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961  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Joe Biden is a senile, old Bitch on: October 07, 2023, 03:44:31 PM
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Do not misunderstand me, if there is evidence of wrongdoing by Biden or anyone in his family, then they should be held accountable, that what law is for, after all.
If there is enough evidence to impeach him, so be it.

What I do not like if how the Republican and Democrat party try to go all for a deviation of attention from actual important happenings in the Unite States and the world. So much noise, so many news on Biden's impeachment and yet in the end it is likely nothing will happen.

Sometimes American politics are very weird.


American politics exist for one reason. It's to distract US people from the power they have over government. If you really are interested in looking at how the US/America is really built government-wise, consider the following videos, credit to montaga. If all governments were built like these videos show, there wouldn't be any One-World-Order takeover.

The first video is the shorter. It shows a guy verbally sparring with a traffic cop and his supervisor when he got stopped for having no license plate on his vehicle. In this case, they let him go. But if they had forced him to go to court on this, he could have won and made a bunch of money off them for messing with his freedom. This video is the shorter of the two - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5441278.msg62950646#msg62950646.

The second video is a 3-hour, in-depth view of how the people are the government over the government. The US/American government was set up his way. The problem is that the people don't realize their power. The video - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5441278.msg62250638#msg62250638.

Biden is so out of it that the only thing that keeps him in any semblance of authority is the people ignorance of law of the common people. If the common people knew, Biden would have been gone long ago. And Trump may have been, as well.

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Well, we could argue that people have the government and the politicians they deserve, then.
Both Biden and trump are not the politicians which a Country like the United States deserves. We can agree that ignorance is a problem but also a tool which has been exploited for a long time for the sake of keeping positions of power.

The left sees ignorance in the right, and the right sees ignorance in the left, and yet we all can be as equally as ignorant while keeping our political standings intact.

If there wasn't so much ignorance in the people, they would realize that things like pushing for war, and making a One-World-Government were not something that they were really in favor of.

Regarding common people everywhere, but mostly the USA, if they weren't so ignorant, they would realize that they don't really need a national government, and that the only government they need is a tiny, local one to organize them to protect themselves against local, petty crooks. The bigger the government gets, the more crooked it gets. All you need do is look at Biden's regime and inflation.

But if you think Trump was just as bad, consider this - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5269905.msg55119252#msg55119252.

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962  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The ukraine russia war it's not about ukraine or russia it's about eu on: October 07, 2023, 03:37:44 PM
The EU is falling apart regarding support for Ukraine. It's happening in different ways. But it seems to be all about depleting weapons of the West so that... Who is going to conquer the West now that they are out of weapons?


NATO At 'Bottom Of Barrel' Of Weapons Stockpiles



https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/nato-bottom-barrel-weapons-stockpiles
Dutch Adm. Rob Bauer made the comments on the first day of the Warsaw Security Forum. He said NATO military budgets increased before the Russian invasion but that the Western arms industry did not increase production capacity.

"And that has led to higher prices already before the war. And that actually has (been) exacerbated by the fact that we now give away weapon systems to Ukraine, which is great, and ammunition, but not from full warehouses," Bauer said, according to TVP World.

"We started to give away from half-full or lower warehouses in Europe and therefore the bottom of the barrel is now visible. And we need the industry to ramp up production at a much higher tempo and we need large volumes," he added.

According to more from Reuters:

Bauer last month warned that a drastic rise in ammunition prices meant that allies' higher defense spending did not automatically translate into greater security and called for more private investment in defense companies.
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963  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The KRAKEN rises, meaning the 2020 election fraud is being corrected. on: October 07, 2023, 03:30:49 PM
The news media is destroying Trump. The courts are destroying Trump. World governments are destroying Trump. But the people of the USA know that it is Trump who will be Making America Great Again. What is to be seen is how far the people will go with allowing their favorite to be messed with like the Dems are doing. Election fraud is going to backfire on the Dems.


Mainstream media DISMAYED by poll result showing Trump leading Biden by 9 points in hypothetical head-to-head matchup



https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-10-05-msm-dismayed-by-poll-trump-leading-biden.html
The mainstream media couldn't hide its dismay over the result of a recent poll conducted by two of its own.

The ABC News and Washington Post (WaPo) surveyed Americans about their views on the current state of the nation. In a hypothetical head-to-head matchup, former President Donald Trump leads incumbent President Joe Biden by nine percentage points. About 51 percent of respondents support Trump, while 42 percent support Biden. (Related: NOTHING NEW HERE: Poll shows 52% of Americans DISAPPROVE of Biden.)

NBC political analyst Steve Kornacki and his co-moderator Kristin Welker were clearly disappointed by the result.

"You know this from talking to Republican critics of Trump from rival campaigns, everything you just explained they thought would take him down a peg this summer and instead he has only moved up here. You can see the number saying the party needs a new leader has gone down. So for Donald Trump there, [is] nothing but good news," Kornacki commented.

But before Kornacki could even finish his thought, Welker blurted out "Oof" to show her apparent disgust over Trump's sustained popularity among Republican voters.

ABC News Political Director Rick Klein and Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz shared the same sentiment, ditto with the network's panelists on "The View," including Whoopi Goldberg, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro.

Navarro even accused everyone who participated in the poll of being high on drugs just because she couldn't stand the result. "I don't know what happened with this ABC poll. I don't know if the people asking the questions were high or the people answering the questions were high, but somebody had to have been on edibles or something else because this poll is off the charts," Navarro commented.

ABC/WaPo poll reveals all sorts of troubling statistics for Biden
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964  Other / Politics & Society / Re: We Don't Really Know What's Happening on: October 07, 2023, 03:12:49 PM
We’re just normal, regular people. We’e never going to be in the know & kept up to date with real world event decisions & policies. Governments, the powers that be will always make big decisions that we don’t know about, trade agreements etc. We just have to get on with our lives & hope that their decisions don't screw with our lives too much.

But it is "normal, regular people" who have strength. Where does the strength lie? Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:26-31:
26Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. 27But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, 29so that no one may boast before him. 30It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. 31Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”

Think of the trouble that is in the world. We live in peace for a while, and then we are gone. And after a few years even the memory of us is gone. It's like this for everybody, rich and poor, good and evil, Pelosi and the FBI, and all of us little people, as well.

But if we are found to be believers in God and Jesus-salvation, we will live again, in the strength of God, forever.

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965  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Pelosi's Office Was Directly Involved In Failed Jan. 6 Security... on: October 07, 2023, 03:01:16 PM
When you look back at Central and South America back in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, you will find that the CIA caused all kinds of political unrest in those areas, by infiltration and assassinations. That the FBI might do something like this right in the US government is not surprising.

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Right, The United States has a rather unsavory history of political interference in the south of the continent, but one should also acknowledge it is not the same to politically interfere in a foreign country in order to preserve your own interest than doing the same in your own soil.

There are more chances of negative repercussions to take place if such Interference happens in USA.

It is natural to distress those agencies, but one also need to keep one's feet on the ground what they can and would dare to do.

All of that is the same for any large country. What does 'US' stand for? United States, of course. Where is the unity? Isn't it found in peaceful, honest operations?

If Pelosi had granted the request for military-backed security on Jan. 6, the FBI wouldn't have been able to cause the trouble. But both Pelosi and the FBI wanted the trouble so they could blame it on Trump and his supporters to overthrow them.

So we see that it is the Dems and RINOs who are promoting the destruction of freedom and rights in the USA.


WRONGTHINK: Their Goal Isn't Election Interference, It's MAGA Extermination
Note that MAGA doesn't mean some kind of political mindset. MAGA means what the words stand for... Making America Great Again. They are trying to destroy American greatness.




https://rumble.com/v3n0kr7-live-wrongthink-their-goal-isnt-election-interference-its-maga-exterminatio.html
The deep state is going after Trump with everything they have. It's clear they want to destroy his campaign, but it's not working. Did you really think they would stop there? As it turns out, the FBI has been devising a secret illegal plan to target MAGA supporters this whole time. This was never about interfering in his campaign, it's always been about exterminating the movement that represents everything they despise.
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966  Other / Politics & Society / Re: We're in the Middle of a Global Coup - Here's How We Stop It on: October 06, 2023, 05:40:23 PM
^^^ But don't worry. Since Jesus died on the cross for the sins of the whole world, and then arose to life again to show His power, and His victory over evil, He is in complete control.

He might be allowing the evil people of the world to take over the world temporarily, just so He has those jokers all in one place when He returns to take over the One-World-Government.

I mean, they are doing work for Him without even knowing it. Since they are forming the OWG, He won't have to do it when He returns. When He comes back and takes over, He will be able to judge everybody fairly and with freedom, since... He knows all things, even though He allows people to have complete freedom.

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967  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Leaders are Dreamers on: October 06, 2023, 05:32:04 PM
Some US leaders want to remove gasoline as a method for transportation. That's why they are pushing the electric vehicles so hard.Some States are even banning as much use of natural gas and other fossil fuels as they can.

Here is OPEC, confirming that they will keep the oil flowing, so that prices on oil are dropping. They need to do this to remain competitive with Russia. So much for banning fossil fuels in America an other parts of the world. People do what is cheaper, or they change their governments.

Leaders are dreamers.


Oil Prices Tumble As The EIA Reports A Significant Gasoline Build



https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Oil-Prices-Tumble-As-The-EIA-Reports-A-Significant-Gasoline-Build.html
Crude oil prices continued to move lower despite the Energy Information Administration report that inventories had shed 2.2 million barrels in the week to September 29.

This compared with a draw of the same size estimated for the previous week by the EIA.

A day earlier, the American Petroleum Institute reported an estimated inventory decline of 4.2 million barrels for the last week of September.
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968  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / SEC delays decision on spot Bitcoin ETFs as Congress members urge approval on: October 06, 2023, 05:18:30 PM
What I see from this is, the owners of the banking system control the SEC. And, they are against the US Congress. Why might they be? Because the US Congress sees Bitcoin and its ETFs as a way to make money that bypasses the banking system. And such might be okay, since the banking system is a corrupt operation that has been milking everybody, including government, for over 100 years.

If ETFs are allowed to come into being, the value of bitcoin could easily shoot past the moon, to the stars, and right out of the galaxy. And that's to say nothing about the ETFs themselves. The losers would be the banking systems of the free world, who have been financially raping everyone for the last hundred years or more.


SEC delays decision on spot Bitcoin ETFs as Congress members urge approval



https://www.dlnews.com/articles/regulation/sec-delays-decision-on-spot-bitcoin-etfs/
The US Securities and Exchange Commission delayed its decision on spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) applications from Cathie Wood's ARK Invest and fund manager GlobalX.

Tuesday's delay took market participants by surprise since the SEC had several weeks left to respond to both applications. A response to Ark's application, with digital asset manager 21Shares, was not due until November 11.
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969  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The New world order on: October 06, 2023, 04:25:13 PM
Regarding Putin and the war on Ukraine, Putin's reasons for it were a police action, just like the US has done all around the world loads of times since WW2.

Consider... Who is the bigger aggressor? Is it Russia, that shut down the USSR, giving a bunch of Soviet countries their freedom?

Or is it the US who has military bases around the world in all kinds of countries, gradually forcing them to pay income taxes to the US banking system?

Just the idea of the US boldly going into Ukraine for the purposes of breaking Russia up, and selling her off to the highest bidder, shows you that the US is the far bigger aggressor. And by being the kind of aggressor that they are, they are forcing into being the New-World-Order made up of the members of BRICS and the forty+ nations that are applying for membership. Why is there a BRICS? Because nations around the world see and understand US aggression, even if the American people don't.

I mean, the US talks freedom, and then goes out and tries to conquer the whole world through its lying, thieving, fiat money system. And people listen to the talk rather than think about what is really happening.

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970  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Pelosi's Office Was Directly Involved In Failed Jan. 6 Security... on: October 06, 2023, 03:53:25 PM
When you look back at Central and South America back in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, you will find that the CIA caused all kinds of political unrest in those areas, by infiltration and assassinations. That the FBI might do something like this right in the US government is not surprising.

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971  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Joe Biden is a senile, old Bitch on: October 06, 2023, 03:48:50 PM
Am I the only one who believes that it is strange enough Biden's leadership is not being questioned by anyone at all within the Democrat party?

I recall that in previous runs for the Democrat nomination for the presidency, there were more candidates willing to take the podium and debate one another. Not anyone.

We could assume those within the party assume Biden (despite his age) is doing a very good job and does not need to be questioned. (I believe all leaderships should be, by the way)

The more the Republican party attacks Biden (both in a personal level and politically), the more silent is the Democrat party about challenging its leader.


The Biden Team is a Dem money making group that is making a bunch of money for a bunch of Dems and Reps. Why would they want to question that?



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Do not misunderstand me, if there is evidence of wrongdoing by Biden or anyone in his family, then they should be held accountable, that what law is for, after all.
If there is enough evidence to impeach him, so be it.

What I do not like if how the Republican and Democrat party try to go all for a deviation of attention from actual important happenings in the Unite States and the world. So much noise, so many news on Biden's impeachment and yet in the end it is likely nothing will happen.

Sometimes American politics are very weird.


American politics exist for one reason. It's to distract US people from the power they have over government. If you really are interested in looking at how the US/America is really built government-wise, consider the following videos, credit to montaga. If all governments were built like these videos show, there wouldn't be any One-World-Order takeover.

The first video is the shorter. It shows a guy verbally sparring with a traffic cop and his supervisor when he got stopped for having no license plate on his vehicle. In this case, they let him go. But if they had forced him to go to court on this, he could have won and made a bunch of money off them for messing with his freedom. This video is the shorter of the two - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5441278.msg62950646#msg62950646.

The second video is a 3-hour, in-depth view of how the people are the government over the government. The US/American government was set up his way. The problem is that the people don't realize their power. The video - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5441278.msg62250638#msg62250638.

Biden is so out of it that the only thing that keeps him in any semblance of authority is the people ignorance of law of the common people. If the common people knew, Biden would have been gone long ago. And Trump may have been, as well.

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972  Other / Politics & Society / We Don't Really Know What's Happening on: October 05, 2023, 04:25:36 PM
Here is a piece of bottom-line info about the news and what's going on in the world.


We Don't Really Know What's Happening



http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Article/351720-2023-10-05-we-dont-really-know-whats-happening.htm
And, believe it or not, this is rather good news. I'll explain.

We all like to know what's happening in the world, and for good reason… understanding our surroundings is essential to survival. We instinctively seek information… we need information. There is, however, a problem that we face:

No matter how much "news" you consume, you won't really know what's going on in the world.

We can't know, because 'the news' is half illusion, provided by government-dependent corporations that are paid to keep you watching and to keep you joined to the status quo.

Granted, they are quite good at providing pictures from disaster areas, but when it comes to explaining why the disaster happened, they mislead almost every time. Yes, some truth makes its way through the news machine, but most of it is wrapped in layers of manipulation. If, for example, you watch the news feeds all day, you'll find a good deal of truth, but you'll find it amongst a pile of half-truths. Do you really have enough time to analyze them all?

One Piece of Truth

The truth about public reporting comes out from time to time, but usually well after the fact. So, here's one piece of truth that's worth remembering:
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973  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The moral side of the grain deal on: October 05, 2023, 03:48:21 PM
Russia simply realized, finally, that Ukrainian grain was so full of poisonous pesticides and herbicides that letting it go through would cause more damage to Russian enemies that fighting the actual war in Ukraine. Probably the reason why Ukraine is failing is, Ukrainians have been eating their own grain products for a long time now, and are being poisoned off by their own products.

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Russian folk tale in a modern version.

Does not make much sense to me, or at least I do not understand the point of his post.
Is this an implication of Russian grain and other products being completely organic and free of chemical products?

I may be wrong, because as far as I understand such a huge country with a big population would not be able to feed their people without using fertilizers and pesticides, and considering Ukraine is not the only country which uses such products then we should have expected to see negative consequences of them in other places like China...which certainly uses them

If the only choice you had was to be bitten by a rattle snake or a cobra, which would you choose? Cobra venom kills in as little as 30 minutes. But a rattle snake bite might not even inject any venom.

Take your pick. The deadly grain of Ukraine, which has been treated by Monsanto. Or the slightly poisonous grain of Russia.

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974  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Pelosi's Office Was Directly Involved In Failed Jan. 6 Security... on: October 05, 2023, 03:42:16 PM
This info has been out in the open for some time. But nobody seems interested in advertising it or acting on it.


How The FBI Planned the January 6 Operation



https://greatgameindia.com/how-the-fbi-planned-the-january-6-operation/
Cara Castronuovo of The Gateway Pundit writes on a stunning development in the US government's prosecution of the Proud Boys in February of this year.

It was found that the mysterious "1776 Returns" (pdf below) paper was actually written by the government.

A nine-page study with the working title "1776 Returns" described tactical tactics for the seizure of US federal facilities on January 6, 2021.

In court, it was established that the document's author was an FBI agent and that the FBI was responsible for its creation.

Just before January 6th, a "love interest" called Erika Flores emailed the enigmatic paper to Proud Boy Chairman Enrique Tarrio's Telegram address without his permission.

The totality of the "1776 Returns" were allegedly written by a GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL, and Flores said in her testimony to the January 6th Committee that this official asked her to share them with Tarrio.

Tarrio and four other Proud Boys members were convicted guilty of seditious conspiracy after being accused of it. Enrique Tarrio received a 22-year prison term for orchestrating the entire "seditious conspiracy." We now know that the FBI was the driving force behind the plot.
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975  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: October 05, 2023, 03:26:47 PM
It's like I have been saying for a long time now. Consider the Biden regime in Washington. They said that the sanctions were designed to weaken Russia. And they showed reasons why. But do you think that they were so stupid as to not understand what the sanctions would really do? The whole sanction thing was designed to strengthen Russia, BRICS, and maybe a new Russo-Ukraine State that is about to appear.

Zelensky suddenly found some 'overlooked' money in his banks. Where did it come from? It came from the people of the free world - Western Europe, the US, and Canada... and maybe Australia and a lot of other countries. How did it get into Zelensky's banks? It was sent there from the owners of the Federal Reserve Bank and similar banks (Euro) of the free world.

These banks have been quietly 'screwing' the people of the free nations out of money for a long time. They have been doing it in many ways, but especially by creating new money that they have been socking away for a time like this. The money they have quietly created is easily more than double that of the total visible money in all the free world countries. And they are using it to take over the world through Zelensky... if they can. The only thing that might stop them is a unification of all the BRICS countries under a unifying BRICS agreement.


Ukraine suddenly discovers money to manufacture its own weapons as U.S. funding dries up



https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-10-04-ukraine-manufactures-weapons-us-reduces-money-donations.html
Ukraine is now reportedly scrambling to replenish its armory stockpiles and recently announced its intention to manufacture its own weapons, driven by a massive reduction in foreign funding, particularly from the United States. Independent news outlet Politico reported on Monday that President Volodymyr Zelensky as well as top government officials in Kyiv acknowledged that they found money in the federal budget to fund the manufacture of some weapons.

The said measure came after the passing of a clean stopgap funding bill by the U.S. government at the House of Representatives on Saturday. The short-term spending bill is a move to avoid a government shutdown, if the Senate adopts the measure, as the federal debt reached $33 trillion for the first time in history in September. If it's expedited in the Senate, Congress could just narrowly avoid seeing thousands of federal employees furloughed and nonessential government programs paused.

According to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the bill includes the $16 billion disaster relief aid that President Joe Biden requested over the summer, which means no additional taxpayer funds were allocated for Ukraine. Some Republican lawmakers cited concerns about corruption within the Ukrainian military. The funding patch will last for 45 days past the end of the fiscal year, which concludes at midnight Sunday, Oct. 1.

Without referring directly to the U.S. bill, Zelensky said in a recorded speech released on the Defenders Day holiday on Sunday, that nothing would weaken his country's fight against Russia and that no one could "shut down" Ukraine's stability, endurance, strength and courage.

So, when Ukrainian leaders huddled with hundreds of defense industry officials and policymakers from allied countries, they also decided that Kyiv was open for business. "It's a survival issue," said Pavel Verkhniatskyi, managing partner at COSA Intelligence Solutions in Kyiv. Zelensky told the audience during the meeting that co-production deals are "already being negotiated with partners" and that he has established funding in the national budget to help finance those collaborations. (Related: NATO's ammo shortage worsens due to skyrocketing prices and Ukrainian troops’ overconsumption of artillery shells.)
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976  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian-Ukrainian war of 2022- ... for the salvation of the World on: October 05, 2023, 03:06:34 PM
In some remote and crazy way, the Ukraine war might be for the salvation of the world. But it is certainly for the destruction of Ukraine. The "Months Left" below refers to the gradual decline of US arms and funds to Ukraine, until nothing more is available to send.


Pentagon Warns "Months Left" In Arms Supply For Ukraine As Biden To Reassure Allies In Phone Call



https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pentagon-warns-months-left-arms-supply-ukraine-biden-reassure-allies-phone-call
The White House has further said it will unveil another defense package for Ukraine "soon" - which would be part of previously approved funds - in order to "signal our continued support." This comes immediately on the heels of Biden being forced by Congressional Republican holdouts to sign a stopgap funding bill that did not include aid for Ukraine.

Already as of last Friday, the Pentagon had informed Congress that it has "exhausted nearly all available security assistance funding for Ukraine" - including air defense weaponry and ammunition, leaving Ukraine more vulnerable as the Russian onslaught continues. Pentagon estimates indicate there are "months left" in its available supply of weapons for Kiev.
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Ukraine has begun to win this war, and it would be crazy if the West stops helping Ukraine.


The real Ukrainian people are the ones who are against the Zelensky regime. Soon Ukraine will win the war by ousting Zelensky and his team... if not executing them.


The End of Zelenskyy Presidency? w/Scott Ritter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoMe-jUvUM8


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977  Other / Politics & Society / Re: New California law raises minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour on: October 04, 2023, 05:43:02 PM
Where is the best place to live right over the border outside of California, and then commute to a California fast-food job right over the border in California?
I can see why you're excited by this news, and I think it's wonderful that there are well-paying career opportunities for even people of your intellectual capacity. Everyone deserves a living wage.

While I understand it is easy to use this opportunity to joke on others. I would prefer if we did not imply people who work within the fast food industry is less intelligent than the average person. Actually, I have met with a neighbor who works at Macdonald's and he is quite a clever person who goes to college.

If anything, we could assume Badecker is excited because of this due to his plans to move to Mexico and commute to his job in the United States flipping burgers.

And it would be something to respect, to me each job is important.  Wink

Actually, I was thinking about the States. But Mexico might prove to be a good idea. Think of living in Tijuana and bicycling to San Ysidro every day. Might be able to find an apartment that is only a couple of miles from the burger flipping joint.

Thanks for the idea. I was always wanting to catch up on my Spanish speaking. Now I have an excuse to do it.

Apartment rentals at about $500/mo. Another $500/mo for living expenses - getting much of my food for free at the FF place where I work. And income at about $2,400/mo. More money to buy Bitcoin.

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978  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: October 04, 2023, 05:16:21 PM
The US is losing its direct power over the world. This is being shown by the fact that Russia has bypassed the sanctions. Even the US is purchasing Russian products indirectly, from other countries who purchased them from Russia.

The question remains, what does this mean for the so-called free world?


Russia has almost fully bypassed Western sanctions on oil exports



https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-10-03-russia-bypassed-western-sanctions-oil-exports.html
Western sanctions against Russian oil exports have proven to be unsuccessful as Moscow continues finding ways to completely bypass them.

Revenue from Russian oil sales represents a significant share of the Kremlin’s budget, and Western countries hoped that sanctioning exports would dry up funding for their invasion of Ukraine. The U.S. and the EU have mostly barred imports of Russian oil, and the G7 and Australia joined with the EU to ban services involved in the movement of Russian oil products unless they are purchased below a price cap. The prominent role played by the G7 in insuring, shipping and financing Russian oil exports meant, at least in theory, that Russia would suffer financially as a result. The price cap approach was chosen as a way of limiting Russia’s ability to profit from the invasion while helping Russian oil continue to make its way into global markets to avoid price jumps and supply issues.

However, a report by the Financial Times shows that nearly three fourths of seaborne Russian crude oil flows moved without western insurance last month, up from 50 percent in the spring. This indicates Russia is getting better at finding ways around the G7’s oil price cap of $60 a barrel and is managing to sell it at prices that are approaching international market rates. As Zero Hedge points out, it also means that most Russian clients are simply not concerned about potential retaliation by the Biden administration for buying Russian oil.

Meanwhile, analysis by the Finnish think tank Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) of the eight months following the implementation of the price cap supports these findings and shows that Russia is still relying on EU vessels to bypass sanctions so it can continue to sell oil on the world market and raise funds for its efforts in Ukraine.

Media reports in recent months have pointed to a fleet of “shadow” tankers owned and insured in countries that are not part of the price cap helping to transport Russian oil. Shipping data from Equasis shows that nearly half of these shadow tankers are registered in the United Arab Emirates, and they are responsible for moving nearly 40 percent of the total exported volume of crude oil from Russia.

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Russia is also finding ways around financial sanctions
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979  Other / Politics & Society / Re: We're in the Middle of a Global Coup - Here's How We Stop It on: October 04, 2023, 03:49:15 PM
So, you are implying that a non governmental organization like the World Health Organization could somehow overcome the power of locals governments and sovereign countries.  I do not think it should work like that.

As far as I understand, that organization is supposed to offer recommendations and protocols the countries worldwide are supposed to choose if it is suitable for populations.

If the WHO was some kind of entity which was able to govern over presidents and prime ministers, there would not be people and entire communities doing things which are disapproved by them, like in Africa with all the folk medicine.

Country and local governments are made up of people, some of whom want complete control. The Covid scare has given more governments more control than any other operation, ever. So, by agreement of government leaders - who are misusing their authority - and by election from these government people, the WHO has been given authority.

The agreements are rather secretive. But they are being brought out into the open so that the people will think that they must obey, because their government authorized it.

More than any other countries in the world, it is written right into the laws of the US, Britain, Canada, and Australia - common law - that the people have control over their governments. The trouble is that the people don't know how to use their control. Often they attempt to use it the wrong way. If they don't figure out how, their countries' laws might be changed so that they lose their authority.

Everything is done by agreement. A government doesn't get set in place without agreements of and between people. Same with the WHO being set in authority.

Consider a simple hostage situation... one captor and one hostage. The captor says to the hostage, "Do what I tell you, or I will shoot you dead." The hostage either lives or dies by agreement with the captor. Maybe the captor was lying. Or maybe his gun didn't have any bullets. Even then, the whole thing was settled by agreement.

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980  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The moral side of the grain deal on: October 03, 2023, 07:48:45 PM
Russia simply realized, finally, that Ukrainian grain was so full of poisonous pesticides and herbicides that letting it go through would cause more damage to Russian enemies that fighting the actual war in Ukraine. Probably the reason why Ukraine is failing is, Ukrainians have been eating their own grain products for a long time now, and are being poisoned off by their own products.

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