Richard Steven Hack | Dec 30 2021 3:31 utc | 63
“I see the morons still rule MoA….”
Speaking of which, can you remind us of the ritual you perform before & after a trip to the shops?

Posted by: ted001 | Dec 30 2021 20:09 utc | 103

There’s a David Bowie commemorative stamp coming out in January. I’m thinking of buying some, to put them in a picture frame. Not at all convinced by the design though! Hoping for some opinions!

Posted by: Scotch Bingeington | Dec 30 2021 20:58 utc | 105

@ Scotch Bingeington
Is he left-handed?

Posted by: Platero | Dec 30 2021 21:34 utc | 107

@ RepublicOfScotland
“its more than likely that she too like Epstein will be suicided”
No longer necessary: now she can “die of covid”

Posted by: Platero | Dec 30 2021 22:09 utc | 109

Political Vigilante discusses the Ghislaine Maxwell verdict with Whitney Webb.
https://youtu.be/2uXukKPXRPg?t=329

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Dec 30 2021 23:07 utc | 111

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 30 2021 16:07 utc | 92
Thank you for linking to an interesting photo of Epstein, Weinstein and Prince Andrews daughter, Beatrice, at her wedding.
I notice Epstein is in US Navy SEAL uniform, complete with fake medals. In the British Commonwealth it is a criminal offence to wear a military uniform one is not entitled to wear. Fakes are usually arrested by MP’s for this.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jeffrey-epstein-harvey-weinstein-pictured-21054662
Australia’s ABC has a Committee on Spoken English and produces a style guide for announcers. The German word STEIN [stone] should be pronounced correctly as stein as in German, not ‘STEEN.’ Leonard Bernstein’s agents wrote to the ABC and insisted on the correct pronunciation, which the ABC now uses for Bernstein but not for Epstein or Weinstein.It all depends on the position of the ‘E’ and the ‘I’.
Now English language broadcasters around the world use the corrupted ‘steen’ routinely. It grates on my ear. Perhaps some German speakers have some views on this?
I hope ‘Maxwell’spills the beans on the high profile honey trap creeps. I can see Prince Andrew, Alan Dershowitz, Trump and Clinton forming an interesting little chain gang.
I suspect Julian Assange too has some additional information to release should he be extradited.

Posted by: Paul | Dec 30 2021 23:45 utc | 113

Get ready for future shock.The following interview with Prof. Stan Whittingham is available to view on YouTube
INTERVIEW: Lithium-ion battery inventor discusses Magnis (ASX:MNS):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMSnPP88gAA

Posted by: Paul | Dec 31 2021 0:11 utc | 115

sorry Fauci
Kim Iversen: Emails REVEAL Fauci & Collins COLLUDED To Smear Scientists, SHUT DOWN Scientific Debate

Posted by: ld | Dec 31 2021 0:27 utc | 117

@Dong, #118
People who sold their soul to the devil deserve our pity and contempt, certainly not our support. Who is the devil? The one who pay them to do what they did to get arrested, and I’m sure you know exactly who that is.
People who stir chaos and violence in a place such as Hong Kong deserve harsh punishments. That’s what those so-called news outlet clowns should get, and I for one hope that they will.
I am not one to be sold on the religion call ‘democracy’. I pity those who peddle such ‘gospels’ like you.

Posted by: Oriental Voice | Dec 31 2021 1:14 utc | 119

December 30, 2021: “China issues ‘official’ names for 15 places in Arunachal Pradesh” https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/china-issues-official-names-for-15-places-in-arunachal-pradesh/article38072545.ece
Why this continued aggression? Not helping an Asian pole opposite to the 5 Ayes.

Posted by: Antonym | Dec 31 2021 1:44 utc | 121

@Antonym, #121:
You named the place wrong. It’s Zang Nan. There is no such place as Arunachal Pradesh in the legal sense.

Posted by: Oriental Voice | Dec 31 2021 2:20 utc | 123

Posted by: Oriental Voice | Dec 31 2021 1:14 utc | 119
People who sold their soul to the devil deserve our pity and contempt, certainly not our support. Who is the devil? The one who pay them to do what they did to get arrested, and I’m sure you know exactly who that is.
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“According to the police, they froze Stand News’ bank account and HK$61 million ($7.82 million) worth of assets, of unknown origin. After a raid on its premises in Kwun Tong, the police reportedly seized 33 boxes of evidence, including computers, equipment, and HK$500,000 in cash. As Stand News does not rely on sponsorship or advertising, the police will now be trying to ascertain the source of all its cash.”
https://www.chinadailyhk.com/article/253997#Stand-News-arrests:-Prosecutors-ensure-appropriate-charging-of-suspects

Posted by: Jun | Dec 31 2021 3:26 utc | 125

Grieved and friends on mass formation:
I am rereading my earlier post from zeroanthropology.net and have enjoyed some thoughtful consideration of its contents. Here is a paragraph that gets to the nub of things. Mind you every paragraph is powerful.

What has (re)gained political capital in the course of this crisis is rule by state of emergency—a favourite tool of elected dictators since Adolf Hitler. It affords nearly absolute power to enact almost any fantasy. It is as desperate as it is ecstatic; worried and yet exuberant; awesome yet unsustainable. Rule by state of emergency today is not simply, as some may think, a reflection of a “public health threat”. There are many ways one can deal with a virus, and a state of emergency is not the most obvious one—in fact, all of the measures imposed under the “public health emergency” in Quebec are demonstrable failures. Emergency rule is instead evidence of the state’s lack of trust in the population, and the state’s willingness to blame the population for the spread of the virus (which makes as much sense as blaming the public for the flight of birds). Emergency rule is thus an antagonistic and belligerent position, a reflection of the state’s lack of confidence in its ability to convince and secure consensus. Emergency rule is an admission by the elites that they lack legitimacy. Thus the state and the dominant elites resort to psychological warfare, fear-mongering, behavioural manipulation, censorship, and threats. The aim is to reduce the population to a state of complete dependency on the state. The state thus appropriates a parental role in the name of “protection”. Rule under a “public health emergency” makes the state boss, doctor, father, priest, teacher, and babysitter, all in one. Conversely, the public is reduced to the status of wards, dependent on aid and tutoring, careful not to move without permission, and even then dressed according to the state’s dress code.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Dec 31 2021 4:23 utc | 127

Oriental Voice #123
re Zang Nan. Next thing India will be claiming rights to occupy Kashmir.
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Posted by: uncle tungsten | Dec 31 2021 5:21 utc | 129

@ uncle tungsten | Dec 31 2021 5:21 utc | 129
Pakistan handed over the Shaksgam valley in the trans-Karakoram tract, part of Pakistan occupied Kashmir, to China through an illegal border agreement on March 2, 1963. https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-forgotten-fact-of-china-occupied-kashmir/article33033021.ece
The Pakistani army made Kashmir the eternal excuse to rule over all civilian powers since 1947. A peace would put them out of Big business. Reminds me of Uncle $cam.

Posted by: Antonym | Dec 31 2021 5:47 utc | 131

Jun #125
Thank you for the link regarding the shenanigans of Stand News.
I await the revelation of the source of their abundant $$$$$ – Integrity Initiative perhaps, CIA, Soros???? I suspect all will be revealed promptly.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Dec 31 2021 6:03 utc | 133

Antonym #131

The Pakistani army made Kashmir the eternal excuse to rule over all civilian powers since 1947. A peace would put them out of Big business. Reminds me of Uncle $cam.

So India has no further excuse to be occupying Kashmir! OK!
Neither does Pakistan of course. But lets the hind part of hindu as it gtf out.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Dec 31 2021 9:13 utc | 135

Paul #130
Omicron is an infectious little fizzer according to a paper just released in South Africa and Dr John Campbell is enthusiastic.
He takes a well considered swipe at the fear porn mongering of the MSM.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Dec 31 2021 9:19 utc | 137

For those who like fireworks and light shows NYE Sydney live:
https://iview.abc.net.au/video/NS1413V001S00

Posted by: Paul | Dec 31 2021 10:08 utc | 139

@ Posted by: Paul | Dec 31 2021 5:42 utc | 130
The views you posts have been well discussed here I believe.
I myself tend to favor those same views as does much of the public. As you say, we do well to listen to opposing views, reasonably presented and give them due consideration.
In that light, I came accross the following which was interesting for its balanced position – basically statin8g OK, let us publish the data which supports our position.
https://nypost.com/2021/12/30/politicians-are-missing-greatest-advertisement-for-vaccines-tell-us-how-many-people-in-hospital-for-covid-didnt-get-jab/
I would have thought that it would be a primary function of cdc to collect and supply well supported and verifiable data. It appears I am mistaken and the approach is more like “We dont need to supply no stinking data.” Iven if the data would sopport thier actions, I think maybe providing is a precedent that they plan to evade.
– End of reasonable discussion –
It would almost seem that the intent is to create turmoil and discord. And (as my dad used to say): Never let facts get in the way of a good discussion.

Posted by: jared | Dec 31 2021 12:03 utc | 141

Happy New Year!!! For all the peoples in the world…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO5eLAK9snI

Posted by: Black bread | Dec 31 2021 12:42 utc | 143

@ Jared 141
Who wrote inter alia,
“The views you posts have been well discussed here I believe”. Really? Who give a damn?
“As you say, we do well to listen to opposing views, reasonably presented and give them due consideration” Did I say Thaaaat? Where?
Happy new year, and may Palestine be liberated next year.

Posted by: Paul | Dec 31 2021 14:26 utc | 145

why do they always pick a name beginning with J
rather telling
must be a hasbara private joke

Posted by: ld | Dec 31 2021 16:43 utc | 147

uncle tungsten @127
That is powerful, and right on the money.
Regarding your t shirt idea, I’ve taken to occasionally quipping (with San Fernando Valley inflection) “oh, my cron!”
To my relief, this is usually met with ironically appreciative chuckles.
Happy New Year everybody, and thanks for keeping the bar open to everyone b.

Posted by: robjira | Dec 31 2021 18:43 utc | 149

People risking their freedom in pursuit of democracy deserve our support.

D0ng 118
Yes. Yes they do.
Which is why so many here and at likeminded blogs support Julian Assange.
Understanding totally how the treatment afforded him, Craig Murray and others across the decades fits into the celebrated delusion that is lauded as western “democracy”

Posted by: Melaleuca | Dec 31 2021 21:13 utc | 151

A variety of views on the late Emeritus Archbishop Desmond Tutu, but why are we not surprised by the venom of the usual suspects, like Alan [lolita express] Dershowitz?
When Desmond Tutu stood up for the rights of Palestinians, he could not be ignored
After visits to Israel and Palestine, Tutu used his moral authority to speak out and, despite abuse, refused to back down. He wanted liberation for everyone.
Chris McGreal:
“Even amid the torrent of praise for the revered former archbishop Desmond Tutu in the days since his death, the anti-apartheid champion is not being universally mourned. Alan Dershowitz, the renowned US constitutional lawyer and ardent defender of Israel, took a moment to brand Tutu as “evil” and “the most influential antisemite of our time”.
“The world is mourning Bishop Tutu, who just died the other day. Can I remind the world that although he did some good things, a lot of good things on apartheid, the man was a rampant antisemite and bigot?” he told Fox News.
Dershowitz accused Tutu of minimising the Holocaust and of comparing Israel to Nazi Germany – an extreme interpretation of the former archbishop’s statements that takes some convolutions to reach….”
Chris McGreal is the former Guardian correspondent in Jerusalem and Johannesburg
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/30/desmond-tutu-palestinians-israel
A man of substance, and joyful to the last: the Desmond Tutu I knew
Professor Emeritus Stuart Rees:
“Armed with inclusive views of humanity, “the Arch” crossed borders, challenged nationalism and advocated justice, not least for the Palestinians.
Australia and the world need the values, courage and humour which characterised the life of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, who died aged 90 on Boxing Day. The qualities of his leadership need revival, not least in Australia.
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 and the Sydney Peace Prize in 1999, “the Arch” was a beacon of light for humanity. The citation for the 1999 Sydney award referred to his courageous anti apartheid campaign, to his support for universal human rights and to his opposition to any kind of retributive justice.
That latter principle was evident in his three-year chairmanship of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission…”
https://johnmenadue.com/a-man-of-substance-and-joyful-to-the-last-the-desmond-tutu-i-knew/

Posted by: Paul | Dec 31 2021 23:17 utc | 153

karlof1 #150

“Berlin is planning to completely wind down atomic energy by the end of 2022, when its final three plants in Neckarwestheim, Essenbach and Emsland shut.”
And without the proper levels of gas imports for electricity generation, how will German industry–and its economy–survive?

Perhaps by setting end of 2022 gives them time to warm their buts this winter and allow some time for the USA to be outfoxed on NS2. This could be achieved at the risk of getting colour revolutionised via the UKUSA embassies. Perhaps they are hoping the Uke pipeline can be salvaged and pumped to just below burst point. Also committing to an outer date keeps the Greens onside for now.
As I understand it the grand solar minimum will continue for some time yet. They might still need that gas but meantime they can just keep poking Russia in the eye, steal wealth from their citizens, and keep NS2 up their sleeve for critical times. I see their antics as a means of training Russia to accept spot pricing as the new normal. This may last a while but the new Siberia to China pipeline could neuter their game. Sanctions can cut two ways.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jan 1 2022 1:03 utc | 155

Anton Petrov explains some fascinating details of the James Webb IR telescope. A new year utoob of 15 minutes.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jan 1 2022 1:41 utc | 157

@ uncle tungsten | Dec 31 2021 4:23 utc | 127
Many thanks for that link to the Zero Anthropology essay. It is supremely well written, a superb piece of journalism. And it makes the most important point, that contradictory narrative is no obstacle since the animating desire is only power, and control, and nothing to do with the medical health of the populace.
I enjoyed it immensely, and it contains such a vast body of decisive links that I can only wish I knew someone ripe for seeing the light of this World War III – which is not between nations but against populations, and mounted by the nation-free. Your link again:
Protecting the Pandemic from the People: Perpetual Panic, Permanent Emergency
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In the same vein exactly, but with far less words and with nicely concise formulations of the “mass-formation” effect (but not to minimize the first piece in any way with this comparison), Kit Knightly at off-guardian has summed up the entire dynamic in a well crafted piece:
The Covid narrative is insane and illogical…and maybe that’s no accident

We started with an Orwell quote, so let’s end with one too:
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
Isn’t that what we’re seeing now? What we’ve been seeing since the beginning?
People being mind broken into being afraid of something they told isn’t frightening, following rules they are told are not necessary, taking “medicine” they are told does not work.
Maybe forcing people to believe your lies, even as you admit you are lying, is the purest expression of power.

It’s an excellent dissection of how the psychopathic mind must lie, even when the truth would serve better, because only with the lie can the control of others be proven to come from the liar, rather than from reality. And this is why the lie is the life blood of the insane and power-deranged.
Both pieces I highly, highly recommend – with great thanks to the originating posters here.

Posted by: Grieved | Jan 1 2022 3:12 utc | 159

I know Wikipedia is unreliable but I could find very little on PM Bob Hawke’s proposal for what he called The Australia Card in 1985. There was a public uproar until it was dropped:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_Card
Since then successive governments have introduced versions of it by increment and stealth, like tax file number, Medicare number etc. Now my phone gadget wants facial recognition and yet another number. My computer wants a fingerprint. WorldRemit, an overseas money transfer company, wants a facial ‘selfie’, passport, drivers license and masses extra of personal data for their databases. They blame the government.
The various Electoral Commissions in Australia can decide where THEY think you actually live, based on data sharing between various government departments and agencies. If you failed to vote in THAT electorate they can fine you. Then they can cancel you car registration and Insurance AND drivers licence at will. So the unsuspecting motorist can be driving down the road and be fined big money by police for various driving ‘offences.’ No explanation given.
In our system of law, if someone suspects I am ‘money laundering’ or ‘financing terrorism’ they can report their suspicions to police. Now they freeze your bank account with an ‘artificial intelligence’ bot. No explanation given. I am required to prove my innocence in advance. This digital slavery involves ‘predictive policing’ and Big Tech are accomplices. Western Union wanted more personal information than I was prepared to give out.
Where would they get an idea like that for their Great Reset command and control system all rolled into the long planned Universal Digital Wallet ?
The Mark of the Beast:
Revelation 13:16-17
And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name.
Obey their moving feast of rules and regulations or else you can’t do everyday transactions, eg have yet another jab. Comply with their shifting sands of diktats wherever you are in the world.
https://www.dailyveracity.com/2021/12/17/the-shadowy-cia-data-firms-behind-the-creation-of-digital-vaccine-passport-ids/
https://www.mintpressnews.com/mass-tracking-covi-pass-immunity-passports-slated-roll-15-countries/269006/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbrett/2020/03/24/digital-dollar-and-digital-wallet-legislation-surfaces-in-the-us-senate/?sh=19d2a4c63866
“The government is the enemy of the people”: Dr Timothy Leary, The Politics of Ecstasy

Posted by: Paul | Jan 1 2022 4:20 utc | 161

Grieved #159
One of the maddening things that comes to mind through the two reports cited is the hypocrisy. Faced with a challenging virus, so many western governments exercised prohibition on the very substances that could assist many people be that the medications such as ivermectin etc or the vaccines that might compete with big pharma. Instead of enabling research and comparison to discover best practice and inform the future, they chose to sacrifice public health on the bloodstone altar of greed.
What is more maddening is these same ideologues daily attack homeopathy and Bach Flower Remedies and herbal extracts and so on. They accuse the homeopaths of recommending materials that ‘cannot work’. Yet they do no harm by the same logic. Biodistribution studies of the mRNA vax indicate serious cause to withdraw them from human use. Perhaps they could be of use in mink farms where procreation is not a big issue for the vaxed.
There is a case to answer here, not just dishonesty, but the voodoo logic of prohibition is an affront and became an assault on free choice and the precautionary in my country. The fools, the mendacious, ignorant fools of authority.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jan 1 2022 5:20 utc | 163

Digital currency in China. Here is a mighty good discussion between Richard Turrin and Oriol Caudevilla: E03 – Big Tech in China and the Digital Yuan: Richard Turrin It is a utoob for 40 minutes and a good primer to assemble context for the digital yuan emergence and its big tech development since 2014. It is a broad and informative dive.
Hat tip laodan site.

I had the pleasure of talking with the fantastic Richard Turrin, the international best-selling author of “Cashless – China’s Digital Currency Revolution” and “Innovation Lab Excellence.” We discussed his personal journey, Big Tech in China, the Digital Yuan..

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jan 1 2022 9:43 utc | 165

The peak # of new cases in the 2020-2021 winter: 300,777 on January 8, 2021
The # of new cases in the 2021-2022 winter thus far: 443,538 on December 31, 2021.
I cannot underscore enough just how this invalidates the entire reliance on vaccination as a method of “combating COVID”.

Posted by: c1ue | Jan 1 2022 15:59 utc | 167

Burying Neoliberalism in Chile
The Analysis-news at utoob interviews Patricio Zamorano on Chilean election outcome.
Thirty three minutes video.

Gabriel Boric was elected president of Chile on December 20th – probably the most leftist president Chile has elected since Salvador Allende in 1970. Boric promised that while Chile was neoliberalism’s birthplace under Dictator Pinochet, it will now be neoliberalism’s burial place as well. Patricio Zamorano, a Chilean political analyst and director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA.org) talks about what we can expect from a Boric presidency.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jan 1 2022 22:37 utc | 169

https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/14001008000315/Iran-Ups-Nn-Oil-Exprs-by-40-Percen-in-9-Mnhs
Sanctions are widely failing. Venezuela is reporting a surprising increase in oil production. I can only wonder what’s taking China so long to make digital yuan global

Posted by: Eighthman | Jan 2 2022 2:25 utc | 171

USA perhaps this could be a component of the way forward.

China’s social credit system was initially aimed at big firms: imagine something like a ‘better business bureau’ and consumer reporting that actually had teeth. China’s system did not place profitability as the only determining factor for credit worthiness, and given its scale and anonymity, required a numerated system. Imagine if Pfizer, for example, had reduced access to capital because of its criminal activity. That’s exactly the sort of thing that has come about in the Chinese system, one of the few countries that is prone to execute a billionaire oligarch on occasion.

Strategic Culture carries a fine report by Joaquin Flores: Educated in the field of IR and IPE at California State University Los Angeles; previously served as a business agent and organizer for the SEIU labor union; has published internationally on subjects of geopolitics, war, and diplomacy; serves as the director of the Belgrade-based Center for Syncretic Studies, and is Chief Editor at Fort Russ News.
He writes well.

This same deep state is trying to springboard or otherwise utilize the incessantly bad behaviour of its own rapacious oligarchy, who it must serve, an oligarchy trapped in a system of capital accumulation at all and any costs, even collective suicide, into some sort of controlled paradigm collapse. The incentive to destroy society is just too great compared to the costs of keeping it together. The super elites themselves, like some super virus, can always just vacate the premises and find some other host to infect. This is a pandemic of speculation, usury, and greed.
An interesting twist which Senator Rand Paul exposed in public hearings on the senate floor, was that the novel Corona virus was produced at Dr. Anthony Fauci’s discretion. This was a project of the U.S. corporate state, of a corrupted U.S. intelligence agency, we conclude from Senator Paul’s findings.

Unfortunately for the people of the USA their forthcoming mid-term elections are presented as a choice between the demonstrated deplorables in the Republican party and the disgusting parasitic Democrats in their mendacious machine. No wonder they both opposed Ivermectin for the people.
These two political parasites have a strangle hold on the guts of the USA and any revolutionary change needs to be up and running THIS month to establish momentum and sufficient chaos to smash the duopoly. No sign of it yet.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jan 2 2022 2:44 utc | 173

Below is a ZH link about the coming, January 3rd, second anniversary of the Soleimani killing
Iraqis Threaten To Burn Down “Embassy Of The Great Devil” To Mark Soleimani Anniversary
I think this is a wonderful time for Iraq/Iran to kick bully private finance empire where it hurts while they are trying to weasel their way out of another aggressive situation with Russia.
We need China to make some moves/demands about Taiwan now as well…..grin!
The shit show continues until it is beaten into submission or takes the loser way out and us with them.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 2 2022 3:18 utc | 175

@171 Eighthman – Sanctions are widely failing. Venezuela is reporting a surprising increase in oil production. I can only wonder what’s taking China so long to make digital yuan global
Forgive me if you’re being tongue in cheek and I didn’t see that, but taking you at face value, exactly what you report is exactly the answer to the question. It’s already happening. The yuan is going global. But Rome wasn’t built in a day.
The further answer to your specific question is “February” – at the Winter Olympics in Beijing. Russia gives the US through January to provide some decent agreement, and then Putin meets with Xi on Feb 4…and thereafter these two countries in concert will begin to announce their positions in the new (multipolar) world order.
The global Yuan may well be a serious part of it – not just my claim, plenty of commentators suggest this.
Time will tell. Patience is all.
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@175 psychohistorian
Yes, agreed. Why now? Because now is the perfect time. It happens that the enemy can be delivered a serious blow, with no way to respond, such is the paralysis of his current confusion.
Add to all that, the domestic shit storm that is about to arise as people realize that Omicron means the pandemic is over, and countless power-hungry little pricks in the establishment haven’t realized this yet. They will have to be slapped down, to turn OFF the oppression that they found so easy to turn ON.
Of course, they won’t give up readily, but they were only ever punks – given a magic wand called “medical emergency” – and in 2022, I do believe, they have a slapping coming.
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@173 uncle tungsten
Your point well taken about the duopoly – but we shall see what people have learned on their own in the last two years. Sometimes – oftentimes – the universe does surprise us.
Anyway, I’m glad you didn’t send out your claim for a movement to start “THIS” month a couple of days ago. As it is, we have a good 30 days to get this thing rolling.
And the universe may surprise us. I’m an optimist. I can’t help it – the joyous news of Omicron finishing the pandemic buoys me up. Now everything is possible!

Posted by: Grieved | Jan 2 2022 3:55 utc | 177

@ Grieved | Jan 2 2022 3:55 utc | 177 with the response to my comment about the multitude of nations with a current active agenda to bring empire down.
I agree that the ebb of Covid will play its part in this epic we are living through.
What I think awaits us soon is the planned global economic meltdown. Just like a manipulated market expansion, the contraction will be manipulated as well…..up to a point….what is the world going to do with a money gun to their head and all the Western media telling them, with that Obama smile, “Is all legal!”?
Below is a Wall Street On Parade link that shows that since September of 2019, we have been in a hidden financial meltdown that continues apace…
The hidden financial crash since September 2019
The shit show continues until it doesn’t and I will be darned if it doesn’t seem to be coming closer to an inflection point.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 2 2022 5:35 utc | 179

Control of the global or, at least, Western narrative is imperative for God of Mammon survival.
Fear and faith must continue to be stoked and with the fear of Covid waning, another fear must be unleashed to continue the control…..given my view of end-stage empire, financial meltdown seems to be the only avenue left. That said, the God of Mammon elite have been successful at this shit show for centuries and only now are some developing serious opposition to the form of social organization.
Are folks ready to discuss alternatives to private finance, property, inheritance and their impact on the social structure? China is providing an example but are any willing to observe and restructure the West with public finance as a social utility including limitations on private property and inheritance?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 2 2022 6:33 utc | 181

The shit show I am wanting to see is a Russian nose job on a USNavy sub. Now that would be funny:… “US sub bangs iceberg”.
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jan 2 2022 5:46 utc | 180
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It could be that the detection and interception of subs can only be coordinated by signals relayed to underwater drones by Chinese satellites. Similar to how UAVs are tied to their builder nation’s signal intelligence.
Same as Ukraine’s Bayraktar TB2 flying over Donbass needs Turkish relay satellites.

Posted by: too scents | Jan 2 2022 9:07 utc | 183

I understand that China dominates smartphones in Africa and that Huawei already has a digital wallet function in their phones, in preparation for digital yuan.
My interest is in seeing terminals set up in all sanctioned nations. Eventually, there won’t be anything that the US produces that can’t be bought from China/Russia. This would be a big step towards world peace as the US must stop bullying nations and instead must compete for their favor.

Posted by: Eighthman | Jan 2 2022 13:59 utc | 185