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  • #193988
    Germ
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    #193989
    those darned kids
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    gaza

    #193990
    Celticbiker
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    Kharzarian Kabuki Theatre. Waing For Gadot, on steroids.

    #193991
    John Day
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    Brandon Smith throws this cricket to the chickens: The Butker Principle: Is America Better Off Without Women In The Workforce?

    The Butker Principle: Is America Better Off Without Women In The Workforce?

    #193992
    Topcat
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    Once a Psy=op, always a Psy=op

    #193993
    ₿oogaloo
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    It is encourarging to see signs of rapproachment between the US and Russia. It is also encouraging that the Russiagate hoax has been thoroughly debunked — at least among those of us who have been paying attention. God bless Vladimir Putin and Sergey Lavrov!

    #193994
    Topcat
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    News Flash: Update on Alaska Summit Progress

    Women in the Work Force:

    #193995
    Topcat
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    Make America Health Again

    An assessment…..lay your cards on the table.

    Readin’ the Tea Leaves

    #193996
    Topcat
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    One in 6 Americans Take Antidepressants, Other Psychiatric Drugs

    #193997
    Topcat
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    #193998
    those darned kids
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    The Thiel Principle: Is America Better Off Without The Workforce?

    #193999
    Dr. D
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    Nice Hopper. I have not seen that one before.

    On Summit: all the ECONOMIC people are there. Bessant. Russia’s Fed head. NATO is not there. You tell me what they’re really talking about. DingDingDing, think we called this one. It’s hard to see inside, but People is Policy.

    It is not accidental that the USA purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867, the very year that the British Parliament enacted the British North America Act. This British enactment created the Dominion of Canada”
    As Luongo says, leaving the Anti-America there, to control them. Leaving the Anti-India of Pakistan to kill some folks.

    Pakrovsk dead, yes, looks like bother Trump and Putin knew the exact date it goes down. In fact, Trump first thought it was 50 days but they adjusted.

    Bank Of America Nixes Rule That Led To ‘Debanking’ Of Conservative Religious Groups”

    Lot going on with this and others in Luongo bank interview (Luongo.me) Yes, they need to repeal or they’ll just Outlaw banking on gun owners next time. Next, Turns out the EXISTENCE of Tether means they can go around EVERYONE. No need for systemic banks, but also no need for FED. And THAT sets infinite open, market rates, geographically. Interesting. I bet no one saw that coming, as it just happens to knock out some levels they would otherwise have to attack and close. The “National” rate is something everyone predicted in 1913 and would kill the nation ON PURPOSE (as comments said yesterday” not on accident, and not bc of their morals. This is EXACTLY why the Euro exists, to lower price for Germany, but which destroys Italy and Greece dead dead dead. (Money too high) Same for NYC and Mississippi now. If rates are set at every bank in Galveston, Athens, Rolling Rock, and Muncie, then NYC and all British Globalist Financiers lose their infinite free arbitrage. That is, ALL POWER.

    “Nobody pays attention to what Presidents Obama or Clinton, Sen. Schumer, or former Speaker Pelosi say anymore.”

    How? Only if the entire broad core has checked out and stopped voting. We know that is generally true.

    “• Putin & Trump Find Common Ground as West’s War Party Shut Out (Sp.)

    ‘Nuff said. As yesterday, Telegraph lamenting that John Bolton and Lindsay Graham – you know, responsible, thoughtful leaders – aren’t running things anymore. If only Trump could channel his inner John McCain and share some of our “Beautiful bombs.”

    “• Trump Pushes Peace Over Ceasefire After Putin Meeting (RT)

    No s—t. There was never going to be any ceasefire. That’s Euro-nonsense they only push because it’s stupid.
    Putin already had a ceasefire: Get out of our constitutionally-approved country, which is the entire Donbas. We can’t shoot you if you’re not there.

    “• Putin-Trump Summit Went Much Better than Expected — Pepe Escobar (Sp.)

    I hope Pepe didn’t have to go to Urgent Care for having to write that. What happened to “all bad things, all the time?”

    “In terms of its significance for the international balance, it is comparable only to the negotiations on German reunification 35 years ago.”

    Both the biggest and the smallest. Everything happened, but nothing happened. Ah, Reporting! We never knew ye.
    How about this: in the real chessboard, the U.S. and Russia, who had an underground alliance against the truly evil players in the world, have just gone public with said alliance, although not why it exists and what it entails, nor how long it’s been running. (since the 90s) But when you’ve won the secret war, you need to come out and start dismantling the lie-network. Admitting this is a big one. That’s why it’s all Said/Not Said. For the Media to SAY it – anything – they would have to admit 40 years of old stuff they all knew they were lying about, their whole careers, and what evil, despicable people they have always been. That nothing they’ve ever told you was true. At all.

    “The European Union had been wailing about “transatlantic unity” in the run-up”

    They are epic SIGNALERS, as all commies are. Redefine all words. They use this word because of the “Atlanticists” meaning Americans who are traitors to their nation but obey Europe. Pan-nationals. Globalists. They are 100% of the people on both coasts, Ivy League, papers, etc.

    Someone just pointed out (about gender wars, but) that the way they become radicalized now is just to read the NY Times on how crime and murder killing the most black people is a good thing, and we must never stop it. Etc.

    NYT, WaPo, are so radical they make “Jacobean” and “Ms.” look like “The Yorkshire Post”. Sadly I can’t use most paper as examples, as the “Telegraph” used to be arch-right in 1855, but now believes “Das Kapital” is far-right wing conspiracy to undermine the Revolution.

    All of them are fit for Zoolander, but no one would believe them.

    “[Zelensky] sounded like he was treating his phone like a toy, calling up everyone in the contacts under “EU”

    Yeah, he called up and badgered INDIA, speaking to Modi directly. Well, since TRUMP couldn’t get India to budge when threatening them with immediate economic annihilation, Ze thought he should show up as the REAL guns, the REAL power, and order India to act. No, you can’t make this up. When Modi politely declined, Ze carried on as if nothing happened. Still king of the world.

    That is, of course, why the only solution is to track them all down and shoot them so they can stop making endless trouble. NO. You are NOT Napoleon. But you DID just mass-murder a MILLION-Two humans. 1.2m.

    “What remains is the disposition of Ukraine’s future which, in another raw truth, is mostly Russia’s to determine.”

    This will infuriate most of you but Russia doesn’t care about TIME. That’s Eastern, Asian warfare and outlook they have, as the crossover state. They will allow Ukr to be like this, then with Zu in a rump West, then as things go, later with their installed Russian man, then with Odessa being “Special” then with it being “Russian” etc, as ten more years go by.

    PCR will demand Shock and Awe so this is all done by Thursday.

    ““The scary thing is that the Biden administration officials who were in that room said ‘oh we’re ready for that. If the Russians wanna play, we’re ready to go to nuclear war with them.’ This is the insanity that existed in November of last year!”

    As I’ve said constantly, and ALL EUROPE was trying to arrange, not a single one out except Orban.

    There are no weapons, men, because it was always meant to go nuclear. They had no escalation, nothing BUT nuclear, built no factories, didn’t WANT anything but nuclear. And so even today.

    “• EU Leaders Want To Overthrow Three European Governments – Budapest (RT)

    Democracy in action. The Garden People, not acting like a Jungle at all.

    “New Delhi condemned the move as “extremely unfortunate” and pledged to safeguard its national interests.”

    They’re going to cut us off, withdraw and take all their H1B visa corps with them? Wow, so sad!

    “The emergent enemy in the West is wokism/Marxism combining with Islamism to destroy the American way of life. ”

    hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!! total nonsense.
    sure, that’s why the jobs all left.
    sure, that’s why mom’s disabled and dad’s on meth.
    sure, that’s why you have no privacy left.”

    Yes, sir. This happens everywhere Socialism is tried. Almost 200 years in a row. But we’re different, I guess. I guess it was an asteroid that hit, not a specific value spectrum, systematically installed for 50-100 years which everyone warned would have these effects, then pointed to the effects and predictions coming true, every day for 100 years. Whoda knewd tho right.

    Kultsummer: similar. So we didn’t have more home ownership in 1960-1900 either? They weren’t using much oil then. We have no electric cars and nuclear plants? The prosperity of one nation’s factories (Germany 1900) impinge on the wealth of another nation’s factories (France 1900), such that all are not made RICHER when more factories are added, not poorer? These are all modern assumptions, almost universal, but also wrong.

    It’s completely sustainable, for hundreds more years at least. We haven’t even let the oil out of one nation: IRAN, while it bubbles up wasted in Santa Barbara. We shut down virtually every mine in the whole U.S. This was done ON PURPOSE.
    Which they all wrote down why and how, for 100 years, then said it was for the glorious Socialist revolution for 100 years, but don’t believe them.

    The U.S. is run by corporations, that’s why socialist theory is taught in every one of them right at HR orientation, and are 99% of the media, the government, State and National, every NGO, and are openly dictating policy while Capitalist standards, like the slightest bit of property rights, are erased openly while saying it is EXPRESSLY Socialist in origin, nature, and outcome.

    I somehow feel if corporations were running anything there would be 1) any profits at all and 2) Property rights. Possibly 3) Customers who like Henry Ford could afford their products so they don’t go bankrupt? Nope, they act like Bud and Disney, that’s how Capitalist and Profit-oriented they are.

    #194000
    zerosum
    Participant

    An influencer/salesperson/politician/liar is a person who inspires or guides the actions of others.
    Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, great promotional abilities, and an understanding of the product or service.

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    • Putin & Trump Find Common Ground as West’s War Party Shut Out (Sp.)
    • Trump Pushes Peace Over Ceasefire After Putin Meeting (RT)

    “It was determined by all that the best way to end the horrific war between Russia and Ukraine is to go directly to a Peace Agreement, which would end the war, and not a mere Ceasefire Agreement, which often times do not hold up,” Trump said.
    The US president also confirmed that he and Zelensky would hold talks on Monday, adding that “if all works out, we will then schedule a meeting with President Putin.”

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    Western media had plunged into “frenzy bordering on complete madness” over the honors given to the Russian leader.

    • Western Media In Frenzy Over Putin-Trump Summit – Moscow (RT)
    • Putin-Trump Summit Went Much Better than Expected — Pepe Escobar (Sp.)
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    • Zelensky Should ‘Make A Deal’ – Trump (RT)

    Trump replied: “Make the deal”,

    – recognize the new territorial reality on the ground, including the status of Crimea, Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporozhye Regions, all of which have voted to become parts of Russia.
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    • Lasting Settlement Essential In Ukraine Conflict – Putin (RT)

    “We hope that this will be perceived constructively in Kiev and European capitals, and that no obstacles will be created,” Putin stressed.
    “There should be no attempts to undermine the anticipated progress through provocations or behind-the-scenes intrigue.”
    Trump stressed that the key takeaway of the talks is that there is a reasonable opportunity to achieve peace.
    He expressed hope to meet Putin again soon, noting that the Russian president shares his desire to bring the conflict to an end.
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    The dense fog of leaks and speculation surrounding Alaska underlines its importance.

    Much of this “white noise” comes from two sources: commentators eager to sound informed, and political actors seeking to shape public opinion.

    • The EU Throws An Epic Tantrum As Trump Meets With Putin (Marsden)

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    INFLUENCERS?

    • Carefully and Gracefully (James Howard Kunstler)

    The raw truth is that Russia has likely already “won” the war in Ukraine, in the sense that it has finally gained control of the battlespace and worn out its opponent. It is fait accompli.

    • Scott Ritter: Two Things Need to Happen for Trump to Get His Ceasefire (Sp.)

    In November 2024, the CIA briefed Congress on the risks of a nuclear war breaking out, estimating that there was a “greater than 50% chance” thanks to the Biden administration’s decision to greenlight long-range ATACMS strikes into Russia, Ritter revealed.

    did the CIA say the Russians were bluffing?’
    He said no.
    The CIA said the exact opposite.
    He said but that’s not the scary thing.
    The scary thing is that the Biden administration officials who were in that room said ‘oh we’re ready for that.
    If the Russians wanna play, we’re ready to go to nuclear war with them.’
    This is the insanity that existed in November of last year!” Ritter stressed.

    • US Has ‘No Right’ To Tell India Who To Trade With – Jeffrey Sachs (RT)

    India should not allow itself to be used by the US, somehow, in the US’ misguided trade war with China,” the economist noted.
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    #194001
    zerosum
    Participant

    Zelensky sacrificed more than a million Ukrainians to further his vanity.

    #194002
    zerosum
    Participant

    An influencer/salesperson/politician/liar
    Trump Derangement Syndrome: (TDS)
    A term used to describe individuals who exhibit extreme reactions to President Donald Trump.
    An influencer/salesperson/politician/liar is a person who inspires or guides the actions of others.
    Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, great promotional abilities, and an understanding of the product or service.

    #194003
    poppie
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    we live in all the spheres of the cosmos at one time. I think I want to call these dimensions. we see things in these dimensions bound by rhyming mathematics. nuclear orbits. solar orbits. galactic orbits. There are parallel topics in life. cells are complex organisms. multicell animals are complex organisms. Animal societies are complex organisms.
    societies get cancer. societies undergo mitosis.

    What are the sibling pairs in society?
    elites / deplorables. Probably not, Elites would die of starvation. My bias says deplorables are smarter.
    Hi IQ / Lo IQ. Probably not. Its too random. Not linear enough.
    dependent / independent. There might be better words, but I think thats it.

    #194004
    poppie
    Participant

    I had an idea once that any construct of humanity that does not accommodate everyone in some way would not survive. I have to modify that to accommodate everyone in one of the 2 side of the mitosis.
    If your religion / government / corporation does not accommodate everyone with respect, you are out of here.

    #194005
    zerosum
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    The elitists in Ukraine should be happy to get rid of inferior, Russian-speaking human beings !

    #194006
    kultsommer
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    It’s completely sustainable, for hundreds more years at least.

    Does it account for “exponential growth paradigm” or lack of it if “the plan” is to reduce the population?

    And for what?

    My, teacher, wife’s assistant drives almost an hour each way to come to work from the place where she has a home that she can “afford”.
    And…. that she’s not alone in this wast country goes without saying.
    No socialism, capitalism or anything else can fix the imposed lifestyle madness that “drives the economy”and without even pretending that I know the solution for.

    High marriage and home ownership in the 50’s (and 60’s).
    It is a result of socio and geopolitical “anomaly” that will never be replicated. Add to that relatively cheep structures as a result of post-war boom of mass produced homes, that started with Levitt town in the late 40’s. Simple framing system allows for fast building if standardized. The lack of wall thermal mass of those dwellings requires, just like for the car, an excessive heating and cooling during the outside temperature swings – asking for an additional energy expenditure.

    Thus, here we are with “energy issues” again…which we can overcome by “drill-baby-drill private initiative”?

    #194007
    Dr D Rich
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    File under not doing capitalism hard enuff you loser. That’s why you’re losing and not profiting and capitalizing like winners.

    “Wifkoff was in the room with Putin and Trump.”

    Profits!!!

      President Trump does not public point out that the shift in plan negates the need for a ceasefire security force, but the reality is inside the unspoken change. A very smart and strategic approach that appears to have flown under the radar and Bombast.

    File under Unfair and Cybersecurity …btw is cybersecurity just another synonym for pedophile?

    The following Jew named Tom Alexandrovich IS NOT treated any better than Scott Ritter here, just a lot quicker Justice for Tom than Somerset SCI Scott….Triple Esss.

    Israeli Official Arrested in Nevada Child Sex Operation Is Released and Back in Israel

    Can’t be true. Gotta be AI.

    Pedophilia, tolerable in your world scheme???
    Oppositional Defiance Syndrome is a syndrome wtf and very bad for WitkopfCapitalism in every world.


      If you’re an American teenager charged with “throwing rocks” in the West Bank, you’re thrown in a dungeon and left to rot. But if you’re a grown ass Israeli man and you try to lure an underage American girl to a hotel room to have sex with you, you spend a few hours in jail and then get to fly home to Israel the next day, no questions asked
    #194008
    Topcat
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    #194009
    Topcat
    Participant

    The AI Craze

    What goes around comes around……

    #194010
    Topcat
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    #194011
    Topcat
    Participant

    #194012
    Topcat
    Participant

    #194013
    Doc Robinson
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    Some friendly ribbing.

    Dr. D today:
    Nice Hopper. I have not seen that one before.

    Dr. D on January 25, 2023:
    That Hopper deserves to be better known.


    https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2023/01/debt-rattle-january-25-2023/

    #194014
    Michael Reid
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    #194015
    kultsommer
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    I’ll be here anytime you need someone to blame on your poor life choices.

    Winged horse is about to turn to the left and reveal a fat hammer and sickle stamp on his body.

    Since I am at it and speaking of….”$0.00 earnings” capture above.
    In the best Tucker Carlson impression utter: “Why I can’t have my country like this?”, after his stroll on Moscow streets, and think hard as why is that?
    On the long run things change in unexpected ways and nothing is what it seems at the glance.
    As I have written before, “their” suffering, “Including 150 mill dead”, if you want to call it that way, under the different system paid-off.
    Human degrading “tent cities” in former Eastern block counties? Non existent!

    All that matters now days. However, Americans complain only after they are, personally, affected.

    #194016
    those darned kids
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    pick a caribbean country to live in:

    1. haiti
    2. la republica dominican
    3. cuba
    4. jamaica

    hahahaha!

    #194017
    WES
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    Kultsommer:

    True, well built old homes often had more mass to help better deal with changes in outdoor temperatures.

    However, well built new homes have better insulation to achieve the same or better results.
    Adding automatic central heating/cooling slaves is a 100% improvement!

    #194018
    Topcat
    Participant

    #194019
    Michael Reid
    Participant
    #194020
    kultsommer
    Participant

    @WES

    Adding automatic central heating/cooling slaves is a 100% improvement!True

    True, But having a millions of these it adds up.

    On my trips to Peru and, just recent, to Chile during our summer and their winter, I noticed that they do not bother with the indoor heating. Layer up and exist! No different than being at my grandparents farm during the winter months, when I was growing up.
    What I am trying to say – the rest of world is “adapting” in more down to Earth manner.
    US life style is non-negotiable until it is? Middle class is already next in the line…..

    #194022
    Topcat
    Participant

    #194023
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/putin-demands-zelensky-surrenders-donetsk-region-as-condition-for-ending-war-in-ukraine/ar-AA1KEow8?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=68a1121dcedb43d89988f6342411f4b7&ei=11

    What is next.
    Zelensky flies to US to discuss exit from Donbas in exchange for peace

    Mr Putin’s condition for Ukrainian troops to withdraw from Donetsk and Luhansk, which make up the Donbas region, follow circulated reports on the demand ahead of Friday’s summit.

    The Russian president also said he would freeze the frontline in the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, where his forces occupy a large territory.

    #194024
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #194025
    WES
    Participant

    Kultsommer:

    I agree in milder climates, most housing has no central heating because people can layer up for the brief periods of cold they face.

    For example, people in north Africa during winter, face cold nights but warm 10 C (50 F) days.
    Building their homes wih thick stone/cement walls bridges the daily warm to cold swings they face.
    In addition, there is no cheap heating sources available locally.

    In more extreme climates like Saskatchewan, you need a source of heat in order to survive, because of the extended winter, with cold days and cold nights.
    My Father grew up on the pararies and his chore was attending to the furance, day and night, 7 days a week.
    They burned whatever they could get, wood, sawdust, or local high ash coal (I worked and fished, in those local coal mines).

    I once asked my Father, what was the single best invention of his generation (born in 1926)?
    Without any hesitation, he said central heating!

    #194026
    zerosum
    Participant

    WES
    I asked my g-f about staying warm in winter… (pre 1900)
    They washed their longjohn and bedding in the spring
    Winter indoor toilet was the horse stall.

    #194027
    WES
    Participant

    The Fed – Reducing Bond Maturities:

    This week I saw a report that the Fed was going to off-load most of their long term treasury bonds (5 – 7 trillion? in favor of mostly shorter term T – Bills.

    The Treasury department was arranging to issue more short term T – Bills to make this Fed switch in maturities, possible.

    Naturally they didn’t say why they were doing this!

    #194028
    WES
    Participant

    Zerosum:

    Yes, and a warm wife/girl friend helped get you through those long cold winter nights too!

    This likely had something to do with the higher birth rates back then too!

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