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<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>Disqus - Latest Comments for JPMP</title><link>http://disqus.com/by/JPMP/</link><description></description><atom:link href="http://disqus.com/JPMP/comments.rss" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2024 03:24:41 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Reminiscence of the Future... : French Soldier's Epiphany.</title><link>http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2024/01/french-soldiers-epiphany.html#comment-6366999771</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Admittedly the solar panel industry does not publicize information it MAY have, so why don't you, who are capable to do so, justify your demeaning of the production and use of solar panels by doing the calculation to show that, perhaps, the energy to produce panels and accessories is NOT returned, and well superseded, during the lifetime of the panels?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The SAME issue pertains to petroleum and is summarized in the acronym, EROEI, "energy returned on energy invested."  For petroleum this is no better illustrated than in the use of the essentially futile, significantly higher energy input per unit yield, FRACKING technology.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">JPMP</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2024 03:24:41 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Reminiscence of the Future... : Many People May Have Missied...</title><link>http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/12/many-people-may-have-missied.html#comment-6354447351</link><description>&lt;p&gt;The only criticism of Nabiullina would be her having come in such close contact as to be photographed with &lt;br&gt;Ms. "Economic austerity is the quiet, thus most effective, genocide" Lagarde ... appropriate look of contempt notwithstanding.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">JPMP</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2023 01:55:05 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Reminiscence of the Future... : Nikki Doesn't Feel So Saucy Anymore...</title><link>http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/12/nikki-doesnt-feel-so-saucy-anymore.html#comment-6341395200</link><description>&lt;p&gt;The US does not like Israel, rather it manipulates Israel, like&lt;br&gt;it does all the rest of its so-called "allies."&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">JPMP</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2023 01:56:59 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Reminiscence of the Future... : Nikki Doesn't Feel So Saucy Anymore...</title><link>http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/12/nikki-doesnt-feel-so-saucy-anymore.html#comment-6341393415</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Vicious neocon "unqualified" to be US ambassador to the United Nations?&lt;br&gt;Perhaps, in a world of logic, compassion and cooperation.  However in our &lt;br&gt;unfortunate reality, such a death-dealing, mindless servant of limitless greed &lt;br&gt;is PERFECTLY suited for the task at hand.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For example, Friday the US vetoed an otherwise unanimous*** UN Security Council&lt;br&gt;vote on a draft proposal to impose an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.&lt;br&gt;-----------------&lt;br&gt;*** The feckless, chicken-hawk, UK, abstained from voting.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">JPMP</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2023 01:49:53 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Reminiscence of the Future... : Garland Sent Me This.</title><link>http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/11/garland-sent-me-this.html#comment-6335023787</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Re " ... the horrors of Russian occupation and compel the international community&lt;br&gt; to compromise the principles of the rule of law and state sovereignty."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the authors of the drivel presented, conveniently "forget" that, with regard &lt;br&gt;to Ukraine, said "the principles of the rule of law and state sovereignty" were completely &lt;br&gt;destroyed in the 2014 US-engineered coup with subsequent massive arming of the puppet &lt;br&gt;government for what was 7 years of genocide of ethnic Russians inhabitants of the Donbas.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">JPMP</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 04:22:11 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Reminiscence of the Future... : Garland Sent Me This.</title><link>http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/11/garland-sent-me-this.html#comment-6335012612</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Russia is merely exercising the well-established, "rules-based" imperative: the responsibility to protect, aka "R2P."  This is a 2005 UN doctrine supremely abused by the US that is getting perhaps its first legitimate application in the Russian SMO as it protects people in an &lt;u&gt;adjoining country&lt;/u&gt;, who are a) ethnic Russian and/or b) native Russian speakers and/or c) Russian citizens.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Of course that impeccable mandate to protect eastern Ukrainians from its own genocidal post 2014 coup government (i.e. USA), is the direct result of the USSR acceding in the early 1990's to dismantle itself in response to USA demands.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">JPMP</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 03:48:06 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Reminiscence of the Future... : In Related News: Water Is Wet...</title><link>http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/11/in-related-news-water-is-wet.html#comment-6325014310</link><description>&lt;p&gt;I'm not sitting on a hot stove waiting for Jenkins to be marched off to Belmarsh prison.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">JPMP</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2023 14:53:34 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: 

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</title><link>http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/09/europe-its-head.html#comment-6283564087</link><description>&lt;p&gt;FWIW&lt;br&gt;MUCH prefer the linked quotes in black text italics with orange underline as opposed to same in orange text.&lt;br&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">JPMP</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2023 03:34:40 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Reminiscence of the Future... : Incomparable Michael Brenner...</title><link>http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/09/incomparable-michael-brenner.html#comment-6283378452</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2023/09/21/us-cant-deal-with-defeat/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="https://consortiumnews.com/2023/09/21/us-cant-deal-with-defeat/"&gt;https://consortiumnews.com/...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also the quote in Andrei's article is a hot link&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">JPMP</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2023 19:32:41 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Reminiscence of the Future... : Incomparable Michael Brenner...</title><link>http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/09/incomparable-michael-brenner.html#comment-6283376620</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Re " ... diplomacy on an order that seems beyond its present aptitudes."&lt;br&gt;Here's another of constantly recurring of analyses of alleged US "diplomacy" that&lt;br&gt;are as deficient as US's own "analyses" of, for example, Russia and its capabilities.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is NO US diplomacy.  There is NO US aptitude for diplomacy.  There is NO US desire for,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;NOR US intent of, practicing anything remotely resembling diplomacy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;US foreign policy embodies the collective mindsets of the myriad, far-flung  "dictators" it &lt;br&gt;alleges to want convert to "democracy."   It is essentially the biggest, most dangerous &lt;br&gt;Mafia organization in history.  Its "obey or die" policy is, to invoke Annalena the dolt, 360°&lt;br&gt;from diplomacy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Note:  It's domestic policy isn't significantly different.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">JPMP</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2023 19:28:53 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Reminiscence of the Future... : Larry, Certainly, Has A Way...</title><link>http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/09/larry-certainly-has-way.html#comment-6278440782</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Re - Kwiatkowsk  " ... they have no clue as to what is happening"&lt;br&gt;I beg to differ.  "They" know full well what is happening "over there."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The point is that "over here" we are bombarded with their continuous propaganda to hide &lt;br&gt;the truth. It's not clear why Kwiatkowsky doesn't understand or reveal that.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">JPMP</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 04:20:35 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: 

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</title><link>http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/09/sure-sure.html#comment-6275779144</link><description>&lt;p&gt;You want "shit holes"?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Apply "austerity" economics!!!&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">JPMP</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2023 13:43:36 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Reminiscence of the Future... : I Didn't Know It Existed...</title><link>http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/09/i-didnt-know-it-existed.html#comment-6275504991</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Sure and "NFL owner cucks" have been profiting from the degradation, and subsequent premature dementia &amp;amp; death, of black bodies for decades.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">JPMP</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2023 06:09:31 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: 

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</title><link>http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/09/i-concur.html#comment-6275471469</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Awaiting the announcement by China that Walmart will have to pay in yuan for the massive quantities of Chines imports that constitute the significant fraction of the inventory on Walmart shelves and warehouses.&lt;br&gt;(Non-Walmart media shills estimate this as 70-80% ... &lt;a href="https://tinyurl.com/359tp9bn" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="https://tinyurl.com/359tp9bn"&gt;https://tinyurl.com/359tp9bn&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">JPMP</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2023 04:28:11 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: 

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</title><link>http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/09/ah-not-again.html#comment-6274806227</link><description>&lt;p&gt;I read the the wiki article on Uralvagonzavod that was linked in the article above.&lt;br&gt;Perhaps Mr Martyanov, in a moment of "playfullness," would expound on the effect of&lt;br&gt;multiple rounds of US sanctions, as revealed in the article, on Uralvagonzavod.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">JPMP</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 10 Sep 2023 04:27:58 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Reminiscence of the Future... : They Confabulate...</title><link>http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/09/they-confabulate.html#comment-6274155836</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Ii don't overlook that fact at all.  See for example:  Michael Meeropol's book&lt;br&gt;"Surrender: How the Clinton Administration Completed the Reagan&lt;br&gt;Revolution"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don't foresee Russia doing any energy deal with their arch-"unfriendly,"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;treacherous and mendacious adversary.  If Russia did so, I would be very disappointed with it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally, not to put too fine a point on it (as they say), IF Russia were to make that energy deal it would be to RE-industrialize ... not to keep US industry, of which there is vanishingly little, alive.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">JPMP</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2023 04:21:20 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Reminiscence of the Future... : They Confabulate...</title><link>http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/09/they-confabulate.html#comment-6274153261</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Re "Russia does not want to conquer territory or capture cities. It wants the territory to be abandoned to it, and for cities to end their resistance to Russian will. That could easily take a few years."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;That could take the MANY years that the US wants this conflict to last.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don't see Russia having the characteristic infantile attitude as the US that compels it to passively  "want &lt;br&gt;the territory to be abandoned to it."&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">JPMP</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2023 04:12:09 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Reminiscence of the Future... : They Confabulate...</title><link>http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/09/they-confabulate.html#comment-6273959784</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Re:  " ... most of US "geopolitical" and "strategy" academy should be fired and given jobs as greeters at the Walmart's entrances."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;That "opportunity" for otherwise counterproductive denizens of said academy is rapidly narrowing.&lt;br&gt;The more the US economically harasses China, the fewer the products will be on Walmart shelves.&lt;br&gt;If one-man empire-wrecker Biden has his way, one unavoidable result will be closed and locked Walmart entrances.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is no alternative but to hope Joe the best in his elimination of Walmart and his efficient inside-out&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;dissolution of the empire.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">JPMP</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2023 19:20:12 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: 

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</title><link>http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/09/dmitry-orlovs.html#comment-6272818679</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Cooperation is no more or less a selection trait of societal survival than is competition.&lt;br&gt;The problem is that the machinations/failure of the sociopaths may well lead to the destruction&lt;br&gt;of all organisms extant, not of exclusively only those possessing the undeniably inferior societal survival characteristic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The sociopaths arose in the system.  Their cynical manipulation of Darwinism as one of their many excuses for justifying to Western societies that they should have power is NOT the fault of Darwin.  Of course, the collective negative trait of the majority to CONTINUE to accept the excuses of the vast minority sociopaths needs to be included in the analysis.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">JPMP</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:04:21 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: 

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</title><link>http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/09/dmitry-orlovs.html#comment-6272790849</link><description>&lt;p&gt;I'm not aware of any proof that cooperation among organisms is NOT a trait subject to selection pressure.   The fact that the Prince documents such cooperation among animals proves that under the correct environmental conditions, cooperation has contributed to the fitness, thus survival, of species that cooperate.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">JPMP</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:23:04 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Russia's Ruthless Minefields Aren't Just Handcuffing Western Tanks. Each Day the War Drags on the Mines Get More Buried — and Are Likely to Haunt Ukraine for Many Years to Come.</title><link>https://www.rsn.org/001/russias-ruthless-minefields-arent-just-handcuffing-western-tanks-each-day-the-war-drags-on-the-mines-get-more-buried-and-are-likely-to-haunt-ukraine-for-many-years-to-come.html#comment-6265258619</link><description>&lt;p&gt;The Russian mines are described as having a fusing system to shut off after a programmed period.&lt;br&gt;That period was reported to be two weeks for the mines being distributed over the last 10-11 weeks&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">JPMP</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2023 08:35:35 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Can NATO Remain United on the Battlefield?</title><link>https://www.rsn.org/001/can-nato-remain-united-on-the-battlefield.html#comment-6254392668</link><description>&lt;p&gt;For some 30-years since the break-up of the USSR the resultant "new" Russia has &lt;br&gt;1) warned that it would not accept NATO expansion and 2) expected the fulfillment of the critical US promises it requested to allow the break-up ... to not expand NATO beyond the eastern borders of the newly reunited Germany (Oder River).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since then some 14 nations have entered NATO violating that promise.&lt;br&gt;The West has been provoking the Russian SMO for 30 years.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; "If Russia had done this to the United States, I and our entire organization would be squealing in objection like the arrogant, myopic and exceptional imperialists we are."&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">JPMP</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2023 04:06:39 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: The Frightening Power Aileen Cannon Has in Her Hands</title><link>https://www.rsn.org/001/the-frightening-power-aileen-cannon-has-in-her-hands.html#comment-6252294331</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Re "Of course the Supreme Court is loaded in favor of American dopes."&lt;br&gt;So you agree with me!  Except, of course, the SCOTUS is loaded in favor&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;of an element of US society much more dangerous than the average "dope."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I did NOT say that, we should "just give up and let the U.S. become the permanent worldwide exemplar of DUMB?"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Therefore we need to dump both corporate ass-licking US political parties who, for example, have packed the SCOTUS in favor of the terminally avaricious who would sooner grind you and me into economic, and literal, dust, if necessary, in order to preserve their precious profits.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">JPMP</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 03:50:34 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: The Frightening Power Aileen Cannon Has in Her Hands</title><link>https://www.rsn.org/001/the-frightening-power-aileen-cannon-has-in-her-hands.html#comment-6249935984</link><description>&lt;p&gt;If you don't like the judge at the first round of the process at least you'll have a lot to talk, write and clutch pearls about when the case approaches the SCOTUS!&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">JPMP</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2023 02:35:11 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: 

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</title><link>http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/07/about-tools.html#comment-6244270000</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Re "After all, one doesn't go hunting for bear with a kitchen knife."&lt;br&gt;That is true for a sane "one" but the profoundly deranged US neo-cons seem to have been content to go hunting for bear with dull finger nail clippers.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">JPMP</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2023 15:59:39 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>