The French require ID, paper ballots, hand counting, and no mail-in ballots.
It’s Le Pen versus the cookie (Macron).
And the outcome is known rather quickly.
Enjoy this open
Elections in France Today, Open
by coldwarrior ( 168 Comments › )Filed under France, Open thread at April 10th, 2022 - 7:33 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!
In a truly free and fair election in 2022 the populist wins.
Every time, everywhere.
My money’s on Le Pen.
BRICS Ministers of Finance Hold a Meeting – It Is Time to Replace Western Financial Trade Mechanisms and Remove The Dollar
The finance ministers of the BRICS alliance (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) have decided to create their own financial mechanisms to continue trade between nations of similar disposition. Once the internal issues inside the BRICS alliance are resolved, and once the mechanisms are created, then other nations will be able to decide to join or not. The great global cleaving will commence.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/04/09/brics-ministers-of-finance-hold-a-meeting-it-is-time-to-replace-western-financial-trade-mechanisms-and-remove-the-dollar/
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
Mine too, especially after Macron comes out with the ‘brilliant’ “I don’t believe in self-defense” line after a homeowner shot a burglar. Gives new meaning to the joke about French firearms have been dropped only once.
“You’re Not Welcome Here!’ Massive ‘Super Protest’ Planned For Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Al Gore’s Arrival At TED TALK
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/not-welcome-massive-super-protest-planned-bill-gates-elon-musk-al-gores-arrival-ted-talk/
The article doesn’t explain the objections, citing just one guy, so I’m not sure what the problem is.
Judge: 2020 Election Records in Key Georgia County Must Be Preserved Indefinitely
https://www.theepochtimes.com/judge-2020-election-records-in-key-georgia-county-must-be-preserved-indefinitely_4392250.html
I’d like to say KABOOMSKI! but if that stuff isn’t already shredded, somebody is not paying attention
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
I’m all for her!
https://amgreatness.com/2022/04/09/who-really-committed-war-crimes-in-bucha/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/pennsylvanias-dramatic-shift-rightward-is-a-warning-sign-for-both-parties-about-overreach
coldwarrior wrote:
That article neglects to mention that the “Ukrainian forces” who moved in after
the Russians left was the Azov Brigade
@ eaglesoars:
i missed that
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2022/04/05/twitter-war-open/#comment-85850
darkwords wrote:
First thought is a mini stroke, but I think those tend to go unnoticed. Dad didn’t know anything had happened, but my sister spotted it.
Some interesting ideas about why Trump endorsed Oz. I have no opinion, but it is enlightening
https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2022/04/10/why-did-trump-endorse-dr-oz-one-persons-support-may-hold-the-answer-n461329
@ eaglesoars:
I gotta be honest, McCormick has smelled like Bush USCoC trash from the moment he entered. Worse than Toomey. He was basically a NeverTrumper.
I don’t know how that’s “America First” either, and I’m not sure what Posobiec or Bannon see in an establishment tool.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
one of them had better show me something solid or i’m not going to bother voting for a senate candidate in nov
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
I’d have to go thru Posobiec’s tweets, but I think Bannon is just on to Oz
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
P.S. Darkwords: Your other comment on the previous thread about Medicare covering 90% leaving you responsible for the rest – get a rider for the other 10%.
Daughter & fiancee were in town for a couple days, headed back to NOLO on a redeye flight.
Fiancee is a good guy, I get along with him, except now he has a nose ring right through the nozzle. He made up for it by wearing a hat from this company:
https://backroadsapparel.com/collections/slap-dicks-cattle-co
@ coldwarrior:
You’ll enjoy this (a good site)
The commodity currency revolution
We will look back at current events and realise that they marked the change from a dollar-based global economy underwritten by financial assets to commodity-backed currencies. We face a change from collateral being purely financial in nature to becoming commodity based. It is collateral that underwrites the whole financial system.
The ending of the financially based system is being hastened by geopolitical developments. The West is desperately trying to sanction Russia into economic submission, but is only succeeding in driving up energy, commodity, and food prices against itself. Central banks will have no option but to inflate their currencies to pay for it all. Russia is linking the rouble to commodity prices through a moving gold peg instead, and China has already demonstrated an understanding of the West’s inflationary game by having stockpiled commodities and essential grains for the last two years and allowed her currency to rise against the dollar.
https://www.goldmoney.com/research/goldmoney-insights/the-commodity-currency-revolution
This has me scrambling to do more research. Does the ‘Minsk Agreement’ really preclude Ukraine from asking to NATO membership? And what is this ‘thing’ the U.S. signed with Ukraine last year that said we would support Ukraine if they did?
This is Robert Service, a well-versed Russia observer
THE TWO BLUNDERS THAT CAUSED THE UKRAINE WAR
https://usubc.org/site/recent-news/the-two-blunders-that-caused-the-ukraine-war
The Russian invasion of Ukraine resulted from two immense strategic blunders, Robert Service says. The first came on Nov. 10, when the U.S. and Ukraine signed a Charter on Strategic Partnership, which asserted America’s support for Kyiv’s right to pursue membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The pact made it likelier than ever that Ukraine would eventually join NATO—an intolerable prospect for Vladimir Putin. “It was the last straw,” Mr. Service says. Preparations immediately began for Russia’s so-called special military operation in Ukraine.
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The second strategic error was Mr. Putin’s underestimation of his rivals. “He despises the West and what he sees as Western decadence,” Mr. Service says. “He had come to believe that the West was a shambles, both politically and culturally.” He also thought that the leaders of the West were “of poor quality, and inexperienced, in comparison with himself. After all, he’s been in power 20 years.”
In Mr. Putin’s cocksure reckoning, the invasion was going to be “a pushover—not just in regard to Ukraine, but in regard to the West.” He’d spent four years “running rings around Donald Trump, ” and he thought the retirement of German Chancellor Angela Merkel left the West rudderless. That set the scene for the “surprise he got when he invaded Ukraine, when he found that he’d inadvertently united the West—that what he’d done was the very opposite of what he wanted.” Mr. Service calls Mr. Putin “reckless and mediocre” and scoffs at the notion that he is “some sort of genius.” What kind of Russian leader, he asks, “makes it impossible for a German leader not to build up Germany’s armaments”?
This is also interesting. A Finnish intel officer explains his understanding of Russia
Finnish Intelligence Officer Explains the Russian Mindset
https://ricochet.com/1214468/finnish-intelligence-officer-explains-the-russian-mindset/
When I started writing my Ph.D. here at the university, I discovered the theory of strategic culture. That theory opened up how to rationalize and think about why Russians do things differently than we do. This strategic culture is a way (to analyze). It was created in the United States during the ’70s when the Americans lost the Vietnam War. They began to wonder how a superpower like the United States could lose to Vietnam, which Americans considered a very underdeveloped country. They realized that not everything is a plus and a minus, that is, a zero-sum game. There are other factors behind it that affect the people and how the people operate together.
The Americans developed a theory of strategic culture capable of explaining a country. In this case, how does Russian leadership see a crisis? How does it see the use of force in a crisis? How does it see the role of a crisis and the use of force in foreign policy? How does it see the enemy? How does it see a threat? And then how does it envision the possible strategic options by which it might respond to a threat? This theory of strategic culture explains it.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
It would be nice to see southern France to take over Versailles.
eaglesoars wrote:
as Obama planned. and as Biden stumbles into the problem. Corruption at the highest levels in the progressive. Elections cant come soon enough.
coldwarrior wrote:
I can’t believe anything i read there. I just think Russia is a little more civilized than Ukraine.
GURMO Hackers Go Kinetic Against Gazprom – Two Pipeline Fires So Far
Gazprom’s network completely compromised by GURMO’s Offensive Cyber Unit
Cyber operators at the Main Directorate of Intelligence at the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (GURMO) have been conducting computer network operations (CNO) against Gazprom. At some point during Russia’s occupation of Ukraine, GURMO achieved access to Gazprom’s network and exfiltrated thousands of documents (samples to be released here in a later report).
As a result of their access, GURMO’s Cyber unit engineered a hack of the pipeline’s pressurization controls that would cause a pipeline to rupture resulting in a fire. To date, two pipelines have experienced rupture events that were directly the result of a computer network attack. These are the first publicly known examples of a computer network attack against an OT system resulting in a kinetic effect during wartime operations.
FWIW
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Probably that. But I seem to be functioning fine. Time to learn more about it. lol. health drives knowledge but maybe not wisdom.
darkwords wrote:
Yeah, the last one was so great….
@ eaglesoars:
@ eaglesoars:
I’d just write in Parnell win or lose. I See Dr. Oz all the time in ads scamming weight loss.
eaglesoars wrote:
This will have no effect on Australia’s current delusional policy of selling Australian gold to China and Russia. Only by mandating that all Australian gold production be acquired by the Federal Government at market prices can stem this flow. Given that Australia produces 1/8 of the world’s gold it would soon be able to link its total commodity output of all minerals and metals to the AUS $, making the AUS $ very attractive and more valuable. Australian exports would have to be ‘managed’ to ensure that trade in other non-commodities would not be priced off the global market, if denominated in other currencies.
eaglesoars wrote:
From that article it looks like a toss up with Melania casting the deciding vote. I think Bush elite turn off America First.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
delusional = graft
darkwords wrote:
I dunno. I kinda don’t think Trump makes his political decisions based on the Oprah/Melania vote.
@ eaglesoars:
…. and with that sentence I stopped reading right there. He ran rings around Trump and Merkel was a stalwart force against Putin while she was in power? … and she was a leader in the West? In what world?
@ AZfederalist:
I read that as not the author’s opinion but his idea of what Putin’s thinking is/was
coldwarrior wrote:
This sentence was interesting: “ When the Democrats took power in January of 2021, they believed they had won because everyone loved them again. ”. That right there was the problem, that democrats actually believed they had won an open and honest election instead of having cheated and committed fraud to take the reigns of power. Now, that assumes that is really what they thought rather than that the democrats felt they had finally gotten the reigns of the voting machine and could now count on election victories henceforth and forevermore because they controlled the vote counting and it doesn’t matter what their former citizens and now subjects think.
eaglesoars wrote:
Not exactly sure, one could certainly take it that way. But I really don’t see how Putin would view his years with Trump as having been highly successful. I could see how he could see Merkel’s reign as beneficial to him, but not as a thought leader for the rest of the West. What do you think would make Putin think that he had run circles around Trump? It doesn’t seem like Trump caved to any Russian demands, but maybe there was something else that Putin was able to do.
darkwords wrote:
Guy I knew found himself losing his balance occasionally, finally went to the doc, got an MRI scan and they found a lemon sized tumor in his brain. They removed it, and he survived. Once he healed up he sent me a disturbing photo of the crater in his skull.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/the-ceremonial-first-pitch-will-never-be-the-same/
Love it!
@ AZfederalist:
I had exactly the same thought when I read that.
@ AZfederalist:
Even the Dems who believe there was an honest and fair election in 2020 don’t think anyone loves them. Most of them know that nobody actually voted FOR Biden. At best, they voted AGAINST Trump.
That’s why they’re toast this fall, unless they really do have the ability to rig things decisively. Pretty much nobody is happy with how things have gone since Biden took office. Republicans, independents and the few sane Democrat voters all see that Biden has been a disaster on every front. The rest of the Dems, out there on the looney fringe, are mad at him for not going far enough over the cliff.
Basically, nobody is happy at this point.
eaglesoars wrote:
Essential services like that need to be roped off from the internet and flash drives. Inconvenient, but pays off in the long run. Russia or any country should definitely pursue open source software that they can tighten down.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Lol. Once I get too sour I’ll go get that MRI. Working on my mind. A lot of my health seems to malleable around my mind. I went over all the bad outcomes with the doc on my last visit. Old Age is quite different.
eaglesoars wrote:
… you forgot greed as well!
🙂
Off to the beach with my daughter’s dog in tow. Getting used to this batching schtick! So far I haven’t poisoned myself!
🙂
AZfederalist wrote:
There wasn’t anything Trump caved to. Trump told Putin to knock it off in Syria or if he didn’t Trump would kill his mercenaries and that’s exactly what he did.
What I got out of the readings I’ve posted is that Putin is not living in a fact-based world but in a world of myth about the cultural superiority of the russioslav .
To be fair, we all live in that world. Americans have a self-certainty about our way of life being ‘the best’ blahblahblah
AZfederalist wrote:
You are missing the fundamental premise of everything that has been going on in Europe since the end of WW II.
They are afraid of Russia – but they absolutely, in their bones, despise the United State, Americans, all of it.
Merkel balanced it for awhile until Trump showed up and told her to fuck off and cough up the money for their own defense.
I have been online since 9/11 with various Europeans and trust me – fair or not, fact-based or not – we are hated and despised.
something I haven’t seen covered. Click on the link to see some awesome pics.
Gov Abbot is clogging up traffic at the border
https://cis.org/Bensman/Texas-HoldEm-Border-Bridges
AUSTIN, Texas – National media went wild over Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s April 6 press briefing vow that he would bus illegal immigrants to Washington D.C. But they overlooked an Abbott plan I figured in a column would matter much more: “enhanced safety inspections” of commercial trucking coming off the international bridges from Mexico.
While cameras followed the bus-em-to-DC story, the governor’s Texas Department of Public Safety was wreaking major trade havoc at some of America’s busiest commercial ports of entry, backlogging trucks into long snaking lines into the Mexican horizon. Bright and early on Thursday April 7, small groups of Texas Department of Public Safety commercial vehicle inspectors started slow and methodical inspections of trucks coming off the Pharr-Reynosa international bridge. The operation immediately jammed up trucks for more miles into Mexico than web and drone cameras could see – and probably will again all this coming week.
By Friday morning, April 8, Texas DPS inspectors all but halted international trade at America’s busiest border truck crossing, the Colombia Solidarity International Bridge to Laredo. Trucks back up so far that one observer friend of mine who flew a drone high overhead (see photo below) said the end of the line could not be seen, not for “miles and miles and miles.” The same scene played out at one of America’s other busiest land ports, the international bridge connecting Ciudad Juarez to El Paso. Truck lines carrying Mexico’s economic lifeblood – and not a little of Texan lifeblood too – backed up far into Juarez.
Although no American media have picked up on this story as of today, they won’t be able to ignore what’s happening if this game of Texas Hold-Em lasts much longer. Texas is making a major international scene that, if the trade slowdowns continue for any significant amount of time, sooner or later will bring the presidents of Mexico and the United States to the table.
What’s the real Texas game here?
Gov. Abbott held the press briefing to announce Texas preparatory responses to the human tsunami of up to 18,000 illegal immigrants a day expected after May 23, when Biden lifts the Title 42 pandemic-related order that had Border Patrol rapidly expelling migrants back to Mexico without hearings. In addition to the bus-them-to-Washington idea, the governor pointedly noted that his “enhanced safety inspections” would “dramatically slow” the truck flow coming off those bridges “to help ensure that Texans are not endangered by unsafe vehicles and their unsafe drivers.” And hopefully to interdict some drugs.
But he didn’t say the obvious, which is that these operations would severely impede U.S.-Mexico trade. In my opinion, Texas officials cannot and will not say that’s what they intended, to purposefully inflict economic pain to force the Biden administration and/or Mexico to pay attention to Texas concerns about the coming migrant tidal wave… to dam it up, clear it out, whatever. Is this a fix-it-or-suffer economic pain strategy in the vein of Donald Trump?
Drought Is Threatening Hydropower in the Southwestern US
If water levels in reservoirs around the region get much lower, the dams they feed into will no longer be able to produce energy.
https://www.wired.com/story/drought-hydropower-southwestern-us-glen-canyon-dam/
NEWS THAT LAKE Powell, a reservoir on the border of Arizona and Utah, is slowly but surely drying up has spread far and wide. Behind the 1,320-megawatt Glen Canyon Dam and power station, Lake Powell plays an important role in providing power for some 3 million customers in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.
But this year, the reservoir has hit a historic low, due to ongoing drought conditions in the region that have been attributed, at least in part, to climate change. The dam may even stop producing power if the situation continues to worsen, and this issue is not an isolated one in the American Southwest.
The Colorado River, an important source for many dams and power plants in the region, has been wracked by drought for the past 22 years—some research suggests that it is subject to the worst drought the area has seen in 1,200 years. Further, according to the US Drought Monitor, as of March 29, 88.75 percent of the Western US has been experiencing a moderate drought or worse. According to staff members at the United States Bureau of Reclamation, other dams in this be-droughted part of the country are seeing similar effects—though the officials also noted that each case is different.
According to Becki Bryant, the USBR’s Upper Colorado Basin public affairs officer, there are two main factors that impact hydro production. The first is the amount of water that passes through a dam’s generators. The second is the depth of the body of water that feeds the dams. Deeper bodies of water have more force behind the water rushing through and spinning the turbines of a generator.
Lake Powell and the Glen Canyon Dam make up an extreme case in the US. The dam’s minimum power pool (MPP)—the point at which hydropower can no longer be produced at the dam—is around 1,064 meters. Currently, it is sitting at 1,075 meters. Projections suggest that there is a 23 to 27 percent chance of hitting the MPP each year from 2023 to 2026, according to Bryant. Other parts of the Colorado River Basin, which is home to a few other dams, are being impacted by the drought as well. The 22-year drought has decreased the amount of energy produced in the area by 13.1 percent compared to the average annual energy production in the 12 years preceding it (from 1988 to 1999). “It is difficult to predict actual impacts beyond 2023, but this trend is anticipated to continue,” Bryant said.
35 mins ago, I don’ know what’s up
Elon has decided not to join our board. I sent a brief note to the company, sharing with you all here.
https://twitter.com/paraga/status/1513354622466867201
ok bedtime. You guys figure it out while I’m sleeping
Who the hell is Michel Chossudovsky? He’s been bouncing around with “proof” that all the WHO and CDC covid stats are made up, yet aside from his own website and a few books (including one that claims 911 was an “inside job”) there isn’t much to go on.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/biggest-lie-in-world-history-the-data-base-is-flawed-there-never-was-a-pandemic-the-covid-mandates-including-the-vaccine-are-invalid/5772008
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I know of him as a Canadian economist, anti-globalist. I haven’ read anything of his, only know of him as others have referred to him.
@ eaglesoars:
Showed up in an email sent by a friend who buys into Qanon stuff.
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_r3ma3plqVV1vqug0m_720.mp4
Why the U.S. will never be invaded. Hilarious. And true.
https://twitter.com/RichardStiller4/status/1513506471752855553
@ eaglesoars:
@ lobo91:
that was great!
Posobiec on Bannon sez the Shanghai lockdown has more to do with the cohort trying to take on Xi than the virus. They’re all from Shanghai and Xi is taking them out 1 by 1. The most popular show in TV is a non-fiction show of ‘struggle’ sessions of corrupt officials confessions
Buddy Brown’s take on border security:
Had a phone interview today with NASDA to do AG surveys. Cool job but too few hours during the slow periods. I really liked the freedom involved.
Tomorrow I interview with Walgreens for the Pharmacy tech job that would get me the certification if hired.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Seems to be a growth field. Our Walgreens has had to reduce their pharmacy hours, and even closed a couple of times, due to staffing problems. Walmart is hiring for the same, too
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
guaranteed forever job
coldwarrior wrote:
Yeah. I’m not a fan of the location or hours, but if I do it for a few months, get the cert then I can basically take my pick of any of the dozen of other pharm tech jobs in town that are closer to home.
lobo91 wrote:
Yep.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
If you get that job, we are going to PAR-TAY!!
Here’s some skinny on crypto regulation by our bestest friends, the Feds.
In this stealth rulemaking proposal, the SEC claims regulatory turf over every “communication protocol system,” which it defines to include “a system that offers protocols and the use of non-firm trading interest to bring together buyers and sellers of securities.” These systems are like securities exchanges, the SEC reasons, so they ought to be regulated as if they were securities exchanges. It’s a “stealth” proposal because the words “crypto” and “digital” do not appear in the SEC’s 654-page release, but the SEC is plainly aiming at systems (both centralized and decentralized) whose protocols aggregate indications of interest for buying and selling crypto assets, which its Chair and its Division of Enforcement (not necessarily federal judges or juries) are eager to classify as “securities” exchanges.
https://jeffreycarter.substack.com/p/regulating-cryptocurrency?s=w
keep an eye on this
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/russia-threatens-legal-action-if-us-treasury-forces-it-sovereign-debt-default
for later…put it in yinz’s back pocket
CPI is out tomorrow 0830est
get ready. this is gong to be awful
@ eaglesoars:
What the hell did Lana Logan do at Fox to get her kicked to the curb? The lady is a serious war correspondent of the first water. Yet mere dipsy blonds at Fox stay and Logan gets the order of the DCM (Don’t Come Monday)
WHY?
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup Shang Shi Min power base is with the 20 million Shanghai denizens. Ix hates and fears Shang and by locking down Shanghai Xi is sticking his finger in Shang’s eye. This isn’t about Covid. This is about a ‘turf war’ inside China
coldwarrior wrote:
Wouldn’t be surprised if Putin tells US Treasury officials to just put it on Russia’s ‘tab’. And yes indeed Russia has a 100 year old tab from the Revolution that’s still outstanding!
coldwarrior wrote:
The take away from all this is Never … NEVER… allow your enemy be your banker at the same time! Banksters don’t wear striped shirts and black masks but they are the most successful robbers in history.
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
@ lobo91:
Found guilty of Illegal Quoting.
@ Aussie Infidel:
@ Aussie Infidel:
Here is the money for this payment.
No.
But, it’s legal money and I’m trying to pay my bill
No.
Ok. Try to foreclose.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Ah!!!!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
She said Fauci is just another Mengele. She’s right of course.
coldwarrior wrote:
I hear 8.1. Last month it was 7.9 I believe. And don’t forget, this is under the ‘new’ method. To get near what the previous method would be, add 10.
I thought Russia already defaulted? Today.
@ eaglesoars:
Can’t default if yinz are at the window with legal funds.
Woke Oberlin College REFUSES to pay $33m in damages to family-run bakery that called cops on three black students for shoplifting, only for bully dean to falsely accuse them of racial profiling and set woke mob on them
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10708941/Oberlin-College-refuses-pay-33m-bakery-accused-racism-calling-cops-shoplifters.html
These people…
This is where the courts step in and start selling off the college properties and giving the proceeds to the bakery
@ eaglesoars:
That’s a felony.
coldwarrior wrote:
5 hours ago
Russia has defaulted on its foreign debt, says S&P
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/11/investing/russia-default-sp/index.html
‘foreign’ vs. ‘sovereign’?
eaglesoars wrote:
They give Russia 30 days to comply.
Piss up a rope US Treasury might be a good response
🙂
This is Steve Dettelbach. He used to be U.S. Attorney for Northern District Ohio. Biden wants him to head up the ATF
We salute #MuhammadAli as a great American. Sadly, we need to acknowledge that Donald Trump wouldn’t even allow him to come into America.
https://twitter.com/SteveDettelbach/status/739622713724002305
from 2016.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Not to mention Yellin just gave him $18B from the SDR
eaglesoars wrote:
When assessing the Chinese GDP the best way to assume that 40% of economic activity was ‘BS accounting’ that didn’t align with Western Accounting Standards. By knocking 6% of any Chinese Growth claims tended to give a much more accurate assessment of GDP. All of those years of in excess of 12% or more growth, suddenly became a lot more ‘normal when that 6 % decrease was factored in. Now that Chinese GDP growth during Covid was back to 6-7% meant that China was experiencing zero growth. With figures below 6% beng claims means that true economic growth is NEGATIVE. Then Shanghai happened!
This is going to have serious ramifications for an economy that needs continuous growth just to stay level pegging.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
wait till they start starving
Hannity has Oz on again. Can’t watch
Saudi TV mocks Joe & Kamala
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1513691975924518916
This is a pretty interesting podcast. SF Master Sergeant Earl Plumlee talks about the battle in Afghanistan where he earned the Medal of Honor in 2013:
coldwarrior wrote:
Saw a chart that displayed the inflation start line as the month Biden took office.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
130,000 new covid case in Shanghai and zero deaths. except for pets.
coldwarrior wrote:
So who they gonna arrest?
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s happening already in Shanghai.
Trying to set up a parallel logistics system to feed 18 million people in Shanghai, who are sick is IMPOSSIBLE even for a tyrant. But Xi doesn’t care. Shanghai is where his main opponent Shang lives.
darkwords wrote:
Yup like the 3.500 deaths all up from the initial Alpha version of Covid back in early 2020. You could see all of the mobile crematoriums working 24/7 from orbit!
The place is based on lies and corruption.
lobo91 wrote:
I thought all that BS Black Rifle Coffee marketing shit went south when the principles running it went ‘WOKE’.
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Which explains why the Dems love the Chinese so much
@ Aussie Infidel:
They’re doing just fine. Most of their core customer base is smart enough to realize that just because the NY Times said something, that doesn’t actually make it true.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I don’t think they’re expending too much energy trying to feed them.
I don’t know what to even think. Wheat, eggs, etc….
Column: U.S. winter wheat health among worst ever, yield prospects dicey
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/us-winter-wheat-health-among-worst-ever-yield-prospects-dicey-2022-04-06/
Bird Flu Spreads Across US, Egg Prices Soar
https://zububrothers.com/2022/04/12/bird-flu-spreads-across-us-egg-prices-soar/
Just looked at real estate.
People are going to end up homeless. This is much worse than the Carter years.
Well. If the Shanghai lockdown< isn't about COVID – then what? Because they are shutting down everything and hurting themselves, which is not rational.
Or is it?
What if they think they can sustain the damage while we cannot?
Look at this.
The logistics challenges for ocean and airfreight in Shanghai are extreme.
More than 90% of truck capacity is out of service. Trucks are prevented from moving in and out of the city without a special permit, which is only valid for 24 hours and only on specific routes. “Even with this arranged, it is possible for booked trucks to be commandeered by the government to transport aid supplies,” Seko Logistics said in an update for clients.
Most warehouses in the city are closed. Pactl, the large airport cargo terminal operator, only has skeleton operations.
Limited truck access to Shanghai port terminals is causing shipping containers to pile up and slowing ship transfers.
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cargo-backlog-ripples-beyond-shanghai-as-lockdown-stops-trucks
bed. nite.
@ eaglesoars:
As long as the ” special ” egg laying facilities stay disease free this is temporary.
lobo91 wrote:
Enjoyed that story. lucky to be alive and seems like a regular person. A strong character.
eaglesoars wrote:
Shanghai is Chinas connection to the west. Shutting it down points to a nationalist sentiment imo. But the Biden admin would love love love to do this to flyover country.
eaglesoars wrote:
I couldn’t pay property taxes these days. IT costs a lot to load up school districts with gender dysphoria experts. The old house I used to own has property taxes of $12,000 a year. I’d have to be young and back in my tech job. no minimum wage is going to own anything.
eaglesoars wrote:
I grew up on a coop farm. We had a couple of hundred chickens. The local egg processor would send a truck every week to collect the eggs for distribution. Never had a problem on a small farm with bird flu. One case of anthrax. Lots of cases of too much water or not enough water. That possum documentary on egg factories though was impressive. I marvel at it more than I do an Oscar winner.
@ darkwords:
Just a guess…
You did not go to church on Sundays.
@ Possum:
To expand on this. Amish community somewhere in Iowa. A flock of chickens got sick. Not ” bird flu ” realising a flock was sick farm isolated to prevent the spread.
Next week many other flocks in that community were sick.
How you may ask?
Same reason that when there is an outbreak of a hog disease in Iowa no farmers ever go inside a gas station….
Possum wrote:
I don’t know what ‘special’ facilities are but I looked at the geographic spread and it’s larger than anything I’ve seen before.
darkwords wrote:
No way we could pay the property taxes on our house in Virginia now. Altho the gov’t hasn’t changed the assessment YET, realtor.com has raised the price $160k over what we sold it for last September. About a 20% increase. The realtor.com price on our Tennessee house is up $90k over what we paid in 2020, about a 23% increase. We got the county assessment today, up 25%. But the taxes here are low, so….they could double and we’d still be ok
But a lot of people won’t be
And I am pretty sure people don’t yet realize what just happened to the dollar.
darkwords wrote:
missed it. please repost.
@ eaglesoars:
The special places are where the fertile eggs are produced. The eggs that when hatched make new chickens that lay food eggs or eggs when hatched grow into meat chickens.
These places are usually in isolated locations miles away from other commercial poultry facilities.
Breeder facilities,
Possum wrote:
Oh! now I get it, yeah
Possum wrote:
sometimes
@ darkwords:
The most prominent vectors of the spread of a non airborne animal disease in an agricultural community is church, gas stations and feed trucks.
Possum wrote:
Yep sounds like you lived the rural experience. We hung out at gas stations and feed stores. The grain elevator was like the White House.
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/biden-infuriates-environmentalists-and-oil-refiners-allowing-more-ethanol-gas
Great idea! Let’s burn even MORE food!!!!
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/deflation-next-will-bullwhip-do-feds-job-inflation
this is an interesting read
coldwarrior wrote:
well, confusing anyway. There’s been ‘declining freight costs’? Upstream providers are overproducing?
CPI is out. 8.5
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf
good god
The energy index rose 11.0 percent in March following a 3.5-percent increase in February. The gasoline index rose sharply in March, increasing 18.3 percent after rising 6.6 percent in February
New York Democratic Lieutenant Governor Arrested
His arrest comes after reports that Manhattan federal prosecutors and the FBI were investigating whether Benjamin knowingly engaged in a campaign finance fraud scheme. Subpoenas were issued in connection with the investigation, two sources familiar with the subpoenas said at the time.
The investigators also looked into whether Benjamin helped dole out state money to contributors and/or their projects as part of the alleged fraud.
https://conservativebrief.com/lieutenant-61950/?utm_source=CB&utm_medium=JE
coldwarrior wrote:
There’s a local gas station with ethanol pumps (never anyone filling up at them) and the price per gallon is higher than gasoline and diesel.
coldwarrior wrote:
Not really. The corn used for our food isn’t the same as the corn used for ethanol (field corn vs food corn).
At least 13 injured in Brooklyn subway shooting, undetonated devices found
At least 13 people were injured, including seven who were shot, when a suspect set off a smoke grenade and unleashed gunfire on a Brooklyn subway train during Tuesday morning rush hour, the NYPD and law-enforcement sources told The Post.
The bloody attack broke out around 8:30 a.m. on a Manhattan-bound N train at the 36th Street station in Sunset Park, where authorities discovered several undetonated devices, FDNY and police said.
The suspect, who was dressed in apparent construction garb similar to an MTA worker, is believed to have set off the smoke grenade moments before gunfire erupted, police sources told The Post
https://nypost.com/2022/04/12/nypd-investigating-possible-explosion-in-brooklyn-subway-station/
eaglesoars wrote:
We would have sweet corn in the garden. I tried to eat an ear of DeKalb genetically modified since 1960 corn from the field once. It was grainy like wood with a bark taste. Cows would eat it all day long though.
eaglesoars wrote:
These days I guess that a review of FBI employment records might catch the suspect. The SoF video posted yesterday by lobo had a funny FBI comment at the end. The soldiers had a phrase for thin skinned law enforcement that leaps to conclusions and overreacts. FBI agent.
eaglesoars wrote:
Zuckerbucks corrupt.
eaglesoars wrote:
feed corn, eaten by cattle and such and turned into…well, food!
burning food is stupid.
coldwarrior wrote:
When ethanol is more profitable (via Fed subsidies) fewer farmers will grow food corn.
coldwarrior wrote:
I’m not sure that’s the way it works. For corn I think about 90 mil acres is used for field corn, maybe 5 mil for food corn, and within that 90 mil acre number, it will vary by a few mil acres here and there depending on how farmers are reading the futures markets, etc. It’s not an ‘instead of’ scenario, it’s more of a ‘in addition to’ thing.
Not sure what to make of this
French Journalist Releases STUNNING Report After Returning From Ukraine — Says ‘The AMERICANS Are In Charge Of The War.. NOT Ukraine’
(and SAS apparently)
https://en-volve.com/2022/04/12/french-journalist-releases-stunning-report-after-returning-from-ukraine-says-the-americans-are-in-charge-of-the-war-not-ukraine/
I think the us was meddling from the jump cause that’s just what the us does
@ eaglesoars:
@ rain of lead:
Had to look up “switch blade drones.”
https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/03/17/switchblade-drones-what-are-these-kamikaze-weapons-and-how-can-they-help-ukraine
The larger Switchblade 600 is a next-generation loitering missile
!!!
yup
ukrane is test bed for next gen weapons
A bird shit on Joe Biden during his speech
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1513979276240072716
eaglesoars wrote:
….but the land doesn’t know the difference between food corn production and energy corn production. This crisis is all about resource allocation and NOT actual commodity classes.
@ Aussie Infidel:
So far yeah. But if they don’t fix these fertilizer issues, there aren’t going to be any resources to allocate.
eaglesoars wrote:
I know for a fact that the SAS have been in the Ukraine from the start. That’s their core tasking. It’s the E-3 flights running up and down the Ukrainian – Polish border that is providing all of the INTEL for the Ukrainian air war over all of Western and central Ukraine.
Western Logistics is being run out of Stuttgart. Forward Western Intelligence is being run from Holland but the real INTEL grunt is all happening out of Chicksands in Kent in the UK. That is where most of my old mates are currently in residence as we speak.
eaglesoars wrote:
Energy corn is just a distraction and a shiny object used by Biden as a cover for his failing administration. Obama’s shadow cabinet is falling to pieces. Whether the US can afford another 7 months of this BS is questionable.
Meanwhile Xi is evening up old scores by trashing Shanghai, the power base for his main protagonist. Xi doesn’t care about the 20 million Shanghaiese. They have always been a thorn in the side of every Chinese dictator. Xi figures 20 million is a bill easily paid when you have another 1.38 billion spares! I’m going to guess here that Xi will take his chance in October in Taiwan. The clock is now ticking and things will get worse for Xi from here on. If not October then probably never!
eaglesoars wrote:
That’s why the world needs to get food sorted ASP or the combination of food under production and logistics / supply chain under performance will bring on the perfect storm. Especially in Africa the Middle East and even South America
@ Aussie Infidel:
watching an AFL replay…
dude just crushed is hose, blood everywhere.
announcer: “there’s a broken snout”
other announcer: “that’ll add character to his face”
hysterical.
@ coldwarrior:
he’s back on the field, was off for 5 minutes.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Something Obama and XI have in common now. Starving the world to achieve equity.
@ coldwarrior:
and scored twice in a couple minutes.
tough bastard
uh, yeah
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Nothing about the subway attack makes any sense starting with the location.
Not a high profile geographic target of opportunity.
Don’t get me started on him being known to the FBI and the complete failure of one of the most robust surveillance cam networks on the planet.
https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1514222320742772743
PPI / March up 11.2%
and…
Clinton/Soros ‘Anti-Corruption’ Unit Head In Ukraine Fired – Admitted On Tape Working Against Trump
I met with Artem Sytnyk in 2015 as the new head of the Ukrainian ‘National Anti-Corruption Bureau’ (NABU) in Kyiv. At the time I was a national security columnist for The Washington Times.
Sytnyk gave me a song and dance about fighting corruption in Ukraine.
Sometime later, the New York Times published the infamous ‘black ledger’ allegedly showing ‘off-the-books’ payments to Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.
I called NABU the next morning and asked about the origin of the ‘black ledger’, that was reportedly released by NABU to the press. I was told by the NABU spokesman, “We don’t know where it came from. They just took it off the internet.” I wrote about this at the time prior to the 2016 election.
Little did I know that Sytnyk was at the time working actively with the Hillary Clinton campaign to ‘release dirt’ (fake dirt) on Trump. Manafort was forced to resign and was later prosecuted for tax crimes. The ledger was eventually admitted to be a hoax.
https://creativedestructionmedia.com/news/europe/2022/04/12/clinton-soros-anti-corruption-unit-head-in-ukraine-fired-admitted-on-tape-working-against-trump/
@ eaglesoars:
NYC subway certainly is a high profile target, and can be debilitating to the city.
when i was in berlin, there was always a polizei presence in the ubahn because of terrorism
@ lobo91:
Black Nationalist supporter, too.
ahhh… ‘up north’.
g’ma and papap coldwarrior are havinf]g several very large pine trees dropped today.
vids later.
Apparently Glen Younkin has got legislation putting all nine Loudoun County school board up for election next go-round (there were going to be only 2) – I think January
coldwarrior wrote:
A honest broken nose or minor scar provides great opportunities for ‘break the ice’ occasions!
Character… sure!
Hey my daughter just got hired by Discovery / Warner Brothers as talent. She’s doing a 5 days a week 6AM to 9AM live TV ‘AM Morning’ show. Ad-libbing 3 hours a day 5 days a week. Shure .. No Problem!
🙂
Her Irish blood will come in handy!
coldwarrior wrote:
5 minutes… what a big sook.
If he was playing soccer he’d be in hospital for weeks having transfusions and MRI scans.
🙂
darkwords wrote:
Marxism.
Spreading the misery evenly…. except for those murders at the top!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Awesome. What network?
eaglesoars wrote:
The right has to go on a pillage and plunder rampage against these school boards. And just kicking them out is not enough. The perps and their allies need to be erased from education.
lobo91 wrote:
He had to be an affirmative action hire if at Lucent. With no one noticing his social media racism. Seems like he probably had no friends and was ripe for black nationalism propaganda. More of those dangerous individuals running around than white supremists.
Their is a certain level of personalities that group themselves into hate groups or just stupid groups. They don’t get called out in media correctly. Media usually uses them for politics. But they are QAnon, Black Nationalism, BLM, 1619 project, Farrakhan, Posse Comitatus, Phelps Church.
I feel I am missing some of them. They all belong in a garbage bucket.
Qanon could be ok if it wasn’t a major troll fest trying to manipulate people.
BLM could be ok if they embraced conservative viewpoints and dumped the Marxism.
They all need to be in the same category so people can instantly beware of them. Like fit them into the clown category. Brand them.
Last dentist appt today. Dental technology is amazing. It changes every visit. Instant x-rays to tablet with color photos. The dentist works upside down with precision.
But after the appt I looked at the hygienists table and it was full of stuff that looked like it was stolen from a medieval torture chamber.
I was thinking I don’t really know what a security is. The SEC seems pretty touchy about them. And willing to sue for stated reasons that always don’t seem obvious to me. I have the feeling also that they are a political hit job outfit like the DOJ. Going to look at it more.
And why is the SDNY always in the countries business? I’d rather they just focus on a part of New York and not mercenary themselves out to National PAC’s.
darkwords wrote:
They do focus on a part of NY. It just happens to be the part where Wall Street is located.
I’m currently watching the Showtime series Billions, which focuses on a battle between a hedge fund manager and the US Attorney for SDNY. Great show.
darkwords wrote:
With non-revocable restraining orders barring them from talking to anyone under the age of 50.
darkwords wrote:
Southern Poverty Law Center
The Abbott Caravan arrived safely in D.C. 😀
darkwords wrote:
Discovery. They bought Warner and are currently ‘disposing’ of Warner’s management and cherry picking the remaining staff. She’s going to work for Discovery at Channel 3 in NZ on the Morning Show. She’s signed up but the
merger has slowed Discovery’s / TV3’s plans to re-work AM Morning post Easter. She’ll get paid what she signed on for but until the dust settles on the merger she’ll act as a contractor talent, subbing on various shows and also some ‘in the field’ reporting. Should be fun. She’ll also do some substitute teaching for the odd day. That’ll bring in additional $$$$ for her to help build a nest-egg, until she’s working Mon-Fri in front of the camera 6AM-9AM. That means a 3AM wake up and that means no moon-lighting so s
$he’$ making hay while the sun shines!
🙂
wow
Reports now coming in saying that the Moskva has now sunk to the bottom of the Black Sea.
This is most likely the largest mass-casualty event that the Russian Armed Forces have suffered since Putin launched this war of aggression.
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1514396291924729859
While unconfirmed at this stage, sources indicate:
There were multiple explosions heard on Moskva & a fire followed. Power was lost immediately. Some evacuations were done but were hampered due to bad weather (27km/h winds & 2 meter waves). The Moskva capsized on the port side.
https://twitter.com/jon96179496/status/1514393986781388805
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2022/04/13/fun-with-chain-saws-winches-ropes-wedges-open/
new thread yinz
@ Aussie Infidel:
great news about your daughter, very exciting!