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04-09-22 20:38 #7924
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Ukraine Is a Battleground, But the Stakes Are Global.
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A Ukrainian soldier in Mariupol (Mstyslav Chernov / AP).
By Nicholas Dima.
Saturday, 09 April 2022 10:02 AM.
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Essentially, the war in Ukraine is about resetting global arrangements. Sure, the war is about the Russian invasion, and it has caused untold suffering, but what we see is only the proverbial tip of the iceberg.
Beneath the surface is a deadly confrontation between two competing world visions: Western capitalist globalism vs. Eastern nationalist socialism. Although Ukraine is the battleground, the stakes are global.
The Western vision started at the end of WWII and continued thereafter when the winning powers set up the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization, and other regional blocs.
Later, Europe began to unite, and NATO was set up to defend the West. The intention of the founders was honorable: to safeguard and promote freedom and democracy. However, as the French philosopher Blaise Pascal once said, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions. ".
In time it became known as the New World Order. From the start, it favored the rich countries and the strong corporations. With the passage of time, nation states and governments began to lose their prerogatives and international companies began to control the world's economy. As long as America defended the West against brutal and godless communism, the system worked.
But once the communist bloc disintegrated, the rush toward globalization became a savage race. While rich people and corporations became richer, increasingly more people and some entire countries began to struggle causing social confusion and polarization.
The USA Media, for example, often refers to the "1%" of the population that owns most of everything and controls society. The American political system still works, but average people struggle under financial debt.
On a global level, the situation is a lot worse. In his book "Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making" (Ferrar, Straus and Giraux, New York, 2008), David Rothkopf describes a world controlled by several thousand greedy billionaires who have everything and, yet, they want even more.
These globalists backed by the American government and apologists of globalization have their own view of earthly paradise. They claim, "In the future, people will own nothing, and everybody will be happy!
Really? Who will be in charge? What does the average American stand to gain?
During Soviet times, Moscow was supposed to establish communism as a "worker's paradise. " Did we reverse roles and, instead of communism, we now push for globalization?
Regarding the war in Ukraine, yes, we should assist the suffering Ukrainian people. For most Americans, the appeal is humanitarian. For the global elite, the end game means huge resources and more profits.
And if Ukraine is added to the Western globalist portfolio, maybe Russia will be next.
The Russian Federation under Putin does not like such a perspective, while the Russian society is thoroughly split. The young, educated generation is attracted by the lure of the West. The oligarchs are divided. They would accept the new order if the West would let them keep the loot.
The Russian majority is caught by surprise. Many Russians have returned to the old Christian religion and values, but they do not like Putin's authoritarian rule.
The new Russia, and especially the Orthodox Church, also rejects the values, mentality, and behavior of the West. They deplore its chaotic liberties, licentious behavior, lack of morality, and anti-Christian trends. The Western and Eastern visions are now colliding in Ukraine, but that might be just a waystation toward a global reset.
Behind Russia is China, a nationalist-socialist country with its own plan and vision of the world: another vision; another future clash.
Nicholas Dima, Ph. The. , is a former professor and author of numerous books and articles including the autobiographical memoir "Journey to Freedom," a description of the effects of communist dictatorship on a nation, a family and an individual. He currently lectures.
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04-09-22 19:34 #7923
Stupid Lawyer?
The only thing dumber than Carlson's lawyer are the idiots who think Carlson ever tells the truth. People like you. Originally Posted by Canada
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04-09-22 18:44 #7922
Proud to admit I am so over-the-top in love with the greatest potus of all time
So much so if I could blow him with your mouth I would!! Originally Posted by EihTooms
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04-09-22 18:35 #7921
LMAO pissed myself
They are worried about her tainting the integrity of their brand? But it doesn't have any LMAO just tune into that lesbo on msnbc and all the rest of the NBC / MSNBC pathological liars LOL. Originally Posted by EihTooms
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But Psaki is a bridge too far LMAO they just don't want to be associated with Biden, losers and cheaters by association!!
Anyone that works for him is seriously damaged goods!! Permanently!
https://www.rt.com/news/553568-psaki...d-credibility/
https://ussanews.com/2022/04/09/npr-...en-is-a-story/
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04-09-22 16:40 #7920
Try hiring a good lawyer
I can understand that you can't afford to hire a good lawyer and you got stuck with a court appointed lawyer so you got a dumb one. That is the luck of the draw. If you actually hired a competent lawyer he wouldn't be telling you that stupid stuff. And it really is unfair that you are admitting your lawyer is stupid when he can't defend himself. Originally Posted by PVMonger
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04-09-22 16:36 #7919
Look at the facts
Look at the facts. Oil consumption in the world is increasing still to this day. Don't be stupid enough to fall for the fake news. Originally Posted by ScatManDoo
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04-09-22 16:34 #7918
Exactly
Exactly. The fools trying to defend Biden's failing policies blame Trump every time. They aren't smart enough to think for themselves so they watch or Google fake news and they feel better about themselves. There are always going to be the intelligent like you and there will always be fools trying to rebuke you with fake news. Originally Posted by Elvis2008
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04-09-22 14:28 #7917
No surprise you have a stupid lawyer
It is no surprise that you have a stupid lawyer. Stupidity attracts stupidity. Originally Posted by PVMonger
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04-09-22 14:25 #7916
The world will in 2022 and pump more in 2023
The world will pump more oil because demand is going up every day. The USA may not pump more oil than 2019 under Biden presidency because Biden is killing domestic production and begging other countries to produce oil. And they will and keep prices high as per World Oil and all experts. Originally Posted by ScatManDoo
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World Oil:
In its monthly oil market report, the IEA raised its demand estimates by 200,000 be / the for both 2021 and 2022, to reflect clear signs that impact on economic activity and oil demand from the omicron variant remained "relatively subdued."
World oil demand was seen rising by 5.5 million be / the in 2021 and by 3. 3 million be / the in 2022, the IEA said, surpassing its pre-pandemic levels by 200,000 be / the to 99.7 million be / the.
During the fourth quarter of 2021, the IEA said global demand "defied expectations" rising by 1.1 million be / the to 99 million be / the, an upward revision of 345,000 be / the compared to its previous report.
"If demand continues to grow strongly or supply disappoints, the low level of stocks and shrinking spare capacity mean that oil markets could be in for another volatile year in 2022. " the IEA said.
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04-09-22 13:58 #7915
The Most Shocking Thing About The 2020 Election
Trump is an astonishingly stupid man with an abysmal business record and the worst across-the-board results of any POTUS in history. Originally Posted by MarquisdeSade1
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The most shocking thing about the 2020 election was that there were enough Repubs who were even more astonishingly stupid than Trump to actually put him up for re-election and vote for him at all.
Yes, we all knew Repubs were stupid. But it was even shocking to me that they were that stupid.
The 2020 election was not rigged except by the built-in Electoral College rigging that allows states with more outhouses than office buildings to have a ridiculously outsized say in putting Repub numbskulls in the White House.
You should be ashamed to admit you are so over-the-top in love with the worst so-called potus of all time, Trump, that you fantasize about how the po' widdow America-hating con man was cheated out of 4 more years of producing the crappiest crap results of all your beloved crap Repub so-called presidents.
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04-09-22 13:51 #7914
Nope, I'm not crazy
But you are. Everything you post is "post hoc ergo propter hoc" reasoning. Originally Posted by Elvis2008
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There is worldwide inflation. Is President Biden responsible for that, too? Because blaming President Biden for US inflation when there is worldwide inflation at the same time is ludicrous. Except, of course, when your logic consists solely of "post hoc ergo propter hoc" reasoning.
The same holds true for gasoline prices.
The only people who don't see that are the ones that are crazy.
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04-09-22 13:37 #7913Stupidity is thinking that you need a 4,000 pound vehicle for you to safely drive yourself and a date out for coffee. Originally Posted by CaliGuy
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04-09-22 05:57 #7912
The truth will set us free
A review of "Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections," by Mollie Hemingway (Regnery, 432 pages, $29.99). Originally Posted by PVMonger
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How the 2020 Election Was Rigged.
Next time someone caricatures evidence of voting irregularities as a conspiracy theory, throw the book at them—Mollie Hemingway's book.
By Bruce Oliver Newsome.
October 31,2021.
We are a year overdue for the true story of the 2020 elections. Mollie Hemingway has at last delivered it to us in one tidy volume.
It's a complex story, which makes for a weighty book. The research is thorough, the writing is evidentiary, the style is clinical—like investigative journalism and social science used to be. The endnotes alone run nearly 100 pages.
Reading Rigged, one isn't jarred by hyperbole, conjecture, or spin. Hemingway is unequivocal on progressive malice, yet she can be scathing of Republicans, too. She is particularly critical of Rudy Giuliani's attempts to publicize fraud nationally, thereby undermining prior case-by-case efforts to get particular state courts to recognize particular violations of particular state laws.
She also calls out Republican officials who preferred to help the opposition rather than reveal their own state's dysfunctions. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office, for instance, secretly recorded a telephone appeal from Trump to expose fraud in Fulton County, then misrepresented Trump to the press as asking for the statewide result to be changed.
Overall, the story reads like a tragedy. One alternates between anger and consternation that bleeding obvious facts were not reported by the mainstream media at the time.
Some evidence of election irregularities broke through mainstream censorship: the strange spikes in votes counted for Biden overnight in counties with unusually strong Democratic Party governance and histories of criminal mishandling of votes (Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Fulton County, for example).
Over subsequent days, a news consumer with time and effort could piece together strange disputes. Official election observers were denied access, or kept so far away they could not see any ballots. They sought emergency court orders, but some courts set hearing dates weeks in the future or simply denied jurisdiction. Even if observers did obtain a court order, election officials claimed not to understand it (as in Philadelphia).
In Georgia, observers were told that counting was being suspended overnight, but a surveillance camera recorded video of four persons pulling boxes of ballots from beneath a cloaked table for unobserved digital entry. Still, Georgia's officers continued to claim that voting had been suspended overnight. Surely this was a story worthy of investigative reporting? The mainstream media preferred to report all the disputes as conspiracy theories.
Witnesses came forward testifying to ballot harvesting, ballot stuffing, counts for the Democratic Party without ballots, ballots for the Republican Party that disappeared without counting. Nevertheless, the Republican Party could not get most of the media to show up to hear these witnesses, or the courts to admit them.
And so 2020 petered out, with the election still disputed but barely investigated. Most of the evidence, most of the admissions, most of the backtracking, waited until after Biden's victory was confirmed by Congress in January.
A History of Rigging.
As Hemingway shows in the book's opening pages, the theft of an election is a long time in the making, and incorporates many efforts other than ballot rigging. This is the strength of the book: she starts the narrative by detailing the flaws in early American elections that would be reinstituted in 2020.
In 1844, voting was spread over five weeks, which meant that the results of early voting surely influenced later voters. Additionally, early voters missed out on later campaigning. In 1848, all voting, by law, was scheduled to take place on the same day. And yet, 130 years later, progressive states turned legitimate absentee voting into no-cause early voting.
In 2020, progressives championed early voting and mail-in voting, knowing that Republicans preferred to vote in person on the day. To strengthen the case, progressives campaigned for all Americans to be locked down against COVID-19, contrary to the pan-Asian norm of locking down local hotspots. A general lockdown had the additional advantage of ruining the national economy, which had been booming, to Trump's credit. Further, lockdown prevented Trump from campaigning at his best (in person), and excused the stumbling, bumbling Biden from leaving his home.
Perversely, progressives both encouraged mob rule in response to the killing of George Floyd in May, and used the violence as yet another justification for mail-in voting—and for voting against Trump. As Biden tweeted on August 27, "Remember: every example of violence Donald Trump decries has happened on his watch. Under his leadership. During his presidency."
Widespread Collusion.
The progressives' champions were funded by tech oligarchs and promoted by the mainstream media. Even Republican state officials colluded. For instance, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp watered down signature-matching requirements in 2019 to appease Stacey Abrams' claims of "voter suppression" when she lost to him in 2018. Of course, appeasement just emboldens the bully. Later in 2019, the Democratic Party's chief elections litigator, Marc Elias, sued Raffensperger, who consented to allow for disputed absentee ballots to be "cured" rather than summarily discounted, and to allow Democrats to train and advise officials on signature matching.
Georgia's primary election in June 2020 was conducted by the counties. They made a mess of it—especially the strongly Democratic counties. The worst offender, Fulton County, was forced to agree to federal monitoring and various training and performance standards. Yet state reforms were perversely to their advantage. Raffensperger inexplicably directed most of the reform funds to those same Democratic counties, which promoted yet more mail-in voting.
Millions of dollars were sourced from Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, acting mainly through the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) and Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL). Both centers were founded and run by former affiliates of the Democratic Party. Some of these affiliates were given roles in the implementation of official reforms. In the city of Green Bay, Wisconsin, they were actually given keys to the central counting facility and ballot machines.
Did election integrity improve given this outsourcing? No. In Green Bay, poll workers "cured" ballots with the same color pens voters had used. Subsequently, Wisconsin's legislature voted to ban private funding of election operations, only to be vetoed by Democratic Governor Tony Evers.
CEIR reported that it contacted all 50 states, of which 23 were awarded funds. What CEIR did not explicitly report was that it gave 7. 6 times more funds to Democratic states than to states that had voted for Trump in 2016. CEIR gave more than half of its money to four battleground states: Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona.
Georgia received more than $31 million, or nine percent, of all "Zuck Bucks. " Yet not all of Georgia's counties received funding. Biden-voting counties received $7. 13 per registered voter, on average, compared to $1. 91 in Trump-voting counties. Counties that did not receive CEIR funding did not show significant voting shifts from 2016 to 2020, but the funded counties showed an average shift of 2. 3 percent in favor of Democrats.
The disputed runoff for Georgia's two USA Senators accounted for another $14.5 million from Zuckerberg's organizations, with similar bias in favor of Democratic counties.
The other battleground states showed the same funding bias. In the end, Zuckerberg had channeled more than $400 million into nominally non-partisan election reforms.
Changing the Rules.
For the 2020 general election, 39 states modified their election laws or procedures.
Early voting started up to two months before the statutory election day, and one month before the first televised debate between the presidential candidates. Receipts were permitted days after election day, to accommodate the anticipated postal delays. More than 100 million of the 159 million ballots counted in 2020 were posted prior to election day. In 2016, the rate had been 33 million posted out of 140 million counted. Joe Biden won the Electoral College by 43,000 more votes than Trump across just three states.
Early voters are generally less informed voters. In 2020, in-person Republican voters were suppressed by general reporting that early voting favored Biden. They were further suppressed by inaccurate polling suggesting Biden was on course for a landslide. Finally, they were suppressed by early results out of Arizona, which started counting mail-in ballots two weeks before election day. Biden won Arizona by a margin of just 0. 3 percent, and Georgia by the same margin.
Early voting makes fraud easier, of which the two easiest forms are double voting and manipulating another person's ballot. Secrecy of voting is more difficult in a household than a voting booth. Family members, community organizers, and clerics have been known to collect ballots for completion.
In some states, strangers are allowed to harvest ballots, meaning that they may collect ballots merely on the promise to deliver them correctly. But the volunteer could filter out votes for disliked candidates, or influence how the ballot is completed, particularly in the name of the elderly, homeless, infirm, or anyone confined on the grounds of COVID.
Secretly filmed footage from Minneapolis showed harvesters for Representative Ilhan Omar exchanging cash for ballots. The all-mail-in election for Paterson City Council, New Jersey in May 2020 was invalidated by court order, after 19 percent of ballots were disqualified (mostly for unmatched signatures, the rest for being packaged together). The City Council's incumbent vice president and three other men were charged with voter fraud.
Voters are alerted to the opportunities for double voting when they receive ballots at more than one address. Eleven percent of Americans move every year. States are incentivized to register more than to purge voters. In 2019, Judicial Watch forced LOS Angeles County, by civil legal action, to purge its voter rolls of at least 1. 5 million voters above the number of voting-age resident citizens. In the same year, Judicial Watch established that eight states and DC maintained more registered voters than eligible voters.
Mail-in ballots make double voting easier still, because the voter's identity is usually proven by nothing more than a signature. In New Jersey, which compares the ballot signature with the signature obtained during voter registration, 9. 6 percent of mail-in ballots were disqualified, on average, across 31 local elections in May 2020.
In November 2020, thousands of Georgians voted within a county other than the county in which they lived—mostly by absentee voting.
In some jurisdictions, the only signatures to compare are the signature on the ballot, and the signature on the application for a ballot, which itself might have been obtained by somebody other than the legitimate voter. In any case, even in states that mandate a comparison, election workers seem to have skipped the burden. Some parts of Pennsylvania counted ballots without either the signature or the date—even though both are required by law. Only 0. 4 percent of absentee ballots were rejected by Georgia in November 2020, compared to 6. 4 percent in 2016. Some Republicans tested the system by using different signatures at each stage, without getting caught, as they proved later by publishing photographs.
All of this adds up to a targeted campaign to undermine election integrity in the 2020 elections. Across several states, with the help of numerous friendly institutions, the Democratic Party was able to change the way America votes, and manipulate how those votes were counted. The vast coordination to defeat Trump by any means necessary on display in Rigged exposes the rank dishonesty of leftist objections to the Right's efforts to ensure election integrity. Next time someone caricatures evidence of voting irregularities as a conspiracy theory, throw the book at them—Mollie Hemingway's book.
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04-09-22 05:53 #7911
Will Garland appoint a special counsel before Nov?
https://amgreatness.com/2022/04/08/n...ness-dealings/ Originally Posted by PVMonger
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04-09-22 04:42 #7910
To Trump-Repubs, it's all about Control, Operational Control, definitely not votes
Yep. Control, Operational Control and not votes. That's what it is all about for Trumpsters and Repubs.
The Trump-Repub style of "democracy" was and still is the envy of and inspiration to authoritarian dictatorships around the world. It clearly has been the inspiration for Putin to invade any budding democracy he wants and take "Control, Operational Control" of it knowing very, very well every Republican Party or non Democratic Party voter and supporter in America will give him their full permission, encouragement and support to do so.
'We control them all': Donald Trump Jr. texted Meadows ideas for overturning 2020 election before it was called.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/04/08/p...ext/index.html
Quick! Back to the desperate search through Hunter Biden's laptop to find the rest of that video of him getting a footjob from an Asian chick!Washington(CNN)Two days after the 2020 presidential election, as votes were still being tallied, Donald Trump's eldest son texted then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows that "we have operational control" to ensure his father would get a second term, with Republican majorities in the US Senate and swing state legislatures, CNN has learned.
In the text, which has not been previously reported, Donald Trump Jr. lays out ideas for keeping his father in power by subverting the Electoral College process, according to the message reviewed by CNN. The text is among records obtained by the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021.
"It's very simple," Trump Jr. texted to Meadows on November 5, adding later in the same missive: "We have multiple paths. We control them all."
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