Thanks for this feast b! I downloaded the book already. I hope you’re doing well.

Posted by: KMRIA | Sep 1 2024 13:02 utc | 1

Sahra Wagenknecht is calm, moderate, and strongly anti-war. Her brand new party is likely going to secure around 16% of the local legislative seats in today‘s elections in Saxony and Thurigen.

The other new party, the AFD, has policy positions akin to middle of road European Christian Democrats circa 1970, is also anti-war. Likely to secure >30% of the seats in today‘s election.

16+30 = 46% of voters are anti-war. Hmmmm.

Posted by: Exile | Sep 1 2024 13:05 utc | 2

Best wishes B

Next time just give us a small update on how you’re doing as well.

Yes france is in the spotlight this week, Macron is on the target, both for the impeachment (unlikely to go anywhere) and the Durov affair (both the arrest and the citizenship in 2018)

I see you didn’t do an update on Venezuela , Lula/Brasil are sliding from the fence…

https://www.cubaheadlines.com/articles/287659

Heal well and thank you

Posted by: Newbie | Sep 1 2024 13:13 utc | 3

[email protected] you make it to Ireland and have the time, check out a Gearoid McCarthy show, very entertaining. He's from Cork and does the pub circuit, he just got back from Newfoundland tour. You can find him on YouTube and other platforms for music.

Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Sep 1 2024 13:30 utc | 4

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Sep 1 2024 13:30 utc | 4

Thanks Sean. I just watched a few of his vids. Will certainly look for him next September (25) when we make the trip. “Just going out for the one”…love it!

Posted by: KMRIA | Sep 1 2024 13:50 utc | 5

Something that has started (not well last week) but might be heading somewhere now is Syria/Turkey.

A deal in Syria might point to Turkey's drift away from nato's war with RF

"Turkey is ready to discuss the withdrawal of its troops from Syria, but specific terms haven’t been agreed yet, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with RT television.

"The Turks are ready for this, but specific parameters haven’t been agreed yet. We are talking about the return of refugees, about the measures necessary to suppress the terrorist threat, which will make the presence of the Turkish contingents unnecessary. All this is in the works," the minister said.

He said that according to the Syrian government a clear decision about the process for the eventual withdrawal of Turkish troops from Syria is necessary for the normalization of relations with Istanbul."

Posted by: Newbie | Sep 1 2024 13:57 utc | 6

The ‘In The Dark’ podcast Season 3 focuses on the Haditha Massacre and is excellent listening.

Posted by: Irish | Sep 1 2024 14:36 utc | 7

Best wishes b. I hope you are recovering well.
--
Sorry if this is taking up space. You may wish to skip this, and move to the next comment.

I think humans are conditioned to look for patterns; as such, I've been skimming Iran related news and noticed certain patterns as I went along, mainly a small set of words being used in the title of news pieces.
Buyer beware: if the title to your Iran related news item does not include these words, it's not real news.

War, threat, arms, IAEA, crackdown, aggression, offensive, hostile, against, terror, militants, fight, killed, dangerous, revenge, horrific, brutal, violates, death, extremism, destruction, assassination, distrust, rhetoric, detains, retaliation, hostages, publicly hangs, ominous, nefarious, reckless, axis of..., escalation, missiles, drones, monitor, cargo planes, loses, coordinates, provocation, dismisses, sparks, crimes, WWIII, intercepts, warns, denies, detains, allegations, launches, forces, detected, signals, debates, disgruntled, dilemma, hacker, cyberattack, notorious, targeting, arrests, pro-Iran, Iran-backed, Iran-aligned, Iran-funded, paranoia, red-line, antisemitism, urgent, protests, human rights, gay rights, tunnels, Hezbollah, Khhhamas, Houthis, ISIS, Al qaeda, amalek.

And finally, drum roll, dat dara dom, nuclear, nukes, atomic, fatwa, the bomb.

I'm sure I missed a few.

Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Sep 1 2024 14:54 utc | 8

The other new party, the AFD, ..., is also anti-war.

Posted by: Exile | Sep 1 2024 13:05 utc | 2

They are not really anti-war. If the whole of Germany would call for an end to the war, then the AfD would call for war.

Posted by: Zet | Sep 1 2024 15:23 utc | 9

thanks b!

@ frkorz | Sep 1 2024 15:00 utc | 9

your post is likely to get removed... what are you hoping to convey in all that?? it seems meaningless...

Posted by: james | Sep 1 2024 15:24 utc | 10

regarding the link on the renowned surgeon Dr. Khaled Alser, it appears israel must silence any opposition to its continued genocide and this means there will be no doctor speaking out on the atrocities that israel continues to commit.. silencing the media and maintaining a narrative of complete bullshit seems to be israels specialty.. what a disgrace israel is on the world stage at present.. it is worse then that..

Posted by: james | Sep 1 2024 15:28 utc | 11

One post from frkorz is one post too many, especially when is messes up the formatting of the page.

Posted by: malenkov | Sep 1 2024 15:32 utc | 12

Will resistance to monopolist controlled information environments be sufficient to save our cultures? People who do not know they are carefully watched subjects in an artificial information environment do not resist, at least not, until they realize the artificial information environments they are allowed to engage with are engineered to accomplish some target purpose. Then, and only then, do a few begin to ask why is not what used to be still available, still available? I cannot find that music i love available anywhere any more.. ?

“global music ambassadors” – a role directly modeled on Washington’s Cold War-era efforts to use the arts to inspire U.S.-backed regime change in Eastern Europe, and to use musical tours as covers that the CIA could use to assassinate foreign leaders.https://www.mintpressnews.com/fight-the-power-chuck-d-public-enemy-cia-neutralized-rap/288184/ Thanks b.

so the PTB are engaged in cultural infiltration and are conducting war on existing culture? Music, art, access to traditional educational and older historical materials with government support, funding and promotion. Mass audience social events designed to redirection and realign culture itself ..

Yesterday I heard a group of young folks, about 4 black males, 3 females, one black, two white, and one white male talking about "just that:government dictating what they, the audience, are required to accept"? What surprised me was this group of young folks (all <20 years old I think) were complaining about how their personal interest (as audience) was no longer allowed to dictate what music appears on media and at festivals and musical events: the content of mainstream music is being dictated from above.

I would summarize the 20 minute conversation as quite revealing and not without meaning, especially in light of the above link posted by B.

So I asked myself how is this possible.. I concluded the digital platform makes everyone's access to anything subject to a gate fee [either you come to the gate and pay the fee, or you get nothing). If the PTB deny you access to the music of your choice, the prior music culture quickly fades and is non existent to those who have not previously adopted the prior choices.
When audience access to the music of choice is blocked and only music that fits the approved version of culture is accessible, culture is easy to control? I believe "access gating" has been at work in technical media since 1990, in history media and in news and information media since 2000. Even degree choices and available to read books at the university libraries have been limited by the culture changing process of "gating". The digital platform has made information and culture directing gating possible.

Posted by: snake | Sep 1 2024 15:37 utc | 13

@ frkorz | Sep 1 2024 15:00 utc | 9 with the too long list of commenters

I like it but suggest you only report commenters with more than 2 comments per thread which will reduce the volume of your comment and focus it on the spammers.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 1 2024 15:41 utc | 14

@ frkorz | Sep 1 2024 15:00 utc | 9 with the list and number of comments made but the volume of text.

Again only the top 3-5 abusers should be listed per thread with the word volume and total number of comments that contain that volume.

Thanks again as I think reporting such may help keep MoA comment sections readable

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 1 2024 15:46 utc | 15

"Aug 28 - Israel Starts Ethnic Cleansing In West Bank"

Surely this started in the 1920a?

Posted by: lester | Sep 1 2024 16:12 utc | 16

Posted by: malenkov | Sep 1 2024 15:32 utc | 13

Doesn't mess up any formatting for me Also quite interesting IMO. We have a few posters who dominate most threads now and long timers like bevin have bailed as a result. I'm also curious how one does the extra small typeface.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 1 2024 16:13 utc | 17

The posts by user list also doesn't capture sockpuppet handles which take the lead in several of those threads in real time but were banned and removed. So in that sense it isn't really an accurate "histogram."

Needs to be done more frequently and then compiled for publication.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 1 2024 16:20 utc | 18

Worth adding to b's list of articles worth reading:

https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2024/09/01/germany-the-end-of-eu-hegemony/#like-29041

Posted by: bevin | Sep 1 2024 16:23 utc | 19

welcome back bevin!! now where is waynorinorway??

Posted by: james | Sep 1 2024 16:33 utc | 20

@ bevin | Sep 1 2024 16:23 utc | 20
re: The end of EU hegemony
It is bound to happen, the EU is illegal.
UN Charter:
The Organization is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its Members.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Sep 1 2024 16:35 utc | 21

psychohistorian, Tom_Q:

Bollocks. Utter bollocks, both of you.

First of all, the length or frequency of a comment has nothing to do with its value or, for that matter, its trollishness, so all of frkorz's crap data is worthless in addition to useless. You will note for instance that Menz appears frequently in the "top 3" of the Palestine threads; Menz's comments are short but consistently valuable as news items. Short comments by the likes of "Membrum Virile" "Peteryourwifecalled" are trollish garbage, even if there's only one per thread (although, granted, the latter is just one of some user's many sockpuppet accounts). Down South posts several lengthy news items for which I'm more grateful than, say, the site owner. The comments by Jeremy Rhymings-Lang, who would appear on several "top 3" lists (if only on one of the lists above), vary greatly in length, and to date I've found every one of them worth reading.

As to "thread domination", I can't speak for bevin but I doubt he was offended by the likes of frequent posters Down South or Milites, much as he may have disagreed with the latter on socioeconomic matters. The wearying flame wars with real trolls, well, maybe those are what chased him away. Peter is sui generis: when he doesn't go off the rails, he can, as far as I'm concerned, dominate any thread he chooses; his good comments are always substantial. Speaking for myself, I'd rather read "Piss off troll" fifty times than read five trolls. YMMV.

And as for formatting, everything looks fine on my computer, but on my cell phone the entire thread has been reduced to 0.0000001-point type to accommodate frkorz's three columns. But then, I'm running DuckDuckGo on an iPhone 6s. Yeah, I know, shoot me for being a useless eater geezer, but get in line because Apple wants to do it first!

Posted by: malenkov | Sep 1 2024 16:42 utc | 22

@ bevin | Sep 1 2024 16:23 utc | 20

Please let this be the real bevin, and let it be an indication that he's back for good!

Posted by: malenkov | Sep 1 2024 16:44 utc | 23

Presumedly, Lula is under some sort of pressure regarding Brazil’s endorsement of Venezuela’s election. The official electoral offices within Venzuela have confirmed the results, and there is no coherent argument that these offices are themselves corrupt. In contrast, the notion that the extreme right managed a 70% vote on a platform of complete dismantling of the Chavista program has no corroborating evidence whatsoever, and appears an absurd proposition. Brazil’s position will be used to encourage more rightist destabilization efforts in Venezuela and Latin America at large.

Also - The Duran reported Mongolia is facing pressure to arrest Putin on an ICC warrant during a scheduled official visit. (Mongolia has stated they will not abide). This request highlights the contrast between ongoing efforts by this court: an actionable warrant against Putin was already in place when the charges against him were publicized, but the other high-profile case at the ICC - events in Occupied Palestine - has not produced an actual “warrant” against Netanyahu and Galant, only an “application” for such. This allows the ICC to appear as “doing something” in the most urgent and devastating current violations of international humanitarian law, but actually not doing anything at all as the “application” so far has no timetable and could be “under consideration” interminably.

Posted by: jayc | Sep 1 2024 16:54 utc | 24

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 1 2024 16:13 utc | 18

If you put the blockquote HTML within itself, the type gets progressively smaller.

I'm I going to get put on frkorz watchlist for this post?

I'm I going to get put on frkorz watchlist for this post?

I'm I going to get put on frkorz watchlist for this post?

/

Posted by: lex talionis | Sep 1 2024 16:58 utc | 25

especially when is messes up the formatting of the page.

Posted by: malenkov | Sep 1 2024 15:32 utc | 13

Agreed....i gotta say the post did provide an interesting perspective nonetheless. Disclaimer. Not a call to break formatting because you believe you are interesting. As always and mostly unsaid on my part. Thanks b.

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Sep 1 2024 17:04 utc | 26

https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/donald-j-trump-miracle-annointed-savior-or-zionist-charlatan/

Donald J. Trump: Miracle-Annointed Savior or Zionist Charlatan?

Debating Dr. E. Michael Jones on False Flag Weekly New

Short 1100 word article. I like to think positive developments are still possible in the declining West and so keep looking for them, but as this article ably points out, there's that huge Zionist elephant in the room whose overbearing presence makes such hopium-laced aspirations questionable at best.

Includes a taped interview. Dr. Jones is a hard-hitting Catholic intellectual.

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 1 2024 17:23 utc | 27

@ bevin | Sep 1 2024 16:23 utc | 20

Please let this be the real bevin, and let it be an indication that he's back for good!

Posted by: malenkov | Sep 1 2024 16:44 utc | 24

Yes, welcome back bevin. The bar hasn’t been quite as good in your absence.

Posted by: KMRIA | Sep 1 2024 17:33 utc | 28

Posted by: frkorz | Sep 1 2024 15:00 utc | 9

Well, it appears that I’ve been “mentioned in despatches”, though the point of the exercise escapes me, except perhaps to prove that trying to create a histogram to show trends or averages from a completely random data-set (with innumerable variables in effect) is a waste of time.

I suppose you could try and generate a Poincaré mapping...

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 1 2024 18:12 utc | 29

that new yorker article in the empire section is extremely disturbing... have those who did that been held accountable??

meanwhile, the link of the extremists infiltrating the dem party is also pretty disturbing... lots of disturbing shit that has or is happening..

Posted by: james | Sep 1 2024 18:44 utc | 30

Hey James,

I don’t think anyone did jail time for the Haditha massacre. Of course not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha_massacre

Posted by: KMRIA | Sep 1 2024 19:03 utc | 31

What I learned today:

When asking for more teachers in Germany then this is considered as hate speech. Why? Because there are none available and forcing people to study is hate (although nobody ever asked to force anybody)

That is the daily insanity in Germany. You can't make this stuff up...

Posted by: Multipolar Panda | Sep 1 2024 19:09 utc | 32

This looks like a really good edited read for those of us who are a bit fuzzy about Michael Hudson's economic ideas:

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/08/michael-hudson-debt-economic-collapse-and-the-ancient-world.html

Posted by: juliania | Sep 1 2024 19:18 utc | 33

Posted by: james | Sep 1 2024 15:24 utc | 11

I was thinking the same. The last thing we want here is 'qualtrics' and 'analytics'. I get enough of that pointless shuffling of information at work. The fallacy of evidence: that the mere presentation of data discloses truths without the need for interpretation.

Posted by: Patroklos | Sep 1 2024 19:19 utc | 34

To my comment at 33: I haven't yet had time to read the article, but did skim comments and there are some from Michael Hudson, no caveats.

Posted by: juliania | Sep 1 2024 19:23 utc | 35

Posted by: juliania | Sep 1 2024 19:18 utc | 33

Although caveat: Hudson is not an ancient historian. To the non-expert it sounds convincing, especially if you like the rest of his ideas. But it's a highly tendentious reading of antiquity that attempts to align it with his view of the present. Hudson's best on the 20th century.

Posted by: Patroklos | Sep 1 2024 19:27 utc | 36

(Repost from Ukrainian Civil War thread )

Re: German provincial elections
3 parties are anti-war; the AFD. BSW, and Die Linke

The anti-war parties tally
52% Saxony
59% Thurigen

Posted by: Exile | Sep 1 2024 19:34 utc | 37

welcome back bevin!! now where is waynorinorway??

Posted by: james | Sep 1 2024 16:33 utc | 21

Ha, as if there's any equivalence.
I'm right here in my recliner toasting bevin's
reappearance with a cold 16ozer from the nearby
world's most northerly brewery (Mack).

Cheers bevin!
Cheers historical materialists!
Down with agnotology and philosophistry!

Posted by: waynorinorway | Sep 1 2024 19:42 utc | 38

Wagenknecht deserves closer analysis: she is a Strasserite not a Marxist. I'm curious to see how a real red-brown movement might actually play out. It could very well transform into a vehicle for something quite different to whatever she is imagining it will be (shades of DAP?).

Posted by: Patroklos | Sep 1 2024 19:57 utc | 39

Good to see you're well comrade. Bevin too. Cheers historical materialists indeed!

Posted by: Patroklos | Sep 1 2024 19:58 utc | 40

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Sep 1 2024 17:04 utc | 27

i did three column mode so that people would not have to scroll thru a very long post. my user interface uses tab/shift-tab to navigate a post at a time so for me length does not matter.
i use the kiwi browser on my pixel 5a phone in landscape mode and the post is very readable with a reasonable font size. in portrait mode the font is too small but can be struggled thru. perhaps people should learn how to use blocker scripts to stop the display of certain users if they dont like their posts.

Posted by: frkorz | Sep 1 2024 20:37 utc | 41

85 years ago today…

Posted by: KMRIA | Sep 1 2024 21:40 utc | 42

C[IA]huck D! WTAF!

So that's what he's been up to rather than making another Prophets of Rage record. Damn shame...

Posted by: S.P. Korolev | Sep 1 2024 21:45 utc | 43

Posted by: malenkov | Sep 1 2024 16:42 utc | 23

My comment wasn't about word count, although I agree with psychohistorian to some extent on that. I was one of Down South's early defenders back when b warned him to stop posting the sit-rep/casualty summaries, and I have no problem with post length if the quality is good or they're entertaining. But the "histogram" didn't bother me or throw off any formatting on my phone or PC (Brave Browser on both). My main complaint, if you can call it that, is it didn't capture the handles used by sockpuppets because they are often banned and their comments deleted in near real-time. So a weekly report like the one above isn't that accurate (or as useful as it could be).

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 1 2024 22:08 utc | 44

@41 Trouble is ALL the posts are now miniscule, and most don't want to start adding script I would think. That is on Android - Berry, Via, Opera Touch are small text now, Opera mobile is ok because it is the only one that has text wrap out of all the other browsers around for Android probably. Zooming and sidescrolling works but you just lose track of where you are reading like that. Not complaining, just saying.

Posted by: Ornot | Sep 1 2024 22:11 utc | 45

Glad to see bevin back. Can't imagine it isn't the real person. I think he's active on some Substack threads too, unless someone else picked the same handle, of course.

A note on comment volume, type and frequency: I've been trying to exercise some discipline in that regard, but of a variety that's a little different. If a thread has exceeded 400 or 500 comments, IMO it's "OK" to engage a little more often with concern trolls, or almost-concern-trolls if they seem to be legitimately frustrated with the topic. For example I think there's some good faith commentary that borders on concern trolling regarding Russia's approach to the Ukraine/NATO war. Sometimes I'm interested in seeing it fleshed out through engagement with the poster. There is, IMHO, some legitimate and not uncommon grief with seeing the war drag on and so-called redlines continually crossed by the Ukros/NATO. But past a certain point, it's nothing more than a difference of opinion on the Internet (i.e., arguments between people who have no stake or bearing on the outcome).

In some cases, there are also obvious wannabe thread disruptors who seize on stupid minor comments (for ex. my noting that it's not unheard of for NATO/Ukro/Israeli actors to read and comment here and in other forums) and then flood the zone with whinging, name calling and false accusations as to what I, or another commenter (say, PeterAU1) really wrote. Those people usually get the ban hammer as do their sockmuppet handles.

Anyway, cheers. Just thought I'd get that off my chest.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 1 2024 22:20 utc | 46

Posted by: Patroklos | Sep 1 2024 19:27 utc | 36

Thanks, Patroklos. I am not an historian, but I would say the same is very much true on his references to Christianity, which is a shame as those have puzzled me from the start. The text which he references for debt forgiveness doesn't say what he claims, even though the explanation of the jubilee year certainly has weight; but as you say, what is important is the real application of debt issues and how problematic they are when not treated in a practical way for the economy today.

I am hoping that is the main thrust of the interview, to clarify current national economic practices and how they impinge on a country's general wellbeing, so as to remedy the latter.

Posted by: juliania | Sep 1 2024 22:43 utc | 47

To help with readability here, I will urge also that we get a few more posts onto this page so that we can move ahead. I will maybe post a bit more than I usually do to help that along. And please, no more strange lists that stretch the thread. That could be considered - and I do so consider it - impolite to b, as the result is hard for some posters to manage. I think posts suggesting the point could be made more briefly are correct.

Posted by: juliania | Sep 1 2024 22:47 utc | 48

I'll just do a few general understanding quotations from Prof. Hudson's piece:

"...When William Shakespeare wrote plays about the kind of social and political intrigues that he found in England, he often placed their action in Italy or some other foreign land so as not to touch a sensitive domestic nerve. A similar logic led me to put the debt problem in its long perspective by writing a history of debt through the ages. I thought that people would be more willing to accept the idea that cancelling debts was needed to avoid economic polarization and impoverishment if they could see how societies through the ages had dealt with the problem of debts exceeding the ability of large parts of the economy to pay. Around 1980-1981, I began to draft this history. I thought that if this logic were accepted for the past, the implications for today would become less unthinkable..."

I am not sure this was the best way, as Patroklos has suggested that even history is somewhat an arguable subject. But perhaps it was best in that it provides context for us without being the be-all, end-all in historic understanding. We could, perhaps, feel charitable about Prof. Hudson's understanding of history without accepting it as factual but by seeing it as parable - a helpful understanding of the economic facts he is trying to illustrate.

Posted by: juliania | Sep 1 2024 23:21 utc | 49

Here's an extract from the Hudson interview that makes my point about the Jewish jubilee year being an important one:

...I think that the addictive drive for economic power to dominate others subject to dependency relationships as debtors, renters or trade customers, dominating and impoverishing society around them, should be the center of modern economics. We’re seeing the One Percent doing what similar elites have always tried to do. We can see why creditors like the freedom to deny liberty to their debtors, and treat this as part of the natural order. The financial sector controls most monetary wealth, and is horrified at the thought that debtors might be freed from having to pay their loans. There is almost an abhorrence at viewing Bronze Age economic history and that of early antiquity as a success story in restraining the emergence of an oligarchy to use debt leverage to impoverish the population and appropriate its self-support lands for themselves, putting house to house and plot to plot together so that no more room in the land is left for people, as the Biblical prophet Isaiah put it...

This quote goes with my previous one in that it puts in its place the context of the Jewish Jubilee year as far as economic history goes, without saying what the religious context is. Prof. Hudson describes the moral issue from a human perspective in the earlier post, also claiming that economics is a moral issue on that level. He can quote Isaiah as Isaiah agrees on that economic issue. He can give his research on the understanding of the consequences of debt to be argued for or against by historians as far as how universally sound such an understanding is. And his discoveries on the economic level are hard to argue against. The success or failure of past civilizations would seem to agree with him.

It's that failure today that he's talking about. Basic economic principles (which were morally understandable) back then and now.

Posted by: juliania | Sep 1 2024 23:44 utc | 50

"...If a thread has exceeded 400 or 500 comments, IMO it's "OK" to engage a little more often with concern trolls, or almost-concern-trolls if they seem to be legitimately frustrated with the topic. For example I think there's some good faith commentary that borders on concern trolling regarding Russia's approach to the Ukraine/NATO war. Sometimes I'm interested in seeing it fleshed out through engagement with the poster. There is, IMHO, some legitimate and not uncommon grief with seeing the war drag on and so-called redlines continually crossed by the Ukros/NATO...."

I agree. I think the bar you set of 400-500 posts is too high though. It's always a good idea to engage the truly "legitimate" ones. For example, Sean the Leprechaun. Lately some posts do seem trollish and unnecessarily provocative, but that poster has been around for years and for most of that time has not been labeled as a disruptive troll or "NAFO".

I also agree with you that the big list compiled @frkorz is inaccurate because it fails (maybe intentionally?) to capture the numerous sockpuppet posts. But otherwise it is interesting, imo. The big list does mess up the thread formatting and readability for me (but I only use a phone here).

Posted by: Wisco | Sep 2 2024 0:09 utc | 51

Had an excellent laugh

People may have been critical about the cleaning in the RF and chinas MOD, but the US can’t laugh too hard

https://www.defenseone.com/business/2024/08/rtx-fined-200m-exporting-defense-tech-china-russia-iran/399220/

Posted by: Newbie | Sep 2 2024 0:09 utc | 52

Post #51 was in response to:
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 1 2024 22:20 utc | 46

Posted by: Wisco | Sep 2 2024 0:10 utc | 53

I really appreciate b's efforts every Sunday to compile the "Week in Review" thread. Great source of info. Let the recovery continue!

Posted by: Wisco | Sep 2 2024 0:22 utc | 54

Now I come to the weak point in Hudson's argument. He's set out his research in a very convincing way. Hugely impressive. And my only quibble, if you like to call it that, is with the bolded part in this quote:

...It soon became apparent that I couldn’t simply write this history by myself. What was at issue was the broad context that shaped the Mesopotamian economic takeoff in which interest, money and “taxes” first arose and took shape. In order to get credibility for our study, we drew up a plan to invite the leading Assyriologist and Egyptologist scholars who could read the Bronze Age proclamations, letters and legal cases. We would hold a series of colloquia as a basis for creating a financial and economic history of the ancient Near East.

I had tried to write the original version of what became my volume, “… and Forgive Them Their Debts” to a number of publishers like the University of California. Every publisher rejected it, sending it to referees who thought that it was impossible for society to cancel the debts, because if that were the case, creditors wouldn’t have made loans anymore. One Assyriologist repeated Rabbi Hillel’s pro-creditor argument against the Jubilee Year to this effect. To counter the threat of debt cancellation, Hillel created the prosbul clause waiving the debtor’s right to have his debts cancelled in the Jubilee Year. That was the political context in which Jesus led the fight to revive the Jubilee Year practice...

I don't want to call anything but this into question myself. It simply isn't what the texts say. And that is what we have to go on. The texts say that yes, Jesus in his sermon made reference to the Jubilee year -- a point of contention we can indeed now understand and thank Prof. Hudson for pointing this out. But Jesus, in his sermon and in the prayer he gives his disciples, means something far different, far broader, exceedingly so, than a fight for economic rights in the world his father has given us. That fight, it is true, is a moral one. Practical as well.

Spiritual?

From the Sermon on the Mount:

Blessed are the poor in spirit
For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

This is the fight Jesus led. This is what the texts say.

Posted by: juliania | Sep 2 2024 0:25 utc | 55

For me, the strongest point in Michael Hudson's arguments are always this:

The real, industrial and agricultural and otherwise productive labor vs the rentier class of financial parasites (his "FIRE" economy) who make money in their sleep. That's the big point of it. And he called it absolutely 100% correct about the bullshit real-estate bubble prior to the 2008 real estate collapse. I believed him then and acted on it, to my benefit.

The weakest points of Hudson is that he, much like Chris Hedges, always seems to make a big point about boogeymen "white people" always causing all the problems.

Posted by: Wisco | Sep 2 2024 1:13 utc | 56

Hudson wrote this article published by Harpers Magazine in 2006 about the coming real estate bubble collapse which happened two years later exactly as he predicted. Much respect for him since then....

https://michael-hudson.com/2006/04/the-new-road-to-serfdom-an-illustrated-guide-to-the-coming-real-estate-collapse/

Posted by: Wisco | Sep 2 2024 1:30 utc | 57

@ Wisco | Sep 2 2024 1:13 utc | 56
It's currently a hit on anyone and every one, food and fuel and fires in falls and failures.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Sep 2 2024 1:36 utc | 58

Those people usually get the ban hammer as do their sockmuppet handles.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 1 2024 22:20 utc | 46

No, they don't. Not now. I suspect fkorz makes it look like he posts unfiltered data, but the reality is he selectively deletes some of the data to hide the sockpuppets. There is an active thread here with these handles still extant, and none showed up in his big listing:

Posted by: PeterisGodonlybetter | Aug 31 2024 6:00 utc | 431

Posted by: Peterhasatinyweewee | Aug 31 2024 5:16 utc | 424

Posted by: Peteratehisdogspoop | Aug 31 2024 5:25 utc | 426

Posted by: PeterisGodonlybetter | Aug 31 2024 6:00 utc | 431

Posted by: Wisco | Sep 2 2024 2:12 utc | 59

Posted by: Wisco | Sep 2 2024 2:12 utc | 59

I could find more but too lazy to search thru all the threads.

Posted by: Wisco | Sep 2 2024 2:22 utc | 60

Patroklos | Sep 1 2024 19:57 utc | 39
*** Wagenknecht deserves closer analysis: she is a Strasserite ***

If I was German I would vote for her, with the (East German) AfD as a second choice and certainly not for any of the rest.

The Guardian reports that the Establishment parties would ally to block such "extremists" and "radicals" from office.
Which they no doubt will, and that further exposes what a uni-party cesspit of NATO franchise labels the Establishment "parties" there really are.
Just like in Britain.

The brass-neck is amazing when such corrupt Establishment scum call others "extremist" and "undemocratic", while their own hands still flow with the blood of literally millions they've recently murdered ... from Serbia through Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan ... to the present conflicts their masters inflicted -- and their bank-accounts bulge with the loot.

Posted by: Cynic | Sep 2 2024 2:49 utc | 61

There are cults online. The Marx cult is one. It isn't going to succeed, already been tried and resulted in tragedy. The Trump cult is stronger now. Also won't succeed. Trump cult is a bit worse due to anti-intellectualism as a feature. But both are cults, imo.

Posted by: Wisco | Sep 2 2024 3:07 utc | 62

@ KMRIA | Sep 1 2024 19:03 utc | 31

thanks for following up on that..

@ Patroklos | Sep 1 2024 19:19 utc | 34

lets see what b thinks of that post.. it seems pointless to me... the purpose of these threads is to solicit conversation.. this poster - frkorz - has offered none.. i don't find that coincidental..

Posted by: james | Sep 2 2024 3:15 utc | 63

@ Wisco | Sep 2 2024 3:07 utc | 62

the ''anyone but trump'' is another cult which much of the media seem to belong to as well..

Posted by: james | Sep 2 2024 3:16 utc | 64

does anyone want to try to explain to me this popular term in the msm 'far right'?? thanks..

German far right hails 'historic' election victory in east

Posted by: james | Sep 2 2024 3:19 utc | 65

Posted by: james | Sep 2 2024 3:16 utc | 64

Thats true but I get it. I'm definitely not a Trump cultist at all.

Posted by: Wisco | Sep 2 2024 3:40 utc | 66

The weird thing is that so many people (not on MoA, obviously) still think Trump is going to be the big savior. He won't, and it's a fact he won't based on his clear record from his 2016-2020 years as President. Cultists are just so forgiving of their hero..

Posted by: Wisco | Sep 2 2024 3:51 utc | 67

does anyone want to try to explain to me this popular term in the msm 'far right'?? thanks..
Posted by: james | Sep 2 2024 3:19 utc | 65

Anyone who is not woke neo-liberal.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 2 2024 4:08 utc | 68

Wisco | Sep 2 2024 3:07 utc | 62

"Trump cult is a bit worse due to anti-intellectualism as a feature."

I'd say anti-intellectualism is by default the right position by now. All intellectuals and all structures of the intelligentsia (media, academia, "cultural") are at best completely corrupted and compliant. In most cases far worse. Where do you see any counterexamples?

So that's not the problem with the Trump MAGA cult. Its main problem is the delusion that Trump will change anything or has any intention of doing so. In this they're the flip side of the "progressive" Democrats who hailed Hopey-Changey as their great reformist savior, when it was obvious from the start Obama would never change a thing.

Both groups are determined doormats, endlessly willing to be lied to and walked on by their preferred branch of the monoparty, which they'll never be psychologically able to quit.

(Of course this is part of their ongoing delusion, shared with the broader mass, that elections are real and that mass "democracy" hasn't been long since completely refuted as a mode of society that can bring anything but unhealthy outcomes.)

Posted by: flying dutchman | Sep 2 2024 4:25 utc | 69

- frkorz -
Posted by: james | Sep 2 2024 3:15 utc | 63

First time I've looked at this thread. Looks like the troll and sockpuppets from the previous Ukraine threads are now trying their luck here.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 2 2024 4:48 utc | 70

does anyone want to try to explain to me this popular term in the msm 'far right'?? thanks..
Posted by: james | Sep 2 2024 3:19 utc | 65

Anyone who is not woke neo-liberal.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 2 2024 4:08 utc

"Far right" is now anyone who was a liberal like Clinton or Obama who were provably against gay marriage. Now being againt gay marriage is unthinkably far right and nazi.

Posted by: Wisco | Sep 2 2024 4:56 utc | 71

Re: What’s Far Right ?

Alliance for Germany (AFD)
If one reads the AFD party platform on their website, it’s fairly typical of European center-right party lines circa 1970.
AFD website https://www.afd.de/ (use machine translate)
My guess is the hysteria derives from the establishment freaking out about change and losing cushy positions, more than any actual objective concerns.
Curiously enough the most prominent leader of the party is a women lesbian.

Bund Sara Wagenknecht (BSW)
This new party is entirely based on the telegenic Wagenknecht. Her positions are obsessively pragmatic and calmly stated.
These positions are most definitely anti-establishment and anti-war party.
https://bsw-vg.de/ (use machine translate)

Posted by: Exile | Sep 2 2024 4:59 utc | 72

Posted by: flying dutchman | Sep 2 2024 4:25 utc

You highlight some very good points.

Posted by: Wisco | Sep 2 2024 5:00 utc | 73

Re: German Regional Elections

Last thought: the Ruling Coalition in Berlin got throughly crushed, the three coalition parties secured ~15% of the votes. That’s a political earthquake for the ruling coalition . Most shocking is the devestating loss of votes by the Social Democrats. The German Social Democrats are one of the oldest European political parties, founded roughly 150 years ago. They‘ve been a powerful mainstream party for most of those 150 years. Typical European Social Democrats, they represented the little guy’s interests. For some reason, the little guy feels abandoned by the Social Democrats.

Posted by: Exile | Sep 2 2024 5:10 utc | 74

Nobody thinks Germany elections are really democratic. That country has been a poodle of the US since 1945.

Posted by: Wisco | Sep 2 2024 5:20 utc | 75

Posted by: Wisco | Sep 2 2024 2:12 utc | 59

That's legitimately interesting but what concerns me is you didn't actually link to it. Which thread?

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 2 2024 5:31 utc | 76

I'm puffing the thread partly because Juliania said we should.

Posted by: Wisco | Sep 2 2024 5:32 utc | 77

To #25, "Presumedly, Lula is under some sort of pressure regarding Brazil’s endorsement of Venezuela’s election."...US has tried and failed to overthrow Venezuela in 2002, 2015, 2019, and 2020. Thierry Meyssan has good reporting. In 2019 US even declared a new pres. of Venezuela. Re: 2024 election, Mint Press News has a good article by a guy who was on the ground there. 7/30/2024, “Venezuela: While US Politicians Call Fraud, American Election Observers Endorse Results,” Mint Press News, Alan MacLeod...“”People are happy and welcoming tons of foreigners to look and see what they are doing and explain it patiently, with confidence and real enthusiasm for democracy.”…“I am actually kind of blown away by how advanced this system is, particularly compared to the backward nature of the U.S., so I am completely impressed,” Jodi Dean, a professor and political scientist, said.”...https://www.mintpressnews.com/venezuela-while-us-politicians-call-fraud-american-election-observers-endorse-results/288010/

Posted by: susan mullen | Sep 2 2024 5:38 utc | 78

Re: What’s Far Right ?

Posted by: Exile | Sep 2 2024 4:59 utc | 72

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The best use of "Far" in a political context was Ken Kesey's bus Further.

Posted by: too scents | Sep 2 2024 5:39 utc | 79

.. it seems pointless to me... the purpose of these threads is to solicit conversation.. this poster - frkorz - has offered none.. i don't find that coincidental..
Posted by: james | Sep 2 2024 3:15 utc | 63

I just skimmed thru this thread and it seemed like many people were having conversations about the info posted by frkorz. Including yourself. Very few mentioned any of the items posted by B in his review.

Posted by: Fred | Sep 2 2024 5:41 utc | 80

That's legitimately interesting but what concerns me is you didn't actually link to it. Which thread?

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 2 2024 5:31 utc | 76

This one, Tom. There are probably more but too lazy to document all.

Ukraine Open Thread 2024-206
News & views related to the war in Ukraine ...

Posted by b on August 29, 2024 at 7:48 UTC | Permalink

Posted by: Wisco | Sep 2 2024 5:42 utc | 81

Here is a link to one of the posts, Tom.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/08/ukraine-open-thread-2024-206-1.html?cid=6a00d8341c640e53ef02dad0ce7bd8200d#comment-6a00d8341c640e53ef02dad0ce7bd8200d

Posted by: Wisco | Sep 2 2024 5:50 utc | 82

The best use of "Far" in a political context was Ken Kesey's bus Further.

Posted by: too scents | Sep 2 2024 5:39 utc | 79

I got a new primary doctor not long ago. This first time I saw her we chatted a bit
and she told me about a bus trip she had taken once when visiting the US West Coast. She
couldn't remember the name of the bus company but said they stopped and went swimming and
cooked a meal in S. Oregon. I laughed and told her she had been on the Green Tortoise. I
felt very good about having her as my doc.

Posted by: waynorinorway | Sep 2 2024 6:05 utc | 83

No, they don't. Not now. I suspect fkorz makes it look like he posts unfiltered data, but the reality is he selectively deletes some of the data to hide the sockpuppets. There is an active thread here with these handles still extant, and none showed up in his big listing:
Posted by: PeterisGodonlybetter | Aug 31 2024 6:00 utc | 431
Posted by: Peterhasatinyweewee | Aug 31 2024 5:16 utc | 424
Posted by: Peteratehisdogspoop | Aug 31 2024 5:25 utc | 426
Posted by: PeterisGodonlybetter | Aug 31 2024 6:00 utc | 431

Posted by: Wisco | Sep 2 2024 2:12 utc | 59

Unless you are referring to a different frkorz post listing, their post @9 above did not include any data from Aug 31 Ukraine Open Thread 2024-206 - which began on August 29, 2024.

Posted by: Fred | Sep 2 2024 6:06 utc | 84

I just skimmed thru this thread and it seemed like many people were having conversations about the info posted by frkorz. Including yourself. Very few mentioned any of the items posted by B in his review.

Posted by: Fred | Sep 2 2024 5:41 utc | 80

Like it or not, threads are commonly more dominated by the things posted by commentators rather than the official subject posted by b. This is nothing new here. Its funny sometimes to see people shout "stay on topic!". It usually happens when some unpleasant reality os brought forth.

Posted by: Wisco | Sep 2 2024 6:13 utc | 85

Unless you are referring to a different frkorz post listing, their post @9 above did not include any data from Aug 31 Ukraine Open Thread 2024-206 - which began on August 29, 2024.

Posted by: Fred | Sep 2 2024 6:06 utc | 84

Thanks Fred, you have just confirmed my theory that frkoz cherry picked threads and posts to include in his big list.

Posted by: Wisco | Sep 2 2024 6:20 utc | 86

I laughed and told her she had been on the Green Tortoise. I

Posted by: waynorinorway | Sep 2 2024 6:05 utc | 83

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I was a bus driver for the Green Tortoise. Thats how I met my wife.

Posted by: too scents | Sep 2 2024 6:32 utc | 87

julianian@55 has edited the New Testament to omit Luke 6:20 "Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God." This kind of picking and choosing is standard for believers, not juliania's personal failing. But it's why I don't ask what it means to be poor "in spirit." No Holy Spirit in them? Or "spirit" as in energy and self-discipline and optimism and resilience and health both mental and physical, which implies...alcoholics and drug addicts? That doesn't seem right, though,

Posted by: steven t johnson | Sep 2 2024 6:35 utc | 88

Steven T Johnson @ 88:

The expression refers to those who are humble, who recognise that everything they have that is commendable comes from God, and everyone else's good qualities also come from God. We are enjoined by this expression to trust in God to provide what we need to flourish spiritually, and to guide us towards the spiritual path. The poor in spirit are humble and do not have spiritual pride.

Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit Who Mourn

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Sep 2 2024 6:52 utc | 89

The Berliner Morgenpost is going out of its way to ignore the performance of Sahra Wagenknecht's BSW party.

In every case in order to see the BSW election results you have to click on a button that reveals the hidden data.

https://www.morgenpost.de/landtagswahl-thueringen-2024-umfragen-ergebnisse-karte/

The Thüringer Allgemeine's editorial thumb is a little less heavy.

https://www.thueringer-allgemeine.de/landtagswahl-sachsen-2024-umfragen-ergebnisse-karte/

Posted by: too scents | Sep 2 2024 7:51 utc | 90

Thanks Fred, you have just confirmed my theory that frkoz cherry picked threads and posts to include in his big list.

Posted by: Wisco | Sep 2 2024 6:20 utc | 86

Why not ask him what his reasoning and process was, instead of only guessing?

i expect people talk about whatever they feel like on forums like this one. it is a broad church

Posted by: Fred | Sep 2 2024 7:52 utc | 91

@ too scents | Sep 2 2024 6:32 utc | 87

Lovely! Had to be a priceless experience for other reasons too.

I recall you saying you were around in E. Ore./Wa. & Idaho/Snake River region.
Did you ever run across Vardis Fisher or anyone connected with him?

Posted by: waynorinorway | Sep 2 2024 7:53 utc | 92

[15%] .....For some reason, the little guy feels abandoned by the Social Democrats.

Posted by: Exile | Sep 2 2024 5:10 utc | 74

Ta for update. 15% for present admin - power in Thuringia for first time - second in Saxony ....

On your final point - US did not want a 'social democratic' centre in Europe. Problem with walking the centre of the road is that one often encounters a 60 ton truck. In both Germany, and ind Europe in general, the East is not the West and is changing its original nature - ideal for fascism.

@all

I have it on sound intelligence, from the usual very unreliable sources, that bevin was kidnapped by the cult of freedom-lovin aliens and then transported to The Federation HQ on ZDCRWPLK23546 to present a seminar on "The State of The Earthlings". Far as I know, bevin likes it there and has just published his first galaxian novel - "Asimov's Xi" to rave reviews. Why would he return to this backwater of an insignificant little planet in the arze-hole a very minor and totally insignificant galaxy?

Posted by: Don Firineach | Sep 2 2024 8:05 utc | 93

Posted by: steven t johnson | Sep 2 2024 6:35 utc | 88

Thank you, steven, for discussing my post. I did give you a personal interpretation of the text, in quoting which, I used the first verse of what is called 'the Beatitudes' as is given in Matthew 5:3. Luke's version is different, since for the similar verse Luke says only "Blessed are the poor..." in his opening phrase; whereas Matthew says "Blessed are the poor in spirit..."

We have four gospels; they are not identical. Instead of 'picking and choosing'-- I agree with you -- they, all four, need to be thought about when considering what they mean. Luke, coming later than Matthew, always presents a slightly different telling of the same text, and the emphasis for Luke has to be thought about alongside that of Matthew. Unlike many interpretations, mine favors one which emphasizes the word 'poor' and then qualifies said poor's blessedness (or happiness) with a different vocal emphasis on 'in spirit'. Thus, the poor are not 'poor in spirit' but rather they are happy in spirit! Their 'kingdom' is not of this world; it is the world of the spirit!

I take, with Luke, the following emphasis for Matthew: "Blessed are the poor, in spirit."

The entire message of the following verses can then be read as including, sotto voce, 'in spirit' without needing repetition out loud of the phrase 'in spirit'. Try it; it works!

Matthew has included it on his first phrasing, but gently; Luke, then, doesn't need to.

;)

Posted by: juliania | Sep 2 2024 8:10 utc | 94

Vardis Fisher or anyone connected with him?

Posted by: waynorinorway | Sep 2 2024 7:53 utc | 92

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Vardis Fisher was before my time. I arrived in the Columbia River watershed in '89 where I was best welcomed by Randy Settler. It was with the Settler party that I attended Pendleton Round-Up from the Indian camp.

Randy was a real fisher.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-fight-of-the-salmon-people

Posted by: too scents | Sep 2 2024 8:11 utc | 95

(3rd attempt much shorter)

Blessed are the poor in vanity (ego/mada), they will inherit the kingdom of god ....

the bible screws everything up all the time because of the endless editing done to it by people who knew so little and so they made it up to suit themselves later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arishadvargas

the devil used vanity to trick jesus into returning to die on the cross at the end of the 40 night sin the desert story/parable.

Posted by: Fred | Sep 2 2024 8:15 utc | 96

From the German press:

The distribution of seats for the Saxon state parliament was incorrect due to a software error. As a result of the recalculation, the AfD does not have a blocking minority in the state.

Posted by: Passerby | Sep 2 2024 8:58 utc | 97

@ too scents | Sep 2 2024 8:11 utc | 95

Nice link, thanks. I know the area well.
I've floated the Deschutes a few times and
one of the two fish I've caught was a steelhead
just up from Hood River. Evidence of the
disenfranchisement of indigenous folk is all around.

Posted by: waynorinorway | Sep 2 2024 10:10 utc | 98

Regarding problems posting to this blog or posts disappearing as mentioned by Menz and discussed in the previous Palestine thread:

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/08/palestine-open-thread-2024-207/comments/page/2/#comments

Posted by: M**z | Aug 30 2024 22:04 utc | 127
Posted by: KMRIA | Aug 30 2024 22:10 utc | 128
Posted by: malenkov | Aug 30 2024 22:17 utc | 131
Posted by: KMRIA | Aug 30 2024 22:26 utc | 132
Posted by: malenkov | Aug 31 2024 0:02 utc | 148

I thought I was just unlucky, but turns out this is a more widely experienced problem by the looks of things.

I've had similar problems for weeks where I might get one post to work, but then subsequent post never appear. I suspected that typepad disliked my usage of tor-browser.

Looks like typepad is doing the censoring/deleting/filtering in it's role as the MoA website backend. As malenkov states, Typepad is crap.

I wish our vanished posts would appear to b (which I guess they don't) so he could wave them though. I'm not sure if that is possible with Typepad. Anyone know?

The problem with these closed proprietary platforms are problems like these, lack of transparency. I guess our barkeep is unaware post are "disappeared".

If you don't control the platform or the tools you use, then they can control you and the other's who use them.

@b, may I suggest have a look at Ghost, which is free and open source software. I guess typepad would make it hard to move across, but that's their goal.

https://ghost.org/
https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost

Ghost is a powerful app for professional publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members.

I've not used it nor am I affiliated with the project. Maybe other flies might have some suggestions.

Posted by: Friend_of_MLK | Sep 2 2024 10:24 utc | 99

Posted by: juliania | Sep 1 2024 23:44 utc | 50
consequences of debt
<=my take on the ultimate consequences of un-forgiven-debt to those who are the governed, in all nations save the one nation that issues the currency everyone else uses, is rebellion and revolt..
and to all governments save the one nation whose currency is the hegemonic currency that supplies all of the other nations of the world is default, failure and dissolution.. But to the nation that issues the currency and credit everyone uses in daily transactions the consequences of national debt is more power, greater strength, better distribution of currency and more frequent use of the currency that the world depends on. Currency and credit created without cost merely by posting debit to funds available and by posting an offsetting credit to debt (X=Y) is different from debt created to acquire currency or access to credit (X+interest costs +acquisition costs=Y) <= the values and the liabilities associated to the two Ys are not equivalent. It is not relevant to the issuer when or if the interest on the debt is every repaid, in fact the more unpaid interest the stronger might be the issuer, but to everyone else repayment is not only essential it is critical for continued success and survival .

In the days Hudson is talking about Gold was the hegemonic currency, it cost everyone the same to acquire it, to use it, to store it, etc. Today gold is not relevant to the value of the currency (or the credit that it represents) is not relevant to the issuer, but value is highly relevant to all others because they must buy their currency or purchase their access to credit. Snake economics 101.

I think failure to differentiate issuer debt from all other debt is a weakness in Hudson's economic logic. Hudson Economics 601..

Posted by: Friend_of_MLK | Sep 2 2024 10:24 utc | 99

yes, many times I have suspected some of my posts have disappeared after they were published. That is I thought I posted something that I cannot later find. Has not happened much lately..

Posted by: snake | Sep 2 2024 11:01 utc | 100