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a lot of insider baseball. But all the alt-right friends of vladdie are here

Never forget that Mastriano is a dangerous anti-semite.

My thought about all this is in part Machiavelli: you have to appeal to the feelings of the common man and most of them are going to go to the religious and spiritual when in distress.

and adherence to Catholic faith in Europe. Percent of Catholics in Europe by Country–Pew Research 2011 (no legend) - Catholic Church in Europe - Wikipedia

I'll respond with a quote and another And at the end of the day people are materialistic and survival focused. But the highest point in Maslow's hierarchy of needs is revenge.

Huh

The dilution volumes of the Great Lakes has long been cited as a reason why it was ok to leave all sorts of stuff in the local watershed. Lets not do that anymore, please.

Of course the Stalin quote about the Pope comes to mind.

It’s like asking if Putin was going to win the recent elections. They technically had elections. It looked like democracy but wasn’t.

I think in this case they were just trying to fish in the punters to get them to lay odds. But if Xi is dumped...fwew! I can think of a few bad outcomes but a lot of good ones.

and then actually causes something bad to happen though his overt acts.

My man. Xi has a big CCP congress meeting or Party for the Party if you will, in October. Basically its the trope of all those situation comedies when the wife has to prepare a flawless meal when the boss or bank manager is coming to dinner. Except in this case, Xi is probably dealing with a stacked deck and could have any individual complaining about his leadership sent to a reeducation camp.

This cannot stand He must be punished for this.

My immediate thought is that Xi is Hitler to Putin's Mussolini. XI is closer to Stalin than Hitler though. If he survives October that is.

Russia is spending a lot of theater weapons to kill some civilians

As I recall, the public water folks went with ozone water purification specifically to get away from large rail deliveries of chlorine. There was some confluence of the two critical vulnerabilities.

US passenger railcars and light railcars are tanks. This has been good for safety but bad for the cost of moving the peoples.

No, but I did have to do a report about kids who got stuck in water towers in NM and drowned and weren't found for a long time afterwards. Grim.

I used to work specific threats to surface transportation. It was fascinating. I got to work with the railroad industry security community group. They didn't like anything that would impact their insurance costs or stock prices so wanted every report to end with "we see no reason why the chlorine train shouldn't be routed through Manhattan" or whatever.

Railroads are profitable...very

The huge problem with the last 20-30 years since 1989 has been the slobbering adherence within political right to the comfort of the notion that capitalism = democracy. That definitely went on for too long wrt China. Made all the more clear as a problem by Xi's reembrace of central control of his State Owned Enterprises. With Russia, too much money crossed too many hands in the West.

lets hope they don't get along

We are going to find out that Aaron Rodgers is doing even worse stuff with public money, aren't we?

The Durham investigation ... what a let down for so many of the dead enders who think Trump is beyond reproach.