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TingTime

@ekting.bsky.social

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40 year of IT drudgery, now retired to the beach. Garden, play tennis, SCUBA, travel, and becoming an historian of Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in China.

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TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 1d

Of course they have.

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks.

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Total Lowlife Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson has not heard anything about the entire East Wing being demolished and cannot speak to that.

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TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 1d

Why is ICE training still happening. If it is at the Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in Brunswick, shouldn’t it be closed for the shutdown?

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TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 3d

I will never feel confident about my “fellow Americans” again.

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 3d

The $$ is supposedly coming from “donations”. No records, no accountability, pay for play and grifting.

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 3d

More surreal that our fellow citizens voted for him and still believe he is a great man.

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 3d

China bought Argentine soybeans. The US is bailing out US soybean growers for $20 Bil and bailing out Argentina’s economy for $20 Bil because our dictator likes their dictator. This is not “winning” for US taxpayers.

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 4d

what a mean spirited, small lackey.

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you for what you are doing.

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you Madrid.

Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 5d

Madrid Spain: No Tyrants - #NoKings - a very large number of protesters answered the call and came in mass in the city center! Vamos!

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Shaun Pinner @olddogua.bsky.social · 7d

Trump told Europe not to buy Russian oil, now he’s championing a meeting in the one EU country still buying it. Hungary.

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NOTUS @notus.com · 7d

Politicians whose campaigns still owe large sums, according to October FEC filings:
- Newt Gingrich: $4.6 million
- Al Sharpton: $925,000
- Rick Santorum: $983,000
- Mehmet Oz: $25.5 million
- Mike Pence: $127,000

via @davelevinthal.com & @taylorgiorno.bsky.social
www.notus.org/money/politi...

Deadbeat Political Campaigns Still Owe Creditors Millions

Old campaigns of also-ran politicians remain hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in debt. Will they ever pay?

www.notus.org

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 8d

…So this Venezuela thing is just Argentina pt 2 — aka debt vulture billionaires using US taxpayer money to convert Latin debt?

Suddenly reminded of the 1930s when the State Dept/Treasury was fine with the Nazis as long as they thought Germany would make good on its huge debts

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Venezuela's dollar bonds have surged more than 50 per cent in price this year as investors bet that pressure on Nicolás Maduro's government from the Trump administration has increased the likelihood of Caracas one day regaining access to global markets.
The South American country defaulted in 2017 and has been barred from restructuring its debts by US and international sanctions.
However, the bonds still trade, in effect allowing investors to buy and sell claims on an eventual debt workout.
Prices have rallied this month to about 25 cents on the dollar, their highest level in more than half a decade, up from 16 cents at the start of the year as Maduro's grip on power has appeared to weaken.
Venezuelan debt is "pricing a higher optionality that 'something' could happen in Caracas", one bondholder said, referring to the possibility of Maduro being forced out.

"Venezuela has gone from deep freeze, to people asking why it keeps going up and being forced to get involved," said Edward Cowen, chief executive of Winterbrook Capital, a London-based specialist asset manager that advises and manages more than $130mn in Venezuelan assets.
Venezuela's enormous potential for increased oil production — it has the world's largest proven reserves - is one reason investors believe that eventual recovery on the bonds will be much higher than current prices, even though oil output is in a parlous state because of sanctions, mismanagement and decay.
Distressed debts of Petróleos de Venezuela, the state-owned oil company, have joined the rally, with a bond due in 2035, for example, rising from 11 to about 19 cents on the dollar.
Prices for the bonds "could climb further as the Trump administration continues to ratchet up pressure toward an outcome that remains auite deliberatelv — undefined". said Daniel

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TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 8d

no that Trump feels he has his Nobel because of Israel, he’ll let Ukraine dangle.

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TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 11d

per Wikipedia “The largest U.S. military installation in the Middle East is Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, which serves as the forward headquarters for the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) and houses approximately 10,000 troops” so why not train there?

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 11d

Trump has made it obvious in many ways that he has no interest in the security of America or Americans.

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 11d

Everyone on a ship had roles & training for combat. But mess attendants were not “shoulder to shoulder with trained gunners. Unlike Dorrie Miller’s response at Pearl Harbor, most did not overstep. For a story of “shoulder to shoulder” in the integrated navy, read about the USS Kittyhawk.

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 11d

Trump wrote off Ukraine in 2016. The GOP had support of Ukraine in their platform. Manafort/Trump made them take it out. While Manafort was an agent of the opposition government.

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 11d

Trust? Would you trust Trump to marry your daughter? To watch your grandchild?

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 11d

I’ve read or heard just 4 anecdotes of positive interactions or a change of mind (not counting the vignette in the Tuskegee movie and Patton’s alleged comments). Understandable that these would be less likely reported or discussed. But I am curious where your positivity comes from.

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 11d

For every white officer like the one who fought decades to get Rueben Rivers his MOH and the one who refused to prosecute Jackie Robinson, there are so many accounts that turn your stomach. Behaviors of the white officers of black units, of white soldiers and the army itself.

TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 11d

This is a serious question, not a challenge. I’m wondering where you are getting this info. I’ve read a number of books by black WW2 vets, listened to all the Library of Congress oral histories, plus heard personal accounts from my ex father in law and his friends. Very few accts of actual contact.

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Billie Etchison @sybilte420.bsky.social · 12d

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TingTime @ekting.bsky.social · 11d

Illegal to take payment for illegal services, like influence pedaling. Altho apparently not in this administration.