It’s Monday, time for the next threat.
Right on time, the poultry are getting flu and removing themselves from the food supply.
Chickens and Turkeys Open
by coldwarrior ( 362 Comments › )Filed under Healthcare, Open thread at March 14th, 2022 - 5:27 am
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
the time change has me all messed up.
anyway
interesting read
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/sars-cov-2-kills-t-cells-just-like?s=r
On topic. The USA poultry industry has more stringent bio-security protocols than Mr Coldwarrior’s hospitals.
Possum wrote:
yep.
morning y’all
rain of lead wrote:
s’up, yinz.
woot…mrs coldwarrior and i are going to get japanese street food and maybe some sushi at a new joint just up the road.
*snoopy happy dance*
So yesterday, Mittens accused Tulsi Gabbard of spouting treason and she grabs him by the nuts and squeezes. This is her last tweet in a long thread laying out the facts.
So, Senator Romney, you have a choice: out of pride, continue to deny the truth or admit you are wrong, apologize, and resign.
Aloha.
And remember that without the truth, we can be neither safe nor free.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/03/14/tulsi-gabbard-unloads-on-mitt-romney-over-treasonous-lies-smear/
I’d like to say this would never stand up in a SCOTUS ruling but Roberts…
Pelosi Refuses to Hand Over Emails and Videos from Jan 6 Claiming “Sovereign Immunity”
Judicial Watch is filing another lawsuit in response to Pelosi’s attempt to keep her lies about setting up innocent Trump supporters secret.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/pelosi-refusing-hand-emails-videos-jan-6-claiming-sovereign-immunity/
Possum wrote:
Both industries have pecking parties too.
Listening to the truckers around DC. Authorities have blocked all exit ramps and are blaming the truckers for the backups
eaglesoars wrote:
ok.
stop delivering to DC ad the surrounding counties for 4 weeks.
this is what is going to eventually happen
coldwarrior wrote:
… and helps those of us in the hinterlands with some of our supply chain problems. We get what DC isn’t going to get. Sounds like a win/win to me
eaglesoars wrote:
I bet all Roneys business have gone super work. On his approval.
@ darkwords:
He’s a God damned vampire and so was his loser dad.
@ AZfederalist:
It’s so easy to end all of this.
We’ve had better days. Multiple smoke detector failures that traumatized Willow with the chirping. She tried to hide in the garage and wouldn’t come inside to get to the back yard. We can’t reach them, one ceiling is 13 ft high. Could not get ANYONE to come help until next week. FINALLY someone had pity on me and changed the schedule around. Change batteries, still chirping. After 2 hours of this BS, disconnected everything until tomorrow. In the meantime, Willow escaped. Fortunately, she didn’t get far and I got to her.
Also, my husband managed to piss me off. I sent him on an errand just to get him out of the house for an hour. Hopefully, he’ll decide to find a bar and stay out for a few more.
Gah
CONTAINER SHIP AGROUND OUTSIDE PATAPSCO RIVER
A nearly 1,100-foot-long container ship ran aground Sunday night on its way out of the Port of Baltimore, and as of Monday the ship was still stuck with no indication of when it could be moved.
Coast Guard Petty Officer First Class Stephen Lehmann tells Bay Bulletin the container ship Ever Forward, which sails under the Hong Kong flag, ran aground before 11 p.m. Sunday. No one was injured. The Evergreen Marine Corp. (also based in Hong Kong) ship was headed for Norfolk when it got stuck near the Craighill Channel. Ever Forward was built in 2020, is 1,050 feet long, and reportedly draws about 42.6 feet of water. In the area where Ever Forward is sitting, NOAA charts indicate 24 feet of water at Mean Low Low water.
https://chesapeakebaymagazine.com/container-ship-aground-outside-patapsco-river/
Manchin kills Sarah Bloom Raskin nomination
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/joe-manchin-strikes-again/
Apparently, Time Warner is dropping OAN. I haven’t heard this anywhere else.
https://twitter.com/realLizUSA/status/1503445033625739270
Just opened my email (yahoo). Small blurb bottom left corner
Some features are temporarily unavailable
This is to respect new rules for messaging services in Europe. We are working to bring them back.
@ Possum:
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road, roll in the mud and cross the road again?
A: Because he was a dirty double-crosser!
eaglesoars wrote:
I learned today why my ex kept sending me on errands. But in her case, I am pretty sure she was hoping I wouldn’t come back.
Smoke detectors. Had a few that wouldn’t stop beeping. I did destroy them the same day with a hammer. Replaced with portable battery ones within easy reach.
One wonders if Manchin is secretly a Republican and just enjoys trolling AOC and company as a Democrat they can depend on.
@ darkwords:
My dad was pretty high up in the unions and met him an biden often.
You are on to something that I have known for years. Manchin is legit
Dad thinks biden is a fool
He spent hours in a room with our current meatstik. Multiple times.
Read a bit on Putin. Not much. But he is pretty clear on what Ukraine means to him. A buffer state with no Nato influence or weapons.
I don’t think Trump would have deterred him from the invasion. Vlad would just take a different path. It’s the neo cons he is watching.
All the hots chicks are from Ukraine which weighs heavily on my foreign policy analysis. No wish to see Ukraine suffer. But Zelensky could just assert he wants to be a buffer state. The west will probably drop even more US tax dollars on him. In that Oliver Stone documentary the USA is paying the salary for the governor in the Odessa area. Places him in the top ten ranked USA governors by pay.
coldwarrior wrote:
Are you referring to Manchin?
@ darkwords:
Mrs coldwarrior is half ukie and half Russian.
The best and worst of both.
@ eaglesoars:
Yep.
Manchin is a good dude.
@ coldwarrior:
This guy always gives me a good laugh and makes me wonder on how smart he is. He knows how to skewer libs pretty well.
John Kennedy was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016. He has built a distinguished career as a conservative champion for the people of Louisiana and a dedicated watchdog of taxpayer money.
Sen. Kennedy serves on the Appropriations, Banking, Budget, Judiciary, and Small Business Committees in the U.S. Senate. He serves as the top Republican of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, and Banking Subcommittee on Economic Policy.
I met Manchin many years ago at a golf outing, dad needed a ringer.
I was quite impressed at the time.
Joe needs to stay right where he is for now. He’s the last of the kennedy dems. After he goes, it’s over.
Some fertilizer education from a rancher
https://twitter.com/ploughmansfolly/status/1489235566113796097
First, some basic info. Nitrogen fertilizer is, after water, the biggest limiting factor in modern crop production. It takes the form of ammonium nitrate (NH4NO3), first synthesized in the 17th century, and first mass produced for explosives manufacturing during WWII
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The problem with ammonium nitrate is that it’s a form of salt: a rocky precipitate—nonexistent in nature—that coalesces after the reaction of ammonium and nitric acid. Salt, as we all know from our readings on the Punic Wars, makes soils infertile by killing microbiological life.
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And so since the 1950s, American farmers have been literally salting their own fields. This happens to work in the short term because this particular salt happens to be very nitrogen rich. But in longer term, dead, eroding soil is untenable, producing diminishing returns.
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Some farmers, though, will not even be able to raise soy, and so they may lose their farms, and the American agricultural landscape will become even more consolidated. (One step closer to the Crop Belt becoming one giant Gates/govt co-owned soy/rapeseed farm.)
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The problem in America is not that we do not produce enough of our own fertility. It’s that the vehicles of that fertility are herded into feedlots, and their manure is flushed into the local river system with every storm, creating a dead zone the size of CT in the Gulf of Mexico [note from me: plastics aren’t the problem]
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The problem in America is not that we do not produce enough of our own fertility. It’s that the vehicles of that fertility are herded into feedlots, and their manure is flushed into the local river system with every storm, creating a dead zone the size of CT in the Gulf of Mexico
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What farmers at the time, if I may say so, may not have realized, was the degree to which they were actually relying on a 13,000 year soil-building legacy from intact grassland ecosystems(*) in existence prior to European arrival.
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And so now the chickens may finally be coming home to roost. One of my mottos is: we can’t afford the cheap stuff. And that goes for nitrogen fertilizer just as aptly as Chinese-made shovels and hammers that break after six months (and you can’t fix a carbon fiber handle).
(*)And you know what fertilized those grassland ecosystems? Bison/buffalo
@ darkwords:
I even got to play 18 with dem senator Heinz. That man would have been president.
A second coming of kennedy. But even more conservative
@ eaglesoars:
Shit works
darkwords wrote:
I adore him.
@ coldwarrior:
I liked the women I met when I traveled western Russia. No nonsense. A deep sense of family. As much as one can categorize a group of people.
One can tell it was the Russian men that made the Soviet Architecture. Stark differences. Apparent in Berlin also when walking from west to east.
I was in Moscow and apparently a banana boat came in. All of a sudden one day everyone had a banana in their hands. Then the next day all gone.
How did you meet your wife? Or how does a coldwarrior get close enough to a Russian to initiate dating protocols?
eaglesoars wrote:
Yep that’s a problem. Need to go back to 80 acre farms in a coop system where animals and crop rotation keep the soil rich. Not going to happen but needed.
darkwords wrote:
you asked…..
@ darkwords:
In the 60s we didn’t fertilize our farm. We would plant alfalfa in 25 percent of the land every year and let it go. Then rotate to another section. The farm we were on had pretty good soil so maybe it was an exception. If Bill Gates was really serious about land management he would just grow hay for cattle.
My state went mask free this week. Last of the holdouts I think. Still went into one business and they had a masks required sign. No masks apparent at the gym or the grocery store.
Governor is also mandating state wide CRT in the school systems. Gotta vote her out. Only problem is the dems who got canceled etc still can’t realize Trump was their man.
coldwarrior wrote:
Dairy farmers still use it. I’ve heard stories from them how the city people move into the neighborhood for the bucolic ‘feel’ and then bitch about the smell when it’s time to prep the fields. They spray it all over with manure spreaders and let’s just say it’s – fragrant. But I think some of it depends on how large the operation is.
It wasn’t ok according to Dem Speak for ReThuglicans to cancel muslims after 9/11
But perfectly ok for woke Dems to cancel Russians after Ukraine invacion. Then call hesitant Gopers who prefer not to… Putin Supporters.
Russia was a heavy police state when I visited. I got yelled at several times by Moscow police for not walking in the correct areas. A Russian teenager tried to sell me a Jen Psaki Russia hat and a black car pulled up and took him away. They seemed to leave the tourists alone.
coldwarrior wrote:
you’ve already given us a few clues…….
eaglesoars wrote:
One of our farm machines was called a manure spreader. Like a pickup bed with rotating rakes built into it. Cow pies were every where.
Between hail, late or early rain/frost, insects, rocks it is hard to see how the area produces so much. Plus the banking and insurance requirements. A farmer has to be pretty shrews to survive.
We had anthrax once(one animal tested positive) and the government took all the cattle and killed them. No compensation in those day. I think that is what finally did our farm in. Bad memories. No one talked about it.
eaglesoars wrote:
I’m guessing they both have viking blood in them.
darkwords wrote:
Shrewd. Typos. Old. More typos. Older. Morer typos.
Crypto markets lose $100 billion as Biden signs executive order on digital assets
What is in the Crypto Executive Order?
The order is officially titled the ‘Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets’. The focus of which is to:
Protect U.S. Consumers, Investors, and Businesses
Protect the U.S. and Global Financial Stability and Mitigate Systemic Risk
Mitigate the Illicit Finance and National Security Risks Posed by the Illicit Use of Digital Assets
Promote U.S. Leadership in Technology and Economic Competitiveness to Reinforce U.S. Leadership in the Global Financial System
Promote Equitable Access to Safe and Affordable Financial Services
Support Technological Advances and Ensure Responsible Development and Use of Digital Assets
Explore a U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)
@ darkwords:
i left for basic 6 days before HS graduation in 86
i was an MP in berlin. Russian linguist trained at DLI in Monterey CA. yuge security clearance. i did 6 months at checkpoint charlie. yep. THE amercian poster-boy. the barrel chested freedom fighter. you had to be good looking and in great shape to even be considered to work there. since i played rugby, ask aussie, we ruggers are erudite, can speak volumes about all things history and the arts, and are rather dashing when we need to be…but i digress,
i then got assigned to the state department in the city and moved to the air safety center. we had billets there with cleaning ladies and cooks!!!!! not the army. my parents cams over to visit and the american minister had them over for drinks!
i had daily contact with russian, french, brit, and american officers and staff. we could not decide if the russian or the french secretaries were hotter…i digress again.
i played a lot of golf with officers and people like the vp of bmw motorcycle at the Army CC in berlin. I did some interesting personnel security stuff for peeps like ted kennedy and secretary baker et al etc…in the course of all of this i went to sniper school in bad tolz. that was way back in the day before snipers were cool.
so, the wall came down, my job was over. yep. damn what a party.
i lived in ireland for a year and took come courses at UCC and played rugby. then i went home after all of that! best job in the army. now what? so, i went to the army because i was the first son for seven generations to go to the army. i did my bit. now what. I was married to an irish girl. lived in ireland for a year. once she got her green card, well…not wort it.
and then.
and then.
I was taking courses at PITT and BAM! ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!
the russian hottie and i were studying a table away form each other in cathedral of learning. she asked me for help, for real! well, since i was highly trained and such, i chocked. lol. but not for long.
THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT!!! BWAHAAAAAA!!!!!!!
divorce from irish…she didnt mind, she got her card. i new she was cheating on me anyway with a looser. now she has smoked ciggies for 40 years and has terrible copd from what im told.
and i am married to mrs the half ukie half russian mrs coldwarrior for good lord knows how many years..
eaglesoars wrote:
it can be….wellll…
yeah.
but its only for a few days
darkwords wrote:
orthodox Christians are almost always the target of western ‘christian’ nations
Sure they do.
“According to the International New York Times..”
“In August 2015, Bloomberg News reported…”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_bans_and_allegations_of_Russian_government_ties
coldwarrior wrote:
FYI for the non-yinzers
Everybody else calls it The Tower of Ignorance
😆
bring
it
https://abc7chicago.com/republicans-donate-to-liz-cheney-campaign-fund-donald-trump/11650894/
eaglesoars wrote:
HAIL TO PITT.
yinz.
lol
coldwarrior wrote:
Buy stock in popcorn companies
lobo91 wrote:
way ahead of ya!
Remember ScottEvests? Cool jackets. Lots of pockets. Bought one for hubby. Then the owner went public trashing Trump supporters.
Got an email from him today. They moved their database to a new platform and wanted me to verify my account.
Fat. Chance.
No thanks. You trashed Trump supporters awhile ago , so remove me from your site. A business person who trashes possible customers isn’t all that smart so why should I trust your product? And just so you know, don’t assume I’m a Trump supporter. All I need to know about you is that you’re a moron.
@ eaglesoars:
jordan rule
Portugal
Producers already admit to rationing food
National producers already admit food rationing, with price increases of 20% to 30% in the coming days. “We are in a food emergency situation like I don’t remember having lived through”, Eduardo Oliveira e Sousa, president of CAP, told Expresso.
“In addition to an increase in prices, there will be a shortage of products, which leads to speculation, which in turn leads to a further increase. It is impossible to know how far the climb will go”, says the president of the Confederação dos Agricultores de Portugal (CAP), who added that there are farmers who will give up producing various seasonal crops, such as corn, vegetables and some fruits in order not to have any losses. “The stock of some products, such as flour for pasta, is so low that in a month or two we may have to go into rationing as happened in the 70s”, he said.
The vice-president of the Portuguese Association of Distribution Companies, Gonçalo Lobo Xavier, told Expresso, that for the time being, there are no production disruptions, “but there is an absolutely unprecedented price pressure”. The director-general of the Portuguese Association of Branded Product Companies, Pedro Pimentel, admits: “We can have in retail a scenario identical to queues at gas stations, with people buying non-perishable products in advance”. The president of the Food Bank against Hunger warns that “food shortages will reach a level that has not been seen for many years”.
https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/2022-03-13/producers-already-admit-to-rationing-food/65762
coldwarrior wrote:
ABC, that’s all I need to know about the veracity of the story and the “overwhelming” support for Liz Cheney. Funny coincidence, the wife of one of my cousins (now deceased) and her husband visited us today; they are from Wyoming. Not a lot of love for Liz. Basically said that the only thing that will get Liz re-elected is if there are too many people running against her. If it’s just her and one other competitor, she goes down in flames.
coldwarrior wrote:
The Michael Jordan thing? Yeah, no quarter given
@ AZfederalist:
Last time I checked, there were about a dozen candidates
Sheldon Whitehouse being an asshole again. Or still. Whatever.
I just filed a bill to reclaim the windfall profits that Big Oil is raking in. Here’s how it works:
video at the link, haven’t watched. I’m waiting for somebody to define ‘windfall profits’ or ‘excess profits’
https://twitter.com/SenWhitehouse/status/1503534142121824257
@ eaglesoars:
“Reclaim”?
lobo91 wrote:
All your money are belong to us
@ eaglesoars:
@ lobo91:
The left has been vowing to destroy the oil industry for a long time.
DC Trucker Convoy Snarls Already-Congested Local Traffic
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of truckers and other motorists who have been doing rolling protests on highways encircling Washington made their way into the nation’s capital Monday, snarling already-congested traffic in a demonstration against COVID-19 mandates and other grievances.
The DC Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency issued a traffic advisory shortly before 2 p.m. that suggested motorists delay travel or use alternative transportation “due to ongoing demonstration activity on I-395, I-695, and I-295.”
The Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department closed a number of streets and exits off the highways to prevent the protesters from coming into the city. “These rolling road closures are occurring in real-time as they are needed,” the announcement said.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dc-trucker-convoy-snarl-traffic_n_622fc825e4b0e01d97af9283
close the ramps and blame the truckers
@ eaglesoars:
Reminds me of their nonsense about taxing “unrealized capital gains”
It seems the term-du-jour is no longer ‘threat to democracy’ it’s….
Claire McCaskill: FNC’s Tucker Carlson ‘Really, Really Close to Treason’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/03/14/claire-mccaskill-fncs-tucker-carlson-really-really-close-to-treason/
yawn
@ coldwarrior:
Good story. Sniper school is bad ass hard from what the Seals say. High fail rate.
What brought Mrs. Coldwarrior to the US?
And congrats on all that. You stayed on the course and did the right stuff. Not easy to do.
I was thinking Mrs ColdWarrior was probably a spy and you encountered her on one of your dead drops across the wall. Then convinced her to defect.
China is not in the habit of backing losers. And right now it looks like Russia is not winning.
So I ask – how good is the CCP’s intel after all?
I seem to remember when some people got 9 mm in the back of the head because they fucked up dog food to the West.
nite
coldwarrior wrote:
I was a Pitt fan for two years. In the 80’s I think. They had an awesome running back and would run over teams. That’s about all I can remember except predicting win win win….. lol
eaglesoars wrote:
What probably happens is millions of 3rd world kids killed by a famine created by wokeism. Not much different from Stalin starving peasants.
the world has a highly connected balance and people shouldn’t let a pandemic or a war throw them off balance.
eaglesoars wrote:
The idea of rolling road closures seems smart. Drive slow circles around the city. Gas is exorbitant though. I saw $1,000 to fuel up a tractor Trailer.
darkwords wrote:
I like that story.
Naval “excercises” included a transit from the Pacific Ocean to the Sea of Japan via the Tsugaru Strait between Honshu and Hokkaido.
https://news.usni.org/2022/03/11/japan-again-raises-concern-over-10-warship-russian-navy-surface-group
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup.
That’s what happens in NZ. Especially dairy farms, backed up by watercourse regulation requiring plantings to prevent cattle polluting the water. Mechanised milking with both Herringbone sheds but increasingly circular moving milking sheds. Cattle are all grass fed and spend their days in the open. Meat raising including, beef, Sheep and Lamb and Deer are all raised outside and exclusively on grass supplemented with trace element ‘nuts’.
darkwords wrote:
lol
no.
mrs coldwarrior’s dad is an orthodox priest. they got kicked out of the soviet union in the 80’a because he was a trouble maker.
Pope John Paul II was instrumental in getting a lot of priests out even though the Pope was not orthodox, he did not have to do this work. mrs coldwarrior and family lived in the vatican for a year until father in law got parish in jersey,
Possum wrote:
me too!
mrs coldwarrior does as well and says that she is going to use that from now on when someone asks how we met.
@ coldwarrior:
How is Mrs CW doing thru all this? I assume she still has family in Ukraine/Russia?
*sigh*
Lockdown of Shenzhen Threatens U.S. with More Inflation and Supply Chain Disruptions
Shenzhen’s exports of goods reached 1.92 trillion yuan, the equivalent of around $302 billion in 2021, according to official Chinese figures. Electronics and telecommunications equipment reportedly account for over 90 percent of the total output of Shenzhen’s high-tech industries. Huawei Technologies and electric-vehicle maker BYD , which produces electric cars and batteries, are located in Shenzhen.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/03/14/shenzhen-lockdown/
eaglesoars wrote:
yep, on both sides.
some distant ukie relatives are probably dead accd to family, i had ger watch that glen beck vid about ukraine and she was utterly disgusted.
@ coldwarrior:
oh jeez. I’m so sorry.
*snort*
Russia just sanctioned a bunch of US officials. They also included Hunter Biden and Hillary Clinton, among others
https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1503758093833932810
full list at the link.
Interesting thread on possible landing at Odessa. BUT – is the port mined?
Substantial #Russian Navy force, including landing ships, advancing on Odessa area today. Seen 09:47 UTC in satellite imagery
Found together with
@detresfa_
https://twitter.com/CovertShores/status/1503732767569420296
BREAKING: Fox News Cameraman Killed in Attack That Wounded Benjamin Hall
Sam Faddis on Bannon: Predicts China will move on Taiwan, blockade and no fly zone. Biden will let it slide, will not commit navy
BREAKING: Fox News Cameraman Killed in Attack That Wounded Benjamin Hall
https://www.mediaite.com/news/breaking-fox-news-cameraman-dies-in-attack-that-wounded-benjamin-hall/
If Mitt Romney is accusing you of treason, you’re probably doing something right:
lobo91 wrote:
For accepting a $59 donation. 😀
Nato drills on the seas around Finland.
Big protest in Saudia Arabia over the beheadings of 81 young men. Apparently not incels as people willing to protest about it.
Barracks for Ukrainian foreign legion destroyed. Fighter says he didn’t sign up for this and tries to leave country but can’t until he is smuggled out. Foreign legion fighters being given 10 bullets and a gun and sent to the front line. Expected to be able to find lootable ammo containers on the way.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I guess he applied for a job on The View.
@NinaByzantina
One of Ukraine’s main media sources, Hromadske, discussing Donbass as a region that has a “huge number of absolutely useless people.” Of the 4M in Donetsk area at the time, 1.5M are “superfluous,” and “simply must be killed.” Donbass is just a “source of resources.”
** genocide is still on the minds of a lot of people. Biden is getting close also about his loyal opposition.
Ryan Fournier
@RyanAFournier
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Mar 14
Texas is OFFICIALLY restarting the construction of the border wall per Gov. Greg Abbott.
They have acquired a large quantity of steel panels from federal contracts cancelled in 2021 by the Biden Administration.
Texas is the first state to ever build their own border wall.
** Any Texas governor worth his salt could have completed this wall last year.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I bet Romney hangs out around liquor stores in DC to see who is buying expensive vodka. Treason!!!!
Saudi Arabia declines to accept Joe Biden collect call.
@newsmax
· 1h
In a move that would lessen the U.S. dollar’s dominance of the global petroleum market, Saudi Arabia is talking with China about pricing oil sales to Beijing in yuan, The Wall Street Journal
https://www.asiafinancial.com/saudi-aramco-to-build-major-refinery-complex-in-china
Saudi Aramco said on Friday it would enter into a joint venture to develop a major refinery and petrochemical complex in China expected to start operations in 2024.
The Saudi oil giant said the new complex would be located in Panjin, in the northeastern province of Liaoning.
** expected to accept Russian oil.
@ darkwords:
as i explained earlier, the ukies HATE people from donbass and think that they are useless apes and sub-human.
but it was ok for the ukies to murder thousands of them over the past few years. maybe if the people in donbass were jews instead of orthodox christians the world would have paid attention.
putin was paying attention tho….
coldwarrior wrote:
REALLY?? How have they managed this?
@ darkwords:
the yuan isn’t a floating currency! the saudis are suckers and are going to ripped off in this deal!
QR Code projected into the sky.
https://twitter.com/TheSharp0ne/status/1503213347608666113/photo/1
eaglesoars wrote:
ummmm…there has been war in the area since 2014…the reasons there are epsartists groups and putins pretense for invasion was that the ethnic russians (orthodox) were being murdered or disappeared by the state (catholic ukies + nazi azov units).
it was getting wayyy too much like central america back in the 70-80’s in that region. no real news coverage of it tho, because the orthodox in donbas don’t rate high enough to make the news. just like we dont do anything to help catholoic nigerians against the muzz murderers. some groups get help, some don’t.
https://abc7chicago.com/republicans-donate-to-liz-cheney-campaign-fund-donald-trump/11650894/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War
@ eaglesoars:
here is ome good background of the area. its worth the read
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donbas
coldwarrior wrote:
Thank you. I have to hit the road, I’ll read it when I have time to sit.
eaglesoars wrote:
Its reported that Kiev has made war on this region since 2014. At least 10,000 killed. The Azov group was there killing. One reason the area welcomes the Russians.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/forgive-son-working-fbi-convict-exclusive-interview-convicted-january-6th-political-prisoner-guy-reffitt-dc-gitmo-must-listen-heartbreaking-audio/
This is the same shit the stasi would do in thr ddr.
Edited…
darkwords wrote:
Synchronized drones?
coldwarrior wrote:
No idea what that means but it sounds cool as hell.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/03/15/meme-police-dhs-scanning-employees-social-media-for-conspiracy-theories-extremism/
The stasi lives!
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Stasi….effin predictive spelling
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/03/14/ukraine-crisis-hundreds-of-criminal-attacks-on-russians-in-germany/
I expect nothing less from the Germans. Hey, dieter, your arm band is showing…
coldwarrior wrote:
It read like some emails I got from the people I’m doing consulting work for.
“So which version are we going with?”
“Tje tjord pme. dp ot.”
wut?
The U.S. Senate voted unanimously on Tuesday to make Daylight Savings Time permanent, a move supporters say would make winter afternoons brighter and end the twice changing of clocks.
https://thelibertydaily.com/finally-daylight-saving-time-to-be-made-permanent/
coldwarrior wrote:
I’m no friend of the turks but I saw this shit on a daily basis when I was in Germany, just with the Germans attacking the Turks. (Not that the Turks were innocent victims, they liked to randomly attack Germans just as much). The Germans really love having someone to hate on.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
I saw a TON of that.
And yeah, the turks in Berlin were no angels.
eaglesoars wrote:
Looks like if it passes the house and the potatus signs it, then starting November of 2023 no more clock changing.
eaglesoars wrote:
Good. The time change is stupid
oh, lookie here!
Biden is going to use EOs on climate change even if SCOTUS tells him no.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/15/biden-promises-executive-action-on-climate-change-as-energy-costs-rise/
coldwarrior wrote:
And it’s killing me, I still haven’t adjusted.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Didn’t Guggi tell us something like 70% of the rapes in Germany/Austria are committed by Muslims? In Germany, at least, that almost certainly means Turks.
I have a question. Ukraine wants a no fly zone. We won’t give them the air craft to provide it.
But are aircraft the only way to do that? I’m remembering Afghanistan when we started giving the Afghani’s stinger missiles. Game changer. I realize they’re designed to take out choppers but IIRC there were areas of Syria we didn’t fly over because now there’s stuff that can tell out higher altitude, like Stealth.
What do I have wrong?
I’m not Catholic so don’t know…
Pope Francis will consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on Friday, 25 March, during the Celebration of Penance that he will preside over at 5pm in St Peter’s Basilica.
The Director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, said in a statement: “The same act, on the same day, will be performed in Fatima by Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, papal almoner,” who is being sent there by the Pope.
The day of the Feast of the Annunciation of the Lord was chosen for the consecration.
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2022-03/pope-francis-to-consecrate-russia-and-ukraine-to-the-immaculate.html
Isn’t this what the Lady of Fatima said had to be done? Sorry for the ignorance………..
eaglesoars wrote:
In the old days maybe. But now they have imported a ton of syrians and others due to the arab spring and the syrian civil war. I’d say by this point the turks are outnumbered.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Oh yeah, I remember those!
eaglesoars wrote:
i’m not sure. the fatima stuff always confused me. it was never really discussed much (i was catholic until i converted to orthodoxy)
eids of march
and this
good read
https://amgreatness.com/2022/03/14/from-15-days-to-two-years/
rules of war?
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/15/zelensky-softens-armys-slaughtered-like-pigs-threat-russian-soldiers-surrender-we-will-treat-you-decently/
“From now on, there will be no more captured Russian artillerymen. No mercy, no ‘please do not kill, I surrender’ will not pass,” the official account of the Command of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine posted on Facebook in early March. The post threatened Russian soldiers would be “slaughtered like pigs” and referred to the Russians as “worms.”
“Call your mother one last time. Say you’ll die soon, jackal,” the post concluded. “We are not death, we are worse!”
buncha ukie nazis.
coldwarrior wrote:
The thing about Julie Kelly is that it is impossible to distract her. She’s got a laser focus like no other reporter I’ve encountered. I have no idea how she keeps up with everything but she does.
@ eaglesoars:
“With heavy losses expected in November, Democrats will try election-related lockdowns again. The weeks leading up to Election Day happen to coincide with the annual flu season, so Democrats, including incumbent governors in tight races, will likely attempt the winning 2020 formula once more.”
damn right they will
like i said
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/un-again-warns-mass-starvation-worlds-worst-humanitarian-crisis-and-its-not-ukraine
some groups get help, some are left to rot.
coldwarrior wrote:
and it won’t work
coldwarrior wrote:
Ukrainian wheat again.
Li’l Kim isn’t wrong about Juche or however you spell it
eaglesoars wrote:
Yeah, talking about when I was there, lol. Before the left turned the world on it’s head.
coldwarrior wrote:
How to ensure that your enemy combatants never surrender and fight to the death.
14 March 2022
https://news.usni.org/2022/03/14/navy-will-install-hypersonic-missiles-aboard-zumwalt-destroyers-without-removing-gun-mounts
Pretty much a repeat of what the USN said in April 2021 and announced in December 2017.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
So right on schedule then
What happens to communications when the power grid goes out? What if there were telephones powered by sound waves alone? The vibrations would rattle a microgenerator to transmit or something.
Oh wait. They’ve been around since WWII and I’ve got some catchin up to do. Nevermind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound-powered_telephone
eaglesoars wrote:
Yep, and it’s a message to Chy-nah that they better do something before then.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Bannon had some guy on the other day with satellite phones. Forget the name of the company.
coldwarrior wrote:
Ya’ll pick one and stick with it. I think the DST idea is not the most intelligent as it is going to lead to lots of dark mornings for kids going to school, but if that’s what people want, then go for it. Changing peoples’ circadian rhythm twice a year is just plain dumb.
AZfederalist wrote:
I want the most hours of sunlight. Personally, I am not found of sunlight in the morning, I’m not a morning person, but so what?
I wonder how many takes they had to do of this one? Heather looks like she was about to lose it:
he White House launched a new initiative to ease the #SupplyChainCrisis. The Transportation Department will serve as a broker and provide real-time data for #PrivateCompanies.
broker? what does that even mean?
https://twitter.com/capitolreport/status/1503889176093151232
AZfederalist wrote:
change the school hours? That might throw off parents’ work schedules tho.
The White House is at it again, trying to get TikTok stars to push their message. Because it worked so well the last time…
@ eaglesoars:
I can use it in a sentence: “I am broker now than I was last year.”
eaglesoars wrote:
Oh. Good. That’s going to really help the supply chain problem – the government directing what happens. Because as history has shown, Central Planning is wildly successful. Just let the frickin’ free market figure out a solution to the problems the government has already caused, don’t throw more government at the problem.
lobo91 wrote:
Comment of the week!
eaglesoars wrote:
Where in the hell is the Division of Ukie NEPTUNE Anti-ship missiles?
They range out as far as Crimea when the missiles are based near Odessa. The ships could be targeted all of the way during their transit to the coast close to Odessa. Last I heard the division had 36 operational missiles and 6 operational launchers. Nominally the division is armed with 72 missiles.
WHERE THE HELL are they?
It’s not as if they would be short of spares. The only Russian manufactured parts are the initial rocket launcher, (re-tasked from an onselescent AAA system)the rest, cruise missile jet motor, guidance, warhead and launch vehicles are all Ukie manufactured.
Sure the RFS Moscova heave AAA Cruiser is in the area but it can’t defend all of the 6 heavy landing support ships. These ships are sitting AT ANCHOR about a mile off the Ukie coast. They are SITTING DUCKS !
Sheesh!
lobo91 wrote:
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
ok. Now answer my question about closing the air space. Do they really need aircraft for that? Because I learned about the stinger missiles we gave to the Afghanis to take down the Russian choppers and my understanding now is that there is tech to take down aircraft like Stealth stuff and do the Ukies have it?
Also, is the Odessa harbor mined? If it is, maybe the Ukies don’t want to bother using the ammo?
Again, sorry for the ignorance but I’m trying to learn.
@ AZfederalist:
Move the time by 30 minutes and leave it.
right_wing2 wrote:
oh
This wasn’t in my Cliff notes
Odesa’s Maze-Like Catacombs Could Be Bad News For Russian Invaders
Odesa’s catacombs could prove vexing for Russian invaders just as they have for other enemies in conflicts past.
Officially, the Odesa Catacombs comprise at least 2,500 kilometers, or just over 1,550 miles, of generally interlinked tunnels running under the city, as well as into outlying areas. Portions of the Catacombs are known to exist at three different depths at least, with the deepest being 60 meters, or almost 197 feet, below sea level, and there are at least 1,000 documented entry points. It is one of the world’s largest known underground networks.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44745/odesas-massive-maze-like-catacombs-could-be-bad-news-for-russian-invaders
WSJ
In Congo, China Hits Roadblock in Global Race for Cobalt
For more than a decade, Chinese companies have spent billions of dollars buying out U.S. and European miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s cobalt belt—the world’s richest source of a mineral that has become critical to the global transition to cleaner energy. Now the Chinese firms are running into trouble after a court ordered one of the largest to temporarily cede control of one of its mines.
Just one electric vehicle can require between 10 and 30 pounds of cobalt to build its battery, depending on the manufacturer, though Tesla Inc. and other auto makers are now moving away from the material. Cobalt can boost charge rates and has a stabilizing effect, extending battery life and preventing cathode corrosion that can lead to battery fires.
Congo accounted for 70% of the world’s total output of cobalt last year, with Chinese investors controlling a similar proportion of cobalt production.
Demand is quickly growing, and the U.S. fears being left behind. Earlier this year the Biden administration dispatched a team to the capital, Kinshasa, to meet with Congolese leaders to see how America can secure access to the silvery-gray metal. Daleep Singh, a U.S. deputy national security adviser, criticized what he called “opaque” Chinese mining contracts, and said generations of investors had exploited the Congo’s resources.
Now Congo itself is pressing for a larger slice of the market, pushing back against China’s growing economic footprint in Africa, after a court last week stripped Hong Kong-listed China Molybdenum Co. of management control of its Tenke Fungurume mine. China Molybdenum will have to sit on the sidelines for six months after state miner Gécamines SA accused it of trying to evade millions of dollars in royalty payments by under-declaring reserves.
China Molybdenum, which bought the mine for $2.65 billion from Freeport McMoRan Inc. in 2016, has offered a settlement and has said that it hopes the matter will soon be resolved, but the process is moving slowly, people familiar with the situation say.
The company didn’t respond to requests for further comment. But now investigations have expanded into several other Chinese mining companies.
With the price of cobalt rising to multiyear highs, the standoff has the potential to become a turning point in China’s involvement with the continent, where until now it has run into relatively little opposition as it goes about securing supplies of valuable minerals, often in exchange for building roads and other important infrastructure.
“The DRC can stand its ground for a while, especially since the court can extend its ruling for another six months,” said Geraud Neema, an analyst and editor with the China Africa Project, a nonprofit.
As recently as last fall, China Molybdenum appeared to think it was on firmer ground in Congo. It began work on a $2.51 billion expansion plan to nearly double cobalt and copper production at the Tenke Fungurume site, set in the vast, dry scrubland of Lualaba province. Prospects looked good. Cobalt prices were on the rise as optimism grew over the faster take-up of electric vehicles.
But since December, Gécamines, which owns a 20% stake in the mine, has been pushing to remove Chinese management, accusing the Chinese of underestimating the mine’s reserves and paying less to the Congolese side than they should. Royalty payments have already tripled in recent years after Congo declared cobalt a strategic mineral. Congolese authorities are also now investigating $6 billion in Chinese-funded infrastructure-for-minerals deals.
Some industry analysts are now questioning the stability of the industry in Congo. The uncertainty is already threatening to push prices higher after more than doubling since January 2020 as electric-vehicle manufacturers rush to secure supplies.
“The Congolese government has a history of applying pressure on foreign mining operators in order to induce additional payments,” said Alexandre Raymakers, an analyst at Maplecroft, a risk consulting firm. “The scale of the Chinese presence in the country’s mining industry makes Chinese-controlled assets prime targets.”
During a visit to the mining region in the middle of last year, Congo’s President Félix Tshisekedi vowed that his government would continue reviewing mining contracts to make sure that the Congolese people benefit from its vast extractive industries and finally break the so-called resources curse by paying higher wages and royalty payments. Congo is one of the world’s poorest countries, with an annual budget of roughly $7 billion. More than 60% of Congo’s 90 million people live under $1.90 a day, according to The World Bank.
“I am tired of seeing foreigners come here with empty pockets and leave as billionaires while we remain poor,” he told a cheering crowd in the city of Kolwezi.
“The problems at the Tenke Fungurume mine extend beyond questions about technical matters,” said Anneke Van Woudenberg, executive director at UK-based corporate watchdog Rights and Accountability in Development, which has been documenting alleged abuses in the country’s cobalt industry.
more at the link that does not appear to be behind a paywall
https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-congo-china-hits-roadblock-in-global-race-forcobalt-11647081180
eaglesoars wrote:
There you go Eagles
https://fatima.org/
This shit has been in play for over 100 years now. Not one single Pope has done as they were told, by the Virgen Mary. It was a clear command and the whole lot of them refused to do exactly was was demanded. Every time they modified of left out some of the command. All they had to do was do as they were commanded. The Pope PLUS ALL of the world’s Bishops would simultaneously dedicate Russia, (Not the Soviets, not the Ukies, Not the various Soviet republics) just Russia…. dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. That was what was required. It was that simple, but various Popes, even reasonably well meaning ones didn’t do as they were commanded.
That is the Pope and ALL the bishops simultaneously dedicate Russia to Mary. The Blessed Virgin warned that Russia would spread its errors (Communism globally) if they were NOT dedicated to the Blessed Virgin. Pius XII was the closest, but even he didn’t do as he was commanded. The 5 popes since the late 1950s were all compromised by Vatican II and some actively were culpable in attempting to destroy the Church. Even John Paul II sullied himself in Assisi with his ecuminist BS. Now the Church is suffering with what may end up an Anti-Pope, at a time when a true Pope is needed more than anything else.
All of the BS and manipulation of the last of the living visionaries in the 1970s, with all of the lying by various Church leadership, unpublished Third Secret from the Virgin, that extended to the BS release of counterfeit letters and even an imposture standing in for the last survivor of the three visionaries, locked away as she was in a closed order of nuns. The level of total BS has been massive and generated by some very wicked cardinals and bishops, and even Popes. The First Secret from the Virgin was to forecast the end of the Great War. The Second Secret from the Virgin was the forecast outbreak of WWII if the requirements of the Virgin Mary’s request to Commit Russia to Mary. The final Third Secret which several Popes have read tells of the almost but not quite, destruction of the Church, death of the ‘Bishop in White’ (commonly understood as the then current Pope, but these days when we have a Pope and a still living, Emeritus Pope in the person of Benedict XVI) who knows.
The Church has suffered over 150 years of suppression (so would say since 1717), enemy penitration by wicked Bishops and religious who actively worked against the Church via the Masonic Temple and communist sleepers, placed globally throughout the Church religious in the 1930s. Showing up initially as South American marxist priests, and peaking in the Early 1960s during Vatican II.
The level of manipulation by various Church Leaders including many Popes, of the simple requirements to sanctify Russia to the Blessed Virgin, has brought the globe to where we are right now.
I never even thought about this
Russia running out of cloud data storage following Ukraine invasion
The Russian news outlet Kommersant, citing government sources, is reporting that Russia is rapidly running out of domestic data storage for servers and other critical IT equipment. Russia’s Ministry of Digital Transformation reportedly held a meeting on March 9 with representatives Sberbank, MTS, Oxygen, Rostelecom, Atom-Data, Croc, and Yandex. One source told Kommersant that the departure of foreign cloud services like Google and Amazon increased demand on local storage, and the country expects that capacity to run out within the next two months. The shortage could lead to non-essential services shutting down, such as cloud gaming, music streaming, and video sharing platforms.
Russia is also reportedly having difficulty importing equipment from China, due to increased prices (the value of Russia’s currency is tanking) and disputed logistics. One source reportedly told Kommersant (translated), “Two truckloads of servers from a foreign vendor entered the country, but they refuse to give them to us, citing sanctions.” Ironically, Huawei has supposedly stopped shipments to Russia until March 26, which itself has been negatively affected by US sanctions over the past few years.
Russia is exploring a few options for the data storage, including seizing computers from companies leaving the country. The simplest solution would likely be for Russia to stop its invasion of Ukraine, which the United Nations reports has killed around 700 civilians so far, including 48 children.
https://www.xda-developers.com/russia-cloud-data-storage-shortage/?
I’m thinking Vlad is having 2nd and 3rd thoughts about this entire escapade
@ Aussie Infidel:
ok, I have to think about this. I’m too tired to address it in its complexity right now. Will email you tomorrow with questions.
Thanks for getting back to me. Howz things with yo?
right_wing2 wrote:
Brilliant!
We are governed by our enemies
MAYBE BIDEN SHOULDN’T HAVE TRIED TO PUNISH THE SAUDIS FOR ALIGNING WITH TRUMP, AND THEN ALIGNED THE U.S. WITH IRAN? WSJ: A Sino-Saudi attack on the dollar?
https://instapundit.com/509682/#respond
coldwarrior wrote:
I have to read that one again. It’s complicated.
bed.
I’m reading Clash Of Civilizations. Gives new meaning to the term TURGID.
somewhere between The Origins Of Totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt) and Mein Kampf.
maybe I can get thru 3 pages tonite.
@ eaglesoars:
My car clock is finally accurate. The instructions to update the time were seriously complex.
@ coldwarrior:
The ethnic and nationalistic undertones in that area convince me that Ukraine should be split into two. The sooner the better.
Before it was just a corrupt distant place with gorgeous women to me.
Now it’s barely removed from Nazi germany in its internal hatreds. And is the Epstein Island for westerners who want to play corruption games. I like their love of country but also think Putin has a valid concern about the corrupt elite in the west.
Oil disruption makes GWB wealthy.
coldwarrior wrote:
Need to nix the emergency powers. No reason people can’t vote in person. And mail in voting should be held off on until its proven secure.
I need to win the 22 elections so I can scrub the vileness out of society. I’ll vote for a candidate that does that. Only problem is that the dems are actually a large group of sheep. You can abuse them over and over again and they will go with it and still vote dem.
More on Kaspersky. Germany no like.
https://www-bsi-bund-de.translate.goog/DE/Service-Navi/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Presse2022/220315_Kaspersky-Warnung.html;jsessionid=4FFE65AB58D6205E3143CD07655071DA.internet461?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
@ darkwords:
Probably is a door open for a DeSantis. But in reality I think Trump is the only one with enough balls to fire half the government. He was too polite his first time around. His second time around he might take no prisoners.
I reverted to alcohol in the pandemic. Time to get back to the gym and be a functional senior.
Drinking Kombucha and Tennessee Cinnamon whiskey tonight. You can disregard any further posts.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Everyone loses. I have used Kapersky. At the time I was concerned about the Russian origins. Not because of Putin but because of Russian hackerati.
Saved me $100 a year though and did a good job.
The world is too interconnected now for populations to have cancelation fits. The consequences are unknown. Eastern Europe, The Netherlands, and China produced the best hackers in my business life. Probably with China at the top of the heap.
Make Russia poor but leave them with a lot of computer resources and the desire for money will bring down a few EU governments.
@ Aussie Infidel:
The Catholic Church needs to go back to Latin Masses. I’ve been to one as a Protestant. I thought it was mysterious and great. Put some mystery back into the Church.
Been to Eastern Orthodox also. The symbolism was unique and the incense almost killed me. I thought I was having a religious experience. Quite different from what the west thinks of religion.
eaglesoars wrote:
Interesting. The Chinese will strip mine any African country that lets them in the door. The Chinese have zero concerns for humanitarianism. The Chinese are the modern colonizers of Africa. That would be an easy propaganda win for the US if Biden was smart.
It also appear that the Chinese were behind the run on nickel? I think they are much smarter than us in the long term natural resources they need. They have bigger question to answer while Biden and co flirt with gender dysphoria.
eaglesoars wrote:
I seem to remember that being in a Jack Carr novel also. Villians used the catacombs to house a sarin gas like WMD attack on visiting dignitaries.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I would guess they are compromised. Else they would have been used already?
AZfederalist wrote:
I think Biden has shown that he will first direct resources to his own voting base. HE is not a leader in the sense that people need him to be.
lobo91 wrote:
We need some kind of social media badge that accurately reflects a persons critical thinking skills.
When I think I can hold a grudge I realize that at the end of the Hobbit the Sackville-Bagginses were selling off Bilbo’s household stuff. At that point apparently they were driven out of the shire. Then you have this bit from Bilbo’s 111th birthday speech at the beginning of Fellowship of the Ring.
Now that’s the way to hold a freaking grudge. Kick them out of the area and don’t let them back until your 111th birthday RIGHT BEFORE YOU LEAVE FOR GOOD!
@ right_wing2:
eaglesoars wrote:
Navigation and ventilation look like the biggest problems.
eaglesoars wrote:
flood them.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/american-british-delusion-russia-may-14-days
Interesting vid at the end with a prediction
@ coldwarrior:
welp. gah.
who is that guy?
@ eaglesoars:
i have no idea
retail sales up only .3%. Adjusted for inflation they’re negative -.5%.
Expected number was +.4%
Steve Cortes on Bannon
coldwarrior wrote:
And cut off one of the world’s largest bomb shelters?
This is a very interesting interview, covering a number of current issues:
@ lobo91:
Babylone Bee?
eaglesoars wrote:
It says a lot that you have to ask… 🙂
@ lobo91:
Yeah, right now they appear to be 6 weeks ahead of reality, never hurts to check. Sometimes I miss things
Brutal.
https://twitter.com/LockerRoomLOL/status/1504049688135168000
eaglesoars wrote:
I think the last paragraph is what gives it away as satire. That would never happen
The adults took over. Interest rates are going up.
6 more hikes may be on offer.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/federal-reserve-raises-rates-for-first-time-in-3-years/
We need to get up to 4 or 5 % minimum
@ lobo91:
I wish someone would give me conspiracy theory lotto numbers
Putin must be over the target
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/can-hope-putin-xi-will-removed-power-can-destroy-civilization-george-soros-releases-stunning-message-ukraine/
coldwarrior wrote:
Baloney. It should have been .50
coldwarrior wrote:
I did hear something about how Xi was ready to take Taiwan, then Putin invaded so Xi put everything on hold and isn’t happy about it. FWIW
Of course they do
House Dems want Biden to declare national ‘climate emergency’ and ban oil drilling on federal lands
Democrats will also call on Biden to end fossil fuel subsidies
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-democrats-biden-declare-climate-emergency-ban-oil-drilling-federal-lands
eaglesoars wrote:
Oh, if it were up to me we’d already have been at 5 or 6 percent.
The fed had no ammo with 0%.
It’s gonna get ugly.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2022/03/16/report-india-steps-up-wheat-production-replace-lost-ukraine-russia-supply/
Well done india!
@ eaglesoars:
Did yinz get the seeds?
@ eaglesoars:
There was room to get to 4% under Trump
I’m liking brave browser…very nice.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/15/report-oz-looks-to-exit-senate-race-return-to-televis
Don’t let the door hit you in the ass.
I put a fire under my sister and got her in inflation survival mode. She’s in Florida and has been thru hurricanes, so she’s not accustomed to loading up cuz who knows? Crap gets washed out to sea. However today to went to Sam’s Club under my orders to buy lentils, beans, etc.
No lentils. She sent me a picture of their canned bean supply. Almost nothing. As she was checking out, the mgr asked her if she found everything she needed. She said “No canned carrots or lentils or brown rice”. He checked and was shocked at the inventory numbers.
coldwarrior wrote:
not yet.
coldwarrior wrote:
WAS
coldwarrior wrote:
Yep!
As for Oz, you dodged a bullet. He’s a complete fraud.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/03/14/in-pursuit-of-the-normal/
A wonderful place. We stay there often
@ eaglesoars:
Crap. Email me your Addy again.
They were mailed 2 weeks ago
@ eaglesoars:
Well!
Interesting
coldwarrior wrote:
done
coldwarrior wrote:
That manager ain’t see nuthin’ yet. I’ve seen pieces blaming consumers for the inflation because we’re panic buying and increasing demand.
Yeah, well, after this supply chain, pandemic, and gas prices, we didn’t get dumber, so.
I use the Nextdoor app and I just threw out a question: Does anyone know how the grocery stores in/around Farragut go about reducing their meat prices? Do they do it on a certain day of the week, is it catch as catch can, etc.
The was day before yesterday. A LOT replies from people who share their savings/shopping strategies. GREAT thread.
eaglesoars wrote:
The only current emergency in the land is the low IQ of congressional democrats. And the inability of the congressional republicans to work with that.
eaglesoars wrote:
Soros is probably one person Putin could clandestinely take out and no one would care.
darkwords wrote:
I would. Fuck ‘clandestinely’. How about on 5th Ave NYC?
Watching James O’Keefe on Bannon. Showed video of the raid on his place. The FBI agents were all masked up. Not the pandemic masks, the balaclava masks.
I’m afraid he’s going to end up like Assange and the J6 defendants.
eaglesoars wrote:
and we bitch about putin
@ eaglesoars:
and still not one whistle blower fed.
i’ve seen everything i need to see
eaglesoars wrote:
Where’s James Reece when we need him?
lobo91 wrote:
I really have to catch up on that series
coldwarrior wrote:
Well, there was Rich Higgins, but Covid got him. I’m surprised Navarro is still breathing. Somebody made a mistake and underestimated some people
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup. Next book comes out in May
Naomi Wolf on Tucker tonite. The research she’s been doing on the vax adverse events.
There’s a Lego toy of Zelensky w/a Molotov cocktail selling for $100. Proceeds to Ukraine.
per The Five.
eaglesoars wrote:
i was ‘kindly’ told by admin to stop mentioning that the patient was completely covid vaxxed when doing a triage note if there was a blood clot suspected.
i told them to take me to court. triage is a legal document. and then i mentioned it to the ER director.
he flipped the fuck out
@ coldwarrior:
We need more like you in this world.
/galt
CynicalConservative wrote:
thx.
THE BOMB came when the Er MD director went on a rampage.
he was apoplectic.
WTF?????
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/new-iran-agreement-lets-russia-cash-10-billion-contract-to-build-nuclear-sites/
i just…cant
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
She’ll crack.
@ coldwarrior:
One thing I have found with Brave. Some of my financial institution sites keep needing verification to log in. A good thing I guess for security reasons.
ON another note. Wife and I have been “barred” from work for five days. She’s tested positive for Wuhan Flu on a rapid test.
eaglesoars wrote:
Seeing the supply chain issues first hand. None of it is panic buying. We’re just not getting the stock as we used to.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/colonel-douglas-macgregor-putin-has-already-defeated-ukraine/
watch it. interesting
PaladinPhil wrote:
enjoy your bonus time together!
coldwarrior wrote:
Gonzalo Lira describes a credible scenario.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
https://www.businessinsider.com/author/gonzalo-lira
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
i posted the same vid earlier….
i hope it doesnt come true
coldwarrior wrote:
I hope that’s sarcasm. High interest stifles investment that squelches production.
darkwords wrote:
Many people with high IQs are not very smart, and many of them are evil. That applies to some congressional democrats and republicans also.
coldwarrior wrote:
In the admin’s direction or yours?
coldwarrior wrote:
Did you not see that Biden is allowing Russia to be our proxy negotiator for the Iran deal?
Follow. The. Money.
And don’t forget – Yellin just gave Russia $18B out of the SDR
coldwarrior wrote:
lol
Went to the periodontist earlier. One of the girls pulled up her mask as soon as I walked in, but no one told me to put a mask on.
coldwarrior wrote:
You posted the link to Gateway Pundit. I posted the vid.
@ coldwarrior:
eaglesoars wrote:
And who was the fuck he flipped?
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Bongino calls them the stupid smart people. I was once married to one.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
well, its not.
the fed has a mandate to do two things. maintain the highest level of employment and maintain price stability.
these two goals are in fact mutually exclusive. this does tie the hands of the fed a bit.
when there is very low interest rates, money is cheap and there is more of it. now if one subscribes to the monetary theory of money, more dollars chasing fewer goods causes inflation.
the flip of this coin is that higher interest rates reduces M1 and M2 and makes investment more expensive. it also rewards savings.
the problem with ultra low interest rates is that the fed can then only go in one direction, up. if they get too low or negative, yes negative interest rates, we could fall into a liquidity trap which would take a decade to recover from. do see the lost decade, japan as an example.
so, one can look at interest dates as a spigot. lower rates means more money in circulation and inflation. high interest rates rates means less money in circulation and slower growth but much less inflation as less dollars are chasing goods.
the problem that we have here is from too cheap money for too long. we have stagflation. stagnant economy with inflation. while im not an orthodox monetarist, i will subscribe to too many dollars out there. easy money means easy growth but the business cycle cant be denied. its like trying to hold back the tide. the bill for easy money always comes due.
a read on how volker killed inflation and of the japanese lost decade would help in understanding where we are now.
coldwarrior wrote:
Steve Harrigan was on Fox yesterday, just back from the battlefield and said Russia has won, it’s all over.
eaglesoars wrote:
the ER director lost his mind and went after admin hard.
it was a beautiful thing to watch
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
@ coldwarrior:
some good background
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/stocks/09/how-interest-rates-affect-markets.asp
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/111314/what-methods-can-government-use-control-inflation.asp
A judge just ordered Jussie Smollett released from jail
via Jesse Waters/Fox
@ coldwarrior:
now…with that in mind. if the USD falls from the internations reserve currency for traded goods like the dollar, this happens:
less international demand for the dollar (us debt bonds)
lower USD value versus other currencies.
so…
the fedgov has to quit printing dollars via fiat because international demand will fall of the cliff. then we have a real debt crisis. the feds cant print at will, and a lot of our international military and aid escapades end.
the US will then go into a depression with inflation. we will not be able to maintain these trade deficits and prices will go up quite a bit due to the dollar being worth less. this has a positive effect tho. it will drive manufacture back to the US in the long run, which might not be a bad thing. there will be shortages and inflation along the way.
our debt/bonds are bought by sovereign countries because there is demand for dollar denominated transactions between all countries. its a neat system, until we decide to de-bank places like russia. countries are willing to buy our debt until we play games like that. this makes dollar denominated international trade less attractive and alternatives are created.
this would create more pain than interest rates rising. however, in the end, the US then becomes independent of the world for goods and supplies.
eaglesoars wrote:
unpossible! cnn told me so!
eaglesoars wrote:
pending appeal…i mean, ok…it isnt a violent crime, he’s no threat to anyone. ok…its bull, but i can kinda see the reasoning
coldwarrior wrote:
Don’t forget Biden’s EO the other day ordering the Fed to investigate crypto, BEFORE that the Fed announced it was studying the idea of a Central Bank digital currency and the other day Powell opened his fat mouth and said it’s fine with him if the dollar is not THE reserve currency.
coldwarrior wrote:
nah. Fake hate crime for the sole reason of getting his ass a raise on some show nobody watched. Inciting racial hatred. The ripples from the report were national.
A woman who submits a false rape report hurts only the guy she accuses and his immediate circle. This guy took a nation hostage.
Throw away the key
ok, so what is worse for a laptop…sleep mode 3 or 4 times a day or shutting it off and restarting it 3 or 4 times a day….
eaglesoars wrote:
in the very long run…that might not be the worst option.
still studying it tho
eaglesoars wrote:
i see that side too…
he’s small fish.
coldwarrior wrote:
This is just another unresolved war that sometimes smoulders for decades only to break out again and again in heavy conflict. Yemen has many problems. Marginal land, tribalism, ethnic conflict, political conflict Marxism, urban rural divide, foreign nations stoking conflict in proxy wars using Yemenis as cannon fodder….. the list goes on. After a while the world just moves on and decided that the opposing factions deserve each other !
Separating Yemen into North and South Yemen might be a good start but alas the North are sandwiched between their Yemeni enemies and the main supporter of the South … Saudi Arabia.
eaglesoars wrote:
Corect. Xi’s timetable was predicated around big anniversaries and there is one huge on approaching near the end of 2022. The founding of the CCP in 1922. Given the weather windows that allow for the window of good weather and tides, it was all on for a late Aug-Sept-early Oct invasion of Taiwan. With the Winter Olympics behind him Xi would have been rubbing his hands in glee, then Putin stumbled into Ukraine and spoiled Xi’s plans.
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
i read a couple really good books about yemen / aden recently.
what a total mess
@ Aussie Infidel:
mrs coldwarrior and i are about to sit down and watch the opening round of ‘vertical ping pong’ lol.
we’ve been following the brit premier rugby, currie cup, and super pacific rugby as well. she still can’t get her mind right about cricket. i’ll keep her anyway. 😉
Aussie Infidel wrote:
so, putin saved Taiwan?
coldwarrior wrote:
let it sleep
@ eaglesoars:
ok.
Tesla Raises Prices Twice This Week
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2022/03/tesla-raises-prices-twice-this-week/
I sold my stock a week ago
coldwarrior wrote:
shut it down for a few every 24 hours. I pay for auto backups at a specific time of day that takes about 3 hours. I shut down when I go to bed, power up by 7:30, backups start at 10. During the day, when I’m up and about, needing it now, not needing it – sleep mode.
eaglesoars wrote:
sounds good.
i suspected that repeated on and off daily was probably a worse option
Biden Makes Bizarre Comment About ‘Naked’ Blackmail That Has Everyone Talking
“I bet everybody knows somebody…that in an intimate relationship, what happened was the guy takes a revealing picture of his naked friend, or whatever, in a compromising position and then…blackmails…,” Biden declared.
Well, I don’t know anyone – that I’m aware of, anyway
Maybe Biden is about to announce something that we don’t know about yet. Are we about to hear about even worse pictures on the laptop? The ones we already know about are bad enough. Blackmail material would be something else. And in case you think this is idle speculation, let’s flashback to a story I wrote last August about what Hunter Biden said on video, allegedly to a naked prostitute, about Russians having possible blackmail on him.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/03/16/biden-makes-bizarre-comment-about-naked-blackmail-that-has-everyone-talking-n536855
I dunno. Something about Yellin giving $18B to Putin from the SDR keeps itching.
darkwords wrote:
Stunningly stupid. People are shocked at current gas prices and this bunch of Einsteins wants to limit production even further. It’s almost like they want people to kick them to the curb.
darkwords wrote:
No one would care? Heck, he’d become an international hero and we’d probably totally forgive him for Ukraine
coldwarrior wrote:
It’s really good to have people in the organization that you know you can spin up and who will take no prisoners. It’s even better to know who those people are. We had a few of those where I worked. You normally just left them alone and did what they told you, but every once in a while something really stupid would happen and it would only take a quick mention of the problem to that person to have them go all Gurkha on the idiots.
darkwords wrote:
If she finds out what happened, someone is going to die.
AZfederalist wrote:
he went hard core Gurka.
time for vertical ping-pong!
lol
coldwarrior wrote:
She’s actually sick and stuff. On the positive side she will improve. On the negative side we have to deal with the squire. Worst aspect is that I miss out on my bake shifts. :/
PaladinPhil wrote:
oh damn. {hugs}
darkwords wrote:
The Latin Mass in its various guises links back to the very beginning of Constantine’s conversion and the establishment of Christ’s Church as the Roman’s state Church, post the great suppression of the Church in the 200s AD.
Where I am living in NZ there is only two churches where Latin masses are permitted within the local Bishops region. The rest of the Bishop’s churches only offer the Novus Ordo (New Order) masses that can range from faux- Angeligan through to some sort parody of a modernist mega church.
The Vatican II Council of the 1960s left the writing of this ‘novo'(new) litigy to a single, quite wicked, man named Cardinal Bernadine. The whole idea that the Mass was a sacrifice was thrown out after 1,700 years and replaced by a protestant idea about a shared meal. Even the location of the altar was changes and where the priest stood was turned around. The priest changed from leading the people (Layety ) in a sacrifice facing God to sharing a meal facing a man, (the priest) who became the centre of attention.
Some were so besotted with this new ‘fame’ that they came up with their own ‘litergies’ such were the openness of guidance as to how to celebrate what the mass had become.These priests should have been lifetime members of Actors’ Equity ! 🙂 We ended up with gay masses, dance masses, folk masses, imitations of Baptist masses (the True Baptists did it better) rock masses and even pagan masses, such was the destruction within the Church.
After 60 years and 5 deeply flawed popes there is only a bare Remnant left of actual Catholics, even if many will still claim membership in the Church, they left it many years ago. Just as was forecast. The final shock was the pagan and demonic ‘mass’ in St. Peters in Rome a few years ago. Not the first time I might suggest that the demonic had entered into St. Peters. That tragedy happened back in the 1970s behind locked doors and with at least 2 cardinals and several bishops present. Not that they were cardinals nor bishops at the time because they had automatically Excommunicated themselves and were not even Catholics.
Meantime we few Remnant of the Catholic Church, continue to celebrate the sacrifice of the Mass. In my case I drive over 200 Km (round trip) to one of only 2 Catholic Churches that have ‘been allowed’ to continue to celebrate the Latin Mass in the region where I live.
The rest of the travesty, that is the Novis Ordo (New Mass) withers on the vine, but the Latin Mass florashes with young families participating and new vocations, much to the chagrin of both the local bishop and Rome. They are however trying their best to crush the Remnant but they will not succeed even if we have to resort to heading back to the Catacombs (if only metaphorical) as Christ was quoted in the gospels when He founded His Church in Peter the Rock on which He would build His Church and the forces of evil would never prevail against It. Though smashed about by wicked men, hirelings posing as Christ’s ‘shepherds and cowards hiding behind their manifest weakness, the Remnant stay faithful and continue to celebrate the Sacrifice of the Latin Mass as it has been for the past 1,700 years.
coldwarrior wrote:
Delayed what I believe is the inevitable. Xi is in trouble. He just shut down Shenzhen and he can’t keep that quiet. The Evergrande default is hitting everybody, even if the suppression of the story deprives the ordinary person from understanding the source. I’ve been trying to find out how the OneBeltOneRoad thing is going in Africa and coming up dry, so that tells me there are problems. Australia is beginning to rebel
Australia Invests $360 Million In Rare Earth Projects To Combat China’s Dominance
https://zububrothers.com/2022/03/16/australia-invests-360-million-in-rare-earth-projects-to-combat-chinas-dominance/
And remember China just announced it’s looking at the worst wheat crop in its history.
The problem with China (and Japan, historically) is that when they get in trouble, they decide to start a fight. Their demographics suck canal water, too many marriage-age males with not enough women (one child policy) and without prospects, what do you do with these guys?
War. Go start one.
Elephants do this. Males at a certain age get kicked out of the herd to make it on their own. If they can’t find male mentors they hook up with males in their age cohort and raise hell. In China the gov’t becomes mentor, puts them in uniform and – raises hell in YOUR house.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
why do I (of all people) know that name?
coldwarrior wrote:
Well Putin’s timetable certainly seems to have thrown a spoke into Xi’s plans. One of Xi’s spokesmen pushed out an analysis about 10 days ago discussing all things Putin. The CCP took down the piece 2 hours later but not before a fast eyed associate of our little bunch saw it copied it and reposted it. Xi must have been ropable! Now Xi’s China has in their own estimation only to Sunday next to either throw their hand 100% in with Putin or throw Putin to the dogs. China does NOT enjoy being on sides that lose, especially when it comes to their economy.
More popcorn!
eaglesoars wrote:
A notorious Italian Cardinal of the demonic and masonic persuasion. Long dead and probably has a job as Deputy Stoker in Chief in Hell!
🙂
We’re not supposed to notice.
There are no good guys here
The government of Ukraine has deleted its official tweet about how Ukrainians are pure slavs while Russians are race mixers.
https://twitter.com/ClintEhrlich/status/1504132172965425159
Aussie Infidel wrote:
What is China’s ‘window’ to invade Taiwan, weather, tides, etc etc etc?
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Yeah, but what did he do or say that would bring his name to my attention?
Aussie Infidel wrote:
oh. Ignore previous post
eaglesoars wrote:
I told you….
World Photog winners 2022
https://www.worldphoto.org/2022-open-competition-winners-shortlist
@ eaglesoars:
Taiwan is only ‘invadable’ twice a year. Mar-Apr and Sept-Oct. That strip of sea between China and Taiwan is a real ‘bitch’ the rest of the year. The landing beaches are also extremely limited and an invaded needs everything going his way to be successful. All a defender has to achieve is to slow down an attacker and throw off his schedule and let wind, wave wreck the attacker’s efforts.
Think the English Channel only 5 times as wide and with even more nasty weather outside the two invasion times.
coldwarrior wrote:
Wait! I thought I told YOU!
😆
I’m off to bed. Long day, got an enormous amount done.
O wait CW! I’ve been meaning to tell you – you know that chipped ham we love and I could only get it at Macaroni?
Yeah, I can get it here.
As someone I know sez *happy Snoopy dance”
Off to snore
Aussie Infidel wrote:
blech
eaglesoars wrote:
Wooooooot!!!!!!
Go yinzer!
coldwarrior wrote:
Yup.
I’m feeling sorry for the Russian conscripts, and their families. The Russian regulars get what they deserve. The Ukies are definitely NOT saints either given their corruption and meddling in other folks elections. Still meddlers like the US deserve being meddled against too.
There are no State good guys here. I really feel for the poor Ukies who are being destroyed. I do hope that we are smart enough to NOT do a WWI moment, that will end up as WWIII, however.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Indeed.
BTW, we are greatly enjoying Dee’s v Doggies at the MCG.
Mrs coldwarrior keeps calling for knock ons
@ coldwarrior:
We’re a bit perplexed by the rules…or lack there of.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Yep. I do feel for the Ukrainian citizens who are losing everything but definitely can’t get on board to support the Ukrainian government. When Soros is out and out advocating for military intervention by the rest of the world for Ukraine when all of his organizations were actively opposing US and free world involvement in conflicts that were in our national interests, you know the side we should not be supporting. Evan Sayett’s basic principles of liberalism: “Liberals get it wrong every time and always side with wrong over right, evil over good”. If Soros supports it and so openly, you know it’s the wrong side.
coldwarrior wrote:
Dan Crenshaw Tx on instagram saying the propaganda is all Russia and none from Ukraine. Period. Stop…. Want to increase spending. He seems like a fool the more I listen to him.
AZfederalist wrote:
I must be liberal. Sounds like my crypto strategies.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
If I understand religious tradition then the oratory and written traditions passed down over centuries provide a definite connection to the past. It strengthens someone who is devout.
coldwarrior wrote:
… a total mess for the past 40 years. I have a very good Brit mate who has retired just up the road from the University Hospital in Surfers’ Paradise, where you were thinking of working. He was the Brit MILO (Military Intelligence Liaison Officer) working directly to the Sultan of Oman. There was a LOT of cross border traffic between the Marxist South of Yemen and Oman… in BOTH directions. He had some great historical context regarding Yemen when our Group of Intel purveyors that worked as shared contributors on global contracts, out of Oz x1, NZ x1 (us) Canada x3, and the UK x1, with the occasional input of OS Intel in
darkwords wrote:
Correct and the establishment of a well caticised population only strengthens family and religious faith based solidarity.
On the other hand the mixed and confused attempts to establish a novel litergy within Novis Ordo is weak and confused. No wonder the Novis Ordo is disintegrating before our eyes. That may own the real estate but the Remnant live the original Faith. Over the past 60 years the differences really are stark!
darkwords wrote:
Beware of listening to one’s own propaganda, or even worse believing what can’t be backed up in the ugly reality.
From my current perspective the Russians will eventually grind Ukraine down and win a limited ‘victory'(of sorts) that will run through Kyiv SE bordering the Eastern oil and gas fields that were recently discovered. South to the Black sea, then west encompassing a coastal strip including the dam that waters Crimea, right up to the Romanian border, incorporating Odessa and the strip of 100,000 former citizens of Romania that staged a coup and were occupied by a battalion of Russian Special Forces.
Putin can hardly ‘occupy'(with existing reserves) that much territory let alone continue to war against what is left, in West Ukraine. Russia will be a pauper state by the time this war is over as well as an international outcast.
There was a very perceptive Chinese commentary that spelled out the Chinese position exactly viv a vie Russia’s war. The fact that the CCP ordered it taken down 2 hours after publication says it all! A friend of mine saw it just after publication and copied it before it disappeared. It looks as if the Chinese will have to decide by Sunday next. To support Putin and join him in the ‘naughty corner’ or throw Putin under the bus.
AZfederalist wrote:
Yup.
Do the opposite of whatever Soros is doing and you are on pretty safe ground.
There are no good players in this war, just bad and very bad leaders… and a LOT of poor schmuks doing all of the dying. There is a LOT of evil about who are gagging to initiate WWIII.
coldwarrior wrote:
Heh !
Like your good lady wife aerial ping pong confuses the hell out of me too.
Still the ladies seem to like the tight short shorts and the ‘high marks’!
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
Heh !
Like your good lady wife aerial ping pong confuses the hell out of me too.
Still the ladies seem to like the tight short shorts and the ‘high marks’!
🙂eaglesoars wrote:
Currently Oz mines its Rare Earth Elements but uses Malaysia to process them because of the cost of environmental protections in OZ. The money raised will include both some Australian processing when the agreement with Malaysia runs out. The OZ producers are also investing mucho $$$$ in the SE US for processing rare earth ores into usable metals.
coldwarrior wrote:
MacGregor is one of the few commentators who is actually calling the war as it is. Russia has lost a LOT of kit and troops but expected in a fight that includes lethal western weapon systems. I’m sure Putin thought the war would have been over by now. It’s not and the US is gagging to extend the war for as long as possible to bleed out Russia as much as possible. Alas doing that also kills a hell of a lot of Ukie civilians.
Terms will eventually be reached and Russia will get what it wants, but and it’s a huge but, Russia will be economically a basket case for a decade, especially if China decides that hooking up with Russia will cost it a huge cost in $$$$. As I mentioned often … there are no good guys in this war, just bad actors in leadership in Russia, Ukraine and the CIA / NSA and victims amongst the folks on both sides.
good morning.
First entry to my daily Stupid Quota
Swiss Re cuts fossil fuel cover for oil, gas to help climate
In its annual sustainability report on Thursday, Swiss Re said from July 2023, it would no longer provide individual insurance to oil and gas companies responsible for the world’s most carbon-intensive 10% of production.
In 2021, it had eliminated 5% of the world’s most polluting oil and gas companies based on their carbon intensity, a measure of emissions per barrel of oil or unit of natural gas produced.
Although that leaves 90% covered, the shift is an important signal from “one of the world’s ultimate risk managers,” Peter Bosshard, global coordinator of NGO Insure Our Future, said.
“Oil and gas operations need to be phased out in accordance with climate science or they may become uninsurable by the end of the decade,” he said.
I don’t know anything about the re-insurer industry so I don’t know if this is a big fish in a small pond or what. What I do know is ‘follow the money’ and I know the smell
@ eaglesoars:
Someone else will gladly pick up that 10%
Why didn’t they do 100%?
I know why…10% doesn’t impact the bottom line too much. Virtue signaling
I just choked laughing on my tea
A bust of Chinese communist revolutionary and mass murderer Mao Zedong is on display at Washburn University’s political science department.
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Now, the bust of Mao isn’t alone in the display case. It also includes bobbleheads of a number of left-leaning officials such as former President Bill Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders.
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The lone Republican is Sen. Mitt Romney.
https://tomknighton.substack.com/p/example-2943-why-academia-is-doomed?s=w
coldwarrior wrote:
But it’s AN IMPORTANT SIGNAL!!!
@ eaglesoars:
HA!
heh….i’m watching our babysitters 4 year old.
i think we’ll go over to the CC for some chicken nuggets for him and a G&T for me.
uncle coldwarrior is the best!
lol
Tina’s grandson?
@ eaglesoars:
nah, tina’s kid got a real job, finally. was time for her to get on with her life’s work.
@ coldwarrior:
Crimeny time flies!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/toxic-misinformation-cherry-picked-white-house-defends-soft-child-porn-criminals-supreme-court-nominee-ketanji-brown-jackson-sen-hawley-exposes-record/
whats the deal with dems and kiddie porn?
there is wayyyyy tooo much stuff they are doing that looks like pedophilia.
ummmmm…..marx was german you morons.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/16/commies-lose-again-u-of-florida-removes-karl-marx-study-room-following-backlash/
coldwarrior wrote:
fix your link Sparky!
This Biden SCOTUS pick is gonna go down (speaking of pedoes)
Last month, we learned that in 1996, Jackson wrote a “Note” for the Harvard Law Review arguing that convicted sex offenders were treated “unfairly” in the courts. Earlier this week, her past work advocating on behalf of Guantánamo Bay terrorists also became an issue that will undoubtedly come up during her confirmation hearings.
Completing the trifecta of disturbing aspects of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s radical record is her repeated embracing of champions of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in lectures and speeches and her belief that “microaggressions” are real
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/03/17/the-disturbing-details-about-bidens-scotus-pick-just-keep-on-coming-n1567263
And again
Is Joe Biden* a Child Predator?
[yes]
1. If the diary is real – Biden* is a sick human being, and if President Trump had done one tenth of what’s documented here the Legacy Media would have covered it 24/7 for months on end. The fact that they chose to ignore this is distrubing at best.
https://www.floppingaces.net/2022/03/16/is-joe-biden-a-child-predator/
HUGE EXCLUSIVE: British Operative Inserted Himself into President Trump’s White House to Tarnish Trump and Derail the 2020 Election Audit
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/huge-exclusive-british-operative-inserted-president-trumps-white-house-tarnish-trump-derail-2020-election-audit/
HA!
Judge orders DOJ to produce documents related to prosecution of Steve Bannon…
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/judge-orders-doj-to-produce-documents-related-to-prosecution-of-steve-bannon/
eaglesoars wrote:
fixed
Erin Go Brách & Póg Mo Thóin Blogmockers!
Every year I’m reminded of Nell Flaherty’s Drake.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
“This Irish ballad was written in the nineteenth century. The words are said to be secret code for Robert Emmet (1778-1803). Robert Emmet helped plan and lead an uprising in Dublin in 1803. Forced to act early because of an explosion at one of the arms depots, the uprising disintegrated into chaos.Wearing a green and white uniform, Emmet and a small troop marched on Dublin Castle, killing the Lord Chief Justice on the way.He fled, hoping to escape to America with his fiancé Sarah Curran. He was captured and hung. At his trial, Emmet requested that no epitaph be written for him until Ireland took her place among the nations of the earth.”
Lesley Nelson-Burns
The assumption is that this was written and published shortly after Emmet was hung, to let other rebels know that they weren’t alone and the fight was still on. The “Drake” is the flag of Ireland.
Wow
German Insurance Company Fires CEO Who Released COVID Vaccine Injury Data, Then Scrubs Data From Website
The CEO of one of Germany’s largest health insurance companies was abruptly fired last month after he released data suggesting German health authorities are significantly underreporting COVID-19 vaccine injuries.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/german-insurance-fires-andreas-schofbeck-covid-vaccine-injuries-data/
Happy St. Pat’s Day!
Here are lots of potato recipes – 60 to be precise
https://www.seriouseats.com/starch-madness-2022-5218104?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
@ eaglesoars:
no, belay that – just a list of dishes – no recipes.
drat!
Food prices.
I get all my groceries delivered by Amazon Prime as I have no means of transport.
The prices are creeping up gradually. As an example Ground Beef 85% Lean/15% Fat, 1 lb is $6.49. I don’t know what it costs in a grocery store.
Beef Boneless Stew Meat, 1 lb $8.69 so you can imagine that a steak starts at least $12 pound.
I now eat hotdogs as my meat. Hey a couple of wieners, mash, canned carrots and mushroom gravy is not that bad.
Even hot dogs start at 30 cents per ounce. $4.80 per pound.
I could go on, but basic item food prices are rising.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/yale-law-students-ambush-free-speech-panel?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20220317Trending-Yale&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Breaking%20News
The left is training their little stormtroopers well. Free speech must be suppressed to protect the special groups.
@ Possum:
And don’t get me started on the prices of cod and salmon.
Luckily canned tuna seems to be stable at the moment. Cans of tuna in oil or water start at 18 cents per ounce. The no drain pouchy tuna starts at 46 cents per ounce. I am not anal enough to drain a can of tuna and weigh what is actually tuna to work out if cans or pouches are the better value as……
The cats love the water or oil that is drained from the can. But they won’t eat the tuna!
What is left is enough for a meal for me. And all five of us end up with fishy breath.
( for anyone who has not lived with cats there is a ritual they do when they meet. They sniff each other’s faces to see if there is any food around. They include me… )
@ Possum:
As to the bathroom thing. It is not unusual for me to go into the bathroom, to be followed in there and one kitten jumps into the sink and the other one into the bathtub and we all have a pee.
No privacy in this place!
@ Possum:
I am APALLED at meat/fish prices and developing whole protein meals that use things like lentils/rice/beans
If you like those three items you might consider that as your protein source and you can find recipes all over the net. There’s always quinoa, which I don’t like but I decided I’m going to have to come up with a way to cook it that doesn’t turn it to mush
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
just wait till one of those assholes makes it to SCOTUS.
I’ll probably be dead by then but…..
eaglesoars wrote:
IIRC, O’Keefe & PV couldn’t verify authenticity so they didn’t release it. Then the FBI showed up.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I’m still trying to figure out what the alleged federal crime is.
Does the FBI typically provide diary retrieval services?
Possum wrote:
I’m told that a group of camels do the same thing. One starts and the others join the chorus.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Now we know the origin of the term ” A pissing contest “
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
It’s worse than that. PV/O’Keefe gave it to The National File which DID print excerpts (I read them). FBI didn’t touch The National File
lobo91 wrote:
If they did they would have raided The National File
The world’s number two female golfer is sidelined indefinitely with an inexplicable blood clot. Olympic Gold Medal winner Nelly Korda, 23, recently posted about her diagnosis just a week after model Hailey Bieber, 25, was hospitalized for a similar clot. They join a growing list of otherwise young and healthy people who are being diagnosed with complications that are oddly being characterized as “Covid related.”
https://thelibertydaily.com/another-young-star-gets-sidelined-with-blood-clot-and-nobodys-looking-at-the-jabs-as-an-obvious-possible-cause/
Children in China Diagnosed With Leukemia After Taking Chinese Vaccines
https://www.theepochtimes.com/children-in-china-contract-leukemia-after-taking-chinese-vaccines_4332657.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=imctgm01
@ eaglesoars:
instant-pot is an amazing device…..
coldwarrior wrote:
I was gifted one and used it once for hard boiled eggs. I’m a little afraid of the pressure thing but I did bring it with me on the move. It’s in the attic. When I get the buffet for the kitchen I’ll try to find room for it. I know people rave about it
Possum wrote:
https://bunkstrutts.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/easter-island-pissoir.gif
coldwarrior wrote:
Got one for the missus for Christmas a few years back and she loves it. It’s in a box in the garage.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Be thankful she doesn’t love you.
LOL
Possum wrote:
But she does. She says one day I’m gonna be in a box in the garage, too. 😀
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
🙂
Hey I realised why nobody loves me.
I don’t have a garage.
How can they show me affection?
@ Possum:
Also, another good food source altho not protein related – couscous. Easy AF. And cheap.
1:1 ratio liquid to couscous, boil the liquid, dump in the couscous, take off heat, cover, let sit for 5 minutes. Done. Add whatever veggies/meat you want. 1 cup uncooked yields about 3 cups cooked. It’s just very small durum wheat balls. It is NOT “Israeli” couscous which is bulgur wheat, sometimes called ‘pearl couscous’, much larger and a total pain to cook. But tasty
Did you know there was a Zelensky ‘deep fake’? I didn’t.
ON MARCH 2, the Ukraine government’s Center for Strategic Communication warned that its enemies might be preparing a “deepfake” video that appeared to show president Volodymyr Zelensky announcing his surrender to Russia’s invasion. On Wednesday, that warning appeared prescient.
A fake video emerged on Facebook and YouTube in which a strangely motionless version of Zelensky asked Ukrainian troops to lay down their weapons in a voice different from his usual tone. The clip was also posted to Telegram and Russian social network VKontakte, according to the US think tank the Atlantic Council. TV Channel Ukraine 24 said hackers defaced its website with a still from the video and inserted a summary of the fake news into a broadcast’s scrolling chyron.
https://www.wired.com/story/zelensky-deepfake-facebook-twitter-playbook/
coldwarrior wrote:
I’m not sure you are clear on the concept of “babysitter”. 😉
coldwarrior wrote:
So, I guess in the eyes of the White House, Hawley was “cherry picking” just the child porn cases that she presided over.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yes, that, and Russia and Putin are anything but communists. As bad as Putin is, he saw the devastating effects of communism on the USSR and wants nothing to do with that. I guess the fact they removed the room name idolizing this idiot is a win, but it sure doesn’t seem like any real intellectual activity is present at U of Fl
AZfederalist wrote:
the true ‘deep fakes’
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Oops. Guess that verified the authenticity. Hopefully copies are filed in multiple places
lobo91 wrote:
What federal crime? Are you kidding me? It’s right in Federal Code x dx: “Nothing which makes a democrat look bad shall be allowed to be placed into the opposition’s hands. Federal force is authorized to remove said items from the possession of the opposition”. That Federal Code.
lobo91 wrote:
That right there is pretty much tacit admission by the democrats that the 2020 election was fraudulent and that the election results cannot stand an in-depth audit. … and more and more facts keep coming out regarding how various state election officials accepted certain ballots in complete disregard of their respective states’s laws.
@ AZfederalist:
Bottom line: if the election were not fraudulent, the democrats would have welcomed in-depth audits of the votes in all states, and especially the swing states. Not re-counts, but audits of the complete voting process. Instead, they sued to stop any such audits and made anyone requesting such audits persona non grata.
um…
Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5 billion…
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/amazon-acquires-mgm-for-8-5-billion/
nite
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Hanged not hung.
Normally I draw the line at ‘the ‘grammar police’ but for some reason …hung and hanged… just can’t stand!
🙂
Perhaps Emmet was hung. Well in that case all I can say is lucky Sarah Curren ! When Emmet was hanged I think the last thing on his mind was his manhood !
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
Good background to all things Ukraine – Russia War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFngc_8RiVc
Colonel Doug MacGregor calling it like it is. His part of the interview takes 57 minutes and starts from the get-go.
Well worth a watch to get things in perspective and context.
As I said there are no good guys here.
Watch it
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Busted and guilty.
I almost called the Grammar Nazi on someone upthread for the phrase “chomping at the bit,” but decided to take a nap instead.
“Champing at the bit” is what a horse does when it knows the feed is coming and is impatient.
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2022/03/18/friday-open-with-the-mic/
new thread