I am waiting to see the IDF offensive on Rafah get underway.
Plus, reportedly the Biden administration is poised to lift sanctions worth $10 billion to Iran. This despite the evidence that Iran is behind the Gaza, Hezbollah, and Houthi aggressions.
“Like many other theorists, he points to a depressurisation of the cabin by the pilot to knock the 239 passengers unconscious as the pilot made a U-turn to ditch the plane in the ocean.”
I stated this on neo’s prior thread about the flight. I think I also read a theory that the pilot likely depressurized the cabin when the copilot was out of the cockpit, perhaps using the bathroom or stretching his legs.
Is it too early to condemn the Dominican Republic for not opening their borders to Haitian refugees, or asking how they can swim all the way to a Red State but can’t walk across Hispaniola to freedom (!) and Democracy
DR and Egypt, both don’t want open borders.
And with very good reason.
Here’s what’s actually going on with the TikTok fight right now.
Deep State toadies are taking advantage of anti-China sentiment to transfer TikTok’s surveillance apparatus from China’s evil surveillance state to the U.S. government’s evil surveillance state.
TikTok isn’t going to be banned, because neither the CCP-run Chinese government nor the CCP-owned U.S. government wants to lose such a valuable tool for spying on Americans and poisoning the minds of their children. Instead, the corrupt U.S. intelligence bureaucracy wants control of TikTok, which is why it included the divestment mandate.
Only a handful of U.S. companies are capable of buying and managing TikTok, and they already function as appendages of the Deep State surveillance apparatus.
It’s not that the U.S. government wants to protect you from spying and data theft and manipulation. If only. No, the people behind the Russian collusion hoax, and the Kavanaugh hoax, and the natural origin COVID hoax, and the illegal warrantless spying, and the forced transing of your children—they want to be the ones spying on you and stealing your data and poisoning the minds of your children.
Now, should a spying and subversion tool used by our communist enemies to destroy us be banned? Yeah, obviously, for the same reason that we never would’ve allowed the Soviet Union to infiltrate our homes with their own radios and television sets during the Cold War. But that’s not what’s happening here.
Your government won’t even shoot down a Communist Chinese spy balloon, or prevent the Communist Chinese government from gobbling up your farmland, or stop the Communist Chinese government from stealing the products you make, dumping them into your market at below-market prices, and then driving you out of business. Heck, when the literal Chinese spy chief bought off the Biden family by funneling a million dollars to Hunter Biden, DOJ didn’t even bat an eyelash.
There’s no evidence anywhere that the regime that currently controls America has any interest in fighting off China’s attempts to cripple our country economically, militarily, or diplomatically. But suddenly they want you to believe they’re deeply concerned about TikTok.
I can’t stand the plight of the poor Palestinians any more—ALAS!!!!
Israel must remove all Palestinians from Gaza & West Bank now – move them to the safety of Lebanon & Jordan immediately, before any more of those poor people are killed by the Israelis.
Re: Queen Rania, so Israelis raped Palestinian women and killed children in front of their parents and danced about it and all the other horrific atrocities 156 times?
Since October 7th we have heard a lot about “proportional response”. I believe that most Israelis feel that a proportion of 1 to 1,000 might be a good start. I will, when it happens here.
Rufus T Firefly:
Good link, bloke!
Only 156 times?
Not 155? Or 157?
Certainly 156 is enough, though.
Wondering how the Global Media missed that scoop…
I guess they really are the Pro-Israel Global Media…
I see some speculation that Musk would be eventually forced to sell X.
As for the Palestinians… surrender, surrender all hostages living and dead, surrender all war criminals, surrender all offensive weapons. Otherwise, drop dead.
there are times when I think the world would be better if the hashemites were the keepers of the shrine, the kingdom was the consolation prize for losing Arabia to ibn Saud, a Palestinian killed Abdullah’s grandfather and name sake in 1951, they don’t call the General Intelligence headquarters in Amman, the fingernail palace for kicks, of course the Tasmanian devil Zarquawi came from there, ignatius painted the spymaster hani in bright colors,
Rufus T. – Ozzy, ozzy, ozzy!!! 🙂
Yeah, Chases Eagles, this is a backdoor attack on “X” by Dems and some very stupid Rep.
I fully agree though that TT should be banned, but something else will spring up.
As I wrote in yesterday’s open thread, this job market and economy have me perplexed.
Dollar stores have struggled following a shift in consumer spending to lower-margin essentials from higher-margin discretionary goods. They also face stiff competition from rivals such as Walmart (WMT.N), and Chinese e-commerce platform Temu.
Dollar Tree reported a net loss of $1.71 billion, or $7.85 per share in the quarter ended Feb. 3, compared with a year-ago profit of $452.2 million, or $2.04 per share.
So many small towns I drive through consist solely of a small gas station and a Family Dollar store. Now 1,000 of those are going away?
I agree on the Tik Tok ban being a camel’s nose under the tent.
Don’t force divestiture. Pass laws and restrictions on the type of data foreign companies can collect and how they can collect it. This is what the EU has done (or “have done,” as they would say). That’s why you see Apple, Meta, Alphabet and Microsoft losing lawsuits and paying huge fines in the EU.
Am I the only one wondering why $20 billion of the $61 billion aid package to Ukraine is to replenish existing stocks?
According to a PBS story: “The U.S. has already sent Ukraine $111 billion in weapons, equipment, humanitarian assistance and other aid since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion more than 21 months ago.
Wouldn’t those packages pay for replenishing existing stocks if we sent that ammunition and weapons immediately, then ordered new stock for our own inventory?
Add to that, last June: “…The Pentagon said Tuesday that it overestimated the value of the weapons it has sent to Ukraine by $6.2 billion over the past two years — about double early estimates — resulting in a surplus that will be used for future security packages.”
Jake Sullivan said yesterday they were sending an additional $300 million in weapons– reported to be from that $6.2 billion surplus. So all the time Biden has been trying to coerce Congress to pass this supplemental aid package he was had $6 billion already approved that could have been supplying Ukraine.
At what point does this begin to sound like some sort of shell game? What’s going on?
There is a long lead time to produce some/all of this ammunition– possibly because war-gamers inside the Pentagon didn’t/don’t anticipate any war we might fight would include some of the ammunition/weapons being used in this very conventional war. I linked to a story recently that said it will be 2025 before we (and NATO) are providing Ukraine with 155 shells at the rate that will be 1/3 what Russia is producing.
CIA Director Bill Burns testifying before Congress recently said “it’s our assessment that with supplemental assistance, Ukraine can hold it’s own on the front lines through 2024 and into 2025…without supplemental assistance in 2024 you’re going to see more Avdivkas”
If Joe Biden really meant “as long as it takes”, why wasn’t this aid to Ukraine included in the regular budget? Why can’t the administration find $15 billion in a $800 billion defense budget?
It’s been about 18 months since Musk stole Twitter from the Progressives. Yes, he paid a lot, but Progressives still look at it as theft, IMHO. 🙂
• Since then he has exposed the Federal Govt & old Twitter owners—being in league w/ each other in effort to shut down political opponents of the Democratic party, and to shut down any free speech.
• Changed Twitter’s name to X.
I don’t believe those are moves by a man who expects immediate company growth.
Since stealing Twitter from the Progressives, they and their cohorts in the Democratic party, Federal Govt, and MSM have been in full-attack mode against Musk & X (formerly Twitter). X has lost a huge amount of advertising, but it has only been 18 months since Musk stole Twitter, and most companies would’ve folded by this time—under such attacks.
Yes, I ignore most of the Progressive’s negative hype about Musk & X, because I don’t trust the sources.
However, I had 46 followers today, and that number has gone from 41 to 48 for about 6 months now, from a normally 1 to 5 followers. I don’t seek followers and only follow about 15 people or whatever. These fluctuating followers have mostly been new young female users – I am a devout 78 year old hermit. 2 to 3 stop following rather quickly, and then 2 to 3 new ones show up.
I believe most of these new young female users are looking to be re-followed, but I am not into the social media following ‘Stuff’.
I suspect that a large portion of those new December users were young female users. Still, X is showing growth in the new user category or at least it seems. I’ve been an $8 a month subscriber since Musk took over, and I can actually use X now without worrying how many words or characters are being used in a tweet.
Hopefully the speculators are wrong about Musk being “eventually forced to sell X.” Musk has a vision for X that 99.999% of us don’t see or understand – I’m along for the ride this time…
Regarding Musk’s vision for X, he has stated it. I happen to believe he means what he is saying, but others may not.
Would someone please post a picture of Biden at last year’s State of the Union address and this year (last Tuesday). I think we will see some amazing changes in his face and demeanor. Stuart has an explanation today on his sub stack:
Now there are reports that the Haitian “cannibalism” video has been “debunked.” The video is apparently two years old. Interesting, but if gang leaders were cannibals back then, they are still cannibals now. There may be a twelve-step recovery program for cannibals, but the the first step would be admitting that you are are cannibal.
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63% of men under 29 describe themselves as single, but only 34% of women under 29 do.
Either there are a lot of lesbians out there or Jan & Dean’s dream of two girls for every boy has finally come true.
As i pointed out a quarter of the sample is alphabet soup
Maybe they’re married but identify as single.
Given that perhaps a quarter of young people now “identify” as some oddball “gender” rather than their biological sex, these surveys are going to be unreliable.
Either there are a lot of lesbians out there or Jan & Dean’s dream of two girls for every boy has finally come true.
–Abraxas
It’s two girls for every Chad. If not three or four…
Chad being the slang appellation for males in the top 10-20% of female desirability. In the dating app world, men in the lower 80-90% are rarely “swiped right,” i.e. not considered as a dating possibility.
It’s a problem.
huxley:
Not exactly. See this. See also this and this for related information. The bottom line: men are far more numerous on most of the dating apps that are popular with younger people, and most are likely to be looking for sex and will accept almost any female for that purpose. Women can afford to be choosier in terms of the numbers because there are so many men, and women are looking for long-term committed relationships and therefore they are far more interested not only in the photo but in the text of the profile.
What about age? Women are far more likely to date/marry older men than vice-versa. Not unknown but definitely more rare, cougars notwithstanding.
Then there are the relationships where the man considers himself single but the woman doesn’t …. naah, that would never happen …
…looking for sex and will accept almost any female for that purpose.
What a misandristic statement!?! Certainly not my past experience — many many many women were looking to literally give ‘It’ away, and apparently more so today. Why even bother with a ‘choosier woman or even a prostitute?!
Maybe men needing “dating apps” might be more desperate, but “dating apps” weren’t around in my day.
Maybe Mother Nature is planning on a War, and has been increasing the male population—I dunno, but women now a days are shaving areas they didn’t some years back (that happened in my later days), and doing all sorts of stuff they didn’t do in my earlier days.
All the societal changes do not alter the fundamental biological fact that sexual intercourse entails far more risk and vulnerability for the woman than for the man.
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Flight documents show MH370 was ‘buried in an ocean trench by pilot’, says Boeing expert.
I am waiting to see the IDF offensive on Rafah get underway.
Plus, reportedly the Biden administration is poised to lift sanctions worth $10 billion to Iran. This despite the evidence that Iran is behind the Gaza, Hezbollah, and Houthi aggressions.
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/03/12/president-biden-is-set-to-give-a-10-billion-gift-to-iran-n2171309
That video is beautiful!
From Abraxas’ link:
“Like many other theorists, he points to a depressurisation of the cabin by the pilot to knock the 239 passengers unconscious as the pilot made a U-turn to ditch the plane in the ocean.”
I stated this on neo’s prior thread about the flight. I think I also read a theory that the pilot likely depressurized the cabin when the copilot was out of the cockpit, perhaps using the bathroom or stretching his legs.
History of American Cryptids
Is it too early to condemn the Dominican Republic for not opening their borders to Haitian refugees, or asking how they can swim all the way to a Red State but can’t walk across Hispaniola to freedom (!) and Democracy
DR and Egypt, both don’t want open borders.
And with very good reason.
next question
https://www.npr.org/2012/10/01/162088692/dominicans-haitians-remember-parsley-massacre
“…condemn…”
Oh, come on, man! How are you gonna destroy DeSantis (and further damage the US) by encouraging all those Haitians to walk to the Dominican Republic?
The House has passed the TikTok “divestment” bill that would ban the TikTok app from appearing on app stores. Some are saying that the bill is actually a “trojan horse” that would give the President the power to ban websites due to certain language in it.
The Federalist’s Sean Davis wrote this on X:
huxley alert!
Ozzy Man does AI: https://youtu.be/U2tVe_k4bQM?si=1Erk_Mop0hzl7pQs
(It may be of interest to many of you. He gets rather serious at points and encourages discussion in the comments, which are interesting.)
63% of men under 29 describe themselves as single, but only 34% of women under 29 do.
Huh?
25% of the sample is non binary
https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/facts-single-americans-methodology.pdf
I think that throws out the entire sample for unbalance, except in NY and San Francisco
Jordan’s Queen Rania says ‘Israel had one October 7, the Palestinians have had 156’ as she calls for the war to end
I can’t stand the plight of the poor Palestinians any more—ALAS!!!!
Israel must remove all Palestinians from Gaza & West Bank now – move them to the safety of Lebanon & Jordan immediately, before any more of those poor people are killed by the Israelis.
Re: Queen Rania, so Israelis raped Palestinian women and killed children in front of their parents and danced about it and all the other horrific atrocities 156 times?
Since October 7th we have heard a lot about “proportional response”. I believe that most Israelis feel that a proportion of 1 to 1,000 might be a good start. I will, when it happens here.
Rufus T Firefly:
Good link, bloke!
Only 156 times?
Not 155? Or 157?
Certainly 156 is enough, though.
Wondering how the Global Media missed that scoop…
I guess they really are the Pro-Israel Global Media…
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/german-court-to-rule-on-afds-extremist-designation/
==
The legal establishment in Germany are sh!tty bastards as well.
I see some speculation that Musk would be eventually forced to sell X.
As for the Palestinians… surrender, surrender all hostages living and dead, surrender all war criminals, surrender all offensive weapons. Otherwise, drop dead.
there are times when I think the world would be better if the hashemites were the keepers of the shrine, the kingdom was the consolation prize for losing Arabia to ibn Saud, a Palestinian killed Abdullah’s grandfather and name sake in 1951, they don’t call the General Intelligence headquarters in Amman, the fingernail palace for kicks, of course the Tasmanian devil Zarquawi came from there, ignatius painted the spymaster hani in bright colors,
Rufus T. – Ozzy, ozzy, ozzy!!! 🙂
Yeah, Chases Eagles, this is a backdoor attack on “X” by Dems and some very stupid Rep.
I fully agree though that TT should be banned, but something else will spring up.
As I wrote in yesterday’s open thread, this job market and economy have me perplexed.
https://www.reuters.com/business/dollar-tree-close-nearly-1000-stores-2024-03-13/
So many small towns I drive through consist solely of a small gas station and a Family Dollar store. Now 1,000 of those are going away?
I agree on the Tik Tok ban being a camel’s nose under the tent.
Don’t force divestiture. Pass laws and restrictions on the type of data foreign companies can collect and how they can collect it. This is what the EU has done (or “have done,” as they would say). That’s why you see Apple, Meta, Alphabet and Microsoft losing lawsuits and paying huge fines in the EU.
Am I the only one wondering why $20 billion of the $61 billion aid package to Ukraine is to replenish existing stocks?
According to a PBS story: “The U.S. has already sent Ukraine $111 billion in weapons, equipment, humanitarian assistance and other aid since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion more than 21 months ago.
Wouldn’t those packages pay for replenishing existing stocks if we sent that ammunition and weapons immediately, then ordered new stock for our own inventory?
Add to that, last June: “…The Pentagon said Tuesday that it overestimated the value of the weapons it has sent to Ukraine by $6.2 billion over the past two years — about double early estimates — resulting in a surplus that will be used for future security packages.”
Jake Sullivan said yesterday they were sending an additional $300 million in weapons– reported to be from that $6.2 billion surplus. So all the time Biden has been trying to coerce Congress to pass this supplemental aid package he was had $6 billion already approved that could have been supplying Ukraine.
At what point does this begin to sound like some sort of shell game? What’s going on?
There is a long lead time to produce some/all of this ammunition– possibly because war-gamers inside the Pentagon didn’t/don’t anticipate any war we might fight would include some of the ammunition/weapons being used in this very conventional war. I linked to a story recently that said it will be 2025 before we (and NATO) are providing Ukraine with 155 shells at the rate that will be 1/3 what Russia is producing.
CIA Director Bill Burns testifying before Congress recently said “it’s our assessment that with supplemental assistance, Ukraine can hold it’s own on the front lines through 2024 and into 2025…without supplemental assistance in 2024 you’re going to see more Avdivkas”
If Joe Biden really meant “as long as it takes”, why wasn’t this aid to Ukraine included in the regular budget? Why can’t the administration find $15 billion in a $800 billion defense budget?
How the U.S. keeps funding Ukraine’s military when it says it’s out of money
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/how-does-the-u-s-keep-funding-ukraines-military-when-it-says-its-out-of-money
Pentagon accounting error provides extra $6.2 billion for Ukraine military aid
https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-war-weapons-surplus-funding-72eeb6119439146f1939d5b1973a44ef
Chases Eagles:
It’s been about 18 months since Musk stole Twitter from the Progressives. Yes, he paid a lot, but Progressives still look at it as theft, IMHO. 🙂
• Since then he has exposed the Federal Govt & old Twitter owners—being in league w/ each other in effort to shut down political opponents of the Democratic party, and to shut down any free speech.
• Changed Twitter’s name to X.
I don’t believe those are moves by a man who expects immediate company growth.
Since stealing Twitter from the Progressives, they and their cohorts in the Democratic party, Federal Govt, and MSM have been in full-attack mode against Musk & X (formerly Twitter). X has lost a huge amount of advertising, but it has only been 18 months since Musk stole Twitter, and most companies would’ve folded by this time—under such attacks.
Yes, I ignore most of the Progressive’s negative hype about Musk & X, because I don’t trust the sources.
However, I had 46 followers today, and that number has gone from 41 to 48 for about 6 months now, from a normally 1 to 5 followers. I don’t seek followers and only follow about 15 people or whatever. These fluctuating followers have mostly been new young female users – I am a devout 78 year old hermit. 2 to 3 stop following rather quickly, and then 2 to 3 new ones show up.
I believe most of these new young female users are looking to be re-followed, but I am not into the social media following ‘Stuff’.
X, formerly Twitter, added more than 10 million users in December
I suspect that a large portion of those new December users were young female users. Still, X is showing growth in the new user category or at least it seems. I’ve been an $8 a month subscriber since Musk took over, and I can actually use X now without worrying how many words or characters are being used in a tweet.
Hopefully the speculators are wrong about Musk being “eventually forced to sell X.” Musk has a vision for X that 99.999% of us don’t see or understand – I’m along for the ride this time…
Regarding Musk’s vision for X, he has stated it. I happen to believe he means what he is saying, but others may not.
https://www.theverge.com/23940924/elon-musk-x-twitter-all-hands-linda-yaccarino-super-app
Would someone please post a picture of Biden at last year’s State of the Union address and this year (last Tuesday). I think we will see some amazing changes in his face and demeanor. Stuart has an explanation today on his sub stack:
https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/wednesday-potpourri-515?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1523886&post_id=142573161&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=l9hpt&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
You can stop reading when he begins reporting on George Stephanopoulos!
he was never any good, thats what makes him a good figurehead, how much is actual amnesia, and how much is trickery I can’t gainsay,
In his interview with Tucker Carlson, Mike Benz talks about how the government is going after X. Fast forward to the 1 hour mark.
https://tuckercarlson.com/uncensored-the-national-security-state-the-inversion-of-democracy/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=na&utm_campaign=20240312_march12dailybrief&utm_content=314099
Brain E discovers his green eyeshades and lights his hair on fire (WP).
You seem to like this kind of video, Neo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU_3hFDVmag
The guy’s voice is pretty good, too.
Seven Deadly Sins…
Now there are reports that the Haitian “cannibalism” video has been “debunked.” The video is apparently two years old. Interesting, but if gang leaders were cannibals back then, they are still cannibals now. There may be a twelve-step recovery program for cannibals, but the the first step would be admitting that you are are cannibal.
__________
63% of men under 29 describe themselves as single, but only 34% of women under 29 do.
Either there are a lot of lesbians out there or Jan & Dean’s dream of two girls for every boy has finally come true.
As i pointed out a quarter of the sample is alphabet soup
Maybe they’re married but identify as single.
Given that perhaps a quarter of young people now “identify” as some oddball “gender” rather than their biological sex, these surveys are going to be unreliable.
Either there are a lot of lesbians out there or Jan & Dean’s dream of two girls for every boy has finally come true.
–Abraxas
It’s two girls for every Chad. If not three or four…
Chad being the slang appellation for males in the top 10-20% of female desirability. In the dating app world, men in the lower 80-90% are rarely “swiped right,” i.e. not considered as a dating possibility.
It’s a problem.
huxley:
Not exactly. See this. See also this and this for related information. The bottom line: men are far more numerous on most of the dating apps that are popular with younger people, and most are likely to be looking for sex and will accept almost any female for that purpose. Women can afford to be choosier in terms of the numbers because there are so many men, and women are looking for long-term committed relationships and therefore they are far more interested not only in the photo but in the text of the profile.
What about age? Women are far more likely to date/marry older men than vice-versa. Not unknown but definitely more rare, cougars notwithstanding.
Then there are the relationships where the man considers himself single but the woman doesn’t …. naah, that would never happen …
more unstable people
https://twitter.com/mrandyngo/status/1768025848748093560
Men are…
What a misandristic statement!?! Certainly not my past experience — many many many women were looking to literally give ‘It’ away, and apparently more so today. Why even bother with a ‘choosier woman or even a prostitute?!
Maybe men needing “dating apps” might be more desperate, but “dating apps” weren’t around in my day.
Maybe Mother Nature is planning on a War, and has been increasing the male population—I dunno, but women now a days are shaving areas they didn’t some years back (that happened in my later days), and doing all sorts of stuff they didn’t do in my earlier days.
All the societal changes do not alter the fundamental biological fact that sexual intercourse entails far more risk and vulnerability for the woman than for the man.