Play Nice The NM Devils Chessboard thread.

[GarnerSmash]

Nah, she’s from Massachusetts, they need liberal free thinking senators there. To many Harvard, MIT, BU running around.

The Dems still need to court this people in Massachusetts, kick her out and they’ll get another AOC happy to take her senate seat.

American system is different to Australian, all they have to do is register with the party and go out and canvas, to get the nom for that district.

Will she ever get the party endorsement if running for prez tho? Not if she shits on their plate now.

 

[DesertRoo]

Will she ever get the party endorsement if running for prez tho? Not if she shits on their plate now.

She was never popular enough to run for president. She’ll fade away becoming the latest Mit Romney or Al Gore.

 

[GarnerSmash]

She was never popular enough to run for president. She fade away becoming the latest Mit Romney or Al Gore.

Does she know that though?

Reckon she's getting in line behind Biden.

 

[DesertRoo]

Does she know that though?

Reckon she's getting in line behind Biden.

Tough call isn’t it,

I would’ve bet her and Bernie had a pack, the other will bow out of the way once it becomes obvious they can’t win.

Mind you they were the two front runners up until a few weeks ago. During the debate I believe the attacks on Bernie were more of a self interest, in taking the lead in the primaries, then any anti Bernie conspiracy.

I do think the party blind sided them both when they left one centrist vs the two progressives.

From an outsider looking in, it looks like the progressives need a few power brokers behind the scenes. to sort out this style mess in the future.

 

[DesertRoo]

Sri Lanka: Security Agencies Shutting Down Civic Space

(New York) – Sri Lankan security agencies are stepping up surveillance, harassment and threats against human rights activists and journalists.

www.hrw.org

Sri Lanka security agencies are stepping up surveillance, harassment, and threats against human rights activists and journalists, Human Rights Watch said today. Since November 2019, when the government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa came into office, there has been a rapid closing of civic space and freedom of expression.

 

[ferball]

Lol yeah right Sri Lanka.

The gov over there murders journos. One wrote their own obituary in the lead up to his murder.

We get w***ers like Andrew Bolt whining about free speech, over there journos practise it and pay with their lives.

 

[andana]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Michael Bloomberg will form an independent group to help elect the Democratic presidential nominee in November, fulfilling a vow to put his $60 billion personal fortune to work even after abandoning his own White House bid on Wednesday.
The independent expenditure organization will employ some of the enormous staff he built during his months-long presidential campaign, when he spent more than $500 million on an unprecedented advertising blitz only to register disappointing results in 14 state contests on Tuesday.
The group will include offices in six battleground states - Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin - and will support down-ballot Democrats as well as whoever wins the party’s presidential nomination, according to a source familiar with Bloomberg’s plans who spoke on Thursday on condition of anonymity.

The independent group, whose name and budget are still being determined, will be able to spend unlimited sums as long as it does not coordinate directly with any campaign.
The 78-year-old former New York mayor, among the country’s richest citizens, suspended his presidential campaign on Wednesday and said he would back fellow moderate Joe Biden in his bid to win the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican President Donald Trump in November’s election.

 

[DesertRoo]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Michael Bloomberg will form an independent group to help elect the Democratic presidential nominee in November, fulfilling a vow to put his $60 billion personal fortune to work even after abandoning his own White House bid on Wednesday.
The independent expenditure organization will employ some of the enormous staff he built during his months-long presidential campaign, when he spent more than $500 million on an unprecedented advertising blitz only to register disappointing results in 14 state contests on Tuesday.
The group will include offices in six battleground states - Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin - and will support down-ballot Democrats as well as whoever wins the party’s presidential nomination, according to a source familiar with Bloomberg’s plans who spoke on Thursday on condition of anonymity.

The independent group, whose name and budget are still being determined, will be able to spend unlimited sums as long as it does not coordinate directly with any campaign.
The 78-year-old former New York mayor, among the country’s richest citizens, suspended his presidential campaign on Wednesday and said he would back fellow moderate Joe Biden in his bid to win the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican President Donald Trump in November’s election.

after the results Bloomberg got will this be received like the Comey endorsement?

 

[DesertRoo]

great article about the coming war on china, how the west has been supporting uyghur nationalist for generations.
One things for sure foreign policy doesn’t change between presidents when it comes to ideological wars.

Inside the World Uyghur Congress: The US-backed right-wing regime-change network seeking the ‘fall of China’ - The Grayzone

While posing as a grassroots human rights organization, the World Uyghur Congress is a US-funded and directed separatist network that has forged alliances with far-right ethno-nationalist groups. The goal spelled out by its founders is clear: the destabilization of China and regime change in...

thegrayzone.com

 

[ferball]

That was very interesting GR.

 

[Del191229]

Sri Lanka: Security Agencies Shutting Down Civic Space

(New York) – Sri Lankan security agencies are stepping up surveillance, harassment and threats against human rights activists and journalists.

www.hrw.org

Sri Lanka security agencies are stepping up surveillance, harassment, and threats against human rights activists and journalists, Human Rights Watch said today. Since November 2019, when the government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa came into office, there has been a rapid closing of civic space and freedom of expression.

Buddhist fascist responsible for one the most despicable war crimes since WWII.

 

[Del191229]

great article about the coming war on china, how the west has been supporting uyghur nationalist for generations.
One things for sure foreign policy doesn’t change between presidents when it comes to ideological wars.

Inside the World Uyghur Congress: The US-backed right-wing regime-change network seeking the ‘fall of China’ - The Grayzone

While posing as a grassroots human rights organization, the World Uyghur Congress is a US-funded and directed separatist network that has forged alliances with far-right ethno-nationalist groups. The goal spelled out by its founders is clear: the destabilization of China and regime change in...

thegrayzone.com

China is locking the Uighurs up because it very rightly fears the Xinjiang jihad being stirred up by the US.

There's lots of Uighurs fighting in Idlib right now.

 

[ferball]

Turkey is interesting too.

Look up Ergenkon, FetullEh Gulen and Gladio in Turkey. Some of the same people crop up. Sibel Edmonds got right into this stuff years ago. Did some podcasts but I can't find them now.

 

[ferball]

Should be Gladio B, not Gladio.

 

[The acurate one]

Mate in Tokyo went to the supermarket. No toilet paper. Not just here.

Thinking seems to go that face masks are made of the same material, ergo there will be a shortage.

I'm ****ed, down to half a roll, I keep enough food to last about a day. Although I did find ten yr old cans of asparagus down the back of the cupboard. That shit still be any good? Was it ever?

Me and my dog by day 3 will be sharing his 30kg pkt of dry food

 

[blackshadow]

Was in the good Coles at Northcote Plaza yesterday no bog roll, no pasta, no flour, no rice...

 

[blackshadow]

Interesting to see that SXSW in Austin has cancelled as a result of coronavirus... It's a huge music/tech/film conference/festival that attracts about 400K visitors.

I was there in 2012 one of the most amazing events ever.

 

[DesertRoo]

Turkey is interesting too.

Look up Ergenkon, FetullEh Gulen and Gladio in Turkey. Some of the same people crop up. Sibel Edmonds got right into this stuff years ago. Did some podcasts but I can't find them now.

Sibel Edmonds, there’s a blast from the past, wasn’t she the one who translated someone gave the big bomb to the mujaheddin?

 

[ferball]

Sibel Edmonds, there’s a blast from the past, wasn’t she the one who translated someone gave the big bomb to the mujaheddin?

She was an FBI translator who blew the whistle on all sorts of deep state (the real one not whatever Trump says) shenanigans surrounding Islamic terrorism and US influence as well as exposing what appears to be a joint Israel/Turkish operation to steal us nuclear secrets.

 

[andana]

Air quality is improving everyday in China with no factories etc.

 

[DesertRoo]

 

[ferball]

What did happen to those Hong Kong protestors?

 

[Del191229]

 

[Smoocher]

Word of warning.

Stay away from Vindaloo at the moment.

I just burnt through two precious rolls of toilet paper in the last 24 hours.


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[Val Keating]

It’s pretty clear that Joe Biden has cognitive problems at the least and dementia at the worst, yet the Democrats would rather him then Sanders, pretty much handing Trump a second term.





I’m a bit disappointed that Bernie hasn’t gone after Biden because Trump will crush Biden. Theres no doubt the Democrats would rather another term of Trump then Bernie return their party back to what they were supposed to be about.