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The China-US trade impasse, if it stands for even a few months, will crash the US economy again and it will also crash the price of shale oil back to levels that destroy oil companies. You understand, of course, that the rise of shale oil was amazingly swift, ten years, and that its fall will be similarly fast and furious. The feds may have to either bail it out or nationalize the whole shootin’ match — and that will end up as just another rat-hole we pound sand into, along with our long-running campaign to build failed states overseas. Translation: not so good for the value of the US dollar.

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This economic meltdown will play into the worst insecurities of Mr. Trump, the Golden Golem of Greatness. His domestic political antagonists long ago declared all-out war on him. The perpetually rising stock market was all that tempered his behavior in the face of that obloquy. With the economy fizzling, he will fight back Golem-style, like a demon from the underworld. But for all of Mr. Trump’s Teutonic neuroticism, he holds an advantage in that battle: the documented facts appear to show that he was unfairly persecuted for two years by opponents who outsmarted themselves in actually breaking the law, and they are on the run before a gathering juggernaut of referrals for indictments. The craziness of their desperation is now on view for all to see in the antics of the House committees.

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815 Responses to “The Trend is Not Your Friend”

  1. Ol' Scratch May 13, 2019 at 10:13 am #

    Mr. Trump would be a most unlikely figure to provide the necessary moral support. He’s no Franklin Roosevelt reassuring the immiserated masses with fireside chats over the radio, and he sure ain’t Fiorello LaGuardia, reading the Sunday funnies to people out of work and out of luck. But never forget that history is a trickster.

    Regarding current events, the old saw, “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce,” comes immediately to mind.

    • capt spaulding May 13, 2019 at 11:22 am #

      Somebody also said “History wouldn’t have to repeat itself if people learned to listen once in a while.”

      • elysianfield May 14, 2019 at 12:37 am #

        Captain,

        Nice.

      • Iananna May 14, 2019 at 3:49 pm #

        Or “History may not repeat itself but it does rhyme, over Time.” but we refuse to learn the words, which is probably why it repeats itself.
        Even the dumbest dog learns eventually.

    • K-Dog May 13, 2019 at 11:22 am #

      “Even the profoundly flawed sometimes strangely find themselves on the hero’s journey.”

      Ironic, a blog which takes perpetual umbrage at unreality being a unfortunate defining fact of postmodern American life suggests the the Golden Golem could actually be great.

      This is expecting water to flow uphill. The trend will not be for Trump to put America on the mend. The trend is for America to be at the end. An idiot who thinks that the only measure of a man lies in the size of his bank account does not have enough clues to do any right thing for the nation.

      This issue is not about what is likely , the issue is about what is even possible. Trump acting in the long term best interest of the nation is something not possible unless by accident Trump should randomly stumble in the right direction. That would take a miracle which suggests…………………………………

      That if we are now going to use canned wisdom to decide our affairs, instead of:

      But never forget that history is a trickster.

      how about:

      And if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.

      What could Trump possibly do to save the nation? He has no idea what our problems really are. Seriously. It is enough to make you toss your cookies.

      • Janos Skorenzy May 13, 2019 at 1:43 pm #

        Have to agree. His Cabinet picks were sickening. Was he ever really serious about the Wall or staying out of Middle Eastern Wars? Or was that just the lies of a Master Liar? To the extent he’s serious, he’s serious about his obligations to his faction of the Elite – the Neo Cons and Zionists. We’re just pawns to be manipulated and cannon fodder.

      • BackRowHeckler May 13, 2019 at 2:55 pm #

        Give it time, kdog. In 18 months it might be President Cory Booker, and the presidential ass kissing can begin once again.

        Brh

    • Paulo May 13, 2019 at 11:32 am #

      ” The disturbances we have set in motion will surely unleash the wicked animus against the USA that has been building among other nations since before 9/11/01. Even the Europeans, our old pals, have soured on us.”

      Trump, the only casino owner to go bankrupt in just a few years, the deal-making genius afraid to show his tax returns, the con man the USA voted in as President. What could go wrong?

      The only hope for the World and our future is if the US Economy does tank, and I write this as someone feeling utter disbelief over the recent tanker sabotage and the Abe Lincoln aircraft carrier target steaming into a developing war zone. Gulf of Tonkin? WMD? But don’t worry, Kim and Doofus are in love. Surely, their haircuts deserve each other.

      This Canadian is rooting for China and has been for almost 3 years. MAGA. Hilarious.

      • benr May 13, 2019 at 11:54 am #

        @Paulo
        Fear of showing his tax returns?
        I suspect it has more to do with trolling the opposition than actual fear.
        It could also have some he is not as rich as he claims truthiness to it.

        • Ron Anselmo May 14, 2019 at 12:08 am #

          Yes. Trolling the opposition. They’re not smart enough to figure it out. He baits them every time.

          Elizabeth Warren ~ “I’m Native American.”
          Trump ~ “Prove it.”
          She takes DNA test and is 1/1024th Native American, what an idiot.

          HRC & Company ~ “I lost because of Russian collusion.”
          Trump ~ “There was no collusion.”
          Let’s have a 2-year investigation – no collusion, what idiots.

          Lefties ~ “Let’s get his tax returns.”
          Trump ~ “I will not disclose my tax returns.”
          There will be an investigation, which again, will turn up nothing, what idiots.

          Trump is no Boy Scout, but how much you want to bet his misdeeds are hidden in plain sight?

          Yes. Still being trolled. What a bunch of idiots.

          • libertysghost May 14, 2019 at 1:58 pm #

            Good points. Seeing them listed in that format kind of makes one understand a bit better how he keeps his insatiable enemies at bay…it’s just amazingly so simple as well.

      • Anon1970 May 13, 2019 at 1:54 pm #

        I suspect that there are a lot of Canadian Millenials who resent the fact that Chinese milionairess have priced them out of their ability to buy a home in the Vancouver and Toronto areas. For years, the Canadian and provincial governments looked the other way as dirty money found a home in Canada. Has anyone at the Canada Revenue Agency bothered to cross check property tax assessments and personal income tax returns or is the CRA still in the dark ages?

      • sauerkraut May 13, 2019 at 2:16 pm #

        “… rooting for China …”

        Be careful what you wish for. The documentary series about the New Silk Road initiatives exposes what Chinese masters are really like. The most interesting things are what interviewees reveal casually, such as, “What do you like best about Xyzistan?” “Clean air, clean food. There is no poison in our food here.”

    • Squeeky Fromm Girl Reporter May 13, 2019 at 3:04 pm #

      I guess a lot of people would have viewed Winston Churchill as someone not likely to make a good leader. He was rash, impetuous, drank way too much, and was fat.

      Squeeky Fromm
      Girl Reporter

      • shotho May 13, 2019 at 4:41 pm #

        He was also a warmonger who never saw an enemy he didn’t want to kill. That man was responsible for as many killed by arms as Hitler or Stalin.

        • BackRowHeckler May 13, 2019 at 8:47 pm #

          Had to win the war, my friend. You don’t win 2 world wars by handing out manna.

          brh

  2. Mountain gal May 13, 2019 at 10:15 am #

    There was a book that someone wrote titled “A Year Without Made in China” that documented one family’s attempt to live for a year without purchasing items made in China. They found it rather difficult and inn some cases there were no options in a product category. If I recall correctly they may have decided it was ok to buy used goods that were made in China but I don’t recall exactly. Anyway, the extent to which China has come to dominate our consumer goods is nothing short of incredible. And the extent to which the American public has become addicted to cheap China crap is quite sad. May get interesting…….

    • malthuss May 13, 2019 at 10:29 am #

      Id prefer a year without plastic.
      Oh, my PC has plastic parts.

    • SoftStarLight May 13, 2019 at 10:38 am #

      It is past time to break the addiction. Ending such a bad addiction is going to be extraordinarily painful but it has to happen. There is no reason such a large and resource rich country as ours cannot produce most everything we need.

      • Mountain gal May 13, 2019 at 10:49 am #

        Ah, but then we would need to contemplate the difference between “needs” and “wants”. I’d say that much of the cheap crap we get(got) from China at Walmart, Family Dollar, the now defunct Toys R Us, on eBay etc. would fit in the “wants” category. So yes, we could very well produce what we “needed” but not at the cheap prices we’ve gotten used to by selling our economy to China, and certainly not the sheer quantity of cheap stuff we’ve gotten used to buying at prices so low it’s often unbelievable. And if oil prices go up, producing a lot of it will cost more just for that, let alone wages and benefits for workers who expect US salaries. And then there is the prospect of rebuilding the factories, the machinery etc. On the bright side though, there is so much out there to be found at every yard sale in the country, we all could make do for quite some time for many things.

        • SoftStarLight May 13, 2019 at 11:09 am #

          Yes, all the problems that you point out will be unavoidable. But you are correct about there already being so much “stuff” around that many things can be “recycled” for new uses. We are no doubt a throw away society. That is a behavior that we are going to have to get a grip on. Some things are tossed to the side when they can still be used or scrapped for use in making something new altogether. The whole creative reuse movement could become a mainstream phenomenon!

          • K-Dog May 13, 2019 at 11:25 am #

            And if we get really hungry we can eat each other.

          • SoftStarLight May 13, 2019 at 11:32 am #

            In terms of food production though we export a great deal of food to the rest of the world. The bad weather and flooding in the Midwest though does not portend well for this growing season I wouldn’t think. That may cause us some serious grief in the coming months….

        • shotho May 13, 2019 at 4:47 pm #

          Congratulations, Ms. Gal, you win the jackpot. In the fight between fear and greed, greed has won out over the last, oh, sixty years or so. Now we are at the point where we ‘need’ a car for every moron over 16, restaurant meals 24/7, incessant travel, instant central hvac and constant ‘shopping’. As wants degenerate into knawing needs, fear will reassert itself with a vengeance.

          • CancelMyCard May 13, 2019 at 5:38 pm #

            You can’t always get what you want.

            But sometimes, you will find,

            you get what you need.

            And then, maybe you don’t get that either.

            Life is a bitch.

      • sauerkraut May 13, 2019 at 11:59 am #

        Soft, “There is no reason such a large and resource rich country as ours cannot produce most everything we need.”

        Reasons:
        1. an oligarchic class that hates you and will not permit you to build a factory because it might diminish their wealth;
        2. an infantilized, drug addicted population which has been engineered to not solve its own problems;
        3. a lack of skilled workers, from carpenters to tool makers;
        4. global warming which will put every city on the coast half under water;
        5. global warming which will make every city not on the coast uninhabitable in the summer;
        6. global warming which is setting the countryside on fire;
        7. political warfare openly declared by the Republicans in 1993 and renewed by them in 2009;
        8. a population with the attention span of earwigs, an attention span so short that they cannot remember anything from 1993 or 2009, or even be made to believe that there ever was such a time.

        Other reasons will occur to your thought.

        • malthuss May 13, 2019 at 12:52 pm #

          when will this happen?
          4. global warming which will put every city on the coast half under water;
          5. global warming which will make every city not on the coast uninhabitable in the summer;
          6. global warming which is setting the countryside on fire;

          • sauerkraut May 13, 2019 at 2:09 pm #

            About 4 and 5, no one can say with any certainty. So far the forecasts have underestimated the observations, but climate refugees are already massing on the border with Mexico. The Fearless Leader tells us so. However, the floods in the midwest are not normal and not even desirable.

            About 6, it’s already happened. Last year the palls of smoke extended from California to Alaska. This year, the fire season is already beginning.

          • hmuller May 13, 2019 at 5:41 pm #

            Oh so now they’re “climate refugees” fleeing hot temperatures in Central America. I thought they were seeking a higher living standard.

            Since mid-western floods may drown them, the humane thing is to keep them out of this country.

          • GreenAlba May 13, 2019 at 5:53 pm #

            I’m not suggesting you take them in, hmuller – perish the thought. Just keep burning that gas…

          • sauerkraut May 13, 2019 at 6:16 pm #

            HM “Oh so now they’re “climate refugees” ”

            Got in one, boyo.

          • BackRowHeckler May 13, 2019 at 7:33 pm #

            Next thing you know Green Alba will be recruiting for the ‘Climate Extinction’ movement, anti world thugs who make the Red Army Faction in Germany look like Cub Scouts, keen on destroying western civilization and exterminating human beings to stabilize the climate and save humanity and Mother Earth.

            Based in London, I’ve seen some of them interviewed, True Believers and fanatics willing to destroy the world over a bad long term weather report.

            brh

          • GreenAlba May 13, 2019 at 8:14 pm #

            ” fanatics willing to destroy the world over a bad long term weather report.”

            Sometime, brh, someone says something and you realise there’s really no point. None at all.

          • City_of_76 May 14, 2019 at 9:07 am #

            @hmuller – Read up on how climate change is driving migration from central America:

            https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/how-climate-change-is-fuelling-the-us-border-crisis

        • Janos Skorenzy May 13, 2019 at 1:47 pm #

          Good list except for 4,5, and 6. You forgot the invasion from our non-existent Southern Borders and beyond that, in general just a an utterly destructive diversity.

          • libertysghost May 14, 2019 at 2:09 pm #

            But there are media links you “must read” that prove it all…and if not, they are just samples anyway.

            The “news media” would never lie about something so important…or overstate the validity of any “research”…

            Nor would any academics looking for grant funding, or NGOs already getting their funding from someone possibly goal-seeking for other reasons, or some alphabet agency here or “international” because how could they possibly benefit from convincing everyone that they need more power (and wealth) to “keep us all from dying”?

            Only a rube would ignore such unabashed and objective “wisdom” after all. Only a rube…you understand? You don’t want to be a “rube” now do you?

        • SoftStarLight May 13, 2019 at 4:29 pm #

          sauerkraut thank you for outlining the headwinds as you have. May I propose solutions to your list? They are as follows…

          1) Nuke the oligarchs 🙂
          2) Massive detox (Build a real Wall!)
          3) Education and trade camps and real schools!
          4) Ice Age is coming don’t worry
          5) Ice Age ” ”
          6) Ice Age ” ”
          7) Disband the Republican and Democratic parties
          8) See 2 and 3 plus pull the plug on all electronics, radio and TV several hours a day so people must really live beyond the screen.

          What do you think about that??

          • swtNEK May 13, 2019 at 4:57 pm #

            I agree SSL!

          • hmuller May 13, 2019 at 5:44 pm #

            Sauerkraut sounds like a millenial so totally brainwashed with left-wing bullshit, so incapable of critical, logical thought, I hold out little hope. But keep trying, SSL.

          • Majella May 13, 2019 at 5:57 pm #

            I think you just continue to illustrate your unmitigated stupidity.

          • sauerkraut May 13, 2019 at 6:12 pm #

            SSL, I think that most of that has real merit.

            1. But the oligarchs would never agree.
            2. Agreed, massive detox. And especially, deFox.
            3. Damn right.
            4,5,6. Not according to the models we have and the data we observe.
            7. VERY damn right.
            8. I would go further. I’d leave them ON for several hours a day.

            HM, beats me how you come to that conclusion; maybe you are new. For years here I explained and discussed logic, math, and science, but that was before this blog degenerated into a very far right wing nut-space. Or don’t you believe in nun a that thar noo fangled si-unce?

          • GreenAlba May 13, 2019 at 6:33 pm #

            “Sauerkraut sounds like a millenial so totally brainwashed with left-wing bullshit,”

            I thought SSL was the millennial. Now I’m confused…

          • hmuller May 13, 2019 at 6:54 pm #

            Sauerkraut,
            The proposition that if you don’t like the heat where you live, you may violate US Immigration Laws – is that what you call “logic, math, and science” ?

            How self-satisfied you must feel with tying together your favorite pseudo-scientific myth “man-made global warming” with your open borders agenda to destroy American society.

            But forget me, I’m just a deplorable lacking your smug self-righteousness.

          • hmuller May 13, 2019 at 7:16 pm #

            Sauerkraut, Just look at what you wrote:

            “…this blog degenerated into a very far right wing nut-space. Or don’t you believe in nun a that thar noo fangled si-unce?”

            First, you consider those with traditional values at variance with your own to be “far right wing nuts”. This illustrates the smug intolerance of your kind. The people who don’t agree with you couldn’t possibly have values as legitimate and based on life experiences as you own.

            Then you descend into something I assume is your idea of redneck patois. Obviously, the intention is to belittle and dismiss me as a stupid and uneducated hillbilly right out of “Deliverance” – complete with a banjo and a family tree which looks like a wreath. This air of superiority didn’t help Hillary and doesn’t endear you either.

          • sauerkraut May 13, 2019 at 8:27 pm #

            No HM, a willfully ignorant patois. Like global warming denial.

            Almost no-one who is not willfully ignorant denies that the globe is warming. I assume that you’re not that brainwashed. Am I wrong?

            The only remotely respectable question is whether global warming is caused by human activity. That is called anthropogenic global warming (AGW); it has been pretty much settled for 15 years now, and the answer is ‘yes, AGW is happening’.

            If you think AGW is not real, and want anyone to take you seriously, all you have to do is demonstrate that you know enough to have a useful opinion on the subject.

            For example, tell us where you studied advanced mathematics at the post-graduate level. Better yet, show us the error in the modelling. Like for example, the differential equation in line 24,563 implicitly assumes non-linearity, when everyone knows that phenomena of that sort are best modelled by a separable d.e. (Taylor, page 273).

            Show us an error or two like that and you’ll be the darling of the fossil fuel industry, with so much high priced consulting work you won’t have time to post here any more.

          • hmuller May 13, 2019 at 10:45 pm #

            Oh yes, the argument from authority:

            Great people like you tell “brainwashed” little people like me what is within the pale of respectable discussion and what isn’t.:
            “Shut up, you stupid little asshole; you know nothing. Believe what your leaders: politicians, priests, and bankers tell you! We are the experts in charge and will tell you what to believe.”

            Sort of like CNN, MSNBC, et al telling us how Trump is guilty of so many crimes, except it turns out, he’s not. I’ll bet that chews at you libtard innards!

            Anyway, 5 Arguments against AGW

            https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/is-global-warming-real.php

            1) The upswing in the temperature started from 1975, continued till 1997 and the temperature has been flat since then which clearly states that there isn’t any significant change in temperature in the last 17 years.

            2) Since 1998, more than 31,000 American scientists, have signed a public petition announcing their belief that “…there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate. https://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2012/07/17/that-scientific-global-warming-consensus-not/#19df51323bb3

            3) Arctic ice increased in volume of 50% in 2012 alone. Core measures of the Arctic ice show that it has increased in volume since 2012, which argues against global warming causing ice caps to melt.

            4) The climate model calculations used to predict the effect of global warming have been proven to be flawed which means that the long term predictions that they have been making are meaningless. Some scientists argue that any increase in global temperatures could be a natural climate shift.

            5) Advocates who promote arguments against global warming being real, point towards all the dates have come and gone where predictions were made about effects that never happened. For example:- Al Gore predicted that all Arctic ice would be gone by 2013. But, on contrary Arctic ice is up by 50% since 2012.

            I wouldn’t dream of asking you to believe what I believe. Just get off your high horse, and quit insulting those who disagree with you.

          • sauerkraut May 13, 2019 at 11:34 pm #

            Well Mr. Muller, you started it. You wrote, “Sauerkraut sounds like a millenial so totally brainwashed with left-wing bullshit, so incapable of critical, logical thought …”

            And when I hit back, you get all affronted. Poor little snowflake! And you are wrong that I want you to take anything on authority. But before you criticize, I do think you should to be able to understand the vocabulary.

            That’s how science works: a theory is advanced to explain some data, and then it is discussed by people who understand what was said. It’s up to you to understand, it’s not up to everyone else to set you straight.

          • venuspluto67 May 14, 2019 at 12:33 am #

            hmuller: Despite all that, northern Siberia experienced many days during the summer of last year in the nineties, and the permafrost there is melting and the thawing is releasing methane deposits into the atmosphere. I can’t help but find that alarming.

            And as for Arctic sea ice, all indications are that the ice is still retreating.

          • SoftStarLight May 14, 2019 at 12:47 am #

            Sauerkraut, the data that hmuller cites is supportive of the assertion that global temperatures have stabilized or in fact, are cooling. There is more evidence out there supporting this theory. Also, based on the cyclical nature of the ice ages in the past it would appear we are overdue for the onset of a new ice age. I have read that through ice core samples scientists have found that levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere appear to have skyrocketed immediately preceeding past ice ages. If this is true perhaps increasing CO2 levels mean an eventual flip to very cold conditions? Spraying massive amounts of aerosals into the atmosphere the way Western governments are doing to combat warming could make the situation that much more unstable.

          • SoftStarLight May 14, 2019 at 12:56 am #

            Siberia has the most extreme temperatures on earth. Summer highs easily exceed 90F every year. Winter lows dip below -60F every year too.

            Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are gaining mass. Arctic sea loses ice every year but it always returns in winter.

          • sauerkraut May 14, 2019 at 1:29 am #

            OK SSL, for you.

            1. Temperature data is a time series. Time series analysis is about extracting cyclic fluctuations from trends. Both are important, and it is quite hard to get it right. People with agendas are paid to get it wrong. They are also paid to be convincing.

            2. Global means global. Not just Peoria, not just Illinois, not just all the land in the world. The land, the atmosphere, the rivers, the oceans. But of course, cherry picking data can present a misleading picture. That’s why some people do it. It’s also why ‘cherry picking data’ is a scientific insult.

            3. When all that fails, some might resort to straight out fabrications. That is, lies.

            4. There are lots of particulates and aerosols in the air. They suppress temperature. They are put there by industrial processes, like burning fossil fuels. When those industrial processes stop, the particulate and aerosol content will plummet abruptly. Greenhouse gasses are much more long lived. The result will be a massive jump in global temperatures when we stop burning fossil fuels, as we will when they run out, whenever that is. Then we fry.

            5. The permafrost is melting in the arctic. When it decays, methane forms. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas. The permafrost decomposition alone could fry us, and there will be no stopping it.

            6. There is a lot of methane stabilized on the ocean floor. Rising ocean temperatures could disturb that balance. This is being observed in the arctic. Ocean methane clathrate alone could fry us. And we can’t stop it.

            7. The oceans are acidifying because they are absorbing CO2, turning the oceans into dilute carbonic acid. This kills coral. It also kills the plankton which process CO2 into oxygen. We observe the death of coral. Can our oxygen supply be far behind? Just how far? Bet your life?

            8. Let’s suppose for a moment that the entire climate science community (or the 97% consensus of 2003), have it all wrong, and there is really only a very small chance of global warming becoming a deadly problem. Kind of like the small chance of my house burning down. Even though it’s a small chance, I have house insurance because I can’t easily afford to replace my house. Now, should we not consider a bit of insurance on our planet?

            9. I do understand where all this distrust is coming from. Real experts tend to keep their heads down when the BS hits the fan. That is a real problem for the layman because the real experts do not denounce the pseudo-science. They should. It is their patriotic duty. But before you judge them, ask yourself if you would give up a job you love, give it up forever, and go from a respected, well-off professional to a homeless bum.

            For starters.

          • sauerkraut May 14, 2019 at 1:44 am #

            One more thing.

            1. We have incontrovertible data showing global warming.
            2. We have a plausible mechanism (greenhouse gasses).
            3. We have an excellent correlation between the two.

            All this has been worked out in the greatest detail. Even so, it is not perfect; and so research continues to remove the remaining uncertainties. But note that previous estimates of global warming were far too low – the error was to minimize the problem.

            But that’s just thousands of scientists working long hours to understand things. Maybe it’s better to put our faith in paid lobbyists and professional liars – you know, the swamp.

            Your call.

          • sauerkraut May 14, 2019 at 1:53 am #

            I’ve said all this before, over and again.

            This is the last time. Life is too short, and I’ve done my duty.

          • SoftStarLight May 14, 2019 at 9:15 am #

            Thank you for the additional info Sauerkraut. I was still curious as to your thoughts regarding the very high CO2 levels noted in ice core samples dating back to the previous ice age. Today average atmospheric amounts of CO2 are around 415 ppm. And for example, during the last age the CO2 concentration was twice as high as it is today. Yet, the global climate was much colder.

          • GreenAlba May 14, 2019 at 9:43 am #

            SSL

            Here you are:

            https://skepticalscience.com/co2-higher-in-past.htm

            I find the best thing to do if you want to fill in the gaps in your knowledge or answer the questions that are vigorously promoted on denier sites is to check a site like this first, then if you don’t accept the findings, perhaps because of some better verifiable data that you have, then dig deeper and read the actual papers. Lots of them. The reason why these particular climate myths are answered on this site is because they are the ones much belaboured by denialists. They’re even listed in order of popularity.

            Asking people the same questions over and over and over and over ad nauseam on a blog is pretty pointless.

            And it’s utterly pointless having them explain it to you, because even when they’ve explained it to you you will continue to repeat the same thing. Endlessly. As if they’d said nothing. As sauerkraut says, life is too short, so maybe we have to accept the climate deniers can’t be convinced and leave them to their myths and comfort blankets.

            I have a couple of neighbours like that – they don’t deny science but when there’s a repair to be done in the common passage and stair (which they and we, being the two maindoor flats in the block, don’t use for the most part) they nitpick through their title deeds to say they have to contribute to this but they don’t have to contribute to that. So, what we do is we divide the bill between the other 7 flats instead of 8 and we pick up their tab, because the rest of us can’t be arsed with people who avoid responsibility at all costs and we don’t reckon £200 is worth arguing about among neighbours. To my mind it’s the same thing – some of us will have to carry more responsibility because others want to avoid theirs. Tough. ‘Twas ever thus.

            The climate crisis has long since stopped being a scientific problem and become a psychological one. So we’re on a loser, sadly.

            I for one am not going to beat myself up endlessly about the refusal of obstructionists to get on board. We are where we are and we’re going where we’re going.

            Homo sap does it again. But properly this time. And, who knows, maybe some madman will press the red button so you’ll never have to see the worst of it come to fruition. Fast-tracked climate change.

          • hmuller May 14, 2019 at 10:19 am #

            Green Alba,

            Maybe clinging to the AGW pseudo-religion is a sign of mental imbalance.

            You really want to know why I don’t ride your little AGW Jonestown kool-aid train?!

            When evil, lying enemies of humanity push a dogma, I recoil from it. The Globalists are pushing AGW,- using it as the excuse to strip the Western middle class of wealth, power, and freedom, reducing us to worse than medieval serfdom.

            At least the serfs could mock and curse their lords in hushed voices around the family hearth. We will live like zoo animals, controlled by our “smart appliances”, monitoring every movement, word, and likely – even thought. Even now Alexa is listening. One day Alexa will be compulsory.

            Their plans for our future are not “Star Trek”; but rather the “Hunger Games”. UN Agenda 2030 and other documents lay it out. Don’t make it any easier for the Cabal by swallowing their propaganda. Resist the evil bastards!

          • sauerkraut May 14, 2019 at 10:56 am #

            Last time to reach you, Mr. Muller.

            You write, “When evil, lying enemies of humanity push a dogma, I recoil from it. The Globalists are pushing AGW …”

            So, since the Globalists push arithmetic in schools, you recoil from arithmetic? You reject 2+2 = 4? Because that is your logic.

          • hmuller May 14, 2019 at 11:29 am #

            sauerkraut,

            You know that is a sloppy argument.

            If a Satanist said 2 pus 2 equals four. Would he be correct. Yes.

            If A Satanist said adopt my moral values and political opinions, that’s something else.

            I don’t consider AGW to be a simple mathematically proven truth, Despite you calling it “incontrovertible”, that does not make it so.

          • hmuller May 14, 2019 at 11:33 am #

            And sauerkraut,
            I didn’t hear you denying that globalists are evil or that globalists are pushing the AGW agenda. Do you agree with me then?

          • sauerkraut May 14, 2019 at 11:41 am #

            As I said, Mr. Muller, last time to try and reach you.

          • hmuller May 14, 2019 at 11:50 am #

            Sauerkraut
            You couldn’t be bothered to type “agree” or “don’t agree”, why are you afraid of registering an opinion on the globalists? You are generally outspoken on topics.

          • GreenAlba May 14, 2019 at 12:15 pm #

            And you saying it’s a religion doesn’t make it so, hm.

            It’s a standard ploy of religious people, but not confined to them.

            Maybe you think the fossil-fuel lobbies aren’t globalists. That would take a certain amount of naivety but I’m sure it can be done if you hold on to your idée fixe.

            But using your argument of ‘this person is pushing this, and this person is bad, therefore this is bad’, here’s an article by Boris Johnson, arch-Brexiter, arguing for globalisation.

            https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-globalisation-brexit-george-osborne-british-chambers-of-commerce-bcc-a7603926.html

            ‘Don’t let globalisation become a dirty word, Boris Johnson says”

            Dear, dear, what to do… Is Brexit good, then, or bad, if it’s being pushed by globalists. Maybe better if people look at evidence and think for themselves. Which doesn’t mean think for yourself without evidence. Which is why I just see different sets of globalists. And a climate crisis caused by humans.

            At the same time, the climate crisis is a global crisis…

          • hmuller May 14, 2019 at 3:22 pm #

            Green Alba,

            Sometimes, I think your intention is to cloud the issue by presenting anomalies. Like finding a bald squirrel to prove how stupid I am when I say squirrels are furry.

            But this time you raised some very good points which should be addressed.

            Do you know any big corporations in the hydrocarbon field who have been speaking against AGW lately? I don’t, but I may be wrong. In general, such corporations would not pay carbon taxes or go out of business, Extra costs and taxes would be passed on to the consumers, as always happens. The corporations would obtain and use carbon credits and keep polluting. Because the real goal was never a cleaner environment. It was to load Western people with back breaking taxes and impoverish them. (Hence the China-India exclusion which we’ve discussed at length.)

            And if a few coal companies close up shop, so what! Buggy makers had to make way for car manufacturers. Globalists are playing the long game. We understand checkers; but they are playing chess.

            Globalist controlled candidates are often on both sides of a contest. in the USA most House and Senate races are between Globalist A and Globalist B, (DEM or REP): take your pick. The candidates can differ on some issues within set parameters. But one never wanders too far off the reservation and starts telling people the truth – that we live in a controlled prison and our choices are mostly illusory.

            They call it full spectrum dominance, controlling both sides, so no matter who wins, the Globalists win. They do it with wars. It may matter to the foot soldiers who wins the war, but not to the international bankers. They are happy to load both sides with unpayable debt and gain control over the nations’ resources.

            Maybe the poverty of resource rich Africa has something to do with such devious games?! Globalists and local politicians feeding off the African people with a naked savagery and injustice they are only beginning to roll out for us.

            I think you understand these things and much more, Green Alba.

          • david higham May 15, 2019 at 1:16 am #

            I just read some of the comments here.Green alba and sauerkraut are correct. I am from Australia,and would just like to add one point to sauerkraut’s comment regarding coral.
            The main reasons corals are dying now is high nutrient and sediment pollution,and ocean heating,which causes bleaching .and death of the coral if the bleaching event if prolonged.
            A lot of the Great Barrier Reef is affected to varying degrees
            by sedimentation and high nutrient river-off from cities and agriculture. The northern section was not affected by that,as
            Cape York Peninsula has no cities and no intensive agriculture.
            A few years ago,that pristine section was mostly killed by a severe and prolonged bleaching event due to unusually high
            ocean temperatures. A truly tragic event. This year,the southernmost section of the GBR was also affected by bleaching. I don’t know how long the GBR will survive now,maybe a couple of decades at the most.

          • sauerkraut May 15, 2019 at 12:11 pm #

            Hello David. Thanks for adding that to the discussion.

          • GreenAlba May 15, 2019 at 12:29 pm #

            DavidH

            Thank you, likewise, for adding your input. You seem to be unfortunate in Australia in some ways – a young country but with what seems to be government by dinosaurs. Anyone who tries to govern differently, i.e. in a way that would give Australia a chance of a long-term future without making its climate unlivable, is given short shrift. It’s almost as if those white men (to allude to the obsession of this board) don’t want white men to be able to live there in the long term 🙂 .

          • GreenAlba May 15, 2019 at 12:40 pm #

            hmuller

            “Sometimes, I think your intention is to cloud the issue by presenting anomalies. ”

            You may think what you like, hm. I just get fed up with simplistic generalisations, such as the one that proposes that Brexit is about nationalists against globalists. I see the difference between what the electorate were offered and what the globalist Brexit leaders really have in mind, which, far from being the wellbeing of working families, but is a race-to-the-bottom economy which still feeds the wealthy. But there’s no point is doing anything other than wait until you see the results for yourself. I will keep you posted!

            Re fossil fuel interests and AGW, I give you the notorious Global Warming Foundation, a fossil-fuel-lobbying organisation headed by climate denier Nigel Lawson, erstwhile Chancellor of the (UK) Exchequer.

            Note that Baron Lawson of Blaby, PC does not call his organisation ‘The Global Warming Denying Foundation’, because that would not suggest what he wants to suggest.

            Lord Lawson has had ridiculous amounts of BBC air time and the BBC has even had to apologise, after complaints, for letting counterfactual statements by him be broadcast without any attempt to correct them.

            And yes, what all the globalists have done to Africa is a disgrace, whether home grown or in the old colonialist countries.

            The book ‘Treasures Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World is instructive on the underground financial networks that took over smoothly when actual colonialism hit the dust. I got as far as reading the chapters on the UK and France (there’s also a chapter on the US, although its ’empire’ operates differently) but I’ll have to go back to it for a reminder and read the rest.

          • GreenAlba May 15, 2019 at 12:41 pm #

            sorry, superfluous ‘but’ in para 1

          • Elrond Hubbard May 15, 2019 at 1:13 pm #

            The question of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) being a religion is a provocative one, hmuller.

            People debate what is and isn’t a religion. What I think is essential is that religion is a storyline that someone subscribes to. It’s a master narrative that all other narratives are supposed to be subordinate to. Of course, we all believe in certain narratives. What distinguishes a religion from other kinds of narratives is its relationship to facts. Any story you believe where you fit facts to the story instead of updating the story when the facts contradict it could be called a religion.

            When you think of religion that way, it explains a lot. Subordinating facts to a story explains, for example, why I was brought up to believe that certain morsels of food and drink were the actual body and blood of Jesus. Subordinating other stories to a master storyline explains why some evangelical Christians think Dungeons & Dragons is literal Satanism — because their master narrative tells them demons are real, and not imaginary.

            And what about the present case? AGW doesn’t qualify as a religion, because (a) it’s the result of updating the story to fit the facts (i.e. science), not the reverse; in other words, it’s actually true. And (b) while AGW proponents do try to subordinate competing narratives, there’s nothing wrong with that if AGW is true, which it is, and the competing narrative (that AGW is a hoax) is false, which it is.

            It’s also pretty clear what your religion is, hmuller. I can sum it up in a few words: They Are Out To Get Us. You keep coming back to that idea. Why is AGW a “Jonestown kool-aid train”? Because They (meaning people who accept the scientific consensus) Are Out To Get Us. Why do Globalists push AGW? Because They (this time meaning Globalists-with-a-capital-G) Are Out To Get Us. Why is UN Agenda 2030, whatever that is, eeee-vil? Because They (the evil bastards, the Cabal — you know, them) Are Out To Get Us.

            Don’t get me wrong, there’s some truth in what you say. For example, the Western middle class is losing out, and has been for a long time. What’s more, there are actual reasons why this is happening. I don’t think you understand what those reasons really are as well as you might, though, because you assimilate everything back to your master narrative: They Are Out To Get Us. Your thinking could be a lot clearer if you stepped back, took a breath, and looked at what the facts actually support (such as anthropogenic global warming), and what they don’t (most conspiracy theories), and adjusted your storyline accordingly.

          • Elrond Hubbard May 15, 2019 at 3:08 pm #

            SoftStarLight: “Today average atmospheric amounts of CO2 are around 415 ppm.”

            Correct. “This weekend, sensors in Hawaii recorded Earth’s atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) passing 415 parts per million (ppm) for the first time since before the ancient dawn of humanity.” — sciencealert.com

            SSL: “And for example, during the last age the CO2 concentration was twice as high as it is today. Yet, the global climate was much colder.”

            SSL, can you please explain where you got that information? I really want to know a source. Because last time the atmospheric concentration of CO2 goes much, much farther back than the latest ice age. We’re talking millions of years here, whereas the most recent ice age ended ~10,000 years ago. Follow my link to see a chart, which you will see is nice and flat between 260-270 ppm right up to the giant spike that covers the past century or two.

          • hmuller May 15, 2019 at 9:09 pm #

            Elrond,

            So to summarize, what you believe is scientific and factual. We know it is because it is “true”.

            What I believe is based on delusion and falsehood.

            Thank you, if only I had known it was so simple. I feel better already.

          • hmuller May 16, 2019 at 12:23 am #

            You know Elrond, we supposedly live in the same world of facts, but we don’t. You have your facts: I have mine.

            To revisit an old argument. If someone has a penis and two testicles with which he was born, I would call that person “a man”

            You maintained that if he put on a dress and “wished” to be female, then he was no longer “a man”.

            You are convinced that your facts are the “real facts”, and my facts are a load of delusional thinking. Or did I misunderstand you?

          • TPTB-USA May 16, 2019 at 10:24 am #

            People who are emphatic don’t understand that they are on the wrong side of the equation.

            As Mark Twain would say: ‘It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”

            Is Germany’s Active Volcano Awakening?
            https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/nature/germanys-active-volcano-awakening/

          • Elrond Hubbard May 16, 2019 at 10:36 am #

            hmuller, I won’t be painted as someone who is arrogant or a bully because I respect the achievements of science, and hold that others should do so as well. If the fact that I agree with myself (and science) and not you makes you feel bad, then govern yourself however you like.

            I also will not be cornered into a debate where each side can have its own facts — and speaking of which, stuff your quote marks around ‘facts’. Actual facts are hard-won. Science starts by recognizing that we don’t know what we don’t know. Facts task us, and science earns the authority that it has by doing the work to establish something real about the world. It’s not the case that I have my own facts, and you have yours. What I have is facts, as established by science, because I recognize and respect what science is and the value of its results. As for whatever it is that you have, that’s something for you to think about.

            And if you want to make this about transsexualism, I’m well prepared for that discussion. You propose a simple equation: penis, plus testicles, equals man. Well, yes. And no. What the hell do I mean by that? I mean that the gender binary is simple (hard to get any simpler), but human beings — actual, living, breathing, biological creatures — are immensely complicated. To see just how complicated, everyone should watch this video:

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFCvkkDSfIU

            Those are just some of the processes that go on inside just one cell as it divides into two. All of this and more is happening all the time, trillions of times over, again and again over the course of our entire lives. The degree of complexity that goes into the growth and development of a human being beggars description. That being the case, it’s hardly surprising that these complex processes sometimes go down unfamiliar alleys.

            Yes, male and female are opposites, but so are north and south. But between those two poles there is a vast landscape of possibilities, some of which actually come about. I put it to you, hmuller, that the following is a fact: there really are people who come out with their genitals saying one thing, and their brains saying another. In this situation, you say, genitals carry the day — penis, plus testicles, equals man. And my response is: why genitals alone, when there’s also a brain, and much else besides? When people tell us what it is that they’re experiencing, when they go through enormous effort and trouble (and endure all kinds of resistance and threats from people who they make uncomfortable for being different) to live out their reality, why is it that the rightful response is to push them into a box based on their junk and nothing else?

            There is no threat from trans people. None at all. The ‘pervert who puts on a dress so he can hang out in women’s washrooms and rape your daughter’ is a slander, born out of people’s discomfort with the unfamiliar. No one puts themselves through what trans people put themselves through for reasons that are trivial, or as cartoonishly villainous as this nasty stereotype.

            Trans people are foredoomed to live in a world of cis people, because the species will always need to procreate. We’re not stuck with them, they’re stuck with us. So if I meet someone who looks to my eyes like a man but they dress as a woman and assure me that that’s what they are, I do them the courtesy of agreeing with them. Why? Because it’s the kind thing to do.

          • hmuller May 16, 2019 at 11:18 am #

            Elrond, beieve it or not I support the scientific method. I should have mentioned that it’s not all about the penis, but rather the DNA in every cell of our bodies which determines male or female. So surgery does not change one’s sex.

            Now you can talk about people who are XXY, or XYY, or who have ambiguous sex organs. But rare anomalies don’t define the overall situation. Finding a bald squirrel doesn’t destroy the proposition:”squirrels are furry.”

            For a scientific, fact based guy, you certainly wander off into emotionally based truth. I guess you believe: “If Bradley’s mind tells him he’s a woman, we should agree and start calling him Chelsea.”

            Those aren’t my scientific facts. But not only are they yours, you will say they are universal facts and anyone who disagrees should be jailed for “hate speech”.

            I’m sure you never noticed the irony of how your kind are now eliminating free speech, allegedly to serve the greater good of love and tolerance. If you had your way, you’d imprison me until I adopted your interpretation of fact based science, love and tolerance.

          • Elrond Hubbard May 16, 2019 at 2:34 pm #

            hmuller, I applaud you taking greater account of individual exceptions to the gender binary. The fact is, there are whole subfields like epigenetics and developmental biology that study how cellular mechanisms interact with the genetic code to produce living beings. Even taking account of accidents with the X and Y chromosomes misses a lot. Read Behave by Robert Sapolsky – lots of good info there.

            But really, here’s where I take exception. Quote: “Those aren’t my scientific facts. But not only are they yours, you will say they are universal facts”.

            Wrong. What I said about the role of trans people in society wasn’t based in fact, it was based in value. Trans people are, first and foremost, people. They deserve a role and a place in society, no different from other people, but also one that respects them as individuals. To have that, they need cooperation and understanding from the wider society. What they don’t need is fear, or condemnation, and especially not to be confronted on all sides by the demand that they fit a predetermined role so others won’t have to feel uncomfortable. In the past, it was this attitude that put people with serious physical deformities into freak shows, to be hauled around and exhibited to gawkers for money. Nowadays we don’t do that, and we don’t think highly of our ancestors for doing it.

            There’s no threat to the wider society in all this. It’s a matter of allowing for some people who aren’t strictly men, aren’t strictly women, but a third category, and who may need to make a choice the rest of us don’t have to face. That’s not so much to ask.

            hmuller: “anyone who disagrees should be jailed for ‘hate speech’.

            You go too far here and give me too little credit, that’s all I’ll say. But if I ‘wander off into emotionally based truth’, that’s because the world is complex. We owe one kind of duty to the truth, and we owe a different kind of duty to our fellow human beings. These can be reconciled, and I think I can walk and chew gum at the same time.

          • hmuller May 16, 2019 at 3:21 pm #

            The point I was getting at in a roundabout way is one you apparently agree with, Elrond. That is:

            Moral and ethical values are based on emotion, not science. After we believe something, then we look for the logical, rational, & scientific justifications for our belief.. And no surprise, we find them.

            Hence, can you really be sure that what you believe about X, Y, or Z is based on pure scientific fact? Maybe a belief system attracted you for some emotionally fulfilling reason. Then you built a wall of data to support it, rejecting contradictory data.

            It appeared that your attitude was that everything you believe is purely science based, and nothing subjective enters into it.

          • Elrond Hubbard May 16, 2019 at 5:38 pm #

            No, hmuller, I haven’t transcended the human condition. My final point is, when the facts change, my opinions should change; and I would recommend this way of thinking to anyone else, because that’s my value system. If my values ever changed, then I would no longer recognize myself, and I don’t think anyone willingly signs up for that. In the end, all any of us can do is take our own side in a fight.

  3. thenuttyneutron May 13, 2019 at 10:16 am #

    Shit! Wallstreet had better rush those unicorns to the glue factory, errr I meam IPO market before the opening prices rise even more! *sarc*

    I have the feeling that price discovery is not dead. It is instead knocked out with the drug called cheap money and the drug is wearing off.

  4. Neon Vincent May 13, 2019 at 10:18 am #

    Happy Monday the 13th, Garfield the Cat’s least favorite day! Well, if the global economy crashes, then over-consumption and production of waste and pollution will make the United Nations report warning that one million species could go extinct less likely to come true. Always look for the silver lining!

    • SoftStarLight May 13, 2019 at 10:40 am #

      I doubt very little information from the UN can be trusted anyway. It seems as if that organization is highly agenda driven. No one can ever say the world’s richest and most elite are not represented though.

      • Elrond Hubbard May 13, 2019 at 2:27 pm #

        SSL: the agenda makes the organization, so I don’t understand your criticism. What would an organization without an agenda even mean?

        If the UN has one agenda above any others, it’s to serve as a forum for member countries to… each pursue their own agendas. Your comment doesn’t make much sense unless the very idea of a country other than your own having an agenda is illegitimate in your eyes. Which isn’t very sporting of you, especially considering the USA is one of five countries with a Security Council veto — which renders any other agenda moot to begin with.

        • SoftStarLight May 13, 2019 at 4:36 pm #

          Lol you are right Elrond! Looking back on that I see it sounds kinda silly. Ok so what I SHOULD have said is that the UN is an organization driven by a Globalist/Marxist agenda. I do not appreciate that.

          As for being a good sport…Canada is welcome to have an agenda of its own ;-). Just don’t mess with your southern friends! And you’re welcome.

          • hmuller May 13, 2019 at 5:48 pm #

            Justin Trudeau is a globalist sock puppet who makes our own George W. look like a renaissance man.

          • CancelMyCard May 13, 2019 at 6:40 pm #

            Justin Trudeau is an asshole of the highest order.

      • CancelMyCard May 13, 2019 at 6:36 pm #

        So, SSL,

        please give us a list of those sources

        who YOU DO trust?

        Hmmmm, PLEASE?

  5. Rodster May 13, 2019 at 10:19 am #

    A worldwide depression coming soon? And here I thought that’s what happened in 2008-09. If not for all the government giveaway programs and the BLS not fudging the unemployment numbers which John Williams from Shadowstats.com says are really 25-29% unemployment, that’s what a real depression looks like.

    Anyway, whatever it takes to stop the ship of fools aka (Bolton, Pompeo and Pence) from blowing up the world. So I say bring on the global depression.

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    • Rodster May 13, 2019 at 10:22 am #

      Oh and lets not forget the $275,000 homes that were being advertised on street corners for a mere $47K cash when the last depression in 2008 happened. But that got all corrected once the Federal Reserve and Central Banks around the world began to inject $ Trillions of dollars in the markets so as people wouldn’t get the idea something bad really happened, like a depression.

      • malthuss May 13, 2019 at 10:35 am #

        where? I read in the 00s, Portland homes were going for cheap.

        • hmuller May 13, 2019 at 5:57 pm #

          This stock market and indeed this whole economic system has become a balloon in search of a pin. China trade wars may finally be that pin. If you want to hear trader-blogger Greg Mannarino ranting about the hypocrisy, lies, corruption, and coming apocalypse which will leave the world devastated, check out the latest x22report spotlight interview.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-DZjPmP-1M

          • sauerkraut May 13, 2019 at 8:29 pm #

            Agreed.

    • James Hansen May 13, 2019 at 10:39 am #

      China and Russia look upon the U.S. like a drunken lout and are hoping we fall in the gutter in a stupor, that way things will be peaceful and calm.
      They are trying to wait us out hoping a financial collapse happens before a nuclear war does.
      Trump and the MIC believe more force and belligerence is always the answer which is hastening our slide into the abyss.

      • CancelMyCard May 13, 2019 at 6:44 pm #

        The fucking Chinamen are the drunken louts.

        Fuck China,

        Fuck the Misogynist, Control freaks they are.

        Screw these motherfuckers to the hellhole they live in.

        • James Hansen May 13, 2019 at 9:55 pm #

          You must have the lowest IQ of anybody posting here. My condolences.

    • SoftStarLight May 13, 2019 at 10:42 am #

      As long as that depression pummels the Elite then that is ok with me. Typically the middle and working classes and the poor take the brunt of economic downturns.

      • Majella May 13, 2019 at 6:03 pm #

        SSL_ “As long as that depression pummels the Elite then that is ok with me.” Newsflash – it won’t.

        “Typically the middle and working classes and the poor take the brunt of economic downturns.” Exactly. The ‘Elite’ ALWAYS make out like bandits – very nicely, thank you – in a time of ‘depression’ or recession – viz. what’s happened to the wealth gap since 2008/09. The 1930s was also a great time for those with the wherewithal to invest and remain invested.

        It’s the poor schmucks in the middle classes who lose out, particularly to insidious creeping inflation and real wages going negative.

        • hmuller May 13, 2019 at 7:29 pm #

          I totally agree with your statement. Am I still illustrating my unmitigated stupidity?

        • SoftStarLight May 14, 2019 at 1:04 am #

          Wow we have reached a point of agreement Majella! This is an amazing moment. I’ll enjoy it while it lasts.

    • Epicur May 13, 2019 at 10:45 am #

      “Anyway, whatever it takes to stop the ship of fools aka (Bolton, Pompeo and Pence) from blowing up the world. So I say bring on the global depression.”

      More likely the depression will bring on the war(s).

      The Pax Americana has been purchased with borrowed money. The bursting of the credit expansion will bring an end to that Pax. I’m not a fan of our foreign policy, but the world will not be a peaceful place without the World Police.

      Peace is not the “natural state” of the world.

      • James Hansen May 13, 2019 at 11:01 am #

        If you remove the U.S. from world history starting in 1953, the Iran regime change, looks like it would be pretty peaceful to me.

        • BackRowHeckler May 13, 2019 at 11:38 am #

          The Soviet Union would have had run of the place since 1953 then.

          Gulag from Vladivostok to Wales.

          A malignant peace, rooted in mass murser.

          Brh

          • sauerkraut May 13, 2019 at 12:03 pm #

            Two thugs are better than one?

          • malthuss May 13, 2019 at 12:54 pm #

            murDer I assume is what you mean.

          • James Hansen May 13, 2019 at 2:41 pm #

            I disagree, Russia has only one military base outside the country and only spends 60 billion a year on defense. The gulags are long gone and the U.S. has been the leading mass murdering country for decades.

            It really sucks how this country turned to shit and it looks like it is going to get a lot worse shortly.

          • CancelMyCard May 13, 2019 at 7:05 pm #

            Kiss Putin’s ass much??

  6. BackRowHeckler May 13, 2019 at 10:26 am #

    Not to mention, war could possibly break out around the Persian Gulf some time very soon. US Carrier Group headed that way, Iran making threats, and last night 2 or 4 Saudi ships full of petroleum sabotaged at sea. Perhaps this will blow over like most things do, but the ingredients for a conflaguration are in place.

    Brh

    • SoftStarLight May 13, 2019 at 10:44 am #

      Thanks Brh, I hadn’t heard about the sabotaged Saudi ships as of yet. Wow!!! No doubt this could worsen tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

    • tahoe1780 May 13, 2019 at 10:59 am #

      Another false flag event? Why would Iran attack, now that U.S. carriers and B-52’s are in place? Who benefits? Seems to me, if they did want to attack they’d make it worthwhile – FULL tankers, LOADED cargo carriers, block the strait, etc., not a half-assed “sabotage” of empty, and possibly aging, vessels. Deals have been broken, sanctions levied, but their oil is still flowing. They have been pushed into a corner, but I don’t believe they would attack until the flow is stopped.

      • sauerkraut May 13, 2019 at 12:05 pm #

        False flags? We don’t need no stinkin’ false flags!

    • Anon1970 May 13, 2019 at 2:08 pm #

      When the Great Powers of Europe went to war in 1914, no one thought the war would last as long as it did and cost as much as it did in lives lost and in marks, pounds and francs. The Neo-Cons pushing for another war in the Middle East may soon have buyers’ remorse.

      • Majella May 13, 2019 at 6:08 pm #

        Anon, the Neo-Cons have extremely recent history to give them a hint as to how such a new war would play out.

        However, with Iran, they’re playing ‘spin the pistol wheel’ with a Russian associate, which does add a new frisson of danger to get Bolton’s ‘porn-stache’ twitching.

  7. fugeguy May 13, 2019 at 10:28 am #

    Another good one from Jim.

    My take is a little different on the trade deal. I think the impasse is a set-up. There is no way China can make all the concessions currently on the table. So the resulting impasse is a primer to let the markets stew for awhile. Then when we magically get a deal, Trump can declare victory from the resultant market run-up and get the markets to accept a less than stellar deal having recently faced the specter of no deal.

    If only the players involved were so cunning and smart!

    The Dow has not made its run to 30K yet which I think will be the trigger for the next serious crisis. This “milestone” should occur in the next 18 to 24 months, possibly during or just after the climax of the next Presidential reality show.

    Either way it is too late for the chute to fully deploy before we reach the ground.

    Boomy the clown will have the last laugh.

    • SoftStarLight May 13, 2019 at 10:45 am #

      LOL Boomy the clown….Very interesting take on things!!!

      • fugeguy May 13, 2019 at 1:43 pm #

        Added a picture of boomy

        • SoftStarLight May 13, 2019 at 4:37 pm #

          It’s perfect :-)!!!!

    • City_of_76 May 13, 2019 at 10:49 am #

      @fugeguy – Your noting the 30k Dow as something significant reveals your overly stock-market-centric view of things. A nice round number is nothing but that, and given ecological & economic realities, indicates only how dangerous our attention to that numbers game is.

      • Mountain gal May 13, 2019 at 10:53 am #

        Only about half the US owns any stocks at all.

      • fugeguy May 13, 2019 at 1:03 pm #

        I agree it is just a marker.

        But those in power (Fed, congress, the Pres) are watching and acting to those ends. And will most likely continue to act until circumstances degrade so much it is either no longer possible to keep the game going or until the game obviously no longer matters.

    • CancelMyCard May 13, 2019 at 7:07 pm #

      Based on today’s performance,
      I don’t think the Dow is going to make
      a run at 30,000 anytime soon.

      Just sayin’.

      • fugeguy May 14, 2019 at 12:59 pm #

        9 days ago it was at or near all time highs.

        A trade deal here, rate drop there and a QE cherry on top and 30K by Christmas 😉

        If you’re gonna be over valued might as well make it a record!

        But who really knows the timing but the end result is clearer piece-by-piece. It is the only way to exit.

        • fugeguy May 15, 2019 at 9:32 am #

          Maybe the end game will be Dow 1 trillion.

          It will pair nicely with the new 1 billion dollar bill with the bigly Trumpster on it.

  8. malthuss May 13, 2019 at 10:28 am #

    Stalin starved millions of Ukrainians to death..
    • benr May 12, 2019 at 7:31 pm #

    Communists and their close cousin Socialists have murdered 100 million people in the last 100 years.

    –Id guess way more than 100 million.

    Lazar Kaganovitch > Lazar Kaganovitch repeated it when he starved Ukrainian peasants to death in their millions.

    • SoftStarLight May 13, 2019 at 10:46 am #

      Communists not socialists. And it is more like 150 to 175 million between Russia and China.

      • benr May 13, 2019 at 11:10 am #

        Dimes bit of difference in the end they both destroy peoples lives in the long run.

        • SoftStarLight May 13, 2019 at 11:18 am #

          Capitalism destroys peoples lives in the long run (and the environment too). If you believe in social responsibility Socialism is the only system that can balance those needs with the needs of freer enterprise which Communism doesn’t allow for at all.

          • capt spaulding May 13, 2019 at 11:28 am #

            Greedy people and greedy corporations destroy people’s lives regardless of what system they purport to follow.

          • benr May 13, 2019 at 11:32 am #

            No pure ism of any sort works.
            You can’t point at any working Socialist model that does not have Capitalism as the stronger under pinning and when they go in and start usurping peoples wealth, property, skills and output you get Venezuela.
            In the end it always fails without a hefty does of common sense.

          • K-Dog May 13, 2019 at 11:36 am #

            You have been thinking. I agree with you that Socialism is thinking dog politics so you might like the video I put up on my website yesterday. It is a history of labor and the politics of labor in America.

            American History

            I wrote a few paragraphs of introduction and stuff, ending with this:

            ‘Going forward in an age of limits what kind of social arrangement produces the best outcomes? It is my hope this video causes a few people to think about that question.

            To make the trend our friend lets change the end!

          • SoftStarLight May 13, 2019 at 11:37 am #

            I agree. Any form of socialism that would work would require regulation of corporations so that they do not harm society. Corporations would not be considered people that is for sure!!!! And I don’t believe in usurping people’s wealth and property that has been earned and accumulated honestly. People should be allowed to thrive, succeed, invent etc. Your point about common sense is true benr. The best and the brightest should be our policy makers and much thought and common sense would need to be employed. This is the truth no matter what type of government there is.

          • SoftStarLight May 13, 2019 at 11:50 am #

            Thank you K-Dog!

          • CancelMyCard May 13, 2019 at 7:10 pm #

            Socialism is the breeding ground
            of nihilism.

            The death-wish of republics and democracies is
            socialism.

            Read it and weep.

          • SoftStarLight May 14, 2019 at 1:18 am #

            It took some time but I finished crying. Now will you tell me why you said socialism breeds nihilism? Nihilism is when traditional beliefs and philosophies are rejected and existence is seen as useless and futile. It would appear to me that Capitalism has brought about nihilism in the US. From everything I’ve read it appears that Communism brought nihilism to Russia. And is nihilism a problem independent of political system/practices altogether?

        • Janos Skorenzy May 13, 2019 at 1:53 pm #

          Capitalism created Communism – not just by reaction, but consciously – as in funding it. Why? To bring the Monarchies and Traditional Economies into the Capitalist/Communists nexus. They aren’t really opposites at all – thus Rockefeller set up in Moscow and loved Kushchev.

          And thus did the two system united against the real reaction – Fascism and National Socialism – and will again if need be. They are both Globalist whereas Fascism and National Socialism are nationalist. That’s the crux.

        • K-Dog May 13, 2019 at 12:00 pm #

          Ah, so this is where this outrageous saw,

          The more than 100 million murdered in communist nations and by the Nazis during the 20th century? Ancient history that has gone down a memory hole.

          Comes from. A two year old article with incorrect distorted facts. What some people will do to serve the empire is scary. Is it true that Christian fundamentalism and Moslem fundamentalism are the same thing too? That makes as much sense as equating Nazis with Communists.

          Nazis were capitalists without shame or moral conscious of any kind. There was nothing socialist about them except part of their name. As that goes Pheasant Ridge could be the name of a development of McMansions but that does not mean any Pheasants live there so what is in a name.

          • sauerkraut May 13, 2019 at 12:09 pm #

            Fact checking again? Don’t you know that reality is irrelevant? And may not exist anyway?

            BAD dog!!!

          • K-Dog May 13, 2019 at 12:22 pm #

            https://www.pheasantridgebellevue.com/

            I don’t see any Pheasants.

            Reality at this time is irrelevant, this is true. But saying that it does not exist at all is logically impossible and defeatist.

            Reality could easily become popular again in the future. When convenient reality will be used to justify all sorts of things but right now denial serves that agenda better.

          • BackRowHeckler May 13, 2019 at 12:30 pm #

            Kdog

            Comes from

            ‘The Black book on Communism’ published by the French Academy in mid 1990s. Incidentally, your hero Trotsky gets a mention in that book.

            Also, ‘Death by Government’ by a prof at the U of Hawaii whose name escapes me.

            Brh

          • sauerkraut May 13, 2019 at 12:30 pm #

            “Reality could easily become popular again in the future.”

            Very nice!

          • capt spaulding May 13, 2019 at 1:11 pm #

            I respectfully disagree on both points, dog. Fundamentalism is defined as “a form of religion, ESPECIALLY Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture.” That’s from the dictionary. I submit that there are further similarities in that both religions tend to be extremely conservative in the way the scripture is interpreted and applied to the practitioners. I always said: “Scratch the Ayatollah, and you’ll see Jerry Falwell underneath.”

            In the second instance, both right wing (German) and left wing (Russian), were totalitarian govts. With regards to business, the German govt. exercised all of the powers of ownership, not the nominal private owners, unlike thew Russians who did the same thing without the charade of private ownership.

            Please respond if you disagree, you are always interesting to read.

          • K-Dog May 13, 2019 at 1:13 pm #

            Found it:

            https://archive.org/details/TheBlackBookofCommunism10

            Thanks.

            Looks like a book with a very clear agenda which is really too bad. Objective facts would be nice. While some may be in this book, how could I possibly tell the forest from the trees?

          • K-Dog May 13, 2019 at 1:30 pm #

            You make a good point BR but if we relax rules enough to make Nazis and Stalinists appear equal we can just as well compare the Nazi system to our own and find equivalencies there which ring just as true (ignoring the mass murder of course). Similarities that I’ll say are even more congruent. Nazis were capitalist on steroids committed to 100% exploitation and personal profit.

            And considering current American conduct concerning the war in Yemen and other ignored and planned instances of regime change and the pain of all the aftermaths in all the countries that we have ‘rescued’; perhaps I am too quick in dismissing a mass murder comparison.

            Way too quick.

          • Janos Skorenzy May 13, 2019 at 2:00 pm #

            Nope. Wrong. Their economy was Planned and corporations had to obey the higher ups. You’re doing exactly what the John Azes do when they claim National Socialism was Leftist, except from the other side. You can’t accept they had achieved a subtlety beyond right and left. Of course they had to be destroyed before they outshone both the Left and the Right.

            All this comes very naturally to East Asians by the way. The idea of just letting Corporations replace their own people with coolies is too disgusting for words. They have a health we can only dream of now. The keep their Corporations on a leash – and that means Socialism. But again, the real focus is above Economics so it’s a both and neither – not just a shaky midpoint on a flat line but rather the High Middle.

          • Janos Skorenzy May 13, 2019 at 2:07 pm #

            Charade, Captain? No one owns anything ultimately. You don’t own your body, otherwise you’d live forever and never grow old. Did the rich get rich all by themselves? Without workers? Without road maintainance? Without police to protect them from thieves? It’s ludicrous. They owe a debt to society just like anyone else. Fascism and National Socialism acknowledge their right to their riches, but deny any ultimacy to it. They demand they pay their debts just like anyone else.

            Nor do they capitulate morally. The rich aren’t better, just richer. If they do good things with their wealth, only then do they deserve acclaim. Very different from how we see them, eh? Or the blind and murderous hatred of Communism.

            Try harder, please. I know that such evil people shouldn’t have attained such a nice balanced viewpoint, but they did. Hint: Maybe they weren’t evil? Maybe you’ve been lied to by the Capitalists and Communists?

          • SoftStarLight May 13, 2019 at 4:45 pm #

            “Nazis were capitalists without shame or moral conscious of any kind.”

            This is not my understanding at all. The National Socialists did regulate business activity stringently and there were also some aspects of central planning no? Perhaps you are conflating the idea of the amoral capitalist with the alleged crimes of the Nazis to get to the idea that they were Capitalists on steroids essentially? Now, we know there were Capitalists (Prescott Bush) in the states that were willing to make a buck by working with the National Socialists…

          • SoftStarLight May 13, 2019 at 4:59 pm #

            Captain there is way to much equivocation occurring in your arguments. People in Saudi Arabia are still being crucified. Please point out where this practice occurs in the “Christian” world. Also please point to a nation in which Biblical law is directly incorporated into the national constitution. Meanwhile, there are at least 50 nations that incorporate Islamic Shariah law directly into their national constitutions.

  9. Proud to have boycotted China since 1989

    Today’s New York Times has a scintillating article of RT America’s promulgation of Antivaxxer-tier bullshit about 5G communications networks. At the same time, Putin’s heralding the technologies’ adoption in Moscow.

    Also, podcasts are starting to take hold in China. If you weren’t aware, we are entering the golden age of podcasts. Still unable to figure out how to co-opt and interrupt the format, politics and commerce alike are shut out while real humans have the kinds of one on one intimate conversation that begins to realize the potential of new technology to expand human intelligence and understanding. So there are reasons to be optimistic that intelligence, which has been so abused by media excesses, may begin a renaissance.

    • malthuss May 13, 2019 at 10:36 am #

      Proud to have boycotted China since 1989?? huh?

      • Did I stutter? Tiananmen Square, 1989.

        Boycotting was easy. They literally print “Made in China” on all their shit.

        • Tate May 13, 2019 at 11:03 am #

          Rosanna Arquette rages:

          “Women will vote all you corrupt misogynistic pigs out of office. Keep your filthy evil hands off our berjiners. we out number you ,you will not win.”

        • James Hansen May 13, 2019 at 11:09 am #

          That means you spent about fifty bucks since 1989!

        • capt spaulding May 13, 2019 at 11:30 am #

          I think you mean: They literally print “Made in China”, on all of OUR shit.

    • SoftStarLight May 13, 2019 at 10:49 am #

      Are you a techno-narcissist?

    • Mountain gal May 13, 2019 at 10:54 am #

      Can you even buy a cell phone not made in China?

      • stelmosfire May 13, 2019 at 11:44 am #

        Some Samsungs and LGs are made in South Korea and other good brands come from Free China (Taiwan)

      • benr May 13, 2019 at 11:58 am #

        The US government put in a rule that all electronics going forward must be made anywhere other than China.
        Wonder how that is working out for the people who must procure said electronics?

  10. Elrond Hubbard May 13, 2019 at 10:30 am #

    “Heigh-ho the derry-o, the trend is not your friend…”

    JHK: “Even the profoundly flawed sometimes strangely find themselves on the hero’s journey.”

    Donald Trump is a world-historical headcase, a man whose overcompensating self-regard is as titanic as his underlying soul is puny, shrivelled and traumatized. The only thing heroic about him is the scale and scope of his dysfunction. We have come to a pretty pass when we find ourselves being counselled by a social critic to invest our hopes in a slapstick circus Hitler somehow bass-ackwarding us into a brighter future.

    Trump’s no holy fool. He’s just what the patient coughs up.

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    • SoftStarLight May 13, 2019 at 10:52 am #

      LOL Trump = Hitler – really? Seriously, really? Doesn’t the Hitler name dropping ever get tiring? To me it doesn’t have any meaning any more since it is used like every day.

      • Elrond Hubbard May 13, 2019 at 11:51 am #

        *snicker* Not one, but two people pounced on ‘Hitler’ and disregarded what I was actually saying about Trump. This is for you, benr, as well as SoftStarLight.

        My evaluation of Trump was based very much on the man as he is, or at any rate what the voluminous public record of his words and behaviour say about him. I borrowed ‘circus Hitler’ from Matt Taibbi’s reporting on the Republican nomination fight leading up to the 2016 election, and I’m quite content with it.

        If you’re relying on the Godwin’s Law trope that comparing someone to Hitler supposedly disqualifies you from being taken seriously, note that Mike Godwin himself has more than once approved of the comparison in the case of Trump, and of those Trump approves of (calling them ‘very fine people’).

        benr: “There is next to nothing in common between Adolph and Trump except megalomania.”

        How silly are you, to make my argument for me? History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. Donald Trump is afflicted with a dark cancer of the soul, and he’s inflicting it on all of us. Nothing about his influence bodes anything but ill for the future.

        • benr May 13, 2019 at 12:04 pm #

          Pounced?
          Hardly just pointing out the reality that Trump is no Hitler not even close no matter how hard you try and make a comparison.
          All the same points you make can and should have been made for Johnson, Bill Clinton, Nixon, GWBush and most of all Obama.
          Talk about megalomania Obama takes the cake in ego and bloviating.
          It must really hurt to go from media types swooning all over you to not even being able to pack a small theater with people when you speak.
          The patina has worn off fast from the one.
          We survived all the other fools we will survive the current one. and the next one as well.

          • K-Dog May 13, 2019 at 12:26 pm #

            Actually on the empathy scale they are very similar.

        • SoftStarLight May 14, 2019 at 1:24 am #

          Yeah his dark cancer of the soul is that he didn’t build the Wall, deport all illegal immigrants and put a moratorium on immigration the way he said he would.

      • Nightowl May 13, 2019 at 1:59 pm #

        No crimes uncovered, no nebulous “collusion” identified, now wokesters are back to calling Trump Hitler and Il Duce.

        I used to watch old videos from the McCarthy era and wonder how any human being could fall into such rabid delusion. Never thought I’d live through something similar in my lifetime.

        I like that Mr. Hubbard also took the time to write out “snicker” in italics. Such verbal devastation. Gamma male style.

        • Janos Skorenzy May 13, 2019 at 2:10 pm #

          Except he was right about almost everything. His mistake was that he Underestimated the amount of Communist infiltration and he assumed it was all coming from Russia. In fact, much of it was home grown.

          No we see the fruits. If only we had listened to this great Man instead of destroying him.

          • Nightowl May 13, 2019 at 5:06 pm #

            He was a nut on a witch hunt. History repeating itself.

          • Janos Skorenzy May 13, 2019 at 5:51 pm #

            Says the mainstream media and its credulous readers.

    • benr May 13, 2019 at 11:21 am #

      Where has Trump unleashed an operation hummingbird event?
      A Riechstag fire, built up a VW plant OR pushed a national car upon the Volk, where are the brown shirts other than on the Democrat side?
      There is next to nothing in common between Adolph and Trump except megalomania.
      Nor has our President attempted to over throw a government that is also clearly on the other side of the aisle.
      No Trump youth but there was an Obama youth at one point.
      Has Trump banned the communist party…no the DEMOCRATS ARE NOT BANNED.
      No secret police created by Trump.
      No book burning.
      No withdrawal from the UN as much as we probably should.
      He has not dissolved the Congress or the senate nor had the US invade anyone as of yet.
      All altercations occurring now existed under the last POS in the peoples house.
      Elrond a little grasp at history might help.
      Is the Donald thin skinned and he likes trolling yep.
      Does he have a high opinion of himself oh yes and he is New York abrasive in fact have you ever met a New York male that was not abrasive and down right corrosive?
      Something in the water I think.

      • sauerkraut May 13, 2019 at 12:15 pm #

        What is it that you don’t get about the modifiers “slapstick” and “circus”?

        • benr May 13, 2019 at 12:23 pm #

          There is nothing slapstick or circus like in the comparison not even close the modifiers did not fit.
          Better to have left Hitler out of the discussion and used slap stick and circus like or even better an old fashioned celebrity roast where in the roasted takes themselves way to serious and does not even realize they are being roasted.

      • Janos Skorenzy May 13, 2019 at 2:15 pm #

        Hitler was real and Trump is a joke. That’s the difference. Hitler succeeded and Trump capitulated – or was never serious. Both are very engaging speakers, especially for the downtrodden. But beyond that, there are few similarities. Trump knew what needed to be done and what the People wanted – so he was able to fake it in masterful style. A great Magician perhaps. Just like Obama for the other side.

        • hmuller May 13, 2019 at 6:21 pm #

          Compare Trump to Hitler, and Janos objects that Hitler is being defamed and belittled. You gotta love the broad spectrum of ideas found here.

          • Janos Skorenzy May 13, 2019 at 7:38 pm #

            Broad spectrum? Tune in to the right frequency. Freedom by itself is meaningless unless you choose well. Hitler was a great leader – as John F Kennedy said. And as did many of Hitler’s peers before the Tribe consolidated their hold on the narrative and extended it back into the past as well. Huge peace demonstrations before both World Wars – also down the memory hole. Those are good wars now.

          • hmuller May 13, 2019 at 7:59 pm #

            Yes, history keeps getting rewritten. Example: Lindberg went from hero to Nazi collaborator and finally back to semi-flawed hero. Henry Ford was forced to publicly apologize for his candid remarks on the tribe. (Though they never forgave him.)

            I gather from reading and films, those New York Jewish Bolsheviks had a lot of tap dancing to do when Hitler and Stalin became best friends for about 22 months (AUG 1939 – JUN 1941). I’ll bet they were greatly relieved and happy in a way when Russia was invaded. They could hate Nazi’s again!

        • benr May 14, 2019 at 9:42 am #

          Trump an engaging speaker and masterful?
          Really?

          Pull the teleprompter away from Obama and he was a stuttering fool.

      • BornToKillPeace May 13, 2019 at 10:15 pm #

        Thank you for your comment, Benr.
        “Operation Hummingbird Event, etc”

  11. John1945 May 13, 2019 at 10:30 am #

    What,me worry ?
    ( “MAD” magazine immortal phrase)

    I will never read about the Depression in NYT or WSJ.
    69% of stock trades is automated trading.
    Algos react to the news and trade.accordingly.
    Therefore publishing bad news may kill the relentless rising,
    surging and soaring of DJIA

    • K-Dog May 13, 2019 at 12:36 pm #

      ‘MAD’ has been on my mind.

      That Juan Guaidó guy who our state department wants to put in charge of Venezuela looks exactly like what would happen if Barack Obama had gay sex with Alfred E. Newman.

      Unacceptable; there should be an election so Americans decide who should run Venezuela. Just having our state department decide for us who should run the place is undemocratic and having someone unpleasant to look at is gross. Double badness, this shit is not right.

      • John1945 May 13, 2019 at 1:05 pm #

        The question of who should/should not run the country is not decided by referendum.Persians (Ancient Iranians ) were never conquered by Romans because Persian bow was mightier than Roman sword.

        The question of whether U-2 should/should not soar over the USSR was not decided by the President Eisenhower either..It was decided by the SA-2 anti-aircraft rocket.

        Let’s see how good are those russian C-300 antiaircraft complexes which Venezuela recently purchased at Sam’s Club.

        • K-Dog May 13, 2019 at 1:34 pm #

          So having to look at the product of gay sex with Alfred E. Newman is OK with you?

          • John1945 May 13, 2019 at 1:54 pm #

            I am not OK with gay sex (much less with the product thereof) because I am L7 aka Square from Delaware (using the ’50s expression).

            My point is that russian C300 antiaircraft complexes will decide in Venezuela who we will have to look at .

          • Majella May 13, 2019 at 6:30 pm #

            John 1945…”product of gay sex”? WTF?

          • John1945 May 13, 2019 at 7:18 pm #

            @Majella

            Mr.K-Dog is referring to the movie featuring pregnant Arnie Schwarzenegger w/o realizing that it was pure fiction 🙂

        • jdhines May 13, 2019 at 4:03 pm #

          Alexander The Great did conquer Persia with spears (Sarissa). What happened to the Persian bows?

          • John1945 May 13, 2019 at 4:36 pm #

            “What happened to the Persian bows?”

            They got even better.

            Composite bows and crossbows are sold on Amazon,only now they are made from carbon fiber,450lbs pull not being uncommon.

            VC used strong bows pulled with legs to shoot down light choppers (utility and observational helicopters) during the Vietnam War.They tied steel wire to the arrow and aimed at the rotor.Success rate was low yet it was not impossible to dowh UH-1 which cost $2M back then,so it paid off nicely.

            Persia (Modern Iran) eventually got tired of being conquered by each and every Tom, Dick and Harry and became very peaceful country.

            After learning about the Peak Oil they started a large-scale uranium enrichment program.

          • Janos Skorenzy May 13, 2019 at 5:50 pm #

            The ancestors of the Inuit had these when they crossed over – and they wreaked havoc on the more primitive northern Indians with them. They seemed to have lost the technology though. No need or didn’t have the right resources to make them anymore? They never got along with the Indians.

            War is natural, the most natural state of all. No war on these shores has made for a most unnatural and weak White race. That has to change and will change.

          • hmuller May 13, 2019 at 6:23 pm #

            What? The American Civil War wasn’t “race strengthening” enough for you, Janos?

  12. malthuss May 13, 2019 at 10:31 am #

    JimInFlorida May 12, 2019 at 11:51 am

    everybody here can type. Nowadays the classes are in keyboarding.
    Typewriters went out with phone booths, chimney sweeps and black n white TVs.

  13. malthuss May 13, 2019 at 10:41 am #

    This is for BRH, who likes crime reports, news on street action.

    : Rival rappers exchanging semi-auto gunfire. South Africa rising. Just a matter of time until these incidents spill over into politics on a grand scale.

    ‘Man gunned down outside Trump resort in Miami; woman hospitalized’

    (CNN) – A man died and a woman was injured in a shootout near a Trump resort in the Miami area Sunday.

    According to witnesses, the shooting began when two groups of rival rappers started arguing outside the Trump International Beach Resort in Sunny Isles Beach.

    Someone who knows the man who was killed said he was not involved in the shootout but got caught in the crossfire.

    A 19-year-old woman was taken to a hospital in unknown condition.

    According to witnesses, she is the girlfriend of rapper
    NBA YoungBoy.

    Police are searching for three suspects who had guns, including an AK-47 and handguns.

    https://www.wbrc.com/2019/05/12/man-gunned-down-outside-trump-resort-miami/

    • hmuller May 14, 2019 at 3:42 pm #

      Damn, I didn’t know Trump ran establishments which were such ghetto trash magnets.

  14. Tate May 13, 2019 at 10:43 am #

    Pot calls kettle black somewhere in the midst of that thang.

  15. BackRowHeckler May 13, 2019 at 10:54 am #

    All in a days work, Malth.

    US cities resembling Paris Grand Guignol 1927. Theatre of blood and violence.

    In SA, Malema gathering strength, look for a bloodbath when farm confiscations begin in earnest later this year.

    In fact, its shaping up to be one helluva a year.

    Brh

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  16. SoftStarLight May 13, 2019 at 10:55 am #

    The “US beast-of-Mammon”….I love that Mr. K :-).

  17. aibohphobia May 13, 2019 at 11:02 am #

    And underlying all this, there is still the approaching juggernaut of the 2020 elections–

    Someone pointed out that the behavior of the Democrats towards flyover state residents is eerily similar to the Martians in the 1996 movie, “Mars Attacks!”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Attacks!

    They roam around saying “Ack! Ack! Ack! We come in peace!” while frying civilians with their rayguns. No, that was the movie. In real life, they stayed in their penthouses on the East and West coast dreaming up ways to profit from the offshoring of the economy, at the expense of the flyover population. Death by raygun would have been kinder.

    The politicians in the movie kept trying to make deals with the Martians, until all of them were incinerated. Rescue only came when a little old lady found that a recording of a yodeling cowboy caused the Martians’ brains to explode.

    The dems ran a Martian for President in 2016. Shillary would have started a war with Russia, among other things. Well, any national party can make a mistake–But the current field of candidates is rich in Martians just now…

    Meanwhile Trump, the clueless yodelling cowboy, keeps causing their brains to explode.

    • Tate May 13, 2019 at 11:10 am #

      Yeah, I hated that because that yodeling cowboy was a recording of the Sons of the Pioneers, one of my favorite singing groups.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQc5gDXQGIs

      Typical Hollyweird bias.

      • elysianfield May 13, 2019 at 1:14 pm #

        “that yodeling cowboy was a recording of the Sons of the Pioneers”

        Tate,
        Really? I thought it was Slim Whitman’s “Indian Love Call”

        • Tate May 13, 2019 at 2:01 pm #

          Whatever. Another of my favorites.

        • hmuller May 13, 2019 at 6:27 pm #

          John Denver yodeled on occasion; and was a better man for it.

          • elysianfield May 14, 2019 at 12:53 am #

            Hmuller,
            I would opine that John Denver, that anti 2nd Amendment son of a bitch, took flying lessons, and was a better man for it….

          • hmuller May 14, 2019 at 10:43 am #

            I wasn’t aware of his political causes; but most of the entertainment figures are into all that left-wing crapola.

            Looking at his bio on wikipedia, I was surprised to learn that
            “In 1985, Denver asked to participate in the singing of “We Are the World,” but he was turned down”
            Maybe they thought he would start yodeling – the worst is an uncontrollable Tourette’s style outbreak of yodeling..

            Denver certainly had a few personal demons: alcohol, drugs, wife beating. Angered by the terms of a divorce settlement, he once cut the bed in half with a chain saw. Funny, he never seemed like the power tool savvy kind.

        • Tate May 13, 2019 at 7:21 pm #

          I always liked the yodeling style of Patsy Cline as well. Wait, what?! Haha, “was a better man for it.”

          • hmuller May 14, 2019 at 12:53 am #

            An idea for a movie. Family suffers from a rare genetic disorder and are unable to speak normally. They can only yodel.What’s more they are relocated in the Federal Witness Protection Program for betraying the mob. They get placed in this small religious town where yodeling is forbidden. But one courageous teenager turns the town around with his MYGA campaign. Make Yodeling Great Again.

            Too much like “Footloose”?

          • Tate May 14, 2019 at 1:26 pm #

            You missed your calling, hmuller.

    • SoftStarLight May 13, 2019 at 11:12 am #

      Meanwhile us deplorables are developing a very powerful ray gun of our own. The Martians will be very sorry ;-).

    • James Hansen May 13, 2019 at 11:20 am #

      ” In real life, they stayed in their penthouses on the East and West coast dreaming up ways to profit from the off shoring of the economy, at the expense of the flyover population.”

      Partisan memories, the Bush admin changed the tax codes to facilitate the the greatest off shoring of U.S. jobs in history. Remember those head lines, “300,000 jobs lost this month”.

      Believe it or not Republicans harmed the country with idiotic political policies also.

      • sauerkraut May 13, 2019 at 12:19 pm #

        It’s not idiotic to smash a $50,000 Rolex for a $10 jewel. If it’s not your Rolex.

      • Nightowl May 13, 2019 at 2:05 pm #

        Neolibs and neocons one and the same. More shocking news at 11.

        Viva the Purple Revolution. Purple pantsuits for the ladies and ties for the guys.

  18. messianicdruid May 13, 2019 at 11:08 am #

    EvelynV said, “There is an all consciousness, consciousness permeates the universe and all things animate or inanimate possess it at some level. No words can properly explain it.”

    “The conclusion must be that, as currently read, the Bible is incomplete – its translators having ignored, or otherwise overlooked, the coordinated numerical structures that our Creator has thought fit to include in His word to man.”

    http://www.whatabeginning.com/Misc/Wonders/P.htm

    • hmuller May 14, 2019 at 11:43 am #

      Where is Evelyn today? Dusting off her collection of stuffed Republicans?

      • messianicdruid May 14, 2019 at 3:30 pm #

        Only the ones with horns.

  19. volodya May 13, 2019 at 11:20 am #

    The ninny-ologies inflicted by our intellectual betters are many and varied but they all seem to be in aid of the great-grandmother of them all, neo-liberalism, that framework of ideas purpose-built to keep economic decision-making out of the halls of legislatures and likewise the hands of the little guy, and money safe in the pockets of those that have a lot of it, and out of the pockets of those that have little.

    Never mind the me-too fits and identity screamies and, oh, gender fluidities that dribble off leafy green campuses, those are in part the effluent of useful idiots that serve to distract from the looting and ruination of innumerable mas ‘n’ pas back home that used to be able to earn a reasonable if not exorbitant living doing useful work. Trannies selling Chips Ahoy?

    Of course, sure, trannies selling Chips Ahoy. For my part I constantly under-estimate the creativity of those entrusted with the task of steering national discourse in a direction away from any having anything to do with anything useful. What did I see not too long ago, but the tail-end of a piece about drag queens doing story-time for pre-schoolers by the look of them, and the reaction you’d expect, furious parents out demonstrating, one with a sign saying Not Today Satan.

    Drag queen story time. Imagine that. A brilliant ploy don’t you think? To the barricades, progressives vs their opposites. Can physicists at the world’s foremost scientific institutes, thinking the deepest, most insightful thoughts about the nature of gravity and inertia and space and time, conjuring ideas using the most difficult and subtle mathematics, come up with any concept as dazzling? If I sat for a thousand years thinking of ways to create tumult to run interference for my paymasters I wouldn’t have come up with drag queen story time. I doff my hat and bow with deepest reverence.

    • benr May 13, 2019 at 11:25 am #

      More proof of insanity and one of the drag queens had a serious history of abusing young boys.
      The library in question never ran a background on said person.
      Sad that we have to run backgrounds on people giving up there time to hang out with the young ones.
      Normalizing the bizarre seems to be a severe sign of the times.

    • montsegur May 13, 2019 at 12:04 pm #

      volodya, yeah the disconnection from any kind of objective reality has become so profound that it is now entering the stupid and bizarre.

      But it has to work that way, doesn’t it? When a political movement smells a win by shocking people, the shock eventually wears off and ups the ante in terms of what will be shocking the next time …

      The economy may or may not crap out. It has proven before to be more resilient than some expect. I think there is a better chance of the Dem Party self-destructing in the next four years or so.

      I think, at some point, the ‘normies’ will bite back and bite hard. There are a lot of people who then learn bitter lessons about the value of being at least somewhat discreet in their public deportment.

      Cheers

      • volodya May 13, 2019 at 12:54 pm #

        Montsegur, there’s a lot of potential trajectories that the economy can take, the path actually taken will be one that no economist will actually predict, nor explain after the fact as post-diction doesn’t seem to be their forte either.

        I shouldn’t say NO economist. SOME economists, especially those working for less illustrious institutions, who may be off the beaten-path in terms of their thinking, may actually say something useful.

        But, by and large, we’re on our own on this. IMO the economics profession (if you can call it a profession) is one that’s as disreputable as they come, as bad as the accountants, covering themselves in disrepute, giving lawyers a run for our money (not that we’d ever hire an economist).

        How many times have I heard an economist tell an interviewer, “As an economist, I believe in free trade.” These would be the usual suspects, economists employed by Wall Street banks, or working for an Ivy League school or associations representing particular commercial interests.

        Best thing? Make up your own mind.

        One possible economic track is a year-by-year Brazilianization, with Fly-over America already well along the way. That is, no collapse as such, no jump-off-the-cliff “crisis”, but rather a 2 percent per year degradation in circumstances. Maybe we should talk to the Yellow Vests as they may have some insights but not through the filter of a media outlet that frames the discussion and then spins it, with the interviewer rolling the eyes, sighing deeply in a stagey “frustration”, you know the drill, you’ve seen it.

        And yeah, the normies could indeed bite back, with closets getting re-fitted and remodeled.

        • hmuller May 13, 2019 at 6:34 pm #

          I saw that Tranny-cookie commercial. I found it very funny. I want that Tranny on stage at the Democratic Presidential Debates. I predict he’ll outlast most of the field, as it gets whittled down. Hell, he could win the nomination. LOL

    • sauerkraut May 13, 2019 at 12:21 pm #

      Credit where credit is due.

      • volodya May 13, 2019 at 2:59 pm #

        Indeed.

        • sauerkraut May 13, 2019 at 5:53 pm #

          Good to see someone state it so clearly, instead of demonizing whichever brand their parents taught them to hate.

          • benr May 14, 2019 at 9:56 am #

            What happens when one of your parents is communist far left 70 year old wokester and the other is a libertarian centrist with a complete hands off mellow surfer vibe?

    • ozone May 13, 2019 at 9:48 pm #

      Blammo! Right on target.
      Thanks V.
      It’s all about sleight of hand distractions from things of actual import. Sorry to say, on a blog that’s all about extrapolation into the future from current and pressing trends, there are “responses” right here that accomplish that self-same diversion from looming predicaments. Whether intentional or accidental, it’s a shame that they work so well. There will be a lot to do and little time to do it in. As I have said before, realists will be in desperate demand while fantasists will (necessarily) be unsupported and discarded.

      It’s looking more and more likely that we’ll live to see such a turn of events… like it or not.

      • volodya May 14, 2019 at 11:11 am #

        It’s looking more and more likely that we’ll live to see such a turn of events… like it or not. – Mr Ozone

        I think you’re right. History is a trickster, and if there isn’t a sneering deity pulling strings in this fold of the cosmos, it sure works as if there is.

        What I mean is that the universe works as if there’s local divinity that has a two-foot long razor-sharp prick and a tongue to match, and if anyone fervently hopes to be safely rotting in the grave before it all goes hay-wire, then they will surely get barebacked by aforementioned demiurge. In short, they will live to see the worst stuff they hoped to avoid by shuffling off this mortal coil.

    • SoftStarLight May 14, 2019 at 2:01 am #

      Bow your head in deepest reverence? It’s not a brilliant ploy at all. It’s a direct attack. Perhaps you have been too lost in the weeds of math and science to see the obvious. You have been defeated economically, socially, culturally and politically. They get more power from you believing they are simply a ploy. The abuse unleashed on children and adolescents is real. This is not a joke. If they have their way you will either confirm and affirm or you can rot in jail and be socially ostracized. Part of the new social credit system maybe. The Elites are stealing from you and destroying the social fabric at the same time. Not brilliant. It’s called war and its happening on many fronts.

      • volodya May 14, 2019 at 10:59 am #

        SSL, I was being sarcastic about the doffing of the hat and the bowing with deepest reverence.

        You’re missing the point of it. The Davos people don’t give the slightest shit about what they destroy, whether it’s kids, or the moral fabric of the country, or the viability of a bitterly divided polity that’s at factional daggers drawn. The worsening of a 150 year Cold War between the two founding American ethnicities – North and South for want of a better term – is fine because conflict is a center-piece of the strategy to distract while they loot.

        See, all the oligarchical elite give a shit about is prestige and score-keeping, and money is how they keep score. That’s it, that’s the sum-total of their existence. Simple-minded? You bet. OK, maybe to some extent yachts, maybe glittery parties, maybe the gigantic, walled compound, but mostly it’s all about “wealth”, or net worth in terms of money, the primary denomination being the greenback.

        I’ve seen some of them up close and they aren’t that “smart”, or rather, they have some facets of what makes up “intelligence”, but theirs isn’t a well-rounded repertoire of intellectual skills, or they sure wouldn’t be doing what they’re doing on this self-destructive fool’s errand broadly defined as neo-liberalism. Theirs is a small, withered world-view, their bodies of knowledge narrow, and any field that isn’t directly in aid of increasing their position on the score-board is a time wasting irrelevance. They’re ruining the societal and economic food-chain that sustains them and protects them and they’re too bone-headed to realize it.

        The study of history, geography, philosophy, literature, religion; such fields are for dusty, absent-minded perfessers and their soft-headed acolytes who don’t pack the gear to do what real men do – make money. But these bodies of knowledge, insofar as they’re actual knowledge as opposed to political indoctrination, aren’t irrelevant, they fill out how the world works, how people behave, all useful in living life and conducting affairs.

        The Davos crew don’t give a damn who and what they wreck, kids included. As far as those witless ninnies working diligently in service of their masters whether or not they know what they do (to paraphrase those famous words), ninnies that will without a stitch of doubt come up with a “Social Credit System”, they will get hanged by the rope they measure out.

        • SoftStarLight May 15, 2019 at 12:27 am #

          I get where you are coming from V in regards to the primary drive of the Elite being the preoccupation with accumulating more and more money and wealth. However it seems unlikely that they or incapable of long-term planning. Seems to me that the Elite, the Deep State they are all connected. If anything they are sort of an Invisible Hand. Always behind important social, cultural, and political events, movements, and changes. They rely on the herd for their profits so it is important to shape the herd into docile and obedient beasts of burden. And they have no plans of being held to the same set of standards as the common person. Social credit is for slaves.

          • volodya May 16, 2019 at 11:15 am #

            Oh yes I agree, they are VERY capable of long-term planning. What we’ve seen is a multi-year or multi-decade scheme to re-vamp global investment and trade arrangements so that they can exploit cheap overseas labor in despotic countries with no or few environmental regulation or workplace standards.

            It all happened right under our noses with legislative and academic support, complete with fairy-tales about millions of new jobs and great prosperity and re-training for displaced workers into careers far up the value-added food-chain.

            Of course the business about riches for everyone was nonsense. As Pat Buchanan said a few years ago, the returns are in.

  20. Paulo May 13, 2019 at 11:47 am #

    Finally read all the comments and was actually amazed today’s article and responses were not about Hillary, the Deep State, Clapper, Steele, or FISA warrants. Surely, someone could blame the FBI. Oh well, I’ll just go over to Zero Hedge and read how it is all Obama’s fault for not taking on China 8 years ago. Plus, they gave Iran all those billions, don’t you know?

    Psssst (Don’t tell anyone, but Jeb Bush was right). “Donald, you know, is great at the one-liners. But he’s a chaos candidate. And he’d be a chaos president. He would not be the commander-in-chief we need to keep our country safe,” Bush declared.
    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jeb-bush-donald-trump-chaos-candidate-hed-chaos/story?id=35788736

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    • benr May 13, 2019 at 12:07 pm #

      Jeb Bush what a pathetic candidate and President he would have made. It takes no discernment to see what Trumps game is he puts it out there with every twitter post.

    • Janos Skorenzy May 13, 2019 at 2:20 pm #

      No, Trump’s ideas were the right ones – he’s just not going thru with them. Jeb was all for Globalism, mass Hispanic Invasion by this superior race, etc.

      Remember Trump was for bringing all the troops home, staying out of Middle Eastern Wars, ending birthright citizenship, the Wall, etc. All gone.

      • SoftStarLight May 14, 2019 at 2:06 am #

        Remembering is painful. I know we must remember so that we learn from our mistakes. But right now I am in a state where I just don’t want to think about it too much. I just wish we could get someone to actually do what Trump said he would do back in 2016….

        • benr May 14, 2019 at 10:00 am #

          Here is the problem saying what it takes to get elected and then following through with those promises is often impossible.
          Just look at American politics through out history bitter nasty and rarely does one of the presidents actually put “a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage.“

  21. Robert White May 13, 2019 at 11:47 am #

    Great article today, JHK. Fully agree with the sentiment which is why America would be better off with Democratic or Green Party leadership rather than Republican. The repubs have just been far too arrogant this electoral round.

    The Duck is in far too deep to resurface with popular voter support on round two. Americans are NOT going to be willing to suffer for The Duck or his failing ego & histrionics run amok.

    Most Americans will want The Duck quietly placed in a rubber room pre-election. Trade talks will necessitate his removal from office faster than you can say hyper-inflation.

    RW

    • James Hansen May 13, 2019 at 2:54 pm #

      Trump keeps repeating over and over that China is paying billions to the U.S. treasury with the tariffs in place which is nonsense. China is not paying a dime, it is the American public which is paying the bill.

      It is just another tax on the public and start an inflationary spiral starting June 1.

  22. Elrond Hubbard May 13, 2019 at 11:53 am #

    Saskatchewan man rips down, burns Nazi flag flying on house

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/saskatchewan-man-rips-down-burns-nazi-flag-flying-on-house-1.4418595

    “A Saskatchewan man says he ripped down and burned a Nazi flag that was hanging on the roof of a house in the village of Kelliher.

    “Caleb Pelletier told CTV Regina that he decided to take down the red and black swastika flag after it became clear that ‘authorities weren’t going to.’

    “‘I believe it affected so many of our people,’ said Pelletier, who is from George Gordon First Nation.

    “On Friday, Kelliher Mayor Darcy King said that the man who hung the flag was a 34 year old who ‘never grew up’ and was living with his grandfather. King said he’d spoken with the man and he had promised to take it down.

    “RCMP Cpl. Rob King told The Canadian Press that police had spoken to the homeowner but nothing illegal had occurred.

    “Pelletier posted a video of the flag burning on Facebook.”

    • BackRowHeckler May 13, 2019 at 12:10 pm #

      Anybody tear down the Hammer & Sickle flag yet? Or is it still flying proudly at Antifi rallies.

      • benr May 13, 2019 at 12:13 pm #

        Saw them big as life out front of Sea world San Diego at a protest when the Blackfish hit piece came out.
        Was surprised to see people foolish enough to fly them.
        No one stomped the idiots flying them nor burned that hateful flag unlike the Antifa villains.

        • malthuss May 13, 2019 at 12:57 pm #

          Blackfish hit piece ????

          • benr May 15, 2019 at 10:52 am #

            Have you watched it?

    • hmuller May 13, 2019 at 6:39 pm #

      First they burn flags and books,then they burn people. Self-righteous left wing scum!

    • CancelMyCard May 13, 2019 at 7:15 pm #

      Canadians are the most fucked-up people on planet Earth.

      Just keep reading this idiot Elrond Hubbard.

      Go away from this US forum, and go back to your
      Trudeau-cocksucing useless country you came from

  23. Walter B May 13, 2019 at 11:53 am #

    You know Jim, this whole endgame has been setting up even as you and I were being born. The US secured a friendly relationship with China when we jumped in with both feet and aided them in their resistance to the invading Japanese hoard in WWII. Almost immediately after the war ended with our occupation of the islands, we and the Japanese became pretty close butt buddies, and today are the best of friends. Do you think the long memoried Chines have forgotten the Rape of Nanking? Does anyone really think that this fact was not noticed by China and that perhaps our quest for global dominance was somehow overlooked? If these is anyone who would doubt this, I would point to the millions upon millions of Chinese soldiers and equipment that America fought in Korea in the fifties and once again in Vietnam in the sixties.

    With the lesson of the impossibility of winning a land war in Asia finally learned, American businessmen were air dropped into Beijing to connive a slow economic assault, that I do believe has backfired. What do you think? American mass consumers have since bankrolled the expansion, economically, militarily, and infrastructurally facilitating the Chinese to expand their assets and influence all over the globe. Has the American manufacturing base that defeated the Axis powers in 1945 not gone the way of the Dodo bird?

    Is there is even one fool out there that thinks that the Chinese have developed and built anti-aircraft carrier destroying missiles as gifts to strengthen our friendship? Or that they are building more and more aircraft carriers so that we can play together happily in the Pacific Ocean? What do WE do with our carriers, make friends? Ya think the Chinese might do the same? Duh.

    It has been clear for a long time that the Chinese are working diligently to take over the top of the shitpile one day as the next dominant superpower and I do believe they are doing a bang up job of it. In fact, it is my opinion that one day in the not too distant future, they will not fire a single shot but will merely tell US(A) to “turn it over” and we will.

    Anybody out there still have any faith in the sellout scumbags in Washington DC that says they won’t comply? I hope not.

    • BackRowHeckler May 13, 2019 at 12:08 pm #

      But, most assuredly, Americans will fight for the right for hateful Imams to conduct the invocation in the halls of US Congress. We believe in freedom.

      Brh

    • benr May 13, 2019 at 12:10 pm #

      I read an interesting piece on how we used China to offset and attack Russia at one point but I can’t find it nor do I remember the exact details or timelines.

    • DEFCON1 May 13, 2019 at 12:11 pm #

      Hard to think of anything funnier than Godless Heathen Commies taking over the world.

      • Walter B May 13, 2019 at 12:13 pm #

        The Clinton Crime Cartel may be powerful indeed, but I don’t they can actually take over the whole world.

        • Nightowl May 13, 2019 at 2:08 pm #

          No? Here is some food for thought: I work for a very large international consulting firm. At one of our Europe-wide events, we had a speaker extolling the virtues of globalism the “new economic order.”

          They lit the entire room purple and served us purple champagne afterwards.

          The Clintonian Purple Revolution is a global effort.

          • BackRowHeckler May 13, 2019 at 3:03 pm #

            In 2018, Financial Times of London named George Soros ‘Man of the Year’. They’re not pulling any punches, the Globalists. Why should they?

            Brh

    • James Hansen May 13, 2019 at 1:14 pm #

      The only reason the U.S. would need a military as big as we have is if there was another U.S. in the world.
      If not for our extreme militarism around the world Russia and China would not have spent as much on their defense.

      • BackRowHeckler May 13, 2019 at 1:28 pm #

        An Army of less than 500,000 active duty soldiers is not that big. Grant had a larger army in 1865.

        Brh

        • BackRowHeckler May 13, 2019 at 1:29 pm #

          And a nzvy with 350 ships is pretty small too.

          • James Hansen May 13, 2019 at 2:57 pm #

            Sure, and spending 1 1/4 Trillion a year on defense, actually offense, is not a lot of money either.

      • benr May 14, 2019 at 10:05 am #

        Do you think that money is being spent only on personnel and equipment?
        You lament about the US spending money on defense and yet we ARE ALL using something defense money was spent on a lil project called ARPANET!
        https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/darpa-history-and-timeline

        Have a go research is expensive.

        • James Hansen May 14, 2019 at 5:56 pm #

          The money spent nowadays on non weapon research is minuscule. I would like to see the U.S. spend the same amount of money as Russia, 60 billion a year.

          • benr May 15, 2019 at 10:53 am #

            Never going to happen.
            The politician that even suggested that would not last a month.

          • Majella May 15, 2019 at 7:15 pm #

            $60bn would barely touch the sides on the way through!

            As the perspicaious benr says, “the politician… wouldn’t last a month” and neither would the money.

    • Janos Skorenzy May 13, 2019 at 2:49 pm #

      You think “our” businessmen went over there on a Patriotic mission – and not to make themselves filthy rich at our expense? Disagree in the strongest possible terms. Any slightly sane person could have forseen that giving China our infrastructure would ruin America as a nation. Thus any Plan beyond the acquisition of riches must have been Globalist in nature. And the ruin of America has been first on their agenda. And I admit, that is very strange thinking and may have been a mistake from their point of view. Or at least they’ve gone too far.

      Of course the Neo Con Globalists want a strong America in order to pursue Global dominance. The UN faction doesn’t, seeing our ruin as a gesture of good faith in pursuance of the Great Goal of the Global Shit Village.

      Agree about the Chinese. They have a clarity and and singleness of Vision that dwarfs that of “our” Globalists for the most part. We’re nobody’s friend, obviously. And the Founders said we shouldn’t be. But neither should we be anybody’s enemy. We were supposed to mind our own damn business. That we didn’t do and that nobody can deny.

      • Walter B May 13, 2019 at 9:57 pm #

        If you are addressing me Janos, I am not so sure that the business men were NOT sent for after all, would they not require government clearance to do what they would up doing? I would think so considering that communist China was not exactly a friend.

        As far as minding our own business, I wholeheartedly agree being an isolationist by nature. After all, we would not need a wall if our military was defending our borders instead of pillaging the Middle East would we?

        • Janos Skorenzy May 15, 2019 at 12:27 am #

          I would say the Economic was all ready ascendant over the political. In other words, the Donor Class, the nascent Globalists began a new phase of their Power Drive and their errand boy Nixon went and did what he was told. He may have even thought it was his own idea, since the their ascendancy wasn’t as overt as it is now. But he was serving them nonetheless. Only a very deluded consciousness could have imagined that this would serve America. But yes, people lie to themselves about their real motives all the time.

    • Mountain gal May 13, 2019 at 10:46 pm #

      I agree Walter. I just think that every administration until now has been content to kick the can down the road in hopes that when TSHTF with China, it will be during someone else’s administration. Americans, in general, have been oblivious to what has been happening and are unaware of how much the US is now in hock to China. As well, as we’ve outsourced most of our production there, We have ceased to make most things here in the US. Can we even manufacture any electronics here in the US? I’m not talking TV’s but computers, cell phones and other useful items.

      China has been watching and waiting as our insatiable desire for cheap stuff abetted by our gluttony and laziness has allowed them to gain the upper hand over us. Most of us have just been too blissfully unaware of this while engaging in endless shopping orgies of useless plastic crap at Walmart.

      • Walter B May 14, 2019 at 12:01 am #

        Yes Mountain Gal, the Chinese are a very formidable competitor, and now that they have studied how the US has extended its influence/power across the globe and has emulated it, well we are in for tough times ahead. They remind me of the same overgrown termite colony society that was Japan before the second world war. Grow, grow, grow quietly and then expand quickly in search of resources and places that have sufficient supplies to fulfill their growing needs. They shall be a formidable enemy especially for a culture such as ours that has been coddled and spoon fed for so many generations now. It’s gonna get real.

        • Mountain gal May 14, 2019 at 8:24 am #

          Yet the Dems are fixated on Russia. As usual, we are always fighting the previous war.

  24. K-Dog May 13, 2019 at 12:09 pm #

    I subscribe to the White House Propaganda feed and this comes from the house of the golden one.

    President Trump is Right on China, and Now is the Time for Congress to Act

    “President Trump understands that now is the time to hold China to account. For far too long China has repeatedly threatened U.S. economic and national security interests. Finally, we have a president who is serious about getting tough on China and fighting for reciprocal trade deals,” Bradley Blakeman writes in Fox News.

    “In order to keep the pressure on China, now is the time for Democrats and Republicans in Congress to pass the trade agreement between the U.S., Canada and Mexico, (USMCA). There is no doubt that if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., gave it her green light it would pass the House.”

    This will not end well.

  25. Tate May 13, 2019 at 12:22 pm #

    “Colorado students walked out of an event billed as a vigil for Kendrick Castillo, an 18-year-old killed in a shooting at his school on Tuesday, when prominent speakers attempted to turn it into a rally for gun control. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colorado) and Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colorado) each took a turn calling for gun control at the Douglas County event before students streamed out in protest.”

    https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/09/colorado-students-walk-out-of-school-shooting-vigil-after-it-turns-political/

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    • K-Dog May 13, 2019 at 12:56 pm #

      Good find Tate.

      ‘Two suspects are in custody, one is an adult male and one a juvenile transgender femaleb who was in the transition process of becoming a male. Officers said that they initially thought the suspect was a male based on her appearance.

      Do we want the transition process cut short? Perhaps a deal with Nabisco and a tell-all book can finance the remainder of the process. But that won’t be necessary if tax money kicks in instead.

    • K-Dog May 13, 2019 at 12:57 pm #

      Do we want the transition process cut short? Perhaps a deal with Nabisco and a tell-all book can finance the remainder of the process. But that won’t be necessary if tax money kicks in instead.

      It came out as part of the quote but it is me.

      • Tate May 13, 2019 at 1:59 pm #

        Stock market down 2.38%. All your dreams crumble to dust.

  26. Soloview May 13, 2019 at 12:50 pm #

    It’s clear that China has no interest keeping the U.S. economic wreck afloat long-term but I doubt Xi’s Politburo is ready to write off 20% of China’s exports in one fell swoop. It would mean a very deep recession in the country which is the last thing the leadership would want. They want to showcase stability to the enthusiastic One-Belt-One-Road audience. Most likely, Beijing will let the U.S. markets stew for a few months (which might not come with a steep price tag GDP-wise, as the economy has so far produced above the annual target), and then have new talks with Trump, who by that time will be saddled with much weaker economic numbers in addition to everything else.

    • volodya May 13, 2019 at 1:02 pm #

      The only answer I can see for a way forward for China with minimal mayhem – economic and financial and otherwise – is to pay Chinese workers to buy the products they make, that is, create an internal market to replace exports to the US.

    • malthuss May 13, 2019 at 1:02 pm #

      Fortune cookie ax ‘when’

      • volodya May 13, 2019 at 2:44 pm #

        Nobody knows when. You know you’ll die. You don’t know when. You know that if you visit bath-houses and don’t use a condom you’ll catch HIV but you don’t know when. You may catch an incurable strain of the clap which may make what’s left of your life miserable or even syph (an untreatable strain) that can even shorten your life. But the unknowable is when. You just know that if you do certain shit, certain shit will happen. But not when.

        • Janos Skorenzy May 13, 2019 at 3:20 pm #

          Sooner if you date Black women. But no doubt White whores will suffice. When are we going to regulate this? Turn America into Nevada Grande? Give every patron a Cowboy hat and a con-dom? Test the girls every month? Or are we going to have to go the sex robot plastic route? What about the health risks of all that plastic? In either case, “real girls” (100 doesn’t believe there are any) are going to have step up their game. The competition is a comin’.

          • San Jose May 13, 2019 at 4:25 pm #

            I don’t know if this is unique to San Jose or not…..but there sure are a lot of “foot spas” and massage parlors opening up around here, Most often, the front glass is darkened so you can’t see inside. (There is one next to the gym where I work out.) I think that they might be whore houses! There is no way that the population of San Jose is suddenly having massive problems with their feet.

            Law “enforcement” is a joke around here. I was very sad to lose about $400 worth of pottery with succulents stolen out of my front yard at night, just 10 days ago. These succulents were rare, given to me by my sister before she moved to Durango. I’ve never seen them for sale in a nursery. What kind of person steals plants! (Maybe someone was thinking “Hey its mother’s day soon, I should go out and steal something nice for her.”)

            Side note, the city doesn’t even plant anything new in the part of town called Little Siagon, because they plants get ripped off within days of planting.

            Question: Anyone out there also experiencing a massive influx of foot spas?

            Jen in San Jose

          • Walter B May 13, 2019 at 6:27 pm #

            Well Jen in San Jose, I attended a two hour information session given by Hunterdon County, New Jersey last Fall on the topic of human trafficking. The presenters were from CENTERFFS.org/SERV and spoke about the growing number of humans being trafficked for sex slavery (open borders) through nail parlors, massage parlors and the like as what you spoke of. Apparently it is no secret although the public is either unaware or are perhaps frequent customers. Only God knows for sure. And a law enforcement relative of mine who has just turned whistleblower recently has spoken out about the officers that frequent the local whorehouse in the town he works in so I would say that the sex business is alive and well and is probably pretty much everywhere.

          • Walter B May 13, 2019 at 6:37 pm #

            Here is the direct link to the Human Trafficking section of their site….

            https://www.centerffs.org/serv/human-trafficking-services

          • TPTB-USA May 13, 2019 at 8:07 pm #

            Walter B,

            Concerning the national news high profile cases where “victims” families have received significant compensation as a result of “wrongful” police shootings, do your relatives ever discuss the possibility that individuals are setting themselves up for failure?

            I also sense that some pedestrians, and drivers, are operating in this manner. Do they have any thoughts about this?

          • San Jose May 13, 2019 at 8:41 pm #

            Walter B.

            Thanks so much for the link.

            Jen

          • Walter B May 13, 2019 at 9:45 pm #

            Yes TP TB, they, we are all aware that the streetwise understand how to play the system for a payday and some even make careers out of it. Of course others screw up and become statistics, but the family members understand all too well that this can mean a payday for them. In the end, I do believe that all of us understand that it is the lawyers who play the corrupt system for the most profit, for it is they that have degraded it all far past usefulness, except of course for them.

            I am fortunate though, in that my friends and relatives also can discern the insider’s abuse of the system as well. They say that if it ain’t broke then don’t try to fix it, but if it IS broke, and severely broken, perhaps we should simply abandon it. No?

          • TPTB-USA May 13, 2019 at 11:59 pm #

            “They say that if it ain’t broke then don’t try to fix it, but if it IS broke, and severely broken, perhaps we should simply abandon it. No?”

            Like the tent cities/homeless issue, the migration issue, the polarization infecting DC and the country, etc., etc., etc., at this point there do not seem to be any good answers/solutions.

            In my neck of the woods, in the last 2 years, it has become blatant where drivers roll through, or flat-out run stop signs; and in 55mph areas (with few exceptions, the maximum speed limit in the state), I would estimate that many are traveling at 65 to 75 mph (these idiots don’t realize that they are setting themselves and/or others up for failure).

            Has law enforcement lost the ability to enforce the law? Or is it that disparity is an issue, where the cost of a ticket for the upper income group is the equivalent to the cost of a stick of gum for the common person, and they just figure the monthly speeding ticket statement is just a subscription to “support your local Sheriff”?

          • TPTB-USA May 14, 2019 at 10:06 am #

            “In the end, I do believe that all of us understand that it is the lawyers who play the corrupt system for the most profit, for it is they that have degraded it all far past usefulness, except of course for them.”

            Only taking Russia-gate into consideration, it is a no lose proposition for the lawyers!

            Jim constantly touches on this aspect, and after sleeping on it, this strikes me as a key element that needs to be fixed if there is any hope for our systems survival.

            What happened to the Smollett case? I may be dumb, but I am not stupid. If the court can’t present an equitable resolution, then in this public’s eyes, “there are no rules”! … and, DC fiddles, while Rome burns!

          • benr May 14, 2019 at 10:11 am #

            @san Jose

            San Diego is awash in said foot massage places.
            Most of them even fly red lights all day and night out front.
            They might be rub and tug joints but I suspect their real use is money laundering.

          • TPTB-USA May 16, 2019 at 9:16 am #

            Something to think about (a peek behind the curtain).

            Congress v Trump – Have They Destroyed the Constitution?
            https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/rule-of-law/congress-v-trump-have-the-destroyed-the-constitution/

  27. malthuss May 13, 2019 at 1:08 pm #

    Leftist Professor worries about the

    ‘looming disaster for EU towelheads.’

    Joan Wallach in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Lottie (née Tannenbaum) and Sam Wallach,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYg0CzmwYUo&t=86s

    • BackRowHeckler May 13, 2019 at 8:40 pm #

      Somebody apparently burned down a Mosque outside New Haven the other night.

      My bet its an inside job.

      brh

      • malthuss May 14, 2019 at 12:14 am #

        inside job, eh?

      • BackRowHeckler May 14, 2019 at 12:26 am #

        Has to be. What kind of idiot would risk an arson and hate crime charge just to torch one of those crapholes? The ‘Congregation’ looks to be prison converts, with the Imam and a few other followers Arab transplants to give the joint an air of authenticity.

        brh

        • Q. Shtik May 14, 2019 at 1:34 am #

          What kind of idiot would risk an arson and hate crime charge just to torch one of those crapholes? – BRH

          ==============

          So, what is this then, an insurance scam, a case of ‘Muslim Lightning’?

          • hmuller May 16, 2019 at 2:22 pm #

            If 80% of the congregation have felony convictions, it might not be so crazy to start there.

  28. malthuss May 13, 2019 at 1:08 pm #

    REVILO–Do ye lurk here?

  29. RocketDoc May 13, 2019 at 1:09 pm #

    JHK argues the trend is Down — 180 degrees from up– but miniscule 1.3% growth might be indistinguishable from actual slow decline in today’s world..In any case, I have no doubt the Progress Myth is alive and well among the protected class and the great unwashed do not seem to have any spokesmen…
    .
    On a positive note–when I became a committed declinista in 2007 my youngest son was in 4th grade. He just graduated this weekend from university with high honors and is going to med school. I was sure things would fall apart before now BUT every town I visit is booming–including my own and the students are earnest and very smart accepting jobs at Bain Capital, Goldman-Sachs, Deloitte, and the like with no apparent awareness or parental concern about peak oil or the sixth extinction. I had a summa cum laude student ask me about my 70’s career as an international development assistance specialist because he wanted to go to Washington to “make a difference”. I left 40 years ago because no one seemed to understand the “growth” and “externalities” problem. I only imagine an “Ah-ha” moment when the perceptive say what has gone before will not be continuing…..I am celebrating the achievements even though I know education IS a racket and what can’t continue, won’t.

    • elysianfield May 13, 2019 at 1:25 pm #

      “international development assistance specialist”

      Doc,

      I once read a book entitled, as I recall “The diary of an economic hit-man”…. It was not complementary to our International development specialists. Are you familiar with this book? It was very unsettling.

      • Walter B May 13, 2019 at 1:53 pm #

        And the videos as well…..

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVsB07CcSNw

      • RocketDoc May 13, 2019 at 3:03 pm #

        @EF- “complimentary”

        I have read this book and it addresses a big picture that I was not cognizant of at the time, being a very small, do-gooder kind of person. Is it true? Probably. His experience was how to make money in poor countries where there is not a lot of it and apparently he did so and was guilty about it. My(our?) interest was in making poor countries actually better off. We received our money from the Ford Foundation, USAID, and other non-profit contributors. We lobbied our US Congress for greater development assistance to poor countries for food, education, women’s empowerment, and health clinics. Not military assistance which was the bulk of our “help” at the time. My feeling then was that there was too much corruption both here and abroad to be effective. The essential injustice was inequality: India/China/Nigeria – PCI: (per capita income) $300/yr., Mexico/Taiwan/Iran -$2000/yr. The developed world -$20,000/yr. I determined that WE would have to sacrifice some of our standard of living to enable their “development”. It seemed politically “unlikely” with Reagan’s election. We also encouraged greater trade “openness” because poor countries needed the markets and could produce cheaper. That has had a bad effect on our working class.
        We actually supported “alternative development strategies” that MIGHT allow poor countries to become better off without necessarily following in our industrialization footsteps. Even then we had significant environmental concerns….
        There is a larger question of course. Was it an honest effort or a subterfuge? I sat at the Chase conference room table with David Rockefeller and Theodore Hesburgh in 1977 and despite what I heard at that meeting, there may have been a longer term underlying plan for making the world safe for “globalization”, a word that had not yet become current. My thinking at the time was pretty simple–we wanted to make where people lived better so they wouldn’t need to come here. Massive inequality is destabilizing. There were books by Richard J Barnett and others that criticized multinational corporations but there was not a solid awareness of transnationalism as a possible organizing principle in opposition to Nationalism. The EU did not exist, China was a “developing” country, and the Soviets were our nemesis. In the late 70’s communism seemed particularly ‘unworkable’ and hardly desirable. Given the choice in 1978 by a developing country immigrant, I thought 99% would prefer the USA to Russia. I doubt that ratio has fallen much despite 40 years of unbelievably stupid policy-making here…..

        • Janos Skorenzy May 13, 2019 at 3:23 pm #

          But they wanted “them” to come here and drag us down into the Global Village shit. All White countries must sink into the mud. Not bug, feature.

          • RocketDoc May 13, 2019 at 3:43 pm #

            It seems axiomatic that minorities would prefer majority “dilution” to increase their opportunities. That is just politics. If everyone is a minority than there is no majority consensus of what being an American means. The late 70’s had an inflation problem not a recognized immigration problem until the Mariel boat lift. Immigration became an issue in 1986 when we politically decided that we would amnesty the problem. We have now done that several times…. I have informed my congressman and Senator that a country that cannot control it’s borders is not a country. For whatever dark reasons you can conjure, we have been politically unwilling to address the problem for 40+ years….

        • elysianfield May 13, 2019 at 11:59 pm #

          Doc,
          I, of course mid-identified the book…it is the “Confessions” rather than the diary. It occurred to me that the Chinese are doing exactly what the book described we did in the 70’s…build the infrastructure of 3rd world countries…the Chinese providing massive loans, usually unpayable, and employing Chinese companies and labor to repatriate the money through construction of dams, roads, etc. The US was given much leverage in the control of the debtor country’s politics…ditto the Chinese in today’s gambit, I would expect.

          • benr May 14, 2019 at 10:17 am #

            Good book.
            Eye opening in fact.
            What hit home for me was when he was talking about the young lady bathing in a polluted river.

  30. sanspeur May 13, 2019 at 1:54 pm #

    ITs funny you use the word trickster for POTUS. In many esoteric circles of late, I have heard that POTUS is the latest Heyoka spirit incarnated on the north american continent.

    “The heyoka (heyók?a, also spelled “haokah,” “heyokha”) is a kind of sacred clown in the culture of the Lakota people of the Great Plains of North America. The heyoka is a contrarian, jester, and satirist, who speaks, moves and reacts in an opposite fashion to the people around them. Only those having visions of the thunder beings of the west, the Wakí?ya?, and who are recognized as such by the community, can take on the ceremonial role of the heyoka.

    The Lakota medicine man, Black Elk, described himself as a heyoka, saying he had been visited as a child by the thunder beings.”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heyoka

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    • Tate May 13, 2019 at 2:54 pm #

      Described himself? And they believed him? Sounds not unlike giving yourself a nickname.

    • Janos Skorenzy May 13, 2019 at 3:27 pm #

      Are Heyokas always good? Doesn’t it depend on why they’re tricking people? Or which Thunder Beings perhaps?

      Neutrality is possible – just shocking people to use the energy of the shock for one’s own development. But that’s only Ok if the Culture allows for it. Gay Pride live sex shows on the street? Not Ok. Not now, not ever, nowhere. Bad Heyoka influence? As in demonic?

  31. JohnAZ May 13, 2019 at 2:33 pm #

    Think about Chinese strategy. They have depended on us to be their consumer base for two generations. The trade balance has driven favorably towards them as more goods enter the US from the West Coast year to year. Trump is wise to the accumulation of increased imports from China and has basically stated that he wants us to build more of our stuff and import less. Hence, tariffs. Until the public accommodates to the new pricing, it will be politically painful. Cowardly presidents that just kow- towed to China made all this possible. Traitorous Liberals who want to bring down the US make this possible. China just sits there and watches us loading the guns to commit suicide with, laughing all the way

    Is China just waiting for us to shoot ourselves? Hell, no. They are developing a new set of trading partners in the Middle East, Europe and Africa. They are working their way in diplomatically and building huge infrastructure projects to put the Silk Road into the 21st century. When it becomes cheaper to ship goods through the heart of Asia than to the American west coast, China will pull the plug.

    If we are not prepared to build our own stuff by then, JHKs collapse may be China caused.

    Hey, do you think China is laughing it’s ass off at the Dems assault on Trump? And Russia getting the blame for being the bad guy. The Politico Americanus is so damned dumb it is scary. Yes, it is scary. Our enemy is to the West!

    Oh yeah. Let us not forget another Sino ploy. More destitute immigrants are entering the US illegally from China today than from Latin countries. How do you defeat a country without firing a shot? From within, through the ballot box.

    • volodya May 13, 2019 at 2:54 pm #

      From within through the ballot box is one way. Buying politicians like cattle is another. Has anyone looked at Chinese-controlled companies making political contributions? What about funding for lobbyists? What about straight-out bribes? Or black-mail? Or extortion? Do we think the Chinese play fair? What are all those busy bees busy doing?

    • K-Dog May 13, 2019 at 3:13 pm #

      The ones I meet are far from destitute. They if anything give themselves away with bling. Yet need for such scrutiny to determine origin is moot. They have different personalities than native born. They can be spotted from the way they act right away.

      • JohnAZ May 13, 2019 at 3:27 pm #

        Canada has large influx from what I understand.

        On our Alaska cruise, about 80% of the folks on board were from California and I would estimate that 50% of those were Asian. My wife and I were really surprised. If California were to secede, it would be a battle between who would be in charge, Latinos or Asians. I know who I would put my money on. Washington and Oregon also.

        • dorn May 13, 2019 at 4:04 pm #

          Asian aristocracy with “Latin” peasantry sounds about right.

          • Janos Skorenzy May 13, 2019 at 7:40 pm #

            Like the Arch-Druid so desired.

  32. BackRowHeckler May 13, 2019 at 4:22 pm #

    It wouldn’t be long before the Chinese Elite Marines invited themselves in, landing in Baja, then making their way north. There’s a border wall near San Diego, but Chinese marine engineers would make short work of it.

    Brh

    • benr May 14, 2019 at 10:20 am #

      Before being slaughtered by American militia, ex – military types and current military.

  33. BuckP May 13, 2019 at 4:31 pm #

    “The worst thing about being lied to is simply knowing you weren’t worth the truth.” – Sarte

    Maybe, we are still a democracy.
    Maybe, the Constituition is still in effect.
    Maybe, we are a nation ruled by laws.
    Maybe, Wall Street and the TBTF banks are not sovereign.
    Maybe, the petrodollar reserve currency will last forever.
    Maybe, the world will bow when we desire to steal their resources.
    Maybe, the Fed via ZIRP will keep the psedo-boom going forever
    Maybe, our markets and instituitions are not fraudulant.
    Maybe, we will all, oneday, have accss to affordable healthcare.
    Maybe, we will invest in infrastructure.
    Maybe, the MSM and government will quit lying.
    Maybe???
    Doubt it!

    “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false” -Former CIA Director Bill Casey.

    Maybe Ol’ Casey told the truth for once.
    Maybe!
    .

    • Walter B May 13, 2019 at 6:09 pm #

      So you believe his quote to be accurate Buck? Looks accurate to me….

      https://www.quora.com/profile/Barbara-Honegger

      Of course, we wouldn’t need proof anyway since we know these people and the fact that they live lies and profit from deception, don’t they?

      • BuckP May 13, 2019 at 8:17 pm #

        Hey Walter, quote seems accurate to me!
        I’m a big fan and admirer of Brabara Honegger. Her book, entitled “October Suprise” brilliantly exposed the Reagan campaign’s nefarious deal with Iran which delayed the release of the embassy hostages until after the 1980 election. They were released twenty minutes after the end of Reagan’s inagural address. Her 9/11 Truth expose proved beyond a reasonable doubt that a missile hit the Pentagon on 9/11 rather than Flight 77. So much for the official narrative! Truth- tellers, like her, are patriots, who risk their well-being and futures, trying to save the country for future generations.

        “In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act”.
        —-George Orwell

        • elysianfield May 14, 2019 at 12:09 am #

          “Her 9/11 Truth expose proved beyond a reasonable doubt”

          Et Tu, Buck?

          • BuckP May 14, 2019 at 2:16 am #

            If our government lied about WMD’s in Iraq why wouldn’t they lie about everything else? kind of like Venezuela now.
            Without the performance of an investigation by the NTSB , which is required by law for all domestic aircraft accidents or crashes, and by the FBI with all evidence protected from alteration and removal, there is no way to know for sure what happened that horrible day. There has been a plethora of research done by very prominent, respected SME’s and muckrakers who have taken the official narrative to task. Chances of the official narrative being true are worse than the lotto.

            BTW, as an example, a paraffin test performed by the FBI after the JFK ssassination revealed no gunshot residue on Oswald’s cheek, therefore, he never filed a rifle. The FBI could not simulate the firing of a similar rifle without GSR on the cheek.

            Our education system is a lie. We are taught to conform, follow the herd and be obedient. Questioning authority, asking hard questions, thinking for yourself, and taking the road less traveled are not condoned by our masters.
            Be careful, however. We are not a free country anymore. Going against the grain can get one fired from their job or worse.Yes,there are worse things than being a so-called “conspiracy theorist” such as being a sheep.

            Where haveall the patriots gone, long time passing!

            Et tu elysian?

          • Nightowl May 16, 2019 at 2:58 am #

            Eyewitness accounts are notoriously unreliable. More interesting is to look at the flight path the plane is said to have taken. Pilots for Truth tried to recreate it on a simulator and not one professional pilot could do what that plane did. Furthermore, the actual plane was flown by a guy who couldn’t fly a Cessna (failed his flight training courses).

            It stinks to high heaven, even if you ignore the fact that they won’t show the public even ONE video of what hit the building.

        • benr May 14, 2019 at 10:37 am #

          I call bullshit!
          A missile did not hit the Pentagon I have physically spoken to a lady that saw the plane hit it was not I repeat not a missile but an Jet aircraft.

          • BuckP May 14, 2019 at 11:09 am #

            We’ll never know for sure! After 18 years, where are the confiscated (by the FBI) security tapes from the Pentagon and surroundinmg businesses showing the 9/11 attack? Why can’t the public see them? Planes (aluminum balloons) can’tgo through steel and concrete buildings. I call bullshit!!!!

          • benr May 14, 2019 at 5:26 pm #

            @Buckp

            I love a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy but this lady is not part of the system per se and if she says she saw a jet plane hit the pentagon then I believe her.

            Please educate yourself further.

            https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-blogs/weathermatrix/edu-tornadoes-p-1/3597

            Call bullshit all day long but you would be wrong.

          • BuckP May 14, 2019 at 6:25 pm #

            All those Pentagon emloyees smelling cordite in the air that morning. White hot explosion long after whatever hit the Pentagon. Small shards of wreckage on lawn. Laws of physics were broken that day but I should believe the government and the MSM because they never lie! isaac Newton be damned!
            Like how you pulled Conspiracy theory out of the hat. So original. Term coined by CIA to discourage bona fide critics of the Warren Commission. Really overused.
            Pentagon employee April Gallop with her infant son was in the path of the supposed,magic plane and said the room just exploded. Heck, Rumsfeld said it was amissile. He was probably a truth teller that day.
            Your entitled to your opinion, belief or dissonance.
            I studied physics in college. Forced to choose between Sir isaac or the lying government and MSM, I chose Isaac.
            To paraphrase Dick Gregory: once you put on the magic glasses and see things as they are, you can never take them off or give them to someone else.

            Question authority, think critically, seek the truth or don’t.
            Not sure we have a republic anymore, but don’t ever tell me what to think bub!

          • BuckP May 14, 2019 at 6:28 pm #

            Hey bullshit benr!
            I bet I’m more educated than your arrogant arse!

          • Q. Shtik May 14, 2019 at 10:38 pm #

            I bet I’m more educated than your arrogant arse! – BuckP

            =============

            Oh, Jesus, here we go: my daddy can beat up your daddy. My dick is bigger than yours.

          • BuckP May 14, 2019 at 11:07 pm #

            My apologies! Little on edge today. Live well and prosper!

          • benr May 15, 2019 at 11:29 am #

            @buckp

            Arrogant OK I can see how that came off as rather course possibly even rude.
            It should have said please look at the following link showing wind driven items buried impossible depths in trees and telephone poles? Hell even myth busters managed to get a piece of straw to stick into a telephone pole several inches.

            It was NOT a shot at your college education or even intelligence just that things traveling at 400+ miles an hour and smashing into something do unusual unbelievable things and add in this one was going as fast as it could under full thrust weighing in at over 169,000 pounds.

            Further having been in the military and having launched sm1 missiles no way in hell is a missle going to get all the way in and maneuver at that angle it would have hit more at the top so the missile theory does not stand up to even a small amount of common sense and scrutiny. Nor is one cruise missile large enough to punch that kind of payload. Just where was said missile shot from?
            Why did no one in the area not see it or HEAR it coming in?

            Nor would any US military person shoot a missile into the pentagon and it would take many people to fuel the aircraft, prep the missile and load it.

  34. Ol' Scratch May 13, 2019 at 5:30 pm #

    Evidently, US foreign policy has now officially reverted to 6th grade.

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/13/politics/pompeo-russia-brussels/index.html

    Shortly following Pompeo’s meetings, US President Donald Trump warned that “it would be a very bad mistake” if Iran does anything.
    “If they do anything — I’m hearing little stories about Iran. If they do anything they will suffer greatly. We’ll see what happens with Iran,” Trump said in the Oval Office Monday.

    Trump later said that he’d be “ready to rumble” down by the bike racks as soon as school lets out. He quickly added, “I know what you’re up to Iran, getting detention everyday to wait me out, but me and Mikey [Pompeo] are on to your tricks. I’ll send Johnny-Boy [Bolton] in to drag your sorry ass out if I have to, and then we’re gonna POUND YOUR PUNK ASS! We’ll just see who’s a tough guy then!

    • James Hansen May 13, 2019 at 5:37 pm #

      I just saw pictures of one of the damaged ships, it must of hit the dock because it had a three foot dent in the stern. Pure idiocy to threaten another country with out even knowing what went on.

      • Majella May 13, 2019 at 10:45 pm #

        Pure Idiocy is precisely what we must expect from this clown-car sideshow.

    • hmuller May 13, 2019 at 7:38 pm #

      Very funny. I can even picture Bolton in the 6th grade with that horrible mustache. Freaky. You could hide weapons of mass destruction in all that hair.

      • Ol' Scratch May 14, 2019 at 7:06 am #

        I can imagine the little demon bastard coming out of the womb of the hyena that birthed him with it.

    • Ol' Scratch May 14, 2019 at 7:02 am #

      The dogs of war continue to be stirred. Won’t be long now before they’ll be unleashed.

      https://www.foxnews.com/world/iran-middle-east-ship-explosions-assessment

      An American military team assessing blasts that damaged four commercial ships off the coast of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sunday has blamed Iran or Iranian-backed proxies using explosive charges, a source told Fox News on Monday evening.

      Each ship had a 5-to-10-foot hole in it, near or just below the water line, a U.S. official told The Associated Press. A Norwegian-flagged vessel, two Saudi oil tankers and a bunkering tanker flagged in Sharjah, one of the UAE’s seven emirates, all suffered similar damage Sunday.

      The UAE asked the U.S. to help investigate the damage, which Gulf officials have characterized as sabotage. UAE’s state media said Sunday there had been “no injuries or fatalities on board the vessels” and “no spillage of harmful chemicals or fuel.”

      The U.S. has warned ships that “Iran or its proxies” could be targeting maritime traffic in the region, and America has moved additional ships and aircraft into the region.

      Trump expounded in his typical style: “My totally smoking hot girlfriend Israel – I call her Izzy – heard you running your mouth in the hall between class Iran! Talking all tough and shit about how you were gonna fuck with me and I ain’t shit. So don’t think I don’t know what’s going on you little bitch! I’m gonna put my foot SO far up your Persian ass…!”

  35. Janos Skorenzy May 13, 2019 at 6:28 pm #

    https://www.amren.com/news/2019/05/mette-frederiksen-the-anti-immigration-left-leader-set-to-win-power-in-denmark/

    But Left means pro-immigrant, right? Wrong – only when they’re Marxists. Too confusing? That’s why they use this vague term to begin with – to confuse the easily confused.

    Forget Left and Right. I put before you Life and Death. Nationalism or Globalism. Nationalism (call it Fascism, National Socialism or anything else) or Capitalism/Communism or any other economic philosophy of life (death). Man does not live by bread alone but by every word which proceeds from the mouth of the Father.

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    • sauerkraut May 13, 2019 at 11:10 pm #

      You are making some astute observations today, Janos. Just don’t agree with your conclusions.

      • Janos Skorenzy May 13, 2019 at 11:42 pm #

        All dogs are mammals
        Fido is a dog
        Therefore Fido is not a mammal?

        If you accept my observations, the conclusions follow almost as closely.

    • Ol' Scratch May 14, 2019 at 7:09 am #

      Give me the Cliff’s Notes version of why you label everything bad “Marxist.” What’s Marx – a 19th century political economy philosopher of some renown – got to do with it? Serious question.

      • Janos Skorenzy May 15, 2019 at 11:34 pm #

        He took a good idea – Socialism – and made it into a system of bad ideas (Communism, Meta-Physical Materialism, hatred of Religion, hatred of Traditions, hatred of the Rich, etc), then weaponized it into a political movement to accomplish this evil Agenda – that goes far beyond the merely economic. Dip into Edward Bellamy’s “Looking Backward” by way of contrast. The latter is still Western Culture. Marx never was.

  36. RB May 13, 2019 at 6:33 pm #

    I am just sick with worry. Where am I going to get this year’s Xmas decorations if China cuts us off? I don’t think I can bear the season without the neighborhood decorations contest. I mean my values are at stake here. I don’t give a damn if China is persecuting Christians, Uyghurs, citizens via social credit torture, reeducation camps. I just want my damn lights and blowup characters to make the holiday a little brighter. I’m an American dammit and I want my shit. I can overlook formica in baby formula and pet food that kills little Poopsie, but I have to have the lights and other stuff.

    I tell ya we have a crisis on our hands. I can only hope that some startup will start making the Xmas shit here. Maybe in Mississippi in some shit hole town. I can see it now, Americans making stuff right here at $15 an hour. I see a new beginning for the nation. I’m close to weeping over the very idea.

    Merry holidays folks.

    • Ol' Scratch May 14, 2019 at 7:13 am #

      That’s all right. We’ll be at war in the ME by then and the affordable oil will be cut off, so economic activity will be approximately zero and the commercial holidays will be effectively canceled. Who knows, Americans might even finally rediscover the long lost “Christmas spirit” again!

  37. Pucker May 13, 2019 at 6:36 pm #

    Brexit….

    How Come Nigel Farage was able to cobble together a new political party, the Brexit Party, so quickly while “The Yanks” are still playing with their penises?

    “Yo, I’ll tell you what I want, what I really really want
    So tell me what you want, what you really really want
    I’ll tell you what I want, what I really really want
    So tell me what you want, what you really really want
    I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna really
    Really really wanna zigazig ha”.

    – Spice Girls.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7018477/Poll-Brexit-Party-win-votes-Labour-Conservatives-COMBINED-European-elections.html

  38. Janos Skorenzy May 13, 2019 at 7:43 pm #

    NOW this is the Law of the Jungle — as old and as true as the sky;
    And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.

    As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back —
    For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

    Wash daily from nose-tip to tail-tip; drink deeply, but never too deep;
    And remember the night is for hunting, and forget not the day is for sleep.

    The Jackal may follow the Tiger, but, Cub, when thy whiskers are grown,
    Remember the Wolf is a Hunter — go forth and get food of thine own.

    Keep peace withe Lords of the Jungle — the Tiger, the Panther, and Bear.
    And trouble not Hathi the Silent, and mock not the Boar in his lair.

    When Pack meets with Pack in the Jungle, and neither will go from the trail,
    Lie down till the leaders have spoken — it may be fair words shall prevail.

    When ye fight with a Wolf of the Pack, ye must fight him alone and afar,
    Lest others take part in the quarrel, and the Pack be diminished by war.

    The Lair of the Wolf is his refuge, and where he has made him his home,
    Not even the Head Wolf may enter, not even the Council may come.

    The Lair of the Wolf is his refuge, but where he has digged it too plain,
    The Council shall send him a message, and so he shall change it again.

    If ye kill before midnight, be silent, and wake not the woods with your bay,
    Lest ye frighten the deer from the crop, and your brothers go empty away.

    Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can;
    But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!

    If ye plunder his Kill from a weaker, devour not all in thy pride;
    Pack-Right is the right of the meanest; so leave him the head and the hide.

    The Kill of the Pack is the meat of the Pack. Ye must eat where it lies;
    And no one may carry away of that meat to his lair, or he dies.

    The Kill of the Wolf is the meat of the Wolf. He may do what he will;
    But, till he has given permission, the Pack may not eat of that Kill.

    Cub-Right is the right of the Yearling. From all of his Pack he may claim
    Full-gorge when the killer has eaten; and none may refuse him the same.

    Lair-Right is the right of the Mother. From all of her year she may claim
    One haunch of each kill for her litter, and none may deny her the same.

    Cave-Right is the right of the Father — to hunt by himself for his own:
    He is freed of all calls to the Pack; he is judged by the Council alone.

    Because of his age and his cunning, because of his gripe and his paw,
    In all that the Law leaveth open, the word of your Head Wolf is Law.

    Now these are the Laws of the Jungle, and many and mighty are they;
    But the head and the hoof of the Law and the haunch and the hump is — Obey!

    Law of the Jungle by Rudyard Kipling. A complete philosophy of National Socialism in a few lines. Have you washed from nose tip to tail tip today? Is this a threat? No, “just the Law. But yes, he who steals from the pack – “He dies”. And any pack or Nation, any wolf or man, any tribe or race who breaks Natural Law on a regular basis – they die. God is not mocked. And Nature working under Him, bats last.

    • Kafkaesque May 13, 2019 at 7:54 pm #

      Paul Volcker, author of the reverse Bretton Woods, now calls for its return, alas, w/o statesmen, sans its grip on banksters.
      See: Henry the IV, Pt 2, 5
      ‘.. the oldest sins in the newest kinds of ways… ‘

    • FincaInTheMountains May 13, 2019 at 8:03 pm #

      When Kipling was talking about the “white man’s burden”, he meant an Englishman and maybe a Scot, but definitely not the Yankees – people who used to put their feet on the table without removing their boots or shoes.

      Or worse, removing them.

      • Janos Skorenzy May 13, 2019 at 8:26 pm #

        Or going to foot clinics and not taking them off during service. Kipling was talking about White Men. That’s why he used the term, White Men. But of these he felt that the Anglo-Saxon was best. And America was still an Anglo-Saxon nation at that time. So you’re wrong, from the tip of your nose to the tip of your tail. Now go wash them.

      • BackRowHeckler May 13, 2019 at 8:36 pm #

        For years Kipling lived amongst us Yankees, outside Brattleboro, Vermont. His wife was from Brattleboro.

        brh

        • Janos Skorenzy May 13, 2019 at 11:46 pm #

          That’s lower knowledge. Don’t use it to hide from the Law of the Pack. Knowledge of that is Knowledge indeed.

  39. Pucker May 13, 2019 at 8:55 pm #

    With regard to the US – China trade negotiations, it seems that Xi Jinping has been using the Anti-Corruption purges and Cultural Revolution techniques for creating a Cult of Personality to excessively concentrate power in his hands. This may be re-manifesting bizarre Chinese-style political and social pathologies in China? In other words, the Chinese may have “Drunk the Koolaid” again such that a normal business negotiation may not be realistic?

    But what can you do?: They’re Mainland Chinese People….

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F6xpKqrytDI

  40. FincaInTheMountains May 13, 2019 at 10:12 pm #

    March 30, 2008
    Bridge-building Vladimir Putin wants tunnel to US

    The 64-mile tunnel would run under the Bering Strait between Chukotka, in the Russian far east, and Alaska; the cost is estimated at ?33 billion. Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea football club and governor of Chukotka, has invested ?80m in the world’s largest drill but so far has denied that it is linked with the bridge development.

    It was mentioned earlier that only infrastructure projects of planetary scale can absorb the present volume of US dollars and prevent world wide economic crisis, caused by it’s inability to perform as a world reserve currency. But this kind of projects require close cooperation of US and Russia, impossible if hostility between this states will continue.

    http://nidras.org/

    In my opinion, the main cause of the global economic crisis is overproduction of US dollars and the only way to remove this crisis in a relatively peaceful way is to implement infrastructure projects on a planetary scale, of which the most easily implemented is the construction of a high-speed transcontinental railway from the South Korean port of Masan through North Korea and Russia, to Berlin, Paris and London.

    Of course, the emergence of such a railway means big losses for banks that insure sea transportation, and the emergence of a unified Korea that combines the technological development of South Korea with the nuclear and rocket production potential of North Korea can frighten not only Japan.

    But on the other hand, an infrastructure that will appear around such a road, which will absorb a couple of tens of trillions of dollars, which may well direct the development of the world economy on a different course.

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    • BackRowHeckler May 13, 2019 at 10:55 pm #

      I don’t know Finca, you’re talking about thousands of men working in one of the most inhospitable places on earth. I don’t think that tunnel is going to get built.

      I have this book by George Kennan, the original George Kennan, not the diplomat of the 30s and 40s (his uncle), a telegraph operator who left his Civil War regiment in 1862 and signed on with an expedition to build a telegraph system from NYC, up thru Canada, into Alaska, across the Bering Strait, into Siberia, across Russia, into eastern Europe, and finally into western Europe and Great Britain. They made it into Siberia but after about 4 years and millions of dollars had to give it up because working conditions were so rough there. The whole project became moot anyway when a guy from Stockbridge Mass. figured out how to lay a trans Atlantic cable from NY to London.

      I doubt Siberia is any easier to work in in 2019 than it was in 1864, Climate Change not withstanding.

      brh

      • FincaInTheMountains May 14, 2019 at 7:19 am #

        We choose to go to the moon.

        We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

        John Fitzgerald Kennedy

    • hmuller May 14, 2019 at 4:58 pm #

      Fincaln,

      You reminded me of a movie titled “Snowpiercer” about a high speed train which runs all over the planet (both hemispheres) never stopping. It carries the remnants of humanity after chem-trails brought about an ice age which wiped out human civilization. ( I think there’s a bridge between Alaska and Siberia)

      The train has an endless power source, grows its own food, and functions as a self-contained world. There is a rigid class structure – lower classes in the back cars. Lots of guards to enforce a very brutal, oppressive regime. Of course, it’s a metaphor for the world we are moving towards. Worth a look.

      • K-Dog May 15, 2019 at 11:07 am #

        It does not end well.

        Snowpiercer reminds me of this place. The machine keeps printing out new comments and keeps on rushing down the silver rails. What is that up ahead? Oh, it is the frozen dog. He tried to escape the train years ago but did not get far.

        How long will it go on? Not forever. Nothing lasts forever.

      • Majella May 15, 2019 at 7:39 pm #

        Snowpiercer as sequel to Willie Wonka?

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEX52h1TvuA

        • hmuller May 16, 2019 at 2:47 pm #

          I watched that video, It was brilliant. No, I don’t think Snowpiercer was intentionally a sequel to Willie Wonka, but the parallels are amazing.

  41. KesaAnna May 13, 2019 at 10:53 pm #

    ” Also please point to a nation in which Biblical law is directly incorporated into the national constitution. ”

    ” Biblical ” , and , ” directly ? Well ; No.

    The likes of John Locke and Thomas Jefferson could hardly invoke a Church authority directly , being Protestants .

    And one of the basic premises of that being something like , ” Church bad , every Tom , Dick , and Harry , their own Magisterium , good . ”

    Not really workable that , and they knew it.

    But then they really didn’t invent anything new either , or even particularly innovate.

    ” All men are equal ( before , or in relation to , God. ) ”

    They just left out the important part.

    So much for inventions or innovations.

    The very idea of human rights , or notions like that using your neighbors wife as a whore , or beating someone to death for jollies , might be a bad thing ,

    rest squarely and solely on the notion that the origins of man are divine.

    Or , to put that another way ; While humans themselves may not be gods , they are RELATIVES of God.

    If a man abuses your son , though not you , do you take it then that he has not abused you ?

    No , who attacks your son attacks you.

    So it goes .

    Of course , if you absolutely , positively cannot stand all of this theological hocus – pocus , then we could just as well say the same thing in a more oblique and nebulous way ;

    The very idea of human rights

    rest squarely and solely on the notion that man is ….err ….special.

    Err……”special” as in more special than dogs , or cows , or cockroaches. More special than roses or lilies , more special than your car or your baseball card collection .

    Of course it seems to me this is no refinement , but a bowdlerization.

    A coarsening , not a refinement.

    Let’s look at the development of things in a rather more dry and chronological way ;

    Well , oops , in that regard the American Revolution isn’t of much help. It is unfortunately rather opaque. ( But then you might prefer that anyway ? )

    It is an open question what sort of Christians Benjamin Franklin , or Thomas Jefferson , for example , might have been.

    If , indeed , they were Christians at all.

    But the English revolutionaries were quiet familiar to them , if not to us . Indeed , the English Revolutionaries were their heroes and their role models.

    And the English revolution is anything but opaque in that regard.

    Things are rather unavoidably blatant , and on both sides too !

    BOTH Oliver Cromwell and Charles I were unabashed religious zealots. Jeez , they were the type that cannot decide on tea or coffee without the decision having a religious rationale.

    And certainly such was the case in their politics.

    Where is the Bible in Anglo – American law ?

    Well , read Charles I ( sort of ) defense at his trial.

    And know that he was absolutely serious. ( He already knew they were going to chop off his head , but he said such things anyway. )

    Or read pretty much any damn thing Oliver Cromwell ever wrote.

    Ok , well that was 300 fucking years ago , and three out of four white Americans aren’t even of UK origin anyway —

    How many people are capitalists and communists willing to burn at the stake for their presumably non -religious ideals ?

    Oops , excuse me , they don’t burn people at the stake ;

    They destroy people much more efficiently ! ^-^

    And that’s , ” Non – religious ” for you.

    As I have said before , of course these moderns want to avoid the religious label like the plague.

    Because once you start to make that comparison , then , in say comparison to the crudest and bloodiest animism for example , it might begin to look a lot worse in comparison , not better.

    Or , at least as I said , not clearer , not more refined , but muddier , grayer .

    No , the Bible isn’t directly applied in Anglo – American law.

    It is only and merely the origin of anything coherent , or basically worth a shit , in that law.

    • Well well well, looks like we got a live one here

      • SoftStarLight May 14, 2019 at 9:51 am #

        Quit being rude!

    • SoftStarLight May 14, 2019 at 9:51 am #

      Thank you Kesa. That makes a lot of sense to me. I thought that Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were deists. So not really Christians in any real sense but certainly immersed in a Christian culture as religious practice was much more integrated into daily life during the course of their time here on planet earth. Since the deists and freemasons set up the government and constitution rather than the puritans we find ourselves in a highly secularized culture. If the original puritans were responsible for the establishment of our constitution I believe that America would be very different today. I am sure most people would believe such an America would be a horrible place. But look at things as they are now. You are right too that the secularists “burn people at the stake”. And yes, their destruction is more efficient as they are capable of destroying the mind as well as the body.

  42. KesaAnna May 13, 2019 at 11:27 pm #

    ” Are the moral lessons of the WWII completely washed away?

    That is why from my point of view, the most important ideological battle of our time is the battle for the recognition of the war against Hitler Germany as a Christian Holy war, that is, the war against an attempt to build hell on Earth. ”

    Well ……yes , and no.

    Yes —

    whether German , Russian , American — err , I don’t know about those Brits , anyone’s a fool who takes anything they say or do without a large pinch of salt —

    No doubt the bulk of those who suffered and sacrificed , got their head blown off , and actually never even gave a thought to any prospective G. I . Bill , were religious types.

    But No —

    It was Social Darwinists fighting Social Darwinists and every party to the fighting , from the Japanese to the Bulgarians , financed by Social Darwinist arms dealers.

    And , well , to put it another way , the ideas that prevailed in the war were the very worst parts of National Socialism.

    Have you really been to America ?

    What was worst in Hitler’s heart won over the Americans completely.

  43. JohnAZ May 14, 2019 at 1:32 am #

    Two items tonight

    Barr has appointed and investigator named John Durham to investigate the Steele dossier and the FISA startup of the FBI investigations that led up to Muellers hoax.

    Rosenstein is firing shots back at super patriot Comey. Could Rosenstein be the John Dean of this situation and bust open the corruption of the DOJ for the last two or three presidents.

    Interesting times approaching.

    • Mountain gal May 14, 2019 at 8:29 am #

      Yep. Excited to see that. Will see……….

    • Nightowl May 17, 2019 at 4:04 am #

      Advance copies of the IG report were distributed to those involved, which may explain Comey’s media blitz.

      Furthermore, in international news, Salvini just dumped 6 Italian deputy intel heads thought to be connected to Brennan and the Papa setup.

      It’s on.

  44. Pucker May 14, 2019 at 3:06 am #

    Because of his White Privilege, one of his ancestors was kidnapped off the coast of New England and gang pressed into the British Royal Navy and then over a period of 3 years Gang sodomized and whipped by sailors drunk on grog. Being a white person in the New World has always been a fuck’n Bowl-of-Cherries….

    Dumb Fucker’s are totally ignorant of History.

  45. Pucker May 14, 2019 at 3:59 am #

    Pete….

    https://store.peteforamerica.com/products/pete-family-t-shirt

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  46. Pucker May 14, 2019 at 4:33 am #

    I’m going to have a few hundred posters of Woody Allen and Bill Cosby with the Logo #MeToo printed up in China.

    “But you know I, I should be the poster boy for the Me Too movement. Because I have worked in movies for 50 years. I’ve worked with hundreds of actresses and not a single one—big ones, famous ones, ones starting out—have ever ever suggested any kind of impropriety at all. I’ve always had a wonderful record with them.”

    Woody Allen

  47. 100th Avatar May 14, 2019 at 8:16 am #

    “Even the profoundly flawed sometimes strangely find themselves on the hero’s journey.”

    Like this one, reported in the Times:

    “White House Reviews Military Plans Against Iran, in Echoes of Iraq War

    The plans envision sending up to 120,000 troops to the Middle East should Iran attack U.S. forces or accelerate nuclear weapons work, officials said.”

    If you are now a member, or considering joining, the US Military you are not a hero. You are an ignorant simpleton who deserves his or her fate. If the future you envision is one where you and your country is lead to death and destruction by a crazed mustachioed neocon determined to use the blood and debt-fueled treasure of the United States for Israeli right-wing zealots, you deserve every horror coming your way.

    He is certainly a golem. Look at his cabinet. Look who supports him.
    The unlikely figures speaking out for him. This golem is on a hero’s journey all right, but not for you and yours.

    • Mountain gal May 14, 2019 at 8:31 am #

      I think pretty much the US is looking out for our oil supply. As Iran has plans for the entire ME which would include taking over the countries that comprise it and thus, much of our oil supply, the US has a problem with that. It has zero to do with “Israeli right-wing zealots” as you put it.

    • SoftStarLight May 14, 2019 at 9:35 am #

      All of your criticisms are understood but just to be clear. No matter what the US does one way or the other Iran is likely to be very belligerent in regards to it’s own expansion and colonization of the entire Middle East. Have you read anything about the Shia sect of Islam and their particular beliefs in the coming Mahdi? The Shia believe that they must initiate massive worldwide destruction and chaos in order to bring about the appearance of the Mahdi. What better way to start chaos then openly attacking nations perceived as Dar al-Harb. And what better way of attempting to pull Sunni Muslims onto their side by attacking Israel or the interests of the US? This is respected by Muslims regardless of sectarian persuasion because it is an attack on infidels. All of this to say….it takes two to tango…

    • ozone May 14, 2019 at 9:52 am #

      “…officials said.”

      Isn’t it interesting that for some time now, spokespersons for military actions eschew identifying themselves? Aside from megalomaniacs like Bolton and Pompeo, it seems they fear future “repercussions”.

    • BackRowHeckler May 14, 2019 at 9:59 am #

      Ok Avatar, the time may have arrived to choose sides, your own country, or the enemy.

      You seem to have picked the enemy.

      Duly note.

      Brh

      • Ol' Scratch May 14, 2019 at 10:21 am #

        Laughably simplistic and spoken like a true “patriot.” Which country? The one run from NYC and DC for the benefit of an elite few by a handful of Zionist whack jobs, or the one the rest of us live in? Likewise which enemy? The ones they sell us like so much laundry detergent whenever they need to generate some more funding for the MICC, or the ones who have already infiltrated our borders and now own or are foreclosing on everything of worth?

        Declaring war would be an altogether good thing and I’ll rejoice when we finally do it. It will be a genuine peoples war and it will be full scale and unrelenting on the NE corridor from DC to Boston and it will not be done until the entire war-mongering Globalist Zionist Corporate Capitalist scourge that afflicts us is completely stamped out. Until that happens, all the rest is just so much smoke and mirrors.

        So, return volley. Which side are you on? America or the Zionists?

        • BackRowHeckler May 14, 2019 at 10:39 am #

          Right, blame Israel, a country of less than 10 million people, and an ally with the US, for the geo political tensions in the world.

          If it comes down to Israel and Iran, I think I I would side with Israel, Scratch.

          Brh

          • 100th Avatar May 14, 2019 at 11:16 am #

            Allies are important.

            Lend a bed, lend an army. lend millions:

            “Jared Kushner accompanied President Trump, his father-in-law, on the pair’s first diplomatic trip to Israel, part of Mr. Kushner’s White House assignment to achieve peace in the Middle East.

            Shortly before, his family real estate company received a roughly $30 million investment from Menora Mivtachim, an insurer that is one of Israel’s largest financial institutions, according to a Menora executive.

            Netanyahu has long been a friend of the Kushners, and particularly Jared’s dad, Charles Kushner, a major donor to pro-Israel and Jewish causes. One time, Kantor reports – she doesn’t specify when – Jared gave up his bed and moved to the basement so Netanyahu could spend the night at their home in Livingston, New Jersey.”

            And of course allies need support. Like infrastructure. Never mind our country’s infrastructure failings, friends and guests should come first:

            “U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin praised investment opportunities in Israel and said Washington would increase its participation in infrastructure projects there.

            “We have a very important relationship with Israel. This is really a great place for investments, particularly technology investments,” Mnuchin, launching a Middle East tour, told reporters in Jerusalem.

            “We are going to make sure we do more infrastructure investments here,” he added, without elaborating, in remarks alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

          • malthuss May 14, 2019 at 3:41 pm #

            why is a part of total sum of humanity [10-50 million of 7 billion] so
            rich
            powerful
            obnoxious??

            why is a land the size of 1/10 or 1/100th of Texas so
            in the news
            important
            funded by USA?

      • 100th Avatar May 14, 2019 at 10:48 am #

        I recently read a post here where someone lamented the hijacking of the board by rightwing types.

        So let us get into the details of the right-wing people one should worry about.

        Is it those labeled right-wing for resisting the Democrat driven Russia collusion narrative?

        Is it those labeled right-wing for not voting for Hilary? Voting for Trump?

        Is it those labeled right-wing for posting generally racist, xenophobic, antisemitic, and misogynistic comments?

        Is it those labeled right-wing for resisting, or not embracing the trans zeitgeist?

        Is it those labeled right-wing for their harsh opinions against the culture and PC wars?

        Is it those labeled right-wing for their desire for an orderly and lawful immigration system? For having effectively managed borders?

        Is it those labeled right-wing for resisting another call to war in the middle east?

        Is it those labeled right-wing for not believing in yet another middle-eastern bogeyman? For embracing it?

        Is it those labeled right-wing that want a future free from foreign wars, armed interventions, and American imperialism? Or those that desire this?

        Is it those labeled right-wing for having any opinion different than your own?

        When the uninformed argue with the misinformed, why choose a side?

        • BackRowHeckler May 14, 2019 at 11:03 am #

          What imperialism? Puerto Rico? American Samoa? Virgin Islands? Some empire. What’s happening in the ME right now has nothing to do with Israel and a lot to do with oil markets.

          And if Israel is in the picture, how is it any different from aiding France — another ally — in 1918, 1944, and 1954?

          Brh

          • 100th Avatar May 14, 2019 at 11:30 am #

            As such a poorly thought-out and factually deprived response it deserves no further commenting.

          • malthuss May 14, 2019 at 3:42 pm #

            1000? military bases?

            bombs killing millions, in 20-21st century.

            Why was USA fighting in WW1?

        • malthuss May 14, 2019 at 3:53 pm #

          Not sure what you mean.
          I dont love Israel and Zionism.

          Is it those labeled right-wing for having any opinion different than your own?
          satire?

          • Mountain gal May 14, 2019 at 11:03 pm #

            In response to your question, Israel is in the news so much as the NYT, WAPO, CNN and it’s leftist ilk is obsessed with it; not in a good way alas. And I can assure you that the ONLY country in the ME that has the back of the US is Israel. There are many who hate us in the ME and around the world and it’s NOT due to Israel. Islamists despise western culture and the west and want to destroy it.They wish to either force everyone to convert to their form of Islam or be killed. Not sure what you don’t understand about that. And I DO love Israel and Zionism.

          • Janos Skorenzy May 15, 2019 at 1:28 am #

            As the late great Joe Sobran said, “We’d be thrilled with dual loyalty.”

    • James Hansen May 14, 2019 at 10:07 am #

      It is hard for me to believe that Russia and China will let Iran become another Iraq, they have to draw a line in the sand at some point. They cannot let every country that is a friend become destroyed.

      We cannot win in a ground war against Iran and our navy is a sitting duck with all the new missile technologies so the only option is nuclear.

      Russia is sitting in the catbirds seat with their hypersonic gliders so unless we want a Jim Jones event the military has to back down.

      • SoftStarLight May 14, 2019 at 10:16 am #

        I don’t think we should be getting into any kind of conflict with Iran. Yes American politicians have demonstrated they are cravenly blood thirsty. But do bare in mind as I said above, the Iranian ruling mullahs are a very bloodthirsty bunch too. They are likely to eventually provoke a conflict either way. We would do best by developing our own super weapons for that coming day and getting prepared. They will go big when they do something. Think EMP….

        • Ol' Scratch May 14, 2019 at 10:23 am #

          On the other hand, it will be the best thing that can happen to us in the long run. Greer’s Twilight’s Last Gleaming lays it our pretty well. The Federal Leviathan’s long overdue breakup might well be at hand as we speak.

          • AKlein May 14, 2019 at 10:43 am #

            On December 26, 1991, the Soviet people woke up to find that the great and powerful Soviet Union was no more – and that 70 years of wars, gulags, pogroms, purges, show trials, assassinations, famines, Holodomors, extreme deprivation, and strident propaganda had come to a bitter, ignominious finale. Their “leaders” and their populace had not bargained for that during the heyday of their empire when the future seemed to be theirs. That winter morning it was over, with a whimper, not a roar. So, the question is, does a December 26th await us? Or, worse, will our “leaders” opt for kicking over the chessboard. At least the Soviets had the decency to not blow up the world.

      • elysianfield May 14, 2019 at 12:21 pm #

        “We cannot win in a ground war against Iran and our navy is a sitting duck with all the new missile technologies so the only option is nuclear.

        Russia is sitting in the catbirds seat with their hypersonic gliders so unless we want a Jim Jones event the military has to back down.

        James,
        …According to current wisdom found on the internets….

        • James Hansen May 14, 2019 at 6:05 pm #

          You disagree?

          • elysianfield May 14, 2019 at 7:56 pm #

            James,
            I really do not know, the DOD does not confide in me. The Trillions spent on Defense since our last soiree in 1991 (guided bombs, stealth aircraft) might show that the planners have a few tricks up their sleeves? I do not dismiss the abilities of our opponent of the month, and neither should we dismiss the US war fighting ability, whatever it might currently be.

            The planners, however, can be counted on to be anything but stupid, and to put a 500+ Billion dollar carrier group in harm’s way? We do not need a carrier loss to start a war…a he said/she said occurrence seems sufficient today. Give ’em credit….

  48. FincaInTheMountains May 14, 2019 at 8:17 am #

    Regarding Pompeo’s visit to Sochi: “I say as a mother, as a woman, I urge you to answer!”

    Lately, I’m not trying to keep track of even the major events taking place in the world, as the history went into a gallop and the number of these events has increased so much that I’m just physically unable to analyze them all.

    And in order to choose, you must first read about them, and not one article, but three or four, covering these events from different points of view. In general, most of the time is spent on viewing the headers and storing links for analysis in calmer times.

    But Pompeo’s visit is not just a major event – its size is a controversial issue, unlike the issue of influence of size on world politics in the era of Hillary Clinton.

    Pompeo’s visit to Sochi is an occasion and an opportunity to look at the balance of power that has arisen after the Big Bargain between Trump and Bushes.

    And in order to understand what opens as a result of this peeking into the keyhole of the Trump’s cabinet, we must first recall the United States representative to the UN Nikki Haley, who at official meetings always picked a fight with the representative of Russia Nebenzey, but kissing with him on the sidelines.

    And in general, they were friends with their families, which Nebenzey himself told about after journalists confronted her with questions, puzzled by this phenomenon that made Nikki Haley leave her post, which suited her perfectly.

    The answer to this is very simple, if you believe your humble servant, who saw with his own eyes the press conference of Nikki Haley, at which journalists had already harassed her with questions about the meeting between Putin and Trump, in particular the question of why Trump did not make claims to Putin about the Russian interference into American elections and civil war in Ukraine.

    And Nikki Haley answered them:

    “And why do you need him to ask these questions to Putin, if I ask them to him, exposing Putin from the UN podium! And from that podium calling him for an answer!”

    Well, now you understand the role of Pompeo in the Trump’s cabinet?

    • SoftStarLight May 14, 2019 at 9:24 am #

      Do you think there will ever come a time when you feel like Hillary Clinton is finally old news? To this point the Clinton crime family, like others, have escaped justice. She could make it to the grave without suffering nary a consequence for her actions in this world. The Swamp circled the wagons to protect her. Even Trump said he didn’t want to hurt the Clinton’s. So clearly their money and influence will keep them safe from an earthly judgement so it appears. I don’t like hearing about big bargains. When bargains and people in power are mentioned in the same sentence it typically means that a lot of little people just got ripped off.

      • Ol' Scratch May 14, 2019 at 10:05 am #

        The Clintons are WAY too well connected. Prosecuting them would open up the mother of all hornet’s nests, so they will never be touched. Same with Obama, Cheney, the Bushes, and that entire gang of criminals as well. They’re all “made,” and thus untouchable.

        • SoftStarLight May 14, 2019 at 10:13 am #

          I believe you are correct Ol’ Scratch. The only thing that can change it is getting a “new Sheriff in town”. At this juncture that seems like a distant hope. But they do say that reality is stranger than fiction. So I can’t give up hope even though I know many have.

          • Majella May 15, 2019 at 8:05 pm #

            Yeah, you already gave us a ‘new sheriff’, SSL, and what a loser he’s turned out to be.

            The only possibility to get a ‘new sheriff’ – one who could & would actually LIVE and ACT by principles that include speaking truth to power (the elite/deep state/1%ers…whatever demonizing label you choose to apply to TPTB) and to seek justice for all – regardless of political persuasion – is the Progressive Left as embodied by Bernie Sanders.

            A Sanders Administration could be as transformative as FDR’s was in 1933 – he’d actually DELIVER on the empty promises of the GGG – universal medical care, a fair tax system, infrastructure investment, clearing out of dark money & lobbyists in political campaigning, incentives to attract industry & living wages back (rather than this BS ‘tariff’ imposition, which is a tax on the US consumer, no more, no less).

            It’s ironic that in 2016 both Trump & Sanders were talking to the SAME electorate and enunciating virtually the same points. Thanks, DNC. We got Trump instead of Bernie.

          • Nightowl May 17, 2019 at 4:10 am #

            Bernie Sanders was robbed by his own party and then sold out to the ultimate corpratist pig.

            Glad to see a prog finally admitting that Trump and Bernie were quite similar, with the exception that Bernie is a fraud.

      • JohnAZ May 14, 2019 at 11:11 am #

        Never! The Clinton’s source of power is derived from international sources, look for them to emigrate if John Durham’s investigation take off. These people are evil, along with the other power driven elements of the Left. And they are ubiquitous. They almost had this country in their pockets. Maybe the Russian interest at beating the Clintons and their minions is directed at their own self defense as if the globalists go after us and win, Russia is next.

        Ironic, isn’t it, that we may be a protective front for Russia? Russia will not put up with the BS generated by the the globalists in the US.

        • FincaInTheMountains May 14, 2019 at 11:34 am #

          The closest to the Truth as far as I could tell.

          In fact, I am convinced that Hillary Clintont is an agent of EU, aka the Fourth Reich, in the US.

          That is why she doesn’t really care is US were destroyed, even by nuclear fire.

    • FincaInTheMountains May 14, 2019 at 11:19 am #

      Hillary Clinton is a figure of Historic, I would even say Biblical, proportions.

      And the image in Bible that suits her best is the Babylonian Whore.

  49. Pucker May 14, 2019 at 8:57 am #

    NEGR. O

    No Exceptions To God’s Rules

    Many people think they deserve to be exempted from certain rules, regulations and even laws; but there are no exceptions made for anyone when it comes to God’s Word.

    With music by: Joshoua and Corinthia Bell, The Cathedral Boys, The Cathedral Trio, The Singing Men’s Quartet

    Aired the week of: May 12, 2019

  50. MrMangoOnMyShoulder May 14, 2019 at 9:50 am #

    Okay, I’ll admit it. I had to look up obloquy.

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    • SoftStarLight May 14, 2019 at 9:53 am #

      This must be an intentional summoning of the Q :-).

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder May 14, 2019 at 9:55 am #

        A la the fnords?

  51. messianicdruid May 14, 2019 at 10:09 am #

    Farmer McGregor asked, “Are you aware of where (how, by whom) dispensationalism originated?”

    The Scofield Six had a hand in some of it but Darby was the one who came up with the theory of dispensations to be able to misinterpret pieces of prophecy. Misidentify a few of the players and change a few definitions, piece of cake. One [ or more ] of the six recognized a way to use it politically to fund his agendas.

    • Janos Skorenzy May 14, 2019 at 10:18 am #

      Never heard this before. Got a link? And/or do you dare to enunciate the six names? Are they those special names?

      • messianicdruid May 14, 2019 at 3:35 pm #

        “In the early years of Zionism, Scofield was preaching his doctrine of the Postponed Kingdom, in which a Jewish Kingdom would rule the world. He had adopted John Darby’s idea that Christ would rule from the old Jerusalem in a Jewish setting, and hence, they believed it necessary for the Jews to establish a Jewish state in Palestine.

        This caught the attention of certain powerful Jews, and so Scofield was contacted by Samuel Untermeyer, a prominent Jewish lawyer who was one of the framers of the Federal Reserve Act.

        “He took an active part in preparing the Federal Reserve Bank law, the Clayton bill, the Federal Trade Commission bill, and other legislation curbing trusts.”

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Untermyer

        Untermeyer was not a Christian, but he found Scofield to be very useful in the Jewish plans for a state of Israel. He introduced Scofield to many Zionists and financed “research” trips to Oxford. As chairman of the Lotos Club in New York, an exclusive club for journalists, Untermeyer recommended that Scofield be admitted as a member, and the same Club also provided him with free living quarters to support his writing of the “Scofield Bible.”

        The marginal notes of the Scofield Bible set forth his brand of Dispensationalist theology. With his views being placed in a Bible, it had an incredible psychological effect upon Christians, for they were unable to separate Scofield’s views from Scripture itself. Eventually, even the term “Dispensationalism” was dropped from Church vocabularies, because it was no longer simply a viewpoint–it became the mainstream Christian viewpoint among Evangelicals, Pentecostals, and Charismatics.

        The view set in stone the idea that the Jews were Israel and that the Jewish state was the fulfillment of Bible prophecy of the regathering of the ancient House of Israel. Biblical history showed the Israelites to be the 10 tribes of the Northern House of Israel, who were deported to Assyria and “lost.” But Scofield identified the Jews as Israelites.“

        https://www.gods-kingdom-ministries.net/daily-weblogs/2011/10-2011/the-scofield-factor-part-1/

        • Janos Skorenzy May 15, 2019 at 12:55 am #

          Thanks. Plans within plans and wheels within wheels. Their time horizon is longer than ours. That’s one result of being part of an ancient People and not just an “individual” like Americans are. It’s just psychological poverty.

          • Q. Shtik May 15, 2019 at 12:11 pm #

            Their time horizon is longer than ours. That’s one result of being part of an ancient People – Janos

            ==========

            It is becoming quite evident that you are jealous of the Jews.

  52. SoftStarLight May 14, 2019 at 10:10 am #

    While ALL of our leaders dither in the midst of a real and massive invasion there are Real Patriots attempting to do everything they can within the law to hinder the invaders. These patriots should be memorialized! And their hands should be untied. They should be deputized and allowed to round up the invaders. Mexico should be forced to take them back. Oh if we only had real Leaders!!!!! The law as it is enforces the invasion and the sentence is our destruction.

    http://www.theamericanmirror.com/armed-patriots-vow-continued-patrols-as-monthly-border-crossings-reach-100000/

    • BackRowHeckler May 14, 2019 at 10:32 am #

      This is what happens when govt won’t enforce the law and protect Americans, the main reason for its existence to begin with. Patriots will step up, the kind you describe at the border.

      Brh

      • SoftStarLight May 14, 2019 at 4:06 pm #

        I hope so Brh. It looks like the government is doing everything it can to prevent citizens from taking action. Yet, they refuse to do the job and the military refuses to protect the border. We know that a huge majority of Americans want the border situation under control so it can’t be any clearer that we are not a government of the people for the people and by the people. Even the dimmest and dumbest among us see it. It’s only a matter of time before a large mass of people start questioning why they pay taxes anymore.

        • Majella May 15, 2019 at 8:22 pm #

          SSL: “.and the military refuses to protect the border. We know that a huge majority of Americans want the border situation under control …”

          Huh?

          1) when did (and where is it documented that) the military refuse an order to protect the border?; and

          2) where is this ‘huge majority of Americans want the border situation under control’ survey result?

          Not everybody has drunk the Kool-Aid that there’s a ‘crisis on the border’ – at least, that it’s particularly worse in recent times than earlier.

          Also, what does having ‘the border situation under control’ mean? To you it means a wall, undisciplined armed militia, the army (with tanks, no doubt, and live rounds to drive back the hordes of destitutes (your own ‘deplorables’ no doubt).

    • Majella May 15, 2019 at 8:13 pm #

      SSL: “Oh if we only had real Leaders!!!!!”

      Why do you so often read like you’re having an attack of “The Vapours”?

      As well, to endorse & encourage vigilantism is a very serious mistake, SSL. How would you feel if unsanctioned informal bands of armed ‘randoms’ had YOU and yours in their sights for some purported misdemeanor?

  53. BackRowHeckler May 14, 2019 at 10:17 am #

    Coldest temps recorded in NE for this date since mid 1940s. Snow in northern Berkshires.

    Brh

    • JohnAZ May 14, 2019 at 11:01 am #

      How are the AGW folks going to explain a downside from the heat plateau of the past few years. Easy, ignore it like they ignore everything else.

      Deblasio threatening Trump, what a joke. Of all the Liberal loonies, this guy is no. 1. The leader of the NE corridor along with Andy Cuomo. As the power shifts to the big cities, the loonies are so warping our national charter that the rest of us need to control the effects of their insanity. If as Ol’ Scratch suggests it will take violence to shut these suckers down, so be it.

      • Weather patterns you dip shits. Transient fluctuations of the jet stream boundaries.

        John, you’re going to fry this year.

        • JohnAZ May 14, 2019 at 11:41 am #

          We have had a very cool Spring. You are right though, global effects pushing local conditions.

          Wonder what is warming things more? CO2 or paving more and more of our real estate. Heat islands are real!

          Frying in Phoenix is SOP. Last year was weird though, lower temps 110 degrees, (ha), instead of 120 in June. But higher humidity..

    • stelmosfire May 14, 2019 at 11:21 am #

      I’m wondering if O3 picked up any snow? He’s up in the high country west of here. My wife lived up there and back around ’79-80 they had a “Mother’s Day Storm” with perhaps a foot of snow. She worked in Hartford and said she couldn’t make it to work, the management tried to call bullshit on it.

      • BackRowHeckler May 14, 2019 at 12:10 pm #

        Thats a long commute, Rip.

      • ozone May 14, 2019 at 4:19 pm #

        stelmo,
        I have footage of a very Christmas-y snow coming down thick and heavy on 5/12/19. Only amounted to a “covering”, but unwelcome all the same.
        Yeah, Happy Merry Mother’s Christmas Day! Woo-hoo!

    • malthuss May 14, 2019 at 7:49 pm #

      BABY ITS COLD OUTSIDE

  54. Elrond Hubbard May 14, 2019 at 10:56 am #

    What is the Most Expensive Water in the World in 2019?

    https://svalbardi.com/blogs/news/what-is-the-most-expensive-water-in-the-world-in-2019

    SUMMARY:

    A Google or YouTube search for “most expensive water” or “most expensive bottled water” turns up a quick series of lists. Most use old incorrect data including brands that no longer exist, and/or the prices are wrong. So we’ve gathered an updated list. We exclude the few “crazy” waters sold for tens of thousands of dollars as publicity stunts and count only brands that are really available somewhere in the world. So here are the world’s top 10 most expensive waters in 2019.

    #10 – $34 per litre – Berg from Canada
    #9 – $40 per litre – BLVD from Tasmania, Australia
    #8 – $48 per litre – MINUS 181 from Germany
    #7 – $48 per litre – ROI from Slovenia
    #6 – $56 per litre – Lofoten from Norway
    #5 – $60 per litre – Uisge Source from Scotland, UK
    #4 – $104 per litre – Bling h2o from the US
    #3 – $166 per litre – Svalbarði from Svalbard, Norway
    #2 – $190 per litre – NEVAS from Germany
    #1 – $616 per litre – Fillico Jewelry Water from Japan

    Full details on the brands and why they are so expensive can be found in the rest of this post. From super-premium to luxury water, each brand carries a story.

    They go into details about each one. Meanwhile, Madame Defarge is getting out her knitting.

    • Thats nothing, I’m charging $1,209 for artisinal water in commemorative vacuum sealed flask. It’s sourced from the bilge water of Gary Hart’s yacht, Monkey Business, and has gone through a rigorous process of desalination and irradiation, and reconstituted with mineral salts derived from the retreived kidney stones of the Dalai Lama. 1L.

      • malthuss May 14, 2019 at 3:45 pm #

        you have a way w satire.

    • malthuss May 14, 2019 at 3:44 pm #

      links?

      links for finks.

  55. JohnAZ May 14, 2019 at 11:29 am #

    Iran is the leader of the Shia branch of Islam, more fundamentalist and more interest in the war credo of the Quran. It is also Persian, psychologically desiring to reinstate the Persian empire. The combination of the two make them a dangerous adversary.

    They have been exporting their militancy for decades. They are Zealots, dangerous to the world order. They are playing a dangerous game, how to out finess the US and Israel without reaping a violent reaction. Drop a bomb, maybe the MOAB on Tehran and the opposition is done.

    Right now all the terrorist activity can be tied back to Iran. Just how long will the US and Israel put up with their BS. Time may be growing short.

    Russia will not interfere, Iran isn’t worth the effort. China, well maybe.

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    • 100th Avatar May 14, 2019 at 11:32 am #

      It took no time at all for me to get the cockroaches out into the light.

      • BackRowHeckler May 14, 2019 at 12:05 pm #

        Well, there doesn’t seem to be many people on this site favorable to Israel, blaming the country for everything. I don’t understand it.

        Brh

        • 100th Avatar May 14, 2019 at 12:57 pm #

          Enough with the histrionics.
          Nobody is “blaming” Israel en masse. This logical fallacy is an attempt at arguing from.. idiocy.

          It is what it is.
          As if nobody else would want the US supporting their goals.

          These are facts.
          The Obama administration was very hostile to Israel’s right-wing ruling regime and their agenda.

          Trump not so much. He has very few people in his corner. Do you think Alan Dershowitz is so vocal in his preservation of this presidency out of a love for Trump? For the constitution?
          Wake up.

          One more supporter is a relation through marriage, and the remainder are powerful and determined people who are relentless in their bloodthirsty pursuit of hegemony. First came the Wolfowitz doctrine and now sits Bolton and the agenda as envisioned by Trump’s largest donor, Sheldon Adelson.

          You do understand that there are plenty of people in Israel that have differing opinions on this, right? That there are plenty of Jews in the United States who do not support war, right?

          To not see this reveals the real bigot.

          • BackRowHeckler May 14, 2019 at 1:34 pm #

            I wasn’t calling anyone a bigot, or a cockeroach.

            Brh

          • BackRowHeckler May 14, 2019 at 1:35 pm #

            “Support the war”

            What war?

          • 100th Avatar May 14, 2019 at 1:43 pm #

            Again, nuance.

            It escapes you. Why you get led around by your nose.

            I wrote “support war” not “support the war”

        • Mountain gal May 14, 2019 at 11:15 pm #

          It’s a sign of the overall ignorance displayed by many posters here. Antisemitism and being anti Israel/Zionist is just so in these days. But hey, Iran blames Israel for everything so maybe they like Iran as they are parroting what they say. Sad, as I full well know what Iran would with do with most of these guys……..

          It’s kinda sad in a way as we are talking about a country the size of NJ that seems to be the focus of hate from so many ignorant people. But there’s always gotta be a scapegoat I suppose. If Israel did’t exist it would be someone else who was to blame. Always is…….

          • Janos Skorenzy May 15, 2019 at 1:01 am #

            Daddy Warbucks was Warburg. You people are War Mongers, and you love to get Whites to die for you.

          • 100th Avatar May 15, 2019 at 1:24 pm #

            Fault your inability to separate the haters from the facts.
            I will go further and fault your willful obfuscation of the facts by employing a well worn tactic that need not go addressed.

            There exists a Middle East agenda when it comes to Israel against Iran vis-à-vis the US.

            John Bolton is a surrogate for Adelson and a long simmering neocon agenda.

            When the defense/geopolitical needs or desires of right-wing/hawkish elements supportive of or inhabiting a country the size of New Jersey may result in war, death, and financial ruin for the inhabitants of this one then it seems all the more ignorant to deny it.

            Or, STFU.

    • Majella May 15, 2019 at 8:26 pm #

      The key point is their point of difference – they are NOT ARABS.

  56. Great New York Times today. Science Times is always interesting. Laws of physics, the immune system, quantum indeterminacy, stem cells, Apollo 8, 10, 11, 17 details, dinosaur fossils inform phylogeny, wasp intelligence, penguin shit, Fusion, Ebola strategy, lichen planus’s burning agony, medical ethics, statins & glaucoma, baby brains, etc.

    Hard news Australian drought & climate change, Rural British pensioners forgotten, Sri Lankan mobs turn on muslims, Bolton’s war plans.

    Editorials, Brooks: men going rogue, the legacy of the idiocy of stocking noon native fish in lakes across the west, Roe v. wade under that from the cryptofascist religious right and it’s lap dogs led by Clarence Thomas in the Supreme court.

    China/US negotiations, tariff targets, Apple lawsuits and fallout…

    Dollar for dollar the New York Times is the best value for the money you can find. $3, newsstands worldwide.

  57. FincaInTheMountains May 14, 2019 at 11:56 am #

    .. or Delilah, or Jezebel or Salome, or the Queen of Sheba == JohnAZ

    I’ll say right away that, generally speaking, the events and people described in the Holy Scripture are stencils that are repeatedly reproduced in History, but of course secondary circumstances are superimposed on this stencil, distorting the purity of the picture, and to the greatest extent this stencil is reproduced at the end of times realized one-to-one.

    This is about the Babylonian Whore, if you haven’t guessed.

  58. elysianfield May 14, 2019 at 1:02 pm #

    Well, ladies and germs;

    It has to be said. For there to be racial justice, some black people might have to die.

    Correction!

    The above comment was in error. The actual quote, by a University of Georgia Teaching Assistant was to the effect that…”for their to be racial justice, some white people may have to die.” He further opined that he supported integrated classes so that blacks could…practice.

    Happily, the University ruled that his comment was not hate speech…it did not violate the University’s code of conduct.

    https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/05/10/university-of-georgia-ta-who-said-white-people-might-have-to-die-did-not-violate-code-of-conduct/

    • elysianfield May 14, 2019 at 1:04 pm #

      On a personal note, I should ask the readership to look deeply into the eyes of the photograph of the assistant…note the humanity, the intelligence…I’m sure he misspoke….

      • elysianfield May 14, 2019 at 1:08 pm #

        …look deeply into the eyes of the photographed assistant….

        • Are you part of a clique that supplies clickbait and canards for a claque?

          • rackslope May 14, 2019 at 2:33 pm #

            Love it.

          • SoftStarLight May 14, 2019 at 4:01 pm #

            How many hours a day do you work in the NYT marketing call center? I thought you went part time after retirement.

          • elysianfield May 14, 2019 at 8:01 pm #

            Yes! Yes! I admit it! I was once an admirer of the CCC!!!

    • SoftStarLight May 14, 2019 at 3:58 pm #

      Of course such speech is not hate speech nor a violation of the code of conduct. White people are not a people. Just generic, identity-less human units that must be eradicated so that the enlightened People of Color can ascend to power in all parts of the world. Another perfect demonstration of how second nature anti-White hate is becoming in the education system and all forms of media. Let’s wait to see all of the demonstrations and protests for the support of human rights and dignity. Oh yeah……there won’t be any.

    • Q. Shtik May 14, 2019 at 4:14 pm #

      “for their to be racial justice, some white people may have to die.” – ely quoting U of Georgia

      ===========

      How could anyone take seriously someone named Osei-Frimpong? And besides, he only said MAY have.

      • malthuss May 14, 2019 at 7:19 pm #

        I like yr last 4 words.

        yours,
        asia

  59. rackslope May 14, 2019 at 2:48 pm #

    I believe:

    Money is power, not the other way around. Big money is big power, and the biggest money runs the world. The biggest money is not the corporate elite, but that shadowy cabal that runs the world reserve banking system.

    The direction of the world is determined by that cabal. It always has been, as far as we’re concerned, and unless something bigger than the average black swan occurs, it always will be, as far as we’re concerned.

    Simplistic as it is, how right or how wrong is this belief?

  60. 100th Avatar May 14, 2019 at 3:12 pm #

    “The China-US trade impasse, if it stands for even a few months, will crash the US economy again…”

    I don’t think anyone has any sympathy for Apple these days save the consumerist hipsters, tech addled, and the cult-of-mac types that live for the bleeding edge of consumer technology.

    A rather sanctimonious company, at least by way of its advertising, that has no shame in its hypocrisy. Not paying taxes, slave labor to inhumane working conditions in its “contracted” assembly plants, its attempts to induce throw-away culture with software tweaks that inhibit older products (that way you’ll go out and finance a new one) and exorbitant pricing on phones where in many foreign markets Apple worked hand-in-hand with banks to create loan packages for their $1k new phone. Because sitting on close to 275 billion in cash on a trillion dollar evaluation is not greed.

    Did I mention that they do not pay taxes.
    Please China, have a go at the worm-ridden fruit

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    • SoftStarLight May 14, 2019 at 3:46 pm #

      And they will IMO! China doesn’t seem to play any of the games we play. They will bend Apple to their will and not the other way around. Doesn’t China occasionally execute business executives for going off the reservation so to speak? Certainly China will do everything to shore up their national interests. Something the US would not dare to do.

    • Q. Shtik May 14, 2019 at 5:07 pm #

      Did I mention that they do not pay taxes – Avatar

      ============

      Is anyone forcing you to buy an Apple phone?

      Has Apple broke any tax laws? If so the IRS should take them to court.

      • Q. Shtik May 14, 2019 at 5:12 pm #

        BTW, I own a cheap LG.

        I don’t care if Apple’s new phone goes for $10K. I don’t care if Tim Cook is a trillion-aire.

        • malthuss May 14, 2019 at 7:19 pm #

          And WE do not care that YOU do not care.

      • 100th Avatar May 14, 2019 at 5:19 pm #

        I know you’re a pedant with a penchant for typos, but can you read?
        Comprehension?

        I never aired my preference in smart phone.

        I only intimated that Apple is not deserving of American protectionism in a looming trade war.

        They made their bed. In China and offshore tax havens.

        Because the IRS takes companies using legal loopholes to avoid domestic taxes all the time.

        Also, I don’t give a flying f*** what phone you use.

        • Q. Shtik May 14, 2019 at 5:43 pm #

          Because the IRS takes companies using legal loopholes to avoid domestic taxes all the time. – 100th A-hole

          ===========

          You point up something I have always believed: our tax system is fucked up. It should be based on consumption, not income.

          Further, I don’t give a flying fuck that you don’t give a flying f*** what phone I use.

          BTW, what’s up with using *** to disguise the word fuck. Are you afraid your Mom’s gonna wash your mouth out with soap?

          • 100th Avatar May 14, 2019 at 5:59 pm #

            Because I know it leaves those with the inability to fill in the blanks stumped.

            Are you vexed?

            Great tax solution BTW. Will really solve the problem of the fabulously wealthy sitting on their horde of plunder. Gee, they might just do their spending overseas instead.

            Uh.. keep plugging away at that making some real headway.

          • Q. Shtik May 14, 2019 at 10:15 pm #

            Great tax solution BTW. Will really solve the problem of the fabulously wealthy sitting on their horde of plunder. – 100th Av

            =============

            plunder: noun
            the violent and dishonest acquisition of property.

            Why do you use the word plunder? Do you or the Govt have any proof that Apple, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Mark Cuban, Kanye West etc acquired their wealth via plunder or, leaving out the violence angle, in any way dishonest? If yes, convict them in court and take it all back. No, this is merely a favorite meme of yours and many others on this board.

            If Apple pays NO tax in an income-based system how could a consumption tax do any worse?

  61. malthuss May 14, 2019 at 3:51 pm #

    Jen,—San Jose May 13, 2019 at 4:25 pm #

    I don’t know if this is unique to San Jose or not…..but there sure are a lot of “foot spas” and massage parlors opening up around here,

    In El Ayy, the ones I see do not have dark glass. and way too many of them have appeared on the mean streets of [fill in].

    One person explained, .the businesses can bring people in legally, as employees, even if theres no work for them to do.’

    –Luv ya, Jen.

  62. FincaInTheMountains May 14, 2019 at 4:26 pm #

    Looking through the Keyhole (in the continuation of the previous post)

    I looked through the press conference of Lavrov and Pompeo, and I had the impression that there would be no press conferences of Putin and Pompeo after their meeting tonight.

    This is due to the fact that, as I wrote in the previous post, the main purpose of Pompeo’s trip is to talk down the “negative” impression that made on the American media and, I’m not afraid of this word, “American establishment” Trump’s one and a half hour talk with Putin and the most important that he did not make claims to Putin for the fact that Russia allegedly interfered in the elections in the United States in 2016.

    Despite the stupidity of such claims from Trump’s mouth, the Democrats demand this from him, rubbing their sweaty hands from the TV pictures in their sick imagination, in which Trump threatens Putin with a nuclear war for the fact that the Russian president dared to help him become American President.

    And the main purpose of Pompeo’s trip is to reassure these psychopaths, proving to them that Russia and the United States are continuing to advance towards a nuclear war, and Trump’s talk with Putin over the phone cannot get this ship off the course set many years ago.

    And Lavrov hinted quite clearly that this course was already laid down in 1987, in particular, saying that all of Pompeo’s claims about Russia’s “interference” in the American elections were voiced in the American press back in 1988, even to the extent that the article he submitted to Pompeo is precisely in this connection that the then young Donald Trump is mentioned.

    And before that, Lavrov, in response to Pompeo’s claims in connection with Venezuela, dipped Pompeo into all fragrant consequences of previous US attempts to bring freedom and democracy to Iraq, Libya and Syria, and judging by Pompeo’s expression at the press conference, Lavrov was still as diplomatic as possible, compared to what Pompeo had to listen to during the negotiation process.

    And I take this opportunity to look through the keyhole, which I wrote about in a previous post. In particular, it is especially clearly seen that the Big Bargain between Bushes and Trump has united the Red and White US World Projects against Hillary, who has recently been very unsuccessfully speaking on television, provoking the suspicions of her supporters that she is not the same and overall flew over the cuckoo’s nest.

    These world projects are more or less equally relate to the people of the United States, but they have a different attitude towards Russia, and part of the Red World Project, generally speaking negatively relates to Catholicism, which they consider to be Christianity, sees in Russia and Orthodoxy a kind of modification of Catholicism, and part of the White World Project, characterized by its positive attitude towards Christianity, sees in Russia an atheistic USSR and does not believe in its return to Orthodoxy.

    Well, Donald Trump said it all, inviting to the Republican convention the Orthodox Archbishop. Naturally, in this situation, Mike Pompeo, as one of the few politicians who fought with Hillary Clinton and, accordingly, with the Black World Project, even before Trump was nominated for the presidency, but negatively relates to Russia, is the point of application of these rather heterogeneous political forces and the personification of their balance in this alliance, including because he is one of the few members of the Trump cabinet, who were approved by the Bush in the Great Bargain process.

    And if my guess, expressed in a previous post, that the role of Pompeo in Trump’s office is similar to that of Nikki Haley, is true, then by covering Trump, Pompeo helps to improve relations between Russia and the United States, even telling Lavrov and Putin about bad Russian foreign policy. And I am sure that Putin understands this perfectly well and the results of the negotiations with Pompeo will be relevant.

    I watched this press conference on one of the most balanced channels C-SPAN, and the integrity of the translation of Lavrov, combined with the extracts of this press conference below, fully confirms these conclusions.

    https://www.c-span.org/video/?460723-101/secretary-pompeo-warns-relationship-suffer-russia-meddles-2020-elections

    While Pompeo was negotiating, Trump took a number of very serious steps to put Hillary behind bars, and the Tory party, thanks to May, in the political scenario of Great Britain slipped into fifth place, which also confirms this hypothesis.

    • FincaInTheMountains May 14, 2019 at 6:18 pm #

      P.S. The conversation between Putin and Pompeo lasted for an hour and a half and was a continuation of Trump and Putin phone conversation for an hour and a half.

      Putin and Pompeo had a good substantive conversation.

      https://ria.ru/20190514/1553492402.html

  63. Pucker May 14, 2019 at 7:22 pm #

    The Queers are all trying to get on the school boards. In California, they’re pushing a law to teach anal sodomy to teenage girls without condoms. True story…. The society has gone Nuts….

    ·
    2h
    Replying to
    @Chas10Buttigieg
    I’m so sad, I would LOVE to come, but I am running for school board out in the Philly Burbs, and this is my last few days before the primary to door knock!

    • Pucker May 14, 2019 at 7:24 pm #

      The society has gone “Chips Ahoy”….

      • Pucker May 14, 2019 at 7:33 pm #

        Democracy may become problematic in the context of a society with a very high rate of mental illness, particularly where being mentally ill is considered a “basic human right”.

        • malthuss May 14, 2019 at 7:52 pm #

          I think feminism and leftism, not democracy ruined things.
          death by 1000 cuts–
          lets start w 1965
          the insanity defense
          998 others unlisted.

    • malthuss May 14, 2019 at 7:51 pm #

      With so many non Whites sending their children to school, I wonder how that will go.

    • elysianfield May 14, 2019 at 8:06 pm #

      ” they’re pushing a law to teach anal sodomy to teenage girls…”

      Dan Tosh once, on air, stated that anal sodomy is “Nature’s birth control…”

      • Walter B May 14, 2019 at 9:09 pm #

        I thought that sodomy was Washington DC’s way of giving us what we paid for.

  64. Walter B May 14, 2019 at 9:07 pm #

    I am not so sure why or how the subject of tariffs has been tagged with such an evil connotation. Imposing tariffs to protect US manufacturing has been one of the few reasons that the Federal government has to even exist:

    https://www.theburningplatform.com/2019/05/14/tariffs-the-taxes-that-made-america-great/#more-196638

    Allowing US manufacturing to all head overseas should be a considered a crime INHO even if Barry Obama does not agree.

    And while I would really feel bad if I appeared to be supporting President Trump on this one, I do believe that those out there that vehemently oppose this are the ones that should be feeling even worse. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

    • James Hansen May 14, 2019 at 10:09 pm #

      The link does not work. Trump does not understand how tariffs work so I do not have confidence that he knows what he is doing. China is making the same profit as they always did and the American public is paying the billions in increased cost.

      Farmers had a good deal selling billions of dollars in goods to China, that is gone forever and Trump is spending 27 billion this year alone to make up their loss.

      I am certain Trump will leave this country worse off than when he started and the tariff wars will be part of it.

      • Walter B May 14, 2019 at 11:20 pm #

        Thank you, here you go:

        https://www.theburningplatform.com/

        • Walter B May 14, 2019 at 11:22 pm #

          Ok, if THIS does not work, then it is being blocked…

          https://www.theburningplatform.com/

          • James Hansen May 15, 2019 at 9:06 am #

            here is the article.

            https://www.theburningplatform.com/2019/05/14/tariffs-the-taxes-that-made-america-great/#more-196638

            The off shoring of jobs were helped by tax cuts to the U.S. corporations when the over seas profit was brought back virtually untaxed.

            Making consumers pay more for foreign goods is a whole different mechanism and a very awkward way to get corporations to bring jobs back here.

          • James Hansen May 15, 2019 at 9:24 am #

            I read the article at The Burning Man but linking to it does not work.

          • James Hansen May 15, 2019 at 9:44 am #

            I just read this article supporting my last comment from the best political website on the planet.

            http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51611.htm

          • Walter B May 15, 2019 at 12:03 pm #

            Thank you for that link JH truer words were never spoken. Tariffs in themselves will solve nothing just as PCR states, but if they help to bring about the return of manufacturing to the US, then they will at least serve a purpose. If Greedy businessmen simply pass off the cots to stupid consumers who pay the inflated process because they have unlimited credit, then we are screwed.

            Personally I believe that we shall not see a return of manufacture here because the cash that it would take would serve the mega wealthy quicker if they simple stole it from the Fed like they are doing now. Sooner or later, greed destroys everything it touches.

  65. Pucker May 14, 2019 at 9:36 pm #

    New California Sodomy Sex Ed Law….

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=urmQ31Bb1aE

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    • James Hansen May 14, 2019 at 10:13 pm #

      Come on, the whole thing is a joke right?

      • malthuss May 15, 2019 at 12:54 am #

        NAMBLA meetings at library, near childrens area.

      • malthuss May 15, 2019 at 1:29 pm #

        from that link

        I’m from Canada – they are trying this is some provinces. Ontario got it reversed, I believe. Keep fighting.?

  66. BackRowHeckler May 14, 2019 at 10:09 pm #

    KDog, if you’re looking in …

    you might be right about Assange, they’re hammering him.

    Sez here in today’s WSJ, page A9, ‘Sweden to Seek Assange Extradition’. Looks like they nailed him with a Honeypot, the oldest trick in the book, but one that apparently works every time its tried. No shame in it.

    He was in bad shape physically and had to get out of that embassy before he died there. Hopefully the Brits are giving him the medical and dental care he needs.

    brh

  67. KesaAnna May 14, 2019 at 10:40 pm #

    ” The Queers are all trying to get on the school boards. In California, they’re pushing a law to teach anal sodomy to teenage girls without condoms. True story…. The society has gone Nuts…. ”

    Was the Gay Lobby popular in 1969 ?

    No ?

    Was it popular in 1979 ?

    No ?

    Is it popular now ?

    — Actually , no , I don’t really think so.

    The great big flaming pink machine never did , DOES NOT , AND NEVER WILL , I think , ever have any tank divisions.

    So…….. What the Hell am I driving at ?

    Are Hugh Hefner and John Holmes and ” Debbie Does Dallas ” forgotten already ?

    The crowd here at Clusterfuck Nation is generally too young to remember the generally conventional , garden variety , HETEROSEXUAL Roman orgy of the 1970’s ?

    And the , ” Swing ” in the term , ” Swinging Sixties ” meant primarily carefree , easy , and innocent , in a sexually neuter context ?

    All of this just sprang up miraculously five days ago or something ?

    It couldn’t possibly be that de – stigmatizing divorce , and de – stigmatizing HETEROSEXUAL promiscuity ,

    were really fucking bad ideas ?

    To elaborate further , or to go further back in history , it couldn’t be that basing sexual mores , and family planning , exclusively and solely on personal feeling , fancy , opinion and notion , was fundamentally unsound ?

    And that resorting to social workers , school teachers , police officers , shrinks , lawyers , and voting blocks ( i.e. basically strangers who don’t really have a stake in the game , and don’t really care )

    as backseat driver – parents , or even completely overriding parental authority , was not an improvement or innovation in the situation , but actually worsened the situation ?

    Basically , in the end , No , I really don’t think Queers , feminists , or looney progressive reds were ever really the problem.

    Sooo ………..pedophile priests were a better deal huh ?

    That’s hilarious.

    How so ?

    So you would bash us for our hypocrisy ?

    Ok.

    WHAT hypocrisy , exactly ?

    That we were not faithful to OUR dogma and OUR mores ?

    You are such a big fan of our dogma’s and our mores right ?

    Your heart hungers so for the Catechism of the Catholic Church that you have worn out your copy and memorized every word ?

    No , the really weird thing about that whole sticky wicket is that what you so hate and loathe and rise in righteous indignation against is quite reflective of ………your ….sexual revolution.

    ” I think feminism and leftism, not democracy ruined things. ”

    Well , like I have said before , admittedly , I actually preferred East Germany .

    But , otherwise , believe it or not , I don’t like those bastards either.

    Be that as it may , I think you are wrong.

    I rather think it is far easier to make a course correction when you can blame everything on a dictator , or a ruling clique.

    But when the true blame basically and generally lies with the average Joe ……… I’m afraid you’ll just have to run the bus off a cliff. 🙁

    THAT is why , no , I have never liked or trusted democracy.

  68. Tate May 14, 2019 at 11:23 pm #

    “Editorials, Brooks: men going rogue, the legacy of the idiocy of stocking noon native fish in lakes across the west, Roe v. wade under that from the cryptofascist religious right and it’s lap dogs led by Clarence Thomas in the Supreme court.

    China/US negotiations, tariff targets, Apple lawsuits and fallout…”

    ~~~~~~~~~~

    When you read old books, something you will notice is that intellectuals a century ago had a better sense of history…

    In modern America, the past is a foreign country to most people, even for those with an interest in history…

    Matt Taibi thinks the media wrecked itself in the 1990’s, with the Lewinsky scandal. Their covering up for the Clintons was the start of the collapse of journalism and the reputation of the media…

    If you want to put down a marker as the starting point of modern advocacy journalism, the Watergate scandal is where it all started…

    Since then, every upper middle-class kid entering journalism school, has dreamed of being Bob Woodward and taking down a Republican president…

    In fact, the idea of journalistic ethics is an entirely new thing. The reporters in the 1920’s would have laughed themselves silly if someone scolded them about their ethics…

    It is this inability to think clearly about the past that has people like Taibbi confused about what’s happening in the media. Because what’s happening is new to him, he assumes it must be new…

    In prior ages, both sides of the political class had their media, so there was competition. As the political class collapses into a monolith, the mass media is following in the same path. The difference between Fox News and CNN is quite small, once you get past the theatrics. Sean Hannity having an aneurysm over the latest attack on Trump is the flip side of Don Lemon squealing about Trump’s last tweet…

    The future of mass media is the past, where the business is to sell a point of view and live like carny folk on the fringes of society.

    — Z-man

  69. KesaAnna May 14, 2019 at 11:34 pm #

    Oh , by the way , I’m hardly an expert on Islam , or Iran , or all that sort of thing.

    But I do know that things like teaching safe sex sodomy to little girls is an example of why those bat shit crazy people think your culture is rather less than wonderful , and why they think you are bat shit crazy.

    • malthuss May 15, 2019 at 12:54 am #

      Oh , by the way , I’m hardly an expert on Islam , or Iran , or all that sort of thing. –learn before you post.

      YOU TUBE–DANCING BOYS

      Bacha bazi – Wikipedia
      [Search domain en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacha_bazi] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacha_bazi
      Bacha b?z? (Dari: ??? ???? ?, lit. “boy play”; from ??? bacheh, “boy”, and ???? play, “game”) is a slang term in Afghanistan for a wide variety of activities involving sexual relations between older men and younger adolescent men, or boys. The practitioner is commonly called bacha baz (meaning “boy play” in Dari) or simply bach.

    • Janos Skorenzy May 15, 2019 at 1:14 am #

      I’m not either, but their hatred leads them to do things like putting up the very ads and images they despise in public – so as to show how evil we are. Meanwhile in so doing, they expose their kids to the same.

      Their young people are already longing for everything the West has. A “color revolution” was already tried a few years ago. It won’t be the last assuming we don’t just start WW3 with them.

      I agree though: The West is insane – and its insanity is catching. Women want to watch the Kardashians, be they White, Black, Brown, or Yellow.

    • SoftStarLight May 15, 2019 at 10:22 am #

      Well yes and no Kesa. Yes, generally most Muslim societies are much more “conservative” as compared to Western societies. But most Muslim societies practice things we would find abhorrent as well. For instance, let’s consider the practice of Requirement Day in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Requirement Day is the day that all nine-year old girls are gathered together to be certified as adult women. In Iranian law, an adult women is ready for the responsibility of marriage and can be given away in marriage. I am sure you can connect all of the dots from there. If not take a look…

      https://youtu.be/OuQZ19Om1JA?list=PLi5VknUhaKkQ9-HrXjCelffRN1GnpY3fF

  70. Janos Skorenzy May 15, 2019 at 1:25 am #

    From American Renaissance:

    Of more specialized interest is James Robb’s monograph, Affirmative Action for Immigrants, which is not an ordinary, type-set book but a bound, double-spaced research paper.

    Few of today’s racial lunacies are as infuriating as racial preferences for non-white immigrants. A weak, but not completely preposterous case can be made for compensating the descendants of former slaves, but there is no possible justification for discrimination in favor of immigrants. Affirmative action has expanded so smoothly from its original clientele to include virtually all non-whites, only because racial preferences are part of a larger view of American society that is increasingly anti-white.

    Mr. Robb is surprised to discover that no one in government seems to know whether there is a legal basis either for including non-white immigrants in affirmative action programs or excluding them. Apparently the issue has never been litigated, most probably because no employer who operates preference programs has ever turned away a Nigerian or a Mexican simply because he was not a U.S. citizen. Many companies care more about filling government-mandated racial quotas than about hiring Americans.

    In an investigation of the extent to which affirmative action accounts for the large number of foreign students and teachers at American universities, Mr. Robb has come across what is perhaps the one occasion on which a major institution actually gave the matter any thought. Stanford University had long had strong financial incentives to persuade academic departments to hire non-whites, but discovered in 1993 that more than half of its non-white faculty were foreign-born. It finally occurred to someone that a native of Senegal might not be the most effective “role model” for a black from Chicago. Stanford therefore decided to restrict its racial preferences to American citizens.

    The new policy was greeted with derision and talk of lawsuits. Stanford promptly backed down and, according to a spokesman, “tried to avoid resolving these questions.” It is surprising that American-born non-whites have not made more trouble over policies that work to their disadvantage by widening the field of available quota-fillers.

    The Stanford fracas is only one of the absurdities that Mr. Robb chronicles. Unfortunately, he takes the saccharin position that racial preferences for aliens are wrong because they take jobs from deserving American non-whites; he doesn’t seem to mind anti-white discrimination. Nevertheless, this is probably the only serious treatment available of what is nothing less than a national outrage.

    JS: I’ve been amazed by this phenomena for decades now, but this just about the only time I’ve ever read anything about it. The Elite have just hit us so hard and from so many angles that we never even ever got around to protesting this – or even responding to it. Most don’t even realize it’s happening. Mission creep? Not mission gallop. Affirmative Action was extended to all Non-Whites automatically – turning White Americans into 3rd class citizens. It’s simply a hatred that is beyond the ken of ordinary people. And why not? Most street fights are won by a sudden first punch (or a sucker punch), followed by a flurry of blows. This is the “flurry”.

    We were knocked out decades ago. We came out for later rounds half dead on our feet. Fighting back, but way behind on points. Any real America will only be won in battle at this point. The Two Parties are complicit in this ongoing Horror.

    Or how about foreign elderly collecting Social Security? That’s also a thing.

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    • BackRowHeckler May 15, 2019 at 9:32 am #

      I know about foreign elderly collecting SS. Here’s how the scam worked: South Asians arrive here to work in tech or as medical students (by the thousands) After getting established they bring over their parents, aunts, uncles etc., who end up staying here, and applying for SS on the basis of inpoverished elderly SSI checks. A mail carrier in town told me some houses get as many as a dozen checks per month in this fashion.

      Its all part of 3rd worlders scamming Uncle Sucker.

      Hey Vlad, what do you think of what’s going on in Sri Lanka, mobs of Bhuddists hammering their Muslim neighbors, like what’s been happening in Burma but worse. Those Bhuddisrs are militant, who knew?

      Brh

      • BackRowHeckler May 15, 2019 at 10:01 am #

        Dozens of ’em packed into McMansions. They hardly ever go outdoors.

      • SoftStarLight May 15, 2019 at 10:12 am #

        Uncle Sucker is a wonderful description! In fact I think I will remove Uncle Sam from my vocabulary….not that I recall saying Uncle Sam much. But it will be Uncle Sucker from now on until he changes his tune and turns off the money spigots to the foreigners.

      • Janos Skorenzy May 15, 2019 at 11:47 am #

        Apparently absolute pacifism is something we projected onto them – they never said that of themselves. Buddha taught pacifism for monks – not laymen. Indeed, if the Laymen are put to the sword or converted by force, who would keep the monasteries going? And why?

        All this was done to Buddhists by Muslims long ago in India. They remember and don’t intend to let it happen again.

        What set it off though? Some of them must have been killed in the bombings I assume. And Christians are too weak to fight for themselves – or they have misunderstood Christ’s teaching.

        • SoftStarLight May 15, 2019 at 12:17 pm #

          It seems like many churches today are teaching false doctrines about the character and nature of Christ. Christ was a carpenter by trade. Back in the day that was a lot of hard work. Not that it isn’t today but they didn’t have power tools and all that so chances are He was likely a very in shape and muscular sort of guy. Also He preached about the importance of being prepared for situations lets just say…

          Luke 22:36 (ESV) – He said to them, “But now let the one who has a moneybag take it, and likewise a knapsack. And let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one.

          Matthew 10:34 (NIV) – Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

          Turning the other cheek was meant to apply to personal disagreements and spats from everything I can tell but certainly not to be interpreted as being tolerant of attacks on one’s people or nation. Anyhow, there is much disinformation and misunderstanding out there. From all I have studied one is obliged to protect one’s household, family, people and country. All of these peacenik interpretations are modern and stray away from the Truth.

          • Janos Skorenzy May 15, 2019 at 1:04 pm #

            And Krishna says to his disciple, Arjuna: All these warriors and kings you see before you are already dead. I have killed them. You will merely be my Instrument. If you die in battle, you will enjoy heavenly glory. If you live and conquer, you will enjoy fame and riches on earth. Those who serve me thus cannot lose.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8Mf-1A6YtE&list=RDMMHRIUaspQ1M4&index=7

            God is the source not only of all Joy but all Terror as well. Sometimes He has to clean Haus. But that is no reason not to feel Peace Profound – not if you have made sure you are on His side and are His instrument. The truly advanced can even feel this when it is their duty to be on the wrong side. The Play must go on and bad guys are needed too.

          • SoftStarLight May 15, 2019 at 4:30 pm #

            That is beautiful!!!! Thank you for sharing. Your understanding and perspective on this is advanced. Many people think that everything we are ever to do is supposed to be good (I fell for this too before) in order to earn reward from God. But sometimes bad things must happen so that good can live to see another day. Like God’s Old Testament instructions to the Israelites regarding the dispossession of the Canaanites. Some people reject the Old Testament altogether because of this perceived call to violence. But most don’t take the time to think through the realities of life (war) and they believe in the everything is supposed to feel warm and fuzzy modern interpretation of existence. But this makes more sense to me given the way life really is.

      • malthuss May 15, 2019 at 1:32 pm #

        gawd

  71. Tate May 15, 2019 at 2:14 am #

    Nigger the Ghost Dog

    Royal Air Force station Scampton, Lincolnshire, England

    The scratch of paws against parquet flooring in an empty room, the brush of fur against the legs several days after the death of a pet cat, the thundering hooves of a horse seen galloping along a deserted road which vanished before the eyes of astounded motorists.
    Such ghostly experiences are evidence — some believe — that it is not only humans whose spirits roam the earth long after they have died.

    Paranormal investigators claimed that RAF Scampton, the airfield in Lincolnshire from where the Dambusters squadron famously attacked the Mohne and Eder dams in 1943, causing terrible flooding of the Ruhr valley, is haunted by a chocolate brown Labrador.

    The dog is said to be the ghost of Nigger, who belonged to the leader of the Dambusters’ squadron, Wing Commander Guy Gibson, but was run over and killed just hours before the raid.

    The name of Gibson’s black labrador was used as a code word whenever one of Germany’s Ruhr Dams was breached during the “bouncing bomb” mission in May 1943, and was immortalised in the 1955 film “the DamBusters” starring Richard Todd.

    • Janos Skorenzy May 15, 2019 at 11:51 am #

      One is reminded of Lovecraft’s cat, Nigger Man. Can there be any kind of freedom worth having without the right to say this word?

      Black “French” Troops were sent in to police the Sudentland after WW1. The number of rapes that ensued was massive – as was the resentment against them and their French enablers. Just one of the many reasons for the rise of Hitler, who sterilized all the unfortunate offspring of these forced and illicit unions.

      • malthuss May 15, 2019 at 1:34 pm #

        What do you think of UG Krishnamurti?

        • Janos Skorenzy May 15, 2019 at 1:44 pm #

          The poor man’s Jiddhu. Less successful and more ugly. And equally false or at least partial Dharma. When he was homeless and living on a bench, he used to drink fifty cups of coffee a day. Jiddhu just had affairs and acted nasty to people he didn’t need anymore. Yet apparently the the latter did have the Light to some degree according to many. Don’t know about UG.

          Small time actor Issac Kappy killed himself this morning or yesterday. He had been blowing the whistle on Hollywood pedophiles. He had said that if he was found dead that it would be murder not suicide. But two passing motorists tried to restrain him but he broke free and jumped off a bridge. Black magic? Or drugs? He also left an instagram where he condemned himself as a terrible person. Any ideas?

          https://www.neonrevolt.com/2018/07/31/major-spielberg-development-hollyweird-greatawakening-pizzagate-pedogate-nomore/

          • malthuss May 15, 2019 at 3:16 pm #

            Jiddu, a friend met him and said he was ‘not interested in me’
            as far as 50 cups of coffee a day? where does a homeless person get them? also he liked salt.

            Kappy–he seemed insane. even a year ago.
            I listened to his talks, or rants, some of them. I am suspicious because of the movie he was in, long ago, that centers around child abuse or molestation. Fiction, of course. But what decent man would be in such a film?
            I saw a little of it online.

            I do not think Kate, Tony, Chester and Chris committed suicide.

          • Q. Shtik May 15, 2019 at 4:41 pm #

            he used to drink fifty cups of coffee a day – Janos

            ===========

            That would be 3 and 1/8th gallons per day. Some people will believe anything.

            I’ll bet you believe Christ’s mother was a virgin too.

          • Janos Skorenzy May 15, 2019 at 5:26 pm #

            Doesn’t it depend on the size of the cup? Some accountant you turned out to be.

          • malthuss May 15, 2019 at 11:04 pm #

            thats really funny. I am involved in a cooking class…the discussion turned to super size and how a few decades back a cup of coffee was a lot smaller.

            Q– little tea cups, how many to a gallon?

          • Q. Shtik May 16, 2019 at 12:07 am #

            Re 50 cups of coffee – Janos and Malth

            ===========

            Take out a measuring cup and fill it with water to the one cup line. Pour that water into any normal mug in your cupboard. That is the size of a cup of coffee. Not some little girls play tea service set.

            Or, continue to bullshit yourselves. If your Indian Guru buddy drinks 50 cups a day for a week he’ll be in the hospital or dead.

          • Tate May 16, 2019 at 11:35 am #

            It sounds like one of those numbers like six million that become archetypal, embedded in mythos. I’ve read on several occasions that Montezuma drank fifty cups of cocoa every day.

        • Q. Shtik May 15, 2019 at 4:01 pm #

          Not much.

          • Janos Skorenzy May 15, 2019 at 5:27 pm #

            Q says the “word” into his pillow at night. So much so that it has turned black over the years…..

          • Q. Shtik May 16, 2019 at 12:17 am #

            Every time we turn around there is some new old Indian thinker/ Guru who we are supposed to believe has all the answers to life’s mysteries. I get really tired of all these old Indians dressed in their dirty white rags and bathing in the filthy Ganges as dead bodies float slowly by them. If they have all the answers why haven’t they worked out better arrangements for taking a shit?

      • Tate May 16, 2019 at 11:47 am #

        There shouldn’t be any banned words except “irregardless.” This is ludicrous in the Age of Rationality (ha!) that a word is tabu.

        Have you heard about the new thing with white high schoolers asking girls to go to the prom by making signs that sneak in the word ‘nigger.’ The most popular is “I’m not a nigger so I don’t pick cotton, but I’m white so I’m asking you to prom.”

        The latest outrage comes from Palos Verdes High School where a boy made a sign that reads, “BiaNca, you are racIst, but i would Give anything for you to Go with mE to pRom

        • Tate May 16, 2019 at 11:51 am #

          “It’s OK to say Nigger.”

  72. wm5135 May 15, 2019 at 8:39 am #

    I want my cut of the pie, right or wrong.

    brh

    Korea, Viet Nam……………………..Syria – Choose

    Choose now – Venezuela or Iran – how about a menage a trois?

    “about protecting our oil supply” – We have troops stationed in the Permian and Bakken? Our?

    Less than 30 minutes and my faith in humanity is restored!

    • BackRowHeckler May 15, 2019 at 9:36 am #

      That’s the way of the world, my friend.

      Some win, some lose.

      Maybe where you live you don’t need oil. We need it here.

      Brh

  73. SoftStarLight May 15, 2019 at 9:51 am #

    So let’s see, we have spent two and a half years on this whole Russiagate episode and all of the hysteria surrounding it regarding the perceived devastating impacts of foreign meddling in our electoral processes. Well well well, now it appears that Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign accepted $21.6 million in illegal foreign donations. Have you heard about this? Chances are you might not have. It looks like the mainstream media has a near blackout going on this one. Interestingly enough, a former rapper for the Fugees, Pras Michel is one of two being charged with funneling the money into the campaign. Do you think we will now have something like “Reelectiongate”? Will Obama and his sycophants be grilled for two and a half years? Not very likely! And do you think Obama will have to answer one question? LOL perish the thought.

    https://dcdirtylaundry.com/bombshell-blackout-obama-accepted-at-least-21-6-million-in-foreign-donations-for-2012-re-election/

    • BackRowHeckler May 15, 2019 at 9:58 am #

      One small article somewhere.

      Apparently, no big deal. Only a white supremacist would care about this.

      Now, SSL, find out what the Kardashians are up to and get back to us asap.

      Brh

      • SoftStarLight May 15, 2019 at 10:09 am #

        LOL wow I can’t hide my supremacism too well can I Brh! You know it’s funny. If you do want to keep up with the latest celebrity news I recommend TheTalko (YouTube). Plenty of Kardashian news but with a mix of everything else Hollyweird. That has been my go to place for that sort of stuff for a little while now.

      • malthuss May 15, 2019 at 1:35 pm #

        How much SSI can one old immigrant collect?
        I heard Gr [general relief] is a few hundred dollars a month.

    • McCain’s legacy was campaign finance reform, but it was killed. Let’s check the current crop of candidates who support that effort…

      Hmmm. Bernie?

      • BackRowHeckler May 15, 2019 at 10:58 am #

        Front page article in WSJ yesterday sez millionaire Bernie is cleaning up in campaign donations, raking in buko swag.

        More power to him. After he drops out of the race he can keep most of it, maybe buy another house, a nice summer place out on the Vineyard would be just the ticket.

        Brh

      • SoftStarLight May 15, 2019 at 11:13 am #

        Well unfortunately in that case it appears that Biden is the front runner at this point. As mind boggling as it is….

  74. SoftStarLight May 15, 2019 at 10:02 am #

    Did you realize that everything is White Supremacy? That includes the use of the ok hand sign. Isn’t that amazing? And no amount of PC credit or toil can save you from the White Supremacist label apparently. I am glad we are so important that everything is us and we are everything. Now we can take the world! I am feeling OK today how about you ;-)?

    https://summit.news/2019/05/14/gay-liberal-atheist-stephen-fry-labeled-a-white-supremacist-for-using-the-ok-hand-sign/

    • BackRowHeckler May 15, 2019 at 10:41 am #

      Its getting stranger and stranger, SSL.

      Well, at least we can say we’re living in interesting times with this front row seat we all of us have in this ongoing lefty American Freak Show. I find it immensely entertaining.

      Brh

  75. JohnAZ May 15, 2019 at 10:10 am #

    THE major malfunction in the US is the press, even the NYT.

    What is wrong is that they have forgotten what their real function is under the 1st amendment, no. One is telling the verifiable truth and second, being a watchdog on the government.

    Out MSM currently sucks on both accounts. To get their ratings and sales, they lie freely and employ literal editorial idiot pundits to carry their fallacious messages. CNN, which used to be a very respected news station, has been reduced to a joke by its own producers and the most ludicrous part is that they probably believe the horse dung they broadcast.

    A watch dog on the government, that is their biggest crime. The Deep State is the greatest threat to the liberty of the country in its history. Yet all the MSM can due is protect the DS and attack the lone voice trying to undo their, the DS, damage. I pray that the rottenness of the MSM is fully exposed as the realigned DOJ rips the Deep State apart with the Dossier investigation. But then, thanks to the MSM bias, we may never hear about it.

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    • SoftStarLight May 15, 2019 at 10:25 am #

      It will all be suppressed John for the benefit of the Deep State. As some have said here before. There isn’t any way to vote our way out of this. The Elite have the power and are flexing their muscle and they have not reason to back down. The only way to fix the system now is to take a wrecking ball to it.

      • What wrecking ball? Who are the Elite?

        • SoftStarLight May 15, 2019 at 11:17 am #

          The wrecking ball is in the manufacturing process right now :-). It should be ready soon. Who are the Elite? You are too silly.

      • BackRowHeckler May 15, 2019 at 10:52 am #

        Well, I think what will go down first are colleges and universities, irrelevant PC snakepits currently on a decade long campaign to expunge anything white and western from campus, ‘specially men. In this they have been largely successful.

        Read just yesterday that Hampshire College, up the road here a piece, an oh so correct safe space for rich kids from Long Island and New Jersey, is closing up shop. I shed a tear.

        Brh

        • SoftStarLight May 15, 2019 at 11:19 am #

          Tears of joy I’m sure :-). The universities are the greenhouses producing waves of fresh SJW crops. The wrecking ball will take care of that!!!

    • CNN, NYT, all the same to you huh?

      Who’s the “Deep State”? A mirage. A tabula rasa on which to project impotent rage. A catch all solution to the problem of not knowing who or what or how. Speculation spiralling into misconception, false confidence, fantasy. It metastasizes and becomes the paranoid core of a worldview.

      Step back from the edge.

      • FincaInTheMountains May 15, 2019 at 10:53 am #

        Who’s the “Deep State”

        John Durham will have to find the answer to that burning question.

        He’s got pretty impressive credentials in the matter.

        • I’m still not following any of this shit.

          Russia’s GRU is hacking away all over the world along with the Chinese. Whatever.

          • FincaInTheMountains May 15, 2019 at 11:13 am #

            And can you prove that you are not Bundesnachrichtendienst?

          • SoftStarLight May 15, 2019 at 11:20 am #

            Finca you sure do know alot. I bet you can speak and write in German.

          • SoftStarLight May 15, 2019 at 11:23 am #

            Oooops…a lot….

        • elysianfield May 15, 2019 at 11:53 am #

          “Who’s the “Deep State””

          Komaraden Finc!

          memes.yarn.co/yarn-clip/cd325a84-0a10-4d6b-8873-d1c99c872b23

  76. A Unitarian minister, purple haired single mother, bisexual, of a budding transsexual mixed-race child, who hates Trump and has a sign in their yard, “No one is illegal”.

    The state doesn’t get any deeper than that.

    • K-Dog May 15, 2019 at 11:09 am #

      And exactly what the fuck do you have against Unitarian ministers?

    • SoftStarLight May 15, 2019 at 11:23 am #

      Sheer distraction. What I believe you meant to say is that this Unitarian minister is a tool of the Deep State. It doesn’t get any deeper than that. How old was the child when gender reassignment surgery was performed? And if no one is illegal when are death row inmates moving into the Unitarian ministers house?

    • malthuss May 15, 2019 at 11:07 pm #

      address?

  77. BackRowHeckler May 15, 2019 at 11:23 am #

    Liz Warren is the Unitarian type.

    She demands respect!

    Brh

    • SoftStarLight May 15, 2019 at 11:25 am #

      Whoa!!! A Unitarian pretend Indian turned White lady. Respect her authoritie!!!

      • Janos Skorenzy May 15, 2019 at 1:06 pm #

        I before E except after See.

        • malthuss May 15, 2019 at 1:38 pm #

          since when were there Blacks in France in 1920? How many?

          Yr post reminds me of ‘rapes by US soldiers in Japan and Okinawa’ in 20-21st century.

          • Janos Skorenzy May 15, 2019 at 1:45 pm #

            Good ol’ blud and guts, asia.

        • SoftStarLight May 15, 2019 at 4:09 pm #

          It took me a minute or two to get this lol. But when I did it cracked me up. You are so witty :-).

  78. FincaInTheMountains May 15, 2019 at 11:39 am #

    And can you prove that you are not Bundesnachrichtendienst

    We should never forgot that the provocative plan for the Euro-Association of Ukraine was developed in the depths of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) under the leadership of Merkel and Juncker, and it was with special cynicism handed over to Yanukovych in Ukrainian slang that they are trying to pass for a language and European languages, so Sergei Glazyev had to hire his own translators so that the President of Ukraine could understand what the fuck he was signing.

    The fact of the matter is that this treaty initially set itself the goal of destroying the industry of Ukraine, competing with the Ruhr and the Rhone Valley, and also turning Ukraine into a hole in the industrial policy of the Russian Customs Union, which actually happened in practice.

    And if everything remains as it is, the Fourth Reich of Angela Merkel will be the specific beneficiary of the Ukrainian tragedy, and not the United States of Trump, Obama or Bush.

    And in general, this whole situation begins to resemble the occupation of Ukraine by Germany in 1918, when the brutality of the Brest Peace turned out to be a prelude to the Versailles Peace Treaty and the principle of “the krauts will pay for everything”.

    It’s a pity that the gold reserves of Germany are located in the USA.

    • BackRowHeckler May 15, 2019 at 1:59 pm #

      Hey Finca Spain’s gold reserves were shipped to Moscow in 1937, every bar and coin. It was for ‘Safe keeping’, to be returned after the civil war ended. Nobody has seen or heard about it since. Some of that gold might belong to my inlaws so I’d appreciate it if you could get your FSB agents to check the vaults to locate it. Let me know.

      Brh

      • FincaInTheMountains May 15, 2019 at 3:15 pm #

        Pass my gratitude to your inlaws for donating their gold for the nobel cause of defeating the Nazism, will you?

        • BackRowHeckler May 15, 2019 at 11:56 pm #

          So we won’t be seeing any Dubloons or Pieces of Eight, then?

          Very well, I’ll pass it on.

          brh

  79. BackRowHeckler May 15, 2019 at 1:20 pm #

    Uh oh

    Snacks, the little gems of information mined from a daily reading of the WSJ is truly astounding.

    They do an excellent job covering the energy markets.

    There’s this from last weekend,

    “World petroleum usage will increase from the current +100 million bpd to over 120 million bpd in the next 20 years”.

    Taken from a BP report. (Beyond Petroleum, haha remember that?)

    Brh

  80. 100th Avatar May 15, 2019 at 1:30 pm #

    Many media outlets reporting Bolton as the war whisperer.

    Curiously, this champion of war wasted no time joining a national guard outpost to prevent getting drafted for yet another war this Yale educated chicken-hawk supported: Vietnam.

    The Union buried civil war dead on Lee’s estate in Arlington.
    How large is Bolton’s?

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  81. FincaInTheMountains May 15, 2019 at 2:55 pm #

    Rhymes of History and Chronicles of the Global War of the Roses

    History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes — Mark Twain

    I finally found this term – Global War of the Roses.

    I will say right away that the meaning of this term is still unclear, but the History is more and more focused on these words, and the problem of defocusing is associated with the unclear position of the Russian Orthodox Church, whose hierarchy persistently pretends that it is not related to what is happening in Ukraine and that yet Orthodox President Poroshenko does not need a good kick in the ass (anathema).

    Let me remind you that the original War of the Roses was a war between what remained of the Christian (Orthodox) states of the British Isles after their conquest by William the Conqueror in 1066, which was the first large-scale military manifestation of the anti-Christian (anti-Orthodox) Fourth Crusade.

    This war was provoked by the main organizer of the Fourth Crusade – the Black World Project of Western Europe, which from the 12th century was associated with the Order of Cistercians, also known as Bernardine Order in honor of the most significant leader of this Order “saint” Bernard of Clairvaux.

    This war ended with the unification of these churches under the authority of the English King Henry the VIII, who tore them out of the authority of the Pope and the dynasty of Valois, which began its march through History with an attempt in 1280s to repeat the siege and the sacking of Constantinople in 1204, but was stopped in 1282 by joint actions of the English, Albigensian (Kingdom of Aragon) and Byzantine intelligence services in Sicily, where the founder of the Valois dynasty Charles of Anjou had already prepared a fleet for the assault on Constantinople.

    And this fleet is very similar to the attempt of Hillary Clinton to finish off Russia in 1999-2000, after Historical Russia seemed to be finally crushed in 1986, suddenly revived with President Yeltsin in Beijing and reminded Clintons of its nuclear triad.

    This attempt was postponed for 5 years by the 2000 election, when the Bush family took away the red button from the Clintons, and President Bush Jr. even saw the soul in the eyes of Vladimir Putin, thus challenging the head of the Black World Project Bastinda, the Great and Terrible. She argued that the Russian president has no soul, and this is sufficient reason to deploy missile defense radar systems in Poland and Romania, which will intercept the remaining 10% of Russian missiles that would survive the instantaneous global disarming strike on Russia.

    Actually, the European missile defense was the very historical rhyme of the fleet of Charles of Anjou, which he prepared in Sicily for the re-capture of Constantinople, after the black world project was expelled from it by Mikhail Paleolog in 1261.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_Anjou

    And the pretext for this rhyme was the events in the city of Fallujah and the floods in New Orleans, which in 2005 allowed the leaders of the Black World Project to essentially remove from power US President George W. Bush, just as it essentially removed from power President Vladimir Putin, who was forced to give way to Medvedev for four years.

    And during these four years, Russia almost lost the North Caucasus (Georgian war), Tunisia, Egypt and Libya were successively defeated, and an Islamic state was created in Syria with the help of Gaddafi’s weapons.

    And only the meeting in Beijing of President Bush with Prime Minister Putin and the coming to power in the US of Barack Obama did not allow these events to develop into a full-scale World War.

    These events reached their culmination on June 10, 2016, when Hillary Clinton made another coup d’etat and President Obama, who had met with Bernie Sanders a few hours before, due to a massive fraudulent vote in California, left the White House and traveled around the states to campaign for Hillary Clinton as for “the most qualified presidential candidate since the time United States were founded”.

    It is still unclear how Hillary Clinton managed to lose the election in 2016 having behind her back such a force, and only the intervention of Higher Powers that have no relation to Russian intelligence can explain this phenomenon.

    But either Hillary does not believe in Higher Powers, or she is really obsessed with her thirst for power and war (seemingly nuclear), but she tried to neutralize these forces, attributing them to Vladimir Putin and Russian intelligence, which in her opinion conspired with Donald Trump in order to deprive her of access to the red button with the inscription “Overload”, which constantly hangs in front of her eyes and which she longs for with all her soul and not at all in order to present it to Minister Lavrov.

    https://media.breitbart.com/media/2015/10/reset-640×480.jpg

    To this end, she organized an investigation into Donald Trump’s election campaign ties with the Russian intelligence, fabricating many documents that the FBI, CIA and US Department of Justice leaders devoted to her provided to a special FISA court that authorized the secret services to monitor Donald Trump’s election campaign.

    This surveillance turned into an investigation by Mueller and a campaign of terror against those who supported in the past and support now Donald Trump, so that bitterness in recent months peaked and led the day before yesterday to spontaneous clashes in New York, including the attack of Donald Trump’s supporters on the rally of “green” supporters of Hillary Clinton and mayor of New York De Blasio.

    US Attorney General Barr, realizing that the delay is equal to the death of the Republic and a cold civil war can be kept from becoming hot only by immediate action, yesterday appointed attorney John Durham to investigate the circumstances that led to the authorization of the special surveillance campaign against Donald Trump.

    I will definitely write about this investigation in more detail in the next post, and in this post I decided to show how this decision by the US Attorney General Barr fits into the context of world history, since the CIA and the NSA have already joined this investigation and flew to Kiev by special aircraft filled with US special agents to investigate President Poroshenko’s relations with Prime Minister Medvedev and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

    And while Mike Pompeo in Sochi has diverted the attention of this public from the upcoming investigation, which I described in two previous posts, the appointment of the US Attorney to investigate the root causes of the Mueller investigation is an event of historical significance that can not only lead to an electric chair on charges of treason for the members of the Hillary Clinton Cabinet, formed shortly before June 10, 2016, but also become the greatest defeat of the Black World Project in the last 1000 years.

    And the aforementioned defocusing of the picture is connected with the fact that it is not yet clear whether this investigation rhymes with the Sicilian Vespers in 1282 or with the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry the VIII in 1536.

    • elysianfield May 16, 2019 at 12:13 pm #

      “I will say right away that the meaning of this is… unclear”,

  82. messianicdruid May 15, 2019 at 3:07 pm #

    Mountain gal said, “It’s kinda sad in a way as we are talking about a country the size of NJ that seems to be the focus of hate from so many ignorant people.”

    The sad part to me is how much they get by with because of people’s ignorance, not to mention devotion. One shouldn’t overuse the word “hate”.

    “What used to be called Dispensationalism is now mainstream Christianity among most Evangelicals and Pentecostals. In fact, it is so mainstream that most of them are now unfamiliar with the term, and it is assumed that Christians have believed its tenets since the Apostle Paul. Nothing could be further from the truth.

    Darby was really the first to develop the teaching of the Pre-tribulation Rapture and the idea that the Millennial Age to come would be centered in Jerusalem, where Christ would rule from a physical temple. Israel–by which he meant the Jews–would again become God’s chosen people and would be regathered in the old land. This, then, became the basis for the later rise of Christian Zionism…

    In this theology, Jews were chosen and already saved by virtue of the Old Covenant, as long as they were religious Jews who followed the Law [ actually, the Talmud]. Christians were saved in a different manner–by grace through faith. This view accommodated “Jewish sensitivities” about the teaching that Jesus Christ is the ONLY way to salvation.”

    https://www.gods-kingdom-ministries.net/daily-weblogs/2011/10-2011/the-great-apostasy/

    • messianicdruid May 15, 2019 at 3:20 pm #

      For your reading pleasure:

      www,whatabeginning.com/Breastplate.Star_Israel.htm

      http://otherbiblecode.com/Israel_Star.htm

      • SoftStarLight May 15, 2019 at 5:04 pm #

        Interesting post! I am going to have to read this tonight when I have more time. I thought that the “chosen” people became those who embraced Christ rather than the historical Jewish Israel of the Old Testament. Presumably, this is why modern Zionism is alien to the Gospels since it seeks the establishment of the pre-Christ Jewish state while most of the “chosen” people today are Gentiles. In this view Zionism was more like when the European Crusaders take back Palestine from the Muslims.

    • Q. Shtik May 15, 2019 at 4:54 pm #

      “It’s kinda sad in a way as we are talking about a country (Israel) the size of NJ – messi

      ============

      I was curious about this comparison and it is true. NJ is 2.4% larger than Israel. Or, looking at it from the other perspective, Israel is 97.7% the size of NJ.

  83. FincaInTheMountains May 15, 2019 at 3:40 pm #

    bitterness in recent months peaked and led the day before yesterday to spontaneous clashes in New York, including the attack of Donald Trump’s supporters on the rally of “green” supporters of Hillary Clinton and mayor of New York De Blasio

    ‘Worst Mayor Ever’: Escalator-riding protesters crash de Blasio’s event at Trump Tower

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/worst-mayor-ever-escalator-riding-protesters-crash-de-blasios-event-at-trump-tower/2019/05/13/4cb50faa-75ac-11e9-b7ae-390de4259661_story.html?utm_term=.2baccb974f7c

  84. beantownbill. May 15, 2019 at 4:09 pm #

    There’s been a lot of anti-Jew, anti-Israel talk this week in the CFN commentary. Now, I’ve been good and steered clear of the discussions, but I’ve read them all, and I feel I’d like to respond.

    Two posters, Mountain Gal and BRH, appear to be very clear-headed about the reality of what’s really going on, and I commend them.

    OTOH, the Anti-Jew/anti-Israel responders apparently show their true natures in their comments. Let’s take Janos, to start. Over the years he has posted his hatred of the following: Jews, Blacks (including much of the continent of Africa), Browns (including much of the continent of South America), Muslims, a high percentage of women, liberals, immigrants, below average IQ people, and some other groups that don’t come to mind at this time. He has an obvious hater mentality, IOW, there’s a whole lot of hatin’ goin’ on in his fevered mind.

    We also have a coterie of haters here besides Janos: Jiminflorida, Tate, Ol’scratch, that little Debbil, sadly lately 100th Avatar ( you don’t realize that being anti-Israel, anti-Zionist is pretty much the same as being anti-Jew to the average Jew), and my favorite whipping boy, Malthuss, née Asia. Et Alia.

    I long ago realized that hatred is based on fear, and to continue hating is cowardice because one of life’s tasks is to face up to and conquer fear.

    • 100th Avatar May 15, 2019 at 4:46 pm #

      Hate?

      Yes, I hate the fact that the president has a coterie of hawkish cabinet members as well as non-official counsel intent on escalating tensions with Iran in keeping with a rightwing Israeli agenda.

      So to be anti-war with Iran, to be anti-Netanyahu, a corrupt and bellicose war-monger is not only anti-Israel, it’s antisemitic?

      Regrettably, it’s true, what the verifiable haters do say about free speech on this topic.

      • FincaInTheMountains May 15, 2019 at 4:51 pm #

        So to be anti-war with Iran, to be anti-Netanyahu, a corrupt and bellicose war-monger is not only anti-Israel, it’s antisemitic?

        No, just stupid and without a clue of what’s really going on.

        • 100th Avatar May 15, 2019 at 5:21 pm #

          Know what’s stupid? Having your unread diarrhea of the brain put to posts twice a week.

          Know what’s even more stupid? Proving the other’s point.

          Sounds like Russia has an eye on things over THERE.

          • malthuss May 15, 2019 at 11:09 pm #

            he could cause scroll itis in us.

      • FincaInTheMountains May 15, 2019 at 5:00 pm #

        Just watch how Russia allows Israel to bomb pro-Iranian forces in Syria without blinking an eye or firing a missile.

      • FincaInTheMountains May 15, 2019 at 5:08 pm #

        Iranians in this gambit are playing on the Fourth Reich side of the table, hence against the US and against Russia.

        Not nice!

        • SoftStarLight May 15, 2019 at 5:13 pm #

          Complete and utter propaganda Finc. The Iranians are a Shia expansionist state looking to recolonize all of the old territories of the Persian empire. Russia has done a great deal to back up Iran against the US/Israel alliance and help Iran spread its influence throughout the region. And since Russia, the US and Israel are not part of this “Fourth Reich” side of the table according to you then who is?

      • beantownbill. May 15, 2019 at 8:30 pm #

        Don’t you know, it’s really all about the oil? Invent a workable nuclear fusion device and America would drop Israel faster than the speed of light.

        • malthuss May 15, 2019 at 11:10 pm #

          Bill, you are delusional.
          US is under the thumb of Israel.

          • BackRowHeckler May 16, 2019 at 11:12 am #

            C’mon Malth, you know better than that.

            Population here is 325 million, in Israel not even 10 million. How could we be ‘under Israel’s thumb’?

            We do provide some aid to Israel, but it comes with all kinds of strings attached, i.e., most of it is to be spent buying stuff from US defense contractors.

            You have good insight to a lot of things but here I think you are wrong.

            Brh

        • benr May 16, 2019 at 11:26 am #

          No we wouldn’t.
          Israel is a knife in the back of Islam and it drives the Muslims crazy that a small group of people have taken over an area they deem as theirs to the point old mad moe even had a magic flight to Jerusalem which is why Muslims want Israel so bad. Personally I think he was bewitched by an evil Jinn!

          • BackRowHeckler May 16, 2019 at 12:09 pm #

            Also, Benr, its to our advantage to have a friendly country and an ally on the eastern edge of the Med, historically, the world’s flashpoint.!

            Brh

    • SoftStarLight May 15, 2019 at 4:52 pm #

      Bill I am assuming you intended this post to be divisive. Can I seriously pose a question and I would like to hear your perspective on this. You state that hatred is based on fear and that life’s task is to face up to and conquer fear. What does this really mean to you? For example, based on what you are saying it appears that Israel needs to tear down it’s protective walls and allow Palestinians to flow freely in and out of Israel. The reason the wall is there is due to fears that Palestinians will waltz right into Israel and start blowing things up. The fears are rational and realistic since many a Palestinian is willing to become a bomb to kill Israelis. Sometimes that fear does imbibe Israelis with hatred for Palestinians I am sure. After all, we are all human. So realistically how do you conquer fear in a case like this?

      • Janos Skorenzy May 15, 2019 at 5:18 pm #

        WISDOM from the mouth of a babe. This at least, is one woman I don’t hate.

      • beantownbill. May 15, 2019 at 8:01 pm #

        So what are people to do, give in to hatred because it’s part of the human condition? You conquer fear by standing up to it, not by running away. When fear goes away, hatred disappears. The true haters are emotional children.

        I posted my comment, not to be divisive (don’t assume – you know what that does), but to show others here that there are those who are so fearful they must hate, against all logic.

        You are intelligent, young and conservative, a natural target for extremist predators to shape and influence your thinking. Be very, very careful. The devil is extremely clever and manipulative.

        • malthuss May 15, 2019 at 11:11 pm #

          the devil???

        • SoftStarLight May 16, 2019 at 1:41 am #

          In some ways, yes, I think it is only natural that we give in to our hatred or fear. In my estimation this is simply an instinct. What I mean is that, so let’s say we go back to the example of Israel’s borderwalls keeping Palestinian terrorists at bay. Ok, essentially the construction of the walls is a constructive and healthy way to deal with the fear of constant attacks. So fear can lead to beneficial outcomes and positive actions. In the real world I am not clear on when fear will ever really go away. Harboring hatred though is a very different thing from simply recognizing that different ethnicities have their own strengths and weaknesses and should live in their own homelands. I know too from previous discussions that you generally agree that ethno-nationalism is not necessarily a bad thing.

          • beantownbill. May 16, 2019 at 11:34 am #

            Much hatred is caused by fear, but not a lot fear results in hatred. Hatred corrupts the soul. It is bad energy and affects one in a large number of ways that aren’t good for you.

            Re ethno-nationalism: In the distant past there was enough room in the world so that various groups could stay away from each other. In modern times that is very difficult, as humans have multiplied beyond reason and must mingle in order to survive in a suddenly shrunken world. In the early 16th century Magellan took about 3 years to sale around the world. Today they are talking about hypersonic planes currently in development that can fly from New York to London in a half hour.

            How can 7.5 billion people (and rising every day) stay away from each other? As new resources are discovered – as in the ice-free Arctic – how can nations and peoples stay away from each other? Nationalism’s time has passed, unfortunately for believers.

          • Tate May 16, 2019 at 3:08 pm #

            You couldn’t be more wrong. It’s the dawn of Nationalism, not false “civic” nationalism, but the real deal, based on ethnicity.

            You’re such a hypocrite. Nationalism as you see it has nothing to do with Zionism. LOL. So it’s okay for the Chosen but not for any other people? A spirit of nationalism is rising in response to the invasion engineered by yours; it will not be denied.

            And you say that hatred must be stood up to. Why is that? You won’t allow for righteous hatred? This is just hasbara propaganda & you’re one of its most shameless purveyors on this board.

    • 100th Avatar May 15, 2019 at 5:16 pm #

      Just in the news:

      “South Bend, Indiana mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg slammed casino mogul and Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson while speaking in Las Vegas on Saturday, using language that led a Republican Jewish leader to accuse him of anti-Semitism.

      In a segment of his speech about strengthening democratic norms and voting rights, Buttigieg mentioned, “I know I’m a guest in Sheldon Adelson’s town,” eliciting boos from the audience. “But I know … that real democracy means that the voice you have in our political process is gauged by the merits of what you have to say and not by the number of zeros in your bank balance.”

      Adelson and his wife Miriam, who are Jewish, were the largest Republican donors in the 2016 and 2018 election cycles. Miriam Adelson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Trump last year.

      Matthew Brooks, the executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, wrote on Twitter that Buttigieg’s remarks were an “anti-Semitic dog whistle.” (Full disclosure: the author interned for the RJC for a college semester)

      The Buttigieg campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment; this article will be updated if they respond.

      Many Republicans, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, were accused last year of relying on anti-Semitic tropes when criticizing the influence of Jewish Democratic megadonor George Soros.

      Alex Halpern Levy, a former aide to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, told Jewish Insider that Buttigieg’s remarks were kosher: “Calling out Sheldon Adelson’s outsized political influence is not a dog whistle; it’s stating an indisputable fact. Ridding our politics of the corrosive effects of big money is a pillar of Buttigieg’s campaign, and I see his comment as consistent with that focus.”

      • FincaInTheMountains May 15, 2019 at 5:29 pm #

        Anti-Semitism is different: many hate Jews because too many of them behave like pigs, alternating outright grunting with ranting about kosher and belonging to the chosen people, but sometimes this hatred turns to hatred of Christ, but not daring to show this hatred openly even to himself, a person transfers it to the people who gave birth to Christ, and this anti-Semitism takes the most bizarre forms.

        • 100th Avatar May 15, 2019 at 5:35 pm #

          Nurse Ratched? Nurse Ratched!!!!????

        • beantownbill. May 15, 2019 at 8:14 pm #

          Yes, many Jews are loud and obnoxious (but more are not), but remember, all the Jews living today are the offspring of survivors of horrible persecutions over the ages. The meek and compliant ones got killed off.

          • hmuller May 16, 2019 at 12:47 am #

            Since the loud and defiant black slaves got killed, you might expect the surviving Afro-American population to be meek and quiet. But they’re not. LOL. Life doesn’t work that way.

            As far as Jewish survival goes, I think it depends most on moving out of Eastern Europe- Russia when you had the chance.

          • malthuss May 16, 2019 at 1:00 am #

            So many people have Jewish fore bearers.
            I am one of them. The old guy [circa 1940] even spoke Yiddish.
            he was a NYC slum landlord.

            I am not lying.

          • Q. Shtik May 16, 2019 at 10:22 am #

            So many people have Jewish fore bearers.
            I am one of them. – Malth

            ===========

            Interesting that YOU, of all people, would admit to having a Jewish 4bear. Next thing, Janos will be telling us Golda Meir was his great great grandmother.

          • elysianfield May 16, 2019 at 12:26 pm #

            “Yes, many blacks are loud and obnoxious (but more are not), but remember, all the blacks living today are the offspring of survivors of horrible persecutions over the ages. The meek and compliant ones got killed off.”

            Bill,
            Makes sense…kinda….

        • Janos Skorenzy May 15, 2019 at 9:23 pm #

          So why do so many Jews hate Christ, then? After all, He was Jewish!

          • messianicdruid May 16, 2019 at 11:16 am #

            Back then it was politics, kinda like now.

          • benr May 16, 2019 at 11:20 am #

            He spoke truth to the power at the time and drive the money men from temple.
            He was the Kwisatz Haderach.

      • beantownbill. May 15, 2019 at 8:09 pm #

        Yes, but is it Adelson’s Jewishness or Adelson’s influence because he has lots of money that causes you to react as you do?

        • 100th Avatar May 16, 2019 at 10:17 am #

          Is it Adelson’s Jewishness or Adelson’s money derived influence that causes him to support Bolton, a hawkish agenda in the ME, and Trump?

          • beantownbill. May 16, 2019 at 11:36 am #

            Still haven’t answered my simple question.

          • 100th Avatar May 16, 2019 at 2:15 pm #

            Sorry Bill, I made my point more than clear.
            I am staunchly anti-war, and against any agenda driven hawks anxious for another war for this already supremely f**** up country of ours.

            However, you, well you want your beans and to eat them too.

        • elysianfield May 16, 2019 at 12:29 pm #

          “Yes, but is it… Adelson’s influence because he has lots of money that causes you to react as you do?

          Bill,
          Yes! That bastard is the reason we do not have internet poker.

    • Janos Skorenzy May 15, 2019 at 5:21 pm #

      I don’t hate the continents. We think Africa is a damn good place – too damn good for Black Man race.

      Taken (and altered) from the poem, “Thanks a lot American Working Dummy”, apparently penned by a Mexican Mestizo and found on a bathroom wall. Q likes me to list my sources and influences.

      • capt spaulding May 15, 2019 at 10:21 pm #

        Interesting post, Janos. I tend to do my outside reading and research at the library. Judging by your posts however, it’s easier now to see how you arrive at many of the conclusions you come to. I imagine that at times you find the great truths that are revealed when people are reduced to that ultimate moment of vulnerability. Many examples of folk wisdom appear here, which are no doubt ignored by the bulk of the hoi polloi, who are merely looking to satisfy their bodily functions and then exiting rapidly, ignoring the enlightenment which could be theirs, if they would only avail themselves of the wisdom inscribed therein. You may have stumbled onto something here, and it might be a good idea to schedule your next cadre meeting here, so that your kameraden can partake of the logic contained on those walls, since much of the writing there resonates with your own beliefs. There are benefits to be gained by slowing down sometimes in this crazy life, and just settling in for a nice long poop.

        • Janos Skorenzy May 15, 2019 at 11:39 pm #

          https://www.amren.com/news/2019/05/black-woman-shoves-elderly-white-man-off-a-bus-and-kills-him/

          The “continent” of Africa strikes again. Some races are just more prone to violence than others. Sub-Saharans? Far, far more prone.
          And the peaceful East Asians? Less prone – which makes them very dangerous because of their great capacity for organization and working together. Still with me? You see the dynamics of crime and the dynamics of war (or just taking over economically and ethnically) are very different.

          The Hispanics have their own balance: quite advanced criminally, with their capacity for violence matched by considerable organizational abilities as per their gangs.

        • elysianfield May 16, 2019 at 12:32 pm #

          Captain, do not forget that…”The words of the Prophet are written on the bathroom stalls…”

      • malthuss May 16, 2019 at 1:03 am #

        too damn good for Black Man race.

        The chinks do as well, they dont just think such stuff.

        BRH>

        Jamaican co worker was telling me last night, after spending a few weeks in Kingston visiting family, that China owns Jamaica,
        Chinese capital and workers building roads and ports, operating what industry thats still left, and buying huge swaths of real estate. T
        his is a pretty smart guy who went to college in London and he’s saying Jamaica — altho its not recognized much — has become a colony of China.
        / just change the name of the country in that.

        • Q. Shtik May 16, 2019 at 10:42 am #

          Chinese capital and workers building roads and ports, – Malth

          ============

          If the Chinese are building roads in Jamaica it’s a good thing. They have some of the worst roads I’ve ever seen.

          I was down there about 15-20 years ago. Stayed in Montego Bay. Even played billiards there. I may have been the only white person ever to set foot in this ‘pool’ room. The black guys there certainly looked astonished at my audacity. But they were actually very friendly. I lost a game to one of the locals. It’s hard to play well on someone else’s turf.

          The roads in my central NJ home town are approaching the state of disrepair of those in Jamaica.

          • benr May 16, 2019 at 11:14 am #

            Same all over California!
            I drove to Idaho and it was polar opposite!
            All the rest stops in California were dirty, in a state of disrepair or closed.
            Idaho had heated clean, stocked rest areas with someone actually manning it 24 hours a day.
            Even Nevada the difference is noticeable at the state line California roads noisy and bumpy Nevada’s roads silky smooth in comparison.

  85. FincaInTheMountains May 15, 2019 at 6:41 pm #

    Kiev’s rumors talk about the seizure of documentation of Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) for 5 years by arrived Americans working for William Barr.

    Flip and sing, flip and sing, flip and sing, muzerfakas!

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  86. JohnAZ May 15, 2019 at 7:39 pm #

    The Deep State

    When folks are elected to national office from the states, a transformation occurs. They become a member of a “fraternity” of the national government and their directive changes from representing their constituency to representing the directives of the DC bureaucracy and its lobbyists. Washington is its own entity and does what the power elite want with all their money.

    Who are the elite? They are the folks that power the decision-making of DC. They are the financiers of the lobbyists running the bureaucracy. One of the big changes not being mentioned enough is that the elites are becoming international in scope and less American. The advancement of socialism in polite conversation is one solid example of the incursion. The globalists would love nothing more than the socializing of the US, we are their competition.

    Want to know who the Elite are? Get a roll call on Davos. These globalist groups run the international finance agenda and want nothing more than to steal the US wealth.

    The Deep State is the physical group and the agenda of the Washington Elite, the folks that act in DC and globalist interests instead of their constituents. Once a representative has been through enough elections to control his/her electoral fate, they are capable of being absorbed into the Deep State. As an Arizonan, I watched two senators go through this process, McCain and especially Flake. Flake’s own constituency threw him out overwhelmingly.

    The National Democratic agenda and their thirst for centralized power make them susceptible to the temptation of the Deep State and few Dems resist the draw. The RINO contingent of the GOP are exclusively members of the “club”.

    The MSM is the voice of the Deep State and their existence depends on financing from the Elite. What would happen if Bezos sold the Post? The Press is currently representing the Elite instead of representing the people. Sorry, Snacks, but the NYT is number one. But what do you expect in a city that can give credibility to DeBlasio and keep re-electing him.

    The Deep State is an expression of all the corruption wrapped up in DC. Power corrupts people period. Our control of this corruption is through the vote and the MSM. Thanks to the MSM we have no control. The Deep State and its controllers are eroding away the goodness of the Shining Light on the Hill.

    Yes. The Deep State and the globalists and the Elites are one. In 2020, vote against the Elites in the Deep State or this country is done.

    • JohnAZ May 15, 2019 at 7:54 pm #

      How do they control, you ask?

      Nancy Pelosi controls her group in the House by threatening dissonant voices with primary challenges in the next election cycle. The GOP does the same. You do not do things my way, no funds from the DNC or RNC. Money controls DC, therefore the Elite controls DC.

      Even Obama was controlled by the Elite financial world.

      Trump is not, and they hate him for it.

      Heard today that the Dems will do whatever they can to remove Trump by political means.

      Why? Because with the list of anti-American candidates they have, Trump is unbeatable.

      • beantownbill. May 15, 2019 at 8:24 pm #

        John, your many posts on this subject, to me shows you try to think things through. Although I don’t agree with you on everything you post, I generally am on your side of the fence.

        Just to let you know, I do appreciate your comments. Keep ‘em coming. I understand how difficult it is to stand alone and put yourself out there.

        • JohnAZ May 15, 2019 at 8:58 pm #

          People denying the existence of the Deep State leave me incredulous. A number of folks on this blog cannot seem to understand that Washington, DC is an enemy of the people of this country and an ally of international and elitist forces. And yet they seem to be the first to bitch about the effects of the Elite on our country. They will be the first in line to vote for the folks causing the problem .

          • hmuller May 16, 2019 at 12:29 am #

            I’m with you JohnAZ. Although our resident Canadian progressive thinker Elrond would claim I’m paranoid and delusional for ranting about those non-existent globalists.

          • Elrond Hubbard May 16, 2019 at 12:07 pm #

            I never called you paranoid or delusional, hmuller. I did say that your adherence to a specific narrative distorts your understanding of some things.

            Take the Deep State, for example. Is it real? You betcha it’s real: the permanent bureaucracy of the Defense Department, the intelligence agencies, and the metastasizing blob of surveillance / security moochers accumulated since 9/11 are all part of it, among others.

            But the thing is, the Deep State storyline only takes you so far, which isn’t far. Complaining about the capital-D Deep, capital-S State all the time accomplishes nothing. If you want to beat it, and take your country back, you have to do a real analysis of the way power works, then make a plan. I’ve never seen anything like that take place on this blog, including from JHK. All I see is JHK declaring over and over that everything sucks, that no one is doing anything to fix it, and we should all buy gold. That, and the likes of Janos[1] and SoftStarLight wishing out loud for a heroic champion to take charge and fix things. Not actually restore sober, responsible government, but to make everyone tremble in the ways Janos[2] and SSL like people trembling.

            [Footnote 1]: Fuck you, Janos.

            [Footnote 2]: Fuck you, Janos.

          • hmuller May 16, 2019 at 5:30 pm #

            You are right, Elrond.

            The Deep State Storyline only takes you so far.

            If I told you how deep I think this rabbit hole goes, you would call me crazy.

          • Elrond Hubbard May 16, 2019 at 5:43 pm #

            I don’t care for rabbit holes, hmuller. In my view they’re mostly substitutes for the thankless work of dealing with material reality. Facts are cheap, reality is messy and the truth is often unrewarding or even boring. The only consolation sometimes is that it’s the truth.

      • Janos Skorenzy May 15, 2019 at 9:17 pm #

        Trump is a slave of the Zionists, John. MIGA not MAGA. His soul is lost. What of yours? You cannot serve two Nations and two Peoples.

        • malthuss May 15, 2019 at 11:12 pm #

          yes

          Kushner at 666 5th? avenue. Lucent.

          Got it? Yes, you do.

          Apple pc–$666.

      • benr May 16, 2019 at 11:10 am #

        K street rules them all!

    • FincaInTheMountains May 15, 2019 at 8:05 pm #

      Honestly, I am already very tired of starting posts by saying that events confirm my theories that I presented in this blog several years ago.

      In this particular case, my theory that the leading role in creating and maintaining the Deep State, now headed by Hillary Clinton, is played by the US education system, in particular English 101, which is an analogue of the Soviet system of “scientific communism”, has been justified during Hillary Clinton’s visit to Yale University to greet the graduates of this university, famous for its “Skull and Bones” student fraternity.

      And this speech was aimed at members of this fraternity, whom she apparently came to recruit to the officials of the Deep State to fight Donald Trump. And the notorious Russian hat with a Soviet cockade, which Hillary tried to pull on during a welcoming speech, of course, trolls Donald Trump, but first of all it trolls Trump America, and the color of this hat hints at a story in a textbook of English literature about that working America will inevitably be recruited by the enemies of America, if it is not enlightened by the graduates of Yale University (and their likes).

      https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5b0284651a00002700cdf4db.png?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale

      • elysianfield May 16, 2019 at 12:39 pm #

        ““I will say right away that the meaning of this is… unclear”,”

      • Janos Skorenzy May 16, 2019 at 6:11 pm #

        O for God’s ache!

    • FincaInTheMountains May 15, 2019 at 8:21 pm #

      And it also turned out that the Deep State has split right around the confirmation hearings of Judge Kavanaugh and sufficiently large chunk of it is concerned with preventing a nuclear war no less than official state, but without Trump they cannot do anything simply because he is the president of the United States no matter what people like Adam Schiff think about it.

      So we should see now the alignment of the big portion of Deep State with Donald Trump.

    • Walter B May 15, 2019 at 8:48 pm #

      In other words John, money talks and bullshit walks, or in politics the bullshit does what the owners tell it to do. I attended a fund raising event in March held at one of the “party homes” of a local mega wealthy business owner. He stood at the head of the balcony that was suspended above what used to be the deep end of an Olympic sized swimming pool in the now converted “game room”, and set the tone for the evening’s agenda. Both the high level and low level state, county, and local politicians sucked up to him all night as he glibly commented on how much he contributed to each of their election campaigns. There was no question as to who were the puppets and who was the puppet master. The “game room” was actually a Big Game room full of stuffed prey that this fellow had shot and had stuffed. There was a lion, a water buffalo, a polar bear, grizzly bear and a twenty foot crocodile perched on one of the wooden beams leading to the downstairs video pit. All in all there were tens of millions of dollars worth of road kill staring sightlessly at the crowd.

      I asked the female politicians what they thought of the galley of stuffed road kill and none of them were honest with their answers. If the money men have as much power at the levels I have seen it firsthand here, their control at the national surely is total and complete. The system is shot, the players are all owned, and we are all screwed. End of story.

      • capt spaulding May 15, 2019 at 9:49 pm #

        I imagine that it’s the same whether it’s local or national, human nature being what it is. The only difference is in the scope and scale of the machinations. Everything else is the same. I notice influence peddling at my city council meetings, and there’s a lot more that goes on behind the scenes.

  87. Pucker May 15, 2019 at 8:15 pm #

    The pervasive Male Apologizing for “White Privilege” is masochism, right?

    Beto loves to grovel and to suck that cock….

    Spock: “Mr. Beto, your Agonizer, please!”

    Beto: “Give to me, Mr. Spock. I’ve been a Bad Boy.”

    • Pucker May 15, 2019 at 11:28 pm #

      I bet that Beto can suck the chrome off of a trailer hitch?

      • Q. Shtik May 16, 2019 at 12:32 am #

        I damned near had a heart attack laughing…I’m still laughing as I type.

        • Pucker May 16, 2019 at 1:15 am #

          I bet that Beto can suck a golf ball through a garden hose….

          • Pucker May 16, 2019 at 1:39 am #

            Spock: “The White Privilege sadistic Agony Booth is a most effective means of discipline.”

            Kirk: “But what if they get off on it?”

            https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1ydGv5XId4g

          • BackRowHeckler May 16, 2019 at 10:57 am #

            Wait a minute. Are you talking about Beto, or Pedro Buttplug? Its easy to confuse the 2.

            Brh

          • elysianfield May 16, 2019 at 12:41 pm #

            …or suck-start a Harley….

    • benr May 16, 2019 at 11:05 am #

      White privilege what a joke unless your parents are rich and can buy your way through life that term does not apply to most white males.

  88. pkrugman May 15, 2019 at 10:26 pm #

    Janos said: “You cannot serve two Nations and two Peoples.”

    Dual citizenship is allowed by many nations. There is no limit to the number of peoples you can love.

    • malthuss May 15, 2019 at 11:14 pm #

      Welcome Back, ASSoka. You posted this–
      There is no limit to the number of peoples you can love.
      10-14? years ago.

      • malthuss May 15, 2019 at 11:17 pm #

        nail you.

        • hmuller May 16, 2019 at 12:36 am #

          Good work, malthuss. And I have to wonder what kind of LARP assumes as his nom de plume “pkrugman” – world’s biggest asshole idiot economist.

          • malthuss May 16, 2019 at 12:50 am #

            we are legion [another assoka quote, if I recall].

    • SoftStarLight May 16, 2019 at 1:57 am #

      He’s right. It’s impossible to properly serve two masters. Life is about choices and we all have to make a choice. Dual citizenship may be allowed but that doesn’t mean its good. And it should not be allowed. If you are an American than what else do you need to be? If we didn’t entertain the melting pot myth and the diversity delusion we might be sensible enough to outlaw dual citizenship.

  89. malthuss May 15, 2019 at 11:49 pm #

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  90. malthuss May 16, 2019 at 12:58 am #

    THIS IS FOR Q.
    Go to you tube. You might enjoy UG Krishnamurti.
    Very cantankerous.

    Krishnamurti was known for his unusual health and diet preferences.[17] Carrying with him a “portable kitchen” in a tiny suitcase throughout his travels, he consumed a great deal of salt and cream, and stated “no meal should take longer than a few minutes to prepare.”
    Throughout his life, Krishnamurti never saw a doctor or took medication, believing the body would take care of itself. Often complimented for good looks in his old age, Krishnamurti would respond “that’s because I don’t eat healthy food, I don’t take vitamins, and I don’t exercise!”[1

    If your Indian Guru buddy drinks 50 cups a day for a week he’ll be in the hospital or dead.

    The Japs have high stomach cancer. Their Espresso is very strong. like 5 x as strong as mine.
    And they drink lots of it.

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  91. Janos Skorenzy May 16, 2019 at 1:33 am #

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-automation-exclusive-idUSKCN1SJ0X1

    Three people will be able to run a whole facility. But don’t worry, the Amazon Spokeswoman (would a Woman lie?) says, that the greater efficiency will lead to greater savings, reinvestment, and ultimately the creation of more jobs. Would a Woman lie? In all probability, she believes what she is saying. In other words, she’s not smart enough to lie. That’s not to say that if she did understand, she wouldn’t lie….

    • Janos Skorenzy May 16, 2019 at 1:37 am #

      And the three humans still working at a Facility? Believe me, Management will resent having to pay them with an intensity you would not believe. They will set the researchers to figuring out how to replace them too. Meanwhile the Owners are working at how to replace these very Managers.

      The Pyramid of Human Sacrifice is very steep you see. And Capitalism is a War of All against All. And even during times of relative Peace, the Sacrifices must continue. The Shareholders (like Q) have to be propriated after all.

      • SoftStarLight May 16, 2019 at 9:44 am #

        Moral dilemmas on all sides! It is very easy to see now how Capitalism does result in the centralization of power. I couldn’t necessarily picture that before other than just the basic understanding that the wealthier the corporate masters become the more power they naturally have. But this centralization of power and wealth is not happening as a random set of actions and reactions. This is all being planned and strategized. If automation and AI go the way that some futurists suspect then eventually the AI and robots may determine it best to remove humans from the picture altogether. This sort of uncontrolled rush for power and wealth without care of long-term consequences is just as dangerous as Communism.

      • Q. Shtik May 16, 2019 at 11:45 am #

        The Pyramid of Human Sacrifice is very steep you see. And Capitalism is a War of All against All. And even during times of relative Peace, the Sacrifices must continue. The Shareholders (like Q) have to be propriated after all. – Janos

        ============

        Capitalism is human nature you see. For all your wisdom acquired from Indian gurus, Star Wars, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, et al you still don’t get it. Capitalism is not an economic system that a nation installs. It simply IS. It is like gravity. It can only be fought against or resisted but never overcome. Socialism looks good and wonderful to children but must be crammed down the throats of adults. As an avowed fascist you are OK with cramming down throats.

        I Googled propriated but it had nothing to offer that made any sense. I’m going to take a wild ass guess you meant propitiated but were too lazy to look up.

        BTW, I’m thinking about a bike trip to the US northwest (Washington-Oregon). You up for a cup of coffee with me?

        • SoftStarLight May 16, 2019 at 12:26 pm #

          Capitalism is human nature you see……

          Yes Q, you are right. It is inherently wicked and evil and requires redemption.

          Socialism looks good and wonderful to children…..

          Matthew 18:1-4 (NIV)

          At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

          • GreenAlba May 16, 2019 at 2:15 pm #

            SSL

            “Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”

            Except when they’re protesting gun laws. Then they should be told to STFU because they’re meddling in adult business they don’t understand.

            Not that I’m proposing any changes to your gun laws. Your laws. Your business. Your logic. Your preferences. Your history. Your pact with the devil. Your insane level of deaths.

            But I do find your inconsistencies fascinating. Or maybe it’s just your opportunism.

            I wasn’t even going to comment any more on this thread but some things just jump up and slap you ‘upside the head’ as you folks are fond of saying.

          • Janos Skorenzy May 16, 2019 at 2:49 pm #

            Yes, under the Medieval System, the commoners were disarmed. Under Modern Freedom, they regained the right to carry arms. Now you want to disarm them again as per the Coming High Tech Neo-Medievalism of the New World Order.
            No one must dare to eat a peach or own a butter knife without a permit. They might hurt some Muslim….

          • GreenAlba May 16, 2019 at 5:06 pm #

            Janos

            “Not that I’m proposing any changes to your gun laws. Your laws. Your business…” (Me)

            “Now you want to disarm them again as per the Coming High Tech Neo-Medievalism of the New World Order.”

            I don’t even have to comment, do I, bufonid?

            You have surpassed yourself. When you should have been correcting your tutee.

          • GreenAlba May 16, 2019 at 5:10 pm #

            They have to be told to STFU when they’re talking about the climate too, don’t they, even though it’s their future at stake? I suspect maybe SSL regrets her point.

        • hmuller May 16, 2019 at 5:08 pm #

          Green Alba,
          In an ideal world no one would have a gun. But somehow bad people always manage to get their hands on a gun, even in places with very strict gun laws. Maybe because there’s this thing called the crime underworld where no one cares about the gun laws.

          Bottom line: it takes a good guy or gal with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun.

          • GreenAlba May 16, 2019 at 5:12 pm #

            hm, I’m not proposing anything. I have my preferences; you have yours. Like I said, even when children are massacred in their classrooms, it’s your dilemma and your soul searching, not mine.

            I was merely pointing out the utter arse-over-elbow inconsistency of SSL’s views on a couple of things.

  92. FincaInTheMountains May 16, 2019 at 2:51 am #

    Trump is a slave of the Zionists — Standartenführer Janos
    yes, Kushner at 666 5th? avenue — Malthusian Malthus

    Defensive reaction of the Black World Project – when they lose, like a cuttlefish they emit a black cloud of anti-Semitism.

    Losers!

    • FincaInTheMountains May 16, 2019 at 2:58 am #

      correction – ‘like cuttlefish’ should read ‘like frightened cuttlefish’

      • SoftStarLight May 16, 2019 at 9:59 am #

        You’re trying to confuse me. But! I am smart enough to know that the White project is not the Black project. So there! You have to do more work to convince. And it isn’t anti-Semitism to simply say that Trump is working for the Zionists. He should be working for Americans. You do know we have a lot of problems here don’t you? And why is Jared Kushner determining our immigration policies? Nobody voted for Jared Kushner! And yet he truly appears to be running everything.

        • Janos Skorenzy May 16, 2019 at 1:28 pm #

          And some say that Jared’s Dad is on speaker phone wherever Jared is, listening and sometimes dictating. In other words, this Criminal may be the Number One Man in America, right under Trump – or Over him.

  93. tucsonspur May 16, 2019 at 3:09 am #

    “The Trend is Not Your Friend”

    The Trend is a Fiend with little morality and a deceptive duality.

    The Trend is a Fiend full of tricks that twist us into complacency.

    The Trend is a Fiend taking us to tumultuous tomorrows.

    The Trend is a Fiend filled with falsehoods, foreboding, and frightening future fatalities.

    The Trend is your woe. The Trend is your foe. The Trend, then the Fiasco.

    • SoftStarLight May 16, 2019 at 10:03 am #

      And the Fiend is thus leading us to the Fiasco. But perhaps a Gladiator will come forth to slay the Fiend….

  94. Pucker May 16, 2019 at 3:32 am #

    Chinese history is replete with examples of a relatively weak Chinese Kingdom embarking upon a several decades long program to build up its power to defeat its opponent and gain supremacy.

    Lays it out pretty clearly.

    https://youtu.be/oSjlGNaWPbc

  95. Pucker May 16, 2019 at 5:22 am #

    Beto must have been trained in school to receive sex and other benefits whenever he demeans himself by performing the masochistic ritual of apologizing for his White Privilege?

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  96. wm5135 May 16, 2019 at 7:50 am #

    Boston, Durham, becoming a little easier to see why the Dems were so furios about the “Report”.

    they can’t even buy a fix in Washington, D.C.

    fixed the primaries lost the election
    bought an investigation , screwed themselves

    and long before the august period of a November is upon us the whole matter will be replaced with BOA, and a new fix will be in

    pretty soon the ruler will be put away and the zippers returned to the closed position

    Will be much easier to make a judgement about Priveldge at that point. I suspect that the word entitlement will lose it’s pejorative luster when that moment arrives.

  97. wm5135 May 16, 2019 at 8:12 am #

    as heard from Sochi”

    Russia and China won’t back down on guaranteeing North Korea’s security. Lavrov said: “Such guarantees will be not easy to provide, but this is an absolutely mandatory part of a future agreement. Russia and China are prepared to work on such guarantees.”
    Saker – Escobar

    do I hear the sound of mechanical fabric connectors?

    Sanity will prevail – two chances, slim and none.

  98. ozone May 16, 2019 at 9:46 am #

    All I want to know is: When are all the right-wing, Christo-fascists that continually plague this space planning on moving to the new Sharia State of Alabama so that we don’t have to hear the hypocritical moralizing, day after day; week after week; year after year?

    You’ll be living in a paradise similar to a cross between The Handmaid’s Tale and JHK’s wonderful Foxfire Republic. No more complaints as perfection will be achieved. (This particular trend is most definitely your friend!)

    And now, back to the regularly scheduled distortions and departures from anything that’s germane to JHK’s post…

    • ozone May 16, 2019 at 9:55 am #

      Hey now! Talabama!
      Not a peep from the Tweeter-in-Chief; don’t want to rile up the “good people” on “both sides”. He’s busy artfully dealing with the Chinese y’know.

    • SoftStarLight May 16, 2019 at 10:17 am #

      You know what ozone. The whole American Taliban accusation is so ridiculous. No matter that states are attempting to pass laws that align more closely to the values and beliefs of the majorities within those states, the dominant cultural theme in the US is far left. And that agenda is being shoved onto everyone. Thus the reaction and obviously you don’t like it. Yet, you rarely complain about the far left. Your real beef is with the perceived far right.

      It would be great if you would really attempt to find out what REAL Sharia law is all about. You would come to know that it is completely alien and foreign to anything Western. Even the Western “far right”.

      • benr May 16, 2019 at 11:01 am #

        You are 100% correct ozone has zero concept of just how alien and evil sharia law really is as practiced by strict wahhabist Muslims.
        Gays murdered, women stoned to death for adultery, it requires 3 witness for her to come forward if raped, caned for not wearing head covering, cutting off hands for theft until recently a women could not even drive a car!

      • ozone May 16, 2019 at 11:14 am #

        *Comparative* hypocritical moralizing! Nicely done. Right out of the ol’ playbook.

        • SoftStarLight May 16, 2019 at 11:51 am #

          Please tell me how I am moralizing?

          • malthuss May 16, 2019 at 9:38 pm #

            who does not moralize..no morals, no civilization.

        • Janos Skorenzy May 16, 2019 at 1:35 pm #

          Now you opened the discussion, so talk: Where do you stand on post birth “abortions” or murder? I know you hate to opine – much preferring innuendo and spite, but again you started this.

          An American Theocracy is the most beloved of all Leftist Tropes. I admit it was theoretically possible at one point, but it never happened. Too many Protestant sects and a huge Catholic presence that would have never gone along with it. And with the increased ethnic diversity, it is long gone as even a remote possibility. But you people love it too much and will not let it go. You’re a Dinosaur, still dreaming of ’68 even though you were just a kid. That makes you a Dinosaur Jr, old in mind before you were ever old in body. And that’s just fucking sad.

      • Elrond Hubbard May 16, 2019 at 11:31 am #

        SoftStarLight: “states are attempting to pass laws that align more closely to the values and beliefs of the majorities within those states“.

        Are they, though? Not according to the Cooperative Congressional Election Study. Here’s a handy map:

        https://twitter.com/DataProgress/status/1128481533273178112

        The states shaded green are the ones where support for banning abortion measures 25% or higher. You’ll notice there are no green states; they’re all below 25% support. No majority anywhere.

        Look, we all know that some people hate abortion and think it should be illegal. Those people are in power now in certain places, and are determined to have their way regardless of the actual level of public support. What’s more, we know that this latest round of laws are massively overreaching (the Georgia law, for example, can criminalize having a miscarriage). Finally, we know that this overreach is completely conscious and deliberate, and intended to attract court challenges. The ultimate goal is to bring it to the Supreme Court, now packed with Republican appointees, and have them overturn Roe v. Wade. (Republican obstructionism of Obama’s completely legitimate Supreme Court appointment of Merrick Garland was part of this strategy).

        Long story short, your side is winning, SSL. Can’t you just take the win? Why do you also have to make false claims that there’s a democratic mandate for all this, when there clearly isn’t?

        • SoftStarLight May 16, 2019 at 11:54 am #

          Elrond I don’t even believe in a complete abortion ban so you are wrong when you say “your side is winning”. The truth is no side is winning. The country is being torn apart by the diversity you love so much. And again. Respectfully, what is your part in this since you are in Canada?

          • GreenAlba May 16, 2019 at 2:23 pm #

            “Respectfully, what is your part in this since you are in Canada?”

            Respectfully, no-one has stopped you commenting vigorously on UK and European affairs.

          • Elrond Hubbard May 16, 2019 at 5:49 pm #

            Thank you, GreenAlba. SSL, to look at Canada on a map you’d think we’re a big country, but we’re not. We’re a small country with a lot of geography, next door to the behemoth that still bestrides the world like a colossus. Even if U.S. culture and politics didn’t dominate the world the way they do, we would have to take an interest in what goes on in your country as a matter of survival.

            Besides that, we’re family. You all went off the reservation in 1776 (we’ve long since forgiven that unpleasantness of 1812), but we still have a lot of shared history. So these are family squabbles.

    • BackRowHeckler May 16, 2019 at 10:53 am #

      Oz I doubt that new abortion law in ‘bama will survive scrutiny by the Supreme Court. It is interesting tho the same week Alabama passed that law, in Vermont a law was passed practically legalizing infanticide. The states seem to be pulling apart along the same lines as 1861.

      Brh

      • benr May 16, 2019 at 10:57 am #

        That was the point of the law and how it was written to get it in front of the Supreme court.
        Utter insanity to not allow a women to abort a fetus/baby created through incest/rape.
        Abortion is big business as is the business of finding a use for the aborted fetal cells.

        • benr May 16, 2019 at 11:02 am #

          Great interview.
          Victor Davis Hanson!

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEXL5USuDGI

          • K-Dog May 16, 2019 at 11:48 am #

            A very intelligent man. But I can’t spend a whole hour watching a product of the Hoover Institute. Total white moldy bread. Wheat in praise of their comfortable class.

            You could start here where he explains why he wrote the book.

            https://youtu.be/FEXL5USuDGI?t=3166

            Calls you a deplorable. But if you are wearing a suit and tie reading this disregard that. Does not apply to you.

            He closes telling America to keep doing what they are doing. It is good for GDP. Gross Domestic Product being different however from the Golem Deplorable Party which Hanson sees as being vital to the continued success of suits.

        • SoftStarLight May 16, 2019 at 12:17 pm #

          Yes benr you are correct. They do want this to go to the Supreme Court. I don’t know anyone who believes in a complete and total ban. It’s unfathomable to not have that option in the case of rape. BUT as many as 85% of women who have babies as a result of rape still bring their babies to term and either raise them or give them up for adoption.

          https://healthresearchfunding.org/18-shocking-abortion-statistics-rape-victims/

          And yes the abortion industry is a huge business and there is a massive market for baby body parts.

          • JohnAZ May 16, 2019 at 12:55 pm #

            Hollywood has made horror flicks from examples less macabre than harvesting fetal tissue.

          • malthuss May 16, 2019 at 9:41 pm #

            harvesting fetal tissue.

            Fetal??? hmmm. as a letter in the Times states, fetuses arent babies’–
            Of course, the feminazi didnt state the difference, just spun an argument by using a term that sounds, well, less than alive or a life.

  99. FincaInTheMountains May 16, 2019 at 11:15 am #

    As I wrote yesterday, the opening by the Attorney General Barr of the investigation into origins of Mueller investigation has already become a historical event comparable to the Sicilian Vespers or Dissolution of Monasteries by Henry the VIII, which was completely inadequate translated into Russian as “Tudor Secularization”.

    And this Russian translation of the term “Dissolution of the Monasteries”, which is traced from the English term Secularization (of church property), perfectly shows that the ideological sabotage by the Black World Project in Russia and in the West since the 15th century, though follows the same patterns, but the relevant specialists take into account the nuances of the term “Secularization” in Russian and its difference from the term Secularization, which in English always comes with brackets, since in fact this event led to the formation of the Anglican Church, which is the closest in its theology to Orthodoxy among all Western Churches.

    In fact so close that at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th there were negotiations on the unification of the Russian Orthodox Church with the Church of England, and upon close acquaintance with the course of these negotiations, in which participated the leading Russian expert on the history of Anglicanism and the father of famous Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov, Afanasy Bulgakov, it becomes clear that it was a question of the transition of the Anglican Church to Orthodoxy.

    With all the ensuing geopolitical and civilizational consequences.

    I repeatedly wrote that the 20th century’s most Christian novel “Master and Margarita” was written about the geopolitical and civilizational consequences of the failure of these negotiations, including Three World Wars (Third World War is the Cold War with capital letter) as well as the Holocaust and the formation of the State of Israel in the framework of the Stalin’s Orthodox World Project.

    And the fact that the current Russian citizens, who have no idea about all these circumstances, unlike the citizens of the USSR who received a gymnasium education in the Russian Empire, react so explosively to this novel, despite numerous screen versions that have nothing to do with the original novel, confirms in the best way Martin Lings’s Resonance Theory, told in his book The Secret of Shakespeare.

    And this phenomenon, paradoxically, is another reason that makes us think that today’s Russia is still not a post-Christian society, but also another cultural bridge not only between modern Russia and the modern Anglo-Saxon world, personified by Donald Trump and Brexit, but also between Russia and medieval Tudors of England.

    And going back to the topic of this post, I want to say that the appointment of prosecutor John Durham has already generated such an information wave of all sorts of circumstances related to the illegal surveillance by the American special services of Trump’s election campaign, which will inevitably drown the circumstances that led to this event, comparable to “Tudor secularization.”

    Therefore in the next post I, as promised, will describe how the confrontation between US world projects looked on the eve of this event, and not after it.

    • elysianfield May 16, 2019 at 12:52 pm #

      ““I will say right away that the meaning of this is… unclear”,”

  100. K-Dog May 16, 2019 at 11:17 am #

    https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/v/5/a/k/z/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.1240×700.1v55pe.png/1557980283607.jpg

    If Trump uses any government data which has not been publicly released to decide where real estate is going under water in the future and where it is not; is that OK? Now it is no issue true, but after the Golden One returns to being just another bumbling billionaire he could have an unfair advantage knowing better where to build new hotels. It will be like getting special taxbreaks just for him and Trump knows all about those! Has lawyers looking for them all the time.

    But rather say its not fair as you don’t care, I’ll just point out that it will prove that Artificial Intelligence is indeed in America’s future.

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    • FincaInTheMountains May 16, 2019 at 11:25 am #

      For the dog, you speculate too much.

      • K-Dog May 16, 2019 at 11:53 am #

        For the finca, your paws are wet.

  101. beantownbill. May 16, 2019 at 11:42 am #

    @Malthuss:

    So you have some Jewish blood, huh. Don’t you realize when the Nazis take over you will go to the camps, too, like they did in the old days? Ha, ha, the sheer irony of it is hilarious.

    • FincaInTheMountains May 16, 2019 at 11:45 am #

      May be he hopes for a nice cushy place in Gestapo instead.

    • benr May 16, 2019 at 12:24 pm #

      Worked out pretty well for George Soros.

    • elysianfield May 16, 2019 at 12:54 pm #

      “when the Nazis take over you will go to the camps,”

      Bill,
      You do realize that the Nazi’s employed thousands of Jews?”

      #Sonderkommando

      • malthuss May 16, 2019 at 1:37 pm #

        quiet [I tried to post 3x–hope this goes thru].

      • Janos Skorenzy May 16, 2019 at 1:48 pm #

        Indeed. Many even served in the armed forces. This should be kept quiet, though. If we ever came out on top anywhere, they would start proclaiming that they were the best Nazis, the very essence of National Socialism.

    • malthuss May 16, 2019 at 1:36 pm #

      you got me, BB

      • malthuss May 16, 2019 at 1:40 pm #

        My Moms grand dad [never met] spoke Yiddish.

        I havent had my DNA ‘done’ but I doubt I have egyptian DNA. The real jews, not the kazarian crime family.

        • Janos Skorenzy May 16, 2019 at 5:59 pm #

          Who do you like in the Quarter Quell?

    • Janos Skorenzy May 16, 2019 at 1:46 pm #

      That explains his bizarre hatred of Hitler.

    • Tate May 16, 2019 at 2:24 pm #

      The jews really are paranoid. The paranoia stretches down to the lowest levels. You might counter they’re the most easily indoctrinated. Look at Bill as an example.

      • malthuss May 16, 2019 at 9:44 pm #

        indoctrinated or in da DNA? Nature or Nurture.

        some of the most horrid leftists are half goy-half kosher.
        Tim whats his name comes to mind.
        And the guy on TV–Leibowitz, John Stewart Lebowitz.

  102. FincaInTheMountains May 16, 2019 at 12:21 pm #

    confirms in the best way Martin Lings’s Resonance Theory, told in his book The Secret of Shakespeare.

    According to Resonance Theory a work of Art, of any Art, and not just Shakespeare’s dramaturgy, “resonates” with the reader of the book or the viewer in theater only if the perceived work of art contains a hint of certain Truth, which we know because of our stay in the World Above before birth, but which we forget with the first cry at birth and remember again when breathing our last .

    We forget, but not entirely, and when we are on Earth encounter a work of Art which is in some respect an analogue of some events in the World Above, our soul trembles and weeps, and Aristotle calls this state Catharsis.

    So Hamlet, according to Martin Lings, is for us an analogue of Christ, since the tragedy of Hamlet is the tragedy of the true heir to the kingdom of Denmark, captured by usurper Claudius, just as the prince of this world is a usurper of the world created by God the Father, and his heir and true monarch is Christ.

  103. Tate May 16, 2019 at 12:25 pm #

    “THE major malfunction in the US is the press, even the NYT.

    What is wrong is that they have forgotten what their real function is under the 1st amendment, no. [sic] One is telling the verifiable truth and second, being a watchdog on the government.” — John AZ

    The term [Fourth Estate]* refers to the PRESS, with the earliest use in this sense described by Thomas Carlyle in his book ‘On Heroes and Hero Worship’: “Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters’ Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.

    Was Burke being entirely serious? Probably not. He certainly wasn’t seeking to elevate these “ink-stained wretches” formally to a higher calling. Traditionally the press were held in mild disrepute, maybe one level above actors. Objectivity wasn’t expected of them. There were very few college graduates among them.

    Each party was supported by its own group of newspapers. This was well known to our great-grandparents. The “information silo” isn’t a new thing. Consumption of the news by the public followed along partisan lines.

    Our sense of history has been lost. Many in journalism bemoan the passing of so-called objective standards, but it was a pretense for the most part, & only for a short historical period. In fairness, other professions have had similar objectivity issues. Accounting is one that springs to mind.

    At present, with the death of the printed newspaper, the myth of the “high holy profession” of journalism as a neutral arbiter of the Truth is on its last legs.

    Oh well, maybe some day, barbers will practice surgery again.

    * The first three estates, nobility, clergy, & commoners.

  104. JohnAZ May 16, 2019 at 12:31 pm #

    It just crossed my mind that the same deficiency exists for both economic models.

    Capitalism is powered by competition and entrepreneurship. Just as in sports, competition has winners and losers. The problem in capitalism is what society does with fallout from the competitive fray. The winners form a monopolistic Elite that are entrenched in their positions. The Deep State in DC is formed by these folks as they consolidate their power base. The losers in a vibrant economy can come back for subsequent attempts for success. In lousy economies, the losers form the safety net crowd, living on the government. When the losers are out of the mainstream, the technologically become obsolete. It is a mean cycle. So control of capital formation, vibrancy of the economy, and relief for the losers become issues for the leaders of the nation.

    The irony of this is that trying to maintain capitalism in a flat or declining economy creates socialistic trends trying to regenerate the capitalistic energy. Think FDR in the Great Depression.

    Socialism will always fail. Why? Because the winners have no incentive to succeed and drag the rest of us along behind them. Mediocrity becomes the everyday State as no one gets ahead by their own talents. Think of Zuckerberg or Bezos not doing their creative thing because they will not derive benefit from it. The economy becomes flat due to the lack of incentive to do much of anything. The leaders run a bureaucratic society that does very little creatively. As a matter of fact, bureaucrats are notoriously mediocre folks that put up stops to avoid innovation that make them look bad. With
    Little innovation, people become jaded and stop trying. The socialistic ideal, equality of wealth, is a trap, stifling human drive.

    There it is, Equality of Opportunity vs. Opportunity of Wealth. The excitement of risk taking and innovation vs, the security of being taken care of. Capitalism versus Socialism.

    The best situation is a combination of both, in all aspects. Economic conditions set the pattern for how much capitalism and how much socialism should be utilized. The medical industry has much different characteristics than say farmers or High tech. Medical practice has little competition and thus capitalistic trends do not fit. High tech without the entrepreneurial spirit could not exist. Farmers are notorious capitalists, “just leave me alone”, until climatic disaster strikes, then they need assistance. The needs of each sector of the economic society are different.

    There is the rub. We need finesse in any governmental leadership to help the economy bloom in all sectors. Our government currently in DC is too damned political and yes, stupid, to fulfill the needs of our very complex society. That is my main argument for keeping the government out of the process, period. Socialism exclusively destroys incentive and thus economies. Capitalism destroys economies by leaving too few folks on top and thus stifling innovation. Neither work on their own. So a combination of both managed by intelligent rational leaders is needed.

    Anyone know of any group able to do this function? The split in DC disqualifies it from effective control of itself let alone our economy.

    Vote in socialism in 2020 and we will enable the idiots in DC to control our economy. That scares the hell out of me.

    Sidebar

    The increase in socialism is tied directly to the increasing influx of governmentally dependent immigrants, mostly illegal, into the country. Kowtowing to their masters, the Democrats of the Deep State, is fatal to our society.

    • FincaInTheMountains May 16, 2019 at 12:34 pm #

      Capitalism is powered by competition and entrepreneurship

      Wrong! Capitalism is all about the interest rate on the capital.

      • JohnAZ May 16, 2019 at 12:42 pm #

        And the interest rate is set by the risk taking of a society and its consequent growth. Capitalism invites growth, socialism stagnation.

        • FincaInTheMountains May 16, 2019 at 1:46 pm #

          Capitalism invites growth

          Up until the moment diminishing or zero or negative returns on the capital.

          After that, according to Marx, capitalism is fucked.

        • Janos Skorenzy May 16, 2019 at 2:06 pm #

          And growth for the sake of growth is problematic in a finite world, is it not? The ideology of a cancer cell – and shared completely by its Communist supposed competitors.

          After the Plymouth Colony began to prosper, the people began to spread out to seek economic opportunities further away. Even founding new towns. Governor Bradford was happy to see them succeed, after the unspeakable suffering of the early years. But he was sad too at the loss of community. For him, the best years were the ones back in Plymouth, or aliens in Leiden, or even the terrible early years of the Colony: they were together, depending on each other and God. Success tends to disperse Community and of course, lessen devotion to God.

          Think about it. He was a remarkable man. Even Cotton Mather acknowledged his great learning and piety and how special the Colony was. The Puritans came in 13 great ships, a thousand people, backed by the Power of England. They were never in danger and want – not like the Pilgrims. Try to see that the glory of smallness and the almost inevitable spiritual failure of its opposite. Stagnation? Really? And Christ was a failure too because he was just a small time carpenter. Then he quit that and became a bum…..

    • JohnAZ May 16, 2019 at 12:39 pm #

      The same deficiency is that the people in power in both models are usually the same people wearing different hats. Thus the complaint that there is no difference between the traditional parties. The Deep State reigns supreme and is a dagger at the throat of our country.

      • FincaInTheMountains May 16, 2019 at 12:46 pm #

        It is not just the Deep State, it is a Deep State under ideological control of the Black Project (e.g. Nazism).

        But as as Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein just demonstrated, they are all ready to flip and become good boys again, under proper direction.

    • elysianfield May 16, 2019 at 12:57 pm #

      “The best situation is a combination of both, in all aspects.”

      John,
      Beginning to sound like National Socialism….

      • Janos Skorenzy May 16, 2019 at 1:54 pm #

        It’s wonderful and terrible to see a mind beginning to grow. He’s done this before: He then catches himself and goes back 100% to the worst kind of Ayn Rand/Milton Friedman type Orthodoxy. As if the Founding Fathers would have ever accepted that kind of crap. As if Capitalism isn’t an alien thought current foisted on Western Culture and accepted by our worst people. In old England, before Cromwell’s takeover, advertising was considered gauche.

  105. FincaInTheMountains May 16, 2019 at 12:40 pm #

    Vote in socialism in 2020 == JohnAZ

    I don’t see any socialists running in 2020. All I see is National Socialists, masking as liberals.

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    • JohnAZ May 16, 2019 at 12:49 pm #

      Twenty three candidates, all with the same government control agenda. I, too, do not see any liberalization of thought, just a quest for power for themselves and the government. The real suckers are the minorities signing up to these egomaniacs as their avenues to ethnic power. Why is it that the number one and two candidates are old white men? A twenty percent shift in the voting intelligence of the minorities would destroy the Dems Leftist wing. Good riddance!

  106. FincaInTheMountains May 16, 2019 at 12:55 pm #

    The Trend IS Our Friend!

    Fifty billion dollars suddenly fell on Russia from Nowhere (on America it’s 4.5 TRILLION dollars

    In Basel, the Bank for International Settlements made a decision based on the Basel III program. Now banks can account for gold in equity at its 100% price (asset category I) instead of 50% (asset category III).

    For the United States, this innovation is tantamount to a one-time “injection” of about 4.5 trillion dollars into the American economy.

    And the “golden bonus” of Russia is approximately 45 billion dollars, or 2.96 trillion rubles.

    https://howto-news.info/na-rossiyu-vnezapno-svalilos-polsotni-milliardov-dollarov/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=lentainform&utm_campaign=direct_clicks_howto-news.info&utm_term=1278486&utm_content=7222752

    • JohnAZ May 16, 2019 at 12:58 pm #

      And another card is added to the teetering tower. Dollars and Rubles magically appear. No new wealth!

      • FincaInTheMountains May 16, 2019 at 1:33 pm #

        Well, John, I don’t know what’s gonna put a smile on your face.

        4.5 Trillion is about $15,000 for each man, woman and child in US.

        • hmuller May 16, 2019 at 4:41 pm #

          If the US government has all 266 million troy ounces of gold it claims, at $1300 per oz; this amounts to 345 billion dollars, not 4.5 trillion.

          You’re acting like we suddenly came into a happy windfall. The gold has been there a long time. In fact, there used to be much more of it (like over 640 million troy ounces in 1946).

          The B.I.S. may be laying the groundwork for an international financial reset which is not as much fun as it sounds, unless you personally own a lot of precious metals (which will be revalued much higher). Paper assets like stocks and bonds would lose value, perhaps all value.

          • FincaInTheMountains May 16, 2019 at 5:58 pm #

            Actually, I thought that the Russian publication screwed up their numbers – it’s way too much more American gold reserves than Russian.

            But at least for Russia, it would immediately translate into real cash for long-term investments into infrastructure, which IS real wealth.

            And all it takes is just a change in the Basel rules.

            Very good thing.

          • elysianfield May 16, 2019 at 8:21 pm #

            ” financial reset which is not as much fun as it sounds, unless you personally own a lot of precious metals…”

            hmuller,
            Any other outs? As a former pawnbroker, I owned pounds of gold, but never kept any…ditto silver, save the wife’s silver service.

            What I did in 1985 was to begin purchase of machine tools and equipment. Metalworking machinery, mostly. Currently have a 6000sf building full of various tools, and the ability to use them. I manufacture 20+ items and have, for years, sold them on Ebay, and do to this day.

            I know that this is an unconventional answer to surviving the zombie apocalypse…I have never heard anyone else reference this approach. At times, a bag of gold jewelry seems like a safer out, but that train has long left the station….

          • hmuller May 17, 2019 at 9:03 am #

            If you have to flee in the night, a bag of gold jewelry sounds better than packing up 6 tons of tools and machine parts. LOL. But seriously, after a zombie apocalypse, being able to make hand tools would be like having a gold mine.

          • elysianfield May 17, 2019 at 1:34 pm #

            “…packing up 6 tons of tools and machine parts.”

            hmuller,
            6 tons? 60 tons maybe. There will be no bug-out in my future….

  107. messianicdruid May 16, 2019 at 12:59 pm #

    Workers of the World System, DISPERSE!

  108. K-Dog May 16, 2019 at 1:25 pm #

    ‘illicit coal shipments

    How is shipping by coal illicit? And please don’t waste my time trying to explain. I had enough bullshit reading the article. Making the use of money for ship repairs illegal, that is interesting.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-northkorea-seizure-idUSKCN1SF20J

    Plans for a Trump Tower in Pyongyang would more prudently offer Rocket Man 50% ownership.

    • K-Dog May 16, 2019 at 1:26 pm #

      I hope they did not need the money for medicine.

  109. beantownbill. May 16, 2019 at 2:41 pm #

    @100th:

    Ok, if you’re that anti-war I can understand. Just tell me you’re not anti-Semitic and I’ll believe you.

    • 100th Avatar May 16, 2019 at 4:37 pm #

      Bill, I do not have to tell anyone anything.

      I feel that my general antipathy towards all humanity, if not outright misanthropy, has gone anything but unnoticed.

      I do not partake in debates on race and gender and all that nonsense, and again, I am not saying this in any attempt to appear morally superior. Having lived amongst many people in many places on this rock, the tacit knowledge I acquired -I will not say wisdom -leads me to believe that all man everywhere is equally deplorable and equally commendable, but en masse.. mostly deplorable.

      I do find, and it is rather obvious, that not all cultures are equal, but that has very little to do with the man born unto them.

      I hold no hate towards Adelson and the other pro-Israel members, some Jewish, some not, of Trump’s cabinet or orbiting in his circles. In fact, they are doing what one is expected to do, what most would do: get the president to support issues and agendas that they have strong opinions on. This is not cynicism. This is how the world really works. You pay and push for influence.

      But it is also true that it is not hateful for pointing this out. It is what it is. Adelson is only interested because he is Jewish. He is not fighting for a better future for Somalia or Albania for one reason. Just as Persian-Americans are against any war with Iran for one reason. Merely pointing out the reasons and the people is not hateful.

      One would be lacking any real cognitive empathy if they did not understand why influential, wealthy, and generally powerful Somali-Americans who hold the same positions and influence with the President and agitated for armed-conflict against war-lords or enemy states while also pushing for infrastructure developments in the country they hold a connection with do what they do.

      But it does not mean it is right. Particularly when it is more likely to be detrimental to the safety, security, and prosperity of the country they, at least as a fiduciary, are bound to represent.

      However, this becomes a problem when it is not in my best interest, and not my best interest personally, but the general interest of those amongst who I currently reside even while taking into account that I loathe a large percentage of them.

      We have been down this road before, where even the dimmest person on the street knows the results of that trip, and anyone with any broader knowledge knows the real reasons why.

      Again, like everything, for the advantage of the few over the many.
      At this point one can flippantly retort, “hate the player and not the game”, but as I said I not only hate the game, I hate all the players, even the ones sitting out.

      • Janos Skorenzy May 16, 2019 at 5:55 pm #

        Thank you. As Shulamith Aloni (a former Israeli minister of something or other) said, quoting the Zionist forefathers of Israel gets people called Anti-Semitic nowadays. Did we call the Jews a nation without borders first? Or did Theodore Herzl?

        So accepting your premise of well nigh infinite perversity of the Human Being, it only stand to reason to try and limit the trouble. That obviously means one ethne per nation whenever possible. Thank you again. You know I’m right. Or are you going to go back into the game and try and pretend you are above it – when you still really care more for your own people more than any other?

      • malthuss May 16, 2019 at 9:45 pm #

        Best line I have read here, in awhile,

        Bill, I do not have to tell anyone anything.

  110. Tate May 16, 2019 at 2:53 pm #

    Abortion is a form of homicide, any way you cut it (pardon the expression.) Is it murder? Maybe. Some late-term abortions could be classified as such. It may be regarded with greater dispassion when one understands that although all murder is homicide, not all homicide is murder.

    Modern society has up until recently condoned certain forms of homicide, criminal execution being a prominent example.

    Although expansive gun rights have never been defended on the argument that they facilitate suicide — another form of homicide — we know that this must play a large role (most gun deaths are by suicide) in the public’s reckoning of the issue. Suicide by gun undoubtedly has a greater success rate than by any other method. Lots of elderly don’t want to give up that [implicit] right.

    The ancient Romans practiced infanticide & yet they were accounted civilized. Would they have gloried in it, as our modern Feminists do? Normal people recoil from the practice, irrespective of time or place.

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    • hmuller May 16, 2019 at 4:23 pm #

      Why do late term abortions occur? No one has ever told me.

      1) Is the mother a really bad procrastinator?

      2) Did the parents just learn the baby has Downs Syndrome or some other birth defect they just don’t want to deal with.

      3) Are the parts from a newborn worth real money in the transplant market? The parts from a 7 week fetus – not so valuable.

      • malthuss May 16, 2019 at 4:59 pm #

        Denial.

        • malthuss May 16, 2019 at 5:03 pm #

          MARK GERAGOS, AT IT AGAIN

          ssioner Ronald Rose held that the law “requires parents to provide treatment and care” to a newborn, and failure to do so can be the basis for a murder trial.

          Rose rejected arguments by Ashcraft’s lawyer, Mark Geragos, that his client could not be charged with murder because the baby’s death was not an intentional act.

          Deputy Dist. Atty Franco A. Barrata countered: “If I take my son, my newborn, and refuse to feed him because I want him to die [and] I just sit there and watch him, watch him die, that is an intentional act.”

          Ashcraft, who has been suspended from USC, was a junior majoring in architecture.

          A homeless man gathering recyclables found the cardboard box containing the baby, initially identified as John Doe 171 by the county coroner’s office, in the trash bin.

          Michael Lee Walker testified Friday that he had been fishing through the rubbish around midnight Oct. 9 when he found the box. Walker said he spent about a minute peeling the layers of tape off, thinking it might contain valuables. When he opened the cover, he saw a bundled towel, which he unwrapped.

          “I saw two little things sticking up. I thought somebody put an animal in there…. It looked like two little feet,” he said. In the darkness, “I touched the little feet, then I saw the baby’s head in the corner.

          “I backed up and hollered for the girl I was with,” said Walker, who called police from a pay phone.

          Police said they found envelopes addressed to Ashcraft in the box.

          It was the second time Ashcraft was linked to the death of a baby. In April 2004, she showed up at a Los Angeles hospital b

      • Janos Skorenzy May 16, 2019 at 5:56 pm #

        Human sacrifice. Abortion is a Sacrament of the Feminist Cult. How demonically clever of them to project that onto men like they do.

  111. FincaInTheMountains May 16, 2019 at 2:55 pm #

    Why is it that the number one and two candidates are old white men?

    When William Barr is done with his Ukrainian investigation which will at minimum revealed Joe Biden guilty of obstruction of Justice by firing the Ukrainian Attorney General who was investigated his son corruption schemes and used taxpayers money to blackmail Ukrainian government, and at maximum in High Treason by arranging the sale of Ukrainian (former Soviet) rocket engines to North Korea, nobody would elect Joe as a dog catcher (sorry, K-Dog)

    • hmuller May 16, 2019 at 4:15 pm #

      Biden sells rocket engines to North Korea and he’s still the darling of the cable news networks.

      Trump haggles with his plumber over the bill and he’s “dreck”.

      Go Figure.

      • malthuss May 16, 2019 at 9:50 pm #

        Which side are you on?

    • K-Dog May 17, 2019 at 1:18 am #

      I have no idea why you are dragging me into this except I know I pissed you off today.

      I certainly don’t want Joe to be Dog Catcher. Joe is a serial Petter.

      Petting me he would be a pet-a-guyle but luckily for me he prefers bitches.

  112. ozone May 16, 2019 at 8:46 pm #

    We’re sorry, but the credit card that you used to pay for your exceptional lifestyle has been denied.

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51617.htm

    Yes, we understand that it’s only an opinion regarding the future of Clown-Clad deals around the globe, but it’s by a guy who was 30 years on the inside of the World Bank.

    “All of these three countries, China, Iran and Venezuela are threatening the US dollar’s world hegemony and without that the US economy is dead, literally. The dollar is based on thin air, and on fraud. The dollar system used around the globe is nothing but a huge, a very big and monstrous Ponzi-scheme, that one day must be coming crashing down.” – Peter Koenig

    • Yes, it’s up to the friends of Venezuela, to save it.

      Where’s Russia? Wheres the Chinese delegation? Where’s the carpet bombing of comfort supplies?

      Oh… thats right. They don’t do that.

      So why doesn’t Columbia, Brazil, etc, provide? Well they do, but the Highways and bridges are barricaded and the Venezuelan military pushes them off and burns them

      The fact is, from what I hear from Venezeulan ex-pats is, they don’t blame the US. They blame Maduro.

      • BackRowHeckler May 16, 2019 at 9:33 pm #

        Do they mention the Cuban Secret Police? I heard those guys don’t play around.

        The Venezuelan Army has 1000 Generals, everybody is a General apparently. If you’ve seen any pics all these generals have a chestful of medals.

        brh

        • Yes, its a vertically integrated thug society.

          You’e got the uniformed military and the police, then party-affiliated
          “civil militias”, basically a bunchy of dudes, two up on motorbikes armed with guns and clubs, or sometimes they come in the night. Even more irregular forces range across the country.

      • K-Dog May 17, 2019 at 1:21 am #

        Those kinds of expats are rich puppies who suffer from rich puppy myopia.

    • BackRowHeckler May 16, 2019 at 9:28 pm #

      Oz, what will replace the dollar?

      Gold? Oil? Other commodities?

      From about 1500 until the mid 18th century it was Spanish silver and gold mined at Pelosi in Bolivia and in Mexico which was the world’s currency, including Asia when Spanish began in1535 sending ships full of precious metal to China and the Philippines from Acapulco to trade for spices, dinnerware, fabrics and gunpowder.

      A few years ago I took my metal detector down in the meadows by the river where I knew the British army had camped in 1779. I found a silver coin, minted in 1769, one side stamped Britannica, King George 2, the other side with King Philip and Spanish markings. A little research and I found out these coins were traded from the Spanish to pay British soldiers fighting Americans in the Revolutionary War.

      When Spanish power faded in the world the value of their coinage faded too, the slack picked up by the British. Maybe that’s what’s happening with the dollar.

      brh

      • Most economic experts agree there is no replacement for the dollar.

        I mean, sure- go ahead and buy the Euro, the Yen or Yuan. Theres your replacement. Best of luck in your career as a currency speculator.

      • JohnAZ May 16, 2019 at 9:46 pm #

        Oil maybe. Scarcity seems to set value. As the Long Emergency hits, could be oil will supplant gold.

        • BackRowHeckler May 16, 2019 at 10:26 pm #

          Well, 10 billion tons of coal and 36 billion barrels of oil moving around the world every year, need some way to pay for it. Incidentally, coal usage worldwide has quadrupled since 1980. Coal is on the rise, regardless of what you hear. Green Alba is not happy about it.

          brh

      • malthuss May 16, 2019 at 9:52 pm #

        JHK pointed out, about 15 years ago, ‘dollars’ are digital and created by the FR.

        You love history and connected w it>

        A few years ago I took my metal detector down in the meadows by the river where I knew the British army had camped in 1779. I found a silver coin, minted in 1769, one side stamped Britannica, King George 2, the other side with King Philip and Spanish markings. A little research and I found out these coins were traded from the Spanish to pay British soldiers fighting Americans in the Revolutionary War.

        • benr May 16, 2019 at 10:16 pm #

          That is cool do you still have it?

          • BackRowHeckler May 16, 2019 at 10:23 pm #

            Ya I have it.

            I find a lot of interesting stuff. Last summer in the same area I found a brass medallion about the size of a large cent, picture of a log cabin “Henry Harrison for President” 1840. People have been around here since 1645, so a few centuries of odds and ends lying around. I usually bring a detectoer along on fishing trips along the Farmington River, break it out if I ain’t catching anything.

            brh

          • Tate May 16, 2019 at 10:56 pm #

            BRH

            That medallion you found sounds like a Hard Times token. It’s the right time period.

      • James Hansen May 16, 2019 at 10:26 pm #

        The Chinese Yuan will be the next reserve currency if we do not have a nuclear war first.

    • James Hansen May 16, 2019 at 10:23 pm #

      Bush, Obama and now Trump are all causing the U.S. to lose the reserve currency by constantly increasing the debt and forcing countries to abandon the dollar because we use it as a weapon.

      The naked aggression that passes for diplomacy is alienating most of the planet, soon it will be just Israel and the U.S. against the world. Even Great Briton is looking to shake off the leash.

      The future looks grim and Trump is the last person to depend on when the shit hits the fan,

  113. JohnAZ May 16, 2019 at 9:30 pm #

    Snacks

    Your opinion on Deblasio. The press is having a field day with him, even CNN.

    Have the Dems really hit bottom?

  114. Q. Shtik May 16, 2019 at 9:37 pm #

    Janos,

    I’ll try this just one more time then I’ll drop it and take no response as a no.

    BTW, I’m thinking about a bike trip to the US northwest (Washington-Oregon). You up for a cup of coffee with me?

    Q.

    • He’ll have to make space in his freezer. And stock up on bleach.

      • Q. Shtik May 17, 2019 at 1:04 am #

        Hey, yeah, I hadn’t thought of that angle.:-)

    • malthuss May 16, 2019 at 9:54 pm #

      yes, a meeting of 2 great minds.

    • Janos Skorenzy May 17, 2019 at 12:30 am #

      Ramana Maharishi to Paul Brunton via another disciple: When heart speaks to heart, what is there to say? No physical meeting necessary.

      Janos to Q: When heart doesn’t speak to heart, what is there to say? I’m jealous of the Jews – of course I am. Of the Blacks as well. Of every group who get to be a People – which is being denied to Whites. But you don’t get it.

      Capitalism is human nature. I know, that’s why it must be combated, a war to the knife to control it. You don’t get it. Yet the Pyramid steepens and millions will be out on the streets soon. It has to be stopped. One slams on the breaks if necessary to avoid a crash.

      Etc, Etc. In any case, you have what I consider the best of Me. As Whitman said, He who touches this book (these posts), touches a Man. Or as Brunton said, My books are the best of me. Meeting me in person would only be a disappointment, an awkward affair for both of us. As the Prisoner said, Questions are a burden to others. Answers a prison for oneself. If you don’t understand me now, looking at me across a little table won’t help. I’d probably end up throwing the coffee in your face or something. I don’t like your class, you see. And you don’t like mine.

      • Q. Shtik May 17, 2019 at 1:10 am #

        Well, I guess I better make my trip to the Southeast then.

        • K-Dog May 17, 2019 at 1:42 am #

          He offered to meet me at midnight at the Seattle Lenin statue a few years ago.

          I did not like the midnight part. Noon at a place up the street that has authentic English meat pies would have been great. Midnight there, not so great.

          The Statue

          A few hundred feet away.

          The Pie Place

          If you come up this way I’ll spring for a pie.

          • Q. Shtik May 17, 2019 at 1:45 pm #

            If you come up this way I’ll spring for a pie. – K-Dog

            ===========

            I’ll give this some thought , Dog.

      • Q. Shtik May 17, 2019 at 1:54 pm #

        I don’t like your class – Janos

        =============

        This is one of the more ridiculous things you’ve ever said. What the hell class are you tal…..

        Hold on, have to get back to you……. got a call comin’ in from Bezos in Davos.

  115. 100 million pounds of plastic in the ocean. Plastic in air, water, food and even our bodies.

    A global consortium just met who all agreed to stop the transmission transfer of plastic pollution and garbage around the world.

    The US delegate refused to ratify it.

    This cannot stand. The United States must lead the effort to rid the world of plastic pollution.

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    • benr May 16, 2019 at 10:14 pm #

      Biodegradable plastic is the future.

      • BackRowHeckler May 16, 2019 at 10:51 pm #

        How long does it take for a plastic water bottle to bio degrade? 500 years? 1000 years? The whole earth is littered with them.

        ‘Plastic in our bodies’. I have this pet crackpot theory, goes like this.

        ‘Since 1945 there have been 2056 nuclear detonations in the world and tens of thousands of tons of nuclear waste dumped in the oceans by the US and the USSR … fallout is in human DNA, altering it, causing autism, birth defects, cancer and making everybody batshit crazy so they tattoo their whole body and get noserings, like in a classic 1950s scifi film.

        Introduce plastic into our DNA on top of all that and we’re f*kkd.

        brh

        • Q. Shtik May 17, 2019 at 2:09 am #

          How long does it take for a plastic water bottle to bio degrade? – BRH

          =============

          About 20 years ago a group of us at work got wind of some startup company whose mission was to develop a biodegradable plastic. If successful there would have been no end to the applications. Our group invited the company’s principles to give us a pitch and we all became investors. We got in close to the ground floor. We had dollar signs in our eyes. This, BTW, is how capitalism works. People see a need and risk their capital to fill it.

          Well, their technology never worked, the stock price dwindled slowly, the trading volume dropped to zero and each member of our group lost every penny, probably a few thousand each. I don’t think anyone “went for their lungs.” If it had been successful and we all became millionaires we would be hated by every commenter on this blog, especially Janos. Poor fool, just doesn’t get it.

          • benr May 17, 2019 at 10:23 am #

            It’s a reality now.
            The San Diego Zoo uses plastic cutlery made from soy beans that breaks down fairly quickly.
            There is another version of plastic that is edible but I am not sure what it’s made from.

    • Q. Shtik May 17, 2019 at 1:32 am #

      100 million pounds of plastic in the ocean. – Snack Pack

      ===============

      Actually, I’ll bet it is waaaay more than that.

      I had an uncle named Sonny who died 4 years ago at age 95. He was Polish and a fisherman ALL his long life. His internet handle I thought was pretty clever: FishingPol.

      He had a 30′ cabin cruiser kept in Cape May, NJ. My father, my brother and I went out fishing many times with him, mostly in Delaware Bay. We always took a case or two of beer and soda with us. Every time Uncle Sonny finished off a beer he would toss the can overboard with bravado and say in a pirate voice “Off to beer can island with ye.” This was mostly in the ’50s and ’60s before ocean pollution awareness began to sink in.

    • Q. Shtik May 17, 2019 at 1:45 am #

      The United States must lead the effort to rid the world of plastic pollution. – Snack

      ==============

      Just two weeks ago our local supermarket (ShopRite) began charging 10 cents per bag for those flimsy plastic bags. Almost instantaneously shoppers (including my wife) began to arrive at the store with their own larger and more sturdy and more permanent bags to carry home the groceries. Economic punishment works.

      • Q. Shtik May 17, 2019 at 3:09 pm #

        Correction:

        Stop & Shop

  116. BackRowHeckler May 16, 2019 at 11:13 pm #

    Just saw on the newswire here the sad news that King Kong Bundy, age 61, has passed away, all 6’4″ and 485 pounds of him.

    RIP, King.

    brh

  117. SoftStarLight May 17, 2019 at 2:26 am #

    I guess they are sort of like family squabbles Elrond. Funny you mention it. I have been reading family histories lately and it looks like my dad’s side of the family basically a long long time ago in like the 1770’s were kicked out of Nova Scotia by the British. Acadians from Canada who made a new home here when Louisiana was still a Spanish colony no less. So I have a connection to the Great White North after all! Are you descended from the English Elrond? If so you kicked me out :-).

    • BackRowHeckler May 17, 2019 at 4:37 am #

      The Band had a good song about the French being pushed out of Nova Scotia and going to Louisiana. I think Robby Robertson wrote it. (Movie coming out about The Band. Levon Helms didn’t live long enough to see it, alas)

    • Elrond Hubbard May 17, 2019 at 9:22 am #

      Nope, my background is Scottish Catholic. My family were Jacobites who were ethnically cleansed out of the Highlands by the English. So we have that much in common.

      • Elrond Hubbard May 17, 2019 at 9:24 am #

        Come to think of it, your ancestors were probably kicked out of Nova Scotia to make way for my ancestors. So there’s that too.

        Really, does anything good ever come of the English?

        • SoftStarLight May 17, 2019 at 9:40 am #

          Wow that is interesting Elrond. That may very well be the case. Well the English have good and bad qualities just like the next people I suppose. But they did get into a bad habit of expelling people when they felt like it. But really, other people would have done the same thing probably. Seems like in the scheme of thing it happens a lot. I think more than anything I am proud of the Acadian heritage because they were real survivors who were able to start over from scratch and thrive in bad circumstances. Hopefully I can channel all of those qualities when the SHTF!

  118. BackRowHeckler May 17, 2019 at 4:50 am #

    ‘Acadian Driftwood’

    The Band

    Lyrics by Robbie Robertson

    Sung by Levon Helm

    A haunting song, one of The Bands best.

    It’ll also bring a tear to your eye.

    Brh

    • SoftStarLight May 17, 2019 at 9:30 am #

      It is a haunting song Brh and it does tell the story. Here is a link to it.

      https://youtu.be/te7KW4K-00E

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