I agree with nearly everything you said, but I think it likely that Mamdani simply waited to confirm who or what motivated the thrown IED before speaking out - better to be silent until the facts are known than to inadvertently spread misinformation. 🙂
Mamdani, like Trump, will say the most self preserving thing until public pressure is applied. The first impression is what sticks. Mamdani knows this.
New York would be wise to snap out of the honeymoon phase and start judging Mamdani for how every single crisis so far has been met with self preservation tactics that have come at the expense of public safety.
All of his initial responses are propagandized rewriting of the real story.
The cops instigated a “snowball fight.” A bomb was almost detonated during a violent anti-Muslim protest.
All of this sends an unequivocal signal to Islamic extremists. “You are presumed innocent and the other side is presumed guilty. Go crazy”
It’s sad watching New York make every mistake that Minnesota carefully maneuvered just 2 months ago.
OK just to clue the youngen's in AI found Bernard Manning's top ten jokes (BTW he was married to an Indian woman who he loved very much - like Michael Caine did.).
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And then we use AI to find the Vatican's historically BEST (top ten jokes) / cultural and global destruction...
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~ Look away now...
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Here’s a selection of some of the best jokes by Bernard Manning, showcasing his unique style of humor that often blends wit with controversy.
Top Jokes by Bernard Manning
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"Man says to his wife: ‘Pack your bags, I’ve won the pools.’ She says: ‘What should I pack? Something light, something warm? Where are we going?’ He says: ‘We’re going nowhere. Just pack your bags and fuck off.’"
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"A Scouser went to a prostitute. She said, ‘Do you want a blow job?’ He said, ‘Will it affect my dole money?’"
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"Quasimodo was running down the street chased by a group of kids. He said, ‘For the last time, I haven’t got your football.’"
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"I went to see that Pavarotti last week and he was a right miserable git. He doesn’t like it when you join in."
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"Seriously folks, I didn't mean that. My grandfather died at Auschwitz. Very sad. He fell out of the machine gun tower."
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"I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included."
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"I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected by men as well as women."
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"You are what you eat.....I'm a cunt!"
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"Two old maids on a beach, a streaker ran past, one had a stroke, the other one couldn’t reach."
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"I told my wife she should embrace her mistakes. She gave me a hug."
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These jokes reflect Bernard Manning's characteristic humor, which often pushed boundaries and elicited strong reactions. His style remains memorable and continues to be quoted and referenced in discussions about comedy.
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<<You can open your eyes now.>>
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Sidenote: I'm not really convinced that the past several hundred years policy of zero contraception is really doing anything for the planet right now.
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You can't BE Catholic and at the same time claim to be "Saving the Planet".
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You can't be on youtube and Instagram filling up all these servers with hundreds of hours of HD content and claim to be wanting to save the planet - Terrabytes and terrbytes of tolal blah blah - and yet waaaaay too lazy to write... a concise prose that only utilizes a few killo-bytes of storage.
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^^^ Take NOTE - pod casty virtue hoars / self styled wind bags !
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.[I don't have a joke for that (right now) and I really mean that ... ].
~ meanwhile I'm a broke ass mother fucker ... literally. The broke -ass bit not the mother-fucking bit.
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BUT I have worked with more than a number of Olympians in four different disciplines.
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So I won't be striking out of distance. [Fencing (Epee) ].
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Uriel (Epshtein) "read" on the Olympic shenanigans for not being a 'Sports person" is surprisingly good... [Are his fingers / digits really that short or is it a trick of the light ? I am struggling to get past the 20 minute mark on that interview... It's not quite like reading Mein Kampf - but you can only get so far into something and then feel a sort of intrinsic revulsion - I'm not being a snow-flake about that and I maintain that the Catholic Church is nine billion times worse WAY worse than Bernhard Manning <--- But today's pearl clutchers will maintain a totally fake suspended virtue for one of the most destructive institutions on the entire planet (historically) and throw a canny comedian in the dustbin chute that spits out into room 101. ]. (They're not gonna get that Eric - WELL they can GOOGLE - Bernard Manning's BEST jokes and the Vatican's WORST Atrocities (top ten... in each case).
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[This is not meant to be a well structured or well thought out piece as otherwise the teamsters will be fix'n to break my legs - like sheep.].
.[Back to sporty American Chinese chick that chose to totally sell out ... Maybee she can ultimately flee to Spain or Argentina - they'll give her a passport - when the Chines local police come knocking on your door at 4. Am twice a week you know it's already too late and you won't be able to leave. ].
Xi himself has a policy for wanting to throw "Billionaires" in prison but is very much about the rhetoric and action of lifting people out of poverty (bigger numbers) - his approach BE reasonably prosperous in a modest way but no more than.
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If anyone that knows anything about China will KNOW absolutely whatever money of the order of $10M to $100s Millions of dollars (offered) is totally and absolutely NOT worth it [Gu is smoking crack on that (renounced US citizenship) .]. . Ultimately at any moment things can go pear shaped but probably a skier is not that clean living and probably your organs won't necessarily be harvested... Pro tip one organ - two ... four and then then fifth you find out then after the fifth organ (taken) you are dead.
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That is one of the primary reasons I have refused to do business in Mainland China. [Not for organs but now it's all about the Han "RED" - "Gene" and theft of intellectual property.
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Also because I am a horse trainer their record of animal abuse is astonishingly bad... THE CHINESE ... The Chineses' record of animal abuse - not horse trainers or not necessarily Dressage trainers... Geez.
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[ Fencer and Dressage rider / and some three day eventing / "Other" equine disciplines as well as other sword based disciplines.].
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Ohhh really which disciplines Eric - Which Olympians - Which countries - Eric [It's a long story / stories + seminal coaches and coaching a philosophy mainly given to me by Ted Katsof - who also trained everyone in Kurasawa's Seven Samurai. Although me - not being the greatest or most accomplished fencer in the world -but finding his methods to be almost universally applicable to sports like Polo, and Pole Vaulting and Modern Pentathlon ... (including but not limited to.). Some sports are not represented in or at the Olympics but if you live long enough and work in these areas you find you end up working with - for or along side MANY Olympians (Even my own son was long listed for the Olympics (not much of a humble brag) - but if you get long listed in Dressage they can fucking commandeer you horse - bastards ! - Some jerk that you have been practically hating on half your life rides and commandeers your horse / mount ! ]
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[+Struggling technologist - thirteen patents in different territories for advanced imaging technologies and NOT sell out to the military. ].
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(Sleep in my X- wife and kiddies - pills for my Jag - "How Yer diddling ??? " - "Sod the Lot of yah - then". .). <--- They're not gonna get that.
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Taiwan OTOH has a lot to offer. A special crossroads that no-one with any brain cells wants to fuck with - YES there's a lot of shadow play but only a moron is going to upset the Apple - cart on that. Get it APP-PLE cart - you know all that slave labor in mainland China of teenage girl's fingers to make California rich and bail out the state of Kentucky (through redistribution of tax related funds for failing STates.).
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Meanwhile - I am not going into the specific mathematical reasons as to why "Constitutional" change is almost impossible now in the USA.
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These aspects won't actually change very much for the next three hundred years. <--- Having once been an Archaeologist and archeological conservator and also spent ten years at Cambridge University (doing my Ph.D. research) - I CAN absolutely make that assertion.
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There's a basic six dimensional immutable and simultaneously acting matrix of exploitation composed of the separate dimensions of - SADISM - CONTROL - Dollar -//- Illusion - Delusion - Allusion ---> Triangles and matrix of exploitation firmly baked into our constitution ... an inviolable and immutable hologram that very few if any are capable of evading.<--- Kamala Harris having also fallen foul of said six vertex'd eight sided space - like the phantom zone.
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But ALWAYS Sadism first.
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AND Sadism Always being the utmost and highest priority by any means.
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And Moneys given or taken away as the principal form of control but there are many other coercive techniques to maintain and establish absolute control to the point where any useful possible delusions or allusions to actual or potential ideas of change are completely squashed for near indefinite periods - unless "Our" virtuous American model eventually falls into ruins and ashes.
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The fatal flaw being the separation of the "Knowing How" from the "Knowing WHY" from the "Ability to do" ... fake symbolic knowledge cannot be wielded at a distance of six thousand miles. A fatal flaw introduced by the Clinton Administration and the likes of Robert Reich the "Not" economist (unfortunately). Globalism WILL be the undoing of the Americans' ability to doooo anything at all. A country the near size of a continent with ONLY a service economy - and shop window for consumption - a nation of sub-epsilonic consumers and nothing else. Total liquidation of absolute capabilities now gone.
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^^^ I've written a lot about this - I don't need to overexplain to those that actually know.
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But the latent hologram of exploitation persists as the original architecture and blue-print of white boy slave owners trying to get a piece of the action of the world stage to be the "Equal of Kings" (as a small select group) - can NOT in fact be altered by "Happy clappy" amendments <--- THIS has been proven to be a mathematical impossibility. Take NOTE !
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[I am] - Originally from the UK and very "British" but the renewed passport that I have has me resigned to fact that indeed I AM a US citizen ONLY at this point and for sure the USA does not in any sense recognize dual citizenship. They can get very shouty at passport control if you haven't properly grasped that fact. Reading every page of the passport does give one a sense of pride and loyalty and importance to the "artifact" in one's hand.
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Pro - tip - they can't hold you there nor take your passport away from you (US customs and passport control ) if there appears to be a passport irregularity. Even if they take you into a private cell or room. [I once lost my passport when I was 15 in London and then found it again but there was a computer glitch that the embassies didn't update properly ... My old man who is originally from Germany but an American Citizen (drafted into the Korean war) given citizen ship - practically beat the shit out of me for losing my passport [in the UK where we were living at the time]. Back in the day during the cold war that was a huge no no and he used to work for ABMA and later NASA so he was trained to spot agents etc. trying to extract information - (he had top security clearance) at that time (1970s and 1980s) his best friend in the UK just co-incidentally was an RAF intelligence officer ... and coincidently just down the road in Ruislip there were these old ladies making micro-dots for the Russians smuggling out nuclear secrets - but were probably delivering falsely planted information.
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My Mom used to host (in the late 1970s to early 1980s ) Socrates Classes held by Dr Anne Ward (an archaeologist and classicist) but there seemed to be (on reflection) an alarming number of nuclear scientists or at least their wives... That had a very KEEN interest in the teachings of Socrates - and drinki-poos afterwards (I used to sit in on a few of these sessions and readings as a kid and teenager) - (My old man was a technical illustrator and head of future projects at NASA on the art / illustration side - later left NASA to become a set designer [2001 Space Odessey etc.] Hence moving to the UK in the first place where he ultimately died in 2007 <--- not a "Space" movie..].
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Hard not to imagine that he wasn't an asset also working in Eastern Block countries doing movies, Prague, Split and greater Yugoslavia.
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My old man (Harry) would have LOVED what you guys stand for and are doing (at)... RDI
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He'd totally be all over that (also having lived in the occupied sector under the Russians during WWII.). Too many stories. etc. etc.
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Meanwhile I have to pack my shit up and sell my ranch as I can't afford to live here anymore.
Totally fucked over five times by the US medical systems. Now half crippled from incredible fuck ups and being thrown out of the US medical system (for seven years by BIG DATA until ACA) and in massive spiraling debt. YAY...
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My (cousin) Heinz was in a Russian prison camp for TEN years after the war.(WWII).. He received better care than I have received in the USA these past fifteen years. Psychopathic bald-faced liars trying to cover their respective asses - Orthopedic surgeons with a high degree of spatial ineptitude and not really giving a fuck-ti-tude.
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Heinz was a keen chess player (in spite of actually HAVING a worm eat part of his brain waaaaaaay before RFK Jr guy ever "thought" of that ) True story, and in the sense that they kept him alive as a medical curiosity in a Siberian hospital looked after by Catholic nuns. We know Russian medicine is wildly different kettle of fish from so called Western medicine. In the eighties and nineties he'd order a schnapps - but two "One for me and one for the worm " pointing to his temple.
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Heinz contracted polio out there but his German battalion used him as bait (originally)... (to lure Russian soldiers out of their fox holes) as he was a little cross eyed (strabismus) and not very good with a rifle.
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While in a Siberian prison camp and hospital he played chess to keep himself sane - but the chess set was made from scraps and formed tubes etc. of carboard hidden in a table leg nibbled into the right shapes and progressively nestable pieces - accordingly like a Russian doll.
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Cousin Heinz always had a good sense of humor/ cheerful attitude that probably kept him alive.
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I am named for a great Uncle that I never met (Eric) that got blown to smithereens on the Russian front (tank commander/captain) . It seems that many from my family on that side ended up in prisons various or blown to smithereens and at least having their homes levelled to the ground. I'm not sure the American's know what the European experience is in that regard nor the massive contribution of sheer mass of humans that the Russians "Contributed" to the successful conclusion of the Second World War... Anyone from the Wehrmacht on the Eastern front and finally towards Berlin will attest to sheer MASS and overwhelming number of humans the Russian commanders threw at German tanks, mobile artillery and conventional artillery. The Americans never recognize or mention that. "We bailed your asses out in WW II - blah blah blah " and if it wasn't for us "You'd all be speaking German right now". The sheer mass of human flesh against machine - you absolutely cannot imagine in massive number and ultimately overwhelmed. unimaginable sacrifice.
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I got a lot of that working at NASM - Air and Space (DC) as conservator at the Smithsonian - "Lend Lease conservator they'd call me " (early 90s).
[ Not many kids today would know what a so called "White Russian" is - or beyond that of an alcoholic drink or outside of that (recent) movie Anora.].
~ [They only let me write so much per blob ] - My old man used to have a driver that was Serbian while working in Yugoslavia ( A big guy almost like Andre the Giant) who used to say
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"I used to strangle Germans with my bare hands - but we are GOOD Friends NOW !!" - puts his arm over Harry's shoulder - a sideways hug... Neither for whom were shy of alcohol and consequently the driver's cab (was his name Versilli ... ) Versilli's cab got half monched and crushed by a Tram and harry had to go to the hospital as his inner ear bones on one side became dislodged. They fixed his inner ear bones (tint tiny tiny bones) excellent surgeons - NO charge.
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His Mont Blanc pen got schmooshed into three pieces via a seat belt - had he not been wearing a seat belt he'd certainly be dead - something subtle just told him to put his seatbelt on in the back seat of the taxi - it was cold and snowy and icy.
Side note: Me and Michael Moore differed (differ) in opinion on Ukraine - I insisted that the Americans should have shown up for Ukraine in the very first instance to maintain that border... But OTOH Michael Moore was very much of the opinion after all our religious oil-wars that the US should absolutely NOT be engaged in any wars at all. But at that time Ukraine had significantly cleaner municipal water than for example Flint - in spite of the Chernobyl accident. For a while the US donates billions of dollars to Ukraine -to help maintain things like people's pensions etc. so people don't end up murdering each other for a loaf of bread. That got a bit sketchy in terms of the order of funding the EU holding off until they find out how much the Americans have contributed.
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War is big business and it's almost like the Americans want to wait till half of Ukraine is completely destroyed and THEN they see the opportunity for predatory lending and "Reconstruction" almost IMF playbook.
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Everything is a paradox now... How DO two nuclear powers face off against each other using conventional warfare when they BOTH have massive nuclear arsenals ? Which is what would have been the case if the USA had acted in the first instance.
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THEREFORE we can never face the Russians in an armed conflict ... so whoever makes the first "move" Wins. (In theory - that ship has sailed other than protracted stalemates and pyric "victories" ).
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Two nuclear mega /MAGA - powers fighting a "Conventional " war.
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^^^ How do you do that ?
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I was Cadet playing soldiers (from 1983 to 1988) with the idea we were being trained to walk and march TOWARDS the mushroom cloud not away from it (NATO) ... Like there could be field tactical small "Nukes" that would sustain actual "Combat" <--- totally insane [That was a big deal in the 1980s to early 90s as a practical "compromise" .].
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I'm in the bubble so what I see missing from the Ukraine coverage and Russian situations is what is happening to all the POWs ?
I did the math on Gaza and it doesn't add up unless you have massive fleets of white vans packed full of high explosives and everybody in a large buildings or in high rises are zip tied to radiator pipes etc. There are precedents for this approach but I can't spell that all out here (of course).
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The IDF don't have the aerial bombing capacity for the number of kills / dead claimed... but that doesn't mean that other methods haven't been or would not or could not be (or have been) employed.
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My larger and small screen digital portals are woefully bereft and wanting for a HIA (Human Intelligence Agency) as mentioned many times before. If such a HIA existed the CIA would be spending much time and effort to destroy and dismantle for our "Own" "Safety".
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Sometimes the actual mathematics literally do not add up - nor come anywhere close to what is claimed - although it IS possible that truly horrendous atrocities have been commited.
[ Clearly I don't have to explain the history of bombing...
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Nor aerial bombing - like in WW- ONE flying cloth and stick aircraft - they'd start out throwing brick(s) at each other - literally - while carrying our aerial reconnaissance ...
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Then devolve into shooting at each other with revolvers - that would then become different configurations of machine guns and various timings...
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To eventually dropping what were comic French styled round bombs to munitions that had flutes guides and tail fins on the them - more than just a hand grenade - more than Dastardly and Mutley kind of thing - where they'd go on to build bigger cloth and stick aircraft and massive dirigibles / airships - both with much greater payload and capacity for carrying and dropping bombs.
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The Obvious discussions of international law for someone having to go through the motions at Harvard blah blah blah...
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What's the difference between the bombs that are made and kept within government facilities versus homemade "Munitions" that don't fall under the 2nd amendment remit and outlines...
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Projectiles versus bombs versus missiles ...
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Versus rocket clubs in the USA that are NOT allowed to have full guidance systems (as that would be considered a tactical "home brew " missile )- but back in the day a young Werner Von Braun with his Rocket club working with exotic systems and metals not specified in the Versailles treaty and scheme of reparations.
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Later - said (Von Braun) team captured by the allies (The Americans in particular) eventually putting Man on the Moon - but also private military contracting - The Polaris system actually being his most proud engineering achievement - launching nuclear and conventional missiles from under the water from a f*cking submarine... Just think about that for a minute...
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We're not even talking about all the slave labor that was involved to realize such systems and capabilities nor for that matter in the united-states if you walk around with a SWORD (which is my preferred weapon) - THAT is illegal or if you intend to use a Hoplite spear maybe to be the 'GOOD GUY" at a supermarket altercation involving a dangerous person with a machete or a gun / Blunderbuss. That nearly happened but instead they planted a facsimile of Lars Von Trier and his family at the other supermarket where I actually was. [There was a machete attack at the Supermarket over across the way - the one I would have normally have gone to... I reassured the cashier staff at Smith's that at least stray bullets won't make it this way as it's a machete attack. (thankfully) ].
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EVEN if you are someone that promoted STREET FIGHT secrets - to help all and sundry and including women defend themselves from dangerous situations and predators the GUN Lobby is gonna shut your YOUTUBE Channel down. In the USA it's the GUN or nuthi'n else.
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To render a plurality of avians to a metabolically challenged and (altered) state - including but not limited to "Death" via a singular lithic projectile aka "Stone".
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It's a fucking mess - and the fact that the allies were able to carpet bomb whole cities and create fire storms WAS the actual point + phosphorus dispensed at the correct functional relative humidities etc. OR the Fire-Bombing of Tokyo or the famous two Atomic bombings etc.
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None of this was thrashed out or framed or reframed at the Nuremburg Trials. [There are many reason for this well beyond the scope of an invisible post ].
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One would think that ALL double standards (he said wryly ) between domestic policy and foreign policy could be resolved regarding the matter of ALL types of bombing home and abroad (if one was just "Clever enough" but sadly not even the most pretzelated of logics can resolve a Molotov Cocktail lobbed for a "good" "defensive" "cause" versus 30,000 lbs of munitions dropped in one go on Vietnamese civilians and the use of agent orange and napalm.
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Or the many and multifarious "Nuclear" options.
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~ Not allowed to carry a sword but a Glock wedged between someone's butt crack at the Hair Salon sticking up and out of their waist band does not constitute "Endangerment". A defective home made "bomb" does. If we only went with the idea of "Intent" where would that really land us - Legally or otherwise ? ].
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WHO has the right to bomb - but there are better ways around such difficulties...
"Throwing Bombs is Bad and 'Illegal' ... obviously , but...".
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We made extra time and had special permission...
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Braun tape recorder with the stiff and stubborn buttons grudgingly engaged as the wheels of the magnetic audio cassette tape dutifully ground on...
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Rain coat draped over the back of a chair...
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Increasing condensation on the window as clearly this was going to become a long session by the grace of the well bribed and wise Landlady and her husband - a not unprecedented Lock-in with the bouncers on a rotated more subtle detail... lurking at distance just in case Binky made a break for it.
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At least we got him well-oiled and talking. Comfortable you might say.
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We really DID want his side of the story and career of such an enigmatic individual - how such carnage managed to carry on - so consistently and unabated for decades and yet never having lost his job as THE MOST careless piano mover in the WORLD.
" That's why I moved to New York ... originally as it was not that easy to kill people in Santa Fe New Mexico as there are not many private residences that are sufficiently multi-story "
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Binky continued,
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"... In New York it is astonishing how serendipity would find itself - Kismet you could say... a fourteenth floor a Fazioli Pianoforti hanging by mere rope and an outrigger and your mark pacing herself from the letter box...".
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"I used to drop mini sandbags so I could get the timing right, count the number of paces they would make, compensate for the pace of foot traffic and human congestion about the place - even direction and wind speed... was there someone busking there with a noisy saxophone or just some beggar with legs missing and a carboard sign and the road being dug up by workmen thirty yards away to the next intersection ... IT alllll makes a difference".
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"I got so scientific about all this that I made from cardboard - a circular slide rule that would take into account wind speed and direction, which floor we were on, the type of piano we were delivering ...
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of c'urse we would NEVER use a Böooooooosendorfer but those stupid bestial suggary sounding hoars a FAZZZZZZIOLLLI are prefect for the job, plus long case - not so heavy as others... almost made for it... Born to be destroyed - never really played nor loved ... ".
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Some were commissions and others were just fairly arbitrary, like there's an annoying woman wearing a Burberry scarf but she has an au-pair that is pushing a pram, but the woman has a five year old boy that she yanks upward by his wrist as he flinches to not get the hot end of a dissipating flurry <<(italic) of cigarette ash or an accidental momentary cigarette burn on his head or ear or side of his face... as the mother issues MORE instruction to the rest of the "mini" entourage over the stupid reckless din and hustle and bustle and all that crap... of near deafening proportions ... but I can still HEAR and can SEE...".
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"In the moment it becomes crystal clear in the mind's eye - much like back in the old country how my great uncle showed me how to shoot the front and then the back end of a clay pigeon from a trap using the follow through full swing and motion of the body from the hips so that you wouldn't be spitting lead shot out onto the plate later that week of a well hung pheasant or fat partridge... with chervil themed cherry sauce - old school "...
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"Intuitive collateral damage and special grand piano cookie cutter shape dynamically in space so the mother really gets completely crushed by the heel of the frame and case and the baby only has sprung wire scars and splintered dents in her head from spleneticly emanated piano keys and whip like torn piano wires- from such an angry yet useless fancy yet cognitively challenged piano and the boy only needs to have his arm amputated below the elbow... that's where the real art comes in...".
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"You can perform ALL these calculations and compensations but ultimately it's the ability to see the whole situation and scene in full three dimensions in slow motion in the mind's eye and how the suspended case rotates in space almost of its own accord and the lightest fleeting touches to guide it into it's final position and purpose... an ungloved hand - the FEEL of the luster and lacquer of the carcass slipping away under one's finger tips - THIS is a special feeling that cannot be described like the yearning of angels in a special moment of silent grace between this transitory moment frozen in time and now an inevitable irreversible outcome that not even the Gods can intervene to prevent... ".
I agree with nearly everything you said, but I think it likely that Mamdani simply waited to confirm who or what motivated the thrown IED before speaking out - better to be silent until the facts are known than to inadvertently spread misinformation. 🙂
Mamdani, like Trump, will say the most self preserving thing until public pressure is applied. The first impression is what sticks. Mamdani knows this.
New York would be wise to snap out of the honeymoon phase and start judging Mamdani for how every single crisis so far has been met with self preservation tactics that have come at the expense of public safety.
All of his initial responses are propagandized rewriting of the real story.
The cops instigated a “snowball fight.” A bomb was almost detonated during a violent anti-Muslim protest.
All of this sends an unequivocal signal to Islamic extremists. “You are presumed innocent and the other side is presumed guilty. Go crazy”
It’s sad watching New York make every mistake that Minnesota carefully maneuvered just 2 months ago.
Kudos, De Gennaro. Good take on a thorny subject. Best wishes for a successful law school education and a long, successful, righteous career.
You have to take the 'good" with the 'Bad " they keep saying...
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Who's "THEY" - ...
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I spared you the fate of introducing you to Les Dawson...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEUIqb-gTMQ
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Bernard Manning - Mark Lamarr Interview ^^^
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There's a very good joke in there...
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Quality of Life "Issues".
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Eric nobody - will get this - but they can try <--- Italic
OK just to clue the youngen's in AI found Bernard Manning's top ten jokes (BTW he was married to an Indian woman who he loved very much - like Michael Caine did.).
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And then we use AI to find the Vatican's historically BEST (top ten jokes) / cultural and global destruction...
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~ Look away now...
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Here’s a selection of some of the best jokes by Bernard Manning, showcasing his unique style of humor that often blends wit with controversy.
Top Jokes by Bernard Manning
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"Man says to his wife: ‘Pack your bags, I’ve won the pools.’ She says: ‘What should I pack? Something light, something warm? Where are we going?’ He says: ‘We’re going nowhere. Just pack your bags and fuck off.’"
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"A Scouser went to a prostitute. She said, ‘Do you want a blow job?’ He said, ‘Will it affect my dole money?’"
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"Quasimodo was running down the street chased by a group of kids. He said, ‘For the last time, I haven’t got your football.’"
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"I went to see that Pavarotti last week and he was a right miserable git. He doesn’t like it when you join in."
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"Seriously folks, I didn't mean that. My grandfather died at Auschwitz. Very sad. He fell out of the machine gun tower."
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"I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included."
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"I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected by men as well as women."
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"You are what you eat.....I'm a cunt!"
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"Two old maids on a beach, a streaker ran past, one had a stroke, the other one couldn’t reach."
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"I told my wife she should embrace her mistakes. She gave me a hug."
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These jokes reflect Bernard Manning's characteristic humor, which often pushed boundaries and elicited strong reactions. His style remains memorable and continues to be quoted and referenced in discussions about comedy.
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<<You can open your eyes now.>>
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Sidenote: I'm not really convinced that the past several hundred years policy of zero contraception is really doing anything for the planet right now.
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You can't BE Catholic and at the same time claim to be "Saving the Planet".
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You can't be on youtube and Instagram filling up all these servers with hundreds of hours of HD content and claim to be wanting to save the planet - Terrabytes and terrbytes of tolal blah blah - and yet waaaaay too lazy to write... a concise prose that only utilizes a few killo-bytes of storage.
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^^^ Take NOTE - pod casty virtue hoars / self styled wind bags !
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.[I don't have a joke for that (right now) and I really mean that ... ].
I'm in the bubble so what I see missing from the Ukraine coverage and Russian situations is what is happening to all the POWs ?
~ meanwhile I'm a broke ass mother fucker ... literally. The broke -ass bit not the mother-fucking bit.
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BUT I have worked with more than a number of Olympians in four different disciplines.
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So I won't be striking out of distance. [Fencing (Epee) ].
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Uriel (Epshtein) "read" on the Olympic shenanigans for not being a 'Sports person" is surprisingly good... [Are his fingers / digits really that short or is it a trick of the light ? I am struggling to get past the 20 minute mark on that interview... It's not quite like reading Mein Kampf - but you can only get so far into something and then feel a sort of intrinsic revulsion - I'm not being a snow-flake about that and I maintain that the Catholic Church is nine billion times worse WAY worse than Bernhard Manning <--- But today's pearl clutchers will maintain a totally fake suspended virtue for one of the most destructive institutions on the entire planet (historically) and throw a canny comedian in the dustbin chute that spits out into room 101. ]. (They're not gonna get that Eric - WELL they can GOOGLE - Bernard Manning's BEST jokes and the Vatican's WORST Atrocities (top ten... in each case).
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[This is not meant to be a well structured or well thought out piece as otherwise the teamsters will be fix'n to break my legs - like sheep.].
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Xi himself has a policy for wanting to throw "Billionaires" in prison but is very much about the rhetoric and action of lifting people out of poverty (bigger numbers) - his approach BE reasonably prosperous in a modest way but no more than.
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If anyone that knows anything about China will KNOW absolutely whatever money of the order of $10M to $100s Millions of dollars (offered) is totally and absolutely NOT worth it [Gu is smoking crack on that (renounced US citizenship) .]. . Ultimately at any moment things can go pear shaped but probably a skier is not that clean living and probably your organs won't necessarily be harvested... Pro tip one organ - two ... four and then then fifth you find out then after the fifth organ (taken) you are dead.
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That is one of the primary reasons I have refused to do business in Mainland China. [Not for organs but now it's all about the Han "RED" - "Gene" and theft of intellectual property.
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Also because I am a horse trainer their record of animal abuse is astonishingly bad... THE CHINESE ... The Chineses' record of animal abuse - not horse trainers or not necessarily Dressage trainers... Geez.
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[ Fencer and Dressage rider / and some three day eventing / "Other" equine disciplines as well as other sword based disciplines.].
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Ohhh really which disciplines Eric - Which Olympians - Which countries - Eric [It's a long story / stories + seminal coaches and coaching a philosophy mainly given to me by Ted Katsof - who also trained everyone in Kurasawa's Seven Samurai. Although me - not being the greatest or most accomplished fencer in the world -but finding his methods to be almost universally applicable to sports like Polo, and Pole Vaulting and Modern Pentathlon ... (including but not limited to.). Some sports are not represented in or at the Olympics but if you live long enough and work in these areas you find you end up working with - for or along side MANY Olympians (Even my own son was long listed for the Olympics (not much of a humble brag) - but if you get long listed in Dressage they can fucking commandeer you horse - bastards ! - Some jerk that you have been practically hating on half your life rides and commandeers your horse / mount ! ]
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[+Struggling technologist - thirteen patents in different territories for advanced imaging technologies and NOT sell out to the military. ].
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(Sleep in my X- wife and kiddies - pills for my Jag - "How Yer diddling ??? " - "Sod the Lot of yah - then". .). <--- They're not gonna get that.
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Taiwan OTOH has a lot to offer. A special crossroads that no-one with any brain cells wants to fuck with - YES there's a lot of shadow play but only a moron is going to upset the Apple - cart on that. Get it APP-PLE cart - you know all that slave labor in mainland China of teenage girl's fingers to make California rich and bail out the state of Kentucky (through redistribution of tax related funds for failing STates.).
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Meanwhile - I am not going into the specific mathematical reasons as to why "Constitutional" change is almost impossible now in the USA.
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These aspects won't actually change very much for the next three hundred years. <--- Having once been an Archaeologist and archeological conservator and also spent ten years at Cambridge University (doing my Ph.D. research) - I CAN absolutely make that assertion.
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There's a basic six dimensional immutable and simultaneously acting matrix of exploitation composed of the separate dimensions of - SADISM - CONTROL - Dollar -//- Illusion - Delusion - Allusion ---> Triangles and matrix of exploitation firmly baked into our constitution ... an inviolable and immutable hologram that very few if any are capable of evading.<--- Kamala Harris having also fallen foul of said six vertex'd eight sided space - like the phantom zone.
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But ALWAYS Sadism first.
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AND Sadism Always being the utmost and highest priority by any means.
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And Moneys given or taken away as the principal form of control but there are many other coercive techniques to maintain and establish absolute control to the point where any useful possible delusions or allusions to actual or potential ideas of change are completely squashed for near indefinite periods - unless "Our" virtuous American model eventually falls into ruins and ashes.
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The fatal flaw being the separation of the "Knowing How" from the "Knowing WHY" from the "Ability to do" ... fake symbolic knowledge cannot be wielded at a distance of six thousand miles. A fatal flaw introduced by the Clinton Administration and the likes of Robert Reich the "Not" economist (unfortunately). Globalism WILL be the undoing of the Americans' ability to doooo anything at all. A country the near size of a continent with ONLY a service economy - and shop window for consumption - a nation of sub-epsilonic consumers and nothing else. Total liquidation of absolute capabilities now gone.
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^^^ I've written a lot about this - I don't need to overexplain to those that actually know.
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But the latent hologram of exploitation persists as the original architecture and blue-print of white boy slave owners trying to get a piece of the action of the world stage to be the "Equal of Kings" (as a small select group) - can NOT in fact be altered by "Happy clappy" amendments <--- THIS has been proven to be a mathematical impossibility. Take NOTE !
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[I am] - Originally from the UK and very "British" but the renewed passport that I have has me resigned to fact that indeed I AM a US citizen ONLY at this point and for sure the USA does not in any sense recognize dual citizenship. They can get very shouty at passport control if you haven't properly grasped that fact. Reading every page of the passport does give one a sense of pride and loyalty and importance to the "artifact" in one's hand.
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Pro - tip - they can't hold you there nor take your passport away from you (US customs and passport control ) if there appears to be a passport irregularity. Even if they take you into a private cell or room. [I once lost my passport when I was 15 in London and then found it again but there was a computer glitch that the embassies didn't update properly ... My old man who is originally from Germany but an American Citizen (drafted into the Korean war) given citizen ship - practically beat the shit out of me for losing my passport [in the UK where we were living at the time]. Back in the day during the cold war that was a huge no no and he used to work for ABMA and later NASA so he was trained to spot agents etc. trying to extract information - (he had top security clearance) at that time (1970s and 1980s) his best friend in the UK just co-incidentally was an RAF intelligence officer ... and coincidently just down the road in Ruislip there were these old ladies making micro-dots for the Russians smuggling out nuclear secrets - but were probably delivering falsely planted information.
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My Mom used to host (in the late 1970s to early 1980s ) Socrates Classes held by Dr Anne Ward (an archaeologist and classicist) but there seemed to be (on reflection) an alarming number of nuclear scientists or at least their wives... That had a very KEEN interest in the teachings of Socrates - and drinki-poos afterwards (I used to sit in on a few of these sessions and readings as a kid and teenager) - (My old man was a technical illustrator and head of future projects at NASA on the art / illustration side - later left NASA to become a set designer [2001 Space Odessey etc.] Hence moving to the UK in the first place where he ultimately died in 2007 <--- not a "Space" movie..].
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Hard not to imagine that he wasn't an asset also working in Eastern Block countries doing movies, Prague, Split and greater Yugoslavia.
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My old man (Harry) would have LOVED what you guys stand for and are doing (at)... RDI
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He'd totally be all over that (also having lived in the occupied sector under the Russians during WWII.). Too many stories. etc. etc.
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Meanwhile I have to pack my shit up and sell my ranch as I can't afford to live here anymore.
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Totally fucked over five times by the US medical systems. Now half crippled from incredible fuck ups and being thrown out of the US medical system (for seven years by BIG DATA until ACA) and in massive spiraling debt. YAY...
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My (cousin) Heinz was in a Russian prison camp for TEN years after the war.(WWII).. He received better care than I have received in the USA these past fifteen years. Psychopathic bald-faced liars trying to cover their respective asses - Orthopedic surgeons with a high degree of spatial ineptitude and not really giving a fuck-ti-tude.
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Heinz was a keen chess player (in spite of actually HAVING a worm eat part of his brain waaaaaaay before RFK Jr guy ever "thought" of that ) True story, and in the sense that they kept him alive as a medical curiosity in a Siberian hospital looked after by Catholic nuns. We know Russian medicine is wildly different kettle of fish from so called Western medicine. In the eighties and nineties he'd order a schnapps - but two "One for me and one for the worm " pointing to his temple.
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Heinz contracted polio out there but his German battalion used him as bait (originally)... (to lure Russian soldiers out of their fox holes) as he was a little cross eyed (strabismus) and not very good with a rifle.
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While in a Siberian prison camp and hospital he played chess to keep himself sane - but the chess set was made from scraps and formed tubes etc. of carboard hidden in a table leg nibbled into the right shapes and progressively nestable pieces - accordingly like a Russian doll.
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Cousin Heinz always had a good sense of humor/ cheerful attitude that probably kept him alive.
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I am named for a great Uncle that I never met (Eric) that got blown to smithereens on the Russian front (tank commander/captain) . It seems that many from my family on that side ended up in prisons various or blown to smithereens and at least having their homes levelled to the ground. I'm not sure the American's know what the European experience is in that regard nor the massive contribution of sheer mass of humans that the Russians "Contributed" to the successful conclusion of the Second World War... Anyone from the Wehrmacht on the Eastern front and finally towards Berlin will attest to sheer MASS and overwhelming number of humans the Russian commanders threw at German tanks, mobile artillery and conventional artillery. The Americans never recognize or mention that. "We bailed your asses out in WW II - blah blah blah " and if it wasn't for us "You'd all be speaking German right now". The sheer mass of human flesh against machine - you absolutely cannot imagine in massive number and ultimately overwhelmed. unimaginable sacrifice.
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I got a lot of that working at NASM - Air and Space (DC) as conservator at the Smithsonian - "Lend Lease conservator they'd call me " (early 90s).
[ Not many kids today would know what a so called "White Russian" is - or beyond that of an alcoholic drink or outside of that (recent) movie Anora.].
~ [They only let me write so much per blob ] - My old man used to have a driver that was Serbian while working in Yugoslavia ( A big guy almost like Andre the Giant) who used to say
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"I used to strangle Germans with my bare hands - but we are GOOD Friends NOW !!" - puts his arm over Harry's shoulder - a sideways hug... Neither for whom were shy of alcohol and consequently the driver's cab (was his name Versilli ... ) Versilli's cab got half monched and crushed by a Tram and harry had to go to the hospital as his inner ear bones on one side became dislodged. They fixed his inner ear bones (tint tiny tiny bones) excellent surgeons - NO charge.
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His Mont Blanc pen got schmooshed into three pieces via a seat belt - had he not been wearing a seat belt he'd certainly be dead - something subtle just told him to put his seatbelt on in the back seat of the taxi - it was cold and snowy and icy.
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Side note: Me and Michael Moore differed (differ) in opinion on Ukraine - I insisted that the Americans should have shown up for Ukraine in the very first instance to maintain that border... But OTOH Michael Moore was very much of the opinion after all our religious oil-wars that the US should absolutely NOT be engaged in any wars at all. But at that time Ukraine had significantly cleaner municipal water than for example Flint - in spite of the Chernobyl accident. For a while the US donates billions of dollars to Ukraine -to help maintain things like people's pensions etc. so people don't end up murdering each other for a loaf of bread. That got a bit sketchy in terms of the order of funding the EU holding off until they find out how much the Americans have contributed.
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War is big business and it's almost like the Americans want to wait till half of Ukraine is completely destroyed and THEN they see the opportunity for predatory lending and "Reconstruction" almost IMF playbook.
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Everything is a paradox now... How DO two nuclear powers face off against each other using conventional warfare when they BOTH have massive nuclear arsenals ? Which is what would have been the case if the USA had acted in the first instance.
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THEREFORE we can never face the Russians in an armed conflict ... so whoever makes the first "move" Wins. (In theory - that ship has sailed other than protracted stalemates and pyric "victories" ).
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Two nuclear mega /MAGA - powers fighting a "Conventional " war.
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^^^ How do you do that ?
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I was Cadet playing soldiers (from 1983 to 1988) with the idea we were being trained to walk and march TOWARDS the mushroom cloud not away from it (NATO) ... Like there could be field tactical small "Nukes" that would sustain actual "Combat" <--- totally insane [That was a big deal in the 1980s to early 90s as a practical "compromise" .].
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I'm in the bubble so what I see missing from the Ukraine coverage and Russian situations is what is happening to all the POWs ?
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Anyway... Later.
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Literally the whole "Shooting match" and now aerial bombing and bombing of all sorts is a spectator sport...
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Thanks to all those mini TV studio - square'd glass super computers that everyone carries around in their pockets.
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I did the math on Gaza and it doesn't add up unless you have massive fleets of white vans packed full of high explosives and everybody in a large buildings or in high rises are zip tied to radiator pipes etc. There are precedents for this approach but I can't spell that all out here (of course).
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The IDF don't have the aerial bombing capacity for the number of kills / dead claimed... but that doesn't mean that other methods haven't been or would not or could not be (or have been) employed.
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My larger and small screen digital portals are woefully bereft and wanting for a HIA (Human Intelligence Agency) as mentioned many times before. If such a HIA existed the CIA would be spending much time and effort to destroy and dismantle for our "Own" "Safety".
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Sometimes the actual mathematics literally do not add up - nor come anywhere close to what is claimed - although it IS possible that truly horrendous atrocities have been commited.
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This is NOT "Holocaust" denial type BS.
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Technical side note:
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[ Clearly I don't have to explain the history of bombing...
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Nor aerial bombing - like in WW- ONE flying cloth and stick aircraft - they'd start out throwing brick(s) at each other - literally - while carrying our aerial reconnaissance ...
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Then devolve into shooting at each other with revolvers - that would then become different configurations of machine guns and various timings...
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To eventually dropping what were comic French styled round bombs to munitions that had flutes guides and tail fins on the them - more than just a hand grenade - more than Dastardly and Mutley kind of thing - where they'd go on to build bigger cloth and stick aircraft and massive dirigibles / airships - both with much greater payload and capacity for carrying and dropping bombs.
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The Obvious discussions of international law for someone having to go through the motions at Harvard blah blah blah...
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What's the difference between the bombs that are made and kept within government facilities versus homemade "Munitions" that don't fall under the 2nd amendment remit and outlines...
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Projectiles versus bombs versus missiles ...
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Versus rocket clubs in the USA that are NOT allowed to have full guidance systems (as that would be considered a tactical "home brew " missile )- but back in the day a young Werner Von Braun with his Rocket club working with exotic systems and metals not specified in the Versailles treaty and scheme of reparations.
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Later - said (Von Braun) team captured by the allies (The Americans in particular) eventually putting Man on the Moon - but also private military contracting - The Polaris system actually being his most proud engineering achievement - launching nuclear and conventional missiles from under the water from a f*cking submarine... Just think about that for a minute...
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We're not even talking about all the slave labor that was involved to realize such systems and capabilities nor for that matter in the united-states if you walk around with a SWORD (which is my preferred weapon) - THAT is illegal or if you intend to use a Hoplite spear maybe to be the 'GOOD GUY" at a supermarket altercation involving a dangerous person with a machete or a gun / Blunderbuss. That nearly happened but instead they planted a facsimile of Lars Von Trier and his family at the other supermarket where I actually was. [There was a machete attack at the Supermarket over across the way - the one I would have normally have gone to... I reassured the cashier staff at Smith's that at least stray bullets won't make it this way as it's a machete attack. (thankfully) ].
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EVEN if you are someone that promoted STREET FIGHT secrets - to help all and sundry and including women defend themselves from dangerous situations and predators the GUN Lobby is gonna shut your YOUTUBE Channel down. In the USA it's the GUN or nuthi'n else.
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To render a plurality of avians to a metabolically challenged and (altered) state - including but not limited to "Death" via a singular lithic projectile aka "Stone".
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It's a fucking mess - and the fact that the allies were able to carpet bomb whole cities and create fire storms WAS the actual point + phosphorus dispensed at the correct functional relative humidities etc. OR the Fire-Bombing of Tokyo or the famous two Atomic bombings etc.
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None of this was thrashed out or framed or reframed at the Nuremburg Trials. [There are many reason for this well beyond the scope of an invisible post ].
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One would think that ALL double standards (he said wryly ) between domestic policy and foreign policy could be resolved regarding the matter of ALL types of bombing home and abroad (if one was just "Clever enough" but sadly not even the most pretzelated of logics can resolve a Molotov Cocktail lobbed for a "good" "defensive" "cause" versus 30,000 lbs of munitions dropped in one go on Vietnamese civilians and the use of agent orange and napalm.
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Or the many and multifarious "Nuclear" options.
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~ Not allowed to carry a sword but a Glock wedged between someone's butt crack at the Hair Salon sticking up and out of their waist band does not constitute "Endangerment". A defective home made "bomb" does. If we only went with the idea of "Intent" where would that really land us - Legally or otherwise ? ].
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WHO has the right to bomb - but there are better ways around such difficulties...
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"Throwing Bombs is Bad and 'Illegal' ... obviously , but...".
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We made extra time and had special permission...
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Braun tape recorder with the stiff and stubborn buttons grudgingly engaged as the wheels of the magnetic audio cassette tape dutifully ground on...
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Rain coat draped over the back of a chair...
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Increasing condensation on the window as clearly this was going to become a long session by the grace of the well bribed and wise Landlady and her husband - a not unprecedented Lock-in with the bouncers on a rotated more subtle detail... lurking at distance just in case Binky made a break for it.
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At least we got him well-oiled and talking. Comfortable you might say.
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We really DID want his side of the story and career of such an enigmatic individual - how such carnage managed to carry on - so consistently and unabated for decades and yet never having lost his job as THE MOST careless piano mover in the WORLD.
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" That's why I moved to New York ... originally as it was not that easy to kill people in Santa Fe New Mexico as there are not many private residences that are sufficiently multi-story "
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Binky continued,
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"... In New York it is astonishing how serendipity would find itself - Kismet you could say... a fourteenth floor a Fazioli Pianoforti hanging by mere rope and an outrigger and your mark pacing herself from the letter box...".
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"I used to drop mini sandbags so I could get the timing right, count the number of paces they would make, compensate for the pace of foot traffic and human congestion about the place - even direction and wind speed... was there someone busking there with a noisy saxophone or just some beggar with legs missing and a carboard sign and the road being dug up by workmen thirty yards away to the next intersection ... IT alllll makes a difference".
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"I got so scientific about all this that I made from cardboard - a circular slide rule that would take into account wind speed and direction, which floor we were on, the type of piano we were delivering ...
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of c'urse we would NEVER use a Böooooooosendorfer but those stupid bestial suggary sounding hoars a FAZZZZZZIOLLLI are prefect for the job, plus long case - not so heavy as others... almost made for it... Born to be destroyed - never really played nor loved ... ".
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Some were commissions and others were just fairly arbitrary, like there's an annoying woman wearing a Burberry scarf but she has an au-pair that is pushing a pram, but the woman has a five year old boy that she yanks upward by his wrist as he flinches to not get the hot end of a dissipating flurry <<(italic) of cigarette ash or an accidental momentary cigarette burn on his head or ear or side of his face... as the mother issues MORE instruction to the rest of the "mini" entourage over the stupid reckless din and hustle and bustle and all that crap... of near deafening proportions ... but I can still HEAR and can SEE...".
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"In the moment it becomes crystal clear in the mind's eye - much like back in the old country how my great uncle showed me how to shoot the front and then the back end of a clay pigeon from a trap using the follow through full swing and motion of the body from the hips so that you wouldn't be spitting lead shot out onto the plate later that week of a well hung pheasant or fat partridge... with chervil themed cherry sauce - old school "...
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"Intuitive collateral damage and special grand piano cookie cutter shape dynamically in space so the mother really gets completely crushed by the heel of the frame and case and the baby only has sprung wire scars and splintered dents in her head from spleneticly emanated piano keys and whip like torn piano wires- from such an angry yet useless fancy yet cognitively challenged piano and the boy only needs to have his arm amputated below the elbow... that's where the real art comes in...".
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"You can perform ALL these calculations and compensations but ultimately it's the ability to see the whole situation and scene in full three dimensions in slow motion in the mind's eye and how the suspended case rotates in space almost of its own accord and the lightest fleeting touches to guide it into it's final position and purpose... an ungloved hand - the FEEL of the luster and lacquer of the carcass slipping away under one's finger tips - THIS is a special feeling that cannot be described like the yearning of angels in a special moment of silent grace between this transitory moment frozen in time and now an inevitable irreversible outcome that not even the Gods can intervene to prevent... ".
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One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.....
'I'm gonnna get that WABBIT if it's the last thing I Dwoooo ".
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