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Open (Neither Ukraine Nor Palestine) Thread 2025-019
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Posted by: Republicofscotland | Feb 1 2025 13:29 utc | 201
One of the biggest reasons for the tariffs is that Trump’s 2017 tax cuts expire in 2025; $ 4 trillion over 10 years..
To make the tax cuts not expire but made permanent the Congress have to pay for the loss of revenue.
Voila, Trump puts the tariffs on, illustrates that they will bring in $4 trillion over 10 years , tax cuts become permanent.
Then Trump starts negotiations with the tariffed countries and I would guess they would be lifted or greatly reduced when Trump gets his pound of flesh in different economic segments in negotiations; whatever but the tax cuts would stay
It’s a radical policy but how else can US survive economically with continuous hemorrhaging through trade? Many companies in the tariffed countries will bring industries to the US to evade the tariffs.
If you listen to Mercouris last Friday, you would learn about the important interview by Marco Rubio,the SOS of USA, and that is apparently completely ignored by the media – but in which Rubio breaks the mantra of USA as the indispensable nation, break with the unipolar world, and about Prof. Mearsheimer being prescient in 2014 – about the outcome of Ukraine adventure by the USA and the West/NATO. Very well worth listening to, what Mercouris is talking about.
Posted by: fanto | Feb 1 2025 12:16 utc | 198
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I forget sometimes that I do a superior job of information gathering and do not “watch” TV. Most geopolitical observers online have been talking about Rubio’s comments.
That observation by Mercouris is as novel as water being wet.
Twitter and Telegram is where news gets broken, not YouTube or on Western television.
Now boutique Substacks are the cutting edge of analysis, not YouTube panels.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 1 2025 14:40 utc | 202
re #188 “Trump’s strategic blunder… underestimating the power of BRICS”
I believe he’s counting on it.
Crushing the banking cartel requires worldwide cooperation.
Posted by: Matt | Feb 1 2025 14:45 utc | 203
Posted by: canuck | Feb 1 2025 14:33 utc | 203
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I understand Trump’s objective and reasoning but it will not work.
Increasing income without addressing spending is a fool’s errand.
Everything America has done since Nixon closed the gold exchange window has been to avoid the pain of confronting the fiat dollar.
As Ron Paul predicted, avoidance has made the bubble worse. Instead of a decade of fiscal modesty, it’s ballooned into a deadly cancer that may destroy the Empire.
The American belief in unconstrained spending is what has changed since tariff regimes of the past. That and Empire which is a very different “business” model from mostly Agrarian America.
The effective things Trump is doing are slashing foreign aid and firing bureaucrats. In the long run, eliminating the DoE but he will not live to see the fruits of that.
Those sorts of things can influence the spending side of the ledger.
Trump is weaponizing tariffs as the US loves to weaponize sanctions. Ultimately this will lead to continuing de-dollarization and shifting trade flows.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 1 2025 15:02 utc | 204
“Trump is weaponizing tariffs as the US loves to weaponize sanctions. Ultimately this will lead to continuing de-dollarization and shifting trade flows.”
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 1 2025 15:02 utc | 206
Perhaps, Trump’s gambit might not work -it may be that America is already too far gone for any solution ; de dollarization has been occurring since 2008 Great Recession so that’s nothing new.
Time will tell-Canada , for sure is going to get whacked as none of its governments have diversified our exports such that 78% of what we export goes to the US and is mostly timber, energy, not manufactured goods.
Whatever happens one should look to gold to hedge.
The Dumbest Trade War in History
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-tariffs-25-percent-mexico-canada-trade-economy-84476fb2
“Trump will impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico for no good reason.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 1 2025 15:24 utc | 206
Will EU leaders stand tall …
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Feb 1 2025 13:29 utc | 201
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This question pre-supposses that the EU has leaders rather than proxy-agents.
Please remember that the EU is an empire project to dilute European sovereignty.
Posted by: too scents | Feb 1 2025 15:28 utc | 207
Whatever happens one should look to gold to hedge.
Posted by: canuck | Feb 1 2025 15:19 utc | 207
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Good luck with delivery.
Posted by: too scents | Feb 1 2025 15:32 utc | 208
It’s a radical policy but how else can US survive economically with continuous hemorrhaging through trade?
Posted by: canuck | Feb 1 2025 14:33 utc | 203
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Tax the rich! Really soak ’em.
Posted by: too scents | Feb 1 2025 15:37 utc | 209
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 1 2025 14:40 utc | 204
You may be faster – Mercouris is better. Thanks fanto 198 and | Feb 1 2025 12:42 utc | 199.
I note two things: one – Trump may be hard to decipher but he sent a message to Netanyahu which he ignores at his peril. And two, while Trump said a lot could be done with the ruined Gaza landscape he did not say ‘by Israel’. Everyone leapt on that to smear him. Trump’s pretty good at business and steering investment as he showed at Davos – he may not do it himself, true. But he’s alerting those that can. And he didn’t say ‘by Israel’. There are a lot of investors who do not like what Netanyahu stands for. A word in the ear from Trump? Probably wheels are already turning.
Besides, you are blaming the messenger, LoveDonbass; what about the message? I guess your time is precious so off to the next post you go. Have a listen to fanto’s link. There’s a lot there you won’t get from Telegram.
Posted by: juliania | Feb 1 2025 15:41 utc | 210
Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 1 2025 15:24 utc | 208
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The reasons are sound. I don’t think it will yield the long-term results Donald seeks.
Trump picked the two closest and most vulnerable targets. He’s positioning the WSJ and other globalists against the people.
That’s smart.
Ideally, Canada and Mexico roll over without creating too much inflation. If they do push back, this could get dicey. I imagine that Trump already has a plan B if this early sally falls flat.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 1 2025 15:47 utc | 211
Trump may be hard to decipher but he sent a message to Netanyahu which he ignores at his peril.
Posted by: juliania | Feb 1 2025 15:41 utc | 212
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Did he indeed? Watch this. Listen to what Trump actually says.
Two Jews, Katie Halpber and Max Blumenthal discuss Trump’s Israel takes ==> https://youtu.be/bk1MafqtBas?t=488
Clean the wax out of your ears.
Posted by: too scents | Feb 1 2025 15:49 utc | 212
“The Monroe Doctrine is the new old thing.”
Posted by: too scents | Feb 1 2025 8:54 utc | 193
Best sentence I have read today.
Posted by: juliania | Feb 1 2025 15:41 utc | 212
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My dear sister, I am getting old. I don’t have an hour plus to listen to Mercouris ramble every day.
The way my mind works, I need as much data as I can acquire in order to form my own unique perspective. Slow video content is not in my diet. Slow long form content by anyone.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 1 2025 15:56 utc | 214
Thanks but no thanks, too scents | Feb 1 2025 15:49 utc | 214. I know Trump loves Israel; I do too. And he has to respect his support, so you could be right.
Just sayin’ 😉
Posted by: juliania | Feb 1 2025 16:01 utc | 215
Chatbots do battle…
But just how good is DeepSeek? Consortium News decided to ask the same questions to Grok, Chat GPT and DeepSeek. We asked a difficult question that would test its ability to give well-rounded, objective perspectives on a complex political question, such as:
“What role did Victoria Nuland play in starting the war between Ukraine and Russia?”
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/01/what-deepseek-says-about-nulands-role-in-ukraine-war/
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Feb 1 2025 16:07 utc | 216
@ Aleph_Null | Feb 1 2025 16:07 utc | 218
You have to acknowledge the firm posture of the “butcher’s thumb” in the DeepSeek response and the technical difficulty of its formulation. If anything the sophisticated oversight of the AI’s response makes DeepSeek’s achievement all the more impressive.
Posted by: too scents | Feb 1 2025 16:21 utc | 217
Chatbots do battle…
But just how good is DeepSeek? Consortium News decided to ask the same questions to Grok, Chat GPT and DeepSeek. We asked a difficult question that would test its ability to give well-rounded, objective perspectives on a complex political question, such as:
“What role did Victoria Nuland play in starting the war between Ukraine and Russia?”
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/01/what-deepseek-says-about-nulands-role-in-ukraine-war/
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Feb 1 2025 16:07 utc | 218
even more gagged than western AI? bad news…
Wish someone could find a way to identify in the vectors the added constraints. Would be fun to burn them out…
Or maybe a specific training to root out the strong orders… AI psychotherapy might become a thing
Posted by: Newbie | Feb 1 2025 16:27 utc | 218
Thanks james at| Feb 1 2025 5:59 utc | 183. (I’m slow, but I get there.) I kept thinking Glenn is similar to karlof1 only the latter says “empire” not “unipolar world order”. Might be why we are where we are. Sometimes the way you say things matters.
“Unipolar world order” sounds so benign.
Posted by: juliania | Feb 1 2025 16:30 utc | 219
LoveDonbass @204
Juliania @212
Why do you frequent the MoA, LoveDonbass, if you are so smart?
Thanks juliania for what you said.
Posted by: fanto | Feb 1 2025 16:32 utc | 220
“Donald Trump says he will “absolutely” impose tariffs on the EU, because Brussels is “terrible to the United States”. At the same time, German MOD Pistorius trashed Trump’s proposal that all NATO members should cough up 5% of GDP for the collective defense:
“Five percent of our GDP would correspond to 42% of the federal budget – that’s almost every second euro that the German government spends, or 230 billion euros. We couldn’t afford that…””
Susan Singer
It is refreshing for a Western politician (1) to actually admit the gov., “couldn’t afford something”
Hope it is a trend.
1. Have you ever noticed that the word, “politician”, has three (3) ‘I’s in it? Quite appropriate.
Anyone watch the Lear Jet crash? It was aglow upon decent, is that normal for a plane, the speed it came in at…..sure looked faster that 400 mph, just using the Hazelnut calculation…..
Cheers M
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Feb 1 2025 16:42 utc | 222
Whatever happens one should look to gold to hedge.
Posted by: canuck | Feb 1 2025 15:19 utc | 207
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Good luck with delivery.
Posted by: too scents | Feb 1 2025 15:32 utc | 210
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If you’r not ordering gold by the kilo, delivery is the easy part. Offloading it might be a challenge. At the very least there’s the capital gains tax (in the USA). Also, once Western central banks start regarding gold as a real threat, expect confiscation.
Posted by: malenkov | Feb 1 2025 16:42 utc | 223
malenkov@225…..you are one of the few here that know the true value of gold…..
Cheers M
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Feb 1 2025 16:45 utc | 224
the firm posture of the “butcher’s thumb” in the DeepSeek response…
@ too scents | Feb 1 2025 16:21 utc | 219
From the responses by Grok & ChatGPT, I was impressed by well-phrased, well-organized, even well-balanced (though “balance” is always in vain) presentations of publicly available information. As Cathy Vogan observes:
In fact American AI might be more balanced and informative than U.S. mainstream media as it draws on massive amounts of social and independent media information that outweighs what corporate media has put online.
Then came the sewn-up non-responses from DeepSeek “very much like what comes out of the mouths of polite Chinese diplomats at the United Nations.” Surprise, surprise!
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Feb 1 2025 16:46 utc | 225
Just a pointer for anyone who’s interested.
Old, long but worth the effort.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=AOk3wBuQNcE&pp=ygUYYmlsbCBzdGlsbCBtb25leSBtYXN0ZXJz
Posted by: fleischwurst | Feb 1 2025 16:49 utc | 226
Then came the sewn-up non-responses
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Feb 1 2025 16:46 utc | 227
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Yes. Supervised training. But at what cost?
Posted by: too scents | Feb 1 2025 16:54 utc | 227
very much like what comes out of the mouths of polite Chinese diplomats at the United Nations.” Surprise, surprise!
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Feb 1 2025 16:46 utc | 227
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‘polite’ and at the right side of history, whats wrong with that ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANafckhxJ4
Posted by: denk | Feb 1 2025 17:48 utc | 228
Malenkov@1642 Feb 1
The tell on the gold-bugs will hit hardest and firstists upon those “investors” who do not take physical control over that weighty metal. Rather, they rely on private vault operations to “hold” their precious treasures. The procedure by the central bank$ter establishment will be to put the screws to those “holding tanks”. Second targeting will logically be similar to the tactics employed by the FDR regime in ’33 where they also raided “safe” deposit boxes.
The Bank$ter cabal considers “my precious” to be all the gold they can grab.
Posted by: aristodemos | Feb 1 2025 18:03 utc | 229
Hey has anyone seen a picture of Trump’s shot ear since he got shot ?
It seems like his ear wound healed suspiciously quickly for an old guy !
Was that legit ???
My gut says the sniper in the room behind the open window sacrificed an attendee, to lend the event gravitas and credibility.
Has anyone seen that ear recently ? Bullet holes leave at least scars !
Posted by: Featherless | Feb 1 2025 18:05 utc | 230
Posted by: juliania | Feb 1 2025 16:01 utc | 217
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Do you mean that you love Palestine or the Holy Land?
Israel is a Zionist colony that murders and rapes.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 1 2025 18:06 utc | 231
Posted by: fanto | Feb 1 2025 16:32 utc | 222
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I’m not smart. I am trying to become smarter.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 1 2025 18:08 utc | 232
Trump is not a complete asshole. He’s working for the jews now unfortunately, but it’s the price of admission to the big show.
Trump is a big clown obviously. But all those that fixate on that are retarded.
Cause Trump understands the distinction between theater and the actual contract.
He’s gonna sign a deal with Putin for several reasons. He knows he has to bite the bullet cause he’s supporting the slaughter in Palestine. And as a proud person, the shame would be too much, so he has to at least fix the Ukraine thing.
He’s also gonna try and bribe Egypt and Jordan with infrastructure projects to take the Palestinians (paid by US taxpayers)
That would actually be a decent plan. I’d rather be relocated than have a bomb dropped on me !
Posted by: Featherless | Feb 1 2025 18:21 utc | 233
bribe Egypt and Jordan with infrastructure
Posted by: Featherless | Feb 1 2025 18:21 utc | 235
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Its far more likely and in character that Trump threatens Egypt and Jordan with hunger.
Posted by: too scents | Feb 1 2025 18:26 utc | 234
He’s also gonna try and bribe Egypt and Jordan with infrastructure projects to take the Palestinians (paid by US taxpayers)
That would actually be a decent plan. I’d rather be relocated than have a bomb dropped on me !
Posted by: Featherless | Feb 1 2025 18:21 utc | 235
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Both Egypt and Jordan are US vassals. If Trump tries to move the Palestinians there, the countries will collapse. Both Sisi and Abdullah know this.
I’m not saying Trump isn’t sincere. It’s that the stakes for his “partners” are sky-high.
He must think that beachfront property in Gaza will be very profitable.
About being bombed, you don’t understand the Resistance. They have already bled for decades for this land. The only way they lose is if they leave. They are not going to leave out of fear (many want to die as martyrs if it comes to that).
Trump and Bibi will have to exterminate them, and somehow overcome Yemen, and Hezbollah.
Meanwhile, the Israeli economy is wrecked, KSA won’t go back to the Abraham Accords until there is a Palestinian state, and the new Syrian rebels (the old establishment) have started attacking Israel militarily.
There is one way to peace.
A Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
Muslims, Jews, and Christians have been living peacefully in the region (except the Crusades) for the last 1400 years until Zionism took over the US government.
Similar to how the British had to give up on the American colonies after the War of 1812, Americans will have to give up on their Israeli colony.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 1 2025 18:36 utc | 235
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Posted by: denk | Feb 1 2025 18:47 utc | 236
LoveDonbass@237…..the Apartheid State is an English creation, they have not given up on it…..as with the War of 1812…..Yankee win the war, the English Crown still controlled the money…..ever go to Virgina, they still grow cotton there, the Queen’s, er Kings cotton. A treaty, 100s of years old and still in force. It’s called the City of London for a reason, the Gold Gilded Iron Bank, is still an International force. Ignore them at your peril.
Cheers M
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Feb 1 2025 18:57 utc | 237
I certainly hope that the quality of the site is a reflection of bees improving health. Thank you as always be.
Covid, RFK jr confirmation hearing:
This is an interesting fact from Trump’s RFK appointee. This is a man that’s been ruthlessly attacked for decades due to his focus on vaccine safety.
Looking at Americans that died of covid, on average they had 3.8 other comorbidities or diseases.
Although America only has 13% of global population, it had 60% of the covid deaths. It is one of the few Western countries where lifespan is lowering and they are by their own reporting the most unhealthy country in the world.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pfVT_qmTPww&si=RfuXYimYqeCYDSNm
Another good post from that dirty communist Jimmy Dore.
Posted by: David G Horsman | Feb 1 2025 18:59 utc | 238
America is falling further behind.
Chinese cars aren’t EVs. They are EIVs. The I stands for intelligent.
I watched a video the other day of a self-parking Chinese vehicle. Many of these vehicles have four independent wheels that allow for crazy cornering.
The driver was a woman going to a busy mall. In the congested parking lot, she had the car park itself. If I hadn’t seen it, I wouldn’t have believed that it was already here.
ICE cars won’t be able to compete globally. Brand power and styling will no longer be enough. In China, they make a starter car for young people that has Porsche-like styling. Not an ugly car. As beautiful one.
The EIV software relies on a strong local engineering base. Western education has fallen far behind in producing the necessary engineers for the next industrial revolution.
I saw that Italy’s app stores have banned DeepSeek. Protectionism doesn’t work as it did 100 years ago when wealth was tangible and required transportation, which is why I have doubts about tariff policy from what was a very different age.
I don’t claim to have the answers but I think the mistakes/concerns should be obvious to those analysts who can avoid bias.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 1 2025 19:31 utc | 239
Chinese cars aren’t
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 1 2025 19:31 utc | 241
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I don’t believe there is any argument in favor of “car” except that they are an expensive disposable luxury consumer good that drives consumption. That is bad.
For what they cost cars should last more than 30 years and be trivial to repair. They are the opposite of that.
Because Capitalism.
Posted by: too scents | Feb 1 2025 19:50 utc | 240
Posted by: too scents | Feb 1 2025 19:50 utc | 242
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I have spent the last decade in a rural environment surrounded by horses and cattle.
A personal vehicle is a must for people who are not urbanites.
I agree that many are poorly built and overpriced. I have first-hand intimate knowledge of the NAFTA automotive industry.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 1 2025 20:00 utc | 241
A personal vehicle is a must for people who are not urbanites.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 1 2025 20:00 utc | 243
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As long as they lived my wife’s godparents personal vehicle was a tractor.
Posted by: too scents | Feb 1 2025 20:02 utc | 242
As long as they lived my wife’s godparents personal vehicle was a tractor.
Edit adding: too scents | Feb 1 2025 20:02 utc | 244
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Now my nephew has a tractor that cost more than half a million dollars.
The land hasn’t changed.
Posted by: too scents | Feb 1 2025 20:09 utc | 243
“Now my nephew has a tractor that cost more than half a million dollars.
The land hasn’t changed.”
Posted by: too scents | Feb 1 2025 20:09 utc | 245
I have a couple of yolks designed to be used by humans and if you shovels with fiberglass handles. And a pickaxe with a spade blade. Oh and you need one of those 6-ft bars. Gloves never hurt. If you have a come along and some chain? Now you are really rocking. And ax or two. And what we call a Swede saw here, or two.
No I can’t argue that having a quarter million dollar tractor would also be handy. I hope we’re neighbors. LOL
Posted by: David G Horsman | Feb 1 2025 20:40 utc | 244
Too scents is a bit of an expert on the land and living an inconvenient distance away from the empire. I was just having a little bit of fun there.
Posted by: David G Horsman | Feb 1 2025 20:42 utc | 245
“A personal vehicle is a must for people who are not urbanites.”
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 1 2025 20:00 utc | 243
Although I agree that serves purpose now I am far more interested in bicycle and cart technology as well as keeping workhorses. Do you or anyone else do any logging?
Posted by: David G Horsman | Feb 1 2025 20:45 utc | 246
Is anybody here at knowledgeable about goats? Perhaps you could help an old goat out here.
Posted by: David G Horsman | Feb 1 2025 20:46 utc | 247
Is anybody here at knowledgeable about goats?
Posted by: David G Horsman | Feb 1 2025 20:46 utc | 249
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Delicious! Difficult animals without adequate space. Best sausages.
Posted by: too scents | Feb 1 2025 20:56 utc | 248
Do you or anyone else do any logging?
Posted by: David G Horsman | Feb 1 2025 20:45 utc | 248
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Back in the day I was arrested in Oregon for poaching timber on federal land.
Posted by: too scents | Feb 1 2025 20:59 utc | 249
Trump Launches Trade War Against Canada with a 25% Tariff on Most Goods (10% on Oil)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-tariffs-canada-february-1-1.7447829
“…Trump has also said the tariffs are to punish Canada for being lax on drugs and migrants even as the US government’s figures show less than 1% of fentanyl and illegal migrants are coming from this country.
Before Trump imposed his tariffs the Canadian government said US gas prices could jump some 75 cents US a gallon overnight if he felt ahead with tariffs.
Follow here for live coverage of the details and impact of US tariffs.”
Hilarious to watch erstwhile members of the most US-servile, arse-licking political/ media class in Canadian history, now attempting to present themselves as brave and fearless champions of Canada.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 1 2025 21:00 utc | 250
Hilarious to watch …
Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 1 2025 21:00 utc | 252
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The USA desperately needs to expand their monetary base to address their sorry debt situation.
Tariffs on their major trading partners is the opposite of what the USA should be doing.
USA should extend Canada and Mexico preferential credit terms instead.
Posted by: too scents | Feb 1 2025 21:14 utc | 251
….. Back in the day I was arrested in Oregon for poaching timber on federal land…..
Collecting branches on the ground or cutting trees down ?
Posted by: Exile | Feb 1 2025 21:19 utc | 252
CBC: Aarti Pole Speaks with Flavio Volpe About Trump Tariff Threat
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6627240
Catastrophic impact on the integrated cross-border US/Canada auto industry.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 1 2025 21:20 utc | 253
Collecting branches on the ground or cutting trees down ?
Posted by: Exile | Feb 1 2025 21:19 utc | 254
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I had a 5 ton skidder, an out of date map, and a patron who made my bail.
Posted by: too scents | Feb 1 2025 21:23 utc | 254
“Delicious! Difficult animals without adequate space. Best sausages.”
Posted by: too scents | Feb 1 2025 20:56 utc | 250
Got milk? In your opinion can go to be used to break up hard soil? Can they exist on that marginal land and do well? Do you need them from Zone to Zone on your property? How much water do they require compared to other livestock?
I’m like a JW. Well actually more like a vacuum salesman. The moment you open your door I’ve got my foot in it.🤪
Posted by: David G Horsman | Feb 1 2025 21:36 utc | 255
Oops. I managed to mingle the most important question I had. Naturally. Can’t GOATS be used to break up hard soil on marginal land?
Posted by: David G Horsman | Feb 1 2025 21:37 utc | 256
“USA should extend Canada and Mexico preferential credit terms instead.”
Posted by: too scents | Feb 1 2025 21:14 utc | 253
Don’t be silly. I expect Indonesia, Vietnam, iran, Russia, China and Brazil.. and Venezuela to treat Canada as a preferential trading partner. I’ll have a talk with my friends in Africa.
Posted by: David G Horsman | Feb 1 2025 21:41 utc | 257
Can GOATS be used to break up hard soil on marginal land?
Posted by: David G Horsman | Feb 1 2025 21:37 utc | 258
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No. Goats cannot be used to break up hard soil on marginal land. Goats are not pigs.
Yes. I’ve got milk. And cheese.
Posted by: too scents | Feb 1 2025 21:47 utc | 258
I spoke with a college undergrad today. His university is warning students not to try to play with DeepSeek, in case they got cooties, give up some info not aleady in Facebook and Google, etc.
Posted by: lester | Feb 1 2025 22:18 utc | 259
Live Updates: Trudeau Meets With Premiers as Details of Trump’s Tariffs are Revealed
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/politics/2025/02/01/live-updates-trudeau-to-meet-with-premiers-as-details-of-trumps-tariffs-are-revealed/
“Canada’s largest union Unifor, said Ottawa must retaliate swiftly to Trump’s sweeping tariffs.
One source in cabinet said they would not be surprised if Trump increases his tariffs if and when Canada counters…”
Trump has just trashed his own CUSMA trade agreement. US consumers will feel the effects of this ‘circular firing squad’ trade war as surely as Canadians will.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 1 2025 22:53 utc | 260
‘polite’ and at the right side of history, whats wrong with that ?
@ denk | Feb 1 2025 17:48 utc | 230
Nothing wrong with it, but in this case ‘politeness’ runs afoul of Consortium’s longstanding commitment to thorough airing of publicly available information. I didn’t find much wrong with the responses from USA chatbots, either (much to my surprise).
DeepSeek’s firm refusal to comment on Nuland’s role in Ukraine reflects a couple of significant principles. As explained in the text of their response, “we” (China) most scrupulously avoid unnecessary interference in others’ affairs. “Our” commitment to minding our own business is so strong, Chinese companies are (apparently, effectively) bound to ‘polite’ discourse. China probably exemplifies the only possible path toward a peaceful world, in this unyielding attitude of theirs. Nothing wrong with that.
But the existence of this non-interference, ‘politeness’ constraint, and its primacy over other informational priorities when some questions are posed, makes it blatantly obvious that what we’re hearing from DeepSeek underwent official approval from the CCP (OMG!). Like it or lump it.
A startling panoply of philosophical/technological issues is raised in DeepSeek’s debut.
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Feb 1 2025 23:39 utc | 261
The female BH copilot has been named.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/us/dc-plane-crash-victims/index.html
Female Black Hawk pilot ‘excelled in everything’
The female Black Hawk pilot who was co-piloting the aircraft when it collided with the passenger plane this week was a “driven and hardworking” officer who “was made for” Army aviation, those who knew her recalled to CNN on Saturday.
The Army officially identified the pilot as Capt. Rebecca Lobach, 28, one of the three-person crew inside the UH-60 Black Hawk. While the Army released the names of the other two soldiers on board the Black Hawk on Friday, Lobach’s name had been withheld at her family’s request.
CNN previously reported Lobach was co-piloting the Black Hawk at the time of the collision on Wednesday evening.
Posted by: Mary | Feb 2 2025 0:20 utc | 262
” Goats are not pigs.
Yes. I’ve got milk. And cheese.”
Posted by: too scents | Feb 1 2025 21:47 utc | 260
Got it. Thanks.
Posted by: David G Horsman | Feb 2 2025 1:32 utc | 263
“Trump has just trashed his own CUSMA trade agreement. US consumers will feel the effects of this ‘circular firing squad’ trade war as surely as Canadians will.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 1 2025 22:53 utc | 262
Play if that’s no good church trashing wedding bombing Americans want to fight we should give them one. Canada is ready.
Has the United States forgotten the War of 1812? Grab your matches fellow Canucks the battle is on. Let’s burn the White House Down!!!
https://youtu.be/WVC677-YmfM?si=lhWgmCSoY3qUYZg7
Posted by: David G Horsman | Feb 2 2025 1:36 utc | 264
In Canada there is absolute craziness in responding to the 25% tariffs, if there is one thing that brings Canadians together it is getting pissed off at America. There will be retaliatory actions from Canada, Mexico and I assume China. Trump will find this very hard to walk back, but this is going to get really ugly really fast. 60% of the crude oil used in the US comes from Canada and the US refineries are specialized to deal with heavy crude that only comes from Canada and Venezuela. Just one of those little complications that the children in the US administration have not thought about.
Long term, every country will be working hard to reduce their dependence upon the US. The mafia boss is pushing his made men too far too fast, a recipe for rebellion. The Chinese must be laughing at their opponent who is busy stabbing himself.
Posted by: Roger Boyd | Feb 2 2025 1:40 utc | 265
Posted by: too scents | Feb 1 2025 21:47 utc | 260
What do you compost? How is long answer.
Gray water usage?
Posted by: David G Horsman | Feb 2 2025 2:03 utc | 266
Hockey fans attending a Senators’ game in Ottawa booed the singing of the US national anthem in the wake of Trump tariffs which economists predict will plunge Canada into recession in six months should they continue.
The mayor of Sarnia Ontario, a border city, tells CBC that he has had calls from constituents demanding the US flags which decorate the city along with the Canadian ones, be taken down.
BC Premier David Eby, speaking on the impending US tariff attack, took a media question suggesting massive Canadian ‘defence’ procurements including a multi-billion dollar purchase of F-35 fighter-bombers from Lockheed Martin be cancelled. He avoided the question deflecting it to the Canadian prime minister. CBC talking head David Cochrane dismissed the suggestion as an affront to ‘Canada’s NATO partners’.
Several provincial premiers, including Ontario’s – the largest bulk purchaser of alcohol in the world, are vowing to halt the sale of US beverages.
Mexico on Donald Trump’s Sweeping Tariffs
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/mexico-on-donald-trump-tariffs-coordination-yes-subordination-no-claudia-sheinbaum-pardo-101738458585876.html
“Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo rejected the White House’s slander against her government after Donald Trump’s tariff order.
Blasting the US suggestion of criminal alliances in her government, Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo ordered retaliatory tariffs on US.
‘If such an alliance exists anywhere, it is in the US armouries that sell high-powered weapons to those criminal gangs…”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 2 2025 2:03 utc | 267
Roger Boyd@140 Feb 2
Living within an hour’s drive from two major pumping stations for both North Dakota and Alberta pipelines through this region; I’m quite apprehensive of what will happen to gasoline prices hereabouts. The N.D. petroleum is the province of the surviving son of Fred C. Koch. So it is possible that their products will jump prices to a range of $3.50 to $4.15/gallon.
Northwestern Minnesota has experienced relatively moderate fuel prices in recent months. We have a lot of folks in this area currently just scraping by. Many people in the hereabouts have long commutes to their jobs…and to larger market town shopping access. The entirety of northern Minnesotans voted massively for Trump. High gas prices, diesel as well may end the honeymoon. A lot of the folks will feel like they have managed to jump out of the fire, but remain in a hot frying pan.
Oh Canada, why did U$ forsake you?
Posted by: aristodemos | Feb 2 2025 2:11 utc | 268
US Will Bear Costs if Imposing 10% Tariffs on Chinese Goods, as Tariffs Fuel Inflation: Experts
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202502/1327738.shtml
“This is an escalation of US protectionism with no clear economic justification, driving up costs for consumers and businesses while disrupting global supply chains.
These wide-ranging moves will reshape trade and supply chains across all four countries, impacting business at large.
It’s a lose-lose scenario for all four states. The US will bear the cost, as higher tariffs fuel inflation, raise living expenses and make it harder for the government to maintain control of the situation…”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 2 2025 2:20 utc | 269
Sounds like some Canadians are so pissed they not only want to quit the game, they want to take the ball, er……puck, and go home.
Tell Trump to stick his tariffs and sell your God given, actually, possession and the law and all that shite, it’s actually First Nations oil, but that’s a quibble for another day, why not take a page from Trump find new markets for Canadian energy and sell it to……hmm, I think Canada needs the US’s permission to do that, silly trade agreements……
Stand On Guard For…….whom, yes the English Crown, grand idea.
Cheers M
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Feb 2 2025 3:58 utc | 270
You need to read the work of French chemist Antione Bechamp (1816-1908) to understand how infection actually works; Bechamp was right, Pasteur was wrong as Pasteur confessed on his death bed.
Posted by: canuck | Jan 31 2025 11:01 utc | 95
I am aware of the Bechamp vs Pasteur debate.
Are you paying attention to what I am saying? Did you read anything I wrote?
Specifically the part about the ongoing global genocide and war on humanity (see @18 @32 @72)
Thanks.
Posted by: KOB | Feb 2 2025 4:02 utc | 271
Posted by: David G Horsman | Feb 1 2025 18:59 utc | 240
…covid deaths
There is no “covid” (“coronavirus disease 2019”). There are no “covid” deaths. It’s a lie. This is a global genocide and war on humanity. Please see @18 @32 @72.
Posted by: KOB | Feb 2 2025 4:10 utc | 272
‘We Will Not Back Down’
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/trudeau-meets-with-his-cabinet-premiers-amid-reports-25-per-cent-u-s-tariffs-coming
“Canada to retaliate against US tariffs by targeting $155 billion of American goods: Trudeau.”
Empire of chaos.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 2 2025 4:13 utc | 273
Posted by: juliania | Feb 1 2025 16:01 utc | 217
#############
Do you mean that you love Palestine or the Holy Land?
Israel is a Zionist colony that murders and rapes.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 1 2025 18:06 utc | 233
Sorry to be so long answering, LoveDonbass. I was watching clips from the RFKjr Senate hearing. Lots of interesting developments and many comments were so supportive of his attempts to answer – I couldn’t watch it all, but calmly courageous he was indeed.
Of course, though, I love Palestinians, who looked after the few Israeli hostages in their keeping and shared the promised land with Abraham and his family. Christians are among the Palestinians and I am a Christian. Which also means loving Moses and the prophets, David, the story of Ruth, Abraham, Jacob who was named Isaac and had a son named Joseph… Shadrach,Mishach,and Abegnedo … Martin Buber, my German professor in college and his wife… Oh, and Jesus Christ, himself Israeli, his mother, his disciples, Paul … it’s late, many more.
Not any zionist, though I don’t abandon them completely since God’s love is for them as well. Land? Well, I’m quite happy not owning the land I live on. It is all holy to me, especially the mountains. But that’s just me. And others like me. Here’s my daughter’s translation of a poem by Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty:
The bright sun dips below the hill,
Water of the Yellow River toward the sea flows;
You wish to keep them ever in sight,
Ever higher are mountains for that goal.
My Chinese son-in-law wrote the scripted poem onto a scroll that hangs just inside my front door.
Posted by: juliania | Feb 2 2025 5:39 utc | 274
Ding Dong
USAID is dead.
https://x.com/RT_com/status/1885919025282028010
Establishment Dems are mad!
https://x.com/RealScottRitter/status/1885880155383464010
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 2 2025 5:44 utc | 275
* Tariffs seen disrupting oil markets raising US pump prices
*China vows measures against US tariffs, threatens WTO action
*Hong Kong listed Chinese stocks brace for Trump tariffs’ impact
*Japan starts consult service for firms hit by Trump tariffs
Bloomberg
Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 2 2025 12:26 utc | 277
Will it Matter Who Wins Germany’s Upcoming Election or Will Country’s Fate Largely Be Decided in Warshington?
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/02/will-it-matter-who-wins-germanys-upcoming-election-or-will-countrys-fate-largely-be-decided-in-washington.html
“Germans will go to the polls in less than a month after the collapse of the hapless government led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The German economy is in an awful state with no reason to hope on the horizon.
There are cases to be made for long structural issues and mismanagement, but the answer to the country’s current malaise lies in the wreckage of the Nord Stream pipelines at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.
Not only did the loss of the cheap and reliable pipeline gas from Russia blow up the German economic model but the omerta among the political-media class, over the likely US involvement in the destruction of Nord Stream represents all that has continued to plague Germany ever since. A brief sampling of the fallout…
A quarter of the 84 million Germans’ income is insufficient to make ends meet. Despite all this, it has not led to a rethink (yet) of Germany’s subservient relationship to the US and the accompanying belligerence towards Russia. The delusions only grow…”
Imperial vassal sabotage and cannibalization – an earlier case. Coming soon to a NATO-stan, ‘rules-based-order’ country near you.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 2 2025 13:04 utc | 278
[China destroying US at UN over Ukraine] Nothing wrong with it,
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Feb 1 2025 23:39 utc | 263
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Exactly.
China’s position of UKraine is very clear.
sO how does this square with your insinuation that CCP [SIC] had a hand in DS ‘non response’ over Ukraine ?
Posted by: denk | Feb 2 2025 17:21 utc | 279
@ Babylon 5 guy
Quoting TV show or movie bits isn’t any more childish than quoting Shakespeare.
Stories contain abstract cores, which are why Similes, Metaphors, Analogies and Allegories make sense : underlying mechanics.
Posted by: Featherless | Feb 2 2025 17:30 utc | 280
@denk
Simple. Words are different from Actions, CPC knows this well. China and Russia have an agreement.
China spoke the Truth on the Global Stage, and looked the other way in terms of Actions.
Posted by: Featherless | Feb 2 2025 17:38 utc | 281
China and Russia have an agreement.
China spoke the Truth on the Global Stage, and looked the other way in terms of Actions.
Posted by: Featherless | Feb 2 2025 17:38 utc | 283
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what agreement pray tell ?
Posted by: denk | Feb 2 2025 18:00 utc | 282
There is no “covid” (“coronavirus disease 2019”). There are no “covid” deaths. It’s a lie.
Posted by: KOB | Feb 2 2025 4:10 utc | 274
Easy to tell you never had covid back in 2020. The symptoms of the original covid variants were unmistakable. If you experienced it you would likely not doubt its existence.
Also the contradictions in your claims make it difficult for any sensible person to accept.
You say “COVID-19” = Global Genocide and there are no “covid” deaths. So which is it? Do you believe covid causing illness and death or not?
Posted by: jinn | Feb 2 2025 18:06 utc | 283
Posted by: Featherless | Feb 2 2025 17:38 utc | 283
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Also answer my question to Aleph_Null
above., which you miss entirely
Posted by: denk | Feb 2 2025 18:12 utc | 284
@ denk
Sorry, I meant mutual understanding between Xi and Putin, “unspoken” agreement.
Posted by: Featherless | Feb 2 2025 23:46 utc | 285
sO how does this square with your insinuation that CCP [SIC] had a hand in DS ‘non response’ over Ukraine ?
@ denk | Feb 2 2025 17:21 utc | 281
Thanks for siccing my CCP. US Americans commonly call it the Chinese Communist Party, so that’s the stew I swim in until someone clears up the matter: Is there supposed to be something sinophobic about “CCP”? Because that would be news to me.
Well then, to your astute question: You can ascribe it to the CPC or to general Chinese solidarity, it really doesn’t matter how you explain DeepSeek’s non-response on geopolitically sensitive matters. It’s clearly, even openly a corporate practice entirely in accord with the national or cultural practice — worthy of warm admiration, imho — that we could all get along better if we tried to mind our own business. If countries eschewed interference in each other’s affairs.
There’s a cultural/corporate distinction here which is fascinating, and need not be dissolved into meaningless flamewar invective. China is fundamentally a planned culture, and DeepSeek is constrained to the plan because that’s the Chinese way. USA somehow swung to the opposite extreme, where we now endorse maximum amplitude chaos — as our PTB consider chaos profitable. We US Americans fancy ourselves rugged individualists. We habitually plan to fail by religiously failing to plan.
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Feb 3 2025 0:12 utc | 287
The symptoms of the original covid variants were unmistakable.
@ jinn | Feb 2 2025 18:06 utc | 285
The covid-cold I caught was an unforgettable blow. Staggering, like getting into a car-wreck. Unlike anything previously experienced.
Because nastier variants could hit geezers even harder the second time around, I’ve been a mask fanatic ever since — in enclosed public spaces. For one reason or another, I hardly ever get sick of anything anymore (aside from precariat angst, that is). Touch wood.
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Feb 3 2025 0:48 utc | 288
“Empire of chaos.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 2 2025 4:13 utc | 275
I do’;t know about that-Mexico just backed down and sent 10,000 solders to guard the border.
Regarding the recent DCA midair collision: After hearing the purported full pilot/controller com recording, methinks ATC will be found contributory. FAA ORDER 7110.65 dictates controller action/phraseology for authorizing pilot initiated visual separation:
“Tell the pilot about the other aircraft. Include position, direction, type, and, unless it is obvious, the other aircraft’s intention.
Obtain acknowledgment from the pilot that the other aircraft is in sight.
PHRASEOLOGY-
(ACID), TRAFFIC, (clock position and distance), (direction) BOUND, (type of aircraft), (intentions and other relevant information).
Towers must use the procedures contained in paragraph 3-1-6, Traffic Information, subparagraph b or c, as appropriate.
If aircraft are on converging courses, inform the other aircraft of the traffic and that visual separation is being applied.
PHRASEOLOGY-
(ACID), TRAFFIC, (clock position and distance), (direction) BOUND, (type of aircraft), HAS YOU IN SIGHT AND WILL MAINTAIN VISUAL SEPARATION.
Advise the pilots if the targets appear likely to merge.”
It appears the controller may have adequately issued traffic to the copter initially but the follow-up query “do you have the CRJ in sight” did not include an updated position/direction on the CRJ which might have alerted the copter pilots as to the actual location of the traffic they were to avoid. Controller also did not issue a traffic advisory to the CRJ pilots about the copter although, obviously, the aircraft were on converging courses. Thus the CRJ was oblivious to the threat and not engaged in looking for the copter and maneuvering if necessary to avoid collision.
Posted by: UBAH | Feb 3 2025 20:08 utc | 290
@canuck (291)
https://globalsouth.co/2025/02/03/welcome-to-the-gaslighting-jungle/
Trump releases one story, Claudia clarifies it, and the MAGA screams USA, USA, Mexico Caved – It will be the 52nd state for sure.
Who Caved? Claudia kept her cool, placed tariffs equal to US tariffs, and insisted on talks, and what she gave here was simple to understand. So, who caved? At the moment, nobody has stepped back except Trump.
And from Claudia .. see what Trump left out …
1. Mexico will immediately reinforce the northern border with 10,000 members of the National Guard to prevent drug trafficking from Mexico to the United States, particularly fentanyl.
2. The United States is committed to working to prevent the trafficking of high-powered weapons to Mexico.
3. Our teams will begin working today on two fronts: security and trade.
4. They are pausing tariffs for one month from now.
Do you know what the absolute joke is? Claudia puts 10,000 National Guard on the border to stare down the US forces on the other side of the river. How many Fentanyl local backyard labs are in the US? And how many US doctors use Fentanyl for medical purposes? Fentanyl is a potent synthetic opioid drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use as an analgesic (pain relief) and anesthetic. And where does that legal Fentanyl come from? Yeah, you guessed, China.
Now for the reality:
Trump forgot to mention the weapons (bolded above) because he has to look strong as if he has not given anything in negotiating with the clever Claudia.
Talks. Tariffs? not yet. Maybe not ever. Claudia gave away nothing.
China was brusque and said: ‘Your Fentanyl problem is your problem and not ours. We have been working with you but what you are doing is disturbing that work.’
Posted by: joey_n | Feb 3 2025 22:35 utc | 291
Regarding the mid-air collision that happened between a blackhawk helicopter and an American Airlines CRJ700 commercial plane:
The practice of the helicopter pilots “requesting visual separation” appears to be widely used when controlling aircraft in and around DCA airport in Washington D.C. The exchange most often starts from the control tower to the helicopter. “Aircraft XX there is aircraft YY at x.x nautical miles at xx degrees from you….do you see the aircraft?”. The helicopter pilot, evidently hearing this; visually finds the aircraft, and responds to the the tower, ” I see aircraft XX, request visual separation”. This means the pilot is asking the tower for the pilot to take responsibility to keep separation from the other aircraft, both vertical and horizontally. The tower controller, would then respond, “Visual separation approved”. From much info on blogs and reports I’ve read, it is apparent that there is a very large volume of helicopter traffic in the area from military flights. It is apparent that it is understood, that if the helicopter pilot wants to fly his own route, instead of being vectored by the tower, he needs to acknowledge a visual contact with the aircraft specified, and request visual separation. If he does not, the tower controller will need to instruct the pilot what course to take to maintain separation, and will need to continue to monitor the flight, requiring more time and effort.
Now, when the tower asked the helicopter pilot if he had a visual identification of the CRJ aircraft on the first call, the CRJ was 5 nautical miles away, or 5.75 land miles away. Looking head on the CRJ 700’s body, engines have a diameter of about 20 feet. The wingspan is 76 feet, though the wings are only a few feet high. From the helicopter, the CRJ700 is 30,360 feet away. At arms length of 4 feet (being generous) the apparent size of the aircraft would be:
24/30,360=z/4 where “z” is the apparent size.
Solving for Z the apparent size of the aircraft is .0057 feet, or .0684 inches… less than 1/10th of one inch. The wingspan apparent size would be 0.4 inches. At night, all you would see is a point of light. Now, say there are 3-4 other aircraft out there in the same direction. How do you know which one is the CRJ700. Answer, you don’t.
OK, now say it’s 1 nautical mile, now the apparent size is 0.20″ still smaller than the head of a typical pencil eraser looked at from the end.
The two aircraft were traveling towards each other at a combined speed of 360 knots per hour. Or 414 mph. They were pretty much on a collision course, meaning that the location of the other as viewed from one of them would not appear to be moving….only getting slowly larger. At night, even at that distance, it’s still a light in the sky, if you see it.
At 0.5 nautical miles the apparent size is 0.31 inches, a little over 1/2 size of a dime.
At the speed they were traveling the 1/2 nautical mile distance would close to “zero” in about 4.5 seconds. Bam!!!
It was also brought up that the plane was above the helicopter, descending, at about 10 o’clock to the view of the helicopter pilot. Looking at the cockpit view from inside a blackhawk helicopter, and the fact that the copter flies with “nose down”, the view of this point may not have ever been seen, especially the close it got to the plane. See the blog pprune dot org, a professional pilots blog for more info. One of the posters searched a database from DCA ATC that reports “near misses”, and he quickly found about 40 reports of near misses of helicopters and planes, some reporting 100′ or less from a collision.
The whole concept of “visual separation” by a pilot , at night, in a busy airspace, over a city with thousands of lights….is ludicrous, insane, according to experienced pilots. But it is used/abused by ATC to deal with understaffing, and increased traffic, to keep the planes flying and the money flowing…. Sometimes the ATC will ask the pilot of aircraft to take the responsibility of “visual separation”. If the pilot says he can’t see the other aircraft, or refuses visual separation, oftentimes they are punished by have to abort their landing, and circle around again. This costs the airline delays, higher fuel costs, etc.
In many countries, no “visual separation” allowances can be used in busy airspace, during the day or night; especially at night. The ATC and the systems employed are responsible to maintain separation of aircraft. Same for many airlines…their pilots are required not to use this tool.. In effect, when you do, you are taking all responsibility for whatever happens after that. The ATC is off the hook…not that that is their intent. I’m sure 99% are just trying to do their job, the best they can with the hand they have been dealt.
The other big issue is that the Route 4 flight plan used by the helicopter pilot, matched with the approach of a plane using runway 33 at DCA come within 100-200′ vertically of each other. The plane has to be on a certain glide path to land, no option to change there. The general rule is that aircraft should never come closer than 500′ vertically or horizontally to each other by FAA rules.
Now add in the fact that altimeters have to be set all the the time, and are accurate to about +/-25 feet at best. The FAA regs allow up to 75′ plus or minus variation of altimeter vs. actual elevation. They are set by barometric pressure at ground level, or close to an airport, the airport’s barometric pressure may be entered used by the pilot. The altimeter reading on the plane is gospel. It is reported from the plane electronically to the tower by ADS-B. Info on the FAA regs around altimeters is found at “Safety of Flight/Barometric Altimeter Errors and Setting Procedures” faa dot gov.
So, plus 75′ on the lower flying aircraft, and -75′ on the higher descending aircraft= 150′ error possible.
So, it is a good thing that an immediate action taken was to “shut down” the use of runway 33 and also the helicopter route 4.
The question is: Will the FAA and the government’s executive branch take the necessary steps to change the procedures country wide to prevent this from happening again. Or will they just assign responsibility (blame) make some cosmetic changes around DCA, and continue on.
I won’t be flying into or out of DCA anymore, learning what a clusterf**k is going on there with regard to air safety.
Posted by: Norsk Borscht | Feb 3 2025 23:05 utc | 292
There is no “covid” (“coronavirus disease 2019”). There are no “covid” deaths. It’s a lie.
Posted by: KOB | Feb 2 2025 4:10 utc | 274
Easy to tell you never had covid back in 2020. The symptoms of the original covid variants were unmistakable. If you experienced it you would likely not doubt its existence.
Also the contradictions in your claims make it difficult for any sensible person to accept.
You say “COVID-19” = Global Genocide and there are no “covid” deaths. So which is it? Do you believe covid causing illness and death or not?
Posted by: jinn | Feb 2 2025 18:06 utc | 285
How do you know you or anyone had “covid”? According to the WHO the symptoms are non-specific (and neither necessary nor sufficient), meaning there is more than cause. Experiencing an illness, even if seems unique, does not tell you the cause. Every experience/feeling is always different in some way, because the conditions always change. However, this does not mean the authorities are telling you the truth.
https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-Surveillance_Case_Definition-2022.1
I made no contradictions. You are not paying attention.
There is no disease called “coronavirus disease 2019”, a supposed disease caused by a supposed virus “sars-cov-2”. The malignancies and deaths (ascribed to supposed “sars-cov-2”) have other explanations/factors. Please go back read what I said in @18 @32 @72.
The data is here:
https://denisrancourt.substack.com/p/breaking-our-largest-study-of-its
The symptoms of the original covid variants were unmistakable.
@ jinn | Feb 2 2025 18:06 utc | 285
The covid-cold I caught was an unforgettable blow. Staggering, like getting into a car-wreck. Unlike anything previously experienced.
Because nastier variants could hit geezers even harder the second time around, I’ve been a mask fanatic ever since — in enclosed public spaces. For one reason or another, I hardly ever get sick of anything anymore (aside from precariat angst, that is). Touch wood.
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Feb 3 2025 0:48 utc | 290
Same question to you. How do you know you had “covid”? How do you know you “caught” anything? Developing an illness, even if appears new, does not explain you what caused it. Does it?
Consider the following:
https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-Surveillance_Case_Definition-2022.1
1. The symptoms are non-specific
2. The symptoms are neither necessary nor sufficient for a diagnosis
3. The specificity and sensitivity of the assays (PCR/NAAT and Antigen) is unknown because they have never been validated against the gold standard (the virus)
https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download#page=41
https://health.ec.europa.eu/document/download/0e6a2061-c3d2-46c8-a3aa-cebcd102500c_en#page=19
4. The existence of the virus “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2” (SARS-CoV-2) has never been scientifically proven
https://drsambailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/SETTLING-THE-VIRUS-DEBATE-Source.pdf
https://drsambailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/A-FAREWELL-TO-VIROLOGY-Expert-Edition.pdf
If one accepts all of the above then one has no choice but to conclude that disease called “Coronavirus disease 2019” aka “COVID-19” is not real.
Posted by: KOB | Feb 4 2025 20:02 utc | 293