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Think he turned over NSA programs to pay the rent and keep the heat on? It really is cold there!
Snowpocalypse Russia: 'Snow tsunami' swallows streets, cars, buildings (PHOTOS)by RT - January 18, 2013
Norilsk
On Friday, Moscow was on a verge of traffic collapse as more than 10 inches of snow fell on the city, which is more than half of January’s average.
Thousands of passengers were stranded overnight in the capital’s major airports, as several dozen flights were delayed...
Moscow’s Yandex app showed traffic at level 10, the highest possible, as strong winds created blizzard conditions and built imposing snow drifts...
Meanwhile, icicles up to three feet in length have formed off the ledges of buildings, breaking at random and causing a lethal hazard for pedestrians below. ..
Norilsk
http://rt.com/news/winter-snow-russia-weather-275/
Favorite picture of this collection:
Norilsk
There were some awesome ones posted last year. I have friends who were quite concerned about their famiiies in Moscow. Russia will have plenty of snow, making it a logical venue for the winter games.
But nothing has changed, really about Russians and survelliance. IIRC, they bugged the American embassy and they were caught radiating them with microwave energy (just for fun?) in the past.
Although that part of the news story always seemed rather far fetched. But, Putin is KGB, for crying out loud. This is not out of character for them.
Maybe they think someone will do some mischief there, I hope not. It would be a very bad thing.
BTW, is it getting cold there? It's raining, cold and windy here tonight. Winter is coming on. Guess it's the same over there.
Thanks for kicking this one. I'm sad and upset, too. But now I'm crying, letting it out.
I am, in my own way, ruthlessly logical and given to analyzing relative strengths and history. And I feel wanting, and many other things these last few days as this has sunk in.
No wonder Klayman picked November 17th as the day of chaos in D.C. That's when the last SS checks will sent out with the default. And they will keep up the pain, hoping for several things.
One, Obama will compromise to save lives. Two, that if he does or does not, they will win, and he will be blamed. Three, that they will make such a killing off the disruption of the social fabric that the 2014 elections will be over before they begin, with mass disruption of people put out of their residences as the states will not be able to take care of them. Four, martial law.
Okay, I must stop because we need to be positive. But I'd rather talk about it here or in messages than in GD.
This is very serious to so many people I know on fixed incomes, living month to month. Some have posted their fears on a thread that is in the Greatest list right now.
Sorry again, should I edit or delete?
Nope, not even close to what's happening, although I hope I'm wrong:
Any loss that can be attributed to the 'battle' in the 'shutdown' will forgotten if they win the 'war' with the debt ceiling. They and their supporters have planned for this for a long time, salivated over it, love it.
This was their intention all along, and the ACA and shutdown is just a skirmish on the road. And they hold all the cards.
Such notions as the invocation of the 14th, the minting of a trillion dollar coin and charging them with treason are mental masturbation. The world's belief in the full faith and credit clause of the US Treasury will not be restored by such means.
Great fortunes were made in the Great Depression. Much more will be made with this one and means will be just as brutal, if not more so.
This is what banana republicans wanted for years. I'd say we are pretty well screwed. But as I said above, I hope I am wrong, but that is my opinion. Here is their vision:
What does this remind you of?
Without commentary:
You can overthrow government and auction everything off to the Koch brothers by several ways.
First, by denying others a voice in voting by oppressive regulations and misinformation.
Second, by impoverishing people through defunding government's ability to stand between predatory capitalists and their prey.
Third. by non-stop propaganda against that government to make people give in to the fascism they promote by default, allowing the church and business interests to run wild in the public and private lives of people.
Fourth, is just shooting people or intimidation, doing that banana republican routine so obvious in the videos. These displays of armed force across the nation are designed to shut people up and let these who presume to act as our 'betters' or as they call themselves, 'patriots' who would run our lives into the ground.
I'm sick about this.
Before you do, please be sure to find ways to refute all their ideas as detailed here:
Tea Party radicalism is misunderstood: Meet the “Newest Right”Our sense of the force currently paralyzing the government is full of misconceptions -- including what to call it
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/06/tea_party_radicalism_is_misunderstood_meet_the_newest_right/
This must be read thoroughly and digested - it is the truth that many do not want to believe.
I know the demographic in the piece and they are pleased with federal shutdown and the debt chaos created by default. It is in their financial interest, literally.
Have we not heard what they have been saying for years, to buy land, guns and ammo, food, make connections with groups and for many of them, to get as super healthy and aggressive in all ways to fight off others?
They have invested their time, energy, money and social capital into this plan. The philosophy and religion they have adopted give them a sense of being right no matter who gets hurt.
I posted this link on a thread that shows another reason they hate Obamacare. It will lift the cap off FICA taxes, so that those making above $250K will have to pay many thousands a year in taxes. This is what Sanders and others wanted to preserve SS. Standing firm on the ACA is part of Obama keeping his promises.
But to that demographic in the article, SS is a system takes care of people that they regard as trash and they want their money for their own families. Saying they are ignorant in all ways is not correct.
They are not climate change deniers in the sense many think, at least not the better informed. Because they do believe in it, just not the solutions offered, and they want to survive.
The survivalists, preppers, cult of religion groups have prepared for what they see as inevitable ecological changes and are acting as individuals to survive, forming associations to make it in a post apocalyptic future they are busy ushering in themselves, actually. If many others die, all the more left for them.
This is part of the cult of Beck, Jones and so many others that has metastasized in our country. And these are their goals, to create Koch type fiefdoms as described in the Salon article.
So arm yourself with all the facts you can muster. Just sayin'
EDIT:
There is an ongoing discussion of the Salon story at DU. To join the thread, go here:
http://sync.democraticunderground.com/10023793915
Thanks to Dark n Stormy Knight for pointing it out and Malaise for posting the OP of it.
Their constituents do not consider it to be *their* debts. They're representing these people:
Tea Party radicalism is misunderstood: Meet the “Newest Right”Our sense of the force currently paralyzing the government is full of misconceptions -- including what to call it
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/06/tea_party_radicalism_is_misunderstood_meet_the_newest_right/
It's well worth the read and strong warning to all of us.
I hear you, RebelOne. So many in the same boat, tens of millions. The stress would kill many quick.
It's what they want. They want us gone.
I found this gleeful comment by a libertarian republican a few days ago, and will only quote snippets, as I can't link this here. It's just how warped they are:
Like the bankruptcy of Detroit, this is a very good thing! The fading away of the old and the beginning of the new - there is no doubt of that!
Obviously the years of suffering due to libertarian policy and capitalism weren't important...
Shut the government down for good! Who needs them????
Obviously, a landed, wealthy white male doesn't, as us lesser mortals need, the government to uphold our rights to protect us from religious zealots and regulate the hounds of unbridled predators like Romney...
...the "real billionaires and trillionaires" of the world are coming together now - bypassing the traditional banking system, and starting their own thing!
And those billionaires and trillionaires have always been so generous to people and the planet, I'm sure nothing can do wrong with letting them have complete control over our lives...
...equities and the production of the "production" systems.
The 'producer' class that deserve anything they want.The rest of us are just 'parasites' existing at their leisure...
...the "old" system will be saddled with the debt, and fade away.
Those debts in the old system are pension liabilities. And those who depend on them are just supposd to fade away...
The new system will be able to expand unhindered.
The one run by plutocrats and oligarches. Don't t hinder them in their work to expand their wealth over our dead bodies...
That is what one sees here! The fading away of the old and the beginning of the new! It's a very exciting and fulfilling thing!
Said the raptor as he devoured his prey alive, how exciting and tasty for him...
Yes, I am exceedingly worried. The fruits of my work that were set aside for me, my friends and family mean everything to me.
RebelOne.
VIDEO and large picture (dial-up warning):
Thanks for posting. Very well done questioning there. Hope it gets through to lots of folks.
Just got off the phone with best friends in Texas about this. They are hispanic and they think that Cruz and the rest of the gang are complete idiots.
They said they'd been to a rally of people demonstrating against the shutdown. Some of the people there were wearing t-shirts which had on the front side 'I AM ONE VOTE.'
On the back was a picture of a pinata with the words (Sorry, forget the exact ones) that they would take the GOP down the same way!
I've seen kids breaking open the pinata and it's not always a pretty affair. In fact, it can get downright brutal.
Cruz was right to fear hispanic candidates running in Texas. The next one to watch out for will be Jorge Bush. He's being groomed right now after being appointed to a state office.
Keep on 'em, Texas. and elect Wendy Davis as Governor!
Perfect example of the dysfunctional family where all blame is placed on the child acting out:
The child is simply mirroring what the parents truly are, while they behave better in society. They continue the charade of innocence to distance themselves, hiding their true intentions to keep their positions, yet the children tell the tale.
At times there are other familial or community influences leading a child to act in an outrageous or anti-social manner; I am not speaking of those.
But it was inevitable that the child of the GOP would be named a bastard or an outlier by then, when it is their own bad seed. Their raison d'être is fouled by their operating principles.
This is the party that allowed, no, actively created the Great Depression of the last century and Great Recession of this one to line the pockets of the rich.
The party that fought at every step the New Deal, as people died in huge numbers, to enrich the rich who took their property for nothing as the banking system and stock market went into free fall yet they benefited.
This is the same party among whose members attempted the business coup and were pals of the true fascists and totalitarians in Europe (Prescott, the Koches) and made such great profits that GOP Eisenhower not only upped their income taxes, but placed them to a punitive level, solely to take back some of their profits from WW2 to continue to rebuild American civil society. He saw what their friends did, even though he was GOP. We would have done better with another Democrat, still.
Then the GOP used McCarthy and Nixon to run out Democrats by lying about them, chased what they called 'enemies of the state' who were really enemies of unbridled capitalism and a continuation of what led to the Great Depression.
They then profited off the MIC, created by the fear in the hearts of those with real concerns over a repeat of WW2. It killed 2.5% of the world's population, with thousands dying every single day that it continued. But for them it became an engine of unheard of wealth, used to increase their own power.
They never stopped fighting the New Deal, they used their own generation of demagogues to set up the John Birch Society, the Libertarian Party, the Cato Institute and their other lapdog intelligentsia.
They are the spiritual heir of aristocrats and patricians, who fought the creation of this nation and kept on fighting the promise of the Constitution that dared to speak of all human beings as equal, and that they have never accepted, all the way through the creation of the Confederacy.
The nominal glory they once had from creating the Party of Lincoln, they squandered over the years. Any belief in God and His Justice, they have perverted.
They are the regressives that have destroyed millions of lives and intend to destroy more, for the same reason as always, to enrich themselves.
And as far as the false meme that voting makes no difference, the criminals that many of the Tea Party were proven to be in early 2010, with child molesters, wife beaters, bullies, embezzlers, drunks and such, they were elected by votes, so it does make a difference.
Anyone that would vote for them in some benighted area where they have any real choice, isn't worth spit.
Every one of their principles as outlined in this image was designed to bring down all of our democratic institutions and give them all the wealth of the country including the Constitution itself. These are not talking points, difference in styles of government or such. They are the road to ruination:
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