Old Man Glas

I'd watch anyone who supports the current regime REAL close; the files released so far are but one of many indicators showing how corrupt it is.

Sharing!

Again, if you're ignorant of Kilcullen's Accidental Guerrilla cycle and you try to justify intentionally killing civilians -- including not double-checking AI-selected targets -- within arms' reach of me, I consider you to be intending me harm and myself provoked. If you're not close: go away, kid.

Why do veterans care about International Humanitarian Law?
1. It's the right thing to do.
2. It's part of U.S. law as well as international law.
3. It protects soldiers and sailors who become POWs.
4. It gets drilled into real soldiers.
5. It's a smarter way to war.*
(*Go read Sun Tzu III.1-2.)

As Ms. Frazier notes, "school compound" instead of just "school" is a form of Othering (cf. Edward Said's Orientalism).

We blew up kids. :(
During Ramadan (and Lent).
And it's "no big deal" to WAY too many Americans.

I'm a veteran; don't try to justify killing civilians within an arms' length.

Tollense 4/x
Anyhow, this is near the northern coast:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tollens...

And the prevalent cultures are part of the Urnfield horizon, IIRC:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urnfiel...

(I ain't convinced that one side was Lusatian culture. I am betting local v. distant Urnfield.) Wiki img:

Tollense 3/x
Eric Cline calls it a "perfect storm" of droughts, earthquakes, wars, and overcomplexity, but his book has the perfect name for the famines and depopulation in the Aegean, eastern Mediterranean, and Mesopotamia: "1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed." Again, that's south.

Tollense 2/x
This is also close to the period, though far to the north, that the Hittite king Muwatalli II (c. 1295 to 1272 BCE short chronology) faced two threats: the battle to a draw with Egypt's Ramesses II at Qadesh (1274 BCE) and Piyama-Radu and Greeks near Wilusa (Troy).

I didn't!
But this is that period leading up to the end of the Late Bronze Age. Any disruptions of tin coming from places like Afghanistan upset local metallurgy (can't turn copper into bronze without tin). And aridity's increasing, though nothing so bad as 1198 to 1196 BCE. Lotta battles.

Seems so to me!

International Women's Day | United Nations The purpose of the day is to uphold women’s achievements, recognize challenges, and focus greater attention on women’s rights and gender equality to mobilize all people to do their part.

Today is International Women's Day.
www.un.org/en/observanc...

Good to see!

This is very cool!

Agreed on need to remove those who won't even exercise the powers of Congress. 😞

This.
Also: ever wondered what kind of monster would shoot up a church during a church service? The same kind that would attack a Muslim-majority country during Ramadan. Take notice.

Sharing.

Non-binary bat biologist and Yosemite park ranger SJ Joslin got fired for protected off-duty free speech (they hung a very cool trans flag from the rock face of El Capitan). Now they are suing, and I think that this is right and proper -- and I hope their case goes smoothly.

Green Ronin's Mutants & Masterminds 4th edition. ^_^

Trans Latina superhero takes center stage on Green Ronin's latest version of its Mutants and Masterminds game -- very, very cool!

(I do love Green Ronin, and the various creators past and present. Crystal Frasier designed Sonia Gutierrez, this M&M hero.)

💵 How Much Would It Cost to End World Hunger? 🍽️ Would $6 billion end world hunger? We know what it takes to end world hunger, and we know what it costs. Let's break it down.

Hunger 9/9 (WFP)
• We need $40 billion dollars per year to feed all of the world’s hungry people and end global hunger by 2030.

UN World Food Programme
(10 Aug 2022, updated 10 Feb 2026)
"How Much Would It Cost to End World Hunger?"
wfpusa.org/news/how-muc...

Hunger 8/9 (WFP)
• The U.N. World Food Programme feeds over 100 million of the hungriest people each year.
• We need $7 billion dollars to deliver food to the millions of people facing famine this year.

Hunger 7/9 (WFP)
Yes, the U.N. World Food Programme has a plan to end world hunger, and here are the numbers:
• There are 828 million people on the planet who are hungry. That’s 1 in 10 people.
• Of those, 50 million are on the brink of famine and desperately need help.

Hunger 6/9 (WFP)
“That seems like a lot of money,” Beasley said. “But in the United States alone, in the last one year, the U.S. billionaires’ net worth increase was over $1 trillion.”

Hunger 5/9
Quoting WFP:
Back in July of 2021, U.N. World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley told us it would take an estimated $40 billion each year to end world hunger by 2030.

Hunger 4/9
Let me quote below the UN World Food Programme, which itself quotes U.S. Republican David Beasley, its former director and a past GOP governor of South Carolina. (Beasley served as Director of the UN WFP from 2017 to 2023; he had bipartisan U.S. Senate support his final year.)

Hunger 3/9
And don't tell me that you're a good Christian, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good religious person of another faith, or even a mediocre military planner if you think that world hunger isn't an issue for EVERYONE.

U.S. debt concerns weigh on Trump's plan to supersize the Pentagon's budget to $1.5 trillion, highlighting this law about great-power status | Fortune “This will allow us to build the ‘Dream Military’ that we have long been entitled to and, more importantly, that will keep us SAFE and SECURE, regardless of foe,” Trump said.

Hunger 2/9
(The U.S. spends a trillion dollars a year on matériel and personnel, and Mr. Trump and MAGA supporters want 1.5 trillion in the mistaken belief that we can bully the other 96% of the world into submission.)

Fortune (23 Feb 2026)
fortune.com/2026/02/23/u...

💵 How Much Would It Cost to End World Hunger? 🍽️ Would $6 billion end world hunger? We know what it takes to end world hunger, and we know what it costs. Let's break it down.

Hunger 1/9
What would it cost to end world hunger?
Less than the half-trillion dollars a year by which the GOP currently wants to increase U.S. military spending.

UN World Food Programme
(10 Aug 2022, updated 10 Feb 2026)
"How Much Would It Cost to End World Hunger?"
wfpusa.org/news/how-muc...

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