The Evening Blues - 1-18-23



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The day's news roundup + tonight's musical feature: Jimmy McCracklin

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This evening's music features West coast blues piano player and songwriter Jimmy McCracklin. Enjoy!

Jimmy McCracklin - The Walk

"When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right."

-- Simon Bolivar


News and Opinion

Thousands of demonstrators from across Peru march “to take Lima”

Protests in Peru have escalated continuously in tandem with the murderous repression unleashed by the US-backed Dina Boluarte regime. Demonstrations, strikes and roadblocks have led to calls and preparations for a “march to take Lima,” the country’s capital. Demonstrations rapidly expanded in the southern Puno region in the Andes, whose population is predominantly Quechua and Aymara-speaking. Puno is also one of the poorest regions in the country, with nearly half of the population living under the official poverty line.

On January 9, in response to the blocking of all roads to Juliaca, the region’s main commercial center, the police used live ammunition against demonstrators, killing at least 18. The ashes of a policeman and his vehicle were found the following morning in the city, bringing the total number of confirmed deaths in the protests to 49. At least 41 demonstrators have been killed and about 600 have been wounded by gunfire.

The Juliaca massacre has unleashed an escalation of the protests, which erupted one month ago in response to the December 7 coup against President Pedro Castillo. Protesters have demanded the resignation of Boluarte and the Congress, immediate general elections and a constituent assembly. ...

Most recently, demonstrators in the towns and the indigenous Aymara and Quechua communities in the south have called for a march to “take Lima” and forcibly oust Boluarte and Congress. Since Sunday, thousands have joined caravans from across the country and are heading to the capital, as the police and military seek to intercept them with checkpoints. Demonstrators north and south of Lima have also established roadblocks along the Pan-American highway, but have not so far tried to systematically surround the city. Local indigenous leaders have called the caravans the “March of the Four Corners,” which was the name of mass demonstrations in Lima in the year 2000 against the authoritarian regime of Alberto Fujimori. ...

Fearing an offensive against the mines, most of which are located in some of the poorest regions of the country, like Cajamarca, Apurímac, Pira, Cusco, Junín and La Libertad, the companies are calling for a harsher crackdown. Behind these hysterical calls for repression lies the high demand for metals and minerals, intensified by supply chain disruptions caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the US-NATO war in Ukraine against Russia, and labor shortages. Peru is the second-largest producer of copper, and a major producer of key minerals like silver, gold, zinc, lead and tin.

The corporate media and the ultra-right Fujimoristas in Congress and the state apparatus, who are dictating the policies of the regime, have ramped up their denunciations of demonstrators as “terrorists,” “communists,” and minions of Bolivian ex-president Evo Morales, whose entry into the country was denied. Without presenting any evidence, Boluarte and the far right have claimed that Morales is helping funnel weapons to demonstrators and fomenting “separatism.” Hundreds of arrests of alleged leaders of the protests and raids of local organizations have taken place on the basis of these fraudulent accusations. ... In reality, the protests remain largely uncoordinated and leaderless.

Russia Advances Siversk, Ukraine Risks Bakhmut; US, German Military Push Back Against Tank Transfers

CNN: Ukraine Has Become a ‘Weapons Lab’ for Western Arms

Ukraine has turned into a “lab” for Western arms as the war has given the US and its allies an opportunity to see how their weapons fare in a conflict with a major military power like Russia, CNN reported on Monday.

A source familiar with Western intelligence on the war told CNN that Ukraine is “absolutely a weapons lab in every sense because none of this equipment has ever actually been used in a war between two industrially developed nations.” The source described it as “real-world battle testing.”

Back in July, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov offered his country as a “testing ground” for Western arms makers. “We are interested in testing modern systems in the fight against the enemy and we are inviting arms manufacturers to test the new products here,” he said.

Reznikov got his wish as the US, and its allies have significantly stepped up military aid since then, and the war has escalated as Russia began large-scale strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure in October.

US Begins Expanded Training of Ukrainian Forces in Germany

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told reporters on Sunday that the US has begun its expanded training program of Ukrainian soldiers in Germany, representing Washington’s ever-growing involvement in the war. ...

Up to this point, US training of Ukrainians has focused on specific weapons systems, but the new program is being called “combined arms” training. The Ukrainians will be taught how to coordinate battalion-sized forces using combined artillery, armored units, and ground troops. Ukrainian forces have been undergoing similar training in Britain.

Milley said the initial goal is to train a battalion of about 500 troops and get them back on the battlefield in about six to eight weeks. He also said that the US hopes to deliver new weapons and equipment to Ukraine in time for them to use it “sometime before the spring rains show up. That would be ideal.”

Russian economy collapse narrative makes a comeback

China’s Trade Surplus Grows, Including With the US

There’s a lot of talk about friend-shoring and bringing industry back to the US and its allies, but the reality is quite different.


The bottom line, right now, is that if the US went to war with China, the American (and Western) economies would virtually collapse. ...

The steps required for America and the West to rise to the challenge of China require Western elites to make painful choices they so far are avoiding: they simply have to give a better deal to their populations, and not concentrate on keeping wage increases under inflation increases (which is what has happened in the US.)

America’s elites can be absurdly filthy rich or they can just filthy rich and have a chance of retaining their global pre-eminence. It’s unlikely they can do both, though I suppose they could bet on ruling a post-nuclear wasteland, if they’ve gone fully insane.

Brazil charges 39 with staging coup after storming of government buildings

The office of Brazil’s prosecutor-general has presented its first charges against some of the thousands of people who authorities say stormed government buildings in an effort to overturn former president Jair Bolsonaro’s loss in the October election.

The prosecutors in the recently formed group to combat antidemocratic acts have also requested that the 39 defendants who allegedly ransacked the Brazilian congress building be imprisoned as a preventive measure, and that 40m reais ($7.7m) of their assets be frozen to help cover damages.

The defendants have been charged with armed criminal association, violent attempt to subvert the democratic state of law, staging a coup and damage to public property, the prosecutor-general’s office said in a statement released late on Monday. Their identities have not yet been released.

Sinema High-Fives Manchin Over Filibuster Support While 'Schmoozing With CEOs' at Davos

Independent U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and right-wing Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia took heat Tuesday for high-fiving over their shared support of the filibuster while "rubbing elbows with Wall Street CEOs and celebrities in the lap of luxury" at the World Economic Forum's annual summit in Davos, Switzerland.

Sinema—who left the Democratic Party last month—and Manchin sat on a panel with Democrats including Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), Rep. Mike Sherill (D-N.J.), and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a multibillionaire. Also on the panel were Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Rep. Mária Salazar (R-Fla.).

At one point during the panel discussion, Manchin asked Sinema, "We still don't agree on getting rid of the filibuster, correct?"

"That's correct," the former far-left anti-war activist replied. The two senators then proceeded to high-five.


Worth a full read. Here's a taste to get you started:

John Kiriakou: GOP Has Not Created a New Church Committee

House Republicans last week announced that they would quickly create a special committee that they referred to as the Church Committee II. Formally, they named it the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. The subcommittee was created on a straight party-line vote: All 221 Republicans voted in favor while all 211 Democrats were opposed. ...

House Republicans, upon creation of the subcommittee, said that it would be responsible for a “wide-ranging investigation into federal law enforcement and national security agencies.” But in private conversations, these same Republicans said that they would “use their new power in Congress to scrutinize what they said was a concerted effort by the government to silence and punish conservatives at all levels, from protestors at school board meetings to former President Donald J. Trump,” according to The New York Times..

That doesn’t bear even a fleeting resemblance to the Church Committee. ...

The Church Committee, and its House counterpart, the Pike Committee, were created in 1975 to investigate abuses by the C.I.A. and other government entities. These abuses were not based on complaints from one political party that the government was harassing its adherents. Instead, these abuses amounted to crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes against the American people.

Among the things that the Church and Pike Committees uncovered were the U.S. Army’s spying operations against American citizens, particularly those who were opposed to the Vietnam War; assassination operations against foreign leaders, including Zaire’s Patrice Lumumba, the Dominican Republic’s Rafael Trujillo, Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam, General Rene Schneider of Chile and Cuba’s Fidel Castro; the C.I.A.’s MKULTRA program, in which the C.I.A. tortured and drugged with LSD unwitting American citizens as part of a program of long-term experiments on mind control; and the F.B.I.’s COINTELPRO, short for Counterintelligence Program, which involved surveillance of American political, peace and civil rights organizations and the infiltration of those organizations without any probable cause, warrants or court orders.

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar restored to House panels

Two far-right members of Congress whose threatening behavior prompted their removal from committees when Democrats controlled the US House were given assignments on Tuesday by the new Republican speaker, Kevin McCarthy.

Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia will sit on the House homeland security committee. Paul Gosar of Arizona was named to the natural resources panel.



the horse race



Clinton Email Hacker SPEAKS OUT

Republicans have already filed dozens of bills to restrict voting in 2023

Republican lawmakers across the country have already filed dozens of bills that would restrict voting, including proposals in Texas that would increase criminal penalties on people who violate voting laws and enact a new law enforcement unit to prosecute election crimes.

The 2023 legislative session comes in the wake of an election that was described by many voting rights advocates as a triumph of democracy, despite the restrictive voting laws that were in place in 20 states for the first time last year.

Before this session, at least 26 states enacted, expanded or increased the severity of 120 election-related criminal penalties.

Republican Pays Hitmen to Target Dem Opponents

Former Republican candidate arrested over shootings targeting Democratic homes

A failed Republican state legislative candidate, who authorities say was angry over losing an election last November and made baseless claims that the vote was “rigged”, has been arrested in connection with a series of drive-by shootings targeting the homes of Democratic lawmakers in New Mexico’s largest city. Albuquerque Police chief Harold Medina held a news conference on Monday evening hours after Swat officers arrested Solomon Pena at his home.

Medina described Pena as the “mastermind” of what appears to be a politically motivated criminal conspiracy behind four shootings at, or near, the homes of two county commissioners and two state legislators. The shooting took place between December and early January.

Pena lost an election in November to incumbent state Representative, Miguel P. Garcia, the longtime Democrat representing House District 14 in New Mexico. Garcia won by 48 percentage points, or roughly 3,600 votes.

Police said Pena had approached county and state lawmakers after his loss, claiming the contest had been rigged against him despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud in New Mexico in 2020 or 2022. The shootings began shortly after those conversations.

Deputy Commander Kyle Hartsock said at least five people, including Pena, were involved in the shootings. Pena is accused of paying the others to carry out at least two of the shootings, according to Hartsock, before “Pena himself” allegedly “pulled the trigger” during one of crimes.



the evening greens


Atmospheric dust may have hidden true extent of global heating

Dust that billows up from desert storms and arid landscapes has helped cool the planet for the past several decades, and its presence in the atmosphere may have obscured the true extent of global heating caused by fossil fuel emissions. Atmospheric dust has increased by about 55% since the mid-1800s, an analysis suggests. And that increasing dust may have hidden up to 8% of warming from carbon emissions.

The analysis by atmospheric scientists and climate researchers in the US and Europe attempts to tally the varied, complex ways in which dust has affected global climate patterns, concluding that overall, it has worked to somewhat counteract the warming effects of greenhouse gasses. The study, published in Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, warns that current climate models fail to take into account the effect of atmospheric dust.

“We’ve been predicting for a long time that we’re headed toward a bad place when it comes to greenhouse warming,” said Jasper Kok, an atmospheric physicist at UCLA who led the research. “What this research shows is that so far, we’ve had the emergency brake on.”

About 26m tons of dust are suspended in our atmosphere, scientists estimate. Its effects are complicated. Dust, along with synthetic particulate pollution, can cool the planet in several ways. These mineral particles can reflect sunlight away from the Earth and dissipate cirrus clouds high in the atmosphere that warm the planet. Dust that falls into the ocean encourages the growth of phytoplankton – microscopic plants in the ocean – that absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen.

Dust can also have a warming effect in some cases – darkening snow and ice, and prompting them to absorb more heat. But after they tallied everything up, it seemed clear to researchers that the dust had an overall cooling effect.

Banks still investing heavily in fossil fuels despite net zero pledges – study

Banks and finance institutions that have signed up to net zero pledges are still investing heavily in fossil fuels, research has shown, leading to accusations they are acting as “climate arsonists”.

The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) initiative was launched by the former Bank of England governor Mark Carney, as one of the main UK achievements in hosting the Cop26 UN climate summit at Glasgow in 2021. The UK boasted at Cop26 that 450 organisations in 45 countries with assets of more than $130tn had signed up to GFANZ, to align their investments with the goal of limiting global temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.

But its members have poured hundreds of billions into fossil fuels since then, according to data compiled by the pressure group Reclaim Finance.

GFANZ is made up of numerous smaller groupings that require members to reduce their exposure to fossil fuels. But at least 56 of the biggest banks in the net-zero banking alliance grouping (NZBA) have provided $270bn to 102 fossil fuel companies for their expansion, through 134 loans and 215 underwriting arrangements, according to Reclaim Finance.

Paddy McCully, senior analyst at Reclaim Finance, said: “GFANZ members are acting as climate arsonists. They’ve pledged to achieve net zero but are continuing to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into fossil fuel developers. GFANZ and its member alliances will only be credible once they up their game and insist that their members help bring a rapid end to the era of coal, oil and fossil gas expansion.”

‘Extinction crisis’ of sharks and rays to have devastating effect on other species, study finds

Almost two-thirds of sharks and rays that live around the world’s coral reefs are threatened with extinction with potentially dire knock-on effects for ecosystems and coastal communities, according to new research.

Overfishing was the main cause of the declines over the past half a century, with larger sharks and rays being particularly hard hit. “These sharks and rays have evolved over 450m years and survived six mass extinctions but they can’t deal with this fishing pressure,” said Prof Colin Simpfendorfer, a global expert on sharks and rays and one of the study’s main authors from Australia’s James Cook University. “This is not just a few species,” he said. “This is a broad extinction crisis.”

As sharks and rays disappeared, the study said there would be cascading effects on other species with “growing ecological consequences for coral reefs, many of which will be hard or impossible to reverse,” a team of more than 30 researchers wrote. As global heating risks the future of coral reefs around the world, the pressures facing shark populations would only get worse, the authors said. ...

The new study, in the journal Nature Communications, builds on findings from a 2020 study that concluded sharks were “functionally extinct” on 20% of the world’s coral reefs.

California storm death toll climbs to 20 as deluge begins to subside

Sunshine beamed across parts of California on Tuesday, signaling a hopeful end to extreme downpours that drenched the Golden State. The nine powerful atmospheric rivers that bore down in quick succession over the last three weeks – dropping an estimated 24.5tn gallons of water across California from 26 December to 11 January – left death and disaster in their wake. ...

The cost of the catastrophe is estimated to far-exceed $1bn, making the series of storms the first billion dollar-disaster of 2023. But, even as the clouds cleared this week, there’s another storm swirling over the Pacific that could gain enough strength to become California’s tenth atmospheric river. A shot of precipitation from a quick system was also predicted for Wednesday or Thursday, the National Weather Service said.

Forecasters cautioned that although the midweek rainfall will be light, it could still cause problems across the sodden state. Overly saturated soils and systems, overwhelmed by moisture after months of dryness, will not be able to withstand more water, as tens of thousands remained under evacuation orders on Monday. ...

As some communities across California brace for more, others are using the dry reprieve to begin the arduous cleanup process. The state saw more than 500 landslides since New Year’s Eve according to the California Geological Survey, and many transportation corridors remain closed or slowed due to the damage and debris.


Also of Interest

Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.

Croatia’s President Says US and NATO are Waging a Proxy War Against Russia

What if Russia Won the Ukraine War but the Western Press Didn’t Notice?

Ukraine SitRep - Media Ignorance, Counter-Artillery War, Three Lost Armies

China Holds Live-Fire Drills in South China Sea After US Warships Enter Region

Ukraine is not the bastion of freedom described by most Western media

India’s Oil Imports From Russia Jump 33 Times To Record High

Analyst Suffered 20 Years in US Prison for Helping Cuba, Still Condemns ‘Suffocating’ Blockade

More Austerity Means More Protests in 2023

Democratic plans to overhaul primary process hit a fresh snag

New York Press: Hey, People, Leave That Judge Alone

Bernie Sanders Speech on 'State of the Working Class'

World’s oldest runestone found in Norway, archaeologists say

Republican Says CUT Social Security, Seniors "Want To Work More"

JOE ROGAN: Biden Docs SMOKESCREEN For Removal

Suspect in EU graft probe to cooperate with Belgian authorities


A Little Night Music

Jimmy McCracklin - Georgia Slop

Jimmy McCracklin - Whats That (Pt 1)

Jimmy McCracklin - Think

Jimmy McCracklin - Arkansas (Parts 1 & 2)

Jimmy McCracklin - Rockin' All Day

Jimmy McCracklin - She Felt Too Good

Jimmy McCracklin - One Track Love

Jimmy McCracklin - Rockin' Man

Jimmy McCracklin - Savoy Jump

Jimmy McCracklin - The Wobble


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Going to order a 4 inch rechargeable electric saw. The ads look great as I am somewhat weak in arms. Watch out, spring garden.

Still messes with my mind that Finland would go NATO but also just hyper Russophobe by leadership. Everything I read that relations not bad nor great but working. Finnish companies did well making stuff for St. Petersburg and diary products of all sorts.

Hillary Clinton of Europe?

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is retirement expense. So some publican comes up with the premise "well, people say they
want to work longer". In other words, put the noose on social security by raising the
age for enrollment. 65.7 years of being more or less under the thumb is not enough to
satisfy the ruling class. I'm almost 68 and I don't want to work any more. But my options
are limited due to losing my 401k in the last "Great Recession" and no pension, no real
safety net, explosive insurance and other costs. Bottom line, I have to keep working to
stay afloat. But the WEF jackals decide retirement benefits are an unnecessary
obstacle to their own economic health? Whoa

And apparently the house agrees. It is not enough to reduce the value of the dollar with
inflationary tactics, force the cost of living thru the roof and destroy the infrastructure
for the sake of some clown in Eastern Europe, but now we have to work people to death.

I don't know about y'all but I call BS. This will not fly.

Your blues do tho joe

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Here it is folks! Hector LaSalle was voted down in the Senate Committee.

The Governor of NY State, Kathy Hochul should have withdrawn this nomination. But she did not. She persisted with it and drafted NY bigwigs, none of whom had an actual vote, to stand with her. No doubt, to persuade Latinos that are leaving the Democratic Party in droves, to stick with the Dems. lol.

She should have accepted that LaSalle's clear anti-worker record was going to sink him. She did not do this either.

Now all that is left is for Kathy to accept the Committee's decision, or continue to fight and sue to get a floor vote.

"It's not fair," protests Her Majesty, in the fine tradition of the 1% anytime they are thwarted.

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NYCVG

@NYCVG

defeat the evil players one at a time
authority needs to learn how to play
well with others, their base

thanks for posting

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incompetence irt the Ukrainian debacle

https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/ukraine-is-the-hammer-about-to-fall/#comments

Remind me which leaders country is more hungry for war and more
authoritarian?

I guess between the Peru coup and the WEF global takeover one
could say Winter is Coming. Let it be short very short in duration.

Thanks for another action packed EB Joe.

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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

@ggersh @ggersh if this has been reported previously:

Putin: Russian Military-Industrial Might Makes Ukraine Victory 'Inevitable' - U.S. News - Jan 18, 2023
President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia's powerful military-industrial complex was ramping up production and was one of the main reasons why Russia would prevail in Ukraine.
Putin, speaking to workers at a factory in St Petersburg that makes air defense systems, said overall military equipment output was rising even as demand for it was growing because of what he calls Russia's "special military operation" in Ukraine.

"In terms of achieving the end result and the victory that is inevitable, there are several things ... It is the unity and cohesion of the Russian and multinational Russian people, the courage and heroism of our fighters ... and of course the work of the military-industrial complex and factories like yours and people like you," said Putin.

"Victory is assured, I have no doubt about it."

Putin said Russian arms companies manufactured about the same number of anti-aircraft missiles as the rest of the world combined, and three times more than the United States.

Not to mention the endless natural resources, etc.

USA is perfectly willing to Lose the Wars as long as Profit Continues.

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NYCVG

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@NYCVG truth telling articles.

Both Russia and China get extremely good bang for their
military bucks. Should their be corruption in military
production while fellow pats are dying for the country
I don't for a moment believe that that would be tolerated,
heads would roll. Here in amerika those heads are totally
rewarded and put on pedestals....sigh

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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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as it turnas out, i will be out until later tonight, so if i'm still mostly awake when i get back i'll check in.

have a great evening!

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The bottom line, right now, is that if the US went to war with China, the American (and Western) economies would virtually collapse. ...

The epidemic showed us how dumb it was to offshore jobs to China and how we couldn’t provide necessary protection to our health workers.

And just how weird is it to see Germany training Nazis again? I’d sure be upset if I lived there. I am totally pissed that we have been training and arming them for decades and doing nothing as they killed people civilians for the last 9 years.

Gee how surprising that republicans aren’t really going to investigate Biden or the out of control intelligence agencies. I’m betting that they have blackmail information on everyone in government to make sure no one can reign them in.

And ain’t it too bad that democrats didn’t do anything about the debt ceiling rules when they had the chance? It’s almost like they want republicans to gut social security and everything else they can get their hands on. Pffft!

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

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@snoopydawg or consider the Ukranians to be Nazis. They have no clue about the historical background, all they may know is that Russia was always the communist occupier. Even that I doubt they think. They don't even know what Communism was. Today you need to know the age of a person you talk to, consider what they, due to their age and nationality, or due to where they grew up, can even have personal experience about.

The elder formerly West-Germans 35 years old and above, barely know and understand what East Germany was about before the reunification.

I see that in myself, being in the US since the 1982, I had no clue about the divisions between former East Germans and West Germans, nor could I understand why the division cpontinued after the reunification.

I alsos believe that the elderly, like me, are so used to be seen as former Nazis that you ignore such things. The younger don't even really know or realize in themselves, that they fall or imitate Nazi behavior of the third Reixh Hitler Youth.

I am not pissed off to live here, I am depressed and upset and just give up.

I come to the conclusion that men and women just understand what they personally experienced in their lives.

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And Last but not least!

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She says that one needs a full tank of gas to run for election and she’s out of gas. She sure did a lot of damage to people’s rights whilst in office.

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@snoopydawg

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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

They ruined a lot of lives and they shouldn’t just get to walk away from the damage. But it’s the top dog Klaus who needs to be held accountable for placing them in governments.

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@snoopydawg

Also Too

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@humphrey Kerry? People like you?
You no good, blood sucking bastard. And same for your other selected group members.

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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

"It’s eminent that if we don’t address this immediately the world is going to drown!" Or burn up or cease to exist soon. Or something bad. If anyone is serious about dealing with climate change they would be going after the military because it causes the most pollution and uses ungawdless amounts of fossil fuels. Hey Greta how come you never address that? Btw Greta just got fake arrested in Germany. Everyone is calling her out for it.

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Yet it doesn't stop reactions like this.

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BoA has also lost a few billions and they are laying off thousands of people. Microsoft just laid off 1,500 and Amazon is laying off 10,000. This was one of Powell’s goals when he started raising interest rates. Looks like the PTB are rigging another market crash while so many people never recovered from the one in 2009. Thanks Obama! Maybe you should have let those pitchforks through?

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I am beginning to think that Dr. Strangelove is calling the shots

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