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In the context of a negotiation you sometimes need to blow things up in ways even your closest will think is crazy. You need people to believe your position is far from theirs and they need to move. Who did that yesterday most effectively is the puzzle.

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What we've all failed to anticipate is the vice president's willingness to gas light and provoke the president. He seems to have got that the old man is not what he was and he can easily play him. Will be interesting to see where that gets him.

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Two Tier citizenship. One rule for for the rich, another for the rest. In this case the rich escape tax on overseas income.

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EXCL: Heidi Alexander, the transport secretary, says she is not a “flight-shaming eco-warrior” as she gives the strongest indication yet that a major expansion of Gatwick will be approved on Thursday www.thetimes.com/article/e0bd...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Something is happening inside the Earth, scientists say

submitted 21 days ago • 307 comments

Whose fault?

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Intense seismic swarm in the Aegean sea, between islands of #Santorini and #Amorgos (magnitudes up to 4.8-4.9). Focal plane solutions of #earthquakes show normal faulting in a NW-SE extensional regime. Nodal planes are parallel to large fault scarps in the bathymetry (pointed by red arrows). ⚒️ 1/4

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

90% of US Potash is from Canada. Corn, Soybeans, Wheat, Cotton, Alfalfa, Potatoes, Rice etc. all require it. Good luck keeping food prices down. www.croplife.com/management/l...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Wondering, is there a "Tradewar" podcast?

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Perhaps they'll elect a horse.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

When 4 becomes 3: textbook example of “soft first storey collapse” as the US embassy in Vanuatu loses its ground floor in yesterday’s M 7.3 earthquake. Luckily it appears staff were out for lunch (acc. to the Guardian). This is my worst fear whenever I enter an older multi-storey here in Cascadia

submitted 75 days ago • 3 comments

Only Eric Cantona can do this job.

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment