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A quick peek from Google's AI reveals a possible culprit, and it isn't your SUV:

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Northern Victoria Land: A chain of underwater volcanoes has been discovered here, about 60 km off the Pennell Coast, located at approximately 70° south latitude.

Ross Island: Mount Erebus, the southernmost active volcano on Earth, is situated on Ross Island in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica, south of 70°S latitude. While mostly above sea level, it features a persistent lava lake within its summit crater.

West Antarctic Rift System: This major rift system, extending under the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, is a zone of extensive crustal thinning and includes areas of submarine volcanism and numerous buried volcanoes.

South Shetland Islands: Deception Island, an active volcano with a caldera (volcanic crater) that is largely submerged, is located within this archipelago south of 70°S.
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I'll wait and see what develops. Everyone told him he was stupid to buy Twitter too - But that single action has done more than any other thing to break up the leftist stranglehold on media, and reverse the near universal censorship at work in the American Press.

Between that and his work in DOGE, claims of him being a liberal socialist or liberal-minded will fall on deaf ears. Liberals don't preserve freedom of the press. Liberals don't slash and burn government.

And you better believe he's a threat to the Republican status quo - To include this present administration. And that doesn't make him a liberal either.
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“Lower-income earners benefit less than middle and upper-middle income households,” Garrett Watson, senior policy analyst at the Tax Foundation, a center-right think tank, told USA Today.

Was that figured as a percentage of total income, or a dollar amount? When your bankroll is thin, every dollar counts.
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Tucker On Twitter / Re: Carlson interviews president of Iran
« Last post by Smokin Joe on Today at 01:04:21 am »
If you know he's going to lie, why give taqiyya a platform.

It isn't as if Americans don't know what the score is.
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Texas / Re: Catastrophic flash flooding along Guadalupe River, Texas
« Last post by jafo2010 on Today at 12:21:56 am »
Well, we all know it was climate change and Trump's fault.


Jeez, these Democommies are just too much. 

I will say, with all our technology expertise, we should be able to establish systems that warn people in advance.  People end up dying in these flash floods across the USA with some frequency.  My first wife, her mother lived at the top of a small mountain, and below, at the base, during a flash flood, I believe 26 people were swept away from their homes and died in Shadyside, Ohio, folks that lived along the tiny roadside stream that became a huge flash of flooding water.

It happens frequently enough that the time has come to establish a process for warning people on a national basis when this type event happens. 

Most are old enough here that they remember being trained on what to do if we have a nuclear attack.  We were instructed to hide under our desks like that would provide protection.  I am not suggesting something stupid, but perhaps a system put in place where when a certain type siren goes off, people know to scramble to high ground ASAP. 

Long overdue that we do something as a nation to prevent this type of tragedy from happening.
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World News / Re: Ukraine 6
« Last post by Hoodat on Today at 12:18:31 am »
Since the beginning of the war in Russia, 20 officials have died under mysterious circumstances

11 hours ago


Strange deaths and suicides of Russian officials have become commonplace in Russia since the start of the war with Ukraine. On Monday, it became known about the death of two officials of the Ministry of Transport: the head of the department, Roman Starovoyt, committed suicide and the deputy head of the department, Andrei Korneychuk, died of cardiac arrest.

This was preceded by at least 18 more cases of mysterious death of representatives of the Russian government or structures around the government. From April to July 2022, there were four bizarre deaths of officials linked to security forces. First, the former head of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Vyacheslav Trubnikov died under unclear circumstances, then retired SVR Major General Lev Sotskov shot himself with an award pistol. Soon after this, former employee of the presidential administration and «Rosvooruzheniya» Alexey Ogarev was found dead, and then his veins were cut in solitary confinement in a pre-trial detention center №1 Vice-Rector of the Russian Customs Academy Zalim Kerefov.

Also in 2022, several civilian officials also died. In August, the 38-year-old head of Cheboksary, Oleg Kortunov, died of a heart attack; in December, one of the richest deputies from «United Russia», Pavel Antov, fell out of a window in India  .  .  .

https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/07/07/s-nachala-voini-v-rossii-pri-zagadochnih-obstoyatelstvah-pogibli-20-chinovnikov-a168128
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World News / Re: Ukraine 6
« Last post by Hoodat on Today at 12:09:40 am »
The Russian potato shortage that shows Putin’s economy is on the brink

Surging food prices and labour shortages are fuelling inflation and making Moscow vulnerable

Eir Nolsøe  |  07 July 2025  |  6:00am BST


When the last leader of the Soviet Union visited Chequers for lunch with prime minister Margaret Thatcher in 1984, one topic of discussion was potatoes.

Raisa Gorbachev, the wife of Soviet leader Mikhail, claimed Russia had 300 ways of cooking the humble spud, prompting Michael Jopling, Britain’s agriculture minister, to express disbelief.

She later posted a Russian cookbook to Jopling with the clarification: “In fact, there are 500, rather than 300, recipes to cook potatoes.”

For Vladimir Putin, Russians’ appetite for the vegetable has become problematic, however. Shortages have pushed up prices by 167pc over the past year, the biggest rise of any food.

“It turns out that we don’t have enough potatoes,” Putin admitted during a televised meeting in May, adding: “I spoke with [Belarusian leader] Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko. He said, ‘We’ve already sold everything to Russia.’”

Since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 made Russia the world’s most sanctioned country, eagle-eyed economists have watched closely for signs of economic damage which have proved remarkably elusive.

But now surging food prices and labour shortages are keeping inflation high, driving big cracks in the economy.

“We’re basically already on the brink of falling into a recession,” economy minister Maxim Reshetnikov told a conference recently.

Could Russia’s well-oiled war machine be running out of steam?  .  .  .

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/07/07/russian-potato-shortage-shows-putins-economy-is-on-brink/
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