Texas Republican Governor Jim Abbott is learning from NYS Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul about AI data centers.

Good for him.

#12

China's potential vulnerability as a superpower is similar to India's problem.

Unhappy elements within a large population pool.

India's caste system and poverty is a perennial problem and some analysts estimate that up to 25% of their territory is under Naxalite control or influence.

This is why both countries are "purifying" their nations, Sinification in China and Hinduization in India.

Poverty, corruption, and inequity are not long term formulae for success.

Look at all the corruption investigations underway in China.

China has suffered little casualtues since 2000, amassed weaponry, experience, and a fortune from all the stupid and reckless Western wars, like the Iranian quagmire we are in today thanks to Israel.

Moreover, Beijing has gained international experience and prestige as UN Peacekeepers and medical experts providing free healthcare to poor people in the Third World.

Dummkopf Trumpf dismantled USAID.

And the MSS is huge, posing tremendous problems for CIA, DIA, FBI, MI5, and MI6.

The greatest threat to China is internal dissent, not an international adversary, but they are quashing it mercilessly. See Hong Kong, Uighurs, Tibetans, Mongolians, visiting Taiwanese, and Manchus for more info.

# 8

Years ago I met a really good fellow who was one of the last Baghdadi Jews. I had met Iranian Jews before, but never an Iraqi one -- even in my deployments there.

"RI" looked more like a Circassian -- tall, big-boned, and pale -- and he was fluent in several languages and quick to smile.

One day "RI" told me that the Baghdadi colony suddenly became "Jews" after Saddam Hussein was toppled, not before.

#10

I think you are correct about that, RLR, because that's where Dummkopf Trumpf belongs. The toilet.

And where is the other blackguard on death's door, namely Mitch McConnell?

The "deadline" for special elections or gubernatotial appointments in Kentucky was yesterday.

#7

Detestable India purposefully increased oil imports from Russia to fuel their carnage against the Ukrainian people.

And the Kremlin is happily supplying her allies China and North Korea with plenty of oil and natural gas-- no Strait of Hormuz problem for any of them.

The US attacking Iran on Israel's behalf was certainly a well-thought out plan by the historically ignorant and inept Trumpf junta that is bankrupting the US economy while all US and int'l oil companies are making obscene profits at our expense.

......... Natural gas pipelines ............................ Oil pipelines

Political dinosaurs fighting extinction, tooth and claw.

#8

Jimmy "the Gent" Burke whacked most of his 1978 Lufthansa heist accomplices, erasing any traces to him and Paul Vario.

The mobsters in the Lucchese Crime Family (LCF) cautiously dubbed him the "white plague" or "white death." [sic]

"Clean up, aisle Paris!"

# 8 and 11 "Trumpf Calls Iran Israel 'unbelievably duplicitous'"

#3:

I'm now reading Trading with the Enemy (1983, Charles Wigham).

Standard Oil (now Exxon) provided oil (and other critical resources) to the Third Reich, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan during the Second World War using subsidiaries and neutral countries.

The Canary Islands (Spain) processed Standard Oil petroleum from South America which then immediately fueled the Kriegsmarine U-Boats.

The chief American oligarch who frustrated Hans Morgenthau, Howard Ickes, and D/FBI J. Edgar Hoover, and who got away with collaborating with the enemy while making tons of money for Exxon during the Holocaust, along with "the Fraternity" of Ivy League WASP industry magnates, Walter C Teagle.

And ironically, a U-Boat would sink M/V Walter C. Teagle during the war.

#7 "Now we know who is really in charge."

The wrathful Titan "Uranus."

#10

Novelist Hubert Selby Jr called the talent "trade."

Enjoy the "trade!"

*** Luigi Mangione Defense Team Wants Trial Broadcast Live ***

"Luigi Mangione, accused of eliminating good-for-nothing oligarch UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is opposing restrictions on public access to his trial.

According to a new court filing, Mangione's legal team is seeking to broadcast the trial live.

The team argued the court should not limit public and media access to the trial by selecting certain members of the press to attend.

Mangione's case has drawn national attention, with some praising the man who is accused of shooting a greedy health care CEO, highlighting UnitedHealthcare's high denial rates which caused the deaths of untold numbers of patients who had paid their premiums promptly for years, enriching one of the worst healthcare insurers on the entire planet."

~snip~

#8

#9

The Mexican-American War (1846-48) was the gauntlet that the majority of young Union (and eventually Confederate Army) officers went through preceding the US Civil War. They were field officers who went on to become generals a dozen years later.

The tactics these officers learned fighting Mexico in massed formations over open fields was then duplicated by both sides from 1861-1865.

This was the tactic of the times.

But attrition hit Johnny Reb much harder than Billy Yankee.

Had the less industrialized South -- with its smaller population -- adopted the tactics of the Spanish guerillas against Napoleon during the Peninsular War (1808-1814) -- the CSA might have bogged down Union forces for years until a negotiated settlement might have been reached.

Luckily, history favored our greatest president and the Union.

*** Max Miller's Lawyer Posted Photos Online of His Client's Victimized Daughter ***

Ohio is one large madhouse. Someone throw a huge net over the Buckeye State.

#9

Indeed. Iran simply "wins" by "not losing."

Under PM Mark Carney, Canada quickly joined the EU's Re-Arm Europe program to circumnavigate Dummkopf Trumpf and the US military-industrial complex.

Ottawa's Trumpf-proofing and the Re-Arm Europe program also insulates Canada and the EU from reckless wastes of resources in the Middle East, like the current idiotic Islamophobic misadventure (OPERATION AIPAC FURY) which is depleting our stocks to Vladimir Putin's utter delight. He want's the war to continue because it distracts from his Ukraine offensive and Israel wants the war to go on because it deflects public attention from their ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. China wants the war to continue because it weakens America while they make money and learn new military tactics for free.

Endnote: Canada will be leading the new DSRB, a specialized "World Bank" for international military funding.

#83

And no money for Medicare, Medicaid, or SNAP, never mind universal healthcare, as enjoyed by the residents of Israel, Germany, Canada, Cuba, the UK, Finland, tiny Albania, Taiwan, Greenland, and in 2027, all of Mexico.

Defendants Abdullah Haji Zada and Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi are both incarcerated.

The case against Nazira Haji Zada will be a show trial, like the one against Luigi Mangione.

If she is a PRA or refugee, ICE can easily deport her back to Afghanstan without a warrant from an immigration judge (IJ).

If she is a naturalized US citizen, the DOJ can strip of her that and again use ICE to deport her.

So this charade is to make an example of Nazira Haji Zada, a practice the US is quite familiar with:

1) Railroaded anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti both "rode the lightning" on the same day in 1927;

2) Alleged atomic spies Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg were both sent to Thomas Edison's rocking chair in Sing-Sing on 19 June 1953.

This area is in Republican Congressman Clay Higgins' 3rd CD. This retired cop has appeared and spoken at events organized by groups such as the Three Percenters and the Oath Keepers, and has claimed to be a "Three Percenter" at speaking engagements.

Figures, right?

Soon aftee her US Senate confirmation, this super-wealthy gorgon immediately went after poor people with outstanding student loans -- collection agencies and all -- without mercy.

Reptilian Linda McMahon also intends to dismantle the very agency she is supposedly in charge of.

Yes, RFK's voice sounded terrible.

Occam's Razor: Morons voted for a maniac that put a lunatic in charge of Amerikkka's health.