[PJMedia] Right after Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger began his closing statement in the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial, YouTube cut off channels that were beating legacy media channels. Coincidence?
The Rekieta Law channel, which features multiple lawyers doing real-time analysis of the trial, often beat the number of people watching the PBS stream. The PBS stream is one of the more reliable ones available to YouTube users and was being used by several outlets.
After getting cut off, Nick Rekieta reminded YouTube that ten lawyers considered it a breach of contract. Read the rest at the link
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I believe these Rekieta lawyer-commentators were generally praising the defense and heaping scorn on the prosecution's disgusting lies and evidence-tampering.
So of course our bigtech Ministry of Truth cuts them off and keeps streaming PBS's bullshit and big lies. So predictable.
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#3 On a lighter note, perhaps when they take the feed down, YouTube could do the Soviet thing and switch to pre-programmed acceptable entertainment for the masses.
The USSR always reverted to Swan Lake. Maybe for this trial YouTube-Ministry of Truth could switch to a sendup of Tom Stoppard's sendup on Shakespeare: "Rosenbaum and Grosskreutz are Dead”
In late-breaking news, the defense filed a motion for a mistrial with prejudice on grounds that the State failed to provide the defense with the high-definition drone video in its possession, insteady merely providing the defense with a low-resolution version of that video, as well as on other grounds.
We sort of had the Deep State's Ministerium für Staatsicherheit (German: “Ministry for State Security”) STASI piece figured out, but additional analytic confirmations are always welcomed.
Brannon Howse of WVW TV hosted a four-hour special report on Nov. 14 featuring a symposium of distinguished retired FBI agents discussing what they believe is an ongoing Marxist revolution in America.
The reason the revolution continues to plod forward is because so few in politics today are willing to call it what it is, said Terry Turchie, who spent 29 years in the FBI and authored the book, In Their Own Words: The Democratic Party's Push for a Communist America.
"It's time we made our voices heard," he said. "There was a day when they warned in Congress about the perils of communism. You don't see that anymore. And we are concerned about that."
Turchie was one of four retired agents participating in the symposium, moderated by Howse. The others were Cecil Moses, David Baldovin and Brian Shephard.
"We're not from the Democratic Party, the Biden campaign or even the Republican Party," Turchie said. "We are speaking from experience... We saw firsthand what is going on because we were following people and heard what they were saying and heard from counter-intelligence informants so we know what they're up to."
Turchie said the communists worked a completely different strategy on the U.S. than they did in Russia or Cuba. Instead of fomenting violent revolution, they infiltrated the U.S. government, the schools and major institutions to accomplish a revolution using a long-term strategy of attacking the culture.
"People will laugh at that. Certain people will say we're all from the McCarthy era," he said, adding that's just a deflection tactic.
"We don't have to back away from that because in fact McCarthy was right."
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I worked for Terry Turchie in San Francisco at a time when the FBI was not rife with a cesspool of political operatives. We never expressed political opinions since the enemies of America were clear and mostly foreign entities.
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Jack, I was just about to send this to you, but clearly, you already saw it and how it expresses what we both see.
This is existential my friends, and it needs to be confronted in every way we can!
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. By Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Europe has introduced new personal sanctions against Belarus in connection with the situation around migrants on the border with Poland.
2. Belarus has already officially announced that it will give a tough answer. Among the options, blocking the transit of European goods through Belarus and blocking the transit of gas.
3. After the Kremlin sent Merkel to communicate directly with Lukashenko, she was forced to call him today and discuss the situation on the border with Poland with the "illegitimate president" for about an hour.
As it turned out, if necessary, they are even ready to talk with Lukashenka. But with "President Tikhanovskaya" for some reason no one is in a hurry to discuss "ways to resolve the migration crisis."
4. Russia has traditionally stated that what is happening is a showdown between the EU and Belarus, and it has nothing to do with it.
Of course, even if Russia has something to do with it, the logic of the game requires you to say that you have nothing to do with it. Therefore, regardless of what Russia has to do with it, during today's talks between Macron and Putin, Macron was directly told that the solution to the problem lies in the EU’s negotiations with Lukashenka (which de facto means disavowing the policy of non-recognition of Lukashenka).
Call Mekel Lukashenko is the first swallow, but not the last. This is to the question of whether Lukashenka has a profit from what is happening.
And more about the sanctions.
The EU announced the imposition of sanctions against the Wagner PMC for the fact that Wagner got completely unbridled and entered Mali, from where the French were asked to leave, who are losing another country from their crumbling neo-colonial empire.
A particularly touching reason is that the Wagner PMC is interfering in foreign conflicts. They are blathering about this in the EU, the troops of the member states of which have been hanging out in Afghanistan for 20 years and not so long ago happily scrambled out of there. It is quite obvious that the decision is lobbied by France, which in Africa is not being kicked only by the lazy. It is quite understandable that Wagner has acted and will continue to do so in Africa.
In addition to Wagner itself, veiled threats are also directed at the local military junta, which is threatened to be deprived of all economic aid if it continues to flirt with the Russians. Of course, if she adhered to a subordinate position in relation to France, then no claims against the Malian military junta would arise. There is exactly one problem - she communicates with the wrong people. Therefore, now it can easily fall under the sanctions, the introduction of which France is seeking.
It is reported that Russian military instructors are already training the military in Mali to throw a flounder correctly, since the French could not teach them this.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. By Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. After the communication of the parties with Shoigu, it was announced that the hostilities had ceased and the parties continued negotiations. Both sides confirmed a decrease in the intensity of clashes by the night of November 17. However, there are still reports of sporadic border gunfights, where Azeri troops invaded Armenia.
2. Armenia has not sent a written request to the CSTO on the use of articles of the organization's charter, having limited itself to verbal appeals that do not oblige anyone to anything. All the same line from the cycle "recognize Karabakh, but we ourselves will not recognize it." Now "We want help from the CSTO, but we will not send the corresponding paper to the CSTO." This once again reminds of who exactly is in power in Armenia and how much they are concerned about the issues of sovereignty and Armenian interests.
3. Armenia recognized 15 200x fighting per day + from 6 to 12 prisoners of war. Azerbaijan is hiding its losses, but judging by the videos published, it has at least several killed and wounded, plus several destroyed pieces of equipment. Basically, a penny price for the occupied territories. It is quite obvious that the tactics of squeezing out the territories on the border from the Armenians will continue, because sooner or later Pashinyan will be knocked out and the moment for territorial acquisitions may be lost, so we must take advantage of the moment that Aliyev, with the support of Turkey, is doing.
4. The Armenian opposition once again threatens with protests and demands that Pashinyan and his gang resign in order to end the ongoing disgrace that threatens Armenia with further territorial losses. Pashinyan by itself is not going anywhere, well, except perhaps a trip to the "summit of democracies", where only he was invited from the CSTO countries (which, again, says a lot about Pashinyan himself).
5. Regarding Pashinyan's hopes for international support, it is worth remembering how the West helped a lot during the Karabakh war (a little more than nothing), which was of course a more weighty reason than the loss of pieces of territory by the Armenians on the border.
As a result, in 2020, the remnants of Karabakh were taken under the tutelage of the Russian Federation. But as practice shows, this did not stop the holding of anti-Russian rallies in Armenia. It is interesting how many more territories Armenia should lose before the onset of enlightenment in their heads and the realization of the simple fact that in the Transcaucasus there is no one else to deal with the security issues of Armenia except Russia.
Well, perhaps even to bow to Iran, which in recent months has also somewhat changed its position on Turkish affairs in the Transcaucasus and is flexing its muscles. Well, just like that, you immediately have to run to Moscow for protection.
Armenia asks for military aid from Russia More from Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] In connection with the invasion of Azerbaijan into the territory of Armenia, Armenia officially requested military assistance from Russia in accordance with the 1997 agreement, which obliges Russia to provide military assistance in the event of a threat to the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Armenia.
So far, the request has been made orally, but as the Armenians assure, a written request of identical content is being prepared. Of course, any reaction can be made only after an official written request. It is worth noting that just the other day, local Armenian Natsiks held a rally against Russia.
In the course of renewed sporadic hostilities, Azerbaijan continues to squeeze pieces of the border territory from Armenia, taking advantage of the military and political inconsistency of Armenia itself, where an incessant disgrace continues after Pashinyan came to power.
Azerbaijan will take what it can bite off and hold.
1. The secretary of the Armenian Security Council stated that Armenia asks Russia to help protect its territorial integrity within the framework of the 1997 bilateral agreement, a written appeal is being prepared.
2. If it is possible to resolve the current situation through negotiations, it will be talks. If not, then we will ask you to provide Armenia with military equipment so that the Republic of Armenia can resolve the situation by military means - Armen Grigoryan (Head of the Security Council of Armenia)
3. As of 14:30, the situation on the eastern border of the Republic of Armenia remains extremely tense. Local battles are being waged, during which the enemy uses artillery, armored vehicles and small arms of various calibers. Adequate actions are being taken from the Armenian side. The situation is controlled by the armed forces of Armenia (c) the Ministry of Defense of Armenia
4. The Armed Forces of Armenia committed a large-scale provocation on the state border today. As a result, two servicemen of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan were injured, who received medical assistance; nothing threatens their lives.
The enemy fired intensively at the positions of the Azerbaijani army from small arms and grenade launchers of various calibers. In order to prevent the combat activity of the armed forces of Armenia, the units of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan located in the Kelbajar and Lachin directions carried out an immediate operation.
As a result of the measures taken, the Armenian military were disarmed and detained, a large number of weapons of various calibers and ammunition were seized as trophies. (c) Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan
5. Over the past day, the Armenians have 10 killed, six wounded and six prisoners (Azerbaijan claims 22 prisoners). Azerbaijan recognized two wounded (according to the statements of Armenians, Azerbaijanis had killed and wounded). Several pieces of equipment were also damaged.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Alexander Kots
[KP] With great professional interest, I awaited reports from Western journalists from a refugee camp on the border with Poland. I remember the Syrian government staged an attraction of unprecedented openness after the massive missile strike that the United States and its allies launched across the country. The reason then was the alleged use of chemical weapons by Assad's army in the city of Duma.
After he was freed from terrorists, Damascus sent all interested journalists there. Without unnecessary accreditations, without (lo and behold!) Escorts from the Ministry of Information, without the "tails" of intelligence officers. Work? I don’t want to! Look for evidence of the regime's treachery. Or, on the contrary, the provocations of the militants.
But representatives of major media brands have been doing anything but finding the truth about the chemical attack. They were more interested in the "bombing of schools and hospitals" than witnesses to the staged "sarin poisoning" at a local field hospital. We then found them (the witnesses), and the Western media read a prepared mantra about the atrocities of the Assad regime. Actually, we did not expect anything else then. We got used to it.
European reporters in Belarus did not disappoint either. Minsk, too, apparently decided to play free journalism, and now in the border zone, against the background of barbed Polish wire under the jets of water cannons and clouds of tear gas with microphones, CNN and BBC journalists are standing. I even held my breath. How they will get out?
"You see migrants (that's the word, not refugees) throwing stones and bricks at the police force," says Steve Rosenberg, BBC correspondent.
This is chaos that has no end. And this is very similar to a provocation. It seems that on this side of the border a decision was made to provoke a response from Poland and the EU. And with this picture, Alexander Lukashenko wants to show the world the image of a heartless and inhuman Europe. Belarus will not fail to use this image.
Bravo! Of course, I do not approve of the violent actions of some of the refugees, but it was necessary to ignore the fact that about two thousand people who were deceived by the hospitality of the European Union have been spending the night practically on the street for almost a week to the accompaniment of Polish loudspeakers and strobe lights.
Here, unprepared people will easily lose their nerves. At home, they were promised an unhindered journey to Germany through Minsk for their money. And then some "cosmonauts" with cannons stood in the way. Of course, those who are tired of trembling in frail tents at night take out their anger at them.
But Steve Rosenberg didn't go that far. This would spoil the previously prepared picture, in which tons of water are poured out into the frost on people only because Lukashenka wants it. How else to explain to the audience the actions of the Poles, so as not to expose the European Union in an unfavorable light.
Every year, by the way, about 700,000 refugees receive citizenship in the EU per year, most of whom came to the Old World through Turkey. This is about 2,000 people a day. As much as it is now freezing on the Polish-Belarusian border. Erdogan, apparently, did not want to show Europe as inhuman - so they let him in.
Aleksandr Kots is prior service Russian airborne and a writer for Komsomol Pravda
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Russian garbage agitprop. I love how it's supposedly Poland who is "heartless" while Putin's cockholster Lukashenko is the one not providing shelter. They're in Belarus; they were taken to Belarus by that government; they're not the Poles' problem.
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I think I can unravel this really clumsy machine translation, but Google really struggles with the old кто кого. Maybe try Yandex?
Who exactly is the object of the writer's sarcasm -- the CNN and BBC liars? Lukashenka? Erdogan?
Kinda hard to take anyone's side here, when you consider the cast of poltroons* and blackguards* involved
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On a lighter note, perhaps when they take the feed down, YouTube could do the Soviet thing and switch to pre-programmed acceptable entertainment for the masses.
The USSR always reverted to Swan Lake. Maybe for this trial YouTube-Ministry of Truth could switch to a sendup of Tom Stoppard's sendup on Shakespeare: "Rosenbaum and Grosskreutz are Dead”
[victorygirls]You take the red pill — you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. — Morpheus, from The Matrix.
Nothing has shut down the world as much as the Covid pandemic — not even the six years of World War II. But what if I were to tell you that it wasn’t because of the virus, but rather propaganda intentionally spread by Xi Jinping? And, moreover, that he took advantage of an ordinary coronavirus to propel his way to world dominance?
I recently finished reading the book Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World, by Michael P. Senger, who has researched the Covid pandemic since March, 2020. Senger, a San Francisco attorney, has amassed hundreds of sources of information (he lists nearly 600 footnotes) that show how Xi’s propaganda war brought the world to a halt. His conclusions are jaw-dropping.
But before I continue recounting Senger’s work, consider the words of the Chinese military strategist, Sun Tzu, who wrote in the Fifth Century BC:
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."
[Daily Caller] A former Obama economic adviser has become a prominent Democratic critic of the Biden administration’s handling of the inflation surge.
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who served as head of the National Economic Council during the Obama administration, slammed the Federal Reserve and Biden administration’s response to the surge in prices.
"After years of advocating more expansionary fiscal and monetary policy, I altered my view this past winter, and I believe the Biden administration and the Federal Reserve need to further adjust their thinking on Inflation today," Summers wrote in an op-ed in The Washington Post Monday.
Summers criticized Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s recent remarks when he called inflation transitory at a speech in Jackson Hole in August.
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Summers said all this half a year ago. See his interview w Martin Wolf of the FT. "Too much water in the tub"... 15x bigger than was possibly needed
Paul Krugman
@paulkrugman
Trying to clarify my own thoughts on inflation. I got inflation wrong; I didn't see the current surge coming. But why? I didn't think the fiscal stimulus early this year would boost demand as much as Summers et al predicted ... and, in fact, so far it hasn't 1/
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Who listens to Krugman? That asshole hasn't been right about anything since he married his harpy wife and went left decades ago
A lot of people swear by Krugman. A few years ago I was on a cruise. A lot of NY people who regularly read the NYTimes. I told them about a few idiotic Krugman comments. I didn't have the broadband to get them live and they didn't believe me.
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Any Obama cronie taking a swipe at Biden is just their way of prepping the field for the deployment of Big Mike.
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Michelle Obama made it clear she loathes politicians and politics, and deeply resented having to play the supporting wife. I don’t think she’ll be interested in playing second diddle to her husband’s despised former Number 2.
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tw, of course, if Big Mike is named VP after Kamala is somehow removed, Joe will immediately resign, making her president.
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I don't think Michelle liked any part of it at all.
With stuff coming out of Harris' mouth, stuff like a white man would have received support, saw another thing I read about losing "the colored community" I think it was how they put it (themselves) if replaced by a gay white man, it sounds like Buttgig is being weighed, with Harris getting a chance at a Supreme Court seat.
Harris is arrogant enough and Buttgig conceited enough to not fully understand that VP may not be the place to be standing when this stalled bus gets hit by the train.
*at the risk of being off topic, I have to point out this should not happen. Not because I don't want Harris to fail so spectacularly as to blow up The Narrative. I want that very much. It sets a precedent that a party can run a P/VP ticket however they want, install the preferred dictator into VP after the election, and then stage some reason for the President to resign.
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Welp, after installing Mrs. Buttgig as president, they could put Mrs. Buttgig in as vice-president, and run an Everything is AWFL campaign because those who control a Karen, control a thing.
Email Received By Fox News Reporter Raises Question ... said "They’re preparing something in Congress that they have not done in many, many years”
“Chad Pergram said they’re preparing something in Congress that they have not done in many, many years – It’s about the process by which you go about confirming a new vice president,” she said…
On the podcast, Pergram said he received an email from a source who wrote that the reporter should “start to familiarize yourself with the confirmation process not just in the Senate, but in the House, for a vice president.”
[SteynOnline] [A]n inspirational bridge story from Grafton County, New Hampshire, try this - from my book After America:
As we discussed earlier, in a liberal world much of our language decays into metaphor, disconnected from physical reality. A few years ago, a Fleet Street colleague accidentally booked himself into a conference on "building bridges" assuming it would be some multiculti community outreach yakfest. It turned out to be a panel of engineers discussing bridge construction. If only more "bridge building" was non-metaphorical: The ability to build real bridges is certainly an attribute of community, and one Americans used to be able to do for themselves.
A friend of mine is a New Hampshire "selectman", one of those municipal offices Tocqueville found so admirable. In 2003, a state highway inspector rode through town and condemned one of the bridges, on a dirt road that serves maybe a dozen houses.
That's the bad news. The good news was the 80/20 state/town funding plan, under which, if you applied to Concord for a new bridge, the state would pay 80 per cent of the cost, the town 20.
So they did. The state estimated the cost at $320,000, so the town's share would be $64,000. Great. So the town threw up a temporary bridge just down river from the condemned one, and waited for the state to get going. Six years later, the temporary bridge had worn out, and the latest revised estimate was $655,000, such that the town's share would be $131,000.
That's the bad news. The good news was that, under the "stimulus" bill, they could put in for the 60/40 federal/state bridge funding plan, under which the feds pay 60 per cent, and the state pays 40, and thus the town would be on the hook for 20 per cent of the 40 per cent, if you follow. If they applied for the program now, the bridge might be built by, oh, 2018, 2020, and it'll only be $1.2 million, or $4 million, or $12 million, or whatever the estimate'll be by then.
[Red State] The Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States are not coronations, despite how the Democrat Party likes to treat these roles. But in the bigger picture, the Vice Presidency of Kamala Harris is what all the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion measures that this administration champions and pushes down the throats of Americans look like. I see whut they did there
Harris is the poster child of this hodge-podge of multiracial celebration, racial and social justice, and symbolism without substance. Since the days of her relationship with California Assembly Speaker and former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, to now, Harris has had roles handed to her that were taken from more qualified, more prepared, and probably more competent people, all because she needed credentials and was touted as a "symbol" for racial progress. Whether it was hers or someone else’s progress didn’t really matter.
The legacy media spent the entire 2020 campaign season not asking her hard questions, but touting her clothing, her shoes, her ethnicities, and letting her cackle her way out of anything she didn’t know. You see, it didn’t matter whether she was competent or not; the sheer power of being the first female Black-Indian-Asian president or vice president was going to outshine any policy, obstacle, and leadership requirement! You better recognize!
So, you would think the Biden administration would be happy about all this. Think about it: America is seeing what it will be like when every industry, corporate board, school board, your local McDonalds, and lemonade stand is run and staffed by Kamala Harris-types. You think supply-chain and workforce issues are bad now? Imagine when it’s not just a government representative who whines and complains about how unfair the world is treating them because they get nothing done, but when it’s your Starbucks barista? This is what America has in store as this Biden-Harris incompetency rolls into its second year, with two more to go.
You play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. This is the end result of the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion the Democrats so desperately want.
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Did Willie pay for those big rocks she's wearing?
Both her parents earn upper middle class paychecks, as do she and her husband... and her mother is Indian, which means family pieces handed down to the daughters. Also, it could be costume jewelry.
[Washington Examiner] There's a stunning assertion in a new Washington Post article about how Democrats view the current political situation. "Privately, many administration officials and allies contend that the state of affairs cannot get worse," the paper says, "thinking that Biden and the Democrats have hit their floor in negative approval ratings."
Instead, those administration officials and allies appear to believe wonderful things are about to happen. They see the COVID pandemic fading from public concern. They see the supply chain problem getting better. They see the economy improving. And then Joe Biden will be popular again.
Here's the problem. Neither Biden nor his allies saw the problems coming in the first place. Indeed, the headline of the Washington Post article is, "Biden has underestimated problems facing the country — and Democrats fear that has become a political problem." The paper says that a "growing number of Democrats" worry that the president has "repeatedly underestimated the scale of the challenges facing the country" and that Biden's "tendency to downplay the issues has only made things worse." But now, those same Democrats "privately" contend that things "cannot get worse."
But things can get worse. Biden stubbornly discounted the danger posed by inflation. He rejected the views of respected experts who warned that his own policies — his party's massive stimulus bills — would make the problem worse. On COVID, he misjudged the threat of variants and did not know what to do when the delta wave hit. And on Afghanistan, he ignored the advisers who said his exit plan could become a fiasco. Given that record, why believe that Biden, who turns 79 on Saturday, will suddenly develop better judgment?
There are two issues here — the substance and the politics. Will inflation worsen, wiping out wage gains and making it more difficult for millions to get by? That's the substance. Will inflation continue to eat away at Biden's job approval rating? That's the politics. You will probably not be shocked to learn that Democrats are mostly talking about the politics.
Biden and his party's real problem, some Democrats told the Washington Post, is messaging, especially about those big spending bills. "There hasn't been great communication about what these bills mean for people," Democratic Rep. Josh Gottheimer told the paper. Indeed, the Washington Post reports that after yesterday's signing of the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, the White House will conduct "an aggressive effort to sell his economic agenda, including robust travel from Biden and Cabinet officials and a media blitz."
"I don't think Democrats brag enough," Steven Reed, the Democratic mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, told the Washington Post. "I don't think we celebrate enough. I don't think that we tell people why we are bragging and why we are celebrating." "We need to party and celebrate and really rub those deplorable faces in it"
But the very policy decision that Biden wants to promote and celebrate — passing those enormous spending bills — is the policy that is making inflation worse. Last February, just two weeks into the Biden presidency, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers warned the White House that the spending could spur inflation. The White House pooh-poohed it and told everyone not to worry. But now, Summers has been proven right and Biden wrong. So what is Biden proposing to do? Spend even more and try to do a better sales job.
Inflation is a substance problem. It is a real thing, making people's lives more difficult. COVID is a real thing. Afghanistan is a real thing. They are not communications problems. "Robust travel" and a "media blitz" will not solve them.
Every politician facing falling approval ratings wants to believe that his real problem is communications. That way, he doesn't have to change what he is doing; he only has to sell it more effectively. But Biden does not have a communications problem. He has a substance problem. And there is no reason to believe that it will get better.
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The Dems "communications" problem went into hyper drive November 6, 2016, when their media enablers doubled down on still louder and more forceful "communication".
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Of course they know, it's their goal.
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Yeah, failing into power is the blueprint, if they can just keep people confused about that long enough. That's were articles like this come in, "Ooops, they did it again! Just some skylarking more than anything, just you wait and see."
[MiddleEastForum] The Islamist movement, which seeks to apply medieval Islamic laws and build a worldwide caliphate, has expanded massively in the past half-century. But it now faces a significant and growing counter-movement, especially in Muslim-majority countries. ...
Anti-Islamism comprises four complementary trends. Going from quietest to most radical, they are: moderate Islam, irreligiosity, apostasy, and conversion to other religions. All have an international presence but, for illustrative purposes, I shall focus in each case on a key Middle Eastern country: moderate in Egypt, irreligiosity in Turkey, atheism in Saudi Arabia, and conversion in Iran. He briefly discusses each of these cases. I don't know how any reliable metrics can be obtained to verify or refute his thesis.
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I like the 1895 7×57mm Chilean Mauser and its 1500 meter flip up sight, better and its KISS design was my buying point.
In the 90's they went for about $50 to $75 still packed cosmoline.
Many owners replaced the barrel with a more common US caliber like 30/06, 308 and some went ape and higher.
NOTE: The Mauser Action was good enough for the US Gov. to buy the 1903A1 which used a copy and later got sued by Mauser in 1914 (WWI) and after WWI won in 1924.
Irony the WWI German Army was fought and beaten in part using a German designed weapon.
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Chilean Mauser with sight elevation at approx 1200-1500m (difficult to tell in the photo, but about halfway up the rail). Notice the shooters are in the open, with no apparent concern for return fire.
Interestingly, The U.S. Army has selected a new round to replace those equipping its M4A1 carbine and M249 Squad Automatic Weapons. The Army selected five companies to produce prototype weapons in the new, mysterious 6.8-millimeter round.
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At a time when the world is awash in 7.62 and 5.56 weapons and huge industries and inventories of those ubiquitous calibers, and our industrial base and economy is in crisis over inflation and supply-chain issues, what in Gods name idiot thinks we need to re-caliber our armed forces with a completely new round? For the near term, the existing standards do the job just fine. Only a procurement system and policy makers bloated with graft and corruption would consider this the time to relook something so elemental to national defense! God we are cursed with ruling class morons....
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In one of the Russian-Turkey rumbles in the late 19th Century, both side were armed by different American gun manufacturers in New England. It was referred to as the Connecticut War.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[Daily Caller] A former Obama economic adviser has become a prominent Democratic critic of the Biden administration’s handling of the inflation surge.
Green New Deal wind turbine maintenance. 
[Red State] The Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States are not coronations, despite how the Democrat Party likes to treat these roles. But in the bigger picture, the Vice Presidency of Kamala Harris is what all the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion measures that this administration champions and pushes down the throats of Americans look like.
[Washington Examiner] There's a stunning assertion in a new Washington Post article about how Democrats view the current political situation. "Privately, many administration officials and allies contend that the state of affairs cannot get worse," the paper says, "thinking that Biden and the Democrats have hit their floor in negative approval ratings."
Chilean Mauser with sight elevation at approx 1200-1500m (difficult to tell in the photo, but about halfway up the rail). Notice the shooters are in the open, with no apparent concern for return fire. 
