[ZeroHedge] I recently led a group of about 100 citizens on a tour of Israel for nearly two weeks. Before returning to the United States, all participants had to indicate their vaccination status and take a COVID-19 test for reentry.
Anxieties swept the group as Israeli testers swabbed them.
Anyone testing positive would have to delay his or her return.
That quarantine would entail spending thousands of dollars in finding scarce hotel accommodations, additional living expenses, and rebooked airline tickets—depending upon the length of the mandatory sequestration.
Contrast this to the tens of thousands of foreign nationals now mustering to cross illegally into the United States this summer.
They follow the already 2 million who’ve entered the country unlawfully since Joe Biden became president.
Does any foreign national worry about being tested for COVID-19, much less fear being turned away if he tests positive or lacks proof of vaccination?
Or do we scrutinize far more carefully U.S. citizens entering their own country legally than we do noncitizens crossing our borders unlawfully?
For that matter, the government is still determined to fire thousands of federal workers and U.S. military personnel who have refused the new mRNA vaccinations. Most citizens who declined to be vaccinated feared that the injections were dangerous to their health or ineffective in preventing COVID-19 infections, and that they wouldn’t necessarily lead to herd immunity.
Are 2 million unvaccinated foreigners arriving unaudited from impoverished countries less of a threat during the pandemic than fully audited American citizens employed by the federal government? Why would we fire unvaccinated Americans but welcome equally unvaccinated noncitizens?
The Biden administration blasted Trump’s southern border wall and canceled all further funding.
Yet Biden just appropriated $40 billion to Ukraine to ensure it doesn’t lose its border war against Russian aggression.
That’s a tiny percentage of the federal budget. But the aid is full of symbolic irony nonetheless. The multibillion-dollar appropriation would have more than covered the completion of the entire southern border wall.
An outside observer might conclude that the U.S. government intends to uphold the universal idea of national sovereignty, internationally recognized borders, and the security of citizens inside its own country—as long as they’re not American citizens.
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[OrganicPrepper] I’ll start this by saying I’m against violence.
By that, I mean gratuitous violence because I acknowledge it is much part of life, the natural state of things. But being peaceful is different than being harmless. In fact, the most peaceful people I know are also the most harmful.
Throughout my entire life, I have always strived for conflict avoidance and de-escalation. I’m constantly training my awareness skills and studying violence and crime to detect and avoid it as much as possible. Not being there is Rule #1 in survival.
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Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
[Chernovec] In the Donbass, new advances of the RF Armed Forces and the armies of the DPR and LPR, which form new traditional boilers for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in addition to Lisichansky, the 11th regiment of the NM of the DPR liberated Vrubovka, battles are underway for Novoivanovka.
The capture of the village will almost completely seal the cauldron into the Zoloto-Gorsky cauldron. To get out of this crucible, only the R-66 highway to Lisichansk will remain. Firstly, this is the path actually to the new boiler. Secondly, even now this road is under the fire control of the NM of the LPR and the RF Armed Forces.
In the Svetlodar direction, the Wagner PMC units continued their offensive towards the village of Vershina. At night, there were reports of the capture of Semigorye. Thus, the grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the Uglegorsk TPP and Novolugansk was completely surrounded.
Due to the complication of the situation for the ukrovermacht in the Donetsk direction, the transfer of units there from near Kharkov begins, the enemy grouping in the north of Kharkov begins to crumble. The Ukrainian army suffers especially heavy losses here in Tsirkuny, Zolochiv and in the Saltov direction.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] American and British publications, citing American mercenaries fighting in Ukraine, report that two American mercenaries were captured by Russians near Kharkov in the war zone. The "missing" names are Robert Druk and Andy Hyun.
Russian official sources have not yet commented on this information.
2022 year. We have to kill and capture the Americans near Kharkov. I hope Gorbachev and other bastards are satisfied with the results of their labors.
[Chernovec] Bama and Hayt - two more "safari" lovers
Two former American servicemen were captured near Kharkov. According to the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph, we can talk about the first US citizens who have been captured since Russia launched a special operation. The publication established the identity of the military. They were 39-year-old Alexander Dryuke, who served in Iraq, and 27-year-old Andy Hyun.
Earlier, a special group of foreign mercenaries Task Force Baguette published a statement on Twitter that two Americans, named Bama and Hayt in the post, were captured at the same time. Can't get in touch with them.
On the right photo is a "purebred" American. Although what am I talking about? Americans are a nation without history, pure blood, and even no language of their own. But lousy ambition and arrogance, as if the first appeared on the planet.
These ex-US military are already adults and knew that they were going to a foreign country to kill people. Now foreign mercenaries will fall into captivity like peas. In Severodonetsk alone, at the Azot plant, there are rumors that there are several hundred of these foreign mercenaries. All mercenaries will be judged by a tribunal.
Well, well, let's see - what a fair verdict the court will pass.
(Bloomberg) -- The smart money dumped stocks at the fastest pace on record as a vicious selloff sent the S&P 500 into a bear market.
Hedge funds tracked by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. offloaded US equities for a seventh straight day Monday, with the dollar amount of selling over the last two sessions exploding to levels not seen since the firm’s prime broker began tracking the data in April 2008.
The exodus came as the equity rout worsened amid concerns that the Federal Reserve will need to hasten its inflation-fighting campaign at the risk of causing an economic recession. As stocks careened and Treasury yields spiked, the fast money rushed to double down on bearish wagers.
In the note published Tuesday, Goldman said short sales at its hedge-fund clients climbed "aggressively," with broad-based investing strategies -- or macro products -- like exchange-traded funds dominating the flows.
"They’re saying the market’s going down further," Benjamin Dunn, president of Alpha Theory Advisors, said by phone. "Sentiment is just pretty much in the toilet."
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Watch for the cover-short plateau's and sucker rallies as the big kids flush out their positions and sell sunshine and "thoughtful buying opportunities and judicious long-term positioning" while they bail.
[ZeroHedge] Listening to Powell speak during the press conference, one would think that when it comes to the economy, it's blue skies as far as the eye can see:
*POWELL: 'THERE'S NO SIGN' OF A BROADER SLOWDOWN IN THE ECONOMY
*POWELL: REAL GDP GROWTH HAS PICKED UP THIS QUARTER
*POWELL: APPEARS US ECONOMY IS IN A STRONG POSITION
Unfortunately, that's not exactly "true"...
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Keep this up and you won't make it one term.
The democrat party really is satans asshole and this is your proof.
They will starve you to save "the planet".
Fuck them all, everyone bringing that communist trojan whorse in this Nation.
#2
The human race is divided into "dirt worshippers," (paleostinians, gebil worming gaia fanatics, Bill Gates) and people who believe that people come first.
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Anyone seriously surprised by this demoncrat behavior?
#4
The kamikaze presidency is delivering for the Marxists behind the teleprompter. His anger comes from his pushing enough remaining brain cells together and discovering just how f'd up he has made everything. Worse, Jill et al are seeing the looming flush and the exposure of the depth of corruption being exposed, and panic is starting. Worst, most damaging administration in our history, and the harm just keeps on coming. Impeachment or 25th cannot come soon enough....
[Hot Air] In case you missed it over the weekend, progressive Democrat and "squad" member Jamaal Bowman
...lots of Jews in his constituency, so he has to pretend he loves Israel in a J Street sort of way — you know, if only they weren’t so mean to those poor Palestinians — which gets him special dispensation from the Democratic Socialists of America, which endorsed him last time round. But otherwise he is a plain vanilla member of The Squad...
of the Bronx went on MSNBC and issued a series of dire warnings about what will happen next year if Republicans retake control of Congress in the upcoming midterm elections. He didn’t wind up mentioning swarms of locusts darkening the skies and wiping out all of the crops, but it was pretty close to that level. He warned of "far-right extremists and white nationalists" who are plotting a "civil war" or something. He further cautioned that these same extremists would be "emboldened" to take control of the Senate, the White House, and state-level offices around the country. I can only assume the rivers will all turn to blood shortly after that. (NY Post)
Progressive Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman warned of a stark outcome if Republicans take back power in the November midterm elections — one that would "embolden" far-right extremists and white nationalists who he claims "have been pushing" for "civil war."
During a Saturday interview with MSNBC’s "The Cross Connection with Tiffany Cross," the Bronx-Westchester member of the congressional "Squad" led by socialist darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed Republicans will quickly take action to halt Democratic progress in the investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, saying the House select committee’s findings would be "completely suppressed."
Bowman also claimed the GOP would "impeach President Biden as quickly as possible and they will continue to find ways to impeach him going forward."
So let me see if we’ve got this straight. If the Republicans actually lose the midterm elections, they have some sort of plan in place to "steal" the election by passing election security laws at the state level. And that could lead to civil war. But if the GOP actually wins the election, they will be "emboldened" to advance their plans for a civil war. So what you’re saying is... what? There’s going to be a civil war no matter how it comes out so there’s no point in holding the elections?
Bowman also warned that Republicans would put an end to the ridiculous January 6 Committee hearings. That’s probably true, actually, but what that has to do with a potential civil war is beyond me. If anything, it would probably give some of the members additional time to do something vaguely productive. Of course, a few members of the committee likely will be looking for other employment next January anyway. I won’t call anyone out specifically, but one of their names might rhyme with Whiz Rainy.
What I find really interesting is Bowman’s warning that if the GOP takes back control of either chamber of Congress they would be "emboldened" to try to take back the White House and many state-level offices. So he’s warning people that if the Republicans win one election, they might dare to... try to win other elections later? Saints preserve us! They wouldn’t dare to try that, would they?
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An actual civil war will involve a rebel army. Who's going to be that? The DoD? The John Brown Gun Club? Which one it is will matter in the big picture.
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And when all that doesn't happen nobody in the media will ask him about his failed predictions and scare-mongering.
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The Democrats are planning to provoke the living shit out of Americans so we will rise up and they can use the power of the anti-terrorism laws to crush us. But if we get power, we'll use these laws on them instead to prevent a civil war and they're terrified of it.
They're playing the big game. Permanent Democrat majority is the phrase they use. Can't do that if Republicans win in November. Thus any outcome like this is illegitimate and anti-democratic by definition.
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.
(Bloomberg) -- The smart money dumped stocks at the fastest pace on record as a vicious selloff sent the S&P 500 into a bear market.
[Hot Air] In case you missed it over the weekend, progressive Democrat and "squad" member Jamaal Bowman 
