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January 28, 2024
The MoA Week In Review – OT 2024-031

Last week’s post on Moon of Alabama:

Middle East:

Elections:

Boeing:

Diplomacy:

ICJ:

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Other issues:

Ukraine:

Russia:

Europe:

Use as open (not related to Ukraine or Palestine) thread …

Posted by b on January 28, 2024 at 14:01 UTC | Permalink
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John Helmer’s latest:
The Tower-22 Strike in Jordan Triggers US, Israel into All-Front War – The Arabs And Iran are Ready, the Russians Too
https://johnhelmer.net/the-tower-22-strike-in-jordan-triggers-us-israel-into-all-front-war-the-arabs-and-iran-are-ready-the-russians-too/
“…The details of the Tower-22 attack, and Iran’s reinforcement at the Strait of Hormuz, reveal that the Arabs and the Iranians are ready and waiting. The Russians too…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 29 2024 8:38 utc | 101

@ juliania | Jan 29 2024 5:04 utc | 99
I wrote this a few hours ago but decided not to post it as it was OT on the Palestine Thread 033.
The horse had been beaten like a rented mule anyway, but your post changed my mind. So…

Posted by: ld | Jan 29 2024 3:08 utc | 132
Yeah, I’m partly to blame for this one going off the rails. Mea culpa.
I promise I’ll offer something constructive next.
In the meantime, if waynorinnorway is reading: …
Posted by: Patroklos | Jan 29 2024 4:34 utc | 154

Yeah, I read the thread. No apologies required by anyone. It is a bar. Such a damn good bar it’s become overcrowded. So people should say their piece, sit down and shut up. As Grieved said before taking leave, this is a comment section to a blog not a debate forum.
I just limped thru HS but neither Patroklos nor Gruff nor any other paper hangers put me off. But, everyone from the park bench to the ivory tower needs to up their game in pursuit of good communication here. There is far too much cryptic writing and too many attempts at being clever or the smartest kid in the class.
Juliania, it’s misplaced now but you made a point the other day about Socrates challenging others to examine the structure of his arguments rather than the content. I’m not sure I have that exactly right but it made me think about Plato’s work differently. Thank you.
And btw Patroklos, you’re stayin’. There will be no debate about that!

Posted by: waynorinorway | Jan 29 2024 9:33 utc | 102

@Lathe Biosas | Jan 28 2024 15:10 utc | 1
Apart from the MIC attracting more funding for secret tech there is an old motive namely to use the UFO myth to cover up secret human experimentation.
Before David Grusch turned up, Stephen Greer until 1998 had been alternating between his job as a physician – I saw it mentioned that he was an emergency surgeon – and UFO oriented projects since 1990. From 1988/89 the CIA had available cybernetic implants made encapsulated in material mimicking bone structure thus invisible for xrays imaging.
From 1998 Greer worked fulltime on the UFO-project.
I am not accusing Greer personally for anything but I think he may have been chosen for reasons connected with human experiments for mindreading/writing+ physical influence.
Jose Delagado and other researchers had published openly what neurocybernetic technology may be used for long before. An obituary for Delgado also pointed out that Delagado hadnt said what many are claiming about people not having the right to their own thoughts. According to the author of the obituary the person who said that was a scientologist psychiatrist who aimed to forbid Delgado’s research.
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In those years in the 90s one woman claimed to have been abducted and woke up under medical surveillance involving military and people looking like space aliens, presumably wearing masks.

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Jan 29 2024 11:59 utc | 103

Just to explain why there was confusion in the alternative media about the position of the US base:
https://www.barrons.com/news/jordan-says-deadly-attack-on-us-troops-occurred-in-syria-not-jordan-c2e58b51
Most reports, including official statement from Jordan, assumed the deaths occured in Al-Tanf, while it was later clear that it was in Rukban T-22.
So the US and all of the mainstream media quoting the official US statement were actually correct.
Not sure, why the resistance did this. Al-Tanf is a legitimate target, Rukban not so much. But maybe they really want to escalate now, sensing the weakness in the empire.

Posted by: Hamburger | Jan 29 2024 12:03 utc | 104

“N. Korea’s underwater nuclear test in Yellow Sea terrorizes and angers Chinese”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8eaJM8Fgxs
Remember how the CPC freaked out on Fukushima’s reactor cooling water discharged?

Posted by: Antonym | Jan 29 2024 14:52 utc | 105

This video is a great coverage of how private equity investment funds have extracted wealth from companies while in many cases destroying them, even driving them into bankruptcy, all in the shadows (in this case using a Swedish example, but the much bigger problem is within the US). The amount in such funds is now colossal and it has destroyed so many solid companies, as they prefer companies with nice stable cash flows to support the massive amounts of debt they dump on the company.
After sucking everything out of these companies they turned to areas with inelastic demand, such as higher education where they reduced standards and raised tuition fees. And also healthcare (i.e. much worse healthcare), they are taking over masses of doctor’s practices, nursing homes and once again reducing standards and raising prices. In addition, creating geographic monopolies. Another area is rental properties.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oakKv8QbFQE
The book “The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland” by David Gelles, shows how Welch was at the forefront of having business executives behave more like portfolio managers and private equity specialists than actual wealth builders. All about extraction, not creation, of wealth. Greatly aided by the legalization of executive stock options and massive stock buybacks. All financial engineering, slashing costs and price gouging.
These cancers have metastasized across the US, and now across other countries in the West. The Western economies are now heavily hollowed out, destroying the base upon which Western power is based. A symptom being the inability to produce basic munitions for Ukraine. Sadly, the only ones who really benefit from private equity funds are the managers of the funds (who become billionaires) and not even the investors who could get just as good returns with much lower fees in the stock market.
When the elites become extractive, the nation/empire declines toward collapse. That is the stage that we are in, with extensive private equity consolidation across many markets to create a monopolized/oligopolized economy. Very much what the US has become, with the costs of basic services becoming more and more expensive and crapified.

Posted by: Roger | Jan 30 2024 0:57 utc | 106

Reuters headline. “Neuralink implants brain chip in first human, Musk says”
US is moving to a point where it will require erasing from the face of the earth.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 30 2024 1:20 utc | 107

juliania @99: “But Patroklos hasn’t fallen into the trap — he didn’t just ‘get a good education’ — he thinks or he wouldn’t be here.”
Well, yeah, I realize that. As opposed to the recent flood of trolls, he’s a real human and his posts are worth reading, even if his elitist academician snobbery sometimes rubs me the wrong way. A genuine but snobbish intelligent poster is always better than any troll. I didn’t intend to imply that I wanted him to stop posting or anything because even if he is an arrogant jerk, the signal-to-noise ratio here would drop if he left.

Posted by: William Gruff | Jan 30 2024 1:29 utc | 108

wot, the gift that keeps on giving….
https://www.thenation.com › article › archive › dangerous-us-game-yemen
The Dangerous US Game in Yemen | The Nation
After 9/11, President Bush put Yemen on a list of potential early targets in the “war on terror”; he could have swiftly dismantled Saleh’s government despite Saleh’s pre-9/11 declaration ..
Bush: War on Terror Will Expand to Yemen
By Fox News
Published March 2, 2002
Early in 2002 the Bush administration approved sending about 100 Special Operations Forces to Yemen. Six Yemeni suspected al-Qaeda members were blown up in their car in Marib province in November 2002 by a Hellfire missile from an unmanned CIA Predator drone.
‘TARGETED KILLINGS’ IN AN AGE OF TERROR
JSTOR
https://www.jstor.org › stable
by C Downes · 2004 · Cited by 71 — In November 2002, a US Unmanned Aerial Vehicle launched a missile at a car in Yemen suspected to be carrying terrorists. The lethal strike arguably …
The Global War on Terrorism: The First 100 Days – state.gov
U.S. Department of State (.gov)
https://2001-2009.state.gov › rls
Homeland Security. President Bush has taken steps to help protect America against further terrorist attacks, providing $20 billion for homeland security
Fatal Strike in Yemen Was Based on Rules Set Out by …
The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com › 2002/11/06 › world › threat…
6 Nov 2002 — Senior government officials say lethal missile strike that killed suspected leader of Al Qaeda in Yemen was carried out under broad
https://www.independent.co.uk › news › world › middle-east › peace-president-how-obama-came-to-bomb-seven-countries-in-six-years-9753131.html
How Obama came to bomb seven countries in six years
In April 2014, an intensive bombing campaign carried out jointly by US drones and Yemeni government forces left a reported 68 people dead, three of them believed to be
Drone strikes in Yemen – Wikipedia
United States drone strikes in Yemen started after the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, … Al-Harethi was on a list of targets whose capture or death had be
Lizza says Obama has bombed more nations than Bush
The same pattern holds in Yemen. BBC News and Time magazine reported a CIA-directed drone attack in Yemen in 2002. This would increase Bush’s total to five countries, rat
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American military intervention in Somalia (2007-present)
US airstrikes on Somalia. Since 2007, the Department of Defense (United States) has targeted militant groups, mainly al-Shabaab, within Somalia using airstrikes. These have included
https://www.theguardian.com › commentisfree › 2017 › jan › 09 › america-dropped-26171-bombs-2016-obama-legacy
America dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016. What a bloody end to Obama’s …
Jan 9, 2017Mon 9 Jan 2017 07.30 EST M ost Americans would probably be astounded to realize that the president who has been painted by Washington pundits as a reluctant warrio
https://www.theguardian.com › commentisfree › 2016 › oct › 15 › us-bombed-yemen-middle-east-conflict
The US just bombed Yemen, and no one’s talking about it
Oct 15, 2016In 2015, there were 101 attacks on schools and hospitals. After two Doctors Without Borders hospitals were bombed resulting in 20 deaths – one in Taiz on 2 December
https://www.antiwar.com › blog › 2012 › 07 › 09 › killing-civilians-bolstering-dictatorship-and-secret-war-in-yemen
Obama in Yemen: Killing Civilians, Bolstering Dictatorship, and Bombing …
Obama in Yemen: Killing Civilians, Bolstering Dictatorship, and Bombing in Secret by John Glaser July 9, 2012 The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has published a must-read interview
https://theintercept.com › 2020 › 10 › 29 › trump-yemen-war-civilian-deaths
Trump’s War Policy Left Civilians Dead in Yemen
https://www.businessinsider.com › trump-have-bombed-yemen-more-than-bush-and-obama-combined-2020-10?op=1
Trump May Have Bombed Yemen More Than Bush and Obama Combined
https://www.businessinsider.nl › trump-may-have-bombed-yemen-more-than-all-previous-us-presidents-combined-new-report-finds
Trump may have bombed Yemen more than all previous US presidents …
Former Vice President Joe Biden has called for ending US support for the Saudi war in Yemen, which has killed far more civilians — thousands each year, and 100,000 since 2015 —
https://foreignpolicy.com › 2017 › 03 › 09 › trumps-ramped-up-bombing-in-yemen-signals-more-aggressive-use-of-military
Trump’s Ramped-Up Bombing in Yemen Signals More Aggressive Use of …
Trump’s Ramped-Up Bombing in Yemen Signals More Aggressive Use of Military Air raids in Yemen reflect broader trend as new administration opts for more military action
https://theconversation.com › under-the-trump-administration-us-airstrikes-are-killing-more-civilians-85154
Under the Trump administration, US airstrikes are killing more civilians
The vast increase in civilian deaths is not limited to the anti-IS campaign. In Afghanistan, the U.N. reports a 67 percent increase in civilian deaths from U.S. airstrikes in the first six
https://www.independent.co.uk › news › world › middle-east › donald-trump-us-military-attack-yemen-civilians-women-children-dead-a7553121.html
Donald Trump’s first US military raid ‘kills 30 civilians, including 10 …
In mid-January, the United Nations’ humanitarian aid official in Yemen said the civilian death toll in the nearly two-year conflict had reached 10,000. More about Yemen US Donald Trump Al-
https://theintercept.com › 2017 › 03 › 26 › trumps-war-on-terror-has-quickly-become-as-barbaric-and-savage-as-he-promised
Trump’s War on Terror Has Quickly Become as Barbaric and Savage as He …
This escalation of bombing and civilian deaths, combined with the deployment by Trump of 500 ground troops into Syria beyond the troops Obama already deployed there, has
https://www.newsweek.com › wedding-became-funeral-us-still-silent-one-year-deadly-yemen-drone-strike-291403
The Wedding That Became a Funeral: U.S. Still Silent One … – Newsweek
Dec 12, 2014 at 11:20 AM EST. A man walks past a graffiti, denouncing strikes by U.S. drones in Yemen, painted on a wall in Sanaa November 13, 2014 Khaled Abdullah/REUTERS. By
https://www.nbcnews.com › news › world › u-s-bombed-iraq-syria-pakistan-afghanistan-libya-yemen-somalia-n704636
U.S. Bombed Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia …
In 2015, the U.S. dropped 22,110 bombs in Iraq and Syri a, CFR reported. Last year saw a sharp uptick in strikes in Afghanistan, with 1,337 compared with 947 in 2015, CFR found. The study,
https://www.theguardian.com › commentisfree › 2018 › aug › 25 › us-bombs-yemen-children-humanitarian-disaster
US bombs are killing children in Yemen. Does anybody care?
Trump May Have Bombed Yemen More Than Bush and …
Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com › trump-have-bomb…
27 Oct 2020 — In his first year in office, President Trump loosened rules of engagement and oversaw a dramatic escalation of US attacks in Yemen.
Trump is likely to inherit Obama’s war legacy | Government
Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com › opinions › trump-is-likel…
23 Jan 2017 — Experience tells us it matters little whether a liberal democrat or an autocratic republican sits in the White House.
Donald Trump Is Dropping Bombs at Unprecedented Levels
August 9, 2017, 3:59 PM. Throughout the 2016 campaign, many people opposed to Donald Trump’s candidacy were nonetheless reluctant to endorse Hillary Clinton, in part
https://thefreethoughtproject.com › antiwar › america-drops-bomb-trump-obama-bush
In Just 3 Years, Trump Dropped 72,000 Bombs—Following In His …
On New Year’s Eve, as Americans waited for the turn of the decade, the US government quietly released figures detailing the number of bombs dropped on Afghanistan and Iraq since
https://www.npr.org › 2024 › 01 › 11 › 1223238786 › us-strikes-houthis-yemen
U.S. and U.K. strike Houthi targets in Yemen – NPR
Jan 12, 2024The HMS Diamond along with U.S. warships successfully repelled a large attack from the Iranian-backed Houthis in the Red Sea. UK MOD/Sipa USA via Reuters Conn
https://www.democracynow.org › 2024 › 1 › 12 › yemen_strikes_houthis_red_sea_gaza
Biden Becomes Fourth U.S. President to Bomb Yemen
Jan 12, 2024Yemen has been targeted by U.S. military action and bombings over the last four American presidencies — of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, now Joe
https://www.bostonherald.com › 2024 › 01 › 22 › us-british-militaries-team-up-again-to-bomb-sites-in-yemen-used-by-iran-backed-houthis
US, British militaries team up again to bomb sites in Yemen used by …
7 days agoThe joint operation comes about 10 days after U.S. and British warships and fighter jets struck more than 60 targets in 28 locations. That was the first U.S. military respon
https://www.politico.com › news › 2024 › 01 › 12 › trump-houthi-strike-00135294
Trump criticizes White House for Houthi strikes – POLITICO
Jan 12, 202401/12/2024 10:35 AM EST. Donald Trump blasted the Biden administration on Friday for conducting strikes against Houthi militants in Yemen Thursday night. The

Posted by: denk | Jan 30 2024 3:15 utc | 109

@ Peter AU1 | Jan 30 2024 1:20 utc | 107 with the reaction to Musk over selling his implant technology….don’t kill all us Americans just because of Musk who isn’t even American
The reality of implant technology and neurological control is having some success with motor control but Musk is quite premature, IMO, with his claims of sophisticated neurological control coming. The motor control work for those it will help is great and we will learn a lot from the effort but, like AI, lots of wild claims and very little reality to show in relation to the claims.
Be comforted Peter knowing that your body processes every “perception/feeling” you have for one and one half second before handing a biased signal off to the brain for further processing or notification…..we are still very much animals and the only thing a brain implant would do is stimulate control fear and the elite seems to have that down without brain implants.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 30 2024 4:12 utc | 110

psychohistorian | Jan 30 2024 4:12 utc | 110
US is moving into very dangerous territory, first with the mRNA gene therapy and now brain implants. US also recreated smallpox, close I think to twenty years ago, which had ceased to exist in the world.
Perhaps a situation like Ukraine. Those that got out early enough are the lucky ones.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 30 2024 4:33 utc | 111

Hugo Dionísio is a name I have only recently come across at Strategic Culture. This essay is pretty good. It sums up Davos beautifully.
“The World Economic Forum gives us the exceptional privilege of a study that only living fossils can give. Representative of an era that we can assume is in the process of being overcome, if not materially, at least in terms of the trend observed, in Davos we find everything that is paramount of neoliberal and Western supremacist ideology, its potential, its limitations and the very causes of its destruction. Like a living fossil, in every word, every expression, theme or conclusion, we find the fundamental reasons why the species did not and could not win….
“…For someone who wants to teach the world a lesson about the future, the Davos globalist elite commits too many sins, which can only be explained by their proverbial superiority complex. First of all, arrogance, in assuming that the Western elite has something to teach anyone. The supremacism, which is very present when we see Klaus Shwab praising the mad Milei for bringing “Argentina back to Western values”, demonstrates what Davos is, a propaganda hub for the idea of Western civilization, even at the cost of a destroyed country and a people in the most abject misery. Here, Klaus Shwab tells us: it doesn’t matter if they’re all in misery, as long as they move towards “Western values”….”
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/01/29/davos-is-a-living-fossil-of-an-empire-at-war-with-itself-and-the-world/

Posted by: bevin | Jan 30 2024 5:23 utc | 112

A million chickens burn in Texas factory farm fire ==> https://twitter.com/MJTruthUltra/status/1752150624509038778

Posted by: too scents | Jan 30 2024 8:15 utc | 113

This essay is pretty good. It sums up Davos beautifully.
Posted by: bevin | Jan 30 2024 5:23 utc | 112
Yes, and it gives us the quote of the day:
“The World Economic Forum is proving to be embarrassingly useful for critics of the U.S.: the solutions it suggests for the future can be observed in real time, completely in reverse, by the U.S. and its vassals. It’s almost as if they’re trying to tell us indirectly: “Do you see this measure? The U.S. and its vassals are doing it the other way around”!”

Posted by: waynorinorway | Jan 30 2024 8:28 utc | 114

A million chickens burn in Texas factory farm fire…
Posted by: too scents | Jan 30 2024 8:15 utc | 113
But not John Bolton or Lindsey Graham? Sad.

Posted by: waynorinorway | Jan 30 2024 8:31 utc | 115

Today a hearing in Brussels about which EU city gets the Anti-Money Laundering Authority or AMLA: Paris, Frankfurt, Vienna, Rome, Madrid, Vilnius, Riga, Dublin or Brussels. This could be important in terms of the decision who gets to ensure that the money laundering via Ukraine can continue and whether EU member states like Hungary should be punished for trying to stop it.

Posted by: Jonathan W | Jan 30 2024 9:09 utc | 116

A little trans-Atlantic news from Canada (b, many thanks for the review, which I have yet to dive into – look forward to doing so later today)
After hosting a US Congress delegation earlier this month, the president of Slovakia has accepted the invitation to make a state visit to Canada. She arrives today. The US Congress delegation included Darrell Issa, Chris Coons and Mike Rounds, according to a X/Twitter comment.
“Thank you, Your Excellency @GGCanada Mary Simon for the invitation to visit Canada for an official state visit next week.
I look forward to celebrating with you, @CanadianPM@JustinTrudeau and many others, the strong partnership between our two countries and @NATO Allies. … “
https://x.com/ZuzanaCaputova/status/1749918128283308084
This state visit comes after visits from the Baltic States:
“Three parliamentary speakers from the Baltic nations of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania are the latest to deliver fresh warnings about how prepared western nations are for the prospect of an even bigger conflict in Europe.
They visited Ottawa on Monday and met with senior government officials before heading to Washington for more meetings.” (That’s Monday Jan. 29th)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/nato-russia-ukraine-baltics-1.7098660
Two Canadians with Hells Angels ties charged in alleged Iranian murder plot
“The U.S. Department of Justice revealed Monday that the two men, 43-year-old Damion Patrick John Ryan and 29-year old Adam Richard Pearson, allegedly conspired with an Iranian national, Naji Sharifi Zindashti, to murder two people in Maryland.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/10257732/two-canadian-men-charged-in-alleged-iranian-murder-for-hire-plot/
“An Iranian drug trafficker allegedly plotted with two Canadian members of the Hells Angels to murder people in Maryland in early 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice said Monday.”
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/two-canadians-charged-in-u-s-plot-to-kill-iranian-defector-1.6746827
La Presse examines the farmers’ protest more closely.
“Dix jours après le début de la crise, des centaines de tracteurs ont encerclé Paris lundi en guise de ras-le-bol. Certains parlent déjà des nouveaux gilets jaunes. Faut-il nuancer ? Dominique Andolfatto, professeur à l’Université de Bourgogne, expert des mouvements sociaux et auteur du livre Anatomie du syndicalisme, explique les raisons de la colère.”
https://www.lapresse.ca/international/europe/2024-01-30/france/agriculteurs-les-nouveaux-gilets-jaunes.php
(Agriculture is extremely important in Quebec which aims to be self-sustaining in that regard.)
The Slovak president’s state visit includes: welcoming ceremony; meeting with PM, deputy PM (who’s also Finance Minister), and Defence Minister; state dinner
Does Canada have anything to leak to NATO ally, Slovakia?? CSIS has a recent post about that Iranian criminal case, which concludes with:
“Hostile state actors use criminal networks to advance their objectives. Addressing these national security threats requires enduring and close partnerships between democracies.”
Indeed. https://x.com/csiscanada/status/1752060581752786963

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Jan 30 2024 10:49 utc | 117

A million chickens burn in Texas factory farm fire…
Posted by: too scents | Jan 30 2024 8:15 utc | 113
Is that like their chickens have come home to roast?

Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Jan 30 2024 12:25 utc | 118

In Germany the government is asking the people to protest against the opposition?
Posted by: Passerby | Jan 29 2024 7:11 utc | 100

Yes. They are also serious about it. I saw an announcement for a major demonstration in the Hamburg subway these days, a most uncommon thing, and certainly the opposite of grassroots. – Or has someone bought them some airtime on those screens? The loop runtime of the programme is about 12mins usually, and they display sort-of ads for woke children’s books, post-gender pop music, jobs in ad acquisition, and the weather.
Interesting.
That demo, as announced, was “gegen rechts” — to be translated as against the Nazis, rather than “the right”; an associative term that has been crafted and carefully nurtured from 1945 until now, and was used to destroy resistance against massive waves immigration (for “Nazis” are said to generally hate foreigners, especially if they are brown or black), rule by supra-national structures like the EU (because wanting a sovereign state is “Nazi”), and too much questioning when Turkey went after kurdish resistance camouflaging as shopkeepers (some 12 shot by the NSU Nazis on a hate spree, that also took out several witnesses, a high ranking police officer handeling undercover investigation in organized crime, and then leading to a closure of all records for the next 120 years, doubling usual lock time. Oh, and it happened in France too, where they officially blamed Turkey for some 5 or so cases). The Nazis are also anti-semitic, of course.
No one, not even the true and serious neo-Nazis, wants the third Reich back. Even the fringe crazies Reichsbürger admit that the Grundgesetz Verfassung is actually quite well done and generally nice; something to build upon, with mere details in need of substantial rework.
So what is this all about? The Fahrgastfernsehen screens in the U2 line said as much as they are expecting the third demo in as many weeks (saturdays) “gegen rechts”, and people are advised to plan their trips through town accordingly, because, you know, the many democracy minded will be riding to attend and choke public transport toward the city center . . . NOT !! wtf!?
My thought is they are creating a deliberate movement to absorb energy that might otherwise flow into genuine opposition (generically named the Querdenker). That would hold the lid on the Israel thing, on which also demonstrations are done, mostly by immigrant muslims for now. But they are visible, and they do have a point, to which surprisingly many of the ostensibly brainwashed Germans seem to agree. A similar susceptibility appears towards the state of affairs on the Ostfront in Ukraine, despite complete official media blackout, as I learned to my surprise during a matinée the other day in a substantial conversation with a german-russian guy who tried to defend the west including Azov and the group of germans who sat at the table together with him and me.
Apparently the Germans are much closer to substantial unrest than I thought.

Posted by: persiflo | Jan 30 2024 13:26 utc | 119

– Jake Sullivan was interviewed at the World Economic Forum. He made a very curious statement. He said:
1. “We are moving to a new era”. (??????????????????).
2. “The post Cold War era/order has come to a close, we’re at the start of something new”, “we are going to use the old institutions for that new era”.
(from the 8 minute mark in the following video)
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBfA4YlG97g
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“Davos Elites WHINE About Loss of Control Over the Media, ‘WE OWNED THE NEWS’ Admits WSJ EIC: Rising”
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAHjMrEWU7s

Posted by: WMG | Jan 30 2024 15:24 utc | 120

Davos Elites WHINE About Loss of Control Over the Media
Posted by: WMG | Jan 30 2024 15:24 utc | 120
—
Have you heard about Neuralink
?

Posted by: too scents | Jan 30 2024 15:36 utc | 121

as I learned to my surprise during a matinée the other day in a substantial conversation with a german-russian guy who tried to defend the west including Azov and the group of germans who sat at the table together with him and me.
Apparently the Germans are much closer to substantial unrest than I thought.
Posted by: persiflo | Jan 30 2024 13:26 utc | 119

Do you mean that the group of germans who sat at the table were not buying what the Russian-German Azov representative was selling? If so, am curious how they expressed doubt or disagreement.

Posted by: Scorpion | Jan 30 2024 15:44 utc | 122

@too scents (#121):
What is “Neuralink” ???

Posted by: WMG | Jan 30 2024 18:34 utc | 123

What is “Neuralink” ???
Posted by: WMG | Jan 30 2024 18:34 utc | 123
—
Neuralink is the newest new media. Most addictive evar!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FkYg43pWAAIutqR?format=jpg

Posted by: too scents | Jan 30 2024 18:42 utc | 124

I used to like watching Irish comedian Dave Allen. Missing a digit and a glass of booze always beside him as he told jokes and presented skits.
Catholic church and Irish were front and center in many.
I guess if he was still going now, I could imagine him doing a skit on confession, where the sinner is confessing his last weeks sins, and in the priest cubicle there sits a laptop rather than a priest with the open screen showing the Google logo.
That thought was only a day or so before I see on the news the first brain chip implant.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 30 2024 18:45 utc | 125

re above 122 – Yes, that is what I mean. The group of people on attendance were from the high end of local/german pop subculture, which means they are generally very open types, but they also can be considered somewhat influential. Let me add that I was not just guest, but general assistant on the night’s routine (a fundraiser), thus basically arbiter elegantium in washing dishes as well as doing conversation. Just my kind of job, actually; I refuse to get paid.
The russian spoke fluent german with a notable accent, which got us two hooked right from the beginning. He’s an artist, highly educated, and has family ties to this day in Moscow. I habitually jump at nearly every chance to talk to actual russians about Putin etc, and will often end up defending Kremlin policys against them, which is weird because I actually never set foot into russia and don’t speak the language … but still.
I’m not shy to do this semi-publically. I learned to sense trouble – finally! – at age 35 or so after starting serious reading of psychology to make sense of Johanna, which changed my life more impactfully than anything I’d done before.
So the russian and me got into the Ukraine question during dinner, and his german buddy (it seemed like an acquaintance) jumped in on my side. It took me by full surprise. I was incredulous. But he clearly said that the MSM narrative was ridiculous for everyone to see, and that this was widely known out there. The other people at the table silently agreed, and then the russian followed me around to give more and more of his views, up to the point where I actually left the table, and then beyond. I assumed he was naively, perhaps unconsciously presenting a psycho-strategic narrative, trying to coinvince himself more than others, and gave him a few bullet points, which he took gladly – he looked ready to join Wagner in an instant. He was not just polite, but almost personally attached, and expressed much gratitude, despite us disagreeing to disagree. Everyone in the room must have realized this, and all were content with the course it took. No one even tried a little virtue siganlling, from which I sense that no one was taken by surprise.
Likewise, on the Israel topic, I see virtue signalling up to the beyond of being psychotic regularly on places like facebook, but never in a personal encounter, where many people who are not even dedicated news readers will themselves open up and speak harsh but true things on the current warring, making good points that quickly settle the narrative. When this happens, again I see no one surprised, or attempting to challenge the views. Rather they all relax immediately into this version of things; except only lifelong readers of Der Spiegel from a middle class background perhaps, like my father and Thea’s too. For them, it’s also about psychological needs to deny, so I don’t make them eat up Newton’s laws of motion in a famous case that happened in New York one day anno 2001, though both have the means to solidly understand the problem. It almost looks like the atlanticist bourgeouise stratum is no bigger than the typical urban voters of the Grünen; people with a university degree and a nice flat in the city who buy organic food and fancy a newspaper subscription.

Posted by: persiflo | Jan 30 2024 19:08 utc | 126

126 above contains my first disfiguring typo on MoA afaik – we agreed to disagree, of course; though I found it inwardly disagreeable to have him accept this state of things.
“I must achieve internal consistency!” – Edmund Husserl

Posted by: persiflo | Jan 30 2024 19:43 utc | 127

Posted by: waynorinorway | Jan 30 2024 8:28 utc | 114
Munich Security Conference 2024 is coming February 16-18 at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich, again. One highlight event is convocation of the John McCain Dissertation Award.
The theme of last year’s MSC was “Re:Vision“. The catalogue of recorded panel discussions is archived here. The security report was written by McKinsey & Co.

Posted by: sln2002 | Jan 30 2024 20:04 utc | 128

Posted by: persiflo | Jan 30 2024 19:08 utc | 126
Thank you for that account. My son in Germany is a young married man into raising his children and launching a new consultancy business, so News is not front and centre in his mind. He has a generally cynical and detached view which I find hard to penetrate and suspect he has generally adopted this posture to avoid unpleasantness. All I did get out of him recently is that he thinks the Russians will soon be eager to sell their gas again, needing the money, but when I pointed out that Putin had openly deplored Germany’s providing tanks with which to kill his countrymen, I could feel that he hadn’t thought about it much at all – nor would I in his situation. That said, his new consultancy will help businesses with programming divisions downsize efficiently, so although he was poo-pooing any notion of repercussions from Ukraine back in 2022, his perspective has changed considerably. Any notion of economic downturn seems to have gone from nervous rumor to old news without skipping a beat.

Posted by: Scorpion | Jan 30 2024 20:06 utc | 129

Alexander Dugin last November published a very readable but thorough article about his Fourth Political Theory, which supplants modern notions of liberalism, communism, fascism etc. with that of a Fourth Way founded on people-culture, or civilization states, and wherein he describes Russia as a new Eurasian Civilizational Empire along with some of the fifth column problems within the Russian polity. Highly recommended.
https://www.arktosjournal.com/p/we-have-more-allies-than-it-seems
Also of note (recent):
https://www.arktosjournal.com/p/the-events-in-texas-a-new-civil-war “Alexander Dugin examines the shift from pragmatism to globalist policies in American politics, foreseeing an inevitable civil war due to these deep philosophical contradictions.”
and most recent:
https://www.arktosjournal.com/p/forward-to-the-new-middle-ages
“Alexander Dugin advocates a major societal shift: the resettlement from large cities back to the countryside, emphasising the revival of traditional family values and a rural lifestyle as critical responses to the ills of modernity.”

Posted by: Scorpion | Jan 30 2024 20:16 utc | 130

Since it is so short and pithy, here is Dugin’s take on what’s happening in Texas:

Alexander Dugin examines the shift from pragmatism to globalist policies in American politics, foreseeing an inevitable civil war due to these deep philosophical contradictions.
In America, the birthplace of pragmatism, pragmatism has vanished. The globalists, especially under the Biden regime, represent an extreme form of a globalist dictatorship, severing ties with the typically American tradition established by Charles Peirce and William James. The tradition of pragmatism was based on a complete indifference to the prescription of normative content for both the subject and object. For a true pragmatist, the perceptions of the subject about itself, the object, or another subject are irrelevant — what matters is that everything functions effectively upon interaction. However, globalists differ significantly, aligning more closely with British positivists and French fervent materialists. They persist with totalitarian brutality, dictating who and what should conform to their prescriptions.
To a pragmatist, it is inconsequential whether one changes their gender or remains the same, as long as it works for them. In contrast, globalists mandate gender changes, enforcing this through law and promoting it as a universal, progressive value. Anyone who opposes this view is labelled a ‘fascist’, or likened to Trump or Putin. They will insist on this approach, irrespective of its efficacy or self-defeating nature. Surprisingly, globalists share many traits with Ukrainians — an unsettling resemblance.
When globalists decide to increase illegal immigration, they relentlessly pursue this agenda, branding those advocating regulated immigration or border control as ‘fascists’, Trump supporters, or Putin agents. They press on with their prescriptive policies to the extreme, even if they prove utterly ineffective. For a globalist, anyone who disagrees with their viewpoint effectively does not — and should not — exist.
Hence, one can be certain that the progressives from the Democratic Party and the neoconservatives from both parties — just as obstinate and disconnected from pragmatism, realism, or traditional conservatism, thus alienating America’s true essence – are steering the country towards an inevitable civil war. They refuse to engage in meaningful dialogue, disregarding whether their policies work or not. Their focus remains fixated on enforcing their ideals: transgender rights, illegal immigration, pro-choice stances, open borders, green energy, and artificial intelligence. This represents a profound philosophical contradiction within the American system. Today, America is governed by those deeply out of touch with its identity, and thus, a new civil war in the USA seems inevitable. The globalists are set to ensure its outbreak.

https://www.arktosjournal.com/p/the-events-in-texas-a-new-civil-war
(I emboldened a couple of parts mentioning the use of the label ‘fascist’ which I find a tad over-used by some here and which came up this morning in the current Middle East thread. Note how Dugin posits the use of distorting labels and their resultant social fracture with making civil war in America inevitable. Language is powerful. Words matter.)

Posted by: Scorpion | Jan 30 2024 20:38 utc | 131

The german-supplied tanks are my absolute favourite point to go all in with my indignation. They didn’t even scrape off the iron cross before shipping them to the front, I say, and whoever does not understand this is either illiterate or simply insane … like Annalena Bär-Bock, apparently. How this comes about is beyond my imagination. But then, whoever made the plans for the new chancellory in Berlin found it decent to give it the same footprint that Hitler’s planned-for palace had, yet with just one of the fairly unique (one known other case built) wings clipped when it touches upon the Spree … I’d have them tied to a chair and listen to this if I were running the reeducation camp. argh.

Posted by: persiflo | Jan 30 2024 20:43 utc | 132

@Posted by: persiflo | Jan 30 2024 13:26 utc | 119
One of the greatest benefits of a Trump win is that dumb and dumber (Jake Sullivan and Anthony Blinken) will no longer be in charge of US foreign policy and I will no longer have to hear/read their stupidity. And of course Blinken’s unalloyed Zionist genocidal mania and Netanyahu bro-love. The new President may still need Depend adult diapers as much as the old one, but at least he will compos mentis.

Posted by: Roger | Jan 30 2024 20:43 utc | 133

Germany should embrace more or less what Dugin is recommending for Russia and which Russia is generally doing under Putin, namely reclaiming her national character and spirit and building a civilization around that. The upcoming economic depression might provide a good impetus for something like this to get going, especially if Russia goes through with turning her back on the West for a while and Westerners can clearly see a stark contrast between one zone rising and their own zone falling behind.

Posted by: Scorpion | Jan 30 2024 20:50 utc | 134

In case anyone’s wondering about my use of “demonstration” in my 119 above – the english term is rally. Sorry for being sloppy.

Posted by: persiflo | Jan 30 2024 20:56 utc | 135

Posted by: sln2002 | Jan 30 2024 20:04 utc | 128
Tks.
February 16-18 link – I saw a black man in the audience!
And is that Pelosi about 6 seats over and a row back of Stoltenberg? Little worm!
But no one from Russia or Iran because, according to Roderich Kiesewetter, a Christian Democrat MP, “Sometimes you have to draw a line in the sand with the war criminals and make clear to them that they’re not part of the club.” Kinda echoes the quote from my #114.
Recall this was where Putin gave his Munich speech in 2007.
Putin 2007

Posted by: waynorinorway | Jan 30 2024 20:58 utc | 136

Quick update to my 117
She’s arrived in Ottawa.
https://x.com/ZuzanaCaputova/status/1752387038756671880
Canadian media just released news of “a prolonged data security breach” following the “detection of malicious cyber activity.” This happened at the Global Affairs Department (foreign affairs dept in many other countries). The breach affected at least two internal drives, as well as emails, calendars and contacts of many staff members, between Dec. 20, 2023 and Jan. 24, 2024. CCP intelligence services no doubt (just kidding).
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/global-affairs-security-breach-1.7099290

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Jan 30 2024 21:27 utc | 137

@Posted by: Scorpion | Jan 30 2024 20:50 utc | 134
Germany is occupied by over 35,000 US military personnel and its security services were built by and are subservient to the CIA. The new political leaders are also so obviously comprador, excluding the odd exception. They have until October 26th 2025 to fabricate something to allow for the banning of the AfD, and they are already manufacturing the consent for such actions as removing state funding or outright banning the AfD (from DW and Der Spiegel):
Germany’s AfD could lose funds for anti-democratic behavior
Can The German People Stop The AfD’s Far Right Rise?
It will need a German revolution for that nation to be able to follow Dugin’s recommendations.

Posted by: Roger | Jan 30 2024 22:16 utc | 138

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Jan 29 2024 11:59 utc | 103
Thank you for your comment, I’ll look into it.

Posted by: Lathe Biosas | Jan 30 2024 22:58 utc | 139

psychohistorian | Jan 30 2024 4:12 utc | 110
You might be interested in this terrifying video from Davos on current developments regarding brain transparency…

Posted by: Lathe Biosas | Jan 30 2024 23:03 utc | 140

Germany is occupied by over 35,000 US military personnel and its security services were built by and are subservient to the CIA.
Posted by: Roger | Jan 30 2024 22:16 utc | 137
I can’t help but think of the East Timor cabinet offices, donated by Australia replete with built in bugs. Talk about the walls listening…
Not too long back, Cambodia bulldozed a relatively new naval facility – Australian aid again.
A massive outcry from anglostan followed. It was obvious they were very pissed off that all their carefully laid bugs within the walls were getting bulldozed.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 30 2024 23:19 utc | 141

@ Lathe Biosas | Jan 30 2024 23:03 utc | 139 with the link to the good update on neuromodulation technology…thanks
My experience with QEEG therapy has been very positive and I have been tracking this technology for a few years with input from my healer who has samples of everything in that video and more.
I have been a futurist for 50+ years and don’t believe that we are going to stop the advance of discovery but do believe that we can structure our society so that the underlying goal is not private jackboot but public good…..it goes back to my cry for all sovereign finance and no private finance that poisons the intent of money, IMO.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 31 2024 0:15 utc | 142

Lt. Col. Shaffer:
– Biden is an empty vessel, a very smart grifter, has no philosophy.
– Biden’s basic understanding of foreign policy is astonishing low. Example: Taiwanese voters voted in a party that wants to be/remain independent from China. But Biden told Taiwan: “We don’t want Taiwan to be independent”.
– There are still A LOT OF people in denial of the REAL situation in the Ukriane.
– Dmitri Medvedev (former russian prime minister): Kiev in is our crosshairs.
– This war was long planned by the EU, NATO, UK and the US. But this war also could have avoided. Biden just went along with these plans.
– The US wanted the ukrainian government to move to Lvov (eastern Ukraine).
– Russia has been invaded by foreigners: Mongols, Ottoman Empire (1570s ??), Sweden (1708), French (Napoleon, 1812), Japan 1905, US (1918), Nazi Germany (1941).
– Putin is the adult in the room but we (the US) have no adult in our room.
– There is a conflict between Biden and Netanyahu. The situation in the Middle East is bad for Biden’s re-election campaign and the democratic party.and that’s why Biden wants that war in Gaza to stop. Netanyahu wants the war to continue to avoid being convicted by an israeli court. Hence the “cold atmosphere” between the 2 men.
– The current administration is filled with psychopats and narcissists.
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyS6XImWOP4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0l0oZrwVdQ

Posted by: WMG | Jan 31 2024 0:37 utc | 143

Jake Sullivan’s speech at the World Economic Forum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J0JxSTyBg0

Posted by: WMG | Jan 31 2024 0:39 utc | 144

Posted by: bevin | Jan 30 2024 5:23 utc | 112
Takes me back to the Bohemian Grove days. Ah, no think tanks, no internet, no computers! And yet, here we still are!
😉

Posted by: juliania | Jan 31 2024 1:22 utc | 145

Posted by: waynorinorway | Jan 29 2024 9:33 utc | 102
Such a good interpretation of Plato’s intent, waynorinorway! I think many have missed it, certainly in my own era as a student — we weren’t so exposed to a similar political environment then, or at least the danger was hidden from us when I was a student – rhetoric did not have the same underlying threat it has become. There is just one of Plato’s dialogues where we may find Socrates defending himself – his “Apology”. Therein nobody’s voice but his can be seen and heard. I’ll be visiting that’dialogue’ next.
And thanks to Mr. Gruff also for his words: we can value those who get impatient with us, even whilst it irritates; well spoken, Mr. Gruff.

Posted by: juliania | Jan 31 2024 2:01 utc | 146

some mighty fine posts from waynorinorway, gruff and juliania… this is why i continue to frequent moa… thanks you 3.. off to a rehearsal..

Posted by: james | Jan 31 2024 2:09 utc | 147

quora

Why DID the USAss do nuthin about the foreign scammers who milked off billions last year from american grandma ?

gringo1

We cant just send in the marines willy nilly into any sovereign country you know ?

ROTFLMAO
Thats too funny son,

The U.S. military launched 469 foreign interventions since 1798, including 251 since the end of the first cold war in 1991, according to official Congressional Research

GRINGO2

Our jurisdiction stop at the border, can do nuthin to scammers based in other countries

.
Never heard of long arm jurisdicton eh ?
How about extra territorial executions ?
Kidnaping Alstrom CEO ,
kIDNApping Huawei CFO/
meddling in Tibet, HK, Xinjiang….
TIP of an iceberg,
Even now when Gaza is bleeding, Israeli’s mentors are grilling China …for the nth time,.
They are raining cow dung at the anglo/euro garden.

China underwent scrutiny of its human rights record at a U.N.
meeting on Tuesday, with mostly Western countries calling for protections for Xinjiang Uyghurs and greater freedom in Hong Kong which Beijing dismissed as guidance based on lies.
7 days ago
Western countries have used a regular U.N.-backed review of China’s human rights record to press Beijing to do more to allow freedom of expression, protect the rights
China grilled over human rights record at UN
China Human Rights Record Comes Under UN Scrutiny
Exclusive: China lobbies countries to praise its rights
wion
China’s human rights record condemned at UN | L
China tried, but failed, to prevent UN scrutiny of its hum
Analysts: UN Rights Review Shows Limits of China’s Global Influence Campaign
How China Games the Universal Periodic Review System
The Diplomat
Get this…
China set to dodge accountability at its UN human rights …
East Asia Forum
https://eastasiaforum.org › 2024 › January › 23
8 days ago —
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dodge accountability !
OMFG !
Say who ?
The one and only teflon club

Posted by: denk | Jan 31 2024 3:18 utc | 148

Desperate Times Call for Desperate War Crimes – With Mark Sleboda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGYJqncGDoo
a decent summary of many recent issues – russia ukraine israel palestine US white house crazies
@49 mins
Iran does come on I mean so as as much as I prioritize Russia’s relationship with Iran and China if the US is stupid enough to fall into a war with Iran here for Russia there couldn’t be a better thing
that’s my that’s my takeaway as well like I’m like why are they pushing for this this only plays into Russia’s hands I can’t understand why like there are a lot of people that do this whole weird Pro Ukraine Pro Palestine thing and I’m like those two things are very contradictory um because uh even I talked to Andre martianov and he was like who’s going to come first? is it going to be the Russian speaking people in Israel or is it going to be the alliance with Iran?
I mean this is not even a real question – this is a no-brainer you go with your you go with the the furthering the interest of the country that you’re in ie Russia and the way to do that is a strong alliance with Iran and China
so it’s a very in in the Kremlin and in in Beijing when they heard that the US was launching air strikes at the houthis right they just must have been laughing their asses off right it’s like somebody break out the Vodka!!!
right I mean that’s just like yeah that’s a a no- win situation [ for the US / West] um and the more they tie themselves they’re ruining their International reputation [ with the global south] there was a a piece in was it I think it was the financial times already more than two months ago that was an anonymous Western
Diplomat talking about the wests the US’s but the larger wests relationship with the global South and they’re like after the I mean they were already not listening to us but after the whole Israeli Palestine thing
we’ve lost them forever right – they’ll never listen to us on Ukraine or anything else again and they’re going for broke now with the the attacks in Yemen ………….
[ it’s all quite insane and very unpredictable imo ]

Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Jan 31 2024 5:24 utc | 149

Will 2024 be the PRC’s 1929? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRPkn6JbADk
Don’t watch this!!

Posted by: Antonym | Jan 31 2024 5:47 utc | 150

One highlight event is convocation of the John McCain Dissertation Award.
Posted by: sln2002 | Jan 30 2024 20:04 utc | 128
Ah yes, the JMD Award. I just about pee my pants…who will it be???
Didn’t some guy give a pretty good speech there in 2007? Vlad somebody iirc.
I clicked the February 16-18 link. I saw a black man in the audience! But no one this year from Russia or Iran because, according to Roderich Kiesewetter, a Christian Democrat MP, “Sometimes you have to draw a line in the sand with the war criminals and make clear to them that they’re not part of the club.” Kinda echoes the Hugo Dionísio quote from my #114.

Posted by: waynorinorway | Jan 31 2024 5:49 utc | 151

gringo1
We cant just send in the marines willy nilly into any sovereign country you know ?
ROTFLMAO
Thats too funny son,
The U.S. military launched 469 foreign interventions since 1798, including 251 since the end of the first cold war in 1991, according to official Congressional Research

Posted by: denk | Jan 31 2024 3:18 utc | 147
& @ denk | Jan 30 2024 3:15 utc | 109
William Blum would be proud of you! Thanks.

Posted by: waynorinorway | Jan 31 2024 6:06 utc | 152

Will 2024 be the PRC’s 1929?
Posted by: Antonym | Jan 31 2024 5:47 utc | 149
—
No! You don’t understand how bagholding works.

Posted by: too scents | Jan 31 2024 6:40 utc | 153

“In yet another blow to Imran Khan and his party, the former premier and his wife Bushra Bibi on Wednesday were sentenced to 14 years in jail in the Toshakhana reference.”
https://www.dawn.com/news/1810025/imran-khan-bushra-bibi-sentenced-to-14-years-in-toshakhana-reference

Posted by: Antonym | Jan 31 2024 11:04 utc | 154

@ too scents | Jan 31 2024 6:40 utc | 153
I understand that the Chinese middle class who invested in stocks instead of real estate or fixed deposits, 200 million strong, will be holding these bags. These won’t be Gucci’s, more jute or plastic.

Posted by: Antonym | Jan 31 2024 11:08 utc | 155

the Chinese middle class
@ Antonym | Jan 31 2024 11:08 utc | 155
—
You think the “Chinese middle class” can by Dollar bonds with Renminbi?

Posted by: too scents | Jan 31 2024 11:19 utc | 156

“Queensland’s state-owned power grid remotely turned down almost 170,000 air conditioners six times in the past two months as part of a scheme to protect the electricity network.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-31/energex-ergon-peaksmart-air-con-cuts-during-hot-weather/103385474
Some installers said they were wary of the PeakSmart scheme, which was introduced by the Newman government in 2012, because the guidelines regarding air-con control were not clear.
Energex and Ergon access air conditioners through PeakSmart meters, which are controlled via power lines, usually in return for access to a cash rebate of up to $400.
………………..
A few years ago some clowns politely knocked on my door to tell me they were installing ‘smart’ meters. Stupid clowns. I impolitely told them not to. Went out to check on reading this and see they haven’t snuck back and installed it in a woke covert action.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 31 2024 11:26 utc | 157

It will need a German revolution for that nation to be able to follow Dugin’s recommendations.
Posted by: Roger | Jan 30 2024 22:16 utc | 138

“But whether these conditions have already been met is a matter of speculation. This is something that authorities at the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, which has been monitoring the party and some of its state affiliates, know better,” he said.
As a so-called observation case, the AfD may be subject to surveillance in the states of Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt using secret methods such as phone tapping. Pestalozza believes that excluding the party from state funding, at least in these federal states, is possible.
To do so, the government or parliament would have to submit the relevant motion. The Federal Constitutional Court could then still come to a completely different conclusion than the intelligence agency. However, Pestalozza stressed that this outcome would be unlikely.
Where do German political parties get their money?

https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-afd-risks-losing-funding-over-anti-democratic-actions/a-68054159 [link works]
Well, I presume you have forgotten more than I’ll ever know about how revolutions work in practice, but that little excerpt above shows the hypocrisy or irony in the current official German Govt position viz AfD being ‘extreme-right’. Germany is more extreme but similar to the US in the sense that anything not very much left is regarded as center, and anything not clearly left is ‘extreme right’ – and of course those labels are increasingly out-dated anyway.
Seems that at least on the mental/narrative level it would be good for more Germans to wake up to how extreme the default politically correct positions are and how so many of them are the result of embracing narratives about themselves and their history that are a) too extreme to begin with and b) way past their due date and c) bad for their and their childrens’ lives. If a general perceptual shift could actually take place somehow, maybe some sort of revolution could ensue. Perhaps the AfD should attack narratives openly to help more of their fellow countryman understand the mental nature of the cultural battlefield? Persiflo’s anecdote above indicates perhaps this ‘mind-change’ is already taking place under the surface of PC public discourse? (Hmmm…Maybe Persiflo could take over the Party?!)
It seems that it is far easier to mount regimes which turn increasingly toxic over time than it is to change or replace them once they are in place. I wonder why that is…..

Posted by: Scorpion | Jan 31 2024 13:02 utc | 158

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMnHEGVJ2qY
This farming family from Canada recently emigrated to Russia for cultural reasons and so that their eight children will grow up in a country which shares their Christian values. This report is about shopping in Russia during the sanctions. They recently went to the Nivgy Novgorod (?) offices to finalize their entry and the wife broke down in tears at how kind everyone was, but also because the ceremony marked the end of a long, two-year process which seems to have gone very well despite their not speaking a word of Russian.
I suspect thousands will soon be following this couple to Russia. Their Youtube account has gone from a few to seventy thousand in the past month despite most of their videos being rather boring (imo). Maybe some of the farmers now demonstrating in Holland, France and elsewhere will be considering the move, not to mention some of the over 700,000 truckers mustering along the US border. Russia has more available land than any other developed nation on the planet and for sincere Christians seems like an ideal country plus for those in North America an added bonus: they won’t be demonized for being Whites.

Posted by: Scorpion | Jan 31 2024 13:19 utc | 159

Posted by: waynorinorway | Jan 31 2024 6:06 utc | 152
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The first day of my presidency, I’ll apologize — publicly and sincerely — to all the widows and orphans, the impoverished and the tortured, to all the many millions of other victims of American imperialism. I would announce to the world that America’s global military interventions have come to an end. The second day, I would tell Israel that it is no longer the 51st state, but, oddly enough, a foreign country. On the third day I would reduce the military budget by at least 90% and use the savings to pay reparations to the victims and repair the damage from the many American bombings, invasions and sanctions. There would be more than enough money. One year’s US military budget is equal to more than $20,000 per hour for every hour since Jesus was born. On the fourth day, I’d be assassinated.

William BLum
RIP
Somebody should do an autopsy on BLum

Posted by: denk | Jan 31 2024 14:12 utc | 160

Posted by: denk | Jan 30 2024 3:15 utc | 109
—————————-
Obama criticised bush’s ‘shock and awe‘ ,
Obama the prez ramped it up another notch
Trump criticized Obama’s extra territorial executions,
Trump the prez dropped more bombs than BUsh/Obama combined,
BIden criticised Trumps aerial vandalism,
Biden the prez became the fourth potus to bomb Yemen
Trump criticised Biden’s Yemen blitzkrieg,
Trump the prez….

Posted by: denk | Jan 31 2024 15:07 utc | 161

New boss, same as old boss.
Wash , rinse, repeat
Works like a charm,
Meanwhile
Fridayeveryday

US arms export hit record high in 2023 !
Wars raise profit outlook for US defence industires for 2024 !

Must be just coincidence !
heheheh

Posted by: denk | Jan 31 2024 16:05 utc | 162

@Posted by: Scorpion | Jan 31 2024 13:19 utc | 159
This is one of the reasons why I keep mentioning a Russian “homesteading” act to repopulate Ukraine and parts of Russia. There are chunks of the Western populations that are culturally now much closer to Russia than with their own elites and woke schooling/corporations/universities. With the declining economic fortunes of everyone but the rich in the West, this could provide both a supply of motivated people and a significant propaganda victory. Ukraine becoming the new “frontier” with stories of happy emigrants serving to increase the flow. The US establishments southern open border policies will serve to help white populations move.
Added to that can be the motivated populations of foreign-based ethnic Russians (depopulating further the Baltic States), Russian-speakers from the Stans and from Moldava, Romania and Bulgaria as well as other nations (there are also two million Russians in Israel). The Ukrainians that left should not return, so many of them would be problematic. Better to leave those problems with the Europeans, a self ethnic cleansing, the Europeans will rue the day they let in all those Ukrainian millions. Also, a good message for the Taiwanese about what would happen if they ever decided to commit suicide-by-China.

Posted by: Roger | Jan 31 2024 18:22 utc | 163

@Posted by: denk | Jan 31 2024 15:07 utc | 161

Trump criticized Obama’s extra territorial executions,
Trump the prez dropped more bombs than BUsh/Obama combined

Either provide evidence for this claim or STFU with your BS.

Posted by: Roger | Jan 31 2024 18:26 utc | 164

@Posted by: Scorpion | Jan 31 2024 13:02 utc | 158
Nasty and/or autocratic regimes can stay in place for a very long time. They usually fall due to externally driven events that delegitimize them, external intervention, or ironically when they start to open up a bit. In the latter case, the opening up leads to increasing expectation for a greater opening up and the increasing strength of oppositional forces. As Gramsci noted, bourgeois societies have a well developed “civil society” that is used to ideologically control the population and provides a very significant buffer for the regime – trapping oppositional forces in superficial avenues that dissipate their energy. The AfD threatens the post-war German civil society consensus, institutions, and operative career paths and positions, and therefore “must” be stopped at all costs.
Deng’s administration learnt this lesson after a spot of trouble, Gorbachev did not. Same with Tsarist Russia, the freeing of the serfs etc. resulted in the assassination of a reforming Tsar which then led to a crackdown that drove more opposition which exploded with the defeat against the Japanese in 1905. Then exploded again with the effects of WW1 on Russian society and the Tsar’s legitimacy.
The Tunisian revolution may have well been organic due to high food prices, but the rest of the Arab Spring was substantially driven by Western agencies to produce the cause celebre for the Libyan regime change and to redirect change to new comprador leaders. The rest of the “colour revolutions” were hardly organic, following a Western agency script with widespread funding and training.

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Posted by: Roger | Jan 31 2024 18:26 utc | 164
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Posted by: denk | Feb 1 2024 1:14 utc | 166

Not a bad come back. 🙂

Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Feb 1 2024 2:06 utc | 167

@ roger 163 a Russian “homesteading” act to repopulate Ukraine and parts of Russia.
If I was under 40 (or had the funds otherwise) I’d do it in a millisecond.

Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Feb 1 2024 2:10 utc | 168

Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Feb 1 2024 2:06 utc | 167
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Im taken aback by Roger’s testiness !

Posted by: denk | Feb 1 2024 3:04 utc | 169

Posted by: denk | Feb 1 2024 3:04 utc | 169
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I’m Stunned by his Sensitiveness !

Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Feb 1 2024 7:00 utc | 170

Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Feb 1 2024 7:00 utc | 170
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He could’ve simply ask me to substantiate my claim,
sensitive is the word
Most gringo are still wallowing in bi partisan politics.
Roger is obviously a trumpist.
Im just pointing out one simple fact,
https://www.globalresearch.ca/all-us-presidents-living-and-dead-are-war-criminals/5662099
Not even singling out Trump

Posted by: denk | Feb 1 2024 14:45 utc | 171

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