The 3 Israeli hostages killed by the IDF were shirtless & waving a white flag when they were shot. One of them managed to escape while shouting for help in Hebrew, however, Israeli soldiers chased & executed him.
"Leases are coming up for large office spaces in major cities around the US. ... Occupancy of these offices is dramatically down in most places around the country. The decline is 30 percent on average and much more in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City."
Yeah and Cook county where I live makes up their gap by increasing my property taxes over 20% so we can continue to pay the wages of union laborers of the county without a blink look to reduce expenses.
For me the money quote was, instead of trying to fix the mess everyone is playing a game of “let’s pretend”! How do you reason with someone who is living in a fantasy world and completely detached from reality on all levels? It’s the same thing we see with the Neocons and Ukraine; Russia is on the ropes, any day now the country will descend into chaos, Ukraine has made major inroads into the Russian army and it’s only a question of time and money before our gambit succeeds and Putin is vanquished…….. blah, blah, blah.
Seriously, it’s like trying to reason with a tree stump. And these are the people in charge?
What’s heading our way is going to make Poe’s “Descent into the Maelstrom” look like a Sunday picnic. I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m not looking forward to it.
"Only the bite of the consequences can bring an end to the madness." Exactly. The first part of your fine post, Mark, at least shows that resistance is coming a bit more out into the open.
Woohoo, the rebuild will be glorious. The rotten decay of civil society can be replaced with decency!
too many psychopaths and sociopaths in "leadership" positions
Unfortunately the selection process weeds out normals.
This is being reported by Times of Israel:
The 3 Israeli hostages killed by the IDF were shirtless & waving a white flag when they were shot. One of them managed to escape while shouting for help in Hebrew, however, Israeli soldiers chased & executed him.
https://sonar21.com/israel-continues-to-shoot-itself-in-the-foot/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/12/a-palestinian-terror-operatives-is-anyone-still-alive.html
Zoonotic transfer makes sense if you want to heard people into 15 minute cities by releasing zoonotic bio weapons.
"Leases are coming up for large office spaces in major cities around the US. ... Occupancy of these offices is dramatically down in most places around the country. The decline is 30 percent on average and much more in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City."
Yeah and Cook county where I live makes up their gap by increasing my property taxes over 20% so we can continue to pay the wages of union laborers of the county without a blink look to reduce expenses.
You make it sound so simple.
For a lot of people, at a certain point in life there are family reasons to stay put.
For me the money quote was, instead of trying to fix the mess everyone is playing a game of “let’s pretend”! How do you reason with someone who is living in a fantasy world and completely detached from reality on all levels? It’s the same thing we see with the Neocons and Ukraine; Russia is on the ropes, any day now the country will descend into chaos, Ukraine has made major inroads into the Russian army and it’s only a question of time and money before our gambit succeeds and Putin is vanquished…….. blah, blah, blah.
Seriously, it’s like trying to reason with a tree stump. And these are the people in charge?
What’s heading our way is going to make Poe’s “Descent into the Maelstrom” look like a Sunday picnic. I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m not looking forward to it.
Trepidation is my word for 2024.
Couldn’t agree with you more.
No warm and fuzzies in 2024.
https://thefederalist.com/2023/12/15/from-woke-walkouts-to-dumping-selective-enrollment-illinois-schools-are-melting-down/
"Only the bite of the consequences can bring an end to the madness." Exactly. The first part of your fine post, Mark, at least shows that resistance is coming a bit more out into the open.
Maybe it's a function of the small size of NZ?
Hopefully so.
If you know his address, send him a pack of these...**foul language alert** don't check out the link if you are offended by nasty words.
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