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Just spent a few days at the farm, got home last night, was to tired to produce an open thread.
So I will try to pen something this morning.
Of course, the recent news of the arrest warrant for Putin is a real hoot to come back to. The "no-knock" arrest will be an even bigger hoot. Wouldn't want to be that Swat team. Ha Ha.
And just to thumb his nose at the western frauds, he toured Mariupol and had an ice cream.
His three day meet with Xi is continuing to go well, much to the chagrin of Zone A.
With Saudi Arabia and Syria burying the hatchet and India and China cooling their heels, a new world of peace and fair trade may be developing all across Zone B.
"We can't have that" said everybody in the Biden Administration.
And the there is the imminent indictment and arrest of Donald Trump, which will actually be a blessing in disguise. If it kills his chances of running for POTUS next year, they won't have to Arkancide him.
So I'm going to continue to peruse the latest news and host any questions or concerns you may have this morning.
The thread is open.

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
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America disdains the ICC, and apparently, so has Russia - imagine if the police worked like the ICC: They couldn't arrest you unless you'd enlisted onto the force!

So what could this possibly amount to?
Just more statue-pulling/water-sipping/cloth-wearing/paper-ripping/wall-imploding bullshit???

Say what you will about Pooty-Poot, he knows an "Empire of Lies" when he sees one - and if he has his way, that will be the entirety of America's epitaph.

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In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.

Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!

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@The Liberal Moonbat
Indian Punchline described it as being in the spaghetti stage, throwing everything against the wall to see if anything will stick. But gravity (reality) makes it fall to the floor.

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@earthling1

....et al, for war crimes in Malaysia and found Bush and his cabal guilty. They issued an arrest warrant, too. No globe trotting for those miscreants.

The US immediately retaliated by destroying forever the 62-year-old Malaysian National Airlines — billed as the safest, accident-free airline in the world — with a rapid series of mysterious, inexplicable flight disasters, culminating with the final flight catastrophe over Ukraine. (Ever notice how Ukraine is always lurking under every international criminal rock that's flipped over?) The final Malaysian disaster was caught by a US Navy geostationary satellite positioned above Ukraine, watching the overthrow of Ukraine's government in Kyiv, as well as the rumored Russian invasion and the Nazi-regime bombing of the Donbas region. The Malaysian passenger jet fell out of the sky over East Ukraine within 20 minutes of Putin's own jet crossing the same flight path returning from a trip to Venezuela, another member-state of the Communist Axis of Evil. Unfortunately, the Navy forgot to turn on the satellite camera that day and could provide no visual evidence of these events. Oops.

At least that's how I remember it, when I covered it using open source Intelligence data.

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@Pluto's Republic
The American people are just as evil as the regime ruling over us. Our complicity is inexcusable. but saying it out loud will get you labeled as a traitor. USA fuck yeah!

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result of the Trump situation.

It seems to be hardening his support and gives him increased publicity that he thrives on.

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@humphrey
But what alternative will TPTB have to keep him from running in again?
If I were Trump I would make sure there are no new mechanics servicing his Jet.

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@humphrey
and emptying them into trucks is like "pumping iron" for 8 hours a day, five days a week, 2000 hours a year. It wears your joints out.
The only way to mitigate the damage is to legislate residents to empty their own cans or bags into the truck.
That will never happen.
In LA, it's a beautiful thing seeing union brothers and sisters supporting each other.
I have never crossed a picket line, ever. Walked a couple myself.
Thanks for the post.

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I mixed up Saudi Arabia with the UAE.
The Sauds are reconciling with Iran, Syria with UAE, and Turkish relations With Egypt has been warming.
Hell, meet and greets are breaking out all over the world.
Imagine that.

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@earthling1

China is to blame for that.

Beyond China's ongoing proposal for Peace in Ukraine, in February 2023, China also presented its White Paper on achieving Global Peace.

chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2023-02-21Beijing has issued a landmark document to explain in detail its proposed Global Security Initiative, a move that diplomats and experts said will help the world better understand China's approach to building world peace through coordinated efforts between countries.

"The Global Security Initiative Concept Paper" was released on Tuesday at a Lanting Forum event hosted by the Foreign Ministry in Beijing.

The initiative was proposed by President Xi Jinping in April last year. Currently, over 80 countries and regional organizations have endorsed or supported the initiative, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Tuesday.

The paper elaborated on Beijing's holistic thinking on the initiative's background, core beliefs and principles and priorities for cooperation as well as platforms and mechanisms to serve such collaboration.

The paper called on nations to stay committed to the vision of "common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security" and "take the legitimate security concerns of all countries seriously".

Among detailed areas for greater coordinated work are preventing a nuclear war and "promoting political settlement of international and regional hot spot issues".

China also vowed to hold high-level conferences on the initiative to strengthen policy communication and promote intergovernmental dialogue and cooperation.

Foreign Minister Qin Gang said while addressing the forum that "security should not be monopolized by certain countries", as it is a legitimate right of all countries.

China has always been committed to promoting peace and dialogue, Qin said. The paper demonstrates China's sense of responsibility for safeguarding world peace and firm resolve to defend global security, he said.

He noted that outside attempts to suppress and coerce China have been stepped up, posing a serious threat to the nation's sovereignty and security. "China is a major country, and its development will not be achieved without a secure international circumstance. Likewise, the world will not enjoy security without China's security," he said.

Siyabonga Cwele, South Africa's ambassador to China, told China Daily that what impressed him most in the paper was that China, as a big country and economy, was still committed to not becoming hegemonic or bullying others.
"We really hope that all developed countries can follow that path of making sure that they don't use their economic or military strength to coerce others, but work with others for common prosperity for all," he added.

Danilo Turk, former president of Slovenia, said the GSI "rightly emphasizes the centrality of respect for the sovereignty, integrity and dignity of all states and non-use-of-force and noninterference in the internal affairs of states".

"Only cooperation based on the respect of others and of the legitimate interest of others … promises a way forward," he said in a video address.

Ban Ki-moon, former secretary-general of the United Nations, said in a video speech that "we must elevate our efforts to revitalize multilateralism and persevere with the collective challenges we are facing".

He called on the five permanent members of the UN Security Council to step up and take genuine leadership roles in maintaining international peace and security.

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Magic 8-Ball says "it's too damn early for this, try later"

be well and have a good one

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@enhydra lutris
in concert once. Fantastic show! Loved every second of it.
Had three days of sunny weather and got a lot of things done at the farm. Light rain today, but warm (in the low 50s).
Just glad I no longer live in SoCal, they are getting pounded with rain and snow.
Thanks for the tunes.

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@earthling1

San Diego Trifecta.

Just glad I no longer live in SoCal, they are getting pounded with rain and snow.

Hit Ocean Beach for some early morning body surfing, race up to Mt Laguna for a snowball fight and then drop down into the desert, maybe the thermal pools at Agua Caliente or a rolled tacos in Borrego Springs

be well and have a good one

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Surfin' 5 wells @ Huntington Beach one day, snow sleddin' Crystal Lake the next, and dirt bikin' El Mirage Dry Lake cappin a three day weekend.
Fun in the sun, when gas was under a buck.

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of the capital tours.

The day after Carlson showed police giving the shaman a guided tour of the capital Schumer got up in front of the senate and told Murdock to stop him from showing any more videos and no videos have been shown…

And sorry Keith, but I don’t think Trumpmas is going to happen. No arrest, handcuffs or any frog marching will happen. Besides if Trump was removed from the daily news what would the shitlibs do with all the time of hoping that he’s going to be arrested?

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Keith is still trying to lose the stench of turncoat.
Fat chance.
Thanks for stopping by.

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It looks like congress has once again put its foot down on what information is allowed to be seen. Democrats made sure that only one side of the story on the capital riots was shown. Some people on the committee wanted to look at the details for why there was no security that day or whether there were fbi agents in the crowd making sure that violence would happen. Liz Cheney got that quashed because she wanted the focus to only be on Trump.

Almost every person brought to trial has been found guilty and given long prison sentences for basically trespassing and most of the jurors have ties to the government and IMO are very biased against the people on trial. After Carlson showed other views on the riots many defendants wanted access to all of the video evidence against them and the judge refused to allow it. That is not a fair trial and people should be pissed because this type of action doesn’t just stop with people you don’t like. It’s the same thing as shitlibs yawning about the Twitter files. Censorship is bad because it too won’t stop with the people you don’t like. It never works that way.

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@snoopydawg
as one police officer died from a stroke, iirc. Then two others died in a helocopter mishap and crash. Now two more have been added to the list and I have no details or further info on how they were connected to the protest.
By the time this court saga is over, 50 police officers will have been murdered that day.
The lies keep reproducing themselves as living evil.
Don't know where it will end, Snoop.

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Matt Taibbi has a Twitter thread on latest discoveries. Maybe not news to the people here. But the thing about these discoveries is that the Virality Project was able to look at every Tweet as far as I can understand. Somebody does not have to rat you out. The real Nazis of course had the Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. The ministry would send out daily telegrams to all German newspapers telling them the news for the day. Messaging and narrative was very much centralized.

It is bad enough that the major media outlets in the US spew latest talking points, but propaganda is more and more being centralized in deep state or paid contractors/ngos.

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@MrWebster

She writes about the laws congress has passed that have brought us to where we are today with the war that our government has claimed on us and she is trying to find ways for us to fight back.

I empathize with the proverbial frogs. I imagine them sitting in the pot of warming water, considering their predicament as the boil approaches.

I imagine them weighing the pros and cons of staying in or trying to leap out; the hotness of the fire just outside and underneath the pot, where they will have to stick the landing; and the coolness of the ground outside the circle of the fire if they can ever hop that far.

One option is to calmly, quietly let the families that own the Bank for International Settlements finish the job they started a century ago to gradually centralize all geopolitical power, loot all the world’s resources, kill a whole lot more people, and enslave the survivors in ways that they describe as normal; politically-neutral; socially-acceptable; traditional and trustworthy but also cutting-edge and innovative; sensible; comfortable; safe and effective; incremental; inevitable; and unstoppable.

Link

If you haven’t heard about the laws she has a pinned essay that will bring you up to speed. I have posted it here a few times but if you haven’t read it you should so you can see how long the Covid epidemic plans have been planned out and what rights we have lost so they could do it. Bird flu is next. Big pharma is making a vaccine even though there has been no virus transfer for them to work with.

I just read how close digital money is ready to go in effect. Not years.

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The fed is!

The first week of April, the Federal Reserve will begin the formal certification of participants for launch of the service. Early adopters will
By Silence DoGood

3/15/23 The Federal Reserve has officially announced this evening of their intentions to launch the FedNow service, disguised as a Central Bank Digital Currency, or CBDC, in July 2023. They will be
officially certifying banks to use the FedNow service in testing environments starting April 1 st. The big question is, how have you prepared your house, and have you told others about the real
plans of the Central Banks around the globe, where you will own nothing and be happy?

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/other20230315a.htm

After the attempted banker’s coup attempt on Roosevelt one thing that was supposed to happen was the destruction of the BIS that was behind it, but Roosevelt died before it could happen and so it wasn’t.

Bank of international settlements…look into it.

The good news is that some states led by republicans are trying to make sure that this doesn’t happen. Naomi Klein Konst? vetoed her state’s attempt to allow this and there are close to 20 other states that are suing the government.

This is a MUST read because it’s so damn dangerous for us. Austin-Fitz says that it will lead to slavery.

On the cusp's essay might have looked like tongue in cheek, but what she wrote is what could actually happen. The could is optimistic.

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@snoopydawg to include the Federal Reserve announcement.
Gee, wouldn't it be a white hot mess is the grid was hacked?

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

@snoopydawg Just incredible.

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The whole statement can be found here and it seems accurate.

https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjbxw/202303/t20230320_11044481.html

Contents

I. Preamble

II. American democracy in chronic ills

1. American democracy in further decline

2. Political polarization intensified by partisan fights

3. Money politics surged

4. “Freedom of speech” in name only

5. The judicial system blind to public opinion

6. Americans increasingly disillusioned with American democracy

III.  The United States’ imposition of “democracy” has caused chaos around the world

1. Foreign policy held hostage by political polarization

2. Inciting confrontation and conflict in the name of democracy

3. Doubling down on unilateral sanctions

4. Undermining democracy in international relations

5. Foisting a trumped-up narrative of “democracy versus authoritarianism”

IV. Conclusion

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@humphrey Humphrey, that article is a must read. Thanks for sharing.

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a word?

i need an answer from a person I trust.

Thanks.

My computer sucks, my phone sucks, and why should I suck on them?

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@mimi
Ronald Regan

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