May the source be with you, but remember the KISS principle ;-) Skepticism and critical thinking is not panacea, but can help to understand the world better
Nope. I've already said that George answered his own question when he asked where were all the good people of conscience
in government. He mentioned ,in Life Is Worth Losing, the people who often end up assassinated: Jesus, Gandhi, Lincoln, JFK,
RFK, MLK, John Lennon, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X. Folks who talk about peace, love and doing good to one another. These folks
RARELY get elected to high office and those that do end up dead!
RagingCapitalist
If you think that the people who didn't get elected would actually be different, you need to watch this video again a few
times.
Future historians, when conducting the messy autopsy on Clown Nation, will point to the
first week of February 2020 as the moment when the greatest experiment in popular democracy
entered into an inescapable death spiral. This implosion will probably puzzle many people
because, as the Commander-in-Chief Donald J. Trump reminded throughout his SOTU address,
times are good – indeed, as they so often are before an epic crash.
Don't know how you got all these lucrative primary election contracts for a
sub-standard app that a drunk college student computer science major could have designed
better. But there should be an investigation into that.
Just below the surface of the scorching U.S. economy, however, lies a bubbling
volcanic lake of political passions – personified by Nancy Pelosi's unhinged behavior
at the SOTU that was so outrageous it needs no further comment – will eventually blow
its lid, freeze-drying the nation in its treacherous tracks like a modern day Pompeii.
In the week that foretold of impending disaster, the establishment suffered two major
setbacks, first by failing to drive out the swamp killer, Donald Trump, and second by failing
to name, in transparent and time-honored fashion, the winner of the Iowa state caucus. These
tandem events are connected since there is no way the 'deep state' would have accepted two
major defeats at the same time. Thus it was forced to derail an enemy potentially more
dangerous to the Democratic Party than Donald Trump, and that is the 'democratic socialist'
Bernie Sanders.
Here is where America's democratic mask slipped, revealing the true nature of the beast.
As the results from the Iowa caucus were being tallied live, Mayor Pete Buttigieg enjoyed an
early lead. Eventually, however, the democratic socialist Bernie Sanders started to close the
gap before surging ahead of the pack. It was at this precise moment that the results fizzled
out, purportedly due to a bad app. Not until the next day were the results made public as
Buttigieg was declared the narrow victor, although the small-town mayor had been boasting
that he had won the contest before any results were posted. Now to many observers, it looked
as though the Democratic Party, sensing the winds of political change in the air, took their
ball and stormed home in the middle of the game. Sound familiar?
At this point, a person could either choose to buy the story that a new app for reporting
the results simply went kaput, or they could register as a 'conspiracy theorist' by arguing
that the dirty Democrats rigged the game when it became apparent that Sanders was heading for
victory. There are many reasons for supporting the latter theory, namely because the
Democrats had conspired against Sanders before, as WikiLeaks revealed in 2016 with the
release of some 20,000
Democratic National Committee emails.
The apps "failure": Des Moines Precinct 80:
Bernie's group had 101 people
Pete's group had 66 people
Bernie & Pete end up tied at 4 delegates following a coin toss.
And then there is the company behind the app, happily named Shadow Inc, which has a very
shadowy lineage indeed. First off, Buttigieg, who certainly profited politically from
Shadow's inconceivable incompetence, or expertise, depending on how you look at it, had
paid the company tens of thousands of dollars ahead of the Iowa caucus. Second, many of
the top executives at Shadow
worked in the past for Hillary Clinton's campaign, no small footnote considering that
particular campaign's notorious commitment to 'fair play.' Third,
efforts by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to "vet" the Shadow app were rejected
out of hand by the Iowa Democratic Party. Now with all of the talk over the past several
years about 'Russian meddling' in the U.S. elections, wouldn't allowing the DHS a peek at the
new technology seem like the smart thing to do? Maybe Iowans, like
so many other Democrats , never really believed the Russian "nothing burger" after
all.
My prediction - which is based on nothing, to be sure:
Neither Sanders nor Gabbard have any chance of getting the nomination, whatever the DNC
establishment and Democratic elites have to do to prevent it, as they did in 2016.
If either are nominated - or any other of the current crop of losers - the Democrats will
lose against Trump, despite Trump making all kinds of incredibly stupid statements during the
campaign. Because, let's face it, Trump will do stupid stuff all during the election race -
and his supporters will no doubt ignore them or praise him for them.
In other words, US "democracy" is a joke and a sham, and I don't expect to pay much
attention to the election as the end result will be the same for the rest of us.
The dog and pony show conducted by corporate news has adult political aspirants panting like sixth graders for teachers
attention. Demeaning to all involved.
Bloomberg is revealed as having said in public that all the disposable income of the poor
should be taxed away so that they will not have funds with which to do mischief like buying
fast food or sugary drinks.
Bloomberg described Sanders as a Communist who cannot be elected. In this he was
correct.
Bloomberg was described by Warren as a cold-hearted and insulting man who openly scorns
women, gays and minorities.
Mayor Pete mocked Klobuchar for her inability to remember the name of the president of
Mexico. She asked if he was calling her "stupid."
These six dwarves will probably persist in their quest for the brass ring all the way to the
convention. In the mayhem there, the "winner" will probably have to choose one of the "losers"
to be his VP running mate.
This story claims that it had five (5!) people criminally leaking alleged content from a
classified briefing. And why not, since no one gets prosecuted for these crimes. Still, we
have a serious problem with our supposedly professional "intelligence" and "oversight"
communities. https://t.co/zuAdwXpU2L
Until heads roll and hoaxers are sent to prison, the seditious Russian collusion hoaxers
will never stop. They will lie and leak and fabricate evidence, whatever it takes, to
prevent the American people from taking charge of their own government. https://t.co/wijJ07QKOO
I have been a working full time in Emergency Medicine for over 20 years. I was a "Flight
Surgeon" in the Army. Soldiers are notorious for playing up any combat related injury in order
to qualify for disability and the financial benefits that flow from being categorized as being
disabled. As far as we know, the most serious claimed injuries were "concussions." As a
practicing specialist in Emergency Medicine, I can explain that the diagnosis of "concussion"
means, by definition, that no abnormality is seen on CT scanning of the brain. The diagnosis is
made based on the injured person's purely subjective complaints, i.e. whatever the allegedly
injured person says. If the allegedly injured person says the right things, then a physician
may call the symptoms that of a concussion.
So, ultimately, a soldier would be diagnosed with a concussion because the soldier (who has
financial benefits to gain) says so, and a physician does not dispute it.
I have seen hundreds if not thousands of diagnoses of "concussion". That diagnosis does not
have to be supported by any specific findings or even a proper understanding of the diagnosis.
It simply has to be entered in the record by a licensed physician. Once that diagnosis is on
the medical record, it is up to subsequent providers to refute that diagnosis if they desire to
do so.
This is something subsequent providers are very unlikely to want to dedicate the time and
effort required to accomplish. There is usually no financial or professional incentive to do so
– often the opposite. There is no specific test to definitively say one way or the other
if a person had a "concussion". Like PTSD it is a "functional" diagnosis based mainly on
subjective symptoms and not objective test results. This is not to say such things do not
exist. They do exist. It is only to say that they can be faked or misinterpreted and that will
happen if there is a financial incentive to do so. Buck Ransom says: Show
Comment
February 16, 2020 at 3:36 pm GMT @The Scalpel Are you suggesting that The Greatest Fighting
Force in the Galaxy in All of History, the military of the world's Exceptional Nation, is
riddled with grifters?
How ironic! "Billionaire" Bloomberg and his identical twin: "Tons of Money Tom Steyer" are
now the favorites of the so called "Party of the People" to win the White House in 2016!
Moveover, Bloomberg supported Iraq was and covered-up 9/11
From the day he entered the race, Joe Biden was the great hope of the Democratic
establishment to spare them from the horrifying prospect of a 2020 race between The Donald and
Bernie Sanders.
Today, that same establishment wants Joe out of the race.
At the end of this essay, you may find a song which reasonably applies to Donald Trump
directed to Democrats.
How does one say Adam Schiff without laughing? It's hard to continue typing while
contemplating the Burbank Buffoon. Yet AS is making obscene flatus-like noises about
impeachment 2.0. He and Nervous Nancy will conspire with chief strategist Gerald Nadler about
extending the charges of 1.0 to 2.0.
Second verse
Same as the first
Obstructing leaking by firing leakers. That's one of the pending charges. Leutnant Oberst
Vindman will be help up as the innocent victim of political retaliation. As I understand the
military code of conduct, it says that the underling, Herr Oberst Vindman, went outside the
chain of command and released classified information. In the military this is called
insubordination, perhaps gross insubordination in view of the classified nature of the
information.
Another charge to be filed on behalf of former Ambassador Yovanovich, is that her God-given
Female rights were brutally violated as retaliation of advising Ukrainian officials to
disregard Commander Cheeto.
There is no telling what additional non-crimes may be thrown at the feet at El Trumpo. All
too horrible to contemplate--like someone throwing feces-contaminated dope needles onto Nervous
Nancy's front lawn in Pacific Heights.
If this Shampeachment 2.0 (S2) occurs before November's election, Democrats will become as
rare as dodo birds. If such proponents of S2 persist after the general election, they better
have secure transportation to an extradition-free country.
If it gets bad enough, considering the Clinton Mafia's body count, would it be unreasonable
to expect some untimely heart attacks and suicides with red scarves? On Clintonites? Soros et
al.?
When the first shot and you don't kill the king, flee. But the DNC is going to attempt shot
number 2. Trump WILL NEVER ALLOW A SECOND IMPEACHMENT TO OCCUR, no matter how patently
worthless? Will the most powerful narcissist in the world allow the DNC / coup perpetrators to
escaping Trumpian retribution?
Those doubting the Wrath of Q be prepared to be disabused of the impression that Q is pure
fantasy. Fantasy--like GPS targeting a single small sniper drone to shoot someone from 3000
feet.
Sorry folks. I live in a swamp. I've stepped in shit with my eyes open. Many of you have
too. Some of the excrement was of my own making.
Think about the singularly most effective and complex plot the world has ever seen, called
9/11. Think of the thousands of lives purposefully snuffed in then name of power and money.
Call yourselves serfs--that's a euphemism. You--including me-- are nothing but ants. Goddam
little ants that only Janes respect. There are no ascetic Janes in the penthouses of the
elites.
But I digressed to the mysterious existence of morality in politics as a whole. Today's
topic is more confined to the Democratic nomination.
Statement of Bias: Go Tulsi. Bravo Andy. The rest of you to the elsewhere--yeah, BS too.
The Dems are determined to grasp Defeat from the jaws of Defeat. Quite a trick. Like trying
to borrow money from the Judge during a Bankruptcy trial.
I talked today with a freshman college student majoring in political science about her
thought about the Shampeachment. She hadn't been paying attention. Not that I blame her. Her
college freshman friend watched C-Span; wasn't impressed. We political aficionados know all
about this political debauchery. If AS and NN attempt S2, expect many defections from the
supporting vote.
Democrat respect has dwindled in the Independent sector. This is not to say the Repugnants
are thereby more popular. They aren't. Trump is. Trump need that NH clown to challenge him in
the Repugnant primary to prove exactly how powerful he is. Anybody notice who were in the
audience, sitting nearby during Trump's post acquittal speech. Rand Paul and Lindsey Graham.
The lamb and the lion laying together. They are both on the Trump Train. Even Richard Burr
voted Trump in the impeachment. Mittens feared both his cojones would be excised if he voted
against Trump on both counts. What a chickenheart.
But where are the Dems? Why, they are Here. Yes. Yes. And they are There. Yes. Yes. And they
are Near. Yes. Yes. But....they are Far. Whither thou goest?
I refrain from pointed comments about AOC in further comments. The Squad is the iceberg
floating away from the glacier which spawned it. Unsuitable to warm weather produced by
political combat, the Squad faction will woke themselves up to dubious futures.
Establishment versus Bernie:
Not a contest. Spineless Bernie pretzelizes during first heated combat (which the Dem Debate
Debacles were not). Won't take a second punch--the first during night 3 of the '16 DNC
convention. Fist-shy now. Open Borders? WTF? Are you so nuts? If one offered a person the
choice personal safety in their own homes and streets and free medical care for all--including
the criminal aliens that A New Path Forward proposes--what do you think 85% of the public would
choose?
Pandering.
The Left is also pushing strenuous avoidance of discussing issues in a platitude-depleted
fashion. Yeah, Bernie's giving the same speech, with suitable modification, over 40 years.
Consistency is a good thing, yeh? How about persistently beating your head with a hammer (while
you still can)? Sounds like something Sun Tzu might not recommend.
Now, speaking of Las Vegas and the Nevada Primary. The culinary workers union will not
endorse Bernie due to well-deserved or ill-deserved claims that M4A will abolish hard won union
health benefits. And don't worry, the Shadow will be there, although Buttjiggle has now
disavowed any further connection, along with David Plouffe.
Keeping the Bern off the campaign trail is going to infuriate the Woke Generation / Antifa.
When--not if--the DNC cheats Bernie out of the nomination, if such proves necessary* will
literally result in blood on the streets along with broken windows and flaming tires. Associate
with that lot, eh? Given the choice of going into a biker bar, where brawls are always on the
menu, or a discreet wine bar, which would one rather choose? Sorry, those are your only
choices.
Nancy Pelosi, impressed by Arnold Schwarzenegger's former physical prowess, tears up her
copy of the state of the union address. How decorous. How courteous. How polite. Seen around
the world. Nigel Farage must be laughing his butt off, thinking about the shallow anti-Brexit
campaigns against his were compared to our Coup. Nigel won. Trump . is. winning. Getting tired
of winning yet?
I could go on for pages more of Dem stupidity, but why bother? Stupidity surrounds us.
Betting odds: DNC 1,999,999 to Bernie 1.
Place your bets.
For all the good it will do and I am sincere about this, I will vote Tulsi in the Dem
primary.
Here is the song Dems need to heed. This is Donald Trump telling' y'all I'M NOT YOUR MAN
Regarding Bloomberg+Clinton:
Everyone on ZH and Drudge's Tweet discussing the Pairing are joking that if they Win 2020,
Bloomberg will Die somewhen btwn the Post-Election Victory Lap and a Month after the
Inauguration.
Hillary as VP?
Why not Netanyahu? He's a dual citizen and I hear he may be looking for a job soon. He brings international experience to the ticket that Bloomberg lacks.
... Steve Bannon predicted that something
like this would happen.
REGAN: Let me turn to 2020. Let me turn to the Democrats. Bloomberg's now in on the mix.
By the way, just to remind the viewers, this is the guy that broke the news here. Watch.
BANNON: They will throw Biden away. They'll throw Biden away to get to Trump and hope
Elizabeth Warren or I even think Hillary Clinton or Bloomberg or some centrist comes in here.
All these other people that could have been the centrist candidate for whatever reason
haven't materialize. And that leaves a huge opportunity for two people, I believe, Michael
Bloomberg and Hillary Clinton.
Is the American deep state that good in being a perfectly timed evil? Wasn't the deep state
designed to assist multinational corporations in stealing foreign resources? Yet the
corporate supply chain is being interrupted in what will be devastating for the bottom line.
The stock market is about all Trump has. The scenario outlined above just quite doesn't add
up, despite its plausibility. Unless it is not about China, but purging Trump .maybe?
There's a lot to read here, and I read all of it. If the virus is engineered to affect only
Chinese people, I feel better and feel no need to worry about it. Though, sorry for the
Chinese people, sad indeed.
"Except China is Communist in name only, just like America is a Republic in name
only."
Here's another view: Zionist Bloomberg and Zionist Biden and Zionist Buttigieg and Zionist
Klubachar and Zionist Warren and Zionist Sanders competing to race against Zionist Trump. I
think I know who the winners and losers are already.
You would not ever have seen this on Fox at the last election. Best high voltage spit by
Jimmy Dore I have seen.
Tucker shows a great smirk especially when Jimmy dumps on Guaido.
> five minutes of mirth
>Posted by: uncle tungsten | Feb 13 2020 4:10 utc | 114
Definitely worth five minutes to watch Jimmy Dore on FOX plainly stating the US is a
one-party system. ON FOX NEWS TV! Never thought to see the day when I had anything good to
say about FOX.
Posted by: juliania | Feb 12 2020 5:15 utc | 39
(Artificial Intelligence)
The trouble with Artificial Intelligence is that it's not intelligent.
And it's not intelligent because it's got no experience, no imagination and no
self-control.
The Washington Post must have some reason to dig up this old story but it has nothing to do
with the Chinese. Crypto AG and Huawei have so little in common that nobody will think of
any connection between them.
Crypto AG was a maker of encryption/decryption devices from tiny Switzerland and it
spied for the US and its allies, mainly between the 1950s and the 1980s.
Huawei is known mainly as a producer of consumer products in China in the 21st
century.
My guess is that something about Crypto AG is about to be revealed, and this is a way of
slowly feeding the story in a way that it does not make headlines. When the story comes
out, people will think 'Oh, we know most of that already, it's old news'. Classic news
management.
Crypto AG was involved in all sorts of criminal acts. The most notable was when one of
its devices was used by UN chief Dag Hammarskjold before he died in a plane crash in
1961.
it seems cia and bnd started their work with crypto ag just in that moment, when became
known, that the enigma coding machine was already hacked while wwII. this was a big
surprise for the germans, because they still had this thing in use at their embassies
worldwide. you have to be a worm in this world.
During the research for a book, I discovered that the UK gave Australia a coding machine
(basically a revised Lorenz from WW2). This was in the early 1950s or just before and with
the cipher they were assured to read all Australian secret messages. We, South Africa, to
this day, never use computer storage for reports, etc. but paper that can be protected more
easily. Quite amusing the above. Note also that Chinese internet devices control 80-90% of
the internet in Africa. Okay, why is this important? Simply because sub-Saharan Africa is
where the terrorists fled and flee to from the Middle East and other places. See Code Name
Wednesday 7 how we picked them up via their new mosques. Regards, GMJ
Buttigieg is an empty vessel. He poses no threat to entrenched wealth in this country or to
the neocon foreign policy establishment. He won't do anything to curb the excesses of
American militarism. The only powerful group he offends is the religious right - a group
deeply offended by his homosexuality. They won't want a gay couple in the White House.
Biden performed surprisingly well all year in polls, but he headed into Iowa like a
passenger jet trying to land with one burning engine, hitting trees, cows, cars, sides of
mountains, everything. The poking incidents were bad, but then one of his chief surrogates,
John Kerry, was overheard by NBC talking about the possibility of jumping in to keep Bernie
from "taking down" the party.
"Maybe I'm fucking deluding myself here," Kerry reportedly said -- mainstream Democrats may
not have changed their policies or strategies much since Trump, but they sure are swearing more
-- then noted he would have to raise a "couple of million" from people like venture capitalist
Doug Hickey.
BTW Vindman quit his job so why was it bad for Trump to remove him early? Games
lol, Joe demands a standing ovation for Lt. Col. Vindman, a security state apparatchik
who was offended that Trump didn't read from the talking points he prepared. Beyond
parody
I predict that someday in the not-so-distant future, the entire world will be shocked to
learn that Andrew Yang is actually the mutated clone splice of Elon Musk and Bob Barker.
Amy Klobuchar says she's a 'fresh face', yet everything about Klobuchar is as stale as a
twenty-year-old Twinkie. If 59 is the new 38, then in Amy's world we're all still living in
1999.
Early on in the debate, ABC briefly showed a split screen with Pete Buttigieg in both
frames, which leads to the inevitable question: technical glitch or wishful thinking?
Tom Steyer is like the high school basketball coach in that old TV show ' The White Shadow '. Tom gave a rousing pep
talk to all the players about the need to beat Donald Trump, although I kept waiting for him to
yell over at Pete, "Watch those elbows, Salami!"
Desperate to revive her flagging campaign, Elizabeth Warren now argues that the way
Democrats win elections is by calling out corruption. Liz then proved her brave commitment to
this bold new strategy by spending the entire evening not uttering a single word about
the Iowa Caucuses.
When Joe Biden yells, clouds tremble.
Joe did have a nice moment when he gave Bernie Sanders a hug in response to a question about
Hillary Clinton's claim that nobody likes Bernie. A very classy gesture. Even so, in the
interests of party unity I think we should ALL be extremely grateful that Bernie does not have
a lot of hair.
"Is anybody else on the stage concerned about having a democratic socialist at the head of
the democratic ticket?" - 10 minutes in and we've had one question asked three different
ways. #DemDebate
... He and his supporters have insisted that he is the "most electable" candidate, but for
some reason he is the candidate that very few actual voters want to elect.
...The embarrassment was lessened by the chaos and incompetence of the Iowa Democratic
Party's handling of the caucus results, but not by much.
[T]oday her model tells her the Democrats are a near lock for the presidency in 2020, and
are likely to gain House seats and have a decent shot at retaking the Senate.
Can someone please tell me where I can bet against her. The PMCs will be enthralled.
I wouldn't be that quick. But in any case, you're missing the biggest tree in her forest
(reversing the old axiom):
The parties don't win elections for the reasons the cognoscenti, which includes at least
pretty much everyone important in the Democratic Party – and a lot of the Republican
Party too if you recall all the gnashing of teeth about Trump in 2016 – believe.
I know Trump didn't win because of "racism, period" for example. The Dems somehow do (hey,
your candidate was white, morons) and weirdly enough, sifting thru Trump's recent verbal
diarrhea (ewww), I think the Republicans think so too.
It's comical in a horrifying way how the people voted to be "representatives" in this
"representative democracy" actually have no idea what the people they are supposedly
representing actually think. That has pretty much brought us to this "voting against" stage,
b/c nobody says anything anybody really wants to vote for.
His "closing arguments" speeches last week were respectively two-and-a-half hours and ninety
minutes long and were inevitably praised by the mainstream media as "magisterial," "powerful,"
and "impressive."
A computer glitch unfortunately wiped all the data with bleach bit, the surveillance
cameras had all malfunctioned, and the person tallying the votes hung himself behind the
voter curtain.
Well, the runners up in most beauty pageants usually react to
their loses better than Nancy did last night.
Recent politics in the House have taken a toll on her. Having to deal with the
out-of-control Democratic "kids" in the House and having to give control to The Republicans in
the Senate has taken its toll.
Her reputation for being so masterfully in control and in charge has, with her actions last
night, totally disappeared into history.
I would like to see Trump defeated if for no other reason than to have a new administration
look under the hood of the all the economic government data that has been produced over the
last four years. I bet, just like Trump's tax returns he doesn't want us to see, his
miraculous creation of prosperity will be far less than advertised.
Yes pft, the favored candidate of the DNC is clearly Trump.
Posted by: Blue Dotterel | Feb 6 2020 19:25 utc | 58
Only if the ungrateful commoners who identify as Democrats or moderates can't be brought to
heel and give their full throated support for the DNC's favoured Cookie Cutter candidate who
might as well be one of those dolls with a string and a recording you hear when you pull the
string.
Then yes, they would prefer 'fore moar years!!' of the Ugliest American ever to be
installed as President of the United States.
One of things I respect about Tulsi Gabbard is she ain't no Doll with a string attached.
When she made the comment about cleaning out the rot in the Democratic Party, she left no
doubt her intent and goals. And to take on hillary, the Red Queen to boot, why that was
simply delicious.
Alas, the View, the DNC, it's web of evil rich and the media will never forgive her for
Soldiering for her Country.
Allow me a moment to thank -- and this may be a bit of a surprise -- Adam Schiff. Were it
not for his crack investigation skills, @realDonaldTrump might have had a
tougher time unearthing who all needed to be fired. Thanks, Adam! 🤣 #FullOfSchiff
" Heterosexual couple relationships are really violent . In addition, the vast majority are
relationships based on religion. It may be time to have a conversation about their ban and
abolition ."
Trump is in many ways a narcissistic scumbag...but given the alternative of any of these
degenerate limp wristed faggots and gun grabbing communists who want to pay reparations for
slavery to people who were never slaves, transgender 7 year olds and have their mental
illness rammed down our throats, open borders, and whatever assorted lunacy is in vogue with
their purple haired minions ?
"... Adam Schiff: If Trump isn't removed he "could offer Alaska to the Russians in exchange for support in the next election or decide to move to Mar-a-Lago permanently and leave Jared Kushner to run the country, delegating to him the decision whether they go to war." pic.twitter.com/VBzkonqpmH ..."
Impeachment manager Adam Schiff (D-CA) argued on Monday during closing remarks that if
President Trump isn't removed from office, he " could offer Alaska to the Russians in exchange
for support in the next election or decide to move to Mar-a-Lago permanently and leave Jared
Kushner to run the country , delegating to him the decision whether they go to war."
Adam Schiff: If Trump isn't removed he "could offer Alaska to the Russians in exchange for support in
the next election or decide to move to Mar-a-Lago permanently and leave Jared Kushner to run
the country, delegating to him the decision whether they go to war." pic.twitter.com/VBzkonqpmH
He [Boris Johnson] is clearly delusional, or he doesn't have a mirror by the door. Anyone
who thinks his unique synthesis of geriatric skateboarder and everyone's last choice as a
babysitter is a good look, needs someone to have a word with them.
Hardly matters in these heady moments. He figures the enforcer/eminence gris role will
protect him. Which it will (given his extraordinarily indolent 'boss') for now.
Russia, China and Iran are already being blamed for using tech to undermine the 2020
election. Yet, the very technologies they are allegedly using were created by a web of
companies with deep ties to Israeli intelligence.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced Friday afternoon that the criteria for
making the debate stage will no longer include a requirement about individual donors --
allowing Bloomberg, whose campaign is largely self-funded, to join the candidates if his
polling numbers reach the new threshold.
Comedian and writer Jack Allison took a wry look at
the changes and what they mean about the party. "Remember when they wouldn't even think of
changing them for like Cory Booker," Allison tweeted . "This is what we
mean when we talk about the DNC cheating, obviously and out in the open."
"Thankfully seeing Bloomberg speak can only hurt his standing," Allison added,
"but still."
But it was outspoken filmmaker Michael Moore that really went off on the DNC's decision.
Speaking Friday night at a Sanders rally in Clive, Iowa, Moore went on an expletive-filled rant
against the party.
Gosh Bernie, haven't you read about yourself in Profiles of Corruption . If you can
be corrupt why can't the DNC be corrupt? It's only fair. How do you expect the people running
the DNC to become millionaires like you? Shouldn't they be able to pocket a little of Mike
Bloomberg's $325,000? Don't be a poor loser. Maintain dignity.
Although Bernie Sanders talks a big game about social equality, redistributing the wealth
and all that, he is in fact the epitome of the so-called " limousine liberal ." In 2016,
perhaps as a consolation prize for his campaign loss, he forked out over $575,000 on a
lake-front home in Vermont. He also owns a row house in Washington DC, and another in his home
state. His personal wealth is estimated in the millions. Thus far, his extravagant lifestyle
has not hurt his socialist message, but Trump will certainly not waste the opportunity to mock
it.
How many yachts do billionaires need? How many cars do they need? Give us a break. You
can't have it all.
"Boris Johnson has renounced his US citizenship, ending years of ambiguous loyalties and
probably ridding himself of a hefty tax bill.
A list released by the US Treasury department showed the UK foreign secretary was one of
5,411 individuals to renounce his American citizenship in 2016.
Johnson was born in New York when his parents worked there, but has not lived there since
he was five years old. His decision does not appear to be an attempt to distance himself from
the politics of Donald Trump, but may instead be a move to ensure he is out of reach of
America's Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
In 2014 he publicly said that the US was trying to hit him for tax on the sale of his home
in Islington, north London, something he said he regarded as "absolutely outrageous",
although he later reportedly paid the demand. The US tax authorities have been mounting a
campaign to crack down on the earnings of dual nationals."
How easy is it to switch parties to run for Presidential Campaign? Bloomberg was a
Republican, Biden was both, Warren used to be a Republican, and Trump was a lifelong
Democrat!
Do you guys still believe in the two part duopoly? What happened to integrity and values?
None! Both parties are the same ****!
Britain has finally made the Orwellian Pivot. Brazil is Bolsonaro-fied, Mexico and Canada are
USMCA-ed, Venezuela will be MAGA-cized. The Monroe Doctrine is growing carnivorous incisors.
Oceania is born!
Boris wants Britain to be "Singapore on the Thames". A one party,authoritarian state.
Instead,one generation from now, England will be America's European Puerto Rico.
I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but I'm a little worried about Donald Trump. I'm
worried he may be on the verge of a sudden, major heart attack, or a stroke, or a fatal golfing
accident.
Food poisoning is another possibility. Or he could overdose on prescription medication. A
tanning bed mishap is not out of the question.
He could accidentally hang himself during autoerotic asphyxiation, or get shot by a
lone-wolf white supremacist terrorist trying to start the RaHoWa. The Russians could spray him
with that Novichok perfume.
There are any number of ways he could snuff it.
I don't mean to sound alarmist, but the Resistance is running out of non-lethal options for
removing Donald Trump from office. Here they are, in no particular order
Cute, but seriously: Trump has been pretty much hammered into toeing the party line. The
oligarchy still doesn't like him, and it has taken a lot of effort to reign in him, but
rhetoric aside he's currently governing a lot like Hilary Clinton would have. The borders are
still open to illegal immigrants and the rich have their cheap labor, we're still wasting
trillions on pointless winless foreign wars, our manufacturing base is pretty much hollowed
out, we're still shoveling trillions of dollars in direct and indirect subsidies to Wall
Street, big medicine is still busy with organized looting ('surprise medical billing',
anyone?), you get the idea.
Trump fought the swamp, and the swamp won. The 2020 election looks to be yet another heads
they win/tails we lose circus. Trump is in no danger, IMHO.
Unless Bernie gets the nomination. Now there's a politician that needs to worry about his
health
You're overlooking the obvious contingency plan for the Dems: Biden will recruit Terry Crews
or Tiny Lister for his VP candidate. Of course the Veep will have to dress transgender and
change their name to Cornpop, but that's a small price to pay. The future of the country is
at stake.
It has become clear to Bernie's supporters that they and the Deplorables have the same
enemies. The more the media demonize Bernie in the same way they demonize Trump the stronger
Bernie will become. Bernie doesn't need to be in Iowa. CNN and the NYT are working for him.
Fake news is also stupid news.
CJ Hopkins has to be one of the best political commentators alive today. His writing is
both hilarious and profound. No easy fete.
Yes, absolutely exquisite use of the language to ridicule the ridiculous "resistance."
Clearly, Andy Kaufmann (aka Latka Gravis) did not die: he slinked away to politics and
took on the mantle of Schifty the Popeyed Crackpot California Congressman.
Hopkins entertainingly finds the black humor in all of this -- but none of it is funny, even
darkly so -- the reason it isn't funny is that millions of decent, hard-working Americans are
chained to this amoral freak show via the coercive tax system.
Well nothing of value would be lost Trump hasn't drained the swamp, locked her up, or built
the wall. In fact the only people that have been arrested are Paul Manafort and Roger Stone.
I was going to add a string of "lols" tied together, but this place is classier than that.
Honestly it might be a good thing, because then Pence would be president. Think about it,
then the Evangelicals who the GoP relies on their vote, but have also been strung along for
decades getting none of the social issues addressed while, and then also being blamed for
everything from war in the Middle East to every social problem. I think it would be good for
them to see the righteous avatar Pence ascend to the throne, and then completely shun and
ignore them. Maybe that will finally wake them up.
"We can't beat him so we have to impeach him" no truer words were ever spoken. Too bad
they couldn't come up with a reason. I think November will be a Democrat Slaughter.
@Longfisher Vote
for Bernie. Bernie's got guts and he says what he means and does what he says. I think also:
Bernie's old and he knows it. He might consider a sniper's bullet more humane than
American old-age care even for the relatively wealthy.
That will make whoever he elects as vice president important. I like to think that will be
Bloomberg. Jewish, yeah, but actually not a crook, and sane. He's about all that's left who
can pass that very low bar. It may be Warren which I hope does not happen, because I consider
her a sell-out and much worse than Bloomberg. Same goes for pretty much every else, with the
possible exception of AOC, but she needs more experience.
"nice" Americans: .. Here is a sample of nice Americans who want to control our breath:
Pompeo , Fri 24 Jan 2020: "You Think Americans Really Give A F**k About Ukraine?"
Michael Richard Pompeo (57 y.o.) is the United States secretary of state. He is a former
United States Army officer and was Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from January
2017 until April 2018
Nuland , earlier than Feb 2014: "Fuck the EU."
Victoria Jane Nuland (59 y.o) is the former Assistant Secretary of State for European
and Eurasian Affairs at the United States Department of State. She held the rank of Career
Ambassador, the highest diplomatic rank in the United States Foreign Service. She is the
former CEO of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), and is also a Member of the
Board of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
It is similar to this Lebanese 'Vision for Peace' for a brighter future for the people in
North America which foresees some split of territory between natives and colonial settlers.
Haha.. I had a good laugh seeing the diagram.
Thank you 'b' for keeping us in good spirits!
i always thought it a shame that the war of 1812 ended in a (more or less) draw. the brits
had ideas for cutting up the US that would have been similar to that fake map (which was
kinda amusing until i saw the "derpa derp russia" bit) and kept the settler trash from moving
west and genociding everything that wasn't nailed down.
oh well...at least it's comforting to think ahead a few decades when most of the southwest
will be "little mexico".
I see Alaska and Hawaii have presumably gone back to the original owners, but it's not
shown.
I assume Alaska went to Russia (which is what a pal who fishes there expects!) (there is a
plan, I am told, to run a rail tunnel under Bering Strait, Canada, America, and further South
all the way as part of the OBOR project.). But that can happen if the natives wish
association with Ru and Chin...
(I'm not terribly serious about this, but Times do change and stuff does happen)
I assume the Monarchy is re-established in Hawaii.
In all seriousness, the DoD plans for Alaska if nukewar with USSR went against the US, was
to use Gladio teams to control the natives, who were regarded as unloyal and sympathetic to
the "commies"... no url, but I read this in FOIA stuff years ago.
Jackrabbit | Jan 30 2020 17:14 utc | 55
I assume that American Indians have already agreed to the North American Peace Plan (NAPP)so they can now go ahead and
take 30% of the land that the NAPP grants them - just as with the Trump-Jared Plan to settle the Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict.
Will homes of White Americans that disagree be bulldozed like the Israelis do to Palestinians?
Good map 'b'
I would love to see a political map of the US White House showing percentage of Israeli
influence on American policy! Duel nationals, lobby groups etcetera plus maybe one showing
which states are biased toward Israel as opposed to Palestine.
It's known as 'declaring an interest' those people should be barred from decision making
re Israel.
In a move that is sure to please President Trump, a State Representative in Tennessee has
introduced legislation that would officially designate CNN, as well as The Washington Post, as
fake news.
R.I.P. Uri Avnery: ... reminded of the classic Jewish joke about the Jewish mother in Russia taking leave of
her son, who has been called up to serve the Czar in the war against Turkey. "Don't overexert
yourself'" she implores him, "Kill a Turk and rest. Kill another Turk and rest again
"
"But mother," the son interrupts, "What if the Turk kills me?"
"You?" exclaims the mother, "But why? What have you done to him?"
Funny that the locals are not happy with our gift-bearing. human pyramid-building saviors.
How so utterly ungrateful. We brought them democracy, human rights and genocide, and they now
want us out. Shame!
We should immediately send them Madeleine Albright to explain to them that the deaths of
600,000 Iraqi babies was actually a good thing and "God's work". That'll do!
Come on Ant-everybody knows that it was the MOSSAD, allied to US sayanim and rogue elements
of the US elite who did 9/11. The Saudis were just the patsies, Oswalds one and all.
Antonym ,
Did you know that even Hamas and Iran are run by the Mossad? And Xi Jinping too! Me too, you
too. No more need for an Off Guardian site, all riddles solved.
paul ,
No, they don't run Hamas any more. They did create it and gave it money and guns. To
undermine Yasser Arafat and his organisation. Standard dirty colonial gam of divide and rule.
When Trump beats Creepy Joe, or Crazy Anti Semitic Bernie, or Pocahontas, or Whoever this
November, and threatens us with another 4 years of merciless, deranged Twittering, you have
to expect an outbreak of Trump Derangement Syndrome that will make the Black Death look like
a 3 day cold.
Looking at this map I am reminded of what Albert Einstein said about insanity, which he
described as "doing the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result each
time." The US of A never seems to ever learn anything from its' mistakes. The US is truly the
United States of Amnesia.
What I'd like to see out of this "Impeachment" baloney is this. Trump is impeached and thrown
out of office and runs for reelection anyway and wins. Of course, if that happened, I think
he'd be eligible to run for reelection of course. There'd be mass suicides as well, which
would suit me just fine.
"... It would be highly ironic if these American military aircraft were shot down with the (in)famous US Stinger missiles that America gave to Afghan jihadists against the Soviet Union in the 1980s. ..."
"... Uncle Sam has declared War on the World, thinking it is just a bunching bag. Now he is finding out that sometimes punching bags can punch back... ..."
If the $1.6 trillion cost of the US military being in Afghanistan is correct, then the loss
of 4 helicopters and even the E11 won't significantly increase US overall spend there. $1.6
trillion over 18 years is a tad under $250 million per day
...I recall a quotation from that good man, Winston C, who wrote long ago about
Afghanistan...{populated by} "poverty-stricken illiterate tribesmen possessed of the finest
Martini-Henry Rifles..."
That was over 100 years ago...
Now, it seem, "possessed of the finest surface to air missiles."
It would be highly ironic if these American military aircraft were shot down with the
(in)famous US Stinger missiles that America gave to Afghan jihadists against the Soviet Union
in the 1980s.
I watched the Washington Posts stream of the impeachment today. The spin began immediately
at the dinner break. There was barely a word about anything the President's team presented.
All they talked about was Bolton. These weasels are completely without shame or ethics. It's
news for spongeheads with no ability to think.
"... They look so great only because the Empire and its sidekicks have morons at the helm (I don't mean disposable figureheads, "presidents", "chancellors", and "PMs", but real powers behind the throne). ..."
I think President Putin is a great leader and the greatest in the world today.
Putin is just a man with normal quite ordinary intelligence, like Xi. They look so great
only because the Empire and its sidekicks have morons at the helm (I don't mean disposable
figureheads, "presidents", "chancellors", and "PMs", but real powers behind the throne).
Protestant televangelists have forgotten their own heritage and the selling of indulgences
for salvation which Luther attacked to start off the Reformation.
3:00
Dude is bragging about buying 2 private jets with 'cash' to an audience who can't even afford
to turn their heaters on in the winter time in Minnesota. Ironically, he used their money to
pay for it. They will still continue to send more.
'When I walk on White House grounds, God walks on White House grounds.' -- Meet Paula White,
spiritual adviser to President Trump and the latest addition to the White House staff.
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Should we start an anti Putin hashtag campaign? #bankerslivesmattermore That'll show him,
since there is not much more we can sanction except for maybe Russian baby mama tourism and
Russian hockey players. Doubt Capital fans (aka swamp dwellers) would tolerate the latter.
T he administrations of George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump all routinely lied to
the American people about the success of the 18-year war in Afghanistan. They exaggerated
progress and inflated statistics to create an illusion that that the war was winnable. But
after the deaths of 157,000 people at a cost of $2 trillion, corruption is rampant and the
carnage continues.
At close of Cold War, George H W Bush exhibited every symptom of a wasp-infected cockroach
(as has every US president since FDR). It may be that some categories of Americans have a
greater Cockroach Coefficient than others...
why is it that the media never refer to Soros, Bezos or the Rockefellers as 'oligarchs'?
Why only Russians?
Because the West is the home of love, milk, honey, puppies, apple pie. There's simply no
room for oligarchs in utopia – and if you disagree, you're an anti-Semite, a Nazi
even.
It's amazing all the money in the State Department and other intelligence agencies should be
attracting the best minds. Yet a bunch of us sitting here watching this from our boring
office jobs realize how genuinely stupid US foreign policy has been.
A separate Sunni state in West Iraq would be doomed. We need to leave these people alone,
we've made enough foolish mistakes and this will get a lot of people killed. That's along
with US troops being put in harms way for ridiculous reasons like stealing Syrian oil and now
occupying Iraq against their parliaments wishes.
Back in the day you told someone you were American and they wanted to shake your hand and
ask you about this place or that. Now they want to spit in our faces
There are key indicators that the Trump Impeachment saga is not
going as Democrats hoped:
Opthamologists across the United States have been flooded with patients who had attempted to
claw out their eyes after being forced to watch just one hour of the proceedings.
Radical Muslim prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, who were strapped into their chairs with their
eyes taped open and forced to watch the Impeachment hearings, are demanding to be water boarded
instead.
The UN Commission on Human Rights has weighed in and decreed that compelling prisoners to
watch the hearing is a most dastardly, evil form of torture.
Pharmaceutical manufacturer Sanofi-Aventis has filed suit against the Democrat National
Committee for copyright infringement alleging that the hearings are interfering with the sale
of Ambien.
Pelosi gang is too afraid to point to actual crimes (like Douma false flag, Yemen war, etc),
so they invented this Kabuki theater, as if they can fool already suspicious population.
You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you
can't fool all the people all the time. So said Abraham Lincoln – maybe. But whoever it
was forgot to mention an important corollary: fun as it may be to pull the wool over people's
eyes, you'll writhe in agony for an equal period once the truth emerges and the fraud is
exposed.
...the agony of those responsible for the Russiagate fiasco can only intensify while, for
the rest of us, the fun has just begun. So lean back and enjoy the show. It going to be a
doozy.
On Wednesday, Jan 22 Donald Trump wrote his name in the Guinness records books setting Presidential record in Twits.
According @FactbaseFeed, an account which tracks Trump's Twitter habits, Trump sent 142 tweets and retweets on Wednesday --
eclipsing his previous single-day presidential record of 123.
According to the US diplomat, President Trump has made it very "clear that any attack on Americans or American interests will
be met with a decisive response, which the president demonstrated on January 2".
And American interests are defined very flexibly, sometimes in conflicting tweets.
It has now been over a year since the DOJ "re-opened" its "investigation" into Epstein.
Any prosecutor who has just passed his bar exam would need only a few weeks to compile a
mountain of evidence against Ghislaine Maxwell. Enough to charge her with scores of
crimes.
Because the Federal Bureau of (non) Investigation and the Department of (non) Justice
conducting a (non) investigation probably won't turn up much in my (non) opinion.
A lot of people getting hacked lately. When this all comes to a head (If it does) we know
what their defense is going to be. Too bad. It's not gonna work.
Putin “needs to keep his commie hands” off of the sovereign Independent Baptist church’s affairs
According to sources, local man Clarence Williams has urged his church’s lead pastor as well as local law enforcement to move
forward with an investigation into Russian hacking, claiming that there was ample evidence to support the theory that malicious
foreign agents infiltrated and influenced the outcome of a vote on the date for next month’s potluck at Second Baptist Church.
The Raytheon Institute, a bipartisan think tank that specializes in starting Middle Eastern
wars, has released a report that estimates the imminent Iran War will be approximately one
letter different from the ongoing Iraq War.
"We based our analysis primarily on the words themselves," explained Richard Cheney, the
institute's Bonelli Fellow. "If you look closely, you'll see that both countries' names start
'IRA,' but 'IRAN' ends with an 'N' while 'IRAQ' ends with a 'Q.'"
The report spelled out further similarities , including America's total lack of
justification for initiating hostilities, a draft dodging Republican president who was born
with a silver spoon in his mouth, spinelessness on the left during the buildup despite virtue
signaling of being antiwar, simmering sectarian tensions in the country to be invaded, the
prospective enemy's large standing military that won't be able to face down America's initial
assault but could become deadly in a drawn out guerilla campaign, a complete lack of support
from the rest of the world, large amounts of oil at stake, media reports that have inflamed
overwrought concerns about weapons of mass destruction, and relief from service members in
Kuwait that they finally have something to do
Pompeo reminds me of the pigs in Animal Farm. He is a grotesque figure, steely-eyed,
cold-blooded, fanatical, and hateful. "We lied, cheated, and stole" Pompous Maximus will get
his comeuppance one of these days. I hope he plans more overseas trips for himself. He is a
vile person, a psychopath proud of his psychopathy. He alone would make anyone considering
conversion to Christianity, his brand of it, run screaming into the night. Repulsive man.
Maybe we should put sanctions on Pompeo. He could use the diet. Maybe raiding his pantry
would feed Iraqi for a couple months. He is truly perfect spokesman American empire.
Sadistic, bloated, and corrupt.
One of two things is wrong with America: Either the entire system is broken or is on the
verge of breaking, and we need someone to bring about radical, structural change, or -- we
don't need that at all! Which is it? Who can say? Certainly not me, and that is why I am
telling you now which candidate to vote for.
Definition of cynicism: that the Colombian State, world-renowned for killing social
leaders, financing narco and paramilitarism, is the organizer of a summit against terrorism
where Mike Pompeo, intellectual author of the murder of Soleimani, is the star.
Again, I don't want to be cruel. But in the Trump Era, we must be prepared to face a certain
amount of callousness in politics. Just imagine all the terrible shots Mr. Trump could take at
Mrs. Warren:
"Liz, I like you a lot. I think you're a nice person. But you need to calm down. I don't
know if you take any medication -- your blood pressure must be very high. I'm worried about
you. I really am. Relax. Put on a nice sweater, have a cup of tea, grade some papers."
"I went to Wharton, okay? A much better school than Harvard, by the way. Harvard used
to be a very good school. Now it's failing, because of people like you. And I did very well at
Wharton. Very well. I don't need any more lectures. Save it for your students,
professor."
"Professor Pocahontas, I call her. Iron Eyes Cody had more Indian blood than Liz! Remember
him? 'Keep America Beautiful.' That was his thing. I like that. He would vote for Trump. But
maybe he'd vote for his fellow Native American. I don't know."
"I'm doing very well with the Latino community, even the Latina community. Not so much with
the Lateen-ex community. But that's okay. Liz can have them. All seven of them. What do
you do with a Lateen-ex ? Blow your nose with it?"
For our frequent fliers who are members of our "Chopping Heads and Eating Livers of
Infidels" Afriqiyah Airways is a code share flight with Turkish Airlines. Also, remember your
points can be used in Paradise to rent hotel rooms for you and your 72 virgins.
Turkish Airlines. The airline of choice for Jihadis.
There are 2 beasts, the first is either America or NATO, or basically "The Empire" or
The Neocon Oligarchy--all work well but America is a bit too broad since there are many
good people in America. The second beast whose number is 666, is Trump. Search: Trump 666
and be amazed.
Financialization killed Boeing. All those MBA's who dreamed up outsourced supply-chains
for the Dreamliner. Thought they were going to make a lot of money through savings.
Silly rabbit MBA's... if you don't spend money? You don't make money.
MBA graduates are f*cking useless retards trained in only one system: FAILURE.
What sank McDonald Douglas - bought out by Boeing? Is the same bullsh*t that is ruining
Boeing. Boeing kept a lot of board member & management failures around from McDonald
Douglas. Poisoned the Boeing culture.
How many of you remember all the McDonald Douglas passenger jet success stories? There
wasnt any - the whole mgmt of MD was to to strip out every possible cost and maximize very
profit at the expense of the end customer and the government - and these are the guys who
bought Boeing - and then made the first step of moving the headquarters to chicago. Guess
which party gave lots and lots of government boondoggles to MD?
I had a Polish executive tell me how proud they were as they were about to hire an
American executive who graduated with an MBA.
That is, until I asked him... "Have you checked what happened to the previous companies
that he worked at?"
So the Polish executive did just that. This led to a ban on hiring any American MBA. Turns
out, the American MBA worked at companies, all of which FAILED.
Though, somehow, despite a track record of working at failed companies? The American was
still quite well off.
The ******* alternative you stupid ******* americunt is already in the air. They are
labelled Airbus A220 and A230, otherwise known as Bombardier CS200 and CS300 and they are
sold out 15 years in advance.
That was part of the problem. The parts from Boeing's foreign suppliers MET
SPECIFICATIONS.
That is, until they went to assemble the Dreamliner. Where parts did not fit together.
You see, Boeing found out LONG, LONG AGO... that it was necessary to have manufacturing
close to design. That way, when parts that "met specifications" did not fit? The engineers
and machinists were there to correct deficiencies. Thus leading to reliable planes that were
fit together very well. Only THEN could Boeing could assemble parts in other locations and
mate them together.
This never happened with the Dreamliner. Quadrupled costs. The Dreamliner only exists
thanks to taxpayer subsidies through the ExIm Bank. The Dreamliner WILL NEVER BE PROFITABLE.
Accounting gimmicks make it appear as if Boeing makes money on the Dreamliner.
Amazing that in less than a generation, we go from "if it's not Boeing, I'm not going" to
wondering what the next Boeing screw-up will be and how many will be killed as a result.
The existing 777 is a fantastic plane and, other than pilot error (Asiana at SFO), a
missile attack (Malaysia 17) and some unknown (but apparently not mechanical) issue (Malaysia
370), the 777 has been the safest plane around.
American executives are incentivized to manipulate their company's stock. So they squeeze
the workforce and cut everything to the bone. That's why Boeing, GM, and other household
names are crashing.
According to economist William Lazonick, Boeing spent $43.1 billion on stock buybacks
from 2013 to 2019, raising the company's stock price to a record high just 10 days before
the second crash of its 737 MAX. Boeing CEO Muilenburg collects most of his pay through
stock or compensation based on financial metrics. Yet the company reportedly avoided
spending the estimated $7 billion it would have needed to engineer a safer plane. Less than
10 years after a public sector bailout, GM has spent $10.6 billion on stock buybacks, while
engaging in layoffs and plant closures. That amounts to $221,308 for each of the 47,897
active UAW members currently on strike at GM. Walmart spent $9.2 billion on stock buybacks
from August 2018 to July 2019, which, by my calculations, could have been used to give a
raise of roughly $5/ hour to each of its 1 million hourly workers instead.
Boeing should have been spending all its supposed profits on R&D. The other problem is
the military side of the business is grossly corrupt. Remember the blowup over Air Force
1?
This is what happens when the Federal Reserve lets the financial cat out the bag, and pump
up the stock market to the tune of 35-60 billion every 3 days, because some hedge funds
"could" fail and topple the financial system.
If multiple entities are now too important and could topple the financial system if they
failed, the Fed has massively screwed up.
In 1991 a Boeing purchaser told me that he would give us a contract if we transferred 51%
of the shares to a minority.
This is God's truth
He added that when he could not find minority businesses that would make components
according to specifications, he would buy stuff from minority owned businesses and not use it
but store it in warehouses around the country indefinitely. this in order to meet a quota of
20% purchases from minority owned businesses mandated by the Feds for all government
suppliers.
I can just imagine how bad the discrimination is now.
These are politically connected animals who feed from the trough of government pork barrel
a.k.a taxpayer money. Exactly what has Nikki Haley achieved in her life, except for being a
pathological liar?
These animals were responsible for our reckless fiscal deficits and looming debt bombs
which will soon come crashing down. Kinda good metaphor for Boeing.
All former CFOs and politicians ( civilian and military - only political types in the
military get stars ). No evidence of any engineering expertise. Sad for a once-proud global
leader.
In the "investor economy", there is no morality. EVERYTHING is "commoditized". Even you ..
your DNA. A pricetag hovers over your head like a dialog bubble. Bean counters can
incorporate your morbidity and mortality into mathematical equations showing investors why
cutting costs and saving 0.01% is worthy of investment. While 911 was the paradigm shift for
Rights ... the Lehman "crisis" was its own "911" -- the death of the labor economy ... and
rise of the "investor economy". Nobody works, trading time for dollars. They "invest" Why
work? Investors can kill without being held personally responsible. They only risk their fiat
capital. You die.
You wanna know who Trump really is? Trump is the dark soul of America. He's everything ugly
that Amerikkka is: greedy, immoral, corrupt, an uncouth bully...more than that, he's a
lawless tyrant, a pretentious hypocrite that sends the dumb masses kids to kill, die and
occupy sovereign property while he, the privileged spends hundreds of millions revelling in
superficial distraction, playing golf, comfortably numb, filthy rich and repulsed at the
sight of tent cities, vets sleeping under bridges and by the migrant help that clean the
toilets, pluck chickens all day and are bent over for hours picking crops at slave wages so
he, his trophy wife and the well-off he favors, can eat.
Trump is America's depraved soul that Republicans and Zionists want to nurture and
protect, because he's the Chosen one delivering everything they dreamed of; that Democrats
are powerless to remove because Trump's the price you pay when your own hands are stained
with the blood of those you killed with those you sent to war, stained with the betrayal of
your principles and your own on behalf of AIPAC and corporate bribery to gain power.
Everything Trump is, Amerikkka is, and that's why he's in power. He's in the White House
because he IS Amerikkka and who Amerikkka desires and deserves. Trump is the irresistable,
uncensored charlatan; the rasputin Amerikkkans lusted after to free their lawless, depraved
nature and latent immorality from the mask of shame, fake decorum and respectability.
He's reassured Amerikkkans that selling your soul to the devil to do God's work is okay, as
long as the end always justifes the means, and they love it!
America can be a force for good in the Middle East. The day is coming when Iran and Israel
will, with US help, partner Israel to lift the ME out of its ignorance and poverty, and
Saudi Arabia will, in the absence of the Shia revolution, be able to ditch its Wahhabist
extremism.
Is Warren Warren the Jussie Smollet of politics. I wonder if she claims Bernie attacked her
while wearing a red hat and screaming, "A woman can't win! This is MAGA country!"
Being one of Liz' constituents and familiar with her career and her base (consisting of
people like me,) I think she faces so little consequence for her "embellishments" at least in
part because "we" (her base) inhabit an environment in which, with ease, we adjust facts and
perceptions to conform to whatever our self-serving narrative of the moment may be.
We know that Liz will say anything she imagines will be to her advantage and it's okay
with "us" that she does. In a way, she's our ideal candidate and media darling because she
reflects and affirms our plastic values.
Yes, with Soleimani assassination and subsequent crisis Trump crossed the red line. But the
House is afraid to tell he whole truth... Obama was probably even bigger threat to the US
national security, especially with Hillary as the Secretary of State and hi Libyan and Syrian
adventures.
The 111-page summons urges the Senate to "eliminate the threat that the President poses to
America's national security" as it lays out the case against President Trump.
Hilarious. What other president would've tolerated this?
**** Cheney would've had the homes of these people "visited" by faceless-looking men long
ago, evidence gathered, and a second visit made a few weeks later to protect himself and
Bush. Just to pluck one recent administration out of thin air.
Trump doesn't seem all that worried. Maybe that's for a reason most of us can't possibly
comprehend.
'He might be a son-of-a-bitch, but he's OUR son-of-a-bitch'. Surely a 'Yeltsin' must replace
or join 'Quisling' in the popular lexicon as a title for a traitor, in future.
I hear tell that Emperor Trump is also grooming his potential successor/s
It's a neck and neck race between Kim Kardashian, who Trump is giving personal 'hands on'
assistance, and Montgomery Burns, who is one of Trump's role models.
"
"I wouldn't go to war with you people," Trump told the assembled brass.
Addressing the room, the commander in chief barked, "You're a bunch of dopes and babies."
"
"At this stage in the game anyone who still thinks Trump is an honest man with noble
intentions is a complete fool"
That only needs to be changed to: At this stage in the game anyone who still thinks any
system politician is honest and has noble intentions is a complete fool.
But then religious fundamentalists, such as the cultists of electoralism, cannot be
reached by evidence or rational argument.
This is Trump's idiotic tweet earlier today:
"The noble people of Iran -- who love America -- deserve a government that's more interested
in helping them achieve their dreams than killing them for demanding respect. Instead of
leading Iran toward ruin, its leaders should abandon terror and Make Iran Great Again!"
And here's Sharmine Narwani's response:
"I'm in Iran right now. These "noble" people find you disgusting, just like most Americans.
Iranians laugh at you and mock you and really, really want their government to bring you to
your knees."
In another sense, however, the passing of the cold war could not have been more
disorienting. In 1987, Georgi Arbatov, a senior adviser to the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev , had warned:
"We are going to do a terrible thing to you – we are going to deprive you of an
enemy."
...Winning the cold war brought Americans face-to-face with a predicament comparable to that
confronting the lucky person who wins the lottery: hidden within a windfall is the potential
for monumental disaster.
I don't think it will be long before we see Congress in the US calling for invasion of Russia
on the grounds of a lack of diversity, lack of respect for LGBTP and so forth.
"... Why then were all eight House members chosen as managers to prosecute the case against Trump, who ceremoniously escorted the articles across the Capitol, all Democrats? Why did the articles of impeachment receive not a single Republican vote on the House floor? ..."
Why then were all eight House members chosen as managers to prosecute the case against
Trump, who ceremoniously escorted the articles across the Capitol, all Democrats? Why did the
articles of impeachment receive not a single Republican vote on the House floor?
Ban PMs, Ministers, governors, some mayors and judges, from having second citizenships of
foreign residencies; moreover, Presidential candidates should have been resident in Russia
for 25 years (previously 10 years) and never had a foreign citizenship.
I knew that if you kept it up, Putler would get around to targeting you.
I think they are using an old version of BASIC from the cold war era, called BASIC Russia
Hate.
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SYNTAX ERROR!!!!!!!
"U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials are assessing whether Russia is trying to
undermine Joe Biden in its ongoing disinformation efforts with the former vice president
still the front-runner in the race to challenge President Donald Trump, according to two
officials familiar with the matter
Part of the inquiry is to determine whether Russia is trying to weaken Biden by promoting
controversy over his past involvement in U.S. policy toward Ukraine while his son worked for
an energy company there."
... ... ...
Yes, somehow those dastardly Russians have outsmarted the brightest and best-paid political
strategists in Washington, D.C. by brandishing what amounts to some really persuasive memes
over social media, and for just rubles on the dollar. The techies at Wired went so far as to
call this epic assault on the fragile American cranium, "meme warfare to divide America." By
way of evidence, it cited a very creative meme that screamed, "F*CK THE ELECTIONS," which was
intended, as the ironclad argument goes, to cause a number of impressionable Americans to throw
up their hands in a fit of collective exasperation and say, 'Ok, that's it. I'm staying at home
on Election Day.'
Yes, it's really that easy! Imagine all the money the Russians and their radical new
political technologies could have saved guys like casino tycoon, Sheldon Adelson, who
showered the Trump campaign with $100 million dollars.
Donald Trump rode to victory in 2016 on a promise to end the useless wars in the Middle East, but he has now demonstrated
very clearly that he is a liar
He also promised a wall. Maybe he meant the Israeli wall?
Trump is such a douchebag. He claims there were no lives lost due to their "early warning system" -- no mention that the "early
warning system" was a phone call!
Now he's once again justifying assassination, etc.
there was no "better choice" between trump and clinton. i still think clinton represented a greater danger than trump of getting
into a war with russia, but they are both warmongers first class. for our next election, we may have a choice between ebola and
flesh eating bacteria, or brain cancer and leprosy. if the game is rigged there's no winning it playing by the game's "rules".
Also In each episode when Adam Schiff makes announcement about Trump with the USA flag at the background Trump
re-election chances increase one percent.
You have it right. The rhetoric "this is a free country" is only true to an extent now
with the constant chipping away at our freedoms on a daily basis.
In March 2016, the DOJ found that "the FBI had been employing outside contractors who had access to raw Section 702 Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) data, and retained that access after their work for the FBI was completed," as Jeff Carlson reported in
The Epoch Times.
"... Deal finishes October 2020 if I remember correctly. All sanctions will be lifted so long as Iran is in compliance at that time. This is a move to prevent this. ..."
Deal finishes October 2020 if I remember correctly. All sanctions will be lifted so long
as Iran is in compliance at that time. This is a move to prevent this.
I always learn some thing here. For example imagine my surprise to learn the EU had a
reputation worth protecting. All you need to know about the EU is bitches will do what
bitches are told. This is just one more step on the road to war with China, is that really
what the citizens of the EU want? Are the people of the EU ready to die for the Trump and the
Republican party?
Donald J. Trump: "To the brave, long-suffering people of Iran: I've stood with you since
the beginning of my Presidency, and my Administration will continue to stand with you. We
are following your protests closely, and are inspired by your courage."
Is it possible to imagine that such a trump will write to the brave people of France:
Secretary of State Pompeo claimed that Soleimani was responsible for hundreds of thousands
of deaths in Syria. Basically blaming Iran for all deaths in the Syrian war.
The folks who hatched that particular impeachment plan and pitched it to Nancy Pelosi must have been the same idiots in the DNC
who dreamt up the Russiagate scandal and also pursued Paul Manafort to get him off DJT's election campaign team. Dmitri Alperovich /
Crowdstrike, Alexandra Chalupa: we're looking at you.
The real Trump move would be to hit the twitter right before the house impeachment vote and announce that he has
instructed the House Republicans to vote for impeachment.
Notable quotes:
"... At least this mess made it patently clear the Dem obsession with Russia has been all about preserving their Ukraine pickpocketing operation. ..."
I ordered a truckload of pop corn to snack on during the trial in the Senate. Just imagine Joe Biden under cross examination as
he flips 'n flops! "Was that me in the Video, I can't recall."
I can see a Trump marketing consultant designing a campaign centered on the impeachment hearings called "The Swamp Strikes
Back". It might be most effective as a comic strip.
Most people are familiar with at least the outlines of the biblical Samson story: a mighty
warrior who slays the enemies of the Israelites in great numbers using the jawbone of an ass
among other weapons.
Sadly, after the captivating Delilah seduces Samson into revealing the secret of his
extraordinary strength -- his unshorn hair -- he ends up blind, in chains, and held captive in
the temple of the Philistines.
Samson asks the Lord to restore his strength. The King James Bible explains what happens
next: "And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all
the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which
he slew in his life." It was a huge bloodletting, and among the victims was the hero
himself.
It's a dramatic story, made for the movies. The 1949 Technicolor version, directed by Cecil
B. DeMille and starring Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr, remains a camp classic of the
sandal-and-togas genre. But whether in the original text or on celluloid, the denouement does
not qualify as a happy one. Samson was a fool and his own worst enemy. Something of the same
can be said of the United States in recent decades.
Probably in the medium term the situation for the US in ME will be worse, but in the short term (in an electoral year) the people
I talked, with some knowledge of the recent history of the ME, and me, we think:
a) Trump dares to do what at least 3 former administration did not dare to do: kill the first "terrorist" on the list (as ex-admiral
William J. Fallon has said, Suleimani was the Nº 1 in his list for 12 years), so for the American people is the more resolute
and brave POTUS of at least 10 administration (somebody says from Lincoln times). Obama was a coward.
b) The fact that Suleimani was a national hero for a nation of 82 million people and also for 150 million of shia around the
world, mourned by millions in the streets, make a bigger Trump "victory" over the Iranian "regime", and it is a powerful advice
to the others leaders and commanders in the world that try to fight or oppose to USA.
c) People say that after killing Al-Bagdadi, Suleimani, Muhandis, the next in the list is Nasralah (pure wishful thinking but
right now, why not thinking that?)
d) The USA did no use their AA system to shut-down the incoming missiles to not give a clue to the Iranians of their real effectiveness
in combat situation and because the Russians have many SIGINT platforms following the events to capture the signals, methods,
tactics and technology of the US anti-ballistic missiles systems. So now the Iranians are blind of the real effectiveness of their
missiles in a real combat situation and the Russians do not have a clue also. For sure USA can take down at least some modified
SCUD C missiles, simply it was not worth to do.
e) The fact that Trump did not retaliate is not a symptom of weakness, simply no American was hurt after killing Suleimani
(an act of war), only some holes in the sand.
f) In the speech of today Trump is defiant with the killing of Suleimani and with more economic sanctions to Iran, that will
be more crippling than now. He does not want to escalate (more). There will be a deal in the future, but much less good for the
Iranians than the Obama's JCPOA (it was an electoral promise).
g) The retaliation of the PMU, they say, "will be similar than that of Iran", translating it : "lob some katyusha rockets in
the backyard of few US bases giving advice to the Americans do not go out". No risks at all, the se-escalation is complete.
h) Trump is defiant about not leaving Iraq, I think at the end they will go but after they have a very good deal. Of course
it is all about the Iraqi oil, in exchange for the American blood and money wasted in Iraq. Iraq has the biggest oil reserves
in the world and USA want a good chunk of them, they never ever leave "giving" all of them to the Chinese or Iranians or anybody
else. Trump does not want US soldiers in Iraq, but he wants the oil above anything else (it is condition "sine qua non" to maintain
the Empire)
i) Trump has now the full enthusiastic support of the AIPAC and all the others powerful Israeli lobby he will have more money
than required for the election. He has demonstrated he is the best possible POTUS for Israel
j) In the short term USA will leave Syria and in the medium term Iraq, OK, but they never ever leave "all the region", they
need to be there to maintain the "American Way of Live" (US $ as reserve currency)
If nothing dramatically change, I expect a crushing victory of Trump in the coming US election, he has all the cards now in
his hand, and he will not waste them.
The 5 lightweight hangars at the Ain al-Asad airbase that were destroyed in the Iranian bullseye hit
housed US drones. Possibly the very one
used to assassinate General Qassem Soleimani.
See this tweet by Babak Taghvaee
from yesterday with photos:
#BREAKING: It is now confirmed that the #IRGC backed Kataib Hezbollah (45th Brigade of #PMU) launched 40 unguided rockets at
Ain Al Asad Air Base where the #USArmy's MQ-1Cs are based. At-least one of them participated in the operation for elimination
of #Soleimani in #Baghdad!
1. "Being Santa Claus to Netanyahu, the far right and the very rich (Generous donors)"
2. "Doing the impossible, making Hillary look like the better of 2 terrible choices"
3. " Proving 42% of the American public aren't too swift."
"Nancy Pelosi, pressing the Senate to comply with her demands"...Hey, Nancy, this isn't how it works. You, yourself, are in
"contempt of Senate" by not proceeding with the article of impeachment for a vote.
Is there such a thing as "contempt of Senate?" Probably not. Just like there's no such thing as "contempt of Congress." Hey
the Dems used it, so I used it as an example. Ha, ha, ha...stooges!
Shocking Boeing Emails Reveal Contempt For Management, FAA
"Would you put your family on
a Max simulator trained aircraft? I wouldn't," one employee said to a colleague in another
exchange from 2018, before the first crash. "No," the colleague responded.
Maybe the Russians would be willing to drop a handful of anti-left, baitclick ads on Facebook -- you know? Those weird ads that magically swayed our entire
nation into electing Donald Trump for President. I bet Robert Mueller still has their phone
number. The Dems could mention a quid pro quo and offer to lift some of our
sanctions.
As thousands of American service members prepare for the
worst in the Middle East following an American drone strike that killed Iran's second-most
powerful man, just 23% of registered voters can identify the Islamic republic on an unlabeled
map of the globe, according to a Morning
Consult/Politico survey.
When shown an unlabeled map of just the Middle East, the number rose to a still-abysmal 28%
. Eight percent of those thought Iran was Iraq on the second map - just like Joe Biden
.
Of those surveyed, men were around twice as likely as women to identify Iran on both
maps...
One day after 9/11, Russian president Vladimir Putin said that "we are all Americans, now."
And, on the Sunday following 9/11--at an international soccer match in Tehran, Iran--our
flag was raised as 60,000 Iranian spectators sang our national anthem.
Leave it to George W. Bush to turn GOLD into LEAD.
Mr. Dueck of Seminole is breathing a sigh of relief this morning after it was revealed that
some guy he'd never heard of before was now dead.
"Finally I can sleep at night!" said Dueck, quickly Googling 'General Qasem Solemaini' so he
can look smart at the coffee shop this afternoon. "I'm glad we finally have a President who
looks after our interests instead of just being concerned about his own reelection!"
After skimming the Wikipedia article about Solemaini, Dueck now believes that the
assassination was definitely justified.
"I don't know how we survived and thrived as a country all these years with that guy I just
heard of his morning around," said Dueck. "Good thing that guy from out over there somewhere is
gone!"
Dueck spent the rest of the afternoon arguing with people on the Internet and informing them
about some group he recently learned about, but cannot pronounce, called Quds Force.
"You don't have to be scared of them anymore," said Dueck to his buddies who informed him
they weren't actually afraid to begin with. "Having watched more than three YouTube videos on
the topic, I can tell you that the world is a lot safer now that what's his name is dead!"
After a full day's worth of reading Internet comments, Dueck is now the nation's
self-proclaimed foremost expert on foreign policy and is looking forward to his work as a
pundit on Fox News in the very near future.
The unique, really exceptional feature of the USA is that it does not try to hide idiocy of
its leaders and lack of education and interest in knowing the truth of the majority of
population
A new poll has found that Americans doubt Donald Trump has a clear Iran policy, but
nonetheless they support the decision to kill Qassem Soleimani – who, remarkably, had
been an unknown entity for the majority of respondents.
Forty-three percent of Americans said they approved of the US drone strike that killed the
Iranian commander last week in Baghdad, while 38% disapproved and 19% said they were unsure,
according to the results
of a HuffPost/YouGov survey.
And while almost half the country backs Soleimani's assassination, 60% of Americans conceded
that they had never heard of the Quds Force commander before last week. An additional 14% said
they weren't sure if they had known about him before the strike.
Is there a chorus of politicians singing in there about how lazy they are, and how they
never bothered to verify Browder' story? The story is indeed remarkable, but not in the way
that first appears.
Stephen Fry / @stephenfry
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law.
Blending music and satire, the story explores the truths and fictions
surrounding the origins and aftershocks of the Magnitsky Act; global
legislation which allows governments to sanction those who they see
as offenders of human rights.
It tells the story of a tax adviser's struggle to uncover a huge tax
fraud, his imprisonment by the very authorities he is investigating,
and the American financier's crusade for justice.
Johnny Flynn, Paul Chahidi and members of the cast perform songs in
a epic story that explores democracy, corruption, and how we
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1. Being Santa Claus to Netanyahu, the far right and the very rich (Generous donors)
2. Doing the impossible, making Hillary look like the better of 2 terrible choices
3. Proving 42% of the American public aren't too swift.
My favorite line in this article: "I suspect ... like all too many Americans, Trump has a
hard time grasping the fact that other countries are real." So very dismal, but that gave me
a good laugh.
"Soleimani did 9/11!" - Pence helpfully yet insanely chimed in.
"You're not a wimp like Obama, who refused to assassinate this terrorist," he was probably
told. "You're decisive, a real leader. This one blow will change the entire calculus of the
Middle East," they likely told him. "If you take out Soleimani, I guarantee you that it will
have enormous positive reverberations on the region."
That letter is no mistake. It shows that there are 2 opposing sides in the US Military,
the dark hats and the white hats. One side wants to end wars, the other side do not. Just
like what Q has been saying all along.
Good old USA. Invade illegally by lying, killing, build an airbase and tell everyone that
they'll leave if Iraq will pay for the airbase and if not they'll sanction Iraq into
oblivion.
Is it any wonder why most of the world is disgusted with their behaviour.
CNN has slammed the world's best satire site, The Babylon Bee, after CNN executives
realized that "fake news" articles on the website were getting at least as much social media
traction as their own.
"There ain't room in this internet for the both of us," growled one CNN anchor on the air
Monday evening. "There simply aren't enough people out there for us to fool with our fake
news stories and The Babylon Bee to fool with their satire. There isn't enough clickbait and
outrage traffic to go around. "
"They're obviously amateurs over there at The Bee," said Brian Stelter.
"A lot of times, their reporting comes true. If you're gonna do fake news, do it right --
100% fake, guaranteed, 24/7. They really should learn from the pros over here at CNN."
Eminent threat from Soleimani is a close equivalent to Bush "WDM in Iraq" hoax. And Compo
looks like a better fed version of Gondoliza with her "mushroom cloud" evil war propaganda.
As There was implicit agreement that Iran officials can travel safely in Iraq, which was
breached, the natural result might expulsion of the US forces from Iraq. Which also means the
collapse of US forces in Syrian bases and the Trump's idea of stealing oil.
Like Bush II Trump exceeded his authority and ordered illegal assassination. He needs to be
impeached. Pompeo and Ester need to be fired and tried.
n
2008, Trump told CNN's Wolf Blitzer he thought George W. Bush should have been impeached for
lying about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. We are still feeling the
blowback from that fatally flawed Iraq war. One can only shudder at the gale force of another
one.
The United States just spent Two Trillion Dollars on Military Equipment. We are the
biggest and by far the BEST in the World! If Iran attacks an American Base, or any American,
we will be sending some of that brand new beautiful equipment their way...and without
hesitation!
shoe 9:18 PM - 4 Jan 2020
fuck healthcare, fuck our veterans, fuck our crumbling infrastructure, fuck the homless
MOMMY MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX NEEDS MORE MONEY HELL YEAH
Cemi | Jan 6 2020 22:15 utc | 97: "The point is: Trump is loose cannon. We can analyse back
and forth but no-one knows what the narcissistic jackass decides next."
Shame on you for using such language with regard to the current President of the United
States of America!
Because he's just a bully with delusions of grandeur.
Steve, LHR|2h ago
Times Pick
It's finally abundantly clear that the great deal maker is nothing more than an emperor with no
clothes. The real shame is the inability of a large part of America to see this for what it is:
a failure of leadership from voter on up. Unfortunately, America has lost its moral ability to
lead, and more's the pity as the ascendancy of others, like China, will not be as progressive
as America was in the past. You'd think that the great deal maker would understand that leaders
are not bullies. Sad.
no money for healthcare or education or infrastructure but we have 2 trillion dollars for
bombs so that a pathetic old draft-dodging coward who deep down inside knows he's a weak
piece of shit can try to pretend he's the man his tyrant father told him he never will be
Stonekettle 8:30 AM - 27 Dec 2019
Is the best part where the market implodes and we lose our homes, jobs, savings while the
rich fucks who got huge tax breaks blame us for the disaster as they bail out in golden
parachutes and we get to pay to save the country yet again while being lectured about
responsibility?
The danger posed by that ignorance is matched daily by the crises created by Trump's own
erraticism. His performance as commander in chief has been shaped by a collection of scattered
grievances, emotional impulses and random tweets. As the Financial Times's Philip Stephens
has
said of Trump's foreign policy, "Looking for a framework is like searching for symmetrical
patterns in a bowl of spaghetti."
Keyser Söze
Alexander Mahone •
2 days ago • edited Israel will fight against Iran to the last American soldier
😂😂😂
15 million Jews in the whole world against 90 million Iranians in Iran, I think they will need
to fill their ranks with poor, hungry, uneducated teenagers from Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia
(74% of US army recruits) 😂😂😂
Is Mar-a-Lago a US cultural site? Wait, just looked it up -- it's a national historic
landmark. Since Iran obeys international law, it can't be on their list of 35 Best Places to
Attack. Trump Tower on the other hand....
CNN has slammed the world's best satire site, The Babylon Bee, after CNN executives
realized that "fake news" articles on the website were getting at least as much social media
traction as their own.
"There ain't room in this internet for the both of us," growled one CNN anchor on the air
Monday evening. "There simply aren't enough people out there for us to fool with our fake
news stories and The Babylon Bee to fool with their satire. There isn't enough clickbait and
outrage traffic to go around. "
Pelosi hailed the killing just after news broke of Gaddafi's October 2011 death.
She released the following
statement
on her
Congressional website:
Today's news marks the next phase of Libya's march toward democracy. After decades of tyrannical rule in Libya,
the world is hopeful that the next generation of Libyan leaders will bring their country out of this dark chapter.
The strong action taken by the United States, led by President Obama, and NATO, the United Nations and the Arab
League proves the power of the world community working together.
British comedian Ricky Gervais is dropping red pills at the Golden Globes, joking about
"Epstein didn't kill himself" while telling 'woke' virtue signaling celebrities to stop talking
about politics.
... If ISIS started a streaming service, you'd call your agent,"
"You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than
Greta Thunberg. " as usual David Brett nails it , the british office was one of funniest tv
shows ever
Trump just managed to tweet support for US members of IS and AQ, thus supporting enemies of
the US and committing Treason as per the US Constitution-
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
These Media Posts will serve as notification to the United States Congress that
should Iran strike any U.S. person or target, the United States will quickly & fully
strike back, & perhaps in a disproportionate manner. Such legal notice is not required,
but is given nevertheless!
"We have learned today from #Iraq Prime Minister AdilAbdl Mahdi how @realDonaldTrump uses
diplomacy:
#US asked #Iraq to mediate with #Iran. Iraq PM asks #QassemSoleimani to come and talk to him
and give him the answer of his mediation, Trump &co assassinate an envoy at the airport."
Trump-Kushner is no different than Hillary, Schumer, Nadler, Schiff, Epstein, Maxwell,
Weinstein, Wasserman-Schultz, Bibi. Trump is no friend to American citizens just like all of
Congress.
There will be no draining of any swamps. Trump-Kushner just another Bibi lackey.
@gotmituns I
think we all know the Orange One who is in the pockets of Jews and Israel First nationalists*
will not actually pull out troops. I have also heard someone on this comments board says the
agreement between the US and Iraq stipulates that the US has 1 year to withdraw if requested
to do so by Iraq, so he will no doubt cite that reason for staying there as long as possible
– which leaves ample time for more Jewish tricks and swindles à la USS Liberty
or Lavon Affair.
The real question is whether or not his room-temperature IQ support base will pick up on
the fact that their man in the White House is only increasing troop presence despite being
told to piss off by the Iraqis, thus laying waste to the myth that Iraqis are begging the US
to stay there. Will this be the broken promise that will finally deprogram the hordes of
MAGAtards and awaken them from their slumber?
Not only Mossad but probably many others would like to see a suicide bomber blow himself
up somewhere in the US killing alot of people. That makes it difficult to figure out who
did it and maybe impossible to figure it out. It would be a mess.
But they could always find an un-scorched Iranian passport in mint condition among the
debris of the explosion.
Amusingly, if Trump is indeed serious that Iraq will have to reimburse the US for its
countless military bases, camps and other installations, the US will be able to repay its $23
trillion in debt (and have money leftover), when all is said and done: here is a partial list
of the US camps in iraq:
Camp Abu Naji / FOB Garry Owen (Al Amarah)
Camp Adder also known as Tallil Air Base and Ali Air Base located in Nasiriyah
Just a wild *** guess but what if Maj. Gen. Soleimani was close to kicking the bucket
anyways and wanted to poke America one last time and did so by causing an issue at the
American embassy in Iraq.
If the General was such an asset why be in Iraq? Normally you would send your aide to the
area. If it was really important to meet someone then they would come to Iran.
I don't think Iran is necessarily that careless. I can believe ego can play a big part in
making bad decisions but if he was such an asset for so long why risk it unless you were a
dead man walking already.
The other Iranian leaders could of said to the already dying general if that is the way
you want to go out then by all means do so. It doesn't cost Iran anything if he does.
Just a different look at it. It may also be the reason why Iran won't do anything for
awhile if at all. He might of been a good general in Iran's eyes but still replaceable.
Later.
If our entire dollar racket fueled country were slightly more honestly governed, the Dept.
of Offense would bill Israel for at least 1/2 of its budget.
The actions of the US was a war crime. Those that are responsible should be arrested and
handed over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for prosecution. This would obviously
include Trump, Pompeo and Esper (as well as a number of others).
The US should then negotiate reparations with Iran.
If the US/West will not do so, if the people of the US/West democracies do not insist, if
we do nothing then we are all guilty of this War Crime. I don't really think we can have this
any other way.
"After all, we want people who are passionate about occupying foreign lands,
not grunts who are just there for the paycheck"
The Babylon Bee 11 hours ago <S> 554 *10
A new policy issued by the United States Department of Defense, in conjunction with online
platforms like Twitter and Facebook, will automatically enlist you to fight in a foreign war if
you post your support for attacking another country.
People who bravely post about how the U.S. needs to invade some country in the Middle East
or Asia or outer space will get a pop-up notice indicating they've been enlisted in the
military. A recruiter will then show up at their house and whisk them away to fight in the
foreign war they wanted to happen so badly.
"Frankly, recruitment numbers are down, and we needed some way to find people who are really
enthusiastic about fighting wars," said a DOD official. "Then it hit us like a drone strike:
there are plenty of people who argue vehemently for foreign intervention. It doesn't matter
what war we're trying to create: Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, China -- these
people are always reliable supporters of any invasion abroad. So why not get them there on the
frontlines?"
"After all, we want people who are passionate about occupying foreign lands, not grunts who
are just there for the paycheck," he added.
Strangely, as soon as the policy was implemented, 99% of saber-rattling suddenly ceased.
Some comments reminded me of two sayings at opposite ends of phase space.
The first I learnt from an article of Uri Avnery almost a decade ago. It is the classic
Jewish joke about the Jewish mother in Russia taking leave of her son, who has been called up
to serve the Czar in the war against Turkey. "Don't overexert yourself'" she implores him,
"Kill a Turk and rest. Kill another Turk and rest again "
"But mother," the son interrupts, "What if the Turk kills me?"
"You?" exclaims the mother, "But why? What have you done to him?"
This will end great, a fucked up circus called congress who hasn't had the balls to do their
job and legally declare war for nearly three decades, and a president who can't even defend
himself from a gang of thugs staging a direct coup against him in his own government. What
could possibly go wrong?
The second are the immortal words of Thucydides: "the strong do what they will, the weak
suffer what they must."
Yeah, I heard Thucydides had some issues with resolution of uncertainties for targeting,
especially for stand-off precision guided weapons. Plus there were some issues with long
range air-defense systems in Greece in times of Plato and Socrates. You know, GLONASS wasn't
fully operational, plus EW was a little bit scratchy.
So, surely, it all fully applies today, especially in choke points. Plus those Athenians
they were not exactly good with RPGs and anti-Armour operations. Other than that, Thucydides
nailed it.
Interesting to note that it was the party professing those words - Athens - who started
the Peloponnesian War, driven in large part by that haughty attitude. It was Athens that also ended that war, of course. They did so when they surrendered to the Spartans.
US Congresswoman Maxine Waters has allegedly fallen for a prank call in which she thought
activist Greta Thunberg was offering her a tape of Donald Trump confessing to pressuring
Ukraine into investigating his political rivals. YouTube pranksters Vladimir Kuznetsov and
Alexey Stolyarov, who go by the names Vovan and Lexus, are claiming they tricked Waters
(Dem-Calif.) into thinking she was speaking to teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg.
Vovan and Lexus made names for themselves by previously pranking Congressman Adam Schiff
(Dem-Calif.) into thinking there were nude photos of US President Donald Trump that Schiff
could get his hands on. They also claim to have pranked Waters two years
ago, in a phone call where one posed as Ukraine's prime minister.
Though Waters herself has not responded to the new video, the woman at the other end of the
phone identifies herself as the congresswoman and sounds an awful lot like her.
In the call, the pranksters pretend to be Thunberg and her father, with help from a female
colleague, and claim to have proof that Trump pressured the Ukrainian government into
investigating his political rivals, something Democrats have claimed, for months now, is
true.
Talleyrand remarked that Napoleon's assassination of the Duke of Enghien was worse than a
crime. It was a mistake. Donald Trump's decision to target Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, the head
of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, for destruction brings to mind the French diplomat's
lapidary verdict. Iran is likely to unleash its fearsome Shia proxy militias, wherever and
whenever it can. Nor is support from Europe, which is on the frontlines of Iranian blowback,
likely to be forthcoming. Quite the contrary.
Ironically, the Hollywood film 'Wag the Dog,' which tells the story of a US president caught
in a similar situation as Clinton's, and the lengths he goes to distract public attention from
his plight, was released just months before Clinton ordered the attack on Yugoslvia.
Maybe: but in the short term at least, it will provide Trump and his creatures with exactly
the jingoistic deflection they need to draw attention away from his and his Administration's
criminality and incompetence.
Even at this early date we're seeing an orgy of bellicose gloating from all the usual
suspects: and it will probably not be too long into tomorrow's news cycle before the full
fury of the RW Machine is turned on their REAL targets: not Iran, but any Americans who might
question Glorious Leader's "tough" actions....
Bombing a civilian airport in another country in order to assassinate Iranian and Iraq
leaders is a very bad diplomacy ;-)
It might well be that today this idiot blow up his chances fro reelection because revenge is
dish that should be served cold and Iran can postpone it for 11 months or so.
What is interesting is that neoliberal MSM are glad and still talking about Zelensky and
impeachment. What a country ! It looks like the decade of the twenties can be the decade of
another World War. "In every war the first casualty is truth."
Bombing a civilian airport in another country in order to assassinate Iranian and Iraq
leaders is a very bad diplomacy ;-)
It might well be that today this idiot blow up his chances fro reelection because revenge is
dish that should be served cold and Iran can postpone it for 11 months or so.
What is interesting is that neoliberal MSM are glad and still talking about Zelensky and
impeachment. What a country ! It looks like the decade of the twenties can be the decade of
another World War. "In every war the first casualty is truth."
A new policy issued by the United States Department of Defense, in conjunction with online platforms like Twitter and Facebook, will automatically enlist you to fight in a foreign war if you post your support for attacking another country.
