The New Coffee Room

@xenon said:

Anyone remember the Trump admin getting mad at India for buying Russian oil or even the Europeans?

Yes, but it is obvious now that that is an old news item and has zero consequence in the current post truth world of the Trump autocracy.

My main quibble with Charles Hecker is his statement that Russia currently has a shortage of diesel. Other sources I have say the opposite and it has a surplus of summer blend diesel. Its shortages are in consumer gasoline not diesel. If that’s the case then Putin is unloading his surplus summer blend into the US. Probably okay for states like Forida, but not okay for places like the Great Plains states that experience cold winter temperatures. Summer diesel turns into jelly when the temperatures are just a little south of 0 C.

An interesting 10 minute interview from the UK’s Times Radio:

Strangely enough I remember the news report of Guevara’s death and recall not knowing who he was at the time. I have no idea why I would remember this item. It’s possible though that I clipped the article from the paper for my grade 5 daily current events read out.

@Mik said:

Midterms have consequences. Especially for those who will sacrifice principles and strategies to try to win.

We can only hope.

Although I think his next victim is the collective security treaty called NATO

Pass the barf bag…

So just be sure, any strikes by Ukraine on Russian refineries or fuel storage facilities that could disrupt or prevent the delivery of this 300k + tons of diesel will be regarded as an attack on American strategic interests.

Well played Vladimir Vladimirovich. You now own the fat ass sonofabitch occupying the WH.

The descent into barbarism is beyond belief.

@blondie said

@renauda I’m pretty ill of the UCP and our premier at the moment.

As am I. This, despite her announcement today they are coming down hard on the moronic city council here over infills in established neighbourhoods. Someone has to stop the so called “progressive” clowns running this city. She did it but…

Smith and her mob certainly have not gained my vote come election time. Nor will they ever.

@taiwan_girl said:

Lot of interesting things happened on this date. (Actually, the previous day, as the newspapers are a day behind.). Hitler speech, Start of US income tax, etc. But I pick this one.

October 4, 1993
The Guardian

Coupe attempt in Moscow.

I was in Moscow the day before and departed Domodedeovo around 1 am on 4 October on a red-eye flight to Almaty, Kazakhstan for an oil and gas exhibition that was to start on the Tuesday. We learned that all hell was breaking loose in Moscow sometime around 10 am on 4 October as we were checking into the hotel in Almaty. Good thing I took the red eye, otherwise I would have been stuck in Moscow and under lockdown in the Aerostar Hotel about two km from the White House where all the shooting was happening. The whole Old Arbat district where the Canadian Embassy is located was under lockdown owing to roof snipers.

The pressure had been building between Yeltsin and the more reactionary factions in Duma the previous weeks. While it ought not to have been a surprise move by Yeltsin, it came as a surprise. Too bad that Yelstin didn’t clean up the mess he made then resign and call a presidential election. Instead he dissolved the Duma (shades of Nicholas I) and amended the constitution to give the office of President more power and paved the way for a hood like Putin to take the reins when the time came.

I understand his family thinks he’s slipped off his cracker as well.

So you’re saying Americans revel in coffee and doughnut shop gossip about the world around them.

You know, you’re probably right.

@Doctor-Phibes

It's hard to tell. He's rambled on like a drunken old fart for years, but he does seem to be getting worse.

Maybe the lout suffers from Auto-brewery syndrome. I doubt it but it’s plausible given his inability to stop or control his tongue from wagging.

@Horace

Given the same facts, people will still differ because their individual perspectives draw individual conclusions from those facts..

Don’t underestimate the fact that a local individual’s perspectives are often derived from direct experience or exposure to what is taking place.

Although I understand what you are saying, I am unable to agree with the perspective you present in its entirety.

@Horace

When something happens in America, Americans get zero deference, which is totally reasonable because it's obvious within the discussion itself that Americans have individual opinions and are divided deeply.

A rather sweeping statement. Americans get every bit as much deference as their individual reputation has earned as the next person. If what they have to offer up is inaccurate or an outright fabrication, of course they will get called out.

When something happens outside of America, there may be one local person who enjoys the absurd implication that they speak for anybody but themselves..

That sounds like projection on your part. I do not believe that is at all the case. They may indeed have a wholly different perspective or even insight into matter, but that is all. Take the ongoing Israel Palestinian conflict as an example, I much prefer to hear what Bach has to share about this issue than anyone else on the forum.

If simple facts are really an issue, then information travels adequately and it does not take a local to relay them..

I wish it were that simple

@Horace

I’ve read reporting…..Just don’t expect ultimate deference from me because of where you live.

I’m sure you have and I’m glad you got that off your chest.

That FuCa person talking total nonsense again.

He’s become more malicious as time passes. I suspect there’s some pathology taking over his mind.

Possibly.

The US may want to start its lessons by putting an end to making executions appear more like sanitized ritualistic spectacles than the sordid and cold acts of state retribution they in fact, are.

Renauda said:

@jon-nyc

Thank you for confirming that the meaning has been hijacked.

The Jacobins have been at it since 1789.

On second thought, the perfidious source predates the Jacobins. It’s the notorious Levellers from the time of the English Civil War.

@jon-nyc

Thank you for confirming that the meaning has been hijacked.

The Jacobins have been at it since 1789.