Some relatively light news
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Tue, 06/06/2023 - 1:36pmIt's Arbor Day Somewhere
Submitted by earthling1 on Tue, 06/06/2023 - 11:07am
When we first bought our three acre parcel up in Lewis County, our neighbor came over and welcomed us to the "Hole", the nickname for the riverside community of fifty or so parcels of land that drops down off the prairie above. One three mile road in and no other way out, except the river.
Ukraine as a con job gone bad
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Mon, 06/05/2023 - 3:09pmYesterday gjohnsit posted a preliminary discussion of the sanctions against Russia having failed. This is indeed true: they have. But it doesn't really stop there, as revealed in one of Simplicius the Thinker's most recent Substack posts. Here's a conclusion at the beginning of his essay:
The Evening Blues - 6-5-23
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 06/05/2023 - 2:40pmSubstitute Open Thread...
Submitted by Lookout on Mon, 06/05/2023 - 8:32am
EL is traveling, and there must be an error with his OT scheduling. His Monday OT usually post at 6AM CT. I'm putting up a substitute in order to provide some place for beginning today's discussions. Hope EL is have a great time on his travels, and thought I would use this as a place to comment on the upcoming eclipses in the US over the next year...both solar and lunar.
Path of the annular solar eclipse on October 14, 2023 from the west coast, and total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 Across Mexico, the Midwest and into Canada.

Economic war on Russia has failed. Now what?
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 06/04/2023 - 3:29pmThe Russian economy was supposed to collapse in 2022 because of our sanctions. After all, we illegally seized more than $300 Billion and plan on using it to rebuild Ukraine, while NATO bankrupts Russia in its war against Ukraine.. This was supposed to crush Russia and bring it to heel.
The Weekly Watch
Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 06/04/2023 - 6:58am
Creating (Evermore) Control

There's a power grab in plain sight...easy to see for those who look. There's the rapid move toward government controlled digital currency to track your every purchase. TPTB are passing "no protests allowed laws" in some countries. The UN is creating a preponderance of new health regulations in addition to their "Pandemic Treaty". The so called "Green Movement" has become yet another means of control as they require the sale of farmland, dictate the car you can drive, and want to corral you into "15 minute cities". All the levers of control are being driven by a complicit media propaganda megaphone. The Censorship Industrial Complex silences those who reveal their lies with Julian as the most obvious case, and many other examples we'll discuss below fold...

Album of the Week 6-3-23
Submitted by joe shikspack on Sat, 06/03/2023 - 3:00pmAfternoon folks!
It's been another good week for uploading music. This week there's a nice acoustic blues album by Larry Johnson on which he is accompanied on harmonica and slide guitar by John Hammond Jr. After that, there's a nice compilation album of Willie Mabon doing some fine Chicago blues. Following up is some blues rock with the Climax Blues Band, one of their early 70's albums when they strayed less from the blues style than later. Following that is another, my favorite album by Osibisa, a band from Ghana. Then there's some rockabilly with the Stray Cats and we finish up the week with a spacey-prog rock album from Hawkwind.
Enjoy and have a great weekend!
Welcome to Saturday's Potluck - June 3, 2023
Submitted by studentofearth on Sat, 06/03/2023 - 5:57am
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Pablo Picasso
Lack of accountability for an individual's actions seems to be a growing problem. Seeing push back expands my hope for the future.