If the Hoosiers could add two more for 2023, I'd want KJ Evans and Coen Carr. In a heartbeat. Still awhile from now to see how the roster would shake out but those three athletes would all Cupps to look very good.
Want list: KJ Evans first and then Coen Carr second.

Military-Industrial Complex, Big Media Owned by Same Companies​

By Jon Fleetwood
August 18, 2021

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The asset management firms that own large shares in companies that sell weapons of war also own large shares in mainstream media organizations that shape the way we think about war.

QUICK FACTS:​

• BlackRock Inc. and The Vanguard Group, Inc. hold large shares in the world’s largest arms-producing company and in mainstream news media organizations.
• Lockheed Martin Corp.—a worldwide aerospace, arms, defense, information security, and technology company—made over $50 billion in 2019, making it the largest arms-producing company in the world, according to Statistia.
• BlackRock Inc. and The Vanguard Group—two of the world’s largest asset management firms—combined own over 39 million shares of Lockheed Martin. The two financial management companies together own over 14% of the weapons systems supplier.
• Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and General Dynamics are significantly owned by BlackRock and Vanguard.
• Dr. Joseph Mercola has reported that BlackRock and Vanguard are also “the top two owners of Time Warner, Comcast, Disney, and News Corp,” which are “four of the six media companies that control more than 90% of the U.S. media landscape.”
• “f you have control of this many news outlets, you can control entire nations by way of carefully orchestrated and organized centralized propaganda disguised as journalism,” says Dr. Mercola.
  [*]Dr. Ron Paul suggests companies like Lockheed Martin and big media have common motives because they are both owned by the same companies.

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Estimates that in England, 70.7% of the population have had actual Covid infection.

The good news - less serious illness, hospitalization and death.

Bad news - it has taken over 2 years for national health policy leaders to learn what is important.


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I'm a Cold War Baby, so I was raised to believe that all Russian news - internally and externally - was just fabricated propaganda. I have no feel for how much "truth" is getting through to Russian citizens, and I assume what I'm conditioned to assume - that what I see of Russians supporting the war in Ukraine is likewise untrustworthy. (Q - How much did you pay for that bread? A - I love Putin! Death to all others!).

Is there ANY access to WWW in Moscow these days? Is Radio Free Russia up and running?

What do y'all think? Are Russians really pro-Putin? Is there a House of Cards there again?

The only way to avoid his nuclear threat is an internal coup. Is that even possible?

What are you reading about this issue? What sources are trustworthy?

Or is everybody just watching Johnny Depp and arguing over teaching third grade boys in Florida how to become Superwoman?

I don't agree with every aspect of his policy positions, but man is he a breath of fresh air, especially when it comes to thinking on his feet and actually answering a question. When asked about the problems with Rand Paul he answers succinctly and no evasion of the question. No stupid lies about "energy independence" or nonsensical claims that the existence of apes somehow disproves evolution.

Of course Kentucky is Kentucky, and despite the fact that he obviously cares about all of the people of the Commonwealth (unlike his phony opponent) the folks in Kentucky will continue to vote in opposition to their own best interests and re-elect Rand. And as Charles points out, repeatedly electing clowns like Rand and Mitch has done nothing for improving the lives of average Kentuckians, and altering the state's perennial ranking near the bottom of every objective list measuring quality of life issues...

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Just bought a couple for the game on 5/14. Gonna make it a weekend, so maybe Sunday is in play too.

Win or lose, there's nothing like a summer baseball weekend in Bloomington.

I just read an article where Bill Russell developed an unbias way of segregating the top 75 all time NBA players.

His system presented the following all time starting five:

PG - Magic Johnson
SG - Michael Jordan
SF - LeBron James
PW - Bill Russell
CTR - Kareem Abdul Jabbar

What group could beat that team?

I can’t believe I was so adamant about Zion over Ja. Ja is gonna be a better version of Westbrook. This game is awesome. Tune in. KAT looks like he is gonna murder someone, and Memphis is so good at shooting. Like it looks like a video game.

This dude just committed. I didn’t think it would happen this fast. Took 1 Fing year, and it is a straight arms race out in the public. Anything goes.

It will be on at noon (ET) and it will be the first of a double-header tomorrow with MSU/NW being the second game. Both teams haven't announced starters for the game yet as far as I know, but I'm guessing it will be Stahl or Kraft for IU.

Kyler got the chance to talk with KJ briefly today. Planning his visit in June.

Thankfully that’s Miami but wowzers also a 2 yr 800k plus car deal. That’s just wrong

Said he likes the freedom and NBA style offense at Miami. In other words, he doesn’t think a Frankencreature plugging up the lane suits his game.

Does IU have a legitimate shot at KJ Evans? He’s an Eric Gordon type recruit.

Just noticed for the first time ever that the name of Peter’s apartment complex is Morningwood Apartments.

I chortled.

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"n the third decade of the 21st century, intellectual life on the American center left is dead. Debate has been replaced by compulsory assent and ideas have been replaced by slogans that can be recited but not questioned: Black Lives Matter, Green Transition, Trans Women Are Women, 1619, Defund the Police. The space to the left-of-center that was once filled with magazines and organizations devoted to what Diana Trilling called the “life of significant contention” is now filled by the ritualized gobbledygook of foundation-funded, single-issue nonprofits like a pond choked by weeds. Having crowded out dissent and debate, the nonprofit industrial complex—Progressivism Inc.—taints the Democratic Party by association with its bizarre obsessions and contributes to Democratic electoral defeats, like the one that appears to be imminent this fall....

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In the 1990s, you could be a progressive in good standing and argue against race-based affirmative action, in favor of race-neutral, universal social programs that would help African Americans disproportionately but not exclusively. Around 2000, however, multiple progressive outlets at the same time announced that “the debate about affirmative action is over.” Today race-neutral economic reform, of the kind championed by the democratic socialist and Black civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and the Marxist Adolph Reed, is stigmatized on the center left as “colorblind racism,” and progressives in the name of “equity” are required to support blatant and arguably illegal racial discrimination against non-Hispanic white Americans and “white-adjacent” Asian-Americans, for fear of being purged as heretics...

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Unlike academics who recite the approved current center-left positions on all issues, genuine intellectuals, even if they happen to be employed by universities, are unpredictable. Often they are unpopular, because they criticize their own allies and appreciate what other schools of thought get right. They do not indulge in contrarianism for its own sake but tend to be controversial, because they put loyalty to what they consider to be truth above party or faction. Needless to say, such intellectual mavericks tend to perform quite poorly when it comes to the boot-licking, rote repetition of political slogans, acronym-juggling, groupthink, and “donor servicing” that constitute the forms of intellectual activity favored by big foundations and NGOs, whether of the right or of the left."

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Kenny Johnson

RHP Bradley Brehmer is on the mound with an ERA 5.98 in 40.2 IP, and it will be LHP Emmett Olson on the mound for the Huskers with an ERA of 2.62 in 34.1 IP.

The wind is really blowing out to LF with gusts up to 19 mph.

In the 1st, Brehmer gets the first two batters on flyouts and then gives up a single, but gets a K to end the Huskers half of the inning.

Whalen leads off for IU and gets an infield hit on a close play. Jessee then singles on a fly ball that 3B Max Anderson appeared to lose track of in shallow LF. Pyne popped out and Tibbetts grounded into a DP to end IU's threat.

The shooting was at the Kalao Nightclub on north Walnut. 3 men shot in the club with another man shot in the Alley. This is not a good look for Bloomington.

Games tip in about 15 minutes and run until about 10 pm tonight.

Some notable guys we'll get a look at in the early portion - 2023 KJ Evans, 2024 Yves Missi, 2024 Kanon Catchings, 2025 Jalen Haralson and 2025 Trent Sisley.

Late morning and early afternoon consists of 2023 Arrinten Page, 2023 Brady Dunlap, 2024 Elijah Crawford, 2024 Liam McNeeley.

Again, updates, analysis and more coming throughout the day.

He has to test the open market, right? If his agent isn’t advising him to open it up to a bidding process, how will he know what he’s worth?

So my interest in the NBA basically stops at checking up on former IU players. I saw that Victor scored 40 in the Heats final game of the season and was happy to see that maybe Victor was getting back to his hold self. Flash forward through the Heats first 2 playoff games and Victor can't get off the bench at all. What's up? I came upon this when I was checking last nights Heat score.

“Both games he has not seen the light of play,” Bayless said on a recent episode of Skip and Shannon: Undisputed (h/t Robert Marvi of Heat Nation).” “Why is that? Well I was told it’s because Jimmy [Butler] just flat out told Spo (Heat coach Erik Spoelstra), ‘I don’t want to share the floor with him.’”

Here are the remaining series for the teams that IMO are going to be jockeying for the final three spots in the tourney. I'm conceding that five teams are probably going to be in it in Rutgers (11-1), Ill (10-2), Maryland (7-2), Iowa (6-3), and Michigan (6-3). I didn't include Minnesota's series left since they are in last place and it doesn't appear that they will improve on that with maybe the exception of moving up to the 12th spot if things fall right for them. I included OSU which is in next to last place, but has two conference wins, the same as IU and MSU. Here are the remaining series for those teams fighting for the final 3 spots, IMO, and I've listed them in order of the current standings:

NW (4-5) - MSU, at MD, OSU, PU, at Minn.

Neb (4-5) - at IU, Iowa, at Minn, at ILL, MSU.

PSU (5-7) - at Minn, MSU, at OSU, ILL.

PU (4-6) - Mich, at Iowa, at NW, MD.

MSU (2-7) - at NW, Minn, at PSU, Iowa, at Neb.

IU (2-7) - Neb, ILL, at Mich, Minn, at Iowa.

OSU (2-8) - at Mich, Rutgers, at NW, PSU.

With the remaining series left, PSU looks like they have the easiest road to the tournament. Purdue was hurt early in the season when two of their three games with a bad OSU team were canceled with Purdue winning the lone game played. Of the teams that are probably going to make it, Rutgers has a difficult season ending stretch in the B1G, with series with Iowa, at OSU, MD, and at Mich, with OSU the only weak opponent, but with the big start to the season, they will probably win enough games to easily be in the tournament and be one of the top seeds. Maryland also has almost as tough of a road with series left with at ILL, NW, at Rutgers, Mich, and at PU.

Perkins will start Friday with Brehmer on Saturday. As has been the case for almost the entire season, the Sunday starter will be a TBA. I brought it up a few days ago that IU is last in team ERA while Nebraska is last in team batting. If the weather forecast is pretty accurate, don't be surprised if Saturday doesn't end up being a DH.

Weather forecast:

Friday is mostly sunny with a high of 81 with a low of 62 with a 17 pct chance of precip and winds at 12 mph.

Saturday is mostly sunny with a high of 82 and a low of 67 with a 3 pct chance of precip and winds at 16 mph.

Sunday is a rainy day with the chance of heavy thunderstorms starting around noon with a high of 80 and a low of 55 with an 87 pct chance of precip and winds at 18 mph.