What happened last time in Turkey… Putin didnt show up, Trump skipped flight to Ankara at last minute. Zelenskyi was there. I expect same result.
Trump admin needs to significantly change negotiation position. Oil sanctions dont do that, Im sure chinese and indians gladly buy that oil via grey channels with new sanctions. It is simply too enticing deal with current oil prices.
About India… they have strong discipline and hierarchical structures. Modi is said to be similar as Xi, “strong leader” suppressing any opposition. We just dont read these anywhere in west. They have more than enough skillset people to implement all those CBDC and whatnot. Modi government has long time suggested so. It just is way more complex problem in 1.4Bn people big country than even US. But it supports their agenda. Not even need to mention their trade will benefit immensely with all digital things, oil trade, services trade etc.
Lot of countries in world are worse than europe. Not to say EU is great, that no doubt curbs any remaining economic growth. Expiring your cash just makes people poorer faster. Centralized government has always been extremely dumb. Chinese have tried sometnhing else, more local banks. They have their issues but if they can prevent unnecessary conglomeration happening in west, they have big structural edge being dynamic.
Problem with EU is Brussels has turned to copy of DC where people enjoy lazy good salaries taxfree and forget to work. It is much harder to keep reminding people when they are 500km away from home in different country and wearing gucci bags, armani suits and whatnot luxury items. People change overnight.
There are proposed solutions to gerrymandering. I’ve been involved in one in my State of Pennsylvania. And I know there’s a movement in Florida. Probably others as well. But it’s a hard road to travel. The vested interests have been successful so far at blocking the will of the citizens (surprise!)
For anyone interested here’s what happening in PA:
I havent listened to the Tucker/George Santos interview yet. Hope to get to it tomorrow. That being said i remember Tulsi sitting in for Tucker and interviewing Santos. It was not a good look for Santos and he seemed dishonest to say the least.
Thats not to say that our government is just flawed/broken past the point of reconciling.
Gerrymandering is a ridiculous activity and needs to stop. the size of the districts needs to be fair, but these stringing threading districts is not. No more than 8 sides? IDK how to fairly fix it. No one district can be longer from corner to corner 10% longer than any other district?
No, Israel is not. The US is providing food to Gaza via an American contractor. PLEASE watch the Tucker interview with retired LtCol Tony Aguilar.
And who is ignoring these 600 IDF and Mossad Israeli’s?
Notice, it’s not an article about "anti-semites* but 600 IDF, Mossad high ranking military and intelligence personnel. Not 50. Not one or two. SIX HUNDRED who see what their government is doing in Gaza.
Not to mention the dozens and dozens of video evidence of the IDF moving people by “firing over their heads and firing at their feet” to herd people into lines for food. I’m a retired Marine. That’s not only a violation of the UCMJ but also violations of the Geneva Convention: War Crimes.
I love Israel and many of its people and they have every right to defend themselves. However, this is not defense. It is genocide emdorsed and supported by the United States. Again, PLEASE watch Tucker’s interview with Tony Aguilar.
Absolutely disagree. Integrity and cognitive dissonance are unrelated. I know people of high integrity who are completely lost in cognitive dissonance. My father, now in his 90’s is a beliefs oriented person rather than a critical thinker. He believes what he is told if it comes from a source he trusts. Unfortunately he gets all his information from the main stream media. He is a classic victim of 5th generation warfare; he’s has been trained to label ideas that contradict the approved narratives as conspiracy theories. Not only does he believe the approved narratives but he tries to convince others. He would be absolutely horrified about this if he could achieve a higher perspective but this will never happen.
There are many people who have been very effectively neutralized / mentally-imprisoned by the 5 gen warfare tools cleverly manipulating their cognitive biases.
I think we all know people of integrity that have fallen for these tricks. In a community like Peak Prosperity it’s easy to forget that only a small percentage of the general population are genuine critical thinkers
To be fair, sorting out your motor vehicle has always been a bit crazy. For your vehicle you need 3 things: an MOT (safety check), Vehicle Tax and insurance. We imported a motorcycle (from NZ) way back in 1990. Wanted to get it on the road, but:
I needed an MOT to get insurance
I needed insurance to get vehicle tax
I needed vehicle tax to get an MOT
And around and around and around we went.
Another interesting thing in relation to UK administration (paperwork), is that you are not the owner of your vehicle. You are the ‘Registered Keeper’. This dumbfounded me for ages - I paid for the vehicle, surely, I am the owner? But no, just the keeper who is responsible for all payments; the owner - DVLA most likely.
Surprised the skateboarder guy was so compliant - that was ridiculous.
With respect, that is the kind of take that you see on Freeman of the Land type channels.
The “keeper” is the person who the DVLA are interested in knowing about, as that is who they will send fines etc to if you get caught by a speed camera. Basically, the person responsible for the car.
Just because they don’t care who the owner is, and you don’t register it with them, that doesn’t mean that you don’t own the car. That’s jumping a bit of a chasm - as FMOTL people tend to do.
If ownership were registered, DVLA records would be full of companies and finance houses, who it would be pointless writing to about fines as clearly they are not the ones driving the cars.
I’m as sceptical about the state as anyone else, but I don’t think this is as you claim.
“The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you [Jews]” (Romans 2:24)
These statements (and actions) make Paul’s quotation ring even more true. If anyone wants to yell at me about “out of context”, go read the prior verses – about those who say “one should not steal or murder or commit adultery” and yet they do the same. Here we have those who condemn the Nazi’s and then go do the same thing as the Nazis.
I’m sure they’ll just move on to the next way to cheat, but how about 1) perimeter length of district / perimeter length of a square district of the same area < 1.5 (or whatever is appropriate) or as much as possible adjacent precincts with similar voting patterns must be in the same district or …
It’s by design. I’ll never be convinced October 7th was a “surprise” attack. I was surprised this morning to find out, neither does retired general Michael Flynn (Rumble interview). Tony Aguilar’s interview by Tucker certainly locks that in concrete. Then the Israeli lawyer at the GHF press conference admitting like it’s perfectly normal, “the IDF isn’t firing at the people lining up for food. They’re firing over their heads and firing at their feet to get them to move,” then blaming Hamas for the dead bodies found at sun up in the line up areas. Kind of like, “relax, they’re just showers.”
I would look for the following in district maps to suggest likely gerrymandering:
Long, narrow districts that connect urban areas with rural - designed to divide either Republican majority or Democrat majority areas into smaller units, each placed with a region that tends to vote the other way in order to make the entire district controlled by a majority of the other party.
Isolated districts that have a strong majority of one party surrounded by districts with a smaller majority of the other party.
Based on looking at this map, I would say that Illinois is the gerrrymanderer in chief with some evidence of it in California, Louisiana, Arizona, Texas, Michigan, Maryland, New Jersey and possibly New York. In Maryland, though, I don’t see how redistricting could change much, given the adjacent large safe Democratic districts.
Massachusetts is composed entirely of “safe” democractic districts, but I bet it would still be possible to create a least one Republican district by not dividing the Boston suburbs into multiple districts that include large inner suburb/urban portions.
Thanks for weighing in. My 92 year old mother is similar to your father. As are other family members and friends.
I think the relationship between integrity & cognitive dissonance is something to be explored. I do not think it is black and white. 5G warfare is a modern phenomena that, no question, has contributed to the significant levels of cognitive dissonance being seen now. Historically however, there have always been people wedded to belief systems, who would not think critically. Think of witch burning as one example of insanity that resulted in horrific deaths. In a way I suppose those people were subjected to a medieval style cognitive warfare, with priests & authorities promoting those beliefs. But then, as now, I wonder how many went along just to go with the flow? To belong to a group, and not be a contrarian or outsider, which often meant being ostracised, a true threat to survival in that era?
If Chris’s definition is valid, which I think it is, the willingness to be re-educated means having the will to use critical thinking skills. The will to consider alternative sources of information.
For me, this begs the question, has 5G warfare destroyed free will? Has it completely blunted curiousity? Killed common sense? Has it replaced flexibility in thinking with rigidity?
