The year 2023 saw too many conflict.
I hope that 2024 year will be more peaceful.
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December 31, 2023
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Happy New Year to you and all of Germany. Especially Sylvia Exner.
Posted by: kupkee | Dec 31 2023 19:14 utc | 3
All the best to you and yours, B.
Thank you for your efforts, as always…
Posted by: donten | Dec 31 2023 19:20 utc | 4
Thanks.
We’re going to a vigil at the public celebrations to ‘countdown’ to midnight- thanks to energetic and selfless young people who do the organising.
On Christmas Eve I attended a Roman Catholic service presided over by a Monsignor. it was long, involved at least thirty white robed members of the clergy plus a large and talented choir. It was full of references, biblical and ex temporised, to Bethlehem, Nazareth, Jerusalem and other points in Palestine.
But not one word was said on the subject of the genocide.
It really is laughable (that could be the wrong word) that such an institution can talk of moral leadership and hard to believe that had the child Christ been lying there, in the elaborate creche tableau, he would not have been betrayed to King Herod’s killers on demand.
Thirty thousand dead, average age of victims five years.
Of course there is nothing in the Bible prohibiting the confiscation of anaesthetics unless you count
“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”
But I guess that was a reference to pedophilia not sadistic racism.
Posted by: bevin | Dec 31 2023 19:21 utc | 5
Thanks Bernhard for what you have accomplished and your continuing work at MoA. Best wishes to you, with hope for a more peaceful New Year.
Thank you so very much for what you do b. Good tidings to you and fellow readers.
Posted by: Canadian Cents | Dec 31 2023 19:30 utc | 8
happy new year to all.
not expecting much better of 2024 tbh but hope springs eternal. There is a decent chance Ukraine surrenders finally.
Posted by: pretzelattack | Dec 31 2023 19:30 utc | 9
Happy New Year b, and to all the commentators at the bar: Happy New Year and may we all see the end of war and genocide in 2024.
Posted by: Ed | Dec 31 2023 19:48 utc | 10
Happy New Year to b and all of you at the bar.
That it may bring peace and resolve some of the contradictions that we see all around.
Thanks and praises to the bar! 2024 will be insane, but I wish that you and your loved ones all prosper in your personal lives, nonetheless.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Dec 31 2023 19:58 utc | 12
Happy New Year barflies!
LET THERE BE PEACE ON EARTH!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXreNYWtjPQ
Posted by: shocker | Dec 31 2023 20:03 utc | 13
Danke Sehr, Bernhard. Auch haben sie ein Fröhliches Neue Jahr.
Posted by: aristodemos | Dec 31 2023 20:05 utc | 15
Greetings from Belgrade
All the best to you, B, to all the folks ’round here, and … if someone can pass it through, to Saker who had to go silent, to Gonzalo Lira, jailed and disappeared, to Julian Assange, whom they’ve buried alive.
Posted by: syd.bgd | Dec 31 2023 20:06 utc | 17
Its hard to find much to be posative about at the momment…. but.
Thank you b for your heroic endevours in keeping this blog against all adversity,
This blog gives us a firm grip on the truth and sanity without which the world would be darker than it all ready is.
Also it gives us a strong sence of comunity and mutal support. I could go on.
Happy new year b and all the sane barflys.
Posted by: Mark2 | Dec 31 2023 20:11 utc | 19
I wish everyone a happy 2024.
But I fear that 2024 could be become more deadly year than the previous 2 years. I fear that especially the US will go through A LOT OF financial & economic “turmoil”. Perhaps even more “financial turmoil” than people think right now (think: e.g. the year 2008). It could mean that the US Empire will cease to exist. Although many would like to see the US Empire go “down the drain”, it also will/could mean that the rest of the world will have to find other “security arrangements” and that could come with A LOT OF turmoil in the rest of the world as well.
Am I right or am I wrong ? I love to be wrong but I fear that could be more right than I feel comfortable with. Only the upcoming months will reveal whether I was right or wrong.
Nonetheless: A Happy and above all a peacefull New Year for all.
Posted by: Mr. Market | Dec 31 2023 20:13 utc | 20
Thank you for your careful research, hard work and thoughtful bar management over the past year. Best wishes for a happy, healthy and peaceful New Year to you and yours. Namaste from Tom Paine.
Posted by: tom paine | Dec 31 2023 20:20 utc | 22
May 2024 be the year when the human species gets really really real like we’ve never got before and internalizes the crucial epiphany that we no longer have a choice between economic Justice for all and myriad miseries escalating exponentially, we are down to only the choice between Justice and autogenocide via our end-stage myopia and inertia.
I wish everyone the epiphany that saves everyone.
Posted by: DuchessAndBob | Dec 31 2023 20:23 utc | 23
Israel will be celebrating by having fireworks all over Gaza, like they have been over the past few months…….nothing like those bottle rockets Hamas is shooting up.
Posted by: Gee Eye Joe | Dec 31 2023 20:24 utc | 24
Thank you for all your efforts delivered through this year that comes to a close. Blessing to you and loved ones to continue throughout 2024. Stay safe!
Posted by: Carl Marsh | Dec 31 2023 20:28 utc | 25
Let’s hope it’s a good one.
Without any tears.
Posted by: Delhiliterally | Dec 31 2023 20:30 utc | 26
I wish a Happy New Year to you, b, and to all at the bar.
Thanks b for all that you do.
You are an inspiration.
Posted by: Engineer-John | Dec 31 2023 20:38 utc | 27
Thank you, Bernard, for all your analyses and publications this past year, which have helped us to better understand the chaotic world we live in. From the far south of Brazil, I wish you a happy 2024 and may we all live in a more peaceful and supportive world.
Posted by: Fábio Manohar | Dec 31 2023 20:39 utc | 28
A happy new year to our host b and to all barflies!
Posted by: pachinko | Dec 31 2023 20:52 utc | 29
thank you b and to others who also put much work and thought into this site.
Posted by: Jo | Dec 31 2023 21:18 utc | 32
To B and all regular barflies and lurkers here, I wish you all have a good year in 2024.
Here is hoping that there are no new wars in 2024 and proper peace and justice finally come to Gaza.
Posted by: Refinnejenna | Dec 31 2023 21:26 utc | 34
Best wishes for the New Year to the barflies.
So sad that one of the great ones John Pilger is gone.
Posted by: Billb | Dec 31 2023 21:27 utc | 35
Thank You and all the best to you and yours, from a 86 year fan
Posted by: Harold Hedge | Dec 31 2023 21:36 utc | 36
Thank you b for all your work here.
A healthy 2024 to you and everyone here. Let us remain hopeful for justice and peace.
RIP John Pilger. A great journalist.
Posted by: Lev Davidovich | Dec 31 2023 21:40 utc | 37
Happy New Year, bartender b, and aii who gather here!
Posted by: juliania | Dec 31 2023 21:54 utc | 38
OOps, my paternal great grandmother was a wee Scot, but I did mean to type “all”, y’ ken. Must a bin last night’s zinfandel catching up with me ;(
Posted by: juliania | Dec 31 2023 22:02 utc | 39
May peace prevail. Thoughts to everyone suffering, whatever camp or party or religion they are.
Posted by: Ghassan | Dec 31 2023 22:03 utc | 40
Thank you b, and a happy new year
Let’s keep this thread on a happy and hopeful tone
A round of hopium for everyone, everything your heat desires (but just today and on this thread, this stuff shouldn’t be abused)
Posted by: Newbie | Dec 31 2023 22:33 utc | 41
Happy new year to b, all commentators, analysts and trolls, both paid and ideological.
Posted by: Skiffer | Dec 31 2023 22:48 utc | 42
Happy New Year b!
I share your hope for peace in 2024.
It certainly is looking like things have to get worse before they get better but may it be a short period with minimum deaths.
Happy trip around the sun to fellow barflies, old and new! Lets find a way to get along and make finance a public utility, shall we?
Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 31 2023 22:52 utc | 44
frohes neues, bernhardt und danke für die ganze arbeit hier!
Posted by: slothrop_tyrone | Dec 31 2023 23:09 utc | 46
Thank you for your work, B! Thank you to all on this forum who give me all the political education I need.
Happy New Year all!
Posted by: rext | Dec 31 2023 23:10 utc | 47
Thank you B, much appreciation.
Fellow barflies, hear hear.
Trolls, ya’ll suck, as always!
Posted by: Granite | Dec 31 2023 23:14 utc | 48
Yes, indeed, may as many as possible enjoy the new year. “Putin’s New Year Message to Russians” signals Russia’s aim: the struggle for truth and justice.
Happy New Year to all from Sydney (hungover and hot).
RIP one of Australia’s greats: John Pilger we need you now more than ever.
Posted by: Patroklos | Dec 31 2023 23:37 utc | 50
Hopefully the Biden administration will be too busy losing to Trump to instigate any color revolution attempts in Hungary, Georgia or anywhere else in 2024.
Posted by: Sentient | Dec 31 2023 23:37 utc | 51
Also, hopefully Olaf Scholz’ coalition will fall and the AfD will take over.
Posted by: Sentient | Dec 31 2023 23:43 utc | 52
Best wishes to Bernhard and everyone here, in Ukraine, Russia, Palestine, Israel and everywhere else. I hope humanitarian feelings will prevail over greed, fear and selfish interests in the next year. Opening the mind and confronting our fears might help with communication and problem solving on this tiny planet which is our common home within the huge universe around us.
Thanks to b, Lancaster, Ritter, McGregor, Napolitano, Blumenthal, Telegram designer and so many others who keep watching for the facts.
Posted by: Richard L | Dec 31 2023 23:55 utc | 53
Happy New Year to the bar, only the real alkys are here on New Years Eve. Let’s hope sanity prevails. Noticed Bevin posted Putin so here’s Xi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZuQUdxuzf0
Notice the Great Wall painting background – message is Xi keeping China safe from the invading hoards.
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jan 1 2024 0:02 utc | 55
You too b. Great work….keeping people sane. Happy new year
Posted by: Steve | Jan 1 2024 0:48 utc | 58
Hopefully the Biden administration will be too busy losing to Trump to instigate any color revolution attempts in Hungary, Georgia or anywhere else in 2024.
Posted by: Sentient | Dec 31 2023 23:37 utc | 51
There are hosts of minions and useful idiots, and these include the Biden Regime, whose masters are never too busy to conduct murder and mayhem around the world. The system is nicely compartmentalized, it will just keep on keeping on.
Posted by: Honzo | Jan 1 2024 0:55 utc | 59
happy new year to b et al – will be very interesting to see what changes take place in our world exactly one year from now – keep posting, working & hoping for the best…
Posted by: b real | Jan 1 2024 1:08 utc | 61
Same to you, man. Same to you. Happy New Year of Green Wooden Dragon.
Posted by: Michael | Jan 1 2024 1:26 utc | 63
Thank you, b. Happy New Year to all.
(Wood Dragon Year starts with the New Moon on Feb 9-10; traditionally, could be dark days until then!)
Best wishes to you and yours. Thank you for all you do keeping
the likes of myself informed.
I am not qualified to comment, but read here for the truth.
Tank you.
Posted by: John Robertson | Jan 1 2024 1:43 utc | 66
Hoppy Nude Beer!
To everyone except Ukranazis, zionazis, and Modinazis.
Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayast | Jan 1 2024 1:57 utc | 67
To see global gatherings all wishing peace for Palestine and an end to genocide is reassuring for humanity. What it achieves against the war machine , questionable. But loud and visible despite the media blackout
Posted by: Hankster | Jan 1 2024 2:00 utc | 68
Thanks, Bernhard for every moment of effort you pour into MoA. There’s no question that you’re making a difference.
As the rest of the bar has made very clear, you’re a Most Valuable Human.
======= and to the Bar …
You’re making a difference as well. Where would Bernhard be without you? He’d be talking to himself.
Why do trolls come here? To disrupt the very effective work you’re doing, of course. Why else would they spend the time? Each troll post is a badge of honor and an unintended affirmation of your work.
Keep it going, MoA. You’re finally getting some traction, so tighten up the seat-belt, and step on the gas.
Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Jan 1 2024 2:24 utc | 69
I wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year, although it’s not shaping up that way. Thanks b for all your do.
Posted by: Immaculate deception | Jan 1 2024 2:43 utc | 70
Happy New Year to everyone!
Russian Village Boy Happy New Years #1
С Новым Годом (Happy New Year) – Soviet New Year song
Russian Village Boys #2
Posted by: lex talionis | Jan 1 2024 2:46 utc | 71
best wishes to all
y próspero año nuevo
good luck, Humanity, you are certainly going to need it
Posted by: michaelj72 | Jan 1 2024 2:57 utc | 72
Been reading MOA for about 18 months now. Really appreciate all the incredible commenters and b’s commitment to truth and bringing us a perspective other than the deep state/corporate media/WEF/robber baron propaganda being shoved down our throats here in the west. Praying Putin is not part of it.
In any case, I just want to be clear about what I’m looking for:
PEACE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIvV3l0GGEQ
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Posted by: shocker | Jan 1 2024 3:33 utc | 73
Here in China… all is peaceful and optimistic.
Construction is everywhere, and people are happy. The end of the year celebrations continue as they always have, but this year was a tangible… “more optimistic” feeling. It’s difficult to put my finger on it, but everyone is looking forward to 2024 as the year of the Dragon with the great symbology that comes with it.
I am getting periodic reports and narratives from my friends who have visited me and then went back to their respective nations. All of them, without exception, describe a dystopian world in the West, populated by the deluded and the ignorant. They, as a whole, are very pessimistic about 2024. This is in stark comparison to the overall feeling here in China, and the “global south”.
Where ever you may live, I offer you all great hope and wishes for a most exciting 2024!
Posted by: Rufus Arrr | Jan 1 2024 3:48 utc | 74
Thanks Bernhard. Happy new year to you and all at the bar, may the multipolar order bring the peace that all of humanity deserves.
Posted by: Suresh | Jan 1 2024 3:52 utc | 75
“… on earth peace, good will to all …”
Deep gratitude to b., for his intelligent insight and tireless work. B, you do indeed keep us sane. And to fellow barflies, thanks for your valuable contributions and fellowship in this painful world we inhabit now. Every good wish for 2024.
Posted by: onceandfuture | Jan 1 2024 4:04 utc | 78
New Year Card Part 1
New Year Card Part 2
Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayast | Jan 1 2024 4:40 utc | 79
The wealthy few use the nation state system to rule the Rest of the World. Peace will come when the rest of the world is able to use the nation state system to rule the wealthy few.
I NOMINATE B JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR. HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Posted by: Snake | Jan 1 2024 4:50 utc | 80
明けましておめでとうございます
OK – Maybe although not all that hopeful.
Posted by: Phiw13 | Jan 1 2024 5:11 utc | 81
Best wishes for ’24 to you too, b.
And sincere thanks for sharing the fruits of your ever-diligent work in winkling facts from an ocean of fiction and deception.
And may you live to a ripe old age, like Pilger.
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jan 1 2024 5:21 utc | 82
Поздравление с Новым годом из Москвы в 08:24 МСК, 1 января 2024 г.
Posted by: Moscow Exile | Jan 1 2024 5:24 utc | 83
There’s not a hope in hell 2024 is going to be more peaceful than 2023!
Posted by: whitebeach | Jan 1 2024 7:30 utc | 84
Happy New Year to b and barflies – from Bonny Scotland.
Posted by: Dr. Rob Campbell | Jan 1 2024 7:44 utc | 85
@ bevin 5
Most clergy would probably say: we should pray for both their conversion, the Palestinians and the Israelis. It’s not good enough. I agree.
But Francis is doing what he can. He emphasizes the transfiguring, female nature of the RCC. It is no longer the Church that bullies in a phalic, tribal manner.
What is Putin doing? What can anyone do?
Perhaps we ascribe too much agency to these movers and shakers, so-called.
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Jan 1 2024 7:47 utc | 86
Israeli’s cheering genocide, Ukrainians being fed into the grinder like lambs to the slaughter… the wonders of dumbocracy.
The last of what I call the Vietnam era journalists
“Pilger was a critic of American, Australian and British foreign policy, which he considered to be driven by an imperialist and colonialist agenda. He criticised his native country’s treatment of Indigenous Australians. He first drew international attention for his reports on the Cambodian genocide.[6]
Pilger’s career as a documentary film maker began with The Quiet Mutiny (1970), made during one of his visits to Vietnam, and continued with over 50 documentaries thereafter. Other works in this form include Year Zero (1979), about the aftermath of the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia, and Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy (1993). His many documentary films on indigenous Australians include The Secret Country (1985) and Utopia (2013). In the British print media, Pilger worked at the Daily Mirror from 1963 to 1986,[7] and wrote a regular column for the New Statesman magazine from 1991 to 2014.”
Has been an interesting year for me to put it mildly. Talking to my sister and getting into the mindset of the woke. That really is an effed up world. The ultimate evil of Russia and China but none none bother to look at our own indigenous where there is an actual slowmo genocide ongoing. Utopia.
I look at those about me… no different to the Israelis cheering genocide, the Ukraine sheeple fed into the slaughter.
Rufas, thanks for the report on the optimism in China. I saw it when I was there.
Russia booming, the sanctions from hell returned to sender.
Thanks for your good work b.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 1 2024 8:19 utc | 88
Incredibly unlikely unfortunately as long as Biden remains the President (in name only of course).
Posted by: Julian | Jan 1 2024 8:25 utc | 89
Re: Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 1 2024 8:19 utc | 89
The last of what I call the Vietnam era journalists
Have you never heard of Sy Hersh? Have you never heard of the My Lai massacre? William Calley Jr?
Maybe read up on it.
Start here
https://www.britannica.com/event/My-Lai-Massacre
or here
https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/my-lai-massacre-1
or here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_massacre
and go from there… YMMV.
Posted by: Julian | Jan 1 2024 8:31 utc | 90
Posted by: Julian | Jan 1 2024 8:31 utc | 91
yep one still going though at times it is difficult to see which way at times. Very much an imperialist. Other than that, eff off troll.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 1 2024 8:49 utc | 91
A big thank you from France, we have almost nothing equivalent here in MoA, I think my country is one of the worst in the Western world in terms of propaganda that infests the media, I do not know anyone around me who does not have even a little balanced view of events, it’s to cry and I feel very alone …
Posted by: FrenchAlps | Jan 1 2024 8:53 utc | 92
Happy New Year b and everyone else.
Thank you b for your hard work with this forum and everyone else for your contributions.
Much appreciated.
Posted by: pq | Jan 1 2024 9:13 utc | 94
Posted by: FrenchAlps | Jan 1 2024 8:53 utc | 92
You are not the only one. It is a curse to be well informed these days. The media and social media giants that effectively rule the western world see us as units of consumption. This generates profits that in turn feed the patterns of consumption dictated by them. It seems like a stable system that reminiscens of feudalism.
The human measure is lost in that system and many feel left out. It is however in the collective memory and the traditional societies where this still lives, alas outside of the West.
This is at the core of the struggle in the world. Until someone breaks up the soc media cartels, we are going to live in their algorithmic world. Take that away and physical reality will seep again as a driver of minds and hearts.
Live your best life is the best advice I can give. Refuse to conform in the giant soc media space but still engage with those others as at a certain moment we will be all they have. Family especially.
Posted by: alek_a | Jan 1 2024 10:20 utc | 96
Happy new year to all from France.
Peace, justice, hope for all.
Many thanks to MoA and Bernard for the exceptional work.
Posted by: FromFrance | Jan 1 2024 10:38 utc | 97
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 1 2024 8:19 utc | 88
Peter, as you experience there the warm days of high summer while we are in the midst of
our long night, it brightened my day to see you post that and know that you’re still there.
May the sun shine on you throughout this entire year and your health take a turn for the better.
Happy New Year to all the Au./NZ gang here @MoA. The time difference makes your posts fresher for me than
those from most N.A. posters. The content from ‘down there’ is by and large excellent as well, which allows
me to look up to you, even from ‘up here’.
Posted by: waynorinorway | Jan 1 2024 10:40 utc | 99