[ZeroHedge] BLUF: These are the ten most dangerous cities in the world to live in (or visit, for that matter) in 2022 based on the most recent murder rates per 100,000 inhabitants.
Tijuana, Mexico
Acapulco, Mexico
Caracas, Venezuela
Ciudad Victoria, Mexico
Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
Irapuato, Mexico
Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela
Natal, Brazil
Fortaleza, Brazil
Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela
#1
So the US, despite having some serious scary LSD ran Sh*ts Holes, did not make the top 10.
However, the Biden Admin Coup, has opened up the USA Border to Mexico, which has 5 of the top 10, and is working diligently to import the human resources needed to make the top 10 by 2024.
#2
With enough busloads, I think can get DC, New York and Chicago where they need to be.
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09/02/2022 12:34 Comments ||
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Mexico is in the midst of a civil war. The Mexican government is unable to control the narco-terrorist cartels and the cartels fight each other. Cut the cartels' access to the lucrative market for their products in the United States and they will run out of money for their little war. But, when you're on the take like so many of our government leaders are, you don't want to stop the gravy train no matter how many people die.
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09/02/2022 12:40 Comments ||
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#4
^ Americans do not get Mexicans at all. They are much more fatalistic. What we consider unacceptable, they consider normal.
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09/02/2022 12:42 Comments ||
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[UncanceledNews] How would you feel if someone pointed a loaded gun at you? Well, that is essentially what our entire planet is facing at this moment. An absolutely enormous sunspot is currently pointing directly at Earth, and it has just developed a delta-class magnetic field. We are being warned that this sunspot has the potential to release an X-class flare, and that would be really bad news, because such flares are often associated with coronal mass ejections. If a large enough coronal mass ejection came directly toward our planet, we could see another “Carrington Event”. In such a scenario, our power grids would be fried, trillions of dollars worth of damage would be caused, and society would instantly go completely and utterly haywire.
So let us hope that such a thing does not take place any time soon.
It is being reported that a sunspot known as AR3089 that is pointing right at us has just developed a “delta-class magnetic field”, and that means that it now has the potential to produce X-class flares…
A giant sunspot may be about to erupt, sending out the most powerful form of solar flares growing for days.
Sunspot AR3089, which is facing towards the Earth, has now developed a delta-class magnetic field, meaning that it has built up enough energy that it may release X-class solar flares.
But that doesn’t mean that we will actually see any X-class flares.
According to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), there is around a five percent chance that the sunspot will release an X-class flare. If it does, the flare may trigger a powerful geomagnetic storm in the Earth’s atmosphere, possibly resulting in damage to infrastructure and electromagnetic communication systems.
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09/02/2022 3:38 Comments ||
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#3
How would you feel if someone pointed a loaded gun at you
What if the sun just pointed a gun,
and said 'all your base belong to da one!'
What would yo do, little honeybun?
You could hide, that's what.
You could hide but you couldn't run.
#6
That Y2K nonsense kinda reminds of other shenanigans that came later; namely, Covid, January 6th, Biden winning the presidency, Mueller's "investigation"....
Same as Covid in that it would effect a discrete population set - very old COBOL systems that had hard wired in 19__ in their programs. Usually compounded by spaghetti code and documentation since its initial implementation. Didn't help that management all too often choked the IT budget, so that the IT guys then played up the panic mode for funding. Sound familiar?
[Hot Air] GTFO Eeyore
...But after I posted the news on Twitter that I’d be leaving Hot Air, I got a call from Steve Hayes at the Dispatch. Would you be interested in writing for us, he asked? Uh, yes, I’d be interested. I’ve enjoyed the Dispatch since it launched and was reading Steve, Jonah Goldberg, and David French for years before that. Loser central
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#1
Good. Trump derangement broke his brain years ago.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
09/02/2022 12:00 Comments ||
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#3
"My takes may be terrible but I make it up on volume."
So he doubled down on stupid and brags about it. Then goes on to point out the GOP stood for nothing but power but blames Trump when Trump was trying to fix that and actually went a long way in the job fighting friend and foe at every juncture. Truly confused fellow.
#6
Regrettably, too many people believe Hot Air, Red State and Last Refuge are conservative outlets.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
09/02/2022 12:29 Comments ||
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#7
After reading (quote) pundits (un-quote) like Allahpundit, Jonah Goldberg or Max Boot I am even more confused about what Conservatism™ is than before I encountered them. As Inigo Montoya says "You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means."
On Thursday a government report found math scores among third grade students dropped 5 points from 2020 to 2022 and reading scores dropped 7
Jean-Pierre blamed the Trump administration for 'how mismanaged the pandemic was' prompting school closures
'In less than six months, our schools went from 46 percent being open to almost all of them,' she continued
'That was the work of Democrats, in spite of Republicans,' she said, blaming the GOP for voting against American Rescue Plan offering $130 billion for schools
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#3
The other thing they will try to bury is the mask mandate, and its affect on the younger students K-3 and students which already had learning difficulties.
Probably worst was the bullying by the faculty and its psychological effects. Anti-bullying posters all over the place, and faculty treating toddlers in a manner that if it were two adults in a house the police would be called for domestic abuse.
#4
I think they should play the theme from The Benny Hill Show after her press conferences. They could have Doocy chase some MSNBC clowns around the room.
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09/02/2022 12:39 Comments ||
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#5
What would they do without Trump?
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09/02/2022 17:18 Comments ||
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[Caitlin Johnstone] Republicans are up in arms over remarks from the White House depicting the Trump-aligned faction of their party as "extremist", which Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defended Thursday by saying that MAGA Republicans are extremist because they disagree with the majority of Americans.
"When you are not with what majority of Americans are, then you know, that is extreme; that is an extreme way of thinking," Jean-Pierre said.
Every part of this controversy is hilarious, from Republicans thinking they are not extremists, to anyone thinking that MAGA Republicans are meaningfully different from generic brand Republicans, to Democrats thinking they are any less extremist than MAGA Republicans, to Jean-Pierre claiming that you are extremist if you don’t agree with mainstream political consensus in the United States.
NOW - White House: "When you are not with what majority of Americans are, then you know, that is extreme. That is an extreme way of thinking." pic.twitter.com/MpiwE9bRlx
If you look at who is inflicting the most violence, terrorism and tyranny upon the largest number of people in our world, it’s clear from the numbers that the worst offender by far is not fringe neo-Nazi groups, nor violent jihadists, nor communists nor anarchists nor environmentalists nor incels, but the bipartisan political consensus of the US-centralized empire.
No other power has spent the 21st century killing people by the millions in wars of aggression. No other power is circling the planet with hundreds of military bases and working continuously to destroy any government which disobeys it. No other power is starving entire populations with economic sanctions, military blockades and brazen theft. No other power has been interfering in foreign elections anywhere near as often. No other power is terrorizing populations around the world with wars, covert ops, drone strikes, proxy conflicts, and staged coups and uprisings. No other power is using its military, economic, diplomatic and media dominance to bully the world into serving its interests.
The only reason the mainstream views espoused by Democrats and Republicans are mainstream is because massive amounts of narrative management have gone into creating that consensus. The fact that the social engineers of the oligarchic empire have poured vast fortunes into making sure Americans consent to capitalism, corruption, militarism and murder is the only reason those perspectives are so mainstream that they can be labeled "moderate" or "centrist".
When people hear the word "extremist" they tend to think of groups like ISIS or the Ku Klux Klan, but per definition an extremist is just someone whose political or religious beliefs can lead them to do violent or illegal things. The US empire would crumble if it didn’t do violent and illegal things continuously, which is why its body count dwarfs those of any of the extremist ideologies the news media tell us to worry about. And it is fully supported by both Republicans and Democrats.
To pick a recent illustration of essentially limitless possible examples, imagine what the response would have been if a prominent MAGA pundit had given an award to neo-Nazis at an event hosted by the US military during the Trump administration. Imagine how Democrats and their aligned media would have responded to such an event.
Can you picture it? Can you hear the shrieking in your mind’s ear? Good. Because that’s exactly what happened at the Pentagon’s annual Warrior Games at Disney World a few days ago, only it was a liberal pundit and Ukrainian Nazis during the Biden administration....
In a new report titled "Jon Stewart and the Pentagon honor Ukrainian Nazi at Disney World," The Grayzone’s Alex Rubinstein shows the former Daily Show star presenting an award to a member of Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion who is wearing a t-shirt and a suspicious-looking red sleeve on one of his arms, with another photo showing the same Azov member a tattoo of a Nazi symbol on that same arm. Rubinstein presents evidence that this wasn’t the only Nazi-affiliated Ukrainian at the event, which was also attended by musician Darius Rucker.
I keep thinking I’ve seen the most liberal thing that could possibly happen, but 2022 keeps proving me wrong. I have a hard time imagining how you beat a liberal comedian honoring a Ukrainian Nazi with an award at a Pentagon event in Disney World, but I’m sure they’ll find a way before long.
Biden is advancing the interests of the murderous US empire by waging a world-threatening proxy war in Ukraine whose combatants can’t seem to get photographed without Nazi insignia on their person. Trump advanced the interests of the US empire by inflicting death and starvation in nations like Yemen, Venezuela, Iran and Syria, as well as ramping up the brinkmanship with Russia which led to the current proxy war in Ukraine. The Biden administration is the Trump administration with a different soundtrack. The Trump administration was the Obama administration with a different soundtrack. They are all violent extremists. None are superior to the other. They all serve the interests of the most murderous and depraved institution on earth, as does anyone who supports any of them.
Democrats calling Republicans extremists is like ISIS calling Al Qaeda extremists, only Democrats and Republicans have a much higher body count.
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No other power has spent the 21st century killing people by the millions in wars of aggression. No other power is circling the planet with hundreds of military bases and working continuously to destroy any government which disobeys it. No other power is starving entire populations with economic sanctions, military blockades and brazen theft. No other power has been interfering in foreign elections anywhere near as often. No other power is terrorizing populations around the world with wars, covert ops, drone strikes, proxy conflicts, and staged coups and uprisings. No other power is using its military, economic, diplomatic and media dominance to bully the world into serving its interests.
Sugarplum,
Two things:
First, we've saved far more lives than we've taken. Lives that were put at risk in the first place by deranged religions and megalomaniac political philosophies.
#4
Note - We just wanted to be left alone and let the powers to be kill themselves. However the Zimmerman Telegram and that surprise party at Pearl Harbor told us you wanted our attention. We even fully demobilized at the end of WW2, but Uncle Joe decided to play dangerous games like coups and blockades. As a consequence YOU dragged us back into the whole mess that was the world. Then again, if it wasn't for the Americans who would you blame for all your failures and chaos you've been engaged in for centuries.
#5
My source of optimism is that while the dems monkey around with social stuff, they have not killed off the Columbia class subs, B-21 Raiders, next gen GBSD and new nuke ALCMs. Seems like an indicator that someone is still thinking long term.
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Biden's approval rating is 38 percent, which can hardly be called "with what the majority of Americans are thinking". By Karine Jean-Pierre's definition, that makes Biden an extremist.
She could say that Biden received the majority of votes in 2020 which is doubtful but, even if it is true, that was then. The polls show how Americans feel now after two years of watching him in the White House and it's pretty clear the majority do not agree with him. That's why, with midterm elections looming and Democrats about to lose seats in Congress, Biden resorts to inflammatory language. Clearly, he is hoping for violence.
So he calls at least half the voters in this country fascists which is a particularly hateful slur. One could assert that Biden is inciting violence himself just by using that term. If I went into a black neighborhood and starting calling everybody the N-word, that could certainly be considered looking for trouble. Nobody would have much sympathy for me and I wouldn't deserve it.
I am a Republican, not a fascist. I consider the term "fascist" every bit as hateful as the N-word.
But now is the time for Republicans to refrain from violence because Democrats will blow any little incident into a major propaganda victory just like they did with Charlottesville at the beginning of Trump's term. I would not be the least bit surprised if Democrats initiate violence in the hope that Republicans respond with violence. False flag incidents will probably take place as well. Mainstream media outlets will make no mention of Democrat provocations. They will not say who started the fight, only that those fascists were violent. With the midterms coming, we can't afford to give them that kind of victory.
I'd like to say "turn the other cheek" and at first, I probably will. But I don't want to end up like the Republican in the graphic either.
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09/02/2022 12:17 Comments ||
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#7
Joe's hunt for fascists reminds me of OJ's hunt for the real killers.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
09/02/2022 12:26 Comments ||
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#8
My hope is that the extreme rhetoric written for the Puppet Show telepromter is based on the panic derived from the internal polling at the DNC and Kalorama Kompound. I trust that they see devastating losses, far beyond the 5-8% of cheating they ordinarily rely upon.
Since they have nothing by way of actual accomplishments from two years of lockdows, lies, economic stagnation, military failure and looting the treasury and paying off friends, both foreign and domestic, they have to run on panic and reducing the entire conservative part of the population into "Orange-Man People Bad!" Given the decline in public trust for the MSM, even that tactic has far lessened power I suspect.
Finally, the symbolic fortress theme, red lighting opening for the latest Kabuki Theater speech by Jojo, with Marines coming out from gate and crisply saluting the Twit and Twitess as he then marched out to read insults and threats and act angry was theatrical overkill. And a precedent breaking act to politicize the US Military, a first so low even the Magic Kenyan never tried it. So I trust we don't get suckered into reaction to bolster their Hail Mary efforts to blunt the Red Wave looming....
#9
I'm guessing they want a reaction from nationalist conservatives. Nationalists are the enemy to them because they're Globalist flunkies basically. So, I reckon they want an uprising. Or a series of even mildly aggressive reactions so they don't have to make up their own, to justify their purge.
#10
because Democrats will blow any little incident into a major propaganda victory
Yes, but Democrats need an incident to turn it into a victory. A total supression of all rights and amendments. They must have realized they can't pull off this Dominion and mule thing again and again. They need to prove physical dominance and monopoly on coercion. For that they need a catalyst which they think the stupid Trumpers will give them.
It's a real conundrum. Do nothing, they do it to you. Do something, they do it to you faster. And if people wait on tenterhooks long enough someone is bound to fcuk up.
#11
Caitlin Johnstone’s About is fascinating. Or exactly what one would expect, anyway. Trained journalist who didn’t want to sell out to The Man, Australian, activist at the left end of communism, Bernie Sanders supporter, married to a man who in 2016 escaped from the madness that is America. An anti-capitalist who holds her hand out at the bottom of the articles she publishes daily, hoping that people will give her money.
Naturally she believes that Republicans are dangerous extremists, They stand between her and the future she desires for her children.
[ZeroHedge] Update (2127ET): President Biden gave an angry speech Thursday night in which he framed Republicans as election-denying 'extremists' who pose a threat to democracy and need to be fought tooth and nail.
Just what we expected from the frontman for creeping totalitarianism. None of the details matter. I wonder how many dozens of voters bothered to watch? Pundits and journalists don’t count — they get paid for the effort.
#6
Fuck living in their heads rent free, my rent just went up $420/month because of these assholes and their bullshit.
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Re: #5. Yes, it will be necessary to tell those begging for mercy at the end that there's only one way to make sure it doesn't happen again. Hard choices.
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09/02/2022 10:16 Comments ||
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#8
When it does, there won't be many survivors from their side.
#20
/\ He is correct. We must be very careful. They (the Deep State) is not above conducting a 'false flag' event. Jan 6 and the Mar-a-Lago raid have all the trappings of a false flag.
[IsraelTimes] The resumption of diplomatic relations with Ankara is cause for celebration, but while Erdogan is in power, his country will stay hostile to Israel and back Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,.
The resumption of diplomatic relations between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and Israel is cause for celebration. However,
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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.
[Hot Air] 
[Caitlin Johnstone] Republicans are up in arms over remarks from the White House depicting the Trump-aligned faction of their party as "extremist", which Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defended Thursday by saying that MAGA Republicans are extremist because they disagree with the majority of Americans.
Go ahead, name that political party. 
