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It is not the freshest news. But it is still breaking, people are still absorbing it ,and it all till needs context.

The filthy greedheads and the doomed can't have exclusive rights to this news territory. The insane and the loyal opposition must have their say as well.

My take - the Russian armada is going to bomb the living fuck out of Aleppo.  Not so much to help Assad as to show they can still break shit, and still matter in one of their few areas of influence outside of Russia. 

Sebostabol/Crimea alreadytaken and those pieces are swatted off the chess board.
Then they will pass through the Suez canal to a favorite area of contemporary interest - the south china sea, to dock at the "chinese" island. 
They will refit at Vizag (a top indian navy base), go hover around the "chinese" island in the spratleys, maybe some commando/fast boat/SEAL type training with the chinese there. then they go right by the senkaku islands on the way to vladivostick for winter.
just to show the world the BRICS aint nobody to fuck with. 
Turkish PM Erdogan just "cleaned house," by firing about 40,000 people in government and shooting a
few hundred security, military and intelligence staff accused of being Gulen supporters.  some probably were, some probably were not, and Gulen's infleunce is not as profound as the govt makes it out to be. but he just bought himself 5 more years of unchallengable rule. and the ability to flip turkey out of NATO into the BRICS. I think it is very possible and could happen suddenly if it does.
Then much of eastern europe NATO (esp former ussr/Warsaw Pact) all quit too - because it is a stupid antiquated instiution that has not had a rational strategic reason of existence since the fall of the Berlin wall.  nato is not world's army the blue hats in the UN are.
Timing - Putin put them at sea when he knew he would have a four month window of no real response from usa because of the  elections.
They will have proved they are back as a true blue sea navy, anf kicked some ass, and shored up crucial geostrategic along the way.
I feel no portence of WWIII but instead feel this is a macho country saying "we be back motherfucka!"
and the advanced cyber and ground/space/ship-to-shore warfare eqpt of china, russia (less so india) is getting really good, and hits all the achilles heels of nato/USSA, efficiently, cheaply, and on the button.

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one can't help worrying about Cal, being there, where

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Hannah shared this article on FB.

Richest 1% to Own 2/3 of the Worlds Wealth by 2030.

"I have no thought of escaping."  There's a metaphor at work here somewhere.  

Robert Tilton is indeed real... the sound has been enhanced a little.   

Oh crap- I'm probably gonna get banned again.  Like all "private" sites- you can be banned for any reason whatsoever.  Fair enough.  "Oh look what happens: 
Rich boy buys local paper. MBA beancounters tell him how to maximize quarterly profit and create shareholder value: let go time-consuming investigative reporting (saves labor costs) and increase sportsball gossip... like covering the petting zoo. No travel expenses. 
Then- put a up a paywall (instant revenue) so no international readers can learn anything about SLC. Cut open the golden goose so you can get all the eggs out at once and save on goose food. 
Freaking brilliant. That's why the Chinese are eating our lunch. "Free-market capitalism." "Maximizing profit" just like a Trump casino."  

Maybe that wasn't enough.  But this was "removed":  

"Susan Sarandon?" You're off the rails now, Mol. And we didn't vote for Jill Stein just to "spite Hillary." It's because it was the right gddm thing to do. We've been pivoting right for 50 years thanks to wimpy-dimpy "compromise" and woo don't alienate the "swing voters." Look at the climate data. Look at the economic data. Don't blame us for Trump... blame the Wimpycrats and their "triangulation." 
"Bernie bots" my A**. Bernie was "compromise" enough for me... but nooooo... so a plague on both your gddm houses. We're going to get the Green New Deal... with/without the puppet show.  

(Probably because I didn't mask the naughty noo-noo words enough.)   

Don't know if you've noticed, but all descensionist speech is being shut down every-fucking-where. The fascists have won. This ain't our fathers' America. This is Germany circa 1939 and dear leader is the deep state. 

Oh well. We're old. Ain't got hardly anything left to lose. Just gonna continue to enjoy the show until I'm told to report to the cookie factory.

Heard a snippet of NPR asked of a historian:

"Is this the worst it has ever been?"

"No, it has been this bad before, and sometimes even worse."

Whew....I feel relieved now!

Btw:  This merits a re-post and a re-read:  Your Politics are Boring as Fuck.  Again... it's the naughty noo-noo words.  

I recently was unfriended by someone because I pointed out that an article she posted by Glen Greenwald contained some unsupported opinions that weakened his conclusions. For fucks sake.... isn't hero worship of an ubermensch kinda counter to socialist ideals....or at least after Stalin?  I dared point out a fault in one specific article and now I'm a counter-revolutionary.

This is the second year in SLC... and haven't written anything for a year-anna-half... and finally put up DreamcatcherOccupy what is happening... now that the brutal psychopaths are in charge.  Maybe won't be here In the year 2070.    

Recently an unusual prevailing wind from Greenland has kept the winter woolies close under bright skies or thick oppressive cloud.

My fathers's city has fallen.

Relentless propaganda induces nausea.

https://youtu.be/9RPoitFQQ8Y

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Yeah, I wonder how my own father would have reacted to seeing the entire western world turn into a full blown totalitarian shit hole. 

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