Interesting how a US based oligarch with factories in China is helping in the fight against China’s partner…
Posted by: Scorpion | May 29 2022 4:57 utc | 190
Ah yes but with manufacturing China has the tech and certainly happy to share with Russia.
Musk is the personification of disruptive tech. I don’t trust anything about him which makes him a perfect fit for the US war machine. I highly doubt that Starlink ever had any true application other than US military andI also don’t think he could design or build a toaster let alone an EV or a satellite. He comes across as a total fake. Although everyone I know is super impressed with him. What am I missing?

Posted by: K | May 29 2022 6:27 utc | 204

Posted by: Pagan | May 28 2022 19:09 utc | 55
Maassen was never “Intelligence Chief” since that refers to BND. He was Head of BfV which is Counter-Intelligence until fired by the Merkel regime in Nov 2018 for daring to contest the ideological spin over troubles in Chemnitz where Merkel’s ideologues were using the same “SED-Stasi” language as in 1989 and promoting a fake video. Greens and SPD wanted him fired.
He has no position in either Intelligence or Counter-Intelligence today and quite rightly asks for an assessment where German policy is leading the nation – especially since the Research Service of the Bundestag has already highlighted the nature of Co-Belligerency – and Putin warned both Macron and Scholz in a telephone call.

Posted by: Paul Greenwood | May 29 2022 6:44 utc | 206

@hopehely | May 28 2022 23:31 utc | 126

The underlying concepts of free will and a indivisible individual are debunked by the modern science,

Free will is alive and well, except with those “modern scientists” that are paid to say the opposite, using non-scientific words like “debunk”.

Posted by: Norwegian | May 29 2022 6:53 utc | 208

lex talionis | May 29 2022 6:26 utc | 201
Add cultures to the mix. Add the normal human preference for peace and prosperity. Overlay that with current western propaganda and that is where we are at.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | May 29 2022 7:29 utc | 210

Posted by: PavewayIV | May 29 2022 1:39 utc | 152 (and others)
That “single line of code” claim does sound like bs.
Wild guess, but I saw a photograph of a purported Ukie drone team in the field, with a Starlink dish, and noticed that it was pointing more towards the horizon than towards the zenith so perhaps the fix was to allow connection to satellites well off the zenith, which would give more connection points and thus be harder to jam on a piecemeal basis? Or perhaps the alignment in the photograph was typical of Starlink operation.
The threat of Starlink is that it allows unlimited over-the-horizon control of any tech/weapon systems.
It also allows weapons to be launched by one team (in Ukraine, say) and then be controlled by another team (in the US, say).
Wash your mind out for even thinking it =)

Posted by: anon2020 | May 29 2022 7:41 utc | 212

Hello Alabamans! An acquaintance sent me a link to this site. Perhaps he didn’t mean to, but here I am.
Re: the mystery of Brian Berletic as Tony Cartalucci. My ex-husband was always reading political stuff on his website. I remember because he was always busy. He was very well informed about what was going on in Ukraine, starting with the US-backed coup in 2014 and the machinations of Victoria Nuland. I thought he was seeing another woman, but turns out he was just reading the news. I still would’ve got divorced but Mr. Cartalucci didn’t help.
I once heard a rumor that Stephen King took on the name Richard Bachman when one of his fans pretended to be him in a fiction writers’ club. Allegedly, he didn’t want there to be another author with the same name. If it sounds like a ridiculous story, well I can’t help it if it comes from a questionable source. I would find it remarkable in my case as there are 17576 combinations for that number of letters, but I don’t have to worry about it because I’m not an author.

Posted by: Mel | May 29 2022 8:03 utc | 214

France and Germany are impressed with their own importance, but nobody else is. And where is the UK, another self-important small nation.
Posted by: Don Bacon | May 29 2022 4:09 utc | 174
You take that call for a ceasefire far too seriously. It’s just an automatic response, when one side is about to lose big, a desperate attempt to turn away the inevitable.

Posted by: laguerre | May 29 2022 8:39 utc | 216

The Ukrainian forces are up against an impressive Russian arsenal, I wouldn’t like to be on the receiving end of this monster weapons shell.
“The 2S7M Malka is a modernized version of the 2S7 Pion gun, created in the 1980s and still considered one of the most powerful guns in the world.”
You can watch it in action if you can access Telegram.
https://ria.ru/20220529/malka-1791497485.html

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 29 2022 9:19 utc | 218

… Please share the link/photo. This sounds completely ridiculous. …
Posted by: Norwegian | May 29 2022 7:56 utc | 211
Sorry, I’m don’t have a link, it was just something I saw in the last few weeks when Starlink was mentioned in relation to Ukie use of drones in support of their military. It was an an obviously portable dish stand, not a fixed installation.
I noticed at the time that the dish was well off the zenith but if you search for “Starlink mobile dish” the images show dishes well off the zenith so perhaps it is normal and not indicative of an attempt to favour Starlink sats that are outside UA national borders.
I can’t find a Starlink comms module that would fit inside a small drone so perhaps remote control isn’t currently possible at that scale. There are plenty of claims that a standard Starlink dish works from a moving car, though, and also this:
“US military wants SpaceX to create a miniature, battery-powered Starlink dish”
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starlink-mini-battery-powered-dish-us-military/
What I can find suggests that spotter drones using standard drone radio links are being operated by in-field teams with Starlink being used to connect spotters with artillery/other units to exchange targeting/operational information. No claims or admissions that Starlink is being used to directly control drone munitions, as yet.

Posted by: anon2020 | May 29 2022 9:52 utc | 220

After finding out that the US was working n deadly pathogens in multiple biolabs in Ukraine I find this totally plausible.
“Russia says US-controlled biological laboratories in Nigeria, where monkeypox came from, are responsible for the spread of the viral zoonosis, urging inspection of the “strange coincidence”.
Citing a report by the World Health Organization (WHO) that monkeypox originally spread from Nigeria, Igor Kirillov, chief of the Russian Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops, said on Friday that US-deployed biological infrastructure in the African country was responsible for the outbreak.
“According to the available information, at least four US-controlled biolaboratories operate in Nigeria,” Sputnik quoted Kirillov as saying, adding that US biolabs were present in the cities of Abuja, Zaria and Lagos.
Kirilov called on the WHO to investigate the alleged US role in spreading monkeypox, noting it is necessary to point out a “strange coincidence that requires additional inspection by specialists.””
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/05/28/682886/Russia-alleges-US-labs-in-Nigeria-responsible-for-monkeypox-outbreak

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 29 2022 9:58 utc | 222

I don’t have any clear theories and generally don’t like speculating too much
Posted by: Scorpion | May 29 2022 1:27 utc | 149
I don’t know that it’s necessary to speculate beyond the word “hubris.” The fools in government like Nuland and Blinken and the billionaires behind them are just people like us, only endowed by a sick capitalist system with power way beyond their ability to handle. It’s insane for anyone to think he’s entitled and able to rule the world. People who think they’re Napoleon used to end up in mental health facilities. Now, if they have money or are supported by people with money, they’re treated like Pharaohs.
When “hubris” appears, “nemesis” is not far behind.

Posted by: Henry Moon Pie | May 29 2022 10:51 utc | 224

@Norwegian #211
I don’t know about the orientation issue, but the Starlink antenna is a VERY advanced phased array with a huge number of quite advanced (and somewhat power-hungry) ICs and over 1,000 elements. There is also a crude mechanical positioning mechanism. It is probably being sold at 1/10 the price they would need to make a profit on the hardware. I suspect these characteristics and the potential direct satellite-to-satellite links makes this a dual use system from the get go.

Posted by: BillB | May 29 2022 11:08 utc | 226

Ummm
Russia is fighting Nato/US in Lybia,
Russia is fighting them in Syria
They are fighting the Brits/Canada in Ukraine
There is a large far right in poland ready to roll
This is WW3 I fear the outcome.

Posted by: Oh Canada | May 29 2022 11:53 utc | 228

I’m surprised no one has posted this: Christorou mentioned – at least a day or two ago – that an EU official said that the actual amount of Russian reserves frozen by the EU was only $30 billion, and $100 billion by the US – and that Christoforou checked that Russia’s statements back when this happened never stated numbers but only confirmed the act.
RT link on frozen Russian reserves

The European Union has frozen roughly €23 billion ($24.5 billion) worth of assets of the Russian Central Bank, Reuters reported, citing EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders, who revealed the figure at a news conference on Wednesday.
The amount is much smaller than expected out of the reported $300 billion frozen by the US and its allies as part of Ukraine-related sanctions against Russia.
According to Reynders, some €10 billion ($10.68 billion) worth of physical assets linked to Russian businessmen and officials, their yachts and villas, for instance, were also arrested.
…
Of these funds, around $100 billion was reportedly frozen by the US, while other funds appear to be scattered in central banks across the globe.

A 100 billion here, 50 billion there, pretty soon you’re talking real money…

Posted by: c1ue | May 29 2022 12:10 utc | 230

@Posted by: Olivier | May 28 2022 23:34
Thanks, I’ll be enjoying that one.

Posted by: bottle | May 29 2022 12:25 utc | 232

@juliania #228
Re: infrastructure
The US seems far more concerned over “don’t say gay” and putting out “alphabet people ideology” affirming videos on Tiktok than anything else.
Coincidence?
I do strongly believe that one of the unanticipated consequences of COVID school shutdowns was exposing parents to just what their kids are being taught.

Posted by: c1ue | May 29 2022 12:36 utc | 234

… I don’t know about the orientation issue, but the Starlink antenna is a VERY advanced phased array … I suspect these characteristics and the potential direct satellite-to-satellite links makes this a dual use system from the get go.
Posted by: BillB | May 29 2022 11:08 utc | 223
Agreed. A suspicious person might simply assume that the following already exists and is in (covert) use:
“US military wants SpaceX to create a miniature, battery-powered Starlink dish”
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starlink-mini-battery-powered-dish-us-military/

Posted by: anon2020 | May 29 2022 12:47 utc | 236

@K, 202
You’re not missing anything, everyone you know seems to missing pieces of the Elon Puzzle. Dude is a joke. He has never invented anything other than his personality (which is totally fake). Dude’s parents were emerald mine owners in Apartheid South Africa, and he took their money and bought Tesla, along with the title ‘Founder’. He indeed never founded anything at all. Dude is as fake as they come. So you got it right!

Posted by: Caveman | May 29 2022 12:54 utc | 238

Posted by: bevin | May 28 2022 17:46 utc | 16
Someone trying to breed megayachts?
“Like many products of intense line breeding, mega yachts often have fertility issues, and due to their size, mating usually involves damage to both parents. If a mating is indeed successful, and after a gestation period of 24 months, the female gives birth to 12-20 jet skis, which, through a series of molts that takes another year, finally turn into sports boats. This phase is critical, as the young are prone to accidents, theft, and motor damage, and require intense attention. Usually, less than half make it through the first year.
the following years are easier on the boat breeder, although he needs to pay close attention: few of the yachtlets have the genes for super-size, and he needs to cull his herd, selling off those boats that likely won’t make it past a very large or great final size in order to offset the high costs of raising a herd of boats: They all need to be moved and cared for, and with growing size, a yacht requires more fuel and personnel. So good judgment on who to keep and who to sell is critical. As is common with large organisms, the growth rate diminishes over time, so it takes years or even decades until the yacht breeder will either reap the fruit of his patience, or find to his disappointment that his prized ship falls short of the parents’ phenomenal size.
The exceptional requirement of time and resources as well as experience in boat husbandry makes yacht breeding a hobby reserved for the very, very rich, comparable to dino polo or golf-on-mars.”
Sorry, couldn’t help myself. Back to business!

Posted by: Eike | May 29 2022 13:01 utc | 240

Posted by: Peter AU1 | May 29 2022 2:39 utc | 164
Could you please link to any analysis you have from Patrick Armstrong written after that post you refer to. He was very well placed to comment on the Ukrainian crisis and the comments he made just at the start of the war were prescient.
I sense the war hysteria dying down and we in the West are now starting to sober up. So Mr Armstrong may soon find himself able to raise his head above the parapet and resume his work. His fellow Canadian based analyst, Professor Robinson, who also stopped for a while, seems now to be doing that.

Posted by: English Outsider | May 29 2022 13:06 utc | 242

Miles Mathis outed Elon Musk years ago as an intelligence fake, an interesting piece.
http://mileswmathis.com/musk.pdf

Posted by: Quanah | May 29 2022 13:18 utc | 244

@sean the leprechaun #238
I’ll post over in the Open Thread. This isn’t really the appropriate forum to talk about that.

Posted by: c1ue | May 29 2022 13:26 utc | 246

“Let our Nazis go!”
They whelp, to the pharaoh Putin.
“Before they all spill the beans to save their lives and go enjoy their wages as we promised them they would”
Meanwhile as the narrative of a single Russian being responsible for all things Russia falls apart amongst the propagandised Collective Waste – Murdoch leads the new message – ‘he doesn’t exist! He is died! He is impersonated! There are ‘other’ powers who run Russia’
Cognitive Dissonance caught in its formation.
Happy Sunday y’all.

Posted by: DunGroanin | May 29 2022 13:28 utc | 248

Eike @237
At last! A scientific explanation. And a very ingenious one too.

Posted by: bevin | May 29 2022 13:41 utc | 250

Miles Mathis outed Elon Musk years ago as an intelligence fake, an interesting piece.
http://mileswmathis.com/musk.pdf
Posted by: Quanah | May 29 2022 13:18 utc | 241
Ha! I’ve often thought that Miles is also Intelligence fake, but he writes original, provocative stuff. Not being a billionaire myself I really don’t know how things work (or not) on that level. Clearly most of it is faked, but presumably some of it is real. Like I have been assuming he is Intelligence/Sponsored but also smart. I guess one could add to that, ‘but so what?’ The fact that he has been planted and displayed as a brilliant libertarian Ayn Randy hero is all we need to know.

Posted by: Scorpion | May 29 2022 13:54 utc | 252

Posted by: Scorpion | May 29 2022 13:54 utc | 249
Re the Musk piece:
Interesting that when I tried to D/L it, Firefox told me the file was a security risk, I ignored the warning.

Posted by: Barofsky | May 29 2022 14:02 utc | 254

@too scents #248
I don’t know about massive – the whole point of IP protocol is that it is much more resilient. I would think all Starlink really needs is its server side to have longer retention times for IP packets due to the potential for longer satellite connection disruptions vs. the largely passthrough functionality that typical servers employ.

Posted by: c1ue | May 29 2022 14:10 utc | 256

Posted by: emersonreturn | May 29 2022 5:38 utc | 197
“scorpion@149. like many, i too have circled this maze for many months/years. … we are indeed living in interesting times. nothing is going as certain supposed it always would. i suppose it’s possible the empire of lies might win, bt i expect good will overcome evil. & that is (for me) what this is all about. biblical certainly, good & light. yes, certainly, a work in progress…bt honour, intelligence, resources up against cunning, greed, envy & deceit. i have to believe light cannot bt win.
”
I just had an exchange with my old friend Roger who runs the sitrepworld.info site. Years ago he was a well recognized voice in the One Democratic State movement for Israel but after a while he has moved on. I think he agrees with me that political Israelis are not ‘agreement compatible’ but he still believes that a one state solution is not only best but also at some point inevitable.
Anyway, I shared with him a little of my ‘worriting’ and this is his reply:
“Re your first concern, my tentative assessment is that technology is in charge and there’s most likely a feeling on the part of the leadership that it’s a matter of use it or lose it. As I’ve suggested before, what makes the difference that matters is their motivation. In the West, it’s a desperate no holds barred intention to maintain their control of the levers of power that keeps the oligarchy on top, which requires “full spectrum dominance” of the whole world. Russia and China seem to me to be primarily concerned about the welfare of their countries and the great majority of their populations. This requires a multipolar world.
As for the J’s, I have been pondering the same question. I lean toward the theory that what’s playing out is the ancient impulse to actualize the promise God made to the Hebrews to bring them “full spectrum dominance’ over the goyim – ‘God’ being the projection of the Jewish people, as gods are wont to be. So, yeah, the destruction of the Christian, European world would be the fulfillment of that. The ferocious, obsessive energy – and willingness to spend whatever it takes – behind that comes from the other side of the bipolar coin – the fear of being the eternal victims.”
To which I replied:
“Thank you very much for that reply.
The technological imperative seems to have been in the mix since the age of flint tools. It’s a human realm thing which only the truly spiritual seem to bypass.
And like all technologies it can – and will – be used for both good and bad purposes and engender good and bad outcomes. The surveillance aspect and now the ability to track every purchase and sale to specific individuals is bound to be abused and usher in some sort of global totalitarianism – one type of ‘new’ or ‘one’ world order. Not so good. At the same time it will allow billions of people to exist together with market economies which allow a good percentage of those billions to produce goods and services of their own initiative many of which can travel easily from one jurisdiction or culture to another. A boon.
Just as with technology swinging both ways, so also human beings, each of us oscillating between heaven and hell realm tendencies day by day. And so with nations. And so with the J’s. Clearly, the US and the West have been subject to deliberate undermining for some time.
As you know, one of my theories about this is that if a nation has a healthy core this is like having a good immune system which can easily repel borders, but when they lose that core character and life force they are prone to being ravaged by no end of different internal and external pathogens. So even if it is true that J’s are behind much of what ails the US and West politically and culturally, first of all there are lots of non J’s helping them either overtly, covertly or simply doing the same thing in entirely different social networks and second the reason such subterfuges gain any traction is because of the moral weakness of the host country.
The fact is that Western civilization has come into a good deal of criticism as part of this initiative but not all of it is without merit. Much of course is good old-fashioned narrative spin: the truth exaggerated for effect. But again: that such barbs land home is a function of underlying moral and other wobbliness which is the original sin here as it were.
The racism story for example is clearly not fair factually and yet it hits home sowing no end of doubt because there are aspects of Western ignorance and arrogance which do regard all others as inferior (just like just about every other tribe, nation or race in the history of Mankind!!) and which does merit reflection. People have doubts about their humanity, masculinity, femininity, morality, courage, wisdom, weaknesses, evil, mortality, nations, families, futures, livelihood. Again, we all struggle between heaven and hell every moment of every day so a certain amount of uncertainty and doubt is the lot of anyone with a thinking, feeling mind-heart matrix. That’s being human. But that doubt can always be exploited by those with the skills and motivation to do so.
Well, I hope your characterization of China and Russia is on the money. Thus far with the Ukraine kinetic operation Russia seems to be doing a truly exemplary job and with each passing week I sense power draining from the Empire of Lies as their excessive dependency on deceit is exposed in part by Russia’s almost excessive reliance on telling the truth and walking their own talk: if they say they are going to do something, they do it. When they say that one way or another their mission will succeed and there is no doubt about this it is believable coming from their mouths although something like that coming from any Western leader wouldn’t be credible in the slightest. In a way, Biden is the perfect last President – complete and total fraud and liar!
Trump (the Great Enigma) believed he could make America Great again and in some sense proved that he could have if given more of a chance, moreover he demonstrated how rapidly things can change for the better as happened on his watch – albeit only briefly because of subterfuge – with trade, wages and employment for example. I was surprised at how quickly things can turn around with a nation of 300,000,000. But Biden knows that everything he says is a lie; he is a bought and paid for agent of collapse and his entire family are up to their eyeballs in high-level graft and post-communist, aka ‘globalista’ subterfuge.
So what is happening to the US involves subterfuge as well as organic decadence with no doubt heavy input from many powerful, internationally linked J (but again not only J) networks and although this is mainly based only on suspicion I betcha that China and Russia have indeed played a part in this – (remember all those stories of Obama being Frank Davis’ son and his being groomed early on in life for the Presidency as a Manchurian agent to bring down the Empire, a project now seemingly about to reach its goal with Obama’s sidekick?).
But if China and Russia are involved, they are not Angels in White sent to rescue the world from Satan as many supporters are now projecting. They are a mixed bag too (again because of human nature). That said, I think your characterization is more or less right: generally speaking the US needs a reboot – big-time – as it’s become a total mess with power projection from certain elite networks no longer acceptable to the rest of the world’s peoples who want to assume responsibility for their own destinies under their own steam and no longer wish to pay Empire Tax on everything; and meanwhile Eurasia is poised to rise – indeed is already lifting off and can no longer accept the Western credit cartel shackles – and such rise will benefit billions. The West is standing in their way and needs comeuppance.
So generally speaking the confrontation is overdue and generally speaking if they can put the Empire back on its heels enough to get its captured people to have a long-overdue rethink about what their core character and principles are (it will take a while) then the rest of the world can move forward into a brave new multipolar destiny albeit with the albatross of ubiquitous surveillance tech hanging around its neck which no doubt is going to cause some very serious, if not downright nightmarish, problems.”

Posted by: Scorpion | May 29 2022 14:25 utc | 258

@cirsium | May 28 2022 23:19 utc | 124
From Germany I reach Strategic Culture through Fennec Browser with Psiphon VPN. Opera VPN, however, does not work.

Posted by: Bagradian | May 29 2022 14:33 utc | 260

@ too scent, @ caveman 261
Not that people can’t be good at nonsense, I suppose. The Red Hot Chili Peppers are quite successful, after all!

Posted by: Caveman | May 29 2022 14:50 utc | 262

Posted by: too scents | May 29 2022 13:28 utc | 244
Posted by: too scents | May 29 2022 13:54 utc | 251
Great info, many thanks.

Posted by: anon2020 | May 29 2022 15:33 utc | 264

@ English Outsider | May 29 2022 13:06 utc | 242
thanks for pointing out the irrussianality site is back in action… he was adamant he wasn’t coming back… here is a link for anyone else interested..
https://irrussianality.wordpress.com/

Posted by: james | May 29 2022 15:41 utc | 266

Posted by: Quanah | May 29 2022 13:18 utc | 244
I looked at Mathis website where he claims fundamental new discoveries among which the fact that “calculus gets a lot of derivatives wrong”.
As an example he criticizes the usual derivation of the derivative of the logarithm. It becomes apparent that the he does not understand the notion of continuity (of the logarithm function) and how it is used in the derivation.
In other words he lacks basic first quarter calculus. Then he goes on to pontificate on basically all fundamental theories of physics.
Draw your own conclusions.

Posted by: bottle | May 29 2022 19:51 utc | 268

Instead : Guy Debord, La société du spectacle. ….
No surprise, gg will spy on you, if you want to see this film. ….
Posted by: Olivier | May 28 2022 23:34 utc | 128

There is a non-google dubbed english version on Vimeo.
https://vimeo.com/139772287
And a German CC version
https://vimeo.com/149558450

Posted by: Opport Knocks | May 29 2022 20:56 utc | 270

Deregulation lifts all yachts.

Posted by: pretzelattack | May 29 2022 22:07 utc | 272

Posted by: Opport Knocks | May 29 2022 20:56 utc | 270
Thanks!!

Posted by: Olivier | May 29 2022 22:53 utc | 274

Eurasia & Multipolarity, [30/05/2022 13:18]
Kiev regime suspected of trafficking in children’s organs
In liberated Mariupol, hundreds of strange medical records of children have been found at a Red Cross base. The “medical records” contain no indication of diseases and treatment, but they include lists of “healthy organs”. Earlier, Anna Kuznetsova, deputy speaker of the Russian State Duma, spoke about the disappearance of children from an orphanage in territory liberated from the Nazis. The children are believed to have been smuggled to the EU.
Earlier, politician Mikhail Saakashvili was accused of human organ trafficking in Ukraine. Participants in the combat operations spoke about the disappearance of wounded soldiers taken from the battlefield. There was talk of black market transplantologists supplying organs to Europe and the USA. In 2014-2015, Donbass militias found mass graves of civilians with their organs cut out.
The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation is verifying information about the removal of organs from children in Ukraine as part of criminal cases concerning crimes by the Kiev regime, and investigators are carrying out work.
@russtrat (“>https://t.me/russtrat/14549)

Posted by: Barofsky | May 30 2022 12:22 utc | 276