There is a critical error that most dictators make right before they meet the stout hemp rope and the tall tree, this critical error is not paying the military.
Say good-bye to Maduro:
Retired Maj. Gen. Cliver Alcala, a one-time aide to Chavez and now in exile, said the opposition’s newfound momentum has reverberated with the military’s lower ranks, many of whom are suffering the same hardships as regular Venezuelan families.
“I am absolutely certain that right now, especially younger troops are asking themselves whether Maduro is their commander in chief or a usurper,” Alcala said. “As we say in the barracks, hunger is the only thing that can devour fear of the government.”
Trump can have this issue resolved with just the right small nudge at just the right time…
I’ve seen some speculation that that ‘nudge’ may take the form of an invasion. From Brazil. Their new guy is trying to clean things up and they’re trying to take him down via his son (where did the money come from?).
How reasonable any of this is I have no clue.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/retired-seal-nathan-phillips-not-a-vietnam-vet-he-was-a-refrigerator-mechanic-who-went-awol-three-times/
@ Gateway Pundit
Ok Chief Full of Bull is really full of bull.
He spent most of his time in the USMC in Nebraska as a refrigerator mechanic. He was not Recon Rnger, there is no such M O S in the Corps.
When he was stationed at El Toro Air Base he went AWOL three times. He never left the States.
After four years he was discharged as an E1 Private, not one chevron. That is almost impossible, during the Vietnam Era rank was accelerated. The new hero of the Left.
Meet AOC’s new policy guy. He used to work for Keith Ellison. Meet Dan Riffle.
Riffle sees the curbing of excessive wealth as not a rational effort, but a “moral” one. People like Gates may still be good people in spite of their wealth, but their existence is morally wrong, he says.
“Bill Gates’ money hoarding makes him greedy, but maybe he goes 6/6 on the other deadly sins and, on balance, is a good person,” he tweeted last night. “Still, he’s a policy failure.
How ignorant to you have to be to not know that not only is Gates giving it all away but actually trying to eradicate ancient diseases in the process?
Every Billionaire is a Policy Failure’
https://www.mediaite.com/uncategorized/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-policy-guy-every-billionaire-is-a-policy-failure/
@ eaglesoars:
“no right to exist?” These people a straight up dangerous Stalnists.
America is not the envy of the world because of Socilism and government repression.
AOC is no longer an amusing little twit, she is a deadly combination of mean & stupid.
Before I go, the rumors I’m seeing
-Trump admin will recognize Venezuela opposition today
– path to green card for 700k Dreamers offered to break deadlock
RIX wrote:
The same people who insist it’s better to be moral than ‘accurate’.
ok, later
PROTESTER SCREAMS Then Rethinks : Change My Mind | Louder With Crowder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6YCdlgTnBQ
Gold.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-23/trump-said-to-intend-to-recognize-guaido-as-venezuela-president
@ rain of lead:
crowder speaks the lefty lingo so smooth they just don’t know whether
to shit or go blind
Trump just cancelled SOTU
I think this was a bad move
@ eaglesoars:
maybe not a bad move but for sure a lost opportunity
Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee is reportedly resigning as chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and as chair of a congressional subcommittee amid allegations she retaliated against a former staffer who claimed she was raped by a foundation supervisor.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/23/jackson-lee-black-caucus-congress/
rain of lead wrote:
It’s in the Constitution. How does he get around that?
eaglesoars wrote:
Honestly that is a weak ass resignation. If she was republican she would have been forced to resign her seat in congress.
@ eaglesoars:
don’t have to be on tv, just send em a letter
that’s how they did it for the first 100+ years
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
gone is gone
baby steps man, baby steps
rain of lead wrote:
Yeah, but all she’s gone from is the loud mouth do-nothing division.
We’ve been baby stepping. They’ve been goose stepping.
The Uncivil war of leftist grievances continues. Chick-a-filet is white supremacist. Terrible sin of serving a great product and making money doing it.
https://www.wnd.com/2019/01/chick-fil-a-slammed-as-white-supremacist-capitalist-cult/
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Apt description of the endless tactics.
@ yenta-fada:
Did you see that some ‘Indian’ tribe protesting a pipeline somewhere in your neck of the woods is really fake? Funded by corporations against the pipeline? I can’t track down the actual story I’m just hearing people talk about it
rain of lead wrote:
Trump could use the Senate, yes. Trump is not going to back down and demean the Office or the people. Unlike the muslim in chief.
This Muslima can’t open her mouth without lying in a gross inflammatory manner.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/23/ilhan-omar-slammed-social-media-attacking-covington-students/
eaglesoars wrote:
This shut in of Oil and coal is a trademark of that evil clown prince. U.S. Foundation private money has supported the entire environmental movement for years. Thousands of jobs have been lost. The whole topic could have books written on the subject. There are Native tribes who are pro pipelines, but they don’t get the BIG bucks, the Press, or Government support.
Map of North and South America shows mass support (in green) for the new leader of Venezuela. Europe & others not declared yet.
https://twitter.com/TomaszRolbiecki?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1088174676453531656&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smalldeadanimals.com%2F
yenta-fada wrote:
Russia is standing by Maduro. Europe needs Putin’s energy. They ALWAYS pick the wrong side. Every. Time.
Michael Reddell January 22, 2019
https://croakingcassandra.com/2019/01/22/on-a-troubled-hugely-distorted-economy/
I think Michael’s article is on the mark. It has been long acknowledged that the GDP growth rate in PRC is a ‘made up’ number. Whether the growth is better or worse than previous is hard to tell. Anecdotally it appears that it may be worse.
The correcting mechanisms in open economies including adjustments to assets and currency valuations, doesn’t apply in PRC. The CCP determine valuations. Therefore transparency and measurement are compromised.
Looking at the fundamentals as Michael alludes to may provide some guidance:
• As Michael points out – export growth is reducing and is likely to take further serious hits as the US tariffs take full effect;
• Debt levels of the PRC are running higher than the USA, (on a Debt to GDP ratio) without the balancing factor in USA’s case of being the reserve currency of the world which attracts funds from all of the world’s economies running surpluses;
• As Michael points out the ability of the PRC to raise additional debt without seriously increasing costs and risking hyper inflation has run its course;
• Evidence of productivity improvements which could underpin GDP growth is sparse;
• Population growth is negative.
So Michael, I believe, is pointing toward the PRC entering a reasonably prolonged period of economic stagnation. In western economies correction with the usual tools comprising a write down of asset values and a corresponding write off of toxic debt to wipe the slate clean allows a fresh start. The PRC without the mechanisms will carry forward that toxic debt further compounding the economic sluggishness and compromising any recovery.
The issue on everyone’s mind of course is what the CCP will do about this state of affairs. Steven Ringen in his book ‘The Perfect Dictatorship China in the 21st Century’ lays out a compelling argument that contends that the PRC is becoming increasingly ideological and the interests of the people are “subsumed in the nation”, (simply masses, that do not matter individually) it will become a “totalitarian state of the most sinister kind.” “If it takes to basking in a story of its own making of national glory, pragmatism is unlikely to prevail”.
Chilling thoughts?
Here it is
January 23, 2019
Exclusive: CBC deceives Canadians, lending legitimacy to fake First Nation behind pipeline blockade
The CBC lied to us about who actually funded the blockade. It wasn’t the Wet’suwet’en First Nation like they claimed – it was actually a heavily indebted company that was funded by Tides, the Pembina Institute, and many other eco-radical organizations.
https://www.therebel.media/exclusive-cbc-fake-news-canada-indigenous-first-nations-native-rebel-media-bexte
…. oh and I forgot to add that when realistically calculating the Chinese GDP divide the published figure by 10 and then multiply by 6. About 40% of China’s GDP is made up of unicorn futures, empty cities awaiting demolition ,,, again… and figures plucked from made up regional budgets.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
for TWO solid weeks all I’ve heard is bullshit about the PRC’s GREAT economy and how it’s become the new U.S. It’s GDP is now driven by consumer spending, which thanks to it’s brand spanking new wealthy population is higher than ours, the U.S. is taking it in the neck on trade, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah BLAH.
When I respond that 1. You’re taking their numbers at face value when you KNOW they always lie 2. If they’re telling you their debt is X you know their debt is X times some exponent that makes it completely unmanageable.
Yet when you look at what the economists are saying, they’re talking about global slowdown because of China. Growth slowed to 6%. Now, that’s STILL growth, but that number is a lie too. Look at real estate in Vancouver where they bought everything that didn’t have wheels for the last 10 years – and it’s collapsing because that bubble is popping.
Their OBOR ploy isn’t working because they thought they could steal stuff thru making other people default to THEM – and now what they’ve got are a bunch of infrastructure projects they don’t have the resources to finish/manage.
The global economy is going to take it in the nuts for this because China is going to fail and fail BIG. There is no soft landing here
seen elsewhere
Freon Ranger
Heh
eaglesoars wrote:
It is not morality, it’s Marxist liberation
RIX wrote:
I’m waiting for her comments on Venezuela. Where there are currently no billionaires. Or, there are and they can just about afford a cup of coffee, no cream.
I hadn’t realized the background to Trump’s cancellation of SOTUS. He wrote a letter saying he’d deliver the speech, and she wrote a letter back saying ‘not here’ and THEN he cancelled. I missed the letter exchange thingy.
So this is theater by Trump and he’ll deliver it someplace else. I assume.
rain of lead wrote:
Good one. New day, new crisis in the leftist theatre of hate. That anger is so infectious. The left wants constant civil unrest escalating from words to physical violence. Those high school boys stayed cool until twitter, agitators, and the Press went after them.
eaglesoars wrote:
I wish the media wasn’t under such strict leftist control. This is blatantly an attempt to silence the President since he’ll say things she doesn’t want anyone hearing. (Not that it will stop him, but the press basically has to carry the SOTU, they can ignore anything else).
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
They COULD refuse. The last time he had a national address everybody on CNN tried to stop the coverage because he was just going to tell lies, remember?
Then Fox would cover it and they’d end up eating their own innards.
HA!
eaglesoars wrote:
Example.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/01/israel-slams-eu-for-funneling-millions-to-bds-campaign/
@ eaglesoars:
FOX keeps slouching left. Can’t count on them these days imvho.
yenta-fada wrote:
I suspect a lot of those ‘campaigns’ are also, if not mostly, laundering ops to get money back to the pockets of the politicians.
Ok, this story is absolutely delicious. I know her name from when wiki leaks dumped the Podesta stuff and she showed up like neon signs on a strip club. She’s since styled herself as an ‘information warfare’ expert. She was part of Tony Podesta’s org and the pic from that was a lot better than the pic here. She looks like she’s been dragged thru a knot hole. Which is a better fate than she deserves but still…sheesh, honey, the bed-head look isn’t for you.
Anyhoo, the ‘information warfare expert’ got punked by the whole Covington thing and it’s a beautiful sight.
Meet Molly McKew. Point and laugh at will
https://pjmedia.com/trending/cnns-information-warfare-expert-got-duped-by-twitter-bot-pushing-dubious-covington-video/
https://unherd.com/2019/01/how-politics-is-poisoning-truth/?=refinnar
@ eaglesoars:
Information warfare=Lying liar supported with Professional liar money. She can be found in her native habitat.
Buzzfeed is laying off 15% of its workforce. I think that’s about 200 people. ow.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
It certainly snowballed. They didn’t expect the truth to come back at them so fast. Obama years stupefied everybody. Now Trump gets the facts and tweets them to verify.
eaglesoars wrote:
Trump will deliver the SOTU in some venue. IMO Pelosi declared war on Trump and made a serious mistake.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Have you seen this interesting article about China? What do you think?
https://nb.sinocism.com/p/engineers-of-the-soul-ideology-in
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I’m not too worried. Can you imagine the crap that would be pulled w/o the internet? I mean, insisting that Diane Abbott be met with awe is one thing, but thanks to the internet she’s met with revulsion and ridicule. I’m of the opinion that Corbyn’s chances to be PM would be much better if people weren’t aware that he actually did dally with that dolly. Most people don’t mind if their politicians don’t keep it in their pants as long as it’s, you know – worth it. As it is, when you’re that desperate, people just lose respect.
I’m more concerned about the culture. Gov Cuomo celebrated that NY just passed a law allowing the murder of infants right up until the umbilical cord is cut. The WTC building was lit up in pink lights last nite to mark the occasion.
THAT is nightmare stuff.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/covington-catholic-bishop-and-school-administration-who-threw-the-kids-under-the-bus-now-barring-them-from-speaking-to-media-to-defend-themselves/
@ Gateway Pundit
This gets worse. The bishop throws the Covington Catholic H.S kids under the bus again.
He is decreeing that the kids can’t talk to the media and the high school is in.
This old fool is no moral authority, defend these kids. Not a dime to them, not one. damn dime.
That is what they really understand, enough!
Nathan Phillips GoFundMe: $50,000 goal, $503 raised after 3 days, 16 people
https://www.gofundme.com/fundraiser-for-native-vietnam-vet-nathan-phillips
Covington GoFundMe: $50,000 goal, $41,777 raised in 1 day, 1099 people
https://www.gofundme.com/standwithcovington
Nobody was “duped” by the Covington story. They all received some kind of release telling them what the story was. Do they think we’re stupid? Every single damn story and post was the exact same thing. This went beyond groupthink, this was a case of them being handed the story and just being told to repeat it.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
stupid? I think ‘untermenchen’ is a better term
yenta-fada wrote:
I wouldn’t trust Guarnet as far as I could kick his little communistic arse. He’s the sewage carpetbagger. He was Kevin Rudd’s go to man on China and Rudd was a certified sociopath and most probably a psychopath, as well as being an Australian Prime Minister. Guarnet is ideologically an apologist for all of the evils of China with no excuses because he actually understands how China Inc operates and has operated for 2500 years.
Yet Guarnet totally fails to recognise that Xi is just a ‘sock-puppet’ of the gang of Five who are pulling his strings behind the curtain. Nor does Guarnet have any idea what the Chinese intelligencia think about Xi. They openly call him a fool and a lightweight, with little or no appreciation of the wider world.
Guarnet is typical of the academics that PM Rudd surrounded himself with, as an ego play, and then studiously ignored , out of a bad case of inferiority complex. Rudd’s one claim to fame was his ability to speak Chinese (badly) and nobody ever told him so ( especially the Chinese), but just laughed behind his back. Rudd was a second rate human being doing a third rate job at being a PM. He was one sick puppy, isolated, suspicious and vengeful and always seeing plots even when there were none. Guarnet fitted right into the world of Kevin Rudd.
eaglesoars wrote:
Someone must have spilled the beans that Phillips was never a Vietnam vet. The guy is a Walter Mitty type who lives of scams to finance his political activities.
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
well, that was…subtle
eaglesoars wrote:
Overreach is one of the almost certain attributes when one underestimates one’s opponents by thinking of them as ‘untnrmenchen’.
This is a good thing!
Progressives always overreach and inevitably end up on the wrong end of history eventually.
Long may it last!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
that can be a very long time.
eaglesoars wrote:
Can’t disagree.
eaglesoars wrote:
Interesting symbolism. Do you remember how the Abortion Center in “Brave New World” was described? Yep, a large pink building. … and in the novel, it was also a center of worship for that dystopian society.
Lord forgive us for this abomination.
eaglesoars wrote:
Well that was easy. Almost a home goal.
Now if we all apply ourselves to the task I’m sure we can do better and harry Buzzfeed and get into their faces until they are forced to lay off another 30%
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I’d like to find out what percentage of Buzzfeed is Buzzfeed news. Then they can fire that percentage. (I’d be ok with 100% too, Buzzfeed serves no purpose.)
@ Aussie Infidel:
Buzzfeed is owned by NBC and at least some of this was planned at HQ awhile ago
eaglesoars wrote:
It seems to average out at 70 years or three generations for the whole shebang to fall to bits. It’s due right about NOW in that case.
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
REALLY enjoying myself. Sitting here on the deck typing away with a ginger beer and ice at my elbow. Just wearing shorts as it’s hot outside. Watching a couple of guys setting a flounder net about 150 metres off the beach, right in front of the bach The guy wrangling the net seems to know what he’s doing but the guy rowing doesn’t know squat! HEH!
🙂
Actual conversation at my house tonite.
Hubby: These people think they want a civil war. There won’t be a civil war. Do you think there will be?
Me: Yes
Hubby: Well, like what?
Me: Short
@ eaglesoars:
The Aussie Open Tennis is on the box and Mrs. Aussie Infidel has been watching tennis for the past week and a half!
🙂
She was watching some obscure doubles match when Tucker was due to air so I asked ‘nicely’ if I could have a turn for an hour. I got the evils and i may have to employ a food taster at dinner tonight !
HEH
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Correct on BOTH counts.
Words like ‘damp squib’ spring immediately to my lips!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Have you noticed that it seems to be global?
I’m looking at this agreement – or whatever it is – France and Germany just signed and thinking “do these people EVER learn?”
The tide turned 25 minutes ago and it’s flowing. The row boat isn’t all that far up the beach and if the guys leave it another hour it’ll be afloat on its own. They left in their 4X4 a while ago. If it looks as if the boat is about to float I’ll walk down and pull it further up the beach for them.
@ Aussie Infidel:
You’re so nice!!
I caught a flounder on a line once (wasn’t fishing for flounder.)
They come in really weird. They don’t fight much, but due to their shape they go back and forth sideways through the water.
Well if you’re talking specifically about the French and Germans the answer would have to be …. NOT really.
The French even broke the 70 year rule and seem to re-invent their Republic even faster. What number are they up to at the moment.
The Germans are a strange bunch. Wonderfully gifted but deeply flawed at the same time.
Perhaps they need to develop a beach culture and learn to go surfing and take life easy.
🙂
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
They do and hence they get caught in gill nets pretty easily.
I’m sitting just 30 metres from the beach on my verandah and I can catch flounder on the tidal turn pretty much whenever I want.
Ngarimu Bay is named after a Maori WWII hero killed at Montecassino in Italy. He won a Victoria Cross ( Like a Medal of Honour) and has this bay named after him.
It’s a slice of paradise here. WE’re self sufficient in fruit and grow about 1/3 of our veggies. The fish are ALWAYS biting and it never gets too hot or too cold.
I’m really loving this holiday house. WE’ve been here since Christmas and will have to head back to Auckland Tuesday but we spend most weekends here at the beach.
🙂
We are blessed and very lucky
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I’m pretty sure it’s still the Fifth Republic.
They don’t re-invent anything, they just graduate the next class from the same school. Literally. They have a caste system that’s every bit as tight as India’s.
I’m trying to remember – remember the Foreign Minister under Chirac? He made sure everyone knew he was also a poet and whenever anyone wrote his name they put in parens “(who is also a man)”? For the life of me I can’t remember the twit’s name.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I remember the pics
eaglesoars wrote:
It does seem to be global just now.
Not surprising as the Proggies have had the whip hand for the past 60 years. Folks are just getting tired of the whole leftist thing and have FINALLY decided to push back a bit. Not before time either and not a moment too soon!
🙂
Dominque de Villepin!
gah
@ eaglesoars:
Are you thinking of Mitterrant?
He thought he was a cut above as well. As I remember it he was taken down a peg and ended up in obscurity before he died.
eaglesoars wrote:
Ahhh YESS Of course
I was going through my ‘poetic phase’ about the same time and even I was better than he…. and that’s saying something!
HEH!
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
Had a meeting with Pepsico in Auckland Tuesday. Head Office of PepsiCo FINALLY signed a contract with China. It’s been talked about for 8 or 9 months and I’d almost given up on it. Then last week out of the blue Pepsico phoned me and it was all on again.
My business Partner sallies forth today for a month in China. He’s finding a Wholesaler for us to operate with as well as spending Chinese New Year with his family in Beijing.
We’ll see what happens. Best result would see us shipping 40 foot containers of potato chips into China.
🙂
Time will tell !
@ Aussie Infidel:
I just looked him up. He’s shilling for Qatar these days. Again, the wrong side. Every time.
I have to go to bed. Sweet dreams, yinz
@ Aussie Infidel:
ok, wait. What does the contract with China specify? WHERE you can sell your goods? I would think you’d find the wholesale piece first.
But I’m ignorant and don’t know this stuff.
I’m awake again, start talking
eaglesoars wrote:
Just been ‘harvesting.. 2 dozen peaches and a dozen black doris plums.
OK
Lawrence is seeking wholesalers. We had to do the nominal ‘ask’ of Pepsico that Chinese ALWAYS ask us …. “can we haveExclusivity for the whole marketplace” The answer from us is always NO but we HAD to ask Pepsico and we all laughed about it.
They did however give is distribution rights for a whole Province of 110 million middle class consumers and a 10 million person city. That’s more than we could EVER cover so we’re happy with that. WE have some wholesalers but they are a pain in the arse to deal with and Lawrence will use his network in China to find a wholesaler with experience in both import as well as snack food and consumables.
Lawrence and I did our MBAs together and I used to translate his Chinglish essays into English! 🙂
He’s now a Christian and a NZ Citizen and is one of the few Chinese in business that I’d trust totally.
New is on and glass of Otago Pinot Noir is awaiting my attention.
🙂
G’nite
News!
hunh. There’s no supporting link, so I expect to hear more tomorrow
#BuzzFeed’s founder faked identities to spread misinformation – reports
https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1088280227954868224
@ Aussie Infidel:
ah. got it. they gave you geographic access
thanks, nite from here too
The 2 guys are back and are rowing out to see how many flounder that are going to eat tonight.
G’nite Eagles
@ eaglesoars:
Every metre of net they are pulling in there is a big flounder.
The guys will eat well tonight
🙂
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Good night Deplorable Bume50
Have a good one
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
This might be it. Or at least some of it
John Lott: BuzzFeed and me – The incredible thing the site’s CEO did using my name without permission
Pretending to be me, Peretti sent out hundreds of thousands of emails lobbying against the proposed “Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.” This bill, which was being debated at the time (it ultimately passed in 2005), protected gun makers from abusive lawsuits that were solely designed to put them out of business with overwhelming legal fees. Peretti even purchased advertising for his fake website on Google, and the advertising promoting “my“ appeared at the very beginning of any search results on my name.
fake websites, lawsuits, the whole nine yards
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/john-lott-buzzfeed-and-me-the-incredible-thing-the-sites-publisher-did-using-my-name-without-permissiojohn-lott-buzzfeed-and-me-the-incredible-thing-the-sites-ceo-did-using-my-name-without
https://www.weaselzippers.us/409094-nbc-tries-to-smear-covington-catholic-again-theres-just-one-big-problem/
@WZ
Good morning. NBC drops a bombshell on Covington Catholic, A bombshell I tells ya.
The school callously denied a gay student permission to speak at his graduation ceremony!
Let that sink in, he’s gay! Got em now.
Well not exactly . He submitted the speech too late and it was deemed too political.
One other minor detail, he went to Holy Cross High, not Covington Catholic.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2019/01/23/for-real-2020-hopeful-sen-elizabeth-warren-says-there-are-two-co-equal-branches-of-government/
@ Twitchy
Lizzy Warren seriously does not know how many coequal branches of government there are.
They must not teach civics on the reservation. That is just one more outrage visited on indigenous
people by you white devils.
RIX wrote:
which begs the question of wtf they’re teaching at Harvard Law
Hi all. So some sad news. As of this morning, HuffPost’s opinion section is no more. I and the rest of the team have been let go.
https://twitter.com/bmaygers/status/1088469318613024770
the timestamp is about an hour ago
This is an interesting piece on Venezuela and China. But mostly China. Incurring Chinese debt has done neither of them any good. And China has SCORES of debt like this on its books.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/06/venezuelas-road-to-disaster-is-littered-with-chinese-cash/
eaglesoars wrote:
Social Justice.
Gannett lays off journalists across the country
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2019/gannett-lays-off-journalists-across-the-country/
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2019/01/24/this-old-white-guy-is-getting-so-woke-right-now-parody-of-gillette-ad-is-so-damn-funny-its-painful-seriously-watch/
@Twitchy
Ok, this parody on the Gillette toxic masculinity commercial is a real knee slapper.
Make sure that your speakers are on.
@ RIX:
“…because she’s not batshit crazy”
ahahahahaha!
After I saw the original, I realized they didn’t have any toxic, masculine hunters or coal miners or cops or soldiers in there. No guns.
soy boys
@ RIX:
OMG Rix, perfect timing. You have GOT to see this, NOT a parody.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/let-it-go-dad-and-4-year-old-son-wear-frozen-dresses-dance-in-viral-video/
eaglesoars wrote:
That’s disturbing, really disturbing.
@ eaglesoars:
Gannett is a hotel doormat manufacturer.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Gannett is a hotel [disposable] doormat manufacturer.
FIFY
I used to work at USA Today back in the 1st Gulf War days. It was a fun place to work because there was a scrappy/upstart vibe to the place.
Then they got successful. But I’d gone to MCI by then, where it still felt scrappy/upstart fun.
@ eaglesoars:
It was a real newspaper back then.
The kind that people would buy.
I see the laughable ‘Doomsday Clock’folks have made an announcement.
How didn’t it hit midnight on Wednesday November 9, 2016?
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
‘unsustainable’
well, things that can’t go on, won’t, and AOC said we only have 12 years. How long does the clock say we have?
@ eaglesoars:
AOC belongs to the Prince Charles/ Gore/ Soros school of ‘Gerbal Worming’ prognostication
Notice how these grubs go all quite as the date of their predictions approach. The go black and then re-emerge when the public shaming passes… and then they just begin again.
They have no shame!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
The great joy of being right 100% of the time gives them great courage. It’s awesome!
@ eaglesoars:
China will go broke before they ever get rich. They still holding $1 trillion of our debt? Heh.
yenta-fada wrote:
HEH !
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Great insight is occasionally exposed when we smiling at some profound nonsense!
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
I think they’ve been selling our treasuries. Read it somewhere. But don’t recall volume. Not enough to be termed a ‘dump’
They’re already broke. We all are.
CNN is reporting that the WH is preparing a draft Nat’l Emergency order. They have what they say is a copy of the draft.
BUT…CNN. Preparing a draft to me just sounds like doing your homework.
https://therightscoop.com/here-we-go-white-house-preparing-draft-national-emergency-order-has-identified-7-billion-for-the-wall/
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
The borrowing ‘well’ has gone dry for the Chinese. They owe more than the US and their actual GDP reflects an economy just 60% the size of the US. They also do not ‘own’ the globe’s Reserve Currency and that makes them a bad place to dump earned credit.
Their own 5 ‘internal’ banks flush bad loans out of the Chinese economy by using ‘fairy dust’ to make all the ‘red’ go away and then just printing ‘new’ money to keep the Provinces churning out goods and paying the workforce, thus forestalling revolution. Eventually, (just about NOW) this circus has to stop as reality sets in, inflation bites the Chinese State and hyper-inflation pauperises the Chinese people.
This will NOT end well and i just hope that Xi doesn’t use a ‘foreign adventure’ to distract the Chinese from the fiscal fix, that Xi has worked them into. That could be bloody and not just for the Chinese.
One of my old INTEL Operatives and his good lady wife are due for lunch any time. The smell of freshly baked bread fills the house with yummy foccatia bread. We’ve got all the screen doors closed as the flies think so too!
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Feb 5. That’s 2 weeks
TRUMP JUDGES – Rejoice fellow Patriots! @LindseyGrahamSC (aka Grahambo) has scheduled votes for 44 of Trump’s Judges to be passed from the judiciary committee! The likely final vote will be 2/5, Including two NINTH CIRCUIT judges #MAGA
https://twitter.com/ABPatriotWriter/status/1088586045292081152
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Taiwan is the only theater I can think of that Xi would think was worth the try. But it’s a suicide move, we’d destroy him in a week.
well…crap
CHINA IS BULKING UP THEIR AIR FORCE & NAVY TO COMBAT AMERICAN INTERESTS. JOIN US FOR A BRAND NEW LEVIN TV TONIGHT….
https://twitter.com/marklevinshow/status/1088597157836451840
Somali chick opines:
A US backed coup in Venezuela is not a solution to the dire issues they face. Trump’s efforts to install a far right opposition will only incite violence and further destabilize the region. We must support Mexico, Uruguay & the Vatican’s efforts to facilitate a peaceful dialogue.
https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1088599057981943809
“US backed”….
I will NEVER forget this day. Everybody who had radios brought them to school and we were allowed to forget our lessons and listen to the game. The place ERUPTED. I was 8 years old.
For the Yinzers, a picture for the ages
Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, Oct 13, 1960 – The Steel City is a couple seconds away to becoming the The Bedlam City as Bill Mazeroski’s batted ball is in flight (look for it) and about to sail over Yankees left fielder Yogi Berra and OF wall winning the 1960 World Series for Pirates
https://twitter.com/OTBaseballPhoto/status/1088463223001702400
eaglesoars wrote:
They have a specific opinion section? I thought all of HuffPo was liberal opinion. No wonder they were let go; an opinion section would be redundant.
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s on youtube!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65Og0gUKfvc&feature=youtu.be
Nicholas Sandmann’s family hires ‘attorney for the damned’ specializing in libel, slander
https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/kenton-county/park-hills/nicholas-sandmanns-family-hires-attorney-for-the-damned-specializing-in-libel-slander
@ eaglesoars:
that young man is about to get a fully funded collage fund
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and maybe a house
@ rain of lead:
I’m thinking the Vatican. Straighten out the diocese right quick.
bed time. nite.
morning y’all
so tonight the girl is going to her first big time arena rock show
it’s one of her best friends b-day gift and she was invited as part of a group of 3 other girls. the parents are going and also springing for a couple of hotel rooms so they won’t be driving home ingonna the middle of the night
I think she’s gonna have a good time
@ rain of lead:
very cool! Who’s playing?
THIS is very cool too. They just may have nailed Alzheimers. Yer not gonna believe it.
Gum disease
get more mouthwash
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2191814-we-may-finally-know-what-causes-alzheimers-and-how-to-stop-it/
Victory Girls is doing a brutal takedown of Michelle Obama’s book. Just read it
https://victorygirlsblog.com/from-the-vg-bookshelf-becoming-by-michelle-obama-part-i/
jeez
BREAKING: Trump Associate Roger Stone Arrested In Florida, Charged With Witness Tampering, Other Crimes
https://www.weaselzippers.us/409202-breaking-trump-associate-roger-stone-arrested-in-florida-charged-with-witness-tampering-other-crimes/
@ eaglesoars:
Morning Eagle. There was no crime other than process crimes, no collusion.
Then the pre dawn raid was like they were getting John Gotti, over kill.
All they had to do is order Stone to come in, the guy is no flight risk.
The Justice Department especially the FBI. Is looking really Soviet.
@ RIX:
And the CNN just HAPPENED to be in the neighborhood to get it all on camera. What a coinky dink
busy day, must ta-ta!
eaglesoars wrote:
Just coincidence.
New thread
Driving home from the gym this morning I was listening to Chicago radio WIND.
They were interviewing the pastor of a St Louis Catholic Church who was present for the whole encounter with the Covington Kids and the publicity whore Indian.
It started with the Black Hebrews verbally attacking the kids and this priest. As it went on Phillips came over and
Got right in front of the Sandman kid beating his drum and chanting. It became clear that Phillips was trying to taunt and intimidate. That could be construed as assault. The kids asked for and got permission to do school cheers.
Sounds in line with the video, right?
Sooooo, this priest calls the Bishop of the Covington Diocese to tell his story a couple of days ago. He had to leave a message and has heard nothing back. That Bishop should support these kids, and everybody should boycott the collection plate.
@ RIX:
The catholic hs I went to war full of…well..let’s just say Italian grandsons and granddaughters…
Things might have turned out differently… 😉