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In this episode, Sal Mercogliano - maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner - discussed the attack on the Marshall Island-flagged 110,000-ton tanker Marlin Luanda by the Houthi. The ship was struck by a missile, and its cargo of naphtha was ignited. The crew, alongside support from several warships, in particular the Indian destroyer INS Visakhapatnam, were able to extinguish the fire and begin the salvage of the vessel.

A shipping industry channel I've been following since the Suez Canal was blocked. He has good supplemental takes from different maritime and market perspectives.

They're both still slave countries with segregation and legal guardianship of women. The only policy differences are police and the communists being a council republic. The industrialists and trade unionists are about to launch a second civil war over poor laws. Despite Louis Bonaparte being the leader of the petit bourgeoisie with 73% political representation and sole control of the government, their president is an agrarian reformer.

This is such a stupid war. I've never seen it break out in such an absurd way.

edit: The communists won the civil war in just under a year. Napoleonic America has fallen. I repeat, the Bonapartes have fled.

Dealing with human wastes was a huge problem in cities at the beginning of the 19th century. The ways in which sewage and sanitation were handled (or not) often led to large-scale outbreaks of disease that killed thousands of people every year, and sometimes even more bizarre and spectacular disasters like the Great Stink of London (1858) or the infamous SS Princess Alice sinking. By 1920, though, at least in North America and Western Europe, huge strides had been made to alleviate the poop problem. This video traces the development of sanitation technology and practices, the thinking that made them possible, and the stories of some of the people prominent in the history of urban poop. It's a smelly episode of environmental history, but may be more interesting than you might have thought at first!

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The only thing we should ask is: what is the right thing to do? That is what the Earth requires of us according to author/philosopher Wendell Berry. “We have the world to live in and the use of it to live from on the condition that we take care of it. And to take good care of it we have to know it and we have to know how to take care of it.” We have to love it. Farm To Table Talk brings the wisdom of Wendell Berry back to us at the dawn of a New Year that seems to have more than enough challenges for us all. This podcast is of a conversation Wendell Berry had with Bill Moyers as expressed and recognized in the podcast.

A really neat radical agrarian poet I haven't heard of before.

It was Huey P. Newton who taught us how the people learn. You learn by participation. When Huey P. Newton started out what did he do? He got a gun and he got Bobby and Bobby got a gun. They had a problem in the community because people was being run over—kids were being run over—at a certain intersection.

(1) What did the people do? The people went down to the government to redress their grievances and the government told them to go to hell : “We are not going to put no stoplights down there UNTIL WE SEE FIT.”

What did Huey P. Newton do? Did he go out and tell the people about the laws and write letters and try to propagandize ’em all the time? NO! Some of that’s good, but the masses of the people don’t read—that’s what I heard Huey say—they learn through observation and participation. Did he just say this? NO! So what did he do? He got him a shotgun, he got Bobby and he got him a hammer and went down to the corner. He gave Bobby the shotgun and told him if any pig motherfuckers come by blow his mother fuckin brains out. What did he do? He went to the comer and nailed up a stop sign. No more accidents, no more trouble. And then he went back—another situation like that.

What’d the people do? They looked at it, they observed; they didn’t get a chance to participate in it. Next time what’d they do? Same kind of problem came up. The PEOPLE got THEIR shotguns, got THEIR nine milimeters, got THEIR hammers. How’d they learn? They learned by observation and participation. They learned one thing. When there is a fire you gather round the fire. Huey got a shotgun and everybody gathered round him and Bobby. They saw what was going on and they had a chance to participate in it. As the vanguard leader he taught the people about the power structure; he led the people down the correct road of revolution. What are we doing?

https://www.marxists.org/archive/hampton/1969/04/27.htm

In this installment, Dan and Jordan enjoy an episode where Alex seems to be begging to be allowed to quit, before moving on to interview a weird self-help fellow and a young fool preaching MAGA communism.

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