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Too much to fit into one update. The leads could be
Communisms’ legacy
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- in the Baltic states
- in East Berlin
- in demographies
- its relation to other genocides like the holocaust
- a prison
- how do the people live today
- Ignalina and its replacement
- (Peripherally a subject matter, the western powers’ somewhat interesting views on Finnish-Soviet wars and relations and their potential wagings of war against the reds – project Pike forum summary and the book here)
Russian forest fires
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- Beriev’s share price (A Be-200 appears on the video 15 seconds in, hat tip to Secret Projects)
- organization of society and its ability to handle crises
- the smoke in Helsinki because of that
- should they care
Hot weather
- Here, after the coldest ever winter comes the hottest ever summer
- Is it largely just winds from the southeast’s continental hotness – when usually they blow from the more marine southwest?
Climategate blahblah
- BBC has apologized and some NYT reporter has said the NYT should apologize on some small back page article.
- Follow Michael Tobis for climate related news