How much does Europe REALLY care about the invasion of Ukraine?
This much: Italy and Belgium don’t want the sanctions on Russia to include luxury goods - like Prada or diamonds (the Belgians sell a lot of diamonds).
Because, you know, denying Putin’s mistress this year’s Gucci pumps would be a human rights violation or something.
Greta Thunberg did a great job weakening Europe for Putin. They are dependent on his oil because green energy is inadequate. She does look like him... could she be a bastard child mole... impossible to be too cynical...
When Europe takes a power plant offline, they do not just take it offline. They bring in a demolition crew and destroy it. The implications of this are staggering when you consider the fact that once they are gone, they are gone for good...and it takes a long time to build a new one.
The leadership of Europe has brainwashed their citizens into believing that green energy is feasible when they know full well it is not. Additionally, they've convinced their population that if they do not act by shutting these power plants down, climate change is going to kill them all.
So they're brainwashing their own countrymen to manifest conditions that will kill them, while promising them salvation for doing so.
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Damn good writing that. It seems that you have a knack for it.
You're right, but Kerry is very 'crypto' for a ,lot of people to get the point. Why not just say they're the George Soros of Europe. Wait, George Soros is the George Soros of Europe -- and of the US as well. Busy old guy.
You've piqued my interest with this link, and it is certainly one I will look to read this weekend! The topic also reminds me of a similar 'movement' that occurred throughout the Pennsylvania Coal Region a generation ago, which my father told me about:
Back when my father was a boy, the majority of "common" homes in the region had cast-iron kitchen coal stoves, which were used not only for cooking, but also as a superior home heating source! When the electric company became the behemoth, however, it started pushing the new electric stove. And often, when a family "upgraded" to an electric stove, the appliance stores would remove the coal stoves... and DESTROY them. You can still find an old kitchen coal stove today... but you literally have to hunt them down~
Ditto except in East Tennessee, Grandparents had wood burning Potbelly for heat, cast iron stove for cooking, out house. Kerosene lamps. Grandpa put in a Citzern to filter the rain water. Out door pump, but he put in a kitchen sink smaller one. I remeber in the summer we grand kids took baths in a #10 washtub on the back porch. I still have her canner, and chicken cast iron fry pan well blackened. My sister who is younger has her creamic rolling pin. They got electric when they moved north.
Beautiful unless you have to wash the entire family's clothes in them. That's why the bigger sinks were always situated outside of the "civilized" space.
Grandma had the Aga. Daughter-in-law continued the tradition. It was an art to understand the different plates and ovens. Build up the fire from the embers early morning - heat and cooking 24/7. And we all would gather around this beast in the cold months - we did not bother with TV. The conversation was more interesting.
Ahh, yes. The lost art of conversation. I used to eavesdrop on my dad, his brothers, and my grandfather as they discussed politics after a Sunday dinner. Loved that and learned a lot. My dad would be so disappointed by the current nonsense.
This is true. Ireland now imports peat briquettes! Ireland used to export turf/peat - so big was the reserve. Ireland used to have state-owned power plants generating fossil fuels (blasphemy!) but now they are decommissioned, given back to Nature, converted to bike trails and weird outdoor art installations :( Irish are paying 3x to heat their homes than they did a year ago. But the outdoor art and bike trails are worth it!
It would be nice if they would stop exporting Botox. Our self-appointed ruling class needs to go natural. Their face should reflect the lies they tell.
Great article. I am now a believer in nuclear power. I would even live by one of them. Real investment on how to make them safe - and eliminating corruption and graft - needs to be done now.
Meanwhile, in the USA, the Biden Administration Nuclear Regulatory Administration is revoking the renewal of permits to operate a large nuclear plant near Miami, and another one in Pennsylvania. This is not denying pending renewals. It is REVOKING renewals that were already granted by the Trump admin.
And what will this carbon-free power be replaced with? Oil, gas, or coal. Sure to bring a smile to Greta Thunberg's face.
We, sadly, are going down the same road as Europe of shooting ourselves in the foot. Meanwhile, the literal communists are laughing all the way to the bank.
As a former Californian and UCLA alumnus, I'm sad to see what has happened to the once-beautiful California. It has become like a third-world country: super rich and homeless people, with a shrinking veneer of a once-vibrant middle class.
P.S. While the Europeans aren't willing to embargo the shipment of Gucci shoes, or Belgian diamonds, we all had better hope that the Russians don't retaliate.
If they stopped exporting oil for a few months, the entire financialized pyramid of debt and overvalued bonds in the west would come crashing down, making 2008-9 look like a picnic.
I'm old enough to remember the Arab Oil embargo, and it created the deepest recession since the depression up to that time. The stock market crashed and the S&P 500 ended up trading at something like 7 times earnings. Inflation and unemployment exploded.
Whatever you think of the morality/sanity of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, what's especially scary is the utter stupidity of the West's response. The White House has been saying for at least 2 weeks that Russia was going to invade.
Yet only now they want to send weapons? And exactly how are they going to get them there with Russia controlling the territory. And would that be considered a provocation that justifies Russia shooting at other countries?
What happens if we cut them off of SWIFT? How are the Europeans exactly supposed to pay them for the gas and oil that they are entirely dependent on? The Western "leaders" think the Russians will just keep on delivering without payment? What happens to the USD as a global reserve currency?
Russia has run a trade surplus since at least 2015, and has a ton of foreign reserves, gold, and of course its territory is full of all the resources the world is so short of now like petroleum, gas, minerals, timber, etc. Who needs who more?
And is the invasion of Ukraine any more morally odious than the Chinese genocide against the Uighurs?
American and the West needs to wake up and confront actual reality.
So it can't be recommissioned to save people freezing to death
They know better than anyone that Green is BS, they don't care about a bit of waste that ensures in the future all the rest will be theirs and theirs alone.
We all know, as does Joe, the importance of depleting strategic petroleum reserves prior to starting a war.
And the essential need to shut down firmly any who would produce petroleum firmly.
And that is only one of the wonders of China Joe Biden, he has many more accomplishments in successful national suicide strategies than Greta the Green Grinch.
Before things go much further, I believe the vast majority of Americans will have serious regrets about Donald Trump not being re-elected regardless of party or politics.
I just said to my husband last night while watching coverage of Ukraine, I miss Trump!! America would look so different today if he hadn’t been ousted by the lying, cheating, scum bag, all in for Communism, radical leftists.
Said the same thing, didn't even care for the man's personality AT ALL, then realized, voting for him does not mean I have to tolerate him as a dinner guest or best friend ! Voting on purely emotional "feelings" is a fool's game for sure !
Exactly, just have to set personal feelings based on sheer emotion aside when it comes to elections ! But, many absolute go to the polls armed strictly on "gut feeling, and even PHYSICAL appearance ! Who teaches students at ANY level what characteristics to look for when selecting leaders ? NO ONE, that's who ! Many instances of teachers telling students WHO to vote for, or making passive aggressive remarks against a particular party, but actually TEACH how to research and what to look for in a leader... nope !
I understand and know what you are thinking. I've dealt with the same thing with a close member of our family.... the sexual innuendo as the dementia worsens can get difficult to deal with, and the sudden shouting and the angry facial looks, we dealt with the same thing: sudden "I'm a tough guy, come on, bring it on" remarks would just "erupt", suddenly, with no provocation, just like the president. But, when it's a beloved family member you do find ways to to include them.
I would say that most of us wouldn't especially want to be friends with pretty much any politician, especially at the higher levels. But their personalities and personal lives are irrelevant: it's all about what they do when in power, the decisions they make. Forget the rest of it.
I know it is no guarantee, but I do find it "comforting"when a politician has a history of a stable home/personal life; no DUI's or other arrests, an "uneventful" divorce if one has taken place in the past, no history of hotel room parties with drugs and a variety of "women", people can leave a "trail of crumbs" that people don't necessarily have to judge on a moral basis.... the deeper meaning can give you clues about their maturity, judgment, and ability to establish interpersonal relationships. Swagger, arrogance, etc. can be positives, but many other personality traits ARE important in leadership, and we are definitely lacking "talent" with true leadership skills.
He seems to be the only one that is willing to save America. Look how the Republicans are sitting back watching the demise of this country. Rush Limbaugh was right (as always), the country cannot survive a Biden administration.
People should not underestimate the *existential danger* of having crazed ideologue spoiled brat children and a late stage dementia patient running the country right now instead of the mean Tweeter. That mean Tweeter came up building skyscrapers in New York. What does that entail? You have to get City Hall, the labor unions, the construction companies, the banks, and the Mafia all in a room, where you tell them in no uncertain terms to sit the hell down, shut the hell up, and do what he says. Instead we have a regime who thinks this is just an episode of The West Wing, and that's the ones who are in the building. The ones not even in the building are phoning in their part-time advice to the dementia patient and his "staff" from a mansion on Martha's Vineyard, on their way to lunch with Beyonce and Whoopi to discuss new ways to implement their black supremacist agenda. I defy you to name *one* thing this crew accomplished in their 8 years in The White House, and these are the exact same people in charge today. Andrea Mitchell and Hilary just outlined one of the "options" being offered to the addled patient with his brains leaking out of his ears: cyber attacks on Russia, that would turn the lights off in Moscow and send the subway trains off their tracks. But hello, the Russians and Chinese *are much more competent* in cyber warfare than anything the gender fluid equity hires in the CIA or the Pentagon could ever pull off, which means it's the New York lights and the Chicago trains that would be the ones going off the rails. Putin made it very clear he views cyber attacks as *acts of war*. That we would begin such in defense of Ukraine, *a country with which we have NO military defense treaty in place*, is fantasy insanity of the highest order. Add in the hypersonic missile fleet Vlad has, which we've just seen neutralize the entire Ukrainian air defense system in honestly less than 10 minutes (more like 5), systems that YOU bought with YOUR tax money (or at least what money was left over after Hilary and Joe, James, Mary, and of course Hunter Biden stole as much as they could) and you're led to the conclusion: elections have consequences, and stolen elections have catastrophic consequences.
Perfect comment! I have to laugh hearing about the “sanctions” dementia man and his support team keep promising. Really? While we buy Russian oil. Such a joke. How did our (shadow)government and their supporters become so dimwitted?
I think the sad truth is that at the top level what we have is economic and political and societal theatre, but underpinning it all is an interlocking set of criminal cabals whose job it is to exploit "ideologies" and "the press" to extract as many taxpayer dollars as they can around the world and shuffle them off to The Cayman Islands where they are completely quarantined from any taxing authorities (34 thousand million dollars at last count). So there is the human trafficking and fentanyl cabal at the border, the massive Permanent War cabal, the central banking cabal making sure all the money flows in the society concentrate upwards, the fairly new but fast growing Green Scam cabal, and of course the Pharma Industrial Complex cabal making sure people get sick and pay handsomely to stay that way. The 0.0001% know that the best business model in the world bar none is slavery, and with a big dose of fear and loathing from the nice man on TV they can get the people to beg for it.
Right! Putin laughs at the puppet's feeble ploys and weak sanctions, but then again its probably all a part of the greater 2030 agenda. Forest for the trees?
Putin looks at the vaunted "U.S." "Military" and sees a force today whose last clear win was on the island of Grenada in 1981, that could not defeat a ragtag bunch of impoverished but determined goat herders armed with flintlocks in Afghanistan; that prioritized "Kabul Gay Pride Week" a month before the humiliating fall of that city; and whose top leaders, armed with the most ubiquitous and awesome intelligence gathering capabilities ever offered a fighting force, find it impossible to even LOCATE the enemy, let alone devise a plan to oppose it. Generals Milley and Austin stated repeatedly and publicly, to murmurs of approval across the entire press corps, that the top, not one of, or one of the top, but THE TOP military threat currently facing The United States Of America is, wait for it, THE WEATHER ("climate change"). The second most terrifying and capable enemy they managed to locate was apparently WITHIN THEIR VERY OWN RANKS: soldiers of the race that encompasses two thirds of the nation's population (i.e. white). But wait, there's more: within that dastardly and sinister group, lurking in plain sight in the battalions, was a subset of persons they saw fit to call out individually: THOSE WHO HOLD EXCESSIVELY "PATRIOTIC" VIEWS. It's a wonder Putin doesn't just try to grab Alaska or Maine at this point: IT WOULD BE A CAKEWALK.
I love PEACE. And it is WEAKNESS that leads directly to WAR.
I believe you are right. I've noticed. Some acquaintances who are "old fashioned working man" type democrats are reluctant to be very vocal, but the lack of support for the "new" democrat party of J. Biden is palpable in my community definitely !
I have serious regrets every day that so many Americans fell for the Progressive party line. President Trump was under attack from the day he rode that escalator, and sadly, we can thank the scoundrels from both sides of the aisle. Must be pretty dang easy to buy a member of Congress.
"They" say... every man has his price. An interesting parallel with the situation right now in Ukraine. A "younger" leader of a country that we know is corrupt.... but.... putting aside the "corrupt" part, a "peasant class" that longs for, and has along history of fighting for freedom. They have not forgotten the yolk and the whip of oppression like we have TOTALLY forgotten here in our country. Now I realize their president, former TV comedian (the last none who might make a brave leader ? I mean, who would think Jimmy Kimmel might have "the right stuff" ? But for now, this most unlikely president, leader, is on TV telling his "people" he is "right here, not going anywhere, not taking money and hopping on a helicopter to leave you on your own".... Kind of makes you think of the kind of men, and women, and BOYS and GIRLS we once had when we won our independence against ALL ODDS doesn't it ? If we were under attack, can you imagine our president running out into the public saying "I am here, I am here with you and for you, I am not going anywhere". Can you imagine our president with the rifles he detests so much, saying I will die for you, for "our" common freedom.... hummmmm ? So often it is the very people we would NEVER consider, who God brings to the top like fine cream, and at the right minute in history. You never know.
In reference to your comments on what our President would do in the same situation, I just said that at the breakfast table this morning. He would not be bravely standing outside, with firearms, standing up for his people. He would be hiding somewhere safe in a bunker long ago. Far safer than his covid-free basement. Coward.
Most definitely he would, in fact, he may not even have any input into the situation. It does appear that even his closest family members ignore his confused state; I suppose because they (his relatives) all enjoy the benefits so much they could care less about him personally ? Kind of the same story, different genera, as when everyone around the famous singer Elvis just ignored HIS mental and physical anguish as long as the $$$, private planes, and parties keep rolling along .... !
Just watched a video clip from 2019 where the puppet was saying "Just imagine what happens to the Ukraine if TRUMP gets another 4 years" Yeah right JOE!
I suspect she has very ambitious parents, who have realized that while they would never be recognized above the crowd, they did realize the potential if a special needs child was to be coached to appeal on a purely emotional level, the entire WORLD would take notice. In many ways like parents who "gently encourage" their child to "question" their gender in an effort to be "discovered" and launch a hit TV reality show, or parents who coerce their children into "wild" experiments to gain world wide attention ("balloon boy" ?), and it seems to never fail, so I believe we should expect more and more of it until... such people are no longer able to be rewarded with media attention.
I think it was through Rod Dreher's TAC blog that I became aware -- very early on -- that Greta's mom had an on-the-spectrum depressed child who "found her purpose" in environmental activism. What Dreher also reported was that, because few people can read Swedish, the supposed adults she was berating had no idea that Greta's beliefs included even farther-afield utopian nonsense about the environment which, according to her, can only be saved by the "destruction of the patriarchy."
I believe you got that right ! Does no one even notice the "child's" eyes ? There is much more to this story I am sure. Does no one else see the kind of "fake passion", with the emphasis often in the wrong places (intonation, pitch, VOLUME, etc. etc. that are so clearly not from actual emotion because the emphasis often does not align with the words. It's almost like watching when the president alternately screams and acts outraged, and then lowers his voice to an ominous toned whisper, but always in the wrong places of a speech, the timing is always off and it just falls flat. Same with the so called "passionate" young woman.
Biden is an animated cadaver. Note the problem in keeping the cadaver's eyes open.
He died in his basement from shock last November.He could not believe it had actually worked so he was already excited, but it was the celebratory crack pipe he shared with Hunter that did him in , prompting a massive cardiac event that was like a miniature nuclear explosion die to the hardness of China Joe's traitorous heart.
Just so you know...
China sent their top experts and had him up and shuffling within a few days.
Now what do YOU think ? Do you see him in the line at the Delta counter with his mask and trying desperately to get a cabin class middle seat between some deplorable and her baby ?
I agree 1000%. She was a child that was used. Because I consider myself an environmentalist, I have been writing CA officials for years saying we should be drilling for oil. We can control how it is done. We can become a leader in extracting in the least harmful way on a product that people need for the foreseeable future. Instead, our leaders talk climate change on private jets while we get our oil from despots whose human rights violations don't seem to penetrate the 'woke ideology' only applicable to the west.
MEANTIME about KIDS and Pfizer VACCINE TRIALS. Stanford got positive results for 2-doses in 6-20 months of age. And they are working on 3-doses for 2-4 year olds. They plan to submit to the FDA in April.
Doctor Maldonado: So, we started doing [Pfizer vaccine childrens'] trials here at Stanford; we're one of many sites around the country that are doing these trials. Because people in the Bay Area have been so eager to have their children [take] part [in the vaccine trials]. We have been enrolling a high number of families into the trial here. People have just been really wanting to participate, and it really does help us move the studies forward. We were able to get the 5 to 11 year old vaccines approved [under EUA] in November.
We started the under 5 year old [Pfizer vaccine trials] before November, last summer. But really, we're focusing on the older kids just to get those finished and done. But the under 5 year olds are broken into two groups: 6 months to 2-3 months of age. And then 24 months to 4 years of age, so 2 to 4 [year olds]. The original study was a two-dose study because as we know, both of the mRNA vaccines are two doses. For the Pfizer trial, the doses were given three weeks apart. Well, it turns out that the antibody responses, well, the dose given to the under 5 year olds was a lower dose and so was the 5 to 11 year old relative to adults.
The adult dose of the vaccine was thirty micrograms per dose. Now, for the 5 to 11 year olds, the dose was 1/3 of that or ten micrograms per dose, because the higher dose caused more immediate reactions, especially fevers. With the under 5 year olds, it turned out that even the ten microgram dose was also causing higher reactions especially fevers in the smaller children. So, the three micro microgram doses given. So that's one 1/10 of the adult dose. And with those trials, it turns out that in the 6 to 20 months old, the three micro doses worked very well and gave a good antibody response equivalent to the adult dose.
Unfortunately, for the 2 to 4 year olds, that dose did not seem to give the same high level of antibody response. And now none of us have seen the data, because the studies are still blinded, so we don't know what that means. The responses were really pretty good, but not good enough, or whether they really are not great at all. So, we don't know and so because of that, [Pfizer] along with the FDA, discussed putting in a third dose and if we think about it, many of our vaccines for children require more than two or three doses anyway, so that's usually what we need to do to, especially for younger kids, to really boost that immune response.
In the beginning of / middle of January, we were given approval by [Pfizer] and by the FDA to initiate a third dose study for the kids who had already been enrolled with the first two doses. So, we're almost done with that, and we hope that the data will be complete by March so that it can be submitted to the FDA by April.
We think that by early April we should have a vaccine for the under 5 year olds.
The other thing is safety -- safety has not been an issue. Safety has always been really great. It's really been the ability to [get] a really good robust antibody response.
Eshoo: Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Well, we have to take care of our little angels and you've given us a good update on that.
Dr. Yvonne (Bonnie) Maldonado is Professor and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics at Stanford Medicine. She also directs Stanford's Global Child Health Program and serves as the Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford.
If you've had your children fully vaccinated according to "The Schedule," as I have, you know this is a bald lie: " if we think about it, many of our vaccines for children require more than two or three doses anyway." THESE PEOPLE WILL SAY ANYTHING.
Key point: Please stop being distracted and read this prediction from the Stanford doctor: "We think that by early April we should have a vaccine for the under 5 year olds."
I work with people like this: "Because people in the Bay Area have been so eager to have their children [take] part [in the vaccine trials]." Beyond sad. They offer their children up for the vax. Eagerly.
Greta is a "holy child" like Malala or Joan of Arc. It's all political theatre - Crowley's "Age of Horus" led by a crowned and conquering child on horseback. (See the Sun card in the tarot, which is not coincidentally number (corona) 19). Maybe politicians are stupid enough to believe it but for the men behind the curtain it's about global change, including a united Eurasian superstate (paging Halford Mackinder) with Russian muscle, Chinese labor, Israeli espionage and British banking. How else could you elevate China and Russia to their lofty perches on the world stage without crushing the west through forced austerity, suffocating technological progress and brainwashing the young generations into sterility?
Obviously you are extremely delusional if you think some autistic teenager is responsible for the behavior of war-mongering grown men. This is a direct result and the fault of the US and EU. Get a clue dopy
the 'autistic teenager' (why so impolite?) is a useful poster gal and only represents far larger, partly hidden interests. we really need to find out how to prevent these interests from getting serious funding in the future. HONK HONK!!
No it is not. The EU and US are " behind it", Greta is " Out Front".
She is the direct propagandist consciously or unconsciously pushing the BS that originated with the power elite, indirectly parroting their programming.
Lighten up and have a little fun with it, James, or can't cuz you're one of them? Hug a polar bear for me. Yes i love nature. Point your anger at the communists. Actually, you already are
One theory holds that all religions are started by a schizophrenic seeing visions and perpetuated by obsessive-compulsive disciples. I guess Greta falls to the second, disciple, category. Ironically, it was the nuclear industry that first created the alarm narrative about anthropogenic CO2 causing global warming, to push their CO2-free power plants.
We buy gas from Gazprom for heating (we rarely use electricity for that) and to produce electrical energy.
Russia is not that far away from Europe, do you know it?
Or we should buy gas from Middle East, from your friends of Middle East, maybe through the famous pipe that was the ONLY reason of the war to poor Afghanistan...
But I've a good question for you: Do we ever discuss, as Europeans, they way you americans produce energy? Do we discuss, we from EU, how do you organize your States? How you manage your supposed Democracy? Do we ever asked you to change something in your country? Do we ever organized fake elections, coups, financed or organized internal terrorism in your country? Like you've done for tens of years in Europe
You know who Thud-turd really looks like, go back and find the original The Omen from 1979 I think, she looks just like the antichrist bastard scumbag.
If you get a picture of yourself near her, and a body part is missing or looking sliced, get the fuck out of there as fast as possible…
All these horrific leftists are antichrists, Satan decided, “why have one when you can have thousands of soulless kids!”…
Yes, Upton Sinclair and one of my favorite quotes, particularly when so many scientists/physicians wouldn’t stand up to Fauci’s NIH because he controls the grant money and medical boards control licensing.
Upton Sinclair: It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
I’ll add another because it’s apropos for our times -
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”― G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain
Nice. I am old enough and dare I say edjumacated enough to know this to be true. This is why the left wants to obliterate history and us old men. They don't want the sheeple to learn anything from either.
The point about general border integrity is a good one. But the equivalence of illegal immigrants flowing across the border and an invading military force really isn't a good one.
We have a very good clue. Future Democrat voters. If it were future Republican voters the wall would be built so wide and high you'd be able to see it from space.
We have a sort of " Boys Town", Starr Commonwealth for Boys.
It's just like Boys Town except it was founded by Floyd Start, not Father Flanagan.
It's served as a place where affluent families can send their wayward children who get in trouble with the law to avoid the much harsher conditions of the state run Boys Training School.
But that option is now closed, because Starr Commonwealth is currently chockablock full of "unaccompanied children", with no end in sight being the new definition of temporary, as shown in " Temporary" inflation and other meaningless catch phrases.
BTW, guess who pays for renting out the whole facility, hundreds of times the tuition paid by affluent parents when it was still for troubled youth.
That's us of course. Biden is doing his best to Bankrupt Better, and this ridiculously high expense to house kids is just a small part of it.
There is actually evidence that American citizens living off the welfare state are larger burdens on communities per capita than illegal immigrants. And, of course, the vast majority of those citizens are current Democrat voters. End the welfare state and you'll end both burdens.
If we had Universal Conscription for 18 year olds of both sexes, we would have a nation trained in safe gun handling and capable of defending themselves.
We could re open dozens of bases of thousands of acres, revitalize local economies, lower unemployment, teach kids whose parents failed to teach discipline and rebuild our critical infrastructure because no one would be crazy enough to conflict with us militarily, so the troops could spend their workdays learning building skills and revamping the nation physically.
I remember when interstates were smooth as ribbons of glass, it could he like that again.
Not to mention drug traffickers, human traffickers and various other assorted criminals and ne'er do wells who will be a public charge. It is an invasion of its own -- no military force needed!
That's a fear, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of evidence that's how actual terrorists do things. The 911 terrorists entered the country legally and overstayed their visas. Probably the most dangerous threats of that sort are the ones that go undetected because they are blended in "legally" and therefor more difficult to identify.
I think if you are a rationally consistent thinker, then when it comes to the topic of border integrity, you care about both illegal immigrants and military invasion. The principle is the same but the violations are not. And a key reason they're not is that statistically I'm still far more likely to become a victim of violent crime from a fellow citizen than I am an illegal immigrant whereas during a foreign military invasion I'm far more likely to become a victim of the foreign military aggression than I am my fellow citizens.
There is also a completely nonviolent solution to the problem of illegal immigration. End the welfare state. There is no nonviolent solution to military invasion.
Because they create a boogeyman that will justify next trillion dollars of military budget that will line the pockets of DOD contractors (and the enablers in Congress)
Remember that Robert Gates, Obama's Secretary of Defense, once said: "I think he (Biden) has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades..." That was in 2014. Nothing has changed.
You do realize that the Obama Administration started this? Obviously that's rhetorical because you don't you seem to lack the understanding of the history of Russia, the Soviet Union and the newer Russian Federation 🤦♂️🤮
This is as scientifically accurate as schools changing their grading policies to pass failing students because "we don't want students feeling bad about all the F's they have."
What does that have to do with the price of gas? Biden is a 5 decade tool. All he knows is beneficial politics. To himself. I will never forget that regime running to "fundamentally change America." Well u got it Mr Pronoun. Is Mr Pronoun oxymoronic? Just moronic?
we're not particularly anti-Russia (or anti-Putin for that matter) and we don't like the fearmongering. or the wardrums. there's much popular support for the truckers though. HONK HONK!!
Every time Biden puts sanctions on Putin the Price of Gas here in America 🇺🇸 goes up 10 cents a gallon. If Biden had Meaningful sanctions the Price of gas would go down here in America 🇺🇸 20 cents a gallon.
This accurately reflects the science they are telling us to trust and believe in. Not to study, learn, understand or question, though, that would be racist.
He's doing these things to deliberately build our enemies strength while depleting ours, so the NWO can begin.
Everytime the price of gas goes up , so does Putin's/Russia's income.
Biden is doing just enough to justify Russia going full tilt Cyber Attack, and the stuff about holding sanctions back so there is something in reserve is nonsense.
Sanctions are to prevent war, and if it doesn't work, war is the next step.
If we aren't going to send troops, and we tell Putin that to start, the sanctions are a joke, especially dribbled out half heartedly so it's child's play to move stuff around and keep on trucking for the Russians.
He won't even sanction Putin, or cut him off from Swift.
Russia and China together are a lot more formidable than people realize.
We have lost every simulation of war against China for years now.
China and Russia and Iran and the Arabs are growing in strength daily as a result of Biden's policies, and we are growing weaker every day because of Biden's life's work has been building toward this day.
The only thing holding them back at all is the World's Largest Private Militia, and they are working hard on that problem.
someone should've tried to explain to biden that once the wardrums would have started, there'd be no more use for sanctions. this is how stooopid his handlers are.
This is why I said from the start of the this back in 2014 China Iran and North Korea need to do their part and Protect the Ukrainian border. Not American people or equipment that will eventually fall into Putin's hands. It's not our fight Period.
Europeans don't care who their government is as long as they get their pensions, their healthcare and their pubs and cafes (so they can discuss how much better they are than the rest of the world over a pint or a demitasse)
They have Ireland, North and South, do screwed up they think they should support the Fakestinians " defending their land", and if that weren't backasswards enough, they embrace their own oppressors as " Irish", very stridently insisting that they were " born here" and thus they are Irish but the Irish Diaspora are not, because they were not " born there".
They import "refugees" from African nations that don't really qualify for that status.
Right now in the North, police are looking for seven Blacks who assaulted two Whites and left an 18 year old brain injured and in a coma.
Police have no leads.
And, if anything, the South is worse than the North.
They are planning on importing a million "Refugees" they can't begin to afford, giving them the Ritz Treatment, putting them up in luxury hotels just like in Texas, and yep, just like the USA, they have plenty of domestic homeless who would be thrilled with a warm flophouse with a bathroom down the hall.
Please note that the great freedom loving "democracy" of Ukraine just instituted a law prohibiting all age 18-60 males from leaving the country. The Ukraine government is going to force men to fight and lay down their lives for a cause they may neither care about or support because clearly they can't compel enough of them to do so voluntarily. Any government that must coerce its citizens to defend it is not a government worth defending.
Right, kind of like that. Choosing between governments that do not actually defend liberty, rather they selectively defend liberties that are convenient for them to allow their citizens at any given time, is a choice between rulers not defenders.
I will personally never volunteer to defend rulers. I would only chose to defend defenders of liberty.
The purpose of your life is to grow food, make clothes, create cell phones, and fight wars, so that government employees can enjoy the Good Life. Best you realize that, slave, or they will freeze your bank account.
Yep. Unfortunately that's been the plan of our government and public education system for well over a half century at least now. Pump out compliant tax livestock. Get out of line and out come the cattle prods.
In Canada(-stan) ALL unvaxxed people are prohibited from leaving the country, or taking a train, or an airplane anywhere. The Ukrainian tyrants are small time rookies compared to PM Turdeau.
and the Ukrainian government is a globalist puppet regime who seem to want a bloodshed (weren't limited local wars a part of the global depopulation plan along with pandemics, vaccines, etc)? Ukrainian government seems to care about its citizens no more than Biden regime cares about theirs.
I don't think Putin has a mistress. He's a Christian convert.
Pope Benedict criticized the European Union for not mentioning Christianity and God in its Constitution while in Russia hundreds of churches are being built every year.
There is truth in that...if European "values" are abortion, same sex "marriage " euthanasia, very few children and self induced extinction, anti family taxes and policies, mass immigration...then Putin doesn't look quite so bad as the western liberal elites would like to paint him.
ukraine after obama's coup of 2014 began derussify their 13 million captives it started a fascist state religion.... based on orthodoxy, but more to persecute russians.
nato does not see itself christian, and the usa is softly shunning christains and its moral codes.
one step to religious persecution from the wokes...
the russian church survived and thrived in russia.
This whole thing stinks to high heaven. The media incessantly uses the word "invasion" but where is the evidence? Yes there have clearly been attacks. Where are the cell phone videos of Russian tanks and troops pouring into cities? Where are the videos of skies filled with Russian paratroopers? All I've seen is a few clips of some soldiers walking around and the lone military vehicle here and there.
Clearly Russia has attacked with aircraft bombs and cruise missiles (just as the US has done in Iraq, Syria, Somalia, etc.) but there's near zero evidence of an invasion. Maybe it's happening but people with cameras just happen to be in the wrong place. After the deception we've seen over the last two years (and well before that with US military adventurism), I want hard evidence. So far nothing.
This is just a simple back handed slap at Ukraine. They want the world to know that they can easily overwhelm their defenses at any time. They will not sit idly by as it becomes part of NATIO. What part of "Not one inch closer" do we not understand? I predict that Zelensky backs off the NATO talk and Russia keeps a new area as payment for the headache they caused them. The EU was never going to help Ukraine...neither were we. It was just a distraction. Why do you think Russia took over the Chernobyl plant sarcophagus? They knew that was a false flag dream if the area was accidently shelled by "Russia". So they took over that area to make sure anything that looks like Russia did it is out of the equation. I still think it's a possibility depending on the Covid vaccines and whether they may increase cancer rates. Perfect explanation...."Oh no, the increase in cancer is because of Chernobyl releasing something throughout the world"...don't be surprised if this comes down the pipe somehow in this clown world of ass covering.
NATO outlived any actual geopolitical usefulness long ago. Trump was right to criticize it as little more than a way for the EU to exploit the US into providing for their defense. But, of course, like Trump did and does, he was all hat, no cattle. Had NATO been dissolved when it should have been, none of this would be happening.
Of course most of Europe doesn't care about Ukraine. They are dependent on Russia for the resources they want. Ukraine offers them nothing of value. Ukraine will be returned to it's pre-2014 form and it will be quickly forgotten about....until the next US/NATO intervention into its politics. Just the latest sideshow to the ongoing globalist circus.
“How can you be together when a country is getting its energy from the person you want protection against or from the group that you want protection against?” Trump said.
Everyone is going to try and protect their own self interests. Western nations have a lot of economic recovery ahead after the disastrous effects from the pandemic measures and paying to be involved in a war or participate in sanctions that harm any of their main industries is simply not an option. It would be economic suicide. Same reason the USA and Germany are talking a big game, but know that they cannot take the hit of losing the energy resources they get from Russia. Putin knows this, which is why he chose to take action now.
Our “leaders” are getting exactly what they demanded - indifference to authoritarians. We look the other way as blackfacehitler locks up working class political opposition then kinda cheer him “dropping” emergency powers while we refuse to acknowledge a tyrant that can invoke powers at will with no resistance can access them permanently.
Half the country cheers destroying the lives of people here for pointing out men can’t actually give birth. Across the west we demanded healthcare workers have their lives destroyed for refusing a heart attack shot that doesn’t work, even for people who are already immune. Germany and Austria are taking it further - on both the heart attack shot and energy fronts. The US and Western Europe sold out there people and energy independence at the behest of egotistical billionaires who fly their private jets to Davos to decide how to destroy the west a little bit more every year. These people won’t discuss building levies or improving efficiency or reducing pollution or clean affordable nuclear power. Nope, they prefer us being dependent on tyrants in places like Iran and Russia. They even prefer talking about blocking the suns which will reduce food production and biodiversity if it actually works. C’mon man! Destroying the planet will save the planet?!?!?! 🙄
What makes anyone think the everyday people in the west care anymore which bully is destroying lives? It’s only ok for blackfacehitler and BLM and the woke mob and Pfizer? We should give up even more because some Eastern European tyrant is more violent and a little meaner to his political opposition?
Putin is a bad person, but excepting orange man, our “leaders” have long been more interested in selling us out than planning to deter foreign monsters.
Probably doesn’t help our “intelligence” agencies are more focused on harassing soccer moms for signing Jesus loves you with their 5 year old than actual threats to our way of life and economic/ military dominance.
It’s not like leftist promote actual solutions - they massively prefer suffering. Why would people in the west support even more personal suffering to not stop another bully?
And what happened to the stories about Trudeau’s Tyrrany? Poof! GONE! Did all those people get out of jail and get their bank accounts unfrozen? Is there still a vaccine mandate for truckers but not the police? Inquiring minds want to know.
They aren’t out of jail, the lisecrnses of over 40 trucking companies are still revoked, the property still impounded, they claim they are “starting the process” of “unfreezing some” accounts, not all, but refuse to give details.
Blackfacehitler can re-access these powers at will now. He knows he’ll get zero resistance. The powers are permanently available.
But we must ignore that. Ignore we destroyed the lives of healthcare workers for refusing a heart attack shot. Ignore everything the woke left destroys. Ignore being sold out to the WEF.
No, what we should really care about according to the woke left is another tyrant half a world a way because he’s kinda meaner to his political opposition and kinda more violent if we ignore all the US violence in foreign lands for the last 2 decades. 🙄
Reminds me of Trudeau decrying fascism a day or two ago—right after his farce of an emergency fell apart. Pot, meet kettle. At least he was ratio’d to Hell and back on Twitter for his remarks. Gives me hope for the human race!
Never listen to the words released to the press. Always look at the actions and consequences. That's the real tell.
This is a proxy fight between most disinterested but entangled parties (NATO nations vs. Russia/China bloc). The rest of the NATO nations not US or Germany will want to ensure their interest are not overly impacted because its not their fight. But they have to play the game to an extent.
I don't understand something and I'm wondering if someone can explain it to me. I don't understand why we are purchasing oil from Russia instead of pumping it from our own wells all in the name of preventing climate change. Whether it's our oil or Russia's oil doesn't it still pollute? Why would we give up our energy independence to wind up with the same environmental impact but much less national security?
"Europe" is just geography Alex. We are not one people, and gods willing we will never ever emulate you americans any further. Your insane fixation with and cunfusion about race, ehtnicity, nationality and kultur which you have exported here through all kinds of media is nothing but USAmerica at its worst.
So "Europe" neither cares nor don't care. Remember, many of us live in houses older than your nation. You are still young as culture and a people. Learn history. This war is nothing new, including the greed, grift and studpidity of our 'elected' leaders.
You are projecting your american misconceptions, nothing else.
I look forward to reading you using the same language, assumptions, and generalisatons about other demographies.
Let's face it, individual courage is waning in the world at the moment, and those that have it (Putin and Xi) are making hay while they have the chance. Trump is a loudmouth and a bit of a jerk, but he has courage and solid negotiation skills that put both evil regimes on pause for 4 years, and now both are speeding ahead while their competition is extraordinarily week. 100% China will seize Taiwan this summer, before the next US Congressional elections.
I pray you are wrong on Taiwan, but fear you are correct. I tend to lean towards them waiting until after the election. I hope either is wrong, but fear one or the other is right.
I thought telling people the US can’t survive 4 years of woke Biden incompetence was a figure of speech………………
All this (most self inflicted) in one year; honestly not sure how we will survive another 3:
Covid restrictions, mass suppression of speech, inflation/gas prices, labor shortage, interest rates/recession, border/immigration/fentanyl, supply shortage, national debt/spending, crime/homelessness, foreign policy/wars. Not to mention our moral crisis - CRT, HR1, attempts to pack the court, the "other" despicable name-calling, Jan 6th nonsense, Canada tyranny, gov't law breaking and blatant hypocrisy, transgenders in women's sports, and I'm sure there is more.
One dimensional. The knee jerk use of sanctions for the shared suffering of all is undermining US leadership and the role of the dollar as the world's currency. No problem for Biden and the parasite class, but this is not much different from covid lockdowns. Suffering for the wealth and tax producers to solve the problems of the tax consumers.
Exactly. The woke mob can destroy lives because their feelings are hurt, blackfacehitler can lock up political opposition, and lock out of the economy anyone supporting them, BLM and Antifa can burn cities and even kill people without consequence, the masked Covidians can destroy small businesses, isolate a generation of kids for a year, permanently harm the development of toddlers, darken the future of a generation, and destroy the lives of already immune first responders and healthcare workers for refusing a heart attack jab that doesn’t even work. Sanctions, policies, and “emergencies” to hurt everyday people is all the western left knows how to do and they are shockingly efficient at it. Is anyone shocked by more of the same???
aside from people making money directly on the several military industry complexes, only a few of the people who believed trump a traitor for looking for honesty from zelenskyy favor the expansion of nato dangerously close to russia.
and the nutcases that want to break up russia like clinton on yugoslavia
Europe's energy suicide coupled with their unwillingness to defend themselves maybe means we should rethink whether NATO serves the US interest and get out before they dither us into WW3.
It's almost like the Italians know NATO doesn't mean shit when things go yo hell. So why make things tough on yourself until the Rudsusns overrun you too.
WE are still buying oil from Putin! WE will NEVER give up our guns, the Ukrainians won't ever again, either! WE have the most incompetent President! WE have a Veep that has the brain of a retarded teen-ager!
This is the problem with the world, in particular the US, in microcosm. The so called leaders embody in their corrupt selves what the people have ratified. That is profit, power, and pleasure over God fearing, virtue, self sacrifice, and true human flourishing. I have often reflected on a revelation given I believe to Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta before WW II. I will paraphrase since I don’t have the passage with me. Luisa saw Jesus standing amidst a city turned into rubble by war. Jesus was weeping and said to her that “I don’t want this to happen but I let it happen so that people return to me.”
Nice comment, but, Jesus is not the only guide to salvation, are you going to declare every other religion irrelevant?
Frankly, I believe there is some sort of Lifeforce, not exactly what George Lucas claims, but, I think there’s something on earth that transcends this flawed human projection that there is some religious figure that is human that rules us allegedly in a benevolent way.
At the end of the day, I think responsible hope and faith is based on people starting by wanting to save themselves, not in a selfish way, but in a self preserving way.
Again, nice comment overall, good luck taking it far…
No search for God is irrelevant. It is a search for truth, goodness, and beauty. Divine truth, goodness, and beauty became incarnate in Jesus Christ so any search whether the person realizes it or not is seeking Him. He loves me no more and no less than He loves you or any other person He has created, and longs to have a relationship with each person to become known to all and reveal His love for each. The goal is to cooperate with His grace and do His will, every day, which is the great adventure of life. Mother Teresa said that; “holiness of life is the simple duty of every person”, and that holiness consists of “doing God’s will with a smile.”
As an American I have just one thing to say ..... I am embarrassed and ashamed to be an American for the first time in my life.
We were once the leaders of the free world, the country that people could look to for support and to do what was right to help the oppressed.
Now we are a woke joke that stands by as a maniacal midget attempts to destroy an entire country' dreams.
We are cowards, our leaders more concerned about polls than dead bodies in a freedom loving country. Our people afraid of a tyrant who threatens nukes.
Are we insane? IF he threatens nukes and we back down he will never stop.
We MUST stand up, WE must regain our pride, We MUST support the people of Ukraine and not stand by.
You’re only now embarrassed after watching what Obama and Trump have done the last 12 years, even the Clintons, hell, even George W. Bush/ The Dick Cheney…
We’ve been ruled by profoundly interpersonally flawed “leaders” for decades, I’ve been disgusted since at least the 1980s, Ronald Reagan was a joke, he was another puppet just like most of these other more recent shit bags. And I have a theory, do you know why you can’t understand Biden, because he is truly a mannequin on a pole, with the Obama Clintons and Darth Cheney holding the pole from up Biden’s ass and sometimes pushing it too far up and it’s clogging the back of his throat
I don’t know where you got the “sacrifice Ukrainians“ from but, how can we save others if we’re not safe?!
If We don’t take a stand against the sociopaths and soulless cretins, then, tell me that we’ve got to go out and save others who aren’t our own people, when we’ve got hideous horrific MF’ers behind us ready to stab us in the back and then cheer how absolutely devoid of humanity they are…
As is usual in these situations, watching live the scenes of human suffering is so difficult. The babies in ICU units being taken to dark underground subway stations, the parents with their children and the bewildered looks on their faces, how quickly happy children and normal live changes to unimaginable horror as a result of crazed wealthy individuals all over the world "playing" with the lives of real human beings on their private "world chess board" for their own amusement. Tragic in it's human toll. Bombing an orphanage for disabled children .... what can be said, all while these perverts play with people as if they are inanimate objects of no value. Diamonds ? Prada ? Egos ? or just plain madness ?
The problem for Biden is that he and his family have been lining their pockets around the world using corrupt practices. Putin, the old KGB guy, certainly knows all the details. Putin, in other words, has the goods on Biden. Biden can't do anything that really hurts Putin without Putin going after the corrupt Biden family.
Let’s be honest: a bear sleeping peacefully in its den was smoked out of there by being poked with a stick, and now they are wondering why it is chasing those who did that. Moscow has been pushed into a corner and is now demonstrating its strength and standing up for its interests. Now Putin will at best be satisfied with a change of guard in Kiev, and at worst, Ukraine as a state will disappear from the map of Europe. Is it possible to justify an aggression that has been provoked for a long time? This is a matter of a lengthy discussion. One thing is clear: 20 years ago, Russia could and wanted to join NATO and united Europe. However, the latter chose to make Russia an enemy…
Russia has leverage over the entire west because our “leaders” sold us out to a bs narrative about how to “fix” the climate with more poverty and less functional energy which made us depend on the tyrants ruling places like Iran and Russia.
The rest is just the leftist political class scraping off the top as most politicians do given the opportunity.
All Hunter’s bill did was give Ukraine false hope we’d be there for them if they saber rattled about wanting to join NATO. Apparently they missed how we’ve left our “friends” over the last 2 decades. Afghanistan should have been a recent reminder to all our “friends” that we are shitty friends. Ukraine missed the memo.
They will obviously have dirt but it's not useful in this circumstance. Taking out or damaging Biden would achieve nothing for the Kremlin. They're pushing back against the Empire.
Keeping Biden and the US from taking action to fortify the energy needs of European nations with our own reserves (while also lowering worldwide oil prices) with such leverage would surely be beneficial to Putin’s efforts and his ability to call a bluff on sanctions.
Greta Thunberg did a great job weakening Europe for Putin. They are dependent on his oil because green energy is inadequate. She does look like him... could she be a bastard child mole... impossible to be too cynical...
I wrote an article about exactly that.
http://tritorch.com/suicide
When Europe takes a power plant offline, they do not just take it offline. They bring in a demolition crew and destroy it. The implications of this are staggering when you consider the fact that once they are gone, they are gone for good...and it takes a long time to build a new one.
From your article fortiori:
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The leadership of Europe has brainwashed their citizens into believing that green energy is feasible when they know full well it is not. Additionally, they've convinced their population that if they do not act by shutting these power plants down, climate change is going to kill them all.
So they're brainwashing their own countrymen to manifest conditions that will kill them, while promising them salvation for doing so.
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Damn good writing that. It seems that you have a knack for it.
That is nice of you to say, thank you Jen
The leadership of Europe are not "the countrymen" of Europeans -- that's the problem.
They're "the John Kerrys" of Europe.
Kerry is a self important puffed up toad. A vile and loathsome man.
Your description of Kerry is far too kind.
A kept “man”
You're right, but Kerry is very 'crypto' for a ,lot of people to get the point. Why not just say they're the George Soros of Europe. Wait, George Soros is the George Soros of Europe -- and of the US as well. Busy old guy.
It's all because the masses worship the created rather than the Creator
Nice observation, very true, thank you TheGhostofBellaStar.
This quote stretches all the way into the afterlife:
“Don’t give up what you want most, for what you want now.”
You've piqued my interest with this link, and it is certainly one I will look to read this weekend! The topic also reminds me of a similar 'movement' that occurred throughout the Pennsylvania Coal Region a generation ago, which my father told me about:
Back when my father was a boy, the majority of "common" homes in the region had cast-iron kitchen coal stoves, which were used not only for cooking, but also as a superior home heating source! When the electric company became the behemoth, however, it started pushing the new electric stove. And often, when a family "upgraded" to an electric stove, the appliance stores would remove the coal stoves... and DESTROY them. You can still find an old kitchen coal stove today... but you literally have to hunt them down~
Ditto except in East Tennessee, Grandparents had wood burning Potbelly for heat, cast iron stove for cooking, out house. Kerosene lamps. Grandpa put in a Citzern to filter the rain water. Out door pump, but he put in a kitchen sink smaller one. I remeber in the summer we grand kids took baths in a #10 washtub on the back porch. I still have her canner, and chicken cast iron fry pan well blackened. My sister who is younger has her creamic rolling pin. They got electric when they moved north.
I like ceramic double farm sinks.
Beautiful unless you have to wash the entire family's clothes in them. That's why the bigger sinks were always situated outside of the "civilized" space.
Grandma had the Aga. Daughter-in-law continued the tradition. It was an art to understand the different plates and ovens. Build up the fire from the embers early morning - heat and cooking 24/7. And we all would gather around this beast in the cold months - we did not bother with TV. The conversation was more interesting.
Ahh, yes. The lost art of conversation. I used to eavesdrop on my dad, his brothers, and my grandfather as they discussed politics after a Sunday dinner. Loved that and learned a lot. My dad would be so disappointed by the current nonsense.
So true.
Militarized Obsolescence !
Your site is a genuine Public Service. Thanks for the Link of Links!
Wow, thank you sir!
This is true. Ireland now imports peat briquettes! Ireland used to export turf/peat - so big was the reserve. Ireland used to have state-owned power plants generating fossil fuels (blasphemy!) but now they are decommissioned, given back to Nature, converted to bike trails and weird outdoor art installations :( Irish are paying 3x to heat their homes than they did a year ago. But the outdoor art and bike trails are worth it!
formerly Catholic cultures more easily transition to authoritarian ones, just replacing one centralized system for another
It would be nice if they would stop exporting Botox. Our self-appointed ruling class needs to go natural. Their face should reflect the lies they tell.
Ireland hasn't been anywhere near normal since 1169.
That was "Norman". Interesting connection....
Great article. I am now a believer in nuclear power. I would even live by one of them. Real investment on how to make them safe - and eliminating corruption and graft - needs to be done now.
I have a summer home in apple country on Lake Ontario NY. A few miles from the Ginna nuclear power plant. I don’t glow in the dark. 😁
⚡️🤯🤣
They are " Full On Going For IT"
IT is a pun on the driving engine.
I know it isn't funny.
I did not intend it to be.
Meanwhile, in the USA, the Biden Administration Nuclear Regulatory Administration is revoking the renewal of permits to operate a large nuclear plant near Miami, and another one in Pennsylvania. This is not denying pending renewals. It is REVOKING renewals that were already granted by the Trump admin.
And what will this carbon-free power be replaced with? Oil, gas, or coal. Sure to bring a smile to Greta Thunberg's face.
We, sadly, are going down the same road as Europe of shooting ourselves in the foot. Meanwhile, the literal communists are laughing all the way to the bank.
Sad!
We are shooting ourselves in the head.
🤮I am in LA so I am used to officials wiping out the middle class which are now 🦄 in our state
As a former Californian and UCLA alumnus, I'm sad to see what has happened to the once-beautiful California. It has become like a third-world country: super rich and homeless people, with a shrinking veneer of a once-vibrant middle class.
P.S. While the Europeans aren't willing to embargo the shipment of Gucci shoes, or Belgian diamonds, we all had better hope that the Russians don't retaliate.
If they stopped exporting oil for a few months, the entire financialized pyramid of debt and overvalued bonds in the west would come crashing down, making 2008-9 look like a picnic.
I'm old enough to remember the Arab Oil embargo, and it created the deepest recession since the depression up to that time. The stock market crashed and the S&P 500 ended up trading at something like 7 times earnings. Inflation and unemployment exploded.
Whatever you think of the morality/sanity of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, what's especially scary is the utter stupidity of the West's response. The White House has been saying for at least 2 weeks that Russia was going to invade.
Yet only now they want to send weapons? And exactly how are they going to get them there with Russia controlling the territory. And would that be considered a provocation that justifies Russia shooting at other countries?
What happens if we cut them off of SWIFT? How are the Europeans exactly supposed to pay them for the gas and oil that they are entirely dependent on? The Western "leaders" think the Russians will just keep on delivering without payment? What happens to the USD as a global reserve currency?
Russia has run a trade surplus since at least 2015, and has a ton of foreign reserves, gold, and of course its territory is full of all the resources the world is so short of now like petroleum, gas, minerals, timber, etc. Who needs who more?
And is the invasion of Ukraine any more morally odious than the Chinese genocide against the Uighurs?
American and the West needs to wake up and confront actual reality.
Is it fair to say that France has for the most part still been an exception to that - at least with respect to nuclear power plants?
Why destroy it? - surely that takes lots of extra energy and money - which would be against their green policy...
They don't want reminders or evidence of cheap energy...
Or recommissioning.Especially no recommissioning.
True Dave - the Reminder. Also how much it cost to build originally - from tax money in hard times.....they lie on a rotating basis.
So it can't be recommissioned to save people freezing to death
They know better than anyone that Green is BS, they don't care about a bit of waste that ensures in the future all the rest will be theirs and theirs alone.
EMP LEVEL.
yes Nukes!
Not half as good a job as China Joe.
We all know, as does Joe, the importance of depleting strategic petroleum reserves prior to starting a war.
And the essential need to shut down firmly any who would produce petroleum firmly.
And that is only one of the wonders of China Joe Biden, he has many more accomplishments in successful national suicide strategies than Greta the Green Grinch.
Before things go much further, I believe the vast majority of Americans will have serious regrets about Donald Trump not being re-elected regardless of party or politics.
I just said to my husband last night while watching coverage of Ukraine, I miss Trump!! America would look so different today if he hadn’t been ousted by the lying, cheating, scum bag, all in for Communism, radical leftists.
Said the same thing, didn't even care for the man's personality AT ALL, then realized, voting for him does not mean I have to tolerate him as a dinner guest or best friend ! Voting on purely emotional "feelings" is a fool's game for sure !
I voted for Trump, both times, to be CEO of USA. Not to be my moral compass.
Exactly, just have to set personal feelings based on sheer emotion aside when it comes to elections ! But, many absolute go to the polls armed strictly on "gut feeling, and even PHYSICAL appearance ! Who teaches students at ANY level what characteristics to look for when selecting leaders ? NO ONE, that's who ! Many instances of teachers telling students WHO to vote for, or making passive aggressive remarks against a particular party, but actually TEACH how to research and what to look for in a leader... nope !
I really wouldn't want Joe Biden in my house.
Or around my Grandkids...
I understand and know what you are thinking. I've dealt with the same thing with a close member of our family.... the sexual innuendo as the dementia worsens can get difficult to deal with, and the sudden shouting and the angry facial looks, we dealt with the same thing: sudden "I'm a tough guy, come on, bring it on" remarks would just "erupt", suddenly, with no provocation, just like the president. But, when it's a beloved family member you do find ways to to include them.
I would say that most of us wouldn't especially want to be friends with pretty much any politician, especially at the higher levels. But their personalities and personal lives are irrelevant: it's all about what they do when in power, the decisions they make. Forget the rest of it.
I know it is no guarantee, but I do find it "comforting"when a politician has a history of a stable home/personal life; no DUI's or other arrests, an "uneventful" divorce if one has taken place in the past, no history of hotel room parties with drugs and a variety of "women", people can leave a "trail of crumbs" that people don't necessarily have to judge on a moral basis.... the deeper meaning can give you clues about their maturity, judgment, and ability to establish interpersonal relationships. Swagger, arrogance, etc. can be positives, but many other personality traits ARE important in leadership, and we are definitely lacking "talent" with true leadership skills.
But it's tradition!
Trump was fun. These douche bags in the White House now are dreary dimwits.
Tell us how you really feel Cinna! Amen! I miss his mean tweets
“Lying cheating scum bags”! Woo hoo. Go cinnamon girl!!!
Like Neil "Blackstone" Young.
I follow Mark Crispin Miller as well. He is a true lefty - not like Noam Chomsky who has shown himself to be a cheap piece of furniture with a tacky veneer. Here is Mark's post on Ukraine. He links to a video from 2017 on war and propaganda. Take out the war's they reference and pop in Covid and you will see they unleashed war on us. https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/war-propaganda-works-by-making-you?r=56y1f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Right? Look at this:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1496709662602932224
He seems to be the only one that is willing to save America. Look how the Republicans are sitting back watching the demise of this country. Rush Limbaugh was right (as always), the country cannot survive a Biden administration.
People should not underestimate the *existential danger* of having crazed ideologue spoiled brat children and a late stage dementia patient running the country right now instead of the mean Tweeter. That mean Tweeter came up building skyscrapers in New York. What does that entail? You have to get City Hall, the labor unions, the construction companies, the banks, and the Mafia all in a room, where you tell them in no uncertain terms to sit the hell down, shut the hell up, and do what he says. Instead we have a regime who thinks this is just an episode of The West Wing, and that's the ones who are in the building. The ones not even in the building are phoning in their part-time advice to the dementia patient and his "staff" from a mansion on Martha's Vineyard, on their way to lunch with Beyonce and Whoopi to discuss new ways to implement their black supremacist agenda. I defy you to name *one* thing this crew accomplished in their 8 years in The White House, and these are the exact same people in charge today. Andrea Mitchell and Hilary just outlined one of the "options" being offered to the addled patient with his brains leaking out of his ears: cyber attacks on Russia, that would turn the lights off in Moscow and send the subway trains off their tracks. But hello, the Russians and Chinese *are much more competent* in cyber warfare than anything the gender fluid equity hires in the CIA or the Pentagon could ever pull off, which means it's the New York lights and the Chicago trains that would be the ones going off the rails. Putin made it very clear he views cyber attacks as *acts of war*. That we would begin such in defense of Ukraine, *a country with which we have NO military defense treaty in place*, is fantasy insanity of the highest order. Add in the hypersonic missile fleet Vlad has, which we've just seen neutralize the entire Ukrainian air defense system in honestly less than 10 minutes (more like 5), systems that YOU bought with YOUR tax money (or at least what money was left over after Hilary and Joe, James, Mary, and of course Hunter Biden stole as much as they could) and you're led to the conclusion: elections have consequences, and stolen elections have catastrophic consequences.
Perfect comment! I have to laugh hearing about the “sanctions” dementia man and his support team keep promising. Really? While we buy Russian oil. Such a joke. How did our (shadow)government and their supporters become so dimwitted?
I think the sad truth is that at the top level what we have is economic and political and societal theatre, but underpinning it all is an interlocking set of criminal cabals whose job it is to exploit "ideologies" and "the press" to extract as many taxpayer dollars as they can around the world and shuffle them off to The Cayman Islands where they are completely quarantined from any taxing authorities (34 thousand million dollars at last count). So there is the human trafficking and fentanyl cabal at the border, the massive Permanent War cabal, the central banking cabal making sure all the money flows in the society concentrate upwards, the fairly new but fast growing Green Scam cabal, and of course the Pharma Industrial Complex cabal making sure people get sick and pay handsomely to stay that way. The 0.0001% know that the best business model in the world bar none is slavery, and with a big dose of fear and loathing from the nice man on TV they can get the people to beg for it.
Right! Putin laughs at the puppet's feeble ploys and weak sanctions, but then again its probably all a part of the greater 2030 agenda. Forest for the trees?
In 2019 the puppet warned "what will happen to the Ukraine if Trump gets 4 more years" Yeah right Brandon!
BAM !!
Putin looks at the vaunted "U.S." "Military" and sees a force today whose last clear win was on the island of Grenada in 1981, that could not defeat a ragtag bunch of impoverished but determined goat herders armed with flintlocks in Afghanistan; that prioritized "Kabul Gay Pride Week" a month before the humiliating fall of that city; and whose top leaders, armed with the most ubiquitous and awesome intelligence gathering capabilities ever offered a fighting force, find it impossible to even LOCATE the enemy, let alone devise a plan to oppose it. Generals Milley and Austin stated repeatedly and publicly, to murmurs of approval across the entire press corps, that the top, not one of, or one of the top, but THE TOP military threat currently facing The United States Of America is, wait for it, THE WEATHER ("climate change"). The second most terrifying and capable enemy they managed to locate was apparently WITHIN THEIR VERY OWN RANKS: soldiers of the race that encompasses two thirds of the nation's population (i.e. white). But wait, there's more: within that dastardly and sinister group, lurking in plain sight in the battalions, was a subset of persons they saw fit to call out individually: THOSE WHO HOLD EXCESSIVELY "PATRIOTIC" VIEWS. It's a wonder Putin doesn't just try to grab Alaska or Maine at this point: IT WOULD BE A CAKEWALK.
I love PEACE. And it is WEAKNESS that leads directly to WAR.
GOP are useless
Grand Old Phonies
The Paul Ryan wing is useless. The Trump Majority is in control now.
Rush has got to be turning over in his grave.
I believe you are right. I've noticed. Some acquaintances who are "old fashioned working man" type democrats are reluctant to be very vocal, but the lack of support for the "new" democrat party of J. Biden is palpable in my community definitely !
I have serious regrets every day that so many Americans fell for the Progressive party line. President Trump was under attack from the day he rode that escalator, and sadly, we can thank the scoundrels from both sides of the aisle. Must be pretty dang easy to buy a member of Congress.
"They" say... every man has his price. An interesting parallel with the situation right now in Ukraine. A "younger" leader of a country that we know is corrupt.... but.... putting aside the "corrupt" part, a "peasant class" that longs for, and has along history of fighting for freedom. They have not forgotten the yolk and the whip of oppression like we have TOTALLY forgotten here in our country. Now I realize their president, former TV comedian (the last none who might make a brave leader ? I mean, who would think Jimmy Kimmel might have "the right stuff" ? But for now, this most unlikely president, leader, is on TV telling his "people" he is "right here, not going anywhere, not taking money and hopping on a helicopter to leave you on your own".... Kind of makes you think of the kind of men, and women, and BOYS and GIRLS we once had when we won our independence against ALL ODDS doesn't it ? If we were under attack, can you imagine our president running out into the public saying "I am here, I am here with you and for you, I am not going anywhere". Can you imagine our president with the rifles he detests so much, saying I will die for you, for "our" common freedom.... hummmmm ? So often it is the very people we would NEVER consider, who God brings to the top like fine cream, and at the right minute in history. You never know.
In reference to your comments on what our President would do in the same situation, I just said that at the breakfast table this morning. He would not be bravely standing outside, with firearms, standing up for his people. He would be hiding somewhere safe in a bunker long ago. Far safer than his covid-free basement. Coward.
Most definitely he would, in fact, he may not even have any input into the situation. It does appear that even his closest family members ignore his confused state; I suppose because they (his relatives) all enjoy the benefits so much they could care less about him personally ? Kind of the same story, different genera, as when everyone around the famous singer Elvis just ignored HIS mental and physical anguish as long as the $$$, private planes, and parties keep rolling along .... !
It was stolen from all of us !!!!!’
I know more than a few who already do, some Dems included!
Nah. Zombies gotta Zombie, they won't awaken until it's too late to live.
Just watched a video clip from 2019 where the puppet was saying "Just imagine what happens to the Ukraine if TRUMP gets another 4 years" Yeah right JOE!
I hope Tucker plays that clip tonight.
As you know Joe has so many "foot in mouth" clips from being a 50 year swamp creature. Probably more than anyone in the swamp...
John that was brilliant, needed the chuckle :-))
Ding ding ding! Turns out shutting off the nuclear power and becoming reliant on Russian gas in the middle of the winter wasn't a great play.
Oh, c'mon Yuri - everyone knows Greta Thunberg is a robot. Quite lifelike, almost convincing, but not quite there yet.
I think she's something more low tech, like a Russian midget planted with a Swedish family.
Certainly a mental midget, that’s for sure.
I suspect she has very ambitious parents, who have realized that while they would never be recognized above the crowd, they did realize the potential if a special needs child was to be coached to appeal on a purely emotional level, the entire WORLD would take notice. In many ways like parents who "gently encourage" their child to "question" their gender in an effort to be "discovered" and launch a hit TV reality show, or parents who coerce their children into "wild" experiments to gain world wide attention ("balloon boy" ?), and it seems to never fail, so I believe we should expect more and more of it until... such people are no longer able to be rewarded with media attention.
I think it was through Rod Dreher's TAC blog that I became aware -- very early on -- that Greta's mom had an on-the-spectrum depressed child who "found her purpose" in environmental activism. What Dreher also reported was that, because few people can read Swedish, the supposed adults she was berating had no idea that Greta's beliefs included even farther-afield utopian nonsense about the environment which, according to her, can only be saved by the "destruction of the patriarchy."
I believe you got that right ! Does no one even notice the "child's" eyes ? There is much more to this story I am sure. Does no one else see the kind of "fake passion", with the emphasis often in the wrong places (intonation, pitch, VOLUME, etc. etc. that are so clearly not from actual emotion because the emphasis often does not align with the words. It's almost like watching when the president alternately screams and acts outraged, and then lowers his voice to an ominous toned whisper, but always in the wrong places of a speech, the timing is always off and it just falls flat. Same with the so called "passionate" young woman.
One of the benefits of growing old is you can read people so easily. Not that you're old. I am though.
Biden is an animated cadaver. Note the problem in keeping the cadaver's eyes open.
He died in his basement from shock last November.He could not believe it had actually worked so he was already excited, but it was the celebratory crack pipe he shared with Hunter that did him in , prompting a massive cardiac event that was like a miniature nuclear explosion die to the hardness of China Joe's traitorous heart.
Just so you know...
China sent their top experts and had him up and shuffling within a few days.
I can see AI at work there.
Al Gore invented the algorithm. But, as we all know Al Gore has no rhythm. Just ask Tipper.
Yeah. AlGo-no-rythm.
I don't know what she is, but she surely is no Rosie the riveter.
And really, lifelike? Can we be honest here?
The question is why that little halfwit made such a splash. It's painful to look at her. She's full of shit. Why is she even a thing??
She was trotted out to appeal to and manipulate the world’s youth. Reminiscent of The Hunger Games characters.
A Plant. Not to disrespect real plants, of course....
The lefties always need a hero.
😂
We have our own version in one John Kerry, pleading with Putin to respect the climate while plundering other countries. 🤣.
Did he take his private jet to go discuss this?
Now what do YOU think ? Do you see him in the line at the Delta counter with his mask and trying desperately to get a cabin class middle seat between some deplorable and her baby ?
You know John Kerry doesn’t wear a mask. He’s part of the “clean and sophisticated” elite.
Please, referring to him as an elite is so wrong.
I agree 1000%. She was a child that was used. Because I consider myself an environmentalist, I have been writing CA officials for years saying we should be drilling for oil. We can control how it is done. We can become a leader in extracting in the least harmful way on a product that people need for the foreseeable future. Instead, our leaders talk climate change on private jets while we get our oil from despots whose human rights violations don't seem to penetrate the 'woke ideology' only applicable to the west.
MEANTIME about KIDS and Pfizer VACCINE TRIALS. Stanford got positive results for 2-doses in 6-20 months of age. And they are working on 3-doses for 2-4 year olds. They plan to submit to the FDA in April.
Doctor Maldonado: So, we started doing [Pfizer vaccine childrens'] trials here at Stanford; we're one of many sites around the country that are doing these trials. Because people in the Bay Area have been so eager to have their children [take] part [in the vaccine trials]. We have been enrolling a high number of families into the trial here. People have just been really wanting to participate, and it really does help us move the studies forward. We were able to get the 5 to 11 year old vaccines approved [under EUA] in November.
We started the under 5 year old [Pfizer vaccine trials] before November, last summer. But really, we're focusing on the older kids just to get those finished and done. But the under 5 year olds are broken into two groups: 6 months to 2-3 months of age. And then 24 months to 4 years of age, so 2 to 4 [year olds]. The original study was a two-dose study because as we know, both of the mRNA vaccines are two doses. For the Pfizer trial, the doses were given three weeks apart. Well, it turns out that the antibody responses, well, the dose given to the under 5 year olds was a lower dose and so was the 5 to 11 year old relative to adults.
The adult dose of the vaccine was thirty micrograms per dose. Now, for the 5 to 11 year olds, the dose was 1/3 of that or ten micrograms per dose, because the higher dose caused more immediate reactions, especially fevers. With the under 5 year olds, it turned out that even the ten microgram dose was also causing higher reactions especially fevers in the smaller children. So, the three micro microgram doses given. So that's one 1/10 of the adult dose. And with those trials, it turns out that in the 6 to 20 months old, the three micro doses worked very well and gave a good antibody response equivalent to the adult dose.
Unfortunately, for the 2 to 4 year olds, that dose did not seem to give the same high level of antibody response. And now none of us have seen the data, because the studies are still blinded, so we don't know what that means. The responses were really pretty good, but not good enough, or whether they really are not great at all. So, we don't know and so because of that, [Pfizer] along with the FDA, discussed putting in a third dose and if we think about it, many of our vaccines for children require more than two or three doses anyway, so that's usually what we need to do to, especially for younger kids, to really boost that immune response.
In the beginning of / middle of January, we were given approval by [Pfizer] and by the FDA to initiate a third dose study for the kids who had already been enrolled with the first two doses. So, we're almost done with that, and we hope that the data will be complete by March so that it can be submitted to the FDA by April.
We think that by early April we should have a vaccine for the under 5 year olds.
The other thing is safety -- safety has not been an issue. Safety has always been really great. It's really been the ability to [get] a really good robust antibody response.
Eshoo: Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Well, we have to take care of our little angels and you've given us a good update on that.
You can listen to last night's town hall here:
https://ne-np.facebook.com/RepAnnaEshoo/videos/telephone-town-hall-with-rep-anna-eshoo-dr-bonnie-maldonado/367287831645545/
This is the Stanford doctor speaking:
https://med.stanford.edu/maldonadoepigroup/aboutus.html
https://profiles.stanford.edu/yvonne-maldonado?tab=bio
Dr. Yvonne (Bonnie) Maldonado is Professor and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics at Stanford Medicine. She also directs Stanford's Global Child Health Program and serves as the Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford.
If you've had your children fully vaccinated according to "The Schedule," as I have, you know this is a bald lie: " if we think about it, many of our vaccines for children require more than two or three doses anyway." THESE PEOPLE WILL SAY ANYTHING.
I followed all the vax rules before now. Do not trust ANY of it now. Not one bit.
Me either
Key point: Please stop being distracted and read this prediction from the Stanford doctor: "We think that by early April we should have a vaccine for the under 5 year olds."
This makes my stomach hurt and I don’t even have children. How could people be so careless with their children?
Because so many are dying of Covid
And the test subjects in all of this are...
I work with people like this: "Because people in the Bay Area have been so eager to have their children [take] part [in the vaccine trials]." Beyond sad. They offer their children up for the vax. Eagerly.
This used to be considered unethical. Trials were only done on children with a life threatening problem. Not perfectly healthy children
It still is unethical. Wonder if those children will grow old enough to sue for damages!?
The parents are brainwashed and sick.
Since when does anyone take people In the Bay Area seriously!
At least Bay Area real estate prices will go down.
Greta is a "holy child" like Malala or Joan of Arc. It's all political theatre - Crowley's "Age of Horus" led by a crowned and conquering child on horseback. (See the Sun card in the tarot, which is not coincidentally number (corona) 19). Maybe politicians are stupid enough to believe it but for the men behind the curtain it's about global change, including a united Eurasian superstate (paging Halford Mackinder) with Russian muscle, Chinese labor, Israeli espionage and British banking. How else could you elevate China and Russia to their lofty perches on the world stage without crushing the west through forced austerity, suffocating technological progress and brainwashing the young generations into sterility?
Obviously you are extremely delusional if you think some autistic teenager is responsible for the behavior of war-mongering grown men. This is a direct result and the fault of the US and EU. Get a clue dopy
the 'autistic teenager' (why so impolite?) is a useful poster gal and only represents far larger, partly hidden interests. we really need to find out how to prevent these interests from getting serious funding in the future. HONK HONK!!
brilliant, TQ
No it is not. The EU and US are " behind it", Greta is " Out Front".
She is the direct propagandist consciously or unconsciously pushing the BS that originated with the power elite, indirectly parroting their programming.
Greta's personal handler is an underling of Soros'.
Greta is a part of the problem with US policy. It’s connected
Lighten up and have a little fun with it, James, or can't cuz you're one of them? Hug a polar bear for me. Yes i love nature. Point your anger at the communists. Actually, you already are
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One theory holds that all religions are started by a schizophrenic seeing visions and perpetuated by obsessive-compulsive disciples. I guess Greta falls to the second, disciple, category. Ironically, it was the nuclear industry that first created the alarm narrative about anthropogenic CO2 causing global warming, to push their CO2-free power plants.
Thanks, I was on the outlook for a new "conspiracy theory!"
But she's so passionate!.......
I never noticed that before but yes, she does look like him. Then again, there’s a general Eastern European appearance.
Oil?? You do energy with oil... we don't
We buy gas from Gazprom for heating (we rarely use electricity for that) and to produce electrical energy.
Russia is not that far away from Europe, do you know it?
Or we should buy gas from Middle East, from your friends of Middle East, maybe through the famous pipe that was the ONLY reason of the war to poor Afghanistan...
But I've a good question for you: Do we ever discuss, as Europeans, they way you americans produce energy? Do we discuss, we from EU, how do you organize your States? How you manage your supposed Democracy? Do we ever asked you to change something in your country? Do we ever organized fake elections, coups, financed or organized internal terrorism in your country? Like you've done for tens of years in Europe
Pls, let me know. txs!
You know who Thud-turd really looks like, go back and find the original The Omen from 1979 I think, she looks just like the antichrist bastard scumbag.
If you get a picture of yourself near her, and a body part is missing or looking sliced, get the fuck out of there as fast as possible…
All these horrific leftists are antichrists, Satan decided, “why have one when you can have thousands of soulless kids!”…
It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It -Upton Sinclair(?)
Yes, Upton Sinclair and one of my favorite quotes, particularly when so many scientists/physicians wouldn’t stand up to Fauci’s NIH because he controls the grant money and medical boards control licensing.
Upton Sinclair: It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
I’ll add another because it’s apropos for our times -
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”― G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain
Nice. I am old enough and dare I say edjumacated enough to know this to be true. This is why the left wants to obliterate history and us old men. They don't want the sheeple to learn anything from either.
If I put that quote on my facebook page I wonder if they will understand it and then remove it?
They understand. It’s all a game, and a show, and one HUGE LIE.
They only understand short term personal gains, while completely missing the BIG picture.
Tell me again why Ukraine borders are more important than our southern border?
Personally I think Ukraine is ground zero for swamp money laundering. With 10% for the big guy.
If you get an answer, I would like to hear it!
Because they both have the same goal, both are proceeding as planned and the results of both are just as intended.
Glad to clear that up for you!
Europe is going to want the US to fix this and I say NO
Right? I hate to see the US dragged into another insane Europe conflict.
While I agree the Clinton state departments (both of them) probably caused it
The point about general border integrity is a good one. But the equivalence of illegal immigrants flowing across the border and an invading military force really isn't a good one.
Since we have no clue who is coming across the border, I don’t think we should reject the comparison.
We have a very good clue. Future Democrat voters. If it were future Republican voters the wall would be built so wide and high you'd be able to see it from space.
'future Democrat voters' who are an enormous burden to the urban and/or local communities they're being transported to presently.
We have a sort of " Boys Town", Starr Commonwealth for Boys.
It's just like Boys Town except it was founded by Floyd Start, not Father Flanagan.
It's served as a place where affluent families can send their wayward children who get in trouble with the law to avoid the much harsher conditions of the state run Boys Training School.
But that option is now closed, because Starr Commonwealth is currently chockablock full of "unaccompanied children", with no end in sight being the new definition of temporary, as shown in " Temporary" inflation and other meaningless catch phrases.
BTW, guess who pays for renting out the whole facility, hundreds of times the tuition paid by affluent parents when it was still for troubled youth.
That's us of course. Biden is doing his best to Bankrupt Better, and this ridiculously high expense to house kids is just a small part of it.
TQ for this info, transparency is very valuable. after all cockroaches can't stand the light!
There is actually evidence that American citizens living off the welfare state are larger burdens on communities per capita than illegal immigrants. And, of course, the vast majority of those citizens are current Democrat voters. End the welfare state and you'll end both burdens.
If we had Universal Conscription for 18 year olds of both sexes, we would have a nation trained in safe gun handling and capable of defending themselves.
We could re open dozens of bases of thousands of acres, revitalize local economies, lower unemployment, teach kids whose parents failed to teach discipline and rebuild our critical infrastructure because no one would be crazy enough to conflict with us militarily, so the troops could spend their workdays learning building skills and revamping the nation physically.
I remember when interstates were smooth as ribbons of glass, it could he like that again.
Not to mention drug traffickers, human traffickers and various other assorted criminals and ne'er do wells who will be a public charge. It is an invasion of its own -- no military force needed!
Sure, like I said, Democrat or future Democrat voters.
Precisely. But we can quite easily imagine what we would do if such an opportunity presented to subdue an enemy.
Maybe not yet. It's a whole lot of potential and even likely Sleepers.
I would say pretty much certainly indeed many Sleepers.
What enemy would be so remiss as to pass up such a Golden Whoppertunity with such an enticing presentation?
Trying to approve of what you say but this site will not let me.
Argh. Now it let me light it up. Geez!
That's a fear, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of evidence that's how actual terrorists do things. The 911 terrorists entered the country legally and overstayed their visas. Probably the most dangerous threats of that sort are the ones that go undetected because they are blended in "legally" and therefor more difficult to identify.
Not equivalent but hypocrisy. Wait til the crime hits you, unless you're elite. Total comparison is valid
I think if you are a rationally consistent thinker, then when it comes to the topic of border integrity, you care about both illegal immigrants and military invasion. The principle is the same but the violations are not. And a key reason they're not is that statistically I'm still far more likely to become a victim of violent crime from a fellow citizen than I am an illegal immigrant whereas during a foreign military invasion I'm far more likely to become a victim of the foreign military aggression than I am my fellow citizens.
There is also a completely nonviolent solution to the problem of illegal immigration. End the welfare state. There is no nonviolent solution to military invasion.
Nice to hear such strong border language from him ain't it?
Because they create a boogeyman that will justify next trillion dollars of military budget that will line the pockets of DOD contractors (and the enablers in Congress)
Remember that Robert Gates, Obama's Secretary of Defense, once said: "I think he (Biden) has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades..." That was in 2014. Nothing has changed.
You do realize that the Obama Administration started this? Obviously that's rhetorical because you don't you seem to lack the understanding of the history of Russia, the Soviet Union and the newer Russian Federation 🤦♂️🤮
This is as scientifically accurate as schools changing their grading policies to pass failing students because "we don't want students feeling bad about all the F's they have."
And to pass bills to find out what's inside of them
What does that have to do with the price of gas? Biden is a 5 decade tool. All he knows is beneficial politics. To himself. I will never forget that regime running to "fundamentally change America." Well u got it Mr Pronoun. Is Mr Pronoun oxymoronic? Just moronic?
And this is why we need to stay out of it. If Europe isn't willing to sacrifice, why should we?
Bingo.
we're not particularly anti-Russia (or anti-Putin for that matter) and we don't like the fearmongering. or the wardrums. there's much popular support for the truckers though. HONK HONK!!
Does that statement make you pro communist?
riiight, let's do some labeling. don't we all live under the same sky?
Also because Russia did nothing wrong.
Are you including Putin with this statement?🤔
Haha of course. Putin is a champion of freedom, liberating the Ukrainian people from US backed despots and nazis.
Communists love to accuse everyone of being Nazis. Just look at Antifa
Every country has a few bad eggs, but Ukraine is not filled with them, as Putin might have you believe. Beware of getting too close to Putin
apparently John Kerry dosent care much either, his whole concern is for Putins carbon footprint.
Weird Kerry didn't say anything when we were carbon bombing the middle east for 20+ years.
Greta wasn't born yet? Gore was really too busy with the internet
and there are a gaggle of covidians that say 'people will catch covid from being in the crowded bomb-outs.....'
if people were not dying bc biden needs a diversion from his wreckage; it would be amusing.
all biden had to do was: not expand nato and take back some of the terror weapons.
those points have been clear since inflation was finaly recognized as becoming jimmy carter style.
🤦♀️Yep
Good to know greed isn’t just an American elite thing. It’s a global elite thing.
Every time Biden puts sanctions on Putin the Price of Gas here in America 🇺🇸 goes up 10 cents a gallon. If Biden had Meaningful sanctions the Price of gas would go down here in America 🇺🇸 20 cents a gallon.
If we were energy independent like we were under trump we could sanction them a hell of a lot better
Uncle Joey said when you Vote for me things will get back to normal. No joke he said that and people believed him.
Yep. No matter how much the election was manipulated, we have to remember many of those votes were still legal😳frightening
This accurately reflects the science they are telling us to trust and believe in. Not to study, learn, understand or question, though, that would be racist.
Don’t forget to honk once or three times, but not two, because that means heil h*tler. /sarc
ah, of course....NOT, that's b**shit.
He's doing these things to deliberately build our enemies strength while depleting ours, so the NWO can begin.
Everytime the price of gas goes up , so does Putin's/Russia's income.
Biden is doing just enough to justify Russia going full tilt Cyber Attack, and the stuff about holding sanctions back so there is something in reserve is nonsense.
Sanctions are to prevent war, and if it doesn't work, war is the next step.
If we aren't going to send troops, and we tell Putin that to start, the sanctions are a joke, especially dribbled out half heartedly so it's child's play to move stuff around and keep on trucking for the Russians.
He won't even sanction Putin, or cut him off from Swift.
Russia and China together are a lot more formidable than people realize.
We have lost every simulation of war against China for years now.
China and Russia and Iran and the Arabs are growing in strength daily as a result of Biden's policies, and we are growing weaker every day because of Biden's life's work has been building toward this day.
The only thing holding them back at all is the World's Largest Private Militia, and they are working hard on that problem.
someone should've tried to explain to biden that once the wardrums would have started, there'd be no more use for sanctions. this is how stooopid his handlers are.
Swift? I know there's a trucking company called that. Something else?
The money system
This is why I said from the start of the this back in 2014 China Iran and North Korea need to do their part and Protect the Ukrainian border. Not American people or equipment that will eventually fall into Putin's hands. It's not our fight Period.
Silly that you think we'd have powerful war equipment fall into enemy hands after a US withdrawal. I mean, we'd NEVER be that irresponsible!
Afghanistan!
Exactly. I just learned this today: /sarc
We turned the Taliban into a military force. UGHHHHHH
Meh. Blinken says we will continue buying Russian oil and gas because we don't have enough since Trump left office.
Turns out shutting down our own pipelines while approving Russia-to-Germany pipelines was a bad move.
Who knew? At least all those oil workers got high tech jobs tho.
In just another year or two,,,,, they’re coming, Brandon promises……
does that mean since Brandon is in office? if so, that's quite the statement then....
does that mean since Brandon is in office? if so, that's quite the statement then....
Europeans don't care who their government is as long as they get their pensions, their healthcare and their pubs and cafes (so they can discuss how much better they are than the rest of the world over a pint or a demitasse)
You forgot their 6-8 weeks of paid holiday (vacations we call them) every year.
Google to Goggle what US Govt employees draw for vacation...
And sick days.
And holidays.
You will be green enough with envy for St. Patrick's Day, even though it isn't quite as luxuriant as the European Model, it's pretty darn cushy.
Sounds like many Americans on the left I know too
And how low their carbon footprint is.
They have Ireland, North and South, do screwed up they think they should support the Fakestinians " defending their land", and if that weren't backasswards enough, they embrace their own oppressors as " Irish", very stridently insisting that they were " born here" and thus they are Irish but the Irish Diaspora are not, because they were not " born there".
They import "refugees" from African nations that don't really qualify for that status.
Right now in the North, police are looking for seven Blacks who assaulted two Whites and left an 18 year old brain injured and in a coma.
Police have no leads.
And, if anything, the South is worse than the North.
They are planning on importing a million "Refugees" they can't begin to afford, giving them the Ritz Treatment, putting them up in luxury hotels just like in Texas, and yep, just like the USA, they have plenty of domestic homeless who would be thrilled with a warm flophouse with a bathroom down the hall.
And Soros walks around free...
Soros! How has no one gone after that monster?
Please note that the great freedom loving "democracy" of Ukraine just instituted a law prohibiting all age 18-60 males from leaving the country. The Ukraine government is going to force men to fight and lay down their lives for a cause they may neither care about or support because clearly they can't compel enough of them to do so voluntarily. Any government that must coerce its citizens to defend it is not a government worth defending.
Kind of like the governments forcing people under duress to take the jab in order to keep their jobs or personal freedoms.
gee did Putin make his citizens do that...
Right, kind of like that. Choosing between governments that do not actually defend liberty, rather they selectively defend liberties that are convenient for them to allow their citizens at any given time, is a choice between rulers not defenders.
I will personally never volunteer to defend rulers. I would only chose to defend defenders of liberty.
The purpose of your life is to grow food, make clothes, create cell phones, and fight wars, so that government employees can enjoy the Good Life. Best you realize that, slave, or they will freeze your bank account.
Yep. Unfortunately that's been the plan of our government and public education system for well over a half century at least now. Pump out compliant tax livestock. Get out of line and out come the cattle prods.
HONK HONK!!
In Canada(-stan) ALL unvaxxed people are prohibited from leaving the country, or taking a train, or an airplane anywhere. The Ukrainian tyrants are small time rookies compared to PM Turdeau.
I get what you're saying, but didn't *we* have a draft ("any government that must coerce its citizens to defend it") even for WWII?
Indeed we did, as well as during the Vietnam era. It was wrong then and is wrong now.
and the Ukrainian government is a globalist puppet regime who seem to want a bloodshed (weren't limited local wars a part of the global depopulation plan along with pandemics, vaccines, etc)? Ukrainian government seems to care about its citizens no more than Biden regime cares about theirs.
perhaps under NWO puppet Poroshenko, yes -
https://newhumannewearthcommunities.wordpress.com/2022/01/18/corrupt-globalist-puppet-poroshenko-returns-to-ukraine-to-further-soros-agenda-nwo-report/
Zelensky (who replaced NWO puppet Poroshenko in 2019) is playing his role in all of this, and who knows, perhaps in tandem with Putin.
I don't think Putin has a mistress. He's a Christian convert.
Pope Benedict criticized the European Union for not mentioning Christianity and God in its Constitution while in Russia hundreds of churches are being built every year.
EU is a wasteland.
There is truth in that...if European "values" are abortion, same sex "marriage " euthanasia, very few children and self induced extinction, anti family taxes and policies, mass immigration...then Putin doesn't look quite so bad as the western liberal elites would like to paint him.
Putin is a madman
Hardly.
True Christian converts don’t do what Putin is doing at the moment
The idea that Christians are always supposed to turn the other cheek no matter how self-ruinous is a modern cultural concept.
Invading another country is not the other option to turning the other cheek
There's a lot more going on than that.
Like those that Putin poisons who speak out about him?
Putin likes Alina, rhythmic gymnast. But I don’t live in his home or know him personally.🧐
He likes to kiss little boy bellybuttons too, something even biden wouldn't do on public.
Patrick J Walsh..🤐⬇️⬇️⬇️
ukraine after obama's coup of 2014 began derussify their 13 million captives it started a fascist state religion.... based on orthodoxy, but more to persecute russians.
nato does not see itself christian, and the usa is softly shunning christains and its moral codes.
one step to religious persecution from the wokes...
the russian church survived and thrived in russia.
In the end, much of politics has become No Hurt Feelings, unless those "feelings" are conservative, sensible, and logical.
We want children to be well educated, but we teach them they can be "transgender" and math is racist.
It's OK to riot without a mask during a pandemic.
The 1619 Project is history.
An autistic teenager can determine international climate policy.
A drug addict suffers from "substance abuse disorder."
If a "vaccine" doesn't work, then change the definition of "vaccine."
If a "vaccines" doesn't work, continue to require more of it.
Are you following this absurdity?
No, Me neither.
What you just said: Perfect.
You forgot the Supreme Court takeover. ;)
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." Henry Kissinger.
May God grant peace and a quick end to the fighting, and may the people of Ukraine never ever put your trust in America again.
Kissinger of course referred to himself there (rather than America).
You simply cannot make stuff up about these people. Because as soon as you do, they prove you right. God help us. And the Ukrainian people.
This whole thing stinks to high heaven. The media incessantly uses the word "invasion" but where is the evidence? Yes there have clearly been attacks. Where are the cell phone videos of Russian tanks and troops pouring into cities? Where are the videos of skies filled with Russian paratroopers? All I've seen is a few clips of some soldiers walking around and the lone military vehicle here and there.
Clearly Russia has attacked with aircraft bombs and cruise missiles (just as the US has done in Iraq, Syria, Somalia, etc.) but there's near zero evidence of an invasion. Maybe it's happening but people with cameras just happen to be in the wrong place. After the deception we've seen over the last two years (and well before that with US military adventurism), I want hard evidence. So far nothing.
I agree, something just doesn't smell right.
This is just a simple back handed slap at Ukraine. They want the world to know that they can easily overwhelm their defenses at any time. They will not sit idly by as it becomes part of NATIO. What part of "Not one inch closer" do we not understand? I predict that Zelensky backs off the NATO talk and Russia keeps a new area as payment for the headache they caused them. The EU was never going to help Ukraine...neither were we. It was just a distraction. Why do you think Russia took over the Chernobyl plant sarcophagus? They knew that was a false flag dream if the area was accidently shelled by "Russia". So they took over that area to make sure anything that looks like Russia did it is out of the equation. I still think it's a possibility depending on the Covid vaccines and whether they may increase cancer rates. Perfect explanation...."Oh no, the increase in cancer is because of Chernobyl releasing something throughout the world"...don't be surprised if this comes down the pipe somehow in this clown world of ass covering.
NATO outlived any actual geopolitical usefulness long ago. Trump was right to criticize it as little more than a way for the EU to exploit the US into providing for their defense. But, of course, like Trump did and does, he was all hat, no cattle. Had NATO been dissolved when it should have been, none of this would be happening.
Of course most of Europe doesn't care about Ukraine. They are dependent on Russia for the resources they want. Ukraine offers them nothing of value. Ukraine will be returned to it's pre-2014 form and it will be quickly forgotten about....until the next US/NATO intervention into its politics. Just the latest sideshow to the ongoing globalist circus.
“How can you be together when a country is getting its energy from the person you want protection against or from the group that you want protection against?” Trump said.
Yes, he was exactly right. And we see that playing out right now. Too bad he didn't do anything to change any of it.
Everyone is going to try and protect their own self interests. Western nations have a lot of economic recovery ahead after the disastrous effects from the pandemic measures and paying to be involved in a war or participate in sanctions that harm any of their main industries is simply not an option. It would be economic suicide. Same reason the USA and Germany are talking a big game, but know that they cannot take the hit of losing the energy resources they get from Russia. Putin knows this, which is why he chose to take action now.
The great reset and build back better require destroying everything as step 1.
Our “leaders” are getting exactly what they demanded - indifference to authoritarians. We look the other way as blackfacehitler locks up working class political opposition then kinda cheer him “dropping” emergency powers while we refuse to acknowledge a tyrant that can invoke powers at will with no resistance can access them permanently.
Half the country cheers destroying the lives of people here for pointing out men can’t actually give birth. Across the west we demanded healthcare workers have their lives destroyed for refusing a heart attack shot that doesn’t work, even for people who are already immune. Germany and Austria are taking it further - on both the heart attack shot and energy fronts. The US and Western Europe sold out there people and energy independence at the behest of egotistical billionaires who fly their private jets to Davos to decide how to destroy the west a little bit more every year. These people won’t discuss building levies or improving efficiency or reducing pollution or clean affordable nuclear power. Nope, they prefer us being dependent on tyrants in places like Iran and Russia. They even prefer talking about blocking the suns which will reduce food production and biodiversity if it actually works. C’mon man! Destroying the planet will save the planet?!?!?! 🙄
What makes anyone think the everyday people in the west care anymore which bully is destroying lives? It’s only ok for blackfacehitler and BLM and the woke mob and Pfizer? We should give up even more because some Eastern European tyrant is more violent and a little meaner to his political opposition?
Putin is a bad person, but excepting orange man, our “leaders” have long been more interested in selling us out than planning to deter foreign monsters.
Probably doesn’t help our “intelligence” agencies are more focused on harassing soccer moms for signing Jesus loves you with their 5 year old than actual threats to our way of life and economic/ military dominance.
It’s not like leftist promote actual solutions - they massively prefer suffering. Why would people in the west support even more personal suffering to not stop another bully?
Is they get their Prada, can we get lower gas prices?
brandon is releasing more crude oil from the reserves, minus reserve plus up commercial stocks .....
a zero sum game especially since the release is an intricate loan requiring pay back,,,, how priced and exchanged is a cloudy affair!
I am sure the Canadian gambling industry doesn’t want the sanctions either - those $20 bills add up quick.
The COVID era reminded us that the most cynical explanation of events is the most likely to be true till disproven.
And what happened to the stories about Trudeau’s Tyrrany? Poof! GONE! Did all those people get out of jail and get their bank accounts unfrozen? Is there still a vaccine mandate for truckers but not the police? Inquiring minds want to know.
They aren’t out of jail, the lisecrnses of over 40 trucking companies are still revoked, the property still impounded, they claim they are “starting the process” of “unfreezing some” accounts, not all, but refuse to give details.
Blackfacehitler can re-access these powers at will now. He knows he’ll get zero resistance. The powers are permanently available.
But we must ignore that. Ignore we destroyed the lives of healthcare workers for refusing a heart attack shot. Ignore everything the woke left destroys. Ignore being sold out to the WEF.
No, what we should really care about according to the woke left is another tyrant half a world a way because he’s kinda meaner to his political opposition and kinda more violent if we ignore all the US violence in foreign lands for the last 2 decades. 🙄
😡 I figured as much.
I’d like to know that as well. I haven’t forgotten them. They were at the very least, demeaned. Trudeau isn’t good enough to wipe their shoes.
Reminds me of Trudeau decrying fascism a day or two ago—right after his farce of an emergency fell apart. Pot, meet kettle. At least he was ratio’d to Hell and back on Twitter for his remarks. Gives me hope for the human race!
Never listen to the words released to the press. Always look at the actions and consequences. That's the real tell.
This is a proxy fight between most disinterested but entangled parties (NATO nations vs. Russia/China bloc). The rest of the NATO nations not US or Germany will want to ensure their interest are not overly impacted because its not their fight. But they have to play the game to an extent.
These types of stories show the truth.
I don't understand something and I'm wondering if someone can explain it to me. I don't understand why we are purchasing oil from Russia instead of pumping it from our own wells all in the name of preventing climate change. Whether it's our oil or Russia's oil doesn't it still pollute? Why would we give up our energy independence to wind up with the same environmental impact but much less national security?
Biden’s dementia is too advanced to answer that question.
"Europe" is just geography Alex. We are not one people, and gods willing we will never ever emulate you americans any further. Your insane fixation with and cunfusion about race, ehtnicity, nationality and kultur which you have exported here through all kinds of media is nothing but USAmerica at its worst.
So "Europe" neither cares nor don't care. Remember, many of us live in houses older than your nation. You are still young as culture and a people. Learn history. This war is nothing new, including the greed, grift and studpidity of our 'elected' leaders.
You are projecting your american misconceptions, nothing else.
I look forward to reading you using the same language, assumptions, and generalisatons about other demographies.
Let's face it, individual courage is waning in the world at the moment, and those that have it (Putin and Xi) are making hay while they have the chance. Trump is a loudmouth and a bit of a jerk, but he has courage and solid negotiation skills that put both evil regimes on pause for 4 years, and now both are speeding ahead while their competition is extraordinarily week. 100% China will seize Taiwan this summer, before the next US Congressional elections.
I pray you are wrong on Taiwan, but fear you are correct. I tend to lean towards them waiting until after the election. I hope either is wrong, but fear one or the other is right.
I thought telling people the US can’t survive 4 years of woke Biden incompetence was a figure of speech………………
All this (most self inflicted) in one year; honestly not sure how we will survive another 3:
Covid restrictions, mass suppression of speech, inflation/gas prices, labor shortage, interest rates/recession, border/immigration/fentanyl, supply shortage, national debt/spending, crime/homelessness, foreign policy/wars. Not to mention our moral crisis - CRT, HR1, attempts to pack the court, the "other" despicable name-calling, Jan 6th nonsense, Canada tyranny, gov't law breaking and blatant hypocrisy, transgenders in women's sports, and I'm sure there is more.
One dimensional. The knee jerk use of sanctions for the shared suffering of all is undermining US leadership and the role of the dollar as the world's currency. No problem for Biden and the parasite class, but this is not much different from covid lockdowns. Suffering for the wealth and tax producers to solve the problems of the tax consumers.
Exactly. The woke mob can destroy lives because their feelings are hurt, blackfacehitler can lock up political opposition, and lock out of the economy anyone supporting them, BLM and Antifa can burn cities and even kill people without consequence, the masked Covidians can destroy small businesses, isolate a generation of kids for a year, permanently harm the development of toddlers, darken the future of a generation, and destroy the lives of already immune first responders and healthcare workers for refusing a heart attack jab that doesn’t even work. Sanctions, policies, and “emergencies” to hurt everyday people is all the western left knows how to do and they are shockingly efficient at it. Is anyone shocked by more of the same???
That's about as bad as Joy Behar complaining she can't have her Italy trip.
I forgot the part where I give a damn what Joy-less Behar has to say, if this bitch dies tomorrow, I will send her family a rancid shit in her honor…
Why do people even refer to The Spew, ostracize these shit bags to such depths of hell, no one would even pause to hear their names.
Why isn't Lt. Col Vindman of Ukranian descent in Ukraine fighting for his people rather than spouting "blood on your hands" to Carlson on CNN?
isn't that guy a pathetic joke....
Love the quote below - what will the hypocrites do when Putin comes for them?
Looks like a nod to the theory that if we had true free trade it would deter conflict more than sanctions.
the most profitable kind of trade is a covert one with the enemy.
When goods don't cross borders, troops will.
Why should Italy or Belgium care?
aside from people making money directly on the several military industry complexes, only a few of the people who believed trump a traitor for looking for honesty from zelenskyy favor the expansion of nato dangerously close to russia.
and the nutcases that want to break up russia like clinton on yugoslavia
Europe's energy suicide coupled with their unwillingness to defend themselves maybe means we should rethink whether NATO serves the US interest and get out before they dither us into WW3.
It's almost like the Italians know NATO doesn't mean shit when things go yo hell. So why make things tough on yourself until the Rudsusns overrun you too.
WE are still buying oil from Putin! WE will NEVER give up our guns, the Ukrainians won't ever again, either! WE have the most incompetent President! WE have a Veep that has the brain of a retarded teen-ager!
This is the problem with the world, in particular the US, in microcosm. The so called leaders embody in their corrupt selves what the people have ratified. That is profit, power, and pleasure over God fearing, virtue, self sacrifice, and true human flourishing. I have often reflected on a revelation given I believe to Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta before WW II. I will paraphrase since I don’t have the passage with me. Luisa saw Jesus standing amidst a city turned into rubble by war. Jesus was weeping and said to her that “I don’t want this to happen but I let it happen so that people return to me.”
Nice comment, but, Jesus is not the only guide to salvation, are you going to declare every other religion irrelevant?
Frankly, I believe there is some sort of Lifeforce, not exactly what George Lucas claims, but, I think there’s something on earth that transcends this flawed human projection that there is some religious figure that is human that rules us allegedly in a benevolent way.
At the end of the day, I think responsible hope and faith is based on people starting by wanting to save themselves, not in a selfish way, but in a self preserving way.
Again, nice comment overall, good luck taking it far…
No search for God is irrelevant. It is a search for truth, goodness, and beauty. Divine truth, goodness, and beauty became incarnate in Jesus Christ so any search whether the person realizes it or not is seeking Him. He loves me no more and no less than He loves you or any other person He has created, and longs to have a relationship with each person to become known to all and reveal His love for each. The goal is to cooperate with His grace and do His will, every day, which is the great adventure of life. Mother Teresa said that; “holiness of life is the simple duty of every person”, and that holiness consists of “doing God’s will with a smile.”
As an American I have just one thing to say ..... I am embarrassed and ashamed to be an American for the first time in my life.
We were once the leaders of the free world, the country that people could look to for support and to do what was right to help the oppressed.
Now we are a woke joke that stands by as a maniacal midget attempts to destroy an entire country' dreams.
We are cowards, our leaders more concerned about polls than dead bodies in a freedom loving country. Our people afraid of a tyrant who threatens nukes.
Are we insane? IF he threatens nukes and we back down he will never stop.
We MUST stand up, WE must regain our pride, We MUST support the people of Ukraine and not stand by.
Slava Ukraini, Herom Slava
You’re only now embarrassed after watching what Obama and Trump have done the last 12 years, even the Clintons, hell, even George W. Bush/ The Dick Cheney…
We’ve been ruled by profoundly interpersonally flawed “leaders” for decades, I’ve been disgusted since at least the 1980s, Ronald Reagan was a joke, he was another puppet just like most of these other more recent shit bags. And I have a theory, do you know why you can’t understand Biden, because he is truly a mannequin on a pole, with the Obama Clintons and Darth Cheney holding the pole from up Biden’s ass and sometimes pushing it too far up and it’s clogging the back of his throat
So we sacrifice Ukrainians who want to be free because WE are corrupt. That makes sense / s
I don’t know where you got the “sacrifice Ukrainians“ from but, how can we save others if we’re not safe?!
If We don’t take a stand against the sociopaths and soulless cretins, then, tell me that we’ve got to go out and save others who aren’t our own people, when we’ve got hideous horrific MF’ers behind us ready to stab us in the back and then cheer how absolutely devoid of humanity they are…
As is usual in these situations, watching live the scenes of human suffering is so difficult. The babies in ICU units being taken to dark underground subway stations, the parents with their children and the bewildered looks on their faces, how quickly happy children and normal live changes to unimaginable horror as a result of crazed wealthy individuals all over the world "playing" with the lives of real human beings on their private "world chess board" for their own amusement. Tragic in it's human toll. Bombing an orphanage for disabled children .... what can be said, all while these perverts play with people as if they are inanimate objects of no value. Diamonds ? Prada ? Egos ? or just plain madness ?
Biden Slow-Rolling National Net-Zero Strategy—Because It’s Impossible
https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/biden-slow-rolling-national-net-zero-strategy-because-its-impossible_4301423.html
Joe Biden should done more to hurt Putin. The sanctions he imposed is saying no more potatoes for you to make Vodka.
Joe continued to show the world how weak he is.
The problem for Biden is that he and his family have been lining their pockets around the world using corrupt practices. Putin, the old KGB guy, certainly knows all the details. Putin, in other words, has the goods on Biden. Biden can't do anything that really hurts Putin without Putin going after the corrupt Biden family.
No one sanctioned us for regime changes all across the globe ... Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, ....
The Greatest Generation must be rolling over in their graves!? 😟
Buying that dumb shit is a net loss for the buyer so this makes sense.
We live in a world run by evil clowns.
The humor is delightful, but pushing war is terminal
Let’s be honest: a bear sleeping peacefully in its den was smoked out of there by being poked with a stick, and now they are wondering why it is chasing those who did that. Moscow has been pushed into a corner and is now demonstrating its strength and standing up for its interests. Now Putin will at best be satisfied with a change of guard in Kiev, and at worst, Ukraine as a state will disappear from the map of Europe. Is it possible to justify an aggression that has been provoked for a long time? This is a matter of a lengthy discussion. One thing is clear: 20 years ago, Russia could and wanted to join NATO and united Europe. However, the latter chose to make Russia an enemy…
Credit
http://thesaker.is/russian-bear-wants-justice/
Anyone think that Russia might have some leverage over Biden due to his time as Obama’s “lead” in Ukraine and his son’s financial adventures there?
Russia has leverage over the entire west because our “leaders” sold us out to a bs narrative about how to “fix” the climate with more poverty and less functional energy which made us depend on the tyrants ruling places like Iran and Russia.
The rest is just the leftist political class scraping off the top as most politicians do given the opportunity.
All Hunter’s bill did was give Ukraine false hope we’d be there for them if they saber rattled about wanting to join NATO. Apparently they missed how we’ve left our “friends” over the last 2 decades. Afghanistan should have been a recent reminder to all our “friends” that we are shitty friends. Ukraine missed the memo.
They will obviously have dirt but it's not useful in this circumstance. Taking out or damaging Biden would achieve nothing for the Kremlin. They're pushing back against the Empire.
Keeping Biden and the US from taking action to fortify the energy needs of European nations with our own reserves (while also lowering worldwide oil prices) with such leverage would surely be beneficial to Putin’s efforts and his ability to call a bluff on sanctions.
Of course.
Isn’t Italy’s luxury sector owned by Chinese?