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    Edvard Munch Spring 1889   • The Eruption of the Refugee Crisis and the Push for Vaccine Passports (MPN) • And Now Proof: Covid Vaccines Are More
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 17 2021]

    #73318
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    “This is a good time to be old. ”

    I couldn’t agree more…

    #73320
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    …of course, I thought of many different scenarios of being old…closer to death comes to mind…

    #73321
    absolute galore
    Participant

    Ah. “The Scream.” Poor Edvard Munch. He’s not unlike a decent actor who gets famous for starring in a popular tv sitcom and can never break away from that public association.

    Of all the nonsense and insanity that has defined politics in the last decade, the B.S. about Russia, combined with our complete loss of diplomatic skills, is both the most frustrating and the most utterly irresponsible and dangerous. Not to mention we squandered a golden opportunity to de-escalate world tensions by working together in some kind of capacity. Instead, we drove them toward China and Iran. Tricky Dick looks pretty damn good from this perspective; certainly in a different stratosphere than Comatose Joe.

    #73322
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    @absolute galore

    I liked your comment very much…

    #73323
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    • And Now Proof: Covid Vaccines Are More Dangerous Than Covid (Denninger)

    The subtitle of that article is “for the nonmorbid.” Denninger concludes that “the FDA must immediately revoke the EUAs for all of them in any person who does not have a pre-existing morbidity that materially raises their risk above baseline…” He also calls for antibody tests before vaccination to check for existing immunity (which would change the risk-benefit analysis for the individual since the potential benefits of the vaccine would be reduced, while all the risks of the vaccine would remain.)

    To this I will add the following conclusions that can be drawn from CDC data about the vaccines (details appear in the comments to yesterday’s Covid Rattle):

    Vaccinated people who later come down with a symptomatic case of Covid tend to have more severe infections than those who are not vaccinated.

    The younger people (under 60) have a disproportionately larger share of the number of breakthrough cases.

    #73324
    John Day
    Participant

    Night before last, in page 2 of comments (like page 2 of Google search) Mdamski posted:

    What is Parasitic Drug (Ivermectin) Poisoning?

    “Poisoning by use of ivermectin is well documented. Most cases of adverse reaction result due to overdose of the product, and toxicity due to sensitivity because of a genetic mutation, MDR1 (multi-drug resistance gene), specific to certain breeds. This medication is given orally (tablets, treats, liquids, pastes), by injection, and as a topical solution against mites. Signs of poisoning are many and include blindness, tremors, and uncoordinated movements as a result of nerve and brain toxicity . There is no treatment for the poisoning; supportive measures are the only care available (though in cases of oral administration inducing of vomiting and active charcoal use are often done). Early and aggressive supportive care allows for a good prognosis for recovery.

    “Ivermectin is used in the treatment of parasitic diseases, one of the most well known being heartworm disease. Ivermectin belongs to the avermectin family of drugs and has been approved for multiple uses. Toxicity has been documented, with adverse effects due to the cross between the blood brain barrier.”

    Salt is a poison if you ingest too much too fast. And people wonder why I distrust experts.

    BACK to the present… The side effects above are analogous to the main side effect of ivermectin, as it is usually employed: DEAD WORMS COME OUT YOUR BUTT

    The weird effects are from when you take ivermectin for microfilarial worms, which have insinuated themselves into every pore of your being, and die there…

    Ladies and Gents, “Filariasis” : https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/filariasis/#:~:text=Filariasis%20is%20an%20infectious%20tropical,the%20bite%20of%20a%20mosquito.

    Go without fear!

    🙂

    #73325
    John Day
    Participant

    Well, on closer inspection, I see that quote may refer specifically to side effects in breeds of dogs.

    YMMV.

    The more famous side effects of ivermectin in humans are from killing the parasites, though.

    Stromectol-Man

    #73326
    zerosum
    Participant

    As usual TAE finds many
    Truthsayers?

    “Are we prepared to see our loved ones burn alive in a nuclear holocaust in a war with Russia over Ukraine? If not, cut out the macho saber rattling and deescalate before it’s too late”. – Tulsi Gabbard

    Who is doing the saber rattling?
    Why are they doing the saber rattling?
    The poor don’t have a saber.
    Why are “The news media” complicit?
    Why is Tulsi Gabbard talking about saber rattling to “the news media”?
    ——
    Again
    truthsayers

    “Biden’s Claim to be Ending America’s Longest War Misleading “

    Biden’s Claim To Be Ending America’s Longest War Misleading


    By Jeremy Kuzmarov – April 15, 2021

    Special Forces, Pentagon Contractors and Intelligence Operatives and mercenaries Will Remain

    Matthew Hoh, a disabled combat veteran who resigned from the State Department in 2009 in protest of the war, stated that a genuine peace process in Afghanistan is “dependent upon foreign forces leaving Afghanistan.” Further, Hoh said that, “Regardless of whether the 3500 acknowledged U.S. troops leave Afghanistan, the U.S. military will still be present in the form of thousands of special operations and CIA personnel in and around Afghanistan, through dozens of squadrons of manned attack aircraft and drones stationed on land bases and on aircraft carriers in the region, and by hundreds of cruise missiles on ships and submarines.”

    1. Many of the contract workers in Afganistan have signed contracts which go to the year 2023 and beyond. So if all these contract workers leave Afganistan, the US, Government will have to negotiate some sort of settlement with the contract workers who will expect their contracts to be honored.
    2. Really informative article it is, I am pretty much sure that Pentagon will never depart from Afghanistan, because its biggest buffer state, and it touches its outskirts to major opponents of Pentagon, like Russia, Iran China. It touches oil and mineral rich central Asia, South Asia and so on.
    Uncle Sam also covets Afghans mineral wealth. A 2007 United States Geological Service survey discovered nearly $1 trillion in mineral deposits, including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium, which is used in the manufacture of batteries for laptops and blackberries. An internal Pentagon memo stated that Afghanistan could become the “Saudi Arabia of lithium.”

    In 2001, when the U.S. first invaded Afghanistan, it was in the process of expanding its military infrastructure in Central Asia. Afghanistan provided a key way-station to this new “oil dorado,” which holds as much as 200 billion barrels of oil—about ten times the amount found in the North Sea, and a third of the Persian Gulf’s total reserves.

    Afghanistan was further valued at the time as a key location for an oil pipeline that would transport Central Asian oil to the Indian Ocean while bypassing Russia.
    As a previous CAM article documented, the current Afghan government led by Ashraf Ghani is largely a creation of the United States. Its military is funded by the United States at a cost of around $4 billion per year. This support is going to continue—unless Congress cuts it off—alongside large-scale U.S. foreign aid programs that amount to nearly one billion per year.

    The U.S. wants to keep Ghani in power, or replace him with another proxy that can help it win the geopolitical competition with Russia and China, which is little different from the 19th century “great game” between Great Britain and Russia.

    As long as the U.S. empire remains intact, the war as such will go on, and on—and on.
    ———–
    Again
    truthsayers

    https://greenwald.substack.com/p/journalists-learning-they-spread

    Journalists, Learning They Spread a CIA Fraud About Russia, Instantly Embrace a New One
    The most significant Trump-era alliance is between corporate outlets and security state agencies, whose evidence-free claims they unquestioningly disseminate.
    – Glenn Greenwald

    When the CIA or related security state agencies tell American journalists to believe something, we obey unquestioningly, and as a result, whatever assertions are spread by these agencies, no matter how bereft of evidence or shielded by accountability-free anonymity, they instantly transform, in our government-worshipping worldview, into a proven fact — gospel — never to be questioned but only affirmed and then repeated and spread as far and wide as possible.

    That has been the dynamic driving the relationship between the corporate press and the CIA for decades, throughout the Cold War and then into the post-9/11 War on Terror and invasion of Iraq. But it has become so much more extreme in the Trump era. As the CIA became one of the leading anti-Trump #Resistance factions — a key player in domestic politics to subvert the presidency of the 45th President regarded by media figures as a Hitler-type menace — the bond between the corporate press and the intelligence community deepened more than ever. It is not an exaggeration to call it a merger: so much so that a parade of former security state officials from the CIA, NSA, FBI, DHS and others was hired by these news outlets to deliver the news. The partnership was no longer clandestine but official, out in the open, and proud.

    In late June, this alliance of pro-war House Democrats — funded overwhelmingly by military contractors — and the Liz-Cheney-led neocon wing announced amendments to the military budget authorization process that would defund Trump’s efforts to withdraw troops from either Afghanistan or Germany (where they had been stationed for decades to defend Western Europe against a country, the Soviet Union, that ceased to exist decades ago). They instantly weaponized the NYT/CIA story as their primary argument.
    Over and over, the union of pro-war Democrats and Cheney-led neocon Republicans steamrolled the anti-war faction of left-wing and right-wing war opponents (led by Congressmembers Ro Khanna (D-CA), Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) and Matt Gaetz (R-FL)), and repeatedly used the Russia bounty story to justify continuation of the longest war in America’s history.

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    #73327
    Dimitri
    Participant
    #73328
    Germ
    Participant
    #73329
    Germ
    Participant

    “Regardless of whether the 3,500 acknowledged U.S. troops leave Afghanistan, the U.S. military will still be present in the form of thousands of special operations and CIA personnel in and around Afghanistan, through dozens of squadrons of manned attack aircraft and drones stationed on land bases and on aircraft carriers in the region, and by hundreds of cruise missiles on ships and submarines.”

    Contrary to What Biden Said, U.S. Warfare in Afghanistan is Set to Continue

    #73330
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    “This is a good time to be old.”… until you look in the mirror of your heart and bemoan being too physically frail to help. Like a friend said yesterday, “Ah, if I could just be 75 again! I’d show people a few things.”

    It is never a good time to be old unless one is impatient to discover what afterlife might exist… and one can do that at any age. No need to wait for old age. James Dean comes to mind.

    I take no comfort knowing I am likely to be dead when the worst dying begins. It ails me, thinking of my offspring and how little I can do for them. Being not yet 75 myself, and notoriousaly spry, I am doubling down on making myself as strong and able as my seven decades allow, so I can make one last sprint and be of some use to those born after I was.

    %^&

    As for Tricky Dicky: he would be just as bad or worse. He is the guy who took us off the gold standard after perpetuating the war in Nam which sorely exacerbated the bleeding of gold from our treasury. The times were simply more in our favor back then, is all. Richard Milhouse Nixon was a paranoiac narcissistic freakwad who sounded, at age 60 (1973) as senile as Biden does now at age 78.

    Both men never met a Pentagonal penis they wouldn’t fellate if the price was right.

    %^&

    Regarding Afghanistan: those private contractors will soon be fleeing with what’s left of their shredded buttocks. We want the lithium but we can’t maintain our foothold over there to get it. Any foreign troops that keep a grip on those ore deposits will be multi-nationalcorporatist contracters and they probably won’t fight for shit once the going gets rough, which is imminent. Whatever help Russia/China are/aren’t giving the Taliban is likely to increase now that Pakistan has given us the kiss-off.

    Russia, Pakistan Agree to Boost Military Cooperation Against Terror, Sea Piracy

    Russia to boost ties with Pakistan, supply military gear

    Russia to Provide Weapons to Pakistan in Bid to Fight Terrorism

    It remains to be seen if the crackwhores in D.C. are insane enough to push Russia beyond the brink.

    “In the brink of an eye, the blink of a flash…”

    Some Stop the Bomb poem from ancient days’ old college friend.

    %^&

    I dunno, but it seems to me that to stop crypto-currency, governments pretty much have to stop the internet or get their quantum computing game into high gear (like China). They can reduce it, shut down sites, but the idea is afoot. Functionally, it’s a kind of shadow-banking, and shadow-banking is big and growing despite government crackdowns. Not that all “black market” currencies will technically be blockchain-based, but the cryptic aspect will prevail. I foresee currency based on networks of trust rather than suspicion coming to the fore. Trust is a rare commodity and so makes a decent “standard” on which to base a currency.

    Hawala banking

    As for genuine global reserve currency: after the fall of the US dollar, I doubt we’ll see a global reserve currency again. It was a freakish beast to start with, an absurd notion and an evil influence: ‘I trust your money not you’ can never be the basis of a stable society. It is one thing to trust a legal tender more than the jerk next door; it is another thing to place more trust in money than human cooperation, which is what we’ve done… on a global scale.

    But the illusion of globalism will persist longer than the US$, and some attempt to create a universal currency will be made, and maybe even briefly succeed before reality tires of pretending we know what we’re doing.

    #73331
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    It takes a special kind of moron to fight a war (cold war) after it’s over. You’re only fighting yourself, some Tyler Durden fever dream where you wake up broke and bloody.

    #73332
    Noirette
    Participant

    War Drums tak tak tak then halt boom soft … tone down…

    Biden assures Ukraine of the US’ unquestioned support for Ukr.’s territorial integrity (meaning to the-take Crimea and DLPR), following Zelensky’s 24 March near declaration of war, and the massing of troops, Russian, Ukrainian, on the two sides of the contact line.

    Biden calls Putin, 13 April, and proposes to ease tensions, discuss all kinds of issues, problems, hopin’ to create “a stable relationship” – say, to meet personally at a summit (subsequently announced to be held in Vienna in July.) The two US warships, prev. ordered to enter the Balck Sea, change tack and scoot back.

    Then Biden announces new sanctions on Russia! (They don’t seem to be terribly impactful.) Putin closes the Kerch Straits to warships for 6 months.

    On the face of it, within the usual proceedings and confines of diplomatic relations, this makes absolutely no sense. It looks like Biden is parroting stuff that he is ordered to do, and that different factions push him to and fro and backwards.

    Not so (excepting Joe’s mindless stumbling reading-aloud from the teleprompter.)

    First, we can think of Corp. Prez. who has lowly minions working on competition moves (lowering x prices, opening up a new franchise, etc.), and a high-level mandate to negotiate, with the two being considered separate strategic arms.

    …. A better image might be an old-school Headmaster who punishes a recalcitrant pupil – as Those are the Rules and We Must Follow Them – and who simultaneously proposes a grand meeting between the pupil, his parents, the savvy psych., the mediator, himself and his trusted deputy, to “sort it all out once and for all.” (This imagined scene is set in Great Britain.)

    This fits very precisely with the hallucinating China-US summit in Anchorage, 21 March, where, as I pointed out, the first image of the vid illustrates a dire, in your face, insult to the Chinese – the locale looking like a shoddy job done by a careless boy-scout team, set up in a cellar.

    Then, Blinken blasts off by insulting China and bringing up human rights abuses (err, only the supposed Chinese ones.)

    Exactly the same approach as Biden, above. Assuming an authority, a dominant position, that the US does not hold, and is proscribed in Int’l relations if one wants to negotiate.

    Recall: the Gorby – Reagan ‘friendship’ — Bush Junior seeing Putin’s soul — Trump’s attempt to ‘ally’ at least somewhat with Russia to prevent further soldering of a China-Russia alliance — …

    #73333
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    While I think the attempt to disrupt NordStream is serious, I believe the rest is just distracting nonsense, albeit with the strategic benefit of finding just how far Putin can be pushed these days.

    They know now. They can back off and pretend to have made a point while the dismantling of the covid machinery continues. This also is a losing proposition they’re trying to back off of without appearing totally incapable. This is proving difficult, but they have Joe to throw to the wolves when needed, and Trump’s long shadow to hide behind for awhile until it becomes too obvious that even deluded old Trump was more right about covid more often than the official narrative.

    But they’ve stacked the timber atop the kindling atop the tinder. It only wants a match, and there are rogues who might light that bonfire just to see it burn. They could do it in the name of Yahweh, Jesus, or Allah. Or Mother Ukraine. Or just to collect insurance on whatever.

    #73334
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    Pentagon: Unclear if Contractors Will Leave Afghanistan

    I think the Taliban and their cohorts are giving us fair warning to avoid major humiliation when Afghan’s acknowledged and de facto leaders make that call to Putin and ask for Russian support. This isn’t 1981. The Soviets not only left Afghanistan 29 years ago, they fell apart around the same time: the USSR is no more. Afghanistan knows the Great Game better than anyone, their land being the primary stadium for those tourneys. Now it’s time for them to be Russia’s friend. For awhile, maybe a few decades even, they’ll be treated fairly.

    I think the 18K contractors are currently having often angry discussions over French cognac and Kashmiri hash about their chances of being hired by Russia or China to exploit Afghani resources. They know those chances are zip, and if by some miracle they are hired, they’ll be left to hang out to dry as an example to other wannabe corporate armies.

    The Age of Corporations is almost done. They have parasitically killed off their government hosts in the West, with the Asian hosts also in major but not necessarily immediately terminal decline. Fascism still has legs in Asia.

    In Russia, corporations are required to function if they want to survive because Putin has no illusions about how power is maintained and has a VERY firm grip on the military (and the press, when necessary). In Russia, national identity is ancient, with a deep alliance between church and state that has been rebuilt with care after both church and state publicly demonstrated in the same century how much they need each other. In Russia, they have Russian folk songs going back 1,000 years.

    In the USA, we have Yankee Doodle Dandy, churches as vapid and corrupt as can be, and a military that has a strangehold on the corporations that have a stranglehold on USA elections. A ring of tigers who have each other by the tail and think that means cooperation and competence. They’ll all go down together, as we see happening, although churches will grow strong soon as nuclei for building social trust and solidarity against the inevitable mob-brewed gangsterism.

    Russia has this:

    Blessing of Nature

    In America, the closest thing we have to this are the bedraggled powwows of the indigenes we almost wiped out:

    Powwow

    I want to start a cross-Xtian/Amerindian church thingie. Something that might see my grandkids through social eruption. If it could relocate them* to Russia, that would be as good as I might hope for.
    *(churches are good at that stuff)

    #73335
    cloudhidden
    Participant

    Canada suspends it’s military training mission in Ukraine. Covid is the excuse.
    More likely preparing to get out of Dodge.
    https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ukraine-training-mission-canadian-forces-covid-pandemic-1.5991602
    Comments on that page are not pleased with Canada’s involvement there.

    #73336
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    “You have a situation where if you’re in this field, the pandemic, that’s something that you kind of prepare for and you’re ready for. And a lot of these people muffed it,” he said. “When push came to shove, they advocated policies that have not worked against the virus but have been very, very destructive. They are never going to admit they were wrong about anything, unfortunately.” (Florida gov Desantis)

    HIs voice is hardly small potatoes. I can’t stand the bastard but that’s neither here nor there. You can see the populist rise beginning in earnest.

    #73337
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    @ cloudhidden

    “Canada suspends it’s military training mission in Ukraine. Covid is the excuse.”

    That is too sweet. We can’t fight a war because we might get sick.

    You know, people forget, but regimes do collapse. Fauci, for example, is likely to find himself on the sands of San Clemente beach, passing time with a metal detector, searching for Nixon’s ghost, wishing he could go out to eat without wearing a mask because otherwise he’d be laughed at or even lynched.

    #73338
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    Someobody probably already shared this. Anyway, it caught my eye. The shit is seriously hitting the fan. This guy provides easily understood, quotable, and paraphraseable soundbites that are b opund to go viral.

    Exclusive Vaccine Focus at Expense of Therapeutics Killed Up To 85% — Peter McCullough MD Testifies to HHS Committee

    #73339
    Bill7
    Participant

    “..The World Health Organisation changed its definition in 2008 to exclude the criterion of ‘enormous numbers of deaths and illness’. In other words, the definition of a pandemic is ultimately a matter of interpretation. There is no data that currently supports the claim there is a pandemic in Britain at this moment, and whether any data ever did is doubtful..

    The scientific process has happened in reverse. Starting in January last year, the existence of a deadly new pandemic, unlike anything previously confronted, was conjectured on the basis of terrifying rumours and unreliable reports from China, not scientifically established facts.

    and:

    “..the most important evidence for the existence of the pandemic is its external signifiers, especially face masks, this mass psychological theatre.

    Here again, the conjecture of the pandemic itself justified the imposition of the mandate, and nothing else: no evidence supports the thesis that masks have any positive medical effect and the more plausible scenario is their medical effect is negative. Nonetheless the Gates Foundation-funded behavioural psychologists of Sage and their equivalents in other countries argued that mandating them was necessary(‘because most people still did not feel sufficiently threatened’).

    The vague objective of an incomprehensible ambition, opposed against a nightmare, discloses a more concrete aim: control..”

    A very convenient pandemic

    Tip of the hat again to Germ, for the fine link.

    #73340
    absolute galore
    Participant

    @madamski I’m aware of what a terrible president Nixon was, although it was inevitable that the U.S. would come off the gold standard, since continual growth or die was already built into our economic DNA, and we would have blown by peak gold pretty quickly.

    In any case, being POTUS seems to require many negative traits. I was just saying in terms of holding his own with world leaders, Nixon at least behaved somewhat like an adult with a brain cell or two. Biden is a sentimental old fool who apparently now actually believes the little folksy bs he spins. I mean, I looked into his eyes and said we understand each other, he’s a killer, he has no soul, etc. Even Reagan wouldn’t say those lines in a movie. And everyone looked and acted older back in the day–weird how that works. Plus Biden has access to better meds to keep up appearances. God help us.

    #73341
    WES
    Participant

    Bill7:

    I don’t suppose the WHO issuing pandemic bonds had anything to do with changing their criteria for pandemics?

    #73342
    WES
    Participant

    Now we know who officially stopped President Trump from declassifying documents.
    None other than Bill Barr.
    Clearly Barr was working for the deep state.
    That is why Julian remains behind bars.
    Trump had nothing to do with jailing Julian.
    Deep state joe is keeping Julian in jail till he dies.

    #73343
    WES
    Participant

    I have noticed recently there seems to be a number of so called “data breaches” that are being weaponized against certain individuals, particularly President Trump supporters.

    I am beginning to suspect that these “data breaches” are probably the work of government insiders who have access to the NSA’s data collection. Likely the same people who targeted President Trump.

    After all none of these people were ever punished for illegally accessing the NSA’s data, so why would they stop now? This just goes to show you how respect for the constitution has eroded beyond repair.

    #73344
    WES
    Participant

    I have noticed that one is not allowed to point out the irony that after being vaccinated, the vaccinated still must wear masks, stay socially distance, and remained in lockdown, nor that they need to be re-vaccinated.

    #73345
    zerosum
    Participant

    Truth telling
    new word -military contractors
    old word – mercenaries
    A mercenary, sometimes known as a soldier of fortune, is an individual who takes part in military conflict for personal profit,

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mercenaries

    This is a list of mercenaries. It includes foreign volunteers, private military contractors, and other “soldiers of fortune”.

    Without the web you would never know who they were. Interesting reading.

    #73346
    chettt
    Participant

    The notion that Nixon somehow chose to take us off the gold standard seems pretty revisionary to me. At best you could say that Nixon just officially put the marker on the grave on an entity that had died at least a decade earlier. Pretending worked in everyone’s interest and no one really complained until De Gaulle got greedy and forced a change in the game. The dollar standard arose not because every wanted it, nor because the US was imposing it; no, the dollar standard arose because there was no other alternative in the bipolar world of the time.
    The notion that the US forced the world to accept the dollar as the world’s reserve currency is equally absurd. No one, no country, no group “decided”, there was just no other alternative. If it were that easy then we would surely be using SDR or some other device as our reserves.
    As ugly as the USD may be, it’s still the prettiest of the bunch.

    #73347
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    @ absolute galore

    “I was just saying in terms of holding his own with world leaders, Nixon at least behaved somewhat like an adult with a brain cell or two. Biden is a sentimental old fool who apparently now actually believes the little folksy bs he spins. ”

    Yes, the polish is gone. They used to be able to act as if they somewhat knew what they were doing. It was a pleasant illusion while it lasted.

    #73348
    WES
    Participant

    After the Japanese PM’s disastrous visit, I wonder if any other foreign leader will bother to visit joe and kamala?

    Reminds me of sparkle sock’s disastrous foreign visits. Now nobody asks him to visit them now either!

    When sparkle socks visited India, the local people first thought he was making fun of them. Later they realized that he was just an idiot!

    #73349
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    @ chett

    The USA enforced the petrodollar militarily, not the gold standard. Fact remains that Nixon pulled the plug on the gold standard. It was not the only choice available. As for deGaulle’s “greed”: greedy or not, he was no sucker. 1965 was when USA made it plain it intended to escalate the war in Nam, borrowing money to do so. The last thing the French were going to do was help the USA wage a war in a colony they’d relinquished in 1954.

    As for us being “the prettiest of the bunch”: beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I suppose. I don’t see it. I see a nation and an idea both squandered along the usual lines.

    #73350
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    @ WES

    “I have noticed that one is not allowed to point out the irony that after being vaccinated, the vaccinated still must wear masks, stay socially distance, and remained in lockdown, nor that they need to be re-vaccinated.”

    No one has stopped me. But then, I’m used to people rolling their eyes when I speak my mind.

    #73351
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    Yes, the polish is gone. They used to be able to act as if they somewhat knew what they were doing. It was a pleasant illusion while it lasted.

    I think that right now we’re in a similar situation in that regard as the post-Brezhnev USSR. The ruling WWII-era gerontocracy didn’t want anything to change, so twice they installed men who had one foot in the proverbial grave with predictable results. Now our Boomer gerontocracy doesn’t want anything to change (there are only so many Xers and Millennials who are willing to be as pliant as Obama), so they keep shoe-horning in these people who are obviously ill (Hillary) or going senile (Trump and Biden). We really pushed the envelope with Biden though, didn’t we?

    #73352
    absolute galore
    Participant

    @ WES

    “I have noticed that one is not allowed to point out the irony that after being vaccinated, the vaccinated still must wear masks, stay socially distance, and remained in lockdown, nor that they need to be re-vaccinated.”

    There have been a number of links here on TAE to Tucker Carlson doing just this. Although he did also report that Chelsea Clinton tried to get zuckerberg to shut down Carlton’s Facebook show. Carlson has a weird laugh but I thought his takedown of Bill Gates’s “Sun Dimming” project was pretty good. Favorite line: “A guy who cuts his hair with garden shears is trying to control the solar system.”

    #73353
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    …so they keep shoe-horning in these people who are obviously ill (Hillary) or going senile (Trump and Biden). We really pushed the envelope with Biden though, didn’t we?

    Judging a nation’s people is relatively easy; look at who they choose for leadership…
    Using that measure, the U.S. hasn’t looked good for decades…and the present and near future aren’t looking very good either…
    I’d like to know who is running the country; it sure as hell ain’t Joe…

    #73354
    WES
    Participant

    During my travelling days, I remember all the times of being tortured by CNN while waiting at airports.
    I am happy to see CNN has lost well over half of their viewers since helping Binden win residency of the white house.
    Reaping what they sowed!
    It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of dipsticks!
    CNN’s ratings are a proxy for the CIA.

    #73355
    WES
    Participant

    V. Arnold:

    Obama is running joe. Obama also chose kamala too.
    This is Obama’s third term.

    #73356
    WES
    Participant

    galore:

    Gates is one evil dude. The more we find out, the more evil is revealed.

    #73357
    Dave Note
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    Dmitry Orlov still has the home court advantage in analyzing the UkroNazi situation.

    Putin is a cool customer, his feathers don’t ruffle easily and he has a plan B,C,D….for diplomatic occasions of any sort.

    Old White Joe Bedpan can’t even buy a Clue if his life depended on it.

    The ‘Summit’ with Putin and the sad pathetic US sock muppet will be craptistic in all it’s splendid glory.

    I wonder who get to jam their arm up Joe’s butt to make it look like his lips are moving?

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