Napoleon would have been considered a leftist by the standards of 1800, he certainly did away with serfdom and woth nobility privilege. Some of his proposals would be quite modern, such as rights of illegitimate offspring.
But he was not quite as leftist as his predecesors. He backed down on abolition of slavery and independence for Haiti, for example. In that sense he was also a reactionary.

Posted by: biochar | Nov 23 2023 14:14 utc | 4

most of the international members of MOA eventually did not got an important movement in Germany:
1) the “Ampel” coalition of social democrats, greens and liberals are in full stopp mode due the shutdown of all government spending.
2) The shutdown was sparked by a jugdment of the “Bundesverfassungsgericht” (Federal Constitutional Court) that – simplyfied – shut down the tricky way of creating new federal debt due the declaration of emergency state – outmaneuvering all debt limiting laws. The government tried to move money (60 bln) from corona help – fond to “climate & transformation fond” – what is now forbidden. Moreover, all other “emergency” fonds are on hold cause they are not constitutional legitimated.
3) The green- leftist government is now under tremendeous pressure and will not survive. That indicates the end of all green/left/WEF/transformation fantasies will have an end.
Great news for Germans.

Posted by: ableman | Nov 23 2023 14:50 utc | 6

@ableman | Nov 23 2023 14:50 utc | 6
Thank you for explaining what is going on in Germany. It would be nice if you could post an update onlike that from time to time.

Posted by: Norwegian | Nov 23 2023 15:18 utc | 8

Concerns, or thoughts, shared by anyone else regarding possible color revolt in USA?
Now 2yrs. after the Black lives matter protests, there was a coalition protest at the APEC meetings in CA, it seemed very similar to the Yellow Vest, in its all-over-the-place character, as per the news coverage, but I assume it is roughly the same actors as the BLM —reactionary types and such. The BLM, which had all the hallmarks of a color revolt as I understand it, is it gone for good, is it over? — or, still lurking in the shadows.
Anyone else?

Posted by: Nothingburgers | Nov 23 2023 15:28 utc | 10

Posted by: Nothingburgers | Nov 23 2023 15:28 utc | 10
the jackbooted government thugs are still executing black people and white people in the USA, and stealing their property. is that what you’re talking about. jackbooted government thugs in Israel, the US, Ukraine all the same.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Nov 23 2023 15:43 utc | 12

Posted by: ableman | Nov 23 2023 14:50 utc | 6
Important development indeed. For a good source in English, there is this.
The Ampel koalition did a sloppy job. The court found their simplistic arguments easy to dismiss:

Firstly, there was no convincing link between the new allocation of the funds and the original goal. Secondly, there was a significant gap between the time when the emergency-related debt was incurred and the period when it was to have been spent. Thirdly, the retroactive effect of the decision (the amendment to the 2021 budget) was adopted in February 2022, and so after the end of the fiscal year.

Lol! Any competent professionals working there at the relevant departments?

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Nov 23 2023 16:01 utc | 14

Europe appears to be dumping woke politicians in favor of so called far right. Geopoliticaly change without change. They continue as servants and vassals of the empire of lies.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 23 2023 16:18 utc | 16

Posted by: ableman | Nov 23 2023 14:50 utc | 6
I posted it on the weekly catch up thread.
Germany
“The German debt brake, which the German government decided to honor,and write into their constitution has now become a big problem. Government spending will have to be cut by 60 billion. Germany already is in a recession, the Eurozone close to one. The macroeconomic mismanagement seen here (🇩🇪) is unprecedented.”
This is the standard framing and narrative but don’t be fooled by the smoke and mirrors. See link.
https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=43137
Which is an absolute disgrace really when a less important nation, in the overall EU mix, tries the same thing or just happens to need fiscal support, the rules become iron-clad and are enforced with a brutally that one can only guess is the work of sociopaths. See Greece and Italy for details.
Modern day EU run by a bunch of gangsters.
And the Remainers in Britain want to desperately be part of it so, presumably, they can be part of “Protecting our European Way of Life”, which is the new title given by incoming EC President Ursula von der Leyen. Total mugs each and everyone of them. While suffering from Stockholm syndrome combined with battered wife syndrome they will defend the EU to the day they die. They make ideologues and idiots look clever.
Who have convinced themselves by learning voodoo and tarot card reading, that they can change the EU from within. When the glaring reality is they can’t even change the power structures in their own countries. Never mind all of the countries within this upper class table shit show.
So looks like you are playing catch up and once again fell for the propaganda ableman?

Posted by: Echo Chamber | Nov 23 2023 16:32 utc | 18

Europe appears to be dumping woke politicians in favor of so called far right. Geopoliticaly change without change. They continue as servants and vassals of the empire of lies.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 23 2023 16:18 utc | 16
None of these turkeys appears to be likely/able to do anything positive, just actors playing reactionary sheep-dogs, or clones of Zelensky.

Posted by: Bemildred | Nov 23 2023 16:39 utc | 20

Hedge Fund short sellers sustained losses of approximately $43 billion over the past few days.
The Monetarists, the zombies who don’t understand money due to their gold standard, fixed exchange rate models.
Those idiots who have been predicting a collapse for 3 years now and masterbate over M2. Got their arses served to them on a plate.
https://mikenormaneconomics.blogspot.com/
Who’s going to buy the bonds.✓
America is screwed if other countries don’t buy their bonds ✓
The public debt is unsustainable.✓
Deficits are the devil.✓
All from the same psychosis and have just learned a very painful lesson. They should learn how money actually works and stop masturbating over M2.

Posted by: Echo Chamber | Nov 23 2023 16:41 utc | 22

On social media there has been a lot of discussion in the last year about the political theory of a war between the two rival elite factions of the American establishment since the 1960s known as “The Yankee and Cowboy War,” and its current version and relationship with the Trump movement. Ex-member of the Trump admin, Mike Benz, has been leading the conversation on X with his many documented expositions on the “censorship industry” as part of that war.
“The following tells the details on the history of the Cowboy and Yankee War between the two main factions of American elites in the 1960s-70s, how it then changed and merged to become the Uniparty, and where we are today with their war against the neo-Cowboy Trump movement.” From: The Uniparty and Cowboy War

Posted by: kana | Nov 23 2023 17:02 utc | 24

“Europe appears to be dumping woke politicians in favor of so called far right. Geopoliticaly change without change. They continue as servants and vassals of the empire of lies.”
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 23 2023 16:18 utc | 16
Voters Recklessly moving from one con trick to another. They are as thick as mince you see. Ideologues and idiots.
https://unherd.com/2023/07/the-populist-rights-greatest-weakness/
All running into the arms of The right that caused all of this mess in the first place. When they used disco lights and a few fireworks and sang ode to joy. When they changed their official money story as the Berlin Wall was put on wheels. As the flock cheered.
They’ll just end up getting bailed out by the state as per usual. Their ideology will be found wanting and come up short while the lower classes suffer. A story as old as the hills.
Destroy government and take us all back to the libertarian wild West when a big landowner was in charge and owned the sheriff and the church. Tax cuts will take us all to the promised land of Eutopia. Tax cuts for the rich is all we need they cry.
In their ideological fantasy – Business and banks will always get first choice of skills and real resources and government has to make do with the scraps. They believe the bankers and businesses should be in charge in the libertarian wild West and that the population ( you and me ) are just factors of production to be shifted around, like ingots of steel, as the business and banks requires.
Good luck with that ! history has taught us a 1000 times how it all ends.

Posted by: Echo Chamber | Nov 23 2023 17:15 utc | 26

This could also be considered relevant to the current Palestine issue, but it warrants a posting of its own in the open thread:
As a result of this week’s parliamentary elections in the Netherlands, far right demagogue Geert Wilders and his political pseudo-party PVV won a landslide victory. After years of shunning by all other political parties, in a turn of events, Wilders is suddenly considered as a potential prime minister.
Wilders and his PVV has, ever since his defection from the neoliberal VVD party, been portrayed in all Dutch media as a boogy-man. He is an enemy they love to hate. Effectively, he and his party are gatekeepers of popular dissent. While publicly distancing themselves from him and his political stance, the Dutch establishment loves him and his role privately.
The real problems with Geert Wilders and the PVV are never mentioned in the Dutch media.
For starters, the PVV is not a real political party, it has no real members and neither does it have an internal democratic structure. Instead, it has only one member, Geert Wilders. He alone is the dictator of the PVV. Party finances are unclear and over the years many allegations have been made of dubious foreign financial influence, particularly from zionist groups in the USA and Israel.
The real bombshell is Wilders’ close ties with Israel, Israeli politicians and Israeli secret services. A very damning affidavit was made by a Dutch couplemr and mrs. Kwint – de Roos, in which they relate statements made by a drunk Geert Wilders at a Christmas party organized by the VVD, when Wilders was still a member of parliament for the VVD.
More detailed information, including a copy of the affidavit, can be found at https://www.wanttoknow.nl/politiek/geert-wilders-is-de-mol/ but unfortunately this is probably Dutch to most barflies. A limited translation in English can be found at http://hofs.online/geert-wilders-an-illuminatie-puppet-and-a-political-shill/ . A half decent translation of the Kwint – de Roos affidavit can also be found there, but I’ll paste it herefor the ease of reading:

Declaration
This declaration relates to a statement made by mr G Wilders (GW) to his table lady Mrs M.B. Kwint-de Roos, at the end of the traditional Christmas dinner of the VVD -faction in the old building of the 2nd Chamber in 1991. Although these revelations were made after alcohol consumption, the importance is nevertheless very considerable and alarming, especially with the coming elections in 2010. A Dutch politician / party leader as informant of the foreign intelligence service needs to be questioned and heard, according to my opinion, should not have access to sensitive information of strategic and or economic nature.
Mrs M.B. Kwint-de Roos was a employee of the VVD fraction in the second chamber from 1983 to 1996.
Hereby the undersigned M.B. Kwint-de Roos (MBK) and J.A.W.F. Kwint (JAK) declare the following: After the music ceased several VVD members, personal colleagues and some members of the party had some chats and sang songs.
GW felt it necessary to whisper in the ear of MBK Israel songs with exchange of privat matter which are presented below in short.
GW is a son of a Dutch Indian father and a Dutch Jewish mother.
GW was recruited by a Israeli intelligence service, got a tough education in Israel and in the process was even tortured.
GW, during a Christmas holiday, was driving in an old Volkswagen on his own through the Syrian desert!
GW has a Durch passport as well as an Israeli passport.
GW’s Carreer, is not made by himself but stipulated by others. It is going that far, that in accordance to him, even the divorce of his earlier marriage as well as his new marriage have been ‘arranged’. GW supported these claims by saying. ” Why do you think i came here and I become a member of the parlement!” I am still young, first Hoogervorst, after him me, and I do not have to do anything at all.
When MKB noted that JAK, in the grey past, also had contacts with the secret service, GW became suddenly sober and uttered the following thread!
“If you ever mention this conversation, it will be very dangerous for you and your husband”

Posted by: Lurk | Nov 23 2023 17:20 utc | 28

@ ableman | Nov 23 2023 14:50 utc | 6
thanks for that and for drawing out more commentary on this too… i share @ Peter AU1 | Nov 23 2023 16:18 utc | 16, pretzelattack and bemildreds response to all this… it seems to matter not… look at what has happened in argentina.. people are sucked in regularly and the leadership of the world here today is so ”off course” as to define an absence of leadership as opposed to leadership.. its pathetic and i am not sure what is to be done to change any of it..
until we learn how to function as a community, both locally and globally, we are indeed screwed… we are a long ways from figuring it out.. in fact, one could argue we’ve gotten more disconnected and uprooted then at any time in the past 1000 years.. whether this has to do with the increase in technology, or the breakdown of community – take your pick… our world is being run by psychopaths and sociopaths seeking power who have no interest in creating a better world.. instead they are ruining what we have had..
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happy thanksgiving to my american friends here… you have to suffer having a holiday at the wrong time of the year if you live anywhere in the colder, northern part of the usa where traveling and snow storms don’t gel.. i suppose it’s okay in the south… regardless – happy thanksgiving to you all..

Posted by: james | Nov 23 2023 17:33 utc | 30

Actually calling the SPD and the Greens ” left wing “. Is a very common tactic to ensure that you don’t have to look in a mirror and see the real culprit staring right back you. Question how you voted yourself for the last 50 years that caused this mess.
I’ve spoken at many a SPD meeting in Germany. I know the smell of liberals when I meet them. The smell stays with you for quite a while. A bit like a fish but less honest.

Posted by: Echo Chamber | Nov 23 2023 17:38 utc | 32

@MD | Nov 23 2023 17:21 utc | 29

That’s not a landslide victory.

In the context of the Dutch political landscape, it is. PVV is now the largest political party. No party in the Netherlands ever has been able to form a majority govenment on its own, there are always coalitions of multiple (three or more) parties. This has been especially the case in recent decades, where the number of parties has tripled compared to the 1990’s and the number of seats alotted to each party has decreased accordingly. Actually, 37 seats in parliament is as good as it gets in the dutch second chamber of parliament and it makes PVV by far the biggest party. It is now extremely difficult to form a coalition government without Wilders. Additonally, if PVV becomes part of any coalition, Wilders, as leader of the biggest party, has the traditional claim to premiership.

Posted by: Lurk | Nov 23 2023 17:41 utc | 34

I wrote this song a while back but it seems even more pertinent looking forward
Divided We Fall
Don’t hide amongst the herd
don’t look the other way
and don’t believe a single word
of what they have to say.
Better speak out while you can
better formulate a plan
cuz this may be your final chance
to stand against The Man.
We feel the velvet chains
grow shorter every day
and as of late they take less pains
to hide their power play.
They are silencing our voice
they control our every move
pushing tyranny not choice
they want most of us removed
We must put antipathy aside
if we hope to change the course
we must cross the great divide
and join each other as one force.
It’s time to oppose
those upon the throne
and take away their power
because they wish to own
the souls of those who meekly stand
divided and alone
Won’t you stand with me Brother
Won’t you join me in the Fight
Shoulder to shoulder
It’s time to set things right.
Together we can do it
Together we are strong
Together we will shift the tide
The Battle has begun.

Posted by: ld | Nov 23 2023 17:58 utc | 36

@1 Was Napoleon a leftist or a reactionary?
Neither a leftist nor a reactionary. Napoleon was a pure product of the century of enlightenment. He was a believer in reason, and fell for the fallacy that all issues should be solved in rational and unified ways across a whole continent. And since he thought his brains were superior to anybody else’s, and France was superior to other countries, it was his rational duty to impose his will on France, and France’s will on Europe.
In this sense, he was the first modern autocrat, much like Macron and the current American bullshiters. He really believed that whatever he thought was right. That people would end up understanding he was right, and following him. It never dawned on him that other people had brains too, let alone hearts and interests that differed from his. He was so forceful in his vision of things that France is still running on many of his innovations, like the “Prefectures” or the legal code. The Russians, (them again !) understood what a vain man he was, and how they could destroy him by appealing to his ego and luring him all the way to Moscou, which they let him conquer rather easily. And that was his undoing.

Posted by: Shahmaran | Nov 23 2023 18:12 utc | 38

Saw this quote from Marx: “The peasant was a Bonapartist because the Great Revolution, with all its benefits to him, was, in his eyes, personified in Napoleon.”
Bonapartism strikes me as a kind pro-peasant nationalism/populism that was the logical outcome of the 1790s liberal Thermidorian castration of the revolutionary “Left.”
Perhaps the new wave of anti-globalisty/anti-elite “authoritarian” populists (including Trump/Orban/Putin etc) are really Bonapartists rather than fascists as they are often labelled by elites.
Because, if we’re honest, isnt Trump really a leftist rather than a reactionary (at least rhetoricall)?

Posted by: ZT | Nov 23 2023 18:41 utc | 40

Breaking Dutch News …
NeXiT the Trump Era of Dutch PM Wilders
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/23/dutch-muslims-fearful-for-future-after-shocking-election-results-geert-wilders
Polls were wrong, I predicted this outcome a few days ago … my stoutest fear.
Islamophobe Wilders, financed by the US anti-Islam lobby, has previously stated the Palestinians on the West Bank should be forcibly transferred to their homeland Jordan.
A blueprint for the 2024 EU Election …
The VVD party of Mark Rutte led the Dutch for 13 years … preparing the path for extreme right-wing xenophobe like Geert, a former colleague and member of the VVD as was Rita Verdonk and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. The Dutch have a culture of racism and discrimination of non-whites. New leader Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius had no chance to become the first woman PM.

Posted by: Oui | Nov 23 2023 19:01 utc | 42

Oui | Nov 23 2023 19:01 utc | 42
Also a strong neo-nazi or straight out fascist/fascist nazi element that goes back to WWII. Apart from Nazi Germany using the blitzkreig tactic which no country could counter at the time, many European countries had a strong fascist element that I think contributed to the ease Nazi Germany had in over running all of Europe.
Maintaining occupation control over all of Europe with 75% of all Germany’s war efforts going to the eastern front meant there had to be a lot of willing local collaboration in the occupied countries.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 23 2023 19:16 utc | 44

Posted by: Golddigger | Nov 23 2023 19:08 utc | 43
China is ramping up the fight against climate change by trying to transition off fossil fuels. the excess co2 from emissions is not needed by plants to grow. more plants will die as the climate changes. clear cutting forests is also very damaging. for the first time, humans are driving climate change.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Nov 23 2023 19:22 utc | 46

Nobody here on MoA takes my point that all the politicians involved in the Palestinian catastrophe are all on the same side , playing the same power games against us normal citizens.
Hamas is playing politics, Israel.is playing politics, Europe is playing politics and they are all playing the same game on the game side together on the same side against all.of us on the other side who are humans.
The time has come for each and every one of us to challenge our own political class, if necessay by force
All the politicians want to do is assist other politicians to play deadly games with people.
THEY LOVE IT. THIS IS WHAT THEY WERE BORN FOR, EVEN HAMAS.
The only way for us to solve the problem of Genocide is for Us Humans to genocide the politicians who love Genociding Us Humans. Left to their own devices the politicians will most certainly eradicate us.
Posted by: Giyane | Nov 23 2023 14:02 utc | 339 (on palestine 22 11 thread)
Yes for the two worlds politics against lay people. (I would make an exception for some, like De Gaulle because he cared I believe for the State. Not playing games. Or politics.
But as you say “they like playing deadly games”. You can’t fight war by making war. We have done that for 5000 years. I was not like that so much before.
There are other ways. There will be. We have to enlarge of frame of vision. Inner jihad.

Posted by: Baile | Nov 23 2023 19:31 utc | 48

Regardles of reason for climate change which is happening, what the world needs to deal with its affects is peace and common cause to help nations greatly affected by it. Agricultural areas may well change, but total world production of food can easily support the population of the world and will do so regardless of mild climate change. Some very low lying islands will go under water, some low areas of other countries will become uninhabitable as has been extremely common throughout human history both to sea level rise and land sinking, but what is most needed is some form of global unity in helping those affected.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 23 2023 20:02 utc | 50

@ Bemildred | Nov 23 2023 16:39 utc | 20
Talking of “clones of Zelensky”, I’ve just read that Czech President Petr Pavel at the meeting of the Visegrad Four presidents called Russia the main threat to Europe and announced the preparation of European armies for a high-intensity conflict. Is this an example of the military psychosis talked about by Peter Szijjarto?

Posted by: cirsium | Nov 23 2023 20:23 utc | 52

re: allegedly rising sea levels
Has anyone seen any proof of this, and by how much?
I was watching a video the other day of a small island that was now half inundated with seawater. Rising sea level was blamed.
But look over there. . .I see a tree with a lot of its roots showing. The storms that have attacked this island have washed the island topsoil out to sea, irregardless of any rise in sea level. Similar to what we see at US sea beaches where the sand has to replaced periodically because of the powerful oceanic storms that have washed beach sand out to sea.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Nov 23 2023 20:42 utc | 54

@ Bemildred | Nov 23 2023 16:39 utc | 20
Talking of “clones of Zelensky”, I’ve just read that Czech President Petr Pavel at the meeting of the Visegrad Four presidents called Russia the main threat to Europe and announced the preparation of European armies for a high-intensity conflict. Is this an example of the military psychosis talked about by Peter Szijjarto?
Posted by: cirsium | Nov 23 2023 20:23 utc | 52
Yes, I saw that too, beggars description really, not so much that Russia is a threat, I mean yeah it could be, even if it is not really interested in that, but that the EU is capable of doing much about it any time soon as it presently constructed.

Posted by: Bemildred | Nov 23 2023 20:59 utc | 56

Don Bacon @54
I suggest you check out the Florida Keys and Miami Beach. The have “Blue sky king tides” these days. On bright sunny days with no storm or even low pressure system to be seen in the region, seawater comes out of the storm drains, and even just bubbles up through people’s lawns. Even miles inland they are experiencing blue sky flooding, and it is seawater that is doing the flooding. Not good for people who still get their water from wells. There are previously dry roads on Marathon that are impassible except by boat for months at a time now. Sea level rise is a real thing, and it is already costing southern Florida $billions (that is with a ‘b’) in mitigation efforts, and even the most optimistic are saying that will increase by orders of magnitude before we get to the halfway point in this century.
Big issues are upgrading infrastructure, particularly water and sewage, to function safely and consistently below the water table. Some roads are already being raised, though that does nothing for existing adjacent structures. I am assuming lower levels of multi-storey buildings will be abandoned and allowed to remain flooded year-round. Perhaps floating docks could be attached and accessible from the second floors. Within some of our lifetimes, portions of Miami will become somewhat like Venice, which is kinda exciting. Definitely would be an improvement for that shithole.

Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 23 2023 21:14 utc | 58

There are other ways. There will be. We have to enlarge of frame of vision. Inner jihad.
Posted by: Baile | Nov 23 2023 19:31 utc | 48
I remain optimistic that humanity is on a path of inner transformation and higher consciousness. What our generation is experiencing is a contingent necessity and has been prophesied, repeatedly, by many authentic human religious figures, across the spectrum.
I fully agree that today, at this moment, the field of battle is within. That inner compass needs to be aligned. It needs to point to the Guide Star.
This must first happen within.
After this, per *clear heads up* of the spiritual guidance that is the heritage of Humanity (not to be confused with mere homo sapient), it is certain that manifestations of this inner evolution, in person, two in number, shall be with us and lead a battle on the field and that dragon, that north pole of the Lunatics, shall be defeated and put in chains.
Have no doubt whatsoever about this.

Posted by: robinthehood | Nov 23 2023 21:19 utc | 60

In this sense, he was the first modern autocrat, much like
Posted by: Shahmaran | Nov 23 2023 18:12 utc | 38
emperor Augustus Caesar. His muse?
iirc, my Z-informant’s IB European History textbook (publisher: Cambridge) asserted that conquest of Europe’s kingdoms and principalities subject to Code Napoléon (Napoleonic Code) ironically stimulated popular imagination of “civil rights” and cultures of national identity, ie. citizenship, metropole Rome Paris. A syllabus of contemporaneous literature, iconography, and music illustrates this thesis. Here is a sample outline. Here is the code (English translation) that amply imitates classical Romans’ complex legal system.

Posted by: sln2002 | Nov 23 2023 21:44 utc | 62

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 23 2023 19:53 utc | 49
well agree to disagree i guess. there are more immediate danger. like the genocidal maniacs in DC and Israel.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Nov 23 2023 22:55 utc | 64

robinthehood | Nov 23 2023 21:19 utc | 60
I agree with you, I’ve found this in many sources and my experiences. Dr. Neal wrote on it.
Dr Viola Pettit Neal was born in 1907 in Virginia, and obtained a PhD at London University. She became a notable medical lecturer and author. She founded the Biometric Research Foundation in Los Angeles. Neal died in 1981.
She also wrote a very esoteric book that’s pretty “out-there” – “Through The Curtain” publishing rights were bought by LuciusTrust (Rockefeller UN publisher) who took it out of print. Originally published to her wishes posthumously in 1982 and makes a number of future claims suggesting we are on course for massive internal and external transformation… extracts not necessarily in sequence:
“Many people will die eventually from a lack of food. Not because there is really a lack of food, but because of the breakdown of the distribution, the money system and the whole economic system of the world. Those who want the wealth and power of the world and power over people will themselves be in a state of chaos. They will have brought about a breakdown so enormous that they will not be able to handle it and they will also be in a state of panic.”
“The present economical picture in the world is moving towards a very serious situation. There will be an economic collapse in the countries of the world. Great confusion. There will be new and temporary governments set up that will be dictator governments, that will distribute food according to their idea of who should or should not have it. This will come quickly. It is already beginning.”
“There will be changes in the animal kingdom. The domesticated animals will show
a higher level of development.”
She claims the passage of Earth’s orbital path in proximity to “local fluff” NASA terms from Oort Cloud has some relevance to these changes and we must first transcend a bottleneck that will have some seismic physical and social shockwaves.
At one point copies of the book were changing hands for $1000.00 – copies do exist in online libraries though every time a link is posted they disappear for a while, so happy hunting.
This will probably get me banned forever – sorry b… though try reading it while sipping Four Roses Single Barrel, it’s worth savoring.

Posted by: Mercury | Nov 23 2023 23:01 utc | 66

Posted by: ConcernedCeltiberian | Nov 23 2023 15:27 utc | 9
Interesting articles. Thank you.
Any suggestions on news out of the Basque region?

Posted by: lex talionis | Nov 23 2023 23:53 utc | 68

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Nov 23 2023 21:28 utc | 61

most recent films are cringe worthy, just part of the crapification of everything… the culture is crap because that’s all that’s allowed now.

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Agree that the movies are crap. Even setting aside the comic franchises for 12 y.o. boys, it all sucks. It’s like no one knows how to write a plot anymore. We have constant jump cuttings, special effects, five plot lines going at once. But its all to cover up the fact that the cokeheads who write this stuff don’t know history and don’t know how to write.
Napoleon, like Oppenheimer, sounds like a grade school slide show with good production values and zero depth of character.
The historical innacuracies (not just because the wokesters want gays and blacks openly participating in the racist societies of the early 1900s or even earlier) are off-putting. The BBC used to be very historically correct, but now its just woke soap operas.

Posted by: john brewster | Nov 24 2023 0:11 utc | 70

A report in the Guardian newspaper reveals that King Charles III and his predecessors have been furtively but effectively stealing money and assets from the deceased in Lancashire / south Cumbria and Cornwall.
No exaggeration — though most here will have long since realised it — the UK Royal Family can fairly be described as a tribe of avaricious crooks.
So what does that make the allegedly “democratic” system over which they preside?

Posted by: Cynic | Nov 24 2023 0:46 utc | 72

For all its faults (and there are many) America, the US of A, celebrates a feast called Thanksgiving once a year. (I know there are many similar others, sometimes held more often, in a thankful way – in all faiths and nations that are special to them.) This one is special to me; I have been back in my home country, my native land, on this day, and I have missed the American Thanksgiving day so very much. I think for me it is uniquely special, a day for families all across the land coming together. Not a church day, not a day for gift buying or giving or receiving, but a day of giving thanks, just that.
I love it. Happy USA Thanksgiving Day. I am happy to be here with it and in it today. Just that.

Posted by: juliania | Nov 24 2023 1:22 utc | 74

Posted by: james | Nov 23 2023 17:33 utc | 30
Thank you, james! My first one was as a teenager in California- I’ve enjoyed them all across the country. One memorable one in the middle of New York State, a large town gathering. I’d ridden into woods and seen a stag – lovely!

Posted by: juliania | Nov 24 2023 3:41 utc | 76

fyi:
Chartbook Carbon Notes 7 – The IEA’s message to the oil and gas industry: wake up!
by Adam Twose

Posted by: tawharanui | Nov 24 2023 4:19 utc | 78

@79 jonathan w
There will be more of this.
It is not the visitors fault, nor the natives. It is the retards under empire who wanted an ace up their sleeve when the plebs would get riled up, as living standards drop in the first world.
I expect as reactionary rightwing parties keep taking more seats in gov’t, the deal they will make will be this: we will get rid of these pesky foreigners if you fight for empire again.
TPTB always have a scapegoat ready to go as a pressure release blow-off valve.
The Muslims and sub-saharan Africans will face increasing alienation and less and less assistance from their host governments. There will be more outbreaks of violence from both sides. And likely a lot of deportations.
None of this would have happened if tptb hadn’t sought full-spectrum dominance, but this class of people can not help themselves and they bought our servitide with amazing standards of living. Now that those are waning, the whole thing is fraying at the seams and the ugly parasites will go underground, and where everything unnatural they have attempted to prop up will be blown asunder because we did not stay vigilant.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Nov 24 2023 5:36 utc | 80

Tobias Cole | Nov 24 2023 0:48 utc | 73
Conor McGregor is likely far right. Just my impression of him to date.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 24 2023 5:48 utc | 82

A little more on Coal and why eliminating coal. Like the “Climate Change fools want to do is a very bad brainless idea.
Without coal you have no steel
Without coal you cant produce Cement cheaply, in large quantities.
Without coal you have no base metals. Like aluminium
With out coal you have greatly reduced electrical generation. Which is needed to produce base metals
Without the above you cant produce or build Solar panels, Wind generators and other renewable energy products.
Our modern society depends on fossil fuels. Without them? Hello stone age.
You can use steel to produce renewable energy. But you cant make setel out of renewable energy.

Posted by: Golddigger | Nov 24 2023 6:16 utc | 84

The Dublin incident has been attributed to a psychotic episode. As soon as you hear this kind of medicalization of an issue you know something is wrong. Why are these people with mental problems allowed to roam the streets if they are immigrants? Everyone remembers a time when these “episodes” did not happen in the open with such devastating consequences and with such regularity. You don’t even have to be a conspiracy theorist.

Posted by: Jonathan W | Nov 24 2023 7:09 utc | 86

“I’ve found it really helpful getting past manipulative and biased political/economic ideologies and MEDIA articles, by finding people like these and then searching for the open research papers — google scholar etc — or book extracts etc.”
Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Nov 24 2023 5:44 utc | 81
Jason Hickel knows how money works 100% so you have chosen wisely. May I suggest Jakob Feining and his book Moral economies of money.
https://www.waterstones.com/author/jakob-feinig/5724049
A factual account of money from the day settlers set foot in America.
Politically nothing has changed today. The book allows you to look at who today politically and economically takes the sides of those ideological battles of the past.
The gold bugs of today are anything but libertarian. Hayek and mises fooled them as the gold bugs don’t understand American history. Their stance today has been the stance of the ruling class ever since the first boat landed on American shores.

Posted by: Echo Chamber | Nov 24 2023 9:03 utc | 88

Libertarian in all right wing blogs means first you have to choose the correct religion. No other will do. The bankers and businesses will be in charge and that the population ( you and me ) are just factors of production to be shifted around, like ingots of steel, as businesses and banks demand.
That’s what they mean by freedom.

Posted by: Echo Chamber | Nov 24 2023 9:25 utc | 90

Posted by: Jonathan W | Nov 24 2023 7:09 utc | 86
Journalists lie, usually by omission.

Posted by: Passerby | Nov 24 2023 11:16 utc | 92

The Rishi Sunak government this week announced its decision,to hand the management of all NHS England patient records to Palantir, a tech company whose client list includes the US military, intelligence agencies and ICE, as well as the armed forces of the UK, Israel and other western countries.
When, in 2018, thousands of Google employees refused to participate in Project Maven, a secret Pentagon-funded AI pilot program aimed at the unmanned operation of aerial vehicles, the project was taken up by Palantir. Critics warn that the technology could pave the way to autonomous weapons that decide who to target without human input. In February 2021, Palantir’s chief operating officer boasted to investors that Palantir was driving towards being “inside of every missile, inside of every drone.”
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/11/the-tory-horror-show-continues-sunak-governments-grants-full-control-and-management-of-nhs-patient-data-to-cia-linked-us-spyware-firm-palantir.html

Posted by: ld | Nov 24 2023 13:20 utc | 94

Posted by: Exile | Nov 24 2023 9:18 utc | 89
I don’t need to. If you read what I’ve posted over the last year and understood it. Then you wouldn’t have even bothered with the link.
Which means you haven’t learned a thing and are very clearly ideologically driven. Not fact based driven. That’s not my problem it’s yours.

Posted by: Echo Chamber | Nov 24 2023 16:36 utc | 96

Derek Henry,
What determines the price of a pencil I buy at the store ?

Posted by: Exile | Nov 24 2023 18:05 utc | 98

Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 24 2023 10:39 utc | 91

Frankly, I’m surprised they didn’t take the opportunity to cast Oppenheimer as an innumerate, inarticulate, obese, black lesbian.

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LOL! Wokeness is very confusing. If a white male writes about women or minorities, it is “cultural appropriation”, and banned. Everyone should “stay in their lane”. But if a black woman portrays a white queen (Charlotte), that is perfectly OK.

Posted by: john brewster | Nov 24 2023 22:23 utc | 100