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Waking up to morning Keks!
Watch the Water!
https://nypost.com/2023/12/28/news/california-beach-towns-flooded-by-massive-waves-receive-evacuation-orders/
And they keep giving him a knife
>>20147264
How about that domestic part?
Check Point Charlie
Show us your memes
Drinking on the job also
>>20147547
Shill Central is Afraid
Time for color revolution
Socialist Protests Erupt In Argentina As Milei Implements "Austerity" Cuts
In a scene that is probably a small taste of what is to come, socialist activists and workers unions carrying images of Che Guevara and Eva Peron converged on Buenos Aires to protest Javier Milei's impending “austerity” cuts. The cuts are a part of Milei's sweeping economic measures that will erase or rewrite over 300 rules regulating and restricting private enterprise within the nation.
Deregulation, protesters say, will pave the way for big business interests while reducing welfare programs and protections for the public. The protests are of course built upon a number of assumptions and are reactionary at best, given that Milei has been in office for a mere two weeks. "The goal is to start along the path to rebuilding the country… and start to undo the huge number of regulations that have held back and prevented economic growth," Milei said in a televised speech from the presidential palace.
The protests and anger from leftist elements within Argentina illustrate the numerous pitfalls of allowing socialism to be rooted within any country for any length of time. Though Milei's opposition often argues that Argentina has never been “truly socialist,” the government policies that have been in place for decades certainly are. It is a classic far-left deflection: Whenever a socialist government or economy fails, claim it wasn't real socialism. Rinse, and repeat.
Any effort to free up markets within such a system immediately faces an array of hurdles. Opponents argue that the reforms will destroy the economy (the economy which has already been destroyed by socialism) and that the people will suffer without entitlement programs (which the country cannot afford). Government handouts and welfare promises create a deep and dangerous addiction within a population.
The country's national debt has climbed to over $400 billion US dollars and they are struggling with a $44 billion IMF loan. However, the real threat is their triple digit inflation which is igniting a mounting economic crisis. It is the same crisis that has resurfaced multiple times since the crash of 1990.
Latin America's third-biggest economy is on its knees after decades of debt and financial mismanagement, with annual inflation at 140 percent and 40 percent of Argentines living in poverty.
Milei's first action has been to reduce government waste, cutting over 5000 bureaucratic workers with more layoffs pending. He is also working to cut a number of public works programs and to curb overall spending. His announcement of huge cuts to state subsidies on fuel and transportation are the likely cause of the recent protests, with millions of citizens heavily reliant on government assistance.
The real test will be his efforts to introduce free market enterprise and to boost the Peso while making the shift as painless as possible. Even the most optimistic analyst expectations suggest a chaotic downturn within the economy during the policy adjustments, which will no doubt be exploited by pro-socialists. Milei's opponents were already declaring his efforts a failure after only a few days in office.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/socialist-protests-erupt-argentina-milei-implements-austerity-cuts
Drill Baby Drill
America winning
New US Oil Field Developments Are A Sign Of Things To Come For Saudi Arabia
Due to the exceptional efforts of U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, and his team, the Israel-Hamas War has not widened into a war that could have disastrous consequences for the oil price, but it may yet do so.
By 2014, the Saudis believed that the U.S.’s shale oil and gas posed an existential threat to Saudi Arabia’s place in the world and to continued rule of the Al Saud royal family
In oil and gas terms, the U.S. has broadly gone from strength to strength. As of now, it is the number one producer of crude oil in the world, and the number one natural gas producer.
Events often have a way of highlighting the circular nature of time rather than its linearity. An extraordinarily notable recent example of this was this year’s incursion into Israel of Hamas on Yom Kippur, just as happened on Yom Kippur 50 years earlier when an Arab coalition did the same. In the same way that the recent incursion resulted in the ongoing Irael-Hamas War, so the events of 1973 led to the Yom Kippur War. So far, due to the exceptional efforts of U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, and his team, the Israel-Hamas War has not widened into a war that could have disastrous consequences for the oil price, but it may yet do so. In 1973, though, the Yom Kippur War led directly to an embargo by OPEC members - plus Egypt, Syria, and Tunisia - on oil exports to the U.S., the U.K., Japan, Canada, and the Netherlands in response to their collective supplying of arms, intelligence resources, and logistical support to Israel during the War. By the end of the embargo in March 1974, the price of oil had risen around 267 percent, from about US$3 per barrel (pb) to over US$11 pb. This, in turn, stoked the fire of a global economic slowdown, especially felt in the net oil importing countries of the West. However, from a long-term perspective, even more important than any of this was the way it changed U.S. policy towards Saudi Arabia and OPEC from that point. Judging from recent announcements from the U.S., the current Israel-Hamas War may have prompted the final phase of that policy made back in 1974.
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/new-us-oil-field-developments-are-sign-things-come-saudi-arabia
Democrat Secretary Of State Kicks Trump Off Maine Ballot, Takes MSM 'Victory Lap'
Sure enough, the usual suspects in the mainstream media were more than happy to invite Maine Secretary of State on air to discuss her "brave" decision to unilaterally remove Republicans' democratic rights
Bellows appeared on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360", stating that not only was she “mindful” in her decision and its “unprecedented” nature, but no presidential candidate had ever “engaged in insurrection” before. “So — again, I am so mindful – and I said this in my decision – that it is unprecedented. No secretary of state has ever deprived a presidential candidate of ballot access based on Section Three of the 14th Amendment. But no presidential candidate has ever engaged in insurrection and been disqualified under Section Three of the 14th Amendment,” Bellows stated.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democrat-secretary-state-kicks-trump-maine-ballot
I see the bread is made with same self rising full of air ingredients…….. Yeast
Only his Mexican maid is answering these days
The founders forgot to put teeth in to the constitution regarding your point!
A blatant oversight or intentional
But they had southern the Democrats… What's the difference?
It's Not the words, it's the mind set and beliefs that your better than the little people
Maine Republicans Prep Effort to Impeach Shenna Bellows
Republican lawmakers in Maine are preparing impeachment orders against Secretary of State Shenna Bellows following her decision to remove former President Donald J. Trump from the Maine GOP presidential primary ballot.
“I wish to impeach her on the grounds that she is barring an American citizen and 45th President of the United States, who is convicted of no crime or impeachment, their right to appear on a Maine Republican Party ballot in March,” Rep. John Andrews (R-Paris) said in a statement.
“This is raw partisanship and has no place in the office of our state’s Constitutional Officers,” Andrews said.
Bellows, a former legal activist with the left-wing Maine Civil Liberties Union and a former Democratic state senator, released a statement Thursday evening regarding her decision to block Trump from the ballot.
“I conclude,” Bellows wrote in her official decision, “that the record establishes that Mr. Trump, over the course of several months and culminating on January 6, 2021, used a false narrative of election fraud to inflame his supporters and direct them to the Capitol to prevent certification of the 2020 election and the peaceful transfer of power.”
This, Bellows asserted, renders him guilty of the crime of insurrection, in her opinion.
Trump, however, has never been convicted of any crimes related to insurrection in either a court of law or the U.S. Senate.
Shortly after publicizing her decision, Bellows appeared on CNN and MSNBC to address national television audiences.
https://www.themainewire.com/2023/12/maine-republicans-prep-effort-to-impeach-shenna-bellows/