Politics

[shooter]

Mutually assured self destruction. I thought it was supposed to describe Nuclear Weapons, but hey...

"Nobody bashes better".

The United States headline or Afghan?

 

[Nature Boy]

Mutually assured self destruction. I thought it was supposed to describe Nuclear Weapons, but hey...

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"Nobody bashes better".

The United States headline or Afghan?


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Great post. If only I had a clue to its point. MAGA

 

[BRICKBURN]

So much for comic relief

There is plenty Phil.

 

[shooter]

I'll help fill in some blanks

Domestic Terrorism:

There has been a notable uptick in politically linked plots and threats as the midterm elections approach and the campaign rhetoric intensifies.

Last week, terrorism investigators with the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced an indictment against a Utah man who had mailed ricin threats to President Donald Trump, Secretary of Defense James Mattis and three other high-ranking government officials. They also secured a guilty plea from a Boston man who had sent letters containing a suspicious white powder to Donald Trump Jr., his estranged wife Vanessa Trump, and three other public figures.

Law enforcement officers search a house in Logan, Utah, on Oct. 3 where William Clyde Allen III, a man suspected of mailing ricin to the Pentagon and President Donald Trump, was taken into custody. (Eli Lucero/Associated Press)


And the week before, the FBI charged a New York man over an alleged plot to detonate a 91 kilogram bomb on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 6 — election day — with the intent of killing himself and many others. The goal, police say, was to draw attention to the suspect's belief in "sortition," an ideology that calls for the use of random selection to fill political positions.



So far in 2018, the FBI has dealt with eight different bomb-making cases and plots that it classifies as domestic terrorism. Some involved fringe political groups, like a Florida Neo-Nazi movement that was plotting to blow up government infrastructure.



Others were driven by revenge, like a Brooklyn man's attempts to blow up several police officers who had arrested him back in 2014. It resulted in the inadvertent killing of a 73-year-old landlord in Queens when the device was delivered to the wrong address.



One plot had financial motives — a bid by a convicted Florida sex offender to build 10 bombs and set them off at Target stores so he could buy the company's stock on the cheap.

U.S. Defense Department personnel, wearing protective suits, screen mail as it arrives at a government facility near the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 2. Packages delivered to the Pentagon that week were suspected to contain the deadly poison ricin. Produced by processing castor beans, ricin is lethal in minute doses if swallowed, inhaled or injected, and it is 6,000 times more potent than cyanide, with no known antidote. (Thomas Watkins/AFP/Getty Images)
Another, involving U.S. Army soldier who set off an improvised chemical weapon in a Louisiana forest and exposed two investigators to chlorine gas, has never really been explained.



Over the past six months, the FBI has also handled three cases where U.S. citizens have made their own ricin — a deadly poison derived from castor beans.



One involved an Oklahoma man's Craigslist murder-for-hire plot directed at a taxi driver in Tel Aviv, Israel.



In the second, a 63-year-old South Carolina woman was keeping a syringe full of the chemical agent in a storage unit along with a bunch of firearms.

The last involved a 21-year-old man from Little Rock, Ark., who accidentally poisoned himself while making ricin in his blender. He told investigators that he got the idea from watching Breaking Bad, and ordered the castor beans on Amazon.com.

 

[Nature Boy]

I'll help fill in some blanks

Domestic Terrorism:

There has been a notable uptick in politically linked plots and threats as the midterm elections approach and the campaign rhetoric intensifies.

Last week, terrorism investigators with the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced an indictment against a Utah man who had mailed ricin threats to President Donald Trump, Secretary of Defense James Mattis and three other high-ranking government officials. They also secured a guilty plea from a Boston man who had sent letters containing a suspicious white powder to Donald Trump Jr., his estranged wife Vanessa Trump, and three other public figures.

Law enforcement officers search a house in Logan, Utah, on Oct. 3 where William Clyde Allen III, a man suspected of mailing ricin to the Pentagon and President Donald Trump, was taken into custody. (Eli Lucero/Associated Press)


And the week before, the FBI charged a New York man over an alleged plot to detonate a 91 kilogram bomb on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 6 — election day — with the intent of killing himself and many others. The goal, police say, was to draw attention to the suspect's belief in "sortition," an ideology that calls for the use of random selection to fill political positions.



So far in 2018, the FBI has dealt with eight different bomb-making cases and plots that it classifies as domestic terrorism. Some involved fringe political groups, like a Florida Neo-Nazi movement that was plotting to blow up government infrastructure.



Others were driven by revenge, like a Brooklyn man's attempts to blow up several police officers who had arrested him back in 2014. It resulted in the inadvertent killing of a 73-year-old landlord in Queens when the device was delivered to the wrong address.



One plot had financial motives — a bid by a convicted Florida sex offender to build 10 bombs and set them off at Target stores so he could buy the company's stock on the cheap.

U.S. Defense Department personnel, wearing protective suits, screen mail as it arrives at a government facility near the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 2. Packages delivered to the Pentagon that week were suspected to contain the deadly poison ricin. Produced by processing castor beans, ricin is lethal in minute doses if swallowed, inhaled or injected, and it is 6,000 times more potent than cyanide, with no known antidote. (Thomas Watkins/AFP/Getty Images)
Another, involving U.S. Army soldier who set off an improvised chemical weapon in a Louisiana forest and exposed two investigators to chlorine gas, has never really been explained.



Over the past six months, the FBI has also handled three cases where U.S. citizens have made their own ricin — a deadly poison derived from castor beans.



One involved an Oklahoma man's Craigslist murder-for-hire plot directed at a taxi driver in Tel Aviv, Israel.



In the second, a 63-year-old South Carolina woman was keeping a syringe full of the chemical agent in a storage unit along with a bunch of firearms.

The last involved a 21-year-old man from Little Rock, Ark., who accidentally poisoned himself while making ricin in his blender. He told investigators that he got the idea from watching Breaking Bad, and ordered the castor beans on Amazon.com.

much ado about nothing. Left is insane, period. You want a 2nd amendment, vote right.

 

[Hogpatrol]

For all the U.S.'s faults, there's still a line (and now a caravan) of people wanting to get in.

Having said that, we should let the caravan keep right on marching north and right over another border.

 

[BRICKBURN]

Hell thats already happening. If they keep going they can go visit Poutine. (Yes I know how I spelled it)

 

[shooter]

Bowers said: "[A Jewish refugee organisation, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society] likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. I can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I'm going in."

 

[Wheels]

Humorous the things Macron was saying about Nationalism and Patriotism a month ago, while praising Philippe Petain. Is saying "we must accept climate change tax on fuel" the modern day equivalent of "let them eat cake."

Amazing what happens when the marginal tax rate goes up $.25/gallon and the president seems as clued in to the feelings and needs of the general public as Marie Antoinette. It could get even more exciting if someone decides to play the role of Robespierre.

 

[sestoppelman]

Lest we forget what the good woman of Great Britain Maggie Thatcher once said.."the only problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money". You can only steal so much money from the so called rich or elites before it runs dry. There aren't enough rich people to finance all this FREE stuff for folks. My dad always said to us kids, "nothing is FREE, someone had to pay for it".

 

[sgt_zim]

Lest we forget what the good woman of Great Britain Maggie Thatcher once said.."the only problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money". You can only steal so much money from the so called rich or elites before it runs dry. There aren't enough rich people to finance all this FREE stuff for folks. My dad always said to us kids, "nothing is FREE, someone had to pay for it".

TANSTAAFL.

If you do the math on it, taking every penny of income AND confiscating/auctioning off the assets of the top 1% in the US would run the federal government for about 9 months. But that reminds of a story about a goose and some eggs and a greedy, stupid, impatient farmer.

 

[tarbe]

The sad takeaway from all of this is...people don't retain knowledge from one generation to another.

Hard lessons must be learned over and over again.

Bringing home the truth of the statement, those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Here we go again...

 

[Hogpatrol]

Every world power has gone down the shitter. At present, from this chair, we are living in a quasi-police state bordering on anarchy. The constitution is being ignored and cities and states are making up their own rules in violation of it (sanctuary cities, legal pot, safe sites for drug users, legal rights for illegals, restrictions on the 2nd amendment, ad nauseum). I figure the U.S. has another 25 to 50 years at best before total chaos. Glad I'm not starting out today.

 

[sgt_zim]

Every world power has gone down the shitter. At present, from this chair, we are living in a quasi-police state bordering on anarchy. The constitution is being ignored and cities and states are making up their own rules in violation of it (sanctuary cities, legal pot, safe sites for drug users, legal rights for illegals, restrictions on the 2nd amendment, ad nauseum). I figure the U.S. has another 25 to 50 years at best before total chaos. Glad I'm not starting out today.

I think we'll last about as long as the dollar does. And I think the dollar won't last another 25 years. All of those QE dollars the federal reserve has been cranking out have been going overseas. Once those dollars start getting repatriated, we're going to see a hyperinflation.

There isn't a fiat currency in world history which didn't ultimately devalue down to zero.

 

[wesheltonj]

There isn't a fiat currency in world history which didn't ultimately devalue down to zero.

That will not happen as long as the Dollar remains a "Reserve Currency'.

 

[Hogpatrol]

I think we'll last about as long as the dollar does. And I think the dollar won't last another 25 years. All of those QE dollars the federal reserve has been cranking out have been going overseas. Once those dollars start getting repatriated, we're going to see a hyperinflation.

There isn't a fiat currency in world history which didn't ultimately devalue down to zero.

I agree. Once our currency becomes funny money, it'll be all over but the crying. I remember Uncle Bob and Zim's inflation rate of 89.7 sextillion PERCENT. I hope we don't get that bad but one never knows.

 

[WAB]

This has nothing to do with African hunting, but I am asking because I respect the knowledge of so many of the contributors here and honestly don't understand this issue. Can anyone explain by what authority Canada has arrested and the US is extraditing the Huawei CFO? The alleged crime is that Huawei is doing business in Iran. Huawei is a Chinese company and I understand that the CFO is a Chinese national living in China. I get that we are concerned about the sensitive nature of the technology and infrastructure that they provide, but do the US and Canada really have this authority?

 

[Hogpatrol]

That will not happen as long as the Dollar remains a "Reserve Currency'.

A trigger, a panic and a crash, all it takes. What was the "reserve" currency before the U.S. dollar and where is it now?

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again.

Fairy tale or truth?

 

[Wheels]

The sad takeaway from all of this is...people don't retain knowledge from one generation to another.

Hard lessons must be learned over and over again.

Bringing home the truth of the statement, those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Here we go again...

1789 revisited.

Les Mis in yellow vests.

 

[tarbe]

A trigger, a panic and a crash, all it takes. What was the "reserve" currency before the U.S. dollar and where is it now?

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again.

Fairy tale or truth?

Well, it was the pound sterling. And there were numerous others before that.

The petro-dollar will fall...just don't know when. But history says it will fall.