THE RANT ROOM

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The illusion that wealth matters or money ?
you can't wash that off...I spent my life in NYC ...daily status quo "neck deep" swimming thru that puke...your perspective or experience may be unique to you ...[with that mindset you write of and your experiences]



Always try to do the next right thing...you want to change the world
BE that change...and in this case .. to open source FE ...will only take one !!

YES !! one man can change the world...will be like turning a page ...no wealth required nor passion for wealth ...
Perhaps we unite all those of like mind who really want to do "the next right thing".
and I am not talking about uniting those who would step over the sick or dying on the way to the bank or the golf course..
Can't you see it ??
a man here reminded me of a word the other day "Dharma"..apparently a big word...

[ramset]

To remember ... and begin

[onepower]

Chet
The act of commitment or jumping in with both feet is well enough sometimes unless were talking about quicksand. I would also agree all kinds of things can occur in one's favor or not with respect to commitment. The problem with total commitment to something is that it's kind of like a jumping off a cliff and once you take the leap there's a certain finality to it.

It seldom works as planned because it's relatively easy to change our minds based on the facts before we have committed completely to something. The situation is fluid and dynamic however after the fact we would either have to admit we were wrong which few can do or continue to double down which just makes us look inept.

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin now

Magic in it, like a magician using the power of illusion which seems like genius but is simply a slight of hand and deception?. I prefer intelligence, because when faced with a seemingly insurmountable problem bold generally gets someone killed while intelligence usually produces the opposite result. Which may be why the bold tend to crash and burn so often.

In my opinion the story is generally always the same, only those who bring little of value to the table, who have little to lose are the one's talking about going all in without thinking or having all the facts. There is another saying, it is a long hard journey to the top of a mountain but a short fall.

Regards

[onepower]

I thought this was interesting...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/18/donald-trump-us-senate-report-russia-campaign
US Senate report goes beyond Mueller to lay bare Trump campaign's Russia links

It was of course, grossly under reported in the U.S. however it's just begun.

Apparently a republican Senate committee has found that not only was there direct Russian interference but the trump campaign was cooperating with Russian intelligence officers aka GRU/KGB.

The Republican-controlled Senate panel said it was hampered in its search for the truth by the fact that Kilimnik and Manafort kept their communications secret. They used burner phones, encrypted chat services, and frequently changed email accounts. They also messaged via a shared email draft.

So let's look at the timeline...

The report says: "The committee found that the Ritz Carlton in Moscow is a high counterintelligence risk environment. The committee assesses that the hotel likely has at least one permanent Russian intelligence officer on staff, government surveillance of guests' rooms, and the regular presence of a large number of prostitutes, likely with at least the tacit approval of Russian authorities.

So donny trump gets caught with his pants literally down with two Russian prostitutes supposedly urinating on him, uhm wow, Epstein ring a bell?.

It adds: "According to two former employees of the Ritz Carlton in Moscow, in 2013 there was at least one [redacted] officer permanently stationed at the hotel. This non-uniformed officer was believed to be a [redacted] and had access to the hotel's property management system, guest portfolios and notations, as well as the network of "hundreds" of security cameras at the hotel.

It all gets recorded on video... Oh dear.

The committee, which spent three years taking evidence for its report, also examined previous trips by Trump to Russia. It says that during a 1996 visit, Trump attended a party for a group of American investors at the Baltschug Kempinski hotel. The party was arranged by David Geovanis, a Moscow-based businessman who the report says has links to the Russian security services.

Not only are trumps friends implicated but he is as well. Oh what a surprise.

It goes on to say that Trump "may have begun a brief relationship with a Russian woman" he met at the Geovanis party. Her name is blacked out. One source of the information is Theodore Liebman, an architect who lived in Moscow and New York in the 1990s, and who travelled to Russia with Trump to the event. Geovanis has spoken to journalists and is reluctant to visit the US, the committee notes.

Uhm... blackmail. It's always the same sad story isn't it?.

It describes the Russian government's overall operation in support of Trump in 2016 as "aggressive and multi-faceted". The language echoes that of Mueller, who called Moscow's meddling "sweeping and systematic". But in many places the committee is more damning, suggesting a high level of coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian intermediaries.

Okay, this guy is screwed and unless he does everything the Russians say he will lose his family, his almost bankrupt businesses and be embarrassed on the world stage. What to do?...

The report says that Trump's close friend Roger Stone was working closely with WikiLeaks in summer 2016. It suggests Stone was briefing Trump in real time, and that the Trump campaign was shaping its messages ahead of releases by WikiLeaks of Democratic emails stolen in Moscow by GRU state hackers.

Hmm... blackmail, coercion and treason, it's shaping up nicely and no wonder Putin is just grinning ear to ear with that sparkle in his eye.

It says: "Trump and senior campaign officials sought to obtain advance information about WikiLeaks's planned releases through Roger Stone. At their direction, Stone took action to gain inside knowledge for the campaign and shared his purported knowledge directly with Trump and senior campaign officials on multiple occasions."

Oh dear, now were talking Russian Agents, donny trump, internal and external agents involved in espionage and treason. Not looking good.
But wait, there's more...

Now suppose donny trump is not just stupid but was being blackmailed by Russian agents and told if he didn't cooperate he would lose everything and become known as a the degenerate slob he is. Then suppose he had a way out, if he did cooperate he could become president, get billions in tax breaks and interest free loans saving daddy's empire, his sham marriage and not go to prison. All he had to do is be himself, incompetent, and not rock the boat too much. Pandemic?... no such thing, Oil crisis obliterating shale oil which benefits Russia?... cool, broken economy... that's the way the cookie crumbles, trillions of dollars migrating from the poorest to the richest... hallelujah.

Unfortunately, I managed to put most of this together last year and posted as much. You see it's one thing to be stupid but quite another to literally turn your own country into a dumpster fire overnight. Donny trump just ain't that smart, obviously, so when I heard rumors of a Russian video of him with a couple Russian prostitutes, the fact that he is fawning all over Putin and pouring gasoline on his own country?... well it's not rocket science.

So what of the future?...

Dipshit donny could defect to Russia but that's highly unlikely and maybe WW3.
He could ride it out, hope to win the next election which is looking very unlikely or he could prey, lol.
However I suspect he will do what his kind always does, double down, lie through his teeth and unfortunately have a massive heart attack. Not a real one mind you because both the U.S. and the Russians now have a liability to deal with and we all know how that works.

Another Shakespearean tragedy in my opinion...
It is times like these I am eternally grateful to be nobody, no one of significance who can simply live a content and happy life.

Regards

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onepower I must say I come here to get away from this crap but you bring this up every time you get a chance and you do seem a bit obsessed or trump derangement syndrome has hit in Canada also. Since I have been reading things you posted there has never been one iota of technical language from you it is all ways political so if you want to follow the lefties into there new world order globalist crap of forced vaccines and electronic surveillance state go right ahead but shouldn't that be done at a political forum this doesn't seem the place to me there must be some lefty echo chamber forum where you can all agree and talk about your utopia with unicorns. I have tried to stay away from this topic with you but this is all you seem to want to talk about and I had seen enough. Do you have anything technical to share I would be glad to listen but these posts are crap.