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At the beating heart of Moscow, directly opposite the Kremlin on the eastern side of Red Square, you’ll find Russia’s most famous shopping mall. Known as GUM, the ornate neo-classical building sits a stone’s throw from St Basil’s cathedral and the mausoleum of Lenin, the man who attempted to overthrow...

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  • July 8, 2023
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At the beating heart of Moscow, directly opposite the Kremlin on the eastern side of Red Square, you’ll find Russia’s most famous shopping mall. Known as GUM, the ornate neo-classical building sits a stone’s throw from St Basil’s cathedral and the mausoleum of Lenin, the man who attempted to overthrow...

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  • July 6, 2023

Time after time, succeeding presidents have followed less than stellar Republican administrations feeling obligated to bestow forgiveness. Richard Nixon masterminded a crime, known to every police drama watcher as B&E, breaking and entering. Nixon was disgracefully relegated to the dustbin of history, but that dustbin was a mansion off the...

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  • November 13, 2020

Trump's in Ohio today, trying distract us from knowing that the Manhattan DA has grounds to prosecute Trump and his business on these grounds: -Scheme to Defraud -Falsification of Business Records -Insurance Fraud -Criminal Tax Fraud x Q: Who do you think poisoned Alexey Navalny in Russia? TRUMP: Uhhhh … we'll...

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  • September 21, 2020

even though being moved to the point of tears is not uncommon for me nowadays. I first read John Hershey’s writing about Hiroshima while in high school, from which I graduated in June of 1963. By then I had read widely about the 2nd World War. As a result I...

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  • August 6, 2020
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She can’t stop getting caught lying: Sen. Martha McSally released a TV ad for her campaign in which she says, “Of course I will always protect those with preexisting conditions. Always.” Well … It boils down to this: McSally has been a proponent of abolishing the Affordable Care Act, which...

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  • June 29, 2020

Live Blog sort of, as Trump is doing his usual shout outs to cronies. Doing shtick. very few mask-wearers. x Trump once against refers to coronavirus with the racist “Kung Flu” moniker, prompting huge cheers from his Turning Point Action audience. He then expresses confusion about what the “19” in...

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  • June 23, 2020

Received this e-mail today from the Council for a Livable World: As we all deal with the deadly coronavirus, we cannot forget that there are important elections underway. Two of the hottest congressional races this year are in Maine, one for the House and one for the Senate. Add to...

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  • April 4, 2020

I was sitting outside on the patio tonight and boy did I have a huge reflection hit me.   I hear a lot of young folks complain about boomers.  This is not a pie fight, just a little reminder of what we have been through.   You young folks have some real...

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  • March 21, 2020

So when do we start interfering in Russian elections?   I know ..I know… we can’t do that but this crap is an act of war.  We are a soverign nation or supposed to be.   If I wanted to be Russian with a Russian run country, I would fly my ass off...

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  • February 21, 2020

If you’re asking when climate change is going to “happen,” you’re really asking when’s it going to happen to “me,” because it’s already happened to many other people. Eric Roston During WWII the United States took control over the Marshall Islands (Aolepān Aorōkin M̧ajeļ), a part of the larger island...

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  • February 1, 2020

Nov 20, 2019 'Everyone Was in the Loop' Ambassador Gordon Sondland testified that President Trump ordered a pressure campaign on Ukraine and that senior-most administration officials knew about it. “It doesn't matter whether you like him. It doesn't matter if you dislike him,” Adam Schiff said. “What matters is whether...

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  • January 27, 2020

Six of nine earlier flights were in the same flight path prior to the decision to shoot at least one Tor missile at Ukraine International Air flight 752. x “FlightRadar24 showed the flight following its normal route and travelling at just over 500 kmh–far slower than a cruise missile. Nine...

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  • January 11, 2020

Pompeo, Esper, Milley, and Haspel did the classified briefing to the House and are now making the same presentation to the Senate. Responses broke along party lines. Rep Gerry Connolly, a Democratic Foreign Affairs Committee member, says was utterly unpersuaded by the motive, reason and evidence of the killing of...

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  • January 8, 2020

When there is a national or international crisis, when serious events are upon us, Americans turn to the one person who can unite the nation, the President of the United States, for explanations, for reassurance, for leadership. The White House was preparing the IMPOTUS to take that role tonight: The...

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  • January 8, 2020

The dog wagged once. Did the WH dodge a ballistic missile since apparently there were no casualties in the several Iranian missile strikes in Iraq. Message sent, but will Trump’s apparent lack of policy and strategy actually move Iran closer and quicker to nuclear weapons. Because Trump’s crimes are catching...

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  • January 8, 2020

Two US military bases confirmed hit by at least 10 Iranian short-range ballistic missiles at this time. Irbil and Al-Asad bases hit. No casualties reported as yet. Updates as they occur. From senior US military source in Iraq:“Under missile attack from Iran. These are either cruise missiles or short range...

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  • January 7, 2020

With his nomination of former Raytheon vice president and lobbyist Mark Esper for secretary of defense, Donald Trump essentially chummed the swamp with alligator feed. Of course, it was kind of a joke for Trump to put a defense contractor in charge of the DoD while at the same time...

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  • January 4, 2020

Because global hegemony needed a branding campaign in time for the debut of the latest Star Wars film. And the border wall got some direct funding. But with Space Force, and like other boondoggles, Trump “wanted a favor, though”, and remains a question to be asked in the 2020 campaign. x...

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  • December 21, 2019

I was six years old when these words were the words people discussed when discussing politics at the table at my grandparents. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/… “We will take America without firing a shot. We do not have to invade the U.S. We will destroy you from within….”  I ran across this article...

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  • December 13, 2019

Drug dealers do the kind of architecting that Ivanka Trump is so fond of quoting. The same style of drug smuggling boat appears in more than one ocean. Forbes magazine wonders why. This operational question is much like the rules governing US sales of Javelin missiles specify that they can only...

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  • November 28, 2019

In the Tom Cruise sci-fi film version of War of the Worlds, the unstoppable aliens intent on destroying mankind was eventually killed by the earth’s polluted environment, a floating swamp so to speak.  What is destroying the Trump administration is the poisonous environment he has created.  Involving himself in foreign...

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  • November 4, 2019

Axios reports that the twin pillars on which the impeachment inquiry will center is Ukraine and obstruction of justice. The advantage of the latter is that it also folds in as a structure the Mueller report when the bill of impeachment gets constructed. It also indicates where the cover-up will be...

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  • October 13, 2019

Recalling the delaying action of the Bill Barr “summary” of the Mueller report, the White House released a 5-page memo to frame the eventual release of the whistle-blower complaint. In it Ukraine President Zelensky mentions Javelin missiles (page 2), and then Trump immediately asks for a “favor”. In this context, the...

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  • October 12, 2019

It’s a fast-moving day and a press conference was scheduled for 4pm. Trump’s last such presser at the UNGA was “free-wheeling” so the cray-cray might be especially wild. Chances are that the GOP members of House/Senate Intel committees need to leak the complaint contents to the WH, which may explain...

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  • October 12, 2019

I won’t even pretend to channel OPOL.  I don’t think anyone could write or rant as he could.  We got the news today that One Pissed Off Liberal had passed.   One Pissed Off Liberal would be topping trees had he seen that dictator and murderer, laugh at us and make...

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  • October 2, 2019

Hours after Ukrainian President Zelensky agrees to Steinmeier Formula, which requires Ukrainian forces to withdraw from the disputed Donbass region which Russia invaded in 2015, Republicans in Congress and the Trump State Dept. joined Democrats in allowing the sale of $39M worth of Javelin anti-tank missiles that Zelensky was so anxious about in his July...

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  • October 1, 2019

We still don’t know how Donald Trump will treat our cherished allies at the G7 summit, but please no one tell him about the Marshall Plan. Because I have no doubt he’d send Angela Merkel a past-due invoice if he ever found out about it. Luckily his knowledge of world...

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  • August 24, 2019

Our troops are in the worst possible situation. We have an unstable, television-addicted Commander-in-Chief who listens to a pit of vipers whispering in one ear and cable news screaming in the other. The troops do not have a Secretary of Defense standing up for them, and in fact, like many of...

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  • June 22, 2019

Oh oh. Cancel Donald Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize. Politico: North Korea on Saturday fired several unidentified short-range projectiles into the sea off its eastern coast, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said, a likely sign of Pyongyang’s growing frustration at stalled diplomatic talks with Washington meant to provide coveted...

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  • May 4, 2019

So, Nancy Pelosi won’t allow formal impeachment hearings in the House unless she is sure that the Democrats can drag along at least enough of those pesky Republicans to make for a “Who shot JR?” style finale in the Senate, huh? because it’s so, like divisive. Well, hell! Where are the tar...

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  • March 11, 2019

There is no doubt that the Maduro regime in Venezuela is not good for its own people and not good for American Petro giants. Where my doubt comes in is the idea that Bolton, Abrams and drumpf have any good intent in kicking that particular hornets nest. But Senator Rubio...

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  • February 24, 2019

photo: National Mall closed during the 2013 shutdown. CC BY-SA 3.0 In solidarity,  Mike Hersh for Alan, Mike F., Janis, Deb, Dan, Dr. Bill, Kim, Bryan, and Shayna—your PDA National Team Tell Congress Not to Cave In to Trump’sChildish Demands for a Racist Wasteful Wall This week—as Trump’s Temper Tantrum...

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  • January 5, 2019

National Mall closed during the 2013 shutdown. Emw • CC BY-SA 3.0 In solidarity,  Mike Hersh for Alan, Mike F., Janis, Deb, Dan, Dr. Bill, Kim, Bryan, and Shayna—your PDA National Team Tell Congress we need a Green New Deal! Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) has had another hectic week....

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  • December 22, 2018

CNBC “Mikhail Gorbachev, the former president of the Soviet Union, criticized President Donald Trump's threat to withdraw from an international nuclear disarmament treaty, saying the move “is not the work of a great mind.” Trump announced at a rally Saturday that he will pull the U.S. from the “Intermediate-Range Nuclear...

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  • October 22, 2018

This is your intrepid reporter Murfster35, coming to you live from Vegas beach. The media missiles are flying overhead with increasing frequency, the battle is in doubt, but the body count won’t be known until November 6th. Here we are, 27 days from D-Day. I thought it might be both...

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  • October 10, 2018

Surprisingly, the Louisville Courier Journal reported this item today about Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul: Sen. Rand Paul reportedly plans to file an amendment on Wednesday to change several executive orders that would lift U.S. sanctions on Russian lawmakers and allow them to travel to America. Paul had met with...

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  • September 29, 2018

This evening — the same evening that Trump announced the termination of the Iran deal, and shortly after Netanyahu’s return from Moscow – Israel has started launching a wave of heavy missile strikes within Syria, in retaliation for an Iranian missile strike against Golan. What are they targeting?  In addition to things that...

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  • May 10, 2018

A new day. Information will trickle out over time, but let’s begin with what we know now. Let us start with the Pentagon briefing. They focus their maps and discussion on just these three sites. We’ll get into secondary sites a bit later.  They offer the following before-and-after comparisons of...

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  • April 14, 2018

I’ll start this out relatively empty but update it quickly.  Trump has approved strikes on Syria.   White House briefing starts in one minute. 21:02 EST: He’s already ordered the launch. Combined operation with France and UK.  Attack underway. 21:03 EST: Sounds of explosions in Damascus. Reminder: Just half an hour...

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  • April 14, 2018

NOTE: If you’re a “ChemTruther”… if you disagree with Amnesty International, the OPCW, WHO, MSF, the UN (breakdown), and all public evidence about past attacks, and are here to do the same about the most recent one… leave.  You’re not welcome here, any more than a 9/11 Truther would be...

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  • April 11, 2018

No lead-in needed; we all know what’s happened, and we all know what looks to be in the works.  Let’s get into the news, but first, let’s get into the players (if you already know all this, feel free to skip): Syria / Assad: No introduction needed. Controls generally the...

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  • April 10, 2018

As prepared for delivery by the president (provided the president is not named Donald Trump), February 12, 2018. My fellow Americans, I have requested this time tonight to speak to you regarding a matter of the greatest national urgency. As your commander in chief, I have no greater responsibility and no...

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  • February 12, 2018

After having initially been delayed by technical problems, the USS Ronald Reagan has joined the Carl Vinson off the Korean peninsula for military drills, including drilling with the ROK navy.  The drills include anti-DPRK commando strikes, anti-submarine and anti-aircraft operations, and strikes with air-launched and submarine-launched cruise missiles. It had been no...

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  • May 27, 2017

A smattering of today’s headlines from Yonhap, South Korea’s largest news agency. S. Korea, U.S., Japan to take unbearable punitive action if N. Korea provokes SEOUL/TOKYO, April 25 (Yonhap) — Senior officials of South Korea, the United States and Japan agreed at a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday to take...

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  • April 25, 2017

Perhaps I’m a glutton for punishment, but I went ahead and geotagged the entire tomahawk strike on the Shayrat airbase.  Now you can see at a glance what areas were struck (and with what level of confidence), and (to the best that can be determined with public images and information) what struck...

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  • April 13, 2017

I rather can’t believe how much Daily Kos is sounding like Sputnik these days: “FEEBLE US ATTACK DOES NOTHING!”  .  It’s the same everywhere: Meh, just a couple people dead (insert-lowest-cited-figure-from-any-source). Just a old planes destroyed (insert-lowest-cited-figure-from-any-source). Hit a couple rocks, you know, nothing. They packed up everything and moved! False...

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  • April 8, 2017

The news banners brag that U.S. Air Force spends $9,000,000 a day bombing ISIS. That's for 20 bombing attacks a day and Very Low Risk bombing missions. U.S.A.F. has never lost a plane over there. How's about a new Group here? A profit center for Our Favorite Web Site. DAILY...

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  • June 13, 2015

See evil. This goes to May 14th when the U.S. military does surveillance and gets all the proper details: how many truck bombs, how many ISIS fighters came in, how many guns. How the attacks formed up. Then they did nothing about it. Same on the 15th. On the 16th...

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  • June 1, 2015

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...

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  • April 2, 2015