XD
Kamala is Hillary 2.0
After which time, here's hoping they don't dare to call themselves The Resistance again.
I was hoping this was from The Onion.
https://t.me/PalestineResist/60176
🚨 The Iranian attack destroyed a number of F-35 warplanes in "Nevatim" air base (Video). Missiles also destroyed F-15 warplanes in other bases like "Hatzerim."
These planes, which were used to bomb the Gaza Strip and Lebanon with over 85,000 tons of explosives in the last year, have been rendered out of service by the IRGC.
While it would be naive to think this will stop the IOF, here's hoping this significantly weakens their capabilities.
Sirens ringing clear across occupied Palestine:
Long article, some good data, then they end it with this gem:
“Everybody makes stuff in China,” said Joerg Wuttke, former president of the European Chamber of Commerce in China and now a partner at Washington consulting firm DGA Group. “But nobody makes money.”
This is just perfect...his expression there is priceless.
After BRICS, Japan is now dumping U.S. bonds and mitigating the losses it incurred from adverse interest rate bets. The latest data shows Japan has offloaded $63 billion worth of U.S. and European sovereign bonds by March 2024. The U.S. bonds sale represents nearly one-sixth of the Central Bank of Japan’s portfolio.
Japan is following in the footsteps of the BRICS alliance, which has been dumping U.S. Treasury bonds for more than a year. Offloading the bonds was the only way for Japan to reduce their losses on the interest rate cut bets.
Freakin emphasis freakin added.
What has led to “the relative decline in U.S. standing,” as the report asks? The opening chapter explains America’s problem starkly: “Its competitive position is threatened both from within (in terms of slowing productivity growth, an aging population, a polarized political system, and an increasingly corrupted information environment) and outside (in terms of a rising direct challenge from China and declining deference to U.S. power from dozens of developing nations).”
This decline is “accelerating,” warns the study. ...
What causes national decline? The Rand authors cite triggers that are all too familiar in 2024. “Addiction to luxury and decadence,” “failure to keep pace with … technological demands,” “ossified” bureaucracy, “loss of civic virtue,” “military overstretch,” “self-interested and warring elites,” “unsustainable environmental practices.” Does that sound like any country you know?
The challenge is “anticipatory national renewal,” argue the authors — in other words, tackling the problems before they tackle us. Their survey of historical and sociological literature identifies essential tools for renewal, such as recognizing the problem; adopting a problem-solving attitude rather than an ideological one; having good governance structures; and, perhaps most elusive, maintaining “elite commitment to the common good.”
No chance in hell on that last one, so here's hoping the rest of their analysis is right.
Accelerationist candidate let's go!