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Alexander Of Assyria

Alexander Of Assyria's Journal
Alexander Of Assyria's Journal
February 16, 2023

To me the American media is seen by MAGA much like Trump views beautiful women.

MAGA, THIS your guy?

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Bush: It better not be the publicist. No, it’s her. It’s —

Trump: Yeah, that’s her. With the gold. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful - I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait.

And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything.

Bush: Whatever you want.

Trump: Grab them by the p****. You can do anything.

Bush: Yeah those legs, all I can see is the legs.

Trump: Oh, it looks good.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/read-donald-trump-s-lewd-remarks-about-women-on-days-of-our-lives-set-2005-groping-star-a7351381.html

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This is the malignancy the corporate American media let, continuously, slither into their houses and eventually all the way to the White House, for 4 years!, and he’s still slithering and grabbing them by the pussy. And now of course, and naturally, the snake pit has much company.

When did the corporate media give clear consent, and why??

This video tape should be played over and over again by every Democrat facing any MAGA loving Trump cult member….this your guy??

February 13, 2023

US Holds Drills in South China Sea

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-holds-drills-south-china-sea-amid-tensions-97065412

The United States Navy and Marine Corps are holding drills in the South China Sea at a time of heightened tensions with Beijing over the shooting down of a suspected Chinese spy balloon

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So all along the military was preparing this exercise half a world away?! Who is raising tensions now?

What’s more of a threat, a balloon, spy at worst…or dozens of armed ships and planes near your nations shores?

And the balloon is still “suspected” because the American military is either clueless what the balloon is, or aren’t telling us…if it was a spy balloon…why not?

February 13, 2023

Ten Things Palestinians Can't Do Because of the Israeli Occupation

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/things-palestinians-cant-do_n_586554d4e4b0eb58648895bc

(2016) Probably add a couple more things, like worship where you want, since a minority of voters last election ended up with a majority of Nazis in government…citizens of all stripes do not deserve this and did not vote for this.

All people want peace but the peoples rulers want war, to keep ruling, seems to me, everywhere.
February 12, 2023

What in living double F is going on with all the high altitude shooting?

As we minions all without high resolution video and pictures, not to mention no radar tracking and satellite tracking, all of which we at DU would love to possess…alas!

Dear Kept in the Very Dark Ignorant Public…feel the freedom to speculate! It’s like an open invitation!

1) Aliens
2) Chinese balloons again! Wtf China!
3) Space based military experiment got bad
4) Ground based NORAD experiment gone bad
5) Russian missiles that didn’t work and fell out of low orbit
6) Students in Japan messing with floating objects shaped liked penis…explains the cylinder!

Add to the list!

On edit: Really, come on Alien Ubers, now that just crazy talk…tho more entertaining than the Concussion Bowl….hmmm, coincidence??

February 8, 2023

The Frenzy Over China's Spy Balloon is Dangerous and Unwarranted

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/06/china-balloon-war-hysteria-taiwan/

Max Boot, Washington Post, Columnist, National Security

“War with China can and should be avoided — but we make it more likely by assuming it’s inevitable or by giving vent to exaggerated fears about Chinese power. The kind of anti-Chinese paranoia we are now seeing reminds me of the early days of the Cold War. Back then, there was also a sense that the United States was losing a global struggle with the Communists and that World War III might be nigh. That was a dangerous, destructive mind-set that led to anti-Red witch hunts at home and to ill-fated, costly military interventions such as the one in Vietnam. It almost led, during the Cuban missile crisis, to nuclear Armageddon.
In reality, the Soviet Union was never as strong or as reckless as so many imagined — and neither is Communist China.”

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Should remind everyone of the early days of the Cold War, so don’t be fooled again!

Forgot to add this…fired or not fired?



“The balloon-mania, after all, comes only a few days after Air Force Gen. Michael A. Minihan, head of Air Mobility Command, sent out a memo to his subordinates predicting war with China within two years: “I hope I am wrong,” he wrote. “My gut tells me we will fight in 2025.” Sounding like one of the unhinged generals in Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War satire “Dr. Strangelove,” he advised his airmen — who operate and maintain cargo aircraft — to “fire a clip into a 7-meter target” and “aim for the head.”

From Max Boot article in WAPO
February 6, 2023

Scientific Reconstruction of The Balloon's Flight Path to Montana

https://twitter.com/wildweatherdan/status/1621348631977623552

Note that balloon then went to NWT in Canada then to Idaho. Precise path after entering Idaho known to military to point of of destruction offshore in 46feet of water, ofc.
February 6, 2023

Scientific Reconstruction of The Balloon's Flight Path to Montana

https://twitter.com/wildweatherdan/status/1621348631977623552

Note that balloon then went to NWT in Canada then to Idaho. Precise path after entering Idaho known to military to point of of destruction offshore in 46feet of water, ofc.

So info bit dated as China has days ago said it’s our balloon.
February 6, 2023

Balloon Debris Recovery...NO word on ANY discovery?? What's taking so long??

https://nypost.com/2023/02/05/navy-divers-recovering-chinese-balloon-debris/

Note the graphic…spy balloons rendered essentially obsolete…cause of spy satellites.

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Navy divers are now performing the “fairly easy” task of recovering the remnants of the Chinese spy balloon shot down over the Atlantic, as the entire Senate is set to be briefed on China next week.

The balloon was shot down by a F22 fighter jet over Myrtle Beach, SC, and landed in just 47 feet of water, which should make its recovery relatively easy, US officials said.

Cops in Horry County, where the balloon was shot down near, warned residents that “members of the US Military are coordinating to collect debris; however, fragments may make it to the coastline.”

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Where’s the camera and hard drive info? Not saying it’s not a spy satellite…trust but verify citizens! Especially your trillion dollar a year military!

Prove it’s a spy balloon…show America the beef!


February 4, 2023

The Secrets of China's Economic Statecraft in Africa

https://thediplomat.com/2022/06/the-secrets-of-chinas-economic-statecraft-in-africa/

Beijing has succeeded by responding to African governments’ precise needs, against a backdrop of lingering mistrust of the West.

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Anzetse Were

GUEST AUTHOR
Anzetse Were
Anzetse Were is a development economist with over ten years of experience in economic research, analysis, advising and strategy development focused on inclusive economic development and transformation in Africa.

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I’ll start with providing an outline on how and why China became such a deep economic partner for African governments so quickly. First, China does not have the negative historical legacy with the continent that many Western nations have. The U.S. and European powers were responsible for the Transatlantic and East African slave trades; colonization; the manipulation of newly forming African states during the Cold War era, as exemplified by the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba; the devastation of the Structural Adjustment Programs; and inequitable globalization.

Due to this historical stain, the West has a legitimacy problem in Africa that China largely doesn’t have.

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Well worth the read on China in Africa from a non-Western viewpoint.

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