Patrick Cockburn is the same guy who claimed without any evidence that the Syrian government was behind this year and last year’s chemical attacks. Now he says beware of people who claim to know what’s going on in Syria. Sounds like he’s trying to rehabilitate himself.
 

Thanks.

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Speaking of cinema, the Auteur Theory messed up film appreciation in many cases.

With an artist like Antonioni or Bergman, one can reasonably be sure that they were the mind behind the script and direction.

But such was never the case in Hollywood with a few exceptions. But Auteur critics would assume that John Ford or Howard Hawks was behind every decision only to find out that it was someone or something else that led to a certain scene being the way it is.

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Why do the concert-goers look like they're watching a chess match or thoracic surgery?

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That's Jeff Beck's guitar. Jimmy Page is on the other side of the stage.

This is not about whitewashing monsters.

It is against the insiduous propaganda tactic of slandering monsters.

...but there’s still plenty of evidence that these were really really bad twisted people.
 

Responsible for the deaths of millions.
 

“You protest, and with justice, each time Hitler jails an opponent; but you forget that Stalin and company have jailed and murdered a thousand times as many. It seems to me, and indeed the evidence is plain, that compared to the Moscow brigands and assassins, Hitler is hardly more than a common Ku Kluxer and Mussolini almost a philanthropist.”

- H. L. Mencken, in an open letter to Upton Sinclair, printed in The American Mercury, June 1936, pg vi.

 

One must separate Hitler from Stalin. Hitler tried his best to avoid war, but the Jews were adamant and boycotted Germany, bribed Churchill, and FDR. FDR, Stali
09n and Churchill may be the proper demons of WW2. Not Hitler.

Bad advice.

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What was the reason? Cuz of the magic dirt?

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North Dakota is one of the best places in the country to be from, "from" being the operative word. :-)

One of the top recommendations was move to North Dakota.
 

The detailed ethnic Geography of the United States borders on the esoteric (and in fact extends into the esoteric if you have any interest in etymology of place names, knowledge of ancient caste systems, and interest in very distant history and identity).

The Upper Midwest is the most Nordic portion of the United States, with North Dakota "the roof" being the most Nordic of those States absent modern immigration. Even relatively modern Nords (of the past few hundred years) seemed to know that bitterly cold winters were in their better interest.

Part of the esoteric knowledge of ethnic geography here is knowing where historic Irish migration begins and ends. Most of what is considered to be Nordic territory here is heavily mixed with Irish genetics that later arrived.

All of this information hints at why ND has always been one of the most functional States if not the most functional US State. I believe, to this day, that its State banking system is the only one that is independent from the Federal Reserve.

I went to an elite university that has historically struggled to pull students from the other end of the country. While I likely would have been admitted in any case, I was awarded a very generous scholarship, nearly a full ride at this expensive school.

I later learned I was one of only 3 students from my state in my freshman class, and I gathered that the administration thought it essential that they be able to say they have students from all 50 states every year.

I don't know that Harvard struggles to get quality students from all 50 states every single year, but certain schools in the top 20 absolutely do and probably still think it important to address this.

ND has a high proportion of Native Americans, presumably a much sought group for AA purposes. So this advice may not help those who are unwilling to go all Fauxcohontas on Harvard's ass.

Bugliosi also wrote, and got lots of publicity for his "position" in the Mainslime Media, that the "Lone Nutter" Oswald was the only Kennedy shooter--the only people who are of this opinion are idiots, payed off shills, or "in on it" with the CIA/Deep State etc.--the NYSlimes is big on this "truth" so we all know it is a total lie just for that reason alone!-- if not for the mountain of evidence that Oswald actually seems to have worked for the CIA (only ex-Marine who defected to Cuba that flew back on a military transport (only possible way given the evidence of flight times) and was never prosecuted or investigated for his conduct) and was in fact the patsy he claimed to be before the Mobbed up Jew Assassin (look at the photo of the murder of Oswald and how Ruby pulled the trigger pointing with his index finger and using his middle one on the trigger -- "normal" people don't do that shooting a pistol, trained assassins do,yes--a real pro!) was allowed to deliver the kill shot as two big Policemen held Oswald in place for it.

So given that it seems Bugliosi was probably always on the payroll or associated with the "Intelligence Agency" types who are behind these things with their friends in the Mafia. The single best book on the JFK Murder as to why it was done and by who was actually written by big shot Mafiosa Sam Giancana's brother Chuck (Sam shared Mistress(s) with JFK...), who was actually on the scene as his brother, a psychopath from birth basically, moved up the ladder in the Chicago Mob and finally joined forces with his enablers/"friends" in the CIA--the book tells the whys and hows and is very credible (its called "Double Cross")--so credible it was stuffed down the rabbit hole immediately and is completely ignored. (Its very obvious Chuck risked his life writing it when you read it). Interestingly, I have come across several times in researching that ex-Sheriff's in the area where Manson and Family were camped out knew he was there and wanted to raid/arrest the thieving gang led by an ex-Con surrounded by drugged out teen age women-- but were given orders "from above" not to do so, they obviously weren't "ripe" enough yet for picking....

Churchill won it as a war criminal

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So did Churchill. Both are bad jokes that mark the power of the Anglo-Zionist Empire.

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he produced books ... however as an analytical philosopher Russel fitted with Jerusalem...

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He does explain that allowing the plane to accelerate past Vne will prevent manual trim from being effectively used. Accelerating past a critical speed is even more basic airmanship than performing a runaway trim emergency procedure.

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Wrong: The manual trim system does not work at all when the stabilizer is widely out of trim (i.e. after MCAS intervened)

 

This is true at some point but not at first. What should have happened is that the first time the electric trim acting in a strange way (for any reason including this strange mysterious one that they didn't even know about) the pilots should have flipped it off using the big STAB TRIM button on their yoke that is there for that exact reason, and taken over manually trimming the aircraft. Had they done that right away it would have been fine. But instead they left it on until it was far too late and the MCAS had done its (wrong) thing over and over (at double the normal electric trim speed!) , each time driving the plane further out of trim and eventually the plane (after like 9 or 10 rounds of this) was wildly out of trim beyond their ability to manually re-trim it. The plane (despite the shitty defective system) gave them maybe 7 or 8 chances to save themselves and the lives of their passengers and they missed all of these chances until eventually it was too late.

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“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.”
― Emma Goldman
 

It's called cluster B personality disorder. Mostly BPD, particularly the women.

What they’re actually doing is helping the authorities to justify a police state.
 

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Apparently many are also on chemo or have metabolic problems.

https://i.postimg.cc/4yH0GQfz/Chemo.png

I agree

It’s also a perfect catch-22.

If the police don’t stop through arrest or force, they win.

If they are arrested, injured or killed, they are martyred.

I generally agree with the analysis but there is definitely a group of self-designated anarchists (actually more correctly called political nihilists) who seek to provoke a violent confrontation with the police in hopes of getting a police response that will radicalize the protestors. It’s a very infantile form of leftism. They ones I’ve met that advocate such tactics seem to come from rather affluent backgrounds and have almost a romantic notion that they’re stopping fascism before it has a chance to grow. What they’re actually doing is helping the authorities to justify a police state.
 

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You're right about the infantilism, not to mention a tendency towards self-destructive behavior. Many of these people superficially educated, mentally unstable and filled with unresolved personal conflicts. For them this is "therapy."

The problem with tasers is that the leads have to be able to penetrate. They're not very useful in winter when the perps are wearing puffy coats. They also can't do much to someone who's crazed on drugs.

We used that as a slogan.

You beat me to it.

Perhaps he didn't have enough blood in his alcohol.

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He’s checking to see who’s reading and who’s going straight to the comments.

Contradictory evidence on whether Vaccinated people are less likely to spread Covid than Unvaccinated people. There was one study that suggested that vaccinated people make be able to have a heavier viral load and not feel sick than unvaccinated people.
 

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Not surprised that the jury was overwhelmingly comprised of women, based on hearing the voices of the jurors (10 of the 12?). This fact portends to a jury not having minds of systematic analysis, but of minds of emotive empathy for sympathizing with the perceived "victim".

Exactly. The Georgia boys were railroaded from the time the "Republican" AG took over the prosecution. He's a complete BLM cuck and needs to be out of office. Armed black militias patrolled outside the courthouse. The white boys had no shot.

Would Kyle have been found guilty if he shot blacks? Maybe. The riots would certainly have been vicious with an acquittal. The perceived threats greater against jurors and defense counsel.

Why are we second class citizens at best on our own land? Because nobody fears us. Kyle's counsel got death threats. Didn't hear about any threats for the disgusting prosecutor (and if anyone deserved them it's him). The enemy is willing to burn buildings, throw bricks, smash windows.

What are WE willing to do?

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Why is his forehead so big

As much as I disagree with Tucker on a lot of things, he’s opened up the space for a debate. A Ukraine government installed with U.S. help and using neo- Nazis deserves no support.
 

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Don’t forget that NATO militarily ripped Kosovo out of Serbia after ethnically cleansing it.

On the other hand - the Serbian preoccupation with Kosovo is kind of a sickness. Kosovo was a shithole when it was part of Yugoslavia, it is a shithole now when it's "independent", and it will remain a shithole.

Demographically Serbia lost Kosovo centuries ago - back in 1690 to be precise. No one can remember a time when an ambitious intelligent Serb actually wanted to live in Kosovo. If Kosovo was returned to Serbia it would be like giving downtown Detroit to Kansas. And even if you do ethnically cleanse the place you just have a landlocked piece of mountainous land with a miserable continental climate and still next door to Albania.

The Serbs stole Vojvodina from Hungary, and all things considered that was a pretty damn good trade.

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I somehow agree, but with a caveat: what else?

Pro- Kosovo independence: it had clearly defined borders within Serbia prior to 1991. Giving it to Albanians is just the final step in de-colonization, this time in Europe. Kosovo was, in modern history, a Serbia-occupied land. Having in mind that Kenya, Angola, Vietnam... are decolonized, why would Kosovo be  an exception? And then- when you lose an existential war, similar to Germany in 1945- you lose some territory. Had the US occupied Serbia, completely, in 1999-2000, similar to Japan in 1945 -there would have been no discussion whatsoever. Finis.

Against-Kosovo independence: Badinter's commission had established that Yugoslav 6 republics have the right for self-determination- but not autonomous provinces like Kosovo. It truly is a breach of international order.

Neutral-Kosovo independence: Kosovo should be somehow integrated back with Serbia, but with their own police, the military, parliament, school system, financial system,... That would be in accordance with international law- but how would it function?

Whatever you do, you'll be wrong.

(Don't be mean, Steve doesn't know anything about foreign policy. He's mentally still in that golden time when American boomers didn't need to think about other countries.)

This is true.

It's so weird. The far-right should really be supporting Ukraine against the Slavic untermenschen.

I have to laugh at that propaganda piece downgrading the Azov brigade's true colors. They are Nazis.

https://forward.com/opinion/416751/why-does-no-one-care-that-neo-nazis-are-gaining-power-in-ukraine/

Zelensky ends up in Israel in a year.

Ukraine partitioned.

USN and RN shell Sevastopol within a month as a retaliation.

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There will be continuing guerilla warfare for many years. The present government will move to Lviv in the far West of Ukraine. The inevitable Russian puppet state in Kiev will be an international pariah and so, to a lesser extent, will be Russia itself and its client state Belarus.

Ukraine will fight bravely then a diverse coalition of nato will kick butt

By end March at the latest.
Russian objectives are to destroy the Azov regiment of hardened killing nazis (who know they won't be able to lay down weapons and go home). Destroy all military sites and stores (pretty much done on day 1 with missiles). And control enough of Kiev so that a) US influence doesn't return, nazis have no bullying power on Kiev, and a capable Ukrainian self-government can emerge in Kiev.

So along the same lines as US tried to achieve in Afghanistan and Russia did achieve in Chechnia.

All this is nearly done already. If they wanted to achieve more they would need 20 or 30 airports. instead they destroyed all but one airport.

Don't think the Ukrainians will last another week.

I thought the EU would have more sense than commit suicide by sanctions, sadly for mine and my family's wealth, this has not been the case. Maybe the hysteria will pass once defeat has been acknowledged.

Ukraine will have no military left to speak of by mid April at the latest.
 

• “Many of [the Biden] administration are idiots and psychopaths.”

Confirmed.
 

but rather a more surgical/kid glove approach to preserve lives and property, which is probably slowing military progress in exchange for lessening post-war bitterness.
 

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Whom are you excluding from that "many"?

Exactly. The "slow" pace of the Russian advance is caused by their desire to minimize civilian casualties among their fellow Slavs.

A.M.,

I agreed with you then and I agree with you now.

Might I point out my addendum from a few weeks ago: that while neither side wants a nuclear exchange, once the dogs of war are loosed, no one can stop the havoc, and the unthinkable becomes a very real possibility.

All the bright boys and girls in Washington who think they can “control” the outcome of this very dangerous game . . . are fools.

Especially the grizzled white-haired ones at the Pentagon, at Langley, at State, in Congress and at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Vladimir "Volodymyr" Zelensky will be assassinated in a false flag operation to shore up the narrative and to create an excuse for stepping up NATO involvement.

Former president Poroshenko is already at hand to step in.

Hope to be proved wrong.

Oliver Stone's Ukraine documentary (Stone was executive producer and on-screenPutin interviewer, not director or writer) from a few years ago delves into the mess of progressive globalization-promoting NGOs that have murky financing and execute best-practice disruption in country after country. It's impossible to unwind the chain of connections in a way that doesn't come off as conspiracy nutty, so the media would be reluctant to dive into it even if they didn't agree with the NGOs in the first place.

Orban in Hungary and Putin are really the only heads of state to shut these NGOs down.

Or just read the Guardian's* account of the 2004 "chestnut revolution"-- though it sounds as if that was more of a joint effort by the CIA/ State/ NGO/ media complex than a strictly alphabet agency endeavor.

The Guardian describes it as "an American creation, a sophisticated and brilliantly conceived exercise in western branding and mass marketing," carried out by "The Democratic party's National Democratic Institute, the Republican party's International Republican Institute, the US state department and USAid," along with "the Freedom House NGO and billionaire George Soros's open society institute."

They also note that "The operation - engineering democracy... is now so slick that the methods have matured into a template for winning other people's elections."

The linked article is worth reading. It recounts the fascinating, inspirational story of a purely altruistic, entirely charitable endeavor involving a collaborative effort by non-governmental organizations, the intelligence community, and other important stakeholders to nurture and promote a grassroots movement for human rights democracy in the Ukraine, and describes exactly how it enabled the Ukrainian people to progress forward together toward diverse and equitable social justice.

This sort of benign -- ever heartwarming -- phenomenon does not, of course, have anything in common with foreign malign influence operation campaigns involving espionage, misdisinformation, coordinated inauthentic behavior, collusion, and other shady elements.

Because the former is good -- and the latter, bad. Just so we're clear on that.

*A narrative promotion outlet which is well-known for its longstanding, steadfast opposition to neocon wars and regime change operations.

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Stone is most associated with the Garrison thesis that the military-industrial complex brought down Kennedy by subcontracting the job to a bunch of French Quarter homosexuals. Why bother with Oliver Stone's imagination?

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If you’re advancing like a hot knife through butter surprisingly meeting minimal resistance from an adversary that has historically been attritionally crushing you through overwhelming ordnance..

I would be a little nervous.
 

To be in real trouble, Biden would have to face veto-proof opposing majorities in both House and Senate, right? Nothing close to that was even projected, much less come to pass.

Ken52 wrote:

Republicans at least take House. I don’t see how Biden can survive investigation into Hunter and the 10% kickback to the “Big Guy”
 

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GOP will just put on show hearings. All it cares about is their cut in the grift.

It is time-consuming to follow what's going on. Rather than reading MacGregor, Ritter, et al and trying to synthesize everything myself, I have fallen back on simply listening to Alexander Mercouris daily updates on YouTube on a few times a week. He gives the "minority report" news you don't get on the MSM. So far, listening to his analysis and predictions over time, he seems to have a better grasp on what's going on than most. There is an obvious anti-NATO bias to his commentary, but he still seems to be giving fair analysis. The bias comes in in saying things like, "this certainly looks bad for the Russians" instead of cackling with glee like JackD.

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It’s obvious to a lot of people that you can’t trust Wikipedia on controversial topics but now it extends to Google search results and other manipulations.
 

This is more of a threat to our democracy than outright suppression because people don’t realize they’re being manipulated.
 

Epstein did an interview with Joe Rogan that was one of the most interesting I've heard on that show.
(#1768 – Dr. Robert Epstein)

BTW, people like Epstein will declare "...And I voted for Hillary!" as a sort of preemptive strike to avoid having their views immediately dismissed. After saying that he'll go on to tell you how corrupt Hillary is.

At this point, is that possible?

Spell out an illustrative example, please.

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Let’s hope he doesn’t further embarrass the United States
 

Let’s hope he doesn’t further embarrass the United States
 

We’ll save face by admitting 200,000 refugees from Gaza over the next 5 years.

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