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Calling Off Ceasefire, TTP to Launch Attacks Across Pakistan
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-Great Cultural Revolution
Use These Five Easy Tricks to Identify the Marxist in the Room
[PJ Media] People are waking up to the Marxist onslaught facing our nation. If you still don’t see the pile of bolshie we are up against, I suggest you read this brilliant four-part series by Larry Alex Taunton on Klaus Schwab, his not-at-all secret commie plans for global power, and, more importantly, just how close he is to succeeding.

Communism comes disguised as virtue. Rarely does a despot announce, "I’m here to control every aspect of every life I chose not to murder," though Schwab is pretty upfront about his planned fascism. Actually, Hitler was too.

Look for communism masquerading as morality in the forms of:

  • Black Lives Matter
  • Critical race theory
  • "Trans rights"
  • Climate change
  • ESG—Environmental, Social and Governance

    All of these pretend to help the helpless, but in America, no one is defenseless.

    The supposed "oppressors" here are straight white men. If you don’t think anti-white victimhood is real, watch this young, salad-dodging Indian girl blame white people for her obesity.
  • Posted by: Besoeker || 12/31/2022 01:40 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Black Lives Matter

    Doing what Marxists do best, create a new set of 5%ers while leaving those they claim to represent living in the ruins and destruction they created.
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/31/2022 6:56 Comments || Top||

    #2  In my own little capitalistic way, i use those taglines and associated symbols to aid in determining where i spend my money; any blm or climate or rainbow propaganda and that merchant becomes my last choice.
    Also any anti-2A crap.
    I know i alone cant bankrupt them but i can make somebody else’s day brighter.
    Posted by: USN, Ret. || 12/31/2022 11:09 Comments || Top||


    Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
    Putin to Xi: Let's build a military alliance. Xi: [crickets]
    [Hot Air] The rubber may hit the road soon in the Vladimir Putin/Xi Jinping bromance — assuming one exists at all. With his infantry getting ground into dust in Ukraine and his missile barrage doing nothing but fortifying Kyiv’s determination, the Russian dictator has begun looking for new ways to rescue his so-called "special military operation" and save what little face Putin has left.

    Will Xi Jinping jump onto Putin’s bandwagon with a military alliance? Only if he’s insane:
    Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday held a video conference during which the two leaders said they would seek to strengthen relations between their two countries.

    Russia has sought to ramp up its political and military ties with its key ally Beijing since Moscow faces unprecedented Western sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine.

    China, meanwhile, has not condemned Russia’s war in Ukraine. Beijing has maintained what it says is an "objective" and neutral position over the war and offered diplomatic backing to its strategic ally. ...

    "We aim to strengthen cooperation between the armed forces of Russia and China," Putin told Xi, calling the Chinese leader a "dear friend."
    Reuters has more on Putin’s pitch, as well as background on it, and pointed out Xi’s lack of reciprocation:
    Posted by: Besoeker || 12/31/2022 05:30 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Commies


    #2  "and India and Israel"

    Posted by: Frank G || 12/31/2022 7:29 Comments || Top||

    #3  When you need China as a friend, you really are out of Schlitz.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 12/31/2022 8:21 Comments || Top||

    #4  Perhaps he's worried about an upgrade to their relationship...
    Posted by: Mercutio || 12/31/2022 10:04 Comments || Top||

    #5  China and Russia have each others backs. Meeting is on and the threat caused by the West has caused this to happen. 9 or more sanctions and Russia rolls on.
    Posted by: Dale || 12/31/2022 14:19 Comments || Top||

    #6  ... Schnork...
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 14:25 Comments || Top||

    #7  China and Russia have each others backs.

    Posted by: Beldar Huperemp5631 || 12/31/2022 16:27 Comments || Top||

    #8  Response cartons and crickets.
    Posted by: Dale || 12/31/2022 17:13 Comments || Top||

    #9  ^ professor of nonsense
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 17:16 Comments || Top||


    Government Corruption
    'I Also Orchestrated It': Uncharged J6 Witness Ray Epps Transcript Released
    [ZERO] Ray Epps, the uncharged man identified as a key instigator behind the January 6, 2020 Capitol Breach for telling people to storm the Capitol, said in a text message to his nephew that he "orchestrated" things, according to newly released witness transcripts from the January 6th Committee.
    Goodness. How very interesting.
    "At that point, I didn't know that they were breaking into the Capitol," Epps told Congressional investigators, adding "I didn't know anybody was in the Capitol. ... I was on my way back to the hotel room."

    But the night before, Epps was seen going around to various groups of Trump supporters, telling them they need to storm the capitol.

    In two interviews with the FBI in 2021, Epps explained his actions on Jan. 5 and Jan. 6. He admitted he was guilty of trespassing on restricted Capitol grounds and confessed to urging protesters to go to—and into—the Capitol on Jan. 6.

    Epps also told members of the Committee that he found himself playing peacekeeper between Trump supporter "Baked Alaska" and the police - who called Epps a Fed.
    Whyever would the police think such a thing if, as he claims now, he was no such thing?
    "I was trying to find some common ground," said Epps. "This guy was trying to turn people against me...he was calling me 'boomer,' and it's his generation's fault that we're in the position we're in."
    And what position might that be, Mr. Epps?
    Despite the admissions, the FBI never arrested Epps and he was not charged by the U.S. Department of Justice with any Jan. 6 crimes. The non-action has fueled a crop of theories that he might have been working for the FBI or another agency.

    Epps, 61, has repeatedly denied those suggestions through his attorney.
    What about the Pinkertons — do they still do that kind of work? There was Matthew Dolloff, the Antifa activist who shot a Navy veteran dead back in 2020 at a Blue Lives Matter protest while on the Pinkerton payroll guarding a television news team, but he was not encouraging misbehaviour. It was commented here that Mr. Epps was communicating directly with Nancy Pelosi’s office at the time, which suggests he had some sort of official cover.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 12/31/2022 01:17 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Perhaps another reason the Jan 6 committee folded their tent.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 12/31/2022 1:21 Comments || Top||

    #2  From a comment posted yesterday, same Epps topic:

    Organizing under the title L'Assurance des Success Dramatiques, they leased themselves and their employees to singeers and opera managers who wished to be assured of an appreciative audience response. So effective were they in stimulating genuine audience reaction with their rigged reactions that before long claques (usually consisting of a leader - chef de claque - and several individual claqueurs) had become an established and persistent tradition throughout the world of opera. As music historian Robert Sabin notes, "By 1830 the claque was a full-blown institution, collecting by day, applauding by night, all in the honest open....But it is altogether probable that neither Sauton, or his ally Porcher, had a notion of the extent to which their scheme of paid applause would be adopted and applied wherever opera was sung."

    Robert B. Cialdini, PH.D., 'Influence, The Psychology of Persuasion.' page 158.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 12/31/2022 6:04 Comments || Top||

    #3  A reminder that one seemingly insignificant person can affect the course of history.

    Gavrilo Princip holds his nose.
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 6:40 Comments || Top||


    Home Front: Politix
    Surber: Four words no conservative says
    Jeffrey Jeb Nadaner was a deputy assistant secretary of defense in the Trump Administration. He is now a lobbyist in Washington. I am sure he believes he is a conservative. But his latest offering at American Greatness shows he is just a muddled liberal thinker.
    Lots of muddled thinkers in the world, and many of them find platforms from which to shout it all at the rest of us.
    He wrote, "Some nationally minded conservatives regard U.S. military aid to Ukraine as yet another internationalist D.C. foreign policy crusade conducted at the expense of taxpayers and potentially American lives.

    "A closer look suggests that if pursued properly, well-targeted military and intelligence aid to Ukraine can directly serve U.S. interests and security in the best traditions of American realism and restraint.

    "One need not be a NeverTrumper, Russiagate obsessive, or nostalgist for 1990s globaloney to see that the conquest of a major central European country by Putin damages the United States. Stopping it in ways that make future invasions less likely, whether by Russia or China—and doing so without direct U.S. military intervention—is well worth the investment, albeit with critical caveats."

    I laughed as I read that. He said, "well-targeted military and intelligence aid to Ukraine can directly serve U.S. interests and security in the best traditions of American realism and restraint."

    Yes and we can run our cars on unicorn farts and fairy dust. There is no such thing as well-targeted military aid. Ukraine is a racketeer-influenced corrupt organization. Think of Zelensky as Sonny Corleone. (Hey, James Caan was 5-foot-9 just like Zelensky.)

    But I knew the piece was garbage because the headline used the four words no conservative says:

    The conservative case for

    (The actual headline was, "A National Conservative Case for Arming Ukraine." Close enough.)

    That is how non-conservatives frame liberal ideas for the gullible. The four words preface a specious argument for a liberal cause.

    The tactic is decades old and still as dishonest as Joe Biden.
    Read the rest at the link
    Posted by: badanov || 12/31/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  "That's not who we are" will be the epitaph on the tombstone of the current incarnation of the "conservative movement."
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 6:06 Comments || Top||

    #2  "Biden won the election"
    Posted by: Skidmark || 12/31/2022 8:02 Comments || Top||

    #3  "I prefer an EV"

    How Did EVs Handle America's Arctic Blast?
    Posted by: Skidmark || 12/31/2022 9:02 Comments || Top||

    #4  I prefer to get where I'm going without having to check every little nuance of the weather. Call me a crank...
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/31/2022 9:07 Comments || Top||

    #5  /\ Or checking for electrical outlets.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 12/31/2022 9:18 Comments || Top||

    #6  This is akin to the elitist 'Coffee House' liberals sneering at their populist 'Beer Hall' tradesmen brethren. Are these so-called 'conservatives' really conservatives or just elitists?
    Posted by: magpie || 12/31/2022 10:45 Comments || Top||

    #7  If Elenskyyy is 5-9 I'm Shaquille O'Neal.
    Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/31/2022 18:06 Comments || Top||

    #8  I think it is possible to do targeted military aid. I remember that we provided Patriot batteries to Israel during Desert Storm. This is as targeted as liberty call in Rio.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 12/31/2022 20:05 Comments || Top||


    India-Pakistan
    Imprisonment of Afghan nationals in Karachi increases Kabul-Islamabad tensions
    [KhaamaPress] Refugees from Afghanistan are facing unprecedented challenges in Pakistain, especially after the Taliban
    ...mindless ferocity in a turban...
    takeover of Kabul in August 2021. Their numbers have swelled in Pakistain in the last two years as Afghanistan is going through a difficult phase with acute food and medical shortages. With the increase of insecurity in different parts of Pakistain, Afghan men are regularly picked up for interrogations by the state security agencies. Even women and kiddies from Afghanistan are facing incarcerations in Pakistain without proper judicial explanations.

    In a recent incident, over 200 Afghan women and underage children have been locked up at the Central Jail Bloody Karachi
    Continued on Page 49
    Posted by: trailing wife || 12/31/2022 03:37 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

    #1  If they need a third team in the trade to even out the salaries, we can toss in a random selection of whoever is left in GITMO. We don’t want anything back, but one of the countries has to agree to take Ilan Omar and also a player to be named later. We are keeping it secret but it will be her brother.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 12/31/2022 11:03 Comments || Top||



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