Lincoln on Leadership by Donald Phillips, it claims it is the first book to examine Abraham Lincoln's diverse leadership abilities and how they can be applied to today's complex world.
● THE PROPHET ●
Do not live half a life
and do not die a half death
If you choose silence, then be silent
When you speak, do so until you are finished
If you accept, then express it bluntly
Do not mask it
If you refuse then be clear about it
for an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance
Do not accept half a solution
Do not believe half truths
Do not dream half a dream
Do not fantasize about half hopes
Half the way will get you no where
You are a whole that exists to live a life
not half a life. ~Khalil Gibran
There will likely be a thriving underground response to this if the enforcement is draconian. The other downside for CA of this is that an underground response would cut down revenue to the state from tobacco tax. It is a bad idea for everyone.
Hey, that looks like fun. Damned if you do (pay the fee to sell), damned if you don't. That fee is the same reason my wife and I stopped operating our LLC here. The Franchise Tax Board wants their cut for us to operate. I feel like there's a word for it, that isn't "taxation."
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Efforts to create “mirror bacteria” pose a threat to human life and should be stopped, scientists warned. Organic molecules have unchanging “handedness” — all DNA is “right-handed,” all proteins “left-handed” — but in theory, they could have been the other way round. Scientists have created mirror molecules, and some are working toward making whole mirror microbes, which they hope could create new therapies and industrial processes. But a major new report argued that mirror bacteria might be invisible to immune systems, causing “lethal infections that would spread without check,” possibly leading to what one writer called “the greatest extinction event of the last two billion years.”
^^Interesting^^. I would imagine that it applies to high stress environments in general.
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
^^Another thought, how many of those guys used testosterone supplements to build muscle, then stopped prior to testing?
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
"Nearly a year into the first outbreak of the bird flu among cattle, the virus shows no sign of slowing. The U.S. government failed to eliminate the virus on dairy farms when it was confined to a handful of states, by quickly identifying infected cows and taking measures to keep their infections from spreading. Now at least 875 herds across 16 states have tested positive.
Experts say they have lost faith in the government’s ability to contain the outbreak.
“We are in a terrible situation and going into a worse situation,” said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. “I don’t know if the bird flu will become a pandemic, but if it does, we are screwed.”
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Lincoln on Leadership by Donald Phillips, it claims it is the first book to examine Abraham Lincoln's diverse leadership abilities and how they can be applied to today's complex world.
Misinformation and Disinformation
The role of the intelligence analyst.
https://www.janes.com/osint-insights/defence-and-national-security-analysis/post/misinformation-and-disinformation-the-role-of-the-intelligence-analyst-in-a-post-truth-world?utm_campaign=Customer_Communication&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_bgspY663jdDvcEwaO9lkvBQrNiBnbCFtCslVV2tBiIQX0E8j9KWqu_wsU-Vxv9MJY5i_3tEbsrwgLiyZDihXLMIKnRQ&_hsmi=336743800&utm_content=336743800&utm_source=hs_email
A good cigar and whiskey solve most problems.
How much for a copy of your book? Or is it on amazon by chance? I'd love to read a copy.
One Second After - William R. Forstchen
@Sethbanks711 ck your PM
● THE PROPHET ●
Do not live half a life
and do not die a half death
If you choose silence, then be silent
When you speak, do so until you are finished
If you accept, then express it bluntly
Do not mask it
If you refuse then be clear about it
for an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance
Do not accept half a solution
Do not believe half truths
Do not dream half a dream
Do not fantasize about half hopes
Half the way will get you no where
You are a whole that exists to live a life
not half a life. ~Khalil Gibran
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-commercial-mortgage-crisis-deepens/
A good cigar and whiskey solve most problems.
🖕🏼California
https://halfwheel.com/new-law-threatens-sales-of-cigars-in-california/444998/
A good cigar and whiskey solve most problems.
Not good news.
There will likely be a thriving underground response to this if the enforcement is draconian. The other downside for CA of this is that an underground response would cut down revenue to the state from tobacco tax. It is a bad idea for everyone.
New Prohibition mobsters? Shootouts in the street by black market thugs? What could possibly go wrong?
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
Hey, that looks like fun. Damned if you do (pay the fee to sell), damned if you don't. That fee is the same reason my wife and I stopped operating our LLC here. The Franchise Tax Board wants their cut for us to operate. I feel like there's a word for it, that isn't "taxation."
Nolite Oblivisci Peniculus Dentes
Xi’s firing of top military officials…
https://www.chathamhouse.org/2024/12/chinas-purge-top-military-officials-continues-will-xis-high-stakes-gamble-pay?utm_source=Chatham House&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=14785548_CH - CH Newsletter - 06.12.24&utm_content=China-CTA&dm_i=1S3M,8SWLO,9N1XPO,10M872,1
A good cigar and whiskey solve most problems.
"The Hard Way" by Lee Child. Reacher adventure.
Just finished, for the fourth time, 2842 pages, 1.5 million words, IMO the greatest history of the American Civil War ever published.
Exploding the Big Bang
It was thought that science could tell us about the origins of the Universe. Today that great endeavour is in serious doubt
https://aeon.co/essays/scientists-are-no-longer-sure-the-universe-began-with-a-bang
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Efforts to create “mirror bacteria” pose a threat to human life and should be stopped, scientists warned. Organic molecules have unchanging “handedness” — all DNA is “right-handed,” all proteins “left-handed” — but in theory, they could have been the other way round. Scientists have created mirror molecules, and some are working toward making whole mirror microbes, which they hope could create new therapies and industrial processes. But a major new report argued that mirror bacteria might be invisible to immune systems, causing “lethal infections that would spread without check,” possibly leading to what one writer called “the greatest extinction event of the last two billion years.”
https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/biological-risk-from-the-mirror-world
Kinda eerie, scary and terrifying.
Man/AI made Microsystems to control biological functions.
https://www.militaryaerospace.com/sensors/article/55249163/microsystems-control-biological-functions-at-molecular-level?o_eid=0103J7114245D1U&oly_enc_id=0103J7114245D1U&rdx.ident[pull]=omeda|0103J7114245D1U&utm_campaign=CPS241212003&utm_medium=email&utm_source=MAE+Technology+Close-up
A good cigar and whiskey solve most problems.
Low Testosterone and other indicators in top tier military operators and across general military.
https://taskandpurpose.com/military-life/low-testosterone-operator-syndrome-sof/?utm_term=Task&Purpose_Today_12.19.24&utm_campaign=Task & Purpose_TPToday_Actives_Dynamic&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email
A good cigar and whiskey solve most problems.
^^Interesting^^. I would imagine that it applies to high stress environments in general.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
^^Another thought, how many of those guys used testosterone supplements to build muscle, then stopped prior to testing?
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
Nebraska history essays,
https://magazine.outdoornebraska.gov/category/stories/history-and-culture/
" The Persuader" Lee Child
Written in 2015. Our government and military are well aware of drone activity out of country and within our borders.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1050&context=cgu_facbooks
A good cigar and whiskey solve most problems.
"Nearly a year into the first outbreak of the bird flu among cattle, the virus shows no sign of slowing. The U.S. government failed to eliminate the virus on dairy farms when it was confined to a handful of states, by quickly identifying infected cows and taking measures to keep their infections from spreading. Now at least 875 herds across 16 states have tested positive.
Experts say they have lost faith in the government’s ability to contain the outbreak.
“We are in a terrible situation and going into a worse situation,” said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. “I don’t know if the bird flu will become a pandemic, but if it does, we are screwed.”
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/bird-flu-spread-cattle-poultry-pandemic-cdc/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/25/world/americas/oaxaca-radish-contest-mexico.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kE4.Kxpw.qNMnMBg7IgRV&smid=url-share
Reading about fish mint, might try to grow it, handy to have an antibiotic/antiviral herb.
https://academic.oup.com/hr/article/11/9/uhae203/7718721?login=false
https://plantcaretoday.com/houttuynia-cordata.html
Grow it on pots, it's an invasive weed. Chocolate mint is interesting.