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by jessaustin 4y ago
Only a small number of nations are actually sanctioning Russian oil, so there's no need to "bypass" anything.
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"Someone" might know something, but you in particular have no idea what you're talking about. You think you know better than Indonesians what their laws should be, but you don't.
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Why believe the shoe seller? Perhaps half of the shoes appear usable and are sold as such, but most of those quickly disintegrate when worn. After all there are plenty of people in Singapore who will happily buy used and usable shoes. Any
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by jessaustin 4y ago
As Carl Schmitt wrote in 1922, "Sovereign is he who decides on the exception." Schmitt is somewhat out of favor, but his protege Leo Strauss basically created the times we now suffer.
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JPMorgan should reveal more about CEO Dimon's role in Epstein accounts – USVI(reuters.com)
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by jessaustin 4y ago
HN favorite Mark Ames has another theory about Stoltenberg fils that wouldn't contradict TFA: perhaps even his teenage war protest was of the "observe then snitch" variety? https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled
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by jessaustin 4y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26633792
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by jessaustin 4y ago
The first thing I found is Higgins himself admitting they are funded by NED: https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/828554441485869056 Is he also funded by MI6? Probably, but I didn't find "proof"
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Maybe we should say, "no other nation would be that stupid".
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We're still pouring public resources into armaments manufacturers, some of whose products have reached or theoretically will reach the battle in Ukraine, so the redefinition project was a success!
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Outrage is absolutely constructive. I hope you're right. Please join us at the anti-war rally at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday at 12:30. [0] If you can't make it to Washington, there are affiliated rallies happening in various
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by jessaustin 4y ago
Please be more specific in your criticism of Kansas City. Many of its residents will be enlightened by the wisdom you can confer.
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I have a wealthy friend who has made most of his money in real estate. His rule is that he makes all the money he is going to make on the day of purchase. That is, he only purchases properties being sold for less than they will be worth in
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Put another way, they pretended to fund pensions by purchasing securities that were cheaper than actually funding pensions.
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One doubts anyone can muster the energy even to pretend to surprise in this case. It's worth keeping details like this in mind, however, when discussing society-destroying disasters like stupid wars in other hemispheres or insurance-
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Similarly, we'll learn more about this operation over the next years, unless of course we get the species-ending nuclear holocaust that some appear to desire.
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Why would one assume that the administration made any decisions at all about this? Besides, both the balloon funtime and the destruction of valuable energy infrastructure are stupid and dangerous. Doing one stupid dangerous thing doesn&#x27
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Don't sell him short! At this rate he'll get enough traffic from crackpot-realist dead-enders that NED will make him into a new Bellingcat.
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In a civilized nation, that certainly would be the case. You're probably right that parent meant USA instead.
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Yes, that is another factor, and shouldn't be underestimated. Government-issued currency exists the moment the government decides it will be accepted for payment of taxes.
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The "magic" is the military that threatens every inch of the globe, the CIA (and other more clandestine organizations) that punish leaders who value the material interests of their people over those of American firms (Allende, Mos
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by jessaustin 4y ago
Is this necessarily true? Aren't puts and calls (etc.) symmetrical?
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by jessaustin 4y ago
This isn't why people use (and hold) dollars. These figures can go up and down without affecting anything real. Paying this much attention to trivial minutia doesn't serve the interests of normal people. When non-Americans stop ho
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by jessaustin 4y ago
Drivers should keep in mind that they control their own mirrors. In most night driving situations, one doesn't need to see behind anyway. Rather than enduring a tall truck shining its super lights into one's eye via mirrors, just
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by jessaustin 4y ago
IANAL, but do you think the treatment of Steven Donziger has been kind of like this? Granted, it has been handled as "contempt", but he has been confined to house arrest (and he lives in an NYC apartment) without being convicted o
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by jessaustin 4y ago
It isn't regulated in ways that matter. We're down to five Class I American freight railroads. (So we're not quite to Klobuchar's monopoly board... just wait!) Their networks overlap even less than one might think, s
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by jessaustin 4y ago
It isn't always "Chernobyl in Ohio", as locals are calling it. Although, that is becoming more common. If only the rail industry were regulated... maybe we need to dig up Teddy Roosevelt?
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Again, there doesn't need to be a conspiracy behind it (as Kanye believes) it's just what the market (and "the algorithm") selects for. As C. Wright Mills wrote in The Power Elite , "To accept either view -- of
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Sanitation is a task performed by plumbers and garbage collectors, not by physicians.
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by jessaustin 4y ago
Normally I wouldn't respond in a thread I had already declared OT, but you've asked a fairly direct question. Smith is a windbag who riles up viewers about controversial trivia. He is less obnoxious than most such, since his topic

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