An “operative lull” seems now ready to end. Bombardment resumes and the messaging about “foreign fighters” increases with the slowing of the Russian advance to take major cities. Smaller cities that have been captured are being repressed by Russians and some proxies with brutal efficiency. The war continues to be...
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The future of a delusion: barrel-time coming soon for previous guy, among others, as there will be more revelations about Florida sex-trafficking and the GOP. ”You and me ain’t nothing but animals…” Discovery in the Zervos case could unearth the Apprentice tapes held by Mark Burnett that Trump tried desperately to...
The stuck ship does tell us something about the fragility of global trade and the flow of capital. Fungible Space Logistics, that concept popularized by United Parcel Service is also about the spatial problems of concrete versus abstract global networks. x Everyone is talking about the big ship getting stuck...
“Lies of a feather flock together” “I think there is a very fair question here whether moderators of The Donald destroyed evidence that would aid law enforcement investigation." https://t.co/bLXNZ8fXvt — Mother Jones (@MotherJones) January 29, 2021 In the days ahead of the January 6 Capitol riot, there were warnings, but...
Crimes against humanity by needless deaths, because sending Americans a check with his name on it obligated a vote. Trump needed anti-masking reactionaries and antivaxxers to merge in order to foment some naïve idea of herd immunity such that wanting to get more people infected was more important to the...
http://www.msn.com/… Within 24 hours of the FDA’s approval, Pfizer Pharmaceutical Company is expected to ship its first 6.4 million vaccine doses to be used for health care workers. The date of the first shipment is expected to be mid-December with more shots available each following week. http://www.washingtonpost.com/… Gen. Gustave Perna, who...
“It would only take 22 tank cars to hold the equivalent energy of the Hiroshima bomb,” Jordan Luebkemann, a lawyer for Earth Justice. Florida Bulldog is an investigative news site. In September, they wrote on how a private equity firm forgave an enormous debt of Donald Trump in exchange for federal...
So this bull shit just happened: The Michigan Supreme Court issued a split decision late Friday that ruled against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in a battle over her power to extend emergency declarations used to mandate COVID-19 restrictions. The court's decision throws in to question orders issued by Whitmer related to...
In case you didn’t know: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a major donor to President Trump and fund-raiser for the Republican Party, cultivated an environment at his former company that left employees feeling pressured to make donations to Republican candidates, and rewarded them with bonuses for doing so, according to former...
Scott Bixby at The Daily Beast has a great piece out that calls out U.S. Senate candidate, John James (R. MI), for following the GOP playbook to talk tough on China as a way to rile up their base. But of course, like pretty much every GOPer trying to make...
Chuck Todd knocks Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Brett P. Giroir, M.D. for painting a rosy COVID-19 response picture questioning reality. Chuck Todd presented the admiral with some reality x x YouTube Video Watch complete episodes here. Chuck Todd had a lengthy interview with Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Brett P....
CHAZ/CHOP is over but not gone, even if it lasted not as long as the Paris Commune. Ultimately it remains about power and autonomy. Basta ya. The fact that the police express feeling “castrated” with the victory of the movements for Black lives, underscores the synthesis of racism, patriarchy, violence,...
Wow, Donald Trump is really upset about reports that he hid in his bunker like a shivering Pomeranian during a thunderstorm. Someone needs to let him know Hitler did it, too. Then it might not leave such a bad taste in his mouth. CNN: President Donald Trump sought to explain his presence in an...
The fight for the suburbs continues, and Trump continues to try to scare them. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1268037166946553856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw All kinds of spinning and historical revision have emerged. Secretary Esper seems to not have known he was going to be used as a prop, and GOP senators have generally presented crickets as the Park...
The contradictions of procurement and logistics without using the Defense Production Act and yet claiming to be anti-globalist. This resembles trying to “restart the economy” while endangering lives and building a kleptocracy. While the Italian mafia is making profit on COVID-19 and the Colombian mafiosi government is decreeing the privatization...
A new Harvard report shows that testing needs to be immediately ramped up by at least three times beyond its current level. The difficulty of raising the level of testing depends on scaling up local, regional, and state levels, and despite the manufacturing of artificial markets and logistics for PPEs and testing technology....
Like some luxury hybrid/EV cars’ piping exhaust noise into the entertainment system, will TV networks add crowd noise to broadcasts. Darn that regional/homecourt advantage. x Breaking: NCAA president Mark Emmert has announced that all championship events, including the Division I men's and women's basketball tournaments, will take place with only essential staff...
Dow is down 1,100+ points and Trump has thrown the COVID19 hot potato to Pence, so IMPOTUS can return to the banality of his existence, pimping reactionary cultural products. This time a dramatic reading of the Strzok/Page text messages. As if we didn’t have enough of Trump mocking Lisa Page...
Although today is not the actual date of birth for Civil Rights and humanitarian leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we have given him the ultimate American honor, a day off for workers, and retail sales prices at your favorite stores. I hope that we keep in mind that Dr....
The arrest of Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas, rather than felonious flight, was part of a plan to set up more propaganda where Arms for Dirt would continue via Sean Hannity. A Viktor Shokin interview would try to media frame his removal for inaction on corruption as some Joe Biden plot. ...
The New York Times has this story up this evening: Erdogan’s Ambitions Go Beyond Syria. He Says He Wants Nuclear Weapons. Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, wants more than control over a wide swath of Syria along his country’s border. He says he wants the Bomb. The story mainly talks...
So the White House is still refusing to cooperate with the ongoing impeachment inquiry, and the pr*sident has so far been even less interested in acknowledging congressional subpoenas than Tiffany Trump. What to do? What to do? Well, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) has an idea. Lock them in the hoosegow. Tlaib...
This is too delicious. I’ll begin by stressing how much of a disaster the Trump shutdown has been for the GOP. Donald Trump has achieved a record low approval rating, and has managed to drag the entire party down a whopping eight percentage points. Every Democrat running for president has a lead over Trump—in the Midwestern states....
I have a radical ides. I know, like this is a news flash, right? Just do me one favor. Read the whole damn thing, don’t just read the next paragraph, say “What an idiot!”, and then steam off to the comments section. Read it, look at what I say in...
Received this e-mail today from Gwen Graham (D. FL): It’s official: The races for Florida governor, U.S. senator, and agriculture commissioner have gone to a recount. And we need help to make sure Democrats can find every vote that was cast. If you’re a lawyer, will you sign up to serve as a...
Obviously, our collective attention has been focused on tragic events that are, for Americans, much closer to home. But the situation in Spain continues to bear watching. And it isn’t over yet. Sunday, Catalonia held a vote to determine whether or not the region should break way from Spain and...
Welcome to Iraq. America's military experts advise Iraq to push ISIS back into Syria. Here's the conversation in Wall Street Journal: Iraqi security forces and their U.S. partners are divided about where to next confront Islamic State after their victory over the extremist group in Tikrit last week. Both hope...
Of course the Department of Defense claimed this is “with American help.” A handful of smart missiles hit targets, but the big help was the old M198 155mm field guns. The contested area was the southwest section of the city. The Iraqi-Iranian battle plan formed up a couple weeks ago...
The southwest section of Tikrit is a burning ruin. After a week of artillery the residences have been leveled and bombs left by the ISIS and allied Sunni fighters have been detonated. The area reportedly looks like Stalingrad during World War II. Estimates from Al Sahra/COB Speicher put the shell...