lundi 29 janvier 2024

Is mainstream news actually somewhat fake?

I recently got a subscription to the Washington Post after getting sick of free news. All of it is about Trump with a few articles that seem to suggest that President Biden is getting senile and not too much else other that polling data. My feeling on it after having read all these articles is that I feel that there is nothing wrong with President Biden's competency. In fact I think that he is singularly able to run this country. I do not have any problem with vice president Kama's ability to run the country if she would need to either. One type of article I am getting really sick of is extremely rich people trying to tell ordinary people what they are doing wrong.


Got a subscription to the New Yorker too as well as the LA times too. Problem with them is LA Times is too local and for the New Yorker, I just don't have the attention span to read it. Neither of them I would describe as fake news.


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Question on political assassinations using drones

A question on another forum makes me want to ask the smart folks here this:

With the demonstration of the usefulness of kamikaze/attack drones in Ukraine how come they aren't being used to attack people in the West, i.e. used as a tool in assassination?

What technology exists to protect President Biden from such an attack?


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New 9/11 Nut Job.

I will let this insanity speak for itself.
https://youtu.be/CQCBJ_JV4Y0?si=6xpab3W0qgLb2BYp


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dimanche 28 janvier 2024

Finnish Presidential Election/s

Voting has started today. Current Finnish President, Sauli Niinistö's second presidential term is coming to an end.

Favourite by a small margin is Alexander Stubb of the National Coalition Party (roughly equivalent to the Conservative/Liberal party), closely followed by hugely popular Pekka Haavisto, Green Party but standing as an independent. Close on his heels in third place - according to the polls - is Jussi Halla-Aho, Basic Finns. Olli Rehn of the Centre Party is next with about 13% followed by Li Andersson of the Left (not to be confused with SDP) slightly behind him.

You can see the full list of candidates here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_F...ntial_election

If the person coming first in today's election polling has more than half the votes, he or she will automatically be elected as President of Finland (not to be confused with the Prime Minister who currently is Petteri Orpo, National Coalition) and acts as Head of State in a Statesman type role rather than actually governing.

I have performed my civic duty and voted for Haavisto as I think he has been a great foreign ambassador for Finland (for example, in getting women with children returned home from the Syrian refugee camps). Stubb was Prime Minister once for a short period of about a year. In true conservative-style, like Orpo, he immediately implemented all kinds of cuts. Stubb spent a lot of time in the USA in higher education so perhaps he sees himself as the natural defender of NATO and says he only came back into politics because of the Russian border situation and the Ukraine war issue. He is very ambitious and the press seem to be pushing him forward as their choice. I would have voted for Li Andersson, of the Left, very popular in these parts, where she comes from, but as she doesn't have a realistic chance of winning the election, I decided to vote tactically for my second choice. Not that I don't like Stubb but I think Haavisto has a more statesmanlike presence and diplomatic calming personna. The last thing we need is a warmonger and US puppet.

Voting ends at 20:00 tonight and then the advance voting result will be revealed. Rehn of the Centre Party is likely to show as a strong candidate as the centre party voters tend to vote heavily in advance, plus he has spent a LOT of money on electioneering. Educated at Oxford. I usually vote Centre Party due to my rural roots; it is traditionally, as in Norway and Sweden, the party that represents farmers and is quite left wing except their constitution is strongly anti-communist. Given mass urbanisation these days with people moving to metropolitan areas, it is not such a big party as it once was. The last Centre Party president was Urho Kekkonen, who was incumbent from 1956 - 1982, an astonishing long period of time. As for Halla-Aho he is considered very learned but comes across as a bit crazy, so it is doubtful he will sneak through, but you never know, as the Basic Finns, a relatively new populist right wing party, has made tremendous gains politically, and is currently in coalition with the National Coalition Party in government, having been pipped at the post by a very small margin. (Think UKIP.)

If, as is expected, the leading candidate gets less than half of the electoral votes, then there will be a second round of elections 11 February. Haavisto came second last time around to Niinistö.


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vendredi 26 janvier 2024

If you die of hunger in Uganda, you are an idiot!

So says Uganda's Foreign Minister, Henry Oryem Okello:

Henry Okello Oryem: Uganda minister says people dying of hunger are 'idiots'

Quote:

A Ugandan government minister is facing criticism after calling those who have died of hunger in his country "idiots".

Many have deemed Henry Okello Oryem's comments tone-deaf.

In 2022, more than 2,200 people died of starvation and related illnesses in north-east Uganda, a report by an official human rights body said.

But Mr Oryem argued that given Uganda's favourable climate and fertile land, people should be able to grow food for themselves.

"It's only an idiot, a real idiot, that can die of hunger in Uganda," the state minister for foreign affairs told the NTV Uganda television channel.

"If you work hard, there is land in Uganda. The climate is right in spite [of] climate change. If you make a double effort to make sure that you go out in the morning, you till your land, you plant the seeds, you maintain your plantation, surely, how do you fail then to get food?"
He sure doesn't look like he's going hungry.



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jeudi 25 janvier 2024

vince mcmahon pooped on a woman

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...uit-rcna135695

https://deadline.com/2024/01/vince-m...it-1235804877/

https://twitter.com/WrestleOps/statu...81338384593255

it was the woman he briefly resigned his place in the company over during the hush money scandal. of course, he died his hair jet black and grew a weird moustache and he muscled his way back in via wme/endeavor, who you may recognize as a giant hollywood talent agency and the company that purchased the ufc and wwe after vince stepped down and merged them into tko, and was involved in a lot of celebrity crypto scams.

anyway, this was all under nda, which he violated by not paying her hush money. now it's all public, including the suprisingly creepy and teenage texts. and it's pretty disgusting.


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mercredi 24 janvier 2024

Queston what would be the effect if...

Trump drops dead or becomes incapacitated and he is the nominee?

Biden drops dead or becomes incapacitated and he is the nominee?

If either is assassinated?

What happens if the man selected as the nominee cannot be President? What is the methodology at this point?


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