The Evening Blues - 5-31-23
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This evening's music features ragtime and jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton. Enjoy!
Jelly Roll Morton - Black Bottom Stomp
"Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it."
-- Lord Byron
News and Opinion
Ukraine Peace Plan Is Only Way to End Russia's War, Says Zelenskiy Aide
Kyiv's peace plan is the only way to end Russia's war in Ukraine and the time for mediation efforts has passed, a top aide to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.
Chief diplomatic adviser Ihor Zhovkva told Reuters that Ukraine had no interest in a ceasefire that locks in Russian territorial gains, and wanted the implementation of its peace plan, which envisages the full withdrawal of Russian troops.
He pushed back on a flurry of peace initiatives from China, Brazil, the Vatican and South Africa in recent months.
"There cannot be a Brazilian peace plan, a Chinese peace plan, a South African peace plan when you are talking about the war in Ukraine," Zhovkva said in an interview late on Friday.
Biden White House debates various Ukraine off-ramps
Ukrainian official hints counteroffensive coming ‘soon’
A Ukrainian official has indicated the country’s expected counteroffensive is coming “soon,” as Russian missiles hit Ukraine overnight and in a rarer daylight attack Monday.
The commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said in a Telegram post that “the time will soon come when we will move to active offensive actions” and “defined specific tasks” for military preparations, according to translations.
Officials appear to be hinting that Ukraine may be nearing go-time on its long-anticipated counteroffensive.
Neo-Nazis attack Russia with US weapons
Polish President Signs 'Tusk Law' on Undue Russian Influence
Poland's president said on Monday he would sign a bill to allow a panel to investigate whether the opposition Civic Platform (PO) party allowed the country to be unduly influenced by Russia and as a result too dependent on its fuel when it was in power.
The liberal PO, in government from 2007 to 2015, rejects the claims and says the law is designed to destroy support for its leader and former prime minister Donald Tusk ahead of an election scheduled for October or November.
President Andrzej Duda said he would sign the bill because he believed it "should enter into force" but he also said he would ask the Constitutional Tribunal to examine criticism that the legislation is unconstitutional.
The bill would set up an investigative commission that could deliver an initial report in September. Opposition figures have nicknamed it Lex Tusk, using the Latin word for law.
Biden Accuser Tara Reade For MOVING To Russia
Tara Reade, who accused Joe Biden of sexual assault, defects to Russia
Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer who in 2020 accused Joe Biden of sexual assault, said on Tuesday she had defected to Russia.
“I’m still kind of in a daze a bit but I feel very good,” Reade told Sputnik, a Russian press outlet supportive of President Vladimir Putin, while sitting with Maria Butina, a convicted Russian agent jailed in the US but now a member of parliament in Russia.
Now 59, Reade was a staffer for Biden when he was a US senator from Delaware.
In 2020, as Biden ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, she claimed that in 1993, in a Senate corridor, he pushed her against a wall and assaulted her. Biden repeatedly denied the accusation.
The Grayzone debates National Endowment for Democracy VP on group's CIA ties
Chinese pilot performed ‘aggressive maneuver’ near US plane, military says
A Chinese fighter pilot performed an “unnecessarily aggressive maneuver” near an American surveillance aircraft operating over the South China Sea last week, according to US military. The incident – which the Pentagon says is part of a pattern of behavior by China – comes at a time of already heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing over issues including Taiwan and an alleged Chinese spy balloon that was shot down after traversing the United States earlier this year.
The Chinese plane “flew directly in front of and within 400 feet of the nose of the RC-135, forcing the US aircraft to fly through its wake turbulence” on Friday, the Indo-Pacific Command (IndoPaCom) said in a statement. ...
Declassified video footage shows a fighter plane crossing in front of the American aircraft, which can be seen shaking from the resulting turbulence.
A senior US defense official said there had been an “alarming increase in the number of risky aerial intercepts and confrontations at sea” by Chinese aircraft and ships – actions that “have the potential to create an unsafe incident or miscalculation”.
“We don’t believe it’s done by pilots operating independently,” the official said. “We believe it’s part of a wider pattern.”
Erdoğan Reelected to 5 More Years in Turkey as His Government Grows More Authoritarian & Nationalist
McCarthy insists Republican support for debt deal ‘easy’ despite vocal opposition
The Republican speaker of the US House, Kevin McCarthy, insisted on Tuesday that supporting the debt ceiling deal would be “easy” for his party and it was likely to pass through Congress despite one prominent rightwinger’s verdict that the proposed agreement is a “turd sandwich”.
Amid loud denunciations from the Republican right and also from closer to the centre, McCarthy said he was not worried the agreement would fail, or that it would threaten his hold on the speaker’s gavel.
The bill is the “most conservative deal we’ve ever had”, McCarthy told reporters, of a two-year agreement that includes spending freezes and rescinding Internal Revenue Service funding while leaving military and veterans spending untouched.
Negotiators fielded by McCarthy and Joe Biden reached the deal to raise the $31.4tn US debt ceiling last weekend.
A default would be likely to have catastrophic consequences for the US and world economies. The treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, has said that will happen on 5 June if no bill is passed.
Everything You Need to Know: CRITICAL Debt Vote Today
Biden-McCarthy austerity debt ceiling bill moves to vote in Congress
On Tuesday, the House Rules Committee voted to advance the bill worked out between President Joe Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to suspend the debt ceiling and impose major cuts in social spending. The bill will now go to the full House of Representatives for debate and a vote on Wednesday evening.
With Democratic leaders giving assurances that they will supply whatever votes are needed to obtain passage of the austerity measure and most House Republicans signaling their support, despite opposition from the far-right Freedom Caucus, the bill’s adoption by the Republican-controlled House is a virtual certainty. From there the bill will go to the Senate, where the Democrats, who hold a narrow majority, are poised to pass it with significant Republican support, although Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has warned that the debate and vote could extend into the weekend. This would delay congressional passage of the bill and its signing by Biden until the eve of the June 5 “X-date,” when Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen claims the government would run out of cash to pay its debt obligations, triggering the first ever US debt default, with “catastrophic” consequences.
As the World Socialist Web Site has explained, the entire crisis over the debt ceiling has a manufactured and stage-managed character. It provides the framework within which the two parties of Wall Street and the military conspire to impose on the working class the full cost of massive increases in military spending for the war against Russia in Ukraine and preparations for war against China. The other major sources of the explosive growth of the US national debt—none of which are ever explained in the media—are tax cuts for the corporations and the rich and successive waves of bailouts of the banks and major Wall Street speculators.
Spending on social programs—health care, education, public transit, housing, food stamps, job training—has been substantially cut since the last manufactured debt ceiling crisis, in 2011, when the Obama-Biden administration enacted the Budget Control Act, capping spending for a decade. Over that period, spending on the military has soared and bailouts and tax cuts have reduced corporate taxes as a percentage of corporate revenues by 60 percent. This time around, as then, the Republican Party, led by its fascistic wing, has been used to drive the so-called “debate,” making the most extreme demands for social cuts and thereby paving the way for the Democrats to agree to somewhat less onerous attacks, while accelerating the process of gutting all of the social gains won by the working class in a century of struggle.
FBI REFUSES to Hand Over Biden Corruption Docs, House GOP To Hold Christopher Wray IN CONTEMPT
Secret Poll Shows Abortion CRUSHING Republicans
‘Ball of fluff’: rare white bison born in Wyoming is first in park’s 32-year history
Staffers at the Bear River state park in south-west Wyoming welcomed four brown bison calves this spring and thought the birthing season was finished.
But earlier this month, as staff visited the animals’ pasture, they saw a “little white ball of fluff”, park superintendent Tyfani Sager said.
One of Bear River’s two white heifers had given birth to a white calf, the first in the park’s 32-year history, Sager said. The mother’s name is Wyoming Hope. Staff suspect the father is a bull named Snort.
White bison are extremely rare throughout the American west and are considered sacred to many Native American tribes. Bear River’s white buffalo contain Charolais cattle DNA, which gives them their distinctive snowy fur. The genetic makeup makes them rare, but not as unusual as albino bison, which only occur in about one-in-10m births.
A Dirty Debt Deal: Biden Blasted for Backing Fast-Track Approval of Mountain Valley Pipeline
Delta Air Lines faces lawsuit over $1bn carbon neutrality claim
Delta Air Lines is facing a lawsuit over its $1bn carbon neutrality claim which plaintiffs say is “false and misleading” as it relies on offsets that do little to mitigate global heating.
In February 2020, the US airline announced plans to go carbon neutral, pledging $1bn to mitigate all greenhouse gas emissions from its business worldwide over the next decade. It included plans to purchase carbon credits generated from conserving rainforest, wetlands and grasslands along with decreasing the use of jet fuel and increasing plane efficiency.
The new legal action, filed in California on Tuesday, targets Delta’s statement that it is “the world’s first carbon-neutral airline”, a claim it has made in adverts, LinkedIn posts, in-flight napkins and comments by company executives, according to the lawsuit.
The class-action lawsuit says Delta’s carbon neutrality claim is demonstrably false as it heavily relies on junk offsets that do nothing to counteract the climate crisis. It alleges that customers would have purchased Delta tickets believing they had no impact on the environment and many would not have bought them without the carbon neutrality claim.
Supreme Court Guts Clean Water Act as Conservative Justices Side with Polluters and Developer
Also of Interest
Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.
Kremlin Says 'Vacuum' Emerging in Arms Control
Biden and the Islamophobic Watchlist
America’s Continuing Quest to Hide Torture
Rising Ideologies Need People Inside; Stagnant Hegemonies Want People Out
Adam McKay: 1.5C Is Terrifying But There Is Something We Haven’t Tried
Firefighting goats could be furloughed due to California employment law
Astronomers see 6,000-mile water vapour plume blasting from Saturn moon
A Little Night Music
Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers - Original Jelly Roll Blues
Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers - Dead Man Blues
Jelly Roll Morton - The Crave
Jelly Roll Morton - New Orleans Blues
Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers - Georgia Swing
Jelly Roll Morton - Fat Meat and Greens
Jelly Roll Morton & Sidney Bechet - Didn't He Ramble
Jelly Roll Morton - The Naked Dance
Jelly Roll Morton - Doctor Jazz
Comments
Well this sounds reasonable enough to me
https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2023/05/debt-rattle-may-31-2023/
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/jim-rogers-stock-market-...
Thanks for the EB's Joe....
1/2 inch of rain all of May, the grass is turning brown already.
The next forecast for rain is June 10th, a dust bowl in the making?
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
reason is treason in this day and age
thought control will disallow contrary opinions
vis-a-vis the latest pandemic info warfare
for what it is worth, we still need to think for ourselves
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
Orwell told us this didn't he
https://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/
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
Ah'yupp
believe you nailed it there
thanks amigo
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
evening ggersh...
yep, it seems like what is going to happen is not so much in question as when it will happen is.
i thought he missed the mark on this:
i don't think that the debt problem is what is driving dedollarization, it is the foreign policy incompetence of the neocon-run u.s. government and its bullying of other nations using the currency as a weapon.
sorry to hear about your lack of rain. we've been largely running below average here this winter through april. in april we were about an inch above average, nws doesn't have may numbers yet.
I agree with you
policy.Stealing Russia's money, Venezuela's Gold, Iran's
oil and natural resources the world over doesn't help either.
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
I have experienced bull markets and bear markets
I experienced inflation, deflation, stagflation, and all the other run-away, run-away, be very afraid scenarions. None of them had much of an effect on my life or my lifestyle.
I just kept my wits about me and dealt with them.
15 years ago when I cashed in my home ownership chips I was very aware of the reason for doing so. Ie, what good were those zeroes on my worth sheet? They were but zeroes.
An 80 yo investor? Why? When I was talking with the bank about what to do with all those zeroes, he was all excited, said he could invest it and get me a phenominal return. My response was: "You remember when they told you to build a nestegg so that you could someday do what you want to do? That day is today."
Another indyism I just recalled: Never take anything to work you have to go back to get.
Thanks, Joe. Another wonderful lead.
Thanks for the indyism
I'm glad it paid off for you.
We all have experienced the theft that
politicians. Each of us have had to deal with in one
way or another, some coped better than others, but in
the end it affected us all and definitely not for our
benefit.
this could be on the conservative side
https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1973?amount=1
$1 in 1973 is worth $6.83 today
For what it should say is that it takes $6.83 to buy
something today that cost $1.00 in 1973
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
Sounds about right
So the dollars I put into SSI during the 70's should be paid back at a rate of 6x
in today's worth. Then I could afford to retire.
Wishes and fishes
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
Good evening Joe, thanks for the Evening Blues.
What the hell is with Bobby Soave? Of course the Feebs think they're above the law, they have been since their creation, and especially since the fifties.
The article on
was interesting, given that some of the first additions to it were some juvenile (iirc) peaceniks. Sounds like they'd be safe today.
You might want to rerun that Scheerpost on June 26, it's the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. I guess the US won't be celebrating that. Heh
be well and have a good one
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 --
evening el...
heh, i think that soave may have spent so much time with republicans that their authority worship has rubbed off on him and blinded him to some things.
heh...
i'm sure that they will trot out antony blinkiman to maul irony again as he did in his statements about free press and free speech.
have a great evening!
The AOC parody account comes up with some good tweets.
evening humphrey...
pfffffttt!!! that's excellent. and well deserved.
Once again it appears as if Kiev air defence shot down
all incoming missiles. /S
But the street cams are watching.
heh...
of course they were all shot down, you saw them hit the ground, right?
simplicius has a video showing a Patriot missile misfiring and
hitting a car on the street. I can’t tell if the windows were blown out from the near miss, but I don’t see how they weren’t. Boy I bet that driver has nightmares. He writes about how Putin admitted that Russia bombed a building full of decision makers in Kiev. There’s also one that gets dumped in a river and just missing a parking lot with people in it.
Link
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
Here’s the video
Looks like it might have hit the car if it hadn’t hit the wire first.
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
It would be real funny if it didn't cost us a $1bil
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
Here is the other one of missile almost hitting the bridge.
b has become a tankie
.
Written by Russ Baker. No comments allowed.
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
evening snoopy...
what a maroon.
o.k. russ, i want my peace dividend. now. fix it.
Ok, one more comment and then I'll head over to the bar
That piece looks more like something written by ChatGPT. Focused on the who rather than the what and the why. The person who wrote the comment might even be a human but it smacks much more of AI.
The choice by b for the website had nothing to do with Alabama. Couple years ago when I first started following the site the name intrigued me. So I researched it.
Oh what a wonderful journey. Saw and met such wonderful people, people with passion, building on ideas,
Ya know, I had always thought Mack the Knife was a Bobby Darin thing?
"The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge", a good example of why innovation happens.
Looks like the smoke is going to be bad this year. Be well.
Addendum: As I thought about it, I became pretty po'ed. Looking at the evolution of the Alabama song and how it touched so many lives, some directly, some subliminally, some just for the entertainment...
and we are stuck with this profit driven dystopic BS that we have to endure every dam day. These neolibson don't care about anything but stealing every bit of value from what we had. And if it doesn't have an easy value to determine, make up some BS numbers... like the value of Twitter. Watta crock.
I'm currently rereading 1984. I missed so much on my first pass long ago.
BTW, using one of the definitions for tankie most definitely describes b. Someone who has decided that the western "culture" the pretend emperor who has no clothes. And a place run by psychopaths who believe that the boss is entitled to sexual or any other kind of favors from anyone unfortunate enough to require his "largesse".
/rant
Great rant
I first encountered the word tankie in one of kos Ukraine updates when he said that Caitlin was one because she is against American imperialism and adds others like Greenwald and others of his ilk. The funny thing is that once upon a time kos and most of the remaining members there were also against American imperialism, but now they are fully in support of Zelensky and the Nazis and dream up ways to destroy Russia. Xenophobic comments there used to get one banned, but vodka swilling Neanderthal Orcs is very acceptable. And worse. But every now and then they will swear up and down that they are still anti war….well except for when it’s Russia they’re talking about. They just want them wiped off the map.
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
Another day another aid package for Ukraine.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-05-31/white-house-announ...
Well it’s a damn good thing that Biden has put work requirement
on people who need help buying food so that thee most corrupt country in the world can get a few more million in weapons that Russia is just going to blow up. Shitlibs say that only Biden could have made such a good deal with McCarthy and the hell with those poor suckers saddled with student debt have to start repaying them which will further tank the economy. They are idiots who can’t see that Biden has wanted to screw the poor ever since he got in congress and it’s weird how they have forgotten that Obama made a great deal with Ryan too that saw $5 billion cut from food stamps and other programs that the poor rely on. Or that Obiden offered cuts to social security then too. Funny how democrats can never hold the debt ceiling over republicans to refill those budgets or reinstate the taxes that republicans cut the year before! Democrats didn’t even talk about doing that when they got control. But hey fck Dark Brandon because he’s the best president since FDR and they didn’t even have to push him left!
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
heh...
yep, and none of it may be used within russia. nudge, nudge, wink, wink!
Interesting but not surprising and this comes from a pro
Ukrainian propaganda site.
Hi humphrey
How do you interpret the fact that a pro propaganda ukrainian news source is reporting questionable/corrupt activity in the military operation of the country?
The way that I take it...
Is that the corruption is so blatant that even the propaganda source can not even look the other way.
Thank you humphrey, for your response
I suppose what is blatant is also obvious.
Unexpected double deleted
OY! All it took was some Pablum or was it ice cream to get the
deal with the doddering leader of the free world.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4029028-soft-food-to-good-fa...
Chinese response
US recon aircraft spies on Chinese aircraft carrier, professionally dealt with by PLA: PLA Southern Theater Command spokesperson
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202305/1291704.shtml
The video from Bloomberg
The 135 got thumped heading into the jet wash. It's the relative positions of the aircraft that matter. The Chinese fighter didn't ever seem close. I saw a video of one similar intercept not too long ago, that was much closer, where the US complaint obviously was legitimate. However we don't know the exact position of the US recon aircraft at that time when it was harassed by an unsafe maneuver. In the instant case, I don't know what else one expects flying into an aircraft carrier operating area with aircraft airborne. Seems pretty tame.
South Korea, a "tinderbox?"
A few local labor reps in South Korea with grievances on subcontractor practices that weaken unions and exploit skilled workers by treating them as gig workers with no benefits have adopted a practice of making a demonstration by placing themselves in difficult to extract positions. I suppose that's better than lighting oneself on fire, as one labor rep did earlier this month (after he was falsely charged of various felonies).
I remember several months back when one local rep was arrested after he welded himself inside a metal cage onboard a ship under construction in a dry dock. This is one of the episodes this week-
This time the police decided to handle the union member with a direct violent confrontation. Pictures widely disseminated on the internet showed the labor leader later bleeding profusely from the head on the ground, while being arrested. In an apparently related incident, another local labor representative was subdued and arrested forcibly by police by pushing him face down on the pavement, with one officer kneeling on his neck in a position now well known to Americans to potentially cause death.
The order has gone out from the Yoon administration after a number of large labor demonstrations that police will be using force against "unlawful assemblies that threaten public safety." There really has been an uptick in the number of demonstrations lately by various groups not just the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions. The nurses reportedly had a demonstration in the tens of thousands Seoul earlier this week, against Yoon's veto of a nursing reform act designed to limit what procedures and patient services doctors could order nurses to perform. There was the regular Saturday candlelight movement demo. I think the democratic party demonstrated in better weather last weekend against Japan's intended release of Fukushima contaminated meltdown cooling water into the Pacific. That seemed to attract thousands of people.
There was a demo in front of the National Assembly on the 29th, where ordinary citizens including a lot of women, who had been cheated out of their large jeonse deposits (paid in lieu of rent to landlords and then refunded at the end of the lease). This situation has become systemically widespread as landlords speculating in real estate lose their tenants money and/or refuse to return their deposits. These victims are looking for some remedial legislation to help them in their financial distress. Jeonse payments often reflect the life savings of tenants. These demonstrators were denied entry to the National Assembly grounds by force by police. Looked like a riot. In another riotous situation, involving a pro-labor assembly, tents were torn down by police. Allegedly, they were obstructing traffic. Labor elements pushed back, forcing back police and their barricade line. Some demonstrators were physically subdued and taken into custody.
Labor among others have been warned not to conduct all night demonstrations, to sleep on sight, interfere with commuting traffic etc. Sound restrictions are going to be imposed in Seoul apparently. The use of water cannons has been threatened by some of the incumbent party's government representatives and the use of capcaisin and other forceful methods by the head of the National Police.
Korean Confederation of Trade Unions in Seoul, May 30 I think.
In another police state development more characteristic of a dictatorship, press offices in the MBC public broadcasting building were invaded by police with warrants and their records searched and seized, allegedly for unlawful disclosure of private information leaked from a government hearing concerning Han Dong-hun's nomination as Justice Minister April 2022. Also a reporter's home was searched without notice by police, as well as her person, and automobile, which included the police rifling through her underwear in her bedroom. One wonders what this had to do with news reporting or what they expected to find in her underwear draws. According to reporters, commentators, and opposition national assembly members, this kind of behavior exceeds that the prior military dictatorships. Additionally, police during the search referred to Han Dong-hun complying with a warrant when his hand phone was subject to seizure by another prosecutor whom he assaulted at the time, and put in the hospital. Han charged the prosecutor executing the warrant with physical assault. Ultimately, the prosecutor was acquitted on appeal by the Supreme Court. Han's hand phone was never decrypted. It was alleged at the time, he was trying to frame, an opposition commentator with false testimony. Why are police who are now supposed to investigate independently citing Han Dong-hun?
Additionally, in addition to the MBC warrants, the office of the Secretariat of the National Assembly was searched under a related warrant, further making a joke out of constitutional protections and rule of law in South Korea.
Some observers refer to the current state of affairs in South Korea domestically as a "tinderbox" waiting to go off. Resort to more violence by police against what are becoming more widespead and frequent demonstrations by various groups opposed to the current government may trigger greater social unrest and violence. Until now, South Korean demonstrators had been remarkably non-violent.
Thanks for your news roundup JB.
語必忠信 行必正直
The price you pay for being stenographers rather than news
organizations.
https://www.rt.com/news/577251-opec-snubs-reuters-bloomber/
Taiwan weapons stockpile
...would be a "deterrent" according to the Congressional anti-China Committee.
https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2023/05/24/china-committee-wants-co...
Well, the war games, who could dispute that? It's embarrassing how corrupt these elected officials are.
語必忠信 行必正直
Evening joe and bluesters
I appreciate the reasonableness that is here. How rarely ‘reason’ prevails is regrettable.
I think Pearl is a nice name for the bison.
Cheers, all
The Age of Reason is long over, after all, Tom Paine
is long dead.
be well and have a good one
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 --