Army of God

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Oh the irony!
I guess it sounds better than The Army of Sodbusters.
The French farmers are really pissed, as we are getting a glimmer through the Western MSMs reluctant tidbits on the world news segments. At least they are reporting on something outside the US continent other than the Royals latest travails.
Belgian farmers are joining in and protesting along with the French and the movement is growing (pardon the pun) to bring relief to the farming sectors all over the EU.
Meanwhile, getting any news about the convoy to the southern border of truckers, bikers, law officers, and anybody concerned about the open southern border is being well non-reported.
Wild accusations of China trying to insert a shadow army, or the Bydone administration seeking cannon fodder for our depleted armed forces just doesn't pass muster.
Lets face the fact that these people are just looking to survive a starving, broken, corrupt homeland that our government destroyed and stole their resources.
I can't help thinking that we have been financially helping Israel for 75 years and they still can't stand on their own two feet.
How about we admit defeat there and start sending that money to South and Central American countries to repair, rebuild, and help develop those countries so those people can live in their own countries.
And we can move all 800 foreign military bases to our actual borders, and float our entire Navy off the coasts to keep us safe from all the boogie men out there lurking. It would save a lot of gas and make a serious dent in our carbon footprint.
But the Army of God sounds like a brilliant move as the MSM if stuck trying to figure out how to demonize it without demonizing the majority of Americans, both in and out of uniform.
I wish them well and would love to join them. But I have a fear of F-16s strafing my motorhome.
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QMS's picture

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Hey, yeah.
The psy-ops are kicking into overdrive.
Somehow the dystopian congress read the bill.
In the fine print, there was not much to like about
the administrations 'border control' bill. The fed is
doing an over reach, and folks ain't happy about it.

The euro capitals should be relieved the pitchforks
haven't come out (yet). Squash the masses at your
own peril.

BTW, no we don't want to send billions to Ukraine and
Israel. That is all just made-up shit by the def-cons.
Doesn't look like team Biden can bomb their way out
of their multiple messes anymore.

Thanks for hosting todays OT.

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earthling1's picture

@QMS
in the Russian cake.
We are trying to taste those rich Russian resources that we crave. Eventually, we will try to grab a handful and get our hand spanked or worse, cut off.
Israel is that worthless, conniving, dependent kid living in the basement that only comes up for dinner.
I would be perfectly happy if we joined BRICS+ and got on with friendly trade with the RoW.
Could you imagine a high speed rail stretching from Tierra del Fugo to Alaska?

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

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@QMS

Count the fcking lies

We can thank Obama for Schumer lying this brazenly to us. Hey chuckles it’s your country that is letting the Palestinians starve and by sending Israel even more weapons more will not only starve, but die horrible deaths.

Schumer of the fame of threatening Trump that the FBI has 6 ways to Sunday to kill you.

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The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt

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@snoopydawg
Naked Capitalism IIRC, that there is $4.8 billion of that $118 billion earmarked for war with China.
I don't know if that is good or bad, because to take on China we would need much, much more money than that.
It's probably money for various think tanks to continue fabricating hate against China.
Thanks for he post, Snoop.

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enhydra lutris's picture

government, but the participants. Long before the modern terrorist organization, uses of such nomenclature ring down through history with a predominantly unsavory taste.

be well and have a good one

edit: added comma after "organization"

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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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@enhydra lutris
the name is a little scary.
But it's also brilliant. With an invocation performed before every sporting event and government meeting or function, and relentless attempts to bring back prayer in schools, it is difficult to impossible to demonize the members of said army. IMHO.
Thanks for stopping by.

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demonstrations @earthling1 of evil
(don’t know what else to call it)
all around the world today may as
well call yourself ‘gawds army’ if
you’re down with stopping this
shite

look at it this way anybody
Asking Questions about the twin towers
is labeled a truther does that make everybody
Else believing that narrative a liar?

a lot of times these fuckers just Tell you
who they are nobody believes so then
they figure they gotta Show you to boot
and most still Don’t Want to believe their lying
eyes ‘cause Then they’d have to Do Something
uncomfortable

beware a gentle man’s anger

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Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .

Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .

If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march

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@Tall Bald and Ugly
I see you still have your head above water.
Don't go under, we need you here.

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@earthling1 the protest is peaceful.
We won't know if it drew crowds or not, since there was near-total blackout in the MSM.
Thanks for the OT, e1.

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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

The Liberal Moonbat's picture

As far as I can see (of course I realize this is anecdotal data), I'm not even sure there IS a "border crisis" to speak of; you'd think I'd at least hear people talking about it, or something in newspapers.

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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

to fabricate uncountable numbers for some political agenda
with undocumented refugees, round it up to the nearest
million, with pentagon expenditures, round it down to the
next billion. close enough for government work

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@The Liberal Moonbat
in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, long before they get to you.
s/
Thanks for the post.

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@The Liberal Moonbat in a safe border area.
They are being filmed by independent journalists coming in from Mexico. The groups might be from Africa, China, ME, or Columbia, depending on which group is coming in. As many as 2500 might cross overnight.
The videos often show entire villages in Panama with all signs for rooms and food being in Chinese.
Dallas is currently being infiltrated with drug runners being arrested. The trend is that they will not surrender, but choose to have a shootout.
Both right and left leaning journalists are actively reporting basically the same things, so it isn't partisan or biased reporting.
People living near Colony Ride will not go to a supermarket now. They have groceries delivered to their door. And they are moving away to avoid danger.

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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

the Houthis begging for mercy. HAH!

https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2024/Feb/06/yemens-houthi-rebels-...

DUBAI: Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels said Tuesday they struck US and British ships in two separate attacks in the Red Sea, one of which was confirmed by a security firm.

......

In a statement, Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said "the first attack targeted the American ship Star Nasia, while the other targeted the British ship Morning Tide."

The Houthis "will carry out more military operations against all hostile American-British targets" in self-defence, Saree said in Tuesday's statement published on X, formerly Twitter.

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@humphrey
if Israel would stop it's US backed genocide against the Palestinians.
Thanks, humphrey.

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@earthling1 @earthling1

representatives are deeply embedded in all facets of the US power structure. Be it political (at all levels), control of the media, financial and other areas that would be surprising to many.

A few examples of individuals with Jewish ancestry from a Very long list are Antony Blinken, Chuck Schumer, Janet Yellen, Victoria Nuland and
Alejandro Mayorkas.

edited to add a few corrections.

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@humphrey
there is something wrong with Israel backed politicians?
Or Israel backed business leaders? Israel backed military brass?
And Israel backed porn puppys?
Asking for a neighbor.

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@earthling1

is not an option. If you question things you are anti-Semitic.

This list of big donors is a bit dated but it gives the idea.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/meet-the-leading-jewish-political-donors-i...

Coupled with groups like AIPAC, Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI) spending big bucks to limit dissent:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/11/israel-ads-attack-rashid...

Also lesser known but still influential groups such as Jewish Institute for National Security of America which had an op-ed in todays The Hill.

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4449403-stop-letting-iran-...

A description of the group can be found here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Institute_for_National_Security_of_...

Just ask what happened to the former President of Harvard?

At Harvard University, turmoil over the fate of the schools president, Claudine Gay. Gay, MIT president Sally Kornbluth, and now outgoing University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill came under fire last week for their testimony in a House hearing on rising antisemitism on their campuses.

On Friday, Gay apologized for her remarks to The Harvard Crimson, saying: "Calls for violence or genocide against the Jewish community or any religious or ethnic group are vile, they have no place at Harvard, and those who threaten our Jewish students will be held to account."

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Joe's mush brain in action?

The Democrats tried to make hay with regards Trump's gaff of confusing Pelosi and Nikki Haley.

We get this!

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4449805-biden-appears-to-mix...

President Biden on Sunday appeared to mix up French President Emmanuel Macron with François Mitterrand, the former president of France who died in 1996.

The apparent mix-up took place during a Sunday campaign event in Las Vegas, in which Biden recounted a Group of 7 (G7) meeting he attended after being elected in 2020.

Biden said one of the first things he said during the meeting was “America is back,” which he said prompted a response from “Mitterrand from Germany,” before correcting it to “from France.”

“And Mitterand from Germany — I mean, from France — looked at me and said … ‘You know, what — why, how long you back for?” Biden said. “And I looked at him, and … the chancellor of Germany said, ‘What would you say, Mr. President, if you picked up the paper tomorrow in the London Times, and London Times said, “A thousand people break through the House of Commons, break down the doors, two Bobbies are killed in order to stop the election of the prime minister.” What would you say?'”

The White House later posted the remarks, with the name Mitterand crossed out and replaced with Macron.

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@humphrey

clarified French/German chancellors for us.

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@QMS
Who's the little short guy in France then? Oh wait, I mean the little short guy in Germany?
s/

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soryang's picture

...on illegal Chinese immigration across the Texas border. Let's see 37,000 apprehensions out of 2.5 million total apprehension of illegal immigrants crossing the Mexican border. That's 01.48 percent.

(Source- The Coming War on China, John Pilger, youtube)

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@soryang @soryang but have seen videos of Chinese coming in in indie news.

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@soryang
They could be Taiwan migrants jumping ahead of the coming re-integration with the mainland.

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@earthling1
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most do not recognize the difference between
the various Asian tribes. Chinese is just a convenient label.
Like blacks, whites and browns. Cultural awareness is not
quite nuanced. About as nuanced as the label maker machine.

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@earthling1 How do we know? I thought of that, they could be from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, or one of the many ethnic Chinese communities in other countries. However, these are purportedly official figures from customs and immigration officials. Just taking them at face value, as admissions from those apprehended (only an assumption on my part) I'm not impressed by the alleged scope or seriousness of the so called Chinese element of the problem.

There were about 22,000 "Chinese" unlawful immigrants out of 2.2 million total in 2022. From the other sources I follow on China, the increased influx of Chinese unlawful immigrants (if there is one) is likely due to economic dislocation and anger at business, employment, or other financial losses incurred during or incident to the regional or municipal covid lockdowns in China which could be interpreted as arbitrary government overreach leading to political dissatisfaction. I don't see how this aspect differs much from some other countries, except perhaps in degree. In any case, illegal Chinese immigration isn't some profound earth shaking security problem for the US in comparison to the overall scale of unlawful immigration from all sources. The "Chinese" problem is intentionally being exaggerated because it "sells" as a political issue here domestically.

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