Spirit Aerosystems negotiates a strategic default with its creditors and union employees.
https://www.flightglobal.com/airframers/spirit-aerosystems-seeks-to-renegotiate-contracts-with-airbus-as-losses-pile-up/155630.article/000104746918004049/a2235826z424b2.htm

Posted by: too scents | Jan 7 2024 14:52 utc | 3

Мир Божији, Христос се роди!

Posted by: Preki | Jan 7 2024 15:25 utc | 5

Happy Epiphany! 🙂

Posted by: titmouse | Jan 7 2024 15:48 utc | 7

Michael Hudson is an example of human intellect that serves as a beacon of Hope for humanity in general.

Posted by: Robert Hope | Jan 7 2024 16:38 utc | 9

thanks b for all your hard work here… its appreciated…
@ Benn | Jan 7 2024 15:44 utc | 6
there are 3 articles and they aren’t just about cars.. the first one is, but the others – no.. it might be the use of the term in a broader context..
@ juliania on the other thread you mentioned flying your dead body somewhere for burial.. i am surprised you don’t believe in cremation.. happy orthodox christmas to you!
Eberhard Weber- The Following Morning (Full Album)

Posted by: james | Jan 7 2024 17:00 utc | 11

that is a pretty telling article the lady in jerusalem wrote… i recommend it.. if she would be asked, i bet she would say israel is practicing genocide..
The Epidemiological War on Gaza – Jewish Current

Posted by: james | Jan 7 2024 18:07 utc | 13

Following on from Posted by: juliania | Jan 7 2024 17:18 utc | 12:
. . . This is why, in Book X of “The Politeia”, Plato has ended the construction of Socrates’ ‘city in speech’ with a further digression on the subject of poets and other makers of ‘second class’ beautiful things such as carpenters and painters, claiming that ‘they don’t lay hold of the truth’.
And why he ends with his own ‘truth telling’ poetry in speech myth. If we look into that myth, we can see the departed souls returning on paths that are similar to the paths Buber describes in his final section of “I and Thou” (I am avoiding the sneaky italics).
Some souls of the departed choose to return as various animals; others, such as Odysseus, choose to return as a different type of human being (wisely or not as the case may be). The souls are immortal (a claim greatly wondered at by Glaucon). And they themselves each choose their path forward, a point which Bernard Suzanne also emphasizes in his essay on “The Politeia”.
Plato’s call for more truthful craftsmen, for me, is answered, not only by later theologians and spiritual pathtakings, but also by the creation of spiritual architecture theologically inspired, and by theological iconography as well.
Which is why his philosophy was studied by the Desert Fathers and other Church theologians, and why the largest church in Christendom is dedicated to Hagia Sophia — “Holy Wisdom”. Also, it is why such ongoing craftmanship, discussion — and, if you like, argument (!) in this day and age, is appropriately open to all on forums such as this . . .
Thank you, b.

Posted by: juliania | Jan 7 2024 18:40 utc | 15

This week in Trumpland hysteria. I make no comment one way or the other, but TS will HTF soon in the USSA.
https://archive.ph/HH3YB

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 7 2024 21:26 utc | 17

Just a rabbit hole I’m currently down, but Occupy Wall Street and the reaction – while at the time seeming very “new” – played out in almost exactly the same fashion as the previous century of left-ish dissent and bankster/big business symbiosis with law enforcement.
A few interesting links:
https://antipodeonline.org/2012/03/05/occupy-wall-street-and-israelification/

For my final post in this batch on Occupy Wall Street and Palestine, I’m going to draw heavily on an exchange I had recently with my friends Jimmy Johnson, an activist and the founder of Neged Neshek, who is doing indispensible research on Israel and the arms industry, and David Spataro, a student in Geography at the CUNY Graduate Center. Recently, the question of “Israelification” of the American police has emerged as a result of the brutal repression of protesters in New York, Oakland, Boston, and UC Davis. Max Blumenthal argues that, “the Israelification of America’s security apparatus, recently unleashed in full force against the Occupy Wall Street Movement, has taken place at every level of law enforcement, and in areas that have yet to be exposed. The phenomenon has been documented in bits and pieces, through occasional news reports that typically highlight Israel’s national security prowess without examining the problematic nature of working with a country accused of grave human rights abuses. But it has never been the subject of a national discussion. And collaboration between American and Israeli cops is just the tip of the iceberg”. Blumenthal documents some of the many ways that Israeli and American police forces are cooperating and training (here’s a recent example) and the favorable way that these exercises are portrayed.
In the US, the Israeli model for airport security is as widely admired by policy makers as it is loathed by Palestinians, Noam Chomsky, Arab-American former cabinet secretaries, and so on. Numerous scholars have recently tried to understand the relationships between American and Israeli military practice – Naomi Klein and Eyal Weizman are two of the most widely-read – and have discussed Israeli military as a sort of a social and practical model for other militaries and a lucrative export for Israel. Stephen Graham, Sarah Roy, Neve Gordon, Shir Hever, Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler, and others – including Irus Braverman in Antipode – have discussed the forms of urban warfare, surveillance, and systematic de-development of parts of Palestine as military and economic practices. It is clear that similar things are happening in America, and in Europe, but it is less clear how they are tied to Israel.
Part of the argument about Israelification, I think, comes from vestigial ideas about the strength and self-reliance of the Israeli military – clearly Israel is exporting the very idea of success along with actual military technology. Some of what gets lost in this argument is that police forces in America act with brutality against populations of color regularly, and the protests in Seattle against the World Trade Organization in 1999 and in New York surrounding the Republican National Convention in 2004 were brutally repressed by the police. So what is new here? First of all, these crackdowns are a node in a series of rare occasions where police crackdown on mostly white protesters, but what is obviously not new is the mixture of domestic policing and the military (after all, Bloomberg considers the NYPD to be his private army); clearly, the projection of military power is intended to give the impression of domestic security; and increasingly since 2001, as in Israel, crowd control and urban warfare are conflated with terrorism and so the repression of dissent starts to look, I guess, like occupation. But they are not the same thing, and it is not clear what is gained by equating what American police departments are doing with what the Israeli military and police forces are doing – and by implication the protesters with Palestinians.
The funding links between the US and Israeli militaries are well known and don’t have to be repeated here, but there are other ties that are closer and more obscure. Since 2001 the Department of Homeland Security has been throwing money at American police forces, and these protests are one of the first times we’ve seen the things that they’ve been buying with those funds. I have seen the NYPD Homeland Security unit at demonstrations with large Arab populations, and the anti-terror TARU unit is a fixture at Zuccotti videotaping the demonstrations (something that was, until recently, illegal). Crowd control, urban policing, and security are becoming wrapped into supposedly anti-terrorism actions, and it’s not clear that talking about these issues as Israeli exports does much to advance political organizing among a 99% that contains many different agendas tied together by the same exploitation by the capitalist 1%, nor does it advance the move from a politics of solidarity to a politics of common struggle (and again, what does it mean to make this claim when even tweets of solidarity are controversial?).
It would be useful here to shift the conversation to focus on the nature of the links between Israeli and American policing; the militarization of domestic policing doesn’t mean that Israel is coming to the States, but rather that the US is a country that acts toward parts of its population as brutally and undemocratically as does Israel. ……

https://www.sott.net/article/245926-FBI-Appears-to-be-Unleashing-a-War-of-Entrapment-Against-the-Occupy-Wall-Street-Movement
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-crackdown-occupy

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 7 2024 21:48 utc | 19

🇫🇷 France has the 4th largest gold reserves, while there is not a single gold mine in France.
🇲🇱 Mali, captured by France, has no gold reserves, although it has 860 gold mines and produces 50 tons of gold per year.
⁉️Where did France get the gold?
Z and V today.

Posted by: Ed | Jan 7 2024 23:21 utc | 21

Honestly, the ‘sweet nothings’ about Jesus are too much. As long as there are people believing in stupid shit we are going to end up with horrors like we now have. I know there is a lot of good will among religious people but truth is a pathless land and your pathetic wishful thinking (aka ‘belief’) is the root of much human evil.

Posted by: Rae | Jan 7 2024 23:43 utc | 23

Posted by: james | Jan 7 2024 17:00 utc | 11
Thank you, james, and to you as well! I don’t disbelieve in cremation – just would prefer to nourish the earth – but that mightn’t be possible; we are not a wealthy family. Hopefully not an immediate concern 😉

Posted by: juliania | Jan 8 2024 0:10 utc | 25

Posted by: onceandfuture | Jan 7 2024 23:33 utc | 22
Thank you, onceandfuture! I once attended a lecture (unfortunately don’t remember the professor’s name, but I think he was Serbian.) He lectured on the times of the Greek philosophers, pointing out that many of them had served in armies then, and that the wars between city/states had been as violent as any of the modern era. Philosophy may have been for many of those early citizens an occupation under similar stressful times, sharpening their minds to what was really important to hold onto far better than the drugs and entertainments of our era. Plus, they probably had better air to breathe!

Posted by: juliania | Jan 8 2024 0:48 utc | 27

Posted by: juliania | Jan 7 2024 17:18 utc | 12
I made my journey through Plato’s The Politeia with the help of Bernard Suzanne as my main guide, but from the end of Book Nine I needed the help of Martin Buber:
THE EXTENDED LINES OF RELATIONS meet in the eternal Thou.
Every particular Thou is a glimpse through to the eternal Thou; by means of every particular Thou the primary word addresses the eternal Thou. Through this mediation of the Thou of all beings, fulfillment, and non-fulfillment, of relations comes to them; the inborn Thou is realized in each relation and consummated in none. It is consummated only in the direct relation with the Thou that by its nature cannot become It.
And when Buber says the ‘nonfulfillment’ part, he is not giving a pejorative exclusion; he is including those spiritual paths such as Buddhism which go forward in the same way but not to the same ending. Which they would agree with. His journey has been a philosophically inclusive one to this point.

I have a different take. Seems to me that for particular thou and cosmic Thou one could say Particular/ The Many versus the Whole/ The One. In this sense the particular thou, being a seemingly individual, independent one of many such particulars (Many) cannot fully realise ‘consummation’ without attuning to the larger Thou which includes all (the One / Whole).
Now maybe this is wrong, but it seems to me that ‘non-fulfillment’ is ‘relation’ of the little thou only to itself and other little thous/particulars/egos whereas fulfillment would be “consummated only in the direct relation with the Thou that by its nature cannot become It.”
‘It’ being any particular or individual part (little thou) of a larger whole. Relations of the particular with any one of an infinite number of other such particulars is not the same as relationship of the particular thou with the ‘Thou that by its nature cannot become It” i.e. cannot become a individual part / particular because it is that which contains all particulars.
One problem is that this larger all-inclusive (formless) Thou is not a person place or thing, at least not in ways we conceive of such, including our little thou selves.
That said, am not sure exactly what he means by fulfillment, or non-fulfillment, or relations, or consummation. No doubt you have to read much more than the short extract to know those terms. Anyway, looks like you are reading very productively. Bravo!

Posted by: Scorpion | Jan 8 2024 1:37 utc | 29

Posted by: Scorpion | Jan 8 2024 1:37 utc | 29
Thank you, Scorpion. Buber’s “I and Thou” is much shorter than Plato’s “The Republic”, and I started my rereading of both because of the conversations we were having about the Jewish faith as opposed to the Jewish state. I have to do more reading of Buber but I was struck by segments I remembered, and by a friend in the past telling me that one has to read “I and Thou” as a poetic work.
Buber’s explanation of what he means by his terms is divided into three fairly compact parts. He doesn’t name them, but I have penciled in subject headings – Part One – ‘Life’; Part Two – Relationships; and Part Three – God (Knowableness). Those are only the names I gave them, and he begins as though with definitions of his terms, building through each part.
Here is how he defines ‘It’ (less poetically than his own beginning.) He says at the beginning that we relate to the world in two ways, as ‘I-thou’ and as ‘I-it’, calling these the two primary words with which we so relate. That they do not signify things but relationships, and that the ‘I’ of each is a different ‘I’ in man. So, this sounds different from what you are describing, in that each of the ‘verses’ of his poem builds on what has come before, much as Euclid’s geometry builds on his axioms and definitions. My quote came from the beginning of the third part. When he says that the eternal Thou cannot become an ‘it’ he is speaking of the unknowability of that Thou in the terms of his poem as crafted.

Posted by: juliania | Jan 8 2024 3:01 utc | 31

@ juliania | Jan 8 2024 0:10 utc | 25
hey! lets hope you outlive us all! you’re made of the right stuff!

Posted by: james | Jan 8 2024 4:16 utc | 33

Debsisdead @ 26:
A similar thought occurred to me, that Lloyd Austin either had prostate cancer surgery involving the removal of the entire organ, or he had surgery related to a chronic condition, possibly diabetes.

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Jan 8 2024 4:51 utc | 35

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Jan 8 2024 4:56 utc | 36
Yep. And as you may be aware, MANY US municipal and state police forces engage in training and absorb tactics from the IDF. It’s a cottage industry, and not a coincidence that what is happening to the Palestinians on so many levels will be happening to all of us here in not too many years.
I mean hell, where do people think this guy got his “Forward Operating Base” (as in occupied urban counterinsurgency) philosophy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETf7NJOMS6Y

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 8 2024 5:02 utc | 37

Boeing was caught recently petitioning the FAA to skip safety tests.
From January 5th
Seattle Times Story
Boeing 7-DEATH-7 MAX DEATH. Fly the Boeing Death Ride on any 7-DEATH-7 Boeing Airliners.

Posted by: Veri1138 | Jan 8 2024 6:22 utc | 39

@ karlof1 | Jan 8 2024 4:43 utc | 34 about China sanctions on 5 US defense industry companies
@ psychohistorian | Jan 8 2024 6:42 utc | 40
“Making all entities that harm China’s national interests pay the price has become an integral part of China’s national deterrence. China will continue to develop its capabilities and means to inflict pain on them. “ https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202401/1304960.shtml
Is China finally taking the gloves off?

Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Jan 8 2024 8:09 utc | 41

Posted by: too scents | Jan 8 2024 9:06 utc | 42
A sled dog that might be radicalized and even instrumentalized, never the less!
Incidentally, next to the sled dog stories there was a piece explaining to me why all the videos and pictures and interviews of released hostages being friendly with Hamas do, in fact, not indicate such friendliness.
It is very forthcoming of them to tell ma what to think in simple terms.

Posted by: kspr | Jan 8 2024 10:18 utc | 43

@ malenkov | Jan 8 2024 12:00 utc | 44
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Other than their way of life what do you suppose they have to lose?

Posted by: too scents | Jan 8 2024 13:31 utc | 45

https://www.doubledown.news/
A good independent news site for exposure of who are the names who lead the Zionazis annd their tinpot thugs the natzios.
Including a superb 10 minute video by Lowkey
https://www.doubledown.news/watch/2023/december/21/lowkey-exposes-piers-morgan-ben-shapiro
Should not be ignored or forgotten as we look to the ICJ to see if there is any independent western judiciary.
I’d say the mayhem in the daily more disappearing borderlands, the fading existence of the illegal apartheid entity and both these places ultra demented peoples who believe their own self created mythology of grandness. Are wholly connected with the Epstein scheme of blackmail using child sex, of the politicians and celebrities and executives.
The Euro elites who for centuries been raping pillaging and murdering hundreds of millions and convincing us all that we are ‘free’ and not at all ‘propagandised’ that we , our family, friends, neighbours and associates are the righteous!
It turns out we are the Imperial Guards and fascist , xenophobes to the core. Prepared to believe every lie daily Narrativised to us through news and entertainment. The most heinous being the origins of Covid, the Climate wolf cry, the net zero bollocks and the return to localised serfdom without free movement or property and means of no wing without authority of our sheriff!
The Turd of Turd Hole – Piss Moron – apparently has nothing to say about his friendship with Epstein/Ghislaine either. Does he condemn them or does he admit he is as much an evil, child abuse supporter as all his mighty Rich and Famous friends who are daily more exposed, by the fallout from the greatest journalism of the Miami Herald , a few brave police and a judge who was not corrupted or forced by the stories of the DoJ that she should be let off lightly just line Epstein was.
The children blown to pieces or worse left alive needing treatment. The brave reporters whose families and children have been directly targeted by the Mossad/cia/mi6 praetorians. By the murderous sons and daughters of bitches and madmen.
The list of all the perforators should be prepared and justice must be served. I don’t call for the killing of their children because we are not the same as them. But I do demand that they can not benefit from the crimes of their fathers and mothers. They can not be rich and famous and keep the blood money and wealth they are used to. And their kids can not honour and be proud of their bastard parents who should forever be known for their deeds.
Assange must be free
Khan must be free
All perpetrators must be named and punished
All wealth should be returned to the peoples it was stolen from
Transnational entities should be shattered into thousands of pieces

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jan 8 2024 14:09 utc | 47

@ malenkov | Jan 8 2024 13:37 utc | 46
I don’t understand … I hope the farmers did their best to shield themselves
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Enclosure V2.0.
Wikipedia says:

The primary reason for enclosure was to improve the efficiency of agriculture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure

Posted by: too scents | Jan 8 2024 14:56 utc | 49

@ sean the leprechaun | Jan 8 2024 14:51 utc | 48
You overlooked my comment @ 12:00 utc?

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 8 2024 15:04 utc | 51

Turdo of Canada and his Dominatrix played that card, not just farmers at risk but their financial backers.
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 8 2024 14:59 utc | 50
Westminster Memory Lane
General election begins Monday, 20 Sep 2021, because UK governor governor agreed with Trudeau to dissolve parliament in August

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is calling a federal election that will go hand in hand with the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic [!] and massive forest fires [news from the future] that are scorching communities in British Columbia, Manitoba and Ontario.
Trudeau went to Posted by: sln2002 | Jan 8 2024 16:09 utc | 53

This is completely false …
Posted by: bevin | Jan 8 2024 16:15 utc | 54
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Yes, of course.
I posted that to amplify the current situation with agriculture and food quality.
We are what we eat.

Posted by: too scents | Jan 8 2024 16:24 utc | 55

any good books on the enclosure laws and history around this??
alex krainer substack article..
C0VlD l9 hoax goes to court
Posted by: james | Jan 8 2024 16:50 utc | 56
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Yes, Capital by Karl Marx covers it quite well.

Posted by: Ed | Jan 8 2024 17:04 utc | 57

As Karl Marx saw it, the enclosures in England amounted to a “systematic theft of communal property.” He argued that they served two primary purposes: first, to kickstart capitalist agriculture, and second, to “set free the agricultural population as a proletariat for the needs of industry.”
https://www.thecollector.com/what-were-the-enclosure-acts/
I came into this conversation only this morning Texas time, but I am surprised no one mentioned the role of wool (space to raise sheep) and the need for proletarian workers in the textile mills (or did they?).

Posted by: Ed | Jan 8 2024 17:12 utc | 59

John Kirby said for everybody to chill out – Austin bypassed Biden and even Blinken and reported his hospitalization directly to Bibi, so it’s all cool…
John Kirby also says he has it on good authority that at least one of the ships in the Middle East is an American carrier; he’s checking his sources but as of his report, he believes that to be an accurate assessment.

Posted by: Ozark Grandpa | Jan 8 2024 18:03 utc | 61

@ Minaa | Jan 8 2024 18:26 utc | 62
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The linked article says:

In Berlin, dozens of tractors blast their horns and block the main avenue leading to the Brandenburg Gate.

Yet pictures show ==> https://t.me/jnb_news/41523
Dozens?

Posted by: too scents | Jan 8 2024 18:39 utc | 63

Tooscents @ 63:
Are you going to believe your own lying eyes?
🙂

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Jan 8 2024 19:56 utc | 65

a more “efficient” use of the land.
@ Refinnejenna | Jan 8 2024 19:54 utc | 64
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The question of efficient land use hangs on the purpose of its utility. Country clubs are better for playing golf than they are for growing cranberries.
That said, the reporting claiming the Farmer’s Strike is about subsidies is disingenuous.
The true issue at hand is that agriculture isn’t rentable without subsides. Since this is obviously the case perhaps subsidizing consumption rather that production would be smarter than squeezing farmers until they scream.

Posted by: too scents | Jan 8 2024 20:19 utc | 67

i am not ready for that type of reading material at the moment
Posted by: james | Jan 8 2024 20:24 utc | 68
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David Harvey has a series of video lectures.
Reading Marx’s Capital ==> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlpc6eFEd8osVlCfKCrP6H2F9NJDPCcEq
Also ==> https://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/

Posted by: too scents | Jan 8 2024 20:33 utc | 69

I missed the visit of India’s foreign minister in Moscow and the thaw in relations:
https://www.indianpunchline.com/india-russia-ties-get-a-makeover/
Seems pretty important to me, as it strenghtens BRICS and eurasia. Bhadrakumar believes the pendulum will eventually swing back, because the pro western sentiment is still strong in Delhi, but considering how Washington is stumbling from one mess into the next and getting weaker by the day, I could imagine that Delhi will eventually drop the idea of becoming part of the West.

Posted by: Hamburger | Jan 8 2024 20:52 utc | 71

I was reading the book “The Romance of American Communism” by Vivian Gornick and a passage stood out to me on page 10:

The 20th Congress Report brought with it political devastation for the organized Left-wing. Coming as it did in one of the most repressive periods in American history – a period when Communists were hunted like criminals, suffered trial and imprisonment, endured social isolation and loss of work, had their professional lives destroyed and, in the case of the Rosenbergs, were put to death – the Khrushchev Report was the final instrument of annihilation for the American Left. Thousands of men and women in the Left walked about feeling as Ignazio Silone twenty-five years before them felt: “Like someone who has had a tremendous blow on the head and keeps on his feet, walking, talking, gesticulating, but without fully realizing what has happened.” And like Silone they, too, said to themselves: “For this? Have we sunk to this? Those who are dead, those who are dying in prison, have sacrificed themselves for this? The vagabond, lonely, perilous lives that we are leading, strangers in our own countries – is all for this? Overnight, the affective life of the Communist Party in this country came to an end. Within weeks of the Report’s publication, 30,000 people left the Party. Within a year the Party was as it has been in its 1919 beginnings: a small sect, off the American political map.

This was of course repeated across the West. This passage really brought home what an utter traitorous piece of scum Khrushchev was and what his huge lies (proven to be so with the opening of the Soviet archives) did to the Left, not just in the Soviet Union where it destroyed the soul of the Communist Party, but also in Eastern Europe (where it delegitimized the Communist government and lead to the Hungarian revolt) and across the West. It was also Khrushchev who gave Crimea to Ukraine so that he would have the Ukraine SSR’s support in his leadership fight with Malenkov, and it his he who removed incentive pay for the workers. So much damage done by such a pathetic little man. Mao’s split with the Soviet Union over this becomes more and more a seminal geopolitical event. Deng was intelligent enough not to besmirch Mao, understanding the need to maintain the political legitimacy of the Party.
It is sad reading the book, as the author still believes Khrushchev’s lies even as she paints a picture of the meaningfulness, community and learning that the Communist Party brought to the US working class. A beautiful quote from a Russian Jew who was fifteen years old when the Revolution occurred “When the Red Army marched into my village I felt welcome in my country for the first time in my life. I remember, the first thing they did was open a library in the village … When I crossed the threshold of that library I felt I was stepping into a new world” (p. 28). There were many Jewish Marxists in the US, as there were many other Eastern European Marxists, plus other working people and even those from the middle class.
The US worked hard to destroy them, first under the Wilson fascist state from 1917-1920, then as the response to Roosevelt’s reforms, and then in the McCarthy and Red Scare years of the 1950s. But it was Khrushchev who finished them off, removing the ideological basis and the hope that underscored their existence. Aided by other traitors, such as Trotsky who could not accept that he had lost the battle for Party leadership and still pollutes the minds of so many of the “left”, the WSWS being a prime example.
There are always traitors who will gladly sell out the revolution for their own gain, the South African leadership since the start of majority rule being just one example. The Labour Party “right-wing” being another, with its current leader and Blair being other examples, as well as MacDonald with the 1930s “national” government, and Callaghan and Healey in the 1970s. And of course the anti-communist AFL and the anti-communist intellectual Western “left” with their delusional but safe identity scholarship.

Posted by: Roger | Jan 8 2024 21:43 utc | 73

@Posted by: LuRenJia | Jan 8 2024 21:51 utc | 74
In the 1950s India was the largest nation not to align with either the West or the East, and was a leader at the 1955 Bandung Conference. At that point it was still a mildly socialist country. That was all thrown away in the 1960s with the dictatorship of Nehru’s daughter, Indira Gandhi (no relation to the other Gandhi) and the nepotistic rule of her and her sons. In the 1990s India went full neoliberal (end of the highly corrupt “license raj”) and threw away any hope of following China’s development path. It is now just another deeply corrupt oligarchy, still mostly the Brahmin and business class that so well served the British during colonialism.
Now it just cosplays non-alignment as its elite still thinks that it can be a great power, after spending so many decades pissing away the developmental prospects of the nation. China was much poorer than India in 1949, and had been devastated by over a century of colonial subjugation, Japanese invasion, civil wars, uprisings and warlordism. Mao’s China very rapidly outstripped India in life expectancy, literacy and growth rates.

Posted by: Roger | Jan 8 2024 22:56 utc | 75

https://www.unz.com/article/hitler-the-peacemaker/
Don’t let the title be too offputting. This is a fascinating review of a pioneer revisionist book The Forced War by David L Hoggan explaining the origins of WWII, especially the machinations of perfidious Albion, recounting many of the processes and characters in the lead-in to another disastrous war.
I missed that whole ‘garden’ speech whenever it was, but although I sometimes try to stick up for some of the positive aspects of Western civilization, of which there were many, the leadership class has been a bunch of pig-headed murderers for centuries; and even though the current crop seem very much ‘lesser sons of greater sires’, indeed a bunch of petty-minded morons unworthy of their ranks and titles, it seems they are continuing that unfortunate tradition.
The predicament Germany faced after Versailles up until 1939 echoes the predicament Putin has been in viz Ukraine, NATO, defending the rights of Russian speakers and working towards a better international order despite so much concerted Anglo-Zionist resistance.

Posted by: Scorpion | Jan 9 2024 1:27 utc | 77

@ by: Refinnejenna | Jan 8 2024 19:54 utc | 64
Switching to now.
Looking at this from today’s perspective from within the beast, the ability to extract local taxes from local productive lands does have impact on land management, influencing the tendency toward exploitation over balanced management for the long term, not only becuz of $ but because of how such exploited managed land is seen or perceived as “good.” Peer pressure.
If you drive an expensive pickup truck, cost @ around $80,000 (business tax deductible), then you are often perceived here as a “good” land manager regardless of land practices.
If one chooses to maintain forest preserve land unexploited and potential agri land as prairie, and so are not corp income intensive, understatement, then local authorities do not derive maximum benefits from local taxation. Similarly for the crustation parasitical entities, insurance, etc — they do not profit from such considered restraint / long-term thinking.
When the polity trends toward this type of imbalance one remedy is refusal to participate — to save the children and other living beings. Many neighbors and locals appreciate such efforts as it means the neighborhood and surroundings are richer with flora and fauna, a rarity where agribusiness has colonized the land, otherwise killed or driven away by modern corp agri practices. No SCJ for such driven ways, only sublime justice.

Posted by: suzan | Jan 9 2024 2:24 utc | 79

Lots of wn are screaming

Israel is getting away with genocide !

Gleefully parroted by our pop here.
BUt u aint seen nuthin yet !
Here’s perfidious albion crying

China is our teflon enemy !

First off,
China is your ‘enemy’ simply cuz you want it that way.
As for teflon,
iN An article about China’s CPU chip at the Register,
True to form, some shithead screamed ‘Those TAM monsters‘
30 years after it has been debunked by good ole Gregory Clark,
Some teflon indeed
Every gawd damned lies about China stick until this very day.
TAM, TIBET, UIGHURS, HK, TW, SCS, yellow peril.
Faithfully promoted by our pop

Getting away with genocides !

When will somebody look into a mirror for a change ?
Highly recommeNded reading
If for nuthin other than to truly appreciate the culture of deceit
http://tinyurl.com/4d8m4uwc
http://tinyurl.com/3nu744bn

Posted by: denk | Jan 9 2024 3:52 utc | 81

@Posted by: LuRenJia | Jan 9 2024 3:50 utc | 80
If you are interested in more detail, I wrote a longer answer on my substack a while ago, a very sad history since independence Why India Will Not Repeat China’s Success

Posted by: Roger | Jan 9 2024 7:29 utc | 83

🇫🇷 France has the 4th largest gold reserves, while there is not a single gold mine in France.
🇲🇱 Mali, captured by France, has no gold reserves, although it has 860 gold mines and produces 50 tons of gold per year.
⁉️Where did France get the gold?
Z and V today.
Posted by: Ed | Jan 7 2024 23:21 utc | 21
In the 50’s De Gaulle, the French leader, sent American dollars to the US Treasury and had them exchanged for gold.
That’s one of the reasons Nixon shut the gold window in 1971

Posted by: canuck | Jan 9 2024 11:26 utc | 85

@Scorpion | Jan 9 2024 1:27 utc | 77
Interesting article, which touches some very significative points.
Among many others, this one:

Objections to National Socialism or Hitler’s Jewish policy were more pretext that motive; Hoggan notes that, although the world has since forgotten it, Poland had anti-Jewish policies in some respects harsher than Germany’s during these years.

The rise of anti-semitism in Poland helped the diffusion of Zionism, especially Revised Zionism, among Polish Jews, and the Polish government in turn sustained Zionism to get rid of its Jew populace.

Posted by: SG | Jan 9 2024 13:26 utc | 87

Posted by: Roger | Jan 9 2024 8:25 utc | 84
No one author will provide the whole puzzle of such a complex period.

No indeed, and thanks for your post. Within any polity there are no end of disagreements. For example, there are those who sincerely support communism and believe it will solve all the worlds ills whilst others regard it as a civilization destroyer. Both views have merit.
Plus within both camps there are both good and bad actors. So because of these powerful, conflicting skeins on all sides of any complex dynamic, determining definitive truth is impossible. The many subjective confusions and struggles ARE the truth which may be unchanging as a principle but ever-changing in our relative experiential realm.
My dim recollection of the lebensraum push was to allow Germany to expand as a mainly land power and let England rule the waves as a maritime power. There really was – and most likely still is – a Jewish problem. One can argue the whys and wherefores ad infinitum but to ascribe it all to white racism is deceptive.
In any case, my takeaway from WWII revisionism is that the impressions we have of the main leaders are cartoonish so have settled on a compromise view: none of them were all that much better or worse than any other. So I resist demonizing Nazis, for example, since all the other parties perpetrated mass murder too and distrust all facts and figures from any side, all of which are proven liars.

Posted by: Scorpion | Jan 9 2024 14:24 utc | 89

“Speculative builds adding to deflationary pressure in real estate”
(Real estate bubble in the US, anyone ???)
https://jugglingdynamite.com/2024/01/09/speculative-builds-adding-to-deflationary-pressure-in-real-estate

Posted by: WMG | Jan 9 2024 15:59 utc | 91

Bloomberg reports:

Austin Was Hospitalized Over Complications From Prostate Surgery
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized for complications suffered after he underwent surgery to treat prostate cancer, doctors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center said in a statement.
Doctors had detected Austin had prostate cancer during a routine screening in early December and put him under general anesthesia for a prostatectomy in late December. After he was released, he suffered an infection and fluids collected in his abdomen, obstructing his intestines, the doctors said.
The statement from two doctors at Walter Reed cleared up the mystery of why Austin had been hospitalized on New Year’s Day — a situation that had provoked consternation because he failed to notify the White House for four days.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-09/austin-was-hospitalized-over-complications-from-prostate-surgery

Posted by: too scents | Jan 9 2024 19:39 utc | 93

@Posted by: too scents | Jan 9 2024 19:39 utc | 93
So the head of the US armed forces can now most probably not get it up, a wonderful metaphor for those armed forces. Much more bark than bite, less steel in the shaft than it would have us believe. Shakespeare would have written some wonderful words about such a predicament.

Posted by: Roger | Jan 9 2024 20:00 utc | 95

@Posted by: too scents | Jan 9 2024 20:07 utc | 96

Botched cancer interventions have bad outcomes. Austin is a dead man walking.

A great metaphor for the US Empire!

Posted by: Roger | Jan 9 2024 20:25 utc | 97

6 years ago…

Posted by: SwissArmyMan | Jan 9 2024 20:44 utc | 99