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“Austin, Wallace Praise Miller as Command Transitions in Afghanistan
JULY 12, 2021 | BY JIM GARAMONE, DO”“heckuva job, scotty..”
ufhgg, i don’t endorse the taliban. but, they are afghans. it’s their country. well, western empires made a country on top of them, so they deal with it.
in the end, they are just more humans. the same humans in rwanda or fallujah or sri lanka or congo or gaza or nagasaki or or or or or or or or or
kimo: research pashtunwali. i can’t post links, so you’ll have to look. i obviously would not want to be seen as a collaborator, but you’d be surprised..
just ask marcus luttrell.
o canada, our home. native land.
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canada is australia lite, and australia is gaza lite. well, really lite. i guess the amount of oppression is inverse to the amount of submission.
mr. trudeau wants to be first on the globe to have his sheep fully shorn by christmas.
ATTENTION! I CANNOT POST LINKS. I AM NICE. I SOMETIMES CLOG THE PIPES WITH NONSENSE, but i do try to contribute good stuff.
er, thanks, i feel a little relief, but i still can’t post links, so just this once ima paste the whole shebanger. i am actually amazed this is still up. from the beloved broadcasting company [if you want the link, don’t ask me]:
“Thursday, December 4, 1997 Published at 19:27 GMT
World: West Asia
Taleban in Texas for talks on gas pipeline
image: [ The 1,300km pipeline will carry gas across Afghanistan’s harsh terrain ]
The 1,300km pipeline will carry gas across Afghanistan’s harsh terrain
A senior delegation from the Taleban movement in Afghanistan is in the United States for talks with an international energy company that wants to construct a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan across Afghanistan to Pakistan.A spokesman for the company, Unocal, said the Taleban were expected to spend several days at the company’s headquarters in Sugarland, Texas.
Unocal says it has agreements both with Turkmenistan to sell its gas and with Pakistan to buy it.
[ image: The Afghan economy has been devasted by 20 years of civil war]
The Afghan economy has been devasted by 20 years of civil war
But, despite the civil war in Afghanistan, Unocal has been in competition with an Argentinian firm, Bridas, to actually construct the pipeline.Last month, the Argentinian firm, Bridas, announced that it was close to signing a two-billion dollar deal to build the pipeline, which would carry gas 1,300 kilometres from Turkmenistan to Pakistan, across Afghanistan.
In May, Taleban-controlled radio in Kabul said a visiting delegation from an Argentinian company had announced that pipeline construction would start “soon”.
[ image: Kabul]
Kabul
The radio has reported several visits to Kabul by Unocal and Bridas company officials over the past few months.A BBC regional correspondent says the proposal to build a pipeline across Afghanistan is part of an international scramble to profit from developing the rich energy resources of the Caspian Sea.
With the various Afghan factions still at war, the project has looked from the outside distinctly unpromising.
Last month the Taleban Minister of Information and Culture, Amir Khan Muttaqi, said the Taleban had held talks with both American and Argentine-led consortia over transit rights but that no final agreement had yet been reached. He said an official team from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkmenistan should meet to ensure each country benefited from any deal.
However, Unocal clearly believes it is still in with a chance – to the extent that it has already begun training potential staff.
It has commissioned the University of Nebraska to teach Afghan men the technical skills needed for pipeline construction. Nearly 140 people were enrolled last month in Kandahar and Unocal also plans to hold training courses for women in administrative skills.
[ image: Women face working restrictions under Taleban rule]
Women face working restrictions under Taleban rule
Although the Taleban authorities only allow women to work in the health sector, organisers of the training say they haven’t so far raised any objections.The BBC regional correspondent says the Afghan economy has been devastated by 20 years of civil war. A deal to go ahead with the pipeline project could give it a desperately-needed boost.
But peace must be established first — and that for the moment still seems a distant prospect.”
i wonder if they’ll invite the taliban back to sugar land. take ’em to the beach, too. who doesn’t love a nice frolic in the gulf?
actually, it would be very difficult to bribe the taliban. make a deal, yes. bribe, nope.
[insert qwiki link to pashtunwali]
1) If you believe the vaccines are the best hope for beating Covid and that adverse effects are worth the cost, what evidence would it take to change your mind?
• death/disabling injury in the family.
2) If you believe vaccines are too dangerous and will likely have long term catastrophic adverse effects, what evidence would it take to change your mind?
• time.
3) If you believe the FLCCC protocols are the best hope for beating Covid, what evidence would it take to change your mind?
• better protocols than theirs or vaccines tested over the long term.
4) If you believe the FLCCC protocols are at best unproven and at worst will cost many lives, what evidence would it take to change your mind?
• grandma’s miraculous recovery after all else fails.
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from my perspective, pro-vaccine people have now developed an almost religious zealotry, and so i think only personal events will sway them.
from my perspective, counter-vaccine people want to be patient because the disease isn’t all that dangerous for most, vaccines take time to develop, and both the pharmaceutical companies and the governments endorsing their products have long histories of corruption that leaves one being wary, and so, i think only real data through long term analysis will sway them.
unfortunately, both sets of people are being set up to confront each other, while mr. bezos et al. get to go to fiji and space and martha’s vineyard with funds they’ve swindled off the people fighting each other down below.
do you think mr. bezos et al. really gives a flying moohoo whether you’re vaccinated? locked down and fighting? great! vaccinated? whatever..
“The Co-Founder Of Snopes Wrote Dozens Of Plagiarized Articles For The Fact-Checking Site”
see? they shoulda hired me.
that’s a very sad video. people who should be united against an elite class that only seeks to exploit and pillage are manipulated into fighting against each other to preserve an illusory freedom that they will never be allowed to possess.
meanwhile, those who manipulate both groups through funding, media, lies and fear fly overhead in private pollution machines on their way to martha’s vineyard to enjoy some nice scratchmyback’n’i’llscratchyours time with the select few.
“oh, look at the proleplorables fighting below, william. how grand. i’ll wager 250 quatloos on the fat one with the trump/elvis 2024 facemask.”
divide and concorde, so to speak.
why can’t i be a “fact-checker”? do you need a special diet? it seems there are more “fact-checkers” than facts to check.
i bet “fact-checkers” are “fat chequers”.
let’s have a quick look at u.s. federal elections, a shambackle arrangement of chads, chuds, skroinks, and midnight deliveries that even the mighty rube goldberg couldn’t duplicate, even if supplied with the finest in psilocybin.
2020: trump won. obvious. neither good nor good. it does not make a difference. same ham sandwich with stale bread and cheap mustard, the kind with lotsa tartrazine.
2016: hahahahahaha, they were gonna fix it, but then thought, “why bother? who would vote for that?!” and got lazy. hahahahahahaha
2012: obama won. people just don’t pay attention.
2008: obama won. more bushlike? nope, give us hope. people are so naïve.
2004: kerry won. more bush? nope, but that does not matter if you can die boldly in ohio.
2000: the supreme court won.
1996: the people of serbia lost. who ran against bill?
1992: bush’s lips versus billie’s hips? tax and tricks versus sex and sax?
1988: i’m getting nauseous as we are approaching the ronniezone.
1984: great book.
1980: the deal with iran was nasty, nasty stuff. and what did the iranians get in return? saddam and his rumsfeld gas.
1976: jerry ford seemed so nice but never trust a u.s. president. jimmy carter founded al-qaeda. kinda. i woulda voted for jessie. did he run that year?
1972: it’s funny. nixon was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to the left of obama*. and his health care plan was better. oh well.
The total cost of CHIP would be just shy of $7 billion, where the federal government would pay $6 billion and state governments would pay $1 billion. Employers would pay $450 for each participating employee, while the average cost for insurance premiums would be $150. Tax rates would not rise, as Nixon was opposed to any comprehensive health plan that required a new federal tax. Overall, his goal was to reduce the burden of cost while simultaneously improving the quality of healthcare for all Americans.
*domestically. internationally, both (and all¡¡¡) are murderers. i suppose they both might be domestically, too…
phoenix: i’ll show you how it’s done.
this will be 83827. i’ll see you back at 83831.
[unless someone interrupts]
Are you in an abusive relationship with reality? Look for these signs:
1. You walk on eggshells to avoid disappointing the taxman, the bank, the mirror.
2. Reality uses facts and figures to maintain the upper hand in the relationship.
3. Reality requires constant check-ins and wants to know where you are, what you had for breakfast, and who really shot j.r..
4. Reality says hurtful things about you disguised as “reality”.
5. You find yourself ignoring the obvious even when you know you are completely wrong.
6. Reality hides secrets from you, but won’t allow the opposite.
7. Reality refuses to give you trophies for 19th place and insists gravity is real.
8. Reality withholds affection, sex or money to punish you.
9. You’ve lost all desire for logic and reason.
10. You feel sorry for yourself, and reality rubs it in.
11. Reality is always changing plans in order to let you know who’s boss.polder: yesterday, the hairstyle-in-chief of canada announced “sweeping new” crap. he’s gonna call an election on it. what a dweeb.
So that’s life, then: things as they are?
It picks its way on the blue guitar.A million people on one string?
And all their manner in the thing,And all their manner, right and wrong,
And all their manner, weak and strong?The feelings crazily, craftily call,
Like a buzzing of flies in autumn air,And that’s life, then: things as they are,
This buzzing of the blue guitar.~wallace stevens (who insisted the painting had nothing to do with it, but no one believes him!), 1937
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and, of course, michael tippett’s sonata for guitar (1984), “the blue guitar”, which you can find on the you tube.
[insert uninsertable link to norbert kraft’s performance (with score!)]haha, music is not a competition. i was just jesting with the poker analogy. i mean, if you wanna get paid by the note, listen to earl scruggs (r.i.p., sir) play “shuckin’ the corn”. or try “trinkle tinkle” by thelonious monk, the coltrane version with the sheets of sound.
so tucker starts his thing great. afghanistan is a mess. we are idiots. then to prove it, ¿¡eric prince!? oops, bad, bad choice.
anyhoo, he gets this guy, pedro gonzalez, to talk about race. “uniparty”, “imperial”, “power and control”, “fuel the growth of a corrupt political order”, “ruling class”, “psychotic”, “neoliberal”, “fundamentally dehumanizing” on fox frikkin’ news. listen to the dude. i know nothing of him except this, but the dude crushes it.
bill7: i’ll take your luis de milán and raise you francis poulenc’s sarabande (1960) performed by narciso yepes (i like the slower 1977 version). so very, very simple, modern yet timeless. go to the youtube to treat the ear.
[no links allowed pour moi.]
fair enough..
pun[ishment] intended.
still, i’ll give it a try next time. i’ve got my mojo bag and toes crossed, too.
any port in a
clichéstorm.dear [insert name of loathsome right wing politician of your choice]:
for years i have watched you install fracking wells in pristine wilderness and next to nursery schools,
for years i have watched you deceive the naïve, telling them you’d end abortion,
for years i have watched you destroy unions and off-shore their jobs,
for years i have watched you divert the people’s money into totally unnecessary military madness,
for years i have watched you be a total dink.but now, even after all that, i will vote for you. to be honest, in the last election i put smiley faces in the little circles because it just seems like a silly charade. before then, i voted green or marxist or further back for centreleft. but now, i will vote for you, loathsome right wing politician, because in our new upside down world, it seems like you, loathsome right wing politician, have become the only voice of reason that still cares about freedom.
without freedom, i can’t prove to you how wrong you have been all these years. so, thanks again, loathsome right wing politician, for all your hard work of late. i’ll see you at the polls.
and i sincerely hope the msm explanation is completely correct, and that vaccines will end this insanity.
i mean, saddam did have wmd. he just used ’em up in the 80’s before america came back for the deposit.
dr. d: “And yes, what’s with the ad hominem? I’m sure he would take the vaccine,”
are you addressing me? i only ask because it seems to me that a lot of the insistence, the tone seems to brought about by fear. fear of a mistake, perhaps? i felt kinda icky asking, as i’ve never asked anyone, but i’ve asked other questions i felt were pertinent and have been completely ignored.
my questions haven’t been about receptors or studies or data or misdisinformation – they’ve been about lived experience. i ask those because from my (purely anecdotal, of course) experience, the dangers of these vaccines seem to greatly outweigh the dangers of this virus (for example, i have seen 4 people sent to the hospital because of vaccines, whilst knowing of only one because of the virus).
scientifically, anecdotes mean little. nonetheless, i find it very hard to advocate for something i see causing so much torment. i have asked the questions i chose to see if deflationista had experienced anything similar, for it just seems too impossible to ignore so much pain.
if i have offended anyone, i apologize quite sincerely. my questions may have gotten more “intense” because i’ve been ignored. i guess i should post more stats…
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[so, my post #83637 is etherville. as is post #83639, so another try. now post 83640 didn’t work, either. i’ll try the “link” button…. ok, so that didn’t work for post #83641. raw link? nope, post 83642 didn’t show up. nor did post #83642 with no link attempt whatsoever.]
deflationista: do you believe in these injections enough to take them? is your money where your arm is?
m.c.: unfortunately, we are being manipulated into hating each other, where everyone sees everyone else as a threat, as the enemy, an enemy who is always hiding something from us, be it injection status, racial bias, left/right political heresies..
deflationista: are you vaccinated? i’ve never asked anybody that question, but i’m asking you now. i think you can surmise as to why.
vietnamvet: “the Chinese Wuhan mRNA coronavirus”. a more apt name is perhaps “the university of north carolina, national institute of health, fauci’s little wonder, wuhan rental labs chinese coronavirus with who sauce”.
absolute galore: when i say i hope “they” are right, i refer to those who believe and promulgate “normalthink”, that the vaccines will work and save lives, not this wacky nonsense i believe.
i really, really, really hope mr. vanden bossche is completely wrong. regardless, to normalthinkers, he is just another misdisinformationer who should be removed from youtube.
thanks, upstate. i was just looking at the script for “invasion of the body snatchers” for ideas, and it seems it doesn’t really need any modifications to fit our present circumstances.
oh, how i long for the days when “full house” and “fresh prince” were reality.
upstate: it was gonna be my own creation. i bet madamski could find a real one!
m.c.: right on that one. he would probably own greece by now.oh, germ..
i thought of posting a “night of the living
deadcovidians” parody where the zombies walk about pleading for “vaaaacciiines, VAAAAAccciiIIIINEEESSS”, but i thought i should not because so many i need, respect and love have taken this route.i sincerely hope we are wrong, and they are right.
