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Do not answer, as I have no time, storm here, and I have to take care of animals.
You are a simpleminded Jane, and with this our conversation is over.
Posted by: stranger | Feb 10 2024 21:12 utc | 283
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I, too, have to take care of animals, obviously.
Storm here, too.
You make it too easy.
Finis.
Posted by: Jane | Feb 11 2024 0:28 utc | 301
Now that’s just cruel!
Posted by: malenkov | Feb 10 2024 21:04 utc | 282
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I like Henry James!
Posted by: Jane | Feb 11 2024 0:31 utc | 302
” Posted by: Moonie | Feb 10 2024 21:49 utc | 94
Go to the open forum and flesh out the details of hidden archeological info pls.
Posted by: Tannenhouser | Feb 11 2024 0:04 utc | 135 ”
This is a vast topic so any attempt to ” flesh out details ” would take volumes as it involves the suppression of inquiry, public ridicule, misdirection, geopolitical machinations, and hiding evidence in plain site. However, I will give you an easy ” om ramp” to this field of inquiry. Watch the following video and if you are able to tie all the obvious conclusions together the world will take on a whole new dimension.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAyQQRNoQaE
Posted by: Moonie | Feb 11 2024 0:32 utc | 303
Concerned Citizen
@BGatesIsaPyscho
Who is Volodymyr Zelenskyy? 🇺🇦
Listen to Tucker Carlson ask someone who knows – Colonel Douglas McGregor.
You won’t hear this on BBC or CNN.
https://twitter.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1756255956332097956
Posted by: Menz | Feb 11 2024 0:40 utc | 304
DD Geopolitics
@DD_Geopolitics
You are a piece of propaganda
– Masha Zakharova
https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1756410057544310903
Posted by: Menz | Feb 11 2024 0:43 utc | 305
Posted by: smuks | Feb 10 2024 23:32 utc | 296
I understand the need to ‘follow the herd’-you are doing an admirable job at that activity. Remember our climate has always changed-way before humans were extant-so it doesn’t mean that the climate change now has anything to do with man’s activities.
But if you are truly interested here is the science:
“Overview
Green plants grow faster with more CO2 . Many also become more drought resistant because higher CO2
levels allow plants to use water more efficiently. More abundant vegetation from increased CO2
is already apparent. Satellite images reveal significant greening of the planet in recent decades,
especially at desert margins, where drought resistance is critical. This remarkable planetary greening
is the result of a mere 30% increase of CO2 from its preindustrial levels. Still higher CO2 levels will
bring still more benefits to agriculture.
Plants use energy from sunlight to fuse a molecule of CO2 to a molecule of water,
H2 O, to form carbohydrates. One molecule of oxygen O2 is released to the air for each
CO2 molecule removed. Biological machinery of plants reworks the carbohydrate
polymers into proteins, oils and other molecules of life. Every living creature, from
the blooming rose, to the newborn baby, is made of carbon from former atmospheric
CO2 molecules. Long-dead plants used CO2 from ancient atmospheres to produce
most of the fossil fuels, coal, oil, and natural gas that have transformed the life of
most humans – moving from drudgery and near starvation before the industrial
revolution to the rising potential for abundance today.
The fraction of the beneficial molecule CO2 in the current atmosphere is tiny,
about 0.04% by volume. This level is about 30% larger than pre-industrial levels in
1800. But today’s levels are still much smaller than the levels, 0.20% or more, that
prevailed over much of geological history. CO2 levels during the past tens of millions
of years have been much closer to starvation levels, 0.015%, when many plants die,
than to the much higher levels that most plants prefer. Basic physics implies that
more atmospheric CO2 will increase greenhouse warming.
However, atmospheric processes are so complicated that the amount of
warming cannot be reliably predicted from first principles. Recent observations of
the atmosphere and oceans, together with geological history, point to very modest
warming, about 1 C (1.8 F) if atmospheric CO2 levels are doubled.
Observations also show no significant change in extreme weather, tornadoes,
hurricanes, floods, or droughts. Sea levels are rising at about the same rate as in
centuries past. A few degrees of warming will have many benefits, longer growing
seasons and less winter heating expenses. And this will be in addition to major
benefits to agriculture.
More CO2 in the atmosphere is not an unprecedented experiment with an
unpredictable outcome. The Earth has done the experiment many times in the
geological past. Life flourished abundantly on land and in the oceans at much larger
CO2 levels than those today. Responsible use of fossil fuels, with cost-effective
control of genuine pollutants like fly ash or oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, will be a
major benefit for the world. (1)
1.https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/FC7C4946-11A3-4967-BF28-8D0386608D3E
Posted by: psychohistorian | Feb 10 2024 7:02 utc | 210
Damn. We should have a secret handshake or something. Great poem. Thank you.
Posted by: Andaréapié | Feb 11 2024 1:12 utc | 307
“This is a vast topic so any attempt to ” flesh out details ” would take volumes as it involves the suppression of inquiry, public ridicule, misdirection, geopolitical machinations, and hiding evidence in plain site. However, I will give you an easy ” om ramp” to this field of inquiry. Watch the following video and if you are able to tie all the obvious conclusions together the world will take on a whole new dimension.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAyQQRNoQaE“
Posted by: Moonie | Feb 11 2024 0:32 utc | 300
There undoubtedly were ancient civilizations on earth and some of their technology was superior there is no doubt about it.
Thanks for the clip
” There undoubtedly were ancient civilizations on earth and some of their technology was superior there is no doubt about it.
Thanks for the clip
Posted by: canuck | Feb 11 2024 1:17 utc | 305 ”
You’re welcome. Not just some though, I’d wager all of their technology was superior.
Posted by: Moonie | Feb 11 2024 1:43 utc | 309
“The study was done by PHd’s I guess you are smarter than them? You were always an ignorant prick, but this takes the cake.”
How ironic that someone would accuse someone else of being ignorant while at the same time making TWO independent mistakes in the spelling of a FOUR-letter word!
“PhD” is short for the traditional title of graduates “Doctor of Philosophy” (not Hdoctor of Pilosophy) and you don’t use an apostrophe when pluralizing word’s unless you’re making a point about it being incorrect. Should I stop there, or should I point out the errors of punctuation and grammar also?
Posted by: Editor | Feb 11 2024 1:45 utc | 310
To Chinese readers….
Dont get misled, there aint no Jew’s war on Chinese.
———————————–
Clive Hamilton
Chinese 5th column lying low in Oz, ready to rise up during a Chinese invasion.
Detective 101…
Motive ?
Capability ?
Track record ?
This nonsense fail it all. !!!
Yet it works. !
Wait a min, where did I hear that one before ?
1965 Indon genocide. !
tHEY used the exact agiprop….
Chinese 5th column armed by Beijing, ready for an impending coup.
limey
One of the main themes pursued by IRD was the threat posed by the PKI and “Chinese communists”. Newspaper reports continually emphasised the danger of the PKI. Drawing upon their experience in Malaya in the Fifties, the British emphasised the Chinese nature of the communist threat. Roland Challis said: “One of the more successful things which the West wished on to the non-communist politicians in Indonesia was to transfer the whole idea of communism onto the Chinese minority in Indonesia. It turned it into an ethnic thing. It is a terrible thing to have done to incite the Indonesians to rise and slaughter the Chinese.”
their gringo cousins…
U.S. officials were particularly interested in linking the September 30th plotters to Beijing. They helped to spread stories about China’s alleged involvement and reported on caches of weapons purportedly “discovered” by the Indonesian army with the hammer and sickle conveniently stamped on them. “We have bonanza chance to nail chicoms on disastrous events in Indonesia,
Media
FUKUSA complicit in 1965 Indon genocide.
Except its a gross understatement.
FUKUSA mastermind the 1965 Indon genocide.
FIFY
Posted by: denk | Feb 11 2024 2:47 utc | 311
THE SECRET WARS OF THE CIA
The Indonesian covert action of 1965, reported by Ralph McGehee, who was in that area division, and had documents on his desk, in his custody about that operation. He said that one of the documents concluded that this was a model operation that should be copied elsewhere in the world. Not only did it eliminate the effective communist party (Indonesian communist party), it also eliminated the entire segment of the population that tended to support the communist party – the ethnic Chinese, Indonesian Chinese. And the CIA’s report put the number of dead at 800,000 killed. And that was one covert action. We’re talking about 1 to 3 million people killed in these things.
Two of these things have led us directly into bloody wars. There was a covert action against China, destabilizing China, for many, many years, with a propaganda campaign to work up a mood, a feeling in this country, of the evils of communist China, and attacking them, as we’re doing in Nicaragua today, with an army that was being launched against them to parachute in and boat in and destabilize the country. And this led us directly into the Korean war.
Posted by: denk | Feb 11 2024 3:08 utc | 312
CO2 is a way to control the Serfs-wake up people
“If you want to control the people, you have to control the CO2 – because everything we do in life, breathing, living, traveling, eating, and everything we do in life leads to CO2 emissions. And if you can control the CO2, you can control the people,” Roos said.
He further explained that the ultimate control comes when globalists connect people’s digital identities to the central bank’s digital currency.
Bigtree responded: “So much of this [globalist takeover of the West] was really fast-tracked during Covid.” He pointed out that WEF branded the Covid era as the “Great Reset.”
We have cited 1,600 scientists, including two Nobel laureates, who have stated in a letter: “There is no climate emergency.” But under the guise of an imminent climate disaster, globalist elites, NGOs, governments, politicians, mega-corporations, and, of course, legacy media outlets push climate fear to usher in a reset of society.
The most critical line to remember from Roos’ interview is: “If you can control the CO2, you can control the people. ”
So, the next time you find yourself concerned about radical progressive politicians and rogue billionaires, like Bill Gates, advocating for ‘green’ policies, consider asking yourself: Are these new policies resulting in any loss of freedoms?”
Jane | Feb 9 2024 21:22 utc | 110–
Your observations on the lack of proper preparation for this task are the best IMO on the thread so far. In a way, my whole substack since I started it last July is prep for the interview, at least all the Russian related articles are. I even did my own very short one article prep piece for my readers. But it’s done now and the next interviewer now has several examples of what to do and what not to do. As I replied to comments at my substack, the questions I’d have asked are very different and probably would have mostly ignored the SMO, but that’s me.
Posted by: karlof1 | Feb 10 2024 0:04 utc | 147
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Agree with karlof1 on Jane’s exceptional take. In another thread she referred to TC’s fratboy’s shtick, which is a great characterization. The yellow striped tie fits that perfectly.
karlof1 should be the GoTo for Putin for many of us, including his substack.
I have managed do do without TC but I cannot do without b’s MoA and many of the barfies.
Posted by: Acco Hengst | Feb 11 2024 4:14 utc | 314
Tucker’s interview was impressive for two reasons:
1. You saw the MASSIVE decline in education and journalism manifested in Carlson. You interview one of the most powerful politicians ON EARTH and you clearly don’t know jack shit about MOST of the history of the country he’s governing. Just imagine John Pilger (R.I.P.) doing the same interview if you don’t understand what I mean.
No wonder Putin had to give Tucker a lecture about Russian history. And no wonder the US establishment was afraid of THIS interview – because THEIR current bunch of stool pigeons and brown nosers pretending to be “journalists” is even WORSE than Tucker Carlson!
2. Unfortunately, Putin underestimates the Western powers and populations in regards to intelligence, education and ethics by talking to them on the same level.
Most of the people on the West have been reduced to a bunch of morons by fake news and indoctrination. Led (or forced onwards) by the US which is run by a bunch of insane criminals (think Bill Gates, not the political class of underlings) with the mindset of petty criminals (thieves and robbers). A land that keeps most of its OWN people on the level of Gilligan islanders while terrorising the whole world.
While many Europeans and others might have appreciated the high level of education and entertainment it’s shocking that most Americans will ONLY listen to the bits that fake news “serves” them – strictly within the confines of current propaganda.
And the ONLY language the degenerate Western terror regime understands at this point is MORE violence and MORE bombs. They didn’t learn the lesson in Afghanistan, they won’t learn it in Ukraine and Palestine. Only when their own place is burned down to the ground will they learn. And then it will be – most likely – too late for all of us.
Posted by: Zed’sDead | Feb 11 2024 5:15 utc | 315
Russia should invest further in local semiconductor manufacturing. $38 billion invested is sufficient but more must be done soon. Getting fabrication equipment by whatever means from the Netherlands should be a top priority.
Posted by: Jason | Feb 10 2024 0:41 utc | 155
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Yellen’s sanctions prevents the Netherlands from selling their gear.
The Russkies are no more lacking in talent and brainpower than he Chinese. We will find out soon enough what they are capable of. IMHO the precision optical and printing technology are well understood. Turning this into a productive manufacturing experience takes time. None of that crowd gives up easy.
Posted by: Acco Hengst | Feb 11 2024 5:20 utc | 316
Moonie | Feb 11 2024 0:32 utc | 300
I watched the start of the video re the vase being turned with the camera on the dial indicator. I skimmed a bit of the bullshit afterwards. At least they were honest enough to show the throw out on the dial indicator right at the start.
Only a few hours ago I watched an iron age shale bangle being created on a simple bough lathe.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 11 2024 5:41 utc | 317
the origins of precision https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNRnrn5DE58
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 11 2024 6:09 utc | 318
Zed’sDead | Feb 11 2024 5:15 utc | 312
You piece of effin trash. Interview Putin yourself. Have millions of people watch it and then come back. Gutter trash.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 11 2024 6:32 utc | 319
“Bottom line here is no Orban, no guarantee of Serbian access to Russian gas and petroleum products.”
Posted by: Tobias Cole | Feb 10 2024 14:58 utc | 229
This is not exactly correct. Or rather, it will be correct when Russia takes over Ukraine and reestablishes direct gas supples to Hungary. As things stand now, Hungary (and Serbia) depend on Turkey and Bulgaria to provide gas transit from Russia through Turk-stream pipeline.
Posted by: Pagan | Feb 11 2024 8:21 utc | 320
You piece of effin trash. Interview Putin yourself. Have millions of people watch it and then come back. Gutter trash.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 11 2024 6:32 utc | 316
Oh dear, H-US-bara has stolen Peter AU1’s name! As if he would ever consider an insult an “answer”.
Actually, most proper journalists – apart from the US government’s channels – would do a BETTER job than Tucker because at least THEY would know instantly what Putin was implying with the history lesson. Want a list?
But you didn’t even know who John Pilger was, fake Peter AU1.
There’s a debate btw – including some real Western journalists living in Russia – on Rumble. And they offered their own take. The reason while Tucker was allowed to interview Putin is because he reaches a wide audience in the West. Not because of his special COMPETENCE.
Because that very same Mr. Carlson wants to tell you next time that China remains the biggest thread. And he fully endorsed quite a lot of other SHIT the US have pulled off in recent years. Saulus not fully gone Paulus yet.
But in regard to worse alternatives… you certainly won’t see Jackson Hinkle interview Putin. Ever.
Posted by: Zed’s Dead | Feb 11 2024 9:26 utc | 321
Battle Hymn
IF YOU WANNA VOTE FOR WAR
YOU BETTER BE THE FIRST IN LINE
IF YOU WANNA BOMB THE FOLKS
AND STEAL THEIR STUFF WELL THATS A SIGN
YOURE NOT A WELCOME SAVIOUR
YOU’RE A PSYCHO GREEDY SWINE
AND IT’S TIME YOUR TIME WAS DONE
chorus
CIA THEY WANNA OWN YA
GONNA BOMB YA THEN REZONE YA
BRACE YOURSELF THEY GONNA BONE YA
CUZ THEY ARE THE GOOD GUISE
BE A MAN AND GET YOUR GUN
YOUR PROXY NAZIS HAD THEIR FUN
YOUR FRIENDS ARE OUT OF AMMO
PUTIN’S GOT THEM ON THE RUN
THE PETRODOLLAR’S DEAD
AND THE COUNTRY IS IN SHREDS
THE HEGEMON IS DONE
chorus
Ju S.A. THEY WANNA OWN YA
GONNA BOMB YA THEN REZONE YA
BRACE YOURSELF THEY GONNA BONE YA
CUZ THEY ARE THE GOOD GUISE
THEY ASSASINATE THE PRESIDENT
AND ANYONE THEY PLEASE
THEY ARE ROTTEN TO THE CORE
THEY ARE A TERMINAL DISEASE
THEY BOMB CHEAT AND STEAL THEN
BLAME THE RUSSIANS AND CHINESE
ITS TIME THEIR TIME WAS DONE
chorus…
THE FOLKS ARE GETTING ANGRY
INSURRECTION’S ON THE RISE
GONNA TAKE AWAY THEIR POWER
GONNA CUT THEM DOWN TO SIZE
TIME TO FACE THE JUDGMENT
OF THE ONES THEY’VE BRUTALIZED
THIS TIME THEIR TIME IS DONE
chorus…
THEY WANNA FEED US BUGS
AND REARRANGE OUR DNA
GENDERCIDE OUR KIDS AND
STERILIZE THE REST AWAY
THE USELESS EATERS GOT TOGETHER
AND SAID…..
FUCK THIS
Posted by: ld | Feb 11 2024 10:37 utc | 322
@ by: canuck | Feb 10 2024 18:57 utc | 264
“Killary still wields enormous power within the Dim Party, is undeniably popular among the folks that constitute the Party base, and she certainly talks and behaves with the conviction that it’s still her turn.”
Posted by: malenkov | Feb 10 2024 19:05 utc | 269
Yes the old ghoul still thinks she still can get the ring.
Posted by: stranger | Feb 10 2024 20:03 utc | 278
You are intellectually and emotionally vile.
All you do is rant ,never ever do you present a cogent argument or idea; just vague bigotry and hate..
And you wrap yourself in your apparent ’empathy’ for Gazans as you battle against the fictitious windmills and bigots while adding zero intellectual content to the forum.
You are a total waste of time.
Now that’s just cruel!
Posted by: malenkov | Feb 10 2024 21:04 utc | 282
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I like Henry James!
Posted by: Jane | Feb 11 2024 0:31 utc | 302
I read my first Henry James novel when I was about 12; it was ‘The Turn of the Screw’ (1898)which is a Gothic like horror story. I was at home alone reading on a couch. When I finished the book, it was early evening and dark- I was so terrified I couldn’t get off the couch to even pee till my parents came home ,
“PhD” is short for the traditional title of graduates “Doctor of Philosophy” (not Hdoctor of Pilosophy) and you don’t use an apostrophe when pluralizing word’s unless you’re making a point about it being incorrect. Should I stop there, or should I point out the errors of punctuation and grammar also?”
Posted by: Editor | Feb 11 2024 1:45 utc | 310
Why don’t you present a counter argument to the idea that CO2 is ‘bad’ rather than point out de minimus points.\?
Zed’s Dead
Armchair presidents, armchair generals and now armchair interviewers it seen are a dime a dozen. You are a nothing, a nobody, yet all you can do is denigrate someone who gets a message to millions. Putin was speaking mostly to an American audience.
He could have spoken instead to an intellectual type that might have ten or a thousand followers. What good is that?.
As per the after the interview video, Putin gave Carlson much to think about.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 11 2024 11:32 utc | 327
Moonie
I watched a few of his others videos and where he just points out certain things he is good, but he has this thing about craftsmanship requiring modern precision machines.
To give you an idea how quickly fine crafts can be lost to history, the last Damascus steel was made around the 1850s now nobody knows how to recreate it. One American came close managing to create a Damascus steel bar from ore from a Jordan mine. He got to that stage but then passed on.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 11 2024 11:40 utc | 328
Will de-dollarization cause the dollar to crash ?
Nope
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tlNHoVYIfRY
Very clear explanation in the link.
In layman tetms…
If somebody wants to do this and exchange $’s into any other currencies.
$——–> to any other currency.
Then this exchange needs to happen
$ <------- any other currency.
So the amount of $'s don't actually change just the name of who now owns them.
The ONLY WAY anybody can get rid of the $'s is by spending them. The tax destroys them and takes them out of existence and shreds them.
If you give somebody $100, they spend it which is taxed at 20%, leaving the next person with $80 as income. They then spend that $80 which is taxed at 20%, leaving the next person with $64 as income. And so on until the entire $100 disappears and creates $100 of extra tax. All without changing the tax rate one single percent
The result is lots of extra sales and income for people down the spending chain they wouldn't otherwise have received. It's a straightforward geometric progression.
Now give them $500 or $1000 and what happens ?
It is very simple. If You crank up the printing press you crank up the shredding machine to the same extent. $500 or $1000 will be collected as taxes eventually and shredded. Just as easy as $100. It is a very straightforward geometric progression.
So anybody who wants to get rid of their $'s, they need to spend them and they can only spend them on anything on sale in $'s.
Posted by: Echo Chamber | Feb 11 2024 12:30 utc | 329
“Will de-dollarization cause the dollar to crash ?”
Yes, the US dollar will e a fraction of its value by 2030.
If the amount of $’s in the world economy only get exchanged then it is just a massive game of pass the parcel. The names change of who actually holds them.
ONLY way to reduce the amount of $’s in the world economy is by spending them. Allow the shredding machine ( taxes) to destroy them.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tlNHoVYIfRY
Posted by: Echo Chamber | Feb 11 2024 12:37 utc | 331
Posted by: canuck | Feb 11 2024 12:33 utc | 330
You didn’t even watch the link did you ?
Or even challenge what it says and come up with a counter argument ?
As per usual Canuck, just regurgitated monetarist GROUPTHINK that is embedded in your head.
Posted by: Echo Chamber | Feb 11 2024 12:41 utc | 332
Yes, the US dollar will e a fraction of its value by 2030.
Posted by: canuck | Feb 11 2024 12:33 utc | 330
Is that another one from your nostradamus prophecies list like America will go bankrupt as nobody will buy the bonds or that massive recession that was supposed to happen since the 4th quarter of 2020 ?
Keep throwing them darts Canuck you will hit the dartboard eventually.
Posted by: Echo Chamber | Feb 11 2024 12:47 utc | 333
“Will de-dollarization cause the dollar to crash ?”
Yes, the US dollar will e a fraction of its value by 2030.”
Posted by: canuck | Feb 11 2024 12:33 utc | 330
“You didn’t even watch the link did you ?
Or even challenge what it says and come up with a counter argument ?
As per usual Canuck, just regurgitated monetarist GROUPTHINK that is embedded in your head.”
Posted by: Echo Chamber | Feb 11 2024 12:41 utc | 332
I gave my opinion on the subject: and I did it in two sentences unlike your bloviated, endless posts that regurgitate the same tired theme.
You should try brevity, Echo, it is the soul of clarity.
Posted by: canuck | Feb 11 2024 12:33 utc | 330
See that guy in the link you completely ignored Canuck. Mike has called EVERYTHING right during the last 4 years. I mean EVERYTHING !
While everybody else lost their heads and were talking out of their arse.
Don’t believe me ? Watch his videos they are there all of them his record is bang on the money.
Question: I know the answer even before I ask it. Confirmation bias and ideology. Ideologues just can’t think for themselves.
Why do you follow and still believe ideologues who got EVERYTHING wrong ?
Shouldn’t you be looking in a mirror and having a stern word with yourself ?
Posted by: Echo Chamber | Feb 11 2024 12:57 utc | 335
Echo Chamber
The problem with your theory of governments simply shredding tax revenue is that they also have to spend money. Salaries, infrastructure, military ect ect.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 11 2024 13:03 utc | 336
“I gave my opinion on the subject: and I did it in two sentences unlike your bloviated, endless posts that regurgitate the same tired theme.
You should try brevity, Echo, it is the soul of clarity.”
Posted by: canuck | Feb 11 2024 12:56 utc | 334
“See that guy in the link you completely ignored Canuck. Mike has called EVERYTHING right during the last 4 years. I mean EVERYTHING !
While everybody else lost their heads and were talking out of their arse.
Don’t believe me ? Watch his videos they are there all of them his record is bang on the money.
Question: I know the answer even before I ask it. Confirmation bias and ideology. Ideologues just can’t think for themselves.
Why do you follow and still believe ideologues who got EVERYTHING wrong ?
Shouldn’t you be looking in a mirror and having a stern word with yourself ?”
Posted by: Echo Chamber | Feb 11 2024 12:57 utc | 335
I see you have discarded ‘brevity’ suggestion.
Have a good day.
Yes the old ghoul still thinks she still can get the ring.
Posted by: canuck | Feb 11 2024 11:02 utc | 323
Hillary is going to be really pissed off if Kamala gets to be the first female President instead.
Posted by: Bemildred | Feb 11 2024 13:10 utc | 338
Posted by: canuck | Feb 11 2024 12:56 utc | 334
You didn’t give your own opinion at all. Ideologues lead you by the nose. It has been obvious for months now. You regurgitate their GROUPTHINK!
You would have challenged what was being said and debunked it if you had an opinion of your own.
A 30% drop or 50% of the $ is nothing. In fact if you run twin deficits it always puts downward pressure on the $.
It has dropped from 160 to 72 before and the ground didn’t fall in or the sky open up. Nothing bad happened.
I’ll repeat the question. As the question Canuck wasn’t will the $ drop. The question was will de-dollarization crash /destroy the $ ?
Nope it won’t. As explained in the link.
Posted by: Echo Chamber | Feb 11 2024 13:14 utc | 339
When Empires fall their currency devalues.
In 1945 the British Empire was trading at $5 to the pound: by 1950 that became $2.60 to the pound.(1)
Same depreciation happened with Roman currency (the denarius) when the Roman Empire fell; Germany’s currency was worthless by 1923 after her Emperor abdicated and they lost WW1.
Such that it is undeniable that an Empire’s currency will devalue once the Empire falls.
The US Empire is flailing: in my opinion by 2030 its currency, the dollar, like every other failing Empire’s currency through history , will seriously devalue.
“While it’s unlikely the time frame of your FX charts or analysis spans the last 200 years, we’re taking a look at the tumultuous historical relationship between the Pound Sterling and US Dollar (GBP/USD) which has seen the GBP depreciate from $5 to the current level of $1.29, a massive 74.2% decline.” (1)
1. https://www.exchangerates.org.uk/articles/1325/the-200-year-pound-to-dollar-exchange-rate-history-from-5-in-1800s-to-todays.html
Posted by: canuck | Feb 11 2024 12:56 utc | 334
It reminds me 100% of the Brexit vote when the £ dropped from roughly 1.50 to 1.12.
The £ is finished, it is over for the UK, the UK will be babkrupt. The ideologues said.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, groupthink, groupthink, GROUPTHINK !
Absolutely nothing bad happened to the UK. Life went on as normal and if you didn’t read any news at all, you wouldn’t even have noticed any difference to your life at all.
Meanwhile exporters to the UK were going bankrupt all over the place. Irish exporters were in a dire state.
De- Dollarisation suffers from the exact same type of psychosis wrapped up in gold standard, fixed exchange rate GROUPTHINK! Ideological nonsense.
As if we all live in pre August 17, 1998 Russia.
Here:
https://k.web.umkc.edu/keltons/ECON501/Mosler.htm
Posted by: Echo Chamber | Feb 11 2024 13:33 utc | 341
Yes the old ghoul still thinks she still can get the ring.
Posted by: canuck | Feb 11 2024 11:02 utc | 323
“Hillary is going to be really pissed off if Kamala gets to be the first female President instead.”
Posted by: Bemildred | Feb 11 2024 13:10 utc | 338
Well my idea is that even the neo cons know that Harris would be as bad or worse than senile Joe such that the PTB (not Joe Biden or any elected official for that matter) will put their heads together with Democratic appointed Supreme Court judges get one to resign then parachute Harris onto the supreme court.
Then Biden appoints Newsome or Hillary or Michelle Obama for VP then shortly after the PTB put old Joe Biden down as he resigns for health reasons.
I don’t see how the Dems beat Trump in November-even if they put him in jail he will prevail. Maybe they will shoot him or, perhaps, he is ‘controlled opposition”.
I wish I knew.
Posted by: Echo Chamber | Feb 11 2024 13:33 utc | 341
I grow weary of your tedious nonsense.
Kindly please show me of an Empire anywhere in the world throughout history where their currency didn’t depreciate after their Empire fell?
I am eagerly waiting your response.
I don’t see how the Dems beat Trump in November-even if they put him in jail he will prevail. Maybe they will shoot him or, perhaps, he is ‘controlled opposition”.
I wish I knew.
Posted by: canuck | Feb 11 2024 13:42 utc | 342
I think Newsome, but predicting things in US politics is a losing game. Too many people rigging the game. I do not see “Biden” being the next nominee. He may not even make it that far. He cannot beat Trump again, fair or foul.
Newsome because he is young, not well-known, and Pelosi’s nephew. He has been very unimpressive as governor, but has not be-shit himself too much, either. A tool. Trudeau, US version.
Kamala only gets in if Joe leaves office early.
Posted by: Bemildred | Feb 11 2024 14:17 utc | 344
@Canuck…. i enjoy it as well.Kinda the reason I asked him to bring it here where its appropriate. Alas he does not. Thanks anyways moonie. I totally catch ur drift.
Posted by: Tannenhouser | Feb 11 2024 14:21 utc | 345
Posted by: canuck | Feb 11 2024 13:47 utc | 343
Please show me the word context and what type of currency they were using. Was it fixed, floating, pegged, Or on the gold standard etc, etc
Not that it matters to you, You are dumb enough to believe think they are all the same. Or you wouldn’t have asked such a dumb question.
Name me any empire that collapsed under fully sovereign free floating exchange rates. Is just as stupid as what you just asked me.
It is like your gold bet challenge. Childish nonsense with no understanding apart from ideological nonsense.Just as bad as your, there will be nobody to buy the bonds bullshit.
Or to really make your head explode. Why would any empire who ran huge trade surpluses want a strong currency anyway ?
Idiot !
The ‘Widowmaker’ And Yen Crash Theories
http://www.bondeconomics.com/2014/12/the-widowmaker-and-yen-crash-theories.html#more
We all know where you would have been on that trade. Living in a cardboard box under your nearest freeway. 100% you would have lost your shirt. All the ideologues did.
Debunk what Mike says it was in English after all. Admit it Canuck you wouldn’t know where to start. Ideology is all you have got. A list of stupid and inane child like challenges. To go with your nostradamus right wing Monetarists prophecies that haven’t called anything right.
C’mon Canuck who are you trying to kid here. You can’t even describe correctly what the huge differences are between what the UK used when they had an empire to what they use now today. You can’t even describe the gold standard accurately or the balance of payments of fixed exchange rates.
So jog on back to kindergarten and your ideological blogs filled with ideologues that wouldn’t know the difference between their arse and their elbow. That lead you by the nose.
Science – Make a prediction, then check the real data to see if the prediction was correct. If not come up with new theory and test again.
Ideologues – Make a prediction, then check the real data to see if the prediction was correct. If way off the mark lie, cheat, deceive and use propaganda and confirmation bias to change real data to reflect the prediction. Or completely dis own the prediction and say you didn’t make it in the first place. Or if all else fails just blame the left.
A clown in a travelling circus makes more sense than you do Canuck. At least the clown recognises when his boots are way too big for his feet.
Posted by: Echo Chamber | Feb 11 2024 14:25 utc | 346
Trump, in his unfortunate vulgarity, says one thing, that is reported completely as a something else by the main press.
“Trump says he would encourage Russia to attack NATO allies: I said I would not protect our NATO allies. In fact, I would encourage Russia to do whatever the hell they want.”
They forgot “if”, as he was talking about the shared costs for NATO protection racket 2% upping it to 3%, which is a clear sign.already now, that Biden is gone and there comes Kamala, which is going to be gravely entertaining.
If Nuland went with the words, F.EU, Trump will literally do it.
He hates currently everyone in EU, except Orban and some few others, and they know it and he knows that they know it. That is why such babbling about.
I think a full retard is not yet achieved, but I see it cooking it slowly within EU politicians, especially.
They are ready for war ..well, in 5-10 years and counting on the UK, as that makes them strong and enhances the overall European security. Yes unbeatable Poland with UK security guarantees. I thought exactly the same happened 80 years ago.
In reality, anything they can try to do in the next 5 years ends at:
“Churchill. This episode – in reverse”.
“We will fight them alone, broke, with shovels and swim towards UK, if need arouses.”
And still no surrender or a dialog proposals? Interesting.
Posted by: whirlX | Feb 11 2024 14:33 utc | 347
From some of the rubbish on the previous open thread.
The advanced technology required to create a telescope lens. (Section of perfect sphere) Starts at about the five minute mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snz7JJlSZvw
The advanced technology required to core drill granite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjN5hLuVtH0
The advanced technology required to saw granite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeS5lrmyD74
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 11 2024 14:36 utc | 348
“@Canuck…. i enjoy it as well.Kinda the reason I asked him to bring it here where its appropriate. Alas he does not. Thanks anyways moonie. I totally catch ur drift.”
Posted by: Tannenhouser | Feb 11 2024 14:21 utc | 345
OK, that makes sense.
Have a good morning.
thought I had put that in the new thread. Good enough here though.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 11 2024 14:43 utc | 350
Posted by: Echo Chamber | Feb 11 2024 14:25 utc | 346
I asked you one simple question: “Kindly please show me an example of an Empire currency not devaluing significantly after the the Empire fell.”
How did you answer the query?
By saying, “A clown in a travelling circus makes more sense than you do Canuck. At least the clown recognises when his boots are way too big for his feet.”
Your repartee only exhibits the paucity of your intellect as well as your your civility. I will not reply in kind-denigrating you as I have won the argument and I am civil; unlike yourself.
In an argument when one of the parties stoops to crude ad hominens, as you undenably have, that party has lost the argument.
It reminds me of when you ran away from my proposed wager when you trashed gold but would not bet against it with any commodity, stock or bond.
You lost whatever credibility you with me had after that shameful incident; today’s ad hominen fest confirms my earlier judgement.
I feel sorry for you-clearly you are suffering some spiritual pain that drives you to act malicipously against persons than objectively arguing the ideas, issues in the argument.
Hope your pain recedes or gets resolved.
“When an Empire falls its currency significantly devalues.
The US is an Empire.
The US Empire is falling, hence, the US dollar currency will get significantly devalued.”
No one has yet shown even one example of an Empire falling and its currency not cratering so the syllogism stands.
See, brevity is clarity; others will post mountains of sophist rubbish that only obfuscates the material as well as squandering the reader’s time.
Posted by: denk | Feb 11 2024 2:47 utc | 311
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It is a terrible thing to have done to incite the Indonesians to rise and slaughter the Chinese.”
To Chinese readers….
It wouldnt be the first time, the ENA has been stalking Han Chinese since time immemorial.
1959
CIA/MI6 ask Tibetan recruits
Do you wanna kill some Han Chinese ?
1962
JFK emboldened Nehru to contront China/
Gregory Clark
Looks like the Indians started it
Washington/London
So what ?
Its our wet dream come true, Indians/Chinese going at each others throat !
CIA bullhorn screamed
Chinese invasion !!
1963
Bandung anti Chinese riots
[warm up for 1965]
which embarrassed not just the PKI, but Sukarno himself. Chomsky and Herman report that “Army-inspired anti-Chinese programs that took place in West Java in 1959 were financed by U.S. contributions to the local army commander”;
2008
CIA/MI6 trained Tibetan militants massacred Han
No let up…
2009
BLoodbath in Xinjiang
2014
2018
2019
.
.
.
.
That was in China alone.
Elswhere,
Chinese have been murdered in cold blood,
Africa, SEA, Afpak, five Stans….by CIA/MI6 affiliated ‘moslem terrorists’, until this very day. [1]
The Jakarta Template
this was a model operation that should be copied elsewhere in the world.
GR
The success of the Jakarta Method was not confined to Indonesia, although the scale was smaller elsewhere. Bevins explains that “in the years 1945 – 1990, a lose network of US-backed anti-communist extermination programs emerged around the world, and they carried out mass murder in at least 22 countries”.
tHATS for 1945 – 1990 alone, this stat already hopelessly outdated,.
Meanwhile….
They keep chanting….
We dindunuthin,
These are all Israel/Jew’s wars,
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[1]
https://tinyurl.com/ybkdxe83
needs major updates !!!
Posted by: denk | Feb 11 2024 15:18 utc | 353
by: Peter AU1 | Feb 11 2024 14:36 utc | 348
The advanced technology required to saw granite.
Cutting the rock deep 4 mm an hour? That is very stupid. Power tools old Egyptians had, were probably driven by the water, redirected to a mill. A stone cutter mills I can believe, but not this manual work. Did use some alloy and a wet sand combo sure, but at a high speed.
Current stone cutter tradition and methods are brought by Arab migration, but certainly technologies got mixed, but never properly transferred. Also not from Ethiopia, Nubia and further down the Nile, where also some stone marvels exist, as all over the Africa too.
We could also fly to the moon apparently only 50 or so years ago, and now we can’t.
Posted by: whirlX | Feb 11 2024 15:20 utc | 354
Posted by: whirlX | Feb 11 2024 15:20 utc | 354
well, the US funded that for the propaganda value. not so much value anymore, though China seems to see some concrete benefits, but who knows.
Posted by: pretzelattack | Feb 11 2024 15:25 utc | 355
The issue the ideologues suffer from is an aggregation issue. If you hold $100, nobody knows if you are saving that or intending to spend it.
What we really need is the amount of bank liabilities that have materially changed their ownership tag over a period of time. Then we would know what ‘Vt’ is. But we don’t have that, so monetarists try to guess – assuming all M is in motion if it fits in a particular classification. Hence all the M1, M2 nonsense. Those categorisations are wrong. Plain and simple because we never know what ‘ Vt’ is.
I don’t have to spend a demand deposit. It can sit there for months. I don’t even need to ‘optimise’ it, because unlike economists my life doesn’t revolve around a belief in interest rates ruling everything.
I just keep it there because I like the size of it, or I’m scared of the future. Or a bit of both.
Ideologues say nothing very much – other than lamenting
that they can’t work out what money is locked in place and which money is in circulation because we now have interest payments on demand deposits and time deposits that can be cashed on demand.
The monetarists are stuck in the 1960s. Finance has evolved so that nothing is locked in place – which means you can’t manipulate it to speed up and slow down the economy.
Instead we need to shift the stabilisation policy to the market for labour – where we can do something to speed up and slow down the economy – The Job Guarantee.
https://new-wayland.com/blog/how-the-jg-controls-inflation/
Monetarism is a busted flush due to financial liquidity innovation. Ideologues can’t handle it.
1. Didn’t know that the govt gave the primary dealers the funds for the auctions.
2. Didn’t know the govt could just buy the bonds themselves.
3. Can’t describe the accounting of the gold standard properly.
4. Confused the balance of payments of fixed exchange rates with floating rates.
5. Use the wrong assumptions with MV= PY when calculating inflation.
A hundred other things they are completely ignorant about.
With absolutely zero reflection of how they misunderstood these things. No ” Sorry they missed that ” No sorry ” I need to go back to the data to see what they missed ” No looking at the government accounts to see if it matches their predictions. No interest in learning whstsoever.
They just come back after getting so many things wrong and talk as if they have both knowledge and authority. As if they never said these things and if they never got it wrong in the first place.
A head doctor would say they are either a psychopath or complete sociopath or both.
They don’t even watch or read links.They just shout what they think is knowledge with an authority on a soap box of ignorance, as if what went before they got right. When after it was debated they were 100% wrong. They NEVER reflect on what they got wrong. Blame the left, who have never been in power for the last 50 years. For things they themselves, the right wing ideologues got wrong and didn’t even understand these things in the first place.
Again a head doctor would say that is a mental illness disorder. Or not knowing their feet are too small for their shoes.
Posted by: Echo Chamber | Feb 11 2024 15:42 utc | 356
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 11 2024 11:32 utc | 327
Nein, Peter AU 1, die viele Lobhudelei, die Dir zuteil wird, schadet ganz offensichtlich. Denn zwischenzeitlich führst dich hier in der Konsequenz immer unmöglicher auf. Gehört Dir die Seite schon? Bist wohl schon einer der Chefs?
Nein, diskussionsfähig und -würdig bist Du so nicht mehr. Und Du hältst dich – übrigens auch schon länger – nicht mehr an die Regeln dieser Seite, wenn du die Leute beleidigst.
Komm vom hohen Ross herunter, Du bist net besser wie wir. Oder verschwind. Tschüss! Überhaupt net schad um so einen Armleuchter.
Sorry for German. Some assholes need the proper language when their ego is out of control.
Posted by: Roter Wiener | Feb 11 2024 15:45 utc | 357
Roter Wiener: Meinst du, Deutsch sei die für Arschlöcher am besten geeignete Sprache? Okay…
Posted by: malenkov | Feb 11 2024 16:15 utc | 358
Perhaps; but the moment in world events made this interview *important*; so much so that any interviewer would be rendered entirely secondary!
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Excerpt
Putin should never have agreed to be interviewed by this silly person TC, what an ignorant and pompous zero he is. Making faces like an idiot. While Putin had dignity and patience towards him. An idiot.
Posted by: stranger | Feb 9 2024 17:59 utc | 66 ~ open neither/nor thread 2024–042
to me
Posted by: Ben Trovata | Feb 11 2024 16:16 utc | 359
by: Roter Wiener | Feb 11 2024 15:45 utc | 357
It must sound gorgeous in a bierkeller in Muenchen, but not very suitable for a Cafe Ritter’s discrete masonic/spy discussion.
I like Aussie Peter, he makes many good points. What is the issue at the end? Please do not insult, as we are in those times where additional aggression adds unnecessary load.
If diplomacy is not working, try humor.
Posted by: whirlX | Feb 11 2024 16:27 utc | 360
by Zed’s Dead | Feb 11 2024 9:26 utc | 321
I think that American media landscape, including Napoletano, Redacted and more or less all of them, is adopted to an average, well off household’s common education and understanding.
They all certainly show lack of the knowledge and are seldom correctly connecting stuff at the certain depth.
The info is simplified.
The European side, is a bit more detailed, but it lacks social dynamics, and a power of deliverance.
None of those people would do better than Tucker.
What quality would be Oliver Stone delivering, with the information from Putin? Probably the best possible output, but he would not have such rapid populist reaction, as Tucker did.
All that was so well played, and it hit precisely where it was aimed at.
A message was simple:
‘Russia entered Russian land, to protect Russians living on it. Any questions?’
Right now, nobody on the planet could push it in a volume of 200 million views in a day except Tucker.
Maybe Musk or Trump, but I doubt that.
Posted by: whirlX | Feb 11 2024 16:53 utc | 361
by: Peter AU1 | Feb 11 2024 14:36 utc | 348
The advanced technology required to saw granite.
Cutting the rock deep 4 mm an hour? That is very stupid. Power tools old Egyptians had, were probably driven by the water, redirected to a mill. A stone cutter mills I can believe, but not this manual work. Did use some alloy and a wet sand combo sure, but at a high speed.
Current stone cutter tradition and methods are brought by Arab migration, but certainly technologies got mixed, but never properly transferred. Also not from Ethiopia, Nubia and further down the Nile, where also some stone marvels exist, as all over the Africa too.
We could also fly to the moon apparently only 50 or so years ago, and now we can’t.
Posted by: whirlX | Feb 11 2024 15:20 utc | 354
New history revisions illustrates that the Egyptians probably did not create the pyramids or the Sphinx.
A geologist, not an archeologist, examined the Sphinx in the early 1990’s and noticed severe water erosion (the stupid archeologists missed)on the Sphinx.
Well the last time it rained where the Sphinx resides was 9,000 tears ago. So the pyramid, Sphinx aren’t 5,000 years old as the old guard of archeologists claim-its at least 10,000 years old.
Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAk8MagnDsY
“Moonie
I watched a few of his others videos and where he just points out certain things he is good, but he has this thing about craftsmanship requiring modern precision machines.
To give you an idea how quickly fine crafts can be lost to history, the last Damascus steel was made around the 1850s now nobody knows how to recreate it. One American came close managing to create a Damascus steel bar from ore from a Jordan mine. He got to that stage but then passed on.”
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 11 2024 11:40 utc | 328
I visited a friend in Ecuador in 2009. We went up the mountains one day (warning-never drink alcohol over 6,000 friggin ft) There was an old Inca temple of which part of it was destroyed by an earthquake in the 1850s. The Brits were the Hegemon in Ecuador at that time so they repaired the fallen wall.
When I examined the old wall stone temple you could not get a credit card through the rocks -it wasn’t machined-and where the Brits had repaired it wasn’t a bad job but if it were an IQ test the Inca Wall was like 180 and the British part a 95. I asked the local archeologist who was at the site and he had no explanation for the Inca technique to produce those pristine walls..
You would think those bloodthirsty , greedy Spaniards would have been smart enough t have preserved those Inca craftsmen and their skill-alas it was all rapine.
I believe Atlantis existed and much of the technology, like the pyramids was their work. Check out Graham Hancock and his stuff.
Posted by: Scorpion | Feb 10 2024 16:19 utc | 242
Thanks for the info which I shall check out.
A small correction: I did not say Dugin was a Trotskite, but that his popularity was *supported by modern (meaning neo-) Trotskites*, ie, ideological political communists whose life experience stops at thinking and talking about the way they’d LIKE the world to be, rather than working to see it thusways … eg, like Zhirinovsky, even the centrist Putin. To me, and I’m no academic, he’s in the same camp as Chomsky — a perceptive thinker, but a hopeless dreamer; a constant critic of the political status quo (from their wholly leftist viewpoint) but not in ANY POSITION to ever effect any political change. And do Russian people read him??? Ha, only in specific uni courses.
Posted by: Jake.Blanchard | Feb 11 2024 22:21 utc | 364
I recently read a suggestion somewhere that Sotomayor should retire from the Supreme Court. It must have been a Democrat making the suggestion because the reason given was that a younger Democrat should take her place on the court. It didn’t occur to me then, but, reading the discussion here, it occurs to me now that an obvious benefit for the Democrats would be that Kamala Harris could be appointed to the empty court seat, thus removing the problem of her being the vice president.
So some Democrats appear to be thinking of how to get rid of their Harris problem.
Posted by: Lysias | Feb 11 2024 22:24 utc | 365
“I recently read a suggestion somewhere that Sotomayor should retire from the Supreme Court. It must have been a Democrat making the suggestion because the reason given was that a younger Democrat should take her place on the court. It didn’t occur to me then, but, reading the discussion here, it occurs to me now that an obvious benefit for the Democrats would be that Kamala Harris could be appointed to the empty court seat, thus removing the problem of her being the vice president.”
So some Democrats appear to be thinking of how to get rid of their Harris problem.
Posted by: Lysias | Feb 11 2024 22:24 utc | 365
Yes the Dems have to parachute Harris out of VP before getting rid of Alzheimer Joe. Same thing happened when Nixon resigned they got Spiro Agnew out then Nixon appointed Gerald Ford (who agreed, beforehand, to pardon Nixon which cost Ford the election in 76 to Carter)then Nixon resigned and Ford appointed an arch Anglo/Zionist, Nelson Rockefeller as VP.
The Emperor wears no clothes.
Was there such a metaphor to the above than Joe Biden; anyone with an IQ over 62 sees he is non mentos compos
In my opinion most of the posters have been much too critical of Tucker.
Yes, Oliver Stone’s interview was certainly much better-he is much more well read than Tucker, he is a screenwriter not a reporter, and he had months to prepare for the project. Tucker is a reporter had many things going on yet , I agree, he should have been much better prepared.
But wait, he’ll catch up he’s not a genius , he does possess that Protestant working ethic.
Yes, he has CIA contacts. The problem is most posters say he’s “CIA” . It’s not that simple. There are factions in the CIA, Tucker’s family connection are with the ‘patriot’ faction albeit a minority one. It would be wise to support Tucker’s faction as if they can overpower the neo conned , City faction we might return to a more sensible foreign policy as it seemed they have now grabbed the reins.
Hillary is going to be really pissed off if Kamala gets to be the first female President instead.
Posted by: Bemildred | Feb 11 2024 13:10 utc | 338
Yes, but what would be best for the USA?
Kamala or Hillary? You can argue both ways, I’d say they are an even match.
Posted by: Passerby | Feb 12 2024 22:16 utc | 369
Yes, but what would be best for the USA?
Kamala or Hillary? You can argue both ways, I’d say they are an even match.
Posted by: Passerby | Feb 12 2024 22:16 utc | 369
Thinking it over, I don’t see any reason to pick one over the other, so yeah. They are different, but not in a good way.
I wonder if Joe will get angry with her for speaking up?
Posted by: Bemildred | Feb 12 2024 22:27 utc | 370
Just posted – William Schryver, in his blog “imetatronink,” eloquently analyzes the interview between Tucker Carlson and Vladimir Putin, and accurately emphasizes the duplicitous and treacherous nature of the so-called journalist. Tucker has CIA written all over him. Fortunately, the towering intellect in the room that day fashioned Tucker into a broom and proceeded to sweep the demented West into the trash bin where it belongs. I agree with William; VVP is a preeminent statesman with no modern compare.
Posted by: Matthew | Feb 14 2024 4:59 utc | 371