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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[Oilcandide]

But what will reign in Fiction Bubbles like Newsmax?   

[LarryBnDC]

The GOP has crossed into Neverland..

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/09/states-tell-supreme-court-they-support-texas-bid-to-reverse-biden-win.html

[facilitatorn]

But what will reign in Fiction Bubbles like Newsmax?

Doing an honest, exhaustive, and thorough investigation of organized sedition and espionage going back at least to the beginning of the 2016 election cycle, if not before.

Start in the NRA, Freedomworks, Heritage, and move outward and both upward and downward from there.

You are free to say what you want. Certain things you might say are statutorily material to charges of espionage whether or not it’s in service to sedition.

Say what you want in public or private about selling the country to homegrown moron fascist oligarchs and autocrats, but angle that approach in the expectation of foreign aid or compensation, and you have crossed a very relevant legal line.

Those who chose to yap on after a good long and exhaustive regimen of investigative TLC will at least have a clearer idea how the significant majority of fellow Americans feel about their words and actions over the period in question.

It won’t just effect the organization, it will also touch the talent pool.

[josh]

The GOP has crossed into Neverland..

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/09/states-tell-supreme-court-they-support-texas-bid-to-reverse-biden-win.html

But Larry? They are putting neither time nor money into the effort - they did not sign on, just sent their essentially pro forma amicus brief(s).

Trump has asked to intervene in the suit. (Posted that earlier.)

Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing but powerlessness.

[facilitatorn]

The GOP has crossed into Neverland..

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/09/states-tell-supreme-court-they-support-texas-bid-to-reverse-biden-win.html

But Larry? They are putting neither time nor money into the effort - they did not sign on, just sent their essentially pro forma amicus brief(s).

Trump has asked to intervene in the suit. (Posted that earlier.)

Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing but powerlessness.

Enough to get in on the grift before trump fully leaches out the entire GOP small donor potential for a decade. It’s dog eat dog over there. Glad it’s not too heavily me or mine.

I guess that’s another kind of powerlessness though so about the sound and fury you are right.

I prefer to think of them not as crossing into neverland where some other set of rules might apply but as going berserk here and now for which there are established, if not always clear, protocols.

[josh]

It took us until August 25th to reach 6,000,000 cases.

We now match that in one month.

[bambu.]

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/china-picks-off-more-australian-products/ar-BB1bN1yh?ocid=AVRES000&li=AAgfYrC&OCID=AVRES000

China picks off more Australian products

Trade Minister Simon Birmingham has warned the world is watching as China picks off more Australian export markets one by one.
Cotton and wheat farmers have been warned they could be next after China extended sanctions on Australian timber and slapped new ones on lamb.

Honey and pharmaceutical producers could also be targeted as the trade dispute continues to spiral.

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Of course it does.
It's what China does when you tell it "No".

[bambu.]

Volvo Car Group (Volvo Cars) is owned by Zhejiang Geely Holding (Geely Holding) of China. Volvo Cars formed part of the Swedish Volvo Group until 1999, when the company was bought by Ford Motor Company. In 2010, Volvo Cars was acquired by Geely Holding.

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Well there you go.

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As of 2016, Beijing Benz assembles and manufactures the Mercedes-Benz E-Class (long wheelbase), and C-Class in China.

BMW Brilliance (officially BMW Brilliance Automotive Ltd.) is an automobile manufacturing company headquartered in Shenyang, China and a joint venture between BMW and Brilliance Auto. Its principal activity is the production, distribution and sale of BMW passenger cars in mainland China.

Looking to grow its market share among performance buyers, Mercedes-AMG cars will be built in China for the first time in the automaker's history. Parent-company Daimler said it will build cars there by the end of this year.May 7, 2019

[bambu.]

Looks like Aussie will have to start burning more firewood to support the timber industry.
Back to the past...log fires everywhere,
Good time for everyone to go off grid...solar panels, log fires, wood heaters for showers/baths. wood heaters inside...and camp fires in the backyard...honey on toast, and baked lamb the menu...as the flag of China is burnt to the strains of Waltzing Matilda.
Maybe some timber, cotton, lamb, and honey workers could be retrained to build nuke subs.

Pity Australia fought to save China from the Japanese in WW2.

[LarryBnDC]

The GOP has crossed into Neverland..

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/09/states-tell-supreme-court-they-support-texas-bid-to-reverse-biden-win.html

But Larry? They are putting neither time nor money into the effort - they did not sign on, just sent their essentially pro forma amicus brief(s).

Trump has asked to intervene in the suit. (Posted that earlier.)

Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing but powerlessness.

They’re selling it to the cult...

Don’t underestimate the amount of people who truly believe Biden cheated because black people voted for him.

[LarryBnDC]

The GOP has crossed into Neverland..

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/09/states-tell-supreme-court-they-support-texas-bid-to-reverse-biden-win.html

But Larry? They are putting neither time nor money into the effort - they did not sign on, just sent their essentially pro forma amicus brief(s).

Trump has asked to intervene in the suit. (Posted that earlier.)

Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing but powerlessness.

Enough to get in on the grift before trump fully leaches out the entire GOP small donor potential for a decade. It’s dog eat dog over there. Glad it’s not too heavily me or mine.

I guess that’s another kind of powerlessness though so about the sound and fury you are right.

I prefer to think of them not as crossing into neverland where some other set of rules might apply but as going berserk here and now for which there are established, if not always clear, protocols.

They’re worried about right now.

[bambu.]

Even when you have no new cases:

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/coronavirus-is-found-in-sewage-from-39-sydney-suburbs/ar-BB1bLkst?ocid=hplocalnews&OCID=AVRES000

Coronavirus is found in sewage from 39 Sydney suburbs

However, NSW Health is concerned there could be other active cases in the local community in people who have not been tested and who might incorrectly assume their symptoms are just a cold.' 

Authorities are continuously issuing warnings for people to get tested despite NSW having no new locally acquired cases of COVID-19.

It is feared the virus could be passing through people undetected.

[bambu.]

https://www.sentinel-standard.com/opinion/20200105/deborah-j-comstock-selling-of-america-dramatic-increase-of-foreign-owned-farmlands

In 2013, the Chinese purchased Smithfield Foods, a meat processing company, and immediately gained over 146,000 acres of American farmland.
According to a recent article in US News, May 28, 2019, nearly 30 million acres of U.S. farmland is now owned by foreign countries. These are quietly emerging facts disturbing to many Americans, particularly small- and medium-sized farmers...

The goal of China’s Communist Party authorities suggest specific strategies to invest in agriculture overseas and to gain greater control over oilseed and grain products, to create policies to support facilities, equipment and inputs for agricultural production, and to create large multinational grain-trading conglomerates. The revenues from these productions do not pass through the American commodities markets but, rather, flow through the foreign entities’ own distribution channels, directly to the home country.

[kidcarter8]

West Wing Season 7 Episode 22

Would have been great if it had continued

[facilitatorn]

One’s gone into neverland.

Maybe some timber, cotton, lamb, and honey workers could be retrained to build nuke subs.

If they work exclusively with the materials they find most familiar the Australian nuclear arsenal program will be a roaring success.

You may have the basis of a killer rom-com though, The Office meets Dr. Strangelove down under.