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[RedStar] 80 years ago, the Red Army liberated the hero city of Minsk, surrounded and then destroyed the most combat-ready group of German armies "Center" in the Belarusian "cauldrons". Unrivaled in spatial scope, the Belarusian strategic offensive operation is rightfully considered the greatest achievement of domestic military art. Continued on Page 49
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Umm yes... the first Zwetschgendatschi of the year ;-)
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07/04/2024 7:35 Comments ||
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We had a Zwetschgen (prune plum) tree in the back garden of our house in Bad Soden, in the Taunus hills above Frankfurt. It yielded an awful lot of rotting fallen fruit swarmed by hornets too drunk on on fruit to fly… and just drunk enough to sting the trailing daughters almost daily when they passed it to play in the sandbox. I never did get enough not-rotten fruit to bake with.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets.
Former Ukrainian President Zelensky:
Kiev is ready for negotiations if Russia respects the "integrity" of Ukraine
I will explain why the former clown and expired president is wrong:
a) Let him explain what the 404 territory is in the conditions of decommunization, i.e. before 1917? Will he show it on maps?
b) A state that commits genocide of the population on part of its territory has no right to "integrity" (in accordance with the fundamental documents of the UN).
c) I remember how this clown giggled like a fool at the last meeting on the Minsk Agreements (although why LIKE a fool? He is a fool). For him, the Minsk Agreements are a fiction of the West. And now he is screaming about negotiations tomorrow? Only a complete capitulation of the Ukronazis and a trial of them and such clowns.
By the way, it is worth recalling that for the time being, Russia still respected the integrity of Ukraine, until it sold it out (or rather sold itself out, like a prostitute) to the West. Now it is their turn to respect the integrity of Russia. True, now in a different format.
Russia created Ukraine, on its lands and Russia has the full legal right to close this failed project, once and for all. And Russia does not need anyone's advice or instructions.
And Ukraine... Its integrity can now only be within its current borders - the format of 1654.
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Russia recognized Ukraine in its borders of 1991 (including Crimea).
Russia has no effing right to do anything in Ukraine.
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But the scumbag Ukrainian Nazis apparently have a right to kill ethnic Russians and even burn them alive like they did in Odessa about ten years ago in that trade union building.
But in the end, all I care about is US involvement there, and there shouldn't be any, to include not one thin dime for those corrupt vermin in Kiev.
[AMERICANTHINKER] For decades, the American Left has been making a deliberate and successful attempt to kill virtue.
Much of what they do demonstrates a disregard for normal traditional American virtues such as decency, consideration, productivity, respect, decorum, honor, and moderation.
The truly virtuous would never dream of announcing their sexual preferences in public. The only reason to do that is to draw attention to yourself and your private parts. Every year, the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... offers a sickening public street festival called Up Your Alley for the gay bondage, discipline and sadomasochism subculture. If you dare to look it up (I cannot bring myself to include the link), beware. Just... beware. It's exhibitionistic, nauseating, and thoroughly unvirtuous.
When a culture tolerates public parades which openly solicit nakedness with emphasis on genitals, you attempt to desensitize others to modesty and decorum. You have lost your moral underpinnings in favor of garnering attention for the sake of prurient attention. Why would any normal person want to display their decorated private parts in public if not to sensationalize nudity and shock the prudes? It is completely self-aggrandizing and reveals a deep neurotic insecurity.
The Left have taken a careful and systematic approach to destroying American virtues such as hard work, modesty, humility, consideration of others, and planning for the future. In their places, the Left decided that it was virtuous to be demanding, slothful, narcissistic, godless, and sexually profligate.
The Leftist virtue-killers think the government has its own money to give to them for doing nothing. Taking what belongs to others and lazing about the house and streets with it is not virtuous. It is theft; taxpayers pay for the progeny and sloth of these unvirtuous slackers. If the Left can remove time-honored virtues such as productivity and merit, they create a national movement where they can be taken care of by others without consideration for those who really pay. You get a nation of unvirtuous entitled slobs.
The murder of virtue leads to hedonistic behavior across the board, which itself leads to chaos.
The LGBT "community" has infiltrated schools in pre-kindergarten through adulthood. There was a relentless promotion of child sacrifice abortions in the name of "privacy," and "reproductive health." We tolerated it.
They promoted homosexuality around the clock. We tolerated it in the name of "love," but as a result, we got drag queen story hour.
Then we got explicit illustrated how-to pornographic books in our schools aimed at very young children. We tolerated that and got hyper-sexualized children and pornography for everyone's easy access.
Next came the sanctioned butchering of young people at pre-pubescence and the changing of their sexes in the name of self-actualization and warped parental love.
The deliberately organized salesmanship of perversity by trans and gay people has created a nation pocked with confused, debased, and psychologically damaged people. The promoters of this utter lack of virtue bristle when you tell their bearded faces that they are not women.
If Christians, Jews, and Moslems want to live in peace, they need to stop tolerating atheistic and satanic bad behavior, public nudity, sexual proselytizing, sloth, profanity, loudness, rudeness, and disrespect of others. Rather than making things better for everyone, lack of virtue leads to a chaotic culture which leads to collapse.
We need virtuous people who are not afraid to tell the unvirtuous that they should stop it. It's disgusting. Don't buy their products, don't patronize their stores, online or elsewhere, and don't tolerate it in public. The boycott is among the most effective tools we have. So is the vote. Demand to know what candidates tolerate. Then vote accordingly. This is not an unimportant thing. We are on a knife’s edge.
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The boycott is among the most effective tools we have.
[Federalist] In late June, 16 Nobel economists led by former World Bank Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz issued a letter warning that a second Trump term would have "a negative impact on America’s economic standing in the world and a destabilizing effect on the U.S. domestic economy." Among the gripes: Trump’s "fiscally irresponsible" budget plans and the "vagaries of his actions and policies" in relations with other countries.
If the past is anything to go by, this is probably the most powerful endorsement of the Trump presidency yet.
The letter writers are not socialists. Like all good economists, they know that free trade, free markets, sound money, and balanced budgets are generally a good idea. They also know, as good economists do, that politicians need to get involved now and again to keep the Good Ship Capitalism afloat.
That’s where things get tricky. Economists are out of their depth in thinking about the complex interaction of politics and economics. As a result, they tend to fall back on a simple rule of thumb: trust the government when it is run by center-left technocrats like themselves. If populists are involved, they stand in opposition even if the results would be good. They fail to see that populists of the right are often better stewards of the economy than center-left technocrats or populists of the left.
If the laureates had a better grasp of the difference between academic theory and policy practice, they would not have issued their silly letter. As an International Monetary Fund official noted in a sharp riposte to Stiglitz’s left-populist book Globalization and its Discontents of 2002: "Stiglitz evidently feels that being a top-notch academic economist is ample qualification for being a good policymaker. The fact is that Joe got a late start in policymaking and shows it."
This is not the first time Nobel economists have miscalculated by dabbling in politics. Back in 1997, during the heyday of the Clinton-Gore technocracy, a feisty Congress led by Republican party populists grew alarmed by the federal debt, which had doubled to 63 percent of GDP from a post-war low of 31 percent in 1981. A coterie of more than 1,000 economists, including 11 Nobel laureates, rushed out a joint statement calling a balanced budget proposal "unsound and unnecessary." In retrospect, the economists opposed what might have been the last chance to save the American economy from its current fiscal crisis.
[PJ] Ever since Joe Biden’s debate debacle last Thursday, the left has turned into a circular firing squad. This time, it’s not woke "values" coming into conflict; instead, it’s the cacophony of voices talking about Biden’s fitness for the 2024 campaign.
One day, the loudest voices are calling for the Octogenarian-in-Chief to drop out. The next day, all is well and President Plugs and Veneers is fit as a fiddle and ready to slug it out with Donald Trump.
Suddenly, the two camps are at odds with each other. Keisha Lance Bottoms, who inflicted her own Bidenesque reign of terror on Atlanta during her single term as mayor, has called out the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC), the city’s only major newspaper, for criticizing Biden and suggesting that he step down. Bottoms calls this "election interference."
In an editorial on June 29, the reliably left-wing AJC editorial board suggested that the president step aside as an act of "the courage and dignity that have defined his political career" to "defeat Trump and for the good of the nation." The editors made this suggestion even while also making the laughable claim that Biden "has shown a greater capacity to tell the truth than his opponent, former President Donald Trump." (You can stop laughing now.)
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.
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
