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    Jack Delano Diner along U.S. Highway No. 1 near Berwyn, Maryland 1940   • The American Cause in Ukraine: Freedom or Empire? (Drake) • Western Lea
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 19 2022]

    #108182
    Polder Dweller
    Participant

    More Scott Ritter, this from Larry Johnson:

    Scott Ritter created a bit of a stir over the weekend with a comment suggesting the Russians have fumbled the ball and set themselves up for Stalingrad like victory (i.e., a long and bloody struggle).

    […]

    Just because the Russians are pulling punches to avoid killing civilians and destroying infrastructure key for civilian survival does not mean they are ignoring the threat. For example, Andrei [Maryanov] notes that the Russians waited for the towed howitzers to get into position before blowing them up.

    I really am shocked that Scott got this so wrong. First, the US and NATO are not sending the most advanced, most sophisticated equipment to Ukraine. The M-777 howitzer, for example, is a good piece of towed artillery (it came into service in 2005). There is the problem–it requires a vehicle to tow it into position. When it is fired it must be towed to a new location to minimize the risk of counter battery fire. America and NATO have more advanced howitzers that are self-propelled. They are not sending those to Ukraine.

    Second, Russia has made and continues to make missile strikes on bases and weapons depots. It is not an occasional strike, it is repeated and regular. Remember Yavoriv?

    […]

    This was not a one off attack. The Russians have struck all across Ukraine. I noted in my last piece that Desna, a Ukrainian base, was one of the latest targets. The Russians also hit Lviv, Vinnitsa and Sumy. There is no sign the Russians are running out of missiles, rockets and artillery rounds.

    Third, who the hell is going to operate the stuff the west is sending? We are not seeing hordes of Ukrainian young men lining up to join the national defense. Instead, Ukrainian authorities are rounding up middle aged guys forcing them into the army. Many of these “new” recruits are on video complaining that they are nothing more than cattle fodder. Then there is the training component. Teaching a soldier how to operate and maintain a new weapon system is not a one day affair. This further complicates Ukraine’s ability to stay in the fight.

    https://sonar21.com/scott-ritters-unforced-error/

    #108183
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Jack Delano Diner along U.S. Highway No. 1 near Berwyn, Maryland 1940…

    Just look at that menu… the prices…it’s fun to look back…but to what avail ?
    The present is elusive to those stuck in the past…the present is elusive to all…
    …a special place of refuge to the few who can enjoy it…

    #108184
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Boy they sure showed dat Russia what for, amirite?

    RussiaRussiaRussia. EmbargoEmbargoEmbargo. They say Biden works for China, but from what I can see, he works for Russia and does everything he can to help them succeed.

    Yes, the abortion clip is interesting. Not to bring up Tim Pool regularly, but he talks all the time, and has all the guests he can fit, every day; he’s recently come to the conclusion that the Left simply doesn’t know what they’re talking about. They’re based on emotional sloganeering and tribalism, so if you ask them any specific moral, legal, philosophical, scientific, or practical question, they just don’t know. And they’re not stupid or anything, the downside is they’re smart: like this woman, they’ve just never thought of it, never asked, never been challenged. The Right certainly can be knuckleheads but they have thought of these things through one level at least and although they come to conflicting conclusions (read: “not a cult”) they are willing to debate, resolve, extend, and even alter their thinking. I have said this for years now which is no genius as it becomes more and more obvious each day.

    There are people susceptible to emotional capture and sloganeering, and people who aren’t. They aren’t always the ones you expect and it does not have a lot to do with intelligence: if anything, the reverse. If you are susceptible, you are in the same field as battered wives and children of alcoholics, and advertising uses the same narcissistic gaslighting processes on you because it works. They sell toothpaste, and they sell a house you’ll lose along with your life when you live in a box by the river, and a $60,000 car, and 100% high-fructose corn syrup food group sure to kill you, and have you kill your kids as well; all the same thing.

    But all that leaves what to DO about it. The frustrating thing from this end is that you, their countrymen, their neighbor, their family or spouse, are exactly ZERO to them. You have literally no meaning, no existence, no merit. Whatever you say is worthless, wrong, if Disney or plagiarizing philanderers like Snopes, or serial murderers and failures like George Bush and Madeline Albright say the opposite. If you say there is a housing collapse, subprime is not contained, they will take a $23 trillion or whatever it takes of tax money to bail out the billionaires and the banks, you’re the world’s biggest jerk, an idiot, and a conspiracy theorist.

    When it happens 6 weeks later, no credit is given and they kiss George Bush on the lips, unzip his pants, and give him a packing-box of money, their kid’s college fund. Right now that same thing is done for Joe, and since he spoke, the opposite has occurred in just a few hours for Elon Musk: the S&P just removed the Eco-Hero’s largest, most important Electric Car company from the ESG listing. Yes, thinks to Twitter, Tesla is no longer green and does not make electric cars. This will arouse no comment or mental dissonance whatsoever for the captured, while it drives the rest of us crazy.

    So what to do? From a certain perspective, they are unreachable. Literally. They will/are throwing their kids on red-hot hands of the sacrifice god and no one can stop them. Yet so long as they remain +20% of the population, any attempt will grind up an open civil war. Stopping them may save them or other kids, but starting a civil war will kill orders of magnitude more. And don’t think the advertising engineers don’t know it. They are up to trying a civil (race) war again this week. Example? Buffalo had 10-12 dead? Chicago has +60 dead black citizens per week. No one cares and never have for lifetimes. President never visits, it is clearly a thing they very much like and promote. Surely both sides are equally bad? To some extent but remember Cheeto said he’d offer the National Guard or anything Chicago or other cities wanted, as that was not acceptable. Strange behavior for a racist to call out Patton’s Third Army to save the lives of black people from Blue Mayors nationwide.

    Back to the quote, and as I’ve seen here too: no one knows anything about law, history, no one has walked through philosophy, or defending their moral position. It’s a nation of 12-year-olds. Whatever is popular is true. We don’t ask questions. We don’t listen. We just get the Dora the Explora’ backpack because that’s what was on TV and that’s what “we” do. Anyone who doesn’t is the sworn enemy, TV-movie-style. Because they’re the baddie bads! They’re Swiper, or Cobra Commander, or Stinky Pete. Pew-Pew! We shoot ‘em up, fall down, play dead. Like adult 12-year-olds they will LITERALLY shoot you with real guns, LITERALLY burn your house down and think nothing of it, and have. Hello Supreme Court Justices?

    What is Russia, with enough nukes to level the planet, supposed to do in a Sci-fi world where all the adults were gassed(lighted) and reverted to petulant, ignorant,12-year-olds, like a Star Trek episode? I mean ARE you supposed to nuke them for the safety of the planet, or what?

    Now that abortion has come up regularly, the best argument I’ve heard is one of tenant rights. Everyone can understand this. If we have an adult who takes serious, known action to invite in an alien resident, a person, and another adult to take known action to pay 20-years rent for that tenant, then tomorrow you can’t just kick them back out. You can’t because kicking them out at that point is certain, absolute death for them. If you took in a tenant and they annoyed you, so you killed them, that would be murder, along with any boyfriends or people who aided the murder. And the decision, the contract, does not start then, but the previous weekend when you drunkenly promised. That was your choice, back then, you made that choice with your body, the two of you.

    What to do then becomes difficult, because you can’t deport them back, but also the man cannot realistically take them on alone, having no house of his own to offer. At the very least we might agree that the tenant can be evicted only as soon as the eviction won’t kill them, if we collectively can come up with a solution to move them to a new home and landlord that wants them. Since the list of landlords wanting young tenants is 10 miles long, that shouldn’t be a problem. Only the early part.

    Does that make sense? Tenant Rights. You actively took vigorous action to invite them in. What now?

    And this gentleman’s quote, so we’re also evicting nearly 70% black tenants, when they are ~20% of the population. Is that equity, and right? I’m not trying to make anyone lose their minds, but open to explanations. Not to slogans.

    “The American Cause in Ukraine: Freedom or Empire? (Drake)”

    Just using it as a hook for Russia: because they printed it, it’s a lie. An adult American said it, it’s a lie. The Azovs did NOT surrender, they were “done with their hero’s mission” and “evacuated”. Lie. It was a mere 300 left. Lie. They – the NY Times — wrote this fake non-surrender article when this one moment, this one frame of film flipped by. Pretty universal these days, where history starts 2/22 and stops, and starts and gaps, whenever we want. +1,000 have surrendered already. 300 x 3, and they’re still coming out. They have therefore also NOT surrendered, Lie, as those were NOT the last ones, and their NATO officers and handlers are still inside. Lie.

    Lie. Lie. Lie. Lie. Lie. Lie. Lie. Lie.

    Bringing me to this: the West is not going to surrender. The war is not over, if you haven’t noticed. I mean, it is, but it isn’t. The West will fight all the way down, down the $7 gas, down the 20% inflation that’s probably 50%, down the market collapse, the housing collapse, they are going to lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, steal, steal, steal, steal, steal, and murder murder murder everyone they can find, on any continent, of any color, race, or creed. Until they are stopped. Until WE are stopped. We, the West, will fight and cry and wrangle until they can find a position where Russia has to nuke “us”, London, Langley, NY, they will not stop until they ARE stopped. Said years and years ago now.

    And we can stop them, but that doesn’t look too good as the few people who even know what’s going on are hypnotized by Q, passive, sidelined, and terrified of being called queer-haters while every life of every American and every child is at stake. And I can’t move that dial on my own. The people I am trying to save which includes every straight, gay, black, white, immigrant person will set upon, beat and arrest me if I jump into the water with a bouy.

    So as the first paragraph: What do you do? How are you supposed to save them from themselves? Isn’t that violence, even as their violence and poor understanding kills the other 80%?

    Well, you tell me ‘cause we’re in it.

    Western Leaders Tied to Ukraine Bioweapons Labs (Woltz)”

    Bill could not get the smallpox he spoke of, immediately appearing in a lab the next week, so they have released monkeypox in the UK instead. Unless that is the world’s biggest coincidence. NHS is trying to figure out where all the unrelated cases are coming from in this relatively rare virus. So be glad these key labs are not under their present control and it’s made them have to lay low for a bit. Dzask is still a free man eating 5-star dinners with Tony, though.

    “Third of Global Population Killed in Next War Cycle – Charles Nenner (USAW)”

    You should very much take the time to listen to the whole interview, and know that over time, decades now, Nenner is seldom wrong. His model of all known market data is like Armstrong’s and it says the same things. Oil to zero? “Inconceivable!” Happens right on time. Oil from $20 to $120 earlier? “Inconceivable!” Happens right on time. Today it’s bond rates starting Jan 1, and 1/3 of humans on earth dead. He doesn’t seem to recognize, but we’ve got a strong start on that already. They are the war dead, but not recognized as either “war” nor “dead.”

    Inflation moves to 20% OFFICIAL next month he says. That means +50% real, which is very, very likely. The only salvation from inflation is you’ll be too broke to buy anything, and there’ll be shortages anyway. But measuring as quality of life is very close.

    He says, as above, they will NOT stop the war cycle until 2B people are dead and half the world is ruined.

    I believe it. Look at all the chances we had to turn around. Then and now. In 2020, 2008, in 2001, 1999, 1994, 1989, 1974, 1954. No, no, and no, we will not do it. No moral things. No obvious things. No living things. Never-ever-ever, and anyone who tries it happily murdered with full approval of the applauding masses, Assange being the latest example. But a new one like Elon pops up daily to hatey-hate-hate.

    ” Biden’s ‘Disinformation’ Clown Show ‘Paused,’ Scary Poppins Resigns (Celente)”

    This is where it’s SO crazy, and SO counterproductive, you have to ask if the White Hats are the one’s controlling Joe’s teleprompter. It sure looks like it a lot of days.

    Speaking of, Psaki is moved to a palatial payday in the private press, and as her last act, shushed and shouted down African reporters she refused to call on E – V – E – R. Never-ever. Never-ever-ever. Not once in 15 months. Shut up you black people in the back! Know your place! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyqgAitVtqU She was too busy calling on her white friends in the front row, who could ask her if she loved her husband and was a good press secretary, or REALLY loved her husband, and was a GREAT press secretary.

    No words. What can one possibly say? Bring up her boss’s ‘94 Crime bill again? The latest open U.S. bombing in Ethiopia, picking up Obama’s forgotten wars? Why bother?

    All facts are false. “My side right or wrong.” If you kill every black person you can find, in every country you can find, you are a black hero for black rights and the other guy who wants to stop 60 black murders a week is evilly-evil.

    “Why Were So Many Adverse Events Reported as ‘Unrelated’ to Vaccine? (CHD)

    ALL the events are “unrelated”! It’s “Safe and Effective” and you will be banned from YouTube for reading the pharmaceutical label. If you are black, a woman, and named “Nikki Minaj”. That’s diversity! Of color. Of sex. Of opinion. Like Psaki, they told her “Hey you in the back of the bus: sit down and shut up! Know your place and show some RESPECT to your peers.” (If you didn’t click the Dore YouTube they literally said this.

    Ban Ban Ban Ban Ban Ban Ban Ban Ban if you say what the NY Times says. (AzovNazis) Or Pfizer.(Side effects) Or the FDA (masks don’t work).

    So it’s obvious there were Z E R O side effects, ever, for anyone, BECAUSE I SAID SO!!!

    “Half of President Biden’s Twitter Followers Are Fake (JTN)”

    Only half? From an inauguration that had zero people in it? Remember: most popular President in American history, by multiples.

    “Q: How does Hunter pay “a team of more than 30 lawyers and investigators..?” That sounds costly.”

    Didn’t you hear? Hunter is now the world’s greatest living artist, at $1M a painting.

    I don’t know if we’ve gone to “Dig a bunker” yet, but it’s getting closer.

    #108185
    Henry
    Participant

    When I first discovered The Automatic Earth, it was the B&W photos that drew me in. The way people looked, the signs, the general condition of society, etc…

    I find these photos of the past more fascinating than paintings.

    #108186
    Oroboros
    Participant

    “A military officer’s oath is for life…..

    so one could rightly suspect that the criminal crapstorm Trudeau’s Trevor Cadieu, Biden Crime family’s, Admiral Eric Thor Olson, and BoJo’s Lt Col John Bailey….and the Lt. Gen. Roger Cloutier…

    was done with Malice Aforethought

    And deserves the Gallows

    An Azov lullaby

    The Righteous ‎ by 9 Days We Hung

    #108187
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Nina Jankowicz is another relationship free childless cat lady

    That explains most of her behavior

    .

    #108188
    zerosum
    Participant

    Look ….Its not real ….. Trust me …. Its only war games ….. Its the whole truth …. Its not a lie
    ————
    monkeypox
    • Western Leaders Tied To Ukraine Bioweapons Labs (Woltz)
    • Major NATO War Games Set to Begin Miles From Russian Base (LI)
    • Third of Global Population Killed in Next War Cycle – Charles Nenner (USAW)
    ————
    If you can only tell the truth then you will have nothing to say
    • Biden’s ‘Disinformation’ Clown Show ‘Paused,’ Scary Poppins Resigns (Celente)
    ———–
    The richest man on earth, Elon Musk, says, The biggest liars are democrats
    • Half of President Biden’s Twitter Followers Are Fake (JTN)
    ———-

    #108189
    Henry
    Participant

    @polder-dweller This is a riveting interview by James Kunstler with Larry Johnson from sonar21.com:

    KunstlerCast 358 — A Conversation About Ukraine with Larry C Johnson

    Great insight into the situation in Ukraine.

    #108190
    kultsommer
    Participant

    TAE introduced me to treasure trove of vintage photographs that is a Shorpy site.
    Interesting and recently, old photograph of stacked coffins during the 1918 Spanish flu prompted some commentators, including me, to point out how “what we have now” is far cry from the pandemic. To make story short, all comments and
    replies that were supporting narrative of false and imposed emergency lasted for one day and were promptly removed from the comment section by the host. Seemingly innocent, yet another sample how far we had gone.

    #108191
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Regarding top video about abortion debate…
    The woman was not tutored on how to meet that argument and lost the debate. Her lack of preparation and/or ineptitude does not change the facts of the siuation.

    I am re-watching Star Trek (TOS) right now. James Kirk, starship captain, bears responsibility for the crew and well-being of his ship. He is tasked with general directives and specific orders. He must make decisions that affect the lives of his crew. Sometimes, his decisions lead to the deaths of crew members. This bothers him…but discharging his duty, and that leading to a crewmember death, is not considered “murder.” James Kirk took on this position willingly, knowingly. He often risks his own life for those who serve under him — but at other times he risks the life of others, as he knows that for the well-being of all he must not wantonly risk his own life.

    A woman is the “captain” of her body. Her “crewmember” is a fetus. She may or may not have actively chosen this “command” — it have been a mixture of free-will and coercion. Unlike crewmembers of a ship, a fetus has no ability to care for itself, or even to exist without her during gestation. A fetus cannot judge a situation and determine whether or not to follow commands. A fetus cannot leave at will, cannot survive on its own. The woman, as captain, knows the outside world, how to navigate, whether it is safe, and risks her own life to carry the fetus and go through childbirth.

    Yet, many peoplewould like to tell a pregnant woman that once she is pregnant, she is no longer the captain of her ship. She might make the “wrong” decision. They think that they, by default, know better than she what course should be steered. They feel that she is no longer capable of autonomy with a fetus on board.

    Trust women. Support mothers and their children. Don’t remove women’s autonomy simply because others think they know better than she does. This lack of trust in women is about control, masquerading as caring for the weak and helpless.

    #108192
    John Day
    Participant

    @Phoenixvoice: Amen, Sister!
    🙂
    One’s own life is complicated enough, I might add…

    #108193
    willem
    Participant

    “Half of President Biden’s Twitter Followers Are Fake”…

    But all of them voted.

    #108194
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Oh, poor ‘lil “w” – via Caitlin Johnstone

    “The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia, and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean, of Ukraine.”

    On Bush’s Freudian Confession
    https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/on-bushs-freudian-confession?s=w

    F.S.

    #108195
    zerosum
    Participant

    Fewer people to split the money
    https://www.rt.com/russia/555743-azovstal-prisoners-icrc-registration/
    19 May, 2022 11:20

    More Ukrainians surrender in Mariupol – Russia

    Total number of captives from the Azovstal plant has reached 1,730, the Defense Ministry said

    The higher leaders are still in the plant waiting for their portion of the $40 Billion that the USA will be delivering.

    #108196
    zerosum
    Participant

    US Senate approves $40bn
    The scam continues
    Russia won
    Follow the money

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/us-senate-passes-2440bn-aid-package-for-ukraine-e2-80-93-live/ar-AAXtnwC?ocid=uxbndlbing
    All but 11 Republicans supported the bill while Biden backs Nato membership for Finland and Sweden.

    #108197
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Helmer:

    “Pepé Le Pew” Award

    The war plan of the US and the European allies is destroying the Russian market for traditional French perfumes, the profits of the French and American conglomerates which own the best-known brands, the bonuses of their managers, and the dividends of their shareholders. The odour of these losses is too strong for artificial fresheners. […]

    IF IT SMELLS ALLURING, IT’S RUSSIAN – IN WARTIME L’ORÉAL (FRANCE) AND ESTÉE LAUDER (US) MAKE A BAD SMELL

    F.S.

    #108198
    SeaBirds
    Participant

    @RIM

    “Get rid of them before they can do more damage”

    How? These guys are on a roll now. Seems like monkey-pox is now being rolled out around the world. Bloomberg is laying out the plan in this free article:

    https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-19/what-is-monkeypox-why-is-it-spreading-and-should-we-worry?srnd=premium-europe

    Interestingly, the smallpox vax at the ready can apparently lead to myocarditis and pericarditis. Sound familiar? Guess they think that if the plan worked well once it will work well again.

    #108199
    zerosum
    Participant

    This is how WWIII is being fought.
    Ukraines are the mercenaries for the USA

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-unveils-100-million-more-weapons-ukraine-literally-moments-after-40bn-approved
    Biden Unveils $100 Million More In Weapons To Ukraine Literally Moments After $40BN Approved

    He detailed what the new $100 million is expected to deliver: “…I am announcing another package of security assistance that will provide additional artillery, radars, and other equipment to Ukraine, which they are already using so effectively on the battlefield.”

    He described further, “These weapons and equipment will go directly to the front lines of freedom in Ukraine, and reiterate our strong support for the brave people of Ukraine as they defend their country against Russia’s ongoing aggression.”

    Separately Secretary of State Antony Blinken noted:

    In a separate statement, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the weapons will be coming from the Pentagon’s existing inventories.
    Where will the approved $100 million go? The inventory has been paid for a long time ago.

    #108200
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Dr. D:

    So what to do? From a certain perspective, they are unreachable. Literally. They will/are throwing their kids on red-hot hands of the sacrifice god and no one can stop them. Yet so long as they remain +20% of the population, any attempt will grind up an open civil war. Stopping them may save them or other kids, but starting a civil war will kill orders of magnitude more.

    So as the first paragraph: What do you do? How are you supposed to save them from themselves? Isn’t that violence, even as their violence and poor understanding kills the other 80%?

    I believe it. Look at all the chances we had to turn around. Then and now. In 2020, 2008, in 2001, 1999, 1994, 1989, 1974, 1954. No, no, and no, we will not do it. No moral things. No obvious things. No living things. Never-ever-ever, and anyone who tries it happily murdered with full approval of the applauding masses, Assange being the latest example. But a new one like Elon pops up daily to hatey-hate-hate.

    They no longer “remain +20% of the population” ~ My back-of-the-envelope calculation, plus a vast AMERICAN life experience few can comprehend, is the 20% has more than tripled in the advent of new century.

    Take a look at voluntarily vaxxed numbers for a clue 😕

    Moreover, I’m surprised you’re even asking the TAE audience this question…

    Many here are still swilling the death cult koolaid, living out toxic child EGO fictions in the face of mass NPD psychosis.

    Dissembling about WHEN a HUMAN LIFE is entitled to The Rights of Life, Liberty & The Pursuit Of Happiness, which is a clear cut “tell” regarding the underlying spiritual status of said “person”…

    Everybody counts or nobody counts.

    THAT is the message that no amount of “debate” can dissimulate ~ THE lesson the unwashed masses have yet to comprehend 🙄

    Case in point: The serial killer that preyed upon the Buffalo church members was clearly observed in his community as a budding murderous psycho, that should have been locked up in a lunatic asylum…

    When his mother discovered her maniac had beat a cat to death, beheading it, she should have had him committed, not to be released until he was PROVEN safe to himself & the community-at-large.

    Heinously torturing & murdering small animals is one of THE hallmarks of an emerging serial psycho ~ The mother should be arrested as an accomplice. She is not innocent.

    In a healthy society there should be zero -0- tolerance for any level of such abhorrent behavior…

    Sadly situations where lunatics are ignored, or given a pass, have been repeated over & over & over & OVER again, in almost every mass shooting rampage. Blame the gun, not the community that created, enabled, armed & turned a blind eye to the psychotic? What the actual f@ck!?!

    BTW, the most prolific school mass murderer used dynamite ~ Obama & the MIC used drones & missiles, until they ran out…

    Everybody counts or nobody counts.

    So what to do?

    That ship sailed 30 years ago, when the “electorate” ignored the warnings from the sane, spiritually enlightened who rang the *WARNING* concerning the rise of neo-lib/neo-con NPD psychos that were infecting America’s institutions (from the top to the bottom), who now own/run/influence ALL of America’s .GOV bureaucracies + alphabet agencies with the most inane, heinous & anti-life policies imaginable…

    All with the ignorant, malicious support of “We the People” that scoff at the Rule of Natural Law (for all), cancelling anyone displaying a shred of virtuous sanity with their hatey-hate-hate like a pack of rabid hyenas.

    $40 billion for Ukie Nazis, MIC + the politically corrupt? No problemo!

    Nope, there’s only one way this ends. VERY BADLY…

    Time for the righteous prepare for the reckoning, while the sun still shines 😐

    FWFS,

    Gary

    #108201
    TAE Summary
    Participant

    * Today’s Euphemisms
    – Inventory Deficit
    – Purchasing Power
    – Large Scale Exercises
    – Front Lines of Freedom
    – Paused
    – Excess Mortality
    – Tinkering with Bird Flu
    – Stable on an Annual Basis

    * “I trust the government to make decisions about their citizens and when relevant consult their medical practitioner”

    * If gambling on stock’s what you like
    Now is the time you should strike
    Stop buying the dip
    The new thing that’s hip
    Is all-in on shorting the spike

    * Peak Oil is back with a vengeance
    It seems to be Joe’s firm intentions
    To get rid of gas
    Except out his a$$
    A power source he never mentions

    * We’re watching the death of the dollar
    It’s purchasing power getting smaller
    If you got some cash
    You’ll dump in the trash
    I’ll take it away, please just holler

    * For hot-dogs you once paid a nickel
    Including some chips and a pickle
    We’ll have that again
    Joe Biden says “When
    Our flag has a hammer and sickle”

    #108202
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    A clarification to: ““A military officer’s oath is for life….”
    Perhaps the author was referring to the almost-certainly retirement eligible Flag officers present in the Azovstol iron works. Those retired officers can always be recalled for the needs of the service. Although the latter process is rarely invoked except not infrequently for court-martial.

    Here’s what Title 10 USC “651. Members: required service

    (a) Each person who becomes a member of an armed force, other than a person deferred under the next to the last sentence of section 6(d)(1) of the Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. 3806(d)(1)), shall serve in the armed forces for a total initial period of not less than six years nor more than eight years, as provided in regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense for the…. unless such person is sooner discharged under such regulations because of personal hardship. Any part of such service that is not active duty or that is active duty for training shall be performed in a reserve component.

    (b) Each person covered by subsection (a) who is not a Reserve, and who is qualified, shall, upon his release from active duty, be transferred to a reserve component to complete the service required by subsection

    #108203
    oldandtired
    Participant

    Where will the approved $100 million go?

    1,500 US Air Force toilet seats sent to help the cause?

    #108204
    zerosum
    Participant

    I just check my inventory ….. no toilet seats

    #108205
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    ““Russian elections are rigged,” he (Dubya) said. “Political opponents are imprisoned or otherwise eliminated from participating in the electoral process. The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.””

    article

    #108206
    aspnaz
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    @phoenixvoice

    Your argument demonstrates the main issue: pro-choice women think it is all about them and that they should be able to change their minds regarding their child, especially in the case where they had a few too many drinks the night before and did not behave as an adult … or any other excuse that they feel excuses them of the responsibility of their earlier decision.

    Others feel that the person inside the woman should be defended as any other human, that it is not all about the indecisive woman. After all, this is obviously not a next-day decision as the morning after pill is very effective, so this is a missed period / pregnancy test decision.

    Of course, this just enforces the widely held opinion that women should not be “put in charge” of anything that requires strong single minded leadership, not because of a lack of intelligence but because of emotional influences over their single mindedness. Alternatively, they were too lazy to do something about it the morning after?

    There is the old golden excuse that some women never consider what “might happen” before they have unprotected sex, but I just do not buy that: they make an informed decision which they later regret. It is all about them, fuck the small human they decided to create, that will now be dumped in the trash. Sure, it is a difficult decision for a minority, but certainly not for all when you see the numbers: it is a very popular option.

    #108207
    aspnaz
    Participant

    A thought went through my head this morning: When will the people of Zimbabwe, who use the US dollar as currency, get that sense of deja vu about the USD currency and then move on to the next currency? What will that replacement currency be?

    #108208
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    #108209
    Veracious Poet
    Participant
    #108210
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    #108211
    Curlene48
    Participant

    aspnaz … You seem to forget that in many cases a woman did not “make an informed decision which they later regret”. There is such a thing as rape, and it is quite common.
    Phoenixvoice and John Day make a lot of sense on this issue.
    Thanks, Mr. Roboto, for the Michael Tracey tweet.

    #108212

    I think the judicial -as opposed to legislative- approach of Roe regarding it as a privacy issue was correct. Overturning Roe will open up a can of worms as good people attempt to fight the medical intrusions of the State into our lives over “vaccines” and other medical issues. WHO?
    Legislation that encodes a right to medical privacy- with no mention of abortion necessary- is the only way to go.
    It’s not about abortion. It’s about control. When The State requires men to obligate themselves to the now genetically proven to be their child’s 21 years of financial support- which follows from the current trends- opinions will likely change.

    #108213

    T-Sum- well done.

    Sadly, all those solid gold toilet seats are at the bottom of a body of water somewhere, following a tragic boating accident.

    #108215
    VietnamVet
    Participant

    The ruling Western ideology is that only money matters. Everyone is own their own but rich individuals benefit unequally at the expense of the worthless. The last US CEO jailed was Jeff Skilling, Enron, who embarrassed the Bush II Administration by turning off the lights in California for a profit.

    The proxy World War III in Ukraine is being fought by others to benefit outsiders and oligarchs. There no longer is public education, public health, or public safety in the West. It is only propaganda – information warfare that says there is any community left. No one mentions that Russia Federation Army has been unable to break through the Ukraine trench defenses. The Red Army could have. The question is can Russia breakout of the Black Sea Lowlands and take Odessa and deny a rump Ukraine access to the sea?

    The next months will see if peace returns to Europe. It requires a peace treaty/armistice, now, and Russia withdrawal to east of the Dnieper River behind the Line of Contact and a manned DMZ. If the Biden Administration continues to nix the talks and if the Russian Armored Army does finally breakout; only tactical nuclear weapons can stop the invasion of Poland which almost guarantees the use of both side’s strategic nuclear weapons.

    #108222
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    If the Biden Administration continues to nix the talks and if the Russian Armored Army does finally breakout; only tactical nuclear weapons can stop the invasion of Poland which almost guarantees the use of both side’s strategic nuclear weapons.

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