Posted by: tonyopmoc | Aug 2 2024 14:05 utc | 199
I may have seen different photos, I’ve only seen a hi-res before pic and a lower res after pic, which is less than definitive. It would be easy to claim the before pic was the after pic. Kinda like Ukraine claiming kills on Russian tanks when the flaming hulks are actually their own.
I’m not saying it’s impossible that it was faked, but it seems unlikely to me, given that the apparent bullet trajectories that killed and wounded bystanders pass very close to Trump’s location.
I’ve seen videos of people shooting pig ears with a variety of calibers, they all leave a very small round wound. How that would heal is beyond my ability to speculate, and pig ears are much thicker and tougher than human ears so it’s not a perfect comparison. I’ve also seen someone shoot the ear of a ballistics dummy with an AR 15, and the highspeed video shows the ear ballooning out from the impact, but then snapping back into place, leaving an almost invisible gash. Again, not identical to a human ear, but suggestive.

Posted by: Honzo | Aug 2 2024 14:45 utc | 203

Some organization just took the global price of gold down by $30-40/oz
When the music stops, will we find out who has been shorting the price and what resources they used to back up those shorts?
I expect the shorting to be naked shorts and those trillions (guess) of dollars of short backstop will be added to the US debt (I am assuming that US is the entity doing the naked shorting of gold price) when the music stops and the dust settles a bit.
But then again, what truth will be reported by what media when the music stops?…..I will come here and read if possible.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 2 2024 14:52 utc | 205

Peter Au1
Respiratory viruses spread fast. Really fast. The spread of covid was slow and erratic. Initial extremely high Reinfection values were based on pretending there was nothing yesterday and a lot today. When yesterday was already months into infectious spread. Ultimate R-values were between 1.1 and 1.2. Very low, and low enough that any effective measures at all would have stopped the disease cold.
It is hard to know much because data was either never collected or still kept secret. The grindingly slow progression of the ‘pandemic’ mostly informs us that we have been lied to. The stories about ‘variants’ are as full of shit as all the other stories.

Posted by: oldhippie | Aug 2 2024 15:04 utc | 207

canuck@141 Not sure how this is arguing with me about why mystery cults, pagan religion generally disappeared. But it’s true that Mithraism was in particularly an army cult, apparently led by career officers mainly (not certain of that.) But when the Roman armies disappeared in the west, then the army’s favorite religion disappeared with them. In the eastern empire, the destruction of the Mithraeums and preferential promotion of Christians took its toll. Incidentally, the costs of animal sacrifice (bulls for Mithraists) seemed to me to play a major role in the decline of pagan religions centered on temples. The meat from sacrificial animals was apparently sold at low(er) prices, turning the ritual into a something of a charitable redistribution. That’s why Paul was so careful to say that his Christians could eat that meat (unless it caused too much hard feeling with others in the congregation.) Julian the Apostate tried to revive paganism and one of his tactics seemed to have been a massive increase in sacrifices, aimed so far as I can tell to give a material interest to pagan rites. The extravagance of this extra cost to the budget was perhaps an issue in the resentments against him?
The stratification between the wealthy landowners and the masses led to more popular, which is to say, cheaper, forms of religion. Notably various mystery cults did not provide their adherents with meat. Other forms of popular religion, like the burial societies, or collegia, in Rome, also focused on providing rather material benefits to their members. This is why Roman authorities were so prone to on occasion even banning such collegia, as I recall. Any organ of popular power was unnerving to more conservative nobles. Also, if I recall correctly, Julius Caesar as a popularis had a period where he allowed the collegia, which was one aspect of being a popularis. The old HBO series Rome portrayed the collegia nothing but criminal gangs. But “Hollywood” almost always has a bias toward the upper classes and even when it pretends at class struggle it tends to imagine the real problem with the nobles or bourgeoisie is they are Bad People, also weak, homely, perverted snobs. Which to my mind proves mainly the the petty bourgeois imagine themselves worthy, unlike their rivals.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Aug 2 2024 15:24 utc | 209

where’s bevin?
I almost always like what he writes, even if I don’t agree, cos its so fresh.
@ tonyopmoc | Aug 2 2024 14:51 utc | 204
I think there are plenty of good reasons for a thoughtful person like bevin to grow weary of the hostility to thoughtfulness exhibited around here. For instance: TQC has appropriately observed how every thread degenerates into political inanities regarding what they call “wokeness” lately. Whose interest is served in the dialectic putrefaction generated by that word, and why are so many folks too wooden-headed to ask themselves this question?
Besides which, taking a break from freaking flame-wars can be a vitally necessary balm for the fragile psyche. (My best to bevin, and to b too. Please take care of yourself while you can, if you can.)
I showed up this morning to mention Josh Shapiro, whose name is probably first on Kamala Harris’ list of potential vice-presidential candidates. Because she occasionally speaks as if she considers Palestinians human, some folks think Harris represents less overt endorsement of USraeli genocide than our lame duck, mumbling stumbling Genocide Joe.
Watch this: the veep-pick is imminent. I’ve lived in the Bay Area awhile, so I think I have a feeling for who Kamala Harris is. Ever since she became the acclaimed replacement, she’s been virtually ordered, openly by PTB, to pick this fanatical Zionist as veep. With her selection of Shapiro, Harris will certify my perception that she’s nothing but an obedient poodle. A person of no substance. An empty pantsuit.
Then I’ll say don’t say nobody told you. But this prediction of mine is quite easy, in the light of Democrat party history.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Aug 2 2024 15:37 utc | 211

Some organization just took the global price of gold down by $30-40/oz
When the music stops, will we find out who has been shorting the price and what resources they used to back up those shorts?
I expect the shorting to be naked shorts and those trillions (guess) of dollars of short backstop will be added to the US debt (I am assuming that US is the entity doing the naked shorting of gold price) when the music stops and the dust settles a bit.
But then again, what truth will be reported by what media when the music stops?…..I will come here and read if possible.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 2 2024 14:52 utc | 205
Doesn’t surprise me…
“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
Another manipulated market… should be much higher or stocks much lower.
But as it is it looks a lot like a final 5.
Posted by: Newbie | Aug 2 2024 13:53 utc | 198″

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 2 2024 15:43 utc | 213

Very possible bevin has issues with family or finances or health (including God forbid death.)
If bevin’s current silence is deliberate, my guess is that keeping up the persona of a Marxist who is friends with Trumpers of every kind and right-wingers who, no matter how mad, while consistently posting against any socialist sympathizer who isn’t a Trump devotee was wearing. It must be a real strain on the brain to select a handful of cryptofascist comments to speak against when they so often fit right in with the other Trumpers. How ever do you pick just a hadnful, when there are so many? I mean, there is a genocidal assault going on and Trump criticized Biden in the debate for not letting Israel finish the job. But most people around here, don’t care. They care about Harris’ laugh, for God’s sake! Friends like that must be very dispiriting, especially if you think of it as a band of brothers against the Democrats and other devils. Strange ideas about Jews (to say the least) have I think made some real headway in the commentariat I think. Better to think of a discussion board as a place to argue with people who are not “friends” and hope the onlookers get correct ideas to think about.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Aug 2 2024 15:58 utc | 215

Zero Hedge reporting U.S. Unemployment report just posted and it’s another miss, looks like America is officially in a recession.

Posted by: Ezzie | Aug 2 2024 16:32 utc | 217

Where you are at the time, and the conditions at the time, obviously make an enormous difference, re what you do next, if you are lucky enough to nearly have a girlfriend.
I couldn’t imagine my mum and dad surfing, but they met in the summer of 1939 on a walk from Rock to Polzeath Beach and went swimming together.
Maybe we should get married – War is coming…and it did.
many years later, when I was 7 in 1960 on a tour of Scotland and England on the back of their motorbikes, they showed me, where they met

Posted by: tonyopmoc | Aug 2 2024 17:12 utc | 219

She has changed her dress, and I asked wtf are you doing…cutting up Raw Carrots for a Gig… There’s nowt of you – you are slim and fit…
Yeh but the 50 year old Girls – have got rather big..You wouldn’t fancy them now…Only alcohol free cider ..but I am aneaking in a bottle of Shiraz
Our Parties weren’t like that.. Come as You Are…If you want to smoke – Go outside

Posted by: tonyopmoc | Aug 2 2024 18:26 utc | 221

Nur der übliche Qualitätsjournalismus im US-Dominion, FAZ 2.8. 20:15:
HÄFTLINGS-DEAL MIT MOSKAU:
„Für Dich versuche ich es“, sagte Scholz zu Biden
Als alles gut gegangen ist, sprechen Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz und der amerikanische Präsident Joe Biden noch einmal am Telefon über den Gefangenenaustausch mit Russland und Belarus. Beide seien sich, teilt eine Regierungssprecherin später mit, über die Bedeutung der Freilassung einig, „die nur aufgrund enger und vertrauensvoller transatlantischer Zusammenarbeit möglich wurde“. Tatsächlich war diese enge Verbindung zwischen Scholz und Biden entscheidend dafür, dass der Austausch stattgefunden hat…
Just the usual quality journalism in the US-Dominion:
PRISONER DEAL WITH MOSCOW:
“I’ll try it for you,” Scholz said to Biden
When everything went well, Chancellor Olaf Scholz and American President Joe Biden spoke again on the phone about the prisoner exchange with Russia and Belarus. A government spokeswoman later said that both agreed on the importance of the release, “which was only possible due to close and trusting transatlantic cooperation.” In fact, this close connection between Scholz and Biden was crucial for the exchange to take place…

Posted by: Oliver Krug | Aug 2 2024 19:22 utc | 223

Barkeep, I think it’s time to call a taxi for the guy muttering in the corner over there. He’s in no condition to drive home.

Posted by: malenkov | Aug 2 2024 19:45 utc | 225

” We have an interesting alignment between Uranus, Lilith and Algol. Uranus is conjunct the ‘demon star’ Algol and opposite asteroid Lilith- straddling the Taurus/Scorpio axis of form and transformation, what we hold onto and what we let go of. Algol is the eye of Medusa and her story is also a mythic re-write. Previously she was a powerful goddess in her own right but her story was rewritten and she was raped by Poseidon, punished by Athena, turned into a gorgon with snakes for hair and killed by Perseus. It is amazing the atrocities that the Greeks and Romans wrote into their myths. Disgusting and toxic- and more telling about what was going on in their minds and hearts than anything else!!! With Uranus conjunct Algol and opposite asteroid Lilith- I feel the radical awakening of the repressed Dark Divine Feminine rumbling like a volcano ready to explode.”
i think this Medusa story must be turned around again before finding solutions is possible.

Posted by: swiss | Aug 2 2024 20:27 utc | 227

aye, myself & me | Aug 2 2024 20:37 utc | 228
I do think it likely there was some outbreak, but is seemed more confined to a small area and different to what was released in Wuhan.
Considering it was the consulate that was at the center of the outbreak And it was a circular are with markets around the edges, the consulate is a far more likely source or certainly involved.
Once the actual virus had been identified, China checked all hospital records for earlier pneumonia cases that did not respond to normal treatment and isolated those that had the classic signs of pneumonia due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. From that it could quickly be determined if the military games were the source, but that is not the case. The earliest cases were in relation to the markets not the games.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 2 2024 20:51 utc | 229

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 2 2024 20:51 utc | 229
I agree with you Peter, but I also believe it was our athletes who infected China and to my knowledge they didn’t stay at the consulate. They stayed in a hotel across the street from the wet market China believed the first case was located. Perhaps the athletes were likely ordered to mingle with as many Chinese as possible, altho that’s purely speculation. That the american athletes left the games and China early, because of illness is a fact.

Posted by: aye, myself & me | Aug 2 2024 21:03 utc | 231

aye, myself & me | Aug 2 2024 21:03 utc | 231
Thanks. I did not know that is where they stayed. Perhaps one day we will see something solid on it – documents declassified or something.
The Italian outbreak began quite early, no one sure of exactly when it seems, but the Russians seemed to have some suspicions that it started at various places at the same time. Iran was hit early and hit hard, though both Iran and Italy, the main time was sometime after Wuhan, and China quickly set up a very large hospital just for the Wuhan patients.
China was the only country though to successfully shut down a large outbreak. One it gets to the size of a city population, it can spread very fast.
Australia only had a few small outbreaks of the original strain – going through nursing homes and such, that was successfully brought under control.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 2 2024 21:16 utc | 233

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 2 2024 21:16 utc | 233

“Thanks. I did not know that is where they stayed. Perhaps one day we will see something solid on it – documents declassified or something.
The Italian outbreak began quite early, no one sure of exactly when it seems, but the Russians seemed to have some suspicions that it started at various places at the same time. Iran was hit early and hit hard, though both Iran and Italy, the main time was sometime after Wuhan, and China quickly set up a very large hospital just for the Wuhan patients.”

I’ve had the disease twice now and it takes time to incubate. My latest bout took nearly six days to know I was sick. Had even taken a few doses of a Chinese herb meant to suppress a cold, but if taken early enough can stop a cold infection in its tracks and never get started. However, with this latest COVID strain those herbs were overwhelmed and I knew I needed to start taking ivermectin and HCQ, that I’d bought from India, which weren’t any good. I’m blessed though having a sister who’s a MD and she prescribed the HCQ. She could have prescribed the ivermectin too, in my state, but a single dose for someone at my weight cost nearly a hundred dollars for a drug that costs pennies to make.
What I wrote above leading up to the games was on the internet and might still be from various msm outlets, which never would pass the filters here. I believe my military are the culprits and are likely up to their old tricks, yet again.
However, incidentally is your biological warfare information still up on your VK page? I was looking for it a few days ago, when I wound up on Pepe Escobar’s page, but couldn’t find it?

Posted by: aye, myself & me | Aug 2 2024 21:46 utc | 235

malenkov | Aug 2 2024 21:32 utc | 234
I guess they wont be able to keep gold price down forever, nor the stock market up forever. As this is the end of the week, it will be interesting to see what stocks and gold do next week.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 2 2024 21:53 utc | 237

For those doubting Lula position on Venezuela
Maduro thanked Brazil , Mexico and Colombia.
Pointed out that their request was reasonable and called out the US.
As an added bonus, earlier, asked to join BRICS

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 3 2024 1:30 utc | 239

I want a word/phrase in english or a richer language that describes the rehabilitation efforts I am making after my full shoulder replacement. I am talking here of doing exercises that cause significant pain but are necessary to regain range of motion.
In english we have sadism or masochism but, as you can read below, they really don’t fit.
Masochism the getting of sexual pleasure from being dominated mistreated or hurt physically or otherwise by one’s partner
Sadism the getting of sexual pleasure from dominating mistreating or hurting one’s partner physically or otherwise
I am ignorant of an english word describing such activity but it seems such should exist and I expect/appreciate education from fellow barflies….thanks.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 3 2024 5:02 utc | 241

@ Fred | Aug 3 2024 5:26 utc | 242 with the suggestion…thanks
I am in month two of 2-3 months of this shit and when I am done I get to do it to the other shoulder so I want something “pithy” to tell people what I am doing.
I own wearing out my body after being forced to have both shoulders repaired after getting sideswiped by a truck riding my bicycle 18 years ago…don’t want pity, just some useful/loaded term to express my angst.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 3 2024 5:36 utc | 243

I want a word/phrase in english or a richer language that describes the rehabilitation efforts I am making after my full shoulder replacement.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 3 2024 5:02 utc | 241
No probs. Like me, you are fucked mate. Perhaps we should team up and go in search of the elixir of life.
Nah, just takes time for old bones to heal.
My old man came out of a few comas and it didn’t affect him a lot. He was nuts beforehand so not much difference I guess.
But recovering from bad injuries when young is bad enough. Recovering from them when age bites, well the odds are stacked in favour of the house.
I guess my outlook is somewhat tainted by the medical quackery that that passes for and takes a lot of money for, jack shit. But whatever, I hope you are seeing some improvement in your situation.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 3 2024 6:00 utc | 245

I am ignorant of an english word describing such activity but it seems such should exist and I expect/appreciate education from fellow barflies….thanks.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 3 2024 5:02 utc | 241
The Discipline

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 3 2024 9:11 utc | 247

@ 241 /247
Yes Self discipline came to my mind first as well and then the chinese saying that you should never sweat / transpire by doing your work.. always accept the limits .. and try to enjoy doing whatever.

Posted by: swiss | Aug 3 2024 9:51 utc | 249

Top Shelf Youth at the Olympics – sometimes it is just too easy to look good and on the right side of history

Eivor @Eivor_Koy
Aug 1
The discrimination experienced by 19-year-old Chinese gold medalist Pan Zhanle may explain why an increasing number of Chinese are losing interest in communicating with the West and caring what the West says about China.
Two hashtags, “Chalmers ignored Pan Zhanle’s greetings” and “Pan Zhanle says the Americans look down on us a bit,” went viral on Chinese Weibo after the young Chinese swimmer won the gold medal and broke the world record. The hashtags grew to over 260 million views and 110 million views, respectively, as Chinese netizens expressed their support for the young athlete and their discontent over the disrespectful actions of athletes in the United States and Australia.
In an interview with the media, 19-year-old Pan claimed that the American team’s Alex purposefully splashed water on the Chinese coaches during training, giving the impression that the Americans “looked down on the [Chinese] a bit,” while the Australian team’s Chalmers ignored his friendly greetings. Before speaking up, the young athlete even politely asked the journalist if he could share this with the public.
The humiliation and defamation from the West continued as many Western netizens left racist comments and made groundless allegations that the young Chinese athlete was “doped”. There was a tsunami of online complaints and public fury in China after Chinese netizens translated and shared their rude remarks on social media.
“Some Westerners always believe they are superior to others. Instead of taking responsibility for their own mistakes, they would smear others if they were to lose. That’s why their countries are losing competitiveness and falling behind,” said one Weibo user.
“These days, even liberals in China find the West’s ridiculous lies and defamation against China repulsive. I used to think they were from developed nations; at least they could show some dignity. But alas, how wrong I was,” said another Weibo User.
This reminds me of the discrimination we faced 16 years ago when the Olympic Games were held in China in 2008 for the first time. We regarded it as an opportunity to introduce our way of life to the rest of the world and engage in meaningful talks with people from other countries.
Beijing’s taxi drivers at the time were required to take English classes in order to better meet the needs of foreign visitors. For the sake of projecting a more positive image of Beijing to the rest of the world, many retirees gave their time to help clean the city. The Olympic Games’ official theme song is named “Beijing Welcomes You All.”
And this is how the West returned our goodwill.
To begin, an earthquake hit Sichuan Province in China soon before the Olympics, killing 87,587 and forcing at least 4.8 million people to flee their homes. At a time of immense grief for the Chinese, people like Sharon Stone said the earthquake was “karma for Tibet”. Many Western netizens referred to us as “dog eaters,” believing that the Chinese deserved it.
Then politicians from the West, notably the United States, the Czech Republic, and many European countries, began to boycott our Olympic Games on the grounds that “China has no human rights.”
We soon learned that haters in London, Paris, and San Francisco attempted to rob and extinguish our torch.
All that bias and prejudice must have made the Chinese wonder, for the first time in their lives, “Why does the West hate our country so much?” “What have we done to deserve this?”
We Chinese are hospitable people who always give back when someone helps us. The Chinese have an old proverb: “滴水之恩当涌泉相报.” (A drop of water shall be returned with a burst of spring.) It’s disheartening that the West has repeatedly disregarded our good intentions.
I believe that the general public in the West is simply unaware of China and that they mean no harm, but I no longer hold out hope that the West will treat us with dignity and equality.
Being ignorant and arrogant will cost you dearly.
thread https://xcancel.com/Eivor_Koy/status/1818892775792034298#m
…………………….
Plus In response to the baseless accusations of doping leveled against Chinese athletes, Chinese swimmer Zhang Yufei questioned western media outlets as to why western athletes such as Phelps and Ledecky are not questioned when they perform well, but Chinese athletes who win medals should be questioned.
Zhang claimed that the drug tests had already shown whether or not the Chinese had been “doped”. If some people still do not believe that then it is pointless for the Chinese to present more responses.
Chinese people typically adhere to the principle of “息事宁人,” which entails avoiding conflict and putting up with unfair treatment in order to ensure everyone’s happiness. However, today’s youth in China are more likely than older generations to stand up and demand equality. The interview with Pan Zhanle yesterday that revealed prejudice against the Chinese and Zhang’s inquiries towards the Western media are two excellent examples.
The younger generation in China is becoming increasingly self-assured and courageous, and they are not afraid to stand out against prejudice and bullying
with Video of Chinese athlete swimmer Zhang Yufei at press conference
https://xcancel.com/Eivor_Koy/status/1819262728613384235#m

Posted by: Fred | Aug 3 2024 11:06 utc | 251

Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 3 2024 5:36 utc | 243
Turn it into a bit of a joke, like:
‘torture therapy’
or
‘rehab torture’
or
‘self-torturous interference’
Any which way, the word torture seems to fit, no?

Posted by: Scorpion | Aug 3 2024 13:20 utc | 253

Scattered covid comments:
There are about 500,000 Chinese living in Italy as part of the textile trade; in some neighbourhoods all the street signs are in Chinese. After Chinese New Year in 2020 which I believe ended around end of January, tens (or hundreds?) of thousands of Chinese returned home to Italy. (Indeed, those who think the ‘Chinese dunnit’ regard this timing as deliberate because the number of travellers entering and leaving China around their New Years is the largest volume of travellers each year.)
Provenance: most pundits buy into the notion that nation states are independent entities competing with each other, like in a sports league. But there are many power skeins in the world not answerable to national loyalties; therefore, given Fauci’s outfit was funding labs in the States, Canada, Ukraine and China maybe a simple explanation is that it was a bunch of internationally coordinated ‘globalists’ wot dunnit.
This opinion is buttressed by how well coordinated the lockdown response was, starting with China which, with its more authoritarian strong state structure, could relatively easily impose (really scary) draconian restrictions serving as an example for the rest of the world to follow. Therefore, I find the theories about ‘America did it’ or ‘China did it’ fall short especially when considering how they don’t fit the world wide response fact pattern.

Posted by: Scorpion | Aug 3 2024 13:52 utc | 255

@ psychohistorian | Aug 3 2024 5:02 utc | 241
reconstructive agony

Posted by: waynorinorway | Aug 3 2024 14:22 utc | 257

Posted by: Fred | Aug 3 2024 6:56 utc | 246
This guy makes the same point as I did here a few days ago:
While on Dave Stewart’s video (south side of the building) the first three shots sound very similar to the next five, on the video from the west side the first three shots are muffled (as opposed to the next five which sound very clear like in Stewart’s video).
He stops here, but the conclusion is IMO straightforward. The five shots of the second sequence are clear in both videos, which is consistent with them coming from the roof. The first three shots must have come out of the building – that’s why they sound muffled at the west side – but because there was a window open on the south side (where the shooter was firing from) they sound clear in Stewart’s video.
This thesis might easily be disproven if there is evidence from some video that all window of the south side were closed. But this negative proof fails for Stewart’s video: there is in fact a VERY suspicious window.

Posted by: mk | Aug 3 2024 14:34 utc | 259

Okay, so I am flabbergasted. Three dead girls…….and a Union Jack flies alongside the Tricolour. Amazing what causes unite people, regardless of one’s personal views.
In Belfast of all places.
Cheers M
….cous has his drone up over the protest…..one side, blue collar working class peeps anti immigration, the other side, white collar Pro Palestinian, Pride and Unions, pro immigration…..and a line of PSNI riot jeeps as the seperation line…..
I’ve seen the pics of my cousin’s face after his immigrant encounter. Always room for Open Carry laws no matter where you live.

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Aug 3 2024 14:58 utc | 261

I was reading that there are literally hundreds of the US athletes that the corrupt WADA has agreed have some kind of medical condition (e.g. ADHD) that requires them to take stimulants! So as usual, the US just makes cheating “legal”. No Chinese athlete has claimed such a waiver, and very few Russians who have a much higher reject rate from WADA (what a surprise!).
The reality is that the Western elite worldview simply cannot deal with the Other beating them at “white” sports such as swimming and tennis (where some African-Americans are allowed). They thought that they had tamed that with the banning of the Russians, but now the 1.4 million Chinese are able to properly support their athletes they are coming on strong. What game will the US play for Los Angeles 2028, they can’t have it turning into a demonstration of Chinese athletic dominance?

Posted by: Roger | Aug 3 2024 15:07 utc | 263

“Agonitherapy”

Posted by: Featherless | Aug 3 2024 15:11 utc | 265

sean the leprechaun | Aug 3 2024 15:10 utc | 263
*** Anti immigration protests in Belfast, someone stabbed three girls to death….never seen a Union Jack fly along side the Tri Colour, today I did……it really is a strange time indeed.***
Whole thing — right from the beginning (“Taylor Swift” dance class for kiddies, FFS) has all the indications of a thoroughly contrived situation.
Including an extreme expansion — and exploitation — of the usual establishment media non-publication of “offender” colour if non-white.
Oh, and here in the background comes zionist ‘Tommy Robinson’ the State asset.
An apparition as reliable as IS, serving similar purposes.
While stazi Starmer the PM now declares the formation of what’s actually been there inside the Home Office since the 1990s … a political police department.
Run by known fanatical Zionists.
Who promoted the unnecessary mass-immigration, including of “extremists”, which created a main foundation of the present problems. And pressed for imposing more and more allegedly “anti-discrimination” legislation and indoctrination.
But of course for years the mass-media kept oddly quiet about that. Now the very same agencies seek to demonise Moslems — who would not be around in such numbers anyway, were it not for these agencies, their predecessors and political masters. So, presumably, “discrimination” is suddenly ok (so long as it serves the purposes of the zionists).
But the constantly intensifying legislation against “threats” actually imported, constructed or fantasised by successive governments will give those who rule ever more dictatorial control over the general public these governments are theoretically meant to represent.
“Collateral damage” in such stunts is very real … as is infrastructurally unsustainable, deliberately inflicted and identity-destroying demographic change via mass-immigration — basically, the British (and Irish) public are victims of a long-running, media-facilitated Establishment charade.
Who gains?

Posted by: Cynic | Aug 3 2024 16:26 utc | 267

Eagerly awaiting Harris/Trump debate.
KAMALA — UNSCRIPTED FOR THE FIRST TIME:
“This is just an extraordinary testament to the importance of having a president who understands the power of diplomacy and understands the strength that rests in understanding the significance of diplomacy.”

Posted by: JAB | Aug 3 2024 17:01 utc | 269

Reportedly, Hungarians are descendants of the Xiongnu tribes , who harassed and fought the Han for centuries until they were crushed by Han Wu Di and subsequently moved to Europe.
Today the Hungarians are one of Han’s strongest ally in Euro besides the Serbs, what a sweet irony
!

Posted by: denk | Aug 3 2024 17:35 utc | 271

@suzan
If the assassination had been successful, the prospect of getting to the truth would be dire, I think. But Trump has survived, and this might change things profoundly.

Posted by: mk | Aug 3 2024 17:46 utc | 273

Posted by: denk | Aug 3 2024 16:56 utc | 268
————-
UN vote on truce during Olympics
193-5
[five liars], always at the right side of history !

Posted by: denk | Aug 3 2024 18:05 utc | 275

No wonder why so many high quality commentators left MoA : it’s just becoming a nursing home version of 4chan.
@ xiao pignouf | Aug 3 2024 18:16 utc | 276
ouch.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Aug 3 2024 18:24 utc | 277

Kamala, Kamala, Kameleon … she attempts to be anything she needs to be to get support and money from people. Reminds me of a Boy George/Culture Club song…
Culture Club – Karma Chameleon

Posted by: Roger | Aug 3 2024 20:27 utc | 279

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 2 2024 4:21 utc | 166
Thanks for that post. I didn’t read it fully the other day. It makes sense, because USA terrain in the areas that still to this day are “open range” for livestock tends to be rugged and more mountainous than most areas in Australia.
I should mention that on that trip I drove from Canberra to the eastern coast in a rental car, and that particular terrain is equally rugged and steep. First time I ever drove a car driving legally on the left side of the road. Only once did I almost get in a wreck (on a roundabout in a coastal town at night).

Posted by: Wisco | Aug 3 2024 22:59 utc | 281

Posted by: denk | Aug 3 2024 18:35 utc | 278
Typical disingenuous post telling lies, as is your wont.
This was my post:

Posted by: Scorpion | Jul 28 2024 18:18 utc | 10
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 28 2024 16:57 utc | 2
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Very clear and helpful article by Hudson.
Am not convinced by the ‘Israel is US aircraft carrier’ explanation because if so why the extensive penetration of Israeli operatives minding each US Congress Critter (as per Massie’s recent confessions)? Just as likely is something Michael himself mentioned later in the article, that Israel is angling to control the Middle East oil to become a regional Hegemon in its own right.
Looks like will never happen but would greatly love to see Western nations muddling along on their own without Jewish-run Central Banking nor their too many dual citizen fifth column infesting all branches of Government, media, finance, medicine, education, entertainment etc. I suspect things would change rapidly and for the better; but we shall never know it seems…

This is your addition which pretended to quote me (something you regularly do on this board):

Its all the Jews fault that the world is such a mess. once we get rid of our Jew handlers, everybody would live happily forever and ever.

I do wish you would stop providing false quotations along with your gratuitously childish insults which have absolutely nothing to do with the ongoing discussion and thus serve only to lower the tone of the bar for all.
‘What bloody crock’ indeed, deng.

Posted by: Scorpion | Aug 3 2024 23:19 utc | 283

Well, de gustibus and all that, but it sounds like “Aussie schnitzel” is chicken-fried steak, not real Schnitzel. Without going into detail, here are the main differences in making a real Schnitzel….
Posted by: malenkov | Aug 3 2024 23:25 utc | 284
That sounds awesome Malenkov. Stomach literally growling. Is schnitzel more Chech or Austrian than German? No biggie just curious, I’m no foodie.
I find it funny that Aussies apply a Euro name “schnitzel” to give it a bit more class than our “chicken-fried steak” which is associated with truck stops and deplorables. I like chicken-fried chicken also.

Posted by: Wisco | Aug 4 2024 0:03 utc | 285

Posted by: malenkov | Aug 4 2024 0:36 utc | 286
Thanks, makes sense. My grandparents both paternal and maternal were 2nd or 3rd gen Germans. None of them ever made “schnitzel” not even once that I can remember. A goose for xmas, yes, amazing custard in a pie, yes. Goulash, yes, but probably Americanized. German traditions were largely cancelled in USA around WWI.

Posted by: Wisco | Aug 4 2024 1:00 utc | 287

Wisco | Aug 4 2024 1:00 utc | 287
Where I grew up in the southwest, it was a small farming community or region. A bit of a community hall with monthly dances, different outings to a beach or somewhere at various times.
Our neighbors were Poles. Down the road some Turks. The kid was about my age and got run over by the school bus. Wasn’t good. Bus driver carrying the kid up the drive to the farm house. Tears running down his face.
But there was a family I had always known as the Smiths. Sometime in the early seventies I think it was, they changed their name back to Schmidt or something like that.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 4 2024 1:25 utc | 289

One thing that REALLY stood out for me on that trip to southern NSW was the vastness of the beaches, literally miles and miles with no other tourists, and I drove my rental car right onto the beach with no fear at all of cops fucking with me. On a sunny day.

Posted by: Wisco | Aug 4 2024 1:37 utc | 291

New South Wales has a population of about 9 million. California has a population of about 40 million. NSW has an area of about 300,000 square miles. California has an area of about 164,000 square miles.

Posted by: Wisco | Aug 4 2024 1:57 utc | 293

Anyway, Morro Bay in central California is amazing and here is the place to eat if you like unpretentious fish-and-chips and a fun atmosphere and a great view….
https://roseslandingbarandgrill.com/

Posted by: Wisco | Aug 4 2024 2:18 utc | 295

I am going to go against my desire to limit (s)election talk but just need to note that Harris has/is doing a trial balloon of Josh Shapiro as VP choice.
Harris husband is jewish
Shapiro is jewish
Jill Stein is jewish
The coming (s)election will be a rejection of some, if not all jewish, IMO

Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 4 2024 2:47 utc | 297

“Harris husband is jewish
Shapiro is jewish”
“Jill Stein is jewish”
“The coming (s)election will be a rejection of some, if not all jewish, IMO”
Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 4 2024 2:47 utc | 297
Doesn’t matter. Every USA politician is vetted for their fealty to Israel. Do you think it really matters that Trump (or Biden) aren’t officially Jewish?

Posted by: Wisco | Aug 4 2024 3:00 utc | 299