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Info, articles, etc. Just as the battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack made wooden ships obsolete, drones are making many modern weapons obsolete. Of course, just as many wooden ships were built after the M&M battle, don’t expect too rapid a phase-out of tanks or of artillery. Cool! A new X-Men movie is in the very beginning stages of being made! Shutdown threat averted. Congressional Republicans ...settled for giving Vladimir Putin a big sloppy kiss in the form of killing any new aid to Ukraine in this continuing resolution. and Doing Putin a solid provided enough psychic satisfaction to make this happen. And yes, Democrats saved the day by prviding enough votes to fund the government. Joining
the military is optional for women in Ukraine. Olenka is a volunteer
who even chose which unit she’d fight with. September After seven long years, it appears that the NY Times is finally acknowledging that Donald Trump represents a unique danger to the country! Masha Gessen put ot a book in November 2016, “Autocracy: Rules for Survival.” It has been proven to be reliable time and again. Human-caused climate change means that the Mississippi River can’t keep salt water from the Gulf of Mexico from traveling upstream, where it’s compromising drinking water and agriculture. Looks as though Ukraine had better get a move on in defeating Russia. Support seems to be eroding. Mourning Senator Feinstein. Looks like RFK Jr. has given up on running as a Democrat. He’ll now run as an independent. Senator Tim Scott and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley are both "coded" as moderates because neither has much use for Trump, but looking at their positions in detail, they're both really radical! Good section on Fentanyl. Yeah, I was never impressed by President Reagan’s economic policies. The nostalgia shown by Larry Kudlow is completely unjustified. After choosing General Milley to be the Chairman for Joint Chiefs, Trump’s attitude has gotten steadily more hostile, now coming out and openly threatening Milley with the death penalty for alleged treason. Milley gives his views. Speaker McCarthy is in serious trouble with his caucus. If he wants any assistance from Democrats, it’ll cost him. Democrats are going to want control of some committees. How
the Waffen SS Ukrainian soldier has been used for Russian propaganda
and the roles that Russians played in the German Wehrmacht. Two awesome speeches by Representatives Raskin and AOC, showing us how silly and hollow the Biden impeachment hearing is. Seriously, what a complete waste of time! CNN: Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina claimed at the Thursday hearing, “We already know the president took bribes from Burisma,” a Ukrainian energy company where Hunter Biden sat on the board of directors. Actually, we "know" nothing of the sort. President Biden taking bribes from anyone has not been proven. On a possible government shutdown, shorter Representative Williams: "My pay is important! The peasants? Ha, ha, ha!" Speaker McCarthy wants to re-litigate the deal of several months ago. In response, Representative AOC says “McCarthy can go pound sand.” "From
secretaries to secretary of state, Biden documents probe casts wide
net: Sources" ...it seemed to them that the improper removal of classified documents from Biden's office when he left the White House in 2017 was more likely a mistake than a criminal act. Heh! Senator Mike Lee spends his time employing Russian propaganda in order to fight off a cartoon dog! A Twitter/X post where Senator Lee develops a conspiracy theory. I have some comments about that. More
Russian
terrorist drone attacks on Ukrainian cities. Iraq had two religious groups, the Sunni and the Shia. The Shia battled the IS (Islamic State, popularly know in the US as ISIS). Two university professors decided to study the struggle from the Shia side through their music videos. Biden joins a picket line. It’s historically unprecedented for a sitting president to do that. UAW workers show no confusion about who’s on their side! "A
Blackout on The Phony 'Union Members' At Trump’s Event?" The whole Trump speech to auto workers seems pretty fake. It's unclear how many auto workers attended Trump's speech. A person in the crowd with a "union members for Trump" sign acknowledged she wasn't a union member. A person with an "auto workers for Trump" sign said he wasn't an auto worker. The Republican accusation that there’s a two-tier justice system, one that goes easy on Democrats and harshly punishes Republicans, is simply not a true picture of reality. Very interesting. Charlie Kirk is a prominent booster of the Republican Party and strongly pro-Trump and even he admits that being anti-choice is a loser of a position! First Trump didn't know who he beat in 2016, promised to save us from WWII, and now he doesn't know who ELSE he beat in 2016. What amazes me is that Trump displays real and serious cognitive problems like this and then they say Biden is too old! Soldier
atop a Naval drone. Essentially,
a guided torpedo with the ability to loiter (wait for
targets). After the attack on the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, 34 officers died, among them the commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, Victor Sokolov. Another 105 were injured. Hmm. Under the banner "Kyrsten’s Path to Victory,’ the document says Sinema can win by attracting 10% to 20% of Democrats, 60% to 70% of independents and 25% to 35% of Republicans." The small number of Democrats is a testament to how badly she’s burned her bridges with the party. Republican figure might be reasonable, at least until they discover she voted to impeach Trump twice, and is pro-choice. The independents appears to be the heaviest lift. Unfortunately,
Kristin Welker continues to show she’s
no improvement over Chuck
Todd. McCarthy’s
not that
dumb, but he is completely powerless against the GOP Angry Tantrum
Carcass.
Moms for Liberty, who platformed all of the major Republican candidates in Philadelphia this past June, is the group behind the censorship of a graphic novel about Anne Frank. Cool! Writers for Hollywood end strike as they feel they’ve gotten a fair deal! Some details on the corruption of the Supreme Court Justice Thomas. Tucker
Carlson, formerly of Fox News, will
be getting his own regular TV
show in Russia. Update (1 Dec): Nope. The Russians may copy what Carlson does for American TV, but he hasn't done a TV show for Russia. Very
sad that not
a single high-level Republican showed up for the
gun-safety rally. Woo
hoo! Another Russian patrol boat gets hit! The
picture shows the boat
right after it got hit, trailing fire and smoke. "Oops!
GOP Rep. Forced To Admit ‘Unserious’ COVID Almost Killed Him" So
a gloomy, sour buddy of mine (“Ukraine is doomed, I tell you!
Doomed!”) sent me the
following film clip that takes a very
downbeat, pessimistic view of the war between Russia and
Ukraine. Yeah, I recall Russians saying that the Western sanctions had failed, that sanctions weren't hurting Russian consumers a bit. Now they're saying "Hey look at North Korea! People can get by without modern conveniences and can skip a meal every now and then!" As Rupert Murdoch shuffles off to semi-retirement, our blogger examines his career and finds it truly revolting. It’s good that he’s sort-of no longer a denier of human-caused climate change, but boy, he caused a lot of damage by being a denier for so long! Good! It’s long since time that legal cannabis has had full access to banking and other financial services. Max,
who lost both legs and an arm, is
learning to be a drone operator. First
Lady Zelenska made an address at Georgetown University.
Russian
Black Sea Fleet headquarters hit really hard. Russians
collected & dumped out the last Ukrainian books from the
Mariupol
library.
The
missile strike on Sevastopol was designed to hit while senior Black
Sea Fleet leaders were in the buildings. Interestingly, Russian TV
stations didn’t cover the attack. David Brooks (Sigh, yes, he's a NY Times columnist) showed us a picture of a hamburger and fries and complained that his meal cost him a lot of money and then drew conclusions from that. Slight oversight: his drink was 80% of the cost! Update (21 Nov): Fox News pundit Jason Chaffetz does something similar by complaining about the cost of a Thanksgiving turkey. The average price of a turkey is actually down from last year as the Inflation Reduction Act has been working, but Chaffetz claimed that they cost $90 and then found a super-duper, high-end $114 turkey that "proved" his point. "Surprise
failure makes matters even worse for GOP’s McCarthy" Yep! Even a Republican Congressman recognizes that “Y’know, Speaker Pelosi was really good at this vote-counting thing.” Speaker
McCarthy refused to permit President Zelenskyy to address a joint
session of Congress. Other
right-wingers made their opposition to
further aid to Ukraine known. Interestingly, McCarthy turned
down a
classified briefing on Ukraine. Blogger figures McCarthy is incapable
of allowing US aid to Ukraine to continue. Global markets, inequality and nations trying to climb the ladder of success. The wealthier economies have the means to transition to clean energy, poor economies don’t. Interesting rhetorical strategy. As it’s difficult to prove anything, y’know, facts require research and questioning and further research, the Judiciary Committee Chairman, among others, has found it much easier to just say “As everybody knows…” One of the pieces here (Josh Marshall) is really on-target. He essentially describes how things are actually done in the House. The far-right Freedom Caucus says “Jump” and other Republican Party members ask “How high?” Moderate pretend that there’s some daylight between them and the extreme radicals, but there really isn’t any. The House Minority Leader makes it clear. No one’s going to pay the ransom that’s being demanded. If the government shuts down, the House Freedom Caucus will be 100% to blame. Some pretty powerful ads here. Libyan dam collapse of just a few days ago was made more likely by human-caused climate change. It was also made more intense. Up to 20k Libyans were swept out to sea. Problem is, climate change means that everything has to be built to more rigorous specifications. Heartbreaking!
Soldier serves year and a half, goes to work as civilian and
dies his
first day by a Russian missile attack! The ethnic Armenian resistance in Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh has surrendered. According to the blogger, The pro-life movement – as opposed to the bans in various states – is in a state of irreversible collapse. They’ve discovered that they can’t move elections any more. Support from them isn’t worth anything any more. A buddy of mine likes to send me gloomy, depressing reports of how the front in Ukraine is "stalemated" and how Ukraine is making such slow progress. This piece is very interesting for showing how artillery affects the front and how Russians are simply tossing lives away as though they're just replaceable machine parts. Biden
has been trying to build on the Trump-negotiated Abraham Accords to
help Palestinians in some way. The
Israelis are said to have been
convinced that they could do a deal with Riyadh that excluded the
Palestinians.
And another lawyer turns on Trump! Jenna Ellis is regretting helping out Trump’s legal offensive against the 2020 vote. Meeting
at Ramstein Airfield focuses on future aid to Ukraine. Putin
is killing Armenians by the hands of Azerbaijanis Corruption, Ukraine vs Russia. Donald Trump is trying hard to appeal to union workers but it’s far from clear what he brings to the table. His only policy accomplishment during his term was a tax break for the wealthy. For a supposedly pro-worker party, Republicans seem to have an awfully tough time coming out in favor of UAW strikers. Senator Tim Scott and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley were the most explicitly anti-UAW candidates, but no Republican really stood up for the union. Republicans in the House are saying they too, want to avoid a shutdown of the government, if only the Senate and President agree to go back on an earlier agreement. “South
Korea will
send two K600 ‘Rhino’ minefield breaching vehicles to
Ukraine” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was acquitted on all of his impeachment charges. Trump is now claiming credit for that. Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk also played a role, posting the phone numbers of the Texas “jurors,” siccing his followers on them and pressuring them to not convict Paxton. Janet Protasiewicz, a Milwaukee circuit court judge and self-described progressive, won an 11-percentage point victory and thereby changed the Wisconsin Supreme Court from Republican Red to Democratic Blue. The GOP is charging that she’s biased and therefore should recuse herself from considering some gerrymandering cases. This is, of course, an absurd demand. Rachel Maddow and Kristen Welker both work for MSNBC. Hmm, how does Maddow's blogger cover Welker's heavily-panned interview with Trump? The blogger finds a good solution by focusing on a statement that Trump made. Seems MSNBC learned a little bit about interviewing Trump. Not much but at least a little bit. The detailed commentary by Jay Rosen is worth a read. Sigh! The one unquestionably good deed that the younger George Bush ever did (The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), an African AIDS prevention initiative that’s estimated to have saved more than 25 million lives in the two decades since its implementation). The continuation of that good deed is now being threatened by the ever-more extreme and radical Republican Freedom Caucus. Representative Boebert was caught in a heavy petting session at a concert filled with young people. Good question is why the audience was being surveilled. The answer is mass shootings. Not all that far from where she was doing some mutual groping, a mass shooting took place in a movie theater. So yes, night-vision surveillance video is required for “random regional” events! Someone sent me a film suggesting Europe is getting tired of supporting Ukraine. I looked around a bit and found this: European Peace Facility, an enterprise of the European Union, accounts for non-US, non-UK expenditures on behalf of Ukraine. 28Feb2022
EUR 4 400 000 000 Nope, no evidence I can see that Europe is close to abandoning Ukraine. Kharkiv
hit with several missiles. In
return, Ukraine took out two Buk-M3
anti-aircraft missile complexes. Is that an asymmetrical
situation,
one side hits civilian targets while the other restricts itself to
military targets? Why yes. Yes it is. Ahh! Technology continues to advance and improve! Batteries are a serious part of solving the human-caused climate change problem and it looks as though zinc might very well replace lithium as the battery-ingredient of choice! It certainly doesn’t seem to our blogger that justice was done by acquitting the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton of all impeachment charges. Is he truly innocent or is Texas just corrupt? As believers in the law, we generally don’t ask that question. Fortunately, Paxton’s legal troubles aren’t over yet, so time will tell. Archive - sidebar items
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