Links 3/15/2026

Reaction of this baby, seeing the world properly for the first time — Science girl (@sciencegirl) March 13, 2026 Iranian Strike Damages Five or More U.S. KC-135R Tankers Vital to Continued Air Offensives at Saudi Air Base Military Watch Magazine The Genetics of Living Longer: Study Challenges Decades of Aging Research SciTech Daily COVID-19/Pandemics US vaccine advisers drop plan to question mRNA COVID shots, WaPo reports Reuters Climate/Environment The Latest Front in the Battle Over Climate Lawsuits: Bills Wiping Out Liability Inside Climate News Germany misses climate targets as emissions barely fall in 2025 The Guardian Beautiful shores, ugly truths: one environmental health researcher’s journey to better understanding plastic pollution Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health South of the Border How a mathematician is cracking open Mexico’s powerful drug cartels Nature Cuba confirms negotiations with US as country faces effects of oil blockade BBC Trump’s Summit Offers More Deference Than Details Foreign Policy China? Empowered with #AI, robotics and automation, “Asia’s number one” smart logistics center in #Beijing is redefining its efficiency during the Spring Festival holiday. pic.twitter.com/bKnnjqSpmF — China Perspective (@China_Fact) February 21, 2026 How China’s AI-Powered Robots Could Reshape the Global Order The DiplomatIs this where China’s astronauts will land on the moon? Scientific American China’s Clean Energy Push Has Made It Less Vulnerable to Energy Shocks, Including the Iran War Inside Climate News China’s Middle East envoy touring in the region to mediate between Iran, America and Israel to stop the war Modern Diplomacy India Iran War Puts India in Tricky Position Foreign Policy Boom, then slowdown: New research challenges India’s official GDP narrative The American Bazaar How Israel-US war on Iran puts $50bn in Indian remittances at risk Al Jazeera Africa A new Ethiopia-Eritrea war could trigger ‘Africa’s Second World War,’ expert warns Andolu Agency South Africa’s mineral exploration declines for seventh straight year Business Insider African countries consider ‘vice taxes’ to help fill USAID cuts Bloomberg European Disunion Middle East war having ‘huge impact’ on EU economy: Commissioner Christophe Hansen France 24 Iceland mulls joining the EU amid strained US relations DW “They don’t like the EU”: Europe’s top diplomat says Washington wants to divide Europe Euromaidan Press Old Blighty Why the Chagos Islands deal is delayed – and Mauritius is threatening to sue the UK The Conversation Atomic Britain: UK plans regulatory reset to boost nuclear power The Register Israel v. Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Iran 🚨 TEHRAN LOOKING LIKE HELL – Massive Fires & Chaos Engulf the Capital! 💥 Raw footage shows insane flames and destruction ripping through Tehran – is this the end for the regime? Explosions everywhere amid brutal US-Israeli strikes 🔥Follow for more raw explosion clips &… pic.twitter.com/SwFfGA8Dli — World War News VIDEOS (@files22054) March 14, 2026 Iranians grapple with whether to flee the country because of the war APIsrael is preparing for largest-scale ground offensive in Lebanon since 2006 war – Axios Jerusalem Post Report from Beirut: Israel Expands Bombing Campaign & Mass Displacement in Lebanon Democracy Now Another 5 Palestinians killed in Israel’s genocide in Gaza amid wider war Al Jazeera New Not-So-Cold War Russia attacks Ukraine with nearly 500 missiles and drones, 28 locations hit Ukrainska Pravda Ukraine and allies fear easing Russian sanctions will prolong war BBC Ukraine claims ‘successful’ strike on 2 Russian ships ferrying weapons, equipment through Kerch Strait Kyiv Independent Big Brother Is Watching You Watch Privacy Concerns Prompt San Jose to Restrict License Plate Reader Surveillance Vanguard News Group Instagram says your chat privacy is going away, as its encryption vanishes soon Android Central Imperial Collapse Watch Study finds Bay Area storms pose growing flood risk for homeless populations Bay City News Homeless camps spreading across Madison County; advocates launch mapping program WAFF.com Trump 2.0 Trump’s Cabinet: fewer firings, familiar problems GZERO Why Trump hasn’t received a “rally around the flag” approval bump for the Iran war Strength in Numbers Judge rules Trump administration unlawfully refused to request CFPB funding The Hill Musk Matters Only 2 of 11 xAI co-founders remain as Elon Musk vows full rebuild before SpaceX IPO Cryptopolitan Tesla Terafab Project: Elon Musk Confirms Launch in Seven Days Fintech Weekly Former DOGE employees give an inside look at the Elon Musk-led agency Mashable Democrat Death Watch Or imagine those shouting loudest about bombing Iran being the same people who said they would do it if they could. https://t.co/dbgHiAQjb0 — Lara Logan (@laralogan) March 14, 2026 DAVID MARCUS: Can John Fetterman save the Democratic Party from itself? Fox News Immigration Immigration Enforcement is locking up veterans without checking their veteran status KREM.com Unanimous SCOTUS Opinion Streamlines Review of Asylum Decisions Center for Immigration Studies Our No Longer Free Press Press freedom declines in Americas, with US seeing sharpest drop: Report Al Jazeera Tlaib introduces legislation to protect whistleblowers, journalists from targeting by Espionage Act Michigan Advance Mr. Market Is Moody Jeff Currie from Goldman Sachs is probably the best person I know regarding commodities. His take on oil prices: pic.twitter.com/OyQFUbo6Xc — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) March 14, 2026 Panic is slowly gripping the stock market. Expect the selling to pick up next week. MarketWatch PA gas prices climb for 16th day in a row; NEPA seeing some of the state’s highest prices Fox56 AI Americans’ Anger Against AI Data Centers Is Boiling Over Futurism A new paradigm for medical AI: why disagreement between models may be more valuable than consensus Technology.org Meta weighing massive 20% workforce layoffs in effort to offset AI infrastructure costs: report NY Post ‘RAMmageddon’ hits labs: AI-driven memory shortage is impacting science Nature New study raises concerns about AI chatbots fueling delusional thinking The Guardian The Bezzle Desperate to flee abuse in Cambodian scam compounds, these young Indonesians are now facing suspicion back home The Conversation Meta disables 150,000 accounts in crackdown on Southeast Asia scam networks Andolu Agency Guillotine Watch Babe Ruth’s ‘Called Shot’ jersey sold at auction for $24.12 million. It’s officially the world’s most valuable piece of sports memorabilia. pic.twitter.com/N4mFNjWCDl — Foul Territory (@FoulTerritoryTV) August 25, 2024 Shohei Ohtani’s 50th home run baseball just sold for a RECORD price ‼️ The most expensive ball of all-time 🤯 pic.twitter.com/MDstvbNaPA — Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) October 23, 2024 Antidote du jour (via) See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here “Iceland mulls joining the EU amid strained US relations” This is just nuts. It’s like trying to cure a temporary migraine headache by blowing your brains out. Iceland’s most important economic sector is their fishing industry and the article admits that if they joined the EU, then other countries would come in and fish out the region empty. And Ursula would hardly bother listening to their complaints. Not only would the EU take over their foreign policy but almost certainly their economic policy as well. Trump may be a problem but he will be gone in less than three years and maybe even much sooner the way things are going with the war with Iran. But once you are in the EU it is Hotel California, baby. But once you are in the EU it is Hotel California, baby. Yes. But it’ll be like that old Tom Lehrer song, ‘We Will All Go Together When We Go.” Socioeconomically speaking only, one hopes, I hasten to add People seriously want to charge rent for reflecting sunlight onto solar panels at night? Especially conisdering that batteries exist, the grifting is sickening. The billionaires have been trying to monopolize water and seeds, so why not the sun? Nemesis is on the way. The idea has been thought of- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3LbxDZRgA4 (1:36 mins) This may not be the single worst idea ever but it is high on the list. About as much forethought here as in the US-Israel attack on Iran. If Jonas Salk were alive today, many would consider him either a hypocrite or insane. And sometimes it is cloudy at night, so they’ll need those batteries anyway. Bret Weinstein and Tucker Carlson in conversation. utube, ~2 hrs, 9+ minutes. Unholy War: A Conversation with Tucker Carlson on DarkHorse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRskSFo191Y Trump’s religious inner circle implodes as beauty queen’s firing sparks revolt… and ‘spiritual adviser’ faces shocking Israel claims Daily Mail ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Well, I guess it would be nice if I could touch your body I know not everybody has got a body like you But I gotta think twice before I give my plan away And I know all the games Netanyahu plays because I played them too Oh, but I need some time off from that emotion Time to pick my Florsheims up off the floor Oh, when that evang love comes down without devotion Well it takes a strongman leader, baby But I’m showin’ you the door ‘Cause I gotta’ have faith leaders I gotta have faith Because I gotta have faith, faith, faith I got to have faith, faith, faith Baby, I know you’re askin’ me to stay Say, “Please, please, please don’t go away” You say I’m givin’ you the willies Maybe (Huh) you mean every word you say Can’t help but think of yesterday And another who tied me down to ethical rules Before this river of losses becomes an ocean in Israel Before they throw impeachment proceedings back on the floor Oh, baby, I reconsider my foolish notion Well, I need foreign navies to help me But I’ll wait for somethin’ more Yes I gotta have faith leaders Ooh, I gotta have faith Because I gotta have faith, faith, faith I gotta have faith, faith, faith I’ll just have to wait Because I’ve got to have faith leaders I gotta have faith I’ve got to, got to, got to have faith leaders Before this river of losses becomes an ocean in Israel Before they throw impeachment proceedings back on the floor Oh, oh, baby, I reconsider my foolish notion Well, I need foreign navies to help me But I’ll wait for somethin’ more ‘Cause I gotta’ have faith leaders Ooh, I gotta have faith Because I gotta have faith, faith, faith I gotta have faith, faith, faith Faith, by George Michael https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N61LHFFfiik&list=RDN61LHFFfiik In this article is an image of Trump at his desk surround by a whole bunch of god-botherers. Check out the Woman in Red to the right. She is Presidential Spiritual Adviser Paula White and here she is in action- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHsBIk1ZLr4 (1:45 mins) I could only take about 43 seconds of that. Does that get me a merit badge? That lady is crazypants. Yep. The parodies are pretty good. Here’s one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzIym0eZsH0 That’s quite a new riff on Triumph of the Will. Trying to work others into a shared state of self-hypnosis. At points she verges on speaking in tongues, glossolalia. I kid you not, I thought I was hearing a Negativland mash-up. https://genius.com/Negativland-the-gun-and-the-bible-lyrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF8vgDfC8d4 Anyone else seeing the internal contradiction with an administration that is obsessed with male organ size, and inviting a bunch of religious whackjobs into the Oval Office? Not at all. These are evangelicals. See Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker, etc. A GOP pres inviting prominent Evangelical pastors into the White House goes back at least to Nixon. In the late 1970s there was pastor Jerry Falwell and his Moral Majority voting bloc, etc. Paula White is an evangelical who has her own ministry andwho claims to speak in tongues, always to some musical beat somehow. She is adept at, um, raising funds. Rock and roll, kiddo. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious to her/ ;) Shorter: it’s all about the money and the voting bloc size, imo. / ;) Chris, I laughed out loud at the word intellect, thanks, seeing as the one person who displayed any skill at critical thinking/morality was given the shove. Oh, not seeing any conflicting moral beliefs within the patriarchy, measuring our members is how we establish the pecking order. How about allowing a woman to preach? I sense a disturbance in the patriarchy. Of all the creepy things about this group, the shoe thing bothers me the most … making Rubio wear oversized Florsheims, what kind of sick display of dominance is that? Any self-respecting man would have resigned. But, I suppose that is the point. To stay in that orbit, you have to lack self-respect and be a weak person. Note the people who broke off from MAGA are all strong individuals – Massie, M T-G, Tucker. It all starts with a charismatic evang with Hollywood looks in Billy Graham-as we needed a bulwark against the godless commies, warps out of control and usefulness, and here we are on the edge of an abyss that none but the overly true believers want. Re Democrat Death Watch Very entertaining section today. You set us up with Hillary, and we think “there couldn’t have been a more ridiculous party ‘savior’.” Then you hit us with Fetterman! Thanks for the morning laugh courtesy of Fox News – the folks who think Trump’s war is going great. Thanks. Exactly my thoughts on reading the article, actually on reading the headline. Had to check the calendar to make sure today isn’t April 1st. / ;) Still fitting. Julius Caesar is dead (and still dead.) Ides of March update: Julius of Caesarea was murdered by a missile dagger strike on his compound, it was revealed today. Speaking of End-Times Fascism, Peter Thiel is in Rome, trying to stir up an insurgency among right-wing Catholics against Pope Leo — ‘Mr AI’ Peter Thiel lectures about antichrist in Rome Closed-door events set to challenge beliefs of American Pope Leo, who has warned about risks of artificial intelligence https://archive.ph/nUvH8 https://www.ft.com/content/fc1e7e9a-9d5d-4217-b9b2-38069eb1197b ‘US tech billionaire and Maga donor Peter Thiel is starting a series of closed-door lectures about the antichrist in Rome on Sunday, putting him on collision course with Pope Leo XIV, the Catholic Church’s first American pontiff…. ‘He depicts those who lobby for tech regulation as harbingers of the antichrist. “The way the antichrist would take over the world is, you talk about Armageddon nonstop,” Thiel told the New York Times last year. “You talk about existential risk nonstop, and this is what you need to regulate . . .” ‘Thiel’s views stand in stark contrast to those of Pope Leo, who has warned of the dangers of artificial intelligence and called for stronger regulation to minimise its risks. The four-day series of lectures is not taking place at the Vatican — though its exact location in Rome remains secret — and is co-organised by a new fringe Italian group with links to Italy’s far right and Catholic conservatives in the UK. ‘In the run-up to Thiel’s lectures, the Catholic newspaper Avvenire — which is owned by the Italian bishops’ conference — has published a series of articles criticising Thiel and Palantir, saying that “to save humanity . . . he proposes devices that ultimately restrict what is most human in humanity”. ‘Pope Leo said earlier this year that his call for AI regulation was not aimed at stopping innovation “but rather to guide it and be aware of its ambivalent nature”. …’ ‘The Vatican viewed Thiel as someone engaged in a “violent project to tweak the future” which is fundamentally at odds with the vision and values of the contemporary Catholic Church, Faggioli said. “If you think that every possible solution, and ultimately salvation — immortality — comes from technology, you have made technology your god,” he added. Father Paolo Benanti, the Vatican’s adviser on AI, wrote on Le Grand Continent website on Saturday that Thiel’s career “can be read as a prolonged act of heresy against the liberal consensus: a challenge to the very foundations of civil coexistence, which he now considers outdated.” Me: They ain’t wrong. I confess to having a taste for dark comedy, but didn’t expect to find the end of the world as we knew it — or aspects of it like Thiel going to Rome to preach against the Antichrist, anyway — this funny. Doubtless, I will be laughing on the other side of my face soon enough. Paraphrasing Huey Long: what would Antichrist say when he comes to our world? He’ll warn of the (other) Antichrist (I guess the One coming to Damascus, in particular.) Daniel Lizst reported Friday night that in the closed San Francisco antichrist sessions Thiel had Diane Pasulka onstage with him who has in the past gotten permission as an accredited academic to spend time inside the restricted Vatican archives. Does mad magazine still do their spy vs. spy comic strips? If they snatch him off the street and perform an exorcism, make it a movie. And Mark Antony had his a** handed to him by Persians (in the Caucasus, in modern Azerbaijan no less) after Caesar’s death. One of lesser known Roman disasters vs Persia presumably because the leader survived…. Speaking of the Caucasus and daggers, I wanted to wisecrack about Kinzhals (which I think is a dagger specifically from some Caucasian regions), but pity that Iran hasn’t gotten them…. This was supposed to be in response to Wuk’s comment about Julius of Caesarea… …can I be Franco with you? Come and see me at Signor Ferrari’s “Blue Norwegian Parrot” bistro lunchtime and we’ll discuss the matter. Maybe we can sing a rousing chorus of that old standby, “I Stole a Watch on the Rhine.” Oh, Strasser will be there! Stay safe. “DAVID MARCUS: Can John Fetterman save the Democratic Party from itself?” Fox News mocking the Democrats here. And equivalent headline from the other side would be- “DAVID MARCUS: Can Lindsey Graham save the Republican Party from itself?” The Democrats are going to get a huge majority due to Trump’s agenda of neoliberalism and neoconservatism. They’ll proceed to implement more neoliberalism and more neoconservatism. Yes but with a friendly smile. that makes all the difference Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories Unicode that’s invisible to the human eye was largely abandoned—until attackers took notice. Researchers say they’ve discovered a supply-chain attack flooding repositories with malicious packages that contain invisible code, a technique that’s flummoxing traditional defenses designed to detect such threats. https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/03/supply-chain-attack-using-invisible-code-hits-github-and-other-repositories/ I don’t understand the handwringing by ars that this is difficult to detect. Nothing in any English source code needs to be Unicode. Convert the source code to standard 7 bit ASCII and then do a diff against the Unicode original looking for extra text, and also non-text characters in the range 0x00 to 0x1F. “FAA Approves a Massive Pilot Program That Will Let Electric Air Taxis Fly Across 26 States as Early as This Summer” In the war in the Ukraine, tanks need cope cages to survive drone attacks. The way that the Trump regime is ramming through these electric air taxis, perhaps it would be an idea to equip house roofs with cope cages as well. Just sayin’. And frankly the record of driver-less cars on the ground is not one to inspire confidence much less the idea of ones flying overhead. Ah, but the “real” motive here is all of that “navigation” video and electronic data those flying taxis will collect in simply trying to fly right. We, or some definition of “we” need reasons to justify all those billions spent on building out AI data centres. China is slow-walking the heck out of UAS/eVTOLs, i.e., drones and the “low-altitude economy,” taking zero-chances with public safety and focusing heavily on airspace management, whereas it looks like the FAA may have been politically strong-armed into this “pilot-program” by bullshitters, VC touts, and an administration eager for “a win.” No doubt drones will play an important part of the economy, but the US is so not ready for this to go prime-time. Once upon a time, I started a little war Government MIC went along Before I could blame it on you Still, you are the only one Now I can’t let it slip away So if the Chairman of JCS with the alibi He tries to take it Well this is what I’m gonna say Blame it on Dan Caine Don’t blame it on me Oh, oh, it’s all my fault But we need somebody to burn Well if I was a saint with A silver spoon And the polls got low We could always heat them up Or fade them out But then the gal on Fox says that heaven will be your reward And then you can run down the country Coast to coast, hand in hand Bad to worse, curse for curse Don’t be dissatisfied So you’re not satisfied I think I’ve lived a little too long On 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in DC town I think I’m going insane From talking up myself for so long Oh but I’ve never been accused of honesty When they step on your face You wear that good look grin I gotta break out one weekend If I do 9 holes in But every single time I feel a little stronger They tell me it’s a crime Well how much longer? Blame it on Cain, by Elvis Costello https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfHaI7rVp9g&list=RDHfHaI7rVp9g “New study raises concerns about AI chatbots fueling delusional thinking” I don’t suppose anyone has considered the possibility that Trump is talking to a Chatbot who is telling him everything that he wants to hear. The article does say that it can encourage delusions among vulnerable people and he is a very old man. Apparently he’s talking to Laura Loomer and Sean Hannity. That’s what Robert Barnes says. “Laura Loomer and Sean Hannity.” The definition of “wetworld” chatbots. I feel as if a reality check is needed on the proliferation of statistical heritability studies. RE: The Genetics of Living Longer: Study Challenges Decades of Aging Research SciTech Daily Reading through to the Editor’s Summary and the authors’ abstract at Science, I despair of abstract words ever again having meaning in scientific discourse. I cannot be the only one who always puzzles over what is the denominator and what is the numerator when the results of a linear analysis of variance is expressed as a percentage. In this case, the authors distinguish “extrinsic” from “intrinsic” factors, and raise their estimate of “heritability” by isolating “intrinsic” factors. Say what? It seems like they set aside categories of factors they guessed had low heritability (accidents, infections) and arrived at a higher estimate of heritability from the variance that remained. I like spinning abstractions as much as any generally educated person, and admittedly I am skimming the surface by reading abstract and editorial summary only, but shouldn’t these distillations reveal the essential findings, not essential manipulation? The methods for linear analysis of variance of statistical data are generally weak and open to creativity, such that replication of results between researchers, even starting from the same dataset, is unlikely. If scientists are to work with these methods and statistical data productively, they need to do a much better job of anchoring their language in the concrete details of reality. When i was looking at the pic of Trump’s “Prayer Meeting” I noticed a sign on Trump’s desk that I at first thought was the same sign Harry Truman had on that desk. It is, but someone used a sharpie to add the letter “S” at the end of the word “Buck”. MAGA on the March To Address Farm Labor Shortage, Trump Administration Turns to Migrant Workers (NY Times) By lowing wages for H2As. (bold mine) Can’t let facts get in the way of your worldview. The average age of a fieldworker in the Central Valley is 45, not as if young Mexicans are chomping at the bit to do their part for Ag. GOP Farm Bill Set to Unleash Pesticide Use and Strip Animal Welfare Protections The bill protects agrochemicals producers from lawsuits, and overturns food and pesticide safety laws and statutes. https://truthout.org/articles/gop-farm-bill-set-to-unleash-pesticide-use-and-strip-animal-welfare-protections/ re: Habermas Not a fan myself but I will provide a few machine-translations from German dailies if interesting enough. This following piece I recommend – however it is a machine-translation only by Yandex which doesn´t work 100%. Google translate won´t work. For German-speakers I add the original German version. That could be used for translations via c&p. The only critical take I have found so far – though it is just a reprint of an assessment on Habermas´s 90th birthday, by German leftwing junge Welt daily. They will provide an actual obituary next week. A mockery at court Today, Tuesday, the philosopher Jürgen Habermas is 90 years old. The congratulations were reluctant https://archive.is/LX3Xh German version https://archive.is/41yjf No login wall through MSN Panic is slowly gripping the stock market. Expect the selling to pick up next week (MSN) and Good. Trump’s slapping around is overdue. For nearly two centuries, the White House’s main entrance — framed by a row of graceful Ionic columns — has been a signature image of the seat of American power. Now the Trump-appointed head of a federal arts commission is proposing to replace them with a more ornate style favored by President Donald Trump. Those more decorative columns, a style known as Corinthian, are considered the most luxurious in classical architecture and appear on buildings such as the U.S. Capitol and the Supreme Court. They have long been deployed on Trump’s properties, and the president has handpicked them for his planned White House ballroom, too. (WaPo) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beware of Fourth Columnists! 👍🤣 p.s. Corinthian are however totally inappropriate there. I have begun to refer to the Establishment MSM as the “Filth Estate.” Our new motto: “All the S–t That Fits.” Welcome to the Disenlightenment. Regarding How Israel-US war on Iran puts $50bn in Indian remittances at risk, the article confirms what I already surmised when the war began: “India is also worried for some 9.1 million of its citizens who work in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries […]. They send some $50bn in annual remittances back home. […] Some 35 million expats live in the Gulf countries, which have emerged as major economic and aviation hub in addition to the oil wealth. Of them, 9.1 million are from India – almost double the 4.9 million Pakistanis who come in second place.” The article exposes the issues of remittances and oil, but does not mention fertilizers. Asia will therefore be whacked by a triple whammy: lack of hydrocarbons, dearth of fertilizers, dwindling remittances. This war is a stupendous shock to the globalized system. Trump-linked PAC sends fundraising email using dead soldier’s casket photo from dignified transfer https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-never-surrender-pac-fundraising-b2938611.html Trump fundraising pitch features U.S. soldiers killed in Iran war The email solicitation to benefit Trump’s PAC also offers donors “private national security briefings.” https://www.ms.now/news/trump-fundraising-pitch-features-u-s-soldiers-killed-in-iran-war re: Germany BSW election recount Interview with party co-leader Amira Mohamed Ali by new daily Ostdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung OAZ. machine-translation Amira Mohamed Ali: “Then, theoretically, the door would be wide open for election fraud.” Amira Mohamed Ali is calling for a recount of the German federal election. In an interview with the OAZ, she warns that if the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe does not intervene, election irregularities could go unchecked. A conversation. by Dorian Baganz https://archive.is/owr5O p.s. Reporter Dorian Baganz was supposed to be senior editor for OAZ and quit just last week for differences with publisher Holger Friedrich over content issues. regarding medical ai the article says this:‘MEDLEY sidesteps this paradox entirely. Instead of relying on any single model’s ability to explain itself, it seeks reliability through the structured interplay of convergent and divergent perspectives across multiple models. It is a dialectic of outputs rather than a performance of reasoning. If several independent models with different training backgrounds agree, that convergence carries genuine evidential weight. If they disagree, that disagreement is a clinically meaningful signal’. This is simply NOT TRUE. why? because it has been shown that multiple ai appliaTIONS HAVE BEEN TRAINED ON SIMILAR DATA SETS AND OFTEN MAKE THE SAME ERROR. re: Iran 2x CONSORTIUMNEWS 1) conversation with John Kiriakou The World This Week w/John Kiriakou March 14, 2026 War rages as destruction spreads in Iran, Israel and on U.S. bases, while Gulf Arabs reconsider U.S. ties and the U.S. considers a ground invasion. Ex-C.I.A. officer John Kiriakou gives his insight. Watch the reply. 60 min. https://consortiumnews.com/2026/03/14/watch-the-world-this-week-w-john-kiriakou/ in 5 hours – Sunday 8 pm EDT: 2) conversation with Sayed Marandi ‘The View From Tehran’ March 15, 2026 Sayed Mohammad Marandi speaks to CN Live! from the Iranian capital under fire from a barbaric U.S. and Israeli aggression rooted in profound ignorance of the country they seek to conquer https://consortiumnews.com/2026/03/15/watch-cn-live-the-view-from-tehran/ re: Iran 2x GLENN DIESEN 1) Larry Johnson (not yet seen) 5 hours ago 60 min. https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/larry-johnson-us-attack-on-kharg 2) Chas Freeman (recommended, with many interesting details, like South Africa having an excellent tradition in arms prod. – something I had conveniently kinda forgotten about, and which is now intensifying ties with e.g. Brazil, which is also cozying up with Japan, due to its domestic Japanese minority) yesterday 56 min. https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/chas-freeman-the-emerging-iran-russia