Interesting read
We taught them just enough capitalism for them to destroy themselves. These banking numbers are way out of bounds.
Chinese Banking Problem Open
by coldwarrior ( 356 Comments › )Filed under China, Economy, Open thread at July 14th, 2022 - 9:02 am
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Play nice!
Banking is 350% of GDP???
right on time
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/electric-cars-now-targeted-overloading-electric-grids-energy-crisis/
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/china-verge-violent-debt-jubilee-thousands-disgruntled-homebuyers-refuse-pay-their-mortgage
coldwarrior wrote:
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
wait till they figure out crypto mining
I just heard the PPI is over 11%
this is gonna be a CAT 5
coldwarrior wrote:
And most of the holdings are in real estate. I wonder if that’s domestic or abroad.
That One Belt One Road thingy doesn’t seem to be working
@ eaglesoars:
Time to pay the piper for too low interest rates and free money for too long.
Rumors of another 1% rate hike.
The prime rate should have been 6% or so under Trump.
@ coldwarrior:
I’m old enough to remember when Volker raised it by 5
People with ARMS were ready to walk out windows
eaglesoars wrote:
i have zero sympathy for them.
perhaps they should not have skipped the econ classes.
eaglesoars wrote:
pure guts.
coldwarrior wrote:
No kidding. Hubby and I rented for 3 years before we bought our first house because the only thing we could get with our financial profile (he was still paying alimony) was an ARM.
phuck that.
The administration is still stonewalling Congress about the Ministry of Truth:
I didn’t know the Coast Guard could arrest people. Based on an anonymous flyer.
The Coast Guard made the arrest based off of a flyer sent to them from an anonymous source, then claimed the man was wanted for assaulting a federal officer at the January 6th, 2021, rally in Washington D.C. It turned out, there was no warrant.
https://realnewsmichiana.com/2022/07/13/watch-exclusive-video-of-coast-guard-making-false-arrest-of-man-for-attending-jan-6th-rally-if-they-dont-want-this-guy-detained-this-is-not-good/
@ eaglesoars:
That’s why the Coast Guard is part of DHS, rather than DOD. They are primarily a law enforcement agency.
@ lobo91:
Did you see this? Matt Gaetz goes OFF………..
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/tempers-flare-matt-gaetz-activated/
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/initial-jobless-claims-soars-highest-nov-2021
Hmmmmm…..
@ eaglesoars:
The Dems have just become unhinged at this point.
I wonder if anyone is taking odds on them trying to stage a false flag “dirty bomb” plot in NYC right before the elections? It would explain that bizarre PSA they just started running.
lobo91 wrote:
You’re not the only one
coldwarrior wrote:
30% of small businesses didn’t make rent last month. They’re cutting payroll
Oh no! Ivana Trump has died. She was a hoot! And raised great kids.
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1547667295681466369
@ eaglesoars:
Just think how much they could accomplish in one fell swoop. They could rig a mail-in election, frame Trump and some other Republicans in order to tilt the 2024 race, round up a shitload of “subversive” conservatives, ban guns, give themselves unlimited emergency powers…
@ lobo91:
There are a lot of lamp posts around……….
LLB tackles Phil Collins:
coldwarrior wrote:
that makes me think they will burn it all to the ground and start over. Or war with Taiwan. @man_integrated thinks after the Oct 2022 CCP meeting then the war will start if it is going to,
coldwarrior wrote:
Going to have to build a nuclear plant in each state.
eaglesoars wrote:
My first real estate loan was at 14 percent. I refinanced to 9 percent a year later paying additional points My market timing was bad. First time buyer. House in a risky neighborhood. Banks all rejected me. I had to seek out a mortgage broker not afraid to make a loan. Lots of BS in the banking industry that is designed to fleece the buyer.
eaglesoars wrote:
That was probably the good thing about an ARM. And then refi within 5 years. Let people get into a house.
wanna see a drunk squirrel?
https://twitter.com/TheSun/status/1547189107062882306
eaglesoars wrote:
“The Democrats have militarized against their opponents.” Walker said. “They’re using the government and the military to go after people who disagree with them.
FBI made 4 attempts at him. He finally talked to them. But I doubt he should have. Sounds like the dems are trying to intimidate GoP people.
coldwarrior wrote:
David Sacks ex PayPal COO saying interest rates have to rise and once they do the jobless claims will go up. He notes all the big tech laying of 10 percent of the workforces.
eaglesoars wrote:
Cute. looks like he was hanging tough.
darkwords wrote:
We got into a house in 3, paying less rent than we would have with an ARM. Got the tax break on the alimony. Which I paid off early, much to his ex’s chagrin. Sorry, sweetie, get a job
So, apparently, there really was a 10-year-old who went to another state for an abortion.
Unfortunately, that seems to be the only part of the story that was true. There was never any need, according to the Ohio AG, because it would have been covered under their law.
Oh, and the rapist is an illegal alien, who they only just got around to charging, 3 weeks after the story came out:
@ lobo91:
which also means that the doc who knew this child had been raped didn’t report it.
I also saw something about the child’s mother saying the ‘story’ on the guy isn’t true. Daily Mail maybe?
darkwords wrote:
Never talk to the cops w/o a lawyer. Even cops tell you this
eaglesoars wrote:
His license will be suspended or in jeopardy
WATCH: The mother of the Ohio 10/y rape victim tells Telemundo’s
@MariaVargasPion that the child “is fine”, and “everything they say about (Gerson Flores) is a lie.”
If the mother knows this guy I’m betting he is her boyfriend
sorry, linky
https://twitter.com/BonillaJL/status/1547643268040560640
eaglesoars wrote:
There are a number of cultures that don’t consider 10 years too young. Seems like those males should be excluded from entry into the US.
darkwords wrote:
Seems like if they act on it they should be castrated and deported
eaglesoars wrote:
They are supposed to know better. Animals are supposed to be able to detect bad food.
@ AZfederalist:
Are we sure those were “fermented pears”? That squirrel looked like it was on an acid trip.
There are actually animals that intentionally consume fermented fruit, though. I’ve see videos of birds, elephants and some type of monkey doing it in the wild.
Euro at .99 dollars. 20 percent drop.
Twitter down hard over night. In my exp, they probably had a security vulnerability that needs a hard reset for the update.
Celsius crypto declares bankruptcy. 100,000 accounts owed 1.2 billion.
Burn it to the ground, salt the earth
Missouri AG Eric Schmitt blasts FBI for seeking concealed carry permit information
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt this week blasted the Federal Bureau of Investigation for planning to conduct audits of local Missouri police agencies’ concealed carry permits next month.
Schmitt, a Republican who is running for U.S. Senate in the upcoming August primary, wrote a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday criticizing the agency for overstepping its authority and violating Missouri law. He called on the agency to cease the planned audits.
“This is not going to happen,” Schmitt wrote in the letter. “I will fight you tooth and nail with all of the resources that the people of Missouri have given me as their Attorney General.”
In a news release about the letter, Schmitt’s office painted the planned audits as “Illegal Attempts to Harvest Concealed Carry Permit Information from Missouri Sheriffs.” The release said the office became aware that the FBI was planning to travel to Missouri to audit sheriff departments across the state.
https://www.aol.com/news/missouri-ag-eric-schmitt-blasts-183021753.html
out. nite.
@ eaglesoars:
I think Ahnold said it best:
darkwords wrote:
Saw reports of that. Catturd said that suddenly he lost 1000s of followers. Perhaps they’re purging bots in preparation for Discovery.
Flashback – German UN delegation reacts to Trump’s prediction on their energy situation.
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1044740334306058241
eaglesoars wrote:
Gerson Fuentes.
Columbus OH is a “sanctuary city.”
The mother defended him.
She wouldn’t show her face, perhaps because she is here illegally also.
The abortion would not have been disallowed in the State of Ohio, so why travel to Indiana?
I suspect Fuentes was the mother’s boyfriend and/or child trafficking is involved.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
How did the mother know her daughter was pregnant at 6 weeks in, unless she knew her daughter had been raped? The mother was complicit.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I saw something earlier that said in the report provided to authorities by the doc who performed the abortion, Fuentes was identified as a 17 year old minor. Either the doc never laid eyes on the guy or it was an attempt to avoid deportation
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
There’s never just one.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
@ eaglesoars:
Good point that the mother knew something happened. The doctor was also jerking the issue around. And where is the biological father?
darkwords wrote:
At this point I wouldn’t assume anyone – including the ‘mother’ – even knows who it is
China issues phosphate quotas to rein in fertiliser exports – analysts
https://www.reuters.com/article/china-fertilizers-quotas/china-issues-phosphate-quotas-to-rein-in-fertiliser-exports-analysts-idUSL4N2YH2CP
America’s Freight Railroads Are Incredibly Chaotic Right Now
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/americas-freight-railroads-are-incredibly-chaotic-right-now
This employment issue isn’t unique to Union Pacific. America’s railways are in an unusually chaotic state as Class I lines struggle to find employees. That’s led to congestion that analysts say is even worse than 2021, which saw some of the biggest rail traffic in history. Now, a strike of 115,000 rail workers could happen as soon as next week.
US Industrial Production Unexpectedly Tumbles In JuneUS Industrial Production Unexpectedly Tumbles In June
Despite ISM surveys tanking, analysts expected US Industrial Production to eke out a 0.1% gain in June but they were wrong as output slumped 0.2% MoM (and May was revised lower also). There hasn’t been a weaker month since September 2021…
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/us-industrial-production-unexpectedly-tumbles-june
Left the railroad a year ago, it was bad and from what im hearing its only gotten worse.
They cant move the cars because they are often broken and need parts. There are no parts, even bolts were getting harder and harder to get.
https://twitter.com/LawfulEvil5/status/1547961604624437249
Some extraordinary temps in Europe. 117F in Portugal, 106F in the UK next week
‘Post-apocalyptic’ wildfire scenes in Europe: Thousands of tourists are evacuated as flames approach in Malaga, Portugal sees July record of 47C (117F), and Italy’s rivers dry up
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11016869/Post-apocalyptic-scenes-wildfires-rage-Europe-Portugal-sees-July-record-47C-117F.html
eaglesoars wrote:
Fortunately, those problems will all be solved when Americans all start driving electric cars.
@ lobo91:
or we can quit sending them the gulf stream
I need a nap
Kurt Schlichter is on with Dave Rubin today:
Road Rage in Malaysia. The crime? Removing a license plate from another car.
A man and woman from Singapore who were involved in a road rage incident at Tuas Second Link last weekend have been arrested by Malaysian police.
Iskandar Puteri district police chief Rahmat Ariffin, in a statement on Friday (July 15), said the two of them were arrested on Thursday night at the Sultan Abu Bakar Immigration, Customs, Quarantine and Security Complex, which is on the Malaysian side of the Second Link.
In response to queries, the authorities said the man is Singaporean but declined to say if the woman was Malaysian or a Singapore permanent resident.
Malaysian police had previously said the pair was wanted for committing mischief.
After their arrest on Friday, the two suspects admitted that they were involved in the incident, said the statement.
…In video footage that was widely distributed on social media, the woman was seen ripping the car licence plate off a black Toyota Alphard and throwing it at the Alphard’s windscreen
The CCP seems to have gone full Justin Trudeau. They lowered the social credit scores of the bank protestors and also flagged them as covid risks. Thus preventing them the ability to travel in China.
The UK Fauci.
https://newsakmi.com/news/usnews/delingpole-lockdowns-were-inspired-by-the-ccp-admits-prof-pantsdown/
Professor Neil Ferguson, the discredited Imperial College computer modeller behind Britain’s draconian lockdown policies, has come clean about his inspiration: none of it would have been possible without the shining example of the Chinese Communist Party.
Coming soon to a Schumer or Schiff near you.
The current big issue in crypto. Is a coin a security or a commodity?
Lawsuit says Solana will fail “Howey Test”
The lawsuit believes that SOL is a security under the Howey test.
The Howey test is used to determine whether a transaction is an “investment contract,” and it is commonly used by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to evaluate such transactions.
According to Investopedia, an investment contract exists in an enterprise when there is an expectation of profits from the effort of others.
** I think most of them are securities which would mean another shakeout as they all sell themselves as commodities like wheat or gold.
darkwords wrote:
what a pig
It’s in Chinas national interest to keep that Ukie war going. And starve a couple of African countries and blame it on sanctions. Then they can prep the Taiwan battlefield. They can even help the US accelerate their domestic chip production.
That isolates Taiwan and puts them far from any type of US influence. Offer Biden a few billions dollars and endless girlfriends for Hunter and the deal is done
My paypal crypto investment of $150 is currently worth $35. And paypal doesn’t let me forget it.
They say about 10 percent of the world is invested in crypto. And it seems like maybe half that have lost everything to scams, rugpulls, and bankruptcies.
This last year was the intersection of hedge funds with crypto. It brought the best and the worst of financial management/shenanigans to a bunch of nerds. A lot of people getting fleeced. BTC is still the best buy but is riskier than gold.
@ darkwords:
what happens to crypto if the dollar gets trashed?
The world needs gold. Not just for jewelry
eaglesoars wrote:
Crypto is attached to the dollar in a lot of ways. Bitcoin will survive better, the rest of the coins will plummet.
What it looks crypto is doing is following the US stock market. Because all those big investors in crypto now are also big in the US stock market.
no one knows though. I guess bitcoin survives unless governments come to hate it and regulate it out of existence. Putin just signed a bill to ban payments in crypto.
Some of those coins will survive. Like cardano maybe. Cardano is working on being an improved information system in third world countries. It probably doesn’t care what the dollar does.
Possum wrote:
Bitcoin is the new gold!
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Not sure how that helps them. That just makes discovery that much more interesting. “So, in the period of July 14, millions of your subscribers lost millions of followers overnight. Can you show us how that happened?”
I was reading that all the aircraft industries need a lot of titanium. Who supplies most of the worlds titanium? Russia. Who has shut down their own titanium production? Joe Biden.
Titanium is 20 percent of the weight of a plane. And used to absorb stress.
darkwords wrote:
… and that right there is where the Bret Cooper (?) was wrong the other day. This is not just an ugly family incident; it is the vulnerability of US leaders to influence and control by foreign powers because of exploitable weaknesses in their personal lives. Biden wouldn’t pass the first stage screening for a low-level security clearance, let alone access to the nation’s crown jewels of intelligence and information.
darkwords wrote:
Only if I can store it in my safe or bury it in may backyard and then take it to a local merchant in exchange for hard goods.
@ AZfederalist:
I’m wondering if the restart is to address that? Where they remove some core code from the product and all the logs related to the code. And have to remove all bots that used that code. Basically isolating a vulnerability in their lawsuit and then scrubbing all info off their systems. You take the system down so that there are no running open files that can’t be deleted. Then you run the delete programs and restart.
Musk needs a total halt on platform changes. No log deletions. He should have staff inserted to insure that. But I doubt he does.
@ AZfederalist:
Oh, and they don’t need to pay Biden billions of dollars; he’d settle for a couple million. Our politicians aren’t just hookers, they are cheap hookers.
@ AZfederalist:
well if this were 1776 Biden would be our Benedict Arnold.
darkwords wrote:
He can’t have staff inserted because he does not yet own the company. I’d guess his lawyers are working on various cease and desist and preservation orders right now. Frankly, there is activity that should be auditable and could come out in discovery. Twitter isn’t half as smart as they think they are.
darkwords wrote:
No question about that. That modern day club of Benedict Arnolds is getting pretty darned large right now. There are an awful lot of our elite willing to sell out our country for fractions of a penny on the dollar.
eaglesoars wrote:
I’m going to buy $1000 of bitcoin though before the elections. If I can scrape it together. I think once the R’s gain power Bitcoin will return to its $60,000 level. Currently at $20,000. It might still go to $10,000.
and have to be prepared to lose the $1,000 if Biden throttles the economy,
@ AZfederalist:
There is a list on Twitter of all the California politicians who are destroying the country. About 30 of them. Schiff, Pelosi, Newsome, Harris. They are much worse than any J6 person they have imprisoned.
What is wrong with California?
@ AZfederalist:
If there’s a collapse of the grid or some other catastrophic event, gold isn’t going to be worth much, either. Nobody’s going to trade food for shiny coins.
lobo91 wrote:
Bullets, Vodka, and freeze dried food.
It’s why coldwarrior will outlast us all.
@ AZfederalist:
Keep in mind that Brett Cooper is a 20-year-old former child actress.
She’s smart and has common sense, but she’s never been out in the real world much. I doubt that would occur to anyone her age who hasn’t been in the military or something.
darkwords wrote:
Exactly
@ AZfederalist:
Hopefully, there’s a club of James Reeces out there somewhere, too…
lobo91 wrote:
I think that is what Jack Carr works towards. When I hear him talk I think he wants that kind of network that can stop o-6 and up. All theses SoF people are big on networking especially the Green Berets.
Jocko says he would step up if the fires were burning. Not til then.
@ darkwords:
Park City, Utah and Boerne, TX are going to be fairly safe places to be after the apocalypse.
Just sayin’
darkwords wrote:
yeah, that’s bullshit
AZfederalist wrote:
None of them could get cleared to be a Walmart greeter. Who is Bret Cooper?
I’m watching Amazon original Jack Ryan. Much fun!
eaglesoars wrote:
Much better than what they did with Without Remorse
eaglesoars wrote:
lobo91 wrote:
yeah, well somehow they’ve lost the subtitles. I understand zero arabic and can barely keep up with the French
I caught a bit of Tucker tonite. Apparently Dr Jill is giving him pills to make him moderately coherent. W/O whatever she’s shoving down his throat he is incoherent
@ eaglesoars:
@ lobo91:
yeah. What I found hilarious is that Obama pounded Jackson. Biden is Obama’s fault. It’s not Susan Rice or Anita Dunn et al
It’s Obama.
off to bed. nite.
@ lobo91:
I’ve been to Boerne!
Got 4.3 miles in this morning. I’m hoping to be at 6 or 7 by the time the cycle challenge starts in Sep.
No hyperbole here…
Podesta: Manchin ‘Single Handedly Doomed Humanity’ With Climate Veto
@ lobo91:
there was a Dem strategist on Fox a minute ago talking about demo shifts,etc. He acknowledged that Hispanics are leaving for the R column. THEN he sez – just about busted a gut – the the country is becoming more educated, which tends to make for smarter voting and those voters were going to the D column and leaving the R column because of the R extremist positions on abortion, guns and their continued efforts to overthrow democracy.
They got nuthin’
And this fainting couch bull about fist bumping MBS ‘cuz human rights’ – is the most disingenuous thing I’ve ever seen. First, people keep calling Khashoggi a journalist and everybody knows he was an agent for Qatar. Plus, if these people were so concerned about ‘human rights’, they might want to look at the J6 prisoners, the ones who didn’t try to overthrow democracy, Ashli Babbett, etc. Oh, ‘scuze me because THOSE people ‘deserve it’
@ eaglesoars:
I’m still wondering why anyone is talking about “human rights” and Saudi Arabia in the same sentence, anyway.
They care about Khashoggi, but what about the fact that the Saudis routinely behead people for “practicing sorcery”?
@ eaglesoars:
As for “extremist positions” on abortion, how about this?
I just learned something interesting. Jerrold Nadler’s district goes away this year, so he and Carolyn Maloney are facing off in the primary.
That’s one way to get rid of an annoying Democrat (no matter which one wins)
I just got out of the kitchen, so haven’t yet listened to verify
Leaked audio from days after the 2016 election, before Trump’s inauguration—Biden calls Poroshenko, then head of state of Ukraine, and threatens him with assassination if he cooperates with the incoming Trump administration.
https://twitter.com/rhowardbrowne/status/1548107111061540864
Would-Be British PM Rishi Sunak’s Family Runs A China-Linked, World Economic Forum Partner Company Pushing Digital ID and Social Credit Scores.
SUNAK’S WIFE IS A FOREIGN CITIZEN WITH A SHAREHOLDING IN THE WEF-LINKED COMPANY.
Sunak, who topped the second round of voting by Conservative Members of Parliament (MP) in the Tory leadership race on July 15th following Boris Johnson’s resignation, is widely considered the “neoliberal” or “globalist” candidate.
The father of Sunak’s wife Akshata Murthy is the founder of Infosys, an Indian information technology company that provides services to a host of Fortune 500 companies and banks. One of the company’s leading services is Finacle, a digital banking platform. Murthy remains a foreign citizen with “non dom” i.e. non UK tax-paying status despite her husband’s work as Britain’s most senior finance chief, and expectation of becoming Prime Minister.
Infosys is listed as an official partner of the World Economic Forum (WEF), which has been accused of seeking to develop the technological infrastructure to implement a global “social credit score” system.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/07/16/company-founded-family-of-uk-prime-minister-frontrunner-is-wef-partner-advocating-for-china-style-digital-identities-currency/
eaglesoars wrote:
Designate them as a terrorist organization. Conservatives have blinders on when it coming to selecting leaders.
eaglesoars wrote:
Crackhead thinking. But is the norm for the dems. They never intended to cooperate. There are early statements of Trump wanting to cooperate and wanting to listen to both side. But he let the GoP elite lead him into repealing Obamacare. Should have did the wall first.
ATF really needs to be shut down:
@ lobo91:
ATF Employees
Special Agents: 2,691 (52%)
Industry Operations Investigators: 817 (16%)
Professional Staff: 1,650 (32%)
Career Specialties:
Special Response Team: >150
Certified Explosives Specialists: >250 CESs
Certified Fire Investigators: >110 CFIs
Lab Personnel: > 85 Staff
Canine Handlers: 35 Handlers
Explosives Enforcement Officers: > 20 EEOs
Published by ATF on June 14, 2016
I’d leave them with this staffing and push everything else into the state and local orgs.
Certified Explosives Specialists: >250 CESs
Certified Fire Investigators: >110 CFIs
Lab Personnel: > 85 Staff
Canine Handlers: 35 Handlers
Explosives Enforcement Officers: > 20 EEOs
I see no need for the tracing work they do. I see them abusing their FFL responsibilities. And the dept head is a political appotintee with federal policy axes he grinds. The public doesn’t need that kind of service from the feds.
@ lobo91:
I worked in local government. A lot of bloat there. The feds are even worse. Integration with federal offices would triple operating budgets and expand time to projects. A $10,000 project would become a $100,000 project or worse if a federal office was involved. Decision time frames probably became 6 months instead of a month. Most of that stuff can be automated and AI’d now.
I bet we could lay off 9 of 10 federal workers (excepting public safety) and pay them for 10 years. And we wouldn’t notice any change in service levels. Amd we would save trillions. I used to think the figure was 1 in 4, now cynically I think it is actually 9 in 10.
@ darkwords:
Local emergency op manual. Small 3 ring binder of about 40 pages.
State emergency op manual. 3 4 inch binders about 1000 pages.
Federal emergency op manual. 40 4 inch binders. About 100,000 pages. Explicit rules for replacing each page.
In an actual emergency its all local command and control with escalation thresholds. Emergency relief works much better if a thin state and federal framework is pulled in and money is sent into private company support. Just needs good proactive leadership.
Dept of Education can be axed completely with no ill effect on the country.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2022/07/10/iatromathematical-hot-links/
with cruising music.
Trump’s COVID coordinator Dr Birx says the virus ‘came out of the box ready to infect’ and was being worked on by scientists in a Chinese lab
daily mail
Elderly woman falls into Florida pond and is killed by two alligators who heard her splashing and attacked her before she could escape
daily mail
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11018111/Skittles-toxic-U-S-lawsuit-claims.html
Skittles might skedaddle you.
Taste the brain damage! Skittles manufacturer is sued over claims candies contain poisonous colorant titanium dioxide which can damage vital organs and DNA
@ darkwords:
Every time they get close to one of their periodic “government shutdowns” and I hear people freaking out, I remind them that the government basically shuts down for 2 days every week, and we all seem to survive.
darkwords wrote:
The US Department of Education hasn’t educated a single person in all its years of existence.
It has two functions: Write regulations telling the people who actually do teach children what they can’t do, and pass out money when they comply.
@ darkwords:
stalker
msnbc.com
The U.S.is under siege by Christian nationalists. It’s time the media outlets recognize it</I.
What makes this so hysterically funny is the photo.
https://twitter.com/Stories4Satoshi/status/1548492224572207104
FWIW there’s a website devoted to the Dutch farmer thing
Dutch Farmer Rebellion
https://www.rebelnews.com/tags/farmer_rebellion
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
A couple of those posts I said “Whoa, I can’t spread that info to the innocent denizens at Blogmocracy!!!”
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s well past time for all Us Charlie Browns to recognize the repeated and deliberate falsehoods of Lucy. And to hold her cumulatively accountable. I suggest instead of her advice for 5 cents booth we install her into stocks and offer tomatoes for 5 cents.
MSNABC and Anderson Cooper have lied enough that their content should come with a surgeon generals warning,
hysterical
Joan Rivers guest hosting for Johnny Carson. Guest is Betty White. Hilarious cat fight ensues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDJp79D__L4
@ lobo91:
I just want to know when we get to burn Fauci at the stake
Satellite Imagery Shows Global Crop Declines – Except For Russia And China
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/satellite-imagery-shows-global-crop-declines-except-russia-and-china
Saudis Casting More Doubt on Biden Claims About Meeting, Including About Khashoggi
Add one more twist to the story of what went on in Joe Biden’s meeting in Saudi Arabia.
According to Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich, Saudi minister of state for foreign affairs, Adel al-Jubeir, contacted Heinrich’s Fox colleague Alex Hogan. He pointedly said that he “did not hear” Joe Biden tell MBS he believed he was responsible for Khashoggi’s murder. That’s a not too subtle way of saying Biden didn’t say it.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/07/16/saudis-casting-more-doubt-on-biden-claims-about-meeting-including-about-khashoggi-n596284
darkwords wrote:
Wise move.
darkwords wrote:
We also never EVER refer to the inflatable sheep incident.
Careers, reputations and marriages would be destroyed.
Possum wrote:
OMG. I completely forgot about that. Beed says hi, asked for your email.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Beed was only involved with the balloon penis episode.
The image was posted in good faith with his full approval.
Then Beed realised there was something incriminating him in other crimes on his desk so all images of the balloon penis were successfully erased from the Internet.
@ Possum:
The cocktail waitress outfit was a nice touch. He looked sassy.
WordPress stats can be informative. I’ve been posting .mp3 audio files occasionally, and the most popular this year is a slowed recording of a penguin.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Nope. Not a slowed down penguin. You gotfooled yet again.
That is me on the toilet at 7am after eating a chicken vindaloo and drinking 8 pints of lager the night before.
A British tradition.
In England the toilet and the sink are next to each other so you can shit and vomit at the same time.
No clean up required.
Possum wrote:
yummy! a good vindaloo is a marvelous thing.
FORE!!!!
My Stupid Quota for the day has been achieved and it’s not even noon. I think the best part of this article is that 4 corrections have been inserted after paragraph TWO.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fbusiness%2Fstory%2F2022-07-14%2Fcalifornia-rooftop-solar-pv-panels-recycling-danger
Of course they’re all lying. Everybody saw this coming, but they lied about it to get their grift going.
California went big on rooftop solar. Now that’s a problem for landfills
Many are already winding up in landfills, where in some cases, they could potentially contaminate groundwater with toxic heavy metals such as lead, selenium and cadmium.
Sam Vanderhoof, a solar industry expert and chief executive of Recycle PV Solar, says that only 1 in 10 panels are actually recycled, according to estimates drawn from International Renewable Energy Agency data on decommissioned panels and from industry leaders.
The looming challenge over how to handle truckloads of waste, some of it contaminated, illustrates how cutting-edge environmental policy can create unforeseen problems down the road.
“The industry is supposed to be green,” Vanderhoof said. “But in reality, it’s all about the money.”
I wonder what his first clue was
One of my favorite people in the world, Peter Navarro, got good lawyers. They just told the DOJ to piss up a rope.
https://100percentfedup.com/former-trump-advisor-peter-navarro-rejects-doj-plea-deal/
In a pitiful plea deal offer, the Department of Justice offered to give him a maximum of 30 days in prison for a single count of contempt and drop the other count–if he not only pleads guilty but also cooperates with the January 6th Committee’s subpoena “to the satisfaction of the Justice Department.”
Recent Surge in Car-Fire Recalls Frustrates Drivers
More auto companies ask drivers to park recalled cars outside and away from structures due to fire-risk concerns
Sean Nemeth, the owner of a plug-in hybrid Chrysler Pacifica, was perplexed when earlier this year he received a rather surprising recall notice, advising him to park his vehicle outside and away from structures.
The notice informed him that his particular model is at risk of catching fire—even while stationary and turned off—and the cause is still unknown.
Yeah, it’s a mystery
https://www.wsj.com/articles/recent-surge-in-car-fire-recalls-frustrates-drivers-11658059380
@ eaglesoars:
…An earlier version of this article mischaracterized the environmental risk posed by heavy metals in consumer photovoltaic arrays. This story has been edited to clarify that panels containing toxic materials are routed for disposal to landfills with extra safeguards against leakage, and to note that panels that contain cadmium and selenium are primarily used in utility-grade applications….
still toxic, no matter where you bury them,..
@ coldwarrior:
I read about the so-callled ‘safe guards’ years ago. They consist of putting big sheets of plastic on the ground and covering them with dirt.
whoop-di-fucking-do
eaglesoars wrote:
I’m guessing their main “safeguard” is putting those landfills in red states
I have to go look at flooring. What an exciting life!
see ya…….
@ lobo91:
good question.
This is what happens when you don’t properly search a suspect:
Ronny Jackson on Biden’s mental state:
eaglesoars wrote:
I find it hard to imagine Navarro or Bannon taking a plea deal. This is their chance to undermine the criminals they are fighting against.
@ lobo91:
31 year sentence seems light for this guy. J6 misdemeanor slotted for 20 years.
eaglesoars wrote:
Solar saleslady came by our house last year. I had already declined the free estimate, but we had a nice conversation. I asked her what the expected lifespan of the panels was. I also asked her how long does it take for them to pay for themselves in electricity savings. Both answers were the same – about twenty years.
Oh, and that L.A. Times story has a funny image of brand new shiny panels in a landfill.
lobo91 wrote:
I’m at the 2 minute mark. The commercial is worth watching twice.
@ lobo91:
LoL at Obama for approving of Biden’s decline.
darkwords wrote:
That shows the difference between a lenient state judge in Illinois giving a violent black repeat felon the lightest sentence possible and a vindictive federal judge punishing political prisoners.
Crypto worldwide news.
Taiwan central bank governor considers interest-free CBDC design to prevent fiat deposit flight
North Korea Retains Lead In Crypto Crimes, Over $1.5B Stolen
Russian parliament approves tax break for issuers of digital assets
Central African Republic president launches crypto initiative following Bitcoin adoption
New York Crypto Moratorium Comes to a Standstill
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/07/17/gottlieb-window-for-containing-monkeypox-probably-has-closed/
….aaaaaand here’s the wind-up….
darkwords wrote:
For some reason I thought Putin banned crypto
???
Holy crap. There were 376 cops at the school in Uvalde:
lobo91 wrote:
byog
So today’s bird feeder visitors – a woodpecker, which was a big surprise. Then something startling. The oddest looking bird I’ve ever seen. The size of a cardinal, body the same red but a black head, no ‘crown’.
Ah. I’d forgotten. Birds molt. He’s getting ready for the summer extravaganza.
There’s another bird I haven’t identified. it’s red but more ‘orangey red’ and it’s entire head is black, body more rounded. And I saw a raven the other day. Not in the yard, in the air. I’d forgotten how big they are.
@ lobo91:
also, I’ve recently seen lectures that the notion of ‘urgency’ is a white thing and if you have it you’re a bigot. So STFU
eaglesoars wrote:
I think he banned using it for payments. Maybe Russians can still hold it.
@ darkwords:
if you can’t use it to buy something why would you hold it?
eaglesoars wrote:
Have you ever notices that in the black population there are some that are smart, successful, and sharp thinking and then there are an over abundance of black with paranoia, conspiracy minds, victim psychologies. And the dems are promoting the latter to positions as moral thought leaders. Ergo Pelosi taking a knee. I call it the Black Plague. LeBron James and Kamala Harris fall into the latter category. The category of blacks that prefer to think of themselves as slaves. Condi Rice is in the former.
eaglesoars wrote:
Speculation. They can probably still convert to rubles and buy stuff. Just can’t use crypto to buy something directly. But I am not really sure. Putin has control of it there. He probably wants a CBDC.
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
Been out of the loop these past few days. The Covid bot got me!
In sane times I would have said that I have a rotten cold!
Daughter was trying to be nice to her dad and put on two stories at TV3, about the docking of the Dragon capsule with the ISS and another story about the James Webb telescope and the amazing pictures it has produced so far. Alas I was in bed and missed it!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
oh the Webb photos have been STUNNING! Feeling better?
darkwords wrote:
Oh the irony. A ‘currency’ created with the idea it would be outside the boundaries of Central Banking regulation.
How sweetly naive.
Can ANYONE shed some light on the cash of a Ukrainian freighter? The story seems to have sunk out of sight, and that alone makes me itch.
Possibilities include :
Origin of the flight was Jordan
Jordan is a hub for logistics for the US and especially for covert ops
The US were in the middle of supplying ‘smart’ 155mm gun ammo
The US were also in the middle of arranging the supply of MRLS type smart rocket ammo
The US were in the process of supplying range enhancing base bleed 155 ammo that will outrange Russian artillery and provide counter-battery fire
I’ll give you good odds that this Ukrainian freighter was loaded to the gunnels with some or all of this and the Russians were determined to destroy it before it could be deployed.
I’ve asked an aircraft strategic planning analysist for info on likely routes out of Jordan that would bring it into range of Russian AA rockets based in Syria.
ANYONE know where this wreckage is located?
How much credence is given to the story about mechanical failure. I guess getting a wing blown off could be classed as a mechanical problem.
This is a serious developing story and could indicate an escalation of operations beyond the confines of the Ukraine
ANYONE???
eaglesoars wrote:
Not really. In 2019 this would categorised as a really shitty cold!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
The crash I read about was from Serbia to Jordan, crashing in Greece. Yeah, tons of munitions on board. All 8 crew dead
PALAIOCHORI, Greece (AP) — An Antonov cargo plane operated by a Ukrainian airline crashed Saturday near the city of Kavala in northern Greece, authorities said. Local residents reported seeing a fireball and hearing explosions for two hours after the crash.
Greek Civil Aviation authorities said the flight was heading from Serbia to Jordan. The An-12, a Soviet-built turboprop aircraft, was operated by cargo carrier Meridian.
Greek media reported there were eight people on the plane and that it was carrying 12 tons of “dangerous materials,” mostly explosives. But local officials said they had no specific information on the cargo and provided varying numbers of people on board.
As a precaution because of a strong smell emanating from the crash site, a coordinating committee made up of municipal, police and fire service officials told inhabitants of the two localities closest to the crash site to keep their windows shut all night, to not leave their homes and to wear masks. Authorities say they do not know if there were dangerous chemicals on the plane, including those contained in batteries.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/world/international-headlines/cargo-plane-operated-by-ukraine-carrier-crashes-in-greece/
Aussie Infidel wrote:
did you have a fever?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11021799/Ukrainian-cargo-plane-crashed-Greece-carrying-11-TONS-mortar-land-mines.html
More details
Vid looks like an engine fire? Who knows
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Our neighbors just had panels installed and said they were less concerned about the savings than reducing their energy use.
All blacks look like crap. SA is gonna stomp them.
right_wing2 wrote:
Find a bridge you can sell them. Quick!
dammit. they dropped the subtitles in episode 5 of Jack Ryan. Again
@ eaglesoars:
They’re very nice people, just massive greenies.
They’ve even got their yard officially designated as a natural prairie. Or some thing like that.
Both times we’ve had garage sales, people have asked us questions like “are they OK?“. “Do they need help?” I even had a guy ask if the place is for sale.
@ right_wing2:
ok, I’ll ask. Do they have pets? Cuz I’d be worried. Like they make a cat be a vegetarian or something
With weather in the upper 90s to low hundreds, our air conditioner is out. The outside unit is running, but we’re not getting any cool air through the vents. The high Tuesday is supposed to be 106, and next Tuesday it could hit 111.
@ eaglesoars:
They have a dog. They lost their old one a few months ago and I have a very friendly young dog.
right_wing2 wrote:
I can’t diagnose your issue but I can tell you what we did in New Orleans, sans A/C. Wet some sheets and wrap them around you when you go to bed. If it’s not too humid the evap will cool you. Fans help.
Got an email from a friend in Texas. 110.
right_wing2 wrote:
If the compressor is running in the outside unit you will hear a humming noise over the sound of the fan and warm air is blowing from the vents, you may be low on Freon or whatever the call it now. If that is the case, check the copper lines coming off the outside unit for ice on one of the lines. If a line is iced up, turn the unit off for an hour or so until the ice melts, then turn it back on, it may help you limp along until you can get the coolant gas topped off.
*snort*
Mayor Bowser claims illegal immigrants crowding DC homeless shelters are asylum seekers ‘tricked’ onto buses
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been busing illegal immigrants to the nation’s capital since May
https://www.foxnews.com/media/mayor-bowser-claims-illegal-immigrants-crowding-dc-homeless-shelters-asylum-seekers-tricked-buses
bb>@ Bordm:
Thanks, but that was the first thing we tried. It worked a couple months ago- May I think.
We really aren’t getting any air blowing. Might be a belt or bad motor.
BREAKING: Good Guy With Gun Takes out Shooter in Indiana Mall Shooting
there was a shooting at the Greenwood Park Mall in Greenwood, a suburb of Indianapolis, Indiana, with three victims killed and two injured. One victim is a male and the others are female. Among the people injured was a 12-year-old girl who had a minor back injury. Two of the victims are in stable condition at the hospital.
The attacker was a male with a rifle and several magazines. But what stopped him almost immediately, according to the police, was a good Samaritan with a handgun who saw the shooting and responded, shooting the attacker and killing him. The hero is a 22-year-old man who had a legal permit and is cooperating with the police. They have not yet identified who the shooter is or what his motive was.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/07/17/breaking-good-guy-with-gun-takes-out-shooter-in-indiana-mall-shooting-n596870
right_wing2 wrote:
Did you set the thermostat to fan only to see if the blower kicked in?
The Left Is About to Pay for Their Energy Insanity
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/07/15/the_left_is_about_to_pay_for_their_energy_insanity_147895.html
utter bull
If the Left ever paid for anything, we wouldn’t be here
In more “country totally prepared for hot weather” news: Blackpool Victoria Hospital has propped its doors open to keep the building cool, but now the hospital is full of seagulls
https://twitter.com/HannahAlOthman/status/1548752784413134855
uh, do these people not have screens?
This looks like the bird at one of my feeders that I can’t ID. Eurasian bullfinch. Bu it can’t be, not in eastern TN
https://ebird.org/species/eurbul
Spanish former police chief admits that the Spanish secret services (CNI) were behind the jihadist attacks in Barcelona, August 2017. Their intention was ‘to scare Catalonia just before the independence referendum.’
16 people from various nationalities were killed.
https://twitter.com/josepalay/status/1480947545836765186
this is dated Jan 11
@ eaglesoars:
posting does not = believing.
REAKING: The Post Millennial announces exclusive podcast series ‘The Trial of Steve Bannon’ with Viva Frei
The Post Millennial announces the development of a new collaboration with attorney and YouTuber Viva Frei, who will be covering the trial of Steven K. Bannon exclusively for The Post Millennial. This Post Millennial exclusive series will feature Frei breaking down each facet of the trial from jury selection through judgment. Frei has previewed the coming trial on his channel.
“If you had any lingering doubts from the acquittal of Michael Sussman, despite all incontrovertible evidence, the kabuki theatre trial of Steve Bannon will leave little doubt: we live in a world of parallel legal systems, where justice —and injustice— is doled out on the basis of political ideology,” Frei said in anticipation of the trial, which begins in Washington, DC on Monday.
Bannon faces charges of contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena that was issued by the January 6 Committee in September 2021, which was looking to uncover communications between Bannon and former President Donald Trump in the lead up to and surrounding the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. It is the committee’s contention that Trump incited a riot and they are looking at communications of nearly everyone who was close to the President at the time. Close associates of Trump have had their homes searched and their devices seized over the past few months.
Bannon’s refusal to comply with the subpoena was due to the former president having invoked executive privilege, saying that their communications were protected. The committee refused to grant that, and found him in contempt of Congress in October 2021. In November, Bannon surrendered to the FBI.
Last weekend, Trump issued a letter to Bannon stating that he was free to testify before the committee, and Bannon’s attorneys, in turn, submitted the information of Bannon’s willingness to appear to the committee. However, the committee declined to withdraw charges, stating that the contempt charges had already been assessed and that though Bannon may now be willing to testify, that doesn’t change his past refusal.
Bannon’s attorney’s submitted a request for a delay of trial, stating that in the limited time given “It would be impossible to guarantee Mr. Bannon a fair trial in the middle of much-publicized Select Committee hearings which purport to broadcast investigative ‘findings’ on topics that are referenced in the indictment.”
Judge Carl Nichols denied that request, and further rejected Bannon’s request to subpoena records and testimony from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and members of the January 6 Committee, chaired by Bennie Thompson. Nichols said that Bannon also would be prevented from introducing evidence that other of Trump’s aides were not charged with contempt.
Nichols also limited additional defenses, saying that Bannon would not be permitted to challenge the make-up of the committee itself, nor state that the DOJ was countermanding its own policies by launching the charges against him. Bannon is also not permitted to state that he acted on the advice of his attorneys in refusing to comply with the subpoena to appear.
“What’s the point of going to trial here if there are no defenses?” asked David Schoen, Bannon’s attorney, after the hearing denying Bannon’s ability to defend himself on any other grounds than that he had perhaps misunderstood the date by which he was required to comply.
Viva Frei, or David Freiheit, is a Canadian lawyer who earned his degree from the University of Laval and began practicing in 2007. In 2018, he left the practice and began devoting himself to creating commentary videos on his YouTube channel. He has taken on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, slamming his outright bans on firearms, defended the Canadian truckers’ Freedom Convoy, and taking intense issue with Canada’s draconian, far reaching vaccine mandates.
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-the-post-millennial-announces-exclusive-podcast-series-the-trial-of-steve-bannon-with-viva-frei?utm_campaign=64483
frei covered the truckers’ convoy in Canada
@ eaglesoars:
I’ve never been to the UK, but I can tell you that they typically didn’t when I lived in Germany and Italy
@ lobo91:
well, there’s a business opportunity
bed. nite.
oh, J Lo and Ben Affleck got married. Finally. About time.
right_wing2 wrote:
I can smell the virtue from here.
Air conditioning….
Thingy outside running. Fan inside running. All seems ok but no cooling.
Well in times of high humidity the cooling coils get coated with ice and basically they are no longer able to cool the air passing not through them that past them.
In that case you need to turn off the AC part by turning the thermostat up but keep the fan on to let the block of ice thaw.
Commercial refrigeration units do this.
Your domestic fridge does an automatic defrost cycle.
@ Possum:
To chech your AC is working OK measure the temperature of the air at a return inlet and the temperature ar an outlet and the outlet should be about 12 to 15 F lower
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I got a whiff of it wayyyy over here too.
Pile on!
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/germanys-crisis-about-get-even-worse-rhine-water-levels-plummet
@ Bordm:
I didn’t, but I will give that a shot.
@ Bordm:
If I switch to fan only, I just hear a buzzing noise coming from the utility room.
Here’s Proof That Bannon’s A Witch is airing today.
So…this is who we sent to represent the United States at the Bastille Day celebration:
@ lobo91:
Why’d “we” send them? Honeypots for Macron.
coldwarrior wrote:
game
set
match
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/gazprom-declares-force-majeure-will-halt-gas-flows-germany-indefinitely
just like trump told them….
The Ukrainian plane that crashed in Greece was carrying NATO weapons for sale to Hezbollah
Kotsnews forwarded from Komsomolskaya Pravda: KP.RU The Ukrainian plane that crashed in Greece was carrying NATO weapons for sale to Hezbollah Recall that the
Ukrainian An-12 of the Meridian airline crashed on the evening of July 16 after a fire that broke out in the engine. According to the official, there were approximately 12 tons of “probably dangerous” cargo on board.
But no signs of remnants of chemical weapons or nuclear materials could be found. The An-12 was not carrying weapons of mass destruction, but not training mines, as official authorities said, but a completely different cargo.
According to information published in the well-informed Telegram channel NEZYGAR, the plane was transporting weapons that Ukraine resold from its stocks received from Western countries (stingers, javelins, AKs with ammunition, etc.) to the military wing of the Middle East Hezbollah through the Serbian organized crime group, by a long route through Syria and Jordan (to elude the attention of the Russian Aerospace Forces). The value of the contract is 9 million US dollars, of which 3 million have already been transferred as an advance to accounts in the UAE.
As NEZYGAR writes, the CIA shared information about the flight with weapons for Hezbollah with the Mossad. And then it was already a matter of technology for one of the most formidable special services of our time …
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4079307/posts
The source doc appears to be in Russian
The air-conditioning repair people will be out on Thursday. At this point, needing people out three times in the last two years to fix this stupid thing, we’re really hoping that they just replace the whole system. It’s the original AC from when the house was built in 2001.
Right now in my office downstairs it’s 80° and 60% humidity and the thermostat up here shows 88°. And that’s with one of those little rolling AC units in our bedroom and in the living room.
@ eaglesoars:
ummmmhmmmm….
eaglesoars wrote:
Well at this point of folly it seems reasonable to me that J6 protestors entered the Capitol Building.
every kid is learning from this disaster. Every ally is noticing. The dems are scuttling the constitution for cocaine.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
He should dress the part.
darkwords wrote:
Blue vest. Lots of gold buttons. Tricone hat with a jaunty feather. Highly polished combat boots. Red Pantalones.
List of Trump hoaxes the media likes to run with falsely.
https://imgs.search.brave.com/HJaE-2zsW3DwRI3_KfoSXRqaGpOZnwRtrrtH7bbNxL4/rs:fit:780:225:1/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly90c2U0/Lm1tLmJpbmcubmV0/L3RoP2lkPU9JUC5q/LTdwSFVZQ1F5dk5y/SGc5dGt0LWRBRzRE/NCZwaWQ9QXBp
Bitcoin miners.
The Senate of Paraguay’s new bill is currently waiting for the President’s approval. If it passes, the county will offer excess energy to crypto miners at affordable prices and exempt them from value-added taxes.
Kazakhstan’s energy crisis started in November 2021, and the country has been cutting power from Bitcoin miners
Sweden is also ranked 27th amongst countries with the highest annual electricity consumption for Bitcoin mining, with a total consumption of 124,609 terawatt-hours. (They plan to introduce a tax to make BTC mining unproftiable. Cheap hydro and cold climate make Sweden attractive to miners)
NFT’s. Non Fungible Tokens.
Time Magazine looks to turn all future subscriptions into NFTs
https://cryptoslate.com/time-magazine-looks-to-turn-all-future-subscriptions-into-nfts/
Time wants to migrate subscriptions into NFT’s.
The average price for a digital subscription to Time Magazine is around $24, while the average price on TIMEPieces NFT is about $1,000.
(So you can get a subscription for $1,000 instead of $24. Where is the value added? You get to own a pretty Jpeg that filters ads and probably connects to Amazon) Your login ID and password become the thumbnail you see here on the left of the blog posts. IT probably lets you quick post links from websites.
darkwords wrote:
This should be part of a course in every business class in college.
Had the windows cleaned today
So then it rained.
Zelensky is a little thug who Biden has elevated. He needs to go away. And what, exactly, does he intend to do about it?
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Ukrainians won’t accept Canada’s decision to return Nord Stream turbine to Russia – Zelensky
MOSCOW. July 18 (Interfax) – Ukrainians will never accept Canada’s decision to return a turbine for the Nord Stream gas pipeline to Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
“I talked today with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. We discussed our cooperation, and I thanked him, thanked Canada for support. But I also pointed out that the Ukrainians would never accept Canada’s decision regarding a turbine for Nord Stream, which it decided to transfer to Germany essentially in violation of the sanction regime,” Ukrainian media quoted Zelensky as saying in a video address on Sunday evening.
Gazprom has officially addressed Siemens to provide documents to allow the return to Russia of a gas turbine engine for the Portovaya compressor station, which serves as the starting compressor station in the Nord Stream pipeline system.
https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/81411/
Not to mention that Ukie Nazi chick, Christia Freeland, Dep Prime Minister, who has Trudeau wrapped around her finger
oh ffs
U.S. Navy Introduces ‘Plant-Based Protein’ Program Pushing ‘Vegetarian Meat Alternatives’.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/07/17/2023-ndaa-funds-plant-based-protein-pilot/
can these people spell ‘fish’? Try the starboard side.
It is very interesting how Volodymyr Zelensky is doing whatever he can, not merely to destroy all of Europe, but to push the world into World War III because of his and Ukraine’s inherent hatred of Russians. He has told Justin Trudeau that Ukrainians would never accept Canada’s decision to return a gas turbine intended for a Russian pipeline because it would encourage more sanctions violations. Meanwhile, Gazprom has come out and stated that it could no longer guarantee its “good functioning” pipeline to Germany due to crucial turbines that are being held up in Canada because of sanctions.
Gazprom has declared extraordinary circumstances to void itself from all contractual obligations to Germany, whereby the gas flow to Europe will stop flowing indefinitely. Reuters reported a letter dated July 14, 2022. Zelensky thinks cutting gas supplies to Germany will force NATO to invade Russia. Kyiv will be the first to go before Zelensky can make it to his private jet to run off to enjoy the hundreds of millions he is stashing offshore.
Perhaps Germany should now invade Ukraine. It seems to be the only way to save Europe.
Our computer has been targeting here late July and August and high volatility and August as a Panic Cycle in some markets. But just about everything is going nuts into 2023. A quarterly closing above $6.25 in natural gas, which it has NOT been able to achieve this far, will confirm this is going to get much worse. Therefore, a September closing ABOVE $6.25 will be a serious warning for 2023. We had a rare Double Directional Change this quarter, so it looks like we have the most brain-dead crop of world leaders ever in human history and Zelensky, who I warned was the man who would create World War III.
Even NYC lost over 5,000 small businesses thanks to COVID. There isn’t a single decision these people are capable of making. It has reached the point that people who I know personally, who would be qualified to lead, are simply not interested due to the WOKE culture. We are simply headed into a politically created nightmare.
We see sharply higher volatility in August and the SIGNIFICANT risk of war coming in the first quarter of 2023. This is NOT something that is my personal opinion. The only thing that can actually target periods well in advance is an unbiased computer. It was Socrates that targeted 2008 as a Panic Cycle published back in 1999, which can be verified on the Wayback Machine. That was not only the Great Crash that set in motion negative interest rates theories, but it was the historical high in the euro.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/markets-by-sector/energy/russia-to-cut-off-germany-from-gas-thanks-to-zelensky/
Because headlines must be brief, this one doesn’t tell the entire story. You need to read all of it
University of California Pays for Female Students to Have Penises Made From Their Arms
https://redstate.com/alexparker/2022/07/16/university-of-california-pays-for-female-students-to-have-penises-made-from-their-arms-n595902
I suspect this dot gets connected to the transhumanism dots.
The FBI raided western Michigan wheel manufacturing outfit Dicastal North America on Monday. The Chinese-owned manufacturer is a major supplier of automotive wheels and has been operating in Greenville, Mich., since 2015, the local Daily News newspaper reported.
The FBI has not released any information about the raid apart from acknowledging that it was executing a warrant at the company’s Michigan location. According to the Detroit Free Press, agents sent employees home and seized office computers.
Dicastal manufactures wheels for Ford, GM, Stellantis, Honda, Toyota and Nissan and is owned by CITIC Dicastal Co., which is itself a subsidiary of state-owned Chinese investment fund CITIC Group.
https://www.autoblog.com/2022/07/18/dicastal-fbi-raid/
This has not got enough attention
Deborah Birx, White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, one of the “Trifecta” of three leading officials behind Covid lockdowns in the United States. Virtually every page of Birx’s monstrosity of a book, Silent Invasion, reads like a how-to guide in subverting a democratic superpower from within, as could only be told through the personal account of someone who was on the front lines doing just that.
Notably, though Birx’s memoir has earned relatively few reviews on Amazon, it’s earned rave reviews from Chinese state media, a feat not shared even by far-more-popular pro-lockdown books such as those by Michael Lewis and Lawrence Wright.
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Birx wastes no time in telling us where she got her philosophy of disease mitigation, recalling how she immediately thought Chinese citizens “knew what had worked” against SARS-1: Masks and distancing.
linky sorry
https://brownstone.org/articles/deborah-birxs-guide-to-destroying-a-country-from-within/
Colossal Failure: EV Charging Stations Face Mechanical Problems – Over Half Inoperable in 1 Area
If there is one consistent fact about electric vehicles, it’s that they are unreliable. Now their charging stations have come into question as well.
In Aspen and Glenwood Springs, Colorado, many companies have implemented charging stations in their parking lots. All of them are not fully functional, however.
Chris Lane, a Basalt resident who owns two electric cars, highlighted a couple of issues with the local charging stations: Cables are ripped out, attachments are damaged and screens are cracked.
If there is a mechanical problem with any one of these stations, it automatically shuts down, Aspen Daily News reported.
“I charge in Glenwood, I see problems. I charge in Aspen, I see problems,” Lane said. He mentioned one exception: Tesla’s stations.
https://www.westernjournal.com/colossal-failure-ev-charging-stations-face-mechanical-problems-half-inoperable-1-area/
I put this in my ‘tsk tsk’ file
Chemists change the bonds between atoms in a single molecule for the first time
https://phys.org/news/2022-07-chemists-bonds-atoms-molecule.html
I don’t understand one word of it but it’s probably important
@ eaglesoars:
Those don’t sound like “mechanical problems.” Sounds more like vandalism
@ darkwords:
Stupid question here- why does ‘mining’ bitcoins use electricity? What does this mining involve?
My work office topped out at 93 degrees today. High for the day was 96. It’s supposed to be 106 tomorrow, 101 Thursday and 104 Friday.
AC people will be here Thursday. If they have to order a part or replace the whole thing, it could be rough.
Part of me hopes the replace the thing, part hopes they just have to replace the blower motor.
right_wing2 wrote:
I had the same question. Here.
https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/Bitcoin-mining#:~:text=Bitcoin%20mining%20is%20the%20process,goods%20or%20services%20as%20payment.
This is when I started deciding that if ‘money’ is so complex you need Cray computers to handle it and the central banks don’t ‘get it’, it’s probably not a good idea. the bottom line is trust. And it ain’t there.
Commentary on Bob Woodward’s book.
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/07/did-gen-milley-defy-trumps-chain-of-command-lawmakers-demand-his-answer/
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
And there’s the problem. Milley is absolutely NOT part of that procedure. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs–or any of the service chiefs–is not part of the operational chain of command. He has no more authority than the First Lady.
Of course, most people don’t understand that. The chain of command runs from the President through the Secretary of Defense to the appropriate 4 star Combatant Commander. Period.
The Joint Chiefs are in administrative positions. That’s why their title isn’t “Commander.”
And the US Attorney dropped all charges against the Stephen Colbert staffers who breached the Capitol:
right_wing2 wrote:
Mining creates coins and validates crypto transactions.
You register a crypto wallet with a name like anwo9unweiousana eaoiuuaaii. That becomes your pointer into the blockchains. If you mine a coin than your name pointer is paired with the coin name pointer in the blockchain. You own crypto then. The blockchain is a distributed database that acts like an excel spreadsheet or an accountants ledger book of transactions. Miners create the coins and also use mining to validate that all entries into the global spreadsheet are valid.
There are several types of mining. The POW (Proof of work) mining is done by distributed computers that are solving a math problem. They use a specialized graphics video card that requires electricity to do the processing. You used to be able to do it with one computer to get 1 bitcoin, now you need a farm of computers to get 1 bitcoin. (Probably similar to using a computer to draw a web map or render a 3D art image. First computer to complete the math problem, web map, or 3D art gets a bitcoin reward. That gets recorded in the distributed ledger in the blockchains. A miner gets a percentage cut of your bitcoin reward to register your coin transactin in the blockchain.
Or it’s like Jenga and you are using an electric magnet to stack the jenga pieces higher and higher. And you have to get the stack higher than it has ever been previously to validate the creation of a bitcoin. (The rules of the system that are used to make the transaction complex) Complexity is supposed to make it impossible to hack the ledger. The parallel math process on many graphics CPU’s makes it too hard. Each jenga action references all the previous jenga actions and requires then to be in the stack. You can’t just jump into the jenga stack and pretend you own it.
Proof of stake mining uses less electricity and is based on ownership of crypto coins instead of the graphics card.
A third type is mobile phone mining. You can test it here if you want.
minepi.com/nexusa use nexusa as the invite code.
The mining is essentially cryptography designed to validate transactions.
Now that I have confused you. Best way to understand is to get a coinbase account and put $20 into it. Something you can afford to lose.
Tremendous amount of crime in the crypto world right now. But the long term value is that you can send your $20 to your cousin at the South Pole and don’t need a bank to broker the exchange for you. The ledger does that with no banking rules. No fees to transfer. Done from your phone. This is huge in Africa. But the tech is still in its infancy.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Hmmm he swore and oath to the commander in chief. He is so fired if the political tables turn. Trump seemed like the essence of peaceful stability compared to Obama or Biden. Miley does not seem stable.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Hey. I watch sites that are off grid and RT showed the wreckage (reported in Greece) and also as the plane was basically plummeting out of the sky on fire. Cause is unknown, but I assume it was shot down.
@ eaglesoars:
“Perhaps Germany should now invade Ukraine. It seems to be the only way to save Europe.”
Half of the German population is not even ethnic German and as they went all volunteer about a decade ago, their ranks are depleted and their equipment in bad repair. Even the ones in uniform I have heard 1/3 are Turkish or Russ-Deutsch decent. Angela Merkel has royally f*cked this place.
The krauts currently could not field a combat brigade abroad and would not be able to protect their own borders if attacked.
She’s even crazier that I thought.
https://www.reddit.com/r/conservatives/comments/w2bqjf/kamala_harris_says_black_families_boost_home/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Back to work…shoulder fixed.
And, of course, they sent me to methtoona
@ right_wing2:
And THAT is why I don’t live in the south.
Heat is easier to make than cooling.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
Given their history…a weak bundeswher is prolly best.
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
Correct me if I’m mis-remembering, but didn’t the German military unionize a while back?
Scoop: White House weighs declaring national climate emergency as soon as this week, per sources, as collapse of talks w/ Manchin leads admin to explore raft of unilateral options
https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1549234137348730881
Who is going to tell him that’s not the way this works?
If you want to follow the Steve Bannon trial
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-post-millennial-exclusive-podcast-the-trial/id1635273073
They’re in jury selection now. I’m not following. It’s a D.C. jury and a corrupt judge. Done deal.
Dissatisfaction among the young generation in China has spiked recently, and it’s not hard to see why. Chinese students face intense competition at school and at universities — and lately they have also spent stretches of time in strict covid lockdowns, many stuck in tight dorm rooms. Worse, perhaps: The payoff is increasingly elusive — it has become harder and harder to find a job.
https://instapundit.com/531917/
We also know that marriage-eligible women are in short supply, due to the state-sanctioned slaughter of female infants.
So. No women, no school, no jobs. What next? Restless young men are a societal threat.
Every. Time.
One #Chinese entrepreneur tells me that local officials are demanding that he convert his factory so that it can make military hardware. #China is preparing to go to war.
https://twitter.com/GordonGChang/status/1549141821401489408
Glazov Gang: Leaked Audio Exposes China’s War Plan to Invade U.S.
A terrifying 56-minute audio is smuggled out of a Guangdong military/civilian mobilization meeting.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/07/glazov-gang-leaked-audio-exposes-chinas-war-plan-glazov-gang/
Venue cancels pro-Trump tour featuring Michael Flynn and Roger Stone after a community petition warned it could attract white supremacists
https://www.yahoo.com/news/venue-cancels-pro-trump-tour-045513937.html
yeppers, they managed to work ‘Christian nationalists’ in there, too
Chinese Military Using US Semiconductors to Train Combat AI: Report
https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinese-military-using-us-semiconductors-to-train-combat-ai-report-says_4604609.html
Through an analysis of 66,000 public contracts issued by the PLA, the authors of the report found just 24 that dealt with the purchase of the types of high-end chips used for AI applications, the vast majority of which were American designs.
“Despite more aggressive efforts by the Trump and Biden administrations to limit technology exports to the Chinese military, the PLA is placing orders for AI chips designed by U.S. companies and manufactured in Taiwan and South Korea,” the report said.
“Of the 97 individual AI chips we could identify in public PLA purchase records, nearly all of them were designed by Nvidia, Xilinx (now AMD), Intel, or Microsemi.”
Germany is running out of………..firewood?
As natural gas and oil for heating skyrockets, many Germans are now turning to firewood as a way to keep warm this coming winter. But now firewood is getting rare too, and prices are skyrocketing. The German online Merkur reports of “exploding demand”.
According to firewood dealer Konrad Kötterl. “Some people are panicking about not being able to get any more wood.” As a result, they’re stockpiling. Normally, he has three to four orders a day in the summer. “Right now, it’s 20 to 30.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/16/germanys-running-out-of-energy-wind-turbine-construction-stalls-firewood-becoming-scarce/
Does laughing like a hyena at this make me a bad person? WHO CARES??
Electric car buyer learns a HUGE lesson…
New used car needs a $14,000 battery replacement
She just bought the used Ford EV for $11,000
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/electric-car-buyer-learns-a-huge-lesson/
@ eaglesoars:
Anyone who buys a used EV is a fool (well, an even bigger fool than someone who buys a new one).
When they become more common and the novelty wears off, the resale value is going to drop to near zero. That’s going to dramatically change the cost calculation for buyers. Most people who buy a new car and trade it in after 3-4 years, expecting to get at least enough for a good down payment. With EVs, they’re probably going to get less than they owe, so they’ll be paying the dealer to take it.
Explosion/fire at Hoover Dam
impressive video
https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1549445395671031808
AOC is escorted by police away from the Supreme Court
https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1549450003197952002
That kid who took out the shooter at the mall in Indiana – hand gun at 40 yards. Impressive
https://twitter.com/Chet_Cannon/status/1549423856330231808
lobo91 wrote:
and the wallet wears out
My kitchen and dining room are getting painted today and tomorrow. 2 rooms. small. they’ve been here since 8 am. still doing the prep. house is a wreck. again.
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
They seem to be able to turn their own lights off though.
40.4269805,-78.3932436,17.23
insanely great bar food.
later yinz!
right_wing2 wrote:
You can get the same effect by baking cinammon rolls in the oven. Even bigger effect if a free glass of wine and an oz of chocolate are there.
But seriously, how did this woman ever achieve power on a local level? I hate to suggest it but did she trade sex for favors?
coldwarrior wrote:
That was quick.
Shawn Ryan show on psychedelics. https://youtu.be/p8oljqNp5P0 3 hours
They suggest DMT can improve opioid addiction recovery. Also fixes the mental issues AOC has.
eaglesoars wrote:
Biden: The sky is falling. The sky is falling.
The world: Nope, just a slight drizzle.
@ darkwords:
dmt is a very interesting molecule.
to say the least.
eaglesoars wrote:
vs Woke Globalists. I prefer the former if we are going to discard the D and R labels.
Whole lot of R’s afraid to wield the word groomer against the progs. Whole lot of R’s spouting Trump illusions so they can maintain the illusion of good will with the rotten progs.
Someone needs to catalogue all the problems with the 2020 elections in one definitive location. Doesn’t help if its only Trump and the media are geared up now.
eaglesoars wrote:
There is not enough wood. That’s a niche source. They would have to denude the black forest.
China had that coal crunch last year and there were videos of protests as people competed to buy lumps of coal. The Chinese found it cheaper to burn used clothes for heat.
eaglesoars wrote:
I have a hybrid. This is my biggest fear. Supposedly at around 200,000 miles I need to by a $15,000 battery to keep it going. And all the repairs on it are usually double a normal car. Regular battery replacement was $357 vs the off the shelf battery price of $150. Problem was that the form factor of the battery was not generic but proprietary and built just for this hybrid engine. No one stocked on. Had to have the dealer replace it.
@ darkwords:
So Dr. Jill would say that Mexicans are tacos and Black people are cinnamon rolls?
Pence and Haley might be running in ‘24
https://redstate.com/levon/2022/07/19/two-gop-candidates-have-all-but-officially-announced-2024-white-house-bid-n597873
right_wing2 wrote:
No doubt she has a food group chart based on race.
right_wing2 wrote:
Pence was and always will be a loser on the National Stage. He is to Trump as Biden was to Obama. While i like stuff about Haley she bleeds left.
right_wing2 wrote:
Pence will try and may make a good run but I don’t think he can go the distance. Haley will last about as long as De Blasio just did.
Apparently Deborah Birx, the Scarf Doctor, wrote a book a while ago that nobody paid attention to. Until they did. She lied, altered CDC docs, etc. The Brownstone Institute takes her apart.
Virtually every page of Birx’s monstrosity of a book, Silent Invasion, reads like a how-to guide in subverting a democratic superpower from within, as could only be told through the personal account of someone who was on the front lines doing just that.
Notably, though Birx’s memoir has earned relatively few reviews on Amazon, it’s earned rave reviews from Chinese state media, a feat not shared even by far-more-popular pro-lockdown books such as those by Michael Lewis and Lawrence Wright.
Deborah Birx’s Guide to Destroying A Country From Within
https://brownstone.org/articles/deborah-birxs-guide-to-destroying-a-country-from-within/
She had help. From Jared Kushner, no less. Kellyanne Conway hates Kushner, as does Peter Navarro. Apparently for good reason.
right_wing2 wrote:
How to get another 8 years of dem socialism.
right_wing2 wrote:
Fed Jr did that at the house he was staying at several years ago. Not because he is a greenie but because the neighbors and town were @$$es who went after him and his roommate when the grass in the yard was just slightly over code. Getting it designated as prairie or something like that let them leave it un-mowed and give a giant middle finger to the neighborhood nazis. It was glorious
eaglesoars wrote:
Well, that will be all over the national news
/s heavy s
lobo91 wrote:
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Over.
If I could post clips, I’d post one of R Lee Ermey asking, “What is that!? …”
AZfederalist wrote:
back int the early 70’s, my parents bought a brand new house in a lovely development which is the next town over from where i live now.
said (ryan) homes were pretty standard cookie cutter, split level, every fifth house had the same layout. standard suburbia.
anyhooo….
most of the home owners worked in the mills and made pretty good coin back then. their only problem was they were ALL lawn nazis…and they were trying to grow perfect lawns on clay…yeah, it doenst work. mill hunkies trying to be ‘lifestyles of the rich and famous”.
one saturday summer’s morn in 75, and i remember this very well. dad got home from a night shift at the nuke station, opened a beer and walked out onto the back patio. we could see the entire loop of all the houses from the top lot, 15 on each side and 3 on top and bottom…36 lots in a giant circle…ALL mowing grass at 0730AM.
dad stood there and uttered words… ‘eff words’!!! and then he said, we’re moving. in two weeks we were in a great old italian house in the next town over with a bunch of degos.
but…i digress, the biggest middle finger that i saw was from a native arizonian who lived in the same new sub division. he was an engineer at the nuke station and knew damn well that grass wont grow on clay. he lined his entire yard, brought in mega tons of sand and rocks from AZ, along with portable cacti, and made AZ on his half acre lot. it was beautiful.
heh
https://www.barrons.com/news/eu-proposes-to-unblock-russian-bank-funds-to-boost-food-trade-01658242507?refsec=topics_afp-news
europe plays checkers…putin, chess….
United Nations announces Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum and UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres have signed an agreement to ‘accelerate’ Agenda 2030
https://twitter.com/CaelorumAngelus/status/1549123326244798466
hard pass
lobo91 wrote:
A guy where I worked bought a Volt several years ago. Colleague and he were talking and he mentioned that he had traded in the Volt because he was no longer able to get to and from work on a single charge. Said he paid $35K for the Volt and got something like $15K in the trade-in.
… wait for it …
The trade was to buy another EV; I think it was a Leaf this time. After he left, colleague made the comment, “They saw him coming”
/No matter how hard you try, you just can’t fix stupid
eaglesoars wrote:
Sure are an awful lot of coincidences at critical infrastructure these days.
AZfederalist wrote:
yeppers
darkwords wrote:
Rhetorical question, right? She’s not known as “heels-up Harris” for nothing.
eaglesoars wrote:
You know, countries used to take a very dim view of their citizens signing agreements with foreign powers without being duly authorized by the Government of that country to do so.
eaglesoars wrote:
From the article:
… and to prove this, you canceled an event, suppressing the right of the people holding that event to express their own opinions and beliefs. @#$% hypocrite
@ AZfederalist:
he’s not a hypocrite, he’s frightened. Nice business ya got there, it would be too bad if anything happened to it
eaglesoars wrote:
So, when are people going to start standing up to the bolsheviks? Because they aren’t ever going to stop pushing if they keep getting their way.
@ AZfederalist:
I would think his statement would be a bit different if he had any backbone and was being intimidated instead of rolling over and trotting out the leftist ‘EEO we discriminate against people who don’t toe the woke line’ statement. There are ways to push back and let the world know you are being intimidated. Also makes it easier to demonstrate if bad things do happen.
Office topped out at 96 today. 3 fans blowing warm air doesn’t help much.
We built a swamp cooler that might help a bit for tomorrow.
lobo91 wrote:
As he said, this needs to be a training video. Didn’t the officer look in his rear view to see what the perp was doing? A look into the back seat before getting out might have been a good idea to maintain situational awareness. I’m not a cop nor have I had any LE training, but it seems like common sense that one would maintain some level of vigilance while transporting what was known to be a dangerous felon.
@ AZfederalist:
My take on it is that it’s an example of the Ferguson Effect.
That wouldn’t have happened 5 years ago. It probably wouldn’t have happened if he’d been white, either. They would have told him to STFU and properly searched him before putting him into the car.
coldwarrior wrote:
We had a neighbor who tried that. Once. His name was Jared, oddly enough, and he defined the term ‘anal asshole’. They were filmed once for one of those TV shows that covered how people remodel their houses or something. I watched the filming, then the show. His wife – whose name escapes me, she was nice enough – ‘showed off’ his closet because he insisted his shirts be organized by color or something.
Anyhoo, one Monday morning at 7 am or there abouts a fucking lawn mower wakes me up? Are you kidding me? I don’t think so.
I blasted over there and even tho the poor lawn mower guy didn’t speak English, he got the message. TURN THAT FUCKING THING OFF!! Then I banged on the door and asked him exactly what the fuck he was doing at 7 in the fucking morning. His excuse was everybody was getting ready for work so it shouldn’t bother anybody. Well, WE don’t have to ‘get ready for work’ as we’re self employed and work from our home office and it’s an ungodly time of day for that kind of disturbance and if he did it again I’d blow up his house. If I hear a peep out of you before 10 am I’ll come over here and shoot your dog.
“We don’t have a dog”
“You’ll do just fine”
They moved 2 mos later. But I never heard a lawn mower before 10 am again.
Another one
CIA Director William Burns sent a warning to employees of the agency last week after what appeared to be a noose was found outside near an undisclosed facility in Virginia.
https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1549596294603280385
*snort*
NBC News: NYC’s social safety nets are being strained by an influx of asylum seekers from Latin America and being bussed in by Arizona, Texas, and the feds, according to Mayor Adams.
https://twitter.com/Tom_Winter/status/1549404299888922630
In the final hours of the Trump presidency, the U.S. Justice Department raised privacy concerns to thwart the release of hundreds of pages of documents that Donald Trump had declassified to expose FBI abuses during the Russia collusion probe and then defied a subsequent order to release the materials after redactions were made, according to interviews and documents.
The previously untold story of how highly anticipated declassified material never became public is contained in a memo obtained by Just the News from the National Archives that was written by then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows just hours before Trump left office on noon of Jan. 20, 2021.
Meadows’ memo confirmed prior reporting by Just the News that Trump on Jan. 19, 2021 declassified a binder of hundreds of pages of sensitive FBI documents that show how the bureau used informants and FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign and misled both a federal court and Congress about flaws in the evidence they offered to get approval for the investigation.
Mystery solved: DOJ secretly thwarted release of Russia documents declassified by Trump
Department used last-minute privacy concerns to halt release, then ignored direct order from president to make memos public.
https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/mystery-solved-doj-secretly-thwarted-release-russia
more at the link
nite
Interesting podcast. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCrBcbgWKU-G4Dvwz9K_4XA
Brett Johnson show. He’s a career criminal.
Late report: Anaheim CA broke rainfall records yesterday.
0.02 inches.
Cop should have taken a diamond cutter and sawed out a chunk of asphalt for the a-ho to lug around.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/w2wybp/protester_attached_his_hand_with_instand_beton_to/
coldwarrior wrote:
Disagree. The best NATO army a few months ago was the Ukrainian– we have been training them since 2015– and they got their faces pushed in, but that was going to happen without NATO reinforcements.
The Germans, and the rest of the EU, have been slacking since 1992 regarding defense commitments and now they have doubled their military spending it will still take years to get up to speed. They simply do not have the time or the manpower.
As you and I know, weakness invites attack and western Europe has developed a very soft under belly.
@ eaglesoars:
Had to look, but you are correct.
https://www.dbwv.de/der-verband/zusammenarbeit/gewerkschaften-verbaende/
@ eaglesoars:
I went to the range with a cop friend of mine last time I was home and was astounded how crap he was with anything beyond 10 yards. He was surprised how I was hitting the target consistently at +35 yards.
Different training methods for different results.
I am now 100% for Russia dropping a nuke on any country supplying weapons to Ukraine
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
When I was practicing on a regular basis – after NRA certified training – I could do 20 yrd. But that’s at a range, stationary target, not facing an active shooter, etc. DEA guys used to come in at my usual time and one of them was a big help w/breathing, etc. Very sweet guy, also as big as a house. His belt buckle was at my eye level. But active shooter? – forget breathing.
When I have time to get back into it, I’m going to have to be trained again. I don’t think I’ve fired a gun since 2015, something like that. Since Bonnie’s epilepsy started, I think that was 2015. It was vets or ammo, so…
@ eaglesoars:
I used to hang with some gun slingers who knew hell of a lot more than I did and shot competition. In an active shooter situation— yeah, the adrenaline and guy who is trying to kill you is not going to allow you to get a descent sight picture. Tight grip on the pistol, use the front site post and pull the trigger without moving the gun. Using the thumb of the non-firing hand to point at the target helps but it takes practice.
I think 90% of police shooting happen at 7 feet or less, hence they are more concerned about returning fire and putting distance between themselves and the perp.
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
and they still miss most of the time. What does that tell you?
I think I may have hit the jackpot. A friend of Hubby’s is meeting w/heads fertilizer companies and the head of the World Bank. I gave him a list of questions.
wha?
EXCLUSIVE: Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee want answers about a new Department of Homeland Security policy that lawmakers say requires them to get privacy release waivers from criminal non-citizens accused of terror and assassination plots, in order for DHS to give them information about the threats.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dhs-provide-info-terror-plots-congress-waivers-accused-non-citizens-republicans-say
Thank God this is somebody else’s tax money
Scientists Find Link Between Wolf Attacks and Far Right Politics
The reintroduction of wolves to Germany “has been accompanied by electoral gains for far-right parties,” a new study reports.
Now, scientists have presented a modern iteration of this ancient obsession in a new study that links the reintroduction of wolves into Germany with a rise in electoral support for far-right politicians.
.
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the results provide “evidence that the reemergence of the wolf has been accompanied by electoral gains for far-right parties” and show that “far-right politicians frame the wolf as a threat to economic livelihoods,” according to a study published on Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that focused, in particular, on the German far-right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD).
https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5vqgq/scientists-find-link-between-wolf-attacks-and-far-right-politics
@ eaglesoars:
People on the right are werewolves?
mmmmm
peach cobbler and vanilla ice cream
nuff said
Nationalfile.com reports: Dalton School has a long and prestigious history as an education facility for the children of wealthy families, and has employed several noteworthy figures in its history. One such figure is William Barr, erotic novel author and father of disgraced former Attorney General Bill Barr, who served as the school’s headmaster in 1974. Barr saw fit to hire Jeffrey Epstein to a teaching position in 1974, as reported by the New York Times.
Some interesting bodycam footage:
ok, I laughed
“Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he’ll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came in; ask him to make something that will massacre Germans, and he turns into Thomas Fucking Edison.” ― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
https://twitter.com/JoshuaSteinman/status/1546210425502679040
@ lobo91:
I didn’t do anything…
Not one covid pt in our system’s busiest er today.
coldwarrior wrote:
Obviously because they’re all dead from climate change…
Another good one. 4-year-old shoots at cops to keep them from arresting his dad:
lobo91 wrote:
clearly.
coldwarrior wrote:
AI and Mrs AI at home with Covid!
🙁
I gave it to her and she’s not letting me forget it!
🙂
I caught it either at Mass or at the gym!
I’m blaming God or the fat lady on the core strengthening machine!
HEH
🙂
This is pretty awesome. Gary Clark Jr. brought Samantha Fish onstage for an encore at a recent show in Budapest and they about burned the place down:
Capitol Police Release Damning Facts, Slam DOJ Decision to Not Charge the ‘Colbert Nine’
f you read the entire statement, it’s abundantly clear that this was not just a misunderstanding brought about by a group of people who weren’t aware of the rules. They were informed multiple times over multiple days via multiple incidents that they could not be in any of the Capitol buildings without a credentialed escort. Earlier on June 16th, they had been escorted out of the Capitol Rotunda and told the rules. Their intent to ignore the law in order to harass GOP members isn’t in doubt.
It’s also untrue that they were invited into the building on June 16th, which is the primary excuse given by the DOJ for not pressing charges. Their scheduled meetings were on June 15th. Further, contrary to the idea of them being unwitting, the group was specifically denied the credentials they requested for that next day and chose to illegally enter anyway. Ironically, it was a Democrat staffer who called the police on Colbert’s team because he was terrified by all the screaming and yelling going on.
The idea that there wasn’t enough evidence for the DOJ to at least charge them with misdemeanors is farcical.
That’s nice. Now turn over Michael Bird, the guy who murdered Ashli
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/07/20/capitol-police-release-damning-facts-slam-doj-decision-to-not-charge-the-colbert-nine-n598358
@ lobo91:
Another good one. 4-year-old shoots at cops to keep them from arresting his dad:
That is just sad for the kids. The dad could have gotten them killed.
eaglesoars wrote:
Gotta win big in Nov and start jailing democrats. If the GoP has the stomach for it.
@ darkwords:
not happening
I’m not sure what campus this was on or when it happened, but it’s freaking hilarious
Snowflake calls campus cops on Prager U reporters
https://streamable.com/q6mzgn
@ darkwords:
Even if they take back both the House and Senate, nobody’s going to jail. DOJ is still under the Executive Branch, and they sure as hell won’t prosecute any of their own.
My words of wisdom for any police officers and EMT persons.
Carry latex/neoprene gloves one size larger than you think your hands are.
Anyone who regularly watches body cam police videos will understand what I mean.
Possum wrote:
I don’t, so I don’t.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Nether do I. I just cut and paste shit I find on the Internet
@ Possum:
Late night / early morning hours I’ve been watching the Bushman vids, you know, the guy in the ghilli suit. He makes obese girls jump and squeal. The obese girl’s friends are usually hot.
They have to see if they can find a motor for our ac fan or they will have to order one. Dammit, I was hoping they’d have to replace the whole air conditioning unit.
We lucked out. Part was on their truck and we have ac again.
Good morning and what the..???
Brexit LIVE: No trade with Britain! Sinn Fein in new plot with Pelosi to scupper US deal
SINN FEIN has teamed up with US Speaker Nancy Pelosi to scupper a trade deal between the UK and the US.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1643682/brexit-live-eu-rishi-sunak-liz-truss-northern-Ireland-protocol-vdl-latest-updates
The Good Friday Agreement is the issue but since when did Pelosi become the State Dept?
Biden has tested positive for COVID
@ eaglesoars:
Again? But he has all the shots and boosters.
@ right_wing2:
Get reading for “Acting President Kamala Harris”
Steve Bannon’s team announce they will not present a case to the jury. IOW, this is a show trial, we’re not playing.
eaglesoars wrote:
They have no case to present. The judge already disallowed pretty much every possible defense.
L.A. County Health Director Barbara Ferrer – who is not a medical doctor – relied on report by her daughter – who is not a medical doctor – to formulate mask mandates. She’s due to get grilled today at a presser for conflicts of interest.
Burn the witch.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
That woman’s appearance is just not right. She looks like something out of a horror movie
eaglesoars wrote:
Dr Jill ain’t gonna go for that
coldwarrior wrote:
see-say puadray my bogado amebas
eaglesoars wrote:
Trying to force the UK back into the EU.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Says graft and incompetence. Almost like asking Hunter Biden to conduct CCP foreign policy.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yeah, well Dr Jill ain’t in the Constitution and there are midterms coming up. I just listened to Dr Malone on Biden. This infection, given Biden’s med history, is going to make his cognitive problems a lot worse
darkwords wrote:
I thought the Dems had issues with foreign interference in elections
WEF – is developing an Individual Carbon tracker.
https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1550141275906744322
This is the digital track trace and database system set up by the WEF in Sri Lanka!
A new system where your national ID needs to be tied in to an app in order to get permission to buy a little bit of gas!
Coming to Europe soon!!!
https://twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/1550144639608438789
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11034209/Bodycam-footage-shows-FOUR-YEAR-OLD-boy-shooting-cops-arrest-father-McDonalds.html
Follow up on that 4 year old shooting at police.
eaglesoars wrote:
Pelosi doesn’t believe in the American system. It looks like the reason she hates Trump is that he interfered with her graft income. All this stuff out of the House against Trump is because of that.
For me this all originates with Obama. He brought disrespect to his role as POTUS. Incompetent, corrupt, sleazy.
eaglesoars wrote:
People are being too police with the WEF. I guess that shows the middle class is still strong. No one wants to organize around taking the first swing.
@ darkwords:
No international travel unless the WEF tracker is attached to you.
Saw a few more social media posts on the people wanting to return the planet population to 500 Million.
That is the ugly truth behind climate change. The only way to fix their version of climate change is for there to be less people.
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2022/07/21/heat-wave-open/
new thread
darkwords wrote:
The world overpopulation lie predates the man-made global warming lie by decades. I remember it from grade school.
lobo91 wrote:
But there’s no two-tiered justice system; everyone is equal under the law. /heavy sarcastic
right_wing2 wrote:
…and wears masks. Gee, you mean the vaccines don’t work?
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s not like Biden is doing anything as President anyway; he’s just a warm body filling the location not a leader making decisions and implementing policy. Walking through the living room where the folks have Fox News on (all day, every day …), someone was saying how the stock market had started to go down when it was announced that Biden had Covid. Hint to the pundit: The market don’t frickin’ care, whatever drove the market down for that short period of time during the day was not the news that Biden has Covid. Market went up again later. Nobody with two functioning brain cells to rub together thinks it matters one whit Biden’s state of health. They and the world know that he is merely a puppet and mouthpiece and somebody else is running the show. Pretty sure the other world leaders are dealing directly with whoever is running this crap show of an administration.
Rona v POTatUS
https://twitter.com/KellyLMcCarty/status/1550147005636399104