[BEE] LOUISVILLE, KY — Churchill Downs Inc. (CDI), which manages the annual Kentucky Derby race, formed a committee this week to answer a question which would determine the future of horse races forever: what is a horse?
CDI CEO William Carstanjen explained it was the Kentucky Derby's number one priority to determine fairly what a horse is so that any eligible horse could participate, even if it was, in fact, not a horse by birth.
"Is a horse a man? Is a horse a badger? These are just some of the questions we will be deliberating," Carstanjen said. "It is important to us that we answer this question in order to protect the right of all horses to compete."
Horses, which don't actually choose to compete, have seen a rise in competition from thoroughbred cheetahs that identify as horses in recent years, which reportedly drew complaints from jockeys. The ensuing drama all but forced the hand of CDI, which was determined to settle the matter once and for all through committee.
The committee itself is chaired by Barbara Anderson, president of the Churchill Downs Racetrack where the Kentucky Derby is held annually. In the interest of diversity and equity, Anderson invited former jockeys, scientists, and furries to join in the discussion.
"I'm a horse! Neigh!" said a furry named W. J. Harbuck (also known as The Brown Blur). "Neeeeiiiiigh!"
At publishing time, the Kentucky Derby Committee convened for the day, no closer to understanding what a horse is.
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A featherless quadruped.
(Okay, okay, it's an old Greek joke. But it is past the statue of limitations. Which is another thing the ancient Greeks were famous for - statues.)
[G2G via ZH] The Elites are Claiming the World’s Water Supply and Plan to Trade it on the Stock Market.
Yep, you heard me right. This is not a joke or exaggeration. The facts are out there for all to see. I wrote about the tokenization of nature in my article "From Blockchain to Ball and Chain: Are We Being Borged?" [1] This article will deal primarily with the tokenization of the world’s water supply.
Tokenization: Turning Life Itself into a Tradeable Chip
For those who do not understand tokenization, here is a short and simple explanation: Tokenization means turning something real, like a share of water rights, a measured volume of water from a river or aquifer, or even credits for water that was "saved" or recycled, into a digital token (a unique digital certificate) that lives on a blockchain.
A blockchain is simply a shared digital notebook that many computers keep identical copies of at the same time, so the records of who owns what cannot be secretly changed by any one person or company.
That token can then be bought, sold, or traded on markets the same way people trade stocks or other assets. Instead of water simply belonging to the land, the local community, or the people who rely on it, it becomes a financial product that large investors, corporations, and institutions can own fractions of and exchange for profit. The right to use, claim, offset, or trade that water becomes the commodity.
Offset means making up for the water you use by helping save or restore the same amount somewhere else. A farmer switches to drip irrigation, a project restores a wetland, or a company reuses treated wastewater. That saved or restored water is measured and turned into credit. You buy or claim the credit. On paper your water use is balanced.
How Dare They Profit from Stealing Our Water
How dare they make money off this corrupt plan to steal, control, measure and meter the world’s water supply. Yes, I sound like Greta. The irony is thick: the same girl who made "How dare you" famous has been thoroughly programmed to cheer for Agenda 2030 and the very control grid she should be screaming against. Since she refuses to use her catchphrase where it actually belongs, then I will.
Water is the foundation of life itself. Every human, every animal, every plant depends on it. Yet the same elites who lecture the public about scarcity and climate are building the machinery to turn every last drop into a tradable asset they can profit from while ordinary people face rationing and surveillance.
This is exactly the process already described and promoted in official reports. Goldman Sachs itself published "Securing and Financing the Future of Water" in 2026, openly stating that tokenization can turn water rights into traceable tokens that track use across markets and deliver credits for companies that conserve or recycle water through connections to flow meters. Read it yourself: https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/securing-and-financing-the-future-of-water
The United Nations has declared the world has entered an era of "Global Water Bankruptcy." Their report argues that the old system of local rights is finished and that new enforceable limits, transparent accounting, and centralized management are required. See the official collection: https://unu.edu/inweh/collection/global-water-bankruptcy
The Mapping Machines Are Already Flying Over Your Head
Look at how they are already doing it. Across the United States, helicopters now fly low over farms and aquifers towing giant electromagnetic loops that map the groundwater beneath our feet like an MRI of the earth. California’s Department of Water Resources runs statewide Airborne Electromagnetic Surveys for exactly this purpose. Click here to read how the water mapping technology works: https://water.ca.gov/programs/sgma/aem
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There's been some talk that the idea that these data centers need a lot of water is a fraud. That might make the premise of this article make sense.
[ResponsibleStatecraft] On July 19, President Donald Trump’s top Africa adviser, Massad Boulos,
…more fully Massad Fares Boulos, the Christian Lebanese-born American businessman (he has a truck assembly business in Nigeria) who advises President Trump on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs and happens to be Tiffany Trump’s father-in-law…
held a series of talks in Cairo with the foreign ministers of Egypt, Eritrea and Somalia. The participants framed the discussions as an effort to bolster security in the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea.
These talks came as Egypt and Eritrea separately insisted that governance of the Red Sea should remain the exclusive responsibility of its littoral states, a thinly veiled warning to Ethiopia, a landlocked nation of 140 million people with growing maritime ambitions.
Later, on August 4, Boulos rejected speculation that Washington was assembling an anti-Ethiopian alliance, insisting it seeks amicable relations with all regional states. That rebuttal signals Washington’s delicate balancing act in an increasingly fractured region.
Indeed, just days after the talks in Cairo, Washington declared its interest in seeking deeper involvement by more American companies in Ethiopian Airlines’ planned $12.5 billion airport near the capital, Addis Ababa.
The U.S. may not be deliberately favoring Cairo over Addis Ababa, or vice versa. But without a coherent strategy, it is taking a scattershot approach to addressing thorny issues like the Egypt-Ethiopia Nile dispute, Red Sea access, and the African Union’s security mission in Somalia.
This risks hardening the very alignments from which Washington is trying to distance itself.
"I think Washington believes it can have its cake and eat it too: it can advance its own strategic objectives in the region around counterterrorism, critical minerals, maritime security and commercial diplomacy, while managing through ignorance the increasingly volatile regional competition playing out," said Cameron Hudson, a former U.S. official who worked on Africa at the CIA, State Department and National Security Council.
At the heart of the dispute is the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Despite Cairo’s protests since work on the dam began in 2011, it was inaugurated in September 2025, and is now Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam.
The $5 billion project remains contentious. Attention today has shifted to how Ethiopia will manage water releases to downstream Sudan and Egypt, especially during droughts, and whether any commitments will be binding.
In January, Trump informed Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi he was ready to restart mediation between Egypt and Ethiopia, calling for Ethiopia to undertake predictable water releases during droughts.
But words alone may prove futile. During Trump’s first term, the U.S. suspended some assistance to Ethiopia after Addis Ababa refused to sign a proposed U.S.-brokered agreement. Trump later suggested Egypt might "blow up" the dam.
Given Trump’s prior support for Egypt, Ethiopia has been suspicious of American motives, David Shinn, a former U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia and adjunct professor at George Washington University, told RS.
"U.S. engagement with Eritrean officials in Cairo will add to Ethiopia’s concerns," he said. Indeed, the contact was notable given decades of strained U.S.-Eritrea relations, and because it came amid heightened tensions between Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Addis Ababa’s wariness toward Washington will further complicate any U.S. efforts to soften the Egypt-Ethiopia rivalry, which has now spilled into the Red Sea.
Along with Eritrea, Egypt has sought to contain Ethiopia’s ambitions for maritime access in the Red Sea. In January 2024, Ethiopia signed a memorandum of understanding with the governing authorities in Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia whose independence is recognized only by Israel. The agreement envisaged granting Ethiopia a 50-year lease for a 12-mile stretch of coastline near the Gulf of Aden in exchange for the eventual recognition of Somaliland as an independent state. Egypt responded by offering arms and troops to Somalia, while reaffirming its support for Somalia’s territorial integrity.
Amid increasing regional and international pressure on Addis Ababa, Turkish mediation in late 2024 helped restore diplomatic relations between Somalia and Ethiopia, effectively sidelining the MoU.
But Ethiopia remains determined to gain access to the Red Sea, which Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has framed as an existential economic necessity.
Abiy has barely concealed Ethiopia’s ambition to secure access to Eritrean ports, particularly Assab, at times framing the port as historically Ethiopian territory that was lost when Eritrea seceded in 1993. His rhetoric has provoked deep alarm in Asmara, pushing Egypt and Eritrea closer.
Egypt and Eritrea signed a maritime transport agreement in May, announcing a shipping route linking their ports and again insisting that the maintenance of Red Sea security be reserved for littoral states. In response, Ethiopia accused Egypt of attempting "to encircle and obstruct our efforts to gain maritime access to the Red Sea."
This has created a self-reinforcing cycle: Egypt views Ethiopia’s drive for a port as key to its ambitions to become the dominant regional power in the Horn, while Ethiopia sees Egyptian cooperation with Somalia and Eritrea as encirclement.
It would be a mistake to describe Egypt, Eritrea and Somalia as a fixed bloc, however. Somalia, after restoring diplomatic ties with Ethiopia, now seeks to balance its relations with Cairo and Addis Ababa. Meanwhile, Eritrea’s distrust of Ethiopia stems from the neighbors’ own deep history of conflict — including their devastating border war in 1998-2000, which killed tens of thousands — rather than Cairo’s influence alone.
Still, growing distrust could harden these alignments into lasting divides. And Washington’s cross-cutting diplomacy may worsen that risk by leaving regional governments unsure of its intentions.
In May, the U.S. pursued a reset with Eritrea after their long period of cold relations, including the prospect of sanctions relief, which can be read as an attempt to discourage Ethiopia from using force in its quest for maritime access.
At the same time, Secretary of State Marco Rubio met his Ethiopian counterpart, Gedion Timothewos, for talks on security cooperation, commercial opportunities and promoting regional de-escalation.
Washington’s decision to withdraw support later this year from the United Nations logistics operation underpinning the African Union’s mission in Somalia adds a complication.
The mission has provided a unique multilateral mechanism for Egyptian and Ethiopian cooperation — in this case, in maintaining security in Somalia. Mogadishu may now seek to forge bilateral agreements with both countries that would encourage them to compete for influence instead of cooperating.
Washington’s initiatives in the region aren’t necessarily contradictory. But American outreach to Cairo and Asmara may reinforce Addis Ababa’s perception that it is being contained, while Egypt and Eritrea may see closer U.S. commercial ties with Ethiopia as a boost to their rival.
"Absent a real strategy, these are all zero-sum policies. It’s one reason why Boulos keeps having to try to defuse the conspiracies swirling around U.S. policy by denying their existence," said Hudson.
"At some point, Washington needs to make clear to everyone what it is hoping to achieve."
Now, Washington risks watching regional escalation outpace its diplomacy. The stakes extend beyond diplomatic tensions. Even though Abiy ruled out war with Eritrea last year, military mobilizations and hostile rhetoric have kept the risks of miscalculation and escalation alive.
Washington may also find working multilaterally with regional partners to devise a unified strategy desirable.
On the Nile, Washington could support an AU-led agreement on drought management, data-sharing and predictable water releases. On Ethiopia’s Red Sea access, it could build on Turkish mediation by backing a commercial deal under Somali sovereignty, while tying its outreach to Asmara directly to regional de-escalation rather than treating it as an isolated Red Sea transaction.
"Washington could encourage Ethiopia and Eritrea to engage in discussions for guaranteed Ethiopian access to the sea and even suggest some incentives that Eritrea might find attractive," said Shinn, adding that other key players could participate in such an initiative.
[YouTube] The Jimmy Dore Show: Evan Barker, former Democratic operative and author of Nothing Left, joins Jimmy for a wide-ranging discussion about how the party she once championed abandoned the working class in favor of identity politics and donor interests, culminating in her disillusionment at the 2024 DNC. She reveals behind-the-scenes betrayals, including Bernie Sanders’ close friendship with Chuck Schumer and progressives like AOC who she says "rolled over" to establishment pressure after initially challenging the system.
Barker condemns AOC’s dismissal of the "woke" era as just "crazy," arguing that the movement destroyed careers—including journalist Lee Fang’s—and drove working-class voters toward Trump. She concludes that the Democratic Party remains captured by the donor class and has learned nothing from its electoral defeats.
[AT] In summertime D.C., things are moving slowly, though not slowly enough for those leftist judges who are getting overruled in cases of extreme importance to their political supporters. rest at link
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It’s a delay tactic. They just have to burn 4 years.
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[IsraelNationalNews] The immensity of the intra-Muslim carnage dwarfs the regional and global significance of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Palestinian Arab issue.
Since 1948, unrelated to Israel, about 11 million Muslims have been killed in intra-Muslim wars and terrorism from Pakistan and Afghanistan, through the Middle East to the Horn of Africa, North and Central Africa, compared to 100,000 Muslims killed during Arab-Israel wars. In fact, Refik Turan, Head of the Turkish Historical Society claims that 12.5 million Muslims have been killed in intra-Muslim wars since 1993.
These Intra-Muslim wars have yielded mega-millions of displaced Muslims. For example, 20 million refugees during the Syria and Iraq civil wars, 10 million refugees resulting from the Pakistan-Bangladesh war, 8 million refugees in Africa’s Sahel region, etc.
Since the 7th century, and irrespective of Israel, the absence of intra-Muslim peaceful-coexistence - religiously, ethnically, tribally, geographically and ideologically- has been a chronic and structural feature of the Middle East. It has fueled terrorism and wars among the Muslim "believers," against the Sunni/Shiite "apostates" and against the Western "infidel," especially "The Great American Satan."
Examples of the Toll of Intra-Muslim Conflicts Since 1948 include:
Jordan’s "Black September" civil war 1970: 10,000-2 5,000 killed
Egypt-Jihadist battles in Sinai, 2011-present: 10,000 killed
Yet, every "civilized" European and "progressive" American, keep screaming "Liberate Palestine"
And there's more.
The aforementioned intra-Muslim reality is critically relevant to US policy in the Middle East - including the pursuit of negotiation and peace - an area which has always been jerkily spiral, violently intolerant, unpredictable, tenuously shifty, fragmented and ruthlessly non-democratic.
The absence of intra-Muslim peaceful coexistence has been underscored by the litany of intra-Muslim conflicts, accompanied by a multitude of negotiation cycles, on-again and off-again tenuous ceasefire agreements and peace accords. This violently capricious reality showcases the Middle East as a region where negotiation is a tactical pause and an extension of warfare by other means, bolstered by Islam-sanctioned Taqiyya (dissimulation).
The intensity of the 1,400-year-old intra-Muslim wars and terrorism reveals that negotiation and accords are considered by radical Middle East entities (e.g., the Ayatollah regime, Hezbollah, Hamas) as a tactical pause, functional-not-covenantal, a Hudna (temporary ceasefire) - a means to bring enemies to submission, not peaceful coexistence - lacking a shared commitment to durability.
Furthermore, Middle East powerful entities do not negotiate with weaker entities; they trounce and subjugate them. Therefore, an initiation of negotiation in the Middle East is perceived as insecurity and weakness, which emboldens rogue entities. They've their own art of the deal
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger is author of "Second Thought: US-Israel Initiative"
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Excellent. It's a start.
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Religion of Peace™
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Yes! Your nearly 80 year pattern analysis assessment is correct.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[BEE] LOUISVILLE, KY — Churchill Downs Inc. (CDI), which manages the annual Kentucky Derby race, formed a committee this week to answer a question which would determine the future of horse races forever: what is a horse?
[G2G via ZH] The Elites are Claiming the World’s Water Supply and Plan to Trade it on the Stock Market.
