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Kosh's Shadow
2/25/2022 6:16:51 AM
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In #7 buzzsawmonkey said: Greg Palast, former college classmate and longtime moonbat Leftist journalist, wants to undercut Putin, NOT by restarting the Keystone pipeline and fracking, and getting the domestic energy industry going full blast again, but...by removing sanctions from Venezuela and encouraging Venezuela to get a-pumpin'. Why not include buying oil from Iran and help pay for their nuclear program while we're at it? /do I need to? |
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Kosh's Shadow
2/25/2022 6:17:23 AM
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In #1 Occasional Reader said: Russian troops approaching Kyiv: Ukraine defense minister urges residents to fight back with Molotov cocktails.
But no mean tweets, so all is well. Watch Facebook and Twitter block the Ukrainian government.
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vxbush
2/25/2022 6:48:58 AM
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In #4 Kosh's Shadow said: The Twitter Inc. official page said on Wednesday it had mistakenly suspended around a dozen accounts that were posting about Russian military movements, and said the action was not due to a coordinated bot campaign or mass reporting of the accounts by other users. Yeah. Riiiiiiiiiight. Uh huh. Sure. Not coordinated at all.
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buzzsawmonkey
2/25/2022 7:02:13 AM
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We shouldn't be Russian to judgment here...
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Kosh's Shadow
2/25/2022 7:05:10 AM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 4: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram allowing Kremlin officials to promote war efforts on social media
Twitter, Instagram and Facebook are quiet about whether the Kremlin and high-ranking Russian officials who are using the platform to give updates about Russia's advance on Ukraine and spread Russian propaganda will continue to have unfettered access to their accounts.
Russia's verified Twitter account for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has nearly 380,000 followers and regularly posts Kremlin talking points laden with Putin fanfare. On Thursday, the account posted over 20 tweets defending Russia's invasion of Ukraine, claiming in one that, "The purpose of this operation is to protect people who, for 8 years now, have been facing genocide perpetrated by the Kiev regime."
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Occasional Reader
2/25/2022 7:05:20 AM
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In #6 buzzsawmonkey said: We shouldn't be Russian to judgment here...
Nor should we act all fancy... putin' on the ritz, so to speak.
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Kosh's Shadow
2/25/2022 7:27:53 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 8: More like Putin on the Blitz
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Occasional Reader
2/25/2022 7:45:44 AM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 9:
A sardonic ++++++
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Kosh's Shadow
2/25/2022 7:50:21 AM
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In #10 JCM said: A wise black? Many dubious opinions overturned, Obviously needs to be on the Supreme Court to prevent those being overturned.////////
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Kosh's Shadow
2/25/2022 7:51:25 AM
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JCM
2/25/2022 7:53:58 AM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 12: I think we should expand the court to at least 285. Why 285 you ask? One each from each of the 5 ethnic groups, the one each of ethnic group of the 57 genders.
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JCM
2/25/2022 8:12:52 AM
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Us imports half a 500,000 barrels of Russian oil a day. Keystone would have provided 800,000 barrels a day.
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buzzsawmonkey
2/25/2022 8:23:16 AM
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In #10 JCM said: A wise black?
Nobody has yet explained to me what the possession or lack of melanin and/or ladyparts has to do with judicial acumen.
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buzzsawmonkey
2/25/2022 8:24:18 AM
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Reply to JCM in 16: As I mentioned last night, my old college classmate seems to think we should beg Venezuela to start a-pumping.
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Occasional Reader
2/25/2022 8:25:47 AM
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In #17 buzzsawmonkey said: Nobody has yet explained to me what the possession or lack of melanin and/or ladyparts has to do with judicial acumen.
How dare you assume Progressive Thought needs any of your so-called "explanation".
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JCM
2/25/2022 8:31:23 AM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 18: Venezuela can't pump. Chavez then Maduro put cronies into the oil industry who didn't know jack shit about pumping, refining or transporting petroleum products. The entire oil infrastructure in Venezuela is broke and it will take years to fix it.
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Kosh's Shadow
2/25/2022 8:31:31 AM
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Another reflection on why requiring heat to be electric, not fossil fuel, is a dumb idea - around here, the solar panels get covered with snow, and don't supply much power. So when it snows, and heat is needed, there won't be much "renewable" electricity to keep people warm.
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buzzsawmonkey
2/25/2022 8:46:23 AM
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In #21 JCM said: The entire oil infrastructure in Venezuela is broke and it will take years to fix it.
Here's the bulk of the text from the email I received: Right now, Russian tanks have pushed the price of oil past $100 a barrel. That’s a windfall worth an additional half a billion dollars a day to Russia’s treasury. With 43% of Russia’s entire federal budget coming from oil and gas royalties, Putin doesn’t care if his oligarchs are barred from getting tickets to see Hamilton.
The doubling of energy prices over the next year would bring Putin a quarter trillion dollar windfall.
Want to stop Putin‘s tanks? Turn off his war windfall.
How? Unleash the largest reserve of oil on the planet: Lift the cruel, crazy, unjustified embargo of Venezuela.
Venezuela is capable of pumping 2 million barrels of oil a day for export. If Biden announces an end to the embargo, the price of oil will nosedive in 20 minutes. However, the US and Europe have laid siege to Venezuela, stopping everything from food to supplies of parts to get its oil industry back up and running.
Stop choking Venezuela’s economy and starving the Venezuelan people, who are no enemies of America, who invaded no one, and the price of oil will collapse.
The Biden administration continues to prosecute Donald Trump‘s mad embargo of Venezuela. The embargo was triggered by Venezuela‘s insistence on taking back control of its oil industry—and, Heaven forbid, taxing Exxon.
The excuse I hear from Republicans and Democrats alike is that Venezuela is not a democratic state. As opposed to Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Qatar and Russia? It’s fascinating to me that European Union blockades oil from Venezuela but continues to take oil from Russia.
We are paying the price of Trump‘s policy, now Biden’s, at the pump and Ukrainians are paying in Odessa.
When I was a BBC reporter covering Venezuela, I got to know its people and their presidents, including Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro, as well as the opposition. Maybe Biden doesn’t like Maduro, and Exxon and BP certainly do not like Maduro, but he is the elected president. And I can tell you that while Maduro is not popular anymore because of the suffering imposed by the embargo, he was democratically elected.
And that’s more than can be said for the so-called “President“ that the US and Europe have recognized, Juan Guaido, who never even ran for president. Guaido is a rich white guy who has lived in Washington for years. The Venezuelan people, whatever they feel about Maduro, are not going to go back to white “Spaniard“ control of their mestizo nation.
So let’s make a deal: We recognize the elected government in Venezuela and Putin recognizes the elected government of Ukraine.
And if Putin doesn’t like that deal, we still recognize Venezuela, and unleash their oil, without doubt the greatest weapon on this battlefield.
Yes, the Germans have agreed (for this week at least) to cancel Nord Stream 2, the new gas pipeline from Russia. But that’s one more cruel joke in which the Ukrainians are the punchline, ignoring Nord Stream 1. Germany continues to take Russian oil and Nord Stream gas, sending Putin nearly $1 billion a day. This is the commercial equivalent of the Hitler-Stalin pact.
The US and UK governments have seized Venezuela’s oil revenues (and even its gold reserves), leaving its people to starve. Yet, we are not holding back payments to Putin.
The fact that Germany has, by reports, vetoed banning Russia from the SWIFT international payments system is a clear indication that German industrialists are more than happy to send cash to Putin as long as the carbon keeps coming.
End the strangulation of Venezuela and tankers full of LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) from the South American nation could cut Putin’s pipeline noose from around Europe’s neck.
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JCM
2/25/2022 8:50:42 AM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 23: If Venezuela can pump 2 million barrels a day for export, they can't meet domestic demand currently. That would cover 10% of US consumption. I find your friends dismissal of the treatment of the Venezuelan people rather disturbing. If it is a Communist repressing a Nation it's okay? Why doesn't he support Putin then?
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Kosh's Shadow
2/25/2022 8:55:04 AM
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In #24 JCM said: If it is a Communist repressing a Nation it's okay?
Why doesn't he support Putin then? Probably because Putin is a Russian nationalist, not a Communist.
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buzzsawmonkey
2/25/2022 8:56:28 AM
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Reply to JCM in 24: Greg was a nice guy in college, but he's been way over on the moonbat scale for years. He's done a whole lot of writing---and I think a bit of filmmaking---about "voter suppression" (i.e., needing IDs and using other verification procedures); has supported Stacey Abrams' stolen-election claims, etc., etc. He likely dismisses the repression of the Venezuelans because it's communist repression, and therefore good. Putin is, in his world, a fascist allied with Trump.
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Alice in Dairyland
2/25/2022 9:16:38 AM
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In #17 buzzsawmonkey said: Nobody has yet explained to me what the possession or lack of melanin and/or ladyparts has to do with judicial acumen. Well, you lack melanin and ladyparts. How could you possibly understand! ///////
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JCM
2/25/2022 9:25:41 AM
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As Reagan said, "my liberal friends know so much that just isn't so."
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buzzsawmonkey
2/25/2022 9:26:45 AM
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Reply to Alice in Dairyland in 27: It just occurred to me: "Tess Tosterone" would be a great drag-queen name.
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vxbush
2/25/2022 9:29:02 AM
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In #10 JCM said: Biden to nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson for high court, source says Two things: (1) they are floating this now via "rumors" to make sure there won't be blowback, and (2) it has been known for a while that she was going to get this slot. The only reason why they wouldn't nominate her is if there is serious blowback.
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Occasional Reader
2/25/2022 11:10:12 AM
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In #29 buzzsawmonkey said: It just occurred to me: "Tess Tosterone" would be a great drag-queen name.
I still insist that "Minnie Balls" would be the perfect stage name for a Civil War-themed drag show.
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buzzsawmonkey
2/25/2022 11:20:53 AM
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In #32 Occasional Reader said: I still insist that "Minnie Balls" would be the perfect stage name for a Civil War-themed drag show.
I can only agree.
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Occasional Reader
2/25/2022 11:40:07 AM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 33:
Of course, I'm not sure there's any such thing as a "Civil War-themed drag show"; nor have I investigated; nor do I intend to investigate...
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JCM
2/25/2022 11:45:37 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 34: Rule 34
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buzzsawmonkey
2/25/2022 11:56:01 AM
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In #34 Occasional Reader said: Of course, I'm not sure there's any such thing as a "Civil War-themed drag show"; nor have I investigated; nor do I intend to investigate...
Well, the re-writes of "Tenting Tonight on the Old Campground" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" could be epic...
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Kosh's Shadow
2/25/2022 12:11:33 PM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 36: And we'll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home
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Occasional Reader
2/25/2022 12:12:22 PM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 36:
Oh, dear... ++++++
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buzzsawmonkey
2/25/2022 12:59:53 PM
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Are not "sanctions" basically the diplomatic equivalent of slapping that nasty man with your purse?
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Occasional Reader
2/25/2022 2:45:57 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 41:
CAN YOU SAY "NUCLEAR OPTION"?
I knew you could!
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Kosh's Shadow
2/25/2022 3:14:40 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 43: The financial nuclear option - but EU wants Russian gas. They'll regret it.
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) is a global network for payments between banks. International trade and finance would be next to impossible without it. Indeed, cutting off a country from the SWIFT system would be a death sentence for its economy. There just isn’t a good alternative that a nation could use. So why doesn’t Biden lower the boom on Putin and really make invading Ukraine not worth it? Kicking Russia out of the SWIFT network could lead to mass unemployment as well as shortages of everything from food to electronics. Except for vodka. Russia will always have enough vodka to see them through any crisis.
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