The Weekly Flail — February 16, 2024

Mike Meyer
5 min readFeb 16, 2024

Winnowing the media

The War on Gaza Tracker, Israel’s genocide intensifies, Russian opposition leader dies suddenly, the Atlantic Ocean at a tipping point, new beef-rice as protean, Plasma proteomic profiles predict future dementia, Public Pharma for Europe, Bioluminescent houseplant

Weekly Note: The disintegration of the modern world and Western civilization escalates while a new world appears to be pushing through the cracks. Will the potential planetary rebirth save us from ourselves? The forces for authoritarian regression will need to be stopped, and they seem to be winning. There is some technical hope below.

War — Gaza

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-war-in-maps-and-charts-live-tracker

The current Israel invasion will destroy the last area of refuge in Gaza. The last hospital in Gaza is now under attack. There are no words to describe this atrocity.

The confusion in America’s Congress is now requiring the Ukrainian soldiers to severely limit ammunition. Meanwhile, Putin has had his major political rival killed in prison.

Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition leader, dies in prison, officials say

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Mike Meyer

Writer, Educator, Campus CIO (retired) . Essays on our changing reality here, news and more at https://rlandok.substack.com/