Everything is Coming up Roses President Xi Jinping gifted seeds of imperial roses from the Zhongnanhai Gardens to our POTUS as a symbolic gesture at the end of the two day plummet/summit in Beijing. Because I have a great sense of humor: "Blight or listening devices?" I mean, the Chinese can be devious. Actually, a quick check at the Department of Agriculture show seeds as an item which require strict import guidelines. Most seeds require a PPQ 587 import permit. Naturally, this has to be obtained prior to bringing these things onto U.S. soil. Other restrictions apply. So if you visit China and pack seeds in your luggage - you can expect the same fate as the researcher who tried to surreptitiously bring in frog embryos. (To be equitable, when I went to China, customs agents were busy squeezing out our toothpaste tubes and checking our lotion as they rifled through our undergarments. You can never be too careful...) ...
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Puff Adder We unlatched the cage. And after many years of confinement the puff adder is loose. Currently, larger cages are being built to guard against the puff adder entering nearby gardens. Because if there is one thing which is true, it is that the IRGC has the instincts of a puff adder. And there is certainly no acquaintance with morality. It exists - because it can. I doubt the puff adder is endowed with compassion. But it has a nasty bite. The UAE has quietly begun the work of soft fortifications of sensitive sites. Problematic, is that what a drone is denied a target, a larger missile can "puff" in an instant. The IRGC has the one weapon which is priceless that actually costs nothing. Time. Wars are generally best mounted within compressed time frames. Hence, American military prowess lies within the realm of "Shock and Awe". As to whether our SecWar should try to explain a 1.5 billion budget by reducin...
Wajahat Ali: Another Mediocre Male Contributor to American Society In the category of "It takes one to know one" we have Wajahat Ali. I guess he ran out of adjectives to use: "..weak, pathetic, fragile, brittle, porcelain tea cups." His description of Trump's men? It is more likely they drink coffee, because that is the non-alcoholic beverage of choice for American men. Not British tea with milk and sugar. And a few of those "fragile" men are staring down President Xi Jinping from across a narrow table . The lion Ali, is merely seated at a microphone exposing his personal biases; and figuratively speaking, mooning Caucasian men. So absolutely juvenile. https://www.dailymail.com/media/article-15815829/Joy-Reid-mediocre-white-men-Trump-Hegseth.html And then - there is the book which will never make it to my personal library. How could I possibly place this on a shelf? I do not have a Dewey deci...
The Knesset Considers a Controversial Bill از تصاحب زمین تا سرقت میراث: اسرائیل استعمار کامل فرهنگی در کرانه باختری را کلید زد. کنست اسرائیل یک لایحهای جنجالی را تصویب کرده است که کنترل به دولت غاصب این رژیم اجازه میدهد بر سایتهای باستانشناسی کرانه باختری کاملا مسلط شود و تمام امور اجرایی و تصمیم گیری مرتبط به سرنوشت این اماکن را به وزارتخانههای دفاع و میراث فرهنگی اسرائیل منتقل میکند. بنابراین، طبق این قانون فلسطینیهای کرانه باختری بازهم یک مرحله به بردگی کامل نزدیک شده و حقوق خود را نسبت به بناهای تاریخیشان از دست خواهند داد. نکات کلیدی این مصوبه عبارت است از : اختیار جدید، کنترل کامل. «سازمان میراث یهودیه و سامره» پیشنهادی، حقوق انحصاری برای حفاری، توسعه گردشگری و حتی مصادره زمینهای خصوصی برای حفظ آثار خواهد داشت. این بدان معناست که مقامات اسرائیلی میتوانند نه تنها سایتهای میراث فرهنگی در کرانه باختری بلکه زمینهای خصوصی که برای کارهای باستانشناسی لازم تشخیص داده شوند را نیز تصاحب کنند. فقط کرانه باختری نیست. این قانون شامل مناطق B و C میشود، اما پیشنویس شامل عبا...
"TREASON" If you took the advice of a snake charmer against the advice of your Vice President, the Director of the C.I.A. (and God knows how many other alphabet agencies), and your Secretary of State, you need to make confession to "We the People". Your arrogance has humbled America. And we are becoming economically poorer for the experience. Oh - not you. Not you and the swinging dicks of Wall Street. Not you - nor your best buddies who profit from chaos. I speak of the middle and lower class Americans who are about to see their wallets hammered into the dust. https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15810937/trump-treason-note-iran-leak-hunt.html If you ignored the noble career, rank and viewpoint of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General "Razin" Caine, you have proven yourself an idiot regarding the consequences of military adventurism. Iraq and Afghanistan should have taught us that lesson. You have ignored basic cartography, history, I...