[The Beaverton] QATAR — As the World Cup enters its final phase, FIFA and Qatar have issued a joint statement that the last 7 teams knocked out of the tournament will be required to take the stadium in which they lost back to their home country.
"We think of it as a consolation prize," said FIFA president Gianni Infantino as he lit his cigar with a $100 riyal. "What player wouldn’t want to take a piece of Qatar home with them? I know I’m taking A LOT home from Qatar."
In contrast to other countries that built permanent stadiums made of concrete and steel, Qatar chose to build temporary ones out of different materials like repurposed shipping containers and the tears of unpaid migrant workers. Now each squad will have to figure out how to bring these items home with them.
"I saved room in my bag for a medal, not for metal" quipped Portugal star Christiano Ronaldo as he grabbed his knee and rolled across the press conference stage. "How am I supposed to roll home carrying 30 tons of bleachers and a Spicy Madrouba kiosk?"
"Have you ever tried stashing a locker room into an overhead bin? It doesn’t matter how you turn it, you are NOT going to get that door closed."
England’s recently crowned King Charles responded to the announcement with a grumble, complaining that England already has centuries worth of treasures from Africa and the Middle East and is running out of places to store them.
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Fun fact - one of the stadiums is, in fact, designed to be easily dismantled as it was built from 974 shipping containers, hence the name of the stadium.
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The woke bull shit doesn't help, either. The English were still taking knees. Glad they are out of the competition. Same for the Germans. US squad pushed it, too. Idiots.
[The Federalist] Leftists push to further involve the federal government in the affairs of other nations as well as in the private lives of Americans.
It’s no secret that liberty is the focus of the political philosophy of the American founders. This political philosophy was once simply called "liberalism." Today, it must be called "classical liberalism" to distinguish it from the illiberalism of leftists who advocate for government overreach in every area of life yet are allowed to get away with calling themselves "liberals." The old liberalism has been co-opted by radical "progressivism," a movement that emerged at the beginning of the 20th century and has since taken over the political left.
The term "liberal" comes from the Latin "liber" meaning "free." There is not universal agreement about the origin of the original, proper usage of the term liberalism, but many thoughtful students of the subject believe Adam Smith was the inspiration. In a characteristic passage in his book "The Wealth of Nations," he wrote of "allowing every man to pursue his own interest his own way, upon the liberal plan of equality, liberty, and justice." No one has stated it better.
The founders’ liberalism is about American citizens living in liberty, pursuing their own interests their own way, unmolested by government. But the American founders had a policy of limited involvement in the affairs of other nations too. For the most part, America minded its own business and left other people to mind theirs. That policy was followed with scarcely a misstep by America’s leaders from the time of the founders through the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. It succeeded spectacularly, and America rose among nations.
The election of Woodrow Wilson in 1912 bought an end to that policy and to the era of America’s peace among nations. America’s new "progressive" elite swiftly imposed a new foreign policy that rejected the principles that had worked so well — and plunged America into 11 disastrous decades of international discord.
This story is brilliantly told in Angelo Codevilla’s splendid book published this year, "America’s Rise and Fall Among Nations: Lessons in Statecraft from John Quincy Adams." Codevilla begins with these words: "This book contrasts the successful foreign relations under presidents from George Washington to Theodore Roosevelt with the disarray resulting from Progressive management ever since."
Although it was practiced by America’s leaders throughout her long era of peace with other nations, America’s original foreign policy was most clearly articulated by John Quincy Adams. Codevilla presents Adams’ view with simple clarity:
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Should we be surprised that the "meddlers" and merchants of death who have created the chaos of 'Regime Change' abroad, would eventually unleash their handiwork here at home ?
[Gateway] In 2017 President Trump approved the release of approximately 2800 long-classified JFK assassination records.
News outlets from around the globe furiously combed through the files in search of more pieces to the puzzling death of President John F. Kennedy.
President Trump released a second trove of documents later that year. One of the documents revealed that Democrat President Lyndon Johnson was a KKK member.
As reported earlier today — On Thursday the National Archives released thousands of the JFK documents.
But the FBI-CIA would not allow the release of all of the documents. Around 3% of the JFK documents are still being withheld from release to the public — more than 50 years after the assassination.
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At the least I suspect that like our present day FBI who had known terrorists running among us and doing nothing, the CIA was probably tracking Oswald and did nothing, but to admit that would mean they were already engaged in domestic spying which they routinely do today.
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Well I guess LBJ was probably the last presidential KKK member pending further releases on Carter, Clinton and Biden.
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Oswald claimed he was a patsy, a cutout or dupe in a false flag op but he had agency connections.
My two cents has always been it was a Cuban op, quite possibly enraged Brigade 2506 survivors. CIA recruited planned and funded the brigade mission, but Kennedy refused the far better initial landing site, and the needed USN air-power waiting offshore once the paltry initial air support was defeated. The survivors always felt the betrayal deeply. It may even have been covertly run as a false flag by the Castro folks to harness the anger, since Kennedy had tried to kill him multiple times, but the main point is both sides had anger, means, motive and opportunity. Either way, agency fingerprints were present in lots of places, and were the public to know Cubans killed the President, invasion of Cuba would have been a groundswell demand. It would have confronted the Russian troops and nukes already embedded there, inviting WW III in the days when the Cold-War was quite serious. Over the years, a world class cluster-f* has developed about the various theories of the assination, and generations of spin have left us with a list of questions best exhibited in the latest Oliver Stone film.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[The Beaverton] QATAR — As the World Cup enters its final phase, FIFA and Qatar have issued a joint statement that the last 7 teams knocked out of the tournament will be required to take the stadium in which they lost back to their home country.
[The Federalist] Leftists push to further involve the federal government in the affairs of other nations as well as in the private lives of Americans..PNG)
