Hyperloop's Superiority as Compared to Airline Jet Travel

High speed rail and the vacuum tube magnetic levitation transportation systems do not need to rely on any navigation at all. You can't get lost. The routes are predetermined. The stops are known. Weather doesn't affect travel. Volcanic eruptions don't affect travel. Floods won't affect travel, if tracks or the tube is elevated high enough. These systems can even be made earthquake proof. High enough the concrete pylons even protect the system from wild fires. Why the wait?

Air travel can be disrupted by drones, weather and volcanic eruptions. Weather systems are getting increasingly volatile due to climate change. Planes are often delayed for days, leaving passengers stranded. The economic losses undergone by airlines, airport operators and passengers associated with disruptions and interruptions had an estimated loss of $26.6 billion in 2017... in the United States alone. USA is 16% of the global economy, thus the real economic loss can be extrapolated to be $166 billion from air travel disruptions alone, something that hyperloop systems will not exhibit.

This $166 billion is money that was NOT spent by world's consumers, because it was never generated as economic wealth thus further undermining global economic growth as compared to a hyperloop system that could carry a similar number of passengers. Then, there are fatalities associated with air crashes, lost aircraft, accidents and other such things. Even though airliner safety has improved consistently since 1970, fatalities ranged in 2 to 3 thousand deaths per year, and even in the 2000's they average 1,000 deaths per year, not counting terrorism and intentional shooting down of civilian airplanes. Then there are injuries. Note for instance that 1,500 air accident fatalities do not include the terrorist attacks that brought down several aircraft in 2001 to use them as a weapon, nor did they include the fatalities the airplanes caused on the ground because the event were not accidental. You can't use the hyperloop as a weapon or crash it with road traffic like trains do.


Unlike cargo aviation, the hyperloop system does not need to move an entire airplane into the air, having a base cost of just lying the airplane. Unlike cargo aviation, the hyperloop system does not need to be manned during travel, so there is no labor cost associated with moving the cargo pods. Unlike cargo aviation, the hyperloop system can keep supply lines flowing without disruptions and the cost is fixed, with economies of scale reducing cost of delivery as the system is used more frequently, air freight has a fixed cost because of fuel, cost piloting crew and the mass of the airplane that does not offer the same benefits. A hyperloop cargo system beats conventional rail, shipping and air cargo in speed, safety and manpower required to operate it. It is faster, safer and cheaper than all other options. The same goes for inter city mail hyperloop system of smaller cross section to deliver smaller sized items. Cargo in the hyperloop can't crash out of the sky, sink to the bottom of the sea or be engulfed in an inferno as a train crashed into a stalled truck or is derailed for any reason.

Hyperloop is better in every way imaginable, which is why I came up with it in the first place. It's what I do. About the only thing that ships and airplanes can do that hyperloop can't, is travel directly between ports without the need for any infrastructure which does not limit where they can go. Initially hyperloop systems will not have that universality in capability as their network needs to grow in size in complexity as to railway system which as still developing across much of the world, which means this is not a disruptive technology. Hyperloop's infrastructure will span its web over the entire planet, and when it does, port to port delivery will even eliminate that last advantage airplanes and ships have.

A power outage is about the only external event that could cause a hazardous condition inside the hyperloop system. For cargo, it simply means that cargo will temporarily stop, until power is restored. Hyperloop pods can have battery power to run on their own in case of such emergency, delivering the contents of the pods to the closest station. The system runs on electricity, which means it can be energy self sufficient if the top of the tube is covered in solar PV paneling. Excess power it generates can be sold to the grid, and in case of higher hyperloop usage, power can be purchased into the system which too can come from renewable sources. It has virtually no carbon footprint to operate  as compared to air, road and marine travel and cargo shipping. This means the hyperloop will save even more lives, money and keep the world economy growing, without pushing it against the Earth's boundaries.

In case that the hyperloop system fails to maintain the atmosphere within the pod for human passengers, the pod can be slowed and the vacuum of the tube filled with breathable air by simply opening an air lock; a cargo hyperloop does face only the unlikely issue of product decompression. Properly designed and maintained, the hyperloop passenger and cargo systems will beat any other form of transportation. Finally, this is the only system which can provide viable high velocity, electricity ran, transportation on the Moon and Mars, where hydrocarbon fuels cannot be used due to absence of atmospheric oxygen and aircraft cannot be flown due to the atmospheres being negligible and too thin to provide lift, respectively. There are no roads on the Moon and Mars. Any trains built will not provide the safety of the hyperloop, because airlock failure will result in death. The vacuum tube can on the other hand be filled with air even on the Moon and Mars in case of any emergency.

The average DELAY for an airplane, falls in the RANGE of the average intercity time it takes to TRAVEL in the hyperloop... or between 31 and 59 minutes. From now on people should refer to Republicans who "want oil" in USA, as a terrorist group aiming to undermine high speed rail and hyperloop development, due to their criminal intent to keep hydrocarbon consumption artificially high. They are no different from Hezbollah or the Muslim Brotherhood, they are Christian fanatics who want to impose an archaic, unprofitable, economic model that enriches the few while engaging in structural genocide and hindering the creation of common good that can move humanity forward.

Hypersonic hyperloop using existing rocket technology for cargo transport is possible right now. Russia and China have both developed such solutions for missiles. Using this technology for cargo transport inside a vacuum tube where the cargo and the pod is magnetically levitated, would remove technological constraints of having to develop magnetic propulsion technology, that can move the pod using electricity only. This is because the magnetic levitation needs only to make the pod weightless as it would be in space on a friction-less track, and eliminating resistance by removing air from the tube. The possibility of the vehicle burning up in the tube, if it comes in contact with its frame or atmospheric air at hypersonic speeds of Mach 4 or higher is a bit risky, and could result in fatalities similar to that of air travel, if used for the purpose of moving human passengers.

I conceived the hyperloop system to beat conventional air travel marginally at speeds of 1,200+ km per hour so the vehicle inside it doesn't incinerate when power failure occurs. The speed constraint is immediately removed, if you use hypersonic missile technology, but I for one would have to see statistics that show at least the same level of safety as the airline industry before I'd ride it. Also at hypersonic velocities the system might need three additional vectors: top and sides, of magnetic cushion, to prevent the pod vehicles from being crashed into the tube by centripetal forces.

Another way to remove the speed constraints from conventional 300 mph magnetic levitation propulsion techniques which rely on coils being activated in sequence to move the vehicle along the length of the levitating track, is to use rail gun technology to launch the pods, not over several meters but over a longer distance to have lesser g-forces on the contents, human or cargo, and let the vehicle coast as it is magnetically levitated. This technology is already deployed by China and USA for military purposes.

Finally, the best solutions will probably incorporate hybrid or task dedicated systems with various parts and methodologies of propulsion, depending on the length of the interval of travel and pod's cargo. Paper mail for instance can care less about g-forces inside it and the rail gun technology does not need to concern itself with what happens inside the pod, nor it having breathable air, as long as it goes fast and gets to its destination in one piece. The same is not true for passenger hyperloop systems for humans.

The trip that people take is not limited in terms of time spent to the actual flight or ride. One has to plan the trip, shop for and purchase tickets, arrange transportation to the port of departure, then actually travel to that port and this endeavor can total many hours, sometimes as long or longer than the actual flight or ride, if we total the travel time from the port of destination to the final place where the trip ends along with time spent on the activities required to make the trip happen. Thus for instance a reduction in travel time as compared to road, rail or air travel by the use of hyperloop does not improve the entirety of the time spent on the trip. So even at hypersonic speeds, the hyperloop will stil involve all the elements required prior to getting into a pod. Let us say it takes 2 hours to get to and from a train station and 2 hours to travel between cities, and hyperloop cuts the train travel time to 20 minutes. The improvement on the train travel time is 6 fold, but the improvement on the entire trip is just by a factor of 1.71. This means that shorter local hops on the hyperloop systems will add even more time savings on the entire trip, because they can improve on this as well, therefore there exists the interest and drive for metropolitan subway hyperloop systems. Obviously, urban magnetic levitation systems have utilitarian value for the city itself, but as transport systems that bring hyperloop passengers to the point of departure, these will further reduce overall time spent on the trip.

Hyperloop pods unlike train cars can travel independenty. Let us consider a hyperloop solution  that augments the Long Island Rail Road. People going short distances between 1 to 7 stations could use the train in either direction which would proceed for the entire length of the track stopping everywhere. People using the Hyperloop, could go non stop between the first and last station, or some specified hyperloop stations in between that make it feasible. Let  us say there are five stations for the hyperloop:

Penn Station
Jamaica
Islip
Hampton Bays
Montauk

Five pods can be launched in sequence. 1st pod can go non-stop to the last station. 2nd pod to the next to last and so on. The pods that stop at intermediate stations can then pick up any passengers that want to go in the direction from Penn Station to Montauk, and therefore for each passenger the trip is one way and non stop, from the first station. The stations that don't have ticket holders waiting to get in or ticket holders down the line who are waiting to travel to them... can be simply skipped, and because of how fast the systems works, the wait time for the next set of pods is not an issue.The ticket holders for the subsequent stations, can be arranged into appropriate pods and these can be launched to distribute passengers as needed again. Repeating the process until all pods end up at Montauk, then are turned around for a return trip. In comparison, the train passengers would have to stop at intermediate stops slowing the whole process which decelerates and stops for all passengers, while the hyperloop system serves as a non stop start to end service for any station, and goes to any station in any direction.


Comments

kuffodog said…
The average DELAY for an airplane, falls in the RANGE of the average intercity time it takes to TRAVEL in the hyperloop... or between 31 and 59 minutes. From now on people should refer to Republicans who "want oil" in USA, as a terrorist group aiming to undermine high speed rail and hyperloop development, due to their criminal intent to keep hydrocarbon consumption artificially high. They are no different from Hezbollah or the Muslim Brotherhood, they are Christian fanatics who want to impose an archaic, unprofitable, economic model that enriches the few while engaging in structural genocide and hindering the creation of common good that can move humanity forward.

https://flightaware.com/live/airport/delays
kuffodog said…
“India needs to train circa 10 million people annually, but currently has the capacity to train just 4.5 million,”

https://www.rt.com/business/448633-india-surpass-us-standard-chartered/

Human capital needs major investment in India. Like GCC states which brought campuses of American Universities to their cities domestically, India needs to bring in European, Chinese and American Universities to its metropolitan areas to field the 10 million per year of degree holding professionals on annual basis, that its economy requires for optimal growth. Exporting its young to study abroad, can result in brain drain, costs lots of money, does not create domestic consumer spending and fails to build public-private-university partnerships within India which can be life long connections that push the Indian economy forward. India will be this world's largest economy, so it must have world class educated people who are familiar with the world's markets and speak their languages. What better way is there, than to bring the world's universities to the subcontinent?

http://www.aaiusa.org/american-universities-in-the-gulf
kuffodog said…
The trip that people take is not limited in terms of time spent to the actual flight or ride. One has to plan the trip, shop for and purchase tickets, arrange transportation to the port of departure, then actually travel to that port and this endeavor can total many hours, sometimes as long or longer than the actual flight or ride, if we total the travel time from the port of destination to the final place where the trip ends along with time spent on the activities required to make the trip happen. Thus for instance a reduction in travel time as compared to road, rail or air travel by the use of hyperloop does not improve the entirety of the time spent on the trip. So even at hypersonic speeds, the hyperloop will stil involve all the elements required prior to getting into a pod. Let us say it takes 2 hours to get to and from a train station and 2 hours to travel between cities, and hyperloop cuts the train travel time to 20 minutes. The improvement on the train travel time is 6 fold, but the improvement on the entire trip is just by a factor of 1.71. This means that shorter local hops on the hyperloop systems will add even more time savings on the entire trip, can improve on this as well, therefore the interest and drive for metropolitan subway hyperloop systems.
kuffodog said…
Some words on national monuments, statues and other such things generating revenue for local economies. Besides being useful in cultivating ideology, preserving national identity, bringing attention to important historical events, inspiring or educating etc.

"Healthy economies don’t grow in that sort of simple-minded dependent way. They become increasingly sophisticated, taking in each other’s wash, that allows them to capture and hold the money that's being spent within the economy so that more income and more employment is generated by it."

"Is There Economic Value to That National Monument in Your Backyard?"
https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2010/03/there-economic-value-national-monument-your-backyard5531

Being that I've again mentioned Christ the King statue which I recommended to be build in Poland as a psychological operation and a tourist attraction, it'd be interesting to know if it has already paid for itself and now generates an income for the local economy. I know it paid off handsomely in the Catholic Church modernizing its dogma which had profound social implication across the world, but it is calculable and can become part of strategically deploying future such projects. These projects should do more than provoke thought and inspire, they should improve lives by creating economic ecosystems.

Christ the King (Świebodzin)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_the_King_(%C5%9Awiebodzin)
kuffodog said…
Top 10 Rip-off Songs
https://youtu.be/1GWMvCXdsG4
kuffodog said…
How does stealing a chord or a few musical notes from a copyrighted song to make a new song compare to stealing entire projects, ideas, business models and innovative thoughts from a person's mind? Well. For one, people don't copyright their thinking. Secondly, if their minds are connected in direct to brain communication, one can always claim that collaboration existed and the thoughts of the affected individual were never proprietary but instead a common good, and at the very least should be accredited to the number of individuals connected to one another when they came into existence.

"Monkey 'brain net' raises prospect of human brain-to-brain connection"
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/09/monkey-brain-net-raises-prospect-of-human-brain-to-brain-connection
kuffodog said…
"Alibaba unveiling 3D facial recognition payment system"
https://youtu.be/cToVh9Mt7f4

"Electric Jet Engines

The electric jet engines work like turbofan jet engines in a regular passenger jet. They suck in air, compress it and push it out the back. However, the compressor fan in the front is not turned by a gas turbine, but by a high performance electric motor. Therefore, they run much quieter and completely emission-free."

"Efficient and Fast.

The design of the electric engines ensures a very low drag coefficient in cruise flight, leading to a higher speed and range. The energy consumption per seat and kilometer thereby becomes comparable to an electric car – but the jet is 3 times faster."

https://lilium.com/technology/

kuffodog said…
Huey Lewis And The News - I Want A New Drug
https://youtu.be/N6uEMOeDZsA

vs.

Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters
https://youtu.be/Fe93CLbHjxQ

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-lists/songs-on-trial-12-landmark-music-copyright-cases-166396/ray-parker-jr-vs-huey-lewis-and-the-news-1984-63701/
kuffodog said…
"Tom Cruise Dance as Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder - Extended - Music: Get Back by Ludacris"
https://youtu.be/srH94OR1TbU
kuffodog said…
"The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino is a $500 million reboot of the Trump Taj Mahal, which suffered through 17 years of fiscal and managerial chaos until it went belly-up in 2016. Its jolly history included three bankruptcies, numerous shootings and a money-laundering settlement with the US government.

The Hyatt-branded Ocean Resort Casino, after $175 million in renovations, rests on the bones of instant-flop Revel, which cost $2.4 billion to open and closed in 2014 after just two years. The Revel is best remembered for the night when video cams captured Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice punching his fiancée in the head."

https://nypost.com/2018/06/23/gambling-will-be-the-death-of-atlantic-city/
kuffodog said…
" Until EU leaders really begin to stand up to Washington’s hegemonic arrogance and truly assert the rights of their people – especially in regard to peaceful relations with Russia – then European officialdom should be treated with the contempt that vassals deserve."

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/448597-trump-eu-diplomatic-downgrade/

"The European Union’s top military official has said work is continuing with EU army chiefs to come up with proposals aimed at enhancing the bloc’s military capabilities. EU Military Committee Chairman Claudio Graziano said there’s “a lot of expectation” about what the EU can do in defense matters. He says projects like military mobility can connect the far reaches of Europe, to counter common threats"

https://www.rt.com/newsline/448568-eu-military-capabilities-threats/
kuffodog said…
Republicans have chosen the approach of perpetual lying libelous propaganda until they reach the desired effect, so for instance it was:

"four dead Americans"
"Clinton e-mails"
"Benghazi"

This was pursued repeatedly on all fronts until the desired effect: victory in Congress and the White House.

Americans, especially those reporting on Bloomberg, consistently attacked the Euro and the European Union since the inception of common currency, which is a competitor to Americans' own US dollar. For this they perpetually denigrated the Euro at every opportunity, defrauded Greece's entry into the common currency by cooking their books, then screamed for Grexit until investors got jittery. ECB none the less prevailed. Terms like PIGGS were used to describe countries of southern Europe for nearly two decades, a derogatory term that kept perpetually mocking their debt to GDP ratios. Americans own debt to GDP ratio is higher than that of Greece in 2008 during the financial crisis that American larceny, fraud, $50 billion dollar Pozi schemes like Madoff's, real estate speculation, and military adventurism in pursuit of oil interests has caused as all crooked chickens came host to roost.

Now we have the Brexit and Dexit narratives, backed by companies like Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, brainwashing millions against their own best interest to fight for an exit from the European Union or use it as a bargaining chip in domestic politics. Meanwhile Americans spied on all EU leaders with not ONE prosecution resulting from their decades long list of crimes and straight face denials by Obama and his administration. Trump, a US president, is a bankrupt fraud, whose lies are so convoluted that he contradicts himself like a paranoid, bipolar schizophrenic with a God complex each time he speaks or writes; his ignorance and lack of basic general knowledge earning him the nickname "moron" from his own Secretary of State.

Presently the crooks from Washington are trying their luck against China hoping to destroy the rising Chinese high tech industry by sanctions, fraud, libel and false incarceration. Americans used their Polish vassals after they've murdered their president, along with the Canadians after name calling and tariff sanctions to subdue them, to back their criminal attacks on Huawei, a company which happens to be a serious threat to Apple's business model. They did this to cast the company in a bad light internationally to undermine their sale, libeling it as a venue for Chinese government's espionage abroad. Bloomberg of the Grexit, Brexit, Dexit and PIGGS fame... ran a story no other news outlet covered independently and to which no major tech American company admitted, on how 'the big hack' happened to come from Huawei.

When is the EU going to start prosecuting American war criminals and crooks, start to sanction them and start putting their spies and fraudsters behind bars, instead of catering to the criminal American regime and playing into their hands by repeating their lies, libel and false claims?

Now the daughter of the assassinated Russian spy has second thoughts as to who killed him? It all comes around full circle. Doesn't it?

It all points to the lair of liars in Washington DC.
kuffodog said…
Consider the climate denying narrative of the Republican liars, versus an influx of new science reports from across the world, that constantly show anthropogenic global warming is far worse and more pronounced than previously thought, while the Trump White House backs out of the Paris Agreement and US increases its carbon emissions.

"Since 1970, the ocean has warmed 40 percent more than previous estimates, according to climate scientist Zeke Hausfather, one of the authors of the study.

The study examined four new or updated Ocean Heat Content records — a fancy term for measuring how warm the ocean is, taking into account deeper water, not just surface temperatures — and finds the ocean warming is significantly higher than estimated in the last comprehensive report by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2013."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oceans-are-warming-dramatically-faster-new-climate-study-warns/

Trump's most recent take: winter is still cold, it snows, so there is no global warming.

"In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!" - Trump

1. Any New Year's Eve could be the coldest on record.
2. All NYC low records are left in the distant past, not ONE was in 2000's
3. Claiming the most ridiculous things COULD happen isn't lying.
4. Trump's climate change denial evolved from lies he can be caught on, to manipulation.
5. He still can't help lying. He's a moron.
6. Can he name ONE country that hasn't addressed climate change and spent money on it?!
7. Trump now claims global warming is a boon to those living in cold areas.
8. At what point was the US going to spend TRILLIONS fighting climate change?
9. Why does Trump assume people can't afford heating and need to "bundle up"?

http://www.intellicast.com/Local/History.aspx?location=USNY0996




kuffodog said…
"Ninety-three percent of the excess heat trapped in the Earth's system by human-caused greenhouse gas emissions is stored in the oceans. If it weren't for this ocean buffer absorbing so much heat, our atmosphere would be roasting us by now."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oceans-are-warming-dramatically-faster-new-climate-study-warns/
kuffodog said…
Global warming of the Earth's ocean has not reached 150 billion trillion joules for any given year at the o-700 m depths until 1986... the year I came to USA and the trajectory of warming has definitely shown a much higher warming trend since that year.

See global ocean heat content, 1940-2018 at 0-700 m and 700-2000 m:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DwlhYGjUcAAnJBg.jpg
kuffodog said…
"Huawei Technologies Co. fired a sales director who was arrested in Poland on espionage charges, saying he brought the Chinese telecom company 'into disrepute.'"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/huawei-terminates-employment-of-executive-detained-in-poland-11547298630

Who was he spying for? Americans pretending to be the Chinese government?

I just heard this comment: "przynajmniej idzie Amerykański szpieg do kryminału." (translation: at least the American spy is going to prison).

Yeah, but Americans are having their cake and eating it too. They burned an asset who got caught, blamed China and now the propaganda wheels of American media are spinning their lies undermining Huawei sales globally.
kuffodog said…
"Russia has charged a retired U.S. Marine arrested in Moscow with espionage, the Interfax news agency reported, meaning he could face up to 20 years in prison if found guilty.

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on December 31 that it had arrested Paul Whelan, who it said was caught carrying out an act of espionage."

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-charges-former-u-s-marine-with-espionage-lawyer-says/29690129.html
kuffodog said…
"Beijing says it resolutely opposes ''slanderous'' accusations from the United States and other allies who have criticized China for economic espionage, urging Washington to withdraw its accusations against two Chinese nationals."

https://www.reuters.com/video/2018/12/21/china-denies-slanderous-us-spying-charge?videoId=494379889
kuffodog said…
"In emailed statements, Amazon, Apple, and Supermicro disputed summaries of Bloomberg Businessweek’s reporting. Their statements are published here in full, along with one from a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson."

There you are. It's the US gov't doing the spying, because these companies wouldn't provide backdoors to the larcenous war criminals in Washington. Not Huawei. Blaming China aids the "trade war" and Trump's tariffs.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-amazon-apple-supermicro-and-beijing-respond

kuffodog said…
"Reporters at Bloomberg News were trained to use a function on the company’s financial data terminals that allowed them to view subscribers’ contact information and, in some cases, monitor login activity in order to advance news coverage"

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/business/media/bloomberg-admits-terminal-snooping.html

"Traders throughout the financial world depend on Bloomberg terminals for real-time data on markets of all kinds as well as news and instant messaging. The machines reportedly rent for $20,000 a year and are used by thousands of subscribers, bringing in a substantial portion of the company's revenue."

"Goldman catches Bloomberg reporters spying on terminal users"
https://money.cnn.com/2013/05/10/news/companies/bloomberg-goldman-sachs/index.html

"According to news reports on Friday, journalists at Bloomberg News have been spying on some of the 315,000 customers that use the market-data terminals, sold by a separate unit of Bloomberg and the primary revenue source for the company. Those customers include Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase, whose traders and bankers are reportedly furious with Bloomberg for what they perceive as a violation of their privacy."

"Bloomberg Rocked By Terminal Spying Scandal"
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/10/bloomberg-terminal-spying_n_3255020.html

kuffodog said…
"Greek debt crisis: Goldman Sachs could be sued for helping hide debts when it joined euro

Exclusive: A leading adviser to debt-riven countries has offered to help Athens recover some of the vast profits made by the investment bank"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/greek-debt-crisis-goldman-sachs-could-be-sued-for-helping-country-hide-debts-when-it-joined-euro-10381926.html
kuffodog said…
"Executives at CBS News had previously been made aware of inappropriate and harassing behavior by former “CBS This Morning” co-anchor Charlie Rose, according to an investigation into the matter by the Washington Post."

"The report, based on interviews over a five-month period with 107 current and former CBS News employees as well as two dozen others who worked with Rose at other television programs, said that concerns about Rose’s behavior were flagged to CBS executives as early as 1986"

Rose had a show on Blooberg as well.

https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/charlie-rose-harassment-incidents-cbs-1202796663/
kuffodog said…
"Why Was Marital Rape Legal in New York State Until 1984?

Three decades ago, Trump’s lawyer’s claim that ‘You cannot rape your spouse’ would have been legally valid. Inside the horrific case that got the law scrapped."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-was-marital-rape-legal-in-new-york-state-until-1984
kuffodog said…
"FBI opened an investigation into the whether the president of the United States was working on behalf of the Kremlin... former FBI special agents tell The Daily Beast such a momentous step would not be taken without “serious and substantial evidence.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-fbi-officials-say-spy-inquiry-into-president-trump-is-uncharted-territory?ref=scroll
kuffodog said…
“It’s mind-blowing and even though it’s separate from criminal inquiry, any determination that the president of the U.S. had been or was a Russian agent would be out of The Manchurian Candidate,” said Harry Litman, a former U.S. attorney. “And I would have to imagine it would make it untenable for him to be president but it would also be the political scandal of all time.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-fbi-officials-say-spy-inquiry-into-president-trump-is-uncharted-territory?ref=scroll

The American regime conducts mind surveillance, mass surveillance of all communications, hacking off all computing devices, it perpetrates a remote electromagnetic ghetto eugenics program which at least one victim reporter calls a "genocide" comparing it to Nazi practices.

Russia reciprocates. Dmitry Medvedev (a Russian president) has been known to carry out some ops for me, as did Vladimir Putin (4 times a Russian president), this through clandestine channels. Why would Russia not use the same technologies to reciprocate and positively influence myself or Trump? It's absurd to expect that they wouldn't. Besides, Obama basically implemented every idea I fielded to the US regime, so does that make him a traitor? Poland did too... many called me "the leader" as I if were Chairman Kim or Colonel Qaddafi or something.

People act on information they get, usually because it is of benefit to do so. At no point did Americans lose on my advice, nor were they forced to comply with any. Social discord exists and has existed throughout US history. This includes infighting within the US government.

"...an American genocide hiding in plain sight."
http://viclivingston.blogspot.com/2011/12/u.html
kuffodog said…
Poland created the Central Anticorruption Bureau and it is now the biggest economic success story in the European Union. The reason why Americans don't have an equivalent, is because corrupt FBI that participates in gov't murderers like that of Martin Luther King, would itself end up in prison after being decimated by it. Them and probably 90% of Washington clique.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensored-letter-to-mlk-reveals.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Anticorruption_Bureau
kuffodog said…
I have predicted the creation and use of the following devices:

- inside the body bomb
- underwear bomb

AQ deployed these, after I've come up with them. For a fact, I've also come up with

- printer cartridge bomb

and remember that an overpriced printer cartridge inspired the idea.

CIA must have forwarded these to AQ and used them for false flag ops. Then they killed the guy who worked for them. I want $2 million. Pronto.

Surgically implanted explosive device
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgically_implanted_explosive_device

the underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/us/politics/anwar-awlaki-underwear-bomber-abdulmutallab.html

Cargo plane bomb found in Britain was primed to blow up over US
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/10/cargo-plane-bomb-us-alqaida

Al-Qaeda's master bomb maker assessed killed in US drone strike: Official
https://abcnews.go.com/International/al-qaedas-chief-bomb-maker-assessed-killed-us/story?id=57311414

kuffodog said…
People like John Mc Cain, who have fire bombed civilians incinerating them alive, have gotten medals of honor, international praise, adoration of the public, all kinds of benefits and windfall of financial rewards on their stories. From firebombing of Tokyo to the hellish genocide in Dresden, American and British war criminals have showered themselves with compliments and praise on their successful mass murder of civilian populations. This remains unaltered.

Firebombing of Tokyo
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/firebombing-of-tokyo

Dresden devastated
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dresden-devastated

Americans and the British now face Asian adversaries with hyper-sonic missiles which they can't stop. These aren't inaccurate German V-2 rockets of the Second World War equipped with conventional war heads. These are nuclear weapons of mass destruction, held by countries that have been invaded, terrorized, imposed on, forced into drug addiction and otherwise wronged by both USA and UK over at least two centuries.

It is probably a good idea for Americans and the British to come to terms with the criminality of their regimes and reign them in, before nuclear warheads start raining on their heads.
kuffodog said…
"Russian media announced on Friday that it had significantly improved the stealth on its Su-57 fighter jet by applying a coating to the glass canopy on the cockpit, as well as similar upgrades to its Tu-160 nuclear bomber."

Refraction of diamonds or other such substances in the visible spectrum can break all incoming light to make the Su-57 planes nearly invisible in daylight, basically they'll appear as blurred, as no light will be reflected back to the source, if these particles cover the plane's surface. Other parts of the EM spectrum should be broken up as well, when they reflect dispersing incoming EM radiation around the plane.

Russia should use a coating of crushed "diamond like" particles that will disperse the em-spectrum which falls on the Su-57 aircraft. Cubic zirconia would probably work. The paint mix should have Germanium in it, as it can reflect in the infrared so heat seeking missiles don't 'see' the plane. Underneath this transparent reflective coat the paint should be black to make the plane invisible at night.

"Under natural conditions, the record highest refractive index is 4.05 for the element Germanium, but in the IR range only. It drops to lower values in the visible region and others."

https://www.quora.com/Which-medium-has-the-highest-refractive-index

The cockpit doesn't need to be glass. Cameras can be used to see through and around the plane via the pilot's helmet as augmented reality. The cockpit cover should:

- be as tough as the rest of the plane
- protect the cockpit against incoming bullets
- be at least of the same strength as other part of the plane
- make it difficult to kill the pilot with shrapnel or bullets
- be of the same radar, IR and visible light reflective properties as the rest of the plane

Finally, the plane doesn't need to be piloted at all. Autonomous fighter-strikers versions can be deployed, improving the planes' capabilities to include:

- kamikaze attacks
- maneuvers that pilots can't withstand due to g-forces
- extended range with multiple refueling, as pilots' biological needs for excretion, egestion, ingestion or sleep don't have to be met
- swarm tactics that can 'sacrifice' some machines to gain tactical advantage
kuffodog said…
For invisibility, planes can be painted in a quantum dot display, and cameras showing what is above and below the plane, can display the same to camouflage the plane to anyone looking from the top or from the bottom.

https://www.wired.com/2017/03/samsungs-quantum-dots/
kuffodog said…
Would Trump order a nuclear strike on Moscow if he had to? Or would he balk?

https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1084139217305911298

"Trump's partners and children have repeatedly visited Moscow, connecting with developers and government officials to explore joint venture opportunities. Trump was never able to successfully conclude any real estate deals in Russia" - what then were they doing there?!

Business projects of Donald Trump in Russia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_projects_of_Donald_Trump_in_Russia
kuffodog said…
"In 2008 his son Donald Trump Jr. said that Russia was an important source of money for the Trump businesses."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_projects_of_Donald_Trump_in_Russia

...and yet... Trump had not real estate deals there, which is what he primarily does. Where did the money come from and what did the Russians get in return?!
kuffodog said…
"In 1987, Trump visited Russia to investigate developing a hotel, invited by Ambassador Yuri Dubinin whom he had met in New York the year before."

Really? In 1987 Trump visited SOVIET UNION not Russia, and the CIA was in the midst of running a terrorist proxy war against the country. It was BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN and KGB was running the show. Trump was cordially invited by a SOVIET ambassador Yuri Vladimirovich Dubinin!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_projects_of_Donald_Trump_in_Russia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone

Have you people heard of McCarthyism? If Trump was looking to have BUSINESS DEALS at the request of the ENEMY in the 1950's he'd be politically DEAD or just dead like MLK, JFK & RFK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism

Just 3 years earlier Soviet Union & Warsaw Pact countries BOYCOTTED THE LA SUMMER OLYMPICS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Summer_Olympics_boycott

The War in Afghanistan would still RAGE for another 2 years!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War

...and yet somehow now that he's president: Trump visited Russia not Soviet Union in 1987. No. The Russian Federation did not exist in 1987. The country was called U.S.S.R. The country was at war with CIA. It had ONE ambassador to USA for the entire country. Trump was befriended by the KGB. He's a Manchurian Candidate. You deserve him.

Yuri Dubinin was a Soviet Ambassador to USA and is known to have organized future US President Donald Trump's first visit to the Soviet Union in July 1987, not to RUSSIA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Dubinin

Oh. Let's not forget about Chernobyl... the year before in 1986.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

Trump went a year later. Does he even realize Chernobyl could have been a CIA ops?!

In 1982... only 5 years earlier, CIA blew up a Soviet gas pipeline in what “was the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space” and Trump was invited by the Soviet Ambassador to USA to build a hotel?! ...and NOTHING GOT BUILT for over 22 years as he kept going to Moscow?! Are you fucking kidding me?! He was a fucking crook on SOVIET take. Then on Russian take since 12 December 1993 when they formed the current constitution, or at best on Russian take since 1991 when Soviet Union fell apart. In 1987 he was on the SOVIET take, nothing got built, he's a money launderer. As the future Russian oligarchs prepared to privatize the country's industries among themselves they found themselves a way to invest in USA to get a hold of US dollars. Period. He's a loser, lying, crook and a traitor.

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2010/07/01/war-in-the-fifth-domain
kuffodog said…
EU should send the US consulate toilet paper. Put in on my tab. Send them 99 rolls.

kuffodog said…
"The U.S. condemns #Maduro’s illegitimate usurpation of power and urges those who support the Venezuelan regime, including security forces sworn to support the constitution, to stop enabling repression and corruption. The time is NOW for a return to democracy in #Venezuela." - US Secretary of State, Pompeo

How many countries voiced the opinion and demanded that the US gov't be overthrown or that Trump resign?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/28/upshot/donald-trump-twitter-insults.html
kuffodog said…
The 551 People, Places and Things Donald
Trump Has Insulted on Twitter: A Complete List

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/28/upshot/donald-trump-twitter-insults.html
kuffodog said…
"A 48-year-old man identified as the gunman in the ambush killing of a 22-year-old Davis police officer left a note in his apartment saying that police had hit him with “ultra sonic waves meant to keep dogs from barking.”"

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Davis-man-48-identified-as-shooter-in-slaying-13529125.php

A clear indication that the man was tortured under direct to brain communication and directed energy attacks. The first stages of the attack cause a loud ringing sound in the ears... 24/7.

U.S. SILENTLY TORTURES AMERICANS WITH CELL TOWER ELECTROMAGNETIC NEUROWEAPON
http://viclivingston.blogspot.com/2011/12/u.html
kuffodog said…
"We have complete intelligence superiority in this area. We enjoy complete aerial superiority. We have strong deterrence and we have the justification to act."

Israel is at war with Syria. There is no peace treaty. As long as that continues, there will be no world peace. Israel wants US recognize Israeli annexation of Golan Heights. Were Syria to agree to this, it could be a bargaining chip to get a peace deal.

" Israel continues to intrude in Syrian airspace under the “the campaign between wars” military strategy which envisions a continuous and lengthy engagement to degrade an enemy’s military capabilities. Developed by Eisenkot, the tactic was given the green light by the cabinet in January 2017. Since then Israel carried out thousands of sorties, allegedly striking “over 1,000 Iranian targets.” Yet Damascus claims the majority of Israeli missiles and bombs are being routinely intercepted by the Syrian air defenses."

https://www.rt.com/news/448685-israel-syria-strikes-eizenkot/

Here's a pundit's view on what Syria will do.

"This map only says one thing. The war is far from over. There's not going to be "borders" for these occupied territories, this is a delusion of the same magnitude held by those who screamed, "Assad must go". Don't make the same mistake and underestimate us again." - @Partisangirl

https://twitter.com/Partisangirl/status/1011830159769366529
kuffodog said…
Trump should just FIRE all TSA. They are useless thieves, harassers and scammers who delay flights and rob passengers. They serve no purpose. Airports should provide private security, if they're concerned with safety.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/nyregion/tsa-shutdown.html
kuffodog said…
Russia claimed they can just walk nuclear weapons into USA for a prompt strike at desired targets. How is the wall not a security issue?

"According to an anonymous Clinton administration official with access to intelligence information, the Soviet Union did produce 'man-portable weapons' called tactical atomic demolition munitions."

If two man can carry a nuke, any car with a trunk can drive it to a location where it can be detonated.

https://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/russian-calls-suitcase-nukes-too-expensive/
kuffodog said…
"In 1997, the public became aware of a Russian nuclear device they had not known even existed--the so-called suitcase bomb. These devices were made for the Soviet KGB. One of these bombs had an explosive charge of one kiloton, equivalent to one thousand tons of TNT. If a device like this made its way to the U.S. it could destroy everything within a half-mile radius of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Within hours, prevailing winds would carry the nuclear fallout throughout Washington"

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/russia/suitcase/
kuffodog said…
"500 people are struck down by norovirus on Royal Caribbean cruise ship as the ship prepares to dock in Port Canaveral"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6583917/The-number-passengers-struck-norovirus-luxury-cruise-liner-reaches-500.html
kuffodog said…
"The Syrian Foreign Ministry on Saturday likened Israel to IS militant group in terms of its actions inside Syria, adding that the "dangerous and aggressive" approach of Israel would not happen without the political, military and media covers of the U.S."

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/13/c_137739279.htm

Soon Russia and Syria will both realize the USA is a terrorist regime, not just a sponsor of terrorism. Israel is the same thing. Which is why they cover up for each other's crimes. Israel uses the "holocaust" which Americans perpetrated, as a tactic to discredit criticism, American mass murdering genocidal imperialists on the other hand, use "defense of Israel" as an excuse to invade and rob countries.
kuffodog said…
"The turbine of the world's first million-kilowatt hydroelectric generator"

https://twitter.com/XHNews/status/1083923887883087872
kuffodog said…
Breakdown of social order in Mexico? The Caravan effect? Mass looting?

"Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Thursday he will strengthen security along the 1,600-km state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) pipelines to prevent gasoline theft.

The Mexican government has had an aggressive plan in place since Dec. 27 to combat gas theft from pipelines and refineries, involving 4,900 military personnel."

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/11/c_137736236.htm
kuffodog said…
The British are not far behind the Israeli and Americans.

"In the event of the implementation of any measures that pose a threat to the security of Russia and its allies, our country reserves the right to take adequate response measures," Zakharova said at a weekly news briefing.

She commented on a recent interview with British Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson in the Sunday Telegraph, in which he suggested Britain building two new military bases in the Caribbean and Far East after leaving the European Union.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/12/c_137737306.htm
kuffodog said…
Millions leave Venezuela to avoid death from starvation, Maduro like Assad retains the 'presidential' seat.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/11/c_137734715.htm
kuffodog said…
If Israel annexes Golan Heights, in reciprocity, it would be entirely reasonable for Iran to annex the Shia areas of Iraq. Wouldn't it? Iraq has attacked Iran for decades, same reasoning applies.

https://www.vox.com/a/maps-explain-crisis-iraq

kuffodog said…
"A disorderly Brexit represents one of the unknown political threats to the global economy, with a potential to harm not just the British economy but the euro economy and neighboring economies dependent on the eurozone, according to a World Bank official."

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/09/c_137729448.htm

The British don't seem concerned and plan more overseas military bases after exiting EU.
kuffodog said…
Oh. then there is this:

"....I do have a plan on the Shutdown. But to understand that plan you would have to understand the fact that I won the election, and I promised safety and security for the American people. Part of that promise was a Wall at the Southern Border. Elections have consequences!"

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1084119654841364480

watch the video on what comes across that border:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1084153087785349125

Drugs. Drugs fry Americans' brains making them even stupider, more aggressive, apathetic, criminal, and due to pot: gluttonous. This fuels the other epidemics: of terrorism, bullying, mind hacking, torture, and obesity.

"Drug overdose deaths top 70,000, drive down U.S. life expectancy

Suicide rates rose by 3.7 percent. The two causes of untimely death lowered U.S. life expectancy for the second year in a row."

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/americas-heroin-epidemic/drug-overdose-deaths-top-70-000-drive-down-u-s-n941476
kuffodog said…
"I just watched a Fake reporter from the Amazon Washington Post say the White House is “chaotic, there does not seem to be a strategy for this Shutdown. There is no plan.” The Fakes always like talking Chaos, there is NONE. In fact, there’s almost nobody in the W.H. but me, and..." - Trump

Trump is a storm. To the Bezos Bozo anyway.
kuffodog said…
Us the $20 million a vet collected in crowd funding to get barbed wire and deploy it immediately.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/424976-20-million-raised-in-gofundme-for-trump-border-wall-will-be-refunded
kuffodog said…
1320 ft for $80 is 330,000,000 or 330 million feet of barbed wire for that $20 million. That's 625,000 miles of barbed wire. Border is 1,954 miles. That's 320 strands of barbered wire that can span the WHOLE border. Spread them 5 inches apart. Use wooden posts to attach them to. Wrap the rest around it. Get troops to do it. Have it done before the animals in Congress get back from their larceny trips.

https://www.acehardware.com/departments/building-supplies/gates-and-fences/barbed-wire/7000805?x429=true&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIm-iKz6Xq3wIVVBh9Ch2cWAspEAQYASABEgIMuvD_BwE
kuffodog said…
"U.S. Marines install razor wire next to the U.S.-Mexico border fence on December 2, 2018 as seen from Tijuana, Mexico. The Pentagon is reportedly finalizing plans to send hundreds more active-duty troops to the border to bolster security, a mission said to be separate from President Trump's efforts to build a wall."

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/01/11/hundreds-more-active-duty-troops-may-be-sent-to-us-mexico-border/
kuffodog said…
The socialist that's Mexico's president is a DICTATOR.

Opposition politicians got assassinated, a governor and his wife, mayor etc.

He stopped a multi billion dollar project to build a modern airport losing BILLIONS as it was halfway done. A clear sign of socialist stupidity.

Now there is a gasoline crisis which means the economy will come to a HALT.

Looting of gas pipelines is addressed with a military crackdown, akin to Maduro's.

This will get worse. Much worse.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/world/americas/mexico-gas-crisis.html
kuffodog said…
Trump should use the military, national guard and army corp of engineers to build the wall.

The US is under a chemical weapon attack by drug cartels 70,000 died last year.

Wall can be built out of anything. Dirt mounds. Rocks. Whatever it takes so drug cartels can't just drive their SUV's full of drugs into the country.

Use the $20 million a vet collected in crowd funding to get barbed wire and deploy it immediately.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/424976-20-million-raised-in-gofundme-for-trump-border-wall-will-be-refunded

1320 ft for $80 is 330,000,000 or 330 million feet of barbed wire for that $20 million. That's 625,000 miles of barbed wire. Border is 1,954 miles. That's 320 strands of barbered wire that can span the WHOLE border. Spread them 5 inches apart. Use wooden posts to attach them to. Wrap the rest around it. Get troops to do it. Have it done before the animals in Congress get back from their larceny trips.

https://www.acehardware.com/departments/building-supplies/gates-and-fences/barbed-wire/7000805?x429=true&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIm-iKz6Xq3wIVVBh9Ch2cWAspEAQYASABEgIMuvD_BwE

Put the barbed wire under electric charge to know when it's cut. Use DC current.

Mexico has a socialist president and people are starting to steal gasoline to get by. He's going to go the way of Maduro. Within months there can be millions of Mexicans headed for the border like herds of migrating cattle. Build a fucking border barrier that stops people. When they try to breach it, shoot them or capture them. Rubber bullets or live ammo. Whatever.
kuffodog said…
Never mind the wooden posts. 160 miles is already being built by the Marines. Use metal ones and use concrete footing so they're harder to knock over.
kuffodog said…
"More than 100 politicians in Mexico have been killed since September in the lead-up to the country’s election this Sunday, and more than 13,000 Mexicans have been killed since January.
In an 11 year war on drugs, Mexico has failed to control organized crime and criminal infiltration of local governments and law enforcement.

Some 20 or so percent of voters remain undecided, and security is expected to be a major factor in how they choose to vote."

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/26/more-than-100-politicians-murdered-in-mexico-ahead-of-election.html
kuffodog said…
"The US Consulate in Guadalajara, Jalisco was attacked with two grenades in the hours before Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (ALMO) was sworn in as Mexico’s new president. The attack, which occurred around 2300 hours on Friday, 30 November 2018, involved two grenades thrown at the consulate. While the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG)—has been mentioned as a possible suspect group in the attack—which yielded no injuries the CJNG denies involvement."

https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/mexican-cartel-strategic-note-no-26-grenade-attack-us-consulate-guadalajara-followed-cjng

100 politicians killed before the election. US consulate attacked. Socialist becomes president of Mexico. Sounds like a script for a dictatorship.
kuffodog said…
"Mexico: homicides up 16% in 2018, breaking own records for violence

Country saw 15,973 killings in the first half of the year, the highest since records began in 1997"

There were over 30 thousand murders in Mexico by the end of 2018. A population half the size of USA where there are about 11 thousand murders a year. This means Mexico's murder rate is about 6 times as high as in USA. A clear case for a BORDER WALL.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/23/mexico-crime-homicides-violence-up-report
kuffodog said…
"The messages were infected with a spyware known as Pegasus, which the Mexican government purchased from an Israeli cyber arms dealer called the NSO Group, according to a forensic analysis by the Citizen Lab at the Munk School at the University of Toronto."

Mexican regime is ran by a socialist who can hack journalists' phones and set people up after it murders those who criticize it. They purchased the mind and phone hacking software from the Jewish apartheid regime. Like I said, he'll turn Mexico into another Venezuela.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/world/americas/mexico-spyware-journalist.html
kuffodog said…
“The people of Venezuela deserve to live in freedom in a democratic society governed by the rule of law,” State Department spokesman Robert Palladino said. “It is time to begin the orderly transition to a new government. We support the National Assembly’s call for all Venezuelans to work together, peacefully, to restore constitutional government and build a better future.”

https://apnews.com/14cb975f9ba741bb8bacd6f1cc38f7d5

US gov't is shutdown, and it calls for the Venezuelan gov't to shutdown and field a new one?!
kuffodog said…
"The transition of power in Washington attracted officials and business executives from around the world seeking entree and influence with the new administration. While many parties and other gatherings during that period were open to anyone, packages for more exclusive events organized by Mr. Trump’s presidential inaugural committee started at $25,000 for two tickets to one of the official black tie balls and other events, according to a brochure listing inaugural committee “underwriter benefits.”

Evidence of the Ukrainians’ presence eventually prompted interest from the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, as he investigated Russian interference in the 2016 election, and has spawned a number of related inquiries by federal prosecutors. The investigations are playing out against growing indications that some of the Ukrainians who came to Washington for the inaugural, or their allies, were promoting grand bargains, or “peace” plans, that aligned with Russia’s interests, including by lifting sanctions."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/us/politics/ukraine-donald-trump-inauguration.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share
kuffodog said…
0.3% is UK GDP growth in 2018. Guardian blames it on... THE CAR INDUSTRY. Now let's see... is this mind controlled American propaganda referring to the transition to electric cars? No. It's actually the failure of UK car industry to transition to electric cars which are better, so few want to buy their overpriced, high maintenance, high fuel cost products.

No mention of the $1 trillion in financial industry transfer from London to EU due to American brainwashing and Facebook-Cambridge Analytica paid by the American regime to wrest Britain away from the EU. Better off with Brexit? Wait until AFTER Brexit.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/11/car-industry-malaise-drags-down-uk-gdp-growth-to-03
kuffodog said…
"It's not Brexit Britain most likely to have a recession. It's Germany"

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/08/its-not-brexit-britain-most-likely-to-suffer-recession-its-germany

Brits are delusional. UK is a tiny market. Germany can export to China and India. We've built the New Silk road and the Brits will be out of our FTA zone when they leave EU. This means the New Silk road will be subject to EU tariffs on EVERYTHING that gets transported by rail to UK.

What did Trump do? 20%? I think we'll copy Trump. 20% tariff on anything headed for the UK from the EU.
kuffodog said…
Trumps as president:

Lost $1 billion in personal wealth
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/02/trump-forbes-400-spot-tumbles-as-net-worth-declines.html

Put USA $2 trillion deeper in debt
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-national-debt-2-trillion-donald-trump-presidency-deficit-treasury-congressional-budget-office-a8710546.html


kuffodog said…
China built 30,000 km worth of high speed rail. Now reaching most of Tibet.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-12/24/c_137695894.htm

"Sales of new cars in China fell 5.8% in 2018, the first time in 20 years that nation has not seen growth in auto sales from one year to the next."

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/01/10/new-car-sales-in-china-fell-5-8-in-2018/

German economic growth:
2013 - 0.5 2014 - 1.9 2015 - 1.7 2016- 1.9 2017- 2.2 2018 - 2.2
https://www.focus-economics.com/countries/germany



kuffodog said…
Number of vehicles in China grew from less than a million in 1980, to 59.04 million in 2007 to 217 million in 2017. In the US the average car is aged 11.6 years. A car produced any given year will add to the existing fleet for about 12 years if China matches US in average vehicle longevity. There may have been a drop in car demand, but introduction of electric bus fleets has not dropped overall demand for vehicles.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/285306/number-of-car-owners-in-china/

China has surpassed USA with number of motor vehicles at 322,000,000 in 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_per_capita
kuffodog said…
""U.K. gross domestic product (GDP) is already 2.1 percent lower in level terms than where it would have been without Brexit," UBS economists Pierre Lafourcade and Arend Kapteyn, and strategist John Wraith, said in a research note published Monday.

"Investment is 4 percent weaker, inflation 1.5 percent higher, consumption is 1.7 percent lower and the REER (the real effective exchange rate) is 12 percent more depreciated," the report added."

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/03/brexit-is-estimated-to-have-wiped-2percent-off-the-uks-gdp-even-before-the-exit-date.html
kuffodog said…
China's domestic consumption is higher % of economy than that of USA. PRC - 77.8% vs USA - 70%

"Exports will play a smaller role for China’s economy. Ten years ago, they made up 35 percent of China’s GDP. Exports currently make up 18 percent of China’s economy.

Consumption in China now makes up 77.8 percent of the economic growth, having increased by 20 percent since last year. Compared to the US, where it makes up 70 percent of the economy.

In the first quarter of 2018, it produced 30 percent more industrial robots than in the year before and 139 percent more electric cars.

If trade were to completely stop between the US and China, it would affect China’s growth by between 0.3 and 0.6 percent according to the Beijing-based economy professor, Hu Xingdou.

The “New Silk Road” project is creating and growing new export markets exports, in South Asia, Latin America and Africa. China’s exchange of goods with ASEAN states alone has grown by 9 percent to $279 billion (€227 billion). When the Silk Road is finished, it will link 65 countries and unite some 40 percent of the global economy."

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/04/china-gdp-in-2018-tracking-at-10-5-higher-and-china-will-pass-world-per-person-averages-in-2019.html

If trade between US and PRC were to stop, Chinese growths would be affected by 0.3 and 0.6, and it is now at 6.7% so it would still be double that of USA's at 6.1% even if all trade stopped and with worst possible effect on PRC's economy. China is also the world's largest economy at $24.9 trillion (counting 6.7% without compounding GDP growth on quarterly basis, from 2017 GDP PPP of 23,300,782 million)

kuffodog said…
EU GDP 2018:
$19.1 trillion nominal;
$23.0 trillion PPP;

vs USA $20.66 trillion PPP

1 PRC $24.9 trillion
2 EU $23.0 trillion
3 USA $20.66 trillion ($21.94 trillion in debt)

kuffodog said…
EU population over the last decade grew by 12 million. The population size will jump by 42 million with Ukraine joining. This means an expansion of 54 million. UK's population is 66 million. Scotland's 5.4 million. Independent Scotland rejoining the EU would make this a net of 61 million gain for EU making up for the 61 million lost by UK leaving. It's a wash. If Northern Ireland unifies with Ireland, that is another 2 million. EU will have a gain of 63 million vs a loss of 59 million with Brexit, for the decade. A net gain of 4 million.
kuffodog said…
"The shells—launched by a group aligned with Iran—landed in an open lot, harming no one. But they triggered unusual alarm in Washington, where President Trump’s national security team conducted a series of meetings to discuss a forceful American response.

As part of the talks, Mr. Trump’s National Security Council, led by John Bolton, asked the Pentagon to provide the White House with military options to strike Iran. The request, which hasn’t been previously reported, generated concern at the Pentagon and State Department, current and former U.S. officials say.

“It definitely rattled people,” said one former senior U.S. administration official. “People were shocked. It was mind-boggling how cavalier they were about hitting Iran.”"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-sought-options-to-strike-iran-11547375404

One US admiral was so rattled... he took his own life.
https://www.businessinsider.com/navy-admiral-scott-stearney-dead-no-foul-play-bahrain-2018-12
kuffodog said…
"The shells—launched by a group aligned with Iran—landed in an open lot, harming no one. But they triggered unusual alarm in Washington, where President Trump’s national security team conducted a series of meetings to discuss a forceful American response.

As part of the talks, Mr. Trump’s National Security Council, led by John Bolton, asked the Pentagon to provide the White House with military options to strike Iran. The request, which hasn’t been previously reported, generated concern at the Pentagon and State Department, current and former U.S. officials say.

“It definitely rattled people,” said one former senior U.S. administration official. “People were shocked. It was mind-boggling how cavalier they were about hitting Iran.”"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-sought-options-to-strike-iran-11547375404

One US admiral was so rattled... he took his own life.
https://www.businessinsider.com/navy-admiral-scott-stearney-dead-no-foul-play-bahrain-2018-12

Americans did attack Iran, with a proxy terrorist group that killed some civilians at a military parade. 29 were killed 70 wounded. This means they have no viable option to strike Iran without incurring massive fatalities.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/22/middleeast/iran-attack-parade-intl/index.html

Tehran coordinated its ballistic missile strikes with Damascus: Syrian FM to take out American CIA's terrorist proxy in Syria. Criminals whom they've spent $1 billion cultivating.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/10/02/575841/Tehran-coordinated-its-ballistic-missile-strikes-with-Damascus-Syrian-FM

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/world/middleeast/cia-syria-rebel-arm-train-trump.html

kuffodog said…
"Based on the information we have received, around 40 top leaders of Daesh were killed in this attack," General Amirali Hajizadeh, head of the Guards' aerospace division, was quoted on Tuesday by Iran's state media as saying. "Daesh" is a derogatory Arabic acronym for Islamic State.

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5363061,00.html
kuffodog said…
"Mr. Mattis, who resigned last month amid a dispute with Mr. Trump over the president’s national security decisions, pushed for a more modest response that Mr. Trump eventually embraced."

Mad dog pushed for a more modest response than Bolton? What does that make Bolton?

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5363061,00.html
kuffodog said…
"Angered by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s announcement that Poland will host an international conference on Iran in mid-February, Iranian authorities on Sunday summoned Warsaw’s top diplomat in the country and called off a Polish film festival."

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/iran-summons-polish-envoy-in-protest-against-upcoming-summit/
kuffodog said…
Preemptive CIA assassination? The criminals in Washington must have gotten the idea from Mexicans who killed a 100 of their politicians before last elections.

"Iran’s Next Supreme Leader Is Dead
And it’s not going to be easy for the Islamic Republic to survive without him."

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/10/irans-next-supreme-leader-is-dead/
kuffodog said…
"Former CIA operations officer accused Donald Trump of being a “traitor” who “betrayed” America after the New York Times revealed that the FBI launched a secret probe into whether the president was working for the Kremlin.

In a series of tweets on Saturday, Evan McMullin, who ran as an independent candidate in the 2016 presidential election, pointed out the gravity of the report and asserted that Trump has "betrayed us.""

https://www.newsweek.com/former-cia-agent-calls-trump-traitor-who-betrayed-america-after-nyt-report-1289303
kuffodog said…
"director of the Missile Defense Agency, testified to the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee. During the hearing, Sen. Susan Collins asked Greaves about the risk that China and Russia’s hypersonic missile technology will be proliferated to countries like North Korea and Iran. “I assess that risk as extremely high,” Greaves responded. “I don’t see what will prevent it from happening.” He added that this is the reason why “the hypersonic threat is something that we need to address expediently.”

DPRK is PRC's proxy. Iran is Russia's proxy. Naturally if Americans attack either one, they'll be equipped to inflict severe pain on US Navy and Air Force and American occupying forces in the respective regions.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/us-general-iran-north-korea-will-have-hypersonic-weapons-25491
kuffodog said…
France can go fuck itself with its demands. Pay attention to your yellow jacket protests.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1070604/World-War-3-Iran-news-2019-threat-France-latest-nuclear-missiles-nuclear-war
kuffodog said…
"Iran fought against the ba'ath party before Kuwait was occupied; against Al-Qaida before 9/11 and against Daesh before their attacks on Europe. Appreciate that the world will not have a better friend than Iran, if peace is what you seek. #UNGA" - Hassan Rouhani

https://twitter.com/HassanRouhani/status/1044654802398072837
kuffodog said…
"Reminder to host/participants of anti-Iran conference: those who attended last US anti-Iran show are either dead, disgraced, or marginalized. And Iran is stronger than ever.
Polish Govt can't wash the shame: while Iran saved Poles in WWII, it now hosts desperate anti-Iran circus." - Javad Zarif, Foreign Minister of Islamic Republic of Iran

https://twitter.com/JZarif/status/1083795864781549568

Absolutely right. The Polish vassals of the murderous sadistic Satanic American regime have cut down their national park forests to appease their genocidal overlords. Murdered for them in terrorist attacks like the one in Norway. Took blame for the Holocaust. And barked like dogs at Russia on their master's command. Then they welcomed Ukrainian Nazis who committed genocide against them, into the European Union. In return they got to stay out of the Eurozone and pretended their economy grew as their nominal GDP tied to their Satanic overlord 's whims remained stagnant for a decade. Not to mention that the crooked lying traitors sold out their own population so it is mind controlled, tortured and murdered by remote American mass surveillance, mind hacking and extrajudicial killing. Oh, they also barked at the EU and bit the hand that fed these losers out of poverty.
kuffodog said…
"It's said a picture says a thousand words. This picture, however, says more than a thousand words about decades of failed US policies in our region.

In the valley of the blind, even those with VR glasses are still blind." - Javad Zarif
Foreign Minister of Islamic Republic of Iran

Indeed. I've come up with the VR product. The larcenous liars tortured, terrorized, attacked, abused and libeled me 24/7 over clairvoyance... they even blackmailed me with my mother's rape, death and tortured her... but hey can't cloud it. Iran will come out victorious even if Americans and all of their EU henchmen attack it together.
kuffodog said…
"Qatar and the US have reached an agreement on expanding Al Udeid Airbase, which currently hosts over 13,000 American and coalition troops. “We are grateful for your country’s willingness to make sure that the airbase can meet the needs of the US military for decades to come,” US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told his Qatari counterpart Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani in Doha."

https://www.rt.com/newsline/448707-qatar-us-airbase-expansion/

The American terrorists and genocidal imperialists have thrown the gauntlet. Iran should immediately field a nuclear deterrent with hyper-sonic missiles pointed at the Qatari henchmen of the Great Satan. The American mass murderers broke all agreements, drove EU to violate JCPOA and France, itself an imperialist nuclear power to threaten Iran. Iran should immediately reacquire its fissile material from Russia and field at least 300 nuclear warheads, using Korean technology.
kuffodog said…
"An Afghan asylum seeker has carried out a horrible attack on a pregnant Polish woman, repeatedly stabbing her at a German hospital. The man was caught by police but his victim had lost her unborn child."

https://www.rt.com/news/448703-stabbing-woman-loses-unborn-child/
kuffodog said…
"According to the latest CDC update, three more children died from the flu in the first week of January, bringing the total to 16 pediatric deaths so far this flu season. Last year, the flu killed more than 80,000 Americans, including a record 185 children."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/more-than-6-million-have-been-sick-with-flu-so-far-this-season-cdc-says/
kuffodog said…
I predicted the 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull AND also the 2010 Central European floods.

The two events are closely related: basically the volcanic ash served as cloud seeding across central Europe and while the eruption continued... it rained. In fact the dates match:

eruptions: 20 March – 23 June 2010

floods: May – June 2010

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Central_European_floods

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_eruptions_of_Eyjafjallaj%C3%B6kull

"In Poland, the floods caused the deaths of at least 25 people, the evacuation of approximately 23,000 people, and an estimated economic cost of 2.5 billion euros. Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk informed the Sejm that ongoing flooding was "the worst natural disaster in the nation's history ... without precedent in the past 160 years"."
kuffodog said…
Polish Mayor Dies After Being Stabbed Onstage at Charity Event

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/world/europe/pawel-adamowicz-gdansk-mayor-dead.html

kuffodog said…
The Polish mayor assassination is a prelude to radicalizing Poland to become a vassal of the US and break away from the EU. Same script as in Britain with the Cox murder.

U.S. SILENTLY TORTURES AMERICANS WITH CELL TOWER ELECTROMAGNETIC NEUROWEAPON
http://viclivingston.blogspot.com/2011/12/u.html
kuffodog said…
"The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that the rate of that ice loss has not been consistent, with ice disappearing faster in each successive decade. Ice loss in Antarctica has increased from 40 gigatons (a gigaton is one billion tons) per year from 1979-90 all the way up to 252 gigatons per year from 2009-17, a 6-fold increase."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/14/world/climate-change-antarctica-ice-melt-twin-studies/index.html
kuffodog said…
Several points on global warming:

1. Global warming will continue regardless, if emissions are stopped.

2. Emissions are at record levels and continue to rise.

3. Oceanic acidity will stop rising, as saturation point is met.

4. Same level of emissions will cause fast atmospheric CO2 rise as the world ocean's carbon sink gets filled to maximum.

5. Ice cap melt will cause runaway global warming, heat the atmosphere alone to maximum level where a new point of equilibrium is reached between radiating heat into space and incoming solar heat, this based on existing levels of greenhouse warming gasses in the atmosphere or continually worse as feedback loop and human activity continue to add to the atmospheric thickness. Thicker atmosphere traps more heat. This event is unprecedented in Earth's history. As more water evaporates, more of it can be held in the atmosphere, so it will trap more heat. This is a feedback loop that may not stop at all...

6. Plant mass cover will burn releasing more carbon into the atmosphere with climate change.

7. Ice cover melt will continue to accelerate even at steady global energy related emissions.

8. Some areas already saw 8 degrees Centigrade and more of warming.

9. Oceanic acidity and polar caps are thresholds the passing of which, will greatly accelerate global warming of the atmosphere once they are reached. No science or historical precedent exists that can reliably predict what other feedback loops exist. Runaway global warming is already in effect. Carbon emissions will compound it. The final global temperature of the heated atmosphere is unknown, but calculable. Assume all ice melted and the ocean cannot absorb any more carbon dioxide while emissions continue at present level, then assume the ocean not longer is able to trap more heat as it surface temperatures get higher. What happens if all the energy that ice caps, permafrost and the ocean used to trap... is trapped in the atmosphere?
kuffodog said…
"Over the past quarter-century, Earth’s oceans have retained 60 percent more heat each year than scientists previously had thought, said Laure Resplandy, a geoscientist at Princeton University who led the startling study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The difference represents an enormous amount of additional energy, originating from the sun and trapped by Earth’s atmosphere — the yearly amount representing more than eight times the world’s annual energy consumption."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/10/31/startling-new-research-finds-large-buildup-heat-oceans-suggesting-faster-rate-global-warming/
kuffodog said…
"The maps here show the world as it is now, with only one difference: All the ice on land has melted and drained into the sea, raising it 216 feet and creating new shorelines for our continents and inland seas.

There are more than five million cubic miles of ice on Earth, and some scientists say it would take more than 5,000 years to melt it all. If we continue adding carbon to the atmosphere, we’ll very likely create an ice-free planet, with an average temperature of perhaps 80 degrees Fahrenheit instead of the current 58."

Average global temperature will be tropical. Ice will be gone. That's not a 2 degree rise... that's 12.2 global rise in temperature. As global temperature rises, more feedback loops may appear which were previously not happening.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2013/09/rising-seas-ice-melt-new-shoreline-maps/
kuffodog said…
"The world’s polar regions are losing about 666 billion tons of ice to the ocean each year — amounting to a little bit less than two millimeters of sea-level rise annually."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/12/21/melting-arctic-ice-is-now-pouring-tons-water-per-second-into-ocean-scientists-find/
kuffodog said…
Increased carbon dioxide content raises the ability of the atmosphere to hold moisture.

"Although the sea level has risen by 6.5 inches since 1950, nearly half of it (3 inches) has occurred in only the last 20 years. This small increase in sea level has caused a 200-400% increase in flooding nationally."

https://sealevelrise.org/
kuffodog said…
"Seeds taken up to the Moon by China's Chang'e-4 mission have sprouted, says China National Space Administration.

It marks the first time any biological matter has grown on the Moon, and is being seen as a significant step towards long-term space exploration."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-46873526
kuffodog said…
India, EU, US and China, or the worlds biggest economies will see the rest of the world catch up in carbon emissions as their populations quickly grow and their economies develop.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/12/05/we-are-trouble-global-carbon-emissions-reached-new-record-high/
kuffodog said…
"The statement added that the US military "is transitioning its support at the southwestern border from hardening ports of entry to mobile surveillance and detection, as well as concertina wire emplacement between ports of entry."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/14/politics/military-border-support-pentagon/index.html
kuffodog said…
"Analysts have told CNN that the technology does not use ICBMs and Iran has said its satellites are for telecommunications."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/15/middleeast/iran-satellite-launch-intl/index.html
kuffodog said…
"President Trump on Sunday night vowing to “devastate” the Turkish economy if Ankara attacks U.S.-backed Kurds revealed a much wider chasm between the two sides and prompted a new round of recriminations from Turkey."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trumps-vow-to-devastate-turkey-rattles-negotiations-over-syria-withdrawal/2019/01/14/1a61049c-17ff-11e9-88fe-f9f77a3bcb6c_story.html
kuffodog said…
"Smugglers are flooding our communities with drugs.

*300 Americans die each week from heroin, 90% of it comes from south of the border.

*ICE seized 2,370 lbs of fentanyl in 2017, enough to kill every American.

Democrats need to work with @realDonaldTrump to secure our border."

https://twitter.com/GOPChairwoman/status/1084486886557712384
kuffodog said…
"If the Arctic begins to experience entirely ice-free summers, scientists say, the planet will warm even more, as the dark ocean water absorbs large amounts of solar heating that used to be deflected by the cover of ice. "

https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/12/11/arctic-is-even-worse-shape-than-you-realize/?utm_term=.42f3b4cf8bc2

"Over the past three decades of global warming, the oldest and thickest ice in the Arctic has declined by a stunning 95 percent, according the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s annual Arctic Report Card."
kuffodog said…
Northern sea route takes longer than rail on the New Silk road. Ships can't load and unload along the way. Train cars can be detached and picked up along the way, sending cargo in many directions and dispersing cargo to varied destinations. To do that ships have to go to a port. What ports are there on the Northern Sea Route that would make that feasible?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/russias-suez-canal-ships-start-plying-an-ice-free-arctic-thanks-to-climate-change/2018/09/08/59d50986-ac5a-11e8-9a7d-cd30504ff902_story.html
kuffodog said…
"The “Atlantification” and “Pacification” of the Arctic has begun. As warmer waters stream into an increasingly ice-free Arctic Ocean, new species — from phytoplankton to whales — have the potential to upend this sensitive polar environment."

https://e360.yale.edu/features/alien-waters-neighboring-seas-are-flowing-into-a-warming-arctic-ocean

As the arctic ice cover disappears and the Arctic ocean is filled with warm water, new ocean current and weather patterns should also change the climate of the lands surrounding it.
kuffodog said…
"Even if humanity stops global warming in its tracks at 2°C, long seen as the guardrail for a climate-safe world, Arctic sea ice will still disappear in some years, scientists have warned."

https://www.news24.com/Green/News/2c-cap-on-global-warming-wont-save-arctic-sea-ice-studies-conclude-20180405
kuffodog said…
About a year and a half ago Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov said there are no gays in Chechnya

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/07/15/ramzan-kadyrov-says-there-are-no-gay-men-in-chechnya-and-if-there-are-any-they-should-move-to-canada/

"A Russian LGBT rights group on Monday reported a new wave of persecution against gay people in Chechnya, in which it says around 40 people have been arrested and two killed."

https://news.yahoo.com/gay-purge-underway-russias-chechnya-activists-182741048.html

If Kadyrov was right a year and a half ago, either gays have migrated to Chechyna... or they have respawned. If they have respawned, it would mean they were TURNED gay; as new ones would only be 1.5 year old and not even walking yet. Hard to tell which ones were born gay when they're just learning to speak. That makes LGBTQ a psychological contagion propagated by American brainwashing. Pedophilia and homosexual CUSTOMS are CULTURAL not biological in nature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pederasty

kuffodog said…
“I never worked for Russia” - Trump

"This is all a sham. Special counsel Robert Mueller is out to get him -- as is the entire FBI. They've got nothing. (The 192 criminal counts, 36 people and entities charged, seven people who have pleaded guilty, the four people sentenced to prison and the one person convicted at trial as a result of the Mueller probe make clear, of course, that Trump is wrong.)"

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/14/politics/trump-russia-mueller/index.html

"whole big fat hoax." - Trump

Really? Trump is wrong? US doesn't set people up? Doesn't kill people?

"When the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech before huge crowds on the National Mall in August 1963, the FBI took notice.

"We must mark him now, if we have not done so before, as the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation from the standpoint of communism, the Negro and national security," FBI Domestic Intelligence Chief William Sullivan wrote in a memo two days later."

"Read the letter the FBI sent MLK to try to convince him to kill himself"

https://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/12/7204453/martin-luther-king-fbi-letter
kuffodog said…
"If Trump really didn't do ANYTHING wrong in relation to Russia, the dumbest thing he could possibly do is what he did -- actively work to scotch the official record of any evidence of what he and Putin have talked about over the past two years. It's literally the most guilty looking thing he could do."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/14/politics/trump-russia-mueller/index.html
kuffodog said…
"BREAKING: Netanyahu takes responsibility for Israeli airstrike against Iranian forces in Syria on Friday and says the target was a warehouse with Iranian weapons in Damascus international airport"

https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/1084378919271391232

Not even ISIS attacked the Damascus International Airport. Israeli like Americans, can simply libel a Palestinian as a terrorist, and shoot them at will, children, medics, reporters, and all. When bombing Syria, they use Iran's presence as an excuse. Americans do the same thing, libel someone as a terrorist, they torture, put them under mind control, or murder them. They did the same with 'communists', before they've invented this scheme.

https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/red-scare
kuffodog said…
"We strongly condemn the Maduro dictatorship’s arrest today of National Assembly President Juan Guaido. Such acts of intimidation by Maduro’s Cuban-sponsored secret police (SEBIN), led by Gen. Manuel Christopher Figueroa, represent a grave assault on the rule of law in Venezuela." - Bolton

There is rule of law in Venezuela? It's got one of the highest murder rates of any country in the world. It was 3rd after Honduras (which people are fleeing by the thousands) and El Salvador (of even greater infamy). 13 times worse than the "failed" state Somalia, which by definition of a failed state is engulfed in the absence of rule of law. By the way, USA has no rule of law EITHER, according to the 2016 Somali murder rate as a yardstick:

Somalia - 4.31
United States - 5.35

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
kuffodog said…
"China condemned Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday for “irresponsible” remarks after he accused Beijing of “arbitrarily” applying the death penalty for a man convicted of drug smuggling."

https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-condemns-canada-after-justin-trudeaus-remarks-about-drug-smuggling-sentence

"*ICE seized 2,370 lbs of fentanyl in 2017, enough to kill every American. "

https://twitter.com/GOPChairwoman/status/1084486886557712384
kuffodog said…
Unfortunate accident or murder in cold blood?

"3 Children Die After Getting Trapped In Freezer In Florida Home"

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/3-young-children-die-after-getting-trapped-in-chest-freezer_us_5c3dd278e4b0e0baf5411506
kuffodog said…
"A Republican just told me that he doubts @LindseyGrahamSC is kowtowing to Trump (and indirectly Putin) because he’s being blackmailed over his sexual orientation (an open secret) or even financial corruption. Rather, he thinks it probably involves some pretty serious sexual kink."

"By the way, as an openly gay man myself, I couldn’t care less about Lindsey Graham's sex life (gay, straight or otherwise). However, Graham is the Senate Judiciary Chair and there’s a strong likelihood that he's being blackmailed by the Russians. If so, that needs to be revealed."

https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1084631630654918656

kuffodog said…
"The US has long since set its sights upon the Arctic, which it openly sees as a potential new arena for a geopolitical standoff. As the planet's changing climate gradually turns ice-bound wastes into passable waterways, Washington is clearly intending to get its piece of the economic action in a region that might well become a major sea trade lane one day."

https://www.rt.com/news/448824-us-navy-arctic-russia-china/
kuffodog said…
"“I'm telling you, get out of there fast. We won’t stop attacking,” the prime minister said on Tuesday morning during a ceremony, in which he appointed Aviv Kochavi as the new chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF)."

How this 'we' may not work out:

1. Netanyahu is a crook who may soon be out of office, indicted for corruption.
2. Iran may forward deploy air defenses into Syria.
3. Russia may use their air defenses in Syria.
4. Syrian regime may upgrade their air defenses.
5. New Knesset may decide to abide by international law and quit terrorism.

https://www.rt.com/news/448828-netanyahu-iran-get-out-syria/

kuffodog said…
Chinese investment in US plunges 83% amid simmering trade war

https://www.rt.com/business/448747-chinese-investment-falls-us/
kuffodog said…
“Bolsonaro is a modern-day Hitler. He is. What he doesn't have is courage and his own decisions because he’s the puppet of a sect,” Maduro

https://www.rt.com/news/448815-bolsonaro-modern-hitler-maduro/
kuffodog said…
China's exports to US surged 11.3% in 2018 while imports from US to China rose a scanty 0.7%
https://www.rt.com/business/448758-china-us-record-trade-surplus/
kuffodog said…
"President Trump was wrong in asserting that the United States destroyed the Islamic State’s territorial statehood in a large part of Syria—Russia and its allies accomplished that—but he is right in proposing to withdraw some 2,000 American forces from that tragically war-ravaged country."

https://www.thenation.com/article/what-trumps-syrian-withdrawal-really-reveals/
kuffodog said…
"Recall, for example, Moscow’s disregarded warnings about one of the brothers who set off bombs during the Boston Marathon."

https://www.thenation.com/article/what-trumps-syrian-withdrawal-really-reveals/
kuffodog said…
"Chinese investments in the US fell by 83 percent, while growing by 80 percent in Canada."

https://www.rt.com/business/448747-chinese-investment-falls-us/
kuffodog said…
"Warsaw's moves confirm the suspicion that the high-profile arrest has the political purpose of catering to the US actions against Huawei."

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1135612.shtml
kuffodog said…
"The Chinese government's defense of Huawei's overseas rights and interests has been taken as evidence that the company is close to the government. A few Chinese have clamored that the government does not have sufficient reason to use national resources to settle a private company's overseas disputes. The government must turn its back on such voices. Protecting a native company, be it State-owned or private, is the government's responsibility.

Beijing should resolutely negotiate with Warsaw and conduct relative counter-measures, helping the world understand that Poland is an accomplice of the US.

China must not be soft at this point. Beijing will not bully Warsaw - and it is unworthy to do so - but the latter must pay for the offense."

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1135612.shtml
kuffodog said…
"Commander of US nuclear sub demoted for hiring 10 Filipina prostitutes as ‘accompaniment’"

"Capt. Travis Zettel was relieved of duty last August for “inappropriate personal conduct” after allegedly “ordering” ten girls to his hotel while his sub, the USS Bremerton, was ported in Subic Bay, Kitsap Sun reported, citing the details of the incident obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request."

https://www.rt.com/usa/448735-submarine-commander-relieved-prostitutes/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bremerton_(SSN-698)
kuffodog said…
Dallas cops used an IED delivered by a robot to kill a suspect in an extrajudicial killing. They could have simply used gas to make him pass out.

"Robots can be used to carry explosives. First such documented case was during the aftermath of 2016 shooting of Dallas police officers when a bomb disposal robot was used to deliver explosives to kill Micah Xavier Johnson, who was hiding in a place unaccesible to police snipers"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police_officers#Perpetrator

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_explosive_device
kuffodog said…
If all American mass shootings were material for international news coverage, they'd steal all the headlines on daily basis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2018
kuffodog said…
No-deal Brexit: Poland and Czech Republic to allow Britons to stay if UK crashes out

Emergency laws being written to enable Britons to remain and work in the two countries in event of no-deal Brexit

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/15/poland-and-czech-republic-to-allow-britons-to-stay-if-uk-crashes-out-of-eu
kuffodog said…
Poland denies cull aimed at wiping out wild boar

https://www.news24.com/Green/News/poland-denies-cull-aimed-at-wiping-out-wild-boar-20190111
kuffodog said…
Australia heat wave brings 'catastrophic' fire danger.

https://www.9news.com.au/2018/12/28/06/31/australia-weather-heatwave-adelaide-bushfire-danger-warnings-40c-temperatures
kuffodog said…
Chinese activity in Vanuatu Islands.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-27/the-secret-documents-china-and-vanuatu-signed-at-apec/10557438

http://www.bom.gov.au/tsunami/
6.6 quake in Vanuatu- no tsunami in Australia
https://twitter.com/BOM_au/status/1085246914789101568
kuffodog said…
Australian temperatures 8 to 12 degrees centigrade higher than average for January. What ever happened to the 2 degree goal?

"WEATHER: heat intensifying over southern and central Australia this week, 15 January 2019"
https://youtu.be/_h-PHZ2pKC0
kuffodog said…
"Australia extreme heatwave: 'code red' issued as Port Augusta hits 48.9C
Severe weather conditions forecast to bring maximum temperatures 8C to 16C above average, as three towns record overnight minimums of 33C"

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jan/15/australia-extreme-heatwave-records-broken-amid-all-time-highest-minimum-temperatures
kuffodog said…
Why wildfires are breaking out in the 'wrong' countries
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-44941999
kuffodog said…
"Where Almost 9 Billion Lightning Strikes in 5 Years Have Happened on Earth"

https://weather.com/safety/thunderstorms/news/2018-05-07-world-lightning-strikes-map-vaisala-2013-2017
kuffodog said…
"IPCC report ‘underestimates potential of these key dangers to send Earth into spiral of runaway climate change’"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/09/tipping-points-could-exacerbate-climate-crisis-scientists-fear
kuffodog said…
"He pointed to water vapour in the air, which traps heat in the atmosphere, as well as the loss of polar ice, the collapse of permafrost, and the migration of tropical clouds towards the poles."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/09/tipping-points-could-exacerbate-climate-crisis-scientists-fear

One small point. No tipping point is a stand alone feedback loop. They form synergies. As one of more of these tipping points are reached, they combined effect can be greater than each one alone. Note that presently heatwave highs exceed averages by 18 degrees C.
kuffodog said…
"CO2 during the last 420 million years ago was with ~2000 ppm highest during the Devonian (∼400 Myrs ago) and Triassic (220–200 Myrs ago), with a few maximum estimates ranging up to ∼3,700±1,600 ppm (215 Myrs ago)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth%27s_atmosphere

Making Earth into a world wide tropical climate 'paradise' is a possibility. Right now we're at 410 ppm. Clearly life on Earth won't die off even, if all the fossil fuels are burned off and the polar caps melt away. The CO2 content in the atmosphere was 5 times higher 420 million years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth%27s_atmosphere
kuffodog said…
Any temperature above 37 C is bad for human health if it persists, because it will stress people to cool off. There were no mammals 215 million years ago, for sure there wen't any around 420 million years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammal
kuffodog said…
"Our error margins are too big now to really weigh in on the precise amount of warming that's going on in the ocean. We really muffed the error margins."

Error margins are + or - this means the warming could be much greater. The landmass also absorbs heat, just consider the melting tundra... it melts, eh because it traps heat. All land does this, regardless WHERE it is on Earth. This is still unaccounted for in climate models.

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/global-warming-flawed-climate-model/
kuffodog said…
"As yet another study shows, we should all be skeptical. The evidence for runaway global warming as a result of humans spewing CO2 into the air is thin at best. Socialist bureaucrats use these models to justify sweeping changes in lifestyle and the global economy. These will not just cost trillions of dollars a year, but will lead to both reduced standards of living and a loss of freedom."

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/global-warming-flawed-climate-model/
kuffodog said…
"Climate models show a warming Earth radiates more heat into space, but when pushed too far, and this release valve shuts down, temperatures skyrocket to potentially Venusian levels.

Anyone familiar with a cooker knows that the hotter it gets the more heat it radiates. So too with the Earth. Remarkably for such a complex system, however, the heat radiating from the planet is in linear relation with the temperature increase of its surface – a mysteriously simple arrangement known to scientists since the 1950s."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/climate/a-warming-earth-might-eventually-copy-the-greenhouse-effect-of-venus

kuffodog said…
"Koll calculated that for Earth the runaway temperature threshold was at 340 °K (67 °C) – thankfully far beyond the current average surface temperature of about 285 °K (12 °C)."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/climate/a-warming-earth-might-eventually-copy-the-greenhouse-effect-of-venus
kuffodog said…
"Some 250 million years ago, runaway global warming saw the planet's average temperature hit 29 degrees Celsius, compared to about 15 C today"

12 to 15 is 3 degrees of global temperature rise. Not 1.

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/earth-permian-mass-extinction-apocalypse-warning-climate-change-frozen-methane-a7648006.html
kuffodog said…
"This melted vast amounts of methane that had been trapped in the permafrost and sea floor, causing temperatures to soar even further to levels “lethal to most life on land and in the oceans”."

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/earth-permian-mass-extinction-apocalypse-warning-climate-change-frozen-methane-a7648006.html
kuffodog said…
Cryptocurrency mining has a global warming effect because it uses lots of energy. Energy efficiency in computing is thus a key issue. Many multinational, especially those whose business models are based on vast data centers, like Apple, Google, Amazon or Microsoft, have already committed to 100% renewable power for their businesses. Not so with Bitcoin, people get what they can from the grid, regardless where they are in the world. The promise of quantum computing has systematically held the scepter of all codes being cracked by highly efficient machines, if that's the case, then these quantum machines should be used for cryptocurrency mining to increase energy efficiency. Maybe cryptocurrency mining should be more environmentally conscious and combine mining hardware with solar PV installations?

"Bitcoin can push global warming above 2 degrees Celsius by 2033: Study"

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/bitcoin-can-push-global-warming-above-2-degrees-celsius-by-2033-study/articleshow/66428540.cms

IBM Unveils Q System One Quantum Computer
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/283427-quantum-computing-goes-commercial-with-ibms-q-system-one
kuffodog said…
Physicists Send Particles Of Light Into The Past, Proving Time Travel Is Possible?

https://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/12/07/physicists-send-particles-of-light-into-the-past-proving-time-travel-is-possible/

Teleportation of humans possible today: A compendium of how

https://medium.com/@harshaangeri/teleportation-of-humans-possible-today-a-compendium-of-how-72fbb4af9804

Direct to brain communication into the past and teleportation of human 'souls' are two technologies that in the 'future', someone's now present to whom today's reality on Earth is the past, will put this together and 'collect' minds from the past. Humans have believed in the afterlife for the entirety of the neolithic revolution and developed complex ideologies on it. This is it. Not all that glamorous, and for sure a huge and difficult undertaking.
kuffodog said…
"Immediate fossil fuel phaseout could arrest climate change – study

Scientists say it may still technically be possible to limit warming to 1.5C if drastic action is taken now"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/immediate-fossil-fuel-phaseout-could-arrest-climate-change-study

Fossil fuel phaseout should be combined with introduction of compact fusion and atmospheric carbon dioxide capture for hydrocarbon production.

"Will Lockheed Martin Change The World With Its New Fusion Reactor?"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2018/08/01/will-lockheed-martin-change-the-world-with-its-new-fusion-reactor/

"Wendelstein 7-X fusion reactor keeps its cool en route to record-breaking results"
https://newatlas.com/wendelstein-7-x-nuclear-fusion-records/57394/

"Chinese fusion tool pushes past 100 million degrees"
https://phys.org/news/2018-11-chinese-fusion-tool-million-degrees.html

"World first: Coca-Cola brand to use DAC technology from Climeworks"
https://www.gasworld.com/world-first-coca-cola-brand-to-use-dac-technology/2016130.article
kuffodog said…
"Imagine flooding a desert half the size of the Sahara. Using 238 trillion gallons of desalinated ocean water to do the job. Creating millions of 1-acre-square micro-reservoirs to grow enough algae to gobble up all of Earth’s climate-changing carbon dioxide. For an encore: How about spreading the water and fertilizer (the dead algae) to grow a vast new forest of oxygen-producing trees?"

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/would-flooding-deserts-help-stop-global-warming-n934551
kuffodog said…
"Carbon Engineering, a Canadian company, is already making a liquid fuel by sucking carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere and combining it with hydrogen from water. This is an engineering breakthrough on two fronts: A potentially cost-effective way to take CO2 out of the atmosphere to fight climate change and a potentially cost-competitive way to make gasoline, diesel, or jet fuel that doesn’t add any additional CO2 to the atmosphere."

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/06/carbon-engineering-liquid-fuel-carbon-capture-neutral-science/

Producing hydrocarbons with the use of solar power, especially solar heat, captures some heat, captures come atmospheric CO2 and makes renewable fuel... anywhere on Earth. How lucrative this is, depends on whether hydrocarbons produced by mining will have a correct cost assigned to them for bringing about climate change disasters. However, in the long run, all hydrocarbon technologies that do not rely on landmass and can produce fuel from the atmosphere as resource, will be improved, existing hydrocarbons cannot be improved and will continue to be the more expensive option. Coal is already economically dead as a source for power production. Oil and gas are next.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/06/carbon-engineering-liquid-fuel-carbon-capture-neutral-science/
kuffodog said…
"Audi says its e-diesel fuel allows cars to run in a way that is almost carbon neutral — meaning the fuel would not substantially add carbon emissions into the atmosphere, making the fuel potentially far more environmentally friendly."

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/08/audi-expanding-output-of-sustainable-diesel-fuel.html
kuffodog said…
"Hydrogen is the cleanest-burning fuel, with water as its only emission. But hydrogen production is not always environmentally friendly. Conventional methods require natural gas or electrical power. The method advanced by the new device, called direct solar water splitting, only uses water and light from the sun."

Hydrogen production from the atmosphere and CO2 capture, can make any hydrocarbon fuel. This means that the process does not require electrolysis as in Carbon Engineering solution. This combined with carbon capture is can be deployed anywhere, as it only uses atmospheric resources and can run on solar power, available anywhere. In effect, this synergy of technologies can result in a capability to produce hydrocarbon products anywhere on Earth, where there is enough sunlight.

PHOTOSYNTHESIS DEVICE MAKES HYDROGEN FUEL MORE EFFICIENTLY
https://www.futurity.org/artificial-photosynthesis-hydrogen-1749492/

This Gasoline Is Made of Carbon Sucked From the Air
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/06/carbon-engineering-liquid-fuel-carbon-capture-neutral-science/
kuffodog said…
70% of people in the world think Trump is incompetent and illegitimate. If the public opinion of other countries determined US politics, Trump should be impeached under a no confidence vote in a mechanism akin to prime ministers being removed from power in parliamentary democracies. US is a fascist genocidal imperialist oligarchy, and never was a democracy.

http://www.pewglobal.org/2018/10/01/trumps-international-ratings-remain-low-especially-among-key-allies/

If 60 countries stated that Maduro is not a legitimate president, that means 70% of 195 countries of the world consider him the rightful leader of Venezuela. Compare to 70% of PEOPLE outside of USA who have no confidence in Trump.

https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1085176022625067009

kuffodog said…
China doesn't need more Venezuelan oil.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-venezuela-oil/venezuela-oil-exports-to-china-slump-may-hit-lowest-in-nearly-8-years-sources-data-idUSKBN1JB0YI

USA is world's number 1 oil and gas producer and is energy self sufficient, which makes Venezuela's oil exports to US non-competitive; historically US was Venezuela's biggest customer.

Venezuela's socialist economic model relied on oil exports at $80 or so per barrel to balance their budget (so when prices went up to around $130, Chavez was revered), oil price that Venezuela now needs to balance its budget is $117.50 per barrel. The actual oil price hovers between $50 and $60, and there is continually dropping demand for Venezuelan oil. Venezuela is selling much less oil at a much lower price. This is unsustainable.

https://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/03/oil-prices-and-budgetsthe-opec-countries-most-at-risk.html

https://oilprice.com/

Venezuela instead of attempting to export oil, should use it for manufacture to create jobs and domestic consumption. It should stabilize its currency with the use of a cryptocurrency, as it has tried, but this currency must be universally available to Venezuelan merchants and consumers. From what I saw, the usage of such currencies is sparse. Venezuela should also diversify its economy and try to become self sufficient, by using its domestic resources for manufacture of all the goods that are needed, not sell resources like gold and oil off at a great disadvantage to then use the money to overpay for imports that are more expensive due to sanctions and businesses moving out of Venezuela.

Best comparison one can make is to Russia's sanctions on Polish apples. Apples could find another market, but it was difficult to do under the time constraint, because apples are a perishable product. Instead, apples were used to manufacture more durable food products like apple cider and baby formula. Which is what I advised Poland to do and the sanctions by Russia increased the Polish GDP as a result.

Venezuela can't sell the oil, but it can sell any product that can be made from oil which it can produce cheaper than competitors, make these products unique, so there is little competition, or use these products domestically which will eliminate the need for 'hard currency' to keep imports coming into the country. Self sufficiency under sanctions beats the sanctions.

Domestic Venezuelan gasoline prices are too low and are not good for the economy. Gasoline that is literally dirt cheap, does not create wealth, merchants don't produce much income from selling it, because all sales are a mark up on the price of the good sold, those who use the cheap gas for their business models do not create efficiencies, because their business models are not reflective of the REAL cost of the fossil fuel their businesses have to use.

But then all prices in Venezuela are out of whack due to hyperinflation, so the same is true of other products. Hyperinflation has to be curbed in. The Russians keep touting the gold standard. Maybe instead of exporting gold, Venezuela should back its cryptocurrency with the gold it mines and increase the currency value as the national gold reserve grows? Gold prices are relatively stable on the global market, a cryptocurrency tied to the value of gold reserves in the country would control the money supply with something that has undisputed value internationally. Oil fluctuates much more and it is a commodity that's much harder to sell.
kuffodog said…
1. US GDP growth is now again based on fossil fuels: no GDP growth, means no growth in emissions. Anthropogenic global warming climate change is an existential danger to life on Earth. The shutdown is better than any carbon tax at stopping emissions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/15/us/politics/government-shutdown-economy.html

2. Border wall is existential for USA. Trump is right to hold out. Iran and Korea can both proliferate for money. Saudi Arabia which has already basically made arrangement to purchase nuclear weapons from Pakistan, is a terrorist state that sponsored the 9/11 attacks against USA. If it wants to blame Iran so it is obliterated with a retaliatory nuclear strike by USA, all it needs do is:

a.) buy a few nukes
b.) take out some democratic cities in USA
c.) blame Iran

This has been done before with airliners as weapons of mass destruction, the scale of the attack can be in kilotons, but tens or maybe hundreds of thousands will die. There will be complete authoritarian domination over the country in an unprecedented draconian regime crack down on all aspects of life in USA, it will make Patriot Act and The Authorization for Use of Military Force look like a joke. Saudi Arabia will look civilized and democratic by comparison.

3. If a nation state legitimately detonates nukes in a prompt, preemptive strike against USA without culpability due to a clandestine nature of the attack, it can cause a nuclear war. The attack may also be at many locations simultaneously, effectively culling the majority of the American population. The open border allows for this, as SUV's just ride across it with tons of drugs in them. Only hard border checkpoints can have Geiger counters which can detect fissile material in nuclear weapons. Some cities like NYC have deployed these across the city area, but they are not fool proof, they don't cover the whole city area, nor has this been done ubiquitously across USA.

4. Drug smuggling and gun smuggling fuel the drug war. It's a war. It requires a military solution. Why is the US Navy protecting shipping lanes in the Gulf of Aden, Yemen and Somalia from gun smuggling, drug smuggling and piracy, but cartels in Mexico and Columbia are free to cross the Gulf of Mexico and the US border to smuggle what they want, kidnap and kill including of 100's of Mexican politicians before elections?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/29/upshot/fentanyl-drug-overdose-deaths.html

5. If Trump caves in on the wall, people will die. For each ton of heroin smuggled into the US, there is an associated percentage of people who will overdose, create a ton of medical debt or have funeral home costs. This is not the GDP US wants, this doesn't create wealth or value.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/25/health/nebraska-fentanyl-bust/index.html

6. If Trump doesn't cave on the wall and Democrats fund it, he will be able to blame them for the shutdown, since they could have funded the wall in the first place. Their funding of the wall can be portrayed as an admission that it is necessary to have one. This will be a political suicide to the Democrats, because they could have simply funded the wall to start with and no gov't shutdown would have resulted. Trump's political capital with his base will grow. His chances of reelection as an incumbent are 5:1 for the last 40 years worth of elections (Reagan 8, Clinton 8, Bush 8, Obama 8 vs G.H.W.Bush 4)

kuffodog said…
"A middle school in California invoked disciplinary measures against a dozen kids after shocked parents discovered that they shared hateful messages in a private chat room and laid together in the shape of a swastika."

https://www.rt.com/usa/448929-ojai-school-swastika-chat/
kuffodog said…
"A powerful blast has hit the northern Syrian city of Manbij, which was recently threatened by Turkey over its Kurdish control. Several people were killed, with local sources claiming Kurdish-allied US soldiers were among the dead.

The blast happened near a restaurant and market. Preliminary reports say at least six people were killed and 19 others injured by the explosion. Various sources on the ground claim that between two and five US soldiers are among the casualties, but this has yet to be confirmed."

https://www.rt.com/news/448935-manbij-blast-us-patrol-reports/
kuffodog said…
"Nicola Sturgeon calls for second Brexit referendum"

Making Sturgeon the Prime Minister would keep the UK unity and the EU unity. No confidence vote is likely, second Brexit referendum is a way to legitimize UK remaining in the EU without undermining British voters from the previous referendum, even though they've been mind controlled and brainwashed by Facebook and Cambridge Analytica to spite their own faces.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-scotland-46885261/nicola-sturgeon-calls-for-second-brexit-referendum
kuffodog said…
First the World Trade Center towers where I used to go with friends and family (where I was supposed to be on 9.11.2001 with a couple Polish women), now the Tappan Zee Bridge which I crossed daily for years to drive to and back from work. I imagine they'll sell the scrap to somewhere like Vietnam, as Poland did with the bridge my friend used to jump off of.

https://www.rt.com/usa/448906-tappan-zee-bridge-demolished/


https://sanok.fotopolska.eu/930969,foto.html
kuffodog said…
- Kurds collaborate with all factions including ISIS as Syria's war wanes
- Turkey vows war of invasion in Syria to crush Kurds
- Turkey sponsors ISIS throughout the Syrian Civil war
- ISIS exterminates Kurds in local genocides
- ISIS strategically backs out as Americans engage them in an air campaign
- Americans bomb cities, mostly Kurdish ones, killing Kurds
- Turkey gives intelligence to its ISIS proxy to get out of the way right before air strikes
- Trump decides to leave Syria, doesn't want to occupy it
- Erdogan vows to crush more Kurds
- Trump's Secretary of Defense quits, as does Mc Gurk
- others call for Trump to stay in Syria, to have a foothold for a war with Iran
- Trump stays to occupy Kurdish areas of Syria (Kurds are only 10% of the population there)
- Trump threatens Turkey with economic devastation if they fight Kurdish terrorists
- Erdogan proves Trump is a liar by activating his ISIS proxy, US soldiers get blown up
- FOUR DEAD AMERICANS! FOUR DEAD AMERICANS! FOUR DEAD AMERICANS!
kuffodog said…
"The US will begin its withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia on February 1, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control Andrea Thompson has said."

https://www.rt.com/news/448966-inf-withdrawal-treaty-russia/
kuffodog said…
Boots on the ground and occupation means Americans are targets. Period. Attacking occupying forces of a country that SLAUGHTERED millions of civilians in Iraq and Syria isn't terrorism, it's insurgency. When ISIS held territory and there was a front line, they could be targeted. Now Americans are the targets. Bombing from the air is little different than bombing with car bombs or robots (like US cops do). Civilians die as collateral damage. Now the Kurds are traitors to all Syrians. They collaborate with the American enemy. Enemy of Syrians. Enemy of Muslims. Enemy of Persians. Enemy of Palestinians. Enemy of Turks. Enemy of Iraqis. When Trump decided US should get out, they should have got out, not linger after they've betrayed the Kurds like they've betrayed the Libyans. Kurds are Sunni Muslims and terrorists are among them as in every other Jewish and Muslim population.

One Dead McCain, 2.5 Million Dead Iraqis
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/08/27/one-dead-mccain-2-5-million-dead-iraqis/

Four Americans Killed in Islamic State Attack in Syria
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-16/syrian-explosion-injures-several-including-americans-anadolu
kuffodog said…
"If a deal is impossible, and no one wants no deal, then who will finally have the courage to say what the only positive solution is?" - Donald Tusk, President of the European Council
kuffodog said…
"Former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto accepted a $100m (£77m) bribe from drug cartel kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, a witness has testified.

Alex Cifuentes, who says he was a close associate of Guzmán for years, told a New York City courtroom that he had told authorities of the bribe in 2016."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46872414
kuffodog said…
"Germany's domestic intelligence agency is to step up monitoring of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party for suspected extremism.

But the BfV agency is not yet going as far as to use informants or phone taps in its nationwide watch on AfD.

AfD is the main opposition party. It entered the federal parliament for the first time in 2017, winning 94 seats in the 709-seat lower house (Bundestag)."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46882968
kuffodog said…
There is biological life on the Moon.

"Seeds taken up to the Moon by China's Chang'e-4 mission have sprouted, says China National Space Administration.

It marks the first time any biological matter has grown on the Moon, and is being seen as a significant step towards long-term space exploration."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-46873526
kuffodog said…
"The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has acquitted Ivory Coast ex-President Laurent Gbagbo.

He had been charged with crimes against humanity in connection with violence following a disputed 2010 election that left 3,000 dead and 500,000 displaced."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-46875757
kuffodog said…
"Global app downloads topped 194 billion in 2018, up 35 percent from 2016, according to App Annie’s annual “State of Mobile 2019” report released today. Consumer spending across app stores was up 75 percent to reach $101 billion. The report, which analyzes trends across iOS, Android and the third-party Android stores in China combined, follows the company’s earlier report released at year-end, which looked at downloads and spending across just iOS and Google Play."

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/16/china-accounted-for-nearly-half-of-app-downloads-in-2018-40-of-consumer-spend/
kuffodog said…
"CERN plans to build a collider four times bigger than the LHC
The $24-billion project will be 100 kilometers or 62 miles long."

https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/16/cern-future-circular-collider/

"The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) (also nicknamed the Desertron[1]) was a particle accelerator complex under construction in the vicinity of Waxahachie, Texas.

Its planned ring circumference was 87.1 kilometers (54.1 mi) with an energy of 20 TeV per proton and was set to be the world's largest and most energetic."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider

20 TeV device would find the Higgs, but would not create experimental conditions for unification of Electroweak and Strong nuclear forces. Particle energies 13 orders of magnitude greater than that would be needed on the order of 10^14 GeV or 10^11 TeV.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Astro/unify.html

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