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    Edward Hopper Folly Beach, Charleston, South Carolina 1929   • Zelenskyy: 50 Tanks Will Not Solve Problem (Az.) • US Lawmaker Proposes ‘Just One’
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle January 23 2023]

    #126914
    Germ
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    This is a terrific Ed Dowd interview:

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    TVASF

    Still can’t get the hang of this damn video sizing!

    #126916
    Germ
    Participant

    C U Next Tuesday!

    🤣☠️☠️🤣

    #126917
    Germ
    Participant

    TVASF

    #126918
    Germ
    Participant

    #126919
    Germ
    Participant

    TVASF

    #126920
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Al Gore’s crime was not in highlighting Planetary Meltdown. His crime was to promote completely fake ‘solutions’ that made matters worse, and then go on to amass a personal fortune out of commercialisation of those fake ‘solutions’ that made matters worse.

    However, since he was a politician before becoming a scammer, we would expect nothing other than deception and fraud.

    Just wondering whether there is any difference between politician and scammer. There is much evidence they are the same thing.

    Here we are 20 years later, and everything has been made worse by politicians/scammers.

    How Inconvenient that Truth is.

    #126921
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Source of Covid Vax chart?

    I skim past, but that chart appears to say, even the generous view is wrong: 1) the Vaccine does not stop you from getting Covid, they already conceded that. Therefore it is not a “vaccine” in any normal use of the word. 2) It also doesn’t prevent the spread, they already conceded that as well.

    This takes out the last fig leaf, that you get a milder case. Because 3) vaxxed and unvaxxed are dying at a near-equal rate. And that’s only of Covid and not other things.

    Nevertheless it is recommended, nevertheless the attacks on non-vaxxers continue.

    “Take our vaccines, you scum: it doesn’t work!” Um…?

    ‘The time of the Wild West is over,’ EU’s Věra Jourová warns Elon Musk”

    Vera, if you don’t like it, build your own. Did I say that correctly?

    “…[the tanks] motivate our fighters to fight for their values.”

    They may. And that’s great. However, if it’s only to have a more thorough Ukrainian genocide, that’s not a good thing. Hey, I’m a fan of war and nationalism: shouldn’t you surrender, then pop up in guerrilla war for 500 years like Ireland? Because the complete annihilation of the population is not a war strategy.

    US Lawmaker Proposes ‘Just One’ Abrams Tank”

    Just the tip. Also demonstrating near-total lack of support in an attempt to kill all Slavs. Who can take these people seriously? If a comedian and his country take them seriously, isn’t it their own fault?

    “French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz reaffirmed their continued “unwavering support” for Ukraine”

    As long as it doesn’t involve sending any weapons. P.S. the weapons are useless unless they send the full NATO manpower teams that are trained to use them, that is, thousands of soldiers. And they already have, in the form of Poles. The Poles are not into it, considering those shipped home in a bag as mercenaries, not worthy of a State funeral.

    Redacted had a pleasant Polish guest, his take was as expected, the Polish people aren’t into it. Like Poland is poor: who has money for this s—t? Also Poland and Ukraine don’t have good relations, although they were metaphorically described as siblings, which is fairly accurate. Galacia and Poland/Ukraine have been interwoven for centuries, I would totally see them taking out to Lviv or even up to Kiev. This guy said no. There is no credible talk on that, even among the jet-setting global class. Very surprising. He also added that their situation is like everywhere in the world. For example, Paris shooting the eyes out of rural women, and rural Illinois seceding from Chicago to return the favor. Everywhere seems to have a city class and walled enclave surrounded by armed, dangerous, poor, desperate, and disaffected masses who are very happy to become dangerous and deadly should that become helpful somehow. Poland is the same, shaking their heads at the senseless city morons who trample them.

    The effort, however, may ultimately backfire for the US and its allies, …the US then will finally abandon old Europe and what remains of the unfortunate Ukrainians, and the world will return to an equilibrium.” –Medvadev

    That is, because the Pentagon followed the war this way, the U.S. will no longer have the option of projecting power, Europe will be unable to use America as their paid Bully, Ukraine returns to Russia, and Empire ends. What’s not to like, those are the exact planks of the U.S. Populist platform majority approved by Americans. Yet this is an accident somehow?

    “Russia Holds Drills Focused on “Repelling Air Attacks” on Moscow”

    Expecting as Lira does, the only thing they’ve got and can get into the fields to double-down yet again are the West’s Sopwith Camels. The F-16 is a good plane, and they do get updated over time, but honestly, that’s 45 years old. Shouldn’t you retire from the service now and not hump a 100-pounder?

    If the West does it – and I hope they do in small measure, as constrained by the Generals – it will prove even the out of date S300 is enough to take every Western plane out of the sky. Nothing else will make the point, as a certain General says:

    “Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

    “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness–these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.

    “Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct…permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations and passionate attachments for others should be excluded, and that in place of them just and amicable feelings toward all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.

    “Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others,

    “and it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country without odium, sometimes even with popularity, …Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.

    It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world,” –Geo. Washington, Farewell Address.

    If we do foray into Russia, unless the Pentagon really does have a back door with Pentagon as I propose, and even if they do, we will pay firmly in reparations. Even if those reparations are merely political isolation.

    As Cait says “It’s like two people in a bar getting into a brawl that kills everyone in their city.

    The US empire is telling Moscow “I’m the craziest motherfucker around, I’ll keep ramping up the brinkmanship looking you right in the eye and daring you to use nukes,” while telling the rest of the world “I am the voice of sanity that you should all look to for leadership.”

    They’re not approaching the subject with anything like the gravity they would if they understood what’s happening and had seriously thought about what could be.”

    The West are not serious people. They are not men. They are children, infants, and clowns. War does not smile on such people.

    “The argument for nukes [MAD] is that the threat of their use wards off the large-scale conventional wars we saw in WWI and WWII, but that only works if the fear of their use deters conventional attacks.”

    However, clowns and infants are incapable of thought, and thus incapable of fear. The engineers have done their job well. They have no opposition at home right now except passive disinterest.

    “We always support everyone’s First Amendment rights here” … by having all people expressing themselves arrested and removed. –AOC P.S. then we slander them, falsely cry ‘murder!’ and name ourselves as a famous congressman as the powerless ‘victim’ and the voiceless, powerless protesters your racist oppressors. Classic.

    “contrary to the neutrality prescribed in the Constitution and the will of the Moldovan people, who are categorically against joining this military structure,”

    Just like America. And Poland. And Canada. And Germany. And…

    “Immaculate Possession: Biden Defense is Fast Becoming Unsustainable (Turley)”

    It wasn’t 6 documents. It was six BOXES of documents. Or maybe six storage units of documents, they didn’t specify. And they say this is Obama removing him for the fully-non-person talking-unit Harris. Then remove her after 2024 and put in VP Newsome. Yes, but something is terribly off about that whole plan I can’t put my finger on. My experience just says “No.” That is not happening as a face-level explanation, although I can’t argue against any of the points.

    He sells out to China for a mere $50 million? He’s a cheap man-whore. That’s like one house. How do you even enjoy it, looking over your shoulder? A: He doesn’t. It’s a compulsion. A mental illness. They comb the nation looking for such people to install.

    “Biden Admin Finally Admits Mistake in Canceling Keystone XL Pipeline (RCE)”

    “Finally admits mistake” is the headline here. Why? They won’t need it because although we have no electric cars, the weather is too cold in America and the distances too far, and there isn’t enough lithium if we tried, there will be no gas-powered cars by 2030, translation: tomorrow.

    Invest in used cars, as prices of used ICE’s are about to skyrocket. Again.

    ““Klaus Schwab will stay in office until he dies..”

    He’s not in “office”. That word has meaning. Especially not in “Office” if it’s a family dynasty that’s not even chosen, much less elected. And what $390M “business”? What do they sell? Us?

    “Al Gore Amassed a $330 Million Climate Fortune by Terrifying Everyone (RedS)”

    Third of a billion. I haven’t clicked on his speech, but apparently he was foaming at the mouth and shouting like Hitler. No one cares and it’s as funny as all the Hitler overdub videos.

    At $300 Million he hasn’t planted a single tree. In fact, he removed them to extend the tennis court.

    “WSJ Shreds Vaccine Makers, Biden Admin over “Deceptive” Booster Campaign (ZH)”

    Again, the headline is that they reported it. Why? Why can this suddenly be reported? Why can Biden’s docs get in the news all day now? It’s a setup.

    “Police Arrest 6 after Fiery Atlanta Riots, Mayor Confirms Antifa Used Explosives”

    Peacenik
    https://i.imgflip.com/4cy8fa.jpg

    “Police Say California Mass Shooting Suspect Is Asian Male, Still at Large”

    No comment, story still not in. “California Mass Shooter Fatally Shoots Himself” Wot a coincidence. And not related to police at all.

    #126922
    Germ
    Participant
    #126923
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Just the tip
    You are a funny fucker Dr D – are you writing for Tucker on the sly?

    Studying trees and natural building. The constant media of the last 3 years has been something hasn’t it but there is work to do.
    Sasha Latypova and El Gato are killing it out there though

    https://open.substack.com/pub/boriquagato/p/is-the-uk-health-regulator-disavowing?r=nv8me&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

    #126924
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @Afewknowthetruth

    You wrote, “However, since he [Al Gore] was a politician before becoming a scammer . . .”

    Isn’t that like saying Gore was a canine before becoming a dog?

    #126925
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    To be more linguistically and logically accurate (not to mention more nitpickingly OCD) , I should have written, “Isn’t that like saying Gore was a dog before becoming a canine?”

    #126926
    limeincoconut
    Participant

    Germ,

    Did a read on the Scottish report on baby deaths – re post 126922. Its definitely not due to something

    ” No clear link has been found with Covid infections in either mothers or babies, or an increase in premature births – all of which increase the risk of neonatal mortality.

    Chance variation is considered unlikely, but PHS suggested Covid-related staffing absences may have been a factor.

    Any link to Covid vaccines has been ruled out on the basis of international evidence demonstrating their safety in pregnancy, but PHS confirmed that it had not checked the vaccination status of any of the mothers affected.

    It stressed that there was no public health basis to do, and that such an analysis “whilst being uninformative for public health decision making, had the potential to be used to harm vaccine confidence”.

    #126927
    boilingfrog
    Participant

    I guess we should all be boycotting Delta, tearing down their terminals and such, because they were once sexist and misogynist, eh? /sarc

    (I’m not throwing THAT first stone, too busy trying to get the lig out of my eyeball!!)

    #126928
    John Day
    Participant

    Last night D Benton Smith wrote:
    “Until the bad guys become enlightened it is certain that they will seek ways of turning that transferred motion to their own nefarious ends in some new way (but toward the same ends). That’s why it is never a good idea to treat victory as final. It simply never is. Ya got to stay right on top of it and continue to find and direct that elusive energy to benevolent objectives.”

    The boomers won against the MIC, getting the US out of Vietnam, and then “lost the peace”, getting co-opted by paychecks to become compliant with whatever.

    #126929
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    I wonder where the perpetrators will try to hide when there are no more places to hide.

    #126930
    zerosum
    Participant

    enablers, scammer – Fauci, Zelenskyy

    Motivation/ incentive/stimulation/inspiration

    Out of lack of care/out of your ignorance/out of love/care/concern/power/money/fear/blackmail/lie

    —————-
    Defense/coverup
    Willful blindness, no knowledge, no responsibility, incompetence
    ——————-

    The narrative, (the lie), behind the campaign was simple; mRNA Covid shots could simply be ‘tweaked’ to target new variants – in this case, the jabs were claimed to confer protection against BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron variants, along with the original Wuhan strain.
    To call this wishful thinking would be extremely generous.

    ——————
    incapable of thought, and thus incapable of fear. The engineers have done their job well. They have no opposition at home right now except passive disinterest.

    —————-

    #126931
    Germ
    Participant

    Covid has just been one big grift for anybody remotely connected.

    Here’s the latest:

    Conservative health minister has big stake in Covid testing firm

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/23/conservative-health-minister-stake-covid-nick-markham-cignpost-investments

    #126932
    Dora
    Participant

    #126933

    I NEED A NEW BIKE!

    Golly, I love lizards. What a magnificent creature.

    Alliances once based upon a falsely given oath
    Ensures you’ll make an enemy of some uneasy friend.
    It comes to blows and guns are used and others fear you both-
    For history is written thus: such wars don’t ever end.

    #126934
    John Day
    Participant

    “Lagging Perceptions” blog post is up, but that just refers to the lost control narratives of the elites lagging the paradigm-shifts occurring in “common wisdom”.
    https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/lagging-perceptions

    #126935
    John Day
    Participant

    Good, the AI censorship filters appear to allow Substack links to upload today:

    We are seeing the mainstream media reposition to get ahead of the wave of public perception, as COVID-19 “vaccine” products are increasingly known to be killing and disabling people of all ages, including children and babies. Media need to re-establish credibility, and they will need to move their messaging closer to the truth until they are seen as useful sources of information by most people. This is happening now, ramping up. It is certain that social media is monitoring the response of the American public.
    WSJ Shreds Vaccine Makers, Biden Admin Over “Deceptive” Booster Campaign
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/wsj-shreds-vaccine-makers-biden-admin-over-deceptive-booster-campaign

    ​ ​GMC Blinks First: Regulator Declines to Investigate Dr Aseem Malhotra Over Vaccine Warnings in BBC Interview

    GMC Blinks First: Regulator Declines to Investigate Dr Aseem Malhotra Over Vaccine Warnings in BBC Interview

    ​ The continent of Africa is providing an awkward “control group” of mainly “unvaccinated” humans, who had low rates of illness and fatality, and appear to be over COVID, while heavily “vaccinated” populations have wave after wave of sickness and deaths.​ (The areas that used ivermectin did particularly well.)
    Africa Is Starkly Unvaccinated, And Starkly Unvanquished By COVID
    https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/africa-starkly-unvaccinated-and-starkly-unvanquished-covid

    ​ A “limited hangout” will be necessary to “clean up” the intelligence agencies, mainly the CIA and FBI, which are most visible.​ A “new Church Committee” is being set up in the (barely) Republican-controlled House of Representatives, which should perform this function in restoration-of-faith.
    How the CDC Became the Speech Police
    Secret internal Facebook emails reveal the feds’ campaign to pressure social media companies into banning COVID “misinformation.”

    How the CDC Became the Speech Police

    ​ Elon Musk’s father is quite worried that his son is making the kinds of enemies who get rid of problem-people, and he is doing that, but it looks to me like this is the new-replacement-policy, so he will be protected as he does so.​
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/musks-father-im-really-afraid-something-might-happen-elon

    #126936
    John Day
    Participant

    Paul Craig Roberts, a Reagan Administration cold-warrior, who remembers the previous incarnation of the United States, the one President Eisenhower saw slipping away already, discusses how the CIA gets rid of presidents. (It appears to me that “Joe Biden” is positioned to take-the-fall for COVID and Ukraine, maybe even “losing to China”, but this does not make him “troublesome”, just a convenient scapegoat. The depths of his corruption will be left unexamined.)
    ​ ​How Troublesome Presidents Are Disposed of
    ​ ​President John F. Kennedy was murdered by the CIA and US Joint Chiefs of Staff once he realized that the government he headed was not the real government. His predecessor President Eisenhower, a 5-star general, warned about the threat to democratic government posed by the military/industrial complex. President Kennedy intended to do something about it while the president still had some power, but he was struck down before he could do more than fire CIA Director Allen Dulles and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Lyman Lemnitzer. President Kennedy wasn’t able to get rid of General Lemnitzer, who transitioned to Supreme Allied Commander of NATO. Both Dulles and Lemnitzer are suspected of directing the plot against Kennedy’s life.
    ​ ​President Nixon was the best informed and best respected abroad president of any in US history. He kept in touch with foreign leaders and was well informed about historical and current events. But he also, like Kennedy and Trump, over estimated the power of the president.

    How Troublesome Presidents Are Disposed of

    ​ Moon of Alabama points out that Ukraine sending reinforcements to bolster (temporarily) the main Ukrainian defensive line in Bakhmut, has removed their soldiers from other positions along the long front with Russia. Russian forces are now testing Ukrainian defenses in the south, and are likely to also do this in the north soon, while still incessantly shelling the suffering Ukrainian draftees in Bakhmut. (Tanks won’t change this. A whole new NATO air-force would massively escalate the war.)
    ​ ​It is unlikely that any reserves he currently has are equipped, trained and battle ready. They will be too small to stop a fully mechanized Russian attack through the rather sparsely settled southwest of Donetzk province.
    ​ ​The aim of the Russian thrust in the south will not be to take cities like Zaporiziha. The aim is to bring the main transport routes, railways and roads, from west-Ukraine to the front in east Ukraine under Russian artillery fire. This will prevent not only the re-supply for the Ukrainian troops on the eastern front but also their exit from the front line. A 100 kilometer (60 miles) thrust to the north would mostly do that. A complementary thrust from the north towards south, which may or may not be coming, would finally close the cauldron.
    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/01/ukraine-russian-army-activates-southern-front.html

    ​ ​Douglas Macgregor: Ukrainian Brigades Have Lost 70% Of Their Strength !! Russia Has Changed Strategy

    ​ ​Russo-Ukrainian War: The World Blood Pump​, Big Serge ​(Gradually, and then Suddenly​)
    ​ ​It has gradually become apparent that Russia is committed to a positional attritional war, as this maximizes the asymmetry of their advantage in ranged fires. There is an ongoing degradation of Ukraine’s warmaking ability which is allowing Russia to patiently maintain the current tempo, while it organizes its newly mobilized forces for offensive action in the coming year, setting the stage for cascading and unsustainable Ukrainian losses.​..
    [About changes in power structure in general.]
    ​..​Trotsky famously turned up at the foreign affairs ministry building one morning and simply announced that he was the new Foreign Minister. The employees laughed at him – who was he? how did he presume to be in charge? – but for Trotsky the point was to insinuate himself on a Schelling point. In the state of anarchy that began to spread in Russia, people naturally look for some obvious focal point of authority, and the Bolsheviks had cleverly positioned themselves as such by claiming control over the bureaucratic offices and titles. On the other side of the civil conflict, political opposition to the Bolsheviks clustered around Tsarist army officers, because they too were Schelling points, in that they already had titles and position within an existing hierarchy.
    ​ ​All of this is to say that in the event of a coup or state collapse, new governments are virtually never formed sui generis – they always arise from preexisting institutions and hierarchies. Why, when the Soviet Union fell, did political authority devolve to the Republics? Because these Republics were Schelling points – branches that one can grab for safety in a chaotic river.
    https://bigserge.substack.com/p/russo-ukrainian-war-the-world-blood

    #126937
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ This is a desperate and unsustainable ploy, whether it is a fake (probably) or extreme hubris (apparently), or both.
    ​Washington Has Resurrected the Threat of Nuclear Armageddon , Paul Craig Roberts

    Washington Has Resurrected the Threat of Nuclear Armageddon

    ​ ​Ex-Russian president predicts new anti-US military alliance
    The Ukraine crisis may lead to the founding of a bloc of countries “fed up” with Washington, Dmitry Medvedev says
    https://www.rt.com/russia/570312-medvedev-anti-us-alliance/

    ​ Pepe Escobar on defunding the empire:
    Global South: Gold-backed currencies to replace the US dollar
    ​ ​First: One of the key take aways from the World Economic Forum annual shindig in Davos, Switzerland is when Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed al-Jadaan, on a panel on “Saudi Arabia’s Transformation,” made it clear that Riyadh “will consider trading in currencies other than the US dollar.”
    ​ ​So is the petroyuan finally at hand? Possibly, but Al-Jadaan wisely opted for careful hedging: “We enjoy a very strategic relationship with China and we enjoy that same strategic relationship with other nations including the US and we want to develop that with Europe and other countries.”
    ​ ​Second: The Central Banks of Iran and Russia are studying the adoption of a “stable coin” for foreign trade settlements, replacing the US dollar, the ruble and the rial. The crypto crowd is already up in arms, mulling the pros and cons of a gold-backed central bank digital currency (CBDC) for trade that will be in fact impervious to the weaponized US dollar…
    ​..Third: South Africa holds this year’s rotating BRICS presidency. And this year will mark the start of BRICS+ expansion, with candidates ranging from Algeria, Iran and Argentina to Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
    ​ ​South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor has just confirmed that the BRICS do want to find a way to bypass the US dollar and thus create “a fairer payment system not skewed toward wealthier countries.”
    ​ ​For years now, Yaroslav Lissovolik, head of the analytical department of Russian Sberbank’s corporate and investment business has been a proponent of closer BRICS integration and the adoption of a BRICS reserve currency

    Global South: Gold-backed currencies to replace the US dollar

    #126938
    John Day
    Participant

    Thanks Luc: (Spoiler: It’s the Rockefeller Foundation that took the lead long ago.)
    ​ ​Who is Behind the Great Food Reset?
    https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/who-is-behind-the-great-food-reset

    ​ ​Venezuela’s Seed Law Should be a Global Model
    ​ ​For peasant farmers, the battle over seed rights is critical to their livelihoods
    ​ ​The imposition of patented transgenic seeds onto rural communities has had a catastrophic impact on human livelihoods and biodiversity protection. In many countries, seeds have traditionally been the collective property of farmers—however, these farmers’ right to control their own seed supply is being attacked by corporate forces which have captured capitalist states around the world.
    ​ ​In 2010, the government of Colombia adopted Law 970 as part of a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States government. Under the terms of the FTA, Bogotá gave legal monopoly to seeds produced by US and European corporations and forced Colombian farmers to only use certified seeds manufactured by these companies. Farmers who were caught saving seeds or planting unregistered seeds were subject to fines or jail time. These laws were a condition for Washington to agree to the FTA.
    ​ ​Law 970 not only precipitated a rise in food production prices, since farmers were forced to purchase seeds from companies like Monsanto rather than use communally shared seeds; it also caused the Colombian state to destroy food products grown from saved seeds. This occurred in 2011 in towns like Campo Alegre, where Colombian authorities raided the warehouse and trucks of rice farmers and destroyed 70 tonnes of rice that was not produced in accordance with Law 970.

    Venezuela’s Seed Law Should be a Global Model

    ​ Lies, murder, robbery and destruction in the name of virtue.​
    ​ ​Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest provider are worthless, analysis shows
    Investigation into Verra carbon standard finds most are ‘phantom credits’ and may worsen global heating
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/18/revealed-forest-carbon-offsets-biggest-provider-worthless-verra-aoe

    #126939
    Professorlocknload
    Participant

    ‘Trump and DeSantis to win vs. Biden?’

    Polling “Likely Voters” means nothing in this Brave New World. Producers of Mass Mail-in Ballots will decide everything.

    #126941
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    https://news.yahoo.com/arizona-faces-existential-dilemma-import-160949296.html

    Personally, I believe that desalinization water piped to AZ is stupid. There are cases to be made for desalinization for areas located on the coasts…but AZ is land-locked. I think that the companies that might be involved in desalinization and a pipeline are salivating at the idea of the money to be made by building it and running it.

    Water from the Mississippi River is less stupid — pipeline only, no desalinization…but let’s think this through…including all of the toxic agricultural runoff that is already in that water, the engineering and pumping involved, the fact that it passes through multiple states which means they and the feds will be involved.

    The only truly practical idea I’ve seen floated thus far is connecting the various AZ canal systems — some canal systems have plenty of water while others don’t. Connecting the internal canal systems creates local resiliency within the state.

    As far as no “easy rides” for residential developers…that was the purpose behind the law that developments with over 6 homes have to have a 100 year water supply in the first place! The developers want to create the development, sell the homes, and sic the unwitting homeowners with a home that has no guaranteed access to water. At some point, the rubber hits the road — we make tough decisions or start brainstorming new ways to deal with the problem — and splitting homes into 5-home developments is not the type of creativity that I’m writing about. That is merely a loophole in the law that violates the law’s intent — homeowners with no access to fresh water.

    #126942
    zerosum
    Participant

    Isn’t there a saying about doing/repeating the same thing that doesn’t work.
    Maybe I got it wrong. It must be about success is repeating what works.
    Retired military experts are encouraging gov. know-nothing politician to demilitarize their own military and send it for destruction and recycling in Ukraine.
    Russian will welcome the moving/mobile target practice.
    “Close” counts in horse shoe, and artillery and missiles

    #126943
    zerosum
    Participant

    Don’t blame me.
    A rose is a rose by any name.
    (Long covid or vaccine)

    #126944
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    ‘I wonder where the perpetrators will try to hide when there are no more places to hide.’

    In barns on remote farms, dressed as farm workers, as per the last lot of fanatical fascists who tried to escape capture after their insane schemes caused carnage nearly 80 years ago.

    #126945
    zerosum
    Participant

    Is the fireplace a secured place for secret documents?

    #126946
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    It really is that old joke, but with a nasty addendum.

    Father: What do you want to be when you grow up?

    Son: I want to lead a life of crime and become incredibly rich but never go to prison.

    Father: So, you want to become a politician. How many people do you want to kill?

    Son: As many as I can.

    #126947
    Michael Reid
    Participant


    That’s why it is never a good idea to treat victory as final. It simply never is.
    Ya got to stay right on top of it and continue to find and direct that elusive energy to benevolent objectives.

    And that is why you keep your rifle pointed at the moose as you approach and shoot for the head if it moves.

    #126948
    Afewknowthetruth
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    Excellent analysis from Brian on the failing weapons strategy with respect to Ukraine but, more importantly, the destabilisation of the region southwest of China via murder of Chinese engineers etc. and the funding of fake opposition by Airstrip Two.

    #126949
    Germ
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    #126950
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Hiding from Opportunity

    Hiding from Opportunity

    #126951
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Until 2021 I had never heard of Myocarditis

    #126952

    Bloomberg TV: MICROSOFT INVESTS $10B IN CHATGPT MAKER OPENAI

    Where does chatgpt makes its money? I haven’t used it- does it advertise?

    #126953
    Oroboros
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    Oroboros
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