Ooohh … Sick burn

Volodomyr Zelensky and JD Vance appear in Wikipedia’s top 5 English most read articles today, upstaging Donald Trump and Elon Musk. I’ve never seen Elon Musk in that list and I don’t *think* I’ve seen DJT in it. Still, a tragedy for Ukraine (&& now Trump’s ego). Overheard American Ukraine War blogger Jake Broe from […]

“20 Days in Mariupol” streaming free in the United States

“20 Days in Mariupol” streaming free in the United States The winner of the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary is streaming free on PBS and YouTube in the United States. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/20-days-in-mariupol/ :::::: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvAyykRvPBo Be warned there is a lot of extremely graphic and disturbing stuff here. Explosions, injured people, corpses, people in surgery, tears, […]

A Comparison of Diversified Versus not Diversified Economies in 2 Pictures

2019 figures comparing Moldova and Russia’s economy. Russia’s is over 75% extractive resource industries. Moldova’s has no noticeable extractive resources on the chart (I am counting wood products as renewable in both cases. Which of these economies will be more resilient to change and disruption? Which one will be easily brought to it’s knees by […]

The Ukraine War April 15th and 16th – 13 Tweet Chain

1st The Kyiv Independent: ⚡️More than 10,000 volunteers register to help rebuild Ukraine.

The volunteers currently work in the demined areas of Kyiv Oblast. They are cleaning the streets by picking up dismantled debris and participating in the search operations, according to the State Emergency Service.
9:07 AM · Apr 16, 2022