Monday [3 to 7]

Morning all at 0900.

7.  Yes, I'm easily manipulated

Here's an example how ... this was the Yahoo clickbait fragment:

This was ANVs tweet explaing:

Two Homosexual Women find tracking device in backpack

Where's the manipulation?  Well, Yahoo manipulated me into NOT clicking ... I flatly refuse if I see a too deliberate attempt, like people writing "click if you agree ..."   Clicking in that case is the very last thing I'd do. Yahoo manipulated me to NOT click.

ANV did the clicking for me.

6.  Over at NOWP

IYE and Evets have items up, also this from DAD:

The Biden administration this month proposed a record-breaking $842 billion budget for the DOD. Missile and munition stockpiles are dwindling as the US continues to send aid packages to Ukraine. Since production capacity changed after the Cold War, the US can no longer keep up with wartime demands.

5.  DAD over at NOWP

Every time a state government or a corporation announces a particular environmental target, most of the time what they mean is that they’re going to make some small changes and then they’ll buy some offsets or credits to compensate for the rest. 

For example, makers of actual cars were forced to buy credits from Tesla by California so that working-class drivers were financing luxury car owners. Airlines now routinely announce that they’re buying offsets which means a portion of your ticket is going to pay off some company that is supposedly doing some environmentally sound. 

Your power company buys credits resold by some company that’s supposedly running wind farms in Wyoming (that nobody needs) which doesn’t mean that you’re using wind power, but that you’re paying for someone else to use wind power to atone for your use of fossil fuels. 

Obviously, this is already a scam.

4.  MftWC too

Military situation in Bakhmut on March 26, 2023 (Map Update)

https://southfront.org/military-situation-in-bakhmut-on-march-26-2023-map-update/

Russia Breakthrough Bakhmut AZOM Captured, Putin Russia Outproduces West Weapons; India Resists US

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM8nD9Q4R9I

Putin, nukes deployed to Belarus. US & Poland unhappy with Olaf. EU, sanction washing machines. U/1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9YqJGstypI

In Moscow, Xi and Putin Bury Pax Americana

https://www.unz.com/pescobar/in-moscow-xi-and-putin-bury-pax-americana/

How Does China Change the War in (the) Ukraine? - Judge Napolitano | Larry Johnson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjj8vZDnT5w

Christopher Caldwell’s "Why Are We in (the) Ukraine? A Steep Bill Comes Due for Decades of Democracy Promotion."

https://www.unz.com/article/christopher-caldwells-why-are-we-in-ukraine-a-steep-bill-comes-due-for-decades-of-democracy-promotion/

3.  Ian J

a.  David Craig exposes the lies behind the 'HS2' vanity project:

http://www.snouts-in-the-trough.com/archives/33831

b.  John Ward (The Slog) is at Defcon 1:

https://therealslog.com/2023/03/27/the-great-reset-stage-iii/