"Get out while you can. This place is broken."
That sounds hyperbolic. However, after reading Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's most recent piece written after she was targeted with a directed-energy weapon (DEW) for her reporting on Epstein, I think you'll agree it's not.
I'm 83 and (just) able to afford to stay in my home of almost thirty five years. I would like my son to be able to keep our house and the gardens created by us to be a sanctuary, an escape from external pressures, a place to "just be." After reading this piece, I fear that's a pipedream.
How do we, as a nation, recover from the imbalance imposed upon us by the hyper wealthy, greedy, and influential people that control all aspects of our lives?
"The Blessings of Flight, Part One
What arranging my father's care in a new country has taught me about the United States of America (our old country)"
https://alisav.substack.com/p/the-blessings-of-flight-part-one
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New study finds that critical ocean current has not declined in the last 60 years
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) helps to regulate the Earth’s climate and weather
https://www.whoi.edu/press-room/news-release/no-amoc-decline/
Woods Hole, Mass. (January 15, 2025) — Earth, being 71 percent covered in water, is influenced by the ocean and its movements. In the Atlantic Ocean, a system of connected currents, called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), moves water throughout the world’s oceans powered by a combination of winds and ocean density. It not only distributes the ocean’s heat, moisture, and nutrients, but regulates the Earth’s climate and weather.
As the climate is continuously changing and the atmosphere is warming, many scientists fear that fresh water from melting polar ice sheets could significantly disrupt—or collapse—the AMOC. While a decline of the AMOC would have grave consequences, a collapse would be truly catastrophic. However, studies about the AMOC’s long term future are uncertain. Instead of predicting the future, a team of scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) quantified the past to help inform where we could be going.
In a new paper published in Nature Communications, scientists found that the AMOC has not declined in the last 60 years. Authors Nicholas P. Foukal, adjunct scientist in Physical Oceanography at WHOI and assistant professor at the University of Georgia; Jens Terhaar, affiliated scientist at WHOI and senior scientist at the University of Bern; and Linus Vogt, visiting student at WHOI when he started to work on this study and now scientist at LOCEAN, Sorbonne Université, say their results mean that the AMOC is currently more stable than expected.
“Our paper says that the Atlantic overturning has not declined yet,” Foukal said, who conducted the research while at WHOI. “That doesn’t say anything about its future, but it doesn’t appear the anticipated changes have occurred yet.” Their findings contrast with previous work, notably a paper from 2018 cited in their study, which reported that the AMOC has declined over the last 70 years. This past work relied on sea surface temperature measurements to understand how the AMOC has changed, but “we’ve learned that sea surface temperature doesn't work as well as initially thought,” said Terhaar, who began leading this study at WHOI as a postdoctoral scientist and completed the work in Bern.
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