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Marcell Fóti returns to discuss his latest experiments on ancient stoneworking, including using heated alkalis and water glass to etch granite, form glossy coatings, room-temperature glass, and layered stone structures. He describes ongoing tests of these methods, including attempts to reproduce features in Egyptian granite, like quartz seams. He also shares a brand new database and mobile app for documenting stone objects and creating 3D models. (Marcell's book is available here.)...

Most seem surprised by the extent to which Trump's Republican party got trounced in the US Mid-Term elections, yet also agree on the reason why: a majority of US voters, three-time Trump voters included, are so fed up with Trump's Iran war and his administration's support for Israel, they flipped en masse to 'voting Democrat' just to express their displeasure. Sounds plausible, but hardcore MAGA voters suddenly 'turning Blue'? Certainly, some delivered a...

Yes, Epstein blackmail is a real thing. And yes, Trump has betrayed his core MAGA promise - no new wars, specifically, no Mid-East quagmires. But, given how hard it was to control him via Russiagate in his first term, the effort to enact a vast conspiracy to bury him politically via the 'January 6th insurrection', and the near-miss assassination attempt(s) just prior to his second term, Trump very clearly is NOT 'one of them': namely, a fully-immersed, child-predating,...

While protests against rising prices and neglected public services continued in France this past weekend, there was a noticeable 'calm' compared with the previous weekend's scenes of mass looting, arson and wanton destruction. Few made the connection, but the curious timing of a 'racist terrorist attack' in an ethnically-mixed Paris suburb the day before surely had something to do with that, and reminded us of the 'strategy of tension' from NATO's Operation...

The high school protests in France this week 'converged' with protests against the rising costs of living, resulting in mass street demonstrations in many French cities. The media (and social media) is focusing on the destructive violence and looting committed by a small segment of protesters, thereby portraying the whole movement as 'radical and violent'. This is obviously what the government wants people to believe, but it is a manipulated illusion. Echoing the Yellow Vest...

As energy prices rise, and inflation and interest rates along with them, the Western world is anxious for good news regarding an end to the US stand-off against Iran, and the Russia-Ukraine-NATO war. So when Trump announced a surprising breakthrough on Friday - the US importing shipments of Russian diesel in exchange for the lifting of (some) sanctions on Russia, the markets responded favorably. Look closer, however, and the amounts involved - assuming the deal is honored in the coming...

This week's high-school protests in France against cuts to education funding, while not imminently heralding 'the fall of France', do indicate enormous budgetary strain due to the energy crisis and the redirection of funding towards military procurement. Similarly, protests in Spain against rising house prices and rents expose the downside to encouraging mass immigration to solve Europe's demographic crisis: without large inward migration, there would be no housing crisis....

A grand 'peaceful summit' in Washington with Xi Jinping which extended the 'US-China trade war truce', more claims from Trump that Iran 'wants to make a deal', a 'settlement' between the US and Denmark over the future of Greenland, no US intervention on Saudi Arabia's side against Yemen's Houthis, and German officials meeting their Russian counterparts for the first time in almost 5 years of the Russia-Ukraine War... One could be forgiven for thinking...

25 years since 9/11 - "the day that changed the world" - the world has indeed changed, but in whose image? Or according to which designs? Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in July 2006 that we were witnessing the "birth pangs of a new Middle East" toward a pro-Western regional order. But here we are 2 decades later, and the region is decidedly less pro-Western than it was before 9/11. Has Al-Qaeda won?! Osama bin Laden's 1996 fatwa sought to...

Well, they're back at it again. The US and Iran last week conducted another round of strikes and counter-strikes, their first since mid-July. This time Iran claims to have targeted with ballistic missiles (and successfully damaged) a US Navy destroyer and aircraft carrier - presumably the USS George Washington. CENTCOM denied they were hit, but acknowledged the attempt, and obliterated 3 laden Iranian oil tankers as 'punishment'. While this situation remains very tense, and...