There are plenty of issues, big and small, to discuss. Have at it.
TTG
RSS- The drones over New Jersey
- The Langley Aerodrome Experience… at Stafford Airport
- “Romanian Court Annuls Presidential Election, Throws Process Into Chaos”
- What’s next?
- “SDF deploys to Deir ez-Zor city after Syrian army withdrawal”
- “Yes, But….” By Walrus.
- SITUATION IN SYRIA: UKRAINE AND ISRAEL STAND TOGETHER
- South Korea president declares emergency martial law, warns of “communist forces”
- Trump threatens BRICS nations with 100 percent tariffs
- Syrian rebels take control of most of Aleppo city
I found this retired record producer’s account of why music today sucks to be quite interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reesdiAbvk4
There are several rather long pieces regarding Scott Ritter that may interest some.
First, he discusses his experience as a weapons inspector, and the surprising, to me, encounters with Israel and the United States that ensued, here:
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/08/16/scott-ritter-a-farewell-to-truth/
Next, he discusses at length the FBI raid on his house, and the large amount of his personal property they seized, here:
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/08/16/scott-ritter-the-fbis-raid-on-peace/
He covers much the same subject in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/live/tgmFOq3J3-w
Finally, Phil Giraldi talks about this and the general pro-war and pro-Zionist bias in Washington and the media here:
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/there-is-something-rotten-in-washington/
Judge Napolitano has been kicked off YouTube for at least a week and now airs his interviews on Rumble. Prof John Mearsheimer informed his readers of the news via email from his substack and closed with these words – “We are in deep trouble.” I’m pretty sure he meant with regard to freedom of speech. I haven’t discovered anything more about it other than the Judge saying it was because of something someone said on one of his shows. I haven’t delved into it further because I’m tired of those presentations now — I know exactly what they’re going to say. Nonetheless it’s probably illegal and it’s definitely a shame. I’ll add two things – first that those shows were doing the Russians no good whatsoever because they were deliriously pro Russian and stoked extreme overconfidence — witness the Kursk surprise. Second — Mark Sleboda distinguished himself yesterday by refusing to be prompted by “Danny Haiphong” into pooh-poohing the incursion as inconsequential and rather said it was a major victory especially in the information war. EO might want to take a peek to see that the analyst he recommends doesn’t agree with him at all.
Mark Sleboda – Battle of Kursk Humiliates Russia etc ..
https://youtu.be/Te2m2ocQJtc
F&L,
A “major victory” in the information war? You mean somebody mapped out the route for a couple brigades of UA troops to punch a whole into an open area and take over some empty space of ‘information’ value? I’m sure the war will be over in no time.
Sorry Fred I was quoting Sleboda and forgot to include quotation marks.
“EO might want to take a peek “
EO did, F&L. Not that that’s important. I peek around at so much stuff that that got lost in the crowd. But the Kiev incursion is more significant than it looks. I think you recognise that too, which is the main point.
I linked to the Sleboda interview here and as far as I could guess, which is nowhere near as far as Sleboda obviously, agreed with Sleboda. Russian screw-up. Got to be.
https://turcopolier.com/ukraine-seeks-retired-f-16-pilots-to-fly-its-jets/
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/ukraine-rolls-the-dice-on-kursk-incursion
(“… Concrete fortifications now, it’s said elsewhere, so putting those in so late does indicate “caught by surprise.””)
The bit of the interview that sticks in my mind, F&L is the end. Sleboda’s a forthright character. Often contemptuous. Often dismissive. Well, he would be. There’s a lot to be contemptuous and dismissive about when considering the pigs ear our politicians and generals have made of the Ukrainian affair.
But I haven’t seen Sleboda angry before. And my reading of the interview is that he’s plain angry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csQcpKzM_Ao
British tanks – German tanks as well for heaven’s sake! – rolling around near Kursk of all places. Videos going viral of soldiers in gear mimicking German WW2 gear and behaving like the old SS units towards Russians. How dumb. How extraordinarily dumb, in a region of the world where old memories live on as if they were yesterday.
American equipment in profusion, including artillery that needs American targeting packages to be used and killing a convoyfull of Russian soldiers well inside Russian territory as they hastened towards the fighting.
Plus the NPP threat that is still to be fully explored but that, whether genuinely or for PR purposes, the Russians are making a really big deal of. Plus the fact that this is a NATO planned and assisted incursion that contemptuously ignores all Putin’s attempts to keep the conflict from escalating.
In military terms this incursion is nothing much to fuss over. In personal terms it’s got the Russians angry. So angry that recruitment has near doubled.
For the Russians, this is the West saying we’ll do what we damn well please and to hell with you. Cavoli sensed which way this conflict would end up before this incursion. After this incursion what he said is even more to the point:-
“The outcome on the ground is terribly, terribly important,” said U.S. General Christopher Cavoli, who heads U.S. European Command and serves as the supreme allied commander for NATO.
“But we can’t be under any illusions,” Cavoli said. “At the end of a conflict in Ukraine, however it concludes, we are going to have a very, very big Russia problem. …
“We are going to have a situation where Russia is reconstituting its force, is located on the borders of NATO, is led by largely the same people as it is right now, is convinced that we’re the adversary, and is very, very angry.”
https://www.voanews.com/a/threat-to-us-europe-will-not-end-with-ukraine-officials-warn-/7703923.html
In spite of all the speculation we don’t know for certain yet whether the Russians will take the full Kharkov-Odessa arc. We don’t know yet how they will solve the much discussed puzzle of how to neutralise remnant Ukraine. Nor do we yet know whether or to what extent they’ll impose reverse sanctions on Europe.
All that’s still up in the air. But given how much this half-witted incursion has stirred them all up, we have fewer grounds for being optimistic on any of those counts that we did. Maybe that was in Cavoli’s mind when he uttered those prophetic words.
EO,
Cavoli is right. The Cold War will return to Europe no matter how this ends. A now larger NATO’s reason for being will be renewed. Both NATO and Russia will be rearming. One big difference is that it has been demonstrated that Russian forces will not be able to punch deep into NATO as we once feared they could do through the Fulda Gap.
TTG,
I would respectfully argue that worrying about the Fulda Gap is “fighting the last war”. The next war is in semiconductors and China/Russia are gearing up to eclipse the US and its allies on that front.
I have a pet theory that it was semiconductors that lost the USSR the cold war. The west was outperforming the Warsaw Pact in many areas but were a key field for (i) civilian IT and (ii) military tech including radar, missiles, and long range precision strike. The west had an economy of scale advantage that left the USSR and its allies behind by a margin that doomed their ability to complete militarily.
The guest on this Sinica podcast says that China has completely caught up to the west in ~35nm integrated circuits:
https://www.sinicapodcast.com/p/chinas-response-to-us-semiconductor-3b8
I think China is about 10 years from catching up with the west completely in semiconductors. Not to mention the fact that in 10 years China will have no trouble in taking a certain self-governing island.
James,
Will China catch up to the West or to Taiwan in ten years? Probably, but they aren’t there yet. They’ll need those high end Western chip for years before they catch up. So will Russia. Neither China nor Russia can even produce quality ball bearings never mind high end chips.
EO –
Tatiana Stanovaya finally felt it was time to give one of her expert overviews. I’ll just leave the links here. She thinks the Kursk bulge could remain occupied for between several months to years conceivably. And that though plenty of folks are pissed for the most part people are indifferent. Concludes that Putin isn’t in danger of being toppled.
https://t.me/stanovaya/1807
https://t.me/stanovaya/1808
F&L – your summary of the “few brief thoughts” is markedly superior to the original.
Carnegie, Wiki says, was the richest man in America bar maybe Rockefeller. Famous for giving it all away. Anti-imperialist among other things and keen on peace. Now funding a renegade Russian working out of a down-market neocon think tank in Berlin. He would have been so pleased.
He was also keen on a union between Great Britain and the United States. I bet you’re glad that didn’t come off!
FL
All he is concerned about is that his income stream is now reduced. He was a regular on Napolitano’s show.
It’s a start I guess. Now they need to demonetize the rest of the gang, Martyanov, Ritter, MacGregor etc.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Ukraine blew up Nord Stream.
The WSJ article is behind a paywall, bit you can get the key points here:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/wall-street-journal-scoop-finally-reveals-who-blew-up-nord-stream-pipeline/ar-AA1oR5yD?ocid=BingNewsSerp
The plan was cooked up on a drunken night. The CIA told Zelensky not to do it and Z tried to call it off, but rogue (and still drunk?) elements of Ukrainian forces wouldn’t call it off and, of course, went a head with the mission.
These Ukrainians are such meat heads. Too bad the Russians are bigger meat heads.
Hi Eric..
If anyone believes that WSJ story they will believe anything. It’s a ‘shadow narrative’.
There has been comment on the Nord Stream demolitions previously on Turcopolier. Have a history search and check it out.
rw
Eric — just my opinion but I don’t buy the Journal account at all and prefer Seymour Hersh’s. Possibly the US administration and their inputs into the WSJ are playing some sort of game with Zelensky, not sure what.
F&L + All,
I’m not saying I believe the WSJ story in full or even to some percent. Only pointing out that they have released the story. I guess my questions are, “Why now” and “Why this particular story”
The pipeline destruction has caused rifts between US allies Germany, Poland and Ukraine and Washington is trying to iron them out. Maybe I should include Norway too. It’s a serious issue – that pipeline was really important. It’s speculation on my part but that this recent.story was released now may indicate that either **the NATO allies are contemplating joint military action but it’s snagged due to the pipeline rifts, or that the story will make the Russians believe that ** is the case which will have an intimidating effect on them. I’m talking about the plan you outlined so well in another thread re logistics in Europe and subsequent invasion of Ukraine or at minimum feasibility thereof. I assume you know that you can find Hersh’s ideas on his substack free of charge.
Eric, the Andromeda story has been around for quite some time. Some even tried to link it to Russia, which supposedly financed the enterprise. There is presently a little discontent between Germany and Poland. According to the Germans, Poland ignored a European arrest warrant issued by German prosecutors, according to Poland, the arrest warrant was faulty.
Bojan Pancevski is the Wall Street Journal’s correspondent in Germany. Speaks quite good German.
https://archive.ph/Ka8HB
Basically, both Poland & Ukraine complained the Nord Stream pipelines for a very, very long time, so yes, they were among the interested parties from the start, closely followed by the US, which of course which did not like it either. 😉 Irony alert: Keep in mind the terminals that US LNG Poland agreed to build. Remember Trump’s visit? Russian gas to Europe would rival that investment. 😉
Hi LeaNder,
What do you think of this video?
https://youtu.be/W1ZZ-Yni8Fg
Just its title, if not the first five seconds, should give away why I asking 🙂
The question is how much truth there is in what she is saying,
on a scale from 0 to 100?
KH,
Embarrassed to be German. Imagine that. And why? “Insufficient fiber optic cable coverage,” etc.
That’s terrible. Wasn’t there something else (?) I seem to remember ..
Sorry Keith. I love to joke around. Sabine isn’t sure about global warming last I looked. You’ve got to be careful with YouTube scientists.
For Sabine Hossenfelder’s videos concerning
what is causing climate change,
and the controversies concerning that,
you might check out
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sabine+climate
It looks to me like she has a pretty clear and accurate eye on those issues.
F&L. Hossenfelder is a good example of what’s wrong with German academia. Even more so with British academia. Not too bad if you get a permanent job but it can be the early years – when everyone else is forging ahead and they’re stuck scrabbling around for peanuts – that are off-putting. Don’t know how it is in the US but the top American universities have more funding so it’s maybe better there.
Hossenfelder on academia as a career. It’s not just the money:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlGDfRU8
I sent that to an English academic a while ago. He replied “Don’t I know it.”
LeaNder,
check your calendar. Trump’s visit was before the war. The Burisma guy we never hear about any longer was in the gas/oil business. Along with all those other connected democrats.
Trump’s visit was before the war.
I didn’t say the opposite, dear Fred. But yes, I am not suffering from a widely spred Trump Adoration Symptom either.
Eric,
So someone wants to spin that the one of the prime suspects, the Ukrainian government, who blew up that pipeline to keep the German’s from cutting an economic deal (rather than their economic throat), is now shifting blame to some rich guy on the outs with the Uki government. Notice the Germans finally cut of the other guy whose name starts with a Z.
Fred,
Yep. I’d hazard to guess that’s about the size of it. Meanwhile, the WSJ plays the role of stupid messenger boy for the manipulators.
As an aside, it amazes me how all of these scumbags – federal government, media, fancy universities and politicians – commit nefarious crimes on a daily basis and they think we’re so stupid we won’t notice that, in obfuscation of their crimes, they manipulate the message like a bunch of guilty adolescents. Latest deflection of ,”Well, we’re just really super incompetent” would be hilarious if it wasn’t for the death and the dopey excuse being immediately followed by an implied “What difference at this point does it make?” and a “Give us more money for more resources ’cause mo muny fo gumermint alwayze da anser specly fo demicrots”.
Fred –
Today, Germany just sent Ukraine another armaments package. “Another IRIS-T SLS air defense launcher; 14,000 rounds of 155-mm projectiles; 10 surface drones; 26 Vector reconnaissance UAVs, six HMEE highly mobile backhoe loaders; and a Bergepanzer 2 armored recovery vehicle.” Plus “material for explosive ordnance disposal, 55,000 first-aid kits, small arms, etc.”
Leith,
And I read here on SST+ (not to be confused with CNN+) that Ukraine has a great armaments industry. Even with a few million people fled and a budget entirely reliant on foreign aid. But hey, 2.5 days worth of artillery ammunition.
https://www.defenseone.com/business/2024/02/west-underestimating-ukraines-artillery-needs/394392/
Six backhoes. Oh boy. Not for graves registration uses I’m sure. Maybe some pile drivers next time, for the guard towers at ‘Stalag 17’ for all those Rooskies they are rounding up in the Kursk offensive.
Fred,
The Ukrainian drone industry, if you can call it an industry, is well developed. Russians whine about the number and effectiveness of Ukrainian drones. Beyond that they have their Neptune missiles and Bohdana SPGs, but they’re fairly small.
Ukraine’s grain and other agricultural exports are now approaching pre-war levels and accounts for over half the countries income.
TTG,
Zerohedge is out with an article stating Kursk was planned by the Brits with British equipment. Quoting the Sunday Times (UK) both paywalled.
“Ukraine’s grain and other agricultural exports are now approaching pre-war levels and accounts for over half the countries income.”
I won’t bother asking how much of their income covers their spending as we both know that fact was left out for a reason. As was the fact the Russians and Ukrainians both agreed to the grain export deal, which apparently is still being honored by both sides.
Fred,
That grain export deal fell through fairly quickly. Exports took off again once Ukraine unilaterally established navigation corridors.
TTG,
The Russians are not attacking neutral shipping? Insurance rates are…. Russian exports are….so many unasked questions.
Fred,
The Ukrainians chased the Black Sea Fleet out of Sevastopol and the western Black Sea. More importantly, they demonstrated that attacks on their shipping will result in attacks on Russian shipping when they struck a tanker in the eastern Black Sea a while back. So both Ukrainian and Russian Black Sea exports continue. Ukraine also created a separate war risk insurance program that keeps maritime insurance rates down.
Eric Newhill,
Another twist to this story came out today. Poland told Germany to go pound sand when asked to extradite the Ukrainian to Germany. Poland said they’d more likely give him a medal than extradite him.
I think this whole thing is kabuki theater.
Mobile stone. Nature magazine says six ton altar stone at Stonehenge came from the northern tip of Scotland?
https://media.springernature.com/w440/springer-static/cover-hires/journal/41586/632/8025
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07652-1
https://theweek.com/science/stonehenge-altar-stone-scotland-origin
I’m hoping it’s true but remain cautiously skeptic. Six tons – 4500 years ago – 465 miles by land over mountains – even moving six tons by sea would have been a horrendous undertaking by sailors from the late Stone Age. If by sea then where would they have landed it? Probably not Portmouth, maybe the Bristol Channel? Does that type of sandstone come only from northern Scotland and nowhere else?
leith,
I’m gonna guess by water. There is a river that gets pretty close and some evidence of some pretty large boats built in roughly that time in Scandinavia, albeit scanty.
https://hakaimagazine.com/news/scandinavias-missing-bronze-age-boatyards/
Mark –
It would have to of been by water, the land route looks to be impossible. But they had to be damn fine sailors. Currents and weather were against them. Probably Norse as the Celts did not get there until later.
I think you have that backwards. The Norse were in the British Isles long after the Celts. Celts came around 1,000 BC. Norse 8th century AD.
As for large stones being moved by water, the Nile used to run very close to the pyramids on the Giza plateau. Many of the stones likely were moved on the Nile from as far away as Aswan. The Nile is not the seas around the British Isles, but just goes to show you very large stones can be moved via water, much bigger stones and hundreds of thousands more than were done at Stonehenge.
Stefan –
Per the article I referenced above: “Archaeologists believe the six-ton sandstone megalith was “installed at Stonehenge during the second construction phase, around 2620 B.C. to 2480 B.C.”
So that was 1400 to 1600 years prior to the Celts arrival. Whatever group did this may not have been Norse. But there were neolithic tribes throughout the British Isles, Scandinavia and much of Northern Europe at the time.
The Norse came some 3,000+ years after Stonehenge. The Norse have no place in the discussion around Stonehenge. Not much is known about who built it, but groups can be excluded from the discussion, the Celts and the Norse, especially. Some suggest “Native Britons” but nobody is really sure just who they were.
TBH, there are other similar monuments spread throughout the British Isles that I find more interesting. I have been to Stonehenge, and as a place to visit, it was underwhelming. It might have to do with the crowds that often gather.
Stefan –
There are similar standing stone megalith circles in Norway. There are standing stone circles in the Orkney Isles, one of which predates Stonehenge and is contemporary with the early Pyramids in Egypt. There are standing stones in the Shetland Isles also. So perhaps there were neolithic (or chalcolithic) Scandinavian sailors involved, i.e. lower-case norse? Or perhaps the reverse and neolithic Scots populated southern Norway, as per wikipedia Scotland had been settled by humans two millennia prior to Norway?
We sometimes forget that the people of 5,000 years ago were about identical to ourselves, genetically speaking. Every bit as smart, innovative, and clever when the need or a collective urge struck. Took a long time to figure out how the Easter Islanders made their 12 ton statues “walk”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvvES47OdmY
The Queen of England’s name is Camila. If she’s elected the leader of our country will be named Kamala.
A Kamala – Camilla camarilla.
What are the odds of something so simultaneously weird and consonantly congruent?
Look at the alternatives (Exhibit B):
Donald — Charles;
Charles — Donald;
Melania — Camilla;
Camilla — Melania;
Those are so ordinary and dull I’m greatly tempted to say that Kamala is going to be POTUS Numero 47. A fun joke will be to refer to her as POETESS.
“Because because because because because .. because of the wonderful things he does, da da da da da da da tata tum ..”
You see Frank Baum was a joker with words and how do we know “The Wizard of Oz” didn’t really stand for The Wizard of Ahs. The emerald city was beautiful to behold and when observed it elicited “Ahs” from beholders. There’s no Ahs to be expected from the dreary quartet of pairings in Exhibit B.
So because God or the Oracles of Name or whoever abhor boredom I’m predicting Kamala although I can’t think of a single reason to vote for her other than that the other candidate is extremely dubious. Four consecutive years of a cackling and giggling POETESS may do us in though. It’s likely a conspiracy to kill off us old folks.
However all the first letters of the names in the dreary quartet of pairs — Camilla, Charles, Donald and Melania — C, C, D, M are Roman numerals (100, 100, 500, 1000) with sum 1700 and product 5,000,000,000 — 5 Billion. This has been a very incomplete and juvenile analysis so I may return to it at a later date.
Things the committee neglected to answer:
1) What do Trump’s Vice Presidential picks have in common as to their names?
Answer: Pence and Vance are each 5 letters and also each name ends with “nce.”
2) The Harry S Truman meditation involving the Harris – Trump election, which closed with the hint: Strumpet.
Harris Trump .. Harri S Trump … Harri Strump … Harri Strumpet.
And you’re supposed to chuckle because of the nasty slanders regarding Ms Harris.
————–
Something overlooked entirely.
If “Charles” suggests “Charlatan” then that gives a serious leg-up to a Charles – Donald pairing.
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Something learned today: Count Dracula in Bram Stoker’s book “Dracula”
has two other aliases — Mr De Ville, and Count De Ville:
Chapter 6: Jonathan Harker’s Journal – “He had received a letter from Mr De Ville.”
Chapter 20, Jonathan Harker’s Journal, Letter, Mitchell, Sons & Candy to Lord Godalming, 1 October — “The purchaser is a foreign nobleman, Count de Ville.”
F&L,
I chuckled.
Harry strumpet, coc* – the best comedy makes you laugh b/c it’s true.
*Chuckle out loud
Thanks Eric. The resonance with Harry S Truman really blows my mind given where things are at now and his so-called accomplishments. I looked up his tapes from the Truman library on YouTube. He’s from another planet. Impressive I guess but scary.
Dear TTG and all
One of my pastimes is exploring American culture. I came across this Drew Binsky documentary on one of my virtual travels. It’s a slice of life doco about the people Drew meets in McDowell County West Virginia.
It’s coal mining territory, now in decline, but still the biggest industry in these parts. In many respects, this is the forgotten America, a place where time has seemingly stood still. The stories you’ll encounter here are among the most compelling I’ve ever heard.
Quite prettyful..
https://youtu.be/hHyXN5QmQHk
RobW
“West Virginia isn’t a State it’s a speed trap.”
That was said by a colleague of mine who’s never lived anywhere other than NY City. Indicative of the arrogance.
Jerry Lucas the NBA immortal guard for the LA Lakers was from West Virginia and he wrote a brief autobiography that really stunned me — it’s one of the most interesting books I’ve ever read. He writes about everything from his lifelong clinical depression to his bitter hatred of Douglas Macarthur (who he holds responsible for the death of his beloved brother in Korea) to his zero handicap golf game to all.the celebrities and politicians and businessmen he knew. I couldn’t put it down.
Hi Rob,
I saw a piece on Sunday TV on West Virginia coal miners just before you posted this. Seems the miners are getting black lung disease at earlier ages now. In the past, there was more coal dust than silica in the mines. Now the coal veins being mined contain a lot more silica. And despite all the safely regulations, the mine owners and miners ignore those regulations unless there’s an inspector in the mine.
But as you note and the documentary shows, the countryside and the people can be amazing. Unfortunately, the poverty and drug use is also pretty extensive. A year or so ago, I watched a series about ginseng hunters in West Virginia. There was serious competition among the hunters including taking shots at each other.
Part of the presidential elections seems to always include the candidates from both parties casting their votes on election day and the media coverage of it.
This year this will only include one candidate because Trump, as a convicted felon, has lost his rights to vote and hence will not be able to vote at all. He might be the only presidential candidate not to vote himself, in this case because he is not able to do so. For Trump to try to vote would itself be a criminal act.
Stefan,
Trump just voted in some primary in Florida by early voting no less. I thought he hated early voting.
Yes, he was allowed to vote because of liberal laws governing this issue where his 34 convictions happened. If held to Florida law I believe he would not be allowed to vote until he has finished any prison time, finished any parole/probation and had paid his fines and court costs.
TTG,
Yep. Debbie Dingel hates guns transferred without background checks, except for all the ones her late husband left to other(s) in his will. Principles, or taking advantage of existing law. Take your pick. Many such examples.
Excellent Twitter (X) thread on why Americans have such poor health and the lowest life expectancy in the world (other than Sudan, Russia etc).. He says it’s because the Tobacco companies bought the major food companies, and applied their devilish addictive skills.
https://x.com/bensmithlive/status/1824837001608151140
If pasta, bread, and red meat are so bad, why do Europeans live to 100+ and stay healthy?
But when Americans consume these?
They get chronically sick.
After some research…
I found the disturbing truth that explains exactly what’s going on: 🧵
F&L,
What I remember from Germany is how healthy and local the food was. Shopping for fresh food daily was common in the small towns where I lived. We’d go to the local bakery almost every day. Neither their pastries nor the hot chocolate was as sugar-laden as ours. Even the beer is still governed by the Reinheitsgebot. And that was delivered by the local beer trucks from the local brewery.
TTG –
Yes, the food in Germany blew my mind. I think I gained 25 pounds in three weeks. It was by far the best I had in Europe with the single exception of some pasta with marinara sauce I had at the Milan train station of all places. The tomatoes from the south of France and their “fruits de la mer” definitely merit mention though. The food in England in 1973 was so awful I think I might have starved to death if I hadn’t hit on the idea of Italian restaurants which were almost unaffordable but you have to eat. Same in 1959-60 as a kid. The only palatable food was on the continent during my school holidays when my dad would take us touring. One exception was the fresh guernsey cow milk delivered every morning — it had pure cream underneath the lid and you had to shake it up. To die for. But Wiener Schnitzel kicked butt especially for an American raised on meat n potatoes. I haven’t tried American truck stop food since I worked summers with United Van lines in college — Southern fried steak or chicken fried steak, I can’t remember. Out of this world. Oops, Forgot — A simple eggs and home fries in a tiny out of the way Pennsylvania convenience store / gas station for breakast was so outstanding that I asked the waitress how in the world anything could taste so heavenly. Turned out the eggs and potatoes were grown just behind the store — I’d never eaten such fresh food in my life. It was straight from the chicken coop and onto the grill. Now I understand why the British conquered the world — tasty food!
TTG,
I was born in Germany and still visit regularly. The German diet is still what it used to be as is the German dedicated to “sport”. Something we could learn in this country. As a country we are extremely over weight and sedentary.
cIt would seem that because the laws are so liberal in NY state that Trump will be able to vote unless he is locked up. Everyone not incarcerated in New York State is allowed to vote. Even those on probation and parole. Trump should kiss a liberal. Most states are not this liberal.
Trump is registered to vote and Florida law defers to the state in which the conviction happened.
A conviction in one state voids rights everywhere? When did that happen to become law across the republic? Does an actual judgement by the trial judge need to become completed too or did that get voided in NY state also?
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/19/trump-sentencing-delay-bragg-00174599
Oh lookie there a ruling by the court – guess which one those of you not paying attention- impacts some of the evidence presented at the trial resulting in the verdict of, what’s the democratic word of the month, Joy? Boy guess the trial judge needs to do something about that before sentencing. Unless he doesn’t mind looking completely corrupt.
Economist Nouriel Roubini:
” Trump’s proposed policies — including across-the-board tariffs and an extension of the 2017 tax cuts — are a “highly dangerous” mix for both the economy and the market and could ultimately lead to elevated prices.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/roubini-certain-trump-economic-proposals-are-highly-dangerous-for-markets-155220092.html
TonyL
Indeed but …
As lies he thinks they might win him votes —
And the tax cuts benefit the stinking rotten filthy rich billionaire class.
Look at the overly rich plutocrats he surrounds himself with. Musk for one. And the Shitlerian surveillance queen Thiel. They care about nothing but themselve$$$.
A vote for president of the US is a vote for who gets to be Satan for the next four years and little to nothing else.
Price gouging needs to be addressed too. Did you see the prices Hunter got to charge? Something must be done about that!
Price controls will work! To create the shortages needed to allow Federal intervention. Forward Socialism! Of course a “Turkish-born Iranian-American economic consultant, economist, speaker and writer.” (got all the boxes checked for DEI advancement) knows the economy so well: In January 2009, Roubini predicted that oil prices would stay below $40 for all of 2009. By the end of 2009, however, oil prices were at $80….. In March 2009, he predicted the S&P 500 would fall below 600 that year, and possibly plummet to 200…. It closed at over 1,115 however, up 24%, the largest single-year gain since 2003…… In 2012, Roubini predicted that Greece would be ejected from the Eurozone,….”
(Wiki)
What a track record.
Fred,
Every prediction needs to be seen in full context with stated pre-conditions and caveats.
Roubini also said:
“There is a set of policies he (Trump) could have that could be actually making sense for the economy and for the market,” Roubini said. “But if you take at face value what he wants to do on trade, on currency, on monetary and fiscal policy, [the policies would] be highly dangerous.”
You should go back to all instances where Roubini’s prediction was wrong and read the full context.
TonyL,
No. He’s just a partisan hack writing for the true believers. Trump already had a term where he didn’t destroy the republic, democracy, or faith in mankind. Just destroyed fake news and the curtain surrounding the clowns in DC.
Traditional Values Will Protect Russians From Monkey Pox.
https://www.rt.com/news/602806-russia-mpox-spread-risk/
Zerohedge has a post on Ukraine having much success taking out bridges in Russia’s Kursk region:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-destroys-3rd-bridge-russias-kursk-zelensky-stresses-hell-keep-territory
The post asserts that Ukraine has become considerably more proficient with precision munitions over the last year.
I’m sure they won’t repeat history and go a bridge too far.
They are watching. Watching you and watching me
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mysterious-dark-fungi-are-lurking-everywhere/
If you are hungry for history: The sandwich:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Dd_UaZ4uk
Fred,
I watch a lot of those videos by Townsends. He does a lot about early American life, especially cooking and eating.
For no reason at all,every now and then i watch.to remind of the simple thrill of speed,t shirt and sneakers
https://youtu.be/vSBcrmx4aFw
Wow
Look at the recent comments, he died.
The crazy thing is he died in a plane crash.
The Ukrainian invasion of Russia has lowered the nuclear threshold. Russia can use nukes on its own soil in self-defense. And using nukes on Russian soil would send the message that they are willing to use nukes in the Russo-Ukraine conflict.
The Ukrainian invasion of Russia has reduced the likelihood, or possibility politically speaking, of NATO directly intervening in the conflict in the event Ukraine begins to lose catastrophically. The war is incremented in the direction of two Eastern European clodhoppers duking it out, reversing the earlier understanding of democratic Ukraine standing up to an oppressor.
I have a question for knowledgeable americans concerning us politics and this guy.Steve Cooley.
I read this article https://www.newser.com/story/354725/a-single-moment-in-2010-debate-may-have-saved-kamala-harris.html
And checked out Cooley’s wikipedia page and his stance on womens rights.
Ttg or F&l ….any ideas?
This article know is interesting because it connects the dots to 7/10 and womens rights in general
KH,
No thoughts other than an observation that to attack a beautiful and internationally very popular woman (Natalie Portman) publicly isn’t an indication of the possession of political acumen of a high order. (Usually).
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2002/nov/08/artsfeatures
I found that link in Reference 11 at Steve Cooleys wiki.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Cooley
mcohen,
Willie Brown saved Kamala’s career, or launched it, by appointments to various state boards while she was an entry level prosecutor in the state attorney’s office. The race you cite is the only time she faced a well-financed candidate.
No taxing tips, fracking, secure the border are all great ideas Kamaga has appropriated as her own. She is change I can believe in.
The war on free speech:
Jonathan Turley has a terrific column on that
https://jonathanturley.org/2024/08/19/the-eu-just-declared-war-on-free-speech-in-america-it-is-time-to-fight-back
This makes it clear who the real authoritarians and totalitarians are.
What I am concerned about is not who controls Ukraine (I could not care less),
but this massive and real threat to free speech in the West.
Also the massive cost of escalating tensions with Russia over Ukraine.
Keith, I am heavily aware of withdrawal symptoms SST pilgrims present between 2016-2020 versus now must suffer. But can you ask Sir Turley, where he got his European/German numbers from? I cannot find a poll. It truly sounds
startling.
Also, not so unimportant lately, is “subjective” freedom of speech polled? Compared to objective. And who polled? The US the EU?
You feel the hyper-rich like Musk, and on a much lower level, Trump, should be able to dictate what we think or believe in the wider world, or a high percentage of the population? How many 80% How many in the US still believe the last election was stolen? And that would then be what free speech is all about?
I was a bit startled about how Turely was labeled here quite some time ago. By now, I stopped to wonder about.
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I am not familiar with recent EU legislations, but I am aware of the origin/roots of legislation in my country. I also have a cousin who drifted from the left to the right, and yes, I know the complaint. Last but not least (i.a. 😉 ): no, I didn’t need E.O. to alert me to the fact I am oppressed. I met your comrades online for more than two decades by now and yes all of them tried to convince me how suppressed free-speech-while I am.
The whole saga of biden being pulled and harris being elected as nominee is from what i can see a well planned maneuver that was thought up years ago.It also dovetails in my mind with another aspect.The stratergy hamas inc. used in this round of fighting of targeting woman for capture and their subsequent treatment especially the civilians.This was a first.
Either hamas thought they could get away with it using propaganda campaigns or they were convinced by westetn leadership of support.Either way woman voters in the usa will be looking to a western female leader to remedy this treatment of woman in war and in society.Issues like abortion etc
My question is
I there a connection between the treatment of israeli woman on 7/10 and the attempt to elect harris as president,who is running against a “steve cooley” type person like trump,as the saviour of jewish woman.
Was 7/10 A psychological ploy to swing female voters.Something clinton never achieved which list her the election.
Intelligence operations in the USA:
An infiltration operation against the “far-right”,
the New Yorker gives a detailed look:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/26/infiltrating-the-far-right
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/26/infiltrating-the-far-right
OOOOOh so scary. Did they get around to the FBI’s running the Whitmer Kidknapping or the Ft. Worth Cartoon event shooting? Naw, that’s ancient history. But the Patriot Front gets a lot of coverage, aslo: the “A federal grand jury returned an indictment on Aug. 14, charging Kai Liam Nix, also known as Kai Brazelton, with unlawful firearms trafficking, including the sale of two stolen firearms, prosecutors said.” well, that’s “3D printed gun. My my the barrel of “The FGC-9 firearm was submitted to the ATF Firearms Laboratory who confirmed that it was a short barrel rifle less than 16 inches in violation of the National Firearms Act (NFA)”
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ednc/pr/fort-bragg-soldier-apparent-plot-remove-racial-minorities-eastern-north-carolina
Someone got killed by ATF over a barrel “too short” that created a lot of brooh ha ha in the past.
https://seoklaw.com/the-incident-at-ruby-ridge/
I believe that cost the tax payers a few million, and one innocent woman her life. I’m sure the rest is breathless reading but won’t clue us in on the person who left that bomb outside the DNC office on J6.
How are U.S. Army officers selected for command?
This article gives some information on that.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/08/22/suspended-army-4-star-asks-command-back-after-pressuring-panel-prop-career-of-unfit-subordinate.html
“But at the heart of the investigation is Hamilton’s contacting of panel members, which included Maj. Gens. Jeth Rey, Trevor Bredenkamp and Hope Rampy.
“It is true — I contacted general officers whom I believed were on Command Assessment Program panels,” Hamilton wrote.
…
The Command Assessment Program was specifically designed to avoid outside influence.
The panel members who interview officer candidates are behind a curtain and are not given photos or the names of the candidates. They’re also purposefully not given key career information about candidates, such as their officer branch, to avoid situations in which panel members from different career tracks may have a bias against others.
The panel is also supposed to be anonymous to anyone outside of the process.
Panel members are selected only hours before the assessment to circumvent the risk that they are lobbied.”