Hate to say, but Putin has exhausted conventional war options and still losing. Going nuclear about all he’s got left.
47 thoughts on “Nukes Next”
Recording date: September 11th 1967 Format: Ampex Quadruplex PAL 4:3 Status: A very rare recording Storage: Sony Digital Betacam Production and preservation: The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation – the NRK, Norway. More here: http://www.nrk.no/informasjon/about_t…
Replaced old Nuclear test footage with newer declassified film.
all the above that is unless putie only goes tactical as the experts and generals opine or speculate
Trevor Noah talks with Alex Wagner about how the same set of facts can be open to multiple interpretations, and how the fragmented media landscape means that Americans aren’t even experiencing the same set of facts.
if Putin took my advice at the outset and sold his entire inventory of tanks to the US, he’d be billions of dollars richer, have about the same amount of territorial control, and have the same number of tanks as he does now
[…]
U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter found that several documents between Trump’s allies must be made public, as they showed that the group participated in a “knowing misrepresentation of voter fraud numbers in Georgia when seeking to overturn the election results in federal court.”
“The emails show that President Trump knew that the specific numbers of voter fraud were wrong but continued to tout those numbers, both in court and to the public,” Carter wrote. “The Court finds that these emails are sufficiently related to and in furtherance of a conspiracy to defraud the United States.”
[…]
In one email, Eastman wrote that Trump signed paperwork for a lawsuit in Georgia on Dec. 1 but has “since been made aware that some of the allegations” in it are “inaccurate.” Eastman then wrote that for Trump to sign new paperwork for that lawsuit “with that knowledge (and incorporation by reference) would not be accurate.”
But, Carter wrote, “Trump and his attorneys ultimately filed the complaint” with the knowingly inaccurate numbers. Carter also wrote that Trump signed a legal document, under oath, attesting to the court in Georgia that the numbers “are true and correct” to the best of his knowledge.
Carter has ordered Eastman to disclose more than 30 documents sought by the House committee by 2 p.m. on Oct. 28.
Dont wanna hurt no kangaroo. Â
Swarming the country with Iranian kamikaze drones is sickening and pitiful. He’s running out of ideas.
Another gem: Declaring martial law in illegally annexed areas he does not actually control.
sickening and pitiful.
That’s how i feel about McCarthy telegraphing to him that he just needs to hold out for republican control of Congress
bink, McC & co are hinting to putie more like “help out” than “hold out” til GOPers win the election
08.35Â EDT
Liz Truss resigns as prime minister
Liz Truss has resigned as prime minister after just 45 days in office.
The announcement, made by Truss outside Downing Street, follows the near-complete evaporation of her political authority which has seen her crash the markets, lose two key ministers and shed the confidence of almost all her own MPs.
Truss will be the shortest-serving prime minister in UK history.
The question I have starts with are there any generals who would ignore a strike order, followed by would puttie have a pulse afterwards?
Will they bring Boris back?Â
And in another Scaramucci moment, goodbye Liz.
Don’t understand how general elections get called but polls show Labour would easily win one
see my 8:47 comment for her statement. see below the opposition’s take
Labour leader, Keir Starmer demands general election ‘now’ to end Tory chaos. Sir Keir Starmer has demanded an immediate general election to put an end to the “chaos” of Liz Truss’s Government. The Labour leader told the TUC congress in Brighton this morning: “They lack the basic patriotic duty to keep the British people out of their own pathetic squabbles. “And it has wrecked the finances of our country and for millions of people. This cannot continue. Britain deserves better. Britain cannot afford the chaos of the Conservatives any more. We need a general election now.” It came as the number of Tory MPs openly calling for the Prime Minister to quit continued to grow. Simon Hoare said he believed Ms Truss has “12 hours” to save her job, Crispin Blunt said MPs “need to effect a change, frankly today, in order to stop this shambles”, and Sheryll Murray said the PM’s position is “untenable and I have submitted a letter to Sir Graham Brady”.
back to ours. what’s your opinion on this ryan ad, too schmaltzy or just right for ohio?
“On this week’s podcast,
@JonStewart
is joined by economist
@steve_hanke
to talk inflation and monetary policy. They dive into what the Fed is doing wrong, whether too much money is a bad thing, and if there’s a painless way to fix this mess.”
Jon Stewart is the smartest guy in the room every week, asking the best questions and, sometimes, calling BS on the answers.
Should the Fed have sold treasury bonds to the general public, as this economist claims? The Fed has clearly screwed the pooch (housing starts are plummeting, but prices of everyday goods are not), and this is not Biden’s fault.
For the 2023 tax year, the income window has been expanded for each tax bracket in order to accommodate for inflation. Too little, too late.
“…Texas is sending nearly 4 million DNA test kits to the parents of public school children so law enforcement can identify bodies in case of a mass shooting…”
“The DNA kits aim to avoid situations similar to that of Ana Rodriguez, whose 10-year-old daughter, Maite Rodriguez, was killed in Uvalde. Her daughter’s body, ripped apart by the gunman’s bullets, was identified solely through her green Converse sneakers with a heart drawn on the left toe…”
“It’s like wiping your ass before you take a shit,’ said Brett Cross, whose son Uziyah Garcia died at Robb Elementary School.”
“At a minute before 5 a.m. on April 27, ABC News’ James Gordon Meek fired off a tweet with a single word: “FACTS.”
“…an olive-green Lenco BearCat G2, an armored tactical vehicle often employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, among other law-enforcement agencies. A few Arlington County cruisers surrounded the jaw-dropping scene, but all of the other vehicles were unmarked, including the BearCat.”
“…Meek has made himself scarce…his apartment appearing to be vacant…several ABC News colleagues — who are accustomed to unraveling mysteries and cracking investigative stories — tell Rolling Stone that they have no idea what happened to Meek.”
“Sources familiar with the matter say federal agents allegedly found classified information on Meek’s laptop during their raid. One investigative journalist who worked with Meek says it would be highly unusual for a reporter or producer to keep any classified information on a computer.”
So, we have a leaker.
“Both the Obama and Trump administrations were criticized for targeting journalists and their sources.”
“Meek has been charged with no crime. But independent observers believe the raid is among the first — and quite possibly, the first — to be carried out on a journalist by the Biden administration. A federal magistrate judge in the Virginia Eastern District Court signed off on the search warrant the day before the raid. If the raid was for Meek’s records, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco would have had to give her blessing; a new policy enacted last year prohibits federal prosecutors from seizing journalists’ documents. Any exception requires the deputy AG’s approval.”
“Given the new policy, the question looms on what grounds the feds would have had room to act on Meek.”
“Now, Meek appears to be on the wrong side of the national-security apparatus. And no one can say for certain if law-enforcement officers actually removed him from the building. And thus, a riddle was born. Documents pertaining to the case remain sealed.”
Has ~falling out of windows~ spread to the US? Or, maybe he’s hiding so he doesn’t get pushed, maybe somewhere without an extradition treaty.
i’m only going to say this once, but while the current inflationary environment has many causes, stimulus didn’t help, but we were trying to get through a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic.  Ideally, relief would have been targeted, but there wasn’t the bureaucracy in place to administer it that way.  Republicans weren’t complaining when all that free-money pumped-up their investment portfolios.
The Fed has one tool to combat inflation, and they’re using it.  Prices go up easy and come down hard, and the purchasing power of upper-income households will continue to prop-up consumer prices as long meeting those prices doesn’t create hardship for them
Putin invading the breadbasket of Europe didn’t help, either
Yay, capitalism
And, I can see where Hanke has a point. Â Of course, they are mired in doing things one way, so all talk is just that.
“In the United States, these are BQ.1, BQ.1.1, BF.7, BA.4.6, BA.2.75 and BA.2.75.2.”
“Dr. Peter Hotez, who co-directs the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital, says he thinks of them collectively as the Scrabble variants…”
“Lumped together, the variants accounted for almost 1 in 3 new Covid-19 infections nationwide last week…”
“The updated bivalent booster vaccines and antiviral drugs like Paxlovid are expected to continue to be protective against severe outcomes from Covid-19 infections caused by the new variants.”
“It isn’t that different from BA.5 that it would completely escape the protection that you would get from vaccine” – if people would just get the shot, Fauci said.
“The poor uptake of the new boosters, combined with the immune evasiveness of the new variants and the waning of population immunity, is almost surely a recipe for rising cases and hospitalizations in the weeks ahead.”
“It’s probably going to be significantly bigger than the BA.5 wave…”
~Happy New Year~
Comrade Musk just announced that he will gut Twitter when (if) he buys it. Hmm. That should be interesting. Need to find alternative methods of communicating around the world.
Well, I for one will continue to get the vaccines as they are developed and try to exercise recommended precautions to protect myself and hope that I have no need to go to the hospital until I injure myself doing stupid things with kitchen or yard tools.
 I am tired of the algorithms being used to determine your “feeds”. I was reading a few German tweets and now I have nothing but German advertisements. I do find it interesting that I commonly read tweets that are from Finnish sources but almost never see an advertisement in Finnish. Salmiakki for the masses is what I think is needed to bring about world peace.
Secrets of the Dead …Â
Pompeii was not destroyed on Aug. 24 , 79 ADÂ
But in Oct, 24 th.Â
The plume was 20 miles high , the pumice started around 1 PM , and didn’t stop until sunrise the next day.
Then the whole pillar collapsed in two waves of pyroclastic flows .Â
Next week ………..Â
The Fall of Rome , Climate and plagues are examined .
Cart traffic in Pompeii was one way . They had a series of earthquakes , so rebuilding was going on all over the city.Â
” once in a life time ”Â
I fear that idea is dead as the Dodo .Â
” Biden’s Inflation ” ……………Â Please .Â
Covid was the viral wall the modern world crashed into, but it just popped a lot of other festering boils. Â
Remember that Apple ad ?Â
Where the hot blonde stormed the grey meeting , and smashed the “Big Bother” screen.Â
Well that was all fiction .Â
So I worked on my car today , getting ready to pass inspection .
4 bulbs , and the little packet of grease ………… 2 bucks for less than a drive thru mustard pack .Â
18 bucks.Â
You can’t buy one , you have to buy two.Â
The car is 23 years old. I do not wash it .Â
As I was working , a young buck flew by on an electric unicycle.Â
Boy did I feel old, replacing 2 incandescing light bulbs , at 8 bucks in the past .
The electric wheels that look like they’re from Bladerunner”?  I’ve never seen anyone mount or dismount one of those things, and I assume there is a remote hand control.  Not sure, but they zip all over NYC, mostly in the bike lanes but also in the street when they feel like it.  They stop for no one.Â
Greg Abbott sure has handed BETO a gift with his failure to do anything about more kids getting killed at school, except to have the wee ones provide DNA samples so their bodies can be identified. Â
Iranian troops are operating the Chain Saw drones.Â
Another “tell” , and a big mistake.Â
The Russian Army can’t train their people , the war has expanded . Iranian body bags .
If Putin pulls the trigger , we’ll put one right down his throat. And we know where he is .Â
I think our generals have told their generals, from the get go.Â
There is this idea , “Everything works until the day it doesn’t” .
We’re in for a lot of this.Â
Everybody’s got a plan until they get punched in the face.
–Mike Tyson
The Right built this industrial political machine for 50 years.Â
The Left came up with a bag of cats.Â
How many people want to change their sex ?Â
Hey , sit down and shut up.Â
We have bigger fish to fry .
If we lose you lose.
Ever since gay marriage . Which was long over do. The backlash was coming.Â
When it comes to sex , in America of who pees in a school restroom , that’s not going to win elections.Â
It scares the shit out of old white people.Â
One other blunder …………. “Defund the police ”Â
Not …….Â
Reform the police
Rethink the policeÂ
Defund came out of that bag of cats .Â
Now it is a club .Â
If the Climate kids and the women don’t show up , the bag of cats get’s tossed into the river.Â
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Recording date: September 11th 1967 Format: Ampex Quadruplex PAL 4:3 Status: A very rare recording Storage: Sony Digital Betacam Production and preservation: The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation – the NRK, Norway. More here: http://www.nrk.no/informasjon/about_t…
Replaced old Nuclear test footage with newer declassified film.
all the above that is unless putie only goes tactical as the experts and generals opine or speculate
Will Putin Use Nuclear Weapons? Watch These Indicators. – The Atlantic
Amid Putin’s Saber-Rattling, What Exactly Is A Tactical Nuclear Weapon? (rferl.org)
How Close Is Vladimir Putin to Using a Nuclear Bomb? | The New Yorker
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/17/1129443703/russias-nuclear-arsenal-is-huge-but-will-putin-use-it
Trevor Noah talks with Alex Wagner about how the same set of facts can be open to multiple interpretations, and how the fragmented media landscape means that Americans aren’t even experiencing the same set of facts.
if Putin took my advice at the outset and sold his entire inventory of tanks to the US, he’d be billions of dollars richer, have about the same amount of territorial control, and have the same number of tanks as he does now
wapo:
Dont wanna hurt no kangaroo. Â
Swarming the country with Iranian kamikaze drones is sickening and pitiful. He’s running out of ideas.
Another gem: Declaring martial law in illegally annexed areas he does not actually control.
That’s how i feel about McCarthy telegraphing to him that he just needs to hold out for republican control of Congress
bink, McC & co are hinting to putie more like “help out” than “hold out” til GOPers win the election
K. Gillfold, today’s worst person in the worrrrrrrrld.Â
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-countdown-with-keith-olbe-99705496/
go to 22:45 minutes in to see her statement. it’s just the door until then
the guardian:
The question I have starts with are there any generals who would ignore a strike order, followed by would puttie have a pulse afterwards?
Will they bring Boris back?Â
And in another Scaramucci moment, goodbye Liz.
Don’t understand how general elections get called but polls show Labour would easily win one
see my 8:47 comment for her statement. see below the opposition’s take
Labour leader, Keir Starmer demands general election ‘now’ to end Tory chaos. Sir Keir Starmer has demanded an immediate general election to put an end to the “chaos” of Liz Truss’s Government. The Labour leader told the TUC congress in Brighton this morning: “They lack the basic patriotic duty to keep the British people out of their own pathetic squabbles. “And it has wrecked the finances of our country and for millions of people. This cannot continue. Britain deserves better. Britain cannot afford the chaos of the Conservatives any more. We need a general election now.” It came as the number of Tory MPs openly calling for the Prime Minister to quit continued to grow. Simon Hoare said he believed Ms Truss has “12 hours” to save her job, Crispin Blunt said MPs “need to effect a change, frankly today, in order to stop this shambles”, and Sheryll Murray said the PM’s position is “untenable and I have submitted a letter to Sir Graham Brady”.
back to ours. what’s your opinion on this ryan ad, too schmaltzy or just right for ohio?
Ryan’s ad seems a good counterpoint to the thoroughly unlikeable J.D. Vance.
Poobah, it looks like it’s up to Charles if the PM requests it.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/11/introduction?view=plain
https://twitter.com/theproblem/status/1582688013565382656
“On this week’s podcast,
@JonStewart
is joined by economist
@steve_hanke
to talk inflation and monetary policy. They dive into what the Fed is doing wrong, whether too much money is a bad thing, and if there’s a painless way to fix this mess.”
Jon Stewart is the smartest guy in the room every week, asking the best questions and, sometimes, calling BS on the answers.
Should the Fed have sold treasury bonds to the general public, as this economist claims? The Fed has clearly screwed the pooch (housing starts are plummeting, but prices of everyday goods are not), and this is not Biden’s fault.
For the 2023 tax year, the income window has been expanded for each tax bracket in order to accommodate for inflation. Too little, too late.
https://www.sacurrent.com/news/texas-sending-families-dna-kits-to-help-identify-their-children-in-case-theyre-slain-in-school-shooting-30128066
“…Texas is sending nearly 4 million DNA test kits to the parents of public school children so law enforcement can identify bodies in case of a mass shooting…”
“The DNA kits aim to avoid situations similar to that of Ana Rodriguez, whose 10-year-old daughter, Maite Rodriguez, was killed in Uvalde. Her daughter’s body, ripped apart by the gunman’s bullets, was identified solely through her green Converse sneakers with a heart drawn on the left toe…”
“It’s like wiping your ass before you take a shit,’ said Brett Cross, whose son Uziyah Garcia died at Robb Elementary School.”
Early voting in Texas starts on Monday.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/fbi-raid-abc-news_producer-1234613619/
“At a minute before 5 a.m. on April 27, ABC News’ James Gordon Meek fired off a tweet with a single word: “FACTS.”
“…an olive-green Lenco BearCat G2, an armored tactical vehicle often employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, among other law-enforcement agencies. A few Arlington County cruisers surrounded the jaw-dropping scene, but all of the other vehicles were unmarked, including the BearCat.”
“…Meek has made himself scarce…his apartment appearing to be vacant…several ABC News colleagues — who are accustomed to unraveling mysteries and cracking investigative stories — tell Rolling Stone that they have no idea what happened to Meek.”
“Sources familiar with the matter say federal agents allegedly found classified information on Meek’s laptop during their raid. One investigative journalist who worked with Meek says it would be highly unusual for a reporter or producer to keep any classified information on a computer.”
So, we have a leaker.
“Both the Obama and Trump administrations were criticized for targeting journalists and their sources.”
“Meek has been charged with no crime. But independent observers believe the raid is among the first — and quite possibly, the first — to be carried out on a journalist by the Biden administration. A federal magistrate judge in the Virginia Eastern District Court signed off on the search warrant the day before the raid. If the raid was for Meek’s records, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco would have had to give her blessing; a new policy enacted last year prohibits federal prosecutors from seizing journalists’ documents. Any exception requires the deputy AG’s approval.”
“Given the new policy, the question looms on what grounds the feds would have had room to act on Meek.”
“Now, Meek appears to be on the wrong side of the national-security apparatus. And no one can say for certain if law-enforcement officers actually removed him from the building. And thus, a riddle was born. Documents pertaining to the case remain sealed.”
Has ~falling out of windows~ spread to the US? Or, maybe he’s hiding so he doesn’t get pushed, maybe somewhere without an extradition treaty.
i’m only going to say this once, but while the current inflationary environment has many causes, stimulus didn’t help, but we were trying to get through a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic.  Ideally, relief would have been targeted, but there wasn’t the bureaucracy in place to administer it that way.  Republicans weren’t complaining when all that free-money pumped-up their investment portfolios.
The Fed has one tool to combat inflation, and they’re using it.  Prices go up easy and come down hard, and the purchasing power of upper-income households will continue to prop-up consumer prices as long meeting those prices doesn’t create hardship for them
Putin invading the breadbasket of Europe didn’t help, either
Yay, capitalism
And, I can see where Hanke has a point. Â Of course, they are mired in doing things one way, so all talk is just that.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/20/uk/liz-truss-possible-successors-intl-gbr/index.html
Probably not Boris.
Imagine fingerprinting your kid and having them spit in a tube as part of school protocol. Â
Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick and the rest of Texas Republicans are rubber stamps for the NRA. Â Â
Republicans are NOT pro life.Â
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/20/health/variants-covid-winter-surge/index.html
“In the United States, these are BQ.1, BQ.1.1, BF.7, BA.4.6, BA.2.75 and BA.2.75.2.”
“Dr. Peter Hotez, who co-directs the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital, says he thinks of them collectively as the Scrabble variants…”
“Lumped together, the variants accounted for almost 1 in 3 new Covid-19 infections nationwide last week…”
“The updated bivalent booster vaccines and antiviral drugs like Paxlovid are expected to continue to be protective against severe outcomes from Covid-19 infections caused by the new variants.”
“It isn’t that different from BA.5 that it would completely escape the protection that you would get from vaccine” – if people would just get the shot, Fauci said.
“The poor uptake of the new boosters, combined with the immune evasiveness of the new variants and the waning of population immunity, is almost surely a recipe for rising cases and hospitalizations in the weeks ahead.”
“It’s probably going to be significantly bigger than the BA.5 wave…”
~Happy New Year~
Comrade Musk just announced that he will gut Twitter when (if) he buys it. Hmm. That should be interesting. Need to find alternative methods of communicating around the world.
Well, I for one will continue to get the vaccines as they are developed and try to exercise recommended precautions to protect myself and hope that I have no need to go to the hospital until I injure myself doing stupid things with kitchen or yard tools.
 I am tired of the algorithms being used to determine your “feeds”. I was reading a few German tweets and now I have nothing but German advertisements. I do find it interesting that I commonly read tweets that are from Finnish sources but almost never see an advertisement in Finnish. Salmiakki for the masses is what I think is needed to bring about world peace.
Secrets of the Dead …Â
Pompeii was not destroyed on Aug. 24 , 79 ADÂ
But in Oct, 24 th.Â
The plume was 20 miles high , the pumice started around 1 PM , and didn’t stop until sunrise the next day.
Then the whole pillar collapsed in two waves of pyroclastic flows .Â
Next week ………..Â
The Fall of Rome , Climate and plagues are examined .
Cart traffic in Pompeii was one way . They had a series of earthquakes , so rebuilding was going on all over the city.Â
” once in a life time ”Â
I fear that idea is dead as the Dodo .Â
” Biden’s Inflation ” ……………Â Please .Â
Covid was the viral wall the modern world crashed into, but it just popped a lot of other festering boils. Â
Remember that Apple ad ?Â
Where the hot blonde stormed the grey meeting , and smashed the “Big Bother” screen.Â
Well that was all fiction .Â
So I worked on my car today , getting ready to pass inspection .
4 bulbs , and the little packet of grease ………… 2 bucks for less than a drive thru mustard pack .Â
18 bucks.Â
You can’t buy one , you have to buy two.Â
The car is 23 years old. I do not wash it .Â
As I was working , a young buck flew by on an electric unicycle.Â
Boy did I feel old, replacing 2 incandescing light bulbs , at 8 bucks in the past .
The electric wheels that look like they’re from Bladerunner”?  I’ve never seen anyone mount or dismount one of those things, and I assume there is a remote hand control.  Not sure, but they zip all over NYC, mostly in the bike lanes but also in the street when they feel like it.  They stop for no one.Â
Greg Abbott sure has handed BETO a gift with his failure to do anything about more kids getting killed at school, except to have the wee ones provide DNA samples so their bodies can be identified. Â
Iranian troops are operating the Chain Saw drones.Â
Another “tell” , and a big mistake.Â
The Russian Army can’t train their people , the war has expanded . Iranian body bags .
If Putin pulls the trigger , we’ll put one right down his throat. And we know where he is .Â
I think our generals have told their generals, from the get go.Â
There is this idea , “Everything works until the day it doesn’t” .
We’re in for a lot of this.Â
Everybody’s got a plan until they get punched in the face.
–Mike Tyson
The Right built this industrial political machine for 50 years.Â
The Left came up with a bag of cats.Â
How many people want to change their sex ?Â
Hey , sit down and shut up.Â
We have bigger fish to fry .
If we lose you lose.
Ever since gay marriage . Which was long over do. The backlash was coming.Â
When it comes to sex , in America of who pees in a school restroom , that’s not going to win elections.Â
It scares the shit out of old white people.Â
One other blunder …………. “Defund the police ”Â
Not …….Â
Reform the police
Rethink the policeÂ
Defund came out of that bag of cats .Â
Now it is a club .Â
If the Climate kids and the women don’t show up , the bag of cats get’s tossed into the river.Â
NEW THREAD