[The Golf Channel] Corey Conners had one of the more wild final rounds in recent memory Sunday at the Valero Texas Open.
Four birdies in his first five holes, the Monday-qualifier then bogeyed his next four holes. Have no fear, though, as Conners would card six birdies on his back nine.
His wife, Malory, could hardly believe what she was seeing from her husband.
[Military dot com] There are unmistakable parallels between Syria and Venezuela. In both cases, a long-standing Russian client was on the ropes, facing a rising tide of popular opposition, in a conflict that many saw as a proxy between the U.S. and Russia. Russia's willingness to intervene and support its ally was portrayed as underscoring the resurgence of Russian military power in the world, while equally highlighting the ineffectiveness of American foreign policy.
Venezuela is an important, and long-standing, Russian ally. The Kremlin has cultivated relations with Caracas since the election of Hugo Chavez in 1998 to be Venezuela's president. Since then, Venezuela has become a major customer of Russian military equipment, spending billions of dollars over the last two decades to equip its military with predominantly Russian weapons. These international arms sales are critical to maintaining the financial health of the Russian armaments industry and its technological edge.
In addition, Russian companies have invested widely in Venezuela's mining sector, especially in its oil industry. Rosneft, Russia's second largest energy company, has made between seven and nine billion dollars of investments in Venezuela's oil industry. The company is one of the largest foreign investors in Venezuela and, in turn, Venezuela represents one of the largest foreign investments made by Rosneft. The Russian energy giant has a direct stake in seven different Venezuelan oil projects, five onshore oil fields and two offshore gas fields. In addition, Rosneft has prepaid Venezuela billions for future oil deliveries. As of the end of 2018, it's estimated that there are still about $2.5 billion owing against future oil shipments.
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I believe there is a new, active guerilla campaign beginning to make an impact. Maduro himself blamed the power outage on "US" sabotage which the US denies.
That was followed by a major fire at Maduro's security services headquarters and then a pipeline fire. All of this followed an attempted drone bombing of a military ceremony that sent soldiers running for cover.
These possible guerillas can complicate things considerably by capturing and holding a few Russian military personnel.
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You do NATO wargames in the Baltics, you have semi-permanent deployment to Poland, and you get upset Putie plays the same game in your backyard?
Note well though, the people we engage with have viable economies. Let the Russkies have the 'loud sucking sound'.
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Note well though, the people we engage with have viable economies. Let the Russkies have the 'loud sucking sound'.
The people the Russians are engaging with are losing their stable economy because that's in Russia's interest. They're destroying the Venezuelan economy on purpose while trying to appear to be merely attempting to help their "backwards socialist brethren" because it's in Russia's interest to make sure the country with the world's largest oil reserves is mismanaged back into the stone age.
#5
it's in Russia's interest to make sure the country with the world's largest oil reserves is mismanaged back into the stone age.
Keeping Commies in charge is essential to destroying a country and economy
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The people the Russians are engaging with are losing their stable economy because that's in Russia's interest. They're destroying the Venezuelan economy on purpose while trying to appear to be merely attempting to help their "backwards socialist brethren" because it's in Russia's interest to make sure the country with the world's largest oil reserves is mismanaged back into the stone age.
Precisely. A Venezuela incapable of producing, let alone exporting, oil means a bump in oil prices that flows directly to Russia's bottom line.
[NR] A hysteria without a cause; a report without a point
The pointlessness of it all. That is the major takeaway from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s much-anticipated final report on the Trump/Russia probe.
After an exhaustive 22-month investigation, Mueller found that there was no criminal collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. This was already manifest to anyone who had closely followed the investigation ‐ anyone, that is, who had taken note that no predicate crime was specified when Mueller was appointed (the special-counsel regulations require one), or anyone who had read the indictments Mueller filed, which demonstrated that Russia’s operations predated Trump’s entry into the 2016 campaign, that some of them were actually anti-Trump in nature, and that Russia (which is notoriously adept at espionage) neither needed nor sought American collaborators. "There is no allegation," observed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in announcing charges against Russian operatives brought by the special counsel he had appointed, "that any American was a knowing participant in this illegal activity." Never was such an allegation even hinted at against the president, nor against any of his associates, a handful of whom were charged either with crimes that had nothing to do with the 2016 campaign or with process crimes (mostly lying to investigators) that were not committed until after the campaign was over.
Mueller was even arguably needed to answer only one question: Did President Trump obstruct justice? On that, Mueller abdicated, refusing to render a prosecutorial judgment. This dereliction of duty in his final act further elucidated that there was neither a legal basis nor a practical need for the appointment of a special counsel.
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To obstruct an investigation, there has to be an underlying crime. Ipso facto, if there was no conclusion, there was no obstruction.
If on the other hand, they found collusion, they would have grounds for obstruction.
No crime no obstruction.
Everyone in Washington on both sides of the aisle wanted Comey fired. It as recommended by the DOJ IG and Rosenstein himself (no fan of Trump as we know.
So where's the beef...the entire democratic party needs a prescription for Chlorpromazine.
#2
He dragged it out long enough to give ammo for the Socialists to take over the House. He could have wrapped this all up last September. No folly. Not the most effective tool to take out the winner of the 2016 presidential election, but enough to hinder his work.
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Ref #2: Yes, he along with the crooked media,'ran out the clock' on the election, the Hildebeest, Obama, and Brennan. They knew all along there was no picking Christopher Steele up from the clean end. Same goes for Bruce and Nellie Ohr and the numerous upper echelon crooks at the Bureau.
Mueller loaded his staff with democrats. That was the early tip off.
#5
Why did neither Mueller nor Rosenstein issue an interim report? That would have enabled Trump to govern without a cloud of suspicion that he might be a clandestine agent of Russia,
HA! Even after the report, there is still a coven of Dems and Trump-haters who still want to cloud the POTUS ability to govern.
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He TWEETED!!! how can anyone say that isn't obstruction!!!
NEW DELHI (AP) ‐ As she patrols for cow smugglers, Sadhvi Kamal, a Hindu holy woman in a saffron robe, rides in a white SUV with a sticker on the rear window displaying a cow framed by swords and rifles. The words in the sticker’s logo say, "The cow is the mother of the world."
Kamal leads a vigilante force of thousands of volunteers, mostly young Hindu men. Such vigilante forces have emerged after several Indian states banned the slaughter of cows, sacred to Hindus, in recent years. Mobs have lynched three dozen Muslims, who traditionally run meat shops and slaughterhouses.
As India heads toward a general election that begins this week, taking up arms for "mother cow" is part of a broader campaign to impose ancient Hindu religious values across a multicultural country. As with similar movements across the world, Hindu nationalism, once fringe, has now taken a central place in India’s politics.
The movement is led by the party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who grew up chanting slogans and practicing maneuvers at nationalist training camps. Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party seek to retain power in the elections by promoting Hindutva ‐ a Hindu way of life ‐ instead of secular pluralism. A fresh mandate for Modi could embolden efforts to mold the world’s largest democracy of 1.3 billion people into a stringently Hindu nation.
#3
The colors! How punchy, how NOW!
A milk carton, Froot Loops, a thou.
A trip, bet your bippies:
The homeland of hippies,
That cow! Psychedelic! Like, wow!
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[The Golf Channel] Corey Conners had one of the more wild final rounds in recent memory Sunday at the Valero Texas Open.
There are unmistakable parallels between Syria and Venezuela. In both cases, a long-standing Russian client was on the ropes, facing a rising tide of popular opposition, in a conflict that many saw as a proxy between the U.S. and Russia. Russia's willingness to intervene and support its ally was portrayed as underscoring the resurgence of Russian military power in the world, while equally highlighting the ineffectiveness of American foreign policy.
[NR] A hysteria without a cause; a report without a point
