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    From Oleg Smirnov@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 26 17:50:12 2022
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    <https://tinyurl.com/264qd6x7> theamericanconservative.com

    Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, known to history as Caligula, ruled as the Emperor of Rome from A.D. 37 to 41 .. squandered the enormous wealth of the Roman State, declared himself to be a god, appointed his favorite racehorse
    to serve in the Roman Senate, and according to some sources, considered deifying the animal.

    After a little less than four years in office, Caligula was removed .. Americans and Europeans are not so lucky. Determined to fight his proxy war with Russia to the finish, Biden is losing the fight in Ukraine and his favorite, deified horse, NATO, is on life support. The only things sinking faster than Biden's approval ratings are the American and European economies.



    <https://tinyurl.com/2amxeh4r>

    .. The US housing shortage is likely to get worse ..

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  • From Oleg Smirnov@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 26 17:55:09 2022
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    <https://tinyurl.com/28tj26jb> news.cn

    The de-dollarization or decline of dollar hegemony will put the United
    States in a slow crash and make everyday Americans poorer .. Other
    countries have to de-dollarize because of American foreign policy,
    forcing them to create an alternative .. The U.S. can grab anybody's gold
    who does not follow ..

    "There's no way the United States can pay its existing dollar debts that
    are held by foreign governments .. The U.S. heavily depends on other
    countries for manufactured goods and raw materials, and its economy is
    deeply indebted .. The U.S. "is running into a debt wall, and it can't
    afford to carry any more debt. This whole prosperity has been financed by
    debt, especially by foreign countries, and that's ended," .. The Federal Reserve would support Wall Street and the wealthy 10 percent. The bottom
    90 percent of the population will become much poorer with lower
    homeownership rates and less personal savings ..



    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNqYZUB_Pac>

    Poverty In America

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  • From Oleg Smirnov@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 26 18:00:24 2022
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    <https://archive.is/s0kie> wsj.com

    Biden's Saudi Arabia Visit Was Worse Than an Embarrassment

    This trip .. damaged U.S. security interests in the Middle East by
    highlighting to the world that neither Saudi Arabia nor other Gulf states
    trust the U.S. .. Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud
    contradicted Mr. Biden's claims of enhancing Saudi-Israel relations, and reiterated that any increased oil production won't be a Saudi decision
    but one by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries Plus,
    which includes Russia. That's a not-so-subtle way of saying Saudi will
    maintain its warming relations with Vladimir Putin regardless of what the
    U.S. thinks. In short, the president walked away with no progress ..



    <https://tinyurl.com/23jqva7u>

    .. In the end, the US comes across as a fragile empire ..

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  • From Oleg Smirnov@21:1/5 to government on Tue Jul 26 18:05:29 2022
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    <https://tinyurl.com/2dbzdwta> bucknell.edu

    .. 59% of respondents thought official statistics underestimate
    the inflation rate .. What's more, 58% of respondents also thought
    the official statistics underestimate the rate of unemployment ..
    "The public, in other words, thinks things are worse than the
    government says they are," ..

    ...



    <https://tinyurl.com/2xn2euh8>

    America's widespread baby formula shortage gets WORSE ..

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  • From Oleg Smirnov@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 26 18:10:10 2022
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    <https://tinyurl.com/24qbjjsj> theconversation.com

    United States: the end of an illusion of omnipotence

    For decades, the United States has been in relative decline, facing the prospect of someday being overtaken by a rival power. Its main problem, however, is not the relative decline itself .. Instead, its main problem
    is a failure to recognize this condition, whether out of pride, electoral calculation or simple lack of awareness ..

    Between 1960 and 2020, its real GDP .. If we compare the United States
    to its main rival, China, the growth gap is abysmal: while the US economy
    was growing by five and a half times, China was growing by 92 times ..

    This relative decline in economic and productive weight ultimately
    results in a narrowing of the margins for political action, due to the phenomenon of "overstretching," ..



    <https://tinyurl.com/288q64oz>

    .. We're Living In A Dystopian Nightmare

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  • From Oleg Smirnov@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 26 18:15:26 2022
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    <https://tinyurl.com/2yobgv29> slate.com

    The smell of weed in a city has come to stand in for a lot, to a lot of
    people .. If you search "smells like weed" in listings for New York or
    L.A., you find pages of apartment buildings and hotels dinged for the
    odor .. Weed smell has taken up a prime place in the array of signifiers certain people invoke when describing city life in 2022. Cities, they
    say, are full of unhoused people, feces on the streets, trash, and, well,
    weed smell ..

    ...



    <https://tinyurl.com/23g9lthv>

    America's great cities are gripped by decline and disorder ..

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  • From Oleg Smirnov@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 26 18:20:31 2022
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    <https://tinyurl.com/28bhnmdw> responsiblestatecraft.org

    American Empire is marching into the sunset .. it's time for the reckoning ..

    Basically, the United States has just been failing for most of our lives, something that was really brought home during the recession of 2008. And I think all those things combined to engender a broader skepticism within me about the United States's ability to do what it says it's going to do or to
    do what was promised ..

    People believe that .. the United States has done more good than harm. And I fundamentally disagree .. I think if you look at what the United States has actually done in the world, it has oftentimes made things worse ..

    ...



    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zWJuNwurXE>

    .. America An Empire In Decline ..

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  • From Oleg Smirnov@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 26 18:25:08 2022
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    <https://tinyurl.com/27xckdqg> scmp.com

    The United States is now fighting a global war on two fronts, against
    Russia and China simultaneously .. Meanwhile, the initial enthusiaism
    with which Europe rallied around US leadership is beginning to wane.
    Energy and food shortages are kicking in, amid broken supply chains,
    raising the spectre of inflation levels not seen in decades ..

    The US penchant for coercive and divisive tactics, hypocrisy, double
    standards and indiscriminate dollar weaponisation have stoked much
    resentment and anger. Its domestic sociopolitical rift and broken infrastructure are making some question its entitlement for calling
    the shots in a world that is fast becoming more multipolar.

    Former British prime minister Tony Blair recently remarked that the
    Ukraine war shows the West's dominance is coming to an end as China
    rises. He appears to be spot on.

    ...



    <https://tinyurl.com/277avh6g>

    'I'm not making ends meet' ..

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  • From Matthew@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 26 10:56:14 2022
    Cannabis has served as an entheogen—a chemical substance used in religious or spiritual contexts[1]—in the Indian subcontinent since the Vedic period dating back to approximately 1500 BCE, but perhaps as far back as 2000 BCE.

    "The Assyrians, Egyptians, and Israelites, among other Semitic cultures of the Middle East, mostly acquired cannabis from Aryan cultures and have burned it as an incense as early as 1000 BC. In Egypt, cannabis pollen was recovered from the tomb of
    Ramesses II, who governed for sixty‐seven years during the 19th dynasty, and several mummies contain trace cannabinoids. Cannabis, as an incense, was used in the temples of Assyria and Babylon because 'its aroma was pleasing to the Gods.'"
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entheogenic_use_of_cannabis

    "the hallucinogenic properties of hemp were common knowledge in Chinese medical and Taoist circles for two millennia or more",[8] and other scholars associated Chinese wu (shamans) with the entheogenic use of cannabis in Central Asian shamanism.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entheogenic_use_of_cannabis

    The criminalization of cannabis is a relatively recent phenomenon, attending social decline. Cannabis use seems to increase during periods of cultural transition, as during the 60s/70s, and today. The drug facilitates new perspectives necessary to
    adapt, perhaps.

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  • From governor.swill@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 26 19:50:00 2022
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    On Tue, 26 Jul 2022 17:50:12 +0300, "Oleg Smirnov" <os333@netc.eu>
    wrote:


    Oleg, have you still not learned that propaganda won't work in a free information system?

    Swill
    --
    Democrats make me feel ashamed of being American.
    Republicans make me feel ashamed of being human.

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  • From jtmpreno@21:1/5 to Oleg Smirnov on Tue Jul 26 17:22:01 2022
    On 7/26/2022 8:25 AM, Oleg Smirnov wrote:
    <https://tinyurl.com/27xckdqg> scmp.com

    The United States is now fighting a global war on two fronts, against
    Russia and China simultaneously .. Meanwhile, the initial enthusiaism
    with which Europe rallied around US leadership is beginning to wane.
    Energy and food shortages are kicking in, amid broken supply chains,
    raising the spectre of inflation levels not seen in decades ..

    The US penchant for coercive and divisive tactics, hypocrisy, double standards and indiscriminate dollar weaponisation have stoked much
    resentment and anger. Its domestic sociopolitical rift and broken infrastructure are making some question its entitlement for calling the
    shots in a world that is fast becoming more multipolar.

    Former British prime minister Tony Blair recently remarked that the
    Ukraine war shows the West's dominance is coming to an end as China
    rises. He appears to be spot on.

    ...



    <https://tinyurl.com/277avh6g>

    'I'm not making ends meet' ..

    Oleg,

    You were better at your last job.

    Cleaning toilets in the Kremlin.

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  • From Jim Wilkins@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 27 19:53:59 2022
    "Matthew" wrote in message news:d6e335e3-16cd-48ac-96fc-439be8274eebn@googlegroups.com...

    "The Assyrians, Egyptians, and Israelites, among other Semitic cultures of >the Middle East, mostly acquired cannabis from Aryan cultures and have
    burned it as an incense as early as 1000 BC.

    ----------------------

    Coincidentally (?) the eastern Mediterranean descended into an illiterate
    Dark Age around that time.

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  • From Matthew@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 27 21:43:21 2022
    No, Israel reach its height around that time.

    David c. 1010–970 BC
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David

    Solomon c. 970–931 BC
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon


    Cannabis use also coincided with the height of Egypt

    Ramesses II (...c. 1303–1213 BC), commonly known as Ramesses the Great, was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Along with Thutmose III he is often regarded as the greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of the New
    Kingdom, itself the most powerful period of Ancient Egypt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesses_II

    etc.


    It is a great plant.

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  • From Stephen Harding@21:1/5 to Matthew on Thu Jul 28 11:54:02 2022
    On 7/28/22 12:43 AM, Matthew wrote:
    No, Israel reach its height around that time.

    David c. 1010–970 BC
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David

    Solomon c. 970–931 BC
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon


    Cannabis use also coincided with the height of Egypt

    Ramesses II (...c. 1303–1213 BC), commonly known as Ramesses the Great, was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Along with Thutmose III he is often regarded as the greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of the New
    Kingdom, itself the most powerful period of Ancient Egypt.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesses_II

    etc.


    It is a great plant.


    I've always thought it a fine looking plant. I think it would make a
    great house ornamental.

    I think its health properties are greatly exaggerated though. Medical
    use was just a front door to get to recreational use.


    SMH

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  • From Matthew@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 28 11:34:49 2022
    its health properties may be exaggerated. I never made any pretense of a medical condition in order to smoke. The benefits of cannabis are primarily spiritual/mental.

    Cannabis has served as an entheogen—a chemical substance used in religious or spiritual contexts.....

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  • From Oleg Smirnov@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 29 01:10:21 2022
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    <https://tinyurl.com/27ueh2qu> politico.com

    .. Expensive gasoline is here to stay ..

    The political pain that high gasoline prices have inflicted .. a potential warning to future .. The reason: The United States' capacity for refining
    oil into gasoline is declining, a trend that appears irreversible .. The
    result is a domestic gasoline supply on a hair trigger, making the nation
    more vulnerable to fuel panics .. while feeding inflation and angering
    voters .. "We are going to be operating a shrunken, old and in-need-of-repair refining system a lot harder," ..



    <https://archive.is/bov27>

    Population decline is going to hit us hard

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  • From Oleg Smirnov@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 29 01:15:08 2022
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    <https://tinyurl.com/29zo4frt> nakedcapitalism.com

    The US is run by spoiled children who won't take "no" for an answer
    .. It boggles the mind that the US is now upset that turning China
    into its factory and seeking to enrich 1.4 billion citizens so we
    could sell them Disney movies and deodorant had led to China
    becoming a dominant economic and increasingly important military
    power .. The neocons above all seem unable to process that the days
    of US hegemony are over ..

    ...



    <https://tinyurl.com/22vq227o>

    American Grand Strategy: Disguising Decline

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  • From Oleg Smirnov@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 29 01:20:53 2022
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    <https://tinyurl.com/28prfh2x> newsmax.com

    Trump .. "Our country has been brought to its knees, literally brought
    to its knees .. "Inflation is the highest in 49 years, 9.1%, and a lot
    of people think it's much higher than that. Gas prices have reached the
    highest in the history of our country. We have become a beggar nation
    groveling to other countries for energy .. "Democrat-run cities are
    setting all-time murder records. Our country is being dealt one
    historic humiliation after another on the world stage. And at home our
    most basic rights and liberties are totally under siege. "The American
    dream is being torn to shreds ..

    ...

    Out of the mouths of babes ...

    "Who would have thought this could happen?"



    <https://tinyurl.com/2yf6onn2>

    America .. Looking More and More Like Impotence ..

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  • From Oleg Smirnov@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 29 01:25:19 2022
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    <https://tinyurl.com/2ajr8nsb> thehill.com

    The ugly America .. In many parts of the globe, that is how most people
    now view this country .. Many Americans do not seem to understand these realities. We still think of ourselves as the leader of the free world ..

    The sad and sorry tale of how America descended into this dismal state
    has been well reported. But why this has happened and what, if anything,
    can be done to reverse the trajectory are open questions ..

    ...

    America is too accustomed to the delusion of impunity.



    <https://tinyurl.com/22raldlw>

    Sanctions Are Hurting the West More Than Russia

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  • From Oleg Smirnov@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 29 12:40:23 2022
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    marika, <news:48264f43-b037-4edd-a4ca-49d4ea2fc80fn@googlegroups.com>
    On Friday, July 1, 2022 at 12:49:11 PM UTC-5, Oleg Smirnov wrote:

    <https://archive.is/2MSEl> bloomberg.com

    US Hypersonic Missile Fails in Test in Fresh Setback for Program

    A flight test of a hypersonic missile system in Hawaii ended in
    failure due to a problem .. delivering a fresh blow to a program
    that has suffered stumbles ..

    Article says Russia pressing ahead with hypersonics

    They claim to have built three

    The one they launched at Ukraine early in the war that they alleged was easily tracked by old school radar

    Which means it wasn't even remotely hypersonic

    Russian military possess few kinds of h-missiles which have
    been tested and are on the combat duty. But massive use of
    such missiles against the Kiev regime would be impractical.
    If the conflict escalates, it would become practical to use
    them against more powerful adversaries.

    <https://archive.is/fV2Hy#selection-1527.0-1527.226>

    <https://archive.is/hvpqv#selection-2329.154-2329.364>

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