[TheOnion] WASHINGTON—Clutching their cocktail glasses close to their chests and shouting their symptoms over the sound of the David Guetta remix blaring from the speakers, the nation’s drunk women held a press conference Tuesday to list the mental illnesses that they have.
“Depression, anxiety, ADHD, intrusive thoughts—our brains are broken and we feel literally insane,” said Alexis Bernhardt, leader for the coalition of the 58 million intoxicated women, who thanked the nation so much for listening, then held up a phone displaying the results of a bipolar disorder screening quiz.
“We have OCD! We have BPD! We cannot stop dissociating, and honestly, we’re worried we’re narcissists. We know we’re probably going to regret telling you this, but we don’t even care right now because we are complete psychos! Seriously, we should be hospitalized!”
At press time, the nation’s drunk women had crammed into an Uber to carry on their press conference from the backseat.
[Podcast] This podcast will give you the foundation for a greater understanding about the entity commonly referred to as the "Deep State". You will learn about a very powerful family whose motto reads in Latin "Esse, non videri", which translates to "To act, not to seem to be."
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Running out of faith that the future is explicated by the past.
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Beneath the freeway at the cloverleaf junction
A symbol of good luck eminates darkness
The shadow will grow to cover California
Somewhere on the road from San Bernadino
Its future is steering the past ... will not pass
Speed is the game in the shadow of kings
Where the company of angels fly
They appear at the crossroads at once in the future
Clad in the darkness on the highways of night
With no love ... from the past
Night makes right
The symbol remains
Into the darkness
Must flow the brains
In the shadow of California
Revolution by night grant me this future
Kings of the shadow on the highways of night
From San Bernadino these angels are racing
This night to your city
The host of angels ... Los Angeles
Night makes right
The symbol remains
Into the darkness
Must flow the brains
In the shadow of California
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Me, forty-something years later: Hmmm, maybe I should give BOC another chance. And speaking of donuts...
The Cloverleaf factory on Dublin!
Amazing, but just a bit troubling:
Decrepit, dark, large...
For a former garage
And/or stable. [glaze lazily bubbling]
Couple of blocks from the Carrollton streetcar barn and right around the corner from me barber. ["Ladies Bob" sign with helmet-head silhouette in window]
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I once got out of a traffic stop by telling the cop who wanted me to walk heel to toe across the road " Hell, I couldn't do that if I were sober!" I guess he figured the problem would take care of itself.
[BabylonBee] BETHLEHEM — According to sources close to Mary, the Mother of Jesus, the young Jewish mom was touched by the gifts brought to her by the wise men: gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Still, she was a bit disappointed that none of them had brought an air fryer.
"Oh, cool. Such great gifts. Thanks, guys!" she said, trying to mask her disappointment that she didn't get the slick kitchen appliance all her friends constantly brag about while hanging out by the well or at the Nazareth Mall. "So, there's like, just three of you? No biggie, was just making sure there weren't others on the way or anything. Cool, cool."
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Should be mandatory reading for the crowd that always cries, "Islamophobia" when criticized.
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"The pool wall was riddled with thousands of bullet holes head-high of a person on their knees. In the shallow end, the same pattern of bullet holes were the height of the head of a kneeling child."
What the...huh? What kind of idiocy is this? This is where my propaganda detector kicked off.
"Aziz knew this place would show me why his family was so caught up in our presidential election. My home country was the land of the free. Theirs was now becoming one. They needed us to help bring that freedom to completion for them and for future generations of Afghans."
Aziz said all this? He's remarkably eloquent and supports the writer's point excellently. A good writer could not have come up with a better fictional companion to riff off of.
"There, I discovered that America does make a difference in the world, that what we do outside our borders matters because other countries look to us for leadership."
There it is: 100% pure globalism. We can't stop starting wars because it's profitable and this immense profit enables the publishing of propaganda, like the above.
Learn how to detect it, folks. Don't get fooled.
And what happens at the end of the piece?
"If I could prevent one teenage girl from choosing to jump from a rooftop rather than suffer rape and abuse at the hands of the Taliban, my time in Afghanistan, however long that might be, would be worthwhile. If I could prevent one family from being forced to watch their father shoved off the highest platform to his death in the empty swimming pool below, I would fight for every member of that family. If I could prevent one child from dropping to their knees inside that pool to be murdered by a monstrous coward, I would give my life for that child.
Before, retaliation had consumed me. Now, my heart broke with compassion for the Afghan people. I had to help. I had to fight for them."
Mentally re-read this saying "you" instead of "I" and you'll understand the point. He's giving instructions about how to behave. You would fight, you would give your life for the ambitions of the deep state, because of this pool metaphor the writer came up with. They want war, no end to it, and you're supposed to get really emotionally upset if anyone suggests otherwise. If you don't support globalism, then you support pools of dead children.
This stuff is so easy to spot when you know the buttons being pressed. This is a skill which may be learned by anyone.
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Gawd, I hate agreeing with Herb. So I won't... though I might've, if he weren't always doing the same thing he's ripping this Marine for... not that he does it anywhere near as poignantly and convincingly.
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I worked for a company in the pool industry. The pool angle is not making sense to me with regard to the executions described. If seems unlikely that the pool would exist with all that physical evidence and no one bothered to snap a cell phone picture of any of it. They shoot video of gays being pitched off of buildings and beheadings and upload them to Twitter, but nothing on this. I am no fan of the Taliban. There is plenty of evidence against them. This does not strike me as legit.
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The European Union is very proud of its environmental record, as we all know. In fact, they’re the masters of cutting off their green noses to spite their cold faces. In a rich display of environmental hypocrisy, the powers in Brussels touted a new law they’d enacted at the beginning of the month.
The European Union has agreed a new law that would ban the import of products linked to deforestation.
Household goods such as coffee, chocolate, and some furniture will have to pass strict checks to ensure forests weren’t damaged to create them. All furniture will now be made of plastic. Oh wait. Plastic comes from oil and coal. OK, no more furniture!
Sounds GREAT, right? Always be conscious of what your consumer habits are doing to the environment of other countries. Your filthy Western Colonizer addictions are not improving Third World countries nor pulling people out of poverty — your mocha grande is actually destroying that country. For that audacity, we must punish the producers and purveyors of the goods. Feed that green guilt monster about the pleasures you enjoy as an advanced culture without actually, you know, disrupting the flow of said pleasures.
Nice, huh?
...The rules cover palm oil, cattle, soy, coffee, cocoa, timber and rubber that is imported into the EU. Those people are nuts. Wait. Are nuts allowed? They come from trees.
They also cover anything derived from these products, such as beef, the European Commission said in a press release. Eat bugs!
Pascal Canfin, the chairman of the European Parliament’s environment committee, said: "It’s the coffee we have for breakfast, the chocolate we eat, the coal in our barbecues, the paper in our books."
Companies selling their products into the EU will have to prove their goods are not linked to deforestation, or face fines of up to four percent of their annual EU turnover.
Saving the world from itself one coffee and cow fart at a time.
The law hasn’t been ratified yet — as it must be, by all the member states — but it already has its cheerleaders. Greenpeace is, for the most part, thrilled.
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While yes, I agree there needs to be a some realistic level of Eco protection.
But it should NOT be at the cost of killing humans to save a $%^&* tree, or something that only exists in 1 very small place on earth (Snail darter).
Especially when mother nature itself does far, far worse to itself each year.
[Breitbart] With Ukraine in flames and the EU green agenda in pieces, 2022 was the year that fears over food and energy security once again hit Europe.
Brussels, Belgium, December 12 2022. Ursula von der Leyen takes to the stage alongside International Energy Agency head Fatih Birol to diuscuss the energy situation of her European Union heading into 2023.
Put simply, things did not look good.
While the European Commission President tried to spin it that the EU had successfully managed to negotiate its dire energy situation so far, and that it would continue doing so next year, the actual statistics dropped by the bloc leader were stark. Even taking into account some of the extreme energy-saving measures put in place across the union this year, the fact of the matter is that the European Union is expected to have a gas shortfall in the region of tens of billions of cubic meters next year. Even worse, no one is quite sure yet how exactly this shortfall is going to be avoided.
Though seriously bad news for the bloc’s member states, the news is far from unexpected. Since the war in Ukraine along with the concomitant sanctions saw the bloc’s access to Russian natural gas disrupted, the entirety of 2022 has been punctuated by warnings from across the continent that Europe is going to struggle with its energy situation for many years to come. Back in August, the Belgian energy minister, Tinne Van der Straeten, predicted that the EU would see five to ten “terrible” winters if radical action is not taken. Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron, whose country is actually in a stronger position than most of its neighbours due to its abundance of nuclear reactors, ominously warned his people that they were now facing the “end of abundance” in their country.
But how did things get so bad? What went so horribly wrong that fears over rolling blackouts and energy rationing are now a regular talking point within European states that had once ruled the world?
While the answer to this question is multifaceted, the first place we need to look is at Europe’s obsession with climate change.
And then the details, at length: 11.5% inflation, fuel costs for years going forward ten times what they were before, Green agenda silliness making everything worse, and while this year domestic gas storage was filled before winter, it will be much harder and more expensive to repeat after stores are drawn down next March.
Despite all these problems, much of Europe has opted to continue doubling down on green agenda policies, despite them often being criticised as being of little help when it comes to solving the problems at hand. Germany is still set to shut down its nuclear power plants, while Ireland and the Netherlands continue to push through Brussels green projects to the detriment of their farmers.
Some in the bloc have rebelled. Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, for instance, has taken the decision energy is more important than politics, and to the shock of many signed new deals with Russia for the purchase of even more gas. Other nations have looked towards Liquified Natural Gas imports from the likes of the United States and Qatar as being a possible panacea, but, as a recent corruption scandal ravaging the European Parliament has shown, this too comes with its own problems.
Overall, there seems to be very little appetite to actually expand domestic fossil fuel production in the EU. While many countries in the union have significant stores of natural gas and oil that could fuel their countries for decades should they decide to harvest them, so far, green activist politicians have overwhelmingly fought for such hydrocarbons to be kept in the ground.
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Read this morning their gas reserves are still at 90%.
Of course, I read it in a "news" article...
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Importing a vast number of military age males and then cutting off their food supply seems like it will not end well.
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...seems like it will not end well.
People that walked or bought their way across 1000s of miles of harsh terrain, 'rough' sleeping, carrying their children against flavored coffee sipping, vaping man buns.
[Dawn] AFTER KP and Islamabad were rocked by episodes of holy warrior violence over the past few days, Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... experienced a bloody weekend when security personnel as well as non-combatants were subjected to acts of terror.
Two incidents occurred on Saturday, in which at least five coppers belonging to the FC and Levies were martyred in Turbat and Chaman, respectively. The banned TTP took responsibility for the Chaman attack.
Sunday — which was the Quaid’s birthday as well as Christmas — saw even more violence, as at least six coppers were martyred.
The bloodiest incident occurred in Kohlu’s Kahan area, when five army troops, including a captain, bit the dust in an IED blast. The proscribed BLA has grabbed credit for the attack.
Meanwhile in Zhob, another soldier was martyred, while coppers as well as civilians, including children, were maimed in attacks in Quetta, Hub and Kalat.
It can be assumed that Dec 25 was chosen by the attackers for its symbolism, as earlier the Ziarat Residency, where Pakistain’s founding father had stayed before his death, was targeted by Baloch separatists in June 2013.
However, you can observe a lot just by watching... an equally troubling aspect that has emerged from the recent incidents is the possibility of TTP and Baloch turbans working together. There have been such reports in social and mainstream media, although nothing conclusive has emerged.
The weekend violence affected both Pakhtun- and Baloch-majority areas of Balochistan. There are reports that some Baloch separatists have decided to join hands with the TTP, though observers say this decision has not been made by major separatist groups, but may represent the choices of individual holy warriors.
The prospect of TTP and Baloch turbans combining forces would be a particularly disturbing one for the state, as it would present an even greater security challenge.
Religiously inspired militancy has a history in Balochistan; after all, one of the most lethal chapters of sectarian terror group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... at one time operated out of the province, claiming hundreds of lives during its multiple campaigns of terror. Though LJ has been relatively quiet in Balochistan of late, turbans belonging to this group would be natural allies of the TTP.
Meanwhile, ...back at the game, the Babe headed for second base. He almost made it. Then Sheila slapped him.... the mostly non-existent border with Afghanistan means that gangs of all persuasion can come and go with relative ease.
The state needs to quickly address the emerging threat, lest Balochistan slip back into large-scale violence.
If there is an emerging nexus between the TTP and Baloch holy warriors, it must be broken, while if there is evidence that the Baloch separatists are finding refuge in Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... -controlled Afghanistan, this needs to be taken up with Kabul’s rulers.
Years of policies led by the establishment to pacify Balochistan have failed. Therefore, along with kinetic action, the state must also look at why it has been unable to bring socioeconomic uplift to this resource-rich, but appallingly poor province.
[YouTube] Fighter jets are among the most expensive, complex platforms that any nation builds and maintains (losing out to submarines and warships mostly because of the scale of the latter).
For years, the US was the undisputed leader in the fighter domain, having introduced the 5th Generation F-22 Raptor in 2005, while challengers like the SU-57 would have to wait until the 2020s (and rise to fame a little thanks to the new Topgun film).
But technology moves on; drones, engine technology, sensors, stealth...it all improves, and eventually countries are left with the choice to either build something new or fall behind.
Many have chosen to compete, and in this video I introduce some of the projects pushing for next generation fighters, including the British-Japanese-Italian GCAP, Franco-German-Spanish FCAS, and two American programs.
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.
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
[YouTube] Fighter jets are among the most expensive, complex platforms that any nation builds and maintains (losing out to submarines and warships mostly because of the scale of the latter). 
