Saturday, November 30, 2024

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24-1-16 Democracy by Margaret Atwood | Democracy 2024 - FT > .
24-1-28 Проблемы демократии | Democracy's Ills | Myth or Reality (subs) - MK > .
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24-12-15 Tragedies, triumphs, males misbehaving 2024 | 60 Min Aus > .
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24-1-2 Flashpoints & Forecasts: 2023 Global Review; Expected in 2024 - Waro > .
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24-1-2 President Zelensky's goals for 2024 - Economist > .
Chips, FABs, Tech 2024 ..DUHsaster 2025 ..Enemy Caliphate Within ..Spies & Algorithms 2024 ..
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24-6-27 Biden Mumbles, tRUMP LIES ..
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Thursday, November 28, 2024

Axis of Envious Resentment 2025

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24-11-28 Syria to blow up again? - gtbt > .
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24-11-8 Son Of Hamas: Amsterdam Pogrom is Wake Up Call For Europe! - IMC > .
24-10-7 October 7 Was a Sign of Things to Come - Israel MC > .

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24-11-28 Georgia Protests Resume

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24-11-29 Georgia protests: 2nd night after government suspends EU bid - Global > .Caucasus - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia - Graydations >> .
Georgia - Sakartvelo - Graypatia >> .

On 28 October, tens of thousands of protesters rallied in Tbilisi to protest the results of the recent parliamentary elections, which President Salome Zourabichvili criticized as rife with irregularities. Addressing the crowd, Zourabichvili claimed the ruling Georgian Dream party employed tactics akin to those used in Russia, arguing that the election results did not accurately reflect voters' intentions. Officially, Georgian Dream was reported to have won over 54 percent of the vote, securing the parliamentary majority. President Zourabichvili, in her address, reassured demonstrators, stating, "You did not lose the election. They stole your vote and tried to steal your future". 

On 28 November, the new convocation of the Parliament of Georgia confirmed the government of Irakli Kobakhidze, who made several changes to its composition. Parliament also set a date for the 2024 Georgian presidential election on 14 December. After the 2017 constitutional reform, the president is no longer elected by popular vote but instead through a 300-member Electoral College, including all 150 MPs, all representatives from the supreme councils of the Abkhazian and Adjaran autonomous republics, and local bodies. Georgian Dream, holding a majority in the Electoral College, nominated Mikheil Kavelashvili, a member of its ally People's Power, to the presidency. Zourabichvili, the last president to be elected by popular vote, has rejected the legitimacy of the current parliament and has said that she will not step down as president "until the legitimate parliament is elected that will legitimately elect [a replacement]". Kobakhidze responded by saying "of course on 29 December she'll have to leave".

The protests have been marked by widespread violence against protesters and journalists by the police.

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Wednesday, November 27, 2024

24-11-27 Syrian Civil War Flares 24-12-8

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24-11-28 Syria to blow up again? - gtbt > .
24-12-8 Syria Explained in 14 Minutes - Ryan McBeth > .
24-12-8 [Huge Loss for Ruscia: P00ti Loses Grip in MENA]| U Matters > .
24-12-8 [Ruscia Loses Tartus Navy Base In Syria: Implications] - HI Sutton > .
24-12-7 Why Syria's civil war restarted - Caspian > . skip > .
24-12-3 Syrian Rebels Advance as Iran and Russia Abandon Assad - Preston > .
24-12-3 Ruscia already fleeing Syria? SDF brakes Alliance with Assad - M&H > .

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Baltic, Nordic 2025

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24-11-27 Ruscia [attempting to change] Baltic Sea borders - Caspian > .
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Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Conflicts, Tensions, Folly 2025

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24-11-14 Yemen's Decade of Crisis - Waro > .> Chaos >>
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Monday, November 25, 2024

DUHsaster 2025

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24-12-20 Why does it feel like the world is falling apart? | Brian Klaas - BT > .

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DUHplicitous Idiocrazies 2025

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24-11-22 [DUH's Cabinet of Horrors] Wrecking Status Quo - gtbt > .
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Sunday, November 24, 2024

Econopolitics 2025

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Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Economics of Agriculture □


19th November 2024 Protests >. We compare Keir Starmer's 2023 speech to the NFU conference to the protests held by farmers over the change to inheritance tax in the recent Labour Budget. We discuss the political representation at the protest from Reform UK, Clarkson, the Lib Dems and the Tories, including speeches by Kemi Badenoch and Ed Davey, while also asking if this is going to become a culture war issue. We also look at ome press statemets from Reeves, DEFRA minister Steve Reed and agricultural minister Daniel Zeichner. We conclude that the protest itself was apolitical and single issue, but this is clearly not over yet.

2024 November United Kingdom farmers' protests: On November 19th, 2024, protests were organised by some farmers in London against new inheritance tax laws on agricultural land. The measure emerged from the Labour government of the United Kingdom budget plans, resulting in thousands of British farmers protesting in Parliament Square and addressing MPs directly in parliament.

The dispute centered on changes to inheritance tax on agricultural assets. Previously, the intergenerational transfer of farms had been exempt from taxation as a result of a 1992 tax break.

In November 2024, the newly elected Labour government announced plans to remove this tax exemption for farms valued over £1,000,000 in order to generate revenue for public services. Set to take effect in April 2026, the new policy would see a 20% inheritance tax on farm valued over that threshold, half the usual rate of inheritence tax, and could be paid across ten years. The inheritance tax exemption would remain in place for farms valued below the £1,000,000 threshold.

Opposition to the change from some farmers stemmed from the claim that farmers, while asset rich, are "cash poor", which they claimed would create a situation where some inheriting families would have to sell their farm lands to meet tax obligations. Supporters of the change claimed that farmers' had been manipulating the tax break to avoid taxation on profits.

Organisiations representing British farm owners said income declines across various agricultural sectors in the year ending February 2024, with some farms experiencing revenue drops exceeding 70%. Average annual incomes ranged from a modest £17,000 for livestock grazing operations to £143,000 for specialized poultry farms, further exacerbating the thinness of profit margins despite high land valuations.

The scale of potential impact is a point of contention. UK Government figures suggested the measure would affect approximately 27 percent of farms in the UK (aproximately 56,700 farms), equivilent to 500 farms annually. The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) suggested that 35 percent of farms (aproximately 70,000 farms) would be impacted. Analysis by BBC News Verifty stated that the figures of the UK government were more probable than the CLA's.

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24-11-19 1000 Days in Ukraine □

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24-12-6 1000 Days of War And Its Apogee - gtbt > .

24-12-6 Reported Ruscist casualties pass 750,000  ~750610+1660          

The RS-26 Rubezh (РС-26 Рубеж, meaning frontier or boundary), designated by NATO as SS-X-31, is a Russian solid-fueled intermediate-range ballistic missile.
  
According to the Ukrainian Air Force and Ukrainska Pravda, on 21 November 2024 the Russian Federation launched an unspecified number of conventional RS-26 missiles at Ukraine, reportedly targeting critical infrastructure in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro. Russian government spokesperson Dmitry Peskov was asked to confirm this, and at the time, replied that he "had nothing to say on this topic". A western official stated that the missile used in the attack in question was not an ICBM. Later that day, Vladimir Putin confirmed that the strike had indeed not been performed by an ICBM, but a new model of IRBM, using a non-nuclear hypersonic payload.

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Monday, November 18, 2024

24-11-18 UFDs over New Jersey

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24-12-11 [Unidentified Flying Drones] Iranian Navy & War of Jersey Shore! | Sal > .24-12-13 [Mystery] Drones Over New Jersey: Closer Look | WSJ > .
24-12-18 [Not NASA: Sandboxx wrong about NJ's Mystery Drones] - Sandboxx > .


Dozens of drone sightings have been reported over New Jersey since 18 November, according to local authorities. In late November, the United States Air Force also confirmed that unidentified drones were spotted over three US airbases in the UK: RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk and RAF Feltwell in Norfolk.

US authorities have been unable to provide definitive answers, saying only that the objects are not believed to pose a danger to the public or national security.

On December 12, White House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters that available images suggested that many of the reported drone sightings were actually manned aircraft.
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Krumblin Rubble 2025

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24-12-17 Russia’s Arms Industry Experiencing a Stunning Collapse - Icarus > .
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Saturday, November 16, 2024

Militarizing West 2025

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Wednesday, November 6, 2024

24-11-6 Regierungskrise □

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24-11-8 Germany's Government Finally Collapses: What Next? | TLDR EU > .
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24-3-3 How Germany's Problems Can Bring Pre-WW2 Misery - gtbt > .
24-3-3 Germany's Unexpected Economic Crisis - EcEx > .

2024 German government crisis: On 6 November 2024, Olaf Scholz, the incumbent chancellor of Germany, announced the dismissal of Christian Lindner, the then-finance minister and leader of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), from his cabinet. This occurred following recent disputes in the three-party coalition government over the country's economic policies and ongoing tensions within the coalition. Lindner's dismissal caused the collapse of the coalition, as the FDP moved into the opposition, leaving a two-party minority government of SPD and The Greens.

An early 2025 federal election is likely, with the parties having agreed on a tentative date of 23 February 2025. A formal vote of confidence in the ruling government is to predate the election.

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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

DUHsaster 24-11-5 □

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24-11-1 What if Trump Wins? - fern > . skip > .
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24-11-6 How Trump's "Victory" Begins a Countdown in Moscow - Spaniel > .24-11-15 Flashpoint Analysis: Riskiest Frozen Conflicts Under DUH 2.0 - Waro > .24-11-29 How to Save Democracy - Holy Koolaid > .
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24-12-18 [Economic Predictions for Global 2025 & DUHnomics] - M&M > .
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24-11-2 Heather Cox Richardson, Tom Nichols: DUH & Dangers - JESoE > .


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"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average Trump voter." (updated from something that Winston Churchill probably never said)

It's official - MAGA Americans lack νοῦς. Not only are they not bright enough to realize that DUHnocchio does not care about them or keep promises, but they will be too "challenged" to realize that they are ultimately responsible for the economic slump, job losses, educational deterioration, health crises, and other woes that they have almost certainly brought upon themselves. Unfortunately, the harm will not be confined to those improvident enough to vote for Felonious Trump.

A fitting comment on the harm that RepuGNicans have ignorantly wrought:
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. 
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
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4B or "Four Nos" is a radical feminist movement that emerged in South Korea during the mid-to-late 2010s on Twitter and on the website Womad. The name refers to its defining four tenets which all start with the Korean-language term bi , roughly meaning "no". Its proponents do not date, get married, have sex, or have children with men.

The four core tenets to the 4B movement are:
no sex with men (비섹스; bisekseu),
no giving birth (비출산; bichulsan),
no dating men (비연애; biyeonae), and
no marriage with men (비혼; bihon).

In the United States, interest in 4B increased after the re-election of Misognynist-in-Cheat in the 2024 presidential race. Social media videos primarily reflected the idea that men had voted against women's rights by voting for DUH, and that women should not engage with men, heterosexual sex, or pregnancy if they will not be respected as equals or have full legal access to birth control and abortion.

Steve's Warnings - The Warning with Steve Schmidt - Podcast >> .
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"How To Steal An Election" comment

Comment with Numbers: As of September 2024, the distribution of registered voters in the United States by party affiliation is as follows: 

Democrats: Approximately 45.1 million registered voters (21% of total registered voters). 
Republicans: Approximately 36 million registered voters (17% of total registered voters). 
Independents/Unaffiliated: Approximately 32.1 million registered voters (15% of total registered voters). 
Minor Parties: Approximately 5.4 million registered voters (2.9% of total registered voters). 

These figures are based on data from states that require voters to declare a party affiliation upon registration. It's important to note that 19 states do not collect or report party affiliation data, which can affect the overall percentages.


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