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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (143857)	10/15/2018 8:11:18 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218308

re <<Who will be left holding the baby?>> likely everybody alive in the lead to and including the teotwawki triple-waterfall global asset reset and planetary liability recalibration, and then everybody again starting at the get-go of galactic darkest interregnum also likely that there would be consolation prizes bestowed on some metals holders - it is a theoretical possibility but evidence on small scale of russia, india, brazil, turkey, venezuela seems to bear out, however in the case of gold, failed just now at least so far in china, as gold dropped along side RMB

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (143857)	10/16/2018 5:23:22 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218308

re 'a lot of fun' in the sense you likely meant, akin to chaos or anything resembling such and yes, i find zerohedge perfectly adequate as primary leads on news flow, for occasionally it points to FT, WSJ, NYT and other suspects such as Economist, etc - MBS denies that he did it to the WaPo reporter who was once likely a dark-sider during the first afghan war against the then soviet-flavoured russians; which means OJ did not do it but can write a tome on how to do it. - Unsure of what Turkey's game is, but perhaps the Iran game is nudged off script a little bit - Hungary ups central bank gold reserve by 1,000% (10x) for no particular reason zerohedge.com - china and japan unloads USA T-bills on the saudis and brazilians zerohedge.com - trump feels there is such a state as 'too independent' zerohedge.com - you and i both know how absorbing cyber debates can be, and how fruitless internet arguments are, and yet, here we are, in full view of tweet storm re stormy zerohedge.com (such back & forth cannot be good for the liver and yet some seem to enjoy it so very much)

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (143857)	10/17/2018 5:31:53 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218308

I had suspected that the consul went in the wrong direction after de-camping base-camp, and my fear may have been well suspected - he should have flown to Moscow The 15 wet work team members best make run, or arrange for last words before curtains. Life can feature dramatic changes w/i a few short days and long nights. Justice may be serving. zerohedge.com Saudi Consul In Istanbul Relieved Of Post, To Face Investigation Over Khashoggi MurderIt looks like the Saudis have found their fall guy. [url=][/url] Not long after the UN's top human rights official called for diplomatic immunity to be suspended for those found responsible for the death of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Turkish media and Reuters are reporting that Consul General of Saudi Arabia Mohammad al-Otaibi has been recalled to Riyadh, relieved of his duties, and will face an investigation following reports that Khashoggi had been killed in al-Otaibi's office, and that the doctor who dismembered Khashoggi's corpse had asked al-Otaibi to leave the room. CNN Turk reported Wednesday that an 11-member Saudi investigation team had finally arrived at the Saudi consul's Istanbul residence for a joint inspection with Turkish officials, after the Saudis had declared the residence off limits earlier in the week, per Reuters. Al-Otaibi reportedly fled Turkey on a commercial flight... [url=][/url]...hours before his residence was expected to be searched by Turkish police.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (143857)	10/17/2018 6:47:05 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218308

Was the below, close enough, predictable? Will such spread and counter-spread? Perhaps best the system does a thread reset? Does our thread reset work, and if so, will the state last? zerohedge.com "Why Don't You Go Kill Yourself?" - Two GOP Candidates Assaulted In MinnesotaPolice say they've identified two suspects who allegedly attacked two Republican candidates for Minnesota's state legislature over the past week - attacks that have helped justify President Trump's warning that the Democratic Party has become the "party of Mob Rule" in the wake of the widespread outrage and street demonstrations provoked by the confirmation of SCOTUS Justice Brett Kavanaugh. According to the National Review, Republican state representative Sarah Anderson was punched in the arm last week after confronting a man who was vandalizing lawn signs promoting Republican candidates. Over the weekend, Shane Mekeland, a first-time Republican candidate, received a concussion after he was sucker punched while speaking with constituents at a restaurant in his assembly district. [url=][/url] Republican state representative Sarah Anderson Anderson said she was terrified by her assailant, who only backed off when she climbed back in her car and drove away. "It was just insane. He was charging at me, saying, 'Why don’t you go kill yourself?' To have someone physically coming after you and attacking you is just disheartening." Charges against the suspects, who have not been publicly identified, will likely be filed in the coming days, according to local police. Meanwhile, Mekeland has continued to suffer memory loss and sensitivity to light stemming from the concussion he received during the assault. "I was so overtaken by surprise and shock, and if this is the new norm, this is not what I signed up for," Mekeland said. The attacks occurred in the days after the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party suspended a member of its communications staff for a week after he wrote in a Facebook post that Democrats would [bring Republicans] to the guillotine" during the upcoming midterm election, per the Washington Free Beacon. Mekeland expressed disappointment with Democrats for not condemning his attacker and for not doing more to punish the communications staffer. "He's a political staffer so you'd think if anybody should know boundaries, I think that'd be it," he said. Republicans were outraged by the suspension, saying the candidate should have been fired, particularly after Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned his colleagues about using inflammatory and divisive rhetoric in the aftermath of the Kavanaugh confirmation vote. "Only one side was happy to play host to this toxic fringe behavior," McConnell said Thursday, referencing the raucous protesters that descended on the Capitol during Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing. "Only one side’s leaders are now openly calling for more of it. They haven’t seen enough. They want more. And I’m afraid this is only Phase One of the meltdown." McConnell's comments were inspired in part by Democratic lawmakers Corey Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand. Booker recently urged his constituents to 'get up in the face' of Republican politicians, while Gillibrand has derided the Trump agenda as 'evil'. Senator Rand Paul has warned that statement's like Booker's could be taken to violent extremes by the mentally ill. Paul was present when an unhinged Bernie Sanders supporter opened fire last summer at a Congressional baseball practice, nearly killing House Whip Steve Scalise. "I think what people need to realize, that when people like Cory Booker say, 'Get up in their face,' he may think that that’s OK," said Paul, who was present when Representative Steve Scalise (R., La.) was shot during a practice for the annual congressional baseball game last year. "But what he doesn’t realize is that for about every 1,000th person that might want to get up in your face, one of them is going to be unstable enough to commit violence." Unfortunately, given the politically charged climate and Democrats desperate hopes for taking back the House and the Senate during the upcoming midterms, the US could experience another wave of violent attacks in the run-up to the vote, and another explosion of outrage if Republicans remain in control.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (143857)	10/17/2018 6:53:30 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218308

The vocal minority is not worrying until organised, I suppose. All it takes is some astute opportunist to seize the agenda and impart programming, I guess. The names of the party doesn’t matter zerohedge.com Minority Of Radical Leftists Dominate Democratic Party Agenda, Study FindsDNC Chairman Tom Perez wasn't exaggerating when he declared Democratic Congressional candidate and alleged "girl from the Bronx" to be "the future of our party." In fact, a recent study has confirmed what conservatives have been warning about for some time: That the militant far-left wing of the Democratic Party is now firmly in control of the party's messaging and agenda. According to one analysis of our current hyperpartisan political environment carried out during a year-long study entitled "Hidden Tribes" a project organized by More in Common, an organization that aims to help mitigate the divisive state of American politics, progressive activists on the liberal wing of the Democratic Party comprise only 8% of Democrats, but are responsible for nearly all of the "shouts, posts" and many of the votes, too. [url=][/url] Tom Perez Meanwhile, what the study called "traditional liberals" comprised another 11% of the electorate. Progressive Activists (8 percent of the population) are deeply concerned with issues concerning equity, fairness, and America's direction today. They tend to be more secular, cosmopolitan, and highly engaged with social media. Traditional Liberals (11 percent of the population) tend to be cautious, rational, and idealistic. They value tolerance and compromise. They place great faith in institutions. Despite their focus on identity politics and the liberation of "oppressed" groups, members of the far left are 80% white and well-educated. [url=][/url] Meanwhile, 67% of the population falls into what the researchers called "the exhausted majority". They're either centrist democrats, unaffiliated moderates or completely politically disengaged. Stephen Hawkins, the organizer of the study, told Axios that the progressive left and, on the other side, devoted conservatives, are "talking to each other too little, with too much suspicion and too little giving credit." "They have inverse worldviews." The project, which has been billed as the largest-ever study of political partisanship in the US, was based on an 8,000-person poll carried out by YouGov. The poll had about a 1% margin of error. In other words, party activists hoping that the wave of progressive candidates (many of them female) running for Congressional seats across the US will struggle to muster the votes, despite hogging a disproportionate portion of the online discussion and press coverage.