[Townhall] The Weather Channel notified us on August 31 that "Rare Hurricane Season August Shutout Possible." Really. "August is one of the core months of [the] Atlantic hurricane season." But none this August. Only once since 1966 has there been a failure of a least one tropical storm to develop in the year’s eighth month.
A few days prior to the publication of this article, the Weather Channel told us, "Atlantic Gets Busier; 4 Areas to Track Now." Please! We need a hurricane to confirm that such climate disasters are indeed increasing like we say they are! A few dead bodies are imperative! But, no fear, climate activists, "the long-slumbering Atlantic Basin is finally showing signs of waking up." "Many quiet-start seasons have ended up busy."
Hopefully, this year we’ll get a big hurricane or two yet that will smack the USA, kill a few million people, and prove those climate-deniers don’t know what they are talking about. We should be so lucky, if it hit NYC or DC.
But, you know, maybe there is something to this global warming stuff after all. As one commentator wrote, "Snows are less frequent and less deep. They often do not lie below the mountains more than one, two, or three days and very rarely a week. They are remembered to be formerly frequent, deep, and of long continuance. The elderly inform me that the earth used to be covered with snow about three months every year. The rivers, which then seldom failed to freeze over in the course of the winter, scarcely ever do now. This changes...in the spring of the year is very fatal to fruits...I remember that when I was a small boy, say 60 years ago, snows were frequent and deep in every winter."
Proof, if any was ever needed, that the planet is disastrously warming.
Oh, wait a minute. That was written by Thomas Jefferson in 1799.
[RedState] As we reported, President Donald Trump held a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on Saturday. Among the things he took on was Joe Biden’s speech demonizing MAGA Republicans and essentially calling millions of Americans “enemies of the state.” Trump said it was one of the most vicious, hateful, divisive speeches ever delivered by anyone in the office. He also blasted the FBI raid on his home.
But contrary to Biden, he took a hopeful tone, that contrasted with the desperation of Biden’s demonizing. Even facing whatever threats that the Democrats might throw at him to prevent him from running again, he was the positive one.
How could he be so positive?
One sign could be seen in the very contrast between Trump’s speech in Wilkes-Barre and Joe Biden’s speech that we also reported on earlier in the week. I wrote then how the Biden team doesn’t do the wide shot because that would reveal the crowd size.
As I noted, there were more folks in front of Biden, not just the small group behind him, but still, by Trump standards, pitiful. Not to mention that the people in that small group looked like union people who may have been “encouraged” to be there. They also sort of looked like they’d rather be anywhere else. Indeed a huge difference in enthusiasm for Donald Trump compared to Joe Biden.
See if you can spot the difference here when the two events are put back to back to each other on video.
That’s why Joe is desperate. That’s why the Democrats are trying to throw anything they can up against the wall to stop Trump from running again. Their actions, Joe’s ugly speech — these are not signs of people who think they have firm control over the midterms or the people. They want that control but they know they don’t have it. That’s what the comparison shows. That’s what Biden’s 38 percent approval from a Reuters D+9 poll shows.
The majority of Americans love America and they want to hear from people who also love America — those are the themes that Trump hits that resonate. That’s why people come out with enthusiasm. That’s why Joe Biden can’t get the same pull and why his approval is in the basement — because he doesn’t have that same feeling. He is the guy the Democrats threw out there as a placeholder to hold onto power. He (with the help of his handlers) has done all he can to harm America from demonizing Americans to failing at his job on so many things including Afghanistan, the border, and inflation.
The comparison is stark and we must vote accordingly in November.
As a veteran of Trump rallies, I can assure you that Trump was ON FIRE Saturday night in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Trump’s first rally since the FBI’s dubious raid on his home in Florida was gangbusters. He entertained a sold-out crowd of 12,000 people indoors and thousands more outside in the rain.
My favorite parts of Trump’s speech were:
Trump calling Adam Schiff a “watermelon head”
Trump calling Democrat Senate candidate John Fetterman a “freak show”
Trump pushing full steam ahead on MAGA even after Gropey Joe declared war on Trump and his MAGA supporters
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An older gentleman knocked on my door this afternoon, trying to stir up votes for the Republican ticket. It’s a new activity for him, he said — usually he just works at the polls in Election Day — but this year he is concerned about regaining Republican control of both Houses of Congress.
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Nice story, all I want to know is did you give him a breathalyzer test or did his AA card fall on the floor while you spoke with him? You are very daring TW I would have called the police at your home. Me, I have a 3/4 of a mile private driveway with a no trespassing signed at the head of it, so knock on my door - more no trespassing signs- you are in deep trespass -- I'll be kind - leave - otherwise shotgun at your eyes - you are dead.
[RedState] As Joe Biden continues to ship billions of dollars in U.S. military to Ukraine in support of its never-ending war with Russia, the administration announced last week it will now ask the Democrat-controlled Congress to authorize a roughly $1.1 billion arms sale to Taiwan, as China continues to threaten the self-governing island nation. All of this and more, even as U.S. stockpiles continue to dwindle to dangerously low levels.
What could possibly go wrong? Biden’s America is dangerously morphing into Biden’s World.
The Defense Department has vigorously stepped up efforts to eliminate red tape in competing arms deals, a policy that could require overhauling defense production, as the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday:
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There are over 25 Million illegals here Tom, pretty fair sized invasion seems to me. A huge percentage of them are on the public tab, and a really big percentage of them are in schools you pay for, and hospitals you pay for. Best part, somewhere north of 10% of the prison/jail cells you pay 40-60k a year to run are illegals.
[GG&G] By a narrow margin Boris Johnson’s clownish Defense Minister Liz Truss will become the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom [Britain, if I recall]. She doesn’t have a lot of time to put together a government lest the U.K. have to suffer through yet another general election.
Truss, by virtue of her full-throated support for Ukraine against Russia, was the choice of those Tories committed to maintaining the UK’s relationship with the US, leaving it nominally more independent from the European Union.
Davos man-child Rishi Sunak, the darling of the Remainers of City of London the true hounds of winter here, failed to overtake Truss in the end. What started as a Davos-style decapitation of Johnson, who rightfully deserves to be jailed for his undermining Russian/Ukrainian peace talks in April, ended with the female version of him in office.
While I’d like to say I’m happy to see Davos lose another major conflict in Europe, empowering the US neoconservatives is not a win here. In the end, the deep ties between the US and UK intelligence and military services won out in the Tory leadership battle.
Again, there are no winners from our perspective, here.
Truss comes in vowing to fix everything, from lowering taxes (good) to dealing with an energy crisis she helped create by leading the charge to sanction Russian energy to hell and back. She’ll deficit spend like she’s supposed to because making peace with Putin or breaking with Davos over developing Scotland’s energy reserves is verboten.
She wants to be thought of as the new Thatcher, but she has neither the support Maggie had nor one-third her talent or smarts.
And she doesn’t have the trust of the London banks, who themselves are now rightfully staring at a black hole thanks to her manifest stupidity and belligerence.
Truss is a typical midwit just smart enough to know who’s giving the orders and how to make them manifest but not smart enough to rise above that. I remind everyone that this is a woman so unqualified for the job she had that she doesn’t know where the borders of Russia and Ukraine are but believes in the ’territorial integrity of Ukraine.’
Like all good servants of the elites she represents, she was rewarded for her incompetence.
The choice between Truss and Sunak was another classic Hobson’s Choice — continued war with Russia across every vector (Truss) or the surrender of the UK to the EU and the reversing of Brexit (Sunak).
Either way there is not much hope this morning if you are a Brit.
At best she will be an even weaker leader than Johnson was, since she has no issue to rally the country around, like Brexit, which she won’t even discuss in public. This was reflected in the final party leadership vote where 20% of Tories stayed home.
So, even if Truss is able to cobble together a government and presents it to the Queen to rubber stamp, she will do so with the Tories having been thoroughly discredited as a party. Not that Labour is any useful opposition here.
While the old guard of British politics may have won this fight, it is a Pyrrhic victory for them. It’s still a country with no friends as long as Biden is in power.
British politics have been frozen for months because of this ridiculous affair. All it did was extend everyone’s misery as the UK warmongers cling to the vestiges of their former power.
What’s truly sad is that Johnson backed a Hail Mary in Ukraine surrounding the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) that may now have to be considered the British version of the Bay of Pigs, but with far vaster implications.
The massacre that occurred last week was a plan so retarded it reveals the mendacity and desperation of both British Intelligence and former Prime Minister Boris Johnson to escalate the conflict, remain in power and advance their ultimate agenda of weakening global support for Russia at the UN.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces, with significant help from British ’advisors,’ staged a multi-pronged commando amphibious landing north of the ZNPP. The goal was to attack it and take it over while the Russian garrison had been mostly removed while awaiting the IAEA inspectors.
The idea being to shame the Russians out of the ZNPP to show that it wasn’t being used as a military staging area and attack it while it was lightly defended. Then... and this is the insane part... take the entire IAEA delegation hostage but doing so POSING AS RUSSIAN TROOPS.
Here’s the link to the plan from Intel Slava Z’s Telegram Channel, of course salt to taste.
The Kremlin was aware of the plans of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to take advantage of the arrival of the IAEA mission and carry out an amphibious landing in order to try to seize the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant and make statements for days that it was Russian special forces. Under ideal conditions for the work of the DRG, they calculated the task of taking the mission itself hostage and keeping the nuclear power plant under mines, making demands for the complete withdrawal of Russian troops to the territory of Crimea.
Boris Johnson brought the plan of operation and some of the instructors with him as a demobilization chord of his premiership, but if the GUR was successful, he would have refused to transfer power, referring to an international emergency threatening a catastrophe on a planetary scale. At the moment, 47 DRG fighters have been destroyed, three have been taken prisoner (!), Two are in serious condition between life and death. A group of 12 people is blocked on three sides and cut off from the water and boats, by 15:00 CTO will be over. Zelensky’s statement on this situation is expected in the late afternoon, the head of the IAEA Mission has already been notified of the situation, as well as UN Secretary General Guterres. The operation was coordinated by MI6 officers from their headquarters in the suburbs of Kyiv.
All 64 DRGs have recently completed training in the UK and traveled from Warsaw to Odessa on 29 August.
Now, clearly this is a Russian version of events. But it is backed up by the statements coming from the UN in the aftermath, praising the Russian military for securing the safety of the IAEA inspectors, something they would never have done.
Even if the whole ’impersonating Russians holding IAEA inspectors hostage’ plan failed, the story is still deeply disturbing, because this type of multi-pronged (5 different invasion points of the area) operation had to have been planned well in advance.
The Russian Ministry of Defense’s version of the story is similar if cleaner, for diplomatic reasons if nothing else. They leave out the ’impersonating Russians’ part but leave in all of Ukraine’s attempts to insert friendly Western media into the delegation who would then give us the ’official story’ of what happened.
Moscow has suggested that Kiev’s plan was to capture the nuclear plant and then use the staff of the UN nuclear watchdog as "human shields" to maintain control over it.
What this means is that the Johnson and the US Dept. ofDefense/National Security Council (all staffed by the move virulent Neocons) have been planning something like this for months which is why they refuse to allow the Ukrainians to surrender.
It’s also why the EU/Davos (who clearly want out of this insanity) are throwing Johnson under the bus for blowing up April’s peace talks. Russian President Vladimir Putin keeps tightening the screws on the energy-starved Europeans causing all kinds of havoc there politically.
The timing of his announcement Gazprom was shutting down Nordstream 1 indefinitely while the IAEA inspectors were at the ZNPP is yet another clue to what the real story was. Moreover, note that since this inspection went off without a hitch there was little to no breathless reporting on it....
Not Russia. Not China. Maybe a weakened US. Europe will be a smoking ruin for decades if this happens.
Putin is not only interested in finally besting Russia’s centuries-old enemy, Britain. He’s also no longer smitten with the ideas of old Europe. If there is to be détente between Europe and Russia it will be on Russia’s terms, not Europe’s.
So far the EU is doubling down on its stupidity because it fits their plan, as stupid as it is, much as I expect Truss to double down on Johnson’s because of legendary British arrogance and stubbornness. Just don’t expect Putin or Powell at the Fed to come to their rescue anytime soon.
Liz Truss is a woman more bloodthirsty than Hillary Clinton with one-tenth of her gravitas. The British people certainly deserve better because no one should be treated to such depravity. She is a band-aid on an open wound festering as the hounds of winter circle in for the kill.
It vanished from the media as quickly as the prospects for the UK’s economic recovery with the announcement of Truss’ big win.
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Am I a male chauvinist pig if I point out the fact that world politics have gotten progressively worse with the widespread infusion of women since the 1990's onward? This broad voted to remain in the EU, and that's all I really need to know about her to oppose her.
[Aljazeera] Russia is buying millions of artillery shells and rockets from North Korea, according to newly declassified intelligence reports from the United States.
The New York Times, which first reported the purchases, said the reports provided little detail on the exact weaponry involved or the timing or size of the shipments.
Beyond short-range rockets and artillery shells, Russia was expected to try to buy additional North Korean equipment in future, the paper said, citing an unnamed US official.
Russia’s move to buy weaponry from North Korea, an isolated state subject to international sanctions over its nuclear weapons programme, demonstrates that "the Russian military continues to suffer from severe supply shortages in Ukraine, due in part to export controls and sanctions," the Associated Press news agency reported, citing a US official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Russia has deepened ties with countries including North Korea and Iran since its invasion of Ukraine in February drew international condemnation and sanctions that have made it more difficult to keep its military supplied with weapons and equipment.
The US has previously said that Moscow has been buying drones from Iran, which has not joined the condemnation of Russia, instead blaming NATO’s expansion in Eastern Europe as the root cause of the conflict.
In July, Ukraine cut ties with North Korea after it emerged Pyongyang had joined Russia and Syria to recognise the independence of two self-proclaimed republics in eastern Ukraine.
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Thanks, DarthVader for the article. Cynically you would expect them to use ammunition from oldest production lots first (more XOR 'duds' expected) and save the good stuff™ for wartime. But then, we are talking about NorkLand where people that embarrass Dear Leader Pudgy get thrown into shark tanks.
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Just watched a video from Gonzalo Lira. Sez Russian artillery out numbers Ukraine by 10 to 1. 1 in 4 duds not gonna make a difference. Got target for 4 then shot 5 times.
In 2001, Chang predicted the collapse of China by 2011. He predicted it again many times since. Some day he'll be right.
[19Fortyfive] Companies no longer want money to launch new projects. Pessimism about the economy dominates thinking in Chinese boardrooms and throughout the rest of society.
The big story is not that the Chinese economy is falling apart. It is, at least apart from the export sector. The big story is that China's stimulus efforts, so successful in the past in jump starting growth, are no longer working. The country's economy is, in a word, exhausted.
In the past, when the economy look fatigued, China's business community could count on the central government to create growth with massive stimulus programs. That is, after all, how former Premier Wen Jiabao avoided contraction in China as the rest of the world suffered during the 2008 downturn.
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Underestimating ones's enemy is a piss poor, dangerous strategy. China remains a powerful, dangerous enemy and must be treated as such.
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Wherever the Chinese economy is headed, we will be following closely behind. I recall the caboose usually followed the engine.
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China's economy is in serious trouble and most likely will have a major depression with the downturn of the housing market there and with companies leaving due to zero COVID policies.
Completely collapse? Not likely. Pain and suffering with civil unrest? Definitely.
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Wherever the Chinese economy is headed, we will be following closely behind. I recall the caboose usually followed the engine.
IMHO, unlikely to seriously affect the US. Japan came close to catching up to the US economy, and almost did, to a greater extent than China today. Japan's decades of stagnation did little to the US economy.
[19Fortyfive] If you harbored any doubt that the first island chain represents the focal point of strategy, counterstrategy, and counter-counterstrategy in the Western Pacific, take a gander at recent developments out of Tokyo and Beijing. Exhibit A: the Japan Ministry of Defense released Defense of Japan 2022, an official statement wherein the ministry takes stock of Japan’s strategic surroundings and explains in general terms how it intends to manage them.
Its premier goal: deterrence.
Girding for battle along the Ryukyus chain constitutes a major part of deterrence for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi. Doing so, proclaims Defense of Japan 2022, will make "opponents realize that doing harm to Japan would be difficult and consequential." If China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) lacks the military capability to seize islands along the Ryukyu Islands chain—or if it can’t seize them at a cost worth it to Beijing—then Chinese Communist Party magnates should desist from making the attempt.
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[CNBC] The U.S. economy is going to fall into a recession next year, according to Steve Hanke, a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University, and that’s not necessarily because of higher interest rates.
"We will have a recession because we’ve had five months of zero M2 growth, money supply growth, and the Fed isn’t even looking at it," he told CNBC’s "Street Signs Asia" on Monday.
Market watchers use the broad M2 measure as an indicator of total money supply and future inflation. M2 includes cash, checking and savings deposits and money market securities.
In recent months, money supply has stagnated and that’s likely to lead to an economic slowdown, Hanke warned.
"We’re going to have one whopper of a recession in 2023," he said.
Meanwhile, inflation is going to remain high because of "unprecedented growth" in money supply in the United States, Hanke said.
Historically, there has never been "sustained inflation" that isn’t the result of excess growth in money supply, and pointed out that money supply in the U.S. saw "unprecedented growth" when Covid began two years ago, he said.
"That is why we are having inflation now, and that’s why, by the way, we will continue to have inflation through 2023 going into probably 2024," he added.
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Already here. Layoffs galore. High income jobs being cut now. Walmart having billions in inventory because people are only purchasing necessities. Minimalism taking hold now especially among young people. This administration ignores it as does mainstream media. New age of the preparers. 87,000 IRS agents a joke. They will only attack the law abiding. They will not go into high crime areas. Excessive food stores or firearms main targets of interest and if you are white.
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/\ Fresh fruit has become an extravagance. Small container of berries, a bit over $10. for the first time Sunday morning at Publix grocery.
Adolf Hitler appears to Biden in a dream and says: "I have two bits of advice for you: kill off all your opponents and paint the White House blue." Biden asks, "Why blue?" Adolf Hitler: "I knew you would not object to the first one."
[AmThinker via Lucianne] Start with one divisive presidential speech accusing 74 million voters of being enemies of the state. Add two Marine guards against a blood-red background for flavor. Whip up the base. Stir in a large pool of resentment and bring to a boil. Sprinkle in a large contingent of FBI operatives to mix with low-intellect stoned bloggers living in repair shop basements and calling for civil war.
Bake for a few weeks and allow resentment to rise. The FBI will supply the necessary heat and preparation to foment Insurrection 2.0. Frost the cake with the state-controlled news and social media reacting in horror and disgust at the evil, violent actions of MAGA Republicans.
This is the recipe for a Democrat October Surprise.
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Class I RRs could be on a nationwide strike in mid Sept.
Would likely only last a few days before Congress passed a back-to-work act of some kind but it would still be a September surprise.
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Sept 15 is the deadline for the RR strike
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National Mediation Board ordered railroad management and the unions to DC for 7 Sep meeting to head off strike. Suspect Congress will have to pass don’t strike legislation; if that happens, expect a ‘work to rules’ events.
Looks like I picked a bad day to give up drinking.
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they should be confident, they sure as hell stole the last one.
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You know, it would be sadly funny if they try for another Jan. 6 and got a REAL insurrection. The sheer amount of panic would be hilarious but I really don't wish for that. Just a dark sense of humor.
[1945] Back when I wrote my slightly controversial and proverbial pot-stirring article rating the Top 5 9mm Pistols, I gave Honorable Mention to three particular pistols, among them the legendary SIG Sauer P210. Although many consider the SIG Sauer 210 the most accurate 9mm pistol ever, I rationalized my mere Honorable Mention ranking because I hadn’t yet been able to fire and adequately evaluate the 210. For a long time, it was so goshdarn expensive that none of the gun ranges I frequented throughout the US of A over the past three decades made one available for rental. The pistol took on an aura of Unobtainium, and the Holy Grail all rolled into one.
A Brief History of the SIG Sauer P210
The SIG Sauer P210 has been likened to a Swiss watch of handguns, and that’s not just because Switzerland is the country of origin, though that certainly helps.
As noted by Sean Murphy of Outdoor Life, "While the Swiss aren’t known for a large military force, their arms are known to be high-quality for soldiers that know how to use them. Originally adopted in 1949, the SIG P49 (later renamed P210), featured a steel frame and slide that have full length contact, with a high-quality barrel and superb trigger. With match-grade ammunition, the specification for the original SIG P210 was a five-shot group measuring two-inches or less at 50 meters. Most pistols would struggle to offer this level of precision at half the distance." (emphasis added)
Eventually, the SIG Sauer P220 replaced the P210 as the Swiss Army pistol. Remarkably, the pistol remains standard issue for Danish Defence (the unified armed forces for the Kingdom of Denmark), despite the overwhelming prevalence of higher-capacity double-action and striker-fired 9mm auto pistols; the P210 is a single-action autoloader with a modest 8-round magazine and an old-school European-style butt-heel magazine release that has long since fallen out of favor for the far faster push-button mag releases located behind the trigger guard.
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I love my 226. They can keep the 210. Probably a great gun, but accuracy at this level of a weapon in all in the shooter, not necessarily the gun. BTW my times keeps just as good a time as any swiss watch, its just not as sexy...
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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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Townhall] The 
[GG&G] By a narrow margin Boris Johnson’s clownish Defense Minister 
/\ Fresh fruit has become an extravagance. Small container of berries, a bit over $10. for the first time Sunday morning at Publix grocery.
[AmThinker via Lucianne] Start with one divisive presidential speech accusing 74 million voters of being enemies of the state. Add two Marine guards against a blood-red background for flavor. Whip up the base. Stir in a large pool of resentment and bring to a boil. Sprinkle in a large contingent of FBI operatives to mix with low-intellect stoned bloggers living in repair shop basements and calling for civil war.
