@Lookout

1889 Lookout Mt.

The bubble is about to pop. Glad my goal has never been to accumulate money and stocks.
Slowly, slowly, then all at once. One thing about it, we live in interesting times.

A garden is a pretty good ace in the hole. Those who don't have access, buy this summer when produce is cheap and freeze, can, dry,etc to store. A food account is better than a bank account.

Thanks for the OT!

@snoopydawg
to make Ukraine the 51st state?

Thanks Obama.

"I see nothing! I hear nothing! I know nothing!"

Speaking of money printing included in the recent $40 billion for Ukraine Zelenksy wants $7 billion a month to pay the salaries and pensions for Ukraine including the Nazis and most Americans think that’s quite all right because Russia Russia….

The obvious lack of contextual awareness which doomed the Afghanistan mission is very much an ongoing problem for the US when it comes to Ukraine. The failure to address the problem of corruption up front at a time when the US Congress is trying to rush through some $40 billion in appropriations seems to be little more than an instance of history repeating itself. The bill includes $11 billion in presidential drawdown authority funding that allows the White House to send military equipment and weapons directly from US stocks. It also provides for $6 billion in Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative funding, which can be used to buy weapons directly from contractors and then provide those weapons to Ukraine.

On the surface, this would appear to be simply about weapons. However, buried in this funding is up to a billion dollars earmarked to pay the salaries and pensions of Ukrainian government workers and soldiers. This isn’t a one-time payment – the government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has indicated that up to $7 billion per month will be needed to keep Ukraine functioning. While most US citizens might not blanch at the thought of their taxpayer dollars being used to underwrite Ukrainian soldiers and civil servants, the reality is that much of this money will be deployed to pay the salaries and pensions of ultra-right Ukrainian politicians and soldiers who espouse neo-Nazi ideology.

In 2015 congress put its foot down on supporting Nazis, but the pentagon said congress should mind its own business….

Within in a year, however, the Pentagon had lobbied the US Congress to remove Conyers’ amendment from the 2016 budget, claiming that the amendment was unnecessary in light of the existing Leahy Law, which prohibited funding to groups that have “committed a gross violation of human rights.” The problem, however, was that the US Congress had never formally designated the Azov Battalion as a group covered by the provisions of the Leahy Law. Accordingly, the US military was once again given the green light to train and equip Ukraine’s neo-Nazi military formations. Congress eventually woke up to the Pentagon’s end-around, and in 2018 reinserted the language of the 2015 Conyers amendment into the defense budget, stipulating that “none of the funds made available by this act may be used to provide arms, training or other assistance to the Azov Battalion.”

The Biden administration, together with the US Congress, seems content to ignore the restrictions imposed in 2018 – none of the current funds being allocated to Ukraine are hampered by any such restrictions. Underwriting the training, equipping, and sustainment of Ukraine’s neo-Nazi element is de rigueur for American politicians, it seems.

It’s written by Ritter who gives congress a pass for being naive about supporting Nazis and other terrorists as it has since well probably forever. He thinks that they have just forgotten the lessons from the past. I see them as being thoroughly captured by their donors and jumping to keep the trillions and trillions money laundering scheme going. But it’s worth a read.

Meanwhile in America more cities are wasting money on homeless programs and are busy destroying the last things many vulnerable people have left to their name.

@enhydra lutris
mi hermano:

Like a Gordian knot.

what to do but dance and shake them bones

so get with the beat and get down. What beat? THE beat

be well and have a good one

@MrWebster
with a solar stove but you might want to take a look at a rocket stove. You can buy one or make one yourself. They work by burning a few twigs.

The Ukrainians may not have an infinite number of soldiers for the Russians to wipe out but I'd be willing to bet that there are copious mercs there already.

I hope you're wrong about NATO moving into Ukraine.

Thanks for the great vid, is she the real life version of Boris Badenov and Natasha?

Started stocking up again on some basics like tuna various types of veggie based stuff in jars. We have enough of a backyard to grow some serious quantities of veggies...but health issues...probably next year for sure. Anybody have opinions on solar ovens to cook food, boil water, etc? My gut is telling me that end of year could see shit we have not seen in America before in recent memory.

First, the war in Ukraine will escalate big time. Here is my brief take. While US/NATO may be able to send infinite amounts of arms to the Ukraine, the Ukrainians do not have an infinite number of soldiers for the Russians to wipe out. In fact, I can see a peace movement starting in the Ukraine by its women refusing to let their sons, husbands, uncles, nephews, and grandfathers getting slaughtered in Eastern Ukraine.

And what happens next. NATO moves troops into the Ukraine. All hell breaks loose.

Saw this short video and thought it was funny. Russian response to sanctions. Have to laugh a bit.