Shocker! The infant STILL DOESN’T HAVE THE BALLS TO ADMIT BEING WRONG. Especially sad since you insist on being wrong almost exclusively.
Keep trying to change the subject, I’ll keep bringing it back to your insecurity and infantilism, such a scared baby that admitting a mistake seems like it would end you, wouldn’t it. Don’t worry, you’ll learn to grow up once you get to preschool.

BTW- Trump promises “very powerful crime” in DC if elected. 😂
Also, Karen Greene wasted the courts time by appealing her fines for refusing to wear a mask in congress all the way to the Supreme Court, (shocked they heard it) and today lost her final appeal. She’ll have to pay the $100000 (and probably 3 times that in legal fees) and has wasted the time of 3 courts that had better cases to try. Typical MAGA Karen, all about her non existent rights overriding everyone else’s rights AND safety, and absolutely zero thought to the cost to others.

Still crickets about the ONLY witness (who never produced ANY evidence) in the Biden impeachment sham admitting he is a Russian intelligence agent and the story came directly from Russian counter intelligence.
Worse, this is the SECOND main MAGA witness from the impeachment scam that turned out to be an intelligence agent of our enemies, remember the first one who was a Chinese agent and illicit oil and arms dealer for our enemies that was also indicted for lying about this case….but you said you still had credible witness Smirnoff and all his indisputable proof. 🤦‍♂️

Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) who was in the room has admitted the Republicans/MAGA were told their witnesses were not credible in any way BEFORE THEY HEARD FROM THEM OR SAW ANY INTERVIEWS. They knew this was all propaganda directly from our enemies from the very start and ran with it anyway. This makes all MAGA a foreign agent that knowingly lied to America in order to weaken us.

This has made all MAGA nothing more than a subsidiary of Pravda, the Kremlin’s propaganda paper. Absolutely everything the MAGA house has done this session is based on hostile foreign agents lying to them and them buying the lies. Working with our enemies to spread lies that are designed to weaken America…sure SOUNDS like treason to me. Treasonous traitors belong in Gitmo until their turn with the firing squad.

The reason many in the NRA are so against smart guns is because some places (New Jersey is one I think) have it written into law that when smart guns become technically and commercially viable then all arms dealers must switch to selling only smart guns within something like 3 years. Essentially making the sale of all other guns illegal I guess.
And the gun manufacturers pretty much already have immunity from being sued for how someone uses their products. There is no reasonable way that the makers of a firearm could possibly insure that someone they sell a gun to will not use it in either a criminal or just recklessly.
Personally I think smart guns are a great idea but I think lawmakers didn't consider how their own laws might wind up hindering the adoption of smart guns.
Here's the story I heard on NPR about it a week or two back.
http://www.npr.org/2016/04/07/473416699/how-an-idea-to-develop-a-safer-smart-gun-backfired

How indeed.

Draghi's ECB has just made a move and I don't understand why. Come Feb 11th, they will no longer accept Greek bonds as collateral, effectively cutting off one of Greece's last two sources of credit. What remains is the Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) provided to the Greek Central Bank, through which the entire banking system must now get most of its credit.

Why did they do it? Why now? I don't think it has something to do with the Advocate Generals opinion piece the other day, declaring the ECB's membership in the troika to be a conflict of interest and that fiscal policy is not to be used as a tool to influence poltical decision-making.

Could it be pure idiocy like the time they pulled to plug on Cyprus only to backpeddle shortly after? Or might they be trying to force a move on part of Germany and Greece? "Stop messing around and get your ducks in a row NOW." -- that sorta thing? Is it mere posturing of sorts, a shot across the bow of Greece?

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I really don't like this. It looks like disaster, smells like disaster and tastes like disaster. And it's entirely too close for comfort. Are they truly going to turn Greece into a failed-state over principle? The way they casually discuss the lives of nearly 11 million people, and the future of the European Union as well, is bone-chilling.
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In the meantime, Schäuble's meeting with Varoufakis went just as expected, reports indicate. Schäuble won't budge a bit. Negotiations with the troika are mandatory, and fiscal waterboarding must be resumed at once. There will be no compromise, not with him in charge. He'll push Greece off the cliff without blinking even once. Convictions worthy of a Templar, that one. Worth remembering that he admitted taking 100k in bribes from an arms dealer in '94 and still managed to become Minister of Finance. A living legend, just not the kind I'd prefer.

With regards to hyperinflation, most folks over here seem to have forgotten, or maybe they never learned, that Chancellor Brüning's austerity regime led to deflation in 1930-32, pushing unemployment to 23%. What followed was a massive influx in membership and infuence for parties at both ends of the political spectrum, similar to Greece. Except in our case, it wasn't the left (KPD) who won the elections in '32...

I never understood this scene to be honest. If I was Ethan Hawke and someone told me I had to let the guy I've been hunting all this time, I'd just kill him. They're not putting one of their own away for killing an arms dealer. The point is Ethan played this role like he had a singular purpose, like he wasn't wise to the game when the guys in his position always are or they're marginalized way ahead of time.

So if you happen to have spent your life hunting someone who is just the personification of evil and your told to let them go. Just blow their brains out please, take the moral hit for the rest of us.

Unfortunately, this woman is whistling in the wind.

Unless you can change the interests of the war lenders and arms dealers ,there's no way the U.S. will avoid military initiatives when the opportunity presents itself.

just like arms dealers make more money by selling to both sides, so do banks. watched this over dinner. good watch even though i was familiar w/ the subject.

When you buy guns from your local arms dealer in GTA IV, he tells you "Stay safe, stay 2nd amendment".

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The american main stream media has been unreliable for some time, I mean I watch glenn beck and fox news just for the crazy! It's entertainment now, which can mean more fiction than fact!


Can't argue with you there.
I get much of my reliable news from Jon Stewart, videosift and the rest of the internet. But as "proper" news outfits continue to get more and more diluted into entertainment, the real news bits get harder and harder to extract.

Fox news is like an all-day late-night informercial: you are certain that the product will blend, but you're not convinced it will give you a six-pack in thirty days.

When more and more of the information you get about the world around you becomes as mangled it becomes easier and easier for those corruptible by power to take advantage of their position and of you. Look at the recent Wall street collapse, the media was yelling "look over there" and "bankers" said, "hey, nobody's watching. I wonder what happens when I..." and a few people made gobs of money.

This happened with Iraq and Afghanistan with Blackwater and other contractors and arms dealers; this happened over the disaster in New York in 2001, and it happened before that and before that.

In magic acts, they call it misdirection. (Though I do not believe the kind of events I mentioned to be so carefully organized. I think it is more a case of not-so-well-meaning people taking advantage of opportunities as they see them.)

A misinformed populace at the hands of clouded infotainment may indeed be part of the environment necessary for totalitarianism to be possible. So is fear, especially irrational fear.

Whether he knows it or not, Glen Beck, and others like him, are only making it more and more possible for the worst of their fears to come true.

FYI - Blackwater is now known as Xe. Why would they change their name? Just like any other company walking the edge of criminality does. Tobacco, financial, communications, energy, mercenary companies, arms dealers, etc.

The common public has a very short memory and is incapable of keeping track of all this. Too busy dealing with day to day life and surviving through a tanked economy, rather than watching where the 'arms' of the military industrial complex are reaching.

Same old story. Nothing new. The plutocracy continues.

I don't think it's about the dollar amount, it's about there being no other country that would sell them jets etc.
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I don't think even Russia would sell them MIGs. Soooo.... they really couldn't invade Gaza without US support.


Bullshit. Israel's first purchase of jet fighters where a Messerschmitt variation from Czechoslovakia. Saddam had no troubles buying any and every piece of hardware he wanted from tanks and jets from the Soviets all the way up to VX gas and a nuclear reactor from the French. Rwanda's RGF had a study supply of every form of military hardware they could use while they were busily executing the worst genocide seen for generations. Even the video itself declares that 1/4 of the American aid is spent on ISRAELI made weapons!

Arms dealers are loyal to money and nothing else. You don't seem to have a clue what your talking about on this.

Where were the tanks going? Who purchased them? Who sold them?

Most likely they were supplied by some arms dealer destined to some third world repressive nation..

First I'd apologize to Irishman if my prior post seems a criticism of his and the links he posted. I'd only had time to read the second link when posting and had wanted to clarify there was more going on than just CIA money to Pakistan. Both the links given are informative and the first one in particular gives some detailed background of internal politics in Pakistan.

More over, it should go without saying but with the lack of votes and comments maybe it deserves to be said flat out. Pakistan(not Iran,Iraq or North Korea), is the most important country in the over trumpeted 'war on terror'.

Since the Pakistani government has little control of the border region by Afghanistan the Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces that were in Afhganistan have retreated there. More over, that tribal region has strong support for Bin Laden and the extremist ideas he holds. The important twist though is the AQ Khan network that was selling not only plans for nuclear weapons, but the equipment to make them. For those unfamiliar, AQ Khan is the man responsible for Pakistan's nuclear program. His success in building the bomb for Pakistan made him a national hero. So much so that in spite of being caught privately selling nuclear secrets and the equipment to build them there was public back lash at shaming him by forcing him to apologize over it. The political will to punish him for that is so weak that he is now on loose house arrest.

That means Pakistan is a nation where a one man nuclear arms dealer is still considered a hero by many. It is a nation where a border region is home to Al-Qaeda and the Taliban where they enjoy public support. You can bet the danger of those two problems colliding is the unspoken thought behind Washington's relationship with Pakistan. It's an extraordinarily delicate situation and any major changes like say, a change in leadership, should be watched with extremely keen interest by everyone.

Listen to Karl Rove and vote for Jesus.. because Jesus is a Republican and we all know he only has the interests of poor middle America at heart. After mega corporations, oil companies, and arms dealers of course.

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