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Forget about the 2024 Presidential elections, forget about making America great.

Even you can't fix what Biden has done to the US.

US government federal debt has breached an unflattering milestone, topping $34 trillion for the first time in history and amounting to more than double the total of the world’s next-biggest borrower, China.

The total US federal debt is roughly equivalent to the economies of China, Germany, Japan, India and the UK combined, as pointed out by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, a nonpartisan fiscal policy group in New York.

A woman in Brazil has been charged with attempted murder after she admitted chopping off her husband’s p*nis and flushing it down the toilet, once she found out he had had sex with her 15-year-old niece.

The woman handed herself into police and has explained how she found out about the man’s cheating with the 15-year-old relative and lured him into bed, tied his arms and legs and cut off his p*nis with a razor.

One of YouTube's most respected bloggers (Perun) did an interesting interview with former US General Ben Hodges about NATO Training and Lessons from the War in Ukraine,
I present it here for those who realize the 'MSM' has probably been telling truths all along since 2016 and who are curious about what lays ahead in that conflict theater.
Listen or not, your choice.

News about Israel/Palestine/Hamas is no longer holding the top spot and Trump is back on top again. More amazing things are coming out of his mouth, like comments from a rally if Jesus and God came down from heaven to be scorekeeper he would win in New York, Illinois and California.
He went on claiming the 2020 election had so much corruption. Seriously now... where is the proof?
His legal team aren't doing well making mistake after mistake. In the beginning, they didn't request a trial jury in the New York fraud case but that didn't stop Donald from trying to make it sound that the state denied him of that right. Blame your attorneys, not the state.

Some reader comments to the recent news stories connect that Trump is notorious for not paying his lawyers and there is a chance the ones he hired may suffer the same fate. There is always the blame game if they cannot 'get him off' they aren't worth the money.

I mentioned this before... as a delay tactic to postpone the upcoming court dates, he could state his legal team were incompetent and had to be fired, therefore he needs additional time to hire a new team, requiring several months to 'bring them up to speed' conveniently moving the dates until after the election, thereby turning the saying "You get what you pay for" into a win-win.

Why not negotiate a truce before more innocent lives are destroyed?

Ukrainian soldier admits some of the marines trying to defend a key river against Russian attack 'can't even swim'
December 4th 2023, 2:48:10 pm

A Ukrainian soldier told the BBC that soldiers sent to help defend recent Ukrainian advances on the Dnipro river were so inexperienced they couldnt even swim.



"Several brigades were supposed to be posted here, not individual companies — we just don't have enough men," said the soldier.

"There are a lot of young guys among us. We need people, but trained people, not the green ones we have there now. There are guys who had spent just three weeks in training and only managed to shoot a few times," he said.

"Everyone who wanted to volunteer for war came a long time ago — it's too hard now to tempt people with money. Now we're getting those who didn't manage to escape the draft. You'll laugh at this, but some of our marines can't even swim," the soldier added.

As the war with Russia approaches its second year, Ukraine is experiencing serious manpower problems and concerns that international support for its resistance to the invasion may be beginning to fade.

In the wake of the invasion, thousands of Ukrainians enlisted in the military. But amid steep casualty figures, these figures are believed to have dropped. Ukraine does not publish recruitment and enlistment figures.

Surely the puppet Zelensky has made enough money by now? He should have free and fair elections instead of jumping to the tune of his puppet masters.

I have nothing against Islam. It is the Jihadists that worry me. And those who think what is happening in Israel is something local and isolated, better have another think. It is part of something much bigger.

Israel only appears to be a hotbed because they are more successful against the Jihadists. But open your eyes and look around. You'll find them all over. To name just a few locations, I can start with countries like Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Congo, Kenya, Somalia and, not long ago, as far south as Mozambique. This list is not nearly complete.

Europe and the Americas only think they're safe. It's already sticking its head out in France. Belgium, Denmark and Sweden also had problems with these Jihadists while the USA had their hands full with Al Qaeda. We remember 911 all too well.

On their own they appear as local and unrelated insurgencies but collectively they become a global catastrophe and I think those who don't see what's going on, don't want to see it.

Of course, I may be paranoid. I grew up in a country where we were spooked with all kinds of dangers. There were the black danger, the red danger, the yellow danger and any other conceivable danger but that does not mean that I'm wrong. As Adrian Monk said: "I may be wrong but I don't think so."

The blogs have never been in this slump before.
Saturday and hardly anything good to read.
Maybe it's me but I'm pretty sure the blogs were much more lively and interesting a few years ago.
Too many members of the same VPN family messing things up?

Everybody calls for Israel to stop their attacks on Gaza. I fully agree with that but if they stop, will Hamas also stop? After all, they are responsible for the latest escalation of the war. And before you tell me that this is a seventy year old issue, I'm aware of that, but I'm talking about the current state of affairs.

Hamas don't care one bit about the Palestinians. Surely they knew that their acts of terrorism would provoke an Israeli retaliation of this kind. Actually, I believe that the current state of events is exactly what Hamas intended to provoke. And remember, Hamas have not seized their attacks on Israel for a moment.

They still fire missiles at Israel all the time. The proper response to a missile attack is to strike at where the missile was launched from. Sadly Hamas uses schools and hospitals as human shields by launching their missiles from there. Then everybody wants to condemn Israel but nobody says anything about the barbaric terrorists trading as angelic Hamas.

How can we expect Israel to stop while still under attack? It seems that everybody forgot the barbarous attack that initiated the current events. So, why don't we ask Iran and their stooges, whose only declared purpose is the destruction Israel, to stop as well?


Ps
The USA cannot stop this war. The only way to stop this war is a regime change in every terrorists state that supply Hamas , Hezbollah and the likes with weapons. These terrorists are not interested in peace. As long as they can lay their hands on weapons they will practise terrorism. It's their only trade. Even if the could manage to destroy Israel, the will just find another.

Risky business this being a climate activist these days.




These days rather think twice before accepting an invite to join a protest.

An environmental activist died after raising hands and being shot from head to toe by police nearly two months ago near Atlanta, the person's family and attorneys said Monday.

The activist known as “Tortuguita,” whose full name is Manuel Esteban Páez Terán, suffered 14 gunshot wounds on Jan. 18, family attorneys said.




Enjoy the weekend.