Dalit | Feb 10 2024 5:43 utc | 200
Stats are under the video. Hardly rocket science to read them.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 10 2024 5:54 utc | 204

“X, formerly Twitter, becomes No. 1 app on US App Store after news of Tucker Carlson-Putin interview emerges” https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/x-formerly-twitter-becomes-no-172829215.html

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 10 2024 6:13 utc | 206

Pakistan is a country of 230 million people.

In shock result, allies of jailed ex-leader Khan win most seats in Pakistan election
Islamabad CNN —
Independent candidates affiliated with jailed Pakistani political leader Imran Khan’s party won the most National Assembly seats in Pakistan’s general election, delivering a surprise victory in a vote marred by a slow count and rigging allegations.
According to the Election Commission of Pakistan, independent candidates won 98 seats so far, with 22 seats still unclaimed. The majority of the independents are affiliated with Khan’s party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
The Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz party (PMLN), which had been favored to sweep the polls, has so far won the second-most seats with 69. The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has the third-most with 51 seats.
The 22 remaining seats would not be enough to give PMLN, headed by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, or PPP the lead, even if they were to win all of them. Still, none of the three major parties of the country will win the necessary 169 seats to have a majority in parliament and, therefore, will be unable to form government on their own, leaving it unclear who will be picked to be the country’s next prime minister.
continues …

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/09/asia/pakistan-election-nawaz-sharif-intl/index.html

Happy Lunar New Year 🐉

Posted by: too scents | Feb 10 2024 6:31 utc | 208

I have a friend who is very talented and below is an example of that talent
WHAT DID YOU DO WHEN YOU KNEW?
By Deb Rodney
What did you do when you knew
that Life in all its glory
was on its way to the end
with no way to pretend
and no way to amend
the end of the story?
What did you do when you knew
beyond any doubt
it wasn’t about
save-the-Earth tricks
or a technical fix?
Did you weep?
Did you cry?
Did you rant and rage?
Did you rely on McPherson, the wise Guy
as your climate gage?
And did he comply
With your own inner sage?
How do you cope with no hope?
Do you stress?
Do you mope?
Do you just try to survive?
Or do you strive to stay fully alive
as we head down the slope?
What did you do when you knew?
Did it crack open your heart
and pull you apart
from those you thought were so true?
Did it split you in two
and explode into art?
Or did you knit
up your heart
and calmly submit
to everything falling apart?
What did you do when you knew?
Did you try to guide the ghost ship?
Did you try to ride the wave?
Did you take a strong sip
of the nectar of life?
Or if you are brave,
have you readied the knife
to pave your way to the grave?
Now that you know beyond any doubt,
how do you go about
finding a route
to being alive as we die?
And how do you thrive while you try?
Now, that you know
how do you still give?
And how do you forgive?
With all the swords of so many sorrows
piercing all of our tomorrows?
Now that you know.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Feb 10 2024 7:02 utc | 210

“Take Waterloo: a Rothschild’s private Intelligence service carrier pigeon informed London just before the open that Napoleon had won the battle; shortly thereafter the Rothschilds had bought up nearly all UK private companies at pennies to the pound; then later official messages arrived with the news that actually Wellington had won immediately after which the prices went back up and then some, only now one family controlled pretty much the entire national economy (including the Crown). That’s what they do, not protect their people.
Posted by: Scorpion | Feb 9 2024 21:12 utc | 107
That’s true but he’s how it happened. On the Monday June 19th morning after the Battle of Waterloo the gilts (bond) opened in London. All the traders knew that Nathan Rothschild had a pigeon carrier service so they knew the he would know what happened in the battle before they did.
So what did Nathan do with the ‘good’ news that the allies had won? He sold heavily as the market opened up so the traders took his cue and sold massively as well.
After they sold out Rothschild bought all their cheap paper plus made a huge arbitrage on the gilts he had sold earlier in the morning which he bought back.
Not long afterwards we get the quote:
“By 1815, Nathan Mayer Rothschild controlled the Bank of England and boldly declared, “I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls Britain’s money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply.” This became the Rothschild family’s mantra — control the world by controlling the world’s money supply.”

Posted by: canuck | Feb 10 2024 9:53 utc | 212

Don’t underestimate Tucker Carlson. He was not out of his depth it was just very a very different experience and please rubbishing all Americans is what Hilary Clinton does to those she doesn’t like remember basket of deplorables?
And I will repeat this here just for fun – sounds like Putin will swap WAPO ‘journo’ for Vadim Krasikov. He made that clear.

Posted by: Inki | Feb 10 2024 11:27 utc | 214

Germany has strict laws prohibiting support of nazism.
How did they at the same time break that law by supporting facism in Ukraine and funding them ?
Posted by: Mark2 | Feb 9 2024 20:39 utc | 100
There are no facists in Ukraine.
now go home, produce some kids, peace.
The moment the former UKR ambassador to DE shew his allegiance at Stepan Bandera’s grave they should have put him on a train back home.

Posted by: MAKK | Feb 10 2024 12:35 utc | 216

To Chinese readers…
There’s a nefarious diversion agiprop going on .
Listen up !
there aint no ‘Jew‘ war against Chinese.
For the umptheen time, war on Chinese has been a FUKUS led campaign since ENA , RIGHT up to the current G7.
This is a fact , not an opinion.
McCarthyism is burning all over [five liars] land, I even heard WS cheering it on over at UNZ, just like they gloat on the reunion of the WW2 axis Germany./Jp./Italy.
Gardenist are too easy to manipulate, the ptb must be chuckling to themsevles.
FUKUSA aka AUKUS used to be the hardcore anglo outfit, but lately Canada seems to be gunning for a spot in that prestigious club.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBZZEi_j9hw

Posted by: denk | Feb 10 2024 13:05 utc | 218

Have caught up on all the comments now – excellent by the usual suspects. Bullshit by the usual suspects.
So one final post before an afternoon of impact entertainment to the newish poster (?) who is confused by my amateur ramblings. Nothing personal but no need to ask the Sting merchant to interpret me – I’m right here.
@Posted by: Dalit | Feb 10 2024 2:42 utc | 174
Aah Dalit my dear fellow/ess, my ramblings sometimes/often verge on esoteric. It’s gonzo writing. On a phone using thumbs. Straight from the hip as it were. They would always benefit from a review and rewriting after a night, before posting. But then where would be the direct , emotional reactive poetry in such a corrected prose? Where would be the urgency of a conversation, drunken often, the FUN?
I try to avoid this site being accused of Judeophobia – if you have seen much of my meanderings over the last couple of years you will have noticed that I have identified Zionism as the villain. Zionism which is practiced by non religious People. People who are direct descendants from the converts to Judaism ordered by their Khazar Kings. The kings who had always a desire to take Russia and Central Asia. They were beaten and went ‘West’ took Europe and invented the Nation States and ‘Public Banks’ which were private. Then set them against each other and in pursuit of piracy and conquest of the World by Sea Power. That divided the world first between Portugual and Spain then with the Dutch French and ultimately English. Which created the amalgamated dogs dinner that is the US empire and as it’s crowning glory the capture and colonisation of The Levant by the Khazarians – the fake Jewish ‘white tribe’ that laid claim of all these lands – because the Red Army defeated their proxy Nazi Germans and associated fascists from the ‘Western’ world they had invented and controlled for centuries. And they had failed again to regain Crimea and the Ukraine as agreed with the Bolsheviks they created ! That is Putins ‘inexplicable’ decisions of the Old Guard of Communists.
I guess if that does not make any more sense to you than my pointing out how Putin identifies the Ancient Villains of the Steppes without actually calling them out by name, then it is only my fault for being an amateur writer and historian. I apologise for wasting your time. Do feel free to always ‘skip’ my comments. Adieu.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Feb 10 2024 13:25 utc | 220

Canuck you are absolutely right, but there’s another little wrinkle to the ‘more CO2 means more warning’.
People assume that means a straight line graph – but it ain’t. After a pek absorption rate, the graph goes asymptotic parallel to the x axis.
Mathematically, the way CO2 absorbs energy, beyond a certain point, is LOGARYTHMIC. that is the CO2 is saturated, and the more CO2 you add now, the more NEGLIGIBLE the temperature increase.
To non-maths people, it’s like the law of diminishing returns.

Posted by: scepticalSOB | Feb 10 2024 13:40 utc | 222

The two candidates for president of the USA
are both… MENTAILY DEFECTIVE.
Let that sink in.
Good night all.
Posted by: Mark2 | Feb 9 2024 20:54 utc | 104
One should not say “MENTALLY DEFECTIVE” anymore but rather “horizontally challenged” or something like that…

Posted by: Greg Galloway | Feb 10 2024 13:47 utc | 224

Oh, about video stats and whether Americans watched/read the whole thing, let alone understood it, I defer to my experience living in USA: people here like to comment, share, bookmark, and carry around texts like a talisman, the actual consumption and digestion thereof is nowhere as important as the signalling. e.g. religious text, political treatise, etc.
I wish it were different and would love to be pleasantly surprised. But perhaps in this case my anecdotal experience with my cultural milieu for years should defer to non-American aspirations. 🙂 I hope you are right. Though I strongly recommend bumper stickers and sound bites to forcefeed anything through to the hegemon’s citizens. 😉 Hope isn’t a strategy and that’s my strategic advice.

Posted by: titmouse | Feb 10 2024 14:10 utc | 226

To non-maths people, it’s like the law of diminishing returns.
Posted by: scepticalSOB | Feb 10 2024 13:40 utc | 220
Since the subject came up, I want to point out that the global climate is a chaotic system, and therefore the idea that it is long term predictable is false.

Posted by: Bemildred | Feb 10 2024 14:50 utc | 228

This became the Rothschild family’s mantra — control the world by controlling the world’s money supply.”
Posted by: canuck | Feb 10 2024 9:53 utc | 210
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I guess George Soros followed the Rothschild playbook, or at least the mantra, as best he could when opportunities arose/arise.

Posted by: Jane | Feb 10 2024 15:01 utc | 230

And watch what b. gave you, hopefully Stone is not too much for you.
Posted by: stranger | Feb 10 2024 14:46 utc | 225
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You can rant all you want about the USA and the dumb USA-ians, but why not instead stop to take on board what Putin himself pointed out: that USA media combines have a huge footprint globally. Whether we like it or not, what happens in the USA and Americans’ perceptions of reality do affect events worldwide.
There is no way to predict the possible ripple effects of the Carlson interview. It certainly did show up TC’s limitations. Perhaps a light bulb will go on for him: that a conversation involves and exchange of ideas, and he didn’t seem to have any.
His resort to defining Putin in terms of two emotions is still niggling me. It was like he wanted to get a leg up on Putin by defining him in terms of emotions in a setting where Putin could not answer back. IOW it as a cheap dominance move. IMHO. It implies that Putin is ruled by emotion, not by logic and rational planning. Whereas the exact opposite is the case.
If Tucker had any imagination and ideas of his own, he could have said in his “after interview,” “Putin is very angry about the rejection of Russia by the West and its attempt to exploit and even destroy Russia. AND HE IS RIGHT TO BE ANGRY, BECAUSE IT WAS STUPID AND DANGEROUS FOR EVERYONE AND IS THE REASON THE WORLD IS CURRENTLY ON THE BRINK OF WW3. IT ALSO MAKES ME ANGRY. MY CHILDREN’S FUTURE, EVEN THEIR SURVIVAL, IS ENDANGERED.”

Posted by: Jane | Feb 10 2024 15:25 utc | 232

And to think that the United States once hosted political exchanges of the level of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. How the mighty have fallen.
Posted by: Kukulkan | Feb 9 2024 12:32 utc | 4
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Lincoln: How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.
Still a memorable quote.

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Feb 10 2024 15:36 utc | 234

2. I wonder whether Putin, with his history lesson, wasn’t also saying that Poland has always been a problem for Russia! Also, with in the confines of “the Ukraine.”
3. Putin made it clear to Tucker who was in charge of the meeting. I think he dominated Tucker, and that was his intention. Tucker wanted clear black and white answers that would generate short headlines and sound bites. I don’t think he got them out of Putin.
I applaud Tucker for even going to Russia. But his frat-boy shtick self-presentation could be improved. He could have learned a few phrases or even just a word or two to greet Putin. That would have been more gracious than the permanent look of confusion on his face. I haven’t watched the last 20 mins of the interview yet—perhaps Tucker did exit more graciously and gracefully than he entered!
Posted by: Jane | Feb 9 2024 14:29 utc | 23
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My sentiments exactly.
I thought he was underprepared and that his staff did not prepare him well. His frat-boy shtick always shines through. OTOH he is a member of the Swanson frozen food empire and a big improvement over Gloria Vanderbilt’s son on CNN.

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Feb 10 2024 15:47 utc | 236

Posted by: lex talionis | Feb 10 2024 2:55 utc | 179
One thing I didn’t know before the interview but have gathered since is that Tucker C is a celebrity already in Russia. Seems he’s the favorite English language guy for Russian bloggers to share clips of and is generally regarded as a decent sort. In any case, no doubt this interview will get a lot of air time in the Russio-sphere, not just Nato-stan.

Posted by: Scorpion | Feb 10 2024 15:59 utc | 238

Re The Interview, my Russia correspondent wrote the following. He gave Tucker higher points than most here, so in in fairness to Tucker, here are my Russian friend’s comments as he wrote them:

“I did not sleep and watched the interview at 2 a.m. Moscow time, just when people in the US could watch it. The synchronic translation was from English into Russian and this double translation distorted the sense of Putin’s arguments. I had, therefore, to watch the next day the interview the second time. It is very good that the English voice-over was of high quality. It was the responsibility of Tucker and his team to prepare a good English translation.
One have to admit that Tucker made a breakthrough. IMO, he could not look too friendly to Putin in order not to be blamed of being his agent. Some portion of rejection or even mild hostility was necessary. Nevertheless, it seemed to me that Tucker agreed with Putin in some important issues concerning dollar, Ukraine, and others.
Tucker did not expect the extended historical introduction, indeed a short lecture, at the beginning of the interview, which took 30 minutes (Putin asked initially 30 seconds, maximum 1 minute). It was important for Putin to shed light on the basic historical facts not only for Tucker, but for the world audience. On the other hand, Tucker accepted at the very beginning of the interview the offer of Putin that it would be a serious conversation, not TV-show.
I was surprised that Putin, in his explanation of the causes of the war, did not say that Ukraine increased very much the intensity of artillery and missile shootings of Donbass in January 2022 and prepared huge army forces for occupation of this region. He did not mention, either, the presence of American bio labs on the territory of Ukraine.
In my view, the end of the interview was gracious. Despite of all the shortcomings of the interview that you mention, Tucker Carlson is an outstanding journalist and a very bright person, who did not scared to oppose the deep state and globalism.

Posted by: Jane | Feb 10 2024 16:05 utc | 240

Posted by: Jake.Blanchard | Feb 10 2024 3:14 utc | 187
As you may detect, I have little respect for Dugin. He’s just a celebrity Cold War dinosaur in my books, pumped up by ideologue neo-Trotskists. Remember 2 years ago he was touted in Western MSM as “Putin’s Wizard Advisor”. Lol. That must have given VP a belly laugh. He’s nought but a well published hard left nationalist academic pundit with miniscule public support. Probably a good historian but certainly not a man of the times! I find his writings rather banal — and I’m not even Russian!!!

Well, Dugin is rightly credited with being the main thought leader of the multipolarity concept since the 90’s. The meme that he is ‘Putin’s brain’ is silly but that he is influential is beyond question though, obviously, a philosopher not leader like Putin.
I like him because
a) he is Russian and I am interested in learning how they view things
b) he is a very orderly thinker, philosophically trained
c) he is a ‘political philosopher’ so discusses geopolitics in a way that few others can muster
d) his ‘fourth political theory’ thesis is fascinating. Some say that it is highly original, some say it is just reshuffling the same old stuff. Basically, he says that history has moved past liberalism, communism and fascism although all three have positive elements. He has a well developed theory about what makes a civilization worthy. He is an open fan of Heidegger’s Dasein. You call him a Trotskyite, though clearly he regards permanent revolution as anathema; I think he might be closer to a Russian National Socialist; however, as a critic of reductive materialism he is clearly far beyond either and has actually come up with a new paradigm – ‘civilization states’ etc.
Yesterday I stumbled on a 50 minute overview of his work which was pretty good. And it shows that your characterization clearly evidences very little time spent with the man’s ideas, probably more on short opinion pieces about him. But to each his own, of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDmdo6Px8Hk

Posted by: Scorpion | Feb 10 2024 16:19 utc | 242

canuck | Feb 10 2024 10:50 utc | 211
“Green plants grow faster with more CO2”
Straw man. A more accurate statement would be Green plants grow faster with THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF CO2 as long as all other elements are also in place. Too much CO2 and plants burn up. The reason that CO2 is added to greenhouses is because a greenhouse is a sealed off environment where NO CO2 can get in.
Plants grow better when watered so why not just leave the water running all the time to make the plants grow faster? You would die in a few days without water so if I put a towel over your face and pour a steady stream of water on it you should be even healthier right?
Also there are not alot of plants in the 10,000 to 50,000′ altitude range.
The greenhouse effect is real. If we removed all CO2 Earth would be a huge Ice Cube. Increase it 4 or 5 times and Earth is as fun to live on as Venus.

Posted by: jef | Feb 10 2024 16:43 utc | 244

On the day of the release of the Tucker Carlson interview with Vladimir Putin, Feb. 8, 2024, I am sad, distraught, to say that what could have been, should have been, a history-changing communication with the leader of the Russian people would have been turned into a hot mess by Tucker. But wasn’t, thanks to the brilliance and GOODNESS of a greater man, President Putin. Amazingly, President Putin graciously (unbelievably!) managed to defuse hand grenades lobbed at him by Carlson. I can’t tell you how disappointed I am by this man that I have been idolizing. Tucker was a turd for two solid hours. So much for Tucker as the unquestionable best choice for VP. I can only hope that Carlson will watch his own interview MANY times….and then FIGURE OUT what an ass he was as he tried to blow this historic opportunity to do something truly great for our people, and for the world.
https://www.republicbroadcastingarchives.org/the-trump-phenomenon-with-james-kelso-february-8-2024/

Posted by: ld | Feb 10 2024 16:55 utc | 246

Posted by: Jake.Blanchard | Feb 10 2024 3:14 utc | 187
PS. I do have one criticism of Dugin’s theories, though and that is that, like most of his ilk, he does not address endemic corruption, where it comes from from, how to deal with it. IMO this is the single most important element in any given politico-social system which has to be addressed. Indeed, unless it is addressed thoroughly from the get-go, any system of any type is doomed to fail, so it’s a major topic but one which I have yet to see him, or any major political theory thinker, address. (That said, since am not well read on that stuff, maybe there have been extensive treatments of which am unaware.) One thing he does do well, tangentially, is that he does not buy into Platonic Utopias which are the forefathers of all totalitarian dystopias. No ‘Guardians’ in Dugin’s Civilization States!

Posted by: Scorpion | Feb 10 2024 16:56 utc | 248

“Mathematically, the way CO2 absorbs energy, beyond a certain point, is LOGARYTHMIC. that is the CO2 is saturated, and the more CO2 you add now, the more NEGLIGIBLE the temperature increase.
To non-maths people, it’s like the law of diminishing returns.
Posted by: scepticalSOB | Feb 10 2024 13:40 utc | 220
As Professor William Happer, Princeton professor emerita of astrophysics, has explained very clearly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGn-6kGoD0c
“A Little Learning Is a Dangerous Thing”
See also Chris Morrison, climate correspondent at the Daily Sceptic:
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/02/02/global-plant-growth-accelerates-thanks-to-higher-carbon-dioxide-levels-new-study-finds/
Posted by: Jane | Feb 10 2024 15:08 utc | 231
jef-I guess you didn’t understand how CO2 works-kindly please read the above and get back to me.

Posted by: canuck | Feb 10 2024 17:08 utc | 250

Posted by: Jane | Feb 10 2024 15:25 utc | 232
Ms. Jane,
I have not ranted, I have simply coldly warned you et similar, I do not care about you, your children etc. You are behind, you are complicit with the crimes of your government because simply you are not so smart to understand.I am not interested in your posts, never read them before.
All I am telling you is that you are very limited now in your existence, stay in your USA, you are not welcome to the rest of the world, because the 87% is not welcoming you.Anymore.
Can you understand what b. gave you, read the oliver stone interwiew, in short read.Also read about your criminal government crimes since long ago.
As you are boring, I always skip your posts, but this one caught my eye.
What I am telling you, ms. jane is- you will not be free to come and behave like primitive tourists in my part of the world.
Any more. And yes, I have met too many of you till now.
You are not welcome, and about your children, grandchildren, I do not really care.
Good bye

Posted by: stranger | Feb 10 2024 17:27 utc | 252

Posted by: canuck | Feb 10 2024 16:56 utc | 247
My greatest trepidation, which you alluded to in your ‘hidden hand’ examples, is that the Elite, including Putin and Xi, are all in on a conspiracy to , for lack of a better phrase , ‘fuck all us Serfs’.

For over six months have been refusing to try to write out a political theory essay that includes two principle elements:
1. Multiple layers and levels versus a single principle or construct (perhaps using classics-based Chinese medical theory as example)
2a. Corruption – how virtue is engendered within a polity to balance/repel inevitable vice. Or put another way:
2b. Any given individual or collective has a Dark Side ignoring or avoiding which results in its inevitable blossoming into living Hell.

Posted by: Scorpion | Feb 10 2024 17:44 utc | 254

Republican Marsha Blackburn

Chinese civilization has a 5,000-year history of “cheating and stealing”

Posted by: denk | Feb 10 2024 18:08 utc | 256

Posted by: psychohistorian | Feb 10 2024 7:02 utc | 210
You friend , Deb, is indeed talented-excellent poetry

Posted by: canuck | Feb 10 2024 18:22 utc | 258

Posted by: stranger | Feb 10 2024 17:27 utc | 251
Your redundant, silly rant on Jane personally, rather than argue against her ideas, clearly illustrates the paucity of your intellect.
Kindly please argue Jane’s points rather than generals ad hominens against all Americans: do you realize how retarded that makes you look?

Posted by: canuck | Feb 10 2024 18:28 utc | 260

“I did not do anything but worn you, you are not welcome anymore to most of the world, and it is huge.
Now, please, just shut up with your stupid posts to MoA.”
Posted by: stranger | Feb 10 2024 18:21 utc | 255
Your poor spelling, and your bad grammar as well as your profanity only confirms my earlier post: that you are intellectually, and civilly unarmed.

Posted by: canuck | Feb 10 2024 18:31 utc | 262

Neither she has any ideas, dear canuck, nor I did rant against her personality which she has not, I simply warned her that she is not welcome in the most of the world.Because she is not.Due to what she is.
Now? Excuse me, as have things to do, good night lovelies, sorry you suffer so much for being not appreciated.
I have to finish some painting,lallala, and have to go to another thread.
Some serious worries there, while you do your verbal masturbating. Enjoy your little squabbles

Posted by: stranger | Feb 10 2024 18:41 utc | 264

I watch MSNBC or other such MSM channels once in a while to get the ‘feel’ of the Empire’s narrative as they do nothing but. [canuk how many times do have I to tell you not to end a sentence with a preposition? editor]
I watched a bunch yesterday and all but one or two were very critical of Biden’s ‘faux ‘pas’ senility which indicates, to me, that they are serious about replacing him .
But with who? Certainly not Harris even the neo cons see she couldn’t fight her way out of a paper bag.
What they might do is have a huddle with the Democratic Supreme Court judges and have one resign then Biden appoints Harris. She’s out of Dodge Then they appoint a VP -Hillary, Newsome, Michelle Obama ( I can’t think of any others? help me) then old Joe gets put down.
That’s my 2 cents

Posted by: canuck | Feb 10 2024 18:57 utc | 266

Yea! Cannuck has solved global warming. Everyone can rest easy and crank up your f450 v10 and drive to the mall.

Posted by: jef | Feb 10 2024 19:00 utc | 268

@Posted by: Hankster | Feb 10 2024 4:14 utc | 196
“Humanitarian intervention” was always really meaning “white man’s burden”, Prince just said the quiet bit out loud. The West operates on the assumption of civilizational superiority, its why the success of China is so dangerous to them – the case of a different civilizational project that is very successful. Its also why they have to destroy and denigrate any socialist experiment, such as Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela etc.
Chomsky put it well, a successful differing civilizational project would be the “good example” that could drive counter-hegemonic projects within Western countries.

Posted by: Roger | Feb 10 2024 19:17 utc | 270

Posted by: Jane | Feb 10 2024 19:28 utc | 269
Happer the geriatric fraud.it’s not based on computer models. and there is a consensus about evolution, and plate tectonics, too.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Feb 10 2024 19:35 utc | 272

Posted by: Jane | Feb 10 2024 19:38 utc | 271
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Except that Harris-Newsom probably will not get that far.
Trump will win.

Posted by: Jane | Feb 10 2024 19:41 utc | 274

The first gem was designed to be processed carefully in DC Metro, IMHO.
Posted by: Acco Hengst | Feb 10 2024 15:57 utc | 237
My point was that the Russian President was mocking the reply of clown Zelensky, which was probably a torrent of abuse or worse, while pointing out the simple truth that the majority of Ukrainians – including Zelensky’s own father – who fought in WWII fought against the Nazis and not alongside them.
But you seem to be making a completely different point. Which is?

Posted by: N Hanrahan | Feb 10 2024 19:59 utc | 276

No, Jane or whatever your name is.
I am not ranting, just a little like Hamas now.The whole of the world hates you now.
I am just saying that you will never never again be safe when you get out of your borders.You will not enjoy the hotels, swimming pools etc.
You will be hunted because of the evil you pay for and support, the Gaza genocide,the Ukraine in the name of your decrepit fascistic govt.
You think that your miserable country of 300 millions, most illiterate and drugged idiots is safe?
You can not imagine how you are hated, so stay in borders, do not come out.
Read some Henry James.
As for the idiot canuck, just shut up, do not come out of your borders.
Are you even aware how much the world hates you? No, stay at home… OOps is it no

Posted by: stranger | Feb 10 2024 20:03 utc | 278

https://t.me/sharanism/26667
Tucker Carlson: Chairman Xi, why is your government redying to invade Taiwan?
Xi, pushing a button: Bring mr, Carlson a coach, also a box of pencils and four workbooks.
Xi, back at TK: Three August Sovereigns, whose governing remains the model for us all, back…
…TK sneaks out of the room.
Tucker Carlson: President el-Sisi, the world is concerned by the gorwing animosity between Egypt and Israel.
el-Sisi, pushing a button: Drive in the copy or our state archive.
el-Sisi, back at TK: Your would soon clearly see in the clay tables – you can take them home – how Moses abused the greate trust of the Pharaoh…
…TK curses and rushes out the room.
Tucker Carlson: Mister President, you surely know the reasons our borders are still not secured.
Biden: Sure, Carl. I often thik about borders. When my daughter Hunter was liberating Koreans from tyranny of Ho Chi Minh…
…TK, frantically dialing on the phone: mister Xi? mister Xi? your fascinating tale about Three August Sovereigns… I mean, can we continue the interview???

Posted by: Arioch | Feb 10 2024 20:22 utc | 280

Posted by: Jane | Feb 10 2024 19:28 utc | 269
Happer the geriatric fraud.it’s not based on computer models. and there is a consensus about evolution, and plate tectonics, too.
Posted by: pretzelattack | Feb 10 2024 19:35 utc | 270
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Not all old people suffer from dementia.
(Also, there is such a thing as early-onset dementia.)
Founder=members of the CO2 Coalition are listed here:
https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/FC7C4946-11A3-4967-BF28-8D0386608D3E, pp. 16-20.
The paper is heavily documented with published works.
Regarding consensus on the theories of evolution and plate tectonics (and other theories that cannot be tested via RCTs [random control trials]), my understanding of the scientific method, as explained by William F. Ruddiman in Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate (Princeton Science Library), is that a theory must withstand continual challenges to disprove it or throw it or parts of it into question. This process of continual challenging strengthens the theory.
The theory of Global Warming/Climate Change (or whatever it is now called—just “climate”?) has not stood up to such challenges, and the proponents of the theory have avoided meeting the challenges head-on. Instead they have tried to prevent scientific work that challenges the theory from being published in established scientific journals. One test of the strength of a theory is its ability to be used to make predictions that turn out to be correct. On this score alone, the Global Warming theory has failed quite spectacularly.
By way of a counter-example, Ruddiman welcomed all challenges to his theory concerning the extent to which humans have been affecting the climate since before the Neolithic Revolution. He explains why meeting these challenges (e.g., with newly available scientific data from ice cores) and eliminating them has strengthened his theory.

Posted by: Jane | Feb 10 2024 20:23 utc | 282

I am not ranting, just a little like Hamas now.The whole of the world hates you now.
I am just saying that you will never never again be safe when you get out of your borders.You will not enjoy the hotels, swimming pools etc.
You will be hunted because of the evil you pay for and support, the Gaza genocide,the Ukraine in the name of your decrepit fascistic govt.
You think that your miserable country of 300 millions, most illiterate and drugged idiots is safe?
You can not imagine how you are hated, so stay in borders, do not come out.
Read some Henry James.
As for the idiot canuck, just shut up, do not come out of your borders.
Are you even aware how much the world hates you? No, stay at home… OOps is it no
Posted by: stranger | Feb 10 2024 20:03 utc | 275
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Your observations and ideas are astonishingly original!!!!

Posted by: Jane | Feb 10 2024 20:34 utc | 284

Posted by: Jane | Feb 10 2024 20:34 utc | 281
I repeat, you are going to be hunted wherever you dare to go out of your borders, do you not understand it? Because you are complacent to your terrible regime which is bleeding the world. Ghaza just the first.Many before.
And the world is huge, compared to you, and knowing what you did it will be unforgiving.
As for your idiotic adhominem defence, but everything is ad hominem.
Do not answer, as I have no time, storm here, and I have to take care of animals.
You are a simpleminded Jane, and with this our conversation is over.
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Posted by: stranger | Feb 10 2024 21:12 utc | 286

Posted by: Arioch | Feb 10 2024 20:22 utc | 277
Thanks, best laugh I had on this thread.
Posted by: Acco Hengst | Feb 10 2024 15:57 utc | 237
I believe TC was just a conduit, his mentioning of TC’s CIA connection is very intriguing.
There will be people in most countries sitting in committees analyzing every.single.word.Putin.said.
Ukraine is finished.
He provided clues to Romania, Poland and Hungary on how they could lay claim to historical land going back to the start of the USSR. The history lesson was for them.
To the hegemon, his message (in my flawed opinion) could be “time for you to surrender with dignity or be defeated humiliatingly”.
Cheers

Posted by: Suresh | Feb 10 2024 21:16 utc | 288

Pakistan elections:
Here’s an 11 minute introduction by Al Jazeera:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMwfRXlTcWE
A nuclear power of c. 230 million people.
Which could well descend into civil war.
Maybe we should care more.

Posted by: smuks | Feb 10 2024 21:41 utc | 290

Re The Interview, to me, to evaluate it properly is not to endlessly discuss what Putin said and/or how incompetent TC was. It is to see what will actually change in the policies and actions of the different governments which have created and sustained the situation. Yes, many common folks will hear it. But will that filter up the chains of command to effect what RF would like? Dunno. Doubt it.
The Kremlin just released statements that “Putins purpose was to get people to think”, not to remain ignorant of the war’s backgrounds and causes, to point out the irrational things their governments are doing to hurt their own people. All well and good.
But of all the groups who might hear it — EU, US, Asian, Middle East, Antipodean, African, North and South American plebs, plus all their elite, plus all their politicians, the billion dollar question is — What bills will Congress and the Bundestag and Westminster and The Rada et al pass in the coming weeks? THEY ARE the only valid outcomes of the 2 hour “speech” by Putin.
Carlson was in fact the Kremlin’s useful idiot to get Putin’s message out. Hilary is in fact right. She knows the FSB’s MO. Of course it was a subtle psyop. Carlson and the West hyped it up so much in advance that it was a snowball event. They could have said no. The FSB must be chuckling away at the media circus. Putin could have said the exact same things to a RF TV show. But Putin let TC kick his message into the West.
But … Russia’s primary problem is the way people *FEEL* about it. Russophobia is an irrational narrative, a deeply historical, nationalistic one. The US media is now saying that to watch the interview is “unAmerican” … whereas Ritter is saying NOT to watch it is unAmerican (ie, let global free speech rule).
I’d say that Putin’s intellectual facts and arguments fly way above the thinking and feelings of the bigots and Russophobes. Yes, perhaps, a few fence-sitters will get it. But, imo, most government members of the West and their media mouthpieces will be unchanged by his efforts because (i) they’ve “heard it all before”, (ii) their innate hatred for Russia is not about to change. The MSM hysteria about it shows that. The pushback was massive, and soon it will be buried and forgotten. Sadly more media consumers will believe their own local outlets more than even Putin’s own words.
So my summation is that nothing will change. Just more MIC business as usual.

Posted by: Jake.Blanchard | Feb 10 2024 21:50 utc | 292

Putin didn’t answer the question what ‘Orthodoxy’ means to him personally.
Which may confirm my impression that he isn’t religious or morally conservative himself – but he knows that a majority of Russians are, and he needs their support to stay in power.
(No, it’s not the most important part of the interview at all, but it struck me.)
His answer to the question(s) on ‘denazification’ was rather disappointing and superficial imo.
Did he think that many of Tucker’s followers are hard-right bordering on fascist themselves, and didn’t want to offend or alienate them? It would’ve been so easy to explain that (western) Ukrainians have cultivated a blind hatred for anything ‘Russian’, i.e. an eliminatory racism. But he didn’t.

Posted by: smuks | Feb 10 2024 22:28 utc | 294

I hadn’t heard of Jones for that long I thought he had long since kicked the bucket. Drowned out by yuppy/political science I guess.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 10 2024 22:51 utc | 296

Peter AU1 | Feb 10 2024 23:03 utc | 294
Well, yes – but how do you denazify a state if you don’t have a clear understanding of what ‘nazism’ is?
It’s not just about ‘worshipping Bandera’, as Putin seemed to suggest…
Also, should NATO indeed occupy north-western Ukraine and establish a protectorate, it will be difficult to denazify these regions. Wonder if annexation by Poland would be the better solution – as someone wrote, Poles will hardly be interested in cultivating Ukrainian fascism on their territory.

Posted by: smuks | Feb 10 2024 23:24 utc | 298

The great Vladimir Putin has displayed his genius by using a very broad brush that appeals a large global audience. Thanks to Carlson & Putin, many millions all around the world are recognizing that the trillions the US has poured into the MIC in the last 50 yrs were justified with big lies, and most of it went into $hitholes for a few. The extremism of the deep state/neocons is forcing the rest of the world to come together, recognizing the toxic nature of the cancerous leadership of AIPAC/Israel/USA. It’s also forcing countless Americans to recognize that our “democracy” or “democratic republic” are also big lies.
The west’s barbarism has significantly slowed the development of our civilization. It’s widely believe in some circles that the ruling elite out of extreme selfishness & fear of losing their power, has disappeared inventions that would have made it very easy to eliminate poverty and war, by cutting off the need for the energy/petroleum products which the elite control, & use to control us.
The whole world is realizing that the US/Israel/NATO are run by extremely dangerous, nuclear armed, madmen with much blood on their hands and apparently no remorse for all the misery their aspirations have led to.
Problems must be defined & understood before they can solved. Bravo to Putin & Carlson. We have met the enemy & it is us! Shout it from the roof tops, til everyone knows!

Our No. 1 enemy is ignorance. And I believe that is the No. 1 enemy for everyone — it’s not understanding what actually is going on in the world. We must drag the machinations of the powerful into the daylight for all to see… we must be unapologetic about that most basic need of humanity – the desire to know. -Julian Assange (1971- )
It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known…It is a matter of converting the high technology from weaponry to livingry. – Buckminster Fuller (1895 – 1983)
We are witnessing the death throes of a civilization & birth pangs of a new civilization. Turmoil and upheaval are inevitable in this process. – Benjamin Creme (1922 – 2016)
Humanity urgently must learn the two great concepts — Tolerance and Cooperation. On these two foundations the New Epoch will be built.
Helena Roerich (1879 – 1955)
Russia is in favor of a multipolar world, a democratic world order, strengthening the system of international law, and for developing a legal system in which any small country, even a very small country, can feel itself secure, as if behind a stone wall. – Vladimir Putin (1952- )
The secret of freedom lies in educating people whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant – Maximilien Robispierre
(1758 – 1794)
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom. – Horace (65 BC- 8 BC)

Posted by: Toby C | Feb 11 2024 0:02 utc | 300