HEY! It's I.W.W. Day, go hug a Wobbly.

If you aren't that familiar with the IWW, it's history, goals, ideas and such, take a minute to read da wiki on them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_World

They're still around ya know ...

Huelga! Be well and have a good one

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The IWW promotes the concept of "One Big Union", and contends that all workers should be united as a social class to supplant capitalism and wage labor with industrial democracy.

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question everything

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@QMS

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I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish

"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"

Heard from Margaret Kimberley

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@ggersh

be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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@QMS

be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Just today really. Maybe not the best of news but hopefully derails at least for the time being a full blown war in Europe.

US sees no signs that Russia is ready to blow up nuclear power plant or use nuclear weapons – Kirby

The good news here is that Biden admin signaling to Graham and Zelinsky not to damage the nuclear power plant to create a reason for direct NATO intervention into the Ukr/Russia war.

US Senate proposes that radioactive contamination of NATO territory caused by Russia be considered as attack on Alliance

Zelensky kept warning that the Russians would deliberately create a massive act of environmental terrorism by bombing the nuke plant. Ukraine even had drills in case this fictional even happens. Pretty obvious Zelensky working directly with Graham to pull us into a direct war with Russia. I would guess the Biden admin is not happy with some crazed senator deciding when the US should go to war.

The second good piece of news is that the Russians have fairly secured the plant to stop any sort of Chernobyl event.

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/nuclear-falseflag-on-zaporozhye-npp

But, can they really do it? Firstly, a potential ZNPP attack invokes images of Chernobyl, vast exclusion zones and thousands poisoned and dead. But there are very large differences.

Firstly, Chernobyl exploded with an unprecedented force after its pressure vessel reached immense pressures due to a concatenation of highly improbable events. The explosion was so powerful as to generate discussion amongst experts to this day whether the reactor had actually gone ‘critical’—meaning, fission had actually occurred thereby creating a mini nuclear explosion at the reactor.

My point is that such an explosion is hardly possible at the ZNPP. For one: the power plant, as I understand it, is in some form of cold shutdown. This means that the rods have been retracted and the danger of any sort of mass catastrophe of this sort is very low. You’re not going to recreate the power of the Chernobyl blast with manmade means. I don’t know how many tons of TNT you’d have to put there, but it would be a lot—and where would you put them? Underneath the containment vessel itself? A lot of the prospects don’t make much sense.

Much of the disaster and ensuing contamination from the Chernobyl incident was due to the power of the explosion and how far it sent all the radioactive pieces of the core. There were chunks of Uranium being found tens of kilometers or more, and the radioactive dust, etc. had plumed everywhere. This would be extremely difficult to achieve at the ZNPP, particularly with any “ordinary” strike. Even a severe cruise missile strike on the reactor itself, as an example, would not achieve anything even remotely resembling the Chernobyl incident, and in fact would only create a ‘localized’ disaster.

With that said, we should not ignore the fact that it doesn’t matter how bad the disaster actually is, the West will ‘manufacture’ the scale which suits them. So even if a minor blast were to occur, with a minor release of radiation, the West and its corrupt lapdog agencies will manufacture whatever false ‘data’ is necessary to push the agenda that, for instance, ‘massive plumes of radiation have gone into Poland/Europe/NATO’, etc.

Thus, one idea for the falseflag is that it doesn’t actually need to create the catastrophe itself, but rather the appearance of one.

The irony of course is that the UK has sent depleted uranium tank shells to the Ukrainians.

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@MrWebster

The pea-brains in the elenski regime have had this fixation on attacking the Z reactor almost since the day this fracas started. Personally, I hope they use an infantry strike force instead of a missile barrage, because the latter has some prospect of partial success that I suspect the former would not. The Rus know of the Ukie fixation and are no doubt prepped as best as they can be.

be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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@MrWebster

a dirty bomb, the way to do it would not be to attack the containment structures of any of the reactors. The way to do it would be to attack the spent fuel pools, which are much softer targets: a cruise missile fuzed for second contact could punch through the roof, splash through the water, and detonate near the bottom of the pool, lifting the contents out and distributing it around the neighborhood.

It would not be as toasty-hot as the fuel still undergoing the initial post-shutdown cooling in the reactors, but it would be quite hot enough to do the job. Especially if that was combined with an effort to kill the last of the cooling for the reactors themselves by knocking out the one remaining power feed to the plant and the diesel backups: the initial fuel-scattering would render the site inaccessible and unrepairable, and then it would just be a matter of time until the hottest of the reactors boiled dry to join the fun (one is still generating steam and power for the site and the nearby community of Energodar). Not something for those seeking instant gratification, of course, but it'd make a fine, permanent mess. It'd just take a little longer to happen than it did at Fukushima.

I'm reminded of Mercutio's speech: "Marry, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door, but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man."

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Twice bitten, permanently shy.

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@MrWebster

false flag on the power plant and boy are those who are thinking of doing fcking idiots! If people hadn’t risked their lives to get the fires extinguished and the other things they did millions of people might have died. They showed the people who had gotten lethal doses of radiation just before they died and good gawd anyone thinking of planning to blow it up must be there in person.

Once upon a time the thought of nuclear war was enough to convince people of the insanity of it, and yet here are people who think that it’s survivable. They should be removed from government and sent for psychiatric evaluation! Who gave them the right to risk billions of lives?

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Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?

@snoopydawg A number of years ago, it seemed that the rich buying up land in New Zealand to survive wars and various other catastrophes became the rage among the elites. Drove up land prices through the proverbial roof. I have read of nuke proof bunkers made into spacious apartments to weather whatever storm. The prols may not survive a nuke war, but the ultra rich will.

Interesting essay from a technologist invited to a meeting with a select group of super wealthy talking about how best to survive the worst of disasters. He tried to tell them that the way to survive is to ensure systems that make us all survive.

The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse

I tried to reason with them. I made pro-social arguments for partnership and solidarity as the best approaches to our collective, long-term challenges. The way to get your guards to exhibit loyalty in the future was to treat them like friends right now, I explained. Don’t just invest in ammo and electric fences, invest in people and relationships. They rolled their eyes at what must have sounded to them like hippy philosophy.

This was probably the wealthiest, most powerful group I had ever encountered. Yet here they were, asking a Marxist media theorist for advice on where and how to configure their doomsday bunkers.

My take is that if the super rich could get into their bunkers, the best they can hope for is to live a bit longer than those who died during some great event like a nuclear war. But not by much.

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@MrWebster

ultrarich preppers. Talk about having no idea about how the world actually works...

I suspect that their carefully selected enslaved security goons will give them a couple of weeks of living like kings in their bunkers- until said goons can no longer stand the 24/7 bitching, as the Beautiful People discover that they stocked the wrong wine/cigars/ice cream/whores and they can't go to Starbucks and the air smells funny and their tans are fading and worse yet the avocados are brown and the arugula is wilting. Horror.

The goons will then come to the realization that *they* can live like kings instead. About two weeks in, the lifeless carcasses of the original rich people will be flung over the walls of their compounds by their own muscle. This interim situation will then persist until the raging zombie masses show up and the ammo finally runs out.

End result will be the same. I just find it so very amusing that the rich people are very effectively breeding and arming their own apex predators...

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@usefewersyllables Yah, he was talking about those rich preppers and he said their security would turn on them. Class hierarchies will not be determined by wealth in banks that don't exist but who is better at forming gangs/tribes/families and when needed, violence.

For some reason, reminded of this scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Our future I suppose.

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@MrWebster

My thought was why would anyone want to live underground and in a basic prison instead of trying to fix the world that they already have? Just goes to show that just because one is smart enough to game the system and make loads of something that the world just made up doesn’t mean they are smarter than the rest of us. High IQ folks are dumb in lots of other wayy. Have you ever had a conversation with one? Sheesh I wondered how they lived as long as they had.

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@MrWebster

It’s on the potential false flag attack on the nuclear power plant. Alex thinks that this video of Budanov was computer generated.

A.I. Generated Madman Cyberdanov

I really never ever thought about the possibility that a computer-generated Nazi, who is most likely already dead, would ever threaten the world with a nuclear catastrophe. I’m more than baffled.

* The destruction of a Russian nuclear power plant is being considered as a nuclear attack against Russia. ZNPP is a Russian nuclear power plant according to the Russian constitution. Blow it up and you attacked Russia with a nuke. Think of all the contamination, radiation and fallout on Russian soil. It doesn’t matter if you cover it as a false flag and blame Russia for having blown up its own NPP where its own troops are stationed.

As mentioned NATO has already planned to attack Russian targets with depleted uranium, but it’s presumed that Russia already blew them up, but Biden has authorized us to send them too. And remember that Lindsay Graham recently met with his BFF Zelensky and said some weird things and now he’s introduced legislation that says if Russia does blow it up then that will be an excuse for NATO to invade. Or maybe put NATO peacekeepers there. Graham and Bluementhol should be the first 2 removed and sent for psychiatric evaluation.

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@snoopydawg

standing with Ukraine.

Preferably somewhere like Bakhmut. Give them some big Ukraine and Azov flags to
wave around...

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@Blue Republic

are getting. I wonder if any of them are being trained how to detect mines or how to avoid them? The video I watched yesterday has stayed with me. It looked like the guy patiently pulled out his tourniquet and got it on even though he had to be in excruciating pain.

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with my client, and told him that I had an idea to get an even better deal.
I approached the prosecutor, said I believe my client is an excellent candidate for a Hunter Biden deal, and that it would demonstrate the county does not have a two-tiered system of justice.
I got it! My client is an educated, extra smart, extra handsome white guy. The prosecutor got a big laugh out of it, even the judge liked it.
What a day!

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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

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@on the cusp

very lucky to have you as counsel.

be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

I know that because Bill Haywood talks a lot about it in my copy of his autobiography.

And now they're using it to go after Trump.

Vivek Ramaswamy is vowing to get rid of it if elected:

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@Blue Republic

espionage act, though a great idea, is sadly not gonna happen, but it is good that somebody is putting it in play in the public square

be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --