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  1. “Now qualifying as sexual assault…” Seems it is going that way. Might as well. Commercials have been denigrating men for quite some time. Next, laws against males running for office?
    In Cold War Flashback, Russia Designates VOA, Radio Free Europe as Foreign Agents
    “…it’s no coincidence that the Duma’s decision on VOA and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty comes soon after the U.S. Justice Department in September demanded that the Russian cable television entity RT (formerly known as Russia Today) register under the Foreign Agent Registration Act.”
    http://dailysignal.com/2017/12/12/in-cold-war-flashback-russia-designates-voa-radio-free-europe-as-foreign-agents/

  2. I was a shortwave radio addict in the 60’s. The Commies actually had noise making stations in the USSR to blank out Radio Free Europe. This is what Wikipedia has about jamming Radio Free Europe then and later.
    ”The Soviet government turned its efforts towards blocking reception of Western programs. To limit access to foreign broadcasts, the Central Committee decreed that factories should remove all components allowing short wave reception from USSR made radio receivers. However, consumers easily found out that the necessary spare parts were available on the black market while electronics engineers opposing the idea would gladly convert radios back to being able to receive short wave transmissions.
    The most aggressive and extensive form of reception obstruction was radio jamming. This was controlled by the KGB, which in turn reported to the Central Committee. Jamming was an expensive and arduous procedure, and its efficacy is still debated. In 1958, the Central Committee mentioned that the sum spent on jamming was greater than the sum spent on domestic and international broadcasting combined. The Central Committee has admitted that circumventing jamming was both possible and practiced in the Soviet Union. Due to limited resources, authorities prioritized jamming based on the location, language, time, and theme of Western transmissions. Highly political programs in Russian, broadcast at prime time to urban centers, were perceived as the most dangerous. Seen as less politically threatening, Western music such as jazz was often transmitted unjammed. The intensity of jamming fluctuated over time. During and after the Cuban Missile Crisis in late 1962, jamming was intensified. The Cuban Missile Crisis, however, was followed by a five-year period when the jamming of most foreign broadcasters ceased, only to intensify again with the Prague Spring in 1968. It ceased again in 1973, when Kissinger became secretary of state. Jamming only finally ended after Gorbachev came to power by a decree to that effect on 29 September 1986.” (End of Quote.)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Liberty

  4. I started my shortwave listening activities in the early 1970s and I heard a lot of jamming as well. The BBC World Service was another station that the Soviets took a dim view to.
    Mind you, jamming wasn’t just restricted to the U. S. S. R. During the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, both countries interfered with each other’s radio signals. I remember hearing the bubble jamming while I lived in southern Alberta.
    It’s still being used nowadays. China has been jamming signals from stations such as Radio Free Asia using co-channel interference in the form of firedrake music. It’s played without interruption or announcements and that’s a dead giveaway as to what’s going on. I’ve often heard it during the day on 19 metres, particularly during the mornings when signals from that side of the Pacific can be easily heard in North America.

  5. Seriously, given the current political climate, about 98% of Rock & Roll lyrics now qualify as sexual harassment. I mean isn’t it about time we re-examine “I Wanna Hold Your Hand”? Time to shut down R&R. Just to be safe.

  6. Shelter dogs could go vegan in Los Angeles
    the dogs in question are the 33,000 pooches that each year enter the city’s six animal shelters and are fed — for now, at least — traditional kibble composed mostly of turkey, chicken and lamb byproducts.
    Those dogs’ dinners could be swapped out for a plant-based food under a proposal before the Los Angeles City Board of Animal Services Commissioners. The change, which commissioners could decide Tuesday, would make the city’s shelter system the first in the nation to feed its canine residents a vegan diet, according to its chief veterinarian.

  7. So allegations have been made against David Cassidy by Samantha Fox. I guess you are supposed to apologize even after you are dead . With the merest hint of allegations you are now destroyed. Unfortunately this whole mess takes credibility away from people who truly have been assaulted. It also appears Mike pence is very astute in refusing to meet with out his wife present. In the future it appears you may have to obtain written clearance before showing any interest in another person . That in itself may be deemed assault if not insulting. So is the answer we go back to asking a father’s permission to date and do so only with an appropriate guardian present ?

  9. PET POT Party Cemetery Report.
    Liberal Justine ask, Indians don’t get Moi PET POT?
    …-
    “Indigenous leaders sounding alarm over implications of legal pot regime
    Indigenous leaders sound alarm over legal pot”
    “Cannabis is not currently eligible for coverage through the First Nations Inuit health branch, Health Canada confirmed Tuesday, noting medications must meet appropriate criteria, including a drug identification number, a doctor’s prescription and dispensation by a pharmacist.
    “There are no forms of medical cannabis that currently meet these conditions,” the department said in a statement.”
    http://www.chroniclejournal.com/life/health/indigenous-leaders-sounding-alarm-over-implications-of-legal-pot-regime/article_9ab23a2a-df87-5039-8935-d5dff17f5f69.html

  11. Liberal Wynnetario’s Green-Red Bolshevik-Stalinist GULAG archipelago.
    …-
    “Another ‘green’ power boondoggle sinks taxpayers and consumers in the red
    They promised green and clean. What they deliver to Canadians instead is expensive and in the red”
    “From Bonavista to Vancouver Island, from the Arctic Circle to the Great Lake waters, this land really belongs to electric-power monopolies and politicians who routinely bulldoze property rights, ratepayers, taxpayers and the regulators that have become puppets of governing political string-pullers.”
    http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/terence-corcoran-another-green-power-boondoggle-sinks-taxpayers-and-consumers-in-the-red
    …-
    “Forced Labor Camps
    o n – l i n e e x h i b i t i o n”
    “The system of forced labor camps was established in the first years of the Communist regime in the Soviet Union. It became essential part of the Soviet repressive system. The Communist takeovers in the Eastern and Central Europe during the World War II led to mass arrests of non-Communist politicians and people identified as class-enemies. Many of them were sentenced to forced labor camps.
    In 1952 the International League for the Rights of Man was able to document the existence of more than 400 forced labor camps in Central and Eastern Europe. Here you can find highlights of the Open Society Archives hodings related to the Gulag and other forced labor camps.”
    http://w3.osaarchivum.org/gulag/txt1.htm

  12. Alabama -HAHAHAHAHAHAJAHAHAHAJAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *BREATHES* HAHAHAHAHAJAHAJAHHAHAHAHAHA
    HAHAHAHAHAJAHAJAHHAHAHAHAHA
    LOLOLOLOL

  14. I read this morning on Gateway Pundit that turnout rates were:
    GOP. 50% of 2016
    DEM. 92% of 2016
    I get your belly laughs but if are sincere you would laugh a lot less if you were fully briefed on the tsunami of well-timed dark money poured into the race by people who couldn’t care less about Alabama or the two candidates.
    Big win for Obama race-hustling too.

  16. AGW Kills.
    …-
    “Dreaming of a snow-free Christmas as elderly die every 7 mins from cold” (hmcareuk)
    …-
    “French President Admits President Trump’s Climate Agenda is Winning”
    “French President Emanuel Macron has admitted that greens are losing because President Trump withdrew from the Paris Agreement.”
    “Speaking at the One Planet Summit in Paris, Mr Macron said the 2015 Paris climate accord was in a fragile state after President Donald Trump pulled the US out in June.
    “We’re not going fast enough, there lies the tragedy,” Mr Macron said.”
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/12/13/french-president-admits-president-trumps-climate-agenda-is-winning/

  17. lol!!
    I got a big laugh out of my schoolyard acquaintances changing the lyrics to various beatle songs; “I wanna hold your gland” stuff.
    I never liked the beatles, bought ONE album AFTER the (boo hoo hoo) breakup YAYYY!!!

  18. “…And then while I’m away
    I’ll drink beer every day
    and I’ll send all my bottles to you…”

  19. How did this person become a veterinarian without understanding that dogs are carnivores? That’s animal abuse.

  20. Walter Russell Mead: Fracking Our Way To Mideast Peace
    “Low oil prices have so eroded Arab states’ power, they now see Israel as a protector.
    Whatever you think of President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, it points to the most important strategic reality in the Middle East: Arab power has collapsed in the face of low oil prices and competition from American frackers.
    The devastating oil-price shocks of the 1970s, orchestrated by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, nearly wrecked the world economy. Ever since, the U.S. has looked for ways to break OPEC’s parasitic and rent-seeking grip on the oil market—and thereby to reduce America’s geopolitical vulnerability to events in the Middle East.
    Victory did not come easily.”
    https://www.thegwpf.com/walter-russell-mead-fracking-our-way-to-mideast-peace/

  21. CBC’s As It Happens interviewed some nutter like that. She insisted that her dogs should never be carnivorous again and started feeding them a vegetable diet. She joyously proclaimed on the radio that her dogs were finally “peaceful” and “docile”, sleeping a lot. Of course they were like that, you dummy–they’re malnourished!

  24. reminds me of a cbcbc news item about the dogwolves in N Ontariariario.
    last scene in the item was some womyn struggling barely to keep her ‘pet’ dogwolf under control.
    hmmm. THERE’S a lawsuit in the making . . . . .
    dogwolf. google it. half WOLF. a species I greatly admire for the resileincy of their social structure and astounding communication and coordination skills taking down prey.
    but as a friggin pet?

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