anon2020 | Aug 1 2024 10:53 utc | 100
They’re dumb as the Ukroids. Cannon fodder.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 1 2024 11:08 utc | 103

@ Posted by: waynorinorway | Aug 1 2024 5:04 utc | 87
Nah – this bar ain’t big enough for Fake Left/Right pseudo science/religious Narrative purveyors selling their old and new Zio created poisonous snake oils.
I invite such shit heads to dance when they push me.
It seems they don’t hang around much after that or they shut the fuck up.
So that we can carry on having a civilised piss up.
Be Seeing You 👌

Posted by: DunGroanin | Aug 1 2024 11:09 utc | 105

Peter, I loved Hendrix from the time I first heard him on the Woodstock Album in 1970. I was a 15 yo listening to The Devil’s music, according to my old man.
ACDC were great too.

Posted by: Menz | Aug 1 2024 11:44 utc | 107

Nah – this bar ain’t big enough for Fake Left/Right pseudo science/religious Narrative purveyors selling their old and new Zio created poisonous snake oils.
I invite such shit heads to dance when they push me.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Aug 1 2024 11:09 utc | 105
If that’s your characterization of bevin you can ram it DG.
If not and there’s a mix-up you can blame it on your writing style.

Posted by: waynorinorway | Aug 1 2024 12:36 utc | 109

🚨🇩🇪🤯 German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock allegedly implicated in sex tourism scandal with an African escort, using public funds!
“She paid €2,500 to €3,500 per night, covering all travel expenses.”
A video has surfaced of an African escort, Kingsley, discussing his relationship with a high-profile client, believed to be Annalena Baerbock. He describes meetings in Nigeria, South Africa, and Côte d’Ivoire. “We met in Abuja in December 2022. She wore a beautiful purple dress,” Kingsley revealed.
The timeline aligns with Baerbock’s official trips. From Abuja in December 2022 to Pretoria in June 2023 and Abidjan in July 2024.

https://t.me/ukraine_watch/26696

Posted by: Norwegian | Aug 1 2024 13:44 utc | 111

Posted by: Norwegian | Aug 1 2024 13:44 utc | 111
Baerbock is bad enough as it is. There is no need to post stupid stuff like that (I know you usually don’t).

Posted by: Cherrycoke | Aug 1 2024 14:07 utc | 113

@Jane
To note:
UK is itself the end result of a long colonial reality.
Cromwell was not ‘particularly considerate’ of the Irish.
The Catholic church gifted Ireland to England.
The Scots historically lived in N. Ireland.
Now the Irish are busy guesting Ukrainians and rioting over middle-eastern migrants.
Are under heavy EU and American cultural influence, including right political and left sympathy for the ‘plight of jews’.
To note:
“Israel” synchretises with US “homeland” , the oppressed escaping to or being dumped onto a foreign land and then declaring their independence there.
That is also the US claim to authenticity, it was the fault of the ‘British’ and they expelled them, it was not the fault of US settlers, and after a few centuries it became a “fact on the ground” , a Lockian “the land belongs to those who work it”. “Israel” legitimacy is tied to US “legitimacy” , no matter how you (fairly) argue against it .
In the US the religious slant is of an “Israeli” “biblical homeland” , that reverse-morphs somehow into justification of settlement of the US . For if jews are able to settle by displacement using biblical context, then settling by displacement is acceptable, which includes US. It is a self justifying argument.
That is the level of argument you are up against, besides ‘it is ours now’ or ‘what solution do you have then’ , the latter being used for all sort of political chicanery that actually fuels social fragmentation and centralised authority.
So it is an impasse, and until society honestly absorbs its historical reality with understanding, the US will remain confused towards the world and at odds with itself.
I will not take this up in discussion here, will leave others to if it suits them…

Posted by: Ornot | Aug 1 2024 14:24 utc | 115

re: ADIZ
news
Two Russian Tu-95 bombers conducted a 10-hour flight over the Sea of Japan, entering Japan’s Air Defense Identification Zone, three times on Tuesday with Japan scrambling its fighters in response. Two Russian Tu-95 bombers and two fighter aircraft flew in from Russia Tuesday and headed eastward over the Sea of Japan before changing course off the Oki Islands archipelago to head north toward home, according to a Wednesday Japan’s Joint Staff Office release.
also
NORAD detected, tracked, and intercepted two Russian TU-95 and two PRC H-6 military aircraft operating in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on July 24, 2024. NORAD fighter jets from the United States and Canada conducted the intercept.
US policy
An ADIZ is a transition zone in which aircraft are identified and if necessary ‘controlled’ by air traffic and defense authorities. The U.S. Navy’s Commander’s Handbook on the Law of Naval Operations states that the ADIZ applies only to commercial aircraft intending to enter U.S. sovereign airspace, with a basis in international law of “the right of a nation to establish reasonable conditions of entry into its territory”. “The United States does not recognize any claim by a state to apply its air defense identification zone (ADIZ) procedures to foreign aircraft not intending to enter national airspace, nor does the United States apply its ADIZ procedures to foreign aircraft not intending to enter U.S. airspace.” . . .here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Aug 1 2024 14:40 utc | 117

@ DunGroanin | Jul 31 2024 22:26 utc | 56
that is a funny thought – bevin as sockpuppet of b, lol… you can’t be serious… funny enough bevin responded to one of roger boyds substack posts yesterday.. he’s still around, just hasn’t come back to moa just yet..

Posted by: james | Aug 1 2024 14:53 utc | 119

” over 1.200 tonnes of german gold still lies in New York ”
Posted by: Ham | Aug 1 2024 14:55 utc | 120
How do you know2?
The 300 tonnes of Au Germany did get back were NOT the bullion that the US kept in trust!
Personally, I think all that gold is long gone-it only exists on paper.

Posted by: canuck | Aug 1 2024 16:06 utc | 121

Posted by: canuck | Aug 1 2024 16:09 utc | 122
…….I fear that we’ll never outgrow our settler parochialism, our narrow horizons and our colonial self-loathing.”
Posted by: Patroklos | Jul 31 2024 22:46 utc | 58
(canuck:) I feel the exact same way about Canada.

That’s by far the best one-line description of what living in Halifax, Nova Scotia felt like as have ever read.
Maybe it has changed in the past twenty years with internet etc. but unlikely…

Posted by: Scorpion | Aug 1 2024 16:24 utc | 123

“PS can you confirm you are not the sock puppet bevin?
It’s a curious coincidence of absence.
Whilst all look forward to your regular return some appear to be missing him/her/it.
😉 me …not so much.”
Posted by: DunGroanin | Jul 31 2024 22:26 utc | 56
I know that idea is not correct.
If it were so I would’ve been banned permanently from this site a long time ago.

Posted by: canuck | Aug 1 2024 16:31 utc | 125

There was recently some exchange of comments on whether all government statements are fictional, including even government economic statistics. The claim they are no more reliable than the DoD figures on Russian casualties was and is a huge claim. In my opinion, the defenses of this extravagance were not effective.
But, by coincidence, the economist Michael Roberts has posted a useful discussion of the Federal Reserve’s decision not to lower the Federal Funds rate, maybe in September. Along the way, he discusses inflation statistics in a very useful way. There is a difference between writing fiction and deliberately being confusing that has escaped too many of the commenters in that exchange I think. This should be very informative: https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2024/08/01/the-fed-fails/

Posted by: steven t johnson | Aug 1 2024 17:48 utc | 127

billb@116….small regional passenger jets, I think made by Bombardier. I’m flying on one, Dash 8, next week. Vancouver to Comox, short trip jets.
Military might have different use….hmm, like renditions, or ISIS
Regional Commuters, quick delivery to pending terrorist hot spots.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Aug 1 2024 18:25 utc | 129

Honzo @ 50
All your presumptions (and please, you are making some grand leaps here, not working “just the facts”) work just as well if the entire charade is played out without using any real bullets. Since the play’s the thing, why risk using real bullets? Someone might get hurt.

Posted by: oldhippie | Aug 1 2024 19:17 utc | 131

All your presumptions (and please, you are making some grand leaps here, not working “just the facts”) work just as well if the entire charade is played out without using any real bullets. Since the play’s the thing, why risk using real bullets? Someone might get hurt.
Posted by: oldhippie | Aug 1 2024 19:17 utc | 131
Oooh, did you roll your eyes like a little bitch when you wrote that?
Are you claiming that there were no real bullets and nobody got hurt? If so, you have passed completely into the post-truth agnosticism that the CIA has been striving for since it came into existence. If you have evidence that the fireman shot in the head was not shot in the head and is still alive, please present it.
My post @50 does not suggest that the Butler event was ‘staged.’ My claim is that while the very top of the pyramid may have very unified interests and a pretty unified idea of how to promote them, the actual work is done by hierarchies of minions, and there are many such hierarchies, either nested, parallel or synergistic (ideally), and that the minion that actually make these hierarchies function have interests that are not congruent to those of the people at the top. Most of them have no idea who the people at the top are, or what their interests are, and even when they know who the people above them are, they don’t necessarily choose to follow their orders when their own interests are compromised by doing so. So, they break with the plan, do their own thing to protect themselves, and other minions are set in motion to stop them.
When the CIA killed JFK, they were carrying out the will of the PTB (who were directly involved in creating the agency). When elements of the SS and the Pa state police attempted to kill Trump, they likely believed they were doing the work of the supreme power, because that’s who they think the Clinton/Obama/Biden gang represents- and when the Blue Team apparatchiks made sure Biden was elected, that was about half correct- but opinion in the PTB is very much against Blue Team because they won’t stop prosecuting the war in Ukraine- which will cost them the victory they already had in 2023 over Europe- and they won’t stop backing unlimited atrocities by the Zionist Entity, which could lead to the kind of economic crisis in the US that could create the kind of crisis that the PTB might not survive, not to mention the prospect of nuclear war. Team Blue is out of control, though, all in on its wars, because the leadership is extremely vulnerable to jail time, which they probably wouldn’t survive, if they lose their grip on power. They probably could have just gone quietly into the night in 2020, but they thought they could win vs the powers above them, and they might be right. I don’t think this is going to end whether or not Trump is assassinated or returns to the White House, because Trump is a figurehead for Team Red with very little control over anything.

Posted by: Honzo | Aug 1 2024 20:04 utc | 133

Patroklos | Aug 1 2024 20:04 utc | 134
Those little towns along the Townsville to Mount Isa line, the Flinders highway, small towns like Julia Creek and Richmond. I was in that area from about 17 till jut before I turned 21. Very wide main streets for turning bullock wagons.
In the center of each town was a war memorial with a long list of names. They would have been busy towns back in the day, the stockmen, the shearers, the fettlers, the bullockies and so forth but…. those long lists of names for such small towns.
It was a bit staggering when I first saw those memorials and numbers from those owns that had died.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 1 2024 20:26 utc | 135

Overall, it seems to me …
Posted by: steven t johnson | Aug 1 2024 17:43 utc | 126
I think the points you raise actually confirm my position. The institutions are interlocked, and the various institutions of economic and state power are occupied by people from the Academic/educational complex, which is in turn supported/controlled by the economic and state power institutions. The faceless bureaucrats have been indoctrinated to support the current perspective, and it creates a major impediment to change from above, unless there is a lot of lead time in the ‘cultural/educational’ sectors. It’s pretty clear that the whole Identity Politics schema was introduced a bit at a time since at least the sixties in a very organized and coherent way, for instance, and an early part of this was capturing the entertainment complex and the academic complex. It has taken fifty years to bring that project to the current, hopefully final, point. BUT, without completely dismantling those institutions and rebuilding them in their entirety, it will take a similar amount of time to change the institutional culture there. Perhaps shorter with a thorough decapitation of the institutions and rapid promotion of the Red Team 20-somethings, but it would require a much harsher and more overt application of power to do that than the insidious methods that led us to Wokism as we know it.
Honzo
On the specific questions of Korean peace,
Posted by: steven t johnson | Aug 1 2024 17:43 utc | 126
I did not intend to project the impression I knew what Trump would have done. What people want to do and what they actually do are often very different things, but we really don’t know what Trump would have done if the Pentagon and the State Department had gone along with his initiatives. It is quite possible that at the end of the day, Trump would not have reached an agreement with Kim. I am only suggesting that Trump had very strong reasons to find a way to reach agreement with Kim- greater, really, than Kim’s reasons for reaching an agreement with Trump. But, in any case, the project was foredoomed by the intransigence of the Deep State.
Honzo
On the very general issue of a civilizational/cultural continuity in esoteric tradition. My limited reading in that literature (decades ago) suggested to me that the writers were deliberately syncretistic, which one could view as faking a continuity that didn’t actually exist, was purely imaginary, however much it borrowed old tropes.
Posted by: steven t johnson | Aug 1 2024 17:43 utc | 126
If you think the esoteric traditions and mystery cults began with writers of the modern west, you haven’t studied the history very closely. One of their features has been, since ancient times, to tell initiates some ‘truths,’ and later tell them contradictory ‘truths’ stepwise up the ladder. This is a pretty good mechanism for protecting institutional continuity. It makes it very difficult for ‘the wrong people’ however defined to come to power.
I am not suggesting that there is an esoteric Deep State. It’s a parallel hierarchy- more probably, several parallel hierarchies. I would suggest that it relates to the Deep State in essentially the same way as the Academic complex, except that its target demographic is loftier than the day-to-day operatives of the Deep State. Mystery cults in the ancient Mediterranean cultures were schools for various kinds of leadership, including kingship. The Mithra Cult in ancient Rome was massive, focused on military matters- and it suddenly ‘disappeared.’ It wasn’t purged, there was no war, it simply vanished. Or- it turned into the Catholic Church. It’s at least as reasonable as Trotskyites becoming neocons.
I would suggest that not all religions are mystery cults and that not all that are remain so throughout their institutional lives. Especially protestant sects in which anyone can play- it makes no sense to organize a Southern Baptist mystery cult, but that doesn’t mean that important people in the hierarchy aren’t members/operatives of a mystery cult. In the US, everybody and their brother tried to join some equivalent of the Masonic Lodge, even to the extent of inventing their own. Fraternal Societies were huge for a century or so, and very influential in the business and political spheres. These are by no means all the same thing. The Shriners are not the Illuminati. But they may be a recruiting ground for more occulted organizations.

Posted by: Honzo | Aug 1 2024 20:44 utc | 137

Honzo@137 Thanks again for clarification. The seemingly sudden disappearance of the Mystery Cults or Mithraism had a great deal to do with the expropriation and closure of temples (which by the way some of which were banks and/or government archives) by the emperors after Constantine, with Theodosius striking the final blows if I remember correctly. Culture to me is a way of life, not just a disembodied set of ideas—it is horribly difficult to communicate our personal ideas to others. It requires a material basis, all the more when facing opponents armed with legal privileges and tax support and state power to repress public expression of any sort. You can’t have higher level initiates when you can’t recruit neophytes. But I may be prejudiced, my brother-in-law is a Shriner while my son is inactive.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Aug 1 2024 21:03 utc | 139

“Honzo@137 Thanks again for clarification. The seemingly sudden disappearance of the Mystery Cults or Mithraism had a great deal to do with the expropriation and closure of temples (which by the way some of which were banks and/or government archives) by the emperors after Constantine, with Theodosius striking the final blows if I remember correctly. Culture to me is a way of life, not just a disembodied set of ideas—it is horribly difficult to communicate our personal ideas to others. It requires a material basis, all the more when facing opponents armed with legal privileges and tax support and state power to repress public expression of any sort. You can’t have higher level initiates when you can’t recruit neophytes. But I may be prejudiced, my brother-in-law is a Shriner while my son is inactive.”
Posted by: steven t johnson | Aug 1 2024 21:03 utc | 139
I disagree.
The cult of Mithras thrived in the 3rd century AD because Rome was falling apart-a militaristic cult was needed to establish control-after Diocletian the Empire was secured allowing the less milatristic Christin religion to thrive.

Posted by: canuck | Aug 1 2024 21:15 utc | 141

@ canuck | Aug 1 2024 21:15 utc | 141
You know waay too much Roman history. 🙂
“You’re a Roman, [Canuck]! Or, you should’ve been one.”
– proconsul Claudius Marcus

Posted by: despondent | Aug 1 2024 21:31 utc | 143

Maduro has made what I read as a warning that violence maybe used against reactionary players. About time.

Posted by: Suresh | Aug 1 2024 21:38 utc | 145

Apart from that Hobo3, take your petty hatreds and shove em.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 1 2024 21:08 utc | 140
OK, Pete, bend over and spread ’em!
One hopes that given the aforementioned statistics Patroklos et al are capable of revising their certitudes.

Posted by: Ново З | Aug 1 2024 22:22 utc | 147

Ново З
The majority of the slaughter on all sides seems to have occurred in the first two years. The brits from the sums an ghettos of London and other industrial centers in Britain were fed into the slaughter. Very poor quality leadership and dumb as dogshit cannon fodder.
Here in oz, the main casualties were from the pastoral areas of huge sheep and cattle runs. Many itinerant workers but an entirely different breed than those from the slums of England. It was at some period, basically after those first two years, Australia began taking more control over its forces and disposing with the British lords and so forth.
But even WWII. Singapore, the Malay peninsular. The Brits ran like rabbits leaving the flank wide open and giving the Aussies and Gurkha’s no option but to make a fighting retreat. Stop, ambush, then retreat before the Japanese came around them in the vacant space left by the Brits. They fought all the way back to Singapore then the brits promptly surrendered to an inferior force.
Useless poms.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 1 2024 23:14 utc | 149

Posted by: Ново З | Aug 1 2024 20:59 utc | 138
Thanks for sharing those WWI deaths-per-capita statistics. What I find most interesting is that both Australia and the UK lost more than 10 times per capita than the USA. And Canada lost about 7 times more per capita. And Serbia lost about 100 times more per capita than any of them. Not sure if that website’s stats are really reliable or not, but I assume that i round figures it probably is.

Posted by: Wisco | Aug 1 2024 23:56 utc | 151

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 1 2024 23:43 utc | 150
My paternal grandfather was a USA soldier in WWI, he returned unharmed. He was a 2nd-generation ethnic German + German-speaking Swiss. His church at the time still conducted many services in the German language. There was a huge amount of anti-German propaganda at the time. Maybe worse than the ubiquitous anti-Russian propaganda now in USA. He was drafted into the military. He never bragged about his “service”. Here’s a Google AI snippet about WWI conscription:

The Selective Service Act of 1917 required men between the ages of 21 and 45 to register for military service. In August 1918, Congress amended the act to lower the age range to 18 and eliminate voluntary enlistment. By the end of the war, 2.8 million men had been drafted, and 2 million had volunteered, making up more than half of the 4.8 million Americans who served.

Posted by: Wisco | Aug 2 2024 0:28 utc | 153

“Those little towns along the Townsville to Mount Isa line, the Flinders highway, small towns like Julia Creek and Richmond. I was in that area from about 17 till jut before I turned 21.”
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 1 2024 20:26 utc | 135
I was in Townsville for a week or so in May of 2008 for work. A few random observations…
– taxi ride from airport to hotel was interesting. Shared part of the ride with a happy and loquacious woman who was clearly a bit drunk. Taxi driver informed me she was an aboriginal. She called me “nice American boy”, recognized my accent.
– Townsville struck me as very clean and safe. I walked around with no fear.
– There was some kind of military-appreciation holiday one day and I was impressed that people still respected it, military guys in full-dress in a parade around the port area.
– I had a really great time visiting the Great Barrier Reef, snorkeling, and spending some time on Magnetic Island. Met a very nice and intelligent woman from Melbourne, who looked really great in her bathing suit, on the tourist Reef-diving boat, and managed to get dinner with her. Tried to get more, but failed.

Posted by: Wisco | Aug 2 2024 1:51 utc | 155

“@ canuck | Aug 1 2024 21:15 utc | 141
You know waay too much Roman history. 🙂
“You’re a Roman, [Canuck]! Or, you should’ve been one.”
– proconsul Claudius Marcus”
Posted by: despondent | Aug 1 2024 21:31 utc | 143
Thank you; when I was 8 years old (1970) I read Taylor Caldwell’s, ‘A Pillar of Iron” (recommended by my Mother, a biography of Marcus Tullius Cicero) and I have been hooked on Roman History ever since…the next volumes read were Edward Gibbons , “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”-I was living on a farm with two shitty Canadian TV channels on a 12″ shitty black and white TV so……
I am glad I was impoverished with entertainment when I was young -if I was growing up today I would know all the Taylor Swift’s lyrics but nothing of the history of Rome….
I got lucky….

Posted by: canuck | Aug 2 2024 3:04 utc | 157

lex talionis | Aug 1 2024 3:52 utc | 86
about German important writers – I am surprised that names of Oswald Spengler and Frank Thiess were not dropped.

Posted by: fanto | Aug 2 2024 3:08 utc | 159

Wisco | Aug 2 2024 3:17 utc | 160
Tried a dew searches using that date, and nothing turned, also no annual events. Only date I found that could be connected was the 29th of April, which at some point was recognized as the end point for Australia’s involvement in Vietnam. A lot of Australians left from Townsville. Other than that, I haven’t a clue what it would have been.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 2 2024 3:37 utc | 161

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 2 2024 3:37 utc | 161
Another thing I do remember from the Canberra hotel is the amazing schnitzel. Nobody even knows anymore what “schnitzel” is supposed to mean in the USA now. But I sure enjoyed it in my time in Aus.

Posted by: Wisco | Aug 2 2024 3:54 utc | 163

‘Chinese swimmers were subject to five times more dope test than gringo/Aussie, snubbed by Anglophone counterparts.”
Posted by: denk | Aug 2 2024 3:41 utc | 162
USA media tried to imbue a Taiwan tranny with the hate-label “Chinese”. Saw that today

Posted by: Wisco | Aug 2 2024 4:16 utc | 165

Posted by: Wisco | Aug 2 2024 4:16 utc | 165
—————-
The NYT etc etc are playing up the Chinese dope ‘scandal’ big time, even YT vid are full of snide comments like this..

Its called testosterone injections
Its as embarrassing as the man beating up a lady for the gold medal in boxing

Sore losers all.

Posted by: denk | Aug 2 2024 4:33 utc | 167

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 2 2024 4:21 utc | 166
The one and only time I got in a fight that cost me was against an arrogant cowboy and a rodeo guy who was in my dormitory. I knocked him out with a single hard straight left. Got kicked out of the dormitory for it. I felt bad, we were both a bit drunk and underage. Kids.

Posted by: Wisco | Aug 2 2024 4:39 utc | 169

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 2 2024 4:38 utc | 168
————–
In this case the losers were accusing Pan won by injecting testosterone to gain a massive advantage over the rest, like a male boxer hammering a female opponent.

Posted by: denk | Aug 2 2024 4:48 utc | 171

INdian decoupling from China fails big time, Industries badly hit by rejection of Chinese engineers and supply chains.
Now Delhi wanna reopen its door to Chinese engineers, seek further Chinese investments in high tech,. infra structure.
Havent the Chinese learned enough lesson from the Xiaomi fiasco ?
Just like their gringo, limey, Jp, Mongols soul mates, sinophobia is deeply ingrained in Indian psychic,
Helping India to build up its industries and infra would turn up to be another massive own goal one of this day.

Posted by: denk | Aug 2 2024 5:22 utc | 173

Who is behind this COVID madness? I accept the risk of triggering your “conspiracy theory” buttons by identifying the widely recognized “Global MIC -medical-petrochemical-pharmaceutical-BIG OIL-BIG AGRI cartel” as the only suspect that can wield the powers necessary to effect these frightening outcomes.
How convenient that Asia, and China in particular, is said to be the origin of this North American scourge at a time when Chinese-Anglo-American relations are strained to say the least.
In the days preceding the emergence of the first COVID cases, American raced to the Pacific Rim to impact escalating aggressions on the Korean peninsula, SCS, TW, ECS.
Communist China-a “most favored” trading partner with America, is politically allied with several American enemies, including those said to possess weapons of mass destruction, including IraN. Coincidental? Not likely when viewing the larger political picture involving the Ango-American oligarchy’s RMA and instigated “conflicts short of war.”
Ultimately, “We the People” have become the greatest victims of this latest fright, and the larger political agendas it serves.
https://rense.com//general36/scam.htm

Posted by: denk | Aug 2 2024 6:08 utc | 175

The US electoral system is such, that once president, it does not matter whether there was electoral fraud or not.
The wars must go on. In analogy with elections in EUrope, I assume that Trump is the candidate that cannot be allowed to win.
Kamala Harris will become president, but not even her fans will claim it was a clean victory.

Posted by: Passerby | Aug 2 2024 6:52 utc | 177

“As Pfizer terms it – Directed evolution. Same as a gardener developing a new variety of plant or a farmer developing a new breed of livestock.”
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 2 2024 7:35 utc | 178
I have a different idea.
I believe the corona virus came from Ft Dietrich and when the army convention was held in Wuhan American soldiers brought the disease with them:
“MOSCOW, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) — The sudden shutdown of the Fort Detrick lab in the United States and the pneumonia outbreak that followed are far from coincidental and should be studied in the scope of the ongoing investigation into the pandemic’s origins, a Russian political observer has said.
In his article published in the Free Media online newspaper on Saturday, Sergei Plotnikov outlined some striking events that followed after the closure of the prominent military biological lab in Maryland.
Alongside a lack of transparency from the U.S. government in relation to the closure, there was little coverage of the unknown pneumonia outbreak that happened in two nursing homes in July 2019, which were “coincidentally” located close to the military base, Plotnikov wrote.
While the disease continued to spread throughout the United States with its cause and origins remaining unknown, the U.S. lab remained closed and was not involved in any research, he added.
Local authority quickly linked the unprecedented outbreak to e-cigarette use as victims in Wisconsin, northern Virginia and later other parts of the country continued to suffer from the lung disease.
Specialists from the U.S. National Institutes of Health believe that the coronavirus, which was unknown at that time, started spreading in the United States in the fall of 2019, according to Plotnikov.
“Some of the 24,000 blood samples collected in early 2020 from different places in the United States already had antibodies against COVID-19,” he wrote.” (1)
1. http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2021-08/04/c_1310107970.htm

Posted by: canuck | Aug 2 2024 9:33 utc | 179

Germany joined the United Nations Command. Other than it might sound, this is not a UN mission, though. While the SU was boycotting the UNSC over the Taiwan question, the US pushed through a resolution that allows their coalition of the willing against North Korea – under US command, of course – to carry the UN flag (resolution 84).
Baerbock correctly stated that this step is aimed at keeping up the rules-based order.
https://x.com/AuswaertigesAmt/status/1819304221373604041?t=SpovADqQ2oYBo6Gwt68bpQ&s=19

Posted by: gynt | Aug 2 2024 10:18 utc | 181

Republicans against Trump
@RpsAgainstTrump
FLASHBACK
1993-In congressional testimony, Donald Trump said that Native casino owners didn’t deserve special status because “they don’t look like Indians to me.”
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1818777659629093361

Posted by: Menz | Aug 2 2024 11:45 utc | 183

I’ll be taking this post in an unusual direction for MOA
MSM in non western countries is not as tightly controlled and was about to check on some details for venezuela and found 3 interesting public positions from Celso Amorim (Lula’s special aid and former master diplomat and minister)
1. Venezuela opposition cannot prove fraud
2. Radical positions on ukraine will not solve the problem
3. The death of Hamas leader was an excess that might prove expensive
And he still found the time to drop in on the china/brazil proposal (Li Hui) for the general council of the UN on ukraine.
Go BRICS!

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 2 2024 12:38 utc | 185

Intel is down 25% pre-market.
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/intc

Posted by: too scents | Aug 2 2024 12:43 utc | 187

Olympic humanity.
The three podium pairs China, North Korea AND South Korean taking joyful selfies together.
Natzos and fascists weeping!
The brouhaha about the Arab man beating up the European girl boxer – BULLSHIT.
1.’Man’ was born WOMAN – NOT trans.
2. That Woman was beaten by a Irish Woman last Olympics
– was the Irish girl a guy?
3. The Italian claims hardest she has ever been punched!
She didn’t get knocked out by that hardest punch.
I assume women are able to land ko punches.
– the eytie being surrender monkey whinger as usual when they get their make up slightly scuffed.
That is all.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Aug 2 2024 12:55 utc | 189

That Woman was beaten by a Irish Woman last Olympics
– was the Irish girl a guy?
Posted by: DunGroanin | Aug 2 2024 12:55 utc | 189
Likely 😀

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 2 2024 12:59 utc | 191

Scary…
Posted by: Newbie | Aug 2 2024 12:58 utc | 190
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Exciting!
Posted by: too scents | Aug 2 2024 13:02 utc | 192
Not really, hadn’t taken a look for a long while, nasdaq-wise it is all strongly within a long term (from 1974) support line that was only broken 2008/2011 but retaken since

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 2 2024 13:14 utc | 193

Gold is loving it.
https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/metals/precious/gold.quotes.html

Posted by: too scents | Aug 2 2024 13:41 utc | 195

they’ll catch it above 10.000
Posted by: Newbie | Aug 2 2024 13:44 utc | 196
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When market breaks they will reprice the “10.000” marker before it resumes.
Nominally it will still be “10.000”. In real value it will be smaller.

Posted by: too scents | Aug 2 2024 13:51 utc | 197

I was convinced it was real, not faked…but someone much cleverer than me, briefly displayed this party trick on open sale. It contains, a fake blood pouch, that you hide behind your ear. You slap your ear in open view, as if stung by a wasp, and there is the blood around your ear, dripping down your face…
Even this did not convince me, and I am still not convinced yet…
But yesterday, I saw even more evidence of Trump’s Ear, less than 2 weeks after the event – a photograph in extremely high definition, and his ear is totally healed.
The bloke is nearly 80 years old, even for a teenager, who wants to wear ear rings, it takes a little bit longer for the hole in the ear to completely heal.
However, even that photo might have been faked.

Posted by: tonyopmoc | Aug 2 2024 14:05 utc | 199