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A senior Ukrainian military officer with deep ties to the country’s intelligence services played a central role in the bombing of the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline last year, according to officials in Ukraine and elsewhere in Europe, as well as other people knowledgeable about the details of the covert operation.
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La marche contre l’antisémitisme de dimanche qui divise la classe politique et la mise au coin de Raquel Garrido pour une durée de 4 mois.
Israel's problem is simple: They have the technical ability to wipe out Hamas. Poison gas in the tunnels would do it. Very unlikely that Hamas has airlocks down there. Even if Hamas evacuated the tunnels it would not save them, in fact it would simplify matters greatly as the buildings they hid in could then be bombed.
However in so doing the zionists would become even bigger international pariahs than they already are and so enrage the Muslim world that a coalition to defend the Palestinians by force would be sent, if only to avoid a fundamentalist coup that would then do precisely that.
So as far as the genocidal praxis that would work goes Israel's hands are tied, and they have to do it the hard way, getting picked off by Hamas snipers the entire way.
Interesting, so similar platform to the M4 in the US. Slightly surprising they're using a 5.56mm considering the performance of 6.5mm cartridges these days (including fitting an M16 lower)
Did you know there is an ongoing court case in Fulton County, Georgia (where Atlanta is) since 2021 whose only aim is to inspect 150,000+ mail-in ballots alleged to be fraudulent (no creases from being sent in the mail, perfect black circles, etc)
The judge dismissed it but the appeals court allowed the case to go forward
The judge has illegally delayed proceedings since then
1776 mindset doesn't work because back then the enemy operated openly. Now the enemy wraps itself in a Betsy Ross flag and claims to be for freedom - the freedom to be a faggot.
Bruno Lemaire affirme que les Français ne s’appauvrissent pas puisque leur revenu augmente. Une façon de cacher la chute accélérée du pouvoir d’achat depuis 2017, bien visible dans les comptes des associations de lutte contre la pauvreté, qui sont su…
Es war einmal ein Gärtner der nahm seine Frau bei der Hand und sagte: "Komm, Frau, wir wollen einen Baum pflanzen." Worauf sie ihm antwortete: "Wenn du meinst, dann wollen wir einen Baum pflanzen."
Sie gingen in den Garten und pflanzten einen Baum. Bald sah man ein kleines grünes Pflänzchen aus der Erde sprießen.
Der Baum erblickte zum ersten Mal die Sonne. Er fühlte die Wärme ihrer Strahlen auf seinen Blättchen und streckte sich ihnen entgegen. Er begrüßte die Sonne und war glücklich. "Es ist schön auf der Welt. Es ist schön zu wachsen!", dachte der Baum.
"Schau, Frau ist er nicht niedlich unser Baum?" "Ja lieber Mann ein schöner Baum!"
Der Baum begann höher zu wachsen und reckte sich immer weiter der Sonne entgegen. Er fühlte den Wind und spürte den Regen, er war glücklich. Da merkte er, dass die Sonne von links auf seine Blätter schien. Also wuchs er jetzt ein wenig nach links.
"Schau, unser Baum wächst schief. Ausgerechnet UNSER Baum! Hol unsere Schere, wir wollen unseren Baum gerade schneiden."
Der Baum weinte. Die Menschen, denen er vertraute, schnitten ihm die Äste ab, die der Sonne am nächsten waren. Da wuchs er in die Höhe und achtete darauf, nicht mehr schief zu wachsen.
"Sieh Dir das an, unser Baum wächst so unverschämt schnell in die Höhe. Gehört sich das für einen Baum?" "Aber nein, mein lieber Mann, das gehört sich nicht. Auch unsere Nachbarn sagen dass Bäume bescheiden sein müssen." Der Gärtner nahm die Schere und schnitt dem Baum die Äste ab.
Sehr lange weinte der Baum in dieser Nacht. Dann wurde er trotzig. "Wenn ich nicht in die Höhe wachsen darf, dann eben in die Breite." Er spürte ganz genau, dass es richtig war, zu wachsen.
"Das ist doch nicht zu fassen. Es macht ihm ja geradezu Spaß." "Das können wir nicht zulassen", sagte die Frau. Der Gärtner holte die Schere und schnitt ihm wieder die Äste ab.
Der Baum war sehr traurig. Er hörte auf zu wachsen. Ihm machte das Leben keine Freude mehr.
DOCH DEM GÄRTNER UND SEINER FRAU GEFIEL JETZT DER BAUM.
Da kam ein kleines Mädchen mit seinem Vater am Baum vorbei. Das kleine Mädchen blieb vor ihm stehen. "Papa, findest Du nicht auch, dass der Baum traurig aussieht?" "Ich weiß nicht. Als ich so klein war wie Du, konnte ich auch sehen, ob ein Baum fröhlich oder traurig ist." "Den Baum hat sicher keiner richtig lieb. Der ist so ordentlich gewachsen. Ob er das wollte?" fragte das Mädchen.
Langsam gingen sie weiter. In dieser Nacht schlief das kleine Mädchen sehr unruhig. Immer wieder dachte es an den traurigen Baum. Am Morgen rannte es zum Baum.
Sie strich zärtlich mit den Händen über die Rinde des Baumes. "Ich mag Dich mein lieber Baum. Gib nicht auf Baum!" Nach einer Weile rannte sie wieder los, da sie ja zur Schule musste.
Der Baum war erstaunt und schüttelte sich leicht im Wind.
Auf dem Heimweg von der Schule ging das Mädchen wieder am Baum vorbei und streichelte ihn. "Ich mag Dich und ich komm bald wieder.... versprochen"
Immer wieder sprach das Mädchen mit dem Baum, umarmte und streichelte ihn. Er rührte sich nicht, aber langsam bekam seine Rinde eine freundlichere Farbe.
Der Gärtner und seine Frau wurden neugierig. Schließlich fragten sie das Mädchen, was das denn sollte.
„Der Baum ist traurig. Schaut ihn einmal genau an. Und das muss nicht sein. Oder wollt ihr einen traurigen Baum?"
"Nein!... Natürlich nicht. Wir haben es doch nur gut gemeint." Da beschlossen sie, den Baum wachsen zu lassen wie er wollte.
Zuerst wuchs er ängstlich, dann übermütig und schließlich kraftvoll. Voller Lebensfreude wuchs er schief nach unten, als wollte er seine Glieder recken und strecken.
Oooooh putain le blast of the past, j'ai bossé avec Dan Lacksman dans son studio magique ("Synsound") à Bruxelles dans les années 90...
Comment était l'endroit? Un appart' était la cabine du studio lui-même, avec une console anglaise et des écoutes JBL (celles avec des "fesses") que je n'aimais pas du tout. Dan et sa femme habitaient à l'étage... Au fond il y avait une pièce avec un impressionnant bric-à-brac, un piano (celui sur lequel Thomas Dolby a enregistré quelques-uns de ses morceaux les plus connus), le Moog modulaire (un Model 5 je crois, celui qu'il utilise dans la vidéo "making of") de Dan, et puis tous les synthés de la création, du minimoog au Prophet 5 en passant par le DX7, le Casio CZ-1000 et le PPG Wave...
Dans la cabine principale il y avait le Fairlight MFX, et dans la réserve un Synclavier (Fairlight + Synclavier, le combo de la mort!), un AKS Synthi et une foule d'autres incunables. En magnéto il y avait deux Otari, un 24 pistes 2 pouces analogique et un 32 pistes numérique (format Mitsubishi).
Sur ces synthés ont été enregistrés tous les tubes électroniques francophones des années 80, comme "Banana Split".
Avant la création du studio, Dan tournait en Belgique, en France et ailleurs avec un camion plein de sa collection incroyable de synthés pour faire du son dans les studios pour tous les artistes de la Terre.
The FBI planned to arrest Sergeant Yetman in a televised siege at his home. Instead, the decorated veteran decided to safely turn himself in on Veterans Day to Monroe Township Police.
I am SICK of hearing the ways in which this regime is destroying the lives of decent Americans who love this country (twitter.com/julie_kelly2/statu…), so the pettiest man ever to be president, Joe Biden, can retaliate against his detractors.
I am amazed that more people are not livid at this blatant abuse. The left laments how if Trump gets elected again he is going to go scorched earth on his enemies, but that is EXACTLY what the Biden regime is doing.
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Really? Black voters should support Biden when he calls them 'boy' and other slurs? When he was a chum of the KKK leader? How ridiculous, he is racist. bizpacreview.com/2023/11/11/cl…
As usual, the phony facade; clean up the mess for one day for the visiting enemy. Our fake regime is unbelievably rotten to the core. bizpacreview.com/2023/11/11/ho…
This is the person who is raised up as a "Rosa Parks"? How insulting to Rosa Parks! She believed in standing up with passive resistance. These people are violent and vicious lunatics that can't even explain why they are protesting. bizpacreview.com/2023/11/11/pa…
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Moody's Wrecks Yellen's Mood: Downgrades Treasury's Credit Outlook
That didn’t take long! Another credit downgrade just hit the US Treasury after the stock market closed, so it will be interesting to see if today’s dimwitted investors get a jolt from that after the coming weekend passes. In today’s news headlines (following this editorial for paid subscribers), it was Moody’s that just took a bite out of the Yellen’s butt by marking the quality of her Treasuries down. Her Treasury Department responded with a yelp.
Since this year’s earlier credit downgrade by Fitch, I have been warning that another downgrade was likely coming soon, whether congressional brinksmanship along the national divide caused a failure to increase the credit limit or not and whether it caused a failure to pass government funding:
On September 28th, I warned as follows in “The Comics of Bidenomics: All Revisions Go Down ... All the Time!”:
Twice in past years, I have warned that their brinksmanship would almost certainly trigger a downgrade of US credit, even though I stated the US would never actually default on the its debt AND that members of congress know they will never let it default on the US debt even as they those use the good faith and credit of the US as a bargaining chip. Still, they play the game, threatening they will. In both cases, the US government got its credit downgraded. Another step down may easily be in store.
And in a “Deeper Dive” on October 22, titled, “The US Economy is Robust Like a Dying Elephant,” I noted:
US credit is slowly being downgraded. The US debt is spinning faster, starting to wobble a little and starting to squeal and smell faintly of burning metal. In a machine the size of US debt engine (can’t even think of a real machine to compare that to) that is a dangerous situation. I won’t say it is unstable yet, but it is becoming unstable, and you sure don’t want to get to where it is unstable.
And, finally, just there days ago on November 7, I issued yet another warning in “Now That's Getting Deep!”:
Only a few more trips around the clock and we’re going to be coming up to that government funding decision again. Congress is not likely to make headway on its stalemate, so that COULD trigger another credit downgrade now that this high interest is screaming in our face, making credit agencies already a little more cautious, which could increase interest rates all on its own if it happens.
Just more of what I refer to as giving you “the news before it happens.”
How Moody’s wrecked her mood Moody’s cut its outlook for US credit to “negative,” which is just shy of downgrading the actual credit rating but implies a downgrade of the rating could easily be forthcoming; and the reasons it gave, of course, were those screaming deficits and screaming congressman who are stuck in a stalemate because Biden wants to spend more while Republicans always only want to spend more when it is their turn to be president or when they are running both houses of congress:
Moody’s Investors Service lowered its ratings outlook on the United States’ government to negative from stable.
We’re unstable, Folks. I guess you already knew that. Moody’s also questioned the nation’s “fiscal strength.” For now, at least, we are still AAA rated with Moody’s but with a poor outlook.
“In the context of higher interest rates, without effective fiscal policy measures to reduce government spending or increase revenues,” the agency said. “Moody’s expects that the US’ fiscal deficits will remain very large, significantly weakening debt affordability.”
This should give strength to the current Republican argument against funding Bidenomics, but it probably won’t do much to relax Democrat determination to clench their grip on everything they already passed (which is really like holding a clench on a fart):
“Continued political polarization within US Congress raises the risk that successive governments will not be able to reach consensus on a fiscal plan to slow the decline in debt affordability,” the ratings agency said.
I suspect they are right. So, we’ll probably get to see what stalemate and a government shutdown actually achieve very soon. That, in turn, may take the recent hot air out of the stock market’s and bond market’s sails, which was all folly based on fantasy anyway.
Moody’s, however, extended a note of optimism just to maintain its popularity among officials and financial types:
“Further positive growth surprises over the medium term could at least slow the deterioration in debt affordability.”
Good luck with that! They obviously they are not regular readers of The Daily Doom, or they would know that isn’t going to happen. There are far more negative surprises that have already been waiting their turn in the cue.
Yelpin’ Yellen’s Treasury Dept., of course, took exception to Moody’s buzzkill:
We disagree with the shift to a negative outlook…. The American economy remains strong, and Treasury securities are the world’s preeminent safe and liquid asset.
There we are with the “strong and resilient” mantra I’ve said they relentlessly trot out whenever the news is bad. (One can read the “resilient” part in the word “remains.”)
One more week until the government goes unfunded or some putrid stopgap that smells of old socks and bad cheese keeps things running a few days or a week or two longer, with congress tricking itself into believing the stopgap will avert further credit downgrades. Denial works like that. Such fumbling ineptitude would more likely cause another downgrade.
Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has indicated that he will release a Republican government funding plan on Saturday, a move that would permit members time to read it before an expected Tuesday vote on the measure.
But his plan to fund certain parts of the government through Dec. 7, and other parts through Jan. 19, known as a laddered continuing resolution, or CR, is dead on arrival in the White House and in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
Of course it is. That is how the brinksmanship game is played: We’ll volley the hot potato over to your side and hope the music stops while it’s in your hand. And, of course, the other side will try to deflect the blame back as neither side actually gets things working. We saw that from the White House today:
“Moody’s decision to change the U.S. outlook is yet another consequence of Congressional Republican extremism and dysfunction,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
They don’t think the trillion-dollar deficits they passed are part of the extremism?
Plenty more madness in the making Now, Fitch, of course, has already cut the credit rating from AAA to AA+. Moody’s apparently wants to look like the good guy by not going quite that far. Don’t worry, S&P will soon step back into the game. Having been the first to downgrade US credit over a decade ago, they got slammed so hard they’ve been reluctant to stick their neck out again; but, with Moody’s jumping in with one foot, S&P will start to look cowardly if they don’t make a move soon.
As for the lunatic stock market, having no foresight in where all of this is headed but running on pure testosterone and greed, it bolted up nearly 400 points today. Its chance to respond to Moody’s will not come until Monday. That is when it can demonstrate how stupid it was today to believe everything was fine when everyone could see another credit downgrade was likely … if they aren’t thinking with their denial filter on.
Other financial measures, however, are already not faring so well after Powell’s delightfully dovish speech regarding the FOMC meeting that failed to raise interest. (How could he not have seen that speech would cause him to lose some of the tightening “the market is doing for us.”)
As I noted yesterday, Yellen’s Treasury experienced a horrible auction on 30-year bonds, and stocks didn’t fare well yesterday either when Powell tried to tamp down his earlier excess dovishness in a speech on Thursday. As one trader said,
This is a shitshow, liquidity is disastrous and the auction is the canary in the coalmine... there's a crisis brewing under everyone's nose.
You see, Powell’s cooing after the FOMC did the following to the tightening of market conditions that had caused him to venture to say more interest hikes may not be necessary because market forces were taking over and doing the job for the Fed:
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Speaker Johnson told NY Post @NYCMayor should dump 'sanctuary' law to get $5B for migrants:
'The idea that you would maintain a sanctuary city status and then cry out to the federal government for assistance in what you’ve done is, to me, unconscionable'
House Speaker Mike Johnson called on the Big Apple Thursday to scrap its “sanctuary” city status if it wants federal money to help house thousands of migrants pouring into the city.
@paula By bolt gun I was referring to bolt-action rifles, which is a manually operated firearm where you have move the bolt back and forth to load cartridges after each shot
Alors que s'accroissent la colère et le mécontentement devant les injustices sociales, de nombreuses manifestations citoyennes sont l'objet d'une répression de plus en plus violente.
For the last several years Army recruitment ads have been largely advertising adult daycare for bipoc faggots. Now that they need White men they've started making it clear you're there to fight again
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Process until fine; small chips are okay. Stop the blade, cube the butter and add it and the sugar to the bowl and process again until both are incorporated. The crust should hold together when pinched. Taste for sweetness; add powdered sugar by heaping tablespoon if you need to correct it.
FILLING: 4 8-oz packages of Philly cream cheese, softened to room temperature 1 10-oz can of frozen Margarita mixer (noon- alcoholic), partly thawed 1 14-oz of organic sweetened condensed milk
Juice of two medium limes--(zest them first before you juice them; the zest goes on top of the dessert.)
In a large bowl (use a stand mixer if you have one) soften the cream cheese. Add the condensed milk and mix on low until it won't splash back at you. Add the margarita mix and continue to mix on low. Pour in the fresh lime juice and then begin to increase the mixing speed gradually until the highest speed is reached. Beat until fluffy, frequently scraping sides/ bottom of the bowl.
Pour crumb mixture out into a large rectangle glass Pyrex dish. Using your fingers, loosely push the crumbs into all corners and evenly distribute it across the dish. Press with palms until firm. Crust should be thick!
Pour the cream cheese over the crust, mounding high in the middle. Use your spatula to push down the cream cheese in the middle and work it to the corners. Smooth it out evenly across the top. Clean any smears by wiping them away with slightly damp paper towel.
The deaths come as street protests by thousands of Panamanians during the past weeks over a new mining contract signed with Canadian #mining firm First Quantum Minerals (FM.TO) spilled into wider discontent with the #government.
The atmosphere is now so heated that radical right-wingers are killing environmental activists.
Two people taking part in an anti-government protest in Panama were shot dead on Tuesday by an unknown assailant, authorities said, aggravating social tension that has welled up since anger over a lucrative mining contract sparked demonstrations.
Never ever forget the US Congress allowed this human waste into our country as did illegally-elected FU Biden & his entire Admin as well as every RAT & RINO in office Coast to Coast down to dog catcher!
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