The medical system is under a lot of deserved scrutiny of late, so I thought a bit of history is in order.
A long time ago, a farmer had a friend who was deathly ill. In desperation, he invented a ritual and performed it for his friend. He covered himself in soot and went outside his friends house after dark, there he began to call out to his friend, over and over.
A few days later, his friend had recovered and the farmer gained fame for this “cure”. He had inadvertently discovered the placebo effect.
The demand for his “services” became immense overnight. And he willingly performed the ritual for a fee for others. He would go out after dark, covered in soot and call out to the ill people.
After a long time, he taught others and created an industry that went world wide.
This industry is still alive today. You have all heard of the Farmer Sooty Call industry.
…..
I figured in these times, a little levity might help some folks.
For those whose main language is not English, Farmer sooty call sounds like pharmaceutical.

Posted by: JustAnotherAussie | Nov 9 2022 16:33 utc | 4

@ Pobeda | Nov 9 2022 16:26 utc | 4
do you work for the uk msm, or is this an audition?

Posted by: james | Nov 9 2022 16:41 utc | 6

Looks like another election steal in the United States. This one focused on keeping the GOP form controlling the Senate and possibly stealing the House. Understand this is all about suppressing ANY investigation of COVID and the VAX. The republican candidates trumpeting impending investigations of the deep state sent them into overdrive as well as threats of cutting off funding to the Ukraine.

Posted by: me | Nov 9 2022 16:54 utc | 8

Posted by: Norwegian | Nov 9 2022 16:20 utc | 3
good, i don’t think they would assassinate him, but the neocons are batshit crazy.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Nov 9 2022 18:15 utc | 10

Speaking of popular royals:
https://t.me/ZandVchannel/38377
King Charles III of Great Britain and his wife were pelted with eggs at the opening of the monument to Elizabeth II in York.

Posted by: Norwegian | Nov 9 2022 18:26 utc | 12

Posted by: me | Nov 9 2022 16:54 utc | 8
To win, the Republicans have to be more Trump than Trump himself.

Posted by: Passerby | Nov 9 2022 20:56 utc | 14

German Chancillor Scholtz: “There must not be a global renaissance of fossil fuels. And for Germany, I say: there won’t be either.”
Some people you want to put in front of a field – wheat, potatoes, corn, does not matter – on a hot summer day and tell them to harvest the crop, without using fossil fuels.

Posted by: Passerby | Nov 9 2022 22:23 utc | 16

@ Posted by: Norwegian | Nov 9 2022 21:48 utc | 15
So funny.
Clearly Gonzo is a male sexist troll. For he failed to note the majority of all state Democratic governors concerned. Voiced full support of the Roe V. Wade continuation.
Sadly, he is one fool. Who failed to note the slow trend since the 1980s. The female voter with fresh millions of additional voters registered since the end of Roe V Wade in 2022. Has now become the new dominant form for all USSA politics.
Ha! Ha! – Nelson

Posted by: Bad Deal Motors On | Nov 9 2022 22:57 utc | 18

@ Posted by: Norwegian | Nov 9 2022 18:26 utc | 12
So funny.
Now for the missing 98%. Just one man threw four eggs(what a waste). The majority of the crowd booed and yelled shame on you! (See RT for the full report).
Ha! Ha! -Nelson

Posted by: Bad Deal Motors On | Nov 9 2022 23:57 utc | 20

@Passerby 16
“Some people you want to put in front of a field – wheat, potatoes, corn, does not matter – on a hot summer day and tell them to harvest the crop, without using fossil fuels.”
Scythes always did the job very well (except potatoes, of course; but see below). Making quite a comeback lately, especially the wonderfully well-evolved, super lightweight Austrian scythe. Just as well, since the Long Descent away from industrial ‘civilisation’ – courtesy of ‘The Limits To Growth’ [qv] – is now well begun.
Scything is a wonderful technology: good for the land, good for the mowers, good for their communities. And what goes for scythes goes for all the other simple muscle-powered technologies that will be coming back now, as the Descent progresses.
That idyllic hot Summer day which you seem to find so unpleasant in imagination, P, makes for such a truly wonderful experience for any team of neighbours – and their children, dogs, spouses who also turn out for the festival of harvesting – that it’s greatly cherished by those who are lucky enough to be still doing it. Plenty of vids around, on scythe harvesting by teams of people, showing what happy occasions they are: deeply satisfying; deeply connecting to the living world. Wonderful!
As for taters… At 82, I’m just harvesting the last of my this-year’s potato crop right now: grown directly in untilled turf, with a certain amount of mulching round each plant, to supplement the light turf clipping with long-handled grass-clippers that I do, just to keep the wild volunteers from swamping the spud plants. Key point: this is super-light work compared to orthodox slogging, soil-disrupting spud-growing methods; has to be because of my aged infirmity. Exactly the sort of skill which lots of us will need in the future, when fossil-hydrocarbon fuels have become so scarce that hitech big-machine industagri has gone the way of the dodo.
I do think that you’re right, though P: The crooks poncing about in the media limelight right now, running their pretend ‘democracies’, do need hauling before revolutionary tribunals, there to receive their sentences of several years of community-service work in such activities as – scythe-harvesting of crops! (No need to be overly vindictive towards them…)
Handy re-education of soft-bodied uppity technocrats, pocket-politicians, mediawhores, and other such low-life urban-parasite plankton.

Posted by: Rhisiart Gwilym | Nov 10 2022 0:13 utc | 22

To win, the Republicans have to be more Trump than Trump himself.
Posted by: Passerby | Nov 9 2022 20:56 utc | 14
Both sides won in that both sides believe that their votes mattered and their nation is a functioning democracy (or representative republic using democratic procedures etc.). Democrats proudly prevented a huge red tsunami from wrecking the country and paving the way for a new fascist regime in 2024 so they are very happy. Republicans have kicked out the wicked witch of the west and maybe – they get to hope most likely until the run-off in December for the Georgia Senate seat – they will get the Senate back again. Now some activists already believe the election was stolen; they also believe that if they just vote hard enough next time they will be able to reform this. The point is, they still believe in the system and in that sense they win.
Meanwhile those actually running the country will keep doing what they have already been doing entirely unaffected by any of this. Which seems to be some sort of managed decline leading to collapse following which a Reset after which most likely the whole two-party circus will be abandoned in favor of a more Chinese-style one-party system (although in ways I don’t quite understand apparently they also have many parties).
And both sides lost in that the system is entirely corrupt and the elections are controlled and rigged, aka phony. And the voters ability to keep denying this blatantly obvious truth ensures that they will continue to lose and the republic, such as it is, will continue to degrade as has been the case steadily for many decades now.
And so it goes…

Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 10 2022 0:59 utc | 24

The elections surprised me. I expected a backlash against Biden economic woes etc. Saw some info showing massive increase in Dems support from under 30s. Could well be driven by Roe. Either way, US is still extremely polarized and heading down the toilet.
@ Rhisiart Gwilym | Nov 10 2022 0:13 utc | 22
3 cheers for you mate!

Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 10 2022 1:53 utc | 26

http://messybeast.com/dragonqueen/medical-acronyms.htm
DOCTORS’ SLANG, MEDICAL SLANG AND MEDICAL ACRONYMS
AND VETERINARY ACRONYMS & VET SLANG
it’s a fun read. what’s the diagnosis and prognosis for the US and its ‘beached whales’ and ‘diabetties’? why are rainy days ‘organ donor days’? while digesting this, remember: the American lifestyle is not up for negotiation!
“…Walfisch, der sich bewegt…” Haydn’s “Creation.” land whales, however, animation is no longer the thing, it’s so pre-21st century…

Posted by: rjb1.5 | Nov 10 2022 2:37 utc | 28

After the retreat from Kherson, I lost complete faith in the Russian army and leadership. I don’t buy that much-vaunted russian counteroffensive anymore. I used to believe that the russians knew what they were doing, and there was a plan to all of this, but now I am not so sure. The incompetence of the russian army is truly staggering.

Posted by: Ablaye | Nov 10 2022 3:09 utc | 30

@ Posted by: Antonym | Nov 10 2022 2:16 utc | 27
Interesting all the same. On how not to craft credible propaganda!
The presenter has a truly highly selective memory. To alter/amend basic facts from history and readily available information. Basically borderline propaganda when she sees the color red. As in the Chinese national flag.
I refer to this recent error-riddled YT blooper. “China before the CCP (1): Chinese shipyard helped US build wartime vessels(cargo only)”. This is a shame how she forgot to add the remaining 98% of the inconvenient truth.
Failed “Occam’s Razor Test”.
I was amazed at how she could keep a straight face. When feeding such high levels of misinformation and propaganda.
When you start believing your own propaganda you have completely lost the plot.
Truth is stranger than fiction. – Mark Twain.

Posted by: Bad Deal Motors On | Nov 10 2022 4:37 utc | 32

Truth is stranger than fiction. – Mark Twain.
Posted by: Bad Deal Motors On | Nov 10 2022 4:37 utc | 32
—————————–
Lying is in their DNA.
Re CNN INTErview with Roger Water.
RW
‘UNlike FUKUSA, China never killed any innocent civilians’
CNN MOFO smugly declared..
‘BUt they killed their own, Roger, they killed their own.’
The MOFO was no doubt regurgitating that ‘TAM massacre’, ‘Tibet genocide’, ‘Xinjiang genocide’ craptraps.
As if CPC ‘killing their own’ somehow justify
the ruse based order to wipe out 30M civilians
world wide since WW2
Besides,
Earth to mushrooms..
‘Killing own people’ is a gardeniard specialitiy.
Exhibit A
911
Kent state
Wacko,
CIA fingered gringo for liquidation by Pinochett death squads,
Abetting Suharto [our kind of guy] to kill anglo journo [Balibo five] IN ET,
Tip of an iceberg
PS
anton belongs to the bozo file

Posted by: denk | Nov 10 2022 7:38 utc | 34

@ denk | 34 or Jun | 35
Another case of deviating, now through strawman-ship:
Obvious dodges of my (and Lei’s) point about Xi Jinping’s real lockdown aim: total internal control. Clear self-projection after that! No denial from me about uncle $am’s misdeeds but not blind for those of uncle Xx’s. Come on, a ‘Dutch’ Chinese can do better than that.

Posted by: Antonym | Nov 10 2022 8:07 utc | 36

To those uninitiated,
I noticed the argument-less denk troll years ago, never allowing criticism of his idol Xi Jinping being his MO, so I doubt he’s even Dutch as “denk” purports; more 50 cents youth army.
thats all.

Posted by: Antonym | Nov 10 2022 8:26 utc | 38

Posted by: Antonym | Nov 10 2022 8:26 utc | 38
TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION…….
Posted by: Bad Deal Motors On | Nov 10 2022 10:41 utc | 39
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I find this issue interesting (thanks for the video Antonym) because I find China an enigma wrapped in a riddle concealing a mystery etc etc and simply don’t know what to think about them. Just like when I look at a photo of Xi’s face I don’t know what to think, he gives me nothing, just a blank. Which makes me a little distrustful.
I do know that China exists with 1.5 billion people. I have been there and noticed what someone else here remarked (Grant?) that it has a lawless, free feeling to it. I didn’t get the sense that anyone was being controlled. At all. And there is a lot of bustle. Also, as have noticed in other Asian countries, even peasants in the fields who look up as you pass them by evidence much higher intelligence than many in the West. These are old societies with high socialization quotients for hundreds of generations. Neat.
But I have no idea of who and what they are politically. Which is fine, no big deal. Some are projecting (I think) that China is some sort of enlightened country which will save the world. It’s possible, I guess, but something about that thrust rubs me the wrong way. But then I generally distrust all political leaders and/or ideologies.
In any case, I find the rigid lockdown policy borderline psychotic. Is this because I’m an over-indulged westerner brought up on a diet of hyper-individualism and unable to just do what’s best for society without objection? Quite possibly. Or is the policy really too extreme or indeed, as the video suggests (though I find her hard to follow, frankly) about something else? It has always felt like that to me but again: I really can’t read China. Too huge, too far away, and also not well covered in English language media.

Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 10 2022 12:35 utc | 40

She says in the video: ‘China will not go back to the pre-covid era in which CCP’s rule was being weakened by too much interchange-intermingling with the West.’
Ok, THAT point I can grok. And it implies that one reason for the strict nature of the lock-downs is to sever those ties. That makes sense to me (and also is what have been assuming myself since early on and especially since the SMO began and global bifurcation became an obvious phenomenon). Not only does it make sense, I suspect it’s correct.
Which is not necessarily evil, but evidences a very strong State. How could a nation of 1.5 billion not be organized with strong central leadership? It cannot. Is Xi a tyrant though given he can effect draconian policies like this essentially locking up hundreds of millions at a time? Not necessarily though it seems so to most westerners.
Definitely a very different polity, though, that’s for sure.

Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 10 2022 12:41 utc | 42

Posted by: Passerby | Nov 9 2022 22:23 utc | 16
Geely which owns Volvo and is largest shareholder in Daimler-Benz has just bought Renault’s ICE division. All future Mercedes ICE engines will be built in China by Geely.
Toyota will not commit to EV.
Asia will be dominant in ICE production and outside the Euro Theme Park the world will continue to use ICE technology for motive transport

Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Nov 10 2022 15:38 utc | 44

Posted by: denk | Nov 10 2022 8:17 utc | 37:

btw I doubt he’s even Indian as purported.

Agreed! My guess is (s)he is one of those NGO troll; this could be a group of them all posting as anton-something in the team. NED/VOA/NPR, whatever 🙂

Posted by: Oriental Voice | Nov 10 2022 18:52 utc | 46

Further to b’s comments on the election, it would certainly appear there was, once again, fiddling with this election.
Rather than detail the strange goings on nationally two days ago, this article from 2020 regarding the problems with the Dominion Voting Machines BEFORE the election is IMHO a good place to start that discussion before detailing the national problems with these machines on Tuesday.
As an aside: It would appear that Brazil just suffered from the same issues.
https://watchingromeburn.uk/news/the-dominion-of-election-fraud-exposing-the-dominion-voting-machines/

Posted by: Don Stevens | Nov 10 2022 19:38 utc | 48

Yeah you missed the iceberg!!! You missed to mention 911, 3,000+ biggie.
Posted by: Oriental Voice | Nov 10 2022 18:46 utc | 45
——————-
911…?
Top on the list !

Posted by: denk | Nov 11 2022 2:18 utc | 50

Chairman PTI Imran Khan Exclusive Interview on TalkTV Piers Morgan Uncensored
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww-gLfR1eAo
recent ex-PM on surviving the assassination attempt. and Political dramas in Pakistan after being removed in a “political coup” driven (demanded) by the US et al.

Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 11 2022 2:57 utc | 52

@ SeanAU
Indeed an interesting interview with Imran Khan. He is right that “God” saved him this time. The Pakistan army brass is livid: they might run out of internal power. The survived 75 years by keeping external wars on the boil. Their luxury lifestyle is threatened if they have internal uprising.
The other threat for the Pakistani population is to become like Uyghurs under CCP dominance: wiping out Faith by secular autocrats.

Posted by: Antonym | Nov 11 2022 3:19 utc | 54

@ denk | Nov 11 2022 3:43 utc | 55
all true, and yet the shills will continue to shill… i really hope they are getting paid, as opposed to brainwashed.. i can’t tell the difference…

Posted by: james | Nov 11 2022 5:02 utc | 56

Dr Jordan Peterson returns to sit down with Piers Morgan
Good chat about dynamics on twitter, facebook, instagram, forums, and online trolls and so on… impulsive anti-social Psychopathic Behavior .. of sadism machiavellianism psychopathy narcissism – I saw him another program recently discussing the same online / political issues and thought he had some very good things to say – from 6:10 mins https://youtu.be/UtmItBYn3E8?t=370

… but Behavior online isn’t
random and the people who post aren’t
aren’t precisely normal and I have been
talking with Jonathan height and Gene
twangy about this and I think they might
know more about it than anybody else in
the world and it’s pretty clear that the
people who are dominating say online
comment sections and I would especially
say this is true of the people who post
anonymously and there’s other markers
for for this sort of behavior as well
they dominate the political discourse
and what’s happening in some sense is
that we have a new form of pollution
that’s also corporate sponsored and it’s
pollution of the domain of public
discourse and the pollution occurs
because the social media companies are
either enabling or failing to control
you know those known in the popular
parlance as Trolls but they’re not just
comical trolls you know using derision
in some cute way and and having their
say in the Free Speech domain they’re
really poisonous individuals and they’re
poisoning the entire domain

and

one of the things that’s happening to us as
we virtualize the world is that we’re
enabling the small percentage of
people it’s usually about 3 percent
in general populations
who used manipulation and reputation
savaging and denigration and
self-promotion, so the genuinely
Psychopathic types, to dominate the
social conversation and to spew their
poisonous and manipulative Venom into
the public domain not only with no fear
of being stopped and no inhibition
(which is almost all applied socially irl)
but also may well be monetized
and promoted by the people who run the
social media channels ….

plus comments on Elon Musk’s plans for Twitter, Donald Trump and the presidency, and Meghan Markle’s podcast.

so I think it’s a mistake to assume
that Trump is a psychopath – I think it’s
a big mistake I think it’s a big mistake
to assume that Putin is a psychopath
it’s easy to do that but I don’t think
the evidence suggests that – you don’t
want to throw those labels around
casually and you know – if Trump
was Psychopathic well he did a pretty
good job of keeping the United States
clear of War for four years

Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 11 2022 9:33 utc | 58

our previous postings, as a whole, gave me the sense that you are one of those westerners (especially Anglo-Saxonic type) long fed on western MSM propaganda and became prejudiced without yourselves knowing it.
Posted by: Oriental Voice | Nov 10 2022 19:09 utc | 47
Don’t think so. Don’t follow much MSM and even when I do assume anything political is a lie. Have said many times here that I don’t have a clear read on China because it’s so huge and (to me) so alien (though I have studied some of their classics including Chinese-daoist medicine (ie pre communist regime edited ‘TCM’) and advanced qigong and actually been there though only for 3 months. The way the CPC feels to me from afar gives pause, that’s all. Other than that I view Chinese culture and people quite favorably.
Seems to me you find it hard to imagine people thinking for themselves. Which I do and often demonstrate.

Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 11 2022 12:11 utc | 60

This is how the Pakistani army brass rules its politicians: by making clandestine compromising videos of them. Good students of the CIA. https://www.dawn.com/news/1719141

Posted by: Antonym | Nov 11 2022 14:36 utc | 62

Shortly after a visit to Ottawa by Antony Blinken, it has become obvious Canada has new marching orders. To follow Warshington against China…
China ‘Increasingly Disruptive Global Power’ Says Canadian FM
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/09/china-increasingly-disruptive-global-power-canadian-foreign-minister
“Canada’s foreign minister, Melanie Joly, has said China has become ‘increasingly disruptive’ on the world stage as she hinted in a speech at a new Indo-Pacific strategy expected to be released this month…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 11 2022 15:29 utc | 64

@ Scorpion | Nov 11 2022 12:20 utc | 61
we see it exactly opposite…. continue to bullshit up the yin yang.. it is your specialty..

Posted by: james | Nov 11 2022 16:01 utc | 66

The eleventh day of the eleventh month started out as Armistice Day — really meaning the capital A Armistice, the final one following the war to end all wars. When it became apparent that old November 1918 armistice had lost its singularity, somehow the day got renamed “Veteran’s Day” — as if old soldiers are the only ones to experience privations of warfare, or hopes for the possibility of permanent peace.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Nov 11 2022 17:32 utc | 68

Bernhard should really read this: https://dailysceptic.org/2022/11/11/why-did-the-left-fail-so-utterly-to-resist-the-global-biosecurity-state/

Posted by: Nicolas | Nov 11 2022 23:07 utc | 70

@69 Aleph_Null – Here’s a song for you.
Vaughn Monroe – Old Soldiers Never Die
There’s a whole story I’m sure you’re familiar with regarding this song and General MacArthur.

Posted by: lex talionis | Nov 11 2022 23:17 utc | 72

Argh !
Those insufferable gardeniards and their
uighurs fetishism…
https://rumble.com/v1r2kxy-xi-jinping-and-chinas-role-in-a-shifting-world.html

Posted by: denk | Nov 12 2022 2:05 utc | 74

Posted by: Rhisiart Gwilym | Nov 10 2022 0:13 utc | 22
I’ve got one of those Austrian scythes too. I also have another tool that might interest you, if you don’t have one already. It’s called a bull rake in New England and it’s kind of hard to describe but after the grass dries into hay you work the rake under the hay and pull it towards you. The bull rake has a cradle so you can pull a good deal of hay with each stroke. You use the rake to make windrows of hay. Before horse-drawn mowing machines and dump rakes came along around 1880, all hay was made by hand. First a team of scythers would drop the grass. Then a team of bull rakers would rake it into windrows. Then the hay would be forked onto wagon’s and drawn to the barn. Today, as then, if someone wants to make hay for a few animals you need only three tools: An Austrian scythe, a bull rake, and a three-pronged hay fork. It’s all hard work, but I love the sound of a scythe cutting grass.

Posted by: Chas | Nov 12 2022 2:30 utc | 76

See some more about Xi Jinping’s workers paradise today, even for his own Han: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUlHobG9JNE
M.A.A.N.G. stockholders worldwide depend on this inhuman slavery to keep their profits and stock prices up. The coal black cheap electricity helps too.

Posted by: Antonym | Nov 12 2022 9:28 utc | 78

So, there’s claims that Zelensky regime has (had) invested US aid money into the FTX exchange. Would not be at all surprising.
https://twitter.com/UKR_Report/status/1591269229088886785
There are also claims that FTX exchange is (was) heavily involved in the DNC money laundering operations and was essentially a DNC slush fund.
Here’s something huge to consider. The wipeout of FTX has HUGE implications for the 2024 election. Sam Badman-Fried was the SECOND largest donor to Democrats in the recent (rigged) elections. He was gearing up to bankroll the entire Democrat propaganda steal in 2024. It only took a couple of tweets from CZ, head of Binance, to implode the entire FTX Ponzi scheme empire.
Now, dig deeper and you will discover that FTX was a massive MONEY LAUNDERING PONZI operation that benefited primarily democrats. Another Dem slush fund, in other words, but this time in the crypto space.
Now, CZ (Chinese-Canadian) of Binance says he wants to work with Elon Musk to place Binance as the payment system for Twitter. CZ is also “tolerant” of Trump and can coexist with Trump, Musk, etc.
Getting the picture? CZ and Binance just toppled a major Dem slush fund.
https://t.me/RealHealthRanger/2638

Posted by: unimperator | Nov 12 2022 11:01 utc | 80

Hmmm . . .
Hard to find a recent place to comment about other than Ukraine things. But this cannot be let go:
“Former US President Donald Trump has taken aim at yet another potential challenger should he decide to run for the Oval Office again in 2024, this time targeting Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, suggesting his name “sounds Chinese,”
This guy is so intellectual. Our only hope.

Posted by: Elmagnostic | Nov 12 2022 11:13 utc | 82

Peter Schwartz has an excellent analysis of the climate talks and imperialism at the WSWS-thanks to steel city scribblings for the tip.
“…If anyone still needed proof that the climate catastrophe cannot be stopped by applying pressure on capitalist governments and politicians, the summit in Sharm el-Sheikh provided it. The reason for the bankruptcy of this perspective, which is advocated by Fridays for Future and other environmental movements, is not simply the malevolent intentions of individual governments or politicians, but the character of the capitalist system they defend.
“The climate crisis can only be solved globally. Greenhouse gases do not stop at national borders, and an environmentally sustainable organisation of energy supply is only possible on a global scale. The scientific knowledge, technical means and material resources for such a solution are in place and enormous progress has been made in these areas over recent decades.
“But such a global solution is not possible in a social system based on nation-states, which fiercely fight for global domination, and the subordination of every aspect of economic life to the profit and enrichment of a small minority…”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/11/12/vddk-n12.html

Posted by: bevin | Nov 12 2022 15:38 utc | 84

Will the Palestinians get their fair share of regional energy resources?
Substantial energy reserves lie beneath the occupied Palestinian territories and off the coast of Gaza. They cannot be developed without a green light from Israel. Under international law, Palestinians have full sovereignty over their natural resources. But whether Israel sees it that way is the question.
Popular demand, especially from the Palestinian side, prompted me to update and re-edit my first book, ‘The Zionist Project Israel: Ethnic Pure, or Binational Guideland?’ to re-appear as an e-book in English. With the themes that the book addresses appealing to a world audience, the book will aim at a broader target group than readers in the Dutch language area. A wider spread is opportune against the backdrop of shifting power balances, globally, but also in the Middle East.
To give my readers a taste, I published a fragment from the e-book, viz. the Oil and Gas section of Chapter 5, “Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.” The link is:
https://geopolitiekincontext.wordpress.com/2022/11/11/krijgen-de-palestijnen-hun-fair-share-in-de-regionale-energie-rijkdommen/
For what it is worth, I am looking for a native British English speaker who is ready to proof-read and transfer my 200 A4-pages manuscript now in ‘pigeon English’ into smooth English. Any volonteers?

Posted by: Paul-Robert | Nov 12 2022 17:54 utc | 86

Interesting times.
The latest new big lie from DJT.
This racist bigot wanker is claiming electoral fraud in Arizona. As usual to support his “BIG LIE” zero proof on offer. To explain why it is so! lmao
Here is the missing 98% of the facts. It is widely documented and well-known. The vast majority of DJT red donkey-based supporters are without question “WHITE RACIST BIGOTS”.
In Arizona, the downtrodden and basically ignored by the whites-only racist bigots. Or far too many “Dumb&Dumber self-entilted Karens” attempting to repress the new political blue tsunami coming!
The Hispanic sector has been steadily growing in number. Predictions indicate that by 2030. The dreaded Arizona “Karen Wankers”, will become a racial minority!
Sadly for the better, basically the entire southwest corner of the USSA. From Texas through to California Yankee English will be the second language. The primary language will become Yankee Spanish after 2030.
DJT is a gift that keeps on giving.

Posted by: Bad Deal Motors On | Nov 12 2022 18:27 utc | 88

Just about an hour and a half ago this mid-air collision happened between a B-17 and Cobra fighter plane at an air show in Dallas.
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/dallas-plane-crash-dallas-executive-airport-rbd/287-1d54f7a6-05ad-40ee-a02b-961874c52bea
Insane footage.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Nov 12 2022 21:23 utc | 90

Posted by: Rhisiart Gwilym | Nov 10 2022 0:13 utc | 22
Thanks for passing on your unique potato planting technique, Rhisiart. For those who do have turf – I assume a lawn would work – that is most definitely an intriguing experiment to try. Unfortunately for me, no turf available, but I’d almost want to try a lawn, grab some from a plant nursery somewhere and stick it into my garden bits just to see if it would work. (My local town hall does have a lawn – in summer rabbits congregate for parties at night. I wonder if they’d be interested? The town hall, I mean; not the rabbits.)

Posted by: juliania | Nov 13 2022 5:25 utc | 92

@ Posted by: Antonym | Nov 11 2022 2:36 utc | 51
There speaks a man who is completely ignorant of what truly transpired way up on the defined northern Indian border. That particular year. Where a very ignorant Brit laid fallacious claims on a large section of traditional Chinese borderland. Created a fictional unsurveyed by the Brit Raj. An artificial national border, complete with stolen Chinese land.
Who knew those corrupt fat Indian Army officers? Experienced from fighting for the Japanese in WW2. And the killing fields of shooting/looting/other unarmed civilians(1949 partition war). Could run so fast! Downhill that is.
Since the Chinese southern army could have captured without any opposition. Occupying the stolen Vale of Kashmir without any military opposition. The downtrodden resident natives of the Vale. Abused daily by the evil poorly paid and equipped Indian Army! Would have welcomed the Chinese PLA as liberators.
Baby, it was very cold up on the northern border. Where ‘AMS’ was far more lethal than the sixty rounds of .303 issued for use in WW1 vintage Lee-Enfields. They were truly the bad old days.

Posted by: Bad Deal Motors On | Nov 13 2022 6:24 utc | 94

@ Peter AU1 | Nov 13 2022 3:53 utc | 91
thanks for the link and quote peter… exactly as i see it too..

Posted by: james | Nov 13 2022 15:48 utc | 96

Contrary to previous comments this article by Escobar is pretty good.
Russia, India, China, Iran: the Quad that really matters
Tuesday, 15 November 2022
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/11/15/692770/Russia,-India,-China,-Iran–the-Quad-that-really-matters-
It runs through a whole series of interconnected real events and happenstances then stitches it all together without unnecessary hyperbole or extreme unsubstantiated claims. A good article for anyone who might have missed some steps connections along the way, this article can fill those in and offers what to look up if you missed them.
Using the Quad analogy was a clever way to tie the content together and offers a comparison pov, without going completely off the reservation.
I think if it actually included embedded linked references or a list at the end would make it more user friendly.

Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 16 2022 7:53 utc | 98

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/11/15/692770/Russia,-India,-China,-Iran–the-Quad-that-really-matters-
Using the Quad analogy was a clever way to tie the content together and offers a comparison pov, without going completely off the reservation.
Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 16 2022 7:53 utc | 98
Yep. Iran, India, Russia, China gives a whole new meaning to iirc.

Posted by: waynorinorway | Nov 16 2022 9:31 utc | 100