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December 14: Palmyra??? Look on a map! It’s the furthest west that U.S.
forces have ever been “recorded” in Syria. So much for a Trump
withdrawal!!! // Micron and New York: Another one bites the dust. //
YooKrayne electric update. // December 15: Opportunity cost and the
strategic bombing question. Same as in (or after) World War 2! // Now, YOU
decide. Is the YooKraynian long-range drone effort still worth it? //
Dnipro dinner plans dashed: The YooKrayne’s electric picture is now too
confused for me to identify any “getting better” or “getting worse” trend.
What I can say for sure, it is increasingly CHAOTIC. // Targeting the fuel
connection. // “DRONE SPAM.” YooKraynian long-range drones have definitely
fallen behind the times; there is no longer any serious comparison with the
Russian stuff. It is amazing how the two “curves” have diverged. //
December 16: A HALF-HOUR MEGA AUDIO: The Republican party was not able to
reconcile its donors and its voters, and thus, failed its base (mostly on
immigration & national identity issues) more than 10 years ago, and so the
party has been marginalized, and now what we have is a cult of one man.
Problem is, as tends to happen (ask Ghadaffi!!!), the man eventually goes
loopy & begins acting like a god-king, following his instincts & revealing
his true face. BUT that doesn’t “work” in a “democracy”, because he STILL
HAS TO ACCOUNT TO VOTERS. And so, Republican “influencers” & yellow-dog
partisans are trapped in a DOOM LOOP, whereby they HAVE TO follow their
god-king (who cannot be replaced) down the flushing toilet, EVEN AS IT
FINISHES OFF THE DESTRUCTION OF THEIR PARTY. Again, this was all “set in
stone” more than 10 years ago. // December 17: Political wisdom from a six
year-old. // Naturalized citizens are, on average, rather old, and thus,
almost all eligible and likely to vote. And while many of them gave a pass
to “They’re eating the dogs!” in 2024, this demographic will soon vote
against Republicans at a proportion NEVER SEEN SINCE THE ROOSEVELT DAYS, IF
EVER. // YooKrayne electric update. // December 19: So long, Kennedy
Center. // Dreizin exclusive access to Maduro’s speech! Transcript here! //
A sci-fi writer was smoking dope in 1993. How is his “The Singularity”
working out today? // RAPID FIRE DREIZIN: The day in twelve minutes and
forty-one seconds: Odessa bridge bombings update, and, the
not-quite-release of the Epstein files. // December 21: Russia haters
jerking off again to the oil price. // December 22: “Interview with the
Trumpire.” Politics are dumb, PEOPLE are interesting. // The simplest
explanation for all the pardons is “the shock doctrine.” // December 23:
The “Leisure and Hospitality” sector—a.k.a. McJobs, a.k.a. at least 40% of
all job gains over the last year & a half at least, according to the U.S.
Department of Labor—is FINALLY on track to contract. // Some more on the
commodities, and where Russia & anti-Russia fits in. Working the potential
numbers on Russia’s metals “super-profits” to compensate for the huge drag
on its crude oil. //
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German workhorse fed up being forced by scheming banksters and international finance to carry corrupt, crumbling, left-wing Mediterranean economies
German People Not Happy With Bailouts thenewamerican.com
"The sovereign debt crisis in the European Union can be summed up fairly simply: The governments of overspending nations are asking the governments of fiscally prudent nations to prop them up. The prudent nations, whose governments pay their obligations out of revenue, rather than by selling bonds, tend to be those in the more financially conservative parts of Europe, such as Finland, Holland, and Germany. Those nations that are waist deep in debt, whose bond offerings have in some cases been reduced to junk bond status, tend to be in the south of Europe around the Mediterranean Sea.
"As financial analysts look at the finance ministries and the economies of Greece, Portugal, Italy, and Spain, it seems as if the moment one crisis passes another arises. Recently, concern about a possible default on Spanish bonds is driving down the stock markets in Europe. Only by piggybacking on the creditworthiness of stronger E.U. economies and relying on the money that the strong economies can contribute toward the myriad bailouts can the improvident PIIGS nations dream of paying bondholders for their sovereign debts.
"More and more, it seems that the stronger E.U. nations who have been paying their own debts are unhappy about providing bailouts for those who have not. Elections in Finland a few months ago presented evidence of a genuine popular revolt against doing more to help bail out nations such as Greece.
"Professor Hans-Werner Sinn of Germany has recently said that German taxpayers perceive a dangerous increase in credit risk to their nation from the many bailout schemes. “The euro-system is near explosion. It’s a horror scenario,” the professor told the Austrian Economics Academy recently. Sinn warned that Germany is already taking the risk for much of the £1.72 trillion in rescue plans for the debtor nations, which could place catastrophic debts on Germans in the future."..MORE...
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