Politics

[skydiver386]

My PhD in history stands me in pretty good stead as an authority. As I said, Google the Moors and then Google Spanish Inquisition. Jews were allowed to live in peace in Jerusalem under Islamic rule ... until the Crusaders showed up. Christian clerics also able to worship at holy sites in the Holy Land. Muslims were executed outright during the Crusaders' brief Kingdom of Jerusalem. It was a brutal time but Christians were no less brutal than their Muslim counterparts.

Whatever University you received that PHD from, you'd best go get your money back, because you got taken for a ride! Matter of fact, I'd be willing to bet you got it from one of the same Schools telling us men can get pregnant!

I don't have to Google anything. I've researched MUSLIM SOURCES for my information, not the obvious 3rd and 4th hand whitewashed garbage you swallowed without thinking.

 

[Brent in Az]

Please tell us more about your police work?

Mall cop.

 

[Brent in Az]

Mortgage rates drop below 6%

 

[Wheels]

Could this be why Trump hasn't been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?

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Since Obama won the Nobel Prize and dropped over 26,000 bombs/9 day, perhaps the Nobel Committee considers Trump an under achiever.

 

[Brent in Az]

ICE agents are simply getting fed up dealing with these lunatics. I certainly don't blame them.

 

[LivingTheDream]

My PhD in history stands me in pretty good stead as an authority. As I said, Google the Moors and then Google Spanish Inquisition. Jews were allowed to live in peace in Jerusalem under Islamic rule ... until the Crusaders showed up. Christian clerics also able to worship at holy sites in the Holy Land. Muslims were executed outright during the Crusaders' brief Kingdom of Jerusalem. It was a brutal time but Christians were no less brutal than their Muslim counterparts.

 

[CJW]

Craziness in Iran. Supposedly the hacker group Anonymous has tracked Khamenei to a new hideout deep in the desert.

I wonder what kind of shenanigans Israel has been uo to during all of this.

 

[Tundra Tiger]

War on terrorism is rather fluid. What is your point? Do you disagree with these bombings? Could they all have been Kumbaya'ed?

I would accept that things might be fluid. But his point about so many bombings being somewhat incongruous with wanting a prize for peace seems pretty solid to me.

 

[fourfive8]

Dang, the more I check back in here to read posts, the more ignore buttons I’m compelled to hit. Unfortunately the indirect residuals of “ignored” posts still linger

 

[Mekaniks]

Mortgage rates drop below 6%

I believe I heard today that Trump has directed the Fed to start buying 200 Billion in Mortgage Bonds

 

[Wheels]

Camera angle from shooting officers point of view.


Audio of Renee Good’s wife is also interesting.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2009679932289626385

 

[Hunt anything]

Dang, the more I check back in here to read posts, the more ignore buttons I’m compelled to hit. Unfortunately the indirect residuals of “ignored” posts still linger

I take about a month off of this thread and then come back for maybe a week, normally I last about that long and then go back into hibernation, helps keep the sanity a bit.

 

[Rocked and Loaded]

 

[spike.t]

As I mentioned previously about usa etc oil companies not being very keen on going back to Venezuela......

Trump seeks $100bn for Venezuela oil, but Exxon boss says country 'uninvestable'

Oil executives expressed caution, with one executive saying Venezuela had seized their assets twice.

www.bbc.com

 

[spike.t]

Trump says US needs to 'own' Greenland to prevent Russia and China from taking it

We will do it "the easy way" or "the hard way", he said, but Denmark says the territory is not for sale.

www.bbc.com

Greenlanders unnerved as Arctic island finds itself in geopolitical storm

Islanders want a bigger say in their ties with Denmark, but also on the world stage too.

www.bbc.com

 

[spike.t]

Worth a read.........

What Trump's vision of the new world order means for Europe

The turbocharged events of the last week - and the new US National Security Strategy - raise pressing questions about the new world order, and what it means for Europe

www.bbc.com

 

[spike.t]

'The explosions keep going' - how air strikes paved the way for US Maduro raid - BBC News

Footage shows how Trump’s troops used devastating strikes to infiltrate Venezuela

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[mark-hunter]

Worth a read.........

Interestingly, BBC quoted the identical qoutes I posted here few days ago (post 66.100, on 21 december).

BBC:
Elsewhere in the document, reflecting on the "balance of power", it states: "The outsized influence of larger, richer, and stronger nations is a timeless truth of international relations."

Announcement of the new emerging multipolar world.

BBC:
And than, the concerns over relations in alliances (same as I qouted directly):
Elsewhere in the document, it states: "It is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain Nato members will become majority non-European," which raises doubts about their viability as long-term security partners, the strategy suggests.
Hmmmm....?

The latest from France (Ukranian portal), January 9, this year:

France may leave NATO due to Trump's policies: Parliament's Vice-President submits proposal

УНН Politics ✎ Clémence Guetté submitted a proposal for France to withdraw from NATO, citing US actions during Trump's presidency. She accuses the US of kidnapping t…

unn.ua

 

[KJE81]

Trump says US needs to 'own' Greenland to prevent Russia and China from taking it

We will do it "the easy way" or "the hard way", he said, but Denmark says the territory is not for sale.

www.bbc.com

Greenlanders unnerved as Arctic island finds itself in geopolitical storm

Islanders want a bigger say in their ties with Denmark, but also on the world stage too.

www.bbc.com

He seems obsessed with owning the Island, I bet he will have it renamed to Trumpland if he succeeds.

It seems that he does many of the things he does to leave a lasting legacy. Other president gets things named after them by those that come after them but he does it for hlmself.

 

[Sideshow]

Getting pretty serious now. Might see a change in who’s in power!

Iran medics describe hospitals overwhelmed with dead and injured protesters - BBC News

Hundreds of people are believed to have been killed or injured by the security forces, with more than 70 bodies brought to one hospital.

www.bbc.co.uk

Sounds like they might be using bird shot to control the protesters. Eye wounds and head injuries.