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    Dorothea Lange We’ll be in California yet. We’re not going back to Arkansas 1938   • Ex-FBI Lawyer Investigated For Altering FISA Documents in Ru
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle November 22 2019]

    #51570
    V. Arnold
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    Dorothea Lange We’ll be in California yet. We’re not going back to Arkansas 1938

    A stunning photograph of American history; early 20th century.
    A motorized version of the 19th century Conestoga wagon…

    #51571
    oxymoron
    Participant

    I know I’m off topic but that last article by Hagens got me thinking of energy in decline right now.
    My chainsaw playing up and was talking to the old timer at the repair joint today, who told me that a life time of fixing small engines has brought him to the conclusion that the fuel is inferior to what it used to be and a major reason for the rising repair rates of high quality brands like Stihl and Husqvarna. But I guess now Morales is out we can get those battery operated ones and throw all the old ‘polluting’ ones in the bin. And anyway Australia is the worlds biggest producer of lithium so we’ll soon be able to visit the “Elon Musk future museum theme park” on our flying vac-bots all the way to Mars baby.

    #51572
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    “The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology.”– E.O. Wilson

    Now *that’s* what I’m talking about.

    One Song

    Dedicated with affection to Dr. D., with whom I often beg to differ on details but with whom I feel a strong accord of core beliefs. Same roots, different branches.

    Returning Home by Aaron Paquette

    #51573
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    Returning Home by Aaron Paquette

    Remember when the internet wasn’t broken, when basic html reliably worked?

    #51574
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    “soon be able to visit the “Elon Musk future museum theme park” on our flying vac-bots all the way to Mars baby”

    Edison’s Anti-Grav Underclothes

    #51575
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    “In an exchange between Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) and Alexander Vindman, a US Army Lt. Colonel, Vindman insisted that Nunes address him by his rank. ”

    That caught my eye too.

    As I understand it, history shows that one sign an empire is about to crash in its chips is the prevalence of condottieri

    Italian prince states of the Renaissance, Roman swords-for-hire, Blackwater (or whatever it’s been re-re-named now), the many flavors of al-qaeda, ISIS, “freedom fighter” acronym of the week.

    #51576
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    Looks like Mike Pence… … staring across the SK/NK border sternly trying to show “America’s resolve”.

    “That’s Lieutenant Colonel Queenforaday, not Mr. Queenforaday”

    #51577
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    “The soldiers of the condottieri were almost entirely heavy armoured cavalry (men-at-arms). Before 1400, they had little or nothing in common with the people among whom they fought, and their disorderly conduct and rapacity seem often to have exceeded that of medieval armies. They were always ready to change sides at the prospect of higher pay – the enemy of today might be the comrade-in-arms of tomorrow. Further, a prisoner was always more valuable than a dead enemy. As a consequence, their battles were often as bloodless as they were theatrical.”

    Ah, the relatively bloodless days…

    #51578
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    And finally:

    “The age of firearms and weapons utilizing gunpowder further contributed to the decline of the “capitani di ventura”. Although the mercenary forces were among the first to adapt to the emerging technologies on the battlefield, ultimately, the advent of firearms-governed warfare rendered their ceremonial fighting style obsolete. When battlefields shifted from chivalric confrontations characterized by ostentatious displays of power to an everyman’s war, they were ill-prepared to adjust.”

    #51579
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Minntonka
    Minnesota homeless rises 10%

    “a personal leak to one of the former allied FBI officials now working for CNN.”

    So they’re immediately getting paid to leak to CNN, with a cushy job? I’m guessing that, unlike Wikileaks, that’s not a leak, it’s a bribe, and prosecutable on both sides. And definitively not whistleblowing, ca-ching.

    The FBI’s reliance on Steele has raised significant public concerns”

    But not that he was MI6, working on behalf of Britain for U.S. election tampering? Ah, it’s only bad when the Russians do it, not Ukraine, Australia, New Zealand, or U.K. …Or should I say, it’s only bad when it’s MY side, when it’s your side we’re undermining, it’s GLORIOUS!

    “Ken Starr: We’re ‘Nowhere Close’ To Impeachable Offenses (Fox)”

    Not that anyone should believe Ken Starr, since he pushed similarly wrong, untrue charges in the LAST impeachment (A thing I didn’t get to yesterday), but the witnesses themselves said they couldn’t find bribery or impeachment.

    “Giuliani: “Massive Pay-For-Play” Soros-Ukraine Scheme Facilitated by US (ZH)”

    Look out: Soros, He-who-must-not-be-named. Because it’s a “trope.” Therefore, all Jews, anywhere, worldwide, cannot commit crimes and CERTAINLY can never be investigated for them, right Mr. Netanyahu? They have never touched either money or matzo balls. It would be racist to say Germans are blonde or Brazilians play football.

    “presidential candidate Joe Biden would be among the witnesses”

    We’ve got a problem since he’s losing the ability to speak coherently. No slight to him, just google it and watch for 15 minutes. Yet the front runner of the fake polls until they fake-changed it to fake Warren and Buttigeig (possibly unfake).

    “The Civilian Government Doesn’t Owe Deference to Military Officers (McMaken)”

    Doncha know the military sets the policy and they remove the President (and even the citizens) if he doesn’t obey? That’s Democracy! When the generals-who-don’t-know-the-largest-company-in-Ukraine vote, and the people follow THEIR orders. Now go die in a foxhole, Joe Kentucky. So which is fascism: military government, or opposing military government?

    “Is there a part of the party that hates the party?” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.)

    Uh, yes. Like 2/3 of the party’s base hates the party. That’s how AOC got in and they’re ripping apart Biden and now hate Obama. If you weren’t in the D.C. bubble you might have noticed what your own party, own people, are doing every minute of the day on national T.V. Clue: It’s not Tulsi.

    What’s Tulsi planning? Well, I’m sure she wouldn’t mind being the DNC moderate but it’s still the Neo-libs vs the Communists there, so I expect she’s setting up 2024 when the party’s reformed some more and she’s not facing Trump. So in that way, good plan. This is what Trump did testing 2012 and backing out: it wasn’t time yet, he couldn’t break through.

    Chart on government spending: So you see why I say we’re ALREADY a socialist (Social-Democratic) nation? We’re barely below Sweden and yet savaged for being outrageously, irresponsibly, impossibly Uber-“Capitalist.” No mas. When 30-50% of the nation is government, you’re not Capitalist by any definition, and you’re also reaching the wall, as France, Sweden, Italy and U.K. show: their order is collapsing.

    “we will consume as much energy and materials in the next ±30 years as we did cumulatively in the past 10,000. Is such a scenario inevitable?”

    Nope. It will fix itself when the financial sphere comes unhinged. Millions will die. But that’s what you wanted, right? Then they won’t use resources and release CO2. Killing humanity to save humanity?

    About lying and double-cross everyone, every time:
    http://www.alt-market.com/index.php/articles/4003-trump-vs-warren-and-the-fake-battle-against-the-elites
    Live from the Carter campaign!

    “If, after the inauguration, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I’d quit….Of course, as soon as Carter entered office he injected no less than ten members of the globalist Trilateral Commission and numerous other elites into key positions in his administration, including Cy Vance and Zbigniew Brzezinski. And of course, his top aide never quit.”

    Well, the people caught on. Live from the Reagan campaign!

    “I don’t believe that the Trilateral Commission is a conspiratorial group, but I do think its interests are devoted to international banking, multinational corporations, and so forth. I don’t think that any Administration of the U.S. Government should have the top nineteen positions filled by people from any one group or organization representing one viewpoint. No, I would go in a different direction…”
    Reagan, like Carter, was touted as having no affiliations with the elites. He was pure and unsullied by the globalists. But alas, Reagan also quickly picked at least 10 Trilateral Commission members for his transition team once he was elected, and he served the interests of the elites throughout his two terms in the White House (for the most part) under the watchful eye of George H.W. Bush.”

    But people are beginning to suspect! Live from the Warren campaign!

    “Warren’s attacks on billionaires are gaining extreme media attention, and the media loves it. Her latest ad campaign criticized four rich guys by name, including Leon Cooperman, the former Ameritrade CEO Joe Ricketts, the former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein and the investor Peter Thiel. Some of these men have responded publicly and angrily, and so another great farce of a wrestling match begins and propels another supposedly anti-establishment candidate into stardom.
    But here’s the thing – Warren’s wealth tax is not so anti-establishment. Elites like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates have been openly calling for higher taxes on the super-rich. In tandem with the wealth tax, her climate change position is seen as a shot across the bow of oil companies and the financial power structure. Yet, her policies are almost exactly in line with the Green New Deal and the UN’s Agenda 2030, which the globalists greatly desire.

    Warren’s image as anti-establishment? It’s as fake as Trump’s image.

    Warren has been featured multiple times in the magazine Foreign Affairs, the official magazine of the Council On Foreign Relations. On top of that they published her article…”

    He missed that she took in endless donations as Senator Warren, so she can pretend she’s not taking them in as Candidate Warren. Similar to her bank stance back in Dodd-Frank, etc. Same re-runs for 100 years. Yawn.

    Speaking of sneaking and double-crossing, the DNC House wants TRUMP’S secret state to continue well-funded. “Dems Sneak PATRIOT Act Renewal Past the American People”

    Dems Sneak PATRIOT Act Renewal Past the American People

    Yay! Let’s give more power to Trump, Orange Man Bad, RussiaRussiaRussia. Which is why I’m shocked they’re not taking the people’s line in the impeachment and choice of charges, so they can win and then double-cross us. –I mean, not like any politician believes a word they speak. Do they?

    #51580
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    My chainsaw playing up and was talking to the old timer at the repair joint today, who told me that a life time of fixing small engines has brought him to the conclusion that the fuel is inferior to what it used to be and a major reason for the rising repair rates of high quality brands like Stihl and Husqvarna.

    Wow, snapped me back just over 40 years; my 041 Stihl w/28″ bar never gave me a lick of trouble. Plenty of good oil on the bar and she purred under a good load.
    It took 10 cords of good quality wood (more if not) to heat our house every year/winter.

    I live in the tropics now, so our energy use is really quite low; plus we’re old and need very little….

    #51581

    Remember when the internet wasn’t broken, when basic html reliably worked?

    Well, guess who broke that code. When you click IMG, you get a box to put your code in that already has [http//] in it. Then people put their URL for the image in, and now they have [http://] twice. Simple. Fixed it.

    #51582
    John Day
    Participant

    Keep the ethanol out of your chainsaw. It eats the insides of the fuel system. Always use premium gas.
    http://www.johndayblog.com/2019/11/truth-or-politics.html

    8 minutes of Tulsi Gabbard. Her campaign says she was the most googled candidate again.
    ( I couldn’t find any tally yesterday when I looked)
    Glad to hear it. She’s righteous. No blinks or pauses. 8 minutes, one, single, brief “uh”.
    No slack for the swamp from this warrior-sister!
    She slays with truth. (They may have to JFK her.)

    Netanyahoo, Indicted For Bribery, Fraud And Breach Of Trust, Becomes More Dangerous
    The Attorney General of Israel just indicted Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahoo in three cases. The announcement comes at a time of political stalemate. It might help to resolve it.
    Israel had two parliament elections this year which both ended in a political stalemate. Neither Prime Minister Netanyahoo of the Likud Party nor Blue and White coalition leader Benny Gantz managed to form a government. Both were unable to find enough additional votes to form a coalition and to gain a majority.
    Now the parliament has 21 days to find a majority. It will likely fail and a third election seems inevitable…
    The charges have been known for quite some time and the timing of the official announcement seems political.
    Netanyahoo will now come under intense pressure to resign. It is very much his personality that blocked the forming of a new government. Should he be removed over the next 21 days it might be possible for the parliament to form a government and to avoid a third election.
    But Netanyahoo will fight tooth and nail to gain and keep immunity. He will try to delegitimize the judicative and he will use any available trick to stay in office.
    That makes him even more dangerous than he usually is.
    He might even decide to something, like starting a big war, to prevent his removal from power.
    Lebanon, Syria and Iran must watch out.
    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/11/netanyahoo-indicted-for-bribery-fraud-and-breach-of-trust-becomes-more-dangerous.html

    ​Lebanon color revolution update:
    ​ It should be said at this point that Hezbollah is a responsible stakeholder in Lebanon’s stability and therefore understands the need to make tactical decisions in pursuit of the larger strategic end of preventing external forces from driving wedges between the country’s cosmopolitan socio-religious groups, hence why it’s entered into the certain political partnerships that it’s had out of its interest in working within the legal system to carry out responsible reforms to the best of its ability. These noble intentions have been deliberately misportrayed by those who have wanted to remove Hezbollah from the government for some time already as part of their never-ending campaign to delegitimize it, after which they believe that it’ll become more susceptible to the joint US-“Israeli”-GCC Hybrid War against it.

    The Lebanese Color Revolution Is a Defining Moment for the Resistance

    Let’s all talk peaceful co-existence in a multipolar world before the nuclear-weapons Jinni gets out of the bottle, OK?
    Three months after a major and still somewhat mysterious rocket explosion in Russia’s far north which caused radiation levels to spike at least sixteen times above normal, President Putin confirmed in statements Thursday that his military is developing a weapon that has “no equal in the world,” according to Interfax news agency…
    At the time Reuters cited dangerously high levels of radiation emitted from the military test facility: “Greenpeace has cited data from the Emergencies Ministry that it said showed radiation levels had risen 20 times above the normal level in Severodvinsk around 30 kilometers (18 miles) from Nyonoksa.”
    Enough official descriptions of the experimental weapon had been pieced together for analysts to speculate at the time that it had been a prototype nuclear-powered cruise missile known in Russia as the 9M730 Burevestnik and by Nato as the SSC-X-9 Skyfall.
    Putin had first unveiled the experimental technology during a 2018 speech showcasing Russian defense technology developments. The chief stunning claim behind the hypersonic missile is that it can traverse the globe indefinitely at “faster than Mach 5” based on its nuclear powered core.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-deceased-scientists-mystery-blast-were-developing-unparalleled-weapon

    ​ The major Japanese daily Asahi Shimbun revealed this week that Chinese officials issued a stern to warning to Japan and South Korea against any move to host intermediate-range missiles on their soil.
    ​ ​Citing both Japanese and US sources, the newspaper said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi issued the message to his Japanese and South Korean counterparts in August — an action apparently triggered by President Trump’s announced official withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty with Russia.
    ​ ​Given a key administration criticism of the INF is that it doesn’t account for developing technology and advanced missiles of major powers like China, Beijing is said to be worried over the fallout of a potential new US-Russia arms race for southeast Asia.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/inf-collapse-triggered-china-pressure-japan-skorea-against-us-missile-deployment

    #51584
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    John Day: “Tulsi Gabbard. Her campaign says she was the most googled candidate again.
    ( I couldn’t find any tally yesterday when I looked)”

    I didn’t find any news articles that mention who was the most searched candidate, which seems strange. So I checked at the google trends site, compared Tulsi with Pete, Kamala, Elizabeth, and Bernie, and the result was not surprising. Tulsi Gabbard was by far the most searched candidate at the November debate.

    Screenshot of my search result, the blue line is Tulsi (apologies if it doesn’t post correctly here):


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    #51591
    expatkiwi
    Participant

    re: The Civilian Government Doesn’t Owe Deference to Military Officers
    I went back to the US last year after being away for 13 years. The society is totally militarized. Slogans everywhere exalt the troops. If you go shopping places, you get bennies with a military ID.
    If that’s not scary I don’t know what is.

    #51592
    zerosum
    Participant

    Today, will be the day for opinions. Lots of opinions. Some of the opinions will be propaganda. Some opinions will be wrong. Some opinions will be close to the truth.
    Today will be the day to make a good bowl of soup.

    My turn to add something to the soup.

    Dorothea Lange We’ll be in California yet. We’re not going back to Arkansas 1938

    Those were not the poorest of the poor. They could afford to buy a truck, fix it up, buy supplies for a family of 10, buy gas, oil, spare parts.
    The poor people stayed home to starve.

    How bad is it today?
    To compare to today, 2019, don’t look at the homeless tent cities but rather at the caravans of mobile homes RV trying to find places to park without being harrased by the cops.

    I’ve gone camping with my home made 5 x 8 camper and seen a contractor and buddy tenting for free in a campground to save money to be able to make a profit from his out of town contract.
    I know a salesman who sleeps in his car when on the road

    We don’t have a clue of the things that people have got to put up with, of how they got to hustle to put food on the table.
    I remember, growing up, negative comments about people living in trailer camps. You all heard it too. rif-raf, trailer trash etc.
    Today, the lucky ones will be those who still have a trailer roof over their head when they lose their job.

    Yep! Don’t ask. I’m lucky. I know it. I appreciate it.
    We, that are all here, giving our opinions, sharing our wisdom, are the fortunate few.
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    John Day said
    Keep the ethanol out of your chainsaw.
    I’ll add, use super gas for all small engines especially outboard motors if you don’t want to get stranded.
    ——-
    I’ll be back later, with my two cents. (Since cents don’t exits anymore, in Canada, that means that they are valuable)
    🙂

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