Since the first assault on Turkey’s finances in 2018, which I wrote about multiple times (here, here, and here), I’ve been the lone voice telling everyone that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a lunatic but he’s a lunatic with a plan. That plan is to de-dollarize the economy of a valuable member of NATO geostrategically. Since the first shots across the bow by the Trump administration at Erdogan’s toying with those powers east of the Bosporus (Russia, China and Iran) the Turkish lira has been the primary mode of attack against Erdogan. Erdogan has pursued what has been deemed unorthodox...
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News Roundup 12/27/21
Covid Massachusetts halts all elective procedures. [Link] The USS Milwaukee will remain in Cuba after several sailors tested positive for Covid. [Link] USAID is running out of money to distribute covid vaccinations. [Link] The US donates 1.5 million vaccine doses to Egypt through Covax. [Link] Biden will lift the travel restriction from eight African countries on January 1st. [Link] US News LAPD officers killed a 14-year-old girl. [Link] The Pentagon cuts the cost of living stipend it gives to tens of thousands of soldiers living in high-cost areas in the US. [Link] Stu Scheller - who...
American Exceptionalism
The level of arrogance displayed by American government employees against us regular mundanes knows no real limit. The story of this disgusting criminal Anne Sacoolas is a perfect example. She is the wife of a spook with diplomatic immunity named Jonathan Sacoolas, who, driving on the wrong side of the road, killed an innocent English kid named Harry Dunn. She then fled the UK and refuses to return to face responsibility for her crimes. The disgusting Trump-Pompeo administration continues to back her disgraceful invocation of her legal impunity. “She left Harry to suffer as he lay face...
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Army Veteran Has Prosthetic Legs Repossessed After VA Refuses To Pay
Judge refuses to toss corruption case against Rep. Duncan Hunter
U.S. District Judge Thomas Whelan refused to dismiss federal corruption charges or move the trial out of San Diego. Rep Duncan Hunter is charged with using $250,000 in campaign funds for personal expenses. Prosecutors have also revealed salacious details about the congressman’s lifestyle, saying he spent campaign money on a string of extramarital affairs with lobbyists and congressional...
Manning Refuses to Testify for Assange Grand Jury
That's good. The judge says contempt of court, off to jail. By the way, here's the Afghan and Iraq War Logs and State Department Cables. Why not do some drugs and stay up late reading them...
The Antiwar Comic: ISIS, The Next Generation
If you haven't read that Wired article, you really should. For more comics, visit The Webcomic Factory.
The Simple Solution To Political Violence
What do you do when someone at a political rally punches you in the face? You turn the other cheek. People who get into street fights already brag about taking hits. Of course they also love giving them. How about being proud of taking hits while exercising the self restraint needed to not punch back? Street violence is a tool among many, and is hardly decisive. Its purpose is to generate crises that other tools of politics make use of. It's a lubricant for intrigue. It doesn't work when one side refuses to fight. False flags are impossible when one side is ideologically committed...