I do not agree with everything Valerie Tarico says, especially that we cannot fight the Supreme Court. The recent release on the ROE VS WADE revisitation is NOT final yet. It can still be short-circuited. The reason I am reblogging her post is that there is some possibly very important information here for women and their male partners. I am old, so maybe most young women know this stuff, but since it is new to me, maybe it is new to someone else too. Please feel free to bookmark this post, as it may become necessary to know, if not for yourself, then for someone you love.
My thought is for concerned women all over North America, and anywhere else, if your rights are being threatened: Go on GENERAL STRIKE. Women did it in the 70s. All over the US, from Alaska to Florida, from Hawaii to Rhode Island, women refused to do housework, cook, take care of children, HAVE SEX, as well as other things, and the men relented quite quickly. I do not remember the cause then, but this stealing of WOMEN’S RIGHTS is certainly worth fighting against IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE! Women! Withdraw your services. Please, STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR MOTHERS AND GRANDMOTHERS FOUGHT TO GET THEM FOR YOU. FIGHT NOW FOR YOUR DAUGHTERS AND GRANDDAUGHTERS! And great-great-great-great-greats…
I do not agree with everything Valeri Tarico says, especially that we cannot fight the Supreme Court. The recent release on the ROE VS WADE revisitation is NOT final yet. It can still be short-circuited. The reason I am reblogging her post is that there is some possibly very important information here for women and their male partners. I am old, so maybe most young women know this stuff, but since it is new to me, maybe it is new to someone else too. Please feel free to bookmark this post, as it may become necessary to know, if not for yourself, then for someone you love.
My thoughtis for concerned women all over North America, and anywhere else, is if your rights are being threatened: Go on GENERAL STRIKE. Women did it in the 70s. All over the US, from Alaska to Florida, from Hawaii to Puerto…
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A New Spirituality 
Part of the larger agenda. Folk will think it has nothing to do with them. Oh yeah?
Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (written as a retrospective reflection in 1946)
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
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That has been referenced too often by too many people of late. There seems to be a common theme all over the globe. Somebody is losing something somewhere, but it aint us, so big deal. In todays war against “freedom” the lives being lost are Russian and Ukrainian. That seems to be okay for everyone else. As long as our citizens aren’t being killed, it’s okay for the war to go on.
Putin cannot fight a combined force, he does not have the orrsonnel for it. But noone is standing in to fight with Ukraine. For that Putin will have more than enough personnel. There are only so may Ukrainian fighters. Attrition will win in the end. And an emboldened Putin will keep on advancing. Why are so many so blind?
And so on. And so on. And do on, ad infinitum.
And so the world ends, not with a bang, but with a whimper…
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It has indeed rawgod.
Folk can ignore whatever they like, they can even deny it (Who mentioned climate? What? Huh?). It will come knocking at their door one day.
From my rather socialist and sardonic perspective it bemuses me that maybe what will bring the Kremlin Court crashing down is a collapse brought about by Market Forces as various large companies decide Russia is bad business…. Even China is playing the ‘Sort of. Well Maybe. Perhaps’ game, in the coded language of diplomacy.
If The West as a bloc does continue to push hard on the economic front, that will have ramifications and those who are saying ‘Nothin’ to do with me’ now, will find their pockets are involved.
And that will test the resolve of The West.
Then there will be the Desperation Factor at Kremlin Court and what they might do.
Uncertain times my dear friend as The First World gets used to what The Third World has been suffering since……..?
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I am a pacifist, but even I can recognize when action is needed. When madmen attack, all morality gets thrown out the window. But the rational world of today is full of wimps, while the irrational world is full of Hitler-wannabees!
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Putting on my military history hat for the moment.
There have been several instances (American Civil War; WWI; WWII for example) when the aggressors thought little of the opposition and found to their cost the opposition could be surprisingly dogged and ruthless.
This one is set to be a long slog war (unless someone makes a serious strategic weapon mistake).. The one which was put on hold in the 1950s, ironically because every had nuclear weapons and was afraid the other side would go the default missile attack at the first blink.
Hard times rawgod
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All those aggressors thought they had an endless supply of fighters. We know Ukraine does not have an endless supply, and it is shrinking every day. Am I wrong to think we need to bolster the manpower of the defenders in order to give them a chance to have a chance at keeping their nation alive?
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From the military standpoint if the West sends troops by the Kremlin’s logic that will allow them to extend the conflict to other nations such as Moldova and and the Baltic states; the latter being members of NATO will cause a resultant mobilisation across Europe from North to South maybe brining in Turkey. In turn the Serbian traditional affinity to Russia will likely re-ignite the Balkan Wars, while Hungary’s official sympathetic line to Russia will raise old tensions with her neighbouring states which go back 100+ years.
Since the Kremlin has indoctrinated the population with its own line it would be able to organise a nation wide mobilisation with popular support.
Using the old blockade strategy which The West has enacted is more likely to harm Russia, whereas direct intervention will turn all of East Europe into a war zone.
That said; such a scenario is possible, one Russian missile missing Ukrainian land and striking polish territory would be the spark in a tinder dry wood.
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The Russian people want all out war NO MORE than the people of any other nation. Putin is telling them lies tight now, but even they will mot go along with a huge war. But all that aside, all I am ssying is remove Putin however that needs to be done. He is the lynchpin. No Putin, no more war!
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Watch the space for moves outside of the Kremlin.
One Czar fell because of an unpopular losing war. It might not be there just yet. It has to come from within Russia, essential.
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Best option, yes. Essential? The only essential is getting rid of him, however it happens!
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Putin may appear to be the main force and administratively he is, for the present.
His though, but a manifestation of a grouping that has its parallels within the US Right.
Thus, he must be seen to be pulled down by The Russian People or another Russian Agency
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How about we just get rid of him, and discuss the finer points later. I understand where you are coming from, Roger, but Putin’s paranoia is wide-ranging. His Russian “allies” are under almost total scrutiny. For one of them to succeed it will take a one-person plot, with no telling anyone what is being planned. Even that won’t guarantee success. This is a new world we are talking about. There is surveillance surveilling the surveillers surveilling the surveillers…
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What you reckon would be a way to remove him rawgod? Assume now you were in a position to be able to enact that?
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Jail? Prison? Poison? Sniper? Guided missle? Bomb? Not my expertise, so I truly have no idea. I don’t kill anything intentionally, not even mosquitoes. I drive as little as possible. I have numerous ant hills in my back yard.
But there are people who make a living out of removing cancers from the general population. I would have to consult with the experts. But believe me, in Putin’s case, I would give my life to take his, if that’s what it had to come to. He is not fit to be called human. He is not fit to live among humans.
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One of our national newspapers has been running a story that there are plots against him, but since it’s a ‘popular press’ tabloid it’s hard to give the story too much credence.
It has to come from within though, what we don’t want is him ‘martyred’ in the cause of Mother Russia.
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I’ll agree to disagree while stating it WOULD BE BETTER if it was internal. But no matter how, it is a necessity, and the sooner the better.
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That my good friend we can agree on The Sooner The Better, for the Russian People too, before even more of them are anxiously trying to find out the fate of their sons in the military.
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Thank you.
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United Broadly my good friend. ✊
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