Friday, May 24, 2024

The Shieldmaiden

Pittsburgh police said the Walgreens pharmacy in Pittsburgh’s Shadyside neighborhood was robbed at gunpoint on Thursday night.

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A 2017 paper in the New England Journal of Medicine examining road closures for marathons found a small but significant increase in mortality among people with heart trouble on marathon days, apparently caused in part by ambulance delays.

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An American-funded project, listed as “Gender-inclusive demining for sustainable futures in Ukraine,” has a funding budget of $4 million.

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX has initiated discussions about selling existing shares at a price that could value the closely held company at roughly $200 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

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The Shieldmaiden

A wonderful sobriquet has appeared, applied to the fierce Duch conservative with the wonderful name,
Eva Vlaardingerbroek.
 
Eva Vlaardingerbroek

She has been nicknamed the "Shieldmaiden of the Far Right."

She is an unashamed Christian Dutch Nationalist and she hates immigration in Europe. She spoke recently at CPAC Hungry and, as usual, drove everyone nuts. (Her speech has been blocked on YouTube. The one place I found the written speech was infected.)

One of her recurrent notions is that nationalism is not inherently bad, dangerous, or a prelude to war-- but expansionism is.

Shieldmaiden!

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