things aren’t OK the way they’re going and, more importantly, it makes the decision to proactively arrest the problem in its tracks before it reaches a terminus on its own. If the country got into such a precarious position that we had to react to the problem instead of being proactive, we would lose any and all leverage we’d have to 

Being proactive about the issue puts us in a position of strength. Yes, even when your precious Apple stock is down 7%.

There are going to be some consequences. Trump knew that in advance. Prices may go up near term, supply of goods may dwindle going forward, and we may go into a recession. But recessions can also create investment opportunities for people that have been priced out of the market for the last 20 years.

And the people bearing the brunt of the negatives of this policy are the same people who disproportionately benefited from the previous policies. The top 1% who got infinitely richer thanks to quantitative easing and now have to go through the horrifying exercise of watching their multimillion-dollar portfolio fall a little bit are going to take larger dollar and quality-of-life hits from this policy than the lower middle class, who likely have very little invested and who probably won’t even notice a difference in quality of life because of the squalor they are already living in.

And as I said at the beginning of the article, it has been one day. One goddamn day.

The shock of this event will eventually begin to wear off, and we will achieve a new level of homeostasis—just maybe with financial asset prices lower. Future volatility may come from a cascading deleveraging in the financial world, and I don’t see this as a negative either. Does Fartcoin still have a bid? Yes? Well then, all the excess that should have been carried out has not been carried out yet. And who knows—maybe at about the same time the lower and middle class starts to get their financial footing, stocks will actually return to somewhat of a reasonable valuation so that John Q. Public can get a chance to take a bite of the apple.

And lest we forget, before you piss yourself any further, many of these consequences are based on the assumption that these tariffs are going to be in place for a long time. Given how quickly Trump has shifted his stance on trade with other countries after negotiating, I don’t really find it probable these tariffs will stay in place for years, as many people are acting like.

Some people want to argue that the policy isn’t a net positive—it’s just generating other trade-offs that “aren’t worth it”. Even if on net balance that’s the case, I still think it’s worth it as a method of breaking the chains of the directional status quo in this country. If we have to rearrange the furniture to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. and give people in middle America something to do other than abuse fentanyl smuggled into our country, I’m for it. Bring manufacturing, not drugs, to Kensington. I’m ready to buy American and I know I’m not alone.

This sea change reverses the gears of a machine that has been in motion for decades. The discomfort in the market and in media means that it’s working. And the idea that we’re doing it proactively is a positive, not a negative.

The very same discomfort you feel that makes you want to cave in and just say tariffs are a bad idea is the same discomfort many foreign leaders will feel. Trump won’t be the only leader under pressure to try to resolve this issue, and so it then becomes a test of wills.

America was a country founded by rugged individuals, but there’s nothing rugged about throwing a fit because your NASDAQ investment, up 150% over the last 5 years, is down 5% today — especially when the “problem” likely will be resolved to some degree within a matter of weeks, if not months.

Shelved Movie ‘Wile E. Coyote vs. Acme’ Will Finally Hit Screens with its Hilarious Plotline

How many understand that most of the sight gags were over the top physics jokes.

Which gave it an additional audience outside of children for whom it was supposedly made.  It proved a  arket, just like Star Trek proved a market then launching Star Wars.

Once again, the untalented had way too much to say.  Is it possible that a new genre of scientific artistic expression is about to arise.

Shelved Movie ‘Wile E. Coyote vs. Acme’ Will Finally Hit Screens with its Hilarious Plotline

By Andy Corbley

-Apr 2, 2025

A scene from Coyote vs Acme – credit Warner Bros. Discovery (Fair use)

Few in America will likely be aware that a critically acclaimed live-action/animated Looney Tunes movie starring Wile E. Coyote was wholly made, but then shelved by Warner Bros. studios.

But, after a raucous outcry from the creative team who fell in love with the project and spent months bringing it to life, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) finally agreed to sell the rights to Ketchup Entertainment for what an insider told The Wrap was around $50 million.

Called Coyote vs. Acme, the film is reported to boast that brilliant mixture of adult and childish humor that made Looney Tunes relevant for so long among American audiences.

The “Vs.” in the name implies legal action—wherein Wile E. Coyote files a lawsuit against Acme for the countless faulty products he purchased from the company in his pursuit of the indomitable Road Runner.

Even though the film had consistently been highly rated by critics and early-screening audiences, it almost received an Acme anvil to the head before anyone in the public could view it.

Reported extensively by The Wrap, Coyote vs. Acme had been green-lit by a previous team of executives, 4 of whom were replaced during production.

The new suits, who had to delay the theatrical release to avoid contending with Barbie, decided to switch strategies and finally—following the wave of indignation from the film’s production team—acquiesced to letting them shop it around.

What they didn’t tell the team was that the price would be fixed, and WBD would do the talking. After failing to find a buyer for an $80 million take-it-or-leave-it price tag for streaming and non-streaming releases—and rejecting a $50 million offer from Paramount that would include a theatrical release, WBD was prepared to shelve the film permanently and take a $40 million tax write-off in advance of a bad third-quarter earnings drop last year.

In summary, over a year of creative labor from stars Will Forte, John Cena, Lana Condor, and Tone Bell, was nearly “silenced by a movie studio’s balance sheet.”

Will Forte, who plays Wile E. Coyote’s legal counsel, said specifically that the decision made his “blood boil.”

But before that was all folks, it was announced on Monday that the film was finally sold to Ketchup Entertainment—who recently released another Looney Tunes movie entitled The Day The Earth Blew Up. Getty Images for Unsplash+

“We’re thrilled to have made a deal with Warner Bros. Pictures to bring this film to audiences worldwide,” Ketchup Entertainment CEO Gareth West said in a statement.

“‘Coyote vs. Acme’ is a perfect blend of nostalgia and modern storytelling, capturing the essence of the beloved Looney Tunes characters while introducing them to a new generation. We believe it will resonate with both longtime fans and newcomers alike.”

A release date of 2026 in American theaters is believed to be most likely.

Vietnam, Taiwan Capitulate

We may well be seeing the fastest global capitulation in history.  Everyone knew that what was going down was bad for all, but local interests held sway.  They have all been waiting for the USA to say no more.

do not forget that the objective is fair trade which was the basis of the original free trade agreement between Canada and the USA.  Unfair started by the Chinese offshoring into Mexico and then anyone else who would play.

that music stopped cold.  The USA can now modernize their entire industrial base having shipped obsolessance off to China.

I do recall just now well Germany did rebuilding their factories after WWII.

Vietnam, Taiwan Capitulate: Offer To Remove All US Tariffs, Boost Investment

by Tyler Durden

Sunday, Apr 06, 2025 - 08:50 AM

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/vietnam-capitulates-offers-remove-all-us-tariffs

Last week we explained that this particular trade war will be all about the deals that Trump announces as he pulls the country and market from the trade war abyss.

Everyone else.... starting with Vietnam, which as we profiled Thursday was slapped with some of the highest reciprocal tariffs...

... crushing countless US consumer companies who rely on cheap Vietnamese exports.

Sure enough, confirming that Trump's "dealmaking" was about to shine, on Friday Trump posted on his Truth Social account, announced that he had a "very productive" call with the head of the Vietnamese communist party, adding that if Vietnam wants to cut their tariffs to "ZERO", all they have to do is "make an agreement with the U.S."...

Fast forward just one day, and we have an example of the first official capitulation by a trading counterparty as Bloomberg reports that Vietnam has offered to remove all tariffs on US imports after Donald Trump announced a 46% levy on the Southeast Asian nation, according to an April 5 letter from Vietnam’s communist party.

The offer was made by party chief To Lam to the US president in a letter that was seen by Bloomberg. In the letter, Lam requested that the US not apply any additional tariffs or fees on Vietnamese goods and asked to postpone the implementation of the tariff announced by Trump last week by at least 45 days after April 9.

The letter confirms comments made by Trump on Friday on his Truth Social network, following a call between the two leaders. Vietnam, which has increasingly become a key manufacturing and export alternative to China, was slapped with one of the highest tariff rates worldwide last Wednesday.

Expect all the companies profiled as the biggest casualties from the Vietnam tariffs to soar, as the market realizes that for all the posturing, Trump's tariffs were just that: a negotiating chip to minimize trade barriers against the US, which as Vietnam so aptly demonstrated, are now well on their way out.

And now we wait to see just how much the limping Vietnamese dong, which on Friday drooped to an all time low, will firm up on the news...

In addition to the news about Vietnam bending the knee, The Epoch Times' Jacob Burg reports that Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te on April 6 said his nation would offer zero tariffs and no retaliation as the start of negotiations with the United States while vowing to remove trade barriers.

Lai said Taiwanese companies will also increase their investments in the United States. The comments were made in response to sweeping import tariffs announced by President Donald Trump on April 2. Taiwan has a trade surplus with America and will see a 32 percent tariff on its imports into the United States.

The new tariffs do not, however, affect semiconductors, one of Taiwan’s largest exports.

While meeting with executives from small and medium-sized companies at his residence, Lai noted that because Taiwan depends on trade, its economy may face difficulties dealing with U.S. tariffs but that their impacts could be minimized.

“Tariff negotiations can start with ‘zero tariffs’ between Taiwan and the United States, with reference to the U.S.-Canada-Mexico free trade agreement,” he said. Trump has said anything that is compliant with the U.S.-Canada-Mexico agreement will not be subject to additional tariffs.

Lai added that his Cabinet is considering what extensive agricultural, industrial, and energy purchases to make from the United States, as his defense ministry has so far offered its weapons purchase plans.

“All purchases will be actively pursued,” he said.

Additionally, non-tariff barriers are a signal for the United States to evaluate the fairness of trade, and Taiwan will proactively settle non-tariff barriers that have endured for multiple years to smoothen trade negotiations with America, Lai added.

Finally, White House’s national economic council director, Kevin Hassett, says that over 50 countries have reached out to Trump looking to begin negotiations.

Hassett says this is “because they understand they bear a lot of the tariff”.

As @WarClandestine pointed out: "Trump’s plan has ignited a fire under all the nations around the world who are ripping us off, and now they are all getting in line and willing to come to the negotiating table, with a sense of urgency, and Trump has all the leverage... Trump might be onto something. "

The Secret JFK Records

What comes out is that a nobody called Lee Harvey Oswald was been close surveiled long ahead of the assasination and then obviously positioned to be the patsy.  Thankyou CIA.

Nothing random here.

Again we already figured all this out and all this is hard record confirmation knowing absolutely no one will write a memo directly saying what is afoot..

And if you still believe that the assasination was not a CIA operation, more fool you.

The Secret JFK Records

By Jacob G. Hornberger

April 3, 2025

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/04/jacob-hornberger/the-secret-jfk-records/

For more than 60 years, U.S. officials have claimed that to release their secret JFK-assassination-related records would threaten “national security.” That was their position during the Warren Commission hearings in 1964 and during the House Select Committee hearings in the 1970s. That’s what they told the Assassination Records Review Board in the 1990s. That’s what they told President Trump during his first term in office. That’s how they got President Biden to order the continued secrecy of the records essentially into perpetuity.

It was all a lie. There was never any threat to “national security” whatsoever.

How do we know this? Because many, but certainly not all, of those long secret records have now been revealed to the public. And guess what! The United States has not fallen into the ocean and the U.S. government has not been taken over by the Reds, terrorists, Muslims, Taliban, Russia, China, North Korea, North Vietnam, Cuba, Iran, or Venezuela. The federal government and the nation are still standing!JFK and the Unspeakabl...Douglass, James W.Best Price: $6.42Buy New $13.52(as of 06:45 

Of course, it’s true that any of those scary things could still happen if and when the rest of the long-secret records are released. But I wouldn’t bet on it.

So, why would the U.S. national-security establishment lie about so-called threats to “national-security” that would supposedly arise if those records were to be released?

Immediately after the recent initial release of records, the mainstream press declared that there were no “smoking guns,” as in the nature of an official confession to the assassination. But that’s a patently ridiculous assertion. Assassination researchers were always certain that the secrecy was not intended to hide a confession. Don’t forget, after all, that these are all records that the national-security establishment knowingly delivered to the National Archives in the 1990s, where they were then kept secret. What are the chances they would have delivered a confession to the National Archives? No chance at all. Nobody would be that dumb. And there is no doubt that the high officials who worked in the CIA were not dumb people. On the contrary, they were extremely smart people.

Moreover, it was standard practice within the national-security establishment to never put any reference to a covert state-sponsored assassination into writing. At the risk of belaboring the obvious, that policy would have been especially followed in the state-sponsored assassination of a U.S. president.

So, then why fight so fiercely to keep the records secret for so long?

The JFK assassination is like a gigantic jig-saw puzzle with lots of tiny pieces. Let’s estimate that about 80 percent of the pieces have been put together. Most of the other pieces — such as the identities of the shooters — are gone forever. But it is still possible to see the overall picture of what the jigsaw puzzle depicts — a regime-change operation on the part of the U.S. national-security establishment arising out of a war between Kennedy and the national-security establishment over the future direction of America.

Thus, as I have long maintained, the probability is that these long-secret records contain small pieces of the jigsaw puzzle that further fill out the mosaic of a regime-change operation, which is why they would want them to be kept secret. The national-security establishment knows that the assassination researchers are a very sharp group of people who can recognize those tiny puzzle pieces and see how they fit into the overall regime-change mosaic. That’s what assassination researchers are doing right now as they study the documents.

For example, consider a memorandum by close Kennedy advisor Arthur Schlesinger Jr. that was among the long-secret records. It recommended a major reform of the CIA that would have drastically reduced its power.

Why would the CIA want to keep such a memorandum secret? The mainstream press would see such a memorandum and would certainly exclaim, “No smoking gun here.” But when one considers the CIA’s motive in assassinating Kennedy, it becomes clear why the CIA would want to keep that small puzzle piece secret. After the Bay of Pigs disaster, Kennedy was so angry over the CIA’s lies that he vowed to tear the agency into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds. That was the beginning of the war between JFK and the CIA that would culminate in Dallas two years later. The Schlesinger memo demonstrates that even if Kennedy wasn’t going to go all the way and abolish the CIA, he was going to radically reduce its power. The CIA, on the other hand, was not going to permit that to happen, on grounds of “national security.” It’s not difficult to see why the CIA would want to keep that small puzzle piece secret from the American people.

Or consider what Jefferson Morley, the head of JFK Facts, has discovered within the long-secret records. For decades, the CIA has claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald was just a “lone nut.” As Morley has recently detailed, the long-secret records demonstrate that the CIA was lying the entire time. In fact, as the records detail, the CIA was keeping close track of Oswald prior to the assassination.

So, why would they want to keep that secret? The mainstream press would undoubtedly say it was because they were embarrassed at their “incompetence” in having failed to avert the assassination. But there is another explanation: That Oswald was a U.S. intelligence agent who had been recruited while serving in the U.S. Marines (Semper Fi!) and was later unwittingly groomed to take the fall in the Kennedy assassination. Such being the case, it would have been necessary to watch him closely as he was being maneuvered into position — such as having him publicly pose as a communist provocateur in New Orleans or have him make a big hullabaloo at the Cuban and Soviet embassies in Mexico City. The close surveillance of him would have been needed to ensure that he hadn’t caught onto what they were doing to make him a “patsy” in the assassination.

One of the most revealing aspects of the records controversy are the files relating to CIA operative George Joannides. The CIA was funding an organization called the DRE in New Orleans prior to the assassination. The DRE was the first entity to issue a press release telling the nation that Oswald was a communist. It turns out that the DRE was a secret front organization for the CIA, one that the CIA was secretly funding. The CIA kept secret from the House Select Committee and the ARRB that Joannides was the liaison between the CIA and the DRE.

Thus, there is no question but that Joannides’s CIA files are JFK-assassination-related records. Yet, they weren’t included in this first batch of long-secret records. In fact, it’s possible, if not probable, that they won’t be part of the rest of the records still slated to be released. In other words, it’s possible that the CIA’s Joannides files were never turned over to the National Archives at all in the 1990s, notwithstanding the fact that they obviously relate to the assassination. Why not? Why the steadfast insistence on keeping them separate and secret? For the complete Joannides story, see FFF’s book Morley v. CIA by Jefferson Morley. Also, see FFF’s other book by Morley: CIA & JFK: The Secret Assassination Files.

"Immense Consequences" - EU Warns Of Countermeasures As World Leaders Respond To US Tariffs

We are in the middle of it all now, but I do not expect a global depression.  Simply because the threat allows all trade rigging to simply end.  And quickly as werll..

the best fix all the way around is to establish the principle of tariff decay.  This allows participants to plan transitions rather than outright destruction.  such as we are witnessing in China.

There are ample aspects of USA business that are also preditory and need to be addressed as well.

"Immense Consequences" - EU Warns Of Countermeasures As World Leaders Respond To US Tariffs

Thursday, Apr 03, 2025 - 06:25 AM

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/immense-consequences-eu-warns-countermeasures-world-leaders-respond-us-tariffs

The European Union will unveil countermeasures to U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest tariffs if negotiations with the White House stall, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on April 2, as leaders around the world responded to the new levies.

Trump on Wednesday unveiled a 10 percent minimum reciprocal tariff on most goods imported to the United States, while imposing a higher 20 percent levy on the European Union.

He said the tariffs were designed to help rebuild the U.S. economy and prevent cheating.

In a statement read out in Uzbek city Samarkand, von der Leyen said the newly unveiled tariffs were “a major blow to the world economy” that will have “immense consequences.”

“The global economy will massively suffer,” the EU chief said.

“Uncertainty will spiral and trigger the rise of further protectionism. The consequences will be dire for millions of people around the globe.”

Inflation will also soar, and the most vulnerable citizens will likely be impacted, von der Leyen stated.

“I agree with President Trump, that others are taking unfair advantage of the current rules,” she said.

“And I am ready to support any efforts to make the global trading system fit for the realities of the global economy. But I also want to be clear: Reaching for tariffs as your first and last tool will not fix it.”

“That is why, from the outset, we have always been ready to negotiate with the US, to remove any remaining barriers to Transatlantic trade,” von der Leyen said.

“At the same time, we are prepared to respond.”

As The Epoch Times Katabella Roberts reports, Von der Leyen said the EU is finalizing a package of countermeasures in response to tariffs on steel, referencing the 26 billion euro (roughly $28 billion) package of tariffs the EU plans to impose on some American goods this month after Trump’s U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs took effect on March 12.

“We are now preparing for further countermeasures, to protect our interests and our businesses if negotiations fail,” the EU chief said.

Her comments come as Trump announced tariffs on nearly all U.S. trading partners, part of what he said are efforts to balance trade deficits.

The rates include a flat 10 percent baseline levy, along with additional individualized rates that Trump said are designed to match each nation’s trade barriers on the United States. The tariffs are set to take effect at 12:01 a.m. on April 5.

Speaking from the Rose Garden at the White House, Trump declared it was “Liberation Day in America” and said the tariffs would “make America greater than ever before,” simultaneously boosting domestic manufacturing and lowering prices for consumers.

The president described the EU as pathetic and said it was “ripping off” the United States.

“Now we’re going to charge the European Union. They’re very tough. Very, very tough traders,” Trump said.

World Leaders Respond

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney vowed to fight the tariffs with countermeasures and “build the strongest economy in the G7.”

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson expressed “deep regret” over the path the United States has embarked upon.

“We don’t want growing trade barriers. We don’t want a trade war. That would make our populations poorer and the world more dangerous in the long run,” Kristersson said.

“But – Sweden and the Swedish Government are well prepared for what’s happening now. We stand on solid economic ground, with world-class public finances.”

Kristersson added that he will “take every opportunity” to reverse the tariffs in the EU and hopes to be able to contain the new U.S. tariffs.

“We want to find our way back to a path of trade and cooperation together with the US, so that people in our countries can enjoy a better life. Sweden will continue to stand up for free trade and international cooperation,” he said.

Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin said the tariffs “benefit no one.”

“My priority, and that of the government, is to protect Irish jobs and the Irish economy,” he said in a social media statement.

British Prime Minister Kier Starmer said a trade war was not in the UK’s national interest.

“Negotiations on an economic prosperity deal, one that strengthens our existing trading relationship - they continue,” he said.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said her administration will do “everything we can” to work towards an agreement with the United States.

She said Italy hopes to avoid a trade war that “would inevitably weaken the West in favor of other global players.”

French President Emmanuel Macron will meet with representatives from business sectors hit by the new taxes at the Élysée Palace on April 3, the French presidency said.

Scientists Successfully Grow Mammoth-Like Fur on a Mouse—Marking a Major Leap Toward Species Revival

this is tangible progress in recovering Mammoth DNA Obviously it is not so easy ,but we certainlyhave ample DNA to work from so it seems possible.

I am inclined to acclimatize domestic Indian Elephants using sheds to accomadate winter conditions.  aer all we dragged them around the midwest as show animals anyway and headed down to florida in the winter.  

with a working population learning to live in the Boreal forest, it will become practical to try out genetic augmentation and the fur trick may just be good enough.

Scientists Successfully Grow Mammoth-Like Fur on a Mouse—Marking a Major Leap Toward Species Revival

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March 12, 2025

Linnea H, BSc Sociology

Colossal Biosciences genetically altered a mouse (right) to express traits reminiscent of the long-extinct woolly mammoth, including a long, coarsely textured coat, to create the woolly mouse (left).Colossal 

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In an astonishing advancement in genetic science, researchers at Colossal Biosciences have successfully grown woolly mammoth-like fur on laboratory mice. This achievement, unveiled in early 2025, represents a pivotal step in the effort to resurrect the long-extinct woolly mammoth using the tools of modern biotechnology. The breakthrough provides solid proof that mammoth traits can be reintroduced and expressed in living organisms, bringing the vision of de-extinction closer to reality.

Why Mice Were Chosen to Grow Mammoth Fur

The genetically engineered mice are lighter in color than ordinary lab mice. Colossal Biosciences

Scientists opted to test mammoth gene expression in mice due to their rapid reproductive cycles, genetic compatibility, and ease of laboratory handling. The mammoth genes inserted into the mouse embryos regulated fur growth, texture, and pigmentation. The result? A generation of mice covered in thick, reddish-brown fur resembling the dense, insulating coats that once allowed mammoths to survive in Ice Age conditions. These “superfuzzy” mice serve as a living model for how mammoth characteristics might function in larger mammals.

A Glimpse Into Colossal’s De-Extinction Vision

Critics say it will only ever be possible to bring back an incomplete approximation of a mammoth. Colossal Biosciences

This breakthrough is part of Colossal Biosciences’ broader mission to bring back the woolly mammoth—or more accurately, to create a hybrid between the Asian elephant and woolly mammoth. The company, co-founded by tech entrepreneur Ben Lamm and Harvard geneticist George Church, is working to engineer cold-adapted elephants equipped with mammoth traits such as dense fur, subcutaneous fat layers, and specialized hemoglobin.

The Plan to Revive Arctic Ecosystems

Image credit: Colossal)

The reintroduction of mammoth-like creatures is envisioned as an ecological restoration project. Colossal hopes that these hybrid animals could help restore the Arctic tundra to ancient grasslands, potentially reducing permafrost melt and slowing climate change. By trampling snow and uprooting trees, the animals would allow grasses to regrow and preserve the permafrost below.

Ethical and Ecological ImplicationsCourtesy of Colossal Biosciences

While the project garners international excitement, it also stirs debate. Some scientists question the ethics of bringing back extinct species and the potential risks to existing ecosystems. Others express concern about the welfare of genetically altered elephants and whether the project’s resources would be better spent conserving endangered species that already exist.

What Comes Next: Embryos and Artificial Wombs

Wooly mammoth in the mountains. Image by Depositphotos.

The mammoth-fur mice are only the beginning. The next step for Colossal involves integrating more mammoth traits into elephant embryos. These embryos will be grown either inside surrogate elephant mothers or artificial wombs currently under development. This complex endeavor could eventually result in viable mammoth-elephant hybrids, potentially ready for introduction into Arctic habitats within the next few years.

The Role of Mammoth Traits in Survival

Woolly mammoth. Image by Pixel Chaos via Depositphotos.

Beyond the fur, other mammoth traits are essential to the hybrid animal’s survival in frigid conditions. These include cold-resistant blood, thick insulating fat layers, and adaptations in the ears and skin to prevent frostbite. The fur seen in mice confirms the functionality of the inserted mammoth DNA, giving researchers confidence in the feasibility of larger-scale integration.

A New Era of Synthetic Biology

Woolly mammoth in ice age. Image via Depositphotos.

The success of this project signals a bold future for synthetic biology. Whether or not the woolly mammoth returns, the experiment has already pushed the boundaries of science, opening the door to restoring lost species, reviving ancient ecosystems, and reshaping how humans interact with nature. As the world watches in awe, the question remains—how far should we go in rewriting the legacy of extinction?