US planning ‘tactical assault’ on Iran in response to 'tanker attack' — report

fred_red_beans · 2019-06-15T16:43:54+00:00

The USS Abraham Lincoln was dispatched toward the Strait of Hormuz shortly after Iran Threatened To Close Strait Of Hormuz If US Blocked Its Oil Exports

fred_red_beans · 2019-06-15T15:48:29+00:00

I have to admit, the older I get, and the more I learn about our political system, the more skeptical I become of it.

fred_red_beans · 2019-06-14T06:53:50+00:00

Yep, you're right, it's easier when both "opposing" sides are controlled, which they are. This story boils down to abortion as well, which is just a divisional topic as it is. There are always going to be those who are for and against abortion and it's an easy topic to get people to argue with each other about. Still, everyone should have the right to express their opinion either way. I believe censorship, whether exposed by controlled opposition or not, is worth noting as it degrades our ability to communicate with each other and at the very least understand each other.

fred_red_beans · 2019-06-13T16:26:13+00:00

While it could be characterized as economic collapse porn, grouping Zero Hedge with actual porn is blatant censorship. I am in favor diverse viewpoints and opinions being available for all. What is an opinion worth if one can not even question it or listen to a different opinion? How is highlighting censorship crying? The conservative vs liberal rhetoric is a device of divide and conquer as far as I'm concerned.

fred_red_beans · 2019-06-11T22:54:56+00:00

Porn sites, sure, but Zero Hedge isn't a porn site....

fred_red_beans · 2019-06-11T16:16:16+00:00

Yet he was found at a military compound in Pakistan and conveniently buried at sea without anyone seeing him.

You would think that the leader of a terrorist organization would be worth keeping alive for intelligence and interrogation purposes.

fred_red_beans · 2019-06-11T16:03:19+00:00

The dollar represents trust between human beings. This instrument of trust is highly controlled by central banks (the fed), government, and wall st. One could say money is the root of all evil, but it looks more like the root of control to me.

fred_red_beans · 2019-06-06T23:36:46+00:00

They just really weren't communicating. His perspective was that the buildings collapsed, hers that the buildings turned to dust.

fred_red_beans · 2019-06-06T03:29:08+00:00

Can always make your own local cache: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#readme

fred_red_beans · 2019-06-04T21:21:16+00:00

You keep using words. I don't think you think I think that you thought I knew what they meant.

fred_red_beans · 2019-06-02T20:17:44+00:00

https://saidit.net/s/Africa/comments/6er/eye_of_africa_richat_structure_gaia_visiting/

fred_red_beans · 2019-06-02T18:38:55+00:00

'Chernobyl' is a blast of a TV series – but don’t call it ‘authentic’

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-30T18:53:57+00:00

While advised about all the side effects and possible negative consequences, it seems America took the pink pill in lew of the red one.

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-30T00:36:11+00:00

Sad thing is that most US communities have no insight, input, or even interest in who's in their local jail/prison. A society can be measured by how it treats the worst off. Certain individuals need to be separate from others, but all people deserve dignity.

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-20T15:48:53+00:00

I think one of the reasons for Russiagate was to distract people with good intentions, to guide the narrative away from Lybia and certainly the DNC's corrupt way of appointing Hillary over Sanders.

I was aware of the South Korean political scandal, but was under the impression it was mainly due to corruption and had not heard of an occult link.

The father Choi Tae-min:

was the leader of a South Korean cult combining elements of Buddhism, Christianity, and traditional Korean Shamanism[1]. Choi, originally a Buddhist monk, then a convert to Roman Catholicism, was married six times. He was the mentor of the impeached South Korean president, Park Geun-hye (the daughter of former president Park Chung-hee), until his death in 1994. He allegedly used his relationship with Park to solicit bribes from government officials and businessmen.

Icelanders refused to bail out their banks and jailed some of the CEO behind the failure. Their economy took a big hit, but GDP doubled since 2011

The US should have never bailed out the banks. When you fail in capitalistic business you're not supposed to get bailed out by the tax payers only to then give yourself huge bonuses.

Much of the fake main stream news is about narrative control so that the people in high places don't have the "problems" like South Korea and Iceland.

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-20T01:08:00+00:00

Guess you're not the only one:

Susan Sarandon, Pamela Anderson & Roger Waters question silence on OPCW report on Douma ‘attack’

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-20T01:02:17+00:00

Not surprising, but certainly telling.

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-18T23:28:51+00:00

r/all may have been fixed, but it sure looks like blah blah blah nothing...

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-18T16:36:53+00:00

No, the US is blocking the purchase of oil from PDVSA. Chavez (Maduro's predecessor) steered the Venezuela economy towards heavy reliance on oil exports. With the US blocking oil exports, Venezuela has a hard time paying for and importing things not made in Venezuela like medicines.

Report: US Sanctions Have Cost 40,000 Venezuelan Lives

Based on a number of different studies, the report estimates that sanctions were responsible for 40,000 deaths in 2017-2018, and that there are a further 300,000 people at risk due to lack of access to medicines. This includes “80,000 HIV patients who have not had antiretroviral treatment since 2017, 16,000 people who need dialysis, 16,000 people with cancer, and 4 million with diabetes and hypertension.”

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-18T16:13:26+00:00

What events are you referring to?

The fact that Venezuela has a huge oil basin?

U.S. Sanctions Are Aimed at Venezuela’s Oil. Its Citizens May Suffer First. - NYT

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-18T16:07:42+00:00

So why don't you make some posts that have and back up that information? I'd be interested in seeing it.

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-18T02:46:39+00:00

I'm sorry :(

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-18T00:33:39+00:00

I think it sounds good, easier to see the options there without having to click in the first place.

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-16T16:18:00+00:00

Machado conceded that the US-led coup attempt that she has helped to lead for nearly four months has failed. The only hope, she argued, is a foreign military intervention.

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-14T02:57:46+00:00

Currency is a surrogate for trust between (many) individuals.

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-13T03:26:28+00:00

Don't Worry Be Happy

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-12T18:48:41+00:00

Q: What do you call a deer with no eyes?

A: No-eye-deer!

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-12T06:33:20+00:00

What sets Brave apart is its aggressive anti-ad attitude. The browser was built to strip online ads from websites and its maker's business model relies not only on ad blocking, but on replacing the scratched-out ads with advertisements from its own network.

Brave also eliminates all ad trackers

Brave loads pages twice as fast as Chrome and Firefox

Brave will scrub sites of ads and ad tracking, then replace those ads with its own advertisement, which will not be individually targeted but instead aimed at an anonymous aggregate of the browser's user base.

The foundation of the Brave economy will be "Basic Attention Tokens" or BATs, which have a value derived from a cyber-currency. Those tokens will be awarded based on user attention, or more plainly, time spent viewing ads and content. Brave users who agree to receive ads will be rewarded with BATs; the tokens can be passed to publishers as support for their sites.

BATs is an opt-in system.

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-12T06:09:31+00:00

No longer on youtube - here's bitchute: THE DEATH OF YUGOSLAVIA (1995)

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-12T05:48:37+00:00

It's one thing to be a dick, it's quite another to be a bigger dick made surgically.

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-11T21:30:58+00:00

Have to be a pretty decent pilot and a fairly brave soul to be below it hooking those things together.

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-10T17:57:26+00:00

In historic indigenous cultures the use of psychedelics is considered a spiritual type of experience guided by a shaman. A problem with having psychedelics illegal is that young people will experiment anyways without guidance, respect, and knowledge. Comparatively to other drugs, mushrooms are fairly harmless, although I think they can bring forth tendencies or issues within the person ingesting them. Some individuals are just not well suited for their use. I've seen some individuals who just were never quite the same after the use of psychedelics. For those who's temperament is suited for it, I think mushrooms can be a good tool for self reflection, exploration, and contemplation.

You were right not to take your friend to the hospital.

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-10T05:08:52+00:00

Well at least some students realize it's not the guns that are the cause of the tragedy. Think these "adults" will think about other factors such as the environment these kids are exposed to? Doubt it. Much easier to blame an object then take responsibility. How is it that Denver area schools have so many school shootings?

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-10T04:58:38+00:00

THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO GROWING PSILOCYBIN MUSHROOMS

List of descriptions of species and strains of Psilocybe mushrooms and others

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-10T04:48:18+00:00

Thanks for the post, although washingtonpost's paywall sucks

Denver voters deciding on decriminalizing "magic mushrooms"

If the initiative passes, the use and possession of psilocybin mushrooms by adults 21 and older would be at the lowest law enforcement priority in Denver. This would prevent the city from using resources to impose penalties. The drug cannot be sold — but can be grown by users.

Which led to

THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO GROWING PSILOCYBIN MUSHROOMS

and

List of descriptions of species and strains of Psilocybe mushrooms and others

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-06T19:27:30+00:00

I don't believe the US has a specific plan for a coup in every country similar to or to the extent of the plan detailed in the OP.

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-06T18:52:33+00:00

I don't believe the US has a plan to overthrow the current Canadian government. The US is supposedly working on a basis that somehow Guido is an interim president because he declared himself so. A plan for a coup flys in the face of that premise.

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-05T18:24:48+00:00

I think there is a lot that people could do to add "capital" or value to our communities, problem is that they may not be able to earn money for it. Our economy, and those that control our economy, guide or dictate our productive activities.

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-05T17:05:54+00:00

Why not take a look at: https://saidit.net/s/Documentaries/

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-05T03:52:43+00:00

I see, when using Wikispooks as a reference:

Neither a see also or a reliable source nor does it meet WP:EL

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-05T02:45:28+00:00

Another effect of everyone working so much is that there is much less time for people to communicate with each other. While we are out working we depend on small groups of administrators, politicians, judges, and corporations take responsibility for issues that face us and our communities. Most people have little to no interaction with the workings of our political, judicial, or educational systems. We are only allowed to influence them by proxy via elections. Responsibility is lifted from us by these institutions, and we are much poorer for it. It could be seen as less efficient for groups of people to take the time be able to come to consensus on issues, but if people had more time in the first place, we would all have to learn to take responsibility for ourselves as a group or community. Currently most people are so concerned about just making it and chasing the dollar that they are distracted from other things, that while would take some work, may have a greater value.

Congressmen and senators don't care about what their constituents really think or care about, they only want to know what message will help their re-election and what they can do for their donors.

Most people don't have any idea how many are in their county jail. Shouldn't the people in a community have a say or at least some insight into the how members of their community are being "corrected" and why? Judges are appointed by politicians.

Corporations fund the colleges to ensure they get the next generation of employees they want.

It doesn't have to be this way, but while we complain about the conditions imposed upon us by the system, it is also our collective choice to continue to engage in it.

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-05T02:10:10+00:00

I think share is useless as I don't use those services.

I think instead of save, it would be nice to just see all posts I marked insightful or funny.

I've never used hide, but I could see how someone might.

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-05T01:59:43+00:00

I think a large reason people are leaving is due to the economic situation: Trump's Sanctions Have Cost Venezuela $6B Since August 2017

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-03T15:19:52+00:00

I think you and d3rr as the main developers have the right to refuse service to anyone you deem necessary. I think keeping your actions transparent help the saidit community understand your actions whether a user agrees or not. I've only removed one comment so far in my subs for threat of violence. I think your position is right in avoiding sub mods from infiltrating and using the site purely for their own purposes. I think you guys have done a good job so far in trying to keep a balance here. Thanks for that.

fred_red_beans · 2019-05-02T13:35:41+00:00

Everyone in Washington believed that significant figures in the Venezuelan government would change sides. They did not do so. Vladimir Padrino rejected the coup within an hour after Guaidó announced it. It seems that the Guaidó side got played by the Venezuelan Defense Minister and several other officials and officers. They seem to have promised to support Guaidó only to bait him into taking steps that would embarrass him.

Guaidó and his backers in the Trump administration were made to believe that some significant elements of the Maduro government and of the army would turn on Maduro. They launched a coup attempt that fell apart within a few hours as no one changed sides. All their blustering has now been deflated. Guaidó has lost his credibility. Washington may still support him but in Caracas there is likely no one left who believes in him.

Bolton, Pompeo, Abrams and of course Donald Trump have been exposed as buffoons who, despite their powerful positions, can not even organize a simple coup. They publicly supported through dozens of tweets and interviews what turned out be a bad amateur theater play. The diplomatic corps will joke about this episode for the next decade.

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