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I believe we should update our terminology for militarized intimidation. ln the old days it was called gunboat diplomacy. Now we should call it bomber diplomacy. After over a century, l think it is about time.

That looks like smeared face cream to me. Maduro had a bag over his head at one time. Maybe his wife did too.

I saw her on foreign TV going to court. l didn't see any bandages or bruising.

Nobody likes my poem.

l see some proportional truth to this. Look at the counter-protests. 1.4 million in Tehran. 800k in Mashad. A couple of these marches had Red Flags of Hussain. l saw one video where these three middle-aged men came out of their apartment building with shotguns and the lead man in a brown jacket immediately fired into the rioters. I will not want my apartment building set on fire either. The Western mediocures keep showing the some of the same week-old videos. The burning of District 5 municipal building in Tehran. A couple of burning mosques (Ayat 20:44) of 50+ so reported --attacking the din. The trapped nurse being burnt alive in her own clinic. That policeman knocked off his bike and beaten and burnt alive. And beaten while burning. Then Western media whine about some of the vicious psychos likely to be hanged (and you can bring the Gaza Ghetto in for comparison). lf a son of mine did any of this, l will not want him hanged, but nailed up.

l think this is off-the-mark. Just change/peg. The PRC will get a facilitation of trade, not having to convert currencies.

First you determine your desired price structure. One start point is the price of bread. What bakery price do you want at the consumer purchase? In the 1970s, when l could buy same-day bread 4 loaves for $1, the Sec. of Agriculture made a presentation before Congress taking slices of bread away t6o show the costs -labor, transportation, wrapping and so forth. What was left was a heel...the amount the farmer/grower got. A decade ago, l read an updated review of this. What the grower got then was a "corner of that heel". So even this one starting point is an involved accounting. Once you have determined your flow-of-money currency needs, contract the currency like Russia did in the 1990s. Then peg it to another currency. The Yuan is a good choice and lran sits astride the SCO "focus" and the Yuan is tied to a basket of currencies. To impede enemy counterfeiting operations, use a metallic currency. Round, square, triangular coins. Larger denominations being alpha-numerically indented. So you can have a square coin with a round hole for easier use. And easier to count. The Japanese Yen is a small aluminum coin. A currency shortage needs to be avoided. So the central bank should have a 1/2% inflation target. The US 2% target was passable in the 50s and 60s, but as prices get bigger, 2% destroys the currency and ruined old people. (Ask a 'boomer'). Gold and currency reserves be used for other transactions. There was other stuff l thought of, but forget offhand.

l was going to post similar, but the "12,000" l saw was this past weekend on the American CBS nutwork.

What l heard on foreign TV this morning --sorry l forget which one-- is that "for the first time ever" the lranian Army is involved and are guarding key buildings and institutions. That is what she said. And that the Army has never before been involved in any protests.

Even though Chevron decide to stay active in Venezuela, the oil infrastructure l read is in such a shabby state that it will cost $110Billion just to get it functioning sufficiently. Also, decades ago l read that Venezuelean oil is not the best of grades. Well below Texas Sweet.

One European media --l can't remember which one-- had a commentator that said this is coming. l'd guesstimate mid March.

OzzieTrumpdiass -07Jan26 -with apologies to Percy Blythe Shelly ...& to alHamir everywhere I met a displacee from a wasteland, Who said --"vast and formless cemented stone piled in a desert ...Near at hand, half a village lies, it's brown, with crater lip ... the sneer of bomber command, Tell that its sculptor whose fashions seen will survive over these lifeless things a land that shocked them and hearts that fled, And in the media, these words appear: My name is OzzieTrumpdiass, King of Bling; look on My Work, ye Flighty, and Beware!" Nothing good remains. Round the rubble of each Wreck, near soundless and bare, a lone and level drone flies far away. Notes: Ozymandias is a poem by Shelly. Himar is donkey, alhamar is the plural..."ass" being one western name for a donkey, as well as for underdeveloped personalities. Ozzie is a popular short of the names Oscar and Oswald, one being a name inferring divine power.

I saw one alleged "protest" and it looked like a normal street scene. lt was the one with multiple rows of yellow taxis seen from above.

Legislate it or have the central bank just start with it ... but l would consult Beijing on the implementation.

Nobody ever listens to me. Just ask my ex-wife.