Oregon in Moscow

that is the group oregon performing in 2005 with the moscow tchaikovsky symphony orchestra.. its a beautiful recording that is unlikely to happen again…

Posted by: james | Apr 6 2023 15:42 utc | 3

Oh, and welcome back b. You called that a vacation?

Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Apr 6 2023 16:14 utc | 5

Sakineh Bagoom@5
Just a litle bit of relaxation. I’m glad to find regular posts from b again, but I don’t tyhink that he should post if he doesn’t feel that the spirit has moved him.
These threads develop a life of their own, especially when the rubbish is being cleaned out, while we have enough regulars providing news updates on Ukraine to satisfy the hunger for news form sources untainted by imperialisy propaganda. b’s analysis is great and welcome but it is not absolutely necessary every day. And it depends upon leisure enough to keep up with current literature and look back, and think, about where this all started.
Talking of which there is an essential article at The Canada Files today. I get the newsletter-all Canadians should consider getting it- I hope that this link works
https://thecanadafilesnewsletter.substack.com/p/tcf-newsletter-360-the-manufactured?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
The article in question is a history (a very sordid history at that) of Ukrainian Canadian relations in Canada. The anti Russian alliance between Ottawa Liberals and Ukrainian Nazis dates back to 1940.

Posted by: bevin | Apr 6 2023 17:07 utc | 7

Big demonstrations with very violent police ongoing in Paris (Live via Sputnik)
Also:

🇫🇷 In Paris, protesters marked Macron’s visit to China by setting fire to a restaurant where Macron celebrated his rise to power.
Protests against Macron’s economic policies and pension reform continue, as does the strike of energy workers.

https://t.me/intelslava/46634

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 6 2023 17:32 utc | 9

And while Marcon is in China Occupy BlackRock has been born in France as the ZH posting title below shows
French Pension Protesters Storm Paris BlackRock Headquarters

Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 6 2023 18:21 utc | 11

Adding to 1&2–
RT reports “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made his candidacy official, challenging Joe Biden for the Democratic Party’s 2024 nomination.”
Within the report we learn:

Kennedy had hinted about a White House run in recent weeks, saying in a Twitter post last month that he wanted supporters to help him to decide whether to challenge Biden. “If it looks like I can raise the money and mobilize enough people to win, I’ll jump in the race. If I run, my top priority will be to end the corrupt merger between state and corporate power that has ruined our economy, shattered the middle class, polluted our landscapes and waters, poisoned our children, and robbed us of our values and freedoms. Together, we can restore America’s democracy.”
A long-time environmental lawyer, author and anti-vaccine activist, Kennedy filed a class-action lawsuit last month against Biden, former Covid-19 czar Dr. Anthony Fauci, and other administration officials for compelling social media platforms to censor jab critics. He has called for the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, saying, “There is no America without a Free Press. There is no Free Press without a free Julian Assange.”
Kennedy has also spoken out against the US Federal Reserve’s planned digital currency, and accused the CIA of suppressing records related to the 1963 assassination of his uncle. Earlier this week, he blamed a policy of using military power to enforce global hegemony for the loss of US influence over Saudi Arabia and the Gulf monarchy’s new alliances with China and Iran.
“The Ukraine war is the final collapse of the neocon’s short-lived ‘American Century,’” Kennedy said. “The neocon projects in Iraq and Ukraine have cost $8.1 trillion, hollowed out our middle class, made a laughingstock of US military power and moral authority, pushed China and Russia into an invincible alliance, destroyed the dollar as the global currency, cost millions of lives and done nothing to advance democracy or win friendships or influence.”

IMO, RFKjr will become a greater populist hit that Trump as he’s pushing all the right buttons. The big question IMO is, How will the Media act given his attack on the Social Media powers, which are clearly aligned with the D-party? And then there’s the D-party itself; will it work to sabotage his campaign as it did Sanders; will it help arrange the same outcome given his kin? Given D-party Donors, I see him being fought by the party. But I welcome his courage.

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 6 2023 18:27 utc | 13

New report shows extent of possibly toxic chemical release from Martinez refinery (California Bay Area)
Maryland AG report alleges 156 Catholic clergy members and others abused over 600 children
Walmart’s departure from Portland shines light on rampant property crime
more law and order! that’ll fix it! Walmart cares about community. we need more cops and more laws, undercover police, sting operations, to stop people from stealing shoes and food from billionaires. and we need more cops and laws to stop priests and teachers from sexually torturing children. and we need more laws and cops…so that a refinery will report its toxic spills in a timely manner.
as Texas Governor Greg Abbott observed, if we don’t enforce the law, we won’t execute retards. for shoplifting.
the foundational myth of the world: Kronos devouring his children, in order to maintain “law and order,” aka, his own rule and dominion, starting today with poisoning kids.
thru their food.

Posted by: rjb1.5 | Apr 6 2023 18:31 utc | 15

@13 karlof1 – He will be quite successful, I think!
I see polka dots in his future once his campaign kicks into gear and the proles like what they see/hear.
There’s a band from San Francisco I have heard of, the Dead Keh…
Geez, I can’t remember.
Big Pharma does, though.
But RFK the Second seems nice enough. I quite respect him for his stance on the thing that shall not be named. You can chose which one.
Hopefully he drives better than his uncle and avoids riding in convertibles in the D.

Posted by: lex talionis | Apr 6 2023 18:43 utc | 17

Parents sew recording device in toddler’s jacket, capture audio of day care worker threatening t…
capitalism turns everyone into a spy and saboteur against his neighbor.
and the baby day care company says, “these horrible people do not reflect our values. despite our rigorous top secret screening process, we hired them by accident. now that we know better, we will never allow these two people to represent our brand again. so now there are two openings for a minimum wage position.”
the image factory of the capitalist death state and its torture and violence against those who expose it or suffer from it helps to create this surreal world in which a Donald Trump becomes the defender of the QAnon victims.
the image factory of the capitalist death state also rests upon its complete disdain for “women’s work.” Warren Buffet does real work. Mark Milley does real work. people sitting in cubicles keeping tabs on rich people’s money is real work. feeding babies? farming? keeping trains on the tracks and the plumbing working? what kind of work is that? where’s the creative destruction?

Posted by: rjb1.5 | Apr 6 2023 19:00 utc | 19

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis at a press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz before their meeting with Moldovan President Maia Sandu in Bucharest, Romania on April 3:

Scholz and Iohannis: Moldova must remain on our side of Europe (EurAsia Daily, April 3, 2023 — in Russian)
…
“Support for Moldova in its preparation for EU accession will continue. We are doing all this because it is the right thing to do, because we believe that the Republic of Moldova deserves this support and should remain on our side of Europe.”
…

Moldovans overwhelmingly prefer Moldova to have good relationships with both Russia and the West. But, according to Iohannis, Moldova should “remain” on EU’s side—even though it has never been on EU’s side and, in fact, is currently being forcibly annexed by the EU against the wishes of its citizens. Cause “democracy”!
Meanwhile, the oppression of the Russian languages continues:

Five TV channels fined in Moldova: “They speak Russian a lot” (EurAsia Daily, April 4, 2023 — in Russian)
In Moldova, another five TV channels—Cinema 1, Canal 3, Canal 2, Familia and Mega TV—have been found in violation of regulations for not meeting the quotas for broadcasting in Romanian in prime time.
…
Recall that on December 16, 2022, Moldova’s Commission on Emergency Situations, at the request of the Information and Security Service (SIS) and the Audiovisual Council, has suspended the broadcasting licenses of the Russian-language TV channels Primul in Moldova, RTR Moldova, Accent TV, NTV Moldova, TV6, Orhei TV, which allegedly were covering events in the country and the Ukraine in bad faith (with insufficient Russophobia) and were “promoting Russian influence”.

Democracy! Freedom of speech! Everyone can vote for whomever they want as long as that whomever has been approved by the U.S., and everyone can say whatever they want as long as it does not contradict what the U.S. mainstream media is saying. But if it does, well…

EU experts will arrive in Moldova to “fight Russian spies and disinfo” (EurAsia Daily, April 4, 2023 — in Russian)
The European Union plans to send a support mission to the Republic of Moldova in May to counter “destabilizing activities of Russia”. It will be tasked with increasing the resilience of the Moldovan security sector in the areas of crisis management, hybrid threats and foreign information interference.
…

Want Moldova to have good relations with Russia? You’re a Moscow spy and a spreader of disinfo! Easy as pie.
Despite the fact that CIS’s joint TV channel Mir has broadcast a documentary on 30th anniversary of Moldova’s independence in 2021 and a documentary on 50th birthday anniversary of Maia Sandu in 2022, as well as hundreds of news reports from Moldova in 2022–2023, it has now been accused by Moldovan government spokesman Daniel Vodă of spreading materials aimed at “inciting war and disinformation”.

International broadcasting company Mir to Chișinău: Is the film about Sandu and the independence of Moldova also disinformation? (EurAsia Daily, April 5, 2023 — in Russian)
…
As EADaily reported, the Moldovan government has announced that it would stop financing Mir, the TV channel of the Commonwealth of Independent States, and the Moldovan Parliament would denounce the cooperation agreement. The budget for 2023 does not provide funds for payments to the TV company, and in fact the allocation of funds has been stopped in the second quarter of 2022.
Moldova’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration (MFAEI), Nicu Popescu, has confirmed that Chișinău had decided to gradually abandon relations with the Commonwealth. According to him, there is a gradual abandonment of relations with the CIS by terminating agreements that are outdated or do not fit in with the European course of the country.
The international broadcasting company Mir will soon be replaced in Moldova by a branch of the Euronews România TV channel, which, according to the authorities, will provide access to the “correct” European news against the backdrop of “Russian disinformation and propaganda”.

So, not even a Moldovan branch of Euronews, but a branch of the Romanian branch of Euronews. Very sovereign! Speaking about sovereignty, Maia Sandu, the President of Moldova, is a dual citizen with a Romanian passport, as are many people in the current Moldovan government. But they are not traitors, no—it’s the people with only a Moldovan passport who want normal relations with both Russia and the West:

In Moldova, there are demands to ban the Party of Socialists for cooperation with United Russia (EurAsia Daily, April 5, 2023 — in Russian)
Igor Munteanu’s Coalition for Unity and Welfare party (CUB), today, on April 5, has contacted the Office of the Prosecutor General regarding the visit of MPs of the Party of Socialists, headed by Deputy Speaker Vlad Batrîncea, to Moscow.
СUB also promises that “they will initiate a legal procedure to outlaw the PSRM” [Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova — S]. On April 3, in the State Duma of the Russian Federation, a delegation of socialists has met with representatives of the ruling United Russia party, with which they have a formally established inter-party cooperation.
In this regard, Munteanu reminded that the leadership of United Russia is under international sanctions “because of Russia’s attack on the Ukraine”. He demanded that the prosecutors “investigate the cooperation of the PSRM with Putin’s party as an element of hybrid war and destabilization intentions”. Socialists should clarify their position in relation to Russia’s military aggression against the Ukraine. According to him, the current situation should be discussed at a meeting of the Supreme Security Council.
“The citizens of Moldova must know what kind of MPs are present in this toxic legislative body, who allow themselves to consult with war criminals,” Munteanu said.
He added that PSRM’s presence in Moscow in the midst of an aggressive war makes it a Putin party, alien to the rule of law and democracy.
“Unless the PSRM immediately and decisively renounces its ties with a state that kills civilians and destroys Ukrainian cities, confirming Putin’s imperialist narratives, the CUB is publicly calling for the PSRM to be outlawed. Today, the party will contact the prosecutor’s office on this issue, giving the prosecutors [the opportunity — EurAsia Daily] to do their job,” concluded Igor Munteanu.
As EADaily reported, the honorary chairman of the Party of Socialists, Igor Dodon [the previous President of Moldova, who has been put under house arrest by the current President, which is a very democratic thing to do — S], recently announced that the Moldovan authorities want to liquidate the PSRM. According to the ex-president, this is due to the fact that the socialists are the only alternative to power at the moment, “a core, around which something can be built”.

Posted by: S | Apr 6 2023 19:13 utc | 21

@jayc, #6:

Also, the general public has not yet absorbed the future realities hawkish politicians have in store – i.e. an all-of-society war economy defined by a zero-sum confrontation against “the other” (Russia, China, et al).

You called it right. The western general public is being led by the Pied Piper into an abyss, willingly with alacrity. But the zero-sum game plan seems to be working awkwardly–the losses seem lopsidedly on the western side while Russia/China seem to be progressing onward, as though a new era is unravelling. The picture so far is foretelling the inevitable. The future reality in the west ain’t gonna be pretty.

Posted by: Oriental Voice | Apr 6 2023 20:28 utc | 23

@Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 6 2023 18:32 utc | 16
Wherever I look I see desperate Western elites running out of time before they have to rip the “democratic” mask off and impose some very visible fascism / totalitarianism. We see it in the US with the Trump show trial attempt which will most probably completely backfire, Macron in France (the police are certainly showing what state political violence looks like), Netanyahu in Israel, and the increasing demonstrations in other parts of the West that are not being reported on. At the same time the other 7/8ths of humanity is making its way to a multipolar world.
The geopolitical rate of change is certainly picking up, and none of it looks good for the West or the European apartheid settler colony called Israel. It is interesting that Russia is still allowing Israel to bomb Syria, perhaps there is a deal there (you stay out of Ukraine we will look the other way in Syria) or Russia is waiting for the Turkey/Syria/Iran/Iraq/Russia deal and more diplomatic normalizations with Syria before raising the red stop sign. It will also be interesting to see what happens with Georgia (attempted colour revolution in progress?) and Azerbaijan/Armenia (the Iranians are making it very obvious that there will be consequences if Azerbaijan gets aggressive). If Turkey/Russia/Iran can shut down the Western games in that area it would show that any budding alliance is quite real.

Posted by: Roger | Apr 6 2023 21:09 utc | 25

Re RFK.
One important aspect, I think, is his truly unprecedented level of bona fides. Many voters in the US believe, rightly, that the whole political situation is a charade and thus that most of their representative are more actors in a performance than real servants of the people doing their business.
Hard to say that of a man whose uncle and father were both assassinated on national television, whose voice is permanently traumatized from those ghastly events (though of late I note it has improved greatly from a few years ago). Whether or not one thinks the Kennedy’s were a positive political force and so forth, RFK is hard to dismiss as just another shill.
Though as Karlof says above at least part of the Deep State has agreed to fund him. Quite possible. But yet: is he going to be yet another candidate promising reform and then failing to deliver? Or is there a deal like he can do various substantive reforms with regarding Big Corporates but cannot touch Federal reform such as the Fed, the CIA, the FBI, the 1000 bases etc.
Too soon to say. He has to make his positions and persona known. But he has the potential to become the most substantive figure in electoral politics in quite a while, quite possibly far eclipsing Trump because even though he has already and will take more hits for his anti-vax thus anti-Big Pharma stance, he will never be demonized the way Trump has been and so will have a far easier time getting above the critical 45% favorability threshold.
I think if he and Trump had founded a Third Party in early 2021 that the Republic might have been rescuable still. Now, though it’s highly unlikely at this point, RFK’s entry does provide a sliver of hope. Again, though, he has to reveal more of what he intends, how he thinks, which forces he is willing to go up against. Early days…

Posted by: Scorpion | Apr 6 2023 21:21 utc | 27

My dream outcome is that, after the DNC steals the Dem nomination from RFK Jr., Trump makes him his running mate. I think that ticket would win in a landslide.
I also think Le Pen, if she runs for president after Macron resigns, should promise to make Melenchon premier.
Both countries (and other countries, like Germany) need coalitions of the far right and left against the center.

Posted by: Lysias | Apr 6 2023 22:10 utc | 29

Both countries (and other countries, like Germany) need coalitions of the far right and left against the center.
Posted by: Lysias | Apr 6 2023 22:10 utc | 29
Totally agree.
And yet it never happens.
Unless I see evidence to the contrary, will continue to belivee that elections and democracy are mainly just for show.
That said, it is always possible to change scripts. Always.

Posted by: Scorpion | Apr 6 2023 22:11 utc | 31

… IMO, somehow he’ll have to take a page from Trump’s mojo and coax BigLie Media to debate him so he’ll get the media coverage he’ll need.
Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 6 2023 22:11 utc | 30
His only hope is to emerge as a transcendent leader perceived by most as above the fray. However, doing that from within either the Republican or Democrat Party is, IMO, well nigh hopeless, and if he is not aspiring to be that figure, then it doesn’t matter. That said, Obama was such a figure in his time, albeit he came one with the help of the media not despite its enmity, so it can happen. Maybe. Doubtful. Trump had good traction as ‘the People’s Billionaire’ but the Republicans are more individualistic and contrary as a group in any case, and his supporters were long-in-the-tooth small government types. The Democrats don’t have such lineages being mainly family-based voters who can be relied on always to vote how they are told or progressives, which as karlof mentions above are essentially a phony demographic. That’s been obvious for a long time now. No doubt millions sincerely embrace progressive causes but ALL their organizations are corrupt from top to bottom. The Democrats are the new Republicans of yore, and the Republicans are the new Democrats. (RFK should join them!!)
But if anyone could emerge as being viewed as a transcendant leader, right now RFK is that someone. He doesn’t do soaring rhetoric, however, without which skill it’s hard to build a large following which is what he’ll need to be able to out-bully the grandees he will be up against.
I recently started using the Yijing / I Ching to consult about geopolitical matters, mainly as a fun way of viewing the classic text from a different perspective. The results have been surprisingly apropos considering the antiquity of the textual material. For example, in response to the query: ‘Can the neocon era end without war?’ the response was that
a) the US is still an exceptionally powerful polity (in a positive, beneficent sense) but that
b) it is captured by bad actors which means that potentially good leaders have to lay low and that
c) a leader now hidden will soon ’emerge from the field’ as a ‘dragon’ capable of exceptional leadership resolving long-standing quagmires.
Can’t help but wonder, given that result, if RFK is that leader.
There is another possible twist here: if BOTH RFK and Trump are obviously thwarted and only abject RINO’s or apparatchik’s like Biden remain, will the country stand meekly by and accept their collective impoverishment and virtual enslavement? Chances are they will, but at a certain point if the PTB cannot put on even a halfway convincing Democracy Show any more, maybe just maybe, the mood of the People will begin to shift into something decidedly less complacent.
Furthermore, if for whatever reason the temperature keeps rising (due to false flags, inflammatory media, unfair arrests of opposition demonstrators or representatives etc.) exacerbating division, those most passionate on both sides will increasingly be calling for secession at which point there might actually be enough numbers to make it start to be a real possibility. So a union of the fringe left and right might pick up steam that way rather than mounting a unifying candidacy able to transcend the Duopoly trap.
In any case, the center has been lost, be it moral, political, spiritual, civic, narrative – whatever. Gone. Done. Dusted. Barring a transcendant national leader figure, the nation will be falling apart in all sorts of ways, not least basic financial-economic any month now.
Interesting times.

Posted by: Scorpion | Apr 6 2023 22:33 utc | 33

In a Substack column last fall, I wrote about the KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov’s 1984 interview with American author G. Edward Griffin in which he described how a Constitutional Republic such as the United States may be destroyed from within through a process called Ideological Subversion. He described the objective of this process as follows:
To change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite the abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their communities, and their country.
I thought of Bezmenov this morning when I stumbled across a fascinating essay by Seth Barron at the Claremont Institute titled “The Mad Emperor of Ice Cream.” The title—an allusion to Wallace Stevens’s strange and poignant 1923 poem, “The Emperor of Ice Cream”—immediately grabbed my attention.
As Barron writes, the point of so much of what we now hear in the public forum is NOT to delineate or clarify anything, but to confuse everything. As he puts it, “confusion is the message.”
Disoriented people cannot defend themselves from malevolent tyrants who, through the constant broadcasting of AgitProp (Agitation Propaganda), recruit the alienated, resentful, directionless, and mentally disturbed to destabilize society.

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/confusion-is-the-message
I think this point about confusion-generation being the goal is right on the money.

Posted by: Scorpion | Apr 6 2023 23:10 utc | 35

Money MOney MONEY – Geopolitical Economy Report – Ben Norton [29 mins – V. good]
The global de-dollarization campaign is gaining momentum, challenging the hegemony of the US dollar. China and Russia are trading in their own currencies. Beijing and Brazil dropped the dollar in bilateral trade. The UAE is selling China its gas in yuan, through a French company. Southeast Asian nations in ASEAN are de-dollarizing their trade, promoting local payment systems. Kenya is buying Persian Gulf oil with its own currency. The Financial Times acknowledges that a “multipolar currency world” is emerging.
Countries worldwide are dropping the US dollar: De-dollarization in China, Russia, Brazil, ASEAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz5UmwhQuiU
But … note that most Government/Corporate debt [trillions of it] remains in Dollar or tied to the Dollar

Posted by: Don Firineach | Apr 6 2023 23:53 utc | 37

Careful. This one just slides into your groove. And there it is, on your go-to playlist for all time.
Jimmy Barnes – Too Much Ain’t Enough Love (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InlyO2Q0sIA

Posted by: Melaleuca | Apr 6 2023 23:56 utc | 39

ZH has a posting up with the title
“The Last War We Can Afford To Fight”: Tucker Carlson Sounds Alarm Over De-Dollarization, Slams Biden Admin For Pissing Off World
The quote I have problems with

Carlson cites an article from the Daily Caller, in which authors E.J. Antoni and Peter St. Onge write:

A second critical feature of a reserve currency is its apolitical nature. Which Biden is now gutting. After both parties in Washington destroyed the dollar’s stability with inflation, now the Biden administration has chosen to wield the dollar as a weapon. Together, the message to foreigners they should get out while they still can.

Tucker Carlson live in Left/Right world instead of the real Top/Bottom world the rest of us live in.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 7 2023 0:25 utc | 41

There’ll be an absolute nauseam of sad, ad nauseam memes about Trump in the next era. But let me share this one:
https://twitter.com/Peter_Fitz/status/1643581753867771904

Posted by: Melaleuca | Apr 7 2023 2:19 utc | 43

@karlof1 | Apr 6 2023 21:03 utc | 24
I do live in the US (IA).
Appointing a billionaire member of a ruling class family to protect you from the other oligarchs makes no sense. Especially when the family and the Democrata are effectively interchangeable.
I am completely certain that anyone running within the framework of either party is not going to change a thing. However, most Americans are fully aware that change is urgently needed and over 62% (incorrectly) imagine that a new party is needed to represent their interests. In reality it is the system that is a problem and needs to be addressed, challenging when most people do not understand this or have the vocabulary, social, class or historical background needed to discuss it.
Which is why I don’t think that an independent is utterly unelectable despite the barricades both parties have worked assiduously to put in place. It would be extremely difficult but while a conventional campaign would not stand a chance an inconventional.campaign may.
Nevertheless, I think that a Twitter/Phone App/Unconventional physical world campaign highlighting corruption, risks of war, lack of equality, unaffordability of everything, ongoing job losses, lack of a meaningful future, and all the other issues meaningful to those younger than Boomers, while talking about a realisable better future in a way that makes it clear that it can be achieved, relying on industrial and social action to build awareness and support, coupled with a program to promote something like my NOTaParty (None Of The above Party) to replace practically all incumbent politicians, or make them sufficiently honest, could work if combined with a technique to make voting more honest. I describe some ways to do this at On Voting. I think that such a campaign
rum on the midst of the economic collapse that the last half a century has made inevitable, could result in the kind of turmoil that leads to change. Usually not for the better, because something better is not available, meaning that people grasp for something, anything. Perhaps if something better is available they will grasp for that. It may be a slender hope, but it is better than the alternatives That is because I am fairly sure that if we don’t do this humans will not survive to see 2030, although I will continue to act as if we have a future, on the vanishingly small off-chance that this is a possibility.
I am certain that Gabbard is by far the most electable politician in the USA, and her detachment from the thoroughly dirty and altogether vile Democrats increases her electability. The key question is, as always, one of money, but it needs not be insurmountable. Despite priding herself on never taking money from corporations or interest groups, never playing the endemic attribute cards (young beautiful kickass surfer, mixed race woman of color, etc. etc.), with all the Democrats taking shots at her, Clinton calling her a Russian Asset, and the media never mentioning her, with an active deployment while campaigning, and being solidly antiwar, she repeatedly was the most googled candidate and did ridiculously well in polling (see e.g. my Tracking Tulsi paying especial attention to the rankings in row 23 down.

Posted by: Hermit | Apr 7 2023 2:25 utc | 45

@ 38 persiflo – Lots of very strange things have been happening to me. Things that make me feel like there is some sort of guiding hand which is revealing itself. I am quite superstitious, and I believe in the thingie, as people here like to derisively refer to the thingie.
Thank you for your mention of Daniel 7:5 and Fatima. I am going to do a bit of reading.
@ Scorpion – I wonder what the I Ching has to say about a Kennedy Gabbard Trump ticket. I want to start thinking out of the box. Or “Out of the Bun” as a Burger King advert wedged in my brain says.
Yuri Bezmenov is an interesting person. I fully agree with his assessment of ideological subversion in the USA during the time of my mental formation.
Here’s a dime in the jukebox.
Pharoah Sanders – The Creator Has A Master Plan

Posted by: lex talionis | Apr 7 2023 2:45 utc | 47

Posted by: persiflo | Apr 6 2023 23:56 utc | 38
as a kid taking a break from pickin’ peas and castrating pigs by going to sunday school in kleagelville Texas, we was taught that Ukraine and Russia were always the Gog and Super Magog of the final “end times” conflict, as found in the Book of Ezekiel. Meshech = Moscow. Tubal = Tblisi. Cain = Kyiv. etc. the ten toes are the European Commonwealth, which is not a good thing if this is confusing. the reconquista by zionistas of the promised land is the withered fig tree that blooms again, foretold by JC himself. and so on.
“God told me to smite ’em,” US president geedubya bushwacker.
“in the mouth of madness,” by john carpenter was a fun recent discovery for me, cuz it was free on youtube. a book drives people nuts. maybe…the Apocalypse of St John the Prognosticator? that book seems like the Urtext of the American psyche.
kill any balloons that move.

Posted by: rjb1.5 | Apr 7 2023 2:53 utc | 49

@emersonreturn | Apr 7 2023 2:44 utc | 46
I’m sure that he is as as genuine as Bernie Sanders, but with more money, added philandering, a famous family name, and quirky beliefs about a host of subjects. The fact that Sanders was a member of the Democratic Caucus from the early 1990s and ran as the Democratic Party’s liberal Pied Piper in two elections is just a minor blemish, easily overlooked when investing all your hopes and dreams in the same evil fucks who fooL memory impaired Americans into imagining that they represent anyone one but the oligarchs, or ever will, every single time. Sanders the pacifist who always voted for military funding and action also said, he “will view Russia as an adversary or enemy if it does not change its policies; would consider a pre-emptive strike on Iran or North Korea to prevent them from testing a nuclear weapon; and might use military force for ‘humanitarian intervention.’” Not that this bothered his followers. I’m sure that Kennedy’s followers will feel the same way. After all, he isn’t going to be president. He just needs to draw in the liberals to get them to vote for whatever decrepit right-of-Attila the Hun boomer they plan to foist on the public this time around.
Let’s see:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Human Rights Advocacy for Social Justice
Bernie Sanders, Our Revolution
Bernie Sanders, Our Revolution
Dennis Kucinich, Progressive Democrats of America
Howard Dean, Democracy for America
Jerry Brown, We the People.
Jessie Jackson, Rainbow Push
Or do you imagine he will have time to start a new foundation before the country implodes or we make ourselves extinct?

Posted by: Hermit | Apr 7 2023 3:22 utc | 51

b’s article on the end of female sports a year or so back. There was and article in the official oiz tabloid a week or so back where the top female swimmer was cranky because she had been beaten by a faggot. Just watched a short MMA clip where a faggot cracked the skull of a female competitor. US “civilization”.
Biden’s balloon. China cuts communications. The sudden flurry of nations doing deals to trade in national currencies or the Chinese yuan. China has made its move. US is busy printing money to keep its fake economy afloat. Dollars are heading home to roost.
There will be no soft landing for the US. It will come down like the twin towers.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 7 2023 3:34 utc | 53

kill any balloons that move.
Posted by: rjb1.5 | Apr 7 2023 2:53 utc | 49
Shooting down weather balloons may be a bad omen.Perfect storm incoming.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 7 2023 3:50 utc | 55

psychohistorian | Apr 7 2023 2:48 utc | 48
Every action has a reaction. I don’t think this sudden flurry of nations doing deals to trade in national currencies or RMB is coincidence.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 7 2023 3:53 utc | 57

The 2000 presidential campaign of Ralph Nader, political activist, author, lecturer and attorney, began on February 21, 2000. He cited “a crisis of democracy” as motivation to run. He ran in the 2000 United States presidential election as the nominee of the Green Party. He was shunned by the two parties and not allowed in debates, He wasn’t even allowed to be in the room.
Elections are controlled locally in each state. Admittance of a third party into the farcical election campaigns is not allowed. The pols like it just the way it is. It will not change. Any attempt to do so will result in legal actions, as occurred with Nader. As a donor to Nader I received a plea from the Nader campaign to suggest, if I could, a pro-bono lawyer in my state which would help Nader keep his name on the ballot.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 7 2023 4:12 utc | 59

@ my 59
I should say: Admittance of a SIGNIFICANT third party into the farcical election campaigns is not allowed.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 7 2023 4:15 utc | 61

# 60
Macron got the tourist treatment in china
While the railroad workers broke into blackrock building
In paris. I wonder how much longer he can stay in power?

Posted by: Dingo | Apr 7 2023 4:32 utc | 63

@ Dingo | Apr 7 2023 4:32 utc | 63
And another, photo says a thousands words. TG, Photos.
On borrowed time, no question. Cheers.

Posted by: Outraged | Apr 7 2023 4:54 utc | 65

@AG | Apr 7 2023 1:11 utc | 42
Nikita Khrushchev was a lying murderous sack-of-shit, but any “Cuban Missile Crisis” fable that does not begin with the thermonuclear Jupiter Missiles the Kennedy administration smuggled into Turkey and Italy to enable a “decapitation strike”, continue with the fact that what the USSR did was legal, while the US responses were not, takes into account that the US repeatedly almost brought the war to nuclear conflict, and ended when Russia proposed a solution which allowed Kennedy to save face, is engaged in a deliberate lie, otherwise known as propaganda. In this case crappy propaganda by lazy writers targeting ignorant people.
Both the CIA influenced Wikipedia and the liberal elitist The Atlantic have better articles with less propaganda then you know it is utter tosh. Even the hard-right Wilson Center has an infinitely better article. I recommend the Atlantic article, as it provides a softer than deserves but still essentially accurate portrayal of the bellicose JFK who “ordered the largest peacetime expansion of America’s military power, and specifically the colossal growth of its strategic nuclear forces. This included deploying, beginning in 1961, intermediate-range ‘Jupiter’ nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey”. The report should also include the many separate ways when the Kennedy asministration almost triggered WW III if it is to pretend to authenticity. BTW in this crisis, JFK was bad. RFK was worse. As Stern noted, if “RFK had been president, and the views he expressed during the ExComm meetings had prevailed, nuclear war would have been the nearly certain outcome”.
-Kennedy considered a preemptive attack on the USSR, not realizing that Russia was aware of this, inviting a preventive first-stike.
– Positioning the Jupiter Missiles not realizing that the USSR was aware of this, again inviting a preventive first-stike.
– An invasion, assassination attempts, and exercises intended to terrify Cuba, without realizing that the Soviet Union had agreed to bomb Cuba with thermonuclear devices should a US invasion succeed.
– Pressurizing the Soviet Union and Cuba not knowing that nuclear missiles had already been delivered and were operational.
– Interdicting Soviet vessels and blockading Cuba – a blatant act of war
-considering an air strike against the Cuban missile bases not realizing that their defenses were in place and active
– depth charging a Soviet submarine armed with nuclear torpedoes with ROE requiring their use of attacked.
– Flying a U2A over Cuba not realizing that the Cuban air defenses were already supplies with SAM-2 batteries. wHen it was shot down by Cuba, the USA has planned to go to war with Russia.
-Planning a naval invasion of Cuba not realizing that Cuba has taken delivery of tactical nuclear missiles that would have obliterated the landing force and it’s ships leading to war, and that Cuba has negotiated a preemptive strike by Russia on the US should the US attack Cuba that would have resulted in a nuclear war.
Your article contained none of this. Do not get it on your fingers.

Posted by: Hermit | Apr 7 2023 5:13 utc | 67

Antonym | Apr 7 2023 5:03 utc | 66
Your hindutva is no different to Islamic extremism or the eastern European Nazis. India is an ancient nation but clowns like you turn it into another Ukraine. Your beliefs are a direct offshoot of Musolini and Hitler fascism. Like the Ukroids you believe you are the true Aryans.
I am hoping that with the destruction of the US empire, sanity will prevail in India and clowns like you will be shut down.
Look at the region. It is only India that argues about borders. But your great fucking Jawan (couldn’t be bothered looking up the correct spelling) run like rabbits. Full of piss and wind.
There are sane voices in India and you are not one of them. Your voice is no different than a CIA Islamic extremist or a CIA European Nazi.
You, you thinking, you are nothing more than US cannon fodder. Don’t you understand that? Do you wish to die for the anglo world?
I am Australian. The British Empire has been replaced by the American Empire. Do you understand that?
The Gurkha’s from Nepal. They still fight for the British. I don’t agree with it but they are honorable men. You Hindutva’s are simply dumb cannon fodder for the US.
China is not your enemy. The US is your enemy.
Here in Australia, everyone is staring at China and giving no thought to the American looting of this country. That is how the Americans operate. they say look over there and when you look over there, they screw you.
Discard the extremism Antonym and watch this multi polar world taking shape.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 7 2023 5:37 utc | 69

@ Norwegian | Apr 7 2023 5:36 utc | 68
LOL. Ah yes, recall that clearly now! Priceless. Touche’ 🙂
@ Hermit | Apr 7 2023 5:13 utc | 67
As always, Bravo. Peace.

Posted by: Outraged | Apr 7 2023 5:47 utc | 71

@Peter AU1 | 69
That multi polar world could have happened in the 1960s with the “Non-aligned” nations group, but your Mao needed a distraction from his disastrous Great Leap Forward that killed millions of Chinese, so he started a border war with India in 1962 EXCACTLY during the US- Soviet “Cuba crisis. End of a three poled world.
Indians know how unreliable both Uncle Sam and Uncle Xi are.
IF I am RSS, THAN you must be a woke CPC sleeper in Oz.

Posted by: Antonym | Apr 7 2023 5:52 utc | 73

@ Peter AU1 | 74
Here is China 3 days ago: “China announces ‘renaming’ of 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh, including one close to Itanagar. Beijing had previously released similar lists in 2017 and 2021, attempting to lay claim to Indian territory”
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/china-releases-third-set-of-chinese-names-to-assert-its-claim-over-arunachal-pradesh/article66695225.ece
When will you wake up, when Beijing renames Darwin into 很远 , because too many people ordered Chinese take outs there in the past?

Posted by: Antonym | Apr 7 2023 6:05 utc | 75

Antonym | Apr 7 2023 6:05 utc | 75
I look on google maps and I see a number of places on the British side of the border with Chinese names. Although China did not agree with the British over the full length of the border, it now accepts the British borders as marked on the maps. The Mahon line. That other place, I foget its name, a high platue. First the brits made a northern line then decided to pull back to a line on the south side of the platue. There is an article by and Indian airforce officer who flew back in that border war in the sixties. I will have to dig it up for you.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 7 2023 6:19 utc | 77

All we need now is a fire in the Reichstag to complete the scene.
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Apr 7 2023 6:22 utc | 78
Poor fucking bolt on. You hit the nail on the head every time. Cheers.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 7 2023 6:28 utc | 79

@ uncle tungsten | Apr 7 2023 6:22 utc | 78
@ Melaleuca | Apr 7 2023 5:50 utc | 72
Glad you enjoyed it. If you zoom the image you can read the AP copyright. ‘Tis not contrived.
Here is a wider shot, same setting, AP attributed, at DW.
Direct image link, here. Higher resolution, wider shot.
Reichstag fire ? Keep having the same thought myself. Cheers.

Posted by: Outraged | Apr 7 2023 6:39 utc | 81

@Outraged | Apr 7 2023 6:39 utc | 81

Reichstag fire ? Keep having the same thought myself. Cheers.

That was 2001 (2011 for Norway)

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 7 2023 6:53 utc | 83

@Antonym | Apr 7 2023 5:52 utc | 73
This is not the place to repeat propaganda, especially not this class of long debunked BS.
Do yourself a favor and correct your thinking. Here for example. DEBUNKING LIES ABOUT MAO ZEDONG.
My only issue with this article is that China is not “a capitalist hellhole today” but the happiest country on earth. The author apparently did not understand that the State banks in China are owned by the people, own 87% of national assets, and are legally required to reinvest all profits into their regions and the people of their regions. This is why the mean Chinese income tripled between 1990 and 2010, and has tripled again since then and extreme poverty has been eliminated even as mean incomea in most of the developed world have remained static or declined over the same period.

Posted by: Hermit | Apr 7 2023 7:18 utc | 85

@Outraged | Apr 7 2023 5:47 utc | 71
Thank-you. As always, fully reciprocated.

Posted by: Hermit | Apr 7 2023 7:20 utc | 87

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 7 2023 4:36 utc | 64
Maybe by economist “G” you mean Glazyev?

Posted by: Albert | Apr 7 2023 7:42 utc | 89

@ Norwegian | Apr 7 2023 7:31 utc | 88
Oh My Dog! LARPers & Cosplayers … 🙁

Bizarre Wars: German army goes full Darth Vader at space command launch Politico, archive.today.
No Ewoks in sight as Germany opens orbital defense HQ.
Ceremony at the Space Command in Uedem 04/03/2023 Youtube. 21m11s

Spaaaaace Faaaaarce!

Posted by: Outraged | Apr 7 2023 8:10 utc | 91

Outraged | Apr 7 2023 8:10 utc | 91
The larpers. That was funny. They were outed very early on. Yet fuckwits sent them money. I have to laugh about how easy it is to screw people out of their money if you have acting abilities.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 7 2023 8:26 utc | 93

Glazyev…. On one side Putin has the head of the National bank that keeps Russian economy rock solid. I have previously described Lavrov as a weapon of mass destruction but Glazyev has to be added to that. Incoming hypersonic missiles with economic warheads. Incredible what we are seeing.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 7 2023 8:36 utc | 95

Re: de-dollarization
Barron‘s Magazine (bible for fund managers) has another De-dollarization article this weekend. This time listing the talking points why de-dollarization is impossible. Writer frames those sinister Chinamen as the baddies.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/dollar-china-petro-yuan-saudi-b0b6e48f?mod=hp_COMMENTARY_2

Posted by: Exile | Apr 7 2023 8:45 utc | 97

Outraged | Apr 7 2023 8:40 utc | 96 Insomnia
Booze and antihistamines. Zonks out all ills. Wear a chastity belt so you don’t get fucked. That I guess was a bit rude for a forum like this. I should clear my throat and try again.
We watch this empire collapse. So many memories for me. I was never big but went out to make my own way in the world. Sixty four kilos was my working weight. Those early days I was wire rope.
Now all I can do is read and think.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 7 2023 9:00 utc | 99