Why not take it from the Israelis ?
 

Or anyone who has ever trusted and partnered with ZOG. In the end, they always get it in the end.

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IS is a CIA/Mossad creation, wherever it may be. al-Shabaab is its rival, designated as ‘terrorist’ in much the same manner as Hamas is: because it interferes with the hegemonic objectives of the usual suspects.
 

Of course, the Bush administration was notorious for its neoconservative policies, so none of this comes as any surprise.
 

Currently, Israel would like a foothold in Somaliland for more than one reason.
 

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Sailer has demonstrated a massive blind spot in regards to WWII and the events leading up to it.

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Antifa originated in the Weimar Republic in the 1920s as Stalin’s bullyboys who fought in the streets his chief enemies, the leftist Social Democrats, whom the Soviet supremo denounced as “social fascists.” As a student of Marxist historical science, Stalin was convinced that the main enemy of his Communists were Socialists, while rightists like Hitler were merely a doomed distraction.

Not surprisingly, German Antifa were a failure at stopping the Nazis because they were so focused on overthrowing Stalin’s foes, such as elected Social Democrats like Hermann Müller.
 

He may have been trying to do some hyperbole but went too far and got lost at sea.

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Well ya always gotta love ya some Paula, any way you can catch her.

I have to apologize for being a bit of a bit, lately: there are some dreadful things going on in the local, my older brother is kinda-sorta dying of a rare neurological disorder, and that's not even the worst of it. But it sort of is for me, because he was my mentor in all sorts of ways, we made hilarious weird tape-deck sketch comedy together when we weren't even ten yet, we made a "Billy Jack" parody on Super 8 before even the latest real "Billy Jack" parody of itself had even been released. Watching him slip away is kind of tearing me apart. I don't know what I'm gonna do. But thankfully we do have a really strong family, so there's always that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjOnQU1N_zQ&list=RDGjOnQU1N_zQ&start_radio=1

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Reports from within Spanish-speaking countries and international organizations indicate child sexual abuse is a significant issue,not something that is normal or accepted

Get it right.

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There's a data perception problem with this map because it effectively treats Indian tribes as modern nation states with borders and modern populations. A lot of that area was empty, and some territories overlapped.

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Above from David Cole.
 

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'...One reason that I do not trust the “warmers” is that they ignore solutions such as nuclear energy as they don’t match their agenda for changing society.'
 

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'MAGA’s all about coupling, bundling. “You want closed borders? You have to buy the Holocaust denial package...'
 

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Not bad ideas, but given the way China and India are pumping out greenhouse gases, not sufficient.
 

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It’s less expensive than taxing the white middle class into oblivion, which is the only solution you global warning loons can seem to come up with.
 

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"Both Trump and Hannity made public endorsements of the vaccine"

Trump received three hundred sixty thousand dollars from the pharm companies in the 2020 campaign. Biden received even more, nine hundred seventy thousand dollars. Biden went even further than just endorsing the vaccine. He tried to mandate it for large segments of the population.

Working for the army, I was required to get the vaccine even though I had Covid five months prior to that and there was plenty of evidence I had natural immunity after getting the disease. I was told I had to get the vaccine to keep me from catching Covid and passing it on to my coworkers even though there was also accumulating evidence the vaccine did not stop transmission. I was teleworking full time from home then. Apparently they thought I could transmit the disease to coworkers working miles away from me. It was a common belief in the army the vaccines were mandated to boost pharm company profits as a way to pay them back for the big donations they had given politicians.

As for the media, the pharm companies buy lots of advertising from them. Therefore, it is naive to think the media would be totally unbiased when it comes to discussing the value of pharm company products.

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This site attracts the right wing equivalent of woke social justice warriors who tear each other apart for microaggressions.

One of the best descriptions I have seen of the problem.

Unz is a social experiment that unfortunately fails for most of the posters.

They understandably complain about the bias of the MSM but then turn hostile towards dissenting views. In their minds this is different and certain viewpoints shouldn't be allowed. They often take an inverse MSM approach where any opinion similar to the mainstream must be rejected on its basis before it has been studied. This is of course illogical. MSM says it will rain tomorrow? Well of course it will be sunny since they lie about so much else. I don't have to read no stinking weather report. They lie and YOU must be on their side.

How much would the MSM be able to deceive the public if dissenting views of all types were allowed?

But for most posters at Unz they believe that their tribalism is different. Well we need to suppress certain viewpoints for the sake of (ideological beliefs or movement).

Yes that is exactly how mainstream conservatives and liberals think.

In their minds they are blocking dissenting views that are noxious or part of some counter-movement that is against the good of America.

"We need to block your opinion for a better tomorrow. The view you are espousing may indeed have a basis in reality but it isn't good for the public as it will only encourage the destructive opposition."

- Mainstream liberals, conservatives and around 2/3rds of Unz posters

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If you're agreeing with Pajeet Johnson then you should probably take a step back an reassess. Him or her or it (and you, FTM) suggesting people here have a hard time with people disagreeing is laugh out loud funny.

Pajeet Johnson is one of the several gaslighting tools who brings the lockstep mainstream approved narrative to an alternative viewpoint webzine and then cries like a bitch because people with more intelligence in their clipped fingernails laugh him out of the call center.

"Sailer’s views are pretty close to most commenters here compared to the mainstream media. "

This is about as honest as the trope saying pigs and humans are more genetically similar than they are genetically different.

"He is against America interfering in Ukraine’s politics, "

Uh,, whaaaaaaaaaat? He is absolutely NOT against the US interfering with Ukraine politics, as it has been doing for 11 plus years. He is against Russia finally... finally, after a decade of provocation from the neocon US State Dept, stepping in to defend not only itself from a hostile and encroaching NATO blob, but also its ethnic cousins who have been getting oppressed and murdered by the thousands since 2014.

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Polls showed that support for the vaccine among doctors was greater than 98%.

What is more likely:

1. Steve looked at the evidence and agreed with most doctors.

2. Pharmaceutical companies decided to pay a blogger who is known in the mainstream to have politically incorrect views of race. They paid him to endorsed the vaccines on a website that is already buried by the search engines.

Not sure why "the crowds" of Unz have such a hard time with the possibility of someone disagreeing with.

MUST BE A CONSPIRACY. WHO COULD POSSIBILY DISAGREE WITH US. NO NEED FOR DISSENTING VIEWS. ITS A FLAWLESS BELIEF STRUCTURE.

Outspoken anti-vax radio host Marc Bernier died after three-week battle with COVID-19: report
https://www.rawstory.com/anti-vaxxer-marc-bernier-deceased/

Completely solid beliefs.

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There are some fascinating and fun experiments that have been done: In one case, two rugby teams were celebrating at a pub. One was served real beer, while the other drank non-alcoholic beer. Neither team knew about this. They were not aware that they were not all enjoying normal beer.

Snacks were served, as much as anyone wanted. You know, pretzels, wings, chips, whatever. People behind the scenes were carefully weighing and measuring everything both teams consumed.

Well, you can guess the results. The team that was drinking actual alcohol consumed 20% more calories than the other team.

I know this because a female (OMG!) doctor suggested I watch it several years ago. She got me down to a state of fitness and weight equivalent to where I was when I was climbing mountains in Colorado in my thirties. I am sorry, dudes, but I listen to women, because I love them and I can't help it. I am pretty sure this is normal. I hope there is at least one woman out there reading this.

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Thankfully, that issue was settled, albeit with much bloodshed in the Civil War. I imagine you, unlike Curle, find the “peculiar institution” to be malignant and cruel, and therefore it was necessary to permanently remove it.
 

I won't even bother to go through it again. Suffice it to say that at the time, the war was about preserving/restoring the Union.

Well, that might have been convincing at the time -- and I can see the argument. But it's not so convincing now. Would we agree that Great Britain should have refused Ireland independence? That Sweden should have crushed the Norwegians with fire and sword in 1905? That Stalin was quite right to set about recovering Finland in 1939?

Nope -- we take a more nuanced view about national sovereignty these days. Hell, the Ukraine is the good guy now, aren't they? They wanna be independent -- so they can be.

But back to the Civil War. What we want that war to be about was freeing the slaves -- them poor black folks. So we make it about that. Never mind the truth. We need it to be a fine moral crusade, with a good guy and a bad guy -- by our lights.

People always do this. They don't look at the past as it was. They remake it to fit their present. The Crusades were about economics. The Sepoy Mutiny was a struggle for Indian independence.

A good example of this is change in how the quintessential bad man -- Hitler -- is vilified. Who he actually was is secondary. He is portrayed as whatever is undesirable in the eyes of his critics. At the time, and immediately after the war, he was above all plebian. He was a house painter.

But that shortly ceased to be a bad thing. So he became a sexual deviant: every imaginable vice was ascribed to that really rather puritanical fellow back around 1960-65.

That actually got reversed. By 2000 or so, sexual deviance was in -- and so Hitler was abused for persecuting sexual deviants. The horror of it all but ranked with the Jews.

But the point, to reiterate, is that we don't look at the past. We imagine the past to have been whatever we would prefer it to be. Hitler becomes whatever current fashion says is most loathesome. Dark Age Britain: screw the reality. Let's think it was King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. It's the past we want there to have been.

The truth of the matter becomes entirely secondary.

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I actually agree with several of your points but your assertions are totally unsupported.

Ok and what has been the biggest attack by Hamas against Israel since their incursion? What battle? Scott Ritter specifically stated there would be battle bigger than Fallujah. Well where the f-ck is it?

The Ukrainians post daily video of popping Russian tanks and armored vehicles. I've seen one video of a Hamas soldier sniping a few IDF soldiers and that was over a year ago.

Hamas blew their load on October 7th. They already had lousy leaders and that stupid attack probably led to the destruction of whatever network they had left. The IDF blew their tunnels and probably buried most of their arms from Iran. The weapons they had remaining are from the 70s. They don't have any body armor while the IDF gets the latest in American gear.

But at alt-right you will get called a Jew for making such unwanted observations. Most posters would prefer Scott Ritter's nightly Hamas fantasy report. Instead of CNN they want Scott Ritter to go PEW PEW PEW and tell us how Hamas is kicking them IDF asses with their Red Dawn tunnels. It's the same childish reality avoidance that exists in the MSM. Israel is in the wrong but that doesn't mean the correct move is to lie and have "our own" talking head like Ritter tell the same dishonest reporting for group feels that already corrupts Western media. Oh but it's different if Ritter does it cause we're the right group. Yea that's how everyone thinks. My group is right and that's why we don't have to be entirely honest.

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Euphemism?
 

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BTW, if anyone wonders what I think is beautiful, I will say that my backyard in spring is beautiful:

https://dl.imgdrop.io/file/aed8b140-8472-4813-922b-7ce35ef93c9e/2025/05/13/6May2023-2423aa9532a625e10.md.jpeg

I took this picture in my backyard. In the lower right, you can see a maple tree stump that I converted into a table with a bench next to it. Sometimes I write comments from there.

This is the first time I have posted one of my own pictures here.

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I had a smidgen of curiosity to sense if there is any hostility towards Americans. I am glad to report there is none at all. Their focus of anger is exactly one person.

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Recently returned from a short visit to Canada. Canada, not only is a country but also feels like a nation. U.S. on the other hand, feels like an agglomeration of people without a polity. Congress, the sovereign of the nation, appears to be like a patient that suffered a brain hemorrhage and has been in a coma for 25 years.

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There was talk of creating a new website as Unz wasn’t following their will. What they wanted was censorship.
 

They wanted to create a new website where only anti-vaxx opinions were allowed.

They did not want Ron Unz posting anything less than the anti-vaxx message.

That shows a desire for censorship. They want the public to only hear their message.

and if you actually tallied up “100” accusations of conspiracy, I think you have too much time on your hands.

I don't have to tally it up. It's an easy estimate like guessing that there are more than 100 fish in the sea. You can just search my history and see that I did not imagine constant accusations of being paid. I was accused of being a subversive Jew or paid pharm agent nearly daily during COVID. Sorry if you can't even handle truth of the COVID reactionary force at Unz. It's public record and we can go over it if you would like.

Just grow a pair JJ.

That's amusing given that I was not part of a group that was calling for a new website and making daily accusations of how dissenting views must be paid by pharmaceutical companies.

If you want we can go back and look at the comments of Ron's essay.

The reaction was majority negative and there was consistent outrage over him not taking the opinions of the crowds. There were calls for him to stop writing over one f-cking issue. The anti-vaxxers were clearly the sensitive tea ladies that want alt-right to be an echo chamber of gossip. There were also numerous accusations of him being part of a Jewish conspiracy. Same for Steve. Oppose the Alt-right crowds on vaccines = must be part of a conspiracy. That message was given daily. Go ahead and cite a post by Unz on Steve on vaccines where I am wrong. This place absolutely blew up when Ron dared to question the anti-vaxxers. The message was clear which is that you can question liberal orthodoxy but not our precious anti-vaxxers.

I think the vaccine skeptics have been largely vindicated and “your local pharmacist” (let us envision a kindly, grey-haired old fella, dispensing wisdom along with doses) has not.

I don't see how that would be the case when mass die offs predicted by anti-vaxxers never materalized. Ron was in fact chastised for pointing out that high vaxx Euro countries like Iceland did not have some subsequent year of mass death.

The most commonly cited side effect (myocardisis in young men) is extremely rare and was caught by VAERS. That's amusing since the anti-vaxxers told us we can't trust VAERS. It was also quite telling that they didn't recommend the vaccine for older high risk groups while promoting more research on young men. Or perhaps a gender based approach for that age group. They stuck to their message of NO VAX FOR ANYONE which shows lockstep conformity that isn't based in data. Their complete lack of support for nuanced thinking was quite telling. Suggesting that only high risk populations be vaccinated was unacceptable to them. They wanted total conformity.

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You're an idiot and a shill, but we all know that, Mr. Shearer. Steve's audience and buzz grew here. Sure, he could have kept on with his blog, and he could have volunteered at his local YMCA too. I know that, but why do you think he even came here? Unz, a big player who garnered many thousands of votes in a California gubernatorial election, paid him (!) and Steve's readership, exposure and commentariat grew big time on a website that got noticed. It's all okay. You don't need to get your panties in a wad about it.

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And, by the same token, there are now “gender researchers” who claim that young children, even perhaps toddlers, are expressing a gender preference different than thier “birth gender” (what we used to call simply “sex”)

No I don't see how that is by the same token.

Autism is a learning disability and I can cite a dozen studies on autism in children.

Go ahead and cite the equivalent for sex changes in children under 5.

I’m sorry, if medical science wanted to be trusted and respected they should not have done the whole COVID thing.

Unlike you I have worked with children and differences from autism are more apparent than race. Those differences are obvious even if you haven't read about autism. It isn't the imagination of liberals or some exaggerated condition. Autistic children follow certain patterns and they can be extreme.

I don't take the position that gender should be changed in youth and in fact that is not the mainstream position of the medical establishment. In fact the vast majority of Democrats agree:
https://thepostmillennial.com/67-of-democrats-think-sex-change-surgery-hormones-should-only-be-available-to-adults

You're buying too much into hype and conflating different issues.

Try turning off your Fox and working with kids. Autism is not made up or a state of confusion from modernism. You can get on youtube and watch how these kids interact with their parents. It's not something they are making up when the patterns are consistent at age 2 or 3.

Eventually the cause will be determined and you better be ready for the possibility that it is some chemical in the food supply.

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Glad the inner fascist is coming out.

Besides, you’d be put in a camp first as an elitist financial officer who works in NYC.

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we were due for a right wing pro-American govt.
 

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From The Times
April 28, 2025

BREAKING NEWS


Cole Burston for The New York Times

Mark Carney Wins Full Term as Canada’s Prime Minister on Anti-Trump Platform

The voters’ decision sealed a stunning turnaround for the Liberal Party that just months ago seemed all but certain to lose to the Conservative Party, led by the career politician Pierre Poilievre.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/28/world/canada-election
 

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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-judge-blocks-trumps-order-ending-x-gender-marker-passports

Biden Judge Blocks Trump's Order Ending 'X' Gender Marker On Passports
 

How many of his orders have been blocked without strong objection from the White House? All of them?

So cynical me rustles up this theory:

Trump Team: We can pretend to to care and issue as many "America First" EO's as we want, because we all know some judge somewhere will block most or all of them, and nothing really changes, so we don't ackshually disrupt the status quo, but we put on a good show for the rubes and it's business as UGE-ual!

So it seems to me, if Trump had half the will he pretends to have, he would issue a statement boldly and proudly stating his intent to ignore the judicial ruling, publicly and directly order the applicable subordinates to continue to carry out his Executive Order, and challenge the activist judge by name to do anything about it... every single time it happens.

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"the problem with many of those that comment here is that they are more interested in taking others on the thread down a notch than debating or learning about anything. "

And there are a great many commenters here that like to stroke their own egos and post with shameless arrogance, so taking them down seems like a justifiable balance.

I'm not picking on Mark G, who makes some good points, but when he starts bragging (often) about how he is "Saving the US tax payer money" by not retiring from his cozy, make work federal job that he's had for 50 years is, whether he realizes it or not, a bit insulting and lacking in self awareness, and will prompt others to address it.

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James, I have a response to that but I am not going to continue this with you forever. I already told you I glanced at your comment history. What I saw was you almost constantly arguing with or insulting other people. You seldom agreed with anyone, said anything nice to them or hit the agree or thanks button on a comment. I am 68 years old and have known many people who are overly argumentative and quarrelsome and make life unpleasant for those around them. I want my life to be pleasant in my few remaining years so I am going to cut back on situations where I have to deal with unpleasant overly argumentative and quarrelsome people. I consider the comment sections here at this website to be filled with such people so I will be spending much less time here and more time doing things I enjoy.

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Fellas, gals, relax and enjoy the show.

Our foreign ‘allies’, ‘great friends’, whatever, are getting a much-needed wake-up call. Their ‘neoliberal’ sleepwalking daze are over. E.g., handwringing and drama over the sovereignty of “postnational” Canada …

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/04/the-canada-experiment-is-this-the-worlds-first-postnational-country

But as well as practical considerations for remaining an immigrant country, Canadians, by and large, are also philosophically predisposed to an openness that others find bewildering, even reckless. The prime minister, Justin Trudeau, articulated this when he told the New York Times Magazine that Canada could be the “first postnational state”. He added: “There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada.”

The remark, made in October 2015, failed to cause a ripple …
 

Similarly, Greenland may or may not be in the cards for actual annexation, but the aggression by Trump against Denmark (nothing personal, kid) is a fascinating test of Europe’s ‘reflex response’—if we wanted to take Greenland by force, what are they (Europe, UK) going to do about it? Can they fight a superpower if they are, like Canada, demographically “postnational” as well? Is “Europe” even real at this point? If not, who cares what they think?

Also, domestic deportations. Imagine caring about the foreign ‘students’ getting snatched. Of course, their campus ‘counter-Semitic’ rambunctiousness has been quite entertaining (I love to see golems turn on their hosts), but no American should care if these goofballs get detained and deported.

Trump’s overarching message, delivered in deed, to the foreign dregs of the world: Don’t come here. You have limited rights here.

Now, if my li’l pep talk still leaves you myopic Eeyores morose, I’ll at least post some cathartic doom boom bangers to rock to as you ruminate. You’re welcome.

SHAWDOWHOUSE — “START AGAIN”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFuEEUvPGtg

BAD//DREEMS — “COLLAPSE!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgrpbvmPIuU

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Why should "We The People" start selling off "our" land just to keep up with massive, immigration-caused strain on housing? Why should we do it, whatever the reason for high housing prices? It would be like selling your family heirlooms, and cashing in the family fortune principle too, in order to pay the rent for your inlaws who invited all their cousins to come live with them.

Steve seems to be preoccupied with the idea that we must build, build and go more dense, and cover more land, and put up with more neighbors, shoulder-to-shoulder, in order to house people who shouldn't be here in the first place -- and to solve whatever systemic, present-day economic nonsense is also causing high real estate prices.

Simpleminded nonsense and foolishness.

Once you sell it, you won't ever get it back, but you will permanently have a more crowded, more densely-populated country. America was, and is somewhat still, an exceptionally realistic "paradise" of space from sea to sea, and we must not throw it away. Don't go down the slippery slope of selling parts of it off to solve today's problems.

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The typical affluent country outside the United States has a per capita product around 25% below ours. The middle strata in this country is more affluent than their European counterparts.
 

Also in the USA travelling to work may be a major expense due to lack of transportation and zoning laws that make walking to work almost impossible.

So any nominal measure of currency earned and converted into euros has to be weighed against this.

You simply cannot measure the standard of living in one country against another by converting average salaries into US dollars. This is the big con that they are trying to sell to you, and you are apparently buying.

For example, here in Ecuador you can get metal dental braces to straighten teeth for 25 US dollars a month. The information I am looking at now on a screen says that this costs $3 to $7 thousand dollars in the United States.

A Ventolin inhaler for asthma costs $6.82 with free delivery to the house here in Ecuador today at one of the more expensive pharmacy chains. In the United States the same product averages $90 and you may have to pay $200 to a doctor to get a prescription.

If you need a medication that comes in injection form, the pharmacist will administer the shot to you for no extra charge. In the USA the pharmacist wouldn't do it and this would probably cost you at least a hundred dollars.

People in lower GDP countries figure out all kinds of more efficient and less costly ways of doing things. Most people don't have computer printers in their home for occasional use, they just Whatsapp their document to the local print shop and pick it up later for a few cents per page.

As I recall I paid 135 dollars per month for lousy Comcast internet in the United States, which was a monopoly. Here I pay $18 per month for fiber optic into the house (not an introductory offer), and if I move to a different address they will move it for free. I can choose from several internet providers.

I bought large brown eggs yesterday at a supermarket. 15 for $1.99. Could have got a lower price per egg for a tray of 30 at the local egg emporium.

Americans are being conned into thinking they have a great life, but the fact is that with the internet and modern technologies the whole world has changed and a lot of the world has caught up even as the quality of life in the United States has gradually regressed.

Trump is obviously crazy, but even he realizes that the US is looking into the abyss.

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Drinking straws have mostly been made of paper for most of my life. I can't say that I often use drinking straws, but what is wrong with paper ones?

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Wikipedia again. About the only accurate information in Wikipedia is the dates. Dates of birth and death, dates of wars dates something was built..

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. This makes me more, rather than less, concerned for his sanity.
 

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Horace, I'm weighing in here now that Snow Mexico has agreed to negotiations with Trump and he's holding off on tariffing you. Remember when I told you the threats were just a ploy to get you guys to the table and he wasn't really going to attack you, so you should stop wringing your hands?

Trump’s threats to Denmark and Canada have helped the Liberals in Canada
 

Also sad that you have an economy that U.S. tariffs can destroy. Maybe you should seek to be a tad less dependent on others?

Also, the Chinese are about the only country that has offered to help us with new trade to replace that the new tarrifs destroys.
 

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But I realized I also wanted to rule out the Hispanics. Not that I have any bias against Hispanics; I don’t. It was simply that if they were Hispanic, I had that much less reason to be confident that they were actually competent. They could very well be incompetent, and still get passed through.

Affirmative action forces us to be biased. If a person is from a favored group, it’s that much more likely they’ll be doing a job they’re not in fact capable of doing. You’d have to be off your nut to agree to a wise Hispanic female performing major surgery on you.
 

Yesterday I had a deadly toothache in a lower incisor, and decided to go out dentist shopping as I was not particularly happy with my previous dentist who tended to make appointments for 3:00 and then show up at 3:45.

I saw a sign for dental X-rays and walked through a dark door and up some steps, and found myself in the reception area for dental X-rays. Explained I had a dental emergency and was taken up to the third floor, where there was a whole family of dentists and a steady flow of entire families arriving clutching appointment slips.

Bottom line, I had an abscess forming and after an X-ray they explained that they would drill down through the crown and release the pus, and then do a root canal and repair the porcelain crown. Today I am completely pain free. Total damage including 3 future appointments for root canal $130 plus $11 for antibiotics (Augmentin) and painkillers (Meloxicam.)

None of them spoke English apart from the odd word like "poos", and "speet" and "dollar".

Budding dentists in Ecuador go to dental school direct from high school and then do a five-year course, with several years more of postgraduate training in specialties. Often they seem to work in family groups, where there may be several members of the same family working in the office as dentists, orthodontists, dental surgeons, receptionists, nurses, radiographers.

There are an estimated 250,000 Hispanic dentists in South and Central America. They can't all be bad. Most people have good teeth and you can get braces for $25 per month.

I have had dentists in the US. Some were good, but none outstanding. The most recent one was Jewish and not much good, but I would not advise anyone to necessarily avoid dentists with Jewish names, even if I suspect that they will try to overcharge.

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The point of my first post was that second term Trump is a very different man than first term Trump because of all that he has been through. Perhaps you got into this thread half way through ?
 

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This is posturing. As you say, “standing up” to Los Yanquis helps this guy, probably to stay in power, the way things go down there. It was just a bunch of chest-puffing.
 

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"on some cocktail of psychotropics and suffering from at least two addictions that'll eventually kill them"
. . . So, we should trust a guy who was a heroin addict for 14 years?

Replies: @AKAHorace

Give your man some time. He’s had less than two 210 weeks.
 

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What do you think the source of the COVID-19 virus was? Where did it come from?

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As I have repeatedly explained it is simple to employ illegals without violating the law. You ask them if they are legally allowed to work in the US. They say yes and give you a fake ID. You make a copy of the fake ID and file it away. This complies with the law. As a result only lazy and/or dumb employers are in violation of the law.
 

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What can you do when your enemies are, by and large- barbarians?

Hamas is actually shielding her from ordinary Palestinians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpRZ25Ys_is

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So, how many wars do you think this will take ?
 

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Even if Kennedy is a crank that does not invalidate his challenges to mainstream theories which are promoted by groups with well known bias.

I'm not sure why you would link the article. A great many important so-called conspiracy theories have been subsequently demonstrated to be true. Using flat-earthers as an example is a weak straw man argument.

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>France hinted it may send troops to Greenland.

To kill Americans.
I think France just put a big nail in the coffin of NATO.
This will not be forgotten.

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Threatening Denmark over Greenland seems particularly strange.
 

if Trump treats it the way he is threatening to it will mean that no US ally will have any confidence in the states.
 

has hinted at Canada realigning itself if this continues.
 

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'Los Angeles Times' Owner: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "Knows More About The Science Than Most Doctors"

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/01/14/los_angeles_times_owner_robert_f_kennedy_jr_knows_more_about_the_science_than_most_doctors.html
 

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'Los Angeles Times' Owner: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "Knows More About The Science Than Most Doctors"

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/01/14/los_angeles_times_owner_robert_f_kennedy_jr_knows_more_about_the_science_than_most_doctors.html
 

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"A few public arrests of high profile business leaders for knowingly employing illegal aliens would be a cheaper and more humane way of discouraging illegals than mass deportations."

As I have repeatedly explained it is simple to employ illegals without violating the law. You ask them if they are legally allowed to work in the US. They say yes and give you a fake ID. You make a copy of the fake ID and file it away. This complies with the law. As a result only lazy and/or dumb employers are in violation of the law.

Their illegal employees on the other hand are in violation of the law because it is a crime to provide a fake ID. So you can go after them. Make it costly to depend on illegal labor because your illegal workers are afraid to show up for work and employers will stop hiring them.

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The trouble for Trump may be that he might lose more votes (Latinos and White swing voters) with pointless sadism than he will gain.
 

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Also, for the US $ that you’re living on not to go down the toilet.

 

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"A few public arrests of high profile business leaders for knowingly employing illegal aliens would be a cheaper and more humane way of discouraging illegals than mass deportations."

And more effective. Purely in arguendo I will take up the claims of those who regard illegals the way a housewife regards roaches in her kitchen, and note that even if that's really where you want to plant the flag, you might as well go the distance and admit that the nondescript traps/boxes that quietly sit in the background, and dispense poison that gets taken back to the nest, and that take quite a while to work, etc., are by far the most effective way to keep the population down (even though roaches have already started to evolve ways around them).

But after canvassing consumers, the exterminator companies discovered that a fair number of housewives find the traps too bland and conceptual. They still prefer the spray poison that allows them the thrill of watching those roaches writhe in what they anthropomorphize as a gruesome and painful death, even though for any one roach that they manage to pick out and zap when they turn on the light, there are plenty others behind the drywall that go on their merry way -- i.e. few zapped siblings dying a spectacular death is just another cost of doing business.

Same thing with prostitution. The purity brigades can screech about those evil harlots all they want, but if the only thing that winds up happening is the regular roust-and-round-up any time a DA is up for re-election, nothing will change, and they'll all be back on the street in hours, and the cost of the bail will eventually be paid by the johns. If you really want to do something about all that, you have to start hitting those johns, too. If you're not willing, you might as well admit it's all a show for the rubes, and the very fact that so many of them fall for it will become yet another argument as to why they all need to be replaces or fortified with an infusion of smarter and more compliant workers who know that slow persistence pays off.

In the end, it was the IRS bean counters that got Al Capone, however much the headlines favored the Untouchables. And also lawyers waving around a RICO suit and getting low-level guys to flip. It's slow, and lacking in dramatics, but that is what actually gets the job done. I'm not saying Trump and Miller won't eventually get around to that, but until that Mexican check clears, I'm sticking with wait-and-see.

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First, see above. I wouldn't at all be surprised if every one of the deportees on the flights going down there now are STILL shackled and handcuffed. Homan is getting the most violent ones out first, with of course, some "collateral". (I like that term used here - any illegal alien is fair game - no point in wasting money to come get someone again.) The Colombians would be stupid to let them walk off on their own.

This is posturing. As you say, "standing up" to Los Yanquis helps this guy, probably to stay in power, the way things go down there. It was just a bunch of chest-puffing.

The important thing is that Trump and his people already have plans B and C for anytime "re-hosting" countries decide to prevent inbound flights. There are LOTS of options. Some of the options have come out in the open during this single-day "diplomacy", and that's a good thing. We don't have to go through it again with other places.

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"But getting tossed out in 2020, seems to have done Trump a whole lot of good."

He's done a whole lot in the way of theatrics, but it won't do jack until he starts pushing back -- I mean, HARD -- against the employers as much as he is against the illegals (not that I have any. problem with punishing those who break the law). I don't mean slap-on-the-wrist fines that get entered into cost-of-doing-business cell on the spreadsheet, whereupon after a few weeks everything at the chicken processing plant and the low-rent motel returns to normal. I mean sending a couple of chicken processing CEO's to Venezuela, or something comparable.

As of now, I remain unimpressed, and all the theatrics are -- now that Trump is actually in office -- just another example of those nine most terrifying words in the English language And unlike as was the case with Biden, people around here are falling for the con.

So yeah, I'll keep checking in my mailbox for that check from Mexico for building the wall, but until that's deposited, wait-and-see is the best I'm going to give him.

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I basically agree with Jack on this, that someone from Poland is unlikely ever to have laid eyes on a Negro before the 20th century. I was just amused when I looked up the “the largest slave trading family in North America” and unexpectedly saw that they might have come from "Livonia", which as I'm sure Jack knows, is the maritime area of the 17th century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, meaning they could have come from Poland.

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Dozens and dozens of untrained civilian observers at ground level could clearly see the killer slowly moving into position, well in advance of his opening fire, and could immediately recognize him as a threat actor rather than law enforcement. *

Yet all the trained sharpshooters in elevated positions, two of whom are seen on the phone video facing in that direction and looking outward with binoculars and scopes, could not spot that same movement.

If that's merely incompetence, then it's incompetence of such magnitude, and such strangeness, that it invites and even warrants suspicion until put to rest with a lot of extremely detailed explanation, including unredacted testimony under oath by those sharpshooters.

The phone video shows those sharpshooters crouched in position and ready to fire in the 42 seconds prior to their shooting the killer just a moment after he fires his multiple rounds. To have reacted that quickly means they were already looking at him and had him in their rifle sites. If they had opened fire just, say, three seconds earlier, he would have got off no rounds. But they are calm and motionless and wait. They do no alert stage security. They do not take the shot.

* In the other thread Prime Noticer posted this twitter link of video showing crowd awareness of the killer from ground level. Plus there's the later statements from various individuals to reporters about spotting the killer moving into position at least 2 to 3 minutes prior to firing.

https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1812810227739132168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1812810227739132168%7Ctwgr%5E9a28597134cdb5363f2789c98ca3076a8b2fe805%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unz.com%2Fisteve%2Ftrump-shot-in-the-head%2F

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No, if you look at the paper the strongest evidence for settlement it cores of sediment from lakes that suggest agriculture. From the paper...
 

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'What’s unclear is why, having found the Azores, you’d then lose them? They seem pretty nice, with rich volcanic soil:'
 

Indeed, perhaps no Vikings survived the landing at all. The ship could have broken up in the surf and all the human passengers drowned. Some rats washed ashore.

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Because the part they got to — Labrador — was none too attractive. The nice parts of North America are very far from there. It's not like they had any idea that if they kept hiking for a couple years they'd discover California.