In terms of gold the picture changes. It took about ten barrels of oil to buy an ounce of gold in 1971. Now, it takes 78 of them. Is oil too cheap? Is gold too expensive?
Iran is a failed nation subjugating its populace to hardship’s including imprisonment and murder. They are the worlds number one source of funding and sponsorship for every crazed muslim terrorist group. If they get their hands on a nuclear weapon they WILL use it. They aren’t all that far from having one. Maybe you can live with that. I cant and neither does most of the world.
Iran is funding every crazed Muslim terrorist group? What about the new Syrian president Al-Jolani? The former Al-Queda headchopper who once had a $10 million price tag on his head recently visited Donnie in the White House. And who can forget the picture of Ronnie Raygun with the Taliban in the Oval Office. Plus, several government officials have admitted that they were using ISIS to overthrow Assad in Syria. In fact, Israel provided medical treatment to ISIS fighters wounded during the civil war there.
Bob, please remember that for every nuclear weapon You have pointing to where ever, there is one pointing back. That has been the deterrent for a nuclear war . Since nuclear weapons were made. .In My opinion is still the best deterrent.
Don, ever hear of suicide bombers. It comes from an ideology that is basically a death cult - kill now and you will forever be rewarded in heaven. Iran leadership is such a death cult. Better days come after death. Don't assume mutual assured destruction will deter them.
Yes John I have heard of these bombers . I remember 9-11 quite well . But I am talking about nuclear weapons and power. Idealogy can not be wiped out of the face of the earth. It will remain with us till death do us part.
Don, this has nothing to do with deterrence. These whackos would set one off anywhere through their terrorist network if they could. We arnt dealing with rationality here.
Never have and never will deal with rationality from Iran . We can not even do this in North America. Wish I could say "united We stand , divided We fall" Just an old saying that can be taken in one or more ways .
We had a chance to deal rationally with Iran but instead decided to coup the democratic Iranian government back in 1953. Another case in point of the CIA Midas effect - whatever they touch turns to crap.
Thank you Bob. America now has leadership that is willing to make the difficult decisions and once and for all take out the biggest threat in the Middle East. Which would have never been born if a useless democrat president wasn’t in office at the time. Also the cartels in Mexico and the rest of central and South America, China’s influence in our hemisphere and the biggest threat to the world, or Another Communist presidency, saving our world with the SaveAct. The leftist will never be able to steal another election. Unfortunately, Bill is one of them, and is going down kicking and screaming like all the other globalists.
Yes Mr M, they don’t quietly roll over, but they are quietly created, mostly in back rooms by very bad actors(think CIA/Swamp Creatures). It’s all for show, so sit back and enjoy it, because it’s only been done since man came out of the caves….today it’s only a reality TV show, and this show will only have one episode 🤔
"In that respect, it is helpful to understand the motivation behind them. On Fox News, foreign policy analysts insist that the attack on Iran would be driven by a desire to protect US security. But Iran has no worthy navy or air force. It has no way to strike America. And its missiles only have a range of about 2,000 kilometers...far short of the 10,000 needed to approach the US."
For the record, I dispute this contention. Iran does not need a "worthy" navy or air force to "strike" the US or its several international interests with a nuclear device. A nuclear explosive device can be delivered in any number of ways at any number of places at any number of times, which is why I am in the camp that says Iran must not be allowed nuclear weapons capability at all. Best always. PM
So Bill, let's cut through the clutter of your content today. Is not Iran a mulsum theocracy? Is not the Ayatollah Khamenei an 87 year old religious narcissist/fanatic whose life is at its end? Does he not take his marching orders from Allah, whom he is a heart beet away from meeting? Is not his war cry "Allahu Akbar" i.e. "God is Greater"? So Bill the only dot you need to connect is the one that goes boom if not for Trump.
No Jimm, I have been married to an Iranian woman who escaped to regime and I have been playing raquetball for the last 45 years with two Iranian men who escaped right before the regime change in 1978. One thing you need to know about old raquetball players is that in-between games all we talk about is politics. Also, I never watch the far left media
Tom, how do you know all this? Have you been to Iran yourself? Have you spoken with Khamenei and his cohorts. Are you a Jew who feels personally threatened? Are you a member of the warfare industry? What is your personal knowledge - or - are you just repeating the MSM opinions - whose opinions are driven by self interest and the need to generate advertising revenue. Not a criticism - just trying to understand.
Tom, Muslims have been chanting Allahu Akbar nearly as long as Christians have been worshiping a man who arose from the dead and a ghost whom they assert is holy.
I wouldn’t presume Iran wants to be annihilated just because they revere their god (who leaped into heaven on a white steed from a stone in Mecca around which faithful Muslims have to march counterclockwise in a white robe once in their life)
In 1974, our business owned a gas station; we had 40k gallons in the ground. I drove from Baltimore to Washington and back, only car on the road.
The lines were crazy, people too; we never had so many friends. My brother was doling it out unscrupulously, forgetting loyal customers. It was so crazy, I decided to go on vacation.
I flew to Puerto Rico, rented a car, and drove the island. There was no gas shortage, everything was normal.
There is only one side, truth. People have been talking about it for thousands of years. It exists in the Universe, the universe exists because of it. Men, because of interest, have a hard time finding it, especially today in the cacophony of forgetful voices that have been nursed on lies. Ultimately, truth emanates in the soul from a relationship with God. Very few have it and very few can recognize those that do. Truth is the “invisible hand, in a free successful marketplace that empowers the individual. Ralph Waldo Emerson writes it as follows many other philosophers and writers.
"we cast no judgment on the dots themselves" as he proceeds to cast judgement. Spoken like a typical left wing fabricator - Honestly, i don't even have to read through your post to know what it is. If it weren't for the fun of exposing your contradictions your posts would offer no value at all.
PS: One of the best current state "dramas" is running on Apple TV called Tehran. Wow. Get a grip. Season 4 finale is just mind blowing.
I’m recent times a beautiful young Persian girl has been cutting my hair at the barber shop I go to. I asked her about the situation in Iran. “I am here in Australia because my country is a disaster. We live in constant fear.” But the line that hit me, “how did my parent’s generation allow this to happen to my generation. We have had enough.”
Everyone wants what you have BB and on the internet they can see it.
"so, if not ‘national security’, what? Does Israel have some ‘dirt’ on Trump...forcing him to take action against its arch-enemy? Does the Pentagon have new weapons it wants to test? Does Trump hope for glory by (starting and) ending another war?"
"As we explained earlier this week, we cast no judgment on the dots themselves. We just try to see what they mean and where they are going."
So now Bonner is a standup comedian! The only dots Bonner sees are through his TDS lens. Distorting and manipulating events to suit his purposes. As far as I'm concerned, he can take his so-called "dots" and shove them where the sun don't shine!
And I wonder "how could that possibly be"? Trump is merely the President of the United States of America (thanks to our somewhat regrettable votes, not that what's-her-name would have been any better) and is accountable for his lies, wars, destroyed economy, etc. These are all things he promised not to engage in and he even ignores established laws and the rights and duties of others. That's the lens of reality, not the primitive ideological nonsense that he and his boss, Netanyahu, spout.
It seems that just about everyone in the World is deranged by Trump one way or another. Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of both love and hate is indifference, and there's not much of that on either side.
Mr. Bonner, please, don't be naive. Suicidal fanatics have different logics than us. They are not afraid to die. Their death is the simplest direct way to paradise. Mr. B. argument that Iran has no means of the nuclear weapon delivery yet, is intentionally misleading. He forgot about the "poor man" means, like using a suicidal planes or just a cargo ship or private yacht with nuclear bomb aboard n the US ports. I wonder, why Mr. B. does not see this? And finally, I see an usual antisemitic trope: this is Israel who is the main enemy of the World since she controls all global politics behind the curtain. Mr. B is not the worst antisemite but he still is.
There is only one place where the extreme corruption, endless lies, ancient religious, racial, sexual, national prejudices, and senseless wars and spending will take us and that is into TOTAL collapse. The only questions are when, to what extreme the burden will be, and how do we protect ourselves. Now that the hopelessly divided and lost nation of India seems to have joined the 2 post-WWII death-mongers, USA and Israel, the international lines have been drawn with confused and declining Europe in the middle--confused, as indicated by the standing ovation given Marco Rubio at the Munich Conference after his speech applauding Neo-Colonialism and subjugation of the Global South.
Fortunately there are truths: Thanks to Trump's obtuseness, Canada sees a path survive and thrive on its own, which will lead to the destruction of the US auto industry (450,000 workers). Trump already destroyed the steel industry in 2017, the dollar and US global leadership in one week last April, US grain farmers, our university monopoly and international tourism last year. Even If Trump assists Netanyahu in creating Greater Israel from the river (Euphrates) to the sea (Mediterranean) and bombs and invades Iraq and slaughters 2 million Iranians, the US will end up as the major loser. Israel is already THE global pariah--and Trump's totally fake Gaza "peace" only serves to incriminate the US even more.
The missing Epstein pages (thanks to his DOJ stooge), his insults against women in general and the US women's hockey team in particular and the already forgone conclusion that he and the Republicans have already lost this year's election, leave in my mind one final hope: That he will open his eyes and mind enough on his April visit to China to see and appreciate the miracle created by China merely by 1) supporting first the bulk of its population (with relatively easy physical and economic mobility), 2) enforcing common-sense laws (which in the US, the Democrats primarily broke), 3) making sure that kids go to school, 4) controlling corporations (which are, after all, creations of government), 5) ensuring American 1950's-style free competition and 6) being nice to (even actually helping) future foreign competitors.
I know it's pretty far-fetched, but does anyone else have a better hope can we cling to?
I think the "unknown unknowns" are the greatest danger in life. Some call them "Black Swans" but the results are the same. Q3 2008 kicked my butt because I didn't follow some basic rules. I'll never make those mistakes again.
"So, if not ‘national security’, what? Does Israel have some ‘dirt’ on Trump ABSOLUTELY ...forcing him to take action against its arch-enemy? WITHOUT A DOUBT Does the Pentagon have new weapons it wants to test? ALWAYS .. Does Trump hope for glory by (starting and) ending another war? MORE GLORY IS ALL HE'S AFTER but beware of making your trailing pack of attack mongrels even more agitated .. they are such fun to laugh at even from a distance!
Iran is a failed nation subjugating its populace to hardship’s including imprisonment and murder. They are the worlds number one source of funding and sponsorship for every crazed muslim terrorist group. If they get their hands on a nuclear weapon they WILL use it. They aren’t all that far from having one. Maybe you can live with that. I cant and neither does most of the world.
Iran is funding every crazed Muslim terrorist group? What about the new Syrian president Al-Jolani? The former Al-Queda headchopper who once had a $10 million price tag on his head recently visited Donnie in the White House. And who can forget the picture of Ronnie Raygun with the Taliban in the Oval Office. Plus, several government officials have admitted that they were using ISIS to overthrow Assad in Syria. In fact, Israel provided medical treatment to ISIS fighters wounded during the civil war there.
Bob, please remember that for every nuclear weapon You have pointing to where ever, there is one pointing back. That has been the deterrent for a nuclear war . Since nuclear weapons were made. .In My opinion is still the best deterrent.
Don, ever hear of suicide bombers. It comes from an ideology that is basically a death cult - kill now and you will forever be rewarded in heaven. Iran leadership is such a death cult. Better days come after death. Don't assume mutual assured destruction will deter them.
Yes John I have heard of these bombers . I remember 9-11 quite well . But I am talking about nuclear weapons and power. Idealogy can not be wiped out of the face of the earth. It will remain with us till death do us part.
Don, this has nothing to do with deterrence. These whackos would set one off anywhere through their terrorist network if they could. We arnt dealing with rationality here.
Never have and never will deal with rationality from Iran . We can not even do this in North America. Wish I could say "united We stand , divided We fall" Just an old saying that can be taken in one or more ways .
We had a chance to deal rationally with Iran but instead decided to coup the democratic Iranian government back in 1953. Another case in point of the CIA Midas effect - whatever they touch turns to crap.
Yep, more history and man kind and his or her corruption. Human nature does not change,only the characters.
Thank you Bob. America now has leadership that is willing to make the difficult decisions and once and for all take out the biggest threat in the Middle East. Which would have never been born if a useless democrat president wasn’t in office at the time. Also the cartels in Mexico and the rest of central and South America, China’s influence in our hemisphere and the biggest threat to the world, or Another Communist presidency, saving our world with the SaveAct. The leftist will never be able to steal another election. Unfortunately, Bill is one of them, and is going down kicking and screaming like all the other globalists.
"Once an for all" is quite a statement.
Cornered regimes don’t quietly roll over and let Uncle Sam tickle their balls with democracy. They get unpredictable, unstable and dangerous.
Afghanistan? Twenty years of intervention, trillions spent… and the Taliban still ended up back in charge.
Iraq? A decade of cuvil war, sectarian bloodshed, ISIS, and a region still dealing with the aftershocks.
Libya? Quick air campaign, Gaddafi gone, and then a failed state with open-air slave markets.
The idea that Iran, even with Khameni gone, can be dealt with neatly by air power alone is wishful thinking of the highest order.
Yes Mr M, they don’t quietly roll over, but they are quietly created, mostly in back rooms by very bad actors(think CIA/Swamp Creatures). It’s all for show, so sit back and enjoy it, because it’s only been done since man came out of the caves….today it’s only a reality TV show, and this show will only have one episode 🤔
https://sonar21.com/the-big-lie-about-irans-support-for-terrorism/
Your talking through your zionist pedo arsehole.
Up yours arshole
"In that respect, it is helpful to understand the motivation behind them. On Fox News, foreign policy analysts insist that the attack on Iran would be driven by a desire to protect US security. But Iran has no worthy navy or air force. It has no way to strike America. And its missiles only have a range of about 2,000 kilometers...far short of the 10,000 needed to approach the US."
For the record, I dispute this contention. Iran does not need a "worthy" navy or air force to "strike" the US or its several international interests with a nuclear device. A nuclear explosive device can be delivered in any number of ways at any number of places at any number of times, which is why I am in the camp that says Iran must not be allowed nuclear weapons capability at all. Best always. PM
Do you feel the same way about Israel's nukes? They already attacked the USS Liberty and murdered US sailors. No chance they will do it again?
Be careful, sir. Talking about that will make you an antisemite. Most Americans have no idea about that. We live in very strange times.
So Bill, let's cut through the clutter of your content today. Is not Iran a mulsum theocracy? Is not the Ayatollah Khamenei an 87 year old religious narcissist/fanatic whose life is at its end? Does he not take his marching orders from Allah, whom he is a heart beet away from meeting? Is not his war cry "Allahu Akbar" i.e. "God is Greater"? So Bill the only dot you need to connect is the one that goes boom if not for Trump.
No Jimm, I have been married to an Iranian woman who escaped to regime and I have been playing raquetball for the last 45 years with two Iranian men who escaped right before the regime change in 1978. One thing you need to know about old raquetball players is that in-between games all we talk about is politics. Also, I never watch the far left media
There you go, confusing Bonner with the facts again. I must admit, I am at the stage where I have total contempt for him.
Tom, how do you know all this? Have you been to Iran yourself? Have you spoken with Khamenei and his cohorts. Are you a Jew who feels personally threatened? Are you a member of the warfare industry? What is your personal knowledge - or - are you just repeating the MSM opinions - whose opinions are driven by self interest and the need to generate advertising revenue. Not a criticism - just trying to understand.
Don't be disappointed by his (cowardly?) failure to answer all your questions. These people spout anything--just like Trump.
Careful Mr. Brian talk like that is not allowed. That would require Americans to think for themselves.😂
Tom, Muslims have been chanting Allahu Akbar nearly as long as Christians have been worshiping a man who arose from the dead and a ghost whom they assert is holy.
I wouldn’t presume Iran wants to be annihilated just because they revere their god (who leaped into heaven on a white steed from a stone in Mecca around which faithful Muslims have to march counterclockwise in a white robe once in their life)
Ah Jimmy Boy, there must be a point in your post but I am not intelligent enough to figure out what it is? Go ahead, make my day.
"As we explained earlier this week, we cast no judgment on the dots themselves."
The selection process itself is a judgement. But it is a noble sentiment, even if exaggerated.
In Bonner's case, it is a total lie.
In 1974, our business owned a gas station; we had 40k gallons in the ground. I drove from Baltimore to Washington and back, only car on the road.
The lines were crazy, people too; we never had so many friends. My brother was doling it out unscrupulously, forgetting loyal customers. It was so crazy, I decided to go on vacation.
I flew to Puerto Rico, rented a car, and drove the island. There was no gas shortage, everything was normal.
“As we explained earlier this week, we cast no judgment on the dots themselves. We just try to see what they mean and where they are going.”
But, all dots emanate from Trump…therefore everything is a judgement of Trump.
Self deception is a cross we all bear.
Yep self deception, no matter on which side of the fence You stand.
There is only one side, truth. People have been talking about it for thousands of years. It exists in the Universe, the universe exists because of it. Men, because of interest, have a hard time finding it, especially today in the cacophony of forgetful voices that have been nursed on lies. Ultimately, truth emanates in the soul from a relationship with God. Very few have it and very few can recognize those that do. Truth is the “invisible hand, in a free successful marketplace that empowers the individual. Ralph Waldo Emerson writes it as follows many other philosophers and writers.
"we cast no judgment on the dots themselves" as he proceeds to cast judgement. Spoken like a typical left wing fabricator - Honestly, i don't even have to read through your post to know what it is. If it weren't for the fun of exposing your contradictions your posts would offer no value at all.
PS: One of the best current state "dramas" is running on Apple TV called Tehran. Wow. Get a grip. Season 4 finale is just mind blowing.
I’m recent times a beautiful young Persian girl has been cutting my hair at the barber shop I go to. I asked her about the situation in Iran. “I am here in Australia because my country is a disaster. We live in constant fear.” But the line that hit me, “how did my parent’s generation allow this to happen to my generation. We have had enough.”
Everyone wants what you have BB and on the internet they can see it.
"so, if not ‘national security’, what? Does Israel have some ‘dirt’ on Trump...forcing him to take action against its arch-enemy? Does the Pentagon have new weapons it wants to test? Does Trump hope for glory by (starting and) ending another war?"
All of the above! PHN
Bonner writes:
"As we explained earlier this week, we cast no judgment on the dots themselves. We just try to see what they mean and where they are going."
So now Bonner is a standup comedian! The only dots Bonner sees are through his TDS lens. Distorting and manipulating events to suit his purposes. As far as I'm concerned, he can take his so-called "dots" and shove them where the sun don't shine!
And I wonder "how could that possibly be"? Trump is merely the President of the United States of America (thanks to our somewhat regrettable votes, not that what's-her-name would have been any better) and is accountable for his lies, wars, destroyed economy, etc. These are all things he promised not to engage in and he even ignores established laws and the rights and duties of others. That's the lens of reality, not the primitive ideological nonsense that he and his boss, Netanyahu, spout.
You need to quit watching Rachael Maddow.
It seems that just about everyone in the World is deranged by Trump one way or another. Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of both love and hate is indifference, and there's not much of that on either side.
Hi Bill, you maybe Right about Israel having some Dirt on DJT and while you’re at it.. maybe so does Putin and… Epstein.. from his Grave ✅🤣
Fazal, No maybe about it!
Please fill us in on what it is. I'll wait.
If Ur waiting on me to fill U in on something, U'll be waiting till hell freezes over. PHN
Yeah, I figured as much.
Please keep waiting!
When your clip is empty stop pulling the trigger.
Mr. Bonner, please, don't be naive. Suicidal fanatics have different logics than us. They are not afraid to die. Their death is the simplest direct way to paradise. Mr. B. argument that Iran has no means of the nuclear weapon delivery yet, is intentionally misleading. He forgot about the "poor man" means, like using a suicidal planes or just a cargo ship or private yacht with nuclear bomb aboard n the US ports. I wonder, why Mr. B. does not see this? And finally, I see an usual antisemitic trope: this is Israel who is the main enemy of the World since she controls all global politics behind the curtain. Mr. B is not the worst antisemite but he still is.
There is only one place where the extreme corruption, endless lies, ancient religious, racial, sexual, national prejudices, and senseless wars and spending will take us and that is into TOTAL collapse. The only questions are when, to what extreme the burden will be, and how do we protect ourselves. Now that the hopelessly divided and lost nation of India seems to have joined the 2 post-WWII death-mongers, USA and Israel, the international lines have been drawn with confused and declining Europe in the middle--confused, as indicated by the standing ovation given Marco Rubio at the Munich Conference after his speech applauding Neo-Colonialism and subjugation of the Global South.
Fortunately there are truths: Thanks to Trump's obtuseness, Canada sees a path survive and thrive on its own, which will lead to the destruction of the US auto industry (450,000 workers). Trump already destroyed the steel industry in 2017, the dollar and US global leadership in one week last April, US grain farmers, our university monopoly and international tourism last year. Even If Trump assists Netanyahu in creating Greater Israel from the river (Euphrates) to the sea (Mediterranean) and bombs and invades Iraq and slaughters 2 million Iranians, the US will end up as the major loser. Israel is already THE global pariah--and Trump's totally fake Gaza "peace" only serves to incriminate the US even more.
The missing Epstein pages (thanks to his DOJ stooge), his insults against women in general and the US women's hockey team in particular and the already forgone conclusion that he and the Republicans have already lost this year's election, leave in my mind one final hope: That he will open his eyes and mind enough on his April visit to China to see and appreciate the miracle created by China merely by 1) supporting first the bulk of its population (with relatively easy physical and economic mobility), 2) enforcing common-sense laws (which in the US, the Democrats primarily broke), 3) making sure that kids go to school, 4) controlling corporations (which are, after all, creations of government), 5) ensuring American 1950's-style free competition and 6) being nice to (even actually helping) future foreign competitors.
I know it's pretty far-fetched, but does anyone else have a better hope can we cling to?
You're clinging to the wrong hope.
UR nuts
In the case of oil prices, look no further than the production increase in the USA.
And we still have to steal the one big resource belonging to the Venezuelans!
I think the "unknown unknowns" are the greatest danger in life. Some call them "Black Swans" but the results are the same. Q3 2008 kicked my butt because I didn't follow some basic rules. I'll never make those mistakes again.
Jim Marshall
"So, if not ‘national security’, what? Does Israel have some ‘dirt’ on Trump ABSOLUTELY ...forcing him to take action against its arch-enemy? WITHOUT A DOUBT Does the Pentagon have new weapons it wants to test? ALWAYS .. Does Trump hope for glory by (starting and) ending another war? MORE GLORY IS ALL HE'S AFTER but beware of making your trailing pack of attack mongrels even more agitated .. they are such fun to laugh at even from a distance!