real article title: John Cleese has his microphone taken away at South by Southwest festival for saying that Britain should get 'reparations from Italy and France' for Romans and Normans enslaving Britons
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
British comedian John Cleese in row with fellow comics over slave reparations
Monty Python icon had been at South by Southwest public event in Texas, USA
But he landed himself in hot water after joking about France and Italy owing Brits slave reparations for the Roman Empire and the Norman invasion of 1066
His microphone was eventually taken off him by American comic Dulcé Sloan
Comedy legend John Cleese had his microphone confiscated at the South by Southwest festival during a comedic discussion in which he suggested Italy and France owed historic reparations for enslaving Brits.
The Monty Python icon, 82, was riffing with other comics in front of the crowd in Texas when he talked about the 'competition' between cultures over who has been more oppressed by colonisations throughout history.
Pointing to world history being 'a history of crime', he added: 'It's a history of people who were stronger beating up people who were weaker and it's always been that. It's deeply, deeply distasteful.
'But to pretend that one lot were worse than another — you do know the British have been slaves twice, right?
Cleese explained: '[People] get competitive about this business of being oppressed. We were oppressed, the English, by the Romans from about 0 to 400.'
Despite the event being labelled a 'comedy panel', his remarks sparked horrified reactions and an awkward environment for those in attendance.
At one stage Cleese even had his microphone confiscated by American comic Dulcé Sloan, who said she did it to 'save a comic whose career I respect', per The Hollywood Reporter.
'And now you saved the colonizer,' Pasternack said. 'I saved a comic whose career I respect,' Sloan fired back.
Cleese rebutted claims that the British Empire was the first to colonise communities from other states throughout his 90-minute performance entitled 'John Cleese in Conversation.'
The British comic insisted England was owed 'reparations' from both Italy and France, referring to the historic invasions of the Romans, and 1000 years later by the Normans under William the Conqueror.
'I want reparations from Italy', he told the stunned crowd. 'And then the Normans came over in 1066... they were horrible people from France and they colonised us for 30 years and we need reparations there too, I'm afraid'.
His fellow comedians speaking at the event, Jim Gaffigan, Dulcé Sloan and moderator Dan Pasternack all unsuccessfully attempted to draw Cleese away from his rant.
Pasternack even explained to the audience at one point: 'And this is why your phones are locked up'.
As tempers started to flare, Sloan grabbed out and temporarily confiscated Cleese's microphone to cheers and applause from sections of the audience, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
Speaking after the ordeal, Cleese explained his actions by saying: 'The thing is, I'm going to be dead soon. That's why I'm in favour of global warming - I don't want to be cold ever again'.
To which Pasternack jokingly replied: 'Where you're going you won't be!' One thing I hate the modern clergy for is they've destroyed humor alongside their quest to destroy history.
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Cleese has been in the Wokesters gun sights before John Cleese Sparks Backlash Over Transphobic Tweets in Defense of J.K. Rowling
...When another user asked Cleese, “Why the fuck can’t you just let people be who they want to be?” he responded with, “Deep down, I want to be a Cambodian police woman. Is that allowed, or am I being unrealistic?”
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College Station is better positioned geographically. Plus it would help if the TX legislators were forced to stand throughout each day's sessions, like the 12th Man
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He should have slapped the ever-loving crap out of "Dulce Sloan", whoever that is. Then moved on to slap the "moderator", and continued by slapping everyone in the audience who was "horrified".
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I think I had a Dulce Sloan once in Cancun at Senor Frog's. I was pretty plastered though so can't be sure
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Wikipedia:
Dulcé Lazaria Sloan is an American stand-up comedian, actress and writer. She is a correspondent for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah on Comedy Central.
Black female, according to her photo. Born in 1983, which I suppose explains why she didn’t realize slavery is not an experience unique to African-Americans.
[OneIndia] A member of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... from Kerala has been killed in Afghanistan. Najeeb Ali who hailed from Kerala was killed in a suicide kaboom, according to the Voice of Khorasan, the publication of the Islamic State Khorasan Province.
He was described as a 23 year old engineering student from Kerala. The article said that he had come all the way from India on his own, while adding that it was very difficult to make hijra during those days. The article described him as a quiet person who always had a smile on his face. "Ewwww! Is that his face?
"Ayup. I'd know that smile anywhere...at least the part that's not missing"
“It’s not missing anymore — I found the rest of it over there. Is anyone missing an ear? I found one of those, too.”
[GeopoliticalMonitor] China has been seen by many as the most important ally of Russia in the invasion of Ukraine. However, after nearly two weeks of fighting, confusing episodes have been culminating around China’s attitude to the war. Regarding both the UN Security Council and General Assembly resolutions, China has abstained rather than voted on the side of Russia. Regarding the sanctions on Russia, China hasn’t shown much of a willingness to help thus far, and two major Chinese banks, the Bank of China and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, have even refused to help Russia process export transactions. Instead of supporting Russia, Chinese minister of foreign affairs, Wang Yi has called for de-escalation of the conflict. China seems to be pulling back its’ support from Russia, everywhere from diplomacy to economics.
On the other hand, however, Chinese statements right before the war seemed to have indicated Beijing’s full support for Moscow, and the fact that Russia waited for the end of the Beijing Winter Olympics seems to confirm rumors that Xi asked Putin to do so, indicating in turn that China was fully aware of what was coming, and decided to support it in full knowledge. Thus: Full support for the invasion before it started, but then a gradual pulling back once the invasion was underway — What’s going on here? Did China change its’ mind due to some unexpected occurrence?
What if nothing such happened, but it was a consistent strategy to encourage Russia to attack at first, but roll back its’ support after the war has started? Knowing the history of Sino-Russian relations, a Russian victory doesn’t seem to be in China’s interest. What is in China’s interest is a prolonged war of attrition, draining Russia’s resources as much as possible, weakening it as much as possible, meanwhile isolating it from the West as much as possible, and with a Russian defeat at the end. Go read the whole thing. There's a neat map and stuff...
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[Redstate] Mr. Elon Musk, it looks like America and one of her astronauts aboard the International Space Station might need you. You know, the place where your space capsules have gone to a number of times, and have allowed the United States to not depend on the Russians for a lift up and back home.
Yeah, that place.
In what can only be described as living proof that a mess on Earth can leak into space, it seems that the Putin World Tour of ticking off everyone on the ground (except China, Iran, North Korea, and Belarus) has made its way into the heavens.
Approximately 254 miles up, anyway.
While all this mayhem goes on the Big Blue Marble we call Earth, there are astronauts from Russia and the United States looking on at the big, floating rock below, and probably scratching their heads at the madness. They work and live in close quarters, which is probably not a problem most of the time, but nowadays, it might be a tad bit weird.
When a crew transfer happens in the next month, it might get a bit more awkward, after Dmitry Rogozin, who is the head of the Russian Space Agency, made a bit of a veiled threat about not bringing back an American scheduled to leave on the Russian capsule.
[GatewayPundit] "A third world war will "destroy our civilization" unless Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are "removed from power" warns billionaire Democrat megadonor George Soros.
And how does Mr. Soros suggest that might be accomplished? We have no James Bonds lying about, and is not the kind of thing that can be voted into existence.
"After receiving a green light from Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his war in Ukraine in an effort to reclaim the old Russian empire," Soros wrote in an op-ed published by Project Syndicate on Friday." Gotta' admit that it's been awhile since I've been this conflicted...
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As they say:
Even the stupidest person is right at least once in their lifetime.
But has he drawn a 10 mile Nuke target circle around himself and his openly paid for DC supporters? Or was his intended goal to make CCP/USSR focus on "DC" their target, since that is his power base and could be used to summon a "hit: team?
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I have been waiting patiently for the worms to wiggle and squirm. Putin has cut off their money supplies. 10 million to DNC alone from Ukraine. They spend and spend and soon the choke hold takes hold sooner than later.
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Soros has been working for their predecessors since he was allowed to emigrate back in the communist days.
If you've been put in business by the KGB and you know what the sovereign wealth fund is going to do it's easy to build a war chest to go to war against western governments.
#8
I think George Soros should be removed from power. Are Putin and Xi listening?
They can take care of Nuland's boss, and we should depose Biden Blinken and the Kackler
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Dear George,
I'm quite certain that Zelensky could find you a spare AK-47 and point you to the Russian border. Go for it.
Sincerly,
Abu
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Manipulating the anxiety of the short-attention-span American public (read democrat base, clueless soccer moms and Rhinos) is the key to the heightened executive power of the ruling class. Amping up the sense of fear is the key to forestalling a mid-term election massacre that even the best voter fraud can't stop! Eyes off the cost of everything skyrocketing, the litany of failed Covid response and massive fiscal fraud, the tsunami of illegals overwhelming our social services, medical and economic safety net, and rampant corruption in DC and the MIC. Dancing on the edge of wr with Russia and China, gotta admit, that is a level of stupid not encountered in a long time...
Probably. Then again he's just doing what Japan, Saudi Arabia and China are now preparing to do.
Russia sanctions threaten to backfire on the buck
US block on Russia’s foreign-exchange reserves could cause China, Saudi Arabia and others to dump their US debt holdings
William Pesek
AsiaTimes
March 11, 2022
In recent conversations with senior Bank of Japan officials, the decision to separate Putin from billions of state wealth is likely to cause China, Saudi Arabia and other regimes in Biden’s crosshairs to reduce their holdings.
...The US president’s move to freeze a sizable portion of Russia’s foreign-exchange reserves... worries officials in Tokyo [because] the action could make Japan's $1.3 trillion of US government debt worth a whole lot less.
Commentary by Russian blogger Andrey Chervonets
Unique footage, video of Russian paratroopers taking control of Gostomel airport on February 24
Gostomel was kept surrounded for two days against the NGU brigade, 200 against 4000, and kept. On the second day, tanks and landing troops marched up to ours.
This topic recalls the notorious video with polite Russians
Commentary by Russian military journalist Brois Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Mariupol. Storm of the city. Promotion in all directions. The enemy defends stubbornly, but he is pressed. It is already formally possible to travel to Crimea from Donetsk. Although a full-fledged land corridor has not yet been opened. The de-blockade of Mariupol, which Azov and Zelensky are asking for, is practically impossible in the current realities.
2. Volnovakha. Completely freed and cleaned. The troops are already freely passing through it in the direction of Ugledar, closing the front with the RF Armed Forces, which are also advancing in the direction of Velikaya Novoselka - Ugledar with an emphasis on Ugledar.
3. Donetsk - Gorlovka. Shelling of the cities of the DPR. Front near Avdiivka, Maryinka, Pesok, etc. noticeably perked up, but there is no significant progress.
4. LPR. Fighting in Rubizhne and around Severodonetsk. In Popasnaya (which was prematurely declared liberated a couple of days ago), fighting continues - LNR troops control part of the city.
5. Izyum. Fighting in the city area and on the southern outskirts. The situation in the city itself is incomprehensible, locals confirm the presence of the RF Armed Forces in the city and the fighting going on in the south. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to pin down the Russian troops in Izyum and Balakliya with attacks in order to prevent their advance to the south and in the direction of the Slavic-Kramatorsk agglomeration.
6. Nikolaev. The city is blockaded, the RF Armed Forces are methodically attacking enemy positions on the outskirts, there is no assault yet. Part of the group left in the direction of Krivoy Rog and Nikopol.
7. Kherson - Zaporozhye. The power of civil-military administrations is being strengthened in the liberated territories. The communications of the group operating in the Zaporizhia direction are being established. At Gulyaipole - fighting. The front line in the area of Kamensky and Orekhov without major changes.
8. Kyiv. Fighting to the east and west of the city, with again accentuated by the desire of the RF Armed Forces to move south in order to achieve a complete encirclement of the city.
9. Chernihiv - no major changes. The city is blocked, in the city itself a hotel where foreign mercenaries were located was destroyed at night.
10. Sumy - no major changes.
11. Odessa. They continue to wait for the landing, but it is still not there. However, the city continues to fortify, transferring reinforcements from western Ukraine. There are no signs of an offensive by the RF Armed Forces from the PMR.
12. Belarus. Despite another wave of fakes that Belarus will attack Ukraine (yesterday at 21.00), the Belarusian Armed Forces do not show a noticeable increase in their presence on the border beyond the increase in the number of BTGs of the Belarusian army on the border with Ukraine from 5 to 10. The very border of Ukraine with Belarus is actually not guarded.
In general, for the evening of 12.03. One can note significant successes in the development of the offensive of the DPR army, as well as the troops of the RF Armed Forces in the Zaporozhye region.
I’m writing this from Skopje, North Macedonia, where I’ve been for the last week teaching one of our Leadership Academy for Development courses. Following the Ukraine war is no different here in terms of available information, except that I’m in an adjacent time zone, and the fact that there is more support for Putin in the Balkans than in other parts of Europe. A lot of the latter is due to Serbia, and Serbia's hosting of Sputnik.
I’ll stick my neck out and make several prognostications:
Russia is heading for an outright defeat in Ukraine. Russian planning was incompetent, based on a flawed assumption that Ukrainians were favorable to Russia and that their military would collapse immediately following an invasion. Russian soldiers were evidently carrying dress uniforms for their victory parade in Kyiv rather than extra ammo and rations. Putin at this point has committed the bulk of his entire military to this operation—there are no vast reserves of forces he can call up to add to the battle. Russian troops are stuck outside various Ukrainian cities where they face huge supply problems and constant Ukrainian attacks.
The collapse of their position could be sudden and catastrophic, rather than happening slowly through a war of attrition. The army in the field will reach a point where it can neither be supplied nor withdrawn, and morale will vaporize. This is at least true in the north; the Russians are doing better in the south, but those positions would be hard to maintain if the north collapses.
There is no diplomatic solution to the war possible prior to this happening. There is no conceivable compromise that would be acceptable to both Russia and Ukraine given the losses they have taken at this point.
The United Nations Security Council has proven once again to be useless. The only helpful thing was the General Assembly vote, which helps to identify the world’s bad or prevaricating actors.
The Biden administration’s decisions not to declare a no-fly zone or help transfer Polish MiGs were both good ones; they've kept their heads during a very emotional time. It is much better to have the Ukrainians defeat the Russians on their own, depriving Moscow of the excuse that NATO attacked them, as well as avoiding all the obvious escalatory possibilities. The Polish MiGs in particular would not add much to Ukrainian capabilities. Much more important is a continuing supply of Javelins, Stingers, TB2s, medical supplies, comms equipment, and intel sharing. I assume that Ukrainian forces are already being vectored by NATO intelligence operating from outside Ukraine.
The cost that Ukraine is paying is enormous, of course. But the greatest damage is being done by rockets and artillery, which neither MiGs nor a no-fly zone can do much about. The only thing that will stop the slaughter is defeat of the Russian army on the ground.
Putin will not survive the defeat of his army. He gets support because he is perceived to be a strongman; what does he have to offer once he demonstrates incompetence and is stripped of his coercive power?
The invasion has already done huge damage to populists all over the world, who prior to the attack uniformly expressed sympathy for Putin. That includes Matteo Salvini, Jair Bolsonaro, Éric Zemmour, Marine Le Pen, Viktor Orbán, and of course Donald Trump. The politics of the war has exposed their openly authoritarian leanings. "i.e.: Everyone I don't like"
The war to this point has been a good lesson for China. Like Russia, China has built up seemingly high-tech military forces in the past decade, but they have no combat experience. The miserable performance of the Russian air force would likely be replicated by the People’s Liberation Army Air Force, which similarly has no experience managing complex air operations. We may hope that the Chinese leadership will not delude itself as to its own capabilities the way the Russians did when contemplating a future move against Taiwan.
Hopefully Taiwan itself will wake up as to the need to prepare to fight as the Ukrainians have done, and restore conscription. Let’s not be prematurely defeatist.
Turkish drones will become bestsellers.
A Russian defeat will make possible a "new birth of freedom," and get us out of our funk about the declining state of global democracy. The spirit of 1989 will live on, thanks to a bunch of brave Ukrainians.
Courtesy of 3dc:
[Twitter]
Sounds good, doesn't work. Russian Federation is over. It's not gonna survive the war in Ukraine and certainly not gonna survive the defeat. However the political landscape of North Eurasia will look like after the war, new order will be built on completely different principles pic.twitter.com/LB7voumnGg
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/\ The Russians had the Wehrmacht directly up their arse until Uncle Sam came to their assistance. In 1948 the US, UK, and FR joined their sectors in an effort to unify the German people and heal the land. The Russians countered by cordoning off their sector and claiming it as a client state. How quickly the Russians had forgotten US and Allied assistance.
Even before the United States entered World War II in December 1941, America sent arms and equipment to the Soviet Union to help it defeat the Nazi invasion. Totaling $11.3 billion, or $180 billion in today’s currency, the Lend-Lease Act of the United States supplied needed goods to the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1945 in support of what Stalin described to Roosevelt as the “enormous and difficult fight against the common enemy — bloodthirsty Hitlerism.”
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The program sent nearly 2,000 locomotives and innumerable boxcars to the Soviet Union. In addition, almost half of all the rails used by the Soviet Union during the war came through Lend-Lease. - cite.
#4
After Russia is defeated, we'll break them up into small parts, easily dominated and the threat they pose to our rulers will be removed.
Then, the immigrants. Africa is bursting at the seams with people who want a new life. Russia is undergoing a demographic collapse. A massive importation of new people is exactly what is needed to rescue the former territory of the Russian Federation. Moreover it will ensure the Rus, a danger to the world since they were a people a thousand years ago, never emerge again.
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Putin at this point has committed the bulk of his entire military to this operation—there are no vast reserves of forces he can call up
Just spit-balling here...
Xi looks at mighty Russian military:
a) producing copious amounts of fail
b) mostly sitting in the west of the country, leaving the east barebones.
c) pissing off almost all potential allies
Starts thinking about all that tundra and resources just sitting there for the taking.
Maybe. If China starts badmouthing Russia and/or sympathizing with Ukraine, that'll be a real indicator.
#8
All those "Chinese speaking Siberians, looking for protection from a madman" crying out to Xi?
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Preparing for DefeatFrancis Fukuyama
Oh FFS... not this idiot again. The "intellectual" who told us liberal democracy would sweep the world and bring about the "end of history" - the most retarded phrase coined by any intellectual since Marx and Engels. This was the delusion, as Mearsheimer puts it, behind the Nuland-Obama wrecking crew's idiotic pretension of being "21st century people."
The foolish doctrine of liberal internationalism has done such extraordinary damage to the US. This has killed more of our and the world's people, caused us to lose wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, helped ruin Libya and is the ultimate cause of the disaster in Ukraine.
God save us from neocon shitheads like Fukuyama. Go back to Palo Alto, little man. Enjoy your thruple with McFaul and Condi Rice
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When I worked in Washington every policy maker I knew had a copy of that fairy tale prominently displayed in their offices
I read the danged thing and decided it was a wish list for foreign policy geeks
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The Biden administration’s decisions not to declare a no-fly zone or help transfer Polish MiGs were both good ones; they've kept their heads during a very emotional time.
Seriously, the Biden administration? Looked to me that they were trying to bait Poland into the transfer.
[AceComments] It's hard to imagine a worse foreign policy than our current mess of reactive measures and half-measures and meaningless pontifications that emerge from the White House and the state department. We are in retreat everywhere, and have lost any sense of the simplest goals: to protect American interests throughout the world.
In fact it is difficult to see anything remotely good about our total capitulation to Iranian desires for nuclear weapons and Russia's interest in supporting Iran as a proxy to do mischief...and worse.
Cui Bono? Who benefits? It's pretty clear that Iran and Russia benefit, and America and our staunch ally Israel are the losers in this charade. And to make matters worse, this author suggests that the Biden junta is selling out Ukraine just to get Russia's support of the catastrophic Iran deal!
Irina Tsukerman, a geopolitical and security analyst, suggests a more sinister linkage between Ukraine and the Iran deal. Biden could be sacrificing Ukraine in order to secure Russia’s co-operation in pushing the recalcitrant Tehran towards a deal, she argues. This may allow America to secure cheap Iranian oil, easing the squeeze on household budgets at home.
Worse still, once the nuclear deal is done, Biden may seek to handcuff Israel to prevent it from taking further military action in Syria or against Iran itself. Why? With the US hooked on Iranian oil, Biden would need to "contain" the regime and prevent it from turning the financial screw by raising oil prices.
But why support Iran in the first place? What possible benefit is there, even in the fever dreams and masturbatory fantasies of Biden's handlers? How can a reconstituted Iranian nuclear weapons program help American interests in the region? How can relaxing restrictions on Iran's terror network benefit America? After all, these are the people responsible for a huge amount of terrorism (much of it directed at America) over the last 40 years. That includes the bombing of the Marine Corps barracks in Lebanon in 1983! And we will be lifting sanctions against Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan, who led IRGC forces in Lebanon and Syria when Hezbollah bombed the Marine compound in Beirut and killed 241 U.S. service members.
The simplest reason for this insanity is a combination of two things:
The first is the obvious dislike of Israel on the part of so many of the actors in this farce. Valerie Jarrett and John Kerry come to mind, but the traditional anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment in the U.S. State Department has been allowed to emerge.
The second is a perverse desire for some sort of counterbalance to Israel's power in the Middle East. That it is benign, and is a huge positive matters not at all. These people would rather see a regional war than allow one country to have military dominance, especially a country that is unabashedly Western and Jewish. But by allowing Iran to produce nuclear weapons is a guarantee of much more instability in the region that can easily spill over to other places.
An ascendant Iran will broaden its terrorist activities, including unleashing Hezbollah in Lebanon. That will provoke a response from Israel, including increasing its attacks on Hezbollah in Syria (where Iran funnels arms). Russia has so far allowed Israel to enter Syrian airspace to attack arms transiting to Lebanon, but how long will that last? Will Israel have to fight the Russians as well as the Syrians, the Iranians and Hezbollah?
Of course China would never dream of taking advantage of regional unrest to further its own interests, so at least the world is safe from that complexity.
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In case you were wondering how the Ukraine controversy meshes together with the Iranian thing.
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Cui Bono? Who benefits?
That's what I'd like to know. Why are these idiots destroying our economy and making us poorer? Can't possibly be for Ukraine... the Ukrainians were already the poorest shithole in Europe.
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Russia benefits. Which is what certain people post several hundred times a week here trying to distract from, because they can't argue against it directly.
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They must be buying up stocks in companies that produce oil, gas, wheat, metals etc. looks like the Gulf Arabs, the Canadians and Australians will benefit too For Some Countries, Economic Ripples of Ukraine War Bring Windfall
Those rich in oil and gas, other commodities to get a boost from soaring prices, though inflation will sting consumers and weigh on global growth
The Biden administration is delaying decisions on new oil and gas drilling on federal land and other energy-related actions after a federal court blocked the way officials were calculating the real-world costs of climate change.
The administration said in a legal filing that a Feb. 11 ruling by a Louisiana federal judge will affect dozens of rules by at least four federal agencies. Among the immediate effects is an indefinite delay in planned oil and gas lease sales on public lands in a half-dozen states in the West, including Wyoming, Montana and Utah.
The ruling also will delay plans to restrict methane waste emissions from natural gas drilling on public lands and a court-ordered plan to develop energy conservation standards for manufactured housing, the administration said. The ruling also will delay a $2.3 billion federal grant program for transit projects, officials said.
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to protect American interests throughout the world.
There's your problem. That's not our goal. That's NEVER our goal. Our goal is to protect the interests of the American people.
After all, these are the people responsible for a huge amount of terrorism (much of it directed at America) over the last 40 years.
Could that have something to do with the fact that the CIA overthrew the elected government of Iran in the 1950s and installed the brutal Shah, a dictator? How would we feel about a government that did that to us? Maybe stopping fucking with other countries would solve the terrorism problem. Just a guess! Let's give it a try, though. It couldn't be worse than what we've got going now.
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Could that have something to do with the fact that the CIA overthrew the elected government of Iran in the 1950s and installed the brutal Shah, a dictator?
It is my understanding that Britain took the lead on that project, to protect the interests of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, and that the Shah was already on the throne, having come to the throne upon the abdication of his father in 1941.
[American Thinker] I won't lie: I'm a Tucker Carlson fan. He is willing to speak honestly about topics others ignore, sugarcoat, or lie about. Even when I don't agree with him, I find him worthwhile, and never more so than his Friday-night monologue about Biden's latest, terrifying power-grab and how our government is destroying the American economy. It was a tour de force, and I cannot recommend it highly enough.
Tucker opened with something I'd meant to write about and now don't need to: without a single pause, the Biden administration slipped effortlessly from COVID emergency powers (which are now passé thanks to polling) and is, instead, assuming war powers, even though we're not at war:
At exactly the moment when the emergency powers they awarded to themselves to fight COVID started to wane, our leaders began pushing for conflict with Russia. And then, on the basis of that conflict, they assumed historic war powers.
Without even pausing, the Biden administration declared total economic war on a sovereign country. No American had been killed. The United States had not been invaded or attacked. And yet, with no meaningful public debate or congressional authorization, the Biden administration destroyed that country's currency, then removed it from the international banking system, then impoverished its population. Then the administration began seizing the property of people affiliated with that country, without a trial or due process of any kind, without even bothering to explain exactly what crime they had committed.
Tucker could have added that, earlier on Friday, Biden creepily and gleefully whisper-shouted into the microphone a boast about destroying the economy of a country with which we are not at war:
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Without even pausing, the Biden administration declared total economic war on a sovereign country. No American had been killed. The United States had not been invaded or attacked. And yet, with no meaningful public debateor congressional authorization,
Depose this fucker. We Americans will bear the brunt of this "total economic war" that was not debated and not voted on by Congress.
This is an economic Pearl Harbor -- of our own president's making. Depose him before he destroys us
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This is an economic Pearl Harbor -- of our own president's making
Some historians argue Pearl Harbor was exploited by FDR, to push us into war. Isn't Biden a big admirer of FDR? You don't think...
no, that's crazy shit. Why that would be like saying the Democrats exploited COVID to grab emergency powers! Perish the thought!
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Maybe invest in iodine futures and bomb shelters? Pandemic Fears Give Way to a Rush for Bomb Shelters Since Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, European anxiety has shifted from Covid to nuclear annihilation. Bunkers, survival guides and iodine pills are flying off the shelves. Giulio Cavicchioli, the owner of Minus Energie in Italy, has gone from working on 50 bunkers in the past 22 years to fielding 500 inquiries in the past two weeks.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
"After receiving a green light from Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his war in Ukraine in an effort to reclaim the old Russian empire," Soros wrote in an op-ed published by Project Syndicate on Friday."
/\ The Russians had the Wehrmacht directly up their arse until Uncle Sam came to their assistance. In 1948 the US, UK, and FR joined their sectors in an effort to unify the German people and heal the land. The Russians countered by cordoning off their sector and claiming it as a client state. How quickly the Russians had forgotten US and Allied assistance.
