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March 20, 2024
Open (Neither Ukraine Nor Palestine) Thread 2024-084
News & views (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine) …
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@ Posted by: Paul from Norway | Mar 21 2024 19:53 utc | 192 Posted by: DunGroanin | Mar 21 2024 23:15 utc | 201 Craig Murray explains about new law coming into force at the start of next month in Scotland…. Posted by: Cynic | Mar 21 2024 23:41 utc | 202 Posted by: SG | Mar 20 2024 22:18 utc | 67 Posted by: bevin | Mar 20 2024 16:37 utc | 18 Posted by: Saturna | Mar 22 2024 3:33 utc | 204 FUKUS
Cameron
I bet all those oh so oppressed HKers would wanna trade place with the blessed Chagosians, Ryuku Ren, Chinese Indon, or Jeju islanders !!!
The broad definitions of national security and external interference will make it harder for those who live, work and do monkey business in Hong Kong.
It will rid HK media of FUKUSA fifth column such as Jimmy lai etc, who famously told his anglo mentors…
Posted by: denk | Mar 22 2024 3:37 utc | 205 A little thought experiment on the USSR and justifications, using Grover Furr’s work as a starting point: Posted by: Johan Meyer (2) | Mar 22 2024 4:20 utc | 207 Posted by: SG | Mar 20 2024 22:18 utc | 67 De-dollarization brings Peace. Posted by: Echo Chamber | Mar 22 2024 9:06 utc | 209 Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 21 2024 21:06 utc | 196 Posted by: Echo Chamber | Mar 22 2024 9:20 utc | 210 The Canadian ChatNSDAP bot uses MLA format footnotes in its posts? Struggling non-STEM undergrads should find out which generative AI model it uses. That could save a lot of time for “students” in the university equivalent of Special Education programs that could be better spent getting shit-faced and stoned. Posted by: William Gruff | Mar 22 2024 10:44 utc | 211 Andrei Posted by: MD | Mar 22 2024 11:13 utc | 212 Hi Andrei, Posted by: MD | Mar 22 2024 11:18 utc | 213 https://english.cas.cn/newsroom/mutimedia_news/202312/t20231201_653461.shtml Posted by: MD | Mar 22 2024 11:24 utc | 214 https://titaniclifeboatacademy.org/ Posted by: MD | Mar 22 2024 11:31 utc | 215 https://www.brasilwire.com/seeds-of-a-new-coup-in-brazil/ Posted by: MD | Mar 22 2024 11:34 utc | 216 https://seektruthfromfacts.org/guess-submissions/doomed-by-decoupling-the-west-falls-further-behind-by-godfree-roberts-member-of-the-china-writers-group/ Posted by: MD | Mar 22 2024 11:41 utc | 217 https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-authorities-arrest-two-maria-corina-machado-associates-over-alleged-violent-plot/ Posted by: MD | Mar 22 2024 11:48 utc | 218 @William Gruff 212 Posted by: Johan Meyer (2) | Mar 22 2024 12:21 utc | 219 @212 William Gruff continued: Posted by: Johan Meyer (2) | Mar 22 2024 12:34 utc | 220 Earlier there were some bog standard anti-pholsophical materialist posts, which were as always devoid of content. There is no small irony in that standard contemporary Marxist argumentation is largely philosophical idealist psychobabble masquerading as philosophical materialism. For substantive philosophical materialism, go to the Christian fundies who hold the deity as the prime mover, but elects to move in certain ways (that can be studied, thus allowing science, albeit on strange—to me—philosophical underpinnings), and would take umbrage if one were to point out that they, unlike the majority of Marxists, are philosophical materialists. Posted by: Johan Meyer (2) | Mar 22 2024 12:43 utc | 221 Re Venezuela, it is very striking that many western governments block access to official Venezuelan crime statistics, so that one can only access the flaky NGO numbers. Posted by: Johan Meyer (2) | Mar 22 2024 12:48 utc | 222 “3. The other aspect that is really angering about marijuana use in others (doubly so for low odour varieties that do thus not give one the warning to leave the area) is that one can get intoxicated due to the aerosol or aerosuspension (not sure which), which is fucking angering: one has a fuck ton of work half-planned, go early to get a good start, get involuntarily intoxicated because of some dipshit, and now one cannot formulate a useable thought for six hours, and one hopes to goodness that one is de facto sober by the time one leaves work, so that there can be no DUI risk.” Posted by: William Gruff | Mar 22 2024 10:44 utc | CJ Hopkins crimespeech trial, which he won first time around with a hostile judge, goes to appeal (by the prosecutor). CJ makes the important point that this sort of thing is happening all over the West though most people are only aware of local examples, such as SCOTUS hearings in the US, regarding them as symptomatic of partisan political struggles.
The West is being taken down, just like the Jewish-Bolsheviks took down Russia. @224 You might need more to get your high, as you would presumably have been using it for a long time, and thus become used to it. I have no desire to get used to it. And it is particularly the low odour varieties that are so dangerous, due to the lack of warning of how much psychoactive stuff one is being subject to. I.e. hiding how much versus a “whiff”—I notice that you do not wish to define how much (mass per unit time) THC and other chemicals to which others are being subjected—far more important than the olfactory discomfort that at least can provide warning to leave the area. Posted by: Johan Meyer (2) | Mar 22 2024 14:54 utc | 226 “Gold. The US came out of WWII with 75% of the worlds wealth and the dollar was backed by gold. By the late fifties – early seventies, that wealth had gone and they needed more currency than they had gold to cover. A deal with the saudis and a few other machinations and the petrodollar emerged which relied on world oil trade being conducted in American dollars. The US military was used to enforce this. @224 You might need more to get your high, as you would presumably have been using it for a long time, and thus become used to it. I have no desire to get used to it. And it is particularly the low odour varieties that are so dangerous, due to the lack of warning of how much psychoactive stuff one is being subject to. I.e. hiding how much versus a “whiff”—I notice that you do not wish to define how much (mass per unit time) THC and other chemicals to which others are being subjected—far more important than the olfactory discomfort that at least can provide warning to leave the area.” “Nima interviews Orlov and touches on all the hot topics over 40 minutes and is highly recommended. Orlov’s forecast for Europe’s very bleak, but I can’t disagree. I also agree with his outlook on energy for the Outlaw US Empire. I also agree with him on what will happen if Trump wins–nothing as what was done to him during his first term will be repeated.” Posted by: juliania | Mar 22 2024 16:19 utc | 230 Watch out what happens in NIGER. Niger has decided not to submit to the US any longer. Posted by: swiss | Mar 22 2024 17:48 utc | 231 Posted by: DunGroanin | Mar 20 2024 16:49 utc | 20 @Posted by: canuck | Mar 22 2024 14:58 utc | 227
As Hudson noted the whole of the US current account deficit could be accounted for by the cost of US foreign bases and foreign wars. The US elite were never going to give these up, so they floated the dollar instead and did a deal with the Saudis where oil prices could rise without US intervention as long as oil was sold for US dollars. The Fed also did a deal with the drug cartels and other criminals to quietly look away so that they would deposit their dollars in US banks.
I did, although after 12 hours on Mexican side roads yesterday both body and mind are scrambled. Latest Krainer piece about socialism vs capitalism etc.
Posted by: Scorpion | Mar 22 2024 22:53 utc | 235
USA style gangster/rentier/finance capitalism is indeed an obsolete system nearing some sort of catastrophe if nothing is done to fix it. Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Mar 22 2024 23:14 utc | 236 Posted by: Scorpion | Mar 22 2024 19:16 utc | 234 Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Mar 22 2024 23:22 utc | 237 Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Mar 22 2024 23:22 utc | 237 Posted by: Ed | Mar 23 2024 0:51 utc | 238 The 1921–1923 famine in Ukraine was a disaster that mostly occurred in the southern steppe region of Ukraine.[1] The number of fatalities is estimated between 200,000 and 1,000,000, but no systematic records were then made. Posted by: Ed | Mar 23 2024 1:02 utc | 239 European Union, UN criticise new Hong Kong security law Posted by: denk | Mar 23 2024 5:07 utc | 240 Ed | Mar 23 2024 1:02 utc | 239 Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 23 2024 13:11 utc | 241 @240 denk Posted by: swiss | Mar 23 2024 13:18 utc | 242
[Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 22 2024 16:03 utc | 65] on the Russia.at.war thread — Posted by: persiflo | Mar 23 2024 14:04 utc | 243 Some reflections so far in my reading of Plato’s Laws, his final dialogue. I wish that I could say I had read recently all of the preceding ones, only having done so with Politeia>, (The Republic). However, as I am nearly a third way through this dialogue, I am enjoying the contrast between it and that previous read. It is as if some questions raised earlier are now being answered, and I suspect that it will turn out to be true for any earlier ones I will revisit at some point. Posted by: juliania | Mar 23 2024 14:44 utc | 244 Sorry, the above was only meant to be a review. Extended italics were unnecessary.
Posted by: juliania | Mar 23 2024 15:03 utc | 245 Posted by: swiss | Mar 23 2024 13:18 utc | 242 Posted by: denk | Mar 23 2024 15:29 utc | 246 @ swiss 242 Posted by: swiss | Mar 23 2024 15:40 utc | 247 @ 246 denk Posted by: swiss | Mar 23 2024 15:45 utc | 248 Posted by: swiss | Mar 23 2024 15:45 utc | 248 Posted by: denk | Mar 23 2024 16:04 utc | 249 @249 denk Posted by: swiss | Mar 23 2024 16:29 utc | 250 @Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 23 2024 13:11 utc | 241 Posted by: swiss | Mar 23 2024 15:40 utc | 247
CIA fighting CIA created ‘terrarists’, the gift that keeps on giving, no wonder they keep telling us, wot is a very long term campaign…… Posted by: denk | Mar 23 2024 17:12 utc | 252 No matter what “identities” you have if you are anti-Zionist you will be removed from any mainstream media and even mainstream alternative media! Candace Owens will blow up the way Tucker has, I don’t agree with everything she says but she has a right to be heard. Hello swiss… Posted by: denk | Mar 23 2024 17:27 utc | 254 Er, is it true that UK just clinched a major natural gas deal with Russia ? Posted by: denk | Mar 23 2024 18:16 utc | 256 @252 denk Posted by: swiss | Mar 24 2024 0:33 utc | 257 Roger | Mar 23 2024 17:11 utc | 251 Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 24 2024 1:50 utc | 258 Some time ago, b was deleting some of my posts for being off topic in the Ukraine threads. Was hard to comment there without a topic soon moving outside Ukraine when following it through. Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 24 2024 2:20 utc | 259 All these assertions about the “death toll” under communism are nothing more than indications that those posting them have swallowed capitalist and imperialist propaganda uncritically. Posted by: bevin | Mar 24 2024 3:24 utc | 260 Posted by: swiss | Mar 24 2024 0:33 utc | 257
Does this make sense to you ? Posted by: denk | Mar 24 2024 3:56 utc | 261 Posted by: bevin | Mar 24 2024 3:24 utc | 260 Posted by: waynorinorway | Mar 24 2024 5:12 utc | 262 Before b posts his Week in Review, I’m going to post a few links – Canadiana, the usual. Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Mar 24 2024 12:16 utc | 263 |
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