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2019-01-01 International-UN-NGOs

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Posted by newc 2019-01-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Blowtorch.

Posted by newc 2019-01-01 01:42|| 2019-01-01 01:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Donavan served under Clapper.

Posted by jvalentour 2019-01-01 03:11|| 2019-01-01 03:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Donovan has produced a jewel. If you have time to read nothing else today, read this. Two of my favorite paragraphs provided below:

Globalism in all its historical variants has three milestones; first zeal, then coercion, and finally implosion. Eric Hoffer put it best. “Every great cause begins as a movement, then becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” The United Nations, as an example, is already a destination sierra hotel for failed politicians from around the globe.

Unfortunately, armaments are one of a few exports where America still competes in the world economy. Indeed, the American strategic establishment today is, in the main, an army of sutlers where ethics like planning, programming, budgeting, procurement, and gun running have replaced erstwhile values like duty, honor, country – and victory.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-01 06:06|| 2019-01-01 06:06|| Front Page Top

#4 This headline caused me a moment of panic. The first thought that hit me was that Fred was shutting Rantburg down. That was not a pleasant thought. I was very happy to open it and just see a regular article.

It's off topic I know, but just thought I'd share:p

Posted by Silentbrick 2019-01-01 07:23|| 2019-01-01 07:23|| Front Page Top

#5 "Imperial NATO expands and picks fights with Russia"

Lost me at that sentence... poor picked on Puty-pute

Posted by Elmong Dingle4773 2019-01-01 09:03|| 2019-01-01 09:03|| Front Page Top

#6 The globalist incompetent meddling in the Ukraine caused the whole mess, which Putin took advantage of.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-01-01 09:51|| 2019-01-01 09:51|| Front Page Top

#7 a test of wills between national pragmatists and global utopians

I tend to think of this in terms of the Patriots versus the Globalists. The globalists, in the sense that it has evolved is not our friend. It tends to favor the "banksters" as well as gut the wealth of a country and destroy its culture; a parasitical relationship. This doesn't mean we can't have friendly relationships with other countries that are beneficial to all parties.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-01-01 09:54|| 2019-01-01 09:54|| Front Page Top

#8 @JohnQC
Just like Self interest means working nicely with others and focusing on what you do (least worst) best so the whole economy reaps comparative advantage.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-01-01 11:46|| 2019-01-01 11:46|| Front Page Top

#9 Lost me at that sentence... poor picked on Puty-pute

I have precious little sympathy for Putin but his country is greatly diminished from the Evil Empire days of the Soviet Union so I don't see him as much of a threat either. Whatever goes on between Russia and Ukraine is beyond our sphere of influence and I really don't give a damn.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-01-01 12:13|| 2019-01-01 12:13|| Front Page Top

#10 I did a search on sierra hotel and found that it has been used to mean shit hot. I could see how it might also be used to mean shit hole. But in this context it seems like the meaning is more like sinecure.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-01-01 12:22|| 2019-01-01 12:22|| Front Page Top

#11 Crimean War, Part Deux?
Do we need a Real Life re-enactment of the movie Charge of The Light Brigade(1968)? Before we start a war with Russia, to stop its adventurism in ~~Ottoman Turkey~~ the Ukraine, could we be clear on exactly what we are getting involved in?

Posted by magpie 2019-01-01 14:17|| 2019-01-01 14:17|| Front Page Top

#12 Silentbrick: #MeToo

(Here under a new nick. Shh! Y'all act like you don't know me!)

Posted by Cochiti 2019-01-01 16:45|| 2019-01-01 16:45|| Front Page Top

#13 Hope you’re having a good New Year’s Day, O anonymous Cochiti. Welcome back!

Posted by trailing wife 2019-01-01 16:52|| 2019-01-01 16:52|| Front Page Top

#14 On this day in 1883:
"A macrame vest? Now, you watch it!"
He snarled, understandibly crotchety,
But pulling the curtain,
He sat for that certain
Disturbing ceramic of Cochiti.

Posted by Omeper Ulineper3385 2019-01-01 23:00|| 2019-01-01 23:00|| Front Page Top

#15 Cochiti

Posted by newc 2019-01-01 23:06|| 2019-01-01 23:06|| Front Page Top

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