90% of Russia's Grain Export capacity is offline

More than 90% of Russia’s grain export capacity in the Azov-Black Sea basin has been taken offline following Ukrainian attacks and navigation restrictions, disrupting the [usually-huge-exporter!!]’s main corridor during the busiest part of the season.

All three grain terminals at the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk suspended operations last week. Together, the terminals had handled around 25 million metric tons of Russian grain exports.

“Practically all Russian grain exports through the Azov-Black Sea basin are at a standstill,” said Andrei Sizov.

This is contributing to a perfect storm of conditions — working on a video report about the whole picture now...

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/17/ukrainian-strikes-halt-most-russian-grain-exports-in-the-black-sea-a93517

"In the 1950’s when Redstone Arsenal was first firing up as a missile development center, American Machine and Foundry Co. began to buy up the mountain. Their plan was to quarry out the inside, sell the rock, then make the hollow mountain into an underground missile plant. Although they and the city Chamber of Commerce used “strong-arm” tactics to get mountain residents to sell, a few people held out and refused. Two of these were the Hamiltons and the Moores, (each with 40 acres at about 13,300 Shawdee.) Some of those who left at this time, moved to Keel Mt. Of course, the dream of the underground factory never came about and AMF sold their entire holdings to a group consisting principally of Buck Creek Industries and Lane Realty Co."
https://greenmountaincivicleague.org/green-mountain/#:~:text=In%20the%201950%E2%80%99s%20when,Industries%20and%20Lane%20Realty%20Co.

Forget Area 51 The REAL UFO Base is Hidden in Huntsville, Alabama | Reda... https://youtu.be/NZeuTTjfBlA?si=7tL-mVklE-jFwoGp

📢 🇺🇸 🇮🇳 JD Vance shouted out his friend Vivek Ramaswamy at an Ohio steelworkers’ rally, calling him the next “great” governor of Ohio.

Vance gushed about an internet meme in which someone jokingly replaced his son, Vivek Vance, with Vivek Ramaswamy before handing Ramaswamy the podium.

Vivek Ramaswamy has been outspoken in support of “high-skilled” foreign labor to replace American workers, whom he infamously characterized as lazy.

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📢 🇺🇸 🐄 Trump announces a deal to sell 300,000 pounds of beef at a 25% discount to market price as beef prices hit a record high.

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Damaged cast iron pans turned into spatulas

Boston's 1630 shoreline compared with the modern city
https://redd.it/1vbmvjt
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Chalub and the Kimura Cancellation

In 2022 a Portuguese mathematician named Fabio Chalub published a paper solving the neutral Kimura equation called Solution of the Neutral Kimura equation with two integral constraints. It is not a critique of neutral theory. Chalub gives no sign that he is even aware that anyone is contesting neutral theory. He is a specialist in […]

https://voxday.net/2026/08/23/chalub-and-the-kimura-cancellation/

I and Pangur Bán, my cat,
'Tis a like task we are at;
Hunting mice is his delight,
Hunting words I sit all night.

Better far than praise of men
'Tis to sit with book and pen;
Pangur bears me no ill-will,
He, too, plies his simple skill.

'Tis a merry thing to see
At our tasks how glad are we,
When at home we sit and find
Entertainment to our mind.

Oftentimes a mouse will stray
In the hero Pangur's way;
Oftentimes my keen thought set
Takes a meaning in its net.

'Gainst the wall he sets his eye
Full and fierce and sharp and sly;
'Gainst the wall of knowledge I
All my little wisdom try.

When a mouse darts from its den,
O! how glad is Pangur then;
O! what gladness do I prove
When I solve the doubts I love.

So in peace our task we ply,
Pangur Bán, my cat, and I;
In our arts we find our bliss,
I have mine, and he has his.

Practice every day has made
Pangur perfect in his trade;
I get wisdom day and night,
Turning darkness into light.

9th century Irish Monk; possibly Sedulius Scottus

Time Slice Map of the LGM paleoenvironment of Europe. Source: (Becker et al., 2015).
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317003697_PaleoMaps_SDI_for_open_paleoenvironmental_GIS_data/figures?lo=1

Pro-lifers are praising President Trump’s nominee for FDA chief, Dr. Heidi Overton.

They hope she will pull the abortion pill from the market and end mail-order abortions that kill babies even in pro-life states.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pro-lifers-praise-trump-nominee-for-new-fda-chief/

"I am touched that Dasha’s memory is not fading. Her texts are being published, her ideas continue to be discussed, her figure is not withering."

https://alexanderdugin.substack.com/p/my-daughter-aletheia?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

The Manufacture of Alzheimer’s

Pre-Covid, it was very hard to believe that the entire medical establishment was actually trying to kill people. Now that 75 percent of the population has been injected with heart attack and turbo cancer machines due to a man-made disease that never threatened the vast majority of the population, people are starting to look a […]

https://voxday.net/2026/08/23/the-manufacture-of-alzheimers/