Both new and re-posted information and updates:
There will be an "Online event for 40th anniversary of the founding of Freedom Road Socialist Organization" May 29th at 8pm ET, 5pm PT. From: fightbacknews.org/articles/online-event-for-40th-anniversary-of-the-founding-of-freedom-road-socialist –
"Speakers at the event will include Jess Sundin, the Twin Cites District Organizer; Fernando Figueroa, of the FRSO Standing Committee member and rank-and-file Teamster; Frank Chapman, FRSO Central Committee member and Executive Director of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression; Marisol Márquez, District Organizer of the Los Angeles District of the FRSO and a leader of the Legalization For All network; and FRSO Political Secretary Mick Kelly."
Register at: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/HNObioM2TMieGCBBAhbIyw#/registration
From UE150, NC Public Service Workers Union:
"Report back from UE150 members Cuba May Day Brigade
Thursday, June 5 at 6:30pm
via zoom
Zoom link: https://bit.ly/CubaNCReport
Don’t have zoom? Join on your phone!
Dial in 646-876-9923
Meeting ID: 893 0981 7824 Passcode: 629828"
In May 2025, several UE150 members visited Cuba as part of an International May Day brigade. Join this meeting to hear our report back about the incredible experiences and lessons that the Cuban people had to offer!
Event Highlights
International May Day March with 5 million people in the streets
International Summit
Work Exchanges
Cultural Experiences
Documentary “Belly of the Beast”
Meetings with Unions at Hospitals, Schools and meatpacking plant
How to Continue to Support Cuba
Help us collect supplies to aid the Cuban people. We want to send more soon!
Counter the lies told about the Cuban revolution on social media
Come with us to Cuba next year for 2026 May Day brigade!"
[In Raleigh June 14th 10am-10pm: ncartmuseum.org/events/ncma-loves-anime-bazaar-and-film-screening/
[The Volunteer of the Year Recognition Ceremony will be at the Durham Performing Arts Center – June 11th; honoring Friends of Bolin Creek President Julie McClintock, among others: connect.clickandpledge.com/w/Form/85354334-9302-4a75-bd45-6c5e6081f8f3?638835454211845213&tq=1 ]
[Against Trump June 14th in DC; organized by the RCP: actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/june-14-june-14-trumps-military-parade-must-be-opposed-demonstrate-in-washington-dc-and-all-over-the-country-to-say-the-trump-fascist-regime-must-go-now and About Face Veterans and Veterans for Peace events June 13-15th: airtable.com/appGH7YUExynkbhqg/pagt0BCNInomgoD7v/form ]
Fireflies were out by May 28th, possibly delayed by the unusually cool to cold, and wet, cloudy weather before the 28th. A white azalea is still blooming and white lizard's tail started by about the 26th or before. Japanese privet is done flowering, but not Hellebores?? [Sunnier, but more rain this evening?] [A large, dark male anole was out sunning and signaling in the afternoon; I hadn't seen any in weeks or a month or two.]
[April 30th in central Japan an unidentified brownish or greenish snake, about 100cm and 135 [150]g, now deceased, got into equipment on the Tokaido Shinkansen (Central Japan Railway – JR Tokai; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkansen and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaido_Shinkansen ) down line in an open river valley in Ogaki City ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Cgaki ) and caused a loss of power between Gifu-Hashima Station and Maibara Station around 5:30-7pm. Trains got stopped or delayed between Shin-Osaka and Nagoya on the up line and between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka on the down line.
Apparently a turtle blocked a rail junction in Japan once, and I think I heard that box turtles can get trapped on railroad tracks.
SK May 2nd
News on Japan – "Snake Causes Shinkansen Power Outage" – www.newsonjapan.com/article/145602.php See News One?
A strange "AI" (?) dubbed compilation of Japanese news shows on the disruption? – www.youtube.com/watch?aamv=i-wfc4At-vg
On the same incident? Not checked carefully – www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXpKC5dqthg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R1V5Lt5zfY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWJgEvLQn-Y
A 23 meter, 850-year old sacred enoki ([ エノキ ,] I would like to put a kanji here [榎?] [I think the New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary gives the preceding character and _ + 樹 or enoki), nettle, or hackberry tree (Celtis) [or lotus tree?] at the Takenobu Inari Shrine in Kyoto's Nakagyo Ward collapsed at about 11:30 in the morning May 24th (?). The Shrine was damaged, but no humans were hurt. The collapse is thought to have been caused by internal weakness. Ryoma Sakamoto (January 3, 1836-assassinated in December 10, 1867; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakamoto_Ry%C5%8Dma ), important in ending the Tokugawa Shogunate (the Meiji Restoration or Revolution), is supposed to have carved a message to his wife Oryo in the tree. [According to the Japanese Wikipedia page on enoki trees, this is "the 'tree of fate' that brought Ryoma and Oryo together." Maybe it could re-grow if left alone.] One or more large Japanese hackberries can be seen at the JCRA in Raleigh, with a lot of mistletoe, and native hackberries with knobby, light gray bark grow prominently along Meeting of the Waters Creek at the NCBG and elsewhere in Chapel Hill and Durham. Hackberries resemble elms and are larval foodplants for several native butterfly species [such as red American snout butterflies (Libytheana carinenta), orange question marks, bold mourning cloaks or Camberwell beauties, the emperors, Io moths, ruddy dagger moths, white-marked tussock moths, and the famous cleft-headed looper or pepper-and-salt moth.] [The brilliant blue or violet great purple emperor or Japanese emperor (Sasakia charonda ]is?) is an important butterfly of hackberries in Japan? [Japanischer Kaiser in German?] – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasakia_charonda and ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B4%E3%83%9E%E3%83%80%E3%83%A9%E3%83%81%E3%83%A7%E3%82%A6 ] [Actually that link goes to the Hestina persimilis japonica butterfly or gomadarachou, ゴマダラチョウ（胡麻斑蝶) (meaning "spotted butterfly?"), another butterfly of hackberries; the Sasakia charonda is oomurasaki, オオムラサキ（大紫）(meaning "great purple?"), at: ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%82%AA%E3%83%A0%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B5%E3%82%AD The Entomological Society of Japan discussed what Japan's (unofficial) national butterfly should be in the pages of its Zephyrus journal from about 1933 to 1957, considering the great purple emperor, various native swallowtails, etc. They declared the great purple to be the nation's butterfly after its 1956 appearance on a 75-yen postage stamp.] ["Simon-chan," the moe mascot of Shimotsuma City in Ibaraki Prefecture, is an anthropomorphized great purple.] [I mainly used machine translation to read the Japanese pages, so there could be errors, in addition to any errors in the original text. Another Japanese butterfly of hackberries, Nymphalis xanthomelas ( ヒオドシチョウ ; hiodoshichou ( named for "scarlet corduroy?"); 緋縅蝶 ) resembles a question mark: ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%92%E3%82%AA%E3%83%89%E3%82%B7%E3%83%81%E3%83%A7%E3%82%A6 Japan has mourning cloaks (specifically, subspecies Nymphalis antiopa asopos), キベリタテハ , kiberitateha （黄縁立羽) named for their yellow wing edging? .– ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%99%E3%83%AA%E3%82%BF%E3%83%86%E3%83%8F
They don't eat hackberries, but Kaniska canace, the ruritateha, ルリタテハ（瑠璃立羽) named for lapis lazuli, is interesting: ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AB%E3%83%AA%E3%82%BF%E3%83%86%E3%83%8F [and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaniska_canace (the blue admiral)]; and the peacock butterfly (subspecies Inachis io geisha) クジャクチョウ（孔雀蝶), also found in the UK, etc.: ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%82%AF%E3%83%81%E3%83%A7%E3%82%A6; and red admirals, akatateha (red_butterfly?), アカタテハ（赤立羽)、 (Vanessa indica）,also found here.]
"Sacred Tree Linked to Ryoma Sakamoto Collapses at Kyoto Shrine" –www.newsonjapan.com/article/145953.php See Yomiuri.
Not checked carefully – Kanji for enoki? [No?] – www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaAsfsjX6RM [(From Yomiuri, 48 seconds, in Japanese)]
[From ANNnewsCH – (2:37, in Japanese): www.youtube.com/watch?v=woqb6jSXIDo ]
? – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtis_jessoensis
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakagy%C5%8D-ku,_Kyoto
[ エノキ or 榎 (enoki [or the sound KA?]) in Japanese (a made in Japan character [?], for any hackberry species?) [or _ + 樹?] [the kanji for "Magnolia hypoleuca" (hou?) (sound BOKU) (now called Magnolia obovata, the Japanese cucumber tree/Japanese bigleaf magnolia/Japanese whitebark magnolia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia_obovata ?)?] and 朴树 in Chinese: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtis_sinensis [(a Japanese or Chinese hackberry tree)] and ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%8E%E3%82%AD [ナガバエノキ (long-leaved enoki) or マルバエノキ (round-leaved enoki)?] [Confused with similar zelkova trees ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelkova ; "zelkova" comes from "dzelkva," "'stone pillar'" in Georgian?)? [And they are said grow together along rivers in Japan.] [Hackberries are now in the hemp family or Cannabaceae, as are hops, hemps, and Pteroceltis: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabaceae ? Native hackberries produce small, edible, fall fruit, said to be sweet. I might write about them later on. Shrines in Japan said to have notable hackberries:] [American hackberry species have been called bois inconnu in French, an unknown tree.]
[According to the Japanese Wikipedia entry on Celtis sinensis, they symbolize "'cooperation' and 'joining forces'" Related to the sound "en" in enoki? [エノキは「縁の木」に通じることから、縁結び、あるいは「縁退き」の意味で縁切りの木としても知られる[27][16]。?] "En" but Podocarpus trees, not hackberries, in the manga Kannagi? – エノキの花言葉は、「共同」「力を合わせる」とされる[16]。There is apparently more on the Japanese hanakotoba (language of flowers) in English than in Japanese on Wikipedia. According to The Illuminated Language of Flowers, by Jean Marsh, with illustrations by Kate Greenway, UK-centric and published in 1978, nettle trees symbolize "concert" in the West. The Western language of flowers is apparently supposed to have originated in the Near East.]
[Enoki Dairokutenjin (Itabashi-ku, Tokyo)] [ ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%BF%E6%A9%8B%E5%AE%BF#%E7%B8%81%E5%88%87%E6%A6%8E ] [The 縁切榎（えんきり-えのき）at 榎大六天神（えのきだいろくてんじん）?]
[The "Ippon-enoki" at Kumano Shrine (Kodaira, Tokyo)
[Enoki Shrine (Sagamihara City, Kanagawa Prefecture)]
[Kinomiya Shrine (Atami City, Shizuoka Prefecture); it also has the Great Camphor Tree of Azusawake Shrine, more than 2,000-years old: ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%A5%E5%AE%AE%E7%A5%9E%E7%A4%BE ]
[Sun and Moon Shrine (Tokorozawa City, Saitama Prefecture)]
[Takiminatoya Shrine (Ishii Town, Tokushima Prefecture): ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%9A%E7%A5%81%E5%BE%A1%E5%A5%88%E5%88%80%E5%BC%A5%E7%A5%9E%E7%A4%BE ]
[Yatsumata Enoki Daimyojin Shrine (Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture): ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%AB%E8%82%A1%E6%A6%8E%E5%A4%A7%E6%98%8E%E7%A5%9E ]
[Enokisha Shrine or Enoki-dera (Dazaifu City, Fukuoka Prefecture): ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A6%8E%E7%A4%BE ]
[Enoki Daimyojin Shrine (Chuo Ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture)]
[Enoki Shirakami Okami (Ikuno Ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture)]
[Enjuan (Tennoji-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture) – a ritual of chanting "Kama Hachiman Daibosatsu " – "Kama Hachiman who cuts off evil ties" and sticking a sickle into a "zelkova" tree on Sankanzaka road here? Sanada Nobushige ( ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9C%9F%E7%94%B0%E4%BF%A1%E7%B9%81 ) did it in 1614, – ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%86%86%E7%8F%A0%E5%BA%B5 ]
[Nakai Shrine (Higashisumiyoshi Ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture): ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E4%BA%95%E7%A5%9E%E7%A4%BE_(%E5%A4%A7%E9%98%AA%E5%B8%82)
[Motoise Naiku Kotaijinja Shrine (Fukuchiyama City, Kyoto Prefecture)]
[Arakuma Inari Shrine (Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture)]
[The Edo Oji Inari Shrine (王子稲荷神社（おうじいなりじんじゃ) in Kishimachi, Kita-ku, Tokyo (the Oji , Kita-ku area on the edge of old Edo?) had the Shozoku Enoki, where Japan's foxes were said to gather on New Year's Eve (Oomisoka – 大晦日（おおみそか）or Otsugomori – 大つごもり – tsugomori つごもり, from Tsukigomori 月隠り（つきごもり? ; Misoka/Tsugomori/Kaijitsu or 晦日（みそか、つごもり、かいじつ is the end of a month; Kotsugomori – 小晦日（こつごもり）is earlier in late December? ) to change clothes on the way to the Shrine, where they sought ranks, but this tree, like other important or sacred old trees, was cut for a railroad, in 1929. I heard another chainsaw nearby on the 30th, and relatively old and/or beautiful trees seem to be cut at the drop of a hat in North Carolina, for not much reason. The deity Inari (稲荷神（いなりのかみ、いなりしん ) is a fox or associated with foxes (and other animals, including serpents and in one story a spider?). Foxfire in Japanese: 狐火、ヒトボス、火点し、燐火 – ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8E%8B%E5%AD%90%E7%A8%B2%E8%8D%B7%E7%A5%9E%E7%A4%BE , ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8E%8B%E5%AD%90%E3%81%AE%E7%8B%90%E7%81%AB , ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8B%90%E7%81%AB , ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AC%BC%E7%81%AB , ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E6%99%A6%E6%97%A5 , ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%99%A6%E6%97%A5 , ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A8%B2%E8%8D%B7%E7%A5%9E , and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inari_%C5%8Ckami ]
[Inside the "third corner" or "Devil's Corner" of the Tokyo Racecourse in Fuchū, Tokyo (it is also known as the Fuchū Racecourse (Fuchū Keibajō) ), a horse racing track, an enoki in a grove by the grave Ida Koremasa is called the Okeyaki ("large zelkova",「大欅」（おおけやき ケヤキ) ). A keyaki is a Zelkova serrata, or 欅. The Ida clan once protested with drawn swords, safeguarding the inconvenient greenery (it blocks the view). [この大欅の下には、この隣接地域の「是政」の由来となった井田摂津守是政の墓所があり、過去に行政代執行の対象となった際に井田氏の子孫が日本刀をふるって抗議したため、観戦の妨げとなるにもかかわらず史跡として保存されている。?] The Racecourse has a "Keyaki Stakes"– ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC%E7%AB%B6%E9%A6%AC%E5%A0%B4#%E5%BA%9C%E4%B8%AD%E3%81%AE%E5%A4%A7%E6%AC%85 , without mention of the trees – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Racecourse , Zelkova serrata – ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B1%E3%83%A4%E3%82%AD , on Ida Settsunokami Koremasa – ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%95%E7%94%B0%E6%98%AF%E6%94%BF ]
Some other noted Celtis sinensis in Japan [many more temple trees, etc. are listed above]:
The weeping Japanese hackberry in Higashiuchi (Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture): ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%B1%E5%86%85%E3%81%AE%E3%82%B7%E3%83%80%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A8%E3%83%8E%E3%82%AD
The Akabane Daishi hackberry (Tsurugi Town, Mima District, Tokushima Prefecture): ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B5%A4%E7%BE%BD%E6%A0%B9%E5%A4%A7%E5%B8%AB%E3%81%AE%E3%82%A8%E3%83%8E%E3%82%AD
The Chinese hackberry tree at the Mineyama Jin'ya ruins (Mineyama-cho, Kyotango City, Kyoto Prefecture): ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B3%B0%E5%B1%B1%E9%99%A3%E5%B1%8B%E8%B7%A1%E3%81%AE%E3%82%A8%E3%83%8E%E3%82%AD
On Takenobu Inari Shrine – 武信稲荷神社（たけのぶいなりじんじゃ): ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AD%A6%E4%BF%A1%E7%A8%B2%E8%8D%B7%E7%A5%9E%E7%A4%BE ]
[On sacred trees in Japan: ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A5%9E%E6%9C%A8
"Osaka University to Accept Researchers from U.S. After Harvard Ban" – www.newsonjapan.com/article/145980.php See KTV News.]
Venus, currently a bright, white "morning star" in the west of Pisces, will be at greatest western elongation (46 degrees) from the Sun, and so higher up in the sky [I would imagine], May 31st. [I could see Venus through the treetops from inside just after 5am on the 31st; I hadn't seen it since the last "evening star" phase or period.] Mercury is in superior conjunction with the Sun May 29th. Mars has been in Leo since the 25th. There aren't any 'strong' meteor showers until around July://amsmeteors.org/meteor-showers/meteor-shower-calendar/
[The Northern Hemisphere's summer solstice is Friday, June 20th in 2025.]
[250 million honeybees were freed in a trucking mishap,\somewhere [near the border with Canada in Washington state, around May 30th?] [The anniversary of mass native bumblebee killings in the Pacific Northwest is coming up, and I think it involved another elmlike tree.]
[Up to 100,000+ bumblebees (representing hundreds of bee colonies, mostly yellow-faced bumblebees, Bombus vosnesneskii, a West Coast species), along with fewer ladybugs and other beneficial insects, were killed outside a Target in Wilsonville, Oregon June 17, 2013, at the beginning of National Pollinator Week that year, after 55 European linden trees, flowering, were sprayed to prevent aphid honeydew from getting on cars. The sprayers had come to the lot for black vine weevils. The insecticide is produced by a sponsor of National Pollinator Week. There was at least one demonstration. The trees were wrapped in netting, $2,886 in fines applied, and spraying this insecticide on linden and related trees was banned. There were at least 6 mass bee kills around linden trees in Oregon in 2013-2014. For more information and photos of the parking lot littered with dead bees, see: xerces.org/blog/nuisance-or-necessity-honeydew-and-lessons-of-wilsonville-bee-kill and xerces.org/wilsonville-bee-kill ]
[June 16-22 in 2025: www.pollinator.org/pollinator-week ]
[July 19-27 in 2025: nationalmothweek.org ]
[About a week or two ago, "tiger lynching" after attacks on livestock is an issue in India. I've never heard it referred to that way, and tigers are very large, occasionally 'man-eating' cats.]
[US Sinophobic "Indo-Pacific" war talk from the secretary of defense at the Shangri-La Forum or whatever, and NPR goes with it May 31st. The BBC vilified a defense lawyer for El Chapo running in the June 1st (?) judicial elections in Mexico that the BBC doesn't like – do away with the right to a legal defense? Lawyers who defended the CPUSA leadership in court around about WWII were punished with their clients. According to NPR, pro-Trump lawyers deserved their punishment. Old-fashion condemnation of Stalin, with praise for Khrushchev and Putin, from Scott Simon the morning of the 31st, regarding the restoration of a period pro-Stalin artwork in the Moscow subway [see: michaelharrison.org.uk (many photos) and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Metro ]. Condemnation of that awful protester "anti-semitism" or whatever, with Ron Elving, the week before. NPR doesn't often subject its audience to over the top interviews that could be played at war crime trials with people from the Religious Zionist Party and Likud, or just regular Israelis, unlike the BBC. The Jewish head of Wesleyan spoke well on the BBC, about the charge of "anti-semitism" being used as a "wedge," and the danger posed for minorities if civil liberties are lost, and the existence of many Jewish pro-Palestine university protesters, on the BBC May 31st (?), but he still gave Trump-Vance some rope to 'hang' people with at universities, even if less than other college administrators have, and it is only month four of Trump-Vance. And now former "regime firefighters" and "White Helmets" in a literally divided firehouse in Damascus, in the "new Syria," with Freyr, and rightist Governor Newsome attacking the homeless in California (for 2028?)... Harvard relinquishing photos of enslaved people... ]
[A Free Elias Rodriguez Organizing Committee (FEROC) sent out their statement and his prison information in early evening/late afternoon on the 30th; I haven't confirmed yet that TariqelTahrir.org is real; I don't remember that address.] [I checked it out afterward and it might be safe and 'legit.' Time will tell.]
[In the news June 1st – Israeli tanks fired at people gathered pre-dawn for US-Israeli food aid, killing 26 to 100+. Hamas said that the aid distribution is a "death trap," while Israel said they don't know about any new aid massacre (yet). [June 3rd the UN spoke of the same, after three aid massacres.] Bridges were sabotaged in Russia, killing a few civilians (7?) and wounded more. Poland and Mexico have important elections today. A few years ago US military leaders 'predicted' WWIII with China by about 2029, and now the top (?) German general said that Russia might attack NATOland, especially the Baltic states, by 2029. EU countries harass Russian Kaliningrad on the Baltic, but what if a re-armed, more 'assertive,' Germany again had territory on both sides of Poland, and next to the small Baltic countries? (What if Japan officially re-arms?) Russia allegedly took an Estonian buoy? The "West" is that eager to begin WWIII, and on two or more fronts. There is the "singularity?" WWIII used to be set far off, in like 2050. Bloody proxy wars in Eastern Europe and the Middle East for now, and more proxies are being lined up in the East. NPR – what if the US dollar loses its reserve currency status (Biden and Trump haven't helped?)?]
[According to the BBC and NPR on June 2nd, an "Egyptian national," not wearing a shirt, allegedly attacked a regular (weekly?) Run for Their Lives event held to remember the Israelis detained in Gaza the afternoon of Sunday, June 1, 2025 (around 1:30 or 1;26pm, in front of a town hall or government building?) in Boulder, Colorado, using either a homemade "flamethrower" or Molotov cocktails (both?); 8 relatively elderly people were burned/injured, two more seriously, and one critically. The attacker swore at the group (?) and said something like 'Free Palestine?' It is being called a 'terrorist attack' and the FBI has gotten involved. NPR didn't immediately refer to the group being Jewish in the headline. [But a woman from the Colorado NPR mentioned an upcoming Jewish holiday. Did the Pennsylvania governor's mansion come up? They don't mention the War.] Bigger news on the BBC than on NPR the morning of June 2nd [NPR focused on the glories of the Ukraine proxy war]? The suspect is allegedly a Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Boulder_fire_attack Early in the War I think (Israeli?) tourists were shot at by a security guard in Egypt (Alexandria?).]
[June 2nd: NPR on the "audacious" drone attacks on Russian strategic (nuclear?) bombers, far from Ukraine, and the earlier sabotage/terrorist attacks on bridges. No doubt they won't say that regarding attacks in NATOland during a war, proxy or not, even if they targets were only military. See Scott Ritter [yesterday] on the implications? As if the US didn't bomb Vietnam.] [As if Ukraine did this alone. I don't think Ukraine has claimed the bridge attacks (yet).]
[Nothing on Gaza on NPR? Who carried out the new aid massacre, they asked on the BBC and the new Gaza freedom aid ship carrying Greta Thunberg.] [The BBC on complaints against alleged war opponents in Russia and never (?) on complaints/doxxing/attacks against alleged "collaborators" in western Ukraine or war opponents in the US. NPR also ignores complaints/doxxing/attacks in western Ukraine and the US.]
[NPR's Morning Edition will interview an expert on " counterterrorism" regarding "anti-semitism" June 4th in 2025 – wonder how far right they went in finding a guest? NPR has interviewed John Yoo, Condoleezza Rice, Steve Bannon, John Bolton, probably Liz Cheney, etc. in recent years, when they no longer held government office. They weren't pushed very hard on what they did in office. They might have something interesting to contribute, but NPR rarely interviews even people who are just on the left flank of the Democratic Party, let alone further left. NPR took the "democracy, if you can keep it" line leading up the election, and 1A still has a program along that line every Monday morning, but NPR won't do much in a new "Red Scare," if the Federal government or paramilitaries start arresting, deporting, killing, or firing and blacklisting alleged subversives, though a Trump might go after NPR as well. NPR apparently considers leftists irrelevant and deplorable, except when foreign leftists are useful in pushing for the Ukraine War, etc. A guest on the TED Radio Hour or whatever Sunday, June 1st in the morning painted a dire picture of much information tech companies have to share with the government, and there are the dire post-Snowden articles online. Paper and ground organization is needed, instead of the Internet, but then there are the cameras, and softness on the Democratic Party.]
From mid-February, but edited again and added to:
Blue or lavender Hepatica was already blooming on the Haw River Trail by early February: ncbg.unc.edu/2025/02/06/further-afield-winter-green-wintergreen-along-the-haw-river-trail/
Early on February 9th I heard a killdeer or a similar shorebird flying over with a shriek, and then what might have been a raccoon yowl. The waxing, mostly full Moon appeared low in the west, revealing the rapidly moving lower clouds. The clouds thinned and I was struck by how bright Spica was. I think it became cloudy again before dawn, then it cleared and became very warm. During the day I heard and saw two hawks (I didn't realize that they had quietly come in to perch in nearby trees, separately, at different points) and there might have been more. I might have heard a kingfisher. Red-winged blackbirds were calling loudly. One or more brown-headed nuthatches visited a birdfeeder. I haven't seen any brown-headed or white-breasted nuthatches in a while; they live here all year, while red-breasted nuthatches are uncommon winter visitors. I might have heard a skink in the warm leaf litter. A small thrush (not a hermit thrush??) was resting in a Chinese holly. Overnight into February 10th it was overcast again and rained. February 10th was supposed to be Umbrella Day. The BBC reported February 10th that a road in Bath, UK was temporarily closed to protect amphibians migrating to a lake to breed. I heard a first chorus of frogs singing here a few days before the original post and spotted salamanders breed at night at the beginning of the year. I might have heard an owl in the afternoon February 9th or 10th. The or a yellow-rumped/myrtle warbler came February 11th; I didn't see one every day the previous week, and I've only been seeing one at a time. I saw a female (?) downy (?) woodpecker drinking from a bucket around the 9th and it came for suet on the 10th. I might have seen a thrush. Pairs of titmice, Carolina wrens, cardinals, towhees, etc.? Belligerent white-throated sparrows. The juncos remained. Finches, chickadee(s), etc. Chickadees (and the barred owls) have been singing in late May. Heard a or the yellow-bellied sapsucker in the morning on the 11th. In the 30's and overcast again, but then dry. I might have heard an owl on the 11th and the 10th, and some recently. I might have heard multiple owls far off on February 12th or 13th. Some sun late in the day. Saw a silent sapsucker that had been on the ground? For the second time saw an unfamiliar and skittish brownish long-haired cat with a white spot on its nose. An orange cat and another in May. Not for the first time, a winged tuliptree seed blew something like 200' from the only large tuliptree in the neighborhood to land by my door. There was a seedling one year. Tuliptrees can be common in the area, but are very rare in my community. For some reason the power 'blinked' a few days before, and only some devices were reset. I heard a chainsaw nearby late on the 13th. The power flickered in January as well, but more devices lost power. Cloudy again after sunset on the 13th. I might have heard one or more frogs around 9:30pm. Windy and colder towards 10pm. Vega was up much earlier by February. Two white Asplundh trucks were parked here around mid-day on the 14th, maybe cutting along the powerlines for Duke Energy. Hawks calling in the afternoon. Maybe a squirrel reached the birdfeeder and knocked it down again. An unknown bird pecking by the window again. Venus, at peak brightness for this appearance, was visible in the evening on Valentine's Day. Mostly cloudy, with pearly altocumulus and the Moon later that night. Are the yellow daffodils running 'late' in sending up foliage?? It was predicted to be cold again the next week, possibly with winter precipitation one day.
February 13th: RTI International, based in RTP and an Iraq War contractor (?), temporarily laid off employees (from memory, around 221 in all, and 26 in North Carolina??), due to Trump's aid freeze. What were they being funded to do? More around May.
February 13th the BBC reported that a man kayaking with his father off the south end of Chile sometime recently was somehow swallowed and then spit out (?), kayak and all, by a "blue and white" humpback whale, and his father just happened to get a video of it. I think such baleen whales can't actually swallow a human into their stomach, though other whales could. An episode of Nature on PBS showed an unfortunate white gull (?), on the surface of the water, with a school of fish below, being swallowed by a baleen whale, though maybe it too was ejected alive, off camera. Yet the man still wants to kayak in the ocean?
The afternoon of February 14th WRAL had a story about an angry-looking possum in Nebraska (?) that apparently had to go through 'detox' after eating an entire chocolate cake from Costco, chocolate apparently being toxic to opossums and other animals; I knew an elderly cat that raided the human food supply various times and ate chocolate cookies (mini-Oreos?), powdered sugar and chocolate donuts (Hostess?), kind of hard plain rolls, cooked green beans (with a cheesy sauce), etc. safely. I thought that cats don't taste or desire sweetness or sugar.
Astronomy / stargazing
From recent issues of the magazines Astronomy and Sky and Telescope (the last in on Ukraine War, as in, with NATO/the US government) -- The Moon again occluded the Pleiades, on the shoulder of Taurus, February 5-6th, with the best view in the West (including Alaska, much of Canada, and eastern Russia, but I think that the Eastern US could see some of it; it was cloudy here?). This was one of a series of Moon-Pleiades occultations visible around the world from September 5, 2023 to July 7, 2029, not to be repeated until 2042. The Moon was near Uranus on the 5th, Jupiter on the 6th, Mars on the 9th, the bright star Regulus in Leo on the 12th (rainy here), Spica in Virgo on the 17th (the lunar apogee will be at 8:10pm), Antares on the 21st (near dawn the Moon was close to tau Scorpii and occulted it as seen from the North American Great Lakes), and Pluto on the 25th; Neptune and Venus were on the 1st and Venus and Neptune 'met' on the 3rd. The Moon passed in front of Mars as seen from northeast Canada, Greenland, and parts of Scandinavia and Russia February 9th. Mercury and Saturn were close together February 24th and the Moon and Mercury on the 28th, but they might have been low and hard to see. Saturn was too dim to see with the unaided eye by the 23rd?
Mars ended its retrograde motion February 24th ("stationary" at 5am) and is again moving east, in direct motion, for about two years. Mars, Pollux, and Castor, in Gemini, were lined up as they set on the morning of the 10th (I didn't go out and missed it?).
Venus, in the west of Pisces, was brightest on the 14th, at 6pm. It was highest in the sky January 29th and "stationary" at 10pm on the 27th. Deneb Kaitos in Cetus was to the east of Venus and later in the night Alphard in Hydra were there in the south, after Canis Major and Sirius passed by. Jupiter was "stationary" February 4th, at 8am.
There was a total lunar eclipse March 13-14th over much of the Atlantic "Western" world -- in the March issue of Astronomy magazine. A partial solar eclipse from the US Northeast, Virginia, Quebec, and Iceland to northwestern Africa and northwestern Russia the morning of March 29th -- the March issue of Sky and Telescope. Both to be repeated in fall 2025?
This total lunar eclipse was related to a famous 'Columbian' eclipse March 1, 1504, 521 years, or one Hypersaros, ago? There are 521-year Hypersaros and 633-year Icosa-Inex-Triple-Saros (IITS) eclipse cycles, and 1154, 1284, 1787, 1917, and 2308-year cycles? -- arxiv.org/abs/2502.01019
A 300' asteroid might dangerously approach the Earth in something like 2032. Earth "quasi-" and "mini-moons" in the February issue of Sky and Telescope.
Thursday, February 6th (instead of the 3rd) Steve Inskeep of NPR's Morning Edition had a very friendly interview with allegedly "progressive" Marc J Dunkelman on why nothing works; they didn't say "YIMBY," but that is what it was; who needs the Republicans when you can have the new Bush-Cheney (or Tennyson) Democrats? NPR goes on and on about "gentrification," but then condemns communities having influence over land use, and what about other regulations? Kill some whales and other wildlife for "green" energy, EVs, smartphones, and more metal ores? Remove regulations regarding earthquake, fire, and hurricane resistant construction? NPR doesn't balance out this anti-environmental and anti-social line. Is this from "Abundance?" -- www.npr.org/2025/02/06/nx-s1-5245230/progressives-administrative-state-weakened-marc-j-dunkelman and steveinskeep.substack.com/p/did-progressives-stop-government
More of the same from Yoni Appelbaum at The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/03/american-geographic-social-mobility/681439/
kollibri.substack.com/p/the-desert-is-for-wildlife-not-green energy
On February 8th and 9th, Toothache Day (?), The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon on WUNC/NPR discussed chemical element F, part one of two, to air next weekend (early in the morning Saturday and mid-afternoon on Sunday): www.peoplespharmacy.com/ ... A 'dangerous' topic to bring up on NPR; I'm surprised they were allowed to cover it. I had the impression that they had to be very careful in discussing the vaccination in 2024 or '23. In January and February I heard two or three other NPR shows cover adding element F to drinking water, but only as beneficial and harmless. As I said, I use products containing extra F, but there are questions that seem legitimate. On the other hand it has been suggested that the Trump administration uses this approach to disrupt things.
On element F --
February 10th NPR's Morning Edition interviewed an anthropologist about a new book, and while they mentioned distortion of Haiti's development by France and the US, they didn't mention anything more recent than 1915.
In the afternoon on February 10th WRAL profiled Shoku (?), a former Albanian street dog that somehow ended up up for adoption at the Hugs... animal shelter here. Fees waived at ... in late May.
February 11th: WUNC on a UNC Press blog post on authors being denied entry to the US ("Academic Freedom and Open Discourse"); WUNC didn't mention Palestine, though the books mentioned aren't about Palestine; the UNC Press statement did reference "critic[ism] of US policy on Palestine;" neither of them mentioned earlier examples of this behavior, and worse, in Germany, Switzerland, etc. regarding Palestine: uncpressblog.com/2025/01/31/academic-freedom-and-open-discourse/ and www.wunc.org/
Republican versus Democratic party politicians on "Fort Liberty" going back to "Ft Bragg," though not renaming it for General Braxton Bragg (March 22, 1817 in Warrenton, in Warren County, North Carolina – September 27, 1876 in Galveston, Texas: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braxton_Bragg ).
Roland Leon Bragg (June 11, 1923 – January 12, 1999): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_L._Bragg
There were problems editing February 11-12th and 14th.
According to WRAL, the Triangle's "Snowpocalypse" (sic?) was February 12, 2014 (?), with heavy snowfall beginning at mid-day and freezing rain that night; this must be the time I drove a long way, late in the workday, in snow, and then to work on sunlit, but very much partially cleared, frozen roads the next morning; very few others came in that day, or later? That December was a problem. We had far more snow in one storm around 2001 or 2002 and in the 1990's. It can snow substantially before April here. wral.com your voice sought input on the snowstorm 11 years ago.
Links
From Haaretz: portside.org/2025-02-14/israelis-river-sea-reality-palestinians-its-crime
? -- Destroying a pond to save it? -- milliontrees.me/2024/11/28/invasion-biology-we-can-do-whatever-we-want/
On Israel's expanding occupation of Syrian territory: www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-syria-occupation-golan
On the EU and geopolitics in 2025: mpr21.info/europa-se-enfrenta-a-una-tormenta-polar-perfecta/
? -- By Dave Zirin at The Nation: portside.org/2025-02-13/how-subversive-genius-kendrick-lamar-sent-trump-home-loser
Trump attempts to pressure Egypt and Jordan on Gaza: mpr21.info/trump-presiona-a-egipto-y-jordania-para-que-admitan-a-los-deportados-palestinos/
Russia in Africa: mpr21.info/rusia-va-a-replantear-su-estrategia-militar-en-africa/
See the meme of places the UK hasn't invaded, etc.: beetleypete.com/2025/02/14/fridays-random-images/
www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/page/blogging-heavens
? From Aeon + Psyche -- aeon.co/essays/to-better-understand-the-world-follow-the-paths-of-mathematics
More paintings: eclecticlight.co/2025/02/14/urban-revolutionaries-4-coal-and-construction/
www.unpopularfront.news/p/musks-hyper-mccarthyism
Recycling at the shooting range: earth911.com/how-to-recycle/recycling-mystery-spent-shell-casings/
Triangle events list: VoicesforJusticeinPalestine.org
A space industry focus, looking at French Guiana, Texas, etc,.: SAPIENS.org
jonathancook.substack.com/p/trump-didnt-invent-the-gaza-ethnic
The Indian government and Sikhs abroad: www.dropsitenews.com/p/as-modi-visits-dc-sikh-americans
anotherangryvoice.substack.com/p/donald-trumps-extraordinary-proposal/ regarding the US military
fair.org/home/coverage-of-israeli-and-palestinian-captives-demonstrates-dehumanization-in-action/
Anti-colonial posters, etc.: interferencearchive.org
From + 972 magazine, on Rosa Luxemburg: portside.org/2025-02-13/what-20th-century-revolutionary-can-teach-us-about-resisting-genocide-today
A historical photo from the Cuban Revolution: diario-octubre.com/2025/02/12/custodiada-por-un-bosque-de-soplillos-la-historia-de-una-cena-carbonera/
On the scanning of prison mail in 16 states; no original copies are delivered: www.npr.org/series/4495795/simon-says
Sol: image and meaning of the sun in Roman art and religion, 2024 -- bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.02.24/
A changed tune on the Ukraine War from Ken Klippenstein?? -- www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ukraine-war-trump-ends-as-long-as it takes
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/elon-musk-blocked-a-bill-to-stop Amazon from Helping ...
www.thebulwark.com/p/how-usaid-helped-us-defeat-the-iraqi-insurgency-aid-humanitarian
On the woes of a French arms manufacturer that supplied Ukraine: diario-octubre.com/2025/02/12/el-fabricante-de-armas-frances-elegido-por-ucrania-se-declara-en-impago/
Diario Octubre -- US spyplanes have been sent to surveil Mexican territory? -- diario-octubre.com/2025/02/12/mexico-no-descarta-espionaje-de-aviones-de-ee-uu-cerca-de-su-territorio/
A former German soldier was arrested in Ukraine: diario-octubre.com/2025/02/12/detienen-en-ucrania-a-un-militar-de-alemania-sospechoso-de-violaciones-y-pornografia-infantil/
For Cinema Day: diario-octubre.com/2025/02/12/los-camaradas-1963/
US subversion in Venezuela (and in the Republic of Georgia, Cuba, Serbia, etc.): diario-octubre.com/2025/02/12/washington-subvenciono-ongs-en-venezuela-para-fabricar-una-crisis-de-gobernabilidad/
On fascism and social democracy: diario-octubre.com/2025/02/12/el-fascismo-necesita-de-la-socialdemocracia/
On recent US air safety problems: diario-octubre.com/2025/02/13/siguen-cayendose-los-aviones-en-eeuu-
Julian Assange denied restoration of Ecuadorian citizenship: diario-octubre.com/2025/02/13/corte-niega-a-assange-pedido-para-recuperar-ciudadania-ecuatoriana/
Nickel powerhouse Cuba: diario-octubre.com/2025/02/12/niquel-en-cuba-equilibrio-entre-economia-medio-ambiente-y-sociedad/
Trump's new SDI (Star Wars)? Before the "Golden Dome" -- www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2025/02/12/is-trumps-grand-strategy-a-fallacy-like-reagans-star-war
There was an Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Hour with Zainab Bahrani, “Towards an Archaeology of Preservation” at 8pm ET February 26th: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5017392176382/WN_RfYR4UTdTDO5SvAH-Uw1kg
simplicius76.substack.com/p/double-decker-special-hysteria-ignites over negotiating peace in Ukraine, etc.
German politics -- BSW and AfD?? -- mpr21.info/sahra-wagenknecht-prepara-una-coalicion-de-gobierno-con-la-afd/
At the Amazon facility in Raleigh, NC: popularresistance.org/amazon-stokes-racial-divides-in-lead-up-to-union-vote/ Voting ended that weekend?
www.normalisland.co.uk/p/uk-has-kindly-decided-not-to-accept the refugees it created
Protesting US nuclear weapons/in Germany: peaceandplanetnews.org/u-s-citizen-to-enter-a-german-prison-on-february-26-for-protesting-nuclear-weapons/
Israeli Apartheid Week 2025 was March 21st-30th and the anniversary of BDS is in 2025: docs.google.com/forms/d/1hkPprrGcvbVBrF15JR4Q6B1XL3TRSs0wIHC_0HPj7kk/viewform?edit_requested=true
From Aeon Psyche -- the Moon as a place: aeon.co/essays/how-the-scientists-of-the-1960s-turned-the-moon-into-a-place
www.dropsitenews.com/p/unexploded-ordnance-gaza-munitions
"DROP THE BOGUS CHARGESAGAINST LISA DAVIS -- HANDS OFF THE UHURU MOVEMENT!" Change.org petition:
From VIPS: consortiumnews.com/2025/02/12/vips-memo-to-new-dni-tulsi-gabbard/
On US AID: consortiumnews.com/2025/02/12/patrick-lawrence-musk-the-myth-of-usaid/
ahmadibsais.substack.com/p/the-gazafication-of-jenin-will-not
fair.org/home/nyt-advises-trump-to-kill-more-venezuelans/
"U.S./Israeli Provocations and Crimes in Palestine and Lebanon: Hamas Responds to U.S./Israeli Zionist Plotting to Derail Gaza Ceasefire Agreement" -- cpcml.ca/ITN2025/TI5518.HTM
From Matt Taibbi: racket.news/p/the-democrats-dirty-tricks-playbook
www.racket.news/p/my-statement-to-congress-574
US government documents: propertyofthepeople.org
ML Theory French Art Database: mltheory.wordpress.com/2025/02/12/french-art-database/
Verso Books' Valentine's Week sale ended at 11:59pm EST Sunday, February 16th: www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/roses-are-red-and-so-am-i-red-day-sale
spaceweather.com on polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) -- "'even more colorful than auroras'"
xerces.org/blog/new-years-resolutions-that-will-benefit-nature-wildlife-and-invertebrates
kollibri.substack.com/p/the-desert-is-for-wildlife-not-green energy
brevity.wordpress.com/2025/02/12/blogging_at_sea/
indyweek.com/news/union-election-underway-at-amazons-rdu1-warehouse/
indyweek.com/culture/how-to-navigate-duke-gardens-cherry-blossom-season-during-construction/
www.wunc.org/news/2025-02-02/durham-unc-chapel-hill-rebecca-lobach-black-hawk-potomac-crash
?? -- observatory.wiki/Main_Page ; articles relating to ancient Mesoamerican government, Darwin and plant movement, etc.
www.publicedworks.org/2025/02/holden-thorp-a-ruthless-takedown-of-academia/
anotherangryvoice.substack.com/p/britains-two-tier-justice-system
chrishedges.substack.com/p/virtue-hoarders-and-the-rejection
From The Dissident: the307.substack.com/p/the-ukraine-negotiations-should-have
simplicius76.substack.com/p/danger-ramps-up-in-the-baltics-as
The February 12th Geopolitical Economy Report -- "122 years of US imperialism in Guantánamo: From torture to migrant detention" -- geopoliticaleconomy.substack.com/p/us-imperialism-guantanamo-torture-migrant-detention
karlof1.substack.com/p/not-just-usaid-caught-in-massive
sonar21.com/illusionary-empire-by-ryan-l-dudley/
www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2025/02/12/russian-bread-whose-weapon-in-the-war
CLG News February 12th update: substack.com/inbox/post/157005242
Will Gaza's resistance sink both Trump and Biden? -- meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/will-trumps-honeymoon-end-on-saturday
thebaffler.com/latest/grist-of-empire-krauthamer
thebaffler.com/latest/unhuman-resources-gais
On Mario Fehr, head of the Zurich, Switzerland Department of Security: consortiumnews.com/2025/02/12/the-swiss-zionist-who-jailed-ali-abunimah/
consortiumnews.com/2025/02/12/patrick-lawrence-musk-the-myth-of-usaid
consortiumnews.com/2025/02/11/chris-hedges-the-empire-self-destructs/
consortiumnews.com/2025/02/11/patrick-lawrence-all-the-gloves-come-off-on-gaza/
An Urizen webinar from the British Blake Society was February 26th 19:30-21:00 -- blakesociety.org/product/urizen-cycle/
On the UK and the PA: www.kitklarenberg.com/p/britains-secret-palestinian-authority
roburie.substack.com/p/the-us-plan-for-gaza-ethnic-cleansing
www.globalresearch.ca/why-does-donald-trump-want-to-transform-gaza-into-a-u-s-territory/5879488
responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-gaza-us-military/
US mercenaries in Gaza: responsiblestatecraft.org/us-contractors-gaza/
On the allegation that KPA soldiers fought in the Ukraine War: responsiblestatecraft.org/north-korea-troops-in-russia/
Mike Pompeo spoke at Duke again: www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025/02/duke-university-former-secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo-donald-trump-first-administration-former-cia-director-north-korea-iran-middle-east-abraham-a
At the University of Chicago: www.thenation.com/article/activism/uchicago-palestine-protests-free-speech-trump/
Rights and Dissent on Tulsi Gabbard: www.rightsanddissent.org/news/tulsi-gabbards-nomination-for-director-of-national-intelligence/
Resistance to the USA in Mexico: cpcml.ca/ITN2025/TI5517.HTM
Counter-revolution, Nazis, etc. in Eastern Europe: eventsinukraine.substack.com/p/the-swastika-and-the-cross-malofeev
Waging the information war: mpr21.info/wikileaks-destapa-una-red-mundial-de-intoxicacion-financiada-por-estados-unidos/
Hamas report on Israel's ceasefire violations: www.dropsitenews.com/p/hamas-report-israeli-ceasefire-violations-gaza-netanyahu
From David Swanson: worldbeyondwar.org/jfks-peace-speech-and-a-world-beyond-war/ccords-personal-relationship-with-trump-program-in-american-grand-strategy (sic?)
Parrhesia for Trump: peoplesdispatch.org/2025/02/09/parrhesia-as-political-resistance-the-bishop-that-spoke-truth-to-power/
From Yoni Appelbaum at The Atlantic -- more anti-environment, anti-community liberalism? -- www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/03/american-geographic-social-mobility/681439/
On light pollution: www.cnn.com/science/light-pollution-dark-skies-c2e-spc/index.html
darksky.org/news/exploring-lights-out-the-smithsonians-special-exhibit-on-reclaiming-the-night/
International Dark Sky Week is April 21-28 in 2025: idsw.darksky.org/
From The Dissident: the307.substack.com/p/how-israel-forces-the-failure-of
fair.org/home/theres-more-going-on-in-our-fight-than-being-reactive-to-nonsense-executive-orders/
Democrats on ... : www.commondreams.org/news/contraception-begins-at-erection
Seymour Hersh on the Biden Administration's foreign adventures, etc.: seymourhersh.substack.com/p/nord-stream-and-the-failures-of-the
thefloutist.substack.com/p/the-sorrow-of-loving-palestine
?? -- On protest music: portside.org/2025-02-01/100-best-protest-songs-all-time
"Color revolution" to stop Trump and state Republicans, but not the ethnic cleansing carried out under Biden: portside.org/2025-02-11/doge-hiring-response-did-not-disappoint
A manual from the 1940's has gone viral?? -- www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26184/pg26184-images.html
The EU is considering a plan of naval aggression in the Baltic Sea: mpr21.info/la-union-europea-quiere-legalizar-la-pirateria-en-el-mar-baltico-contra-los-mercantes-rusos/
In Germany: mpr21.info/merkel-salta-a-la-palestra-electoral-para-evitar-la-escalada-con-rusia/
Election-related: theworker.news/2025/02/11/por-que-la-izquierda-debe-comprender-a-los-partidarios-de-trump-de-clase-obrera/
jackrasmus.com/2025/02/11/labor-exploitation-in-the-era-of-the-neoliberal-policy-regime/
Poisoning the land (and GMO-related?): www.leefang.com/p/this-pesticide-rapidly-eradicating insects
... -- www.france24.com/en/americas/20250205-trump-resistance-a-1940s-us-sabotage-manual-goes-viral
A war on the environment in Gaza: www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/09/ravaging-the-soils-of-gaza/
theworker.news/2025/02/10/the-first-three-weeks-of-trumps-ultra-reactionary-presidency/
kathleenlwallace.substack.com/p/how-did-we-get-here
www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/09/bourgeois-formal-democracy-for-now-but-could-fascism-be-the-future/
On Ahlam al-Tamimi, currently held by Jordan: www.counterextremism.com/press/counterpoint-brief-us-jordan-struggle-extradite-hamas-member-ahlam-al-tamimi
Israel raided a well-known bookstore in East Jerusalem: www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-raid-prominent-palestinian-bookshop-in-east-jerusalem-2025-02-10/
simplicius76.substack.com/p/usaids-demise-sparks-dizzying-acceleration
portside.org/2025-02-10/how-refrigeration-ruined-fresh-food
On recently deceased Sam Nujoma of Namibia: diario-octubre.com/2025/02/10/sam-nujoma-es-namibia-es-africa/
diario-octubre.com/2025/02/10/andate-y-ve-a-caibarien-que-tati-tiene-problemas/
On Sam Nujoma: diario-octubre.com/2025/02/10/muere-sam-nujoma-fundador-de-namibia-y-heroe-africano/
Uribe on trial in Bogota: diario-octubre.com/2025/02/10/juicio-contra-expresidente-uribe-de-colombia-se-reanuda-en-bogota/
On Military Foundation Day in DPR Korea: diario-octubre.com/2025/02/10/coreanos-rinden-homenaje-a-lideres-de-la-rpdc/
A pregnant woman was killed by Israel in the West Bank: diario-octubre.com/2025/02/10/israel-asesina-en-cisjordania-a-una-mujer-embarazada-de-ocho-meses/
On the German Green Party, the counterrevolutionary SDP after WWI, and immigration: diario-octubre.com/2025/02/10/alemania-conocer-a-los-verdes-en-su-camino-a-la-extrema-derecha/
A statement from the PFLP: diario-octubre.com/2025/02/08/comunicado-del-frente-popular-para-la-liberacion-de-palestina-2/
Events during the Year of the Indigenous Woman in Mexico and Spain: diario-octubre.com/2025/02/10/mexico-busca-reivindicar-a-mujeres-indigenas-su-lengua-e-historia/
mpr21.info/el-ejercito-britanico-pone-a-punto-dos-nuevos-drones-navales-en-ucrania/
mpr21.info/el-ejercito-israeli-sigue-bombardeando-libano-a-pesar-del-alto-el-fuego/
In the area: www.nuevosouth.org ?
www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2025/02/10/russia-an-israel-first-country
Social realist paintings of production? -- eclecticlight.co/2025/02/07/urban-revolutionaries-3-factories/
Depictions of the ancient Greek sacrifice of Iphigenia: eclecticlight.co/2025/02/10/changing-paintings-57-the-sacrifice-of-iphigenia/
www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/the-effort-to-suppress-criticism
On UK Labor Party politics: anotherangryvoice.substack.com/p/the-other-nasty-party
"Israel carrying out a second Gaza on West Bank with Trump’s backing" -- www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/09/qdva-f09.html
"Michigan ACLU files lawsuit against University of Michigan over anti-protest trespass bans" -- www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/10/spyi-f10.html
"HTS leader Jolani assures Turkey, Israel and the US in Economist interview" – www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/09/dwiy-f09.html
On Muhammad Barrash, released February 9th (?) after having been held by Israel for 22 years, tortured through medical neglect and mistreatment: mpr21.info/no-le-digais-a-mi-madre-que-me-he-quedado-ciego/
Under Eisenhower: portside.org/2025-02-09/what-happened-last-time-president-purged-bureaucracy
Only now have the very anti-Russian Baltic countries separated their electrical grids from Russia's, though they apparently began working on it before the current war (?). Or is this an attack on Russia, because it leaves Russia's Kaliningrad region cut off? – mpr21.info/los-paises-balticos-se-desenganchan-de-la-red-electrica-rusa/
mltheory.wordpress.com/2025/02/08/goodbye-to-the-teacher-and-liberator-by-erno-gero-1953/
The much smaller Monitor versus Virginia battle of the Ukraine War? -- diario-octubre.com/2025/01/28/perro-robot-y-dron-protagonizan-un-espectacular-combate-con-fuegos-artificiales/
www.counteroffensive.news/p/the-first-ever-all-drone-assault
cosmonautmag.com/2024/11/ukraine-will-be-a-war-without-victors/
cosmonautmag.com/2024/11/towards-a-united-front-for-palestine/
cosmonautmag.com/2024/11/election-2024-dont-mourn-organize/
cosmonautmag.com/2024/11/lessons-of-the-election/
Canada and the Nazis: cosmonautmag.com/2024/12/honoring-nazis-a-canadian-tradition-since-the-1930s/
cosmonautmag.com/2024/12/the-day-after-trump-won/
On Paredon Records (now available from Smithsonian Folkways): cosmonautmag.com/2024/12/learning-from-each-others-oppression-latin-american-
revolutionary-nationalist-music-in-the-liner-notes-of-paredon-records/
See: folkways.si.edu/search?query=Paredon%20Records&orderby=date&ascending=True&bylabel=True
cosmonautmag.com/2024/12/birth-of-a-bonaparte-trump-and-the-end-of-us-bourgeois-democracy/
On Syria: mltheory.wordpress.com/2024/12/22/the-syrian-assad-government-has-fallen/
www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2025/02/08/usaid-democrat-as-much-as-republican
theworker.news/2024/08/25/the-dnc-and-opportunism-in-the-palestine-solidarity-movement/
theworker.news/2025/02/08/new-dnc-chair-praises-good-billionaires-condemns-palestinian-resistance/
unpopularfront.news/p/what-happened-here-c9f and portside.org/2025-02-08/what-happened-here
www.unpopularfront.news/p/gold-and-brown
On Star Trek: The Next Generation and today -- akotsko.substack.com/p/how-next-generation-predicted-the manosphere Note episode 1-2?
www.spoon-tamago.com/karimoku-research-center/
Plushies of daily life? -- www.spoon-tamago.com/plushie-small-disappointments/
www.spoon-tamago.com/kimino-high-school/
www.spoon-tamago.com/most-popular-posts-2024/
racket.news/p/the-democrats-dirty-tricks-playbook
merylnass.substack.com/p/senator-ron-johnson-now-chair-of
mpr21.info/un-misil-ruso-destruye-el-centro-de-inteligencia-de-la-otan-en-odesa/
The US and Israel cooperate to locate Hamas' tunnels: mpr21.info/la-colaboracion-de-israel-y-estados-unidos-en-la-deteccion-de-los-tuneles-de-gaza/
mpr21.info/ucrania-fue-el-mayor-receptor-de-las-subvenciones-de-la-usaid/
mpr21.info/rearme-y-pacto-de-seguridad-entre-la-union-europea-y-reino-unido/
“'To maintain my voice as an artist … I must decline this award': Arab-American artist Fareed Armaly declines prestigious German art prize over censorship of pro-Palestinian voices" -- www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/08/mwwq-f08.html
"British independent journalist Richard Medhurst raided and detained by Austrian authorities" -- www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/07/wsqx-f07.html
"Australian Labor PM accedes to Coalition on sweeping 'hate speech' laws" -- www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/08/mnhc-f08.html
"Canadian government refuses to condemn Trump’s proposal for ethnic cleansing of Gaza" -- www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/08/pibk-f08.html
geopoliticaleconomy.substack.com/p/trump-gaza-real-estate-family
"February 4th -- Worst mass shooting in Swedish history claims 11 lives" -- www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/07/ease-f07.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Risbergska_school_shooting
February 6, 2023 -- "Mass protest on second anniversary of deadly Turkey-Syria earthquake" -- www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/07/psuy-f07.html
GATT: goingagainstthetide.org/2024/10/06/israel-imperialisms-necessary-aberration-in-a-postcolonial-world/
GATT: goingagainstthetide.org/2024/10/06/capitalism-in-global-conquest-1492-1945/
CAM: covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/16/what-happened-to-the-liberals/
On assassinated journalist Wafa al-Udaini: covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/02/covertaction-bulletin-tribute-to-palestinian-journalist-wafa-al-udaini/
On a Ukrainian restaurant in Moscow: covertactionmagazine.com/2024/12/11/ukrainian-culture-is-celebrated-in-a-ukrainian-restaurant-in-moscow-of-all-places/
An interview with Hamas: covertactionmagazine.com/2025/01/24/an-exclusive-interview-with-hamas/
On October 7, 2023: covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/07/on-the-one-year-anniversary-of-october-7-it-is-clear-we-were-not-told-the-truth/
On the assassination of US citizen Aysengur Eygi by Israel: covertactionmagazine.com/2024/09/12/the-israeli-and-u-s-governments-know-the-name-of-the-israeli-soldier-who-assassinated-peace-activist-aysengur-eygi/
On Juan Lopez: covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/16/the-murder-of-juan-lopez-defender-of-life/
On the attempted assassination [?] of Robert Fico in Slovakia: covertactionmagazine.com/2024/05/28/did-western-forces-try-to-assassinate-slovakias-prime-minister-fico/
Olof Palme of Sweden – Assassinated February 28, 1986: covertactionmagazine.com/2024/05/09/swedish-prime-minister-olof-palme-compared-u-s-crimes-in-vietnam-to-those-of-the-nazis-in-the-1970s-and-then-was-assassinated-under-mysterious-circumstances/
covertactionmagazine.com/2024/12/19/u-s-corporate-land-grab-in-ukraine-underlies-war-with-russia/
covertactionmagazine.com/2024/12/03/media-distorting-north-korean-role-in-russo-ukraine-war/
The information war: covertactionmagazine.com/2024/06/24/russian-artists-being-used-by-ukraine-to-build-support-for-u-s-weapons-pipeline-and-war/
covertactionmagazine.com/2025/02/07/the-munich-olympics-tim-fehlbaums-gripping-september-5/
covertactionmagazine.com/2025/02/05/silent-propaganda-on-u-s-imperialism-breeds-confused-americans/
From 972 magazine: portside.org/2025-02-07/damage-trumps-gaza-plan-has-already-been-done
electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/army-was-ordered-kill-israelis-7-october-defense-minister-confirms and asawinstanley.substack.com/p/army-was-ordered-to-kill-israelis
katherinemay.substack.com/p/weekend-journaling-prompt-33a
patrianuestra.wordpress.com/2025/02/07/cuba-1899-entre-el-engano-y-la-frustracion-2/
www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/02/bidens-environmental-record/
From a rightist Dane but interesting: www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/02/a-former-danish-diplomat-on-the-future-of-greenland/
www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/07/the-right-to-remain-in-the-face-of-genocide/
Canada and Nazis: www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/26/canadas-nazi-problem/
www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/07/the-palestine-exception-to-free-speech-is-un-american/
www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/07/no-other-land-forces-a-reckoning-with-the-israeli-occupation/
www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/07/oscar-castillo-among-the-tarahumara-and-raramuris/
www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/07/crimes-against-humanity-past-and-present/
www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/07/violence-in-its-natural-state-palestines-moment/
On Ryanair: www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/07/why-fly-in-europe-the-dark-triumph-of-the-ryanair-effect/
www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/07/the-hasbaras-foot-soldiers/
www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/07/roaming-charges-whos-the-boss/
consortiumnews.com/2025/02/06/craig-murray-un-censures-uk-abuse-of-terrorism-act/
consortiumnews.com/2025/02/06/greenland-bans-foreign-political-donations/
consortiumnews.com/2025/02/06/us-border-industrial-complexs-bipartisan-boom/
consortiumnews.com/2025/02/05/netanyahu-traps-trump-in-quagmire/
consortiumnews.com/2025/02/04/trump-wants-us-to-take-over-ethnically-cleanse-gaza/
consortiumnews.com/2025/02/04/probing-uk-special-forces-war-crimes-in-afghanistan/
consortiumnews.com/2025/02/07/the-chris-hedges-report-arab-regimes-the-betrayal-of-palestine/
consortiumnews.com/2025/02/06/trump-wants-more-war-for-gaza-ploy/
thefloutist.substack.com/p/all-the-gloves-come-off-in-gaza
diario-octubre.com/2025/02/07/rusia-nuevas-elecciones-son-la-peor-pesadilla-de-zelenski/
diario-octubre.com/2025/02/07/la-solucion-de-adentro-hacia-afuera-del-mayor-showman-geopolitico/
diario-octubre.com/2025/02/07/la-usaid-ha-financiado-9-de-cada-10-medios-ucranianos/
the307.substack.com/p/the-global-lawfare-campaign-against
thepolemicist.substack.com/p/trumps-exemplary-gaza-plan
Met February 10th, second Mondays, 11am-12pm over Zoom: www.keepdurhambeautiful.org/dec
eclecticlight.co/2025/02/07/urban-revolutionaries-3-factories/
www.npr.org/2025/02/06/nx-s1-5245230/progressives-administrative-state-weakened-marc-j-dunkelman
steveinskeep.substack.com/p/did-progressives-stop-government
jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-gaza-war-was-a-lie-as-is-the
consortiumnews.com/2025/02/05/us-officials-backtrack-on-trumps-illegal-gaza-gambit/
www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/01/pick-up-the-pieces/
ncbg.unc.edu/2025/02/06/further-afield-winter-green-wintergreen-along-the-haw-river-trail/
simplicius76.substack.com/p/trump-announces-levantine-riviera
steveinskeep.substack.com/p/did-progressives-stop-government
jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-gaza-war-was-a-lie-as-is-the
consortiumnews.com/2025/02/05/us-officials-backtrack-on-trumps-illegal-gaza-gambit/
www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/01/pick-up-the-pieces/
simplicius76.substack.com/p/trump-announces-levantine-riviera
www.counteroffensive.news/p/ukraines-deep-history-of-peacekeeping
? -- www.nknews.org/pro/kim-jong-un-meets-young-korean-students-from-japan-in-bid-to-win-their-loyalty/
So they say (paywalled): www.nknews.org/pro/in-changing-world-north-korea-has-little-to-gain-from-pro-regime-sympathizers/
? -- www.nknews.org/2025/01/north-koreas-official-2025-calendar-offers-sneak-peak-of-whats-to-come/
On graduate student unionization, etc., rather than anti-war protest being silenced by university administrators: portside.org/2025-01-08/universities-and-coming-storm
www.dropsitenews.com/p/south-korea-martial-law-biden-trump-kim-jong-un-nuclear-yoon
www.dropsitenews.com/p/rahmani-sanctions-journalist-silencing critical press coverage
www.dropsitenews.com/p/palestinian-authority-west-bank-jenin-assault
deepdivewithleeslusher.substack.com/p/the-state-of-western-warcraft
deepdivewithleeslusher.substack.com/p/rubble-and-rhetoric
deepdivewithleeslusher.substack.com/p/the-uss-gettysburg
deepdivewithleeslusher.substack.com/p/western-leadership-and-other-myths
A reunion of personnel from the Kagnew Station US military listening post, 1943-1974, (now in Eritrea): thebaffler.com/salvos/listening-devices-neumann
www.racket.news/p/goodbye-to-joe-biden-and-whoever
jackrasmus.com/2025/01/24/bidens-pernicious-presidential-legacies-print/
www.stephensemler.com/p/how-the-most-unpopular-us-president
aurelien2022.substack.com/p/the-curse-of-zhou-bai-den
fair.org/home/media-credit-trump-for-gaza-truce-sidelining-palestinian-resistance-and-solidarity/
www.kitklarenberg.com/p/i-felt-like-a-nazi-zionists-admit
Jourrnalist Max Blumenthal versus Antony Blinken: decensorednews.substack.com/p/max-blumenthal-antony-blinken-state-dept Journalist Sam Husseini was arrested around then.
decensorednews.substack.com/p/sam-husseini-antony-blinken-reporter-video
www.rt.com/news/611033-grayzone-blinken-gaza-genocide/
www.dropsitenews.com/p/yemen-houthi-gaza-israel-palestine-ceasefire
Hamas, etc. on the ceasefire: cpcml.ca/ITN2025/TI5501.HTM#1
merylnass.substack.com/p/israel-gaza-deal-what-it-looks-like
roburie.substack.com/p/note-the-problem-with-the-israel
tlavagabond.substack.com/p/the-gaza-ceasefire-a-us-israel-defeat
?? -- tlavagabond.substack.com/p/a-century-of-ufo-psyops-exposed-part-0eb Part 3
Russian interest in the occult condemned by Russian Orthodox archpriest: www.rt.com/russia/611130-russia-riddled-with-sorcerers/
www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/17/cease-fires-walk-with-me/
On the ceasefire and Marwan Barghouti and Ahmad Saadat: open.substack.com/pub/dropsitenews/p/israel-refusing-to-release-marwan-barghouti-ahmad-saadat
www.dropsitenews.com/p/five-journalists-in-gaza-reflect
thepolemicist.substack.com/p/ceasefire-prospects-and-trump-pressure
chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-ceasefire-charade
theworker.news/2025/01/18/on-the-doha-ceasefire-agreement-vnd-peru/
theintercept.com/2025/01/15/israel-hamas-ceasefire-biden-netanyahu-deaths/
A statement: liberationroad.substack.com/p/the-ceasefire-in-gaza-relief-fear
For more information, here is the Wikipedia page; human fatalities? – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_wasting_disease
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoride ; I think hydrofluoric acid ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrofluoric_acid ) was poured down a drain and blew up a chemistry lab at UNC once ; I've heard that not that long ago the sinks dumped into and colored nearby Meeting of the Waters Creek.
"American Historical Association condemns Gaza genocide" – www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/13/ywio-j13.html
Vetoed by the American Historical Association – www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/20/vizz-j20.html
"Australia’s Socialist Alternative sends correspondent to Syria: The pseudo-left in alliance with al-Qaeda and the CIA" – www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/20/epzb-j20.html
On Aginter Press: mpr21.info/el-terrorismo-en-tiempos-de-la-guerra-fria-aginter-press/
An interview with Mazin Qumsiyeh of the Palestine Museum of Natural History (PMNH) and the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability (PIBS); in Durham, at Duke, 1993-1999: sonar21.com/palestinians-will-not-surrender-a-conversaton-with-mazin-qumsiyeh/
fair.org/home/media-downplay-israeli-violations-of-hezbollah-ceasefire/
fair.org/home/syria-is-free-say-media-but-that-shouldnt-mean-free-of-us-occupation/
fair.org/home/20-years-after-his-death-gary-webbs-truth-is-still-dangerous/
By Gary Webb: fair.org/extra/taking-a-dive-on-contra-crack/
fair.org/home/why-the-right-calls-mangione-the-ivy-league-killer/
fair.org/home/nyt-panics-over-outrage-at-insurance-companies/
Health insurance anger monitored: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/government-monitoring-those-with
On Greenland and Denmark: mpr21.info/dinamarca-no-esta-en-condiciones-de-defender-groenlandia/
Related to the issue of Greenland: fair.org/home/remember-when-howard-dean-yelling-made-him-unfit-to-be-president/
www.rt.com/russia/611145-danish-f16-instructor-killed/
Attacks on the Turkstream pipelines: www.rt.com/news/610985-turkstream-future-test-trumpism/
simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-11725-russia-irans-landmark
fair.org/extra/for-u-s-media-rape-culture-is-there-not-here/
fair.org/home/fairs-critique-of-washington-post-makes-washington-post/
In Pakistan: www.rt.com/news/611073-pakistani-imran-knan-jailed/
fair.org/home/as-pakistan-murders-protesters-leading-papers-play-down-washingtons-role/
www.globalresearch.ca/regime-change-iran-coming-soon/5875124
Claim that Ba'athist Syria disappeared and killed Hamas members: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250106-assad-regime-executed-dozens-of-hamas-members-without-trial-report-reveals/
Claim of a DPR Korea Fukushima plot: www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3294559/spies-protests-and-fukushima-inside-north-koreas-plot-sow-south-korea-japan-discord
Skepticism that the US is behind the overthrow the Syrian government: www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/12/the-uses-and-misuses-of-ideology-in-analyzing-the-syrian-overthrow/
Referring to possible assassination attempts by pro-Russian Ukrainians? – www.rt.com/news/611132-biden-radical-ukrainians-kiev-visit/
www.rt.com/news/611144-russia-iran-partnership-agreement/
www.rt.com/news/611142-us-treasury-debt-ceiling/
www.rt.com/news/610996-openai-whistleblower-mother-carlson/
Created by "AI," a topic on NPR's The World January 17th, without mention of this? – www.rt.com/news/611016-washington-post-cartoonist-arrested-child-porn/
www.rt.com/news/611046-fbi-closes-diversity-dei-office/
diario-octubre.com/2025/01/24/trump-promete-contactar-con-kim-jong-un/
A waving Chinese flag for the Moon? -- diario-octubre.com/2025/01/24/china-colocara-la-primera-bandera-ondeante-en-la-luna/
consortiumnews.com/2025/01/27/craig-murray-israeli-atrocities-continue-in-lebanon/
consortiumnews.com/2025/01/27/outcry-at-2-day-detention-deportation-of-journalist-in-zurich/
consortiumnews.com/2025/01/27/how-the-israel-lobby-tries-to-silence-criticism-of-israel/
www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/ali-abunimah-has-been-freed-by-swiss
www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/you-cant-criticise-israel-in-the
www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/gaza-double-standards-show-everything
jalalayn.substack.com/p/is-trump-going-to-be-any-better
The US media will welcome it? – www.rt.com/news/611133-two-justices-assassinated-iran/
theworker.news/2025/01/28/two-judges-killed-in-tehran/
thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/01/28/ai-going-deepseek/
indi.ca/trump-admits-israels-failure-2/
On Jamaal Bowman and the DSA, etc.: tempestmag.org/2025/01/dsa-never-recovered-from-bowman/
Chinese Trotskyism: tempestmag.org/2025/01/leftist-studies-in-china-and-the-united-states/ The author of a new novel about Trotsky's time in New York before the 1917 Revolution was interviewed on NPR's Morning Edition February 1st; the author, with a very strong New York accent, but currently in Morocco, is anti-Trotsky and even more so anti-Stalin. A book on 'over-regulation' in housing, etc. was to be discussed on the 3rd? Who needs the old pre-Trump Republican Party when you have the new Democratic Party? In a recent issue of NYRB there was a discussion of how deeply pro-"Western," pro-Yeltsin, pro-Pinochet 'Russian liberals' disdain if not hate the people of Russia and don't really value "democracy," so they lost to also pro-capitalist Putin, etc.
tempestmag.org/2021/11/expel-jamaal-bowman/
Tempest Collective statement of solidarity with Ali Abunimah: tempestmag.org/2025/01/solidarity-with-ali-abunimah/
There was a webinar on the "Syrian Revolution" February 2nd: tempestmag.org/2025/01/whats-next-for-the-syrian-revolution/
Also from the pro-NATO left: liberationroad.substack.com/p/read-ukrainian-leftists
On the current global economic order, "Capital's fairytales:" newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/fire-and-spark
"Trump and tech:" newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/fragile-leviathan
On the cancellation of the Romanian poll (rescheduled to May 4th?): newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/fractured-romania
Cuba and the US government's "SSTL:" newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/abject-gesture
On David Lynch: newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/women-in-trouble
On Trudeau: newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/trudeaus-fall
The French in Africa: newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/the-franc-zone
On TJ Clark's Bruegel: newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/world-upside-down
The environment and capitalism; "Technology and waste:" newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/exponential-abyss
On the current global economic order; "On Joseph Stiglitz:" newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/supply-sider
simplicius76.substack.com/p/trump-announces-levantine-riviera
On Gaza: cpcml.ca/ITN2025/TI5514.HTM#1
jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-gaza-war-was-a-lie-as-is-the ceasefire
consortiumnews.com/2025/02/05/us-officials-backtrack-on-trumps-illegal-gaza-gambit/
www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/08/blow-it-up-clean-it-out-sell-it-off/
www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/07/roaming-charges-whos-the-boss/
www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/01/pick-up-the-pieces/
On Estonia's Russophobic 21st century leadership; recently on the BBC; also a recent post on West Bank aid to Gaza: robertjprince.net/2025/02/06/31648/
... merylnass.substack.com/p/which-arbitrary-path-should-be-followed
diario-octubre.com/2025/01/10/arteka-el-modelo-socialdemocrata/
diario-octubre.com/2025/01/10/trump-y-obama-charlan-y-se-rien-en-el-funeral-de-jimmy-carter/
On Carter's early January UFO sighting in Georgia, questions about disclosure, etc. on NPR's Saturday Morning Edition January 11th.
On the mystery drones reported in the Northeast etc.: www.mtracey.net/p/drones-and-mass-hysteria-an-inquest
They say: sonar21.com/trump-white-house-confirms-that-drones-over-new-jersey-were-approved-by-faa/
? -- On the Committee to Protect Health Care versus RFK Jr's DHHS nomination, new in January: merylnass.substack.com/p/the-blue-blob-act-blue-creates-yet another astroturf organization to try and tank Bobby Kennedy's nomination
libya360.wordpress.com/2024/12/18/compatible-left-joins-imperialism-in-celebrating-defeat-of-syria/
A Google translation – "The cyclical shift from demonization to sanctification of Stalin does not represent progress; Bitácora Team (ML), 2025" – diario-octubre.com/2025/01/28/pasar-ciclicamente-de-la-demonizacion-a-la-santificacion-de-stalin-no-supone-un-avance-equipo-de-bitacora-m-l-2025/
Grover Furr responds to a critic of his recent book: msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/research/gfgreenecrit0125.html or msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/research/gfgreenecrit0125.pdf
"HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025! From the November 8th Publishing House" – A New Year's toast given by Stalin, then 22, at a working class home in Batumi in 1902 (up through the night?) – "There's the dawn! Soon the sun will rise. The time will come when this sun will shine on us!" as it did. On Batumi, Adjara, in the Republic of Georgia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batumi
A CPC(M-L) YouTube series: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiZWYhHlHKs&feature=youtu.be
ncbg.unc.edu/2025/02/06/further-afield-winter-green-wintergreen-along-the-haw-river-trail/
An "antidote" to the news – a short Twitter video (~1 minute?) of some very familiar cheetahs (young?): x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1876641393193734283
CALENDAR
This week in history: www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/26/tkyf-m26.html
portside.org/2025-05-26/week-peoples-history-may-28-jun-3-2025
"This week in history: February 10-16" www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/10/ninu-f10.html
portside.org/2025-02-10/week-peoples-history-feb-12-18
"This week in history: January 13-19" – www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/12/erlb-j12.html
portside.org/2025-01-13/week-peoples-history-jan-15-17
The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola, the MPLA) was founded December 10, 1956: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPLA
December 13, 1951 (see an earlier calendar, or see a future winter post.)
January 1, 1984
January 7, 1948
January 9, 1956 (see an earlier calendar, or see a future winter post.)
The new namesake for "Fort Bragg" in NC -- Roland Leon Bragg (June 11, 1923 – January 12, 1999): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_L._Bragg
The Fujian People's Government (or the Fukien People's Government, Chinese: 福建人民政府; Fújiàn Rénmín Zhèngfǔ), officially the People's Revolutionary Government of the Republic of China (中華共和國人民革命政府; Zhōnghuá Gònghéguó Rénmín Gémìng Zhèngfǔ) existed from November 22, 1933 to January 13, 1934 in the Republic of China's coastal Fujian Province, facing Taiwan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujian_People%27s_Government
The South Asian Makar/Makara Sankrānti (Sanskrit: मकरसङ्क्रान्ति, Makarasaṅkrānti, meaning Capricorn Festival), Uttarāyana, Makara, or Sankrānti was around January 14th: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makar_Sankranti
Japan's Sagichō Fire Festival (Japanese: 左義長), or Dondoyaki (どんど焼き) was around January 14-15th: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagichō_Fire_Festival
January 20th Trump pardoned around 1,200 January 6, 2021 defendants at least one of whom objected to being pardoned, and was interviewed by the BBC in February (Pamela Hemphill?): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon_of_January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack_defendant Those pardoned included ... WUNC made sure to report on those from North Carolina arrested and/or pardoned over January 6th.
Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet statesman Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Ulyanov) (Владимир Ленин ; Владимир Ильич Ульянов) April 22, 1870 – January 21, 1924: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin
January 22 or 23 in 2025 – the Chinese Little New Year (小年) or the Festival of the Kitchen God: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_New_Year
Element F was used in 1945 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, etc.? – portside.org/2025-01-20/week-peoples-history-jan-22-28 and portside.org/2025-01-12/open-letter-cnn-regarding-your-fluoride-coverage
January 22nd – National Library Shelfie Day – the Days of the Year website
Warren J "Andrew" Wimmer, Jr, May 3, 1955-Monday, January 22, 2024: www.schrader.com/obituary/warren-j-andrew-wimmer-jr
The Aymaran Alasitas/Alacita,/Alacitas,/Alasita fair, or Feria de las Alasitas, is January 24th in La Paz, Bolivia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alasitas
A shooting at a food truck on Highway 55 in Durham January 24, 2025?
Trump visited WNC to see the post-Helene cleanup and recovery efforts on the 24th.
The 19th Annual Carrboro Film Fest was January 24-26th: www.carrborofilm.org/
The first annual EagleFest, held near the Jordan Lake dam, was moved to Saturday, January 25, 2025, 7am-12pm.
The 2025 NC TACAS Chinese New Year Festival was January 25th 10am-5pm at Dorton Arena, in the State Fairgrounds in Raleigh. There are probably many Lunar New Year events in the area. See: triangleonthecheap.com
The 24th Annual African American Cultural Celebration was January 25th 10:30am-4:30pm at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh: www.ncmuseumofhistory.org/events-and-programs/festivals-and-concerts/24th-annual-african-american-cultural-celebration or nc-aacc.com/
Charles Curtis (January 25, 1860 – February 8, 1936), a Kaw (or Kanza/Kansa) US Senator and vice president, from Kansas: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Curtis and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaw_people ]
January 25th – Seed Swap Day, etc.? – the National Day Calendar website.
The opening reception of the NCBG's Birds of North Carolina: A Community Photo Exhibit was moved to Sunday, January 26th, 2-4pm. On exhibit until...
January 27th anniversary: consortiumnews.com/2025/01/27/remembering-robert-parry-who-died-7-yrs-ago-today/
Explore Scientific’s 165th Global Star Party online, was January 28th, beginning at 6pm Central (7pm Eastern), with David Levy, David Eicher, Adrian Bradley, etc.; Br. Guy Consolmagno – 8:30-9pm CST (9:30-10 ET) (?): www.vaticanobservatory.org/sacred-space-astronomy/br-guy-to-speak-at-the-global-star-party-online-tonight/and www.explorescientific.com/de/pages/beyond-the-horizon-165th-global-star-party-explore-alliance 2.]
On NPR January 29th – Corn Chip Day; Puzzle Day – the National Day Calendar website.
January 26th on WRAL: A dual-national from Chapel Hill was released from captivity in Gaza Saturday, February 1st, his wife had been released after 51 days?
Also on WRAL: US income tax 'season' was January 27-April 15th this year, longer in North Carolina, due to Helene damage?
Agnes Sampson, or the "Wise Wife of Keith," of Nether Keith, Scotland, was executed January 28, 1591 during the North Berwick witch trials; King James VI of Scotland or British James I met with her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Sampson
A year of the snake (wood) (Chinese: 蛇 or Japanese: 巳) begins with the East Asian lunar new year on January 29th, though Japan goes with the Western new year, January 1st; some images and graphics (年賀状/nengajou postcard-type images) marking the occasion collected by ANN: www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2025-01-03/happy-new-year-from-around-the-anime-world-snakes-on-a-plane-part-xii/.219696 and www.spoon-tamago.com/japanese-designer-new-years-cards-of-2025/ See also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(zodiac) 2024 was a year of the dragon (wood) (龍, 龙, or 辰), beginning February 10, 2024: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_(zodiac) A year of the horse (fire) (馬, 马 , or 午 ) begins February 17, 2026. See also: www.nippon.com/en/features/jg00110/ , www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h02174/ , www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/b09806/ , www.nippon.com/en/guide-to-japan/gu900291/ , "Japan in 2025: Key Events in the Year Ahead:" www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h02241/
Imbolc, Groundhog Day, Candlemas, Setsubun, Risshun, Izcalli, Valentine's Day, the Pisces period, Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras, the spring equinox, etc. came up after Lunar New Year 2025. Ramadan started at the end of February?
In 2025: the Lunar New Year was January 29; Imbolc or Christian St Brigid's Day is February 1st; Groundhog Day, Candlemas, Setsubun (節分) were February 2nd; Lichun/Ipchun/Risshun and lập xuân (立春).was February 3rd.
The Virgen de Copacabana in Copacabana, Bolivia has feast days February 2nd and August 5th: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgen_de_Copacabana
January 29th – Kansas Day
The Anti-War Action Network Founding Conference was in Saint Paul, Minnesota in February: www.eventbrite.com/e/anti-war-action-network-founding-conference-tickets-1126416474999?aff=oddtdtcreator
Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal had passed around the African Cape of Good Hope by February 4, 1488: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomeu_Dias
Constance Georgine Markievicz (born Gore-Booth) February 4, 1868 – July 15, 1927): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Markievicz
A February 4, 1999 oil spill near Coos Bay, Oregon: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Carissa
February 4th is World Cancer Day.
February 4th is Thank A Mail Carrier Day/Thank a Mailman Day, Hemp Day, Homemade Soup Day, etc.?
"February 4th -- Worst mass shooting in Swedish history claims 11 lives -- www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/07/ease-f07.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Risbergska_school_shooting
Michalina Anna Wisłocka (born Braun), author of ... (1978), a first (?); July 1, 1921 in Łódź, Poland – February 5, 2005 in Warsaw: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michalina_Wisłocka ] And her book is covered on Wikipedia at: ...
On WRAL: A (leaderless?) "50501 movement" demonstration at the old governor's mansion and the State Capitol in downtown Raleigh the afternoon of February 5th.
February 6th is Sámi National Day (1917) and New Zealand's Waitangi Day? And National Weatherperson’s Day, etc.
The Civil War Battle of Roanoke Island, part of the Burnside Expedition under Union Brigadier General Ambrose Burnside (the namesake of sideburns), was February 7–8, 1862 on the northern Outer Banks of North Carolina; the relatively shallow sounds were used to good advantage by the Confederate Mosquito Fleet early in the War: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Roanoke_Island and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Burnside See the book Silk Flags and Columbiads.
February 7, 1865 -- Seattle, Washington incorporated and expelled Native Americans?
February 7th -- Grenada's independence day, 1974.
The Happisburgh footprints in Norfolk, England, UK were announced February 7, 2014.
February 7th -- Periodic Table Day?
DPR Korea's Military Foundation Day 25 조선인민군 창건일), commemorating the founding of the Korean People's Army (KPA) in 1948, is February 8th (the Korean People's Revolutionary Army (KPRA), part of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army, had been founded April 25, 1932): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Foundation_Day , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_People%27s_Army , and diario-octubre.com/2025/02/10/coreanos-rinden-homenaje-a-lideres-de-la-rpdc/
The Orangeburg Massacre in South Carolina was February 8, 1968.
February 8th -- Kite Flying Day.
Samuel Shafiishuna Daniel Nujoma, "Founding President of the Republic of Namibia" and "Father of the Namibian Nation"(May 12, 1929 in Ongandjera, Ovamboland in the colony of South West Africa, now Omusati Region, Namibia) – February 8, 2025 in Windhoek, Namibia): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Nujoma
The period of McCarthyism began in early February?
February 9th -- Read in the Bathtub Day -- Days of the Year website.
On February 9th was Toothache Day, etc.: the National Day Calendar website. s
There were elections in Kosova and Ecuador (there will have to be a runoff) February 9th.
The Mongol Siege of Baghdad, now in Iraq, was January 29th or 30th to February 10th in 1258, followed by a campaign of looting and killing; the Mongol forces were led by Prince Hulegu Khan, against the Abbasid Caliph al-Musta'sim: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad
The naval Battle of Elizabeth City, part of the Union Burnside Expedition under US Brigadier General Ambrose Burnside during the Civil War, was February 10, 1862 in the Pasquotank River near Elizabeth City, NC; the Confederate Mosquito Fleet on the relatively shallow NC sounds was neutralized: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Elizabeth_City
February 10th is supposed to be Umbrella Day, Clean Out Your Computer Day, etc.: from the National Day Calendar and Days of the Year websites.
February 10th is supposed to be Shut-in Visitation Day, etc. --
February 11th (660 BCE) is National Foundation Day in Japan?
Scottish author Anna "Nan" Shepherd (February 11, 1893 – February 27, 1981): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan_Shepherd
The Commercial Press (商务印书馆; Shāngwù Yìnshūguǎn) was founded February 11, 1897 in Shanghai; it was a first in China and has published the well-known Xinhua Dictionary since 1957. One of the four founders, 26 at the time, was Xia Ruifang (夏瑞芳; Xià Ruìfāng; courtesy name Cuifang (粹芳;Cuìfāng ; 1871 – assassinated January 10, 1914). The company set up the privately owned but public Oriental Library, a first, on Baoshan Road in Zhabei, Shanghai in 1925. It came to have 463,083 volumes, more than competitor Zhonghua Book Company or the National Peking Library, but most of the books were lost February 1, 1932 after bombing from the air by Japanese forces during the January 28 Incident in early 1932. Around 5,000 Song and Yuan books, centuries old and kept at a bank, survived the bombing. The company was back in business by August 1st. The 12th edition of the Xinhua Dictionary or Xinhua Zidian (新华字典; Xīnhuá Zìdiǎn) came out in August 2020. I found a pocket-sized version, or a copy, at an FODL used book sale once. The Commercial Press' headquarters were relocated to Beijing in 1954 (its "operations" relocated from China after the liberation of Shanghai in 1949?). There are branches throughout the Chinese-speaking world. -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Press , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xia_Ruifang , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Library,_Shanghai , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_28_incident , and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinhua_Dictionary
February 11th is supposed to be White Shirt Day or White T-Shirt Day, commemorating the resolution of an car factory strike February 11, 1937: the National Day Calendar website.
Margaret Thatcher became the head of the UK's Conservative Party or the Tories February 11, 1975 and was later elected prime minister: www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/10/ninu-f10.html
Charles Robert Darwin (February 12, 1809 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire – April 19, 1882 at Down House, Down, Kent, England): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin ; Darwin Day is February 12th at the NCBG, etc.
According to WRAL, the Triangle's "Snowpocalypse" (sic?) was February 12, 2014 (?), with heavy snowfall beginning at mid-day and freezing rain that night. We had far more snow in one storm around 2001 or 2002 and in the 1990's? It can snow substantially before April in the Triangle. wral.com your voice sought viewer input on the snowstorm from 11 years ago.
The Chinese Lantern Festival/Shangyuan Festival/Cap Go Meh was February 12th in 2025, the 15th day of the new Lunar Year and traditionally the end of the new year festivities; it was February 24th in 2024 and will be March 3rd in 2026: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantern_Festival
Korea's Daeboreum (대보름; Great Full Moon) is celebrated at the first Full Moon in the new Lunar Year: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daeboreum
Budapest, Hungary was captured February 13, 1945, during WWII -- diario-octubre.com/2025/02/14/operacion-budapest-la-victoria-sovietica-marca-un-punto-de-inflexion-en-el-frente-oriental/
Tu BiShvat (ט״ו בִּשְׁבָט, Ṭū bīŠvāṭ, the 15th of the month of Shevat) or Rosh HaShanah La'Ilanot (ראש השנה לאילנות, New Year of the Trees), a Jewish holiday now similar to Earth Day, was sunset February 12th to night on the 13th in 2025 (it will be February 1-2 in 2026 and January 22-23 in 2027): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_BiShvat
February 13th is supposed to be Black Love Day: Days of the Year website.
February 13, 1997 4,756,940 Legoes, including 51,800 Lego sharks, packed in a shipping container on the Tokio Express were lost; in August 2024 (?) Richard West, 35, of Plymouth, on the south coast of UK, netted the first of the diminutive sharks, about 20 miles south of Penzance, Cornwall, at the southwest of the UK. The report didn't say how much the lost Legoes were worth, but I think Legoes can be very valuable. -- From the February 2025 (FT454) issue of Fortean Times magazine. There is also coverage of the 2024 mystery drone flap.
February 15th is supposed to be Red Sock Day, for (leg?) health awareness: the National Day Calendar website.
Stalin and Mao signed the 30-year Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance February 16, 1950; China attacked Vietnam February 17, 1979, the day after the expiration date of the Treaty: www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/10/ninu-f10.html
The traditional Aquarius period is around January 20th to February 18th, followed by Pisces, but today the Sun is 'in' Aquarius around February 17th to March 13th. According to Chartrand's 1982 Skyguide, the Sun is now in Sagittarius December 19th-January 19th (and then in Capricornus). Sagittarius is a symbol of Isfahan, Iran: www.dailyartmagazine.com/symbol-of-sagittarius-isfahan/ Find historic images of Capricorn and other signs at: iconographic.warburg.sas.ac.uk/
Cortes' expedition to Mexico sailed from Cuba February 18, 1519. [Arrived at the future Vera Cruz in late March or April?]
Red Books Day is February 21st.
Bob Sheldon Day – See also the fall 2024 DTH article on Internationalist Books linked in another post.
FR Germany had elections February 23rd.
A few recent passenger aircraft disasters and anniversaries – 67 people were killed January 29th in a collision along the Potomac River in Washington, DC; focused attention; 20 people on a Beechcraft 1900 were killed January 29th in Unity State, South Sudan; one person survived; 7 people on a Learjet 55 were killed January 31st in Philadelphia; 9 people on a Boeing 747-122 were killed February 24, 1989 over the Pacific Ocean near Honolulu: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_811 Alaska and the recent fighter jet crash to add, etc.
Astronomer Angelo Secchi S.J. (June 28, 1818 – February 26, 1878): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Secchi
Olof Palme of Sweden was assassinated February 28, 1986: covertactionmagazine.com/2024/05/09/swedish-prime-minister-olof-palme-compared-u-s-crimes-in-vietnam-to-those-of-the-nazis-in-the-1970s-and-then-was-assassinated-under-mysterious-circumstances/
There is more to add about the Olympia Springs, Kentucky event in March 3, 1876 in the January 2025 (FT453) issue of Fortean Times magazine.
China and Japan fought an urban war in the Shanghai International Settlement January 28-March 3, 1932: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_28_incident
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (Dzhugashvili) reportedly passed away March 5, 1953 in Moscow, USSR: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin ; there is speculation that he was poisoned. He was born around December 21, 1879 in what is now Gori, in the Republic of Georgia.
Victor Wolfgang von Hagen (born February 29, 1908 in Saint Louis – March 8, 1985 in Italy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Wolfgang_von_Hagen )
The total lunar eclipse is related to a famous 'Columbian' eclipse March 1, 1504, 521 years, or one Hypersaros, ago? There are 521-year Hypersaros and 633-year Icosa-Inex-Triple-Saros (IITS) eclipse cycles, and 1154, 1284, 1787, 1917, and 2308-year cycles? -- arxiv.org/abs/2502.01019
James Lewis Thomas Chalmers Spence (November 25, 1874 in Monifieth, Angus, Scotland, UK – March 3, 1955 in Edinburgh, Scotland): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Spence
Shrove Tuesday/Pancake Tuesday/Pancake Day/Mardi Gras was March 4th in 2025: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrove_Tuesday Ash Wednesday was March 5th.
["Old Bolshevik" Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov (Вячеслав Молотов, original family name Skryabin; March 9,1890 – November 8, 1986); at one time the Russian city of Perm (see below) was named for him: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyacheslav_Molotov ]
[Grass Valley, California was incorporated March 13, 1893; the 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry arrested 10 anti-Lincoln people after the assassination: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_Valley,_California ]
[San José, California was incorporated March 27, 1850: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose,_California ]
Noted in a recent IF DDR newsletter ( ifddr.org ; they also have an internship program in Germany): Hans Reichelt (March 30, 1925 – January 14, 2025); a minister of agriculture and forestry, etc. in the GDR; a member of the Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany (DBD): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reichenbach and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Farmers%27_Party_of_Germany
One view of the DRA period: ifddr.org/en/afghanistan-cannot-be-allowed-to-set-a-precedent/
April 9, 1984
On WRAL: US income tax 'season' was January 27-April 15th this year, longer in North Carolina, due to Helene damage?
[The Californian thicktail chub (Gila crassicauda), a minnow, hasn't been seen since April 16, 1957: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thicktail_chub ]
[A very bright meteor was seen over Mexico City around 3am on Wednesday, April 16, 2025: apnews.com/article/mexito-city-fireball-meteor-memes-844941ca2a736fad9efdebd2b9094d1a (sic?)]
April 17, 1985 (see a future 2025 or 2026 post?)
The South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO; Afrikaans: Suidwes-Afrikaanse Volks Organisasie, SWAVO; German: Südwestafrikanische Volksorganisation, SWAVO), now renamed the SWAPO Party of Namibia, was founded April 19, 1960: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWAPO
[The "Dover Demon" was reportedly seen the night of April 21-22, 1977 in Dover, Massachusetts, near Boston. The town is also known for the innovative Dover Sun House, 1948-2010 or later, and a new house was built there: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_Sun_House ]
Mary Docherty (April 27, 1908 in Cowdenbeath, Scotland – February 2, 2000 in Auchtertool, Scotland) of the CPGB: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Docherty
Romania had its cancelled and rescheduled second election May 4th?
Karl Marx (May 5, 1818 – March 14, 1883): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx
[Porterville, California in Tulare County was incorporated May 7, 1902: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porterville,_California and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulare_County,_California In spring 1856? – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tule_River_War Apparently the area once held a series of large freshwater lakes, reminiscent of the Valley of México, the largest being Tulare Lake (or Tache Lake or the Yokuts name, Pah-áh-su or Pah-áh-sē), the largest freshwater lake in the western US. It is named for rushes, reeds, etc. in Classical Nahuatl, tōlin: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulare_Lake The bacteria and sometime biological weapon Francisella tularensisis is apparently named for the County. There was a minor tularemia scare in DC the day of a march against the Iraq War: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tularemia and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisella_tularensis ]
[California historical author Frank Forrest Latta (September 18, 1892 close to Orestimba Creek in Stanislaus County, California – May 8, 1983 in Santa Cruz): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Forrest_Latta ]
[The Russian city of Perm (Russian: Пермь, Komi-Permyak: Перем; Komi: Перым), formerly Molotov (Молотов; 1940–1957?), on the Kama or Chulman River, near the eastern edge of the European continent, was founded May 15, 1723 and became a city October 29, 1781; it is the capital of Perm Krai: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perm,_Russia ]
[The traditional Gemini period is May 21st-June 20th, following Taurus and preceding Cancer, but the Sun is still 'in' Taurus for weeks yet.]
[Around 9:08pm on Wednesday, May 21st: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_killing_of_Israeli_Embassy_workers_in_Washington,_D.C. ]
[A Free Elias Rodriguez Organizing Committee (FEROC) sent out their statement and his prison information in early evening/late afternoon on the 30th; I haven't confirmed yet that TariqelTahrir.org is real; I don't remember that address.] [I checked it out afterward and it might be safe and 'legit.' Time will tell.]
[Suriname, in northeastern South America, had a general election May 25th.]
[Kenyan Gikuyu author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (James Ngugi; January 5, 1938 in Kamiriithu, Colony and Protectorate of Kenya – May 28, 2025 in Buford, Georgia, USA): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ng%C5%A9g%C4%A9_wa_Thiong%27o ]
[Giorgio Diaz de Santillana (May 30, 1902 – June 8, 1974): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_de_Santillana ]
[The Johnstown Flood or the Great Flood of 1889 in the Little Conemaugh River basin of Pennsylvania was in the afternoon on Friday, May 31, 1889: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_Flood , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Conemaugh_River , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Fork,_Pennsylvania , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambria_County,_Pennsylvania , and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Fork_Dam ]
The May 31st [1926?] anniversary of the NCMNS' oceanic sunfish/Mola mola specimen?
[May 31, 1935, centered near Ali Jaan in the colonial Baluchistan Agency, now in Pakistan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1935_Quetta_earthquake ]
[端午节 or 端午節 ; June 10th in 2024, May 31st in 2025, June 19th in 2026 and June 9th in 2027; associated with Qu Yuan, Wu Zixu, Cao E, etc.: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Boat_Festival ]
[June 1, 1857 – The Revolution of the Ganhadores general strike in Salvador, Bahia, in Brazil.]
[The (North) Atlantic hurricane season begins June 1st?]
[May 31-June 2, 1805: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Diamond_Rock ]
[There was a new election in the ROK around June 2nd? The LDP won by the 3rd.]
[June 3, 1969, after 3am (?), during "Sea Spirit," a SEATO exercise in the South China Sea: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne%E2%80%93Evans_collision ]
[An unrelated attempt to assassinate Israel's ambassador to the UK, Shlomo Argov, June 3, 1982 was used to justify Israel's invasion of Lebanon on June 6th: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Argov ]
[June 16-22 in 2025: www.pollinator.org/pollinator-week ]
[The Great Porcupine Fire in northern or central Ontario, Canada began July 10, 1911: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timmins ]
[A B-17 Flying Fortress strategic bomber out on target practice got lost (?) and accidentally bombed the town square in Boise City, Oklahoma around 12:30am on July 5, 1943, but the bombs were filled with only four pounds of dynamite (?) and 90 pounds of sand and there were few or no people out, so it was a minor incident: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boise_City,_Oklahoma ]
[The Festival for the Eno in Durham – July 4th and 5th in 2025.]
[July 19-27 in 2025: nationalmothweek.org ]
The Virgen de Copacabana in Copacabana, Bolivia has feast days February 2nd and August 5th: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgen_de_Copacabana
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