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“Being poor in the tropics is far better than being poor in the northern latitudes…”
The majority of the street people/homeless, that I see, are drunk, addicted, and mentally challenged.
They do get help from multiple sources. Yet, they still stay in the street even in the freezing cold.
However, I don’t know about the poor. They must be sheltering in plain sight, under their credit cards.@ NooBoob
After reading the list, that you made, of the accomplishment of our great powerful leaders, I’m proud to say that I cannot take any credit, since I’m just a poor powerless serf having difficulty feeding myself on starvation income.
Hopefully, my masters will not take retributions upon my decrepit body for saying those words or upon you for making that list of accomplishment and for making this poor serf aware of what the elites have been doing.
Is this another helper?
Go read the article.Burning Aid: An Interventionist Deception on Colombia-Venezuela Bridge?
Having failed miserably at every phase of the coup he had attempted engineer, Rubio ended the day with a Twitter tantrum that peaked with a call for “multilateral actions” against Venezuela’s government.Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and the author of several books, including best-selling Republican Gomorrah, Goliath, The Fifty One Day War, and The Management of Savagery. He has produced print articles for an array of publications, many video reports, and several documentaries, including Killing Gaza. Blumenthal founded The Grayzone in 2015 to shine a journalistic light on America’s state of perpetual war and its dangerous domestic repercussions.
We are just a bag of bacteria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_microbiota
Humans are colonized by many microorganisms; the traditional estimate is that the average human body is inhabited by ten times as many non-human cells as human cells, but more recent estimates have lowered that ratio to 3:1 or even to approximately the same number.
…. the human microbiome includes around 100 trillion bacterial cells and that an adult human typically has around 10 trillion human cellshttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/28/pests-homes-spider-man-bug-biolgist-5000-species
He says fewer than 100 species of bacteria, protists and viruses cause nearly all infectious diseases today. We try to keep these in check with vaccinations and antibiotics, and by washing our hands.
The best probiotic supplement has multiple strains of effective bacteria in a dosage potent enough to give you results.OR ACCIDENTLY KILL YOU.
Cohen will be sent to jail because
Mr. Cohen repeatedly testified that he did not seek employment in the White House following President Trump’s election. This is demonstrably, materially, and intentionally false.
Oppps He will be there for something else…. lying
” there wasn’t even a there there.”
Too bad that people don’t understand numbers and math.
or
numbers don’t matter when you have already made up your mind.
( You know how it works – it doesn’t matter who is in power)
eg.
Which came first?July 18-19 2016, in which Stone allegedly said he had talked to Assange who told him WikiLeaks was going to release a big batch of Hillary-related mails.
July 25-28The DNC convention ,
July 22 the WikiLeaks release . Looks like a slam-dunk collusion story, right?
June 12 2016, Except that Assange had said 5 weeks earlier, that such a batch would be released.( sorry that I made it so obvious for those that are math challenged.)
The dog was innocent. It was a wrong key that ate my comments. Since everyone here is smarter than me, then my words of wisdom were not needed.
Here is a different version.What if the entire third world unites against the west?
Can Ocasio rises to the occasion? (get it? Ocasio->Occasion).
In response ….Where are Ocsio helpers?
In Canada?
Why is Canada a lap dog to the USA?
• Venezuela Set For More False Flags (Cunningham)
the Lima Group summit – 12 Latin American states along with the US and Canada – was meant to capitalize on the false-flag incident over aid, as well as other deadly clashes at the weekend that resulted in dozens of casualties.
Lima Group, including US allies Colombia, Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, issued a statement after the summit Monday rejecting any military action. They are still functioning as lackeys by calling for a “peaceful transition to democracy” and are in favor of the dubious US-anointed opposition figure Guaido, recognizing him as the “interim president” of Venezuela, in accordance with Washington’s desires.Is this a helper?
Finian Cunningham (born 1963) has written extensively on international affairs, with articles published in several languages. Originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, he is a Master’s graduate in Agricultural Chemistry and worked as a scientific editor for the Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, England, before pursuing a career in newspaper journalism. For over 20 years he worked as an editor and writer in major news media organizations, including The Mirror, Irish Times and Independent. Now a freelance journalist based in East Africa, his columns appear on RT, Sputnik, Strategic Culture Foundation and Press TV.I am surprised that no one else is saying it, writing it, shouting it at each and every corner: It is not Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Iran that are in dire and crucial need of ‘regime change’. It is the United States of America, it is the entire European Union; in fact, the entire West.
Is this an helper?
Andre Vltchek is a philosopher, novelist, filmmaker and investigative journalist. He has covered wars and conflicts in dozens of countries. Three of his latest books are Revolutionary Optimism, Western Nihilism, a revolutionary novel “Aurora” and a bestselling work of political non-fiction: “Exposing Lies Of The Empire”. View his other books here. Watch Rwanda Gambit, his groundbreaking documentary about Rwanda and DRCongo and his film/dialogue with Noam Chomsky “On Western Terrorism”. Vltchek presently resides in East Asia and the Middle East, and continues to work around the world. He can be reached through his website and his Twitter.In the past, the US tried to overthrow Chavez, it attempted to starve Venezuela, to make its medical system collapse, then to assassinate Maduro. It produced a ‘deficit’ of food, even toilet paper. It ordered its lapdogs in Latin America to antagonize the Bolivarian revolution.
Now, in the latest development, the regime in Washington has simply hand-picked its favorite traitor inside the socialist republic of Venezuela – a treasonous cadre named Juan Guaido, (who served, briefly, as President of the National Assembly of Venezuela), “recognizing him” as the“interim President of the country”.
Its “A Cohen MOMENT” in history.
Q&A happening at this moment.
When this diversion is over we will be going back to the regular scheduled diversions, (Trump Tweets)Thank to all the commentators who continually shine the light into those hidden corners that carry the truth.
(off topic)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_Hill_(Moncton)Water appearing to run uphill at Magnetic Hill
The Magnetic Hill is an example of a gravity hill, a type of optical illusion created by rising and descending terrain. It is located at the northwestern edge (in the Magnetic Hill Area) of the city of Moncton in the Canadian province of New Brunswick.“Green New Deal” is a better name than “sustainability”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SustainabilityDespite the increased popularity of the use of the term “sustainability”, the possibility that human societies will achieve environmental sustainability has been, and continues to be, questioned—in light of environmental degradation, climate change, overconsumption, population growth and societies’ pursuit of unlimited economic growth in a closed system.[15][16]
Okay.
There is nobody or organization capable changing any or all of the above forces that are leading to what we all know will happen “unsustainability” and the destruction of ?????What if they tried to start a war and nobody came?
https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/14348
By John Pilger – Counterpunch
Feb 24th 2019 at 5.35pm
In 2018, Maduro was re-elected President. A section of the opposition boycotted the election, a tactic tried against Chavez. The boycott failed: 9,389,056 people voted; sixteen parties participated and six candidates stood for the presidency. Maduro won 6,248,864 votes, or 67.84 per cent.
On election day, I spoke to one of the 150 foreign election observers. “It was entirely fair,” he said. “There was no fraud; none of the lurid media claims stood up. Zero. Amazing really.”Researchers at the University of the West of England studied the BBC’s reporting of Venezuela over a ten-year period. They looked at 304 reports and found that only three of these referred to any of the positive policies of the government. For the BBC, Venezuela’s democratic record, human rights legislation, food programmes, healthcare initiatives and poverty reduction did not happen. The greatest literacy programme in human history did not happen, just as the millions who march in support of Maduro and in memory of Chavez, do not exist.
Should the CIA stooge Guaido and his white supremacists grab power, it will be the 68th overthrow of a sovereign government by the United States, most of them democracies. A fire sale of Venezuela’s utilities and mineral wealth will surely follow, along with the theft of the country’s oil, as outlined by John Bolton.
It is too difficult to report the collapse of oil prices since 2014 as largely the result of criminal machinations by Wall Street. It is too difficult to report the blocking of Venezuela’s access to the US-dominated international financial system as sabotage. It is too difficult to report Washington’s “sanctions” against Venezuela, which have caused the loss of at least $6billion in Venezuela’s revenue since 2017, including $2billion worth of imported medicines, as illegal, or the Bank of England’s refusal to return Venezuela’s gold reserves as an act of piracy.
What do I see from todays selection of
newsarticles?Where ever you look there is debts, too much debts, debts that cannot be paid back, debts that will not be paid back.
I can’t see where the owners of those loans are hidding.
I can’t see any owners suffering if those debts are not collected.Some one wants to collect blood out of a stone. Rephrase – someone lent money to Venezuela and they are declaring modern warfare on them to seize the assets of venezuelains.
Do you want to hear another point of view that the one presented by USA and their friends?
Then try
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news” …. they really don’t want us to see?”
I’ll take a shot at answering.THE TRUTH
REALITY
THE REAL DIRT
THE BEDROOM
ELITE ACTIVITIES
IF ITS NOT TRUMP THEN ITS IRRELEVANT“The Venezuela coverage is too obvious and predictable, I’ll leave it alone today. “
Yep! You wisely omitted using “news coverage”
====Wow!!!
This is good news.
Reducing exploitation at home.
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Call For A ‘Living Wage’ Starts In Her Office (Akin)
““We think that if a person is working, they should make enough to live,” said Corbin Trent, Ocasio-Cortez’s communications director.”====
• The American War on Terror – Now in 80 Countries (Savell)
Is this global war truly making Americans safer? Is it reducing violence against civilians in the U.S. and other places?
Is poking a stick in every ants nest leading to peace?
—-Why does the US want to have boots on the ground?
A.: To destroy any downed American UAVshttps://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-22/video-iran-hacks-centcom-crashes-mq-9-reaper-drone
Fars News Agency said Iran has acquired a vast collection of downed American UAVs, including Scan Eagle, Raptor, M-Q9 surveillance. All drones have since been reverse engineered into new advance drones that are currently being deployed in Iran and in Syria.—–
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/amphibian-plague-frogs-toads-new-hybrid-appear-bd-fungus-research-a8792596.html
In particular, the melding of different Bd strains from around the world has the potential to create hybrids that are even deadlier than current incarnations.Finish that statement …..
and attack humans and as a reult saves all life on earth.Check out this site. They told me something hat ididn’t know.
Western Media Fall in Lockstep for Cheap Trump/Rubio Venezuela Aid PR Stunt
(2) Despite dozens of media outlets giving the impression (and sometimes explicitly saying) that the Venezuelan government shut down an otherwise functioning pathway into the country, the bridge in question hasn’t been open for years.
According to La Opinion (2/5/16), after its initial construction in 2015, the bridge has never been open to traffic. How can Maduro, as the BBC suggested, “reopen” a bridge that was never open?The first thing that jumps out is Berkshire’s massive cash pile, which was at $112 billion on Dec 31 mostly in the form of T-Bills – marking the sixth straight quarter above $100 billion – showing how difficult it has been for Buffett to put money to work as fast as Berkshire accumulates it, and while Buffett laments the lack of investment opportunities he vows he will never risk getting caught short of cash.
WHY?
• Get Out Of The Bond And Stock Market, Put Your Money In Cash – Stockman (MW)
WHO?
He is not advising anyone. He must be talking to his 0.01% rich buddys.
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• UK Food Imports From EU Face ‘£9bn Tariff Bill’ Under No-Deal Brexit (G.)Who will pay, Who will collect? Who will get rich?
There will be a lot of compose material that will flood the market.Here is your dream answer
Moderating home prices combined with gains in household income will boost housing affordability, bringing more buyers to the market in the coming months.”
borrow cash against their homes,
people aged 65-74 were on average A$566,000 wealthier
(paper wealth)
compares with just A$38,000 for the 25-34 age group
(too poor to be able to buy a house)
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Stop suing the banks. Sue their execs instead.
• Philadelphia Sues Seven Big Banks For Bond Collusion (RT)
Plaintiffs in those four lawsuits are seeking to recover over $1 billion in fees
Lets see if I understand.
The tax payers paid $1 billionThe $1 billion got spent by the bank execs
Therefore collect another $1 billion from the tax payers
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• FBI Lawyer Reveals Infiltration In Trump Campaign (ET)What made you think that your vote had an influence in who is running the gov. .
The rich and the powerful would not dilute their position by allowing you any wealth and power.
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• Hungary Takes ‘Hundreds Of Venezuelan Refugees With Hungarian Ancestry’ (Ind.)
“They, like any other Hungarian, have a right to return home.”
(with their accumulated stolen wealth)——
Halper’s involvement in surveilling the Trump campaign was exposed by the Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross, who reported that the 74-year-old spook was enlisted by the FBI to befriend and spy on three members of the Trump campaign during the 2016 US election.
Halper received a DoD contract from the Obama administration for $411,575 – made in two payments, and had a start date of September 26, 2016 – three days after a September 23 Yahoo! News article by Michael Isikoff about Trump aide Carter Page, which used information fed to Isikoff by “pissgate” dossier creator Christopher Steele. The FBI would use the Yahoo! article along with the unverified “pissgate” dossier as supporting evidence in an FISA warrant application for Page.If the FBI was to says that Trump is a spy working for Russia would you think that it was true? Why would you believe them?
Why would you go to jail for telling a lie to the FBI?
The FBI never lies
.Recent history. (Ask Trump)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover
He remained director for over 37 years until his death in 1972 at the age of 77
Later in life and after his death, Hoover became a controversial figure as evidence of his secretive abuses of power began to surface. He was found to have exceeded the jurisdiction of the FBI,[2] and to have used the FBI to harass political dissenters and activists, to amass secret files on political leaders,[3] and to collect evidence using illegal methods.[4] Hoover consequently amassed a great deal of power and was in a position to intimidate and threaten others, even sitting presidents of the United States.MCCABE TO CNN: “IT’S POSSIBLE” TRUMP IS A RUSSIAN ASSET
If you accept that headline and don’t question that statement then democracy has rolled over in its grave.
I’ll give you a helpjng hand
Define “possible”
Define asset
Determine what it means to ask the question
This falls into the same category as asking,”When did you stop beating your wife” when the intent is to make the listeners believe that you were beating your wife.
“…. Lindsey Graham wants ….”
anything that will be detrimental to Trump and the hell with any and all the collateral damages.Here is one of the good thing about social media, TAE is feeding us info which we normally would not be made aware.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-eu-idUSKCN1Q704Z
February 17, 2019 / 6:33 PM / Updated 13 hours agoThe four deputies from the center-right European People’s Party (EPP) were traveling to Venezuela to meet with Guaido, one of them said in a video distributed via social media.
Reporting by Mayela Armas; Writing by Sarah Marsh; Editing by Sandra Maler
Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Customers across the world depend on us to provide them with reliable and objective news and information.
This means that we have a special need to safeguard our independence and integrity and avoid any bias which may stem from control by specific individuals or interests.
The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles were adopted in 1941 and include the preservation of integrity, reliability of news, development of the news business, and related principles.
Today, the Trust Principles are fundamental to our entire business.As you can see, “Thomson Reuters Trust Principles, adopted in 1941” is your guarantee that you are not getting fake news, or propaganda.
I turned on the TV just as a pissed off rich elitist capitalist politician is saying,
“This is what socialism looks like. Making Amazon cancel it HQ in New York.”
• Amazon Paid No Federal Taxes On $11.2 Billion In Profits Last Year (WaPo)
paid no federal taxes on profit of $11.2 billion last year, Amazon actually received a federal tax rebate of $129 million last year, giving it an effective federal tax rate of roughly -1 percent.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/15/nyregion/amazon-hq2-nyc.html (pay wall?)
On Thursday, Amazon abruptly announced that it was canceling the deal, under which the company had promised to create more than 25,000 jobs on a new campus in Long Island City, Queens, in return for nearly $3 billion in government incentives.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-ocasiocortez-idUSKCN1Q42TF
Ocasio-Cortez, a newly elected progressive Democrat who was an outspoken critic of the plans to locate Amazon’s second headquarters in a New York City neighborhood near her congressional district, asked on Twitter if Amazon’s culture of “strict performance” is “why Amazon workers have to urinate in bottles & work while on food stamps to meet ‘targets?’ Performance shouldn’t come at the cost of dehumanizing conditions.”
She cited a September Newsweek story that raised those claims.
“When the community wanted to negotiate, Amazon said ‘all or nothing.’ They bailed when they didn’t get 100% of what they wanted,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “Google came into NYC just fine. Amazon wanted to be Foxconn.”
Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology Co won $4 billion in state and local incentives from Wisconsin in exchange for a promise to build a $10 billion development.
Earlier this month, Foxconn said it would still build a factory in Wisconsin even as it shifts more of the focus of the investment away from manufacturing. Reuters reported Foxconn was reconsidering making liquid crystal display panels and intended to hire mostly engineers and researchers there.Have you figured when socialism is good?
Answer: When the money and the benefits go to the rich capitalist elites.
( Remember, all government handouts is socialism. Its more than welfare payments to the poor)When will the wall be built?
How long will it take to spend $1.3 Billion?To build a wal you first got to build the road.
The Soft Figures
Nonetheless, here are the daunting numbers: constructing a two-lane, undivided road in a rural locale will set you back somewhere between $2 and $3 million per mile55 miles of road is 55 x $3 million = $ 165 million.
https://money.cnn.com/2017/01/25/news/economy/trump-mexico-border-wall-cost/index.html
by Chris Isidore and Jeanne Sahadi @CNNMoney
January 26, 2017
By comparison it only costs about $3 million to build a mile of a typical two-lane road. So for $10 billion you could build a road roughly from Seattle to Miami.The six companies creating prototype walls were compensated between $365,000 and $664,000 for their designs, according to a database of federal contractors. Most have been marked for $300 million in potential total value in future wall contracts, according to a Washington Post analysis of data from the Federal Procurement Data System.
David Houseman, president of Houseman & Associates, a consulting firm focused on government acquisitions, said he does not expect the government to completely bypass competitive bidding under an emergency declaration.
It remains unclear whether any of the 10 contractors would receive priority under Trump’s emergency declaration for the next construction phase.
The government can tap existing border wall contractors and place additional “task orders” for new wall construction — jobs the contractors would then compete for, Houseman said.Therefore, without any further analysist, Trump will not be the president that will see $1.3 Billion spent on the wall.
SEE! Its a new kind of warfare.SEE!
an attempted coup d’état• Worms Turning (Jim Kunstler)
The heat from these future events may be so intense and disruptive that it will interfere with the 2020 election.
• Mueller Discloses Evidence Roger Stone Communicated With Wikileaks (G.)
Answer:
Aaron Maté tweeted about this article: “LOL. The “communications of Roger Stone with Wikileaks” were revealed a year ago. They show WL urging Stone to stop making “false claims of association” between them.”
————-The circular process at work here— public money builds private fortunes that are then used through campaign contributions to garner more public money to build larger private fortunes, creates a chicken-or-egg problem for political resolution.
With a body count of at least one-hundred million human beings— including genocide against the indigenous population, murdered slaves, coal miners in Appalachia who died from black lung disease, mill workers in Massachusetts and North and South Carolina who died from inhaling cotton fibers, and those killed in American wars for resources, the human toll of American capitalism is staggering.Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world (chart below). The U.S. is using state power to ‘liberate’ this oil for the benefit of nominally private multinational oil corporations. The American plan is to burn the oil. All of it.
Another view/explanation of the modern battles.
• When The Swabian Hausfrau Saves (Steve Keen)Neoclassical economic model of banking is dangerously misleading as a guide to how a capitalist economy actually works and was thus incapable of predicting the Great Financial Crisis of 2007.
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The elites are also waging another hidden war.
Inflation
I don’t know who gains from inflation.
If you are a wage earner you do not control your cash flow, (income).
If you cannot increase you cash flow then you are a victim of inflation.The printing press is only constraint by inflation
the next time a major potential pandemic comes along.
All the capitalist will become socialists or die.
Should Capitalist be allowed to get free measles vacinations?Imagine how terrible life must be for a person to chose some other country to immigrate/live.
Imagine how ill informed that person must be to chose the USA as the best option.
I’ve gone more than 3 time for affordable medical service and it was not to the USA.Since when have you see any gov. be able to spend +1B$ in less than 2 years.
Trump wont be able to do it.
The democrats will delay it with “procedures”Well!
That was quick.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-14/stocks-erase-kudlow-bounce-reports-us-china-far-apart-trade-dealThe headline-reading alogos are what is driving all this chaos as they fight over the S&P 500’s 300DMA…
I think …..
If only the lenders lent more money then everything would be okayHere is something that you should read if you are looking for ideas to make someone happy.
Gotoread
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-14/kudlow-says-retail-sales-plunge-due-glitchKudlow’s uttering of the magic word, appears to have stabilizied stocks for now
If the banks lent more money you could buy more. Like another car? A new RV? A new tractor?
Go look at the huge inventory in all the dealer yards!!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma
Two members of a criminal gang are arrested and imprisoned. Each prisoner is in solitary confinement with no means of communicating with the other. The prosecutors lack sufficient evidence to convict the pair on the principal charge, but they have enough to convict both on a lesser charge. Simultaneously, the prosecutors offer each prisoner a bargain. Each prisoner is given the opportunity either to betray the other by testifying that the other committed the crime, or to cooperate with the other by remaining silent.Now lets see if the FBI can apply it ….
two years and 200 interviews,First there was Obama then there came …..
“the first Black Muslim and first Somali American ever to get elected to Congress begins taking the leadership for which she was elected, and it turns out they actually meant they just wanted women with dark skin who will advance the status quo of the white imperialist patriarchy.”Can a secret be kept if more than one person is in the know?
dhuuuuu …. two years and 200 interviews,
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When the wealth bubble burst ….. the wealthy will lose wealth
Stink Bug Infestation
https://stinkbugsguide.net/index.htm
The brown marmorated stink bugs are regarded as agricultural pests for they render widespread harm to fruits and vegetable crops.The Great Unraveling
Then all that’s left will be the very rich and the very poor.
It’ll be back to the Middle Ages. Just with 20 times as many people. And with over half the wildlife gone, and the arable land, and 80% of insects gone since 1980 alone.
The very rich will be lonely when 80% of the poor population has been reduced to fertilizer.
If someone is looking for support from the populist then they will say things like this but will not be able to make it happen.
A new way to lie.“fraudsters” who inflicted losses on Italian savers should “end up in prison for a long time.”
central bank independence was under threat by populist government
The hypocritical arrogance is priceless.
no.
First you got to see the point of view of the other guy.
Then you can see the logic.Unconventional warfare
If you want to win ….Don’t play heads or tail with loaded logic or a loaded coin.
It just goes to show how little I know. I didn’t know that the whites were angry at the majority Mestizo (mixed-race) poor.getting some of the wealth.
Greg Palast ….
This year’s so-called popular uprising is, at its heart, a furious backlash of the whiter (and wealthier) Venezuelans against their replacement by the larger Mestizo (mixed-race) poor.
