Ditto! – The Original Jack Smith

Posted by: Maracatu | Dec 31 2016 17:12 utc | 4

Thank you, b. May the new year be a healthy and prosperous one for you and yours and for all the commenters here.
L’shana tova.

Posted by: John Zelnicker | Dec 31 2016 17:13 utc | 6

Goodbye 2016. We didn’t have a nuclear war and that was a good thing. On the other hand we saw Obama turn into Sarah Palin. He could see Russia from his White House.
Happy New Year to all and a big Thank You to b for all of your work.

Posted by: Stephen | Dec 31 2016 17:28 utc | 8

I couldn’t get the site to load, just now. So this has been going on for hours it looks like.
Anyway Happy New Year, bar people. May we continue to live, in slightly less interesting times.

Posted by: sejomoje | Dec 31 2016 18:21 utc | 10

Live NOW!
Security Council: The situation in the Middle East – Syria (7855th meeting) Watch UN Security Council approves Russian-drafted resolution on Syria ceasefire Can’t stands these motherfuckers hypocrite soundbites.
Viva Russia Federation
http://webtv.un.org/#full-text
http://webtv.un.org/live-now/watch/security-council-media-stakeout-middle-east-syria/5195686296001

Posted by: The Original Jack Smith | Dec 31 2016 18:44 utc | 12

Happy New Year! https://youtu.be/x2G3wGVAnlQ

Posted by: NanaJones | Dec 31 2016 18:47 utc | 14

Happy New Year to all Moonkind!
Thanks b for running a quite fine establishment. You should be proud of the past and optimistic about the future in whatever sense works for you.
E Pluribus Unum! & Drain the Swamp!
Will we see any REAL swamp draining in 2017? Doubtful in my mind. Just further polarization and manipulation. I do believe that a orchestrated financial meltdown will occur that will be used to try to justify more control in 2017……..three more of the Roaring Teens to go!
I also saw the network blip hit MoA and other sites for a bit….Hmmmm
I can feel 2017 already encroaching on almost 1/2 of earthly reality as I post this……..Cheers!

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 31 2016 19:04 utc | 16

Hey B! You have taught me so much this year, and to me, that is the highest compliment I can pay someone and the greatest debt I have to repay! Some of the commenters here as well! So, I wish you a Glueckes Neues Jahr 2017! May it be your best year ever!

Posted by: mischi | Dec 31 2016 19:25 utc | 18

@12 – OJS
The UNSC has just unanimously passed the Russia-Iran-Turkey Syrian ceasefire.
BREAKING: The UN Security Council unanimously passes a Russian resolution for a Syrian ceasefire
The US did not veto the resolution. I don’t know if it abstained from voting. Either way, the president of the US is humiliated in the global information space, while at the UN the formal US nation passively accepts the Russian initiative for peace.
These are good ways to end 2016. We continue to hold our breath as we tiptoe, cautiously optimistic, into 2017.

Posted by: Grieved | Dec 31 2016 20:17 utc | 20

b, and all moonkind,
Thank you so much for helping us all get through another year! (Well, still have a few more hours to go here so stay alert.) Let’s all be ready to jump to the cause of truth when those false flags and noxious memes start bombarding us as the Trumpification of our world unfolds. The Hegemon feels his armor dissolving, his tricks are showing, a pathetic and dangerous beast he will remain.
Protect those close to you…we are it and we haven’t found unity…yet.

Posted by: kafkananda | Dec 31 2016 20:30 utc | 22

Many thanks to b for the quality (& quantity!) of research and input from all posters..
Here’s to the New Year, may 2017 be the one for the emergence of a true multi-polar world..

Posted by: Lozion | Dec 31 2016 20:52 utc | 24

To b, and everyone at MoA a Happy New Year, 2017.
Stay Well. Be safe.

Posted by: likklemore | Dec 31 2016 21:04 utc | 26

in New Orleans to bring in the new year, what a fantastic town. if any fellow moonies are around, give me a shout out.
and thanks Bernhard for all your hard work, I will be in Hamburg in January. I really hope to see you then.
dan

Posted by: dan of steele | Dec 31 2016 21:52 utc | 28

Too many well wishers for me to add anything salient b, except to wish all the MoA well wishers well in the New Year; and especially my old acquaintances, Copeland, annie, dan of steele and all other old time lurkers who aren’t weighing in.
This site is so exceptional and y’all commentators are an integral part in supporting b.
Best!!!

Posted by: juannie | Dec 31 2016 22:16 utc | 30

And, OMG, how could I have forgotten Debs just because you hadn’t yet posted on this thread. And I just finished reading your two posts on the last thread. Best to you Debs. I’m so glad you are still weighing in from time to time.

Posted by: juannie | Dec 31 2016 22:59 utc | 32

Jan 21st 2017 is the day we get a final answer to how much power does the POTUS have in relation to the un-elected segments of the government.

Posted by: pA | Dec 31 2016 23:11 utc | 34

Special thanks to b and all commenters for coverage and links concerning Syria’s struggle this year. Nothing I saw anywhere else was so on point. What a difficult year it has been.
Peace and good cheer to all!

Posted by: juliania | Dec 31 2016 23:15 utc | 36

Thank you, Bernhard.
Wholeheartedly agree: A Happy New Year to all moonkind!

Posted by: Outraged | Dec 31 2016 23:39 utc | 38

Best advice for 2017, “Shelter In Place”.

Posted by: Flatulus | Dec 31 2016 23:50 utc | 40

A new year of false news? Dont feel celebrating really.
What will the fake msm say tommorow? “putin have plan to poison american school kids, anonymous sources say”?

Posted by: kraus | Jan 1 2017 0:30 utc | 42

Best wishes and fortitude to all of us. This next year, we are going to have to find inventive ways of circumventing blocks on communication.

Posted by: Petra | Jan 1 2017 1:09 utc | 44

Ahh, it’s not even the New Year, and they’re already speaking in tongues, as I predicted. Oh sweet Jesus, it’s Barnum and Bailey all over again.
This is the guy (Graham) whose father, “America’s Preacher” (sic) stood right in front of me and 10,000s of Americans concerned about the illegal war crimes in Cambodia, raised his fist to the heavens, and shouted, “Bomb the gooks for Jesus!”
Now take the Nigerians, of Africa, you know. They audited their entire government in 2016 and got rid of 50,000 ghost workers, cutting their Federal budget by -10% in one year! When was the last time our Feds were audited, after Clinton-Bush-Obama have more than DOUBLED the size of Fed government and support contractors under Krugman and Reich!?
The Pentagon has NEVER been audited! There are 100,000s of ghost workers and 100,000s more foreign national workers at the 1000 overseas bases, living off USAryans’ SS and MC payments. The Pentagon has LOST $6.0 TRILLION!!
USArya can’t even match the Nigerians, never mind ‘God and the Orange Jesuit’, and Franklin sure won’t save USArya once the Feds burn through their SS/MC trust funds!

Posted by: chipnik | Jan 1 2017 1:32 utc | 46

The new year may or may not be happy, but it will be interesting.
I appreciate your site and the work you put in b.

Posted by: Peter AU | Jan 1 2017 1:40 utc | 48

40
I added to that by ‘shelling’ in place with a box of .40 cals, and always keeping the gas tank full. All it will take in our now 60% (peaceful) immigrant village is for that Orange Jesuit to make some bloviating derogatory pronouncement about EBT and Section 8 housing coupon cutbacks, or Bloomberg to announce a series of -1200-point flash-crashes, which it inevitably will in 2017, then this neighborhood will go up in flames. I’ll have to fight out to the car with my i-Gear and winter clothes, as the torches go through the living room window,, then drive all night to the far boonies, where, by the grace of God and Franklin Graham, sure hope my plastic will still work, and the Khazars haven’t turned my 1s into 0s at the bank!

Posted by: chipnik | Jan 1 2017 1:47 utc | 50

To b and all; may this coming new year (2017) find you well and sufficient for your needs and occasional good cheer.

Posted by: V. Arnold | Jan 1 2017 1:56 utc | 52

happy new year b & all – fantastic to see moa as strong and relevant as ever – figuring we’ll get hit with a lot more craziness in the months to come – no chance of running out of crucial material, no doubt – peace to all – stay sane, sharp & safe enough to man the barricades

Posted by: b real | Jan 1 2017 2:09 utc | 54

@ #35 — Yes indeed, the USA lady raised her hand.
And to invert an old saw — That was no Samantha Power, that was a lady!
—
By the way — C Span moderator interrupted the Washington Journal program this morning with “breaking news” that a power plant had been, or maybe hadn’t been, hacked, but whatever did or didn’t happen, it was the Russians.
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Thanks for this very informative site, b, a glimmer of sanity in a suffering world.
Felice anno nuovo lunumanita.

Posted by: Croesus | Jan 1 2017 2:58 utc | 56

Thanks to all the bar patrons who’ve kept this thing going, and going, and going for all these years. I don’t comment like I used to, but I still lurk and read everything.
As always I gain perspective here I don’t find anywhere else.
THANK YOU B and the rest of the gang!

Posted by: David Shinn | Jan 1 2017 3:54 utc | 58

53
We don’t celebrate the Luddite pagan holiday, so spent the day meditating with my guru and then after deep lucid dreaming about the Orange Jesuit, was able to see a little bit into the future of USArya, an even capture a faint vision of it with my new Siri-Oculus thought-camera. There is only the Trump Way now.

Posted by: chipnik | Jan 1 2017 4:43 utc | 60

Dear b
Thanks to you and some other sterling bloggers, I have been able to thoroughly inoculate my batch of International Law students against MSM BS.
Thank you.
Best wishes for 2017.

Posted by: E | Jan 1 2017 4:46 utc | 62

Happy New Year b and everyone on this blog.
And Thank God, that all you Americans there voted Hillary out by voting Trump in, as you may just have saved us all from a thermonuclear holocaust, by the skin of our teeth.
Whatever else comes, that alone gives me some faith in peoples innate sanity and hope for the future.
Doing anything other would in mind have been a death wish to commit mass homicide and suicide of which (if you’ve paid any attention) Putin has been warning us in the ‘West’ about over and over again.
Whatever Trumps failings, lets just count our blessings that he’s NOT on the same psychopathic path of total destruction that Hillary Clinton has clearly proven by her performance and promised us more the same of doing if elected.
That’s reason enough for me to celebrate with a sigh of relief 2017 new years coming in for the sake of my family and all humanity.
Ray from Canada.

Posted by: RayB | Jan 1 2017 7:11 utc | 64

@63 Sorry but that website’s indictment of Germany’s petty policy acts against the social customs of the refugees is ridiculous. I see that there’s full on Trotsky love there as well. Gag!!

Posted by: aaaa | Jan 1 2017 7:20 utc | 66

So here is my first link for 2017 and it is about the pope…..don’t fall over.
I give him credit for talking about real loss of human potential and/or turned into rabid Drain-the-Swamp backlash. The rest of the Reuters feed was normal BS.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 1 2017 8:04 utc | 68

@aaaa | Jan 1, 2017 2:30:18 AM | 67
Based on my own service, a close Mormon friend & relevant life experiences, Mormons are preferred for Federal service and agencies … IMHO, because of a tendency to be excessively patriotic/jingoistic, poor critical thinkers & submissive to authority figures … YMMV re that view …
A good read for a laughs if even vaguely familiar with mormonism: The Book of Zelph
(PDF download from MormonThink)

INTRODUCTION
The Book of Zelph is a volume of books, like the Book of Mormon, and is a supplement to the Book of Mormon. Since it takes two witnesses for something to be true, the Book of Zelph is a second witness of the ancient inhabitants of the Americas, and contains stories of the men and women who lived here. Whereas the Book of Mormon was mostly about religion and was from the Nephite point of view, the Book of Zelph is about the day-to-day activities of the non-christian groups living here at the same time, and tells their stories from their point of view. These non-christian, non-Nephite groups became known collectively as “Lamanites”. The Book of Zelph contains the history of ancient America through their eyes. Their words, etched on metal, stone, and leather plates were quoted and abridged by a Lamanite warrior-historian named Zelph. Zelph was a great warrior, and many called him Zelph ?The Handcart Warrior? because his collection of plates was so heavy he had to wheel them around in a handcart. Zelph finally grew tired of wheeling around the heavy plate collection so he abridged their contents onto smaller, lighter, more convenient leather plates, and bound the leather plates in book format. Zelph’s record gives an account of the people who could no longer tolerate the religious zealotry of the pompous, know-it-all Nephites, and therefore decided to annihilate them …

Posted by: Outraged | Jan 1 2017 8:51 utc | 70

@71 pubumwei, I hope you’re wrong.
BTW I love this site. b is a genius, just as Paveway, Laguerre, etc.

Posted by: Peter | Jan 1 2017 9:56 utc | 72

71
an article at Sputnik earlier – no US aircraft carriers deployed
https://sputniknews.com/military/201701011049169670-rare-event-no-carriers/
“According to Fox, this is the first time there has not been a US aircraft carrier in the Middle East since 2007, and the first time since World War II that there has not been a single US carrier deployed anywhere in the world”

Posted by: Peter AU | Jan 1 2017 10:27 utc | 74

The next 20 days … there is speculation on PressTV about the US going to war against Russia before Obama leaves office and Trump takes over. That puts paid to the whole issue of a ‘happy’ new year.
Sadly, it wouldn’t surprise me and this possibility may explain why there is such a muted response from Russia/Putin.
Obama has finally cracked … that is evident … the PressTV article may be found at:
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/12/31/504296/US-Russia-could-go-to-war-before-January-20
So, maybe just enjoy 2017 as long as we can?

Posted by: rg the lg | Jan 1 2017 11:26 utc | 76

Happy New Year gang,
Good Hussle b keep up the good work
As for the rest of the gang, this blog wouldnt be what it is without you guys
woot woot

Posted by: deebo | Jan 1 2017 12:12 utc | 78

Thank you everybody for helping me stay informed and unidoctrinated. Now when I travel out into society and review the world with what I read and acquire here, people despise me. They beieve for example that Hillary is a wonderful person, and nothing will dissuade them. There’s a spirit of mean-spiritedness in the US that will take a miracle to dispel.. Of course there are good and well-meaning people too, but the way looks perilous.

Posted by: Geoff | Jan 1 2017 12:56 utc | 80

Hoarsewhisperer | Jan 1, 2017 8:18:46 AM | 81
Ah, beware perceptions; they rule, perceived reality, and the U.S. insists to “perceive” they are, militarily, the strongest military on the planet.
I agree; history would call bullshit on that, but; be afraid, be very afraid of the U.S.’s perception of strength.
Historically, it’s obvious how badly they’ve performed; but, “they” think they’ve cowed the world.
Syria is a lesson not learned; and that is the scary part, at least for me…

Posted by: V. Arnold | Jan 1 2017 13:37 utc | 82

Hoarsewhisperer | Jan 1, 2017 9:12:02 AM | 83
What an unfortunate answer; pity.

Posted by: V. Arnold | Jan 1 2017 14:41 utc | 84

oops, i’ve been lazy… here’s the english version of gramsci’s text…
https://viewpointmag.com/2015/01/01/i-hate-new-years-day/

Posted by: alain b | Jan 1 2017 15:18 utc | 86

Happy New Year, y’all.

Posted by: dumbass | Jan 1 2017 16:06 utc | 88

New Year’s Day has always been the quietest day of the year for me. Always. It’s downright spooky. It makes me think my life is governed by unseen forces. Sounds nutty, I know.
These are interesting times to be sure.
Happy New Year to b and all the rest of my comrades here.

Posted by: blues | Jan 1 2017 18:40 utc | 90

whoops, forget to add the link

Posted by: lizard | Jan 1 2017 19:10 utc | 92

Hiya Lizard, a good poem to ramp up the paranoia. It should be more successful than the dems effort which just doesn’t seem to be catching on. That’s the dems always too late to the party – they don’t get that retro is just so last year.

Posted by: Debsisdead | Jan 1 2017 20:44 utc | 94

It has just come to me that since the election and before the inauguration is a curious time much similar to the following, as evidenced in some of our recent comments:
‘I don’t understand you,’ said Alice. ‘It’s dreadfully confusing!’

‘That’s the effect of living backwards,’ the Queen said kindly: ‘it always makes one a little giddy at first–‘

‘Living backwards!’ Alice repeated in great astonishment. ‘I never heard of such a thing!’

‘–but there’s one great advantage in it, that one’s memory works both ways.’

‘I’m sure MINE only works one way,’ Alice remarked. ‘I can’t remember things before they happen.’

‘It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,’ the Queen remarked.”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
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“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
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“Consider anything, only don’t cry!”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
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“It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens…that whatever you say to them, they always purr.”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

Posted by: juliania | Jan 1 2017 21:01 utc | 96

love it lizard!

Posted by: annie | Jan 1 2017 21:42 utc | 98

More myth-debunking to put to rest ol’ sentimental 2016
The Gates Foundation, Ebola, and Global Health Imperialism
By JACOB LEVICH
*ABSTRACT. Powerful institutions of Western capital, notably the Bill& Melinda Gates Foundation, viewed the African Ebola outbreak of 2014–2015 as an opportunity to advance an ambitious global agenda.Building on recent public health literature proposing “global health governance” (GHG) as the preferred model for international healthcare, Bill Gates publicly called for the creation of a worldwide,militarized, supranational authority capable of responding decisively to outbreaks of infectious disease—an authority governed by Western powers and targeting the underdeveloped world. This article examines
the media-generated panic surrounding Ebola alongside the response and underlying motives of foundations, governments, and other institutions. It describes the evolution and goals of GHG, in particular its opposition to traditional notions of Westphalian sovereignty. It proposes a different concept—“global health imperialism”—as a more useful framework for understanding the current conditions and likely future of international healthcare
h/t https://twitter.com/JordanLM__/status/791260406518079488 via Club des Cordeliers

Posted by: ruralito | Jan 1 2017 21:45 utc | 100