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Court Rules On Malaysian Flight, MH17 Shot Down In Ukraine, Jails Three Persons For Life
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-Great Cultural Revolution
'Equity' is just communism - but you knew that
[American Thinker] DIE. Diversity, Inclusion, Equity is the mantra, the maniacal chant of the religious zealots of the left.

Equity comes from the elitists and globalists in the dominant political party. But look more deeply.

Equity is forced redistribution of property. Equity demands that those who have give to those who have not. It's not a free exchange; it is forced by a central controller, by our own government.

Equity presupposes that you do not have any right to ownership of your property, including your earnings and accumulated wealth.

It sound innocuous, but equity is the precursor to all-out communism. These leftists in the Democrat party parrot such luminaries as Soros, Schwab at the WEF, and most elitist Democrats. They all channel Marx and Lenin.

The left intend to enact a failed political and economic system (communism) but "do it better." This is the level of economic destitution that runs our country today.

If any entity is able to destroy your inalienable rights by redistributing wealth, then that entity has destroyed or intends to destroy our Constitution, along with your inalienable rights to life, liberty, and ownership of property.

This is the true threat to every American, not whether one supports or denigrates Trump or the next big personality. The evil specter of totalitarian control by your own government is the one true threat.

Put petty differences aside and unite to reverse the trend to destruction forced on us by the left. We will either be destroyed by our own government or arise from the ashes as individuals who put our government back under control of our Constitution.

And please stop waiting for the "one" person to solve all your problems. The "one" person who will solve all your problems is you, the individual, working in concert with other individuals to save our cherished nation and pass down the beloved freedom we knew from the past. And that we will know in the future.

Individual freedom is not a zero-sum game. Individual freedom multiplies and magnifies as more individuals see it and live it. Individual freedom propagates with mutual respect.

Posted by: Besoeker || 11/18/2022 07:01 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Permacrisis! – Keeping the Little People Under Control
[IsACunt] The Permacrisis, another new word appearing in our dictionary and according to Collins is the defining word of the last 12 months.

The sad truth is that everything is a crisis as defined by the media, backed up by the ever more influential internet, Can everything actually be a crisis, how often is the word used, if you watch the news, any news, you will hear it every day, I would challenge anyone (except the Worcestershire warrior) the name something that isn’t in crisis.

The attached article sums it up very well and cunters will find the Yips amusing, the young illiberal progressives.

Posted by: 746 || 11/18/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We have always been at war with Eastasia.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/18/2022 12:17 Comments || Top||

#2  “If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.”

― William Tecumseh Sherman
Posted by: Bobby || 11/18/2022 16:28 Comments || Top||

#3  We have always been at war with Eastasia.

Oceanana. Always Oceanana.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/18/2022 16:34 Comments || Top||

#4  #2 If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.”

If Sherman killed all the lawyers, he would getting lawsuits from Hell before breakfast as well.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/18/2022 18:14 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Mystery deaths of Russian execs were 'ALL murders' with 'vipers nest' of oligarchs fighting over money after sanctions crippled the economy, says investor dubbed Putin's 'number one enemy'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Bill Browder, who once ran Russia's largest foreign investment fund, believes spate of deaths among the country's elite were 'all murders'

  • Said 'viper's nest' are fighting to maintain their wealth under crippling sanctions

  • 'It's greedy b*****ds fighting over money and getting killed,' he told MailOnline

  • Mr Browder is dubbed Putin's 'number one enemy' after exposing a $230million fraud that implicated the Russian president

Though he did not name names, recent deaths include Ivan Pechorin, 39, director of the Far East and Arctic Development Corporation who 'fell overboard' from his yacht in September; Pavel Pchelnikov, 52, a PR manager for the Russian Railways shot dead in his Moscow apartment the same month; and Alexander Tyulakov, 61, a senior Gazprom executive found hanged at his house, also in Moscow.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/18/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mystery deaths of Russian execs were 'ALL murders' with 'vipers nest' of oligarchs fighting over money after sanctions crippled the economy, says investor dubbed Putin's 'number one enemy'

...Report written by the eminent Moscow criminologist, N.S. Sherlockovitch...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 11/18/2022 5:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Inside man "Chris Pleasance for MailOnline". Information provided by unknown sources.
Posted by: Dale || 11/18/2022 6:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Chris Pleasance=Capt. Obvious.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 11/18/2022 6:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Luckily, nothing like that could ever happen here.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/18/2022 6:32 Comments || Top||

#5  I guess Assassination is still too thick a porridge to swallow.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/18/2022 10:46 Comments || Top||


Economy
Retirement savings plunge 23% from a year ago due to stock market volatility - with the average Fidelity 401(k) dropping below six figures to $97,200
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Fidelity on Thursday said average 401(k) is down 23% from a year ago

  • 401(k) savers have $97,200 on average after third straight quarter of decline

  • Volatility in the stock market has hammered savings accounts this year

  • But Gen Z 401(k) savers actually increased their balances slightly last quarter
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/18/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yes, somewhere btwn 23% and 30%.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/18/2022 3:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Because my retirement is overweight in energy it has not gone up as much as the general market over the past few years but it hasn’t fallen much this year.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/18/2022 10:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Not the Wall Street Journal; they are busy explaining how Trump forced Chicago teachers to stay home.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/18/2022 11:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Glad I put all my $retirement in FTX synthetic call derivatives.

Oh, wait...

Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 11/18/2022 15:32 Comments || Top||


Fed tells employers to STOP giving pay rises in order to bring inflation down: Warns wages are rising faster than they have in decades - and there are now almost two jobs for every person looking for work
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Christopher Waller, one of six members of the board of the Federal Reserve, on Wednesday addressed the Annual Economic Forecast Luncheon, held in Arizona

  • Waller, a governor of the Fed since December 2020, used his speech to emphasize 'the Federal Reserve's ongoing fight to reduce inflation'

  • He urged employers not to give any pay rises, saying that it was pushing up inflation

  • 'At any other time, I would be pretty unhappy about slowing growth, but not now,' Waller said
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/18/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  These people are insane.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 11/18/2022 6:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Practice what you preach Waller. Don't give gov employees a raise next year.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 11/18/2022 6:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Somehow you knew this inflation problem would end up being their fault.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/18/2022 6:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Hey, how about forgoing annual federal 'bonuses' this year! Fight Inflation Now!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/18/2022 7:30 Comments || Top||

#5  These people really hate the regular worker, don't they?
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/18/2022 7:46 Comments || Top||

#6  These people really hate the regular worker, don't they?
Yes they do.If you are on Social Security and still have to work you pay Social Security and Medicare. A certain amount is taken out of your Social Security for Medicare. After a certain amount of pay from your job you have to pay taxes on that plus taxes are taken out of your Social Security. Depending on how much you made you could be required to pay taxes on up to 75% of Socual Security. They really do look at it as THEIR money.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/18/2022 9:50 Comments || Top||

#7  perhaps Christopher Waller could donate his salary to the Gubbamint, like Donald Trump did?
Posted by: Frank G || 11/18/2022 9:53 Comments || Top||

#8  Private sector cannot until all Public Sector Employers cuts 5% of workforce, and 5% on wages, and unemployed receive goods instead of money/credits.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/18/2022 10:30 Comments || Top||

#9  If the government was to actually cut staff you know it would just be the ones who send your tax refunds and issue your drivers licenses.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/18/2022 10:48 Comments || Top||

#10  Perhaps Musk has the right idea.

Musk triggers liberals with email urging employees to commit to ‘extremely hardcore’ work: Musk's ‘hellscape'
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/18/2022 11:15 Comments || Top||

#11  The biggest employer took 86,000 mop pushers off the hiring list for premium IRS wages, and yeah not the tax return department kind.

A 20 hour week is going to be hard-core for those used to free foosball, private crying rooms, and a 5 Michelin Star buffet.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/18/2022 12:06 Comments || Top||

#12  Real wages have gone down every month for close to two years. In cases where two openings are available for every job seeker, a wage level freeze will just double already high turnover rates.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/18/2022 12:23 Comments || Top||

#13  As if employers needed encouragement.
Posted by: Angstrom || 11/18/2022 13:32 Comments || Top||

#14  Supply and Demand
I’m sure Mr Waller heard of it somewhere
If demand is higher than supply, the price of supply will rise.

These numbskulls don’t even understand basic economics much less macroeconomic and monetary theory

We’re in worse trouble than I thought
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 11/18/2022 13:38 Comments || Top||

#15  Private sector cannot until all Public Sector Employers cuts 5% of workforce, and 5% on wages, and unemployed receive goods instead of money/credits.

Thread winner. Well said.
Posted by: no mo uro || 11/18/2022 15:49 Comments || Top||

#16  Depending on how much you made you could be required to pay taxes on up to 75% of Socual Security.

I have long assumed that by the time I started collecting Social Security, we’d be paying 100% “income” tax on what the government sent us. So we started saving early against that eventuality.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/18/2022 19:18 Comments || Top||


Europe
Nord Stream pipe blast WAS sabotage, and traces of explosives have been found at the site, Swedish investigators say
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • An explosion on September 26 caused four leaks in the Baltic Sea pipeline

  • Two leaks were in Denmark's exclusive economic zone and two in Sweden's

  • Investigators have been working to ascertain the cause of the damage

  • Now, Swedish prosecutors have said traces of explosives have been found

  • They said this was proof that the blasts were an act of sabotage on the pipelines
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/18/2022 04:22 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Any chemical tracers in the explosive residue, or is that just for the NCIS teevee show?
Posted by: Bobby || 11/18/2022 15:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Any chemical tracers in the explosive residue

Only for civilian use explosives. There are impurities that can point to which country made the explosive. But it is also super easy to get military explosives from just about anywhere too.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/18/2022 15:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Cui bono?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/18/2022 18:06 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Ilhan Omar Asks If She Can Quickly Add One More Kind Of Marriage To 'Respect For Marriage Act'
[Bee] With the Respect for Marriage Bill to codify gay marriage nearing final passage, Representative Ilhan Omar has asked for an additional amendment to allow another form of marriage people might want to take advantage of from time to time.

"Hey guys, I dunno, can we add, let's say, 'marriage to your own brother' to the list of officially recognized marriages?" said the Congresswoman from Minneapolis. "Like, say, if you want to rig the immigration system in your favor by marrying a relative, maybe we should just go ahead and legalize it, just in case. Not that I would do that myself, don't be silly."

The congresswoman has requested the new law be retroactive to cover anyone who may have engaged in this activity in the early 2000s. "That would ensure we, ya know, cover our bases and stuff," she said.

Senator Mitch McConnell condemned the proposed change, adding that sibling marriage only works in his home state of Kentucky and shouldn't be rolled out nationwide.

At publishing time, Mitt Romney also requested a last-minute amendment legalizing polygamy.
Posted by: Frank G || 11/18/2022 11:12 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


Science & Technology
Doctrinal example of a French Reconnaissance & Intervention SGTIA (company-team)
Posted by: badanov || 11/18/2022 23:48 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:



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