Odd Stuff (Part 5)

I don’t know where to put this.

Is it real? I mean, it’s a mainstream publication. But…what?

NATO was created after WWII to unite Europe, Canada, and the States in a pact to protect each other against the Soviet Union. We only entered WWII when Hawaii was attacked. So saying that’s the one state that isn’t covered?

This has got to be an April Fool’s joke, right? Except it’s dated April 4th.

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Legit

Edit:

Puerto Rico is south of the Tropic of Cancer - so also technically not included in NATO.

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yeah, right.
the u.s. went to war with Japan over bombing Hawaii and it was not even a state of the union at the time. (yes, it was the home of the u.s. naval pacific fleet).
now that Hawaii IS a state, it would be ridiculous to attack it now.

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But maybe it won’t automatically be a war with all the NATO countries, just the United States! Russia should have no problem with that.

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well, as slowly as our congress is coming to aid in europe over Ukraine (which i realize is not currently a NATO nation), that might prove true.

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Newsweek, mainstream? It used to be, but last I heard it’s become a right-wing joke, since a couple of young moneyhounds bought it.

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It’s an art installation, and I really want to go see it!

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Oooh, I see! Now I really wanna go!

Should’ve known-- this is from the Wikipedia page about it:

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Seth Meyers What GIF by Late Night with Seth Meyers

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Oh, wait. . .

I guess dij fell for a Dick Stroker.

I can’t tell what’s real any more !! :sob:

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Or maybe

grandpa_munster-17876680

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Well, they do both also look embalmed. :thinking:

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He also reminds me of the lead singer of Squirrel Nut Zippers

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… Russian talking heads say all kinds of crazy shit

Russia casts its eye on … Alaska?

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Season 1 Plot Twist GIF by Law & Order

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Havana Syndrome, it turns out, is a figment of lots of overheated imaginations. There are no death-ray microwaves aimed at American heads in the U.S. embassies in nations Washington doesn’t like. In March, the National Institutes of Health said so. NIH studies found neither vocational harm, nor brain injury, nor blood biomarkers, pace 60 Minutes. The whole thing was a massive hoax that started eight years ago, after which the ball really got rolling in 2017, as U.S. military and intelligence officers reported symptoms from India and China. According to Wikipedia: “The most recent studies of over 1000 reported cases of Havana Syndrome have ruled out foreign involvement in all but a couple dozen cases.” Now the NIH has presumably dismissed even those. The nefarious furren conspiracy to scramble American brains was just, well, a hallucination, suggesting some of those brains had already been scrambled due to prolonged exposure to the madness called U.S. foreign policy. Still, the hoopla wasn’t as loony as it could have been – no Havana Syndrome sufferers claimed twinges in their teeth due to electromagnetic messages zapping their fillings, though conceivably that could come next. In fact, the NIH study didn’t stop 60 Minutes from airing a story about Havana Syndrome being caused by the Russians. So there may well be more insanity in the pipeline.

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