A cheery video on the scale of nuclear weapons today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujfC0NgdU48

Posted by: saner | Nov 22 2024 3:03 utc | 103

@Jams O’Donnell | Nov 21 2024 19:27 utc | 49
I read the indi.ca piece a few days ago and was literally in awe at the beautiful asymmetry of this move by China on using the Dollar to take on the Dollar…. and in Riyadh – the heart of the petro-dollar – and the rate and the over-subscription tells us something about how China is viewed
Thank you for further expanding on this ….
It deserves further attention ….

Posted by: Don Firineach | Nov 22 2024 3:34 utc | 105

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Nov 21 2024 22:51 utc | 79 is therefore thoroughly, typically dishonest. Don’t like people pointing out what company you keep, shut up or clean up.
Posted by: steven t johnson | Nov 22 2024 2:10 utc | 97
Ok, so I’m sure the more astute were already aware of this, but I regret to inform the bar, that our unassuming STJ is, in fact, a fed/troll. Don’t believe me? Just observe him for a day or two. It will become very apparent.
Do not touch. Very, very toxic.
Peace to the good people of the bar. Keep working, brothers.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Nov 22 2024 6:34 utc | 107

reminicemt of the earliest tribes/groups of humans, practicing fairness and Mutual Aid that surely aided their survival, no matter how they first arrived/evolved.
Posted by: chu-teh | Nov 22 2024 7:13 utc | 108
ahh, yes, the prehistoric noble savage myth. i mean, without writing, lets just make up how wonderful humans were.
yet, since history, humans have been pretty shitty to each other as soon as survival resources necessitated.

Posted by: UWDude | Nov 22 2024 8:12 utc | 109

@ Jack M
> How many Italians love and worship the mafiosos and support them?
“Mafiosos with Italian characteristics” or Spanish characteristics once ran their own cruel nation-states and large empires, for centuries. They just happen to be weaker now, relatively speaking.
@ Ahenobarbus
> prefer the term “Zionists”
That’s a meaningful improvement and maybe we should stop there. But, since we’re discussing it, i personally narrow it one step further: “Israelis”. I don’t see why some subset of “Jews” that long for “their own country” shouldn’t *have* their own country. “Christians” and “Muslims” have or have had many. But, I understand people overlooking or dismissing this distinction, under the current circumstances.

Posted by: I forgot | Nov 22 2024 10:51 utc | 111

I wrote a little essay on Alexander Dugin, Alain de Benoîst, Edmund Husserl and the quest for current political ethics; barflies may be interested. It’s here.
To summarize, I think Dugin’s quest for a civilization-making sort of idea is somewhat lopsided next to the poly-cultural point Benoîst makes, which has been a powerful but convoluted influence on the current European political landscape, especially concerning the New Right parties such as Front National and the AfD.
I posit that Benoîst’s important point on poly-cultural societies is not unique to him, but can be independently gained from phenomenology as well; it is provided without the associated political affiliation in very well worked-out form by Bernhard Waldenfels, one of the important figures in a Husserlian tradition. His work touches on the field of ethics, where phenomenology is only now about to develop a coherently stated and fully grounded position, as currently advanced by Iso Kern, Inga Römer and a few others, which looks promising.

Posted by: persiflo | Nov 22 2024 11:58 utc | 113

Hey b , side bar shows I posted but ain’t appeared yet. will hold of reposting. In meantime another one I worked on earlier to some posters.
@ Posted by: denk | Nov 21 2024 15:49 utc | 20
@ Posted by: Bemildred | Nov 21 2024 16:37 utc | 24
@ Posted by: south | Nov 21 2024 18:26 utc | 40
Here in the U.K. our Great Knight Dope, sHerrKyiyvrStarmztrooper is going ‘full Tonto’.
A card carrying naziofascist supporter of genocide of Palestinians – is daily escalating the efforts to put the country on a direct war footing as it has covertly been for the past 15 years at least. BrexShit was part of that too (one that he enabled – to remove all the MEPs from that EU parliament who would have surely objected to the Ukranian fascists and ziofascists wars).
There are mass recruitment drives being organised for the new year across the cities.
The regions are already streaming zero hour University qualified, students loan loaded , bar tenders – towards the military through major brewery chains.
Witherspoons will be used again to drive the propaganda through their monopoly on cheap beer and only pubs in most big towns!
The advertising and subliminal entertainment media are putting out more shows and storylines. And since yesterday the news propoganda has been crowing about the missile attack on Russia on the back of the supposed nuclear threat by Putin and the fake North Koreans coming to eat our lunch! The FEAR is being unleashed on the population as this Xmas approaches. Just like they did with Covid in winter 2020.
@ Posted by: south | Nov 21 2024 18:26 utc
Yes Robin Cook was one of the greatest of that generation. The Blairites sidelined him and he died early. He was Jeremy Corbyn with added genius – loved by almost every civil servant he worked with (literally by one especially). He stands along with JC as the greatest PM we never got. He exposed the Iraq subterfuge under Thatcher and was against a repetition under Blair. If he had lived Blair would have never got to the third term.
Palestine would have been solved. The illegal apartheid entity would have been de-monstered and its Frankeinstein mad Zionist professors and supporters wouldn’t have gained in strength. The Ukraine putsch wouldn’t have got beyond planning.
We deserve the twats we get as our leaders because we don’t do anything to support decent ones. We believe propaganda and our smug superiority. We don’t want to admit that ‘we are the bad guys’. It’s what happens if you are a silent majority that doesn’t turn out.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Nov 22 2024 12:31 utc | 115

Ok the first appeared as soon as I posted my last. Some glitch in the web.
Final one for this thread. A multiresponse. Got to get ready for tonight’s partying!
@Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Nov 21 2024 19:27 utc | 49
Thanks for that and discussion it inspired and SoA’s input.
It shows that the China is not only capable of being the next reserve currency but how it can be trusted to unwind all these trapped by the US Fed with Treasury Bonds – which are not Public Treasury but Private Fed.
It is absolutely not true that the Public Treasury needs to ‘sell’ the Private Bonds to FUND any Public Spending as SunofAlabama will no doubt patiently explain , again, if you ask them.
@ Posted by: petra | Nov 22 2024 0:11 utc | 85
Thanks Petra I had penned the following to help understand the delay.
@Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 21 2024 20:37 utc | 66
@ Posted by: Bemildred | Nov 21 2024 21:10 utc | 74
It’s mostly to do with the fact that the Crown has a fixed Civil Service – career executive department managers who are promoted internally and seperate from political hirelings (spad’s).
Whereas the US executive has wholesale (almost) changes to the executive (civil service appointees). All of which takes months and even then is not complete as many have to be ‘approved’ by the Houses!
It’s a system as shit as any other collective Western democratic pretence.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Nov 22 2024 12:40 utc | 117

So… when there’s an article in WaPo or NYT, it can be questioned whether the CIA may have been responsible for its printing. Who would be behind this one appearing on CNN Digital (re-posted here by Canada’s CTV News:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/bears-find-a-buffet-of-battlefield-rations-at-alaska-military-base-1.7119632
“Bears find a buffet of battlefield rations at Alaska military base” [… okay, right there, I’m going, hey… bears, military…. Alaska]
Excerpts:
“There’s an old military adage that an army runs on its stomach, meaning troops need to be well-supplied with food to survive harsh battlefield conditions.” [… an interesting observation to include]
…
“But bear requirements and human ones are way different. An average human needs between 1,600 and 3,000 calories a day. A bear needs 10 times that amount.” [… ]

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Nov 22 2024 14:12 utc | 119

If he had lived Blair would have never got to the third term.

DunGroanin | Nov 22 2024 12:31 utc

At around 2:20 pm on 6 August 2005, while he walked down Ben Stack[35] in Sutherland, Cook suddenly suffered a severe heart attack, collapsed, lost consciousness and fell about 8 feet (2.4 m) down a ridge. He was assisted after his fall by another hill-walker who refused all publicity and was granted anonymity. A helicopter containing paramedics arrived 30 minutes after a 999 call was made. Cook then was flown to Raigmore Hospital, Inverness.[36]
Gaynor did not get in the helicopter and walked down the mountain. Despite efforts made by the medical team to revive Cook in the helicopter, he was already beyond recovery, and at 4:05 pm, minutes after arrival at the hospital, was pronounced dead. He was 59. Two days later, a post-mortem examination found that Cook had died of hypertensive heart disease.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Cook#Death
Sudden death of a VIP, with a heart attack, yet they waited two days to do the autopsy, time enough for any drug which had caused the heart attack to break down and be virtually untraceable – not they would have looked though…
That he had heart disease doesn’t make the above mentioned possible cause of death less likely, but more likely.
Of course, thinking such things lays one open to the accusation of being a conspiracy theorist (CT), since without proof, one only has a theory – and the conspiracy is a reasonable term to describe the goings on of our various secret services and police – just as the those who claim that foreign governments are interfering in domestic matters, and show no proof, are also CTs.
The suicide of David Kelley, chief weapons inspector upto the Iraq War, is also questioned – too long to explain here why he could represent a danger to the state.

As far as it is known, Kelly walked a mile (1.6 km) from his house to Harrowdown Hill. It appears he ingested up to 29 tablets of co-proxamol, an analgesic drug; he also cut his left wrist with a pruning knife he had owned since his youth, severing his ulnar artery. Forensic analysis established that neither the knife nor the blister packs showed Kelly’s fingerprints on their surfaces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_(weapons_expert)#Death:_17_July_2003
Britain is a monarchy and it is run as a tight shop very discretely – all
those in parliament and other parts of the state having made an oath of
loyalty to the crown.

Posted by: hh | Nov 22 2024 14:32 utc | 121

“As far as I can tell the concept of “deep state” was created as a way to identify any and all that is not OK with Donald Trump. Beyond that it is undefined.”
Posted by: jinn | Nov 22 2024 14:24 utc | 120
You are wrong and Gruff is correct-here is the etymology of the term, ‘Deep State”:
“The term “deep state” has enjoyed political prominence in recent years, especially in movements around former President Donald Trump. However, the term emerged in the activist milieu after the founding of Students for a Democratic Society, which sought to engender political realignment in the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination. Those on the far right who use the term to level accusations of conspiracy at supposed subversives in the administrative state are unwittingly drawing on a long-running but little-analyzed intellectual tradition. In that tradition, conspiracy theories purport to unmask the real intentions of political actors in order to facilitate cooperation and recruitment across ideological and partisan divides. From the postwar period to the present, conspiracy theories, and the “deep state” vocabulary in particular, circulated freely across the left-right political divide. Authors and activists were attracted to these tropes and texts not merely because they appeared to reveal concrete truths about long-hidden elements of American political life, but also because their very ambiguity enabled them to be flexibly co-opted. Conspiracy theories allowed activists to mobilize around shared gaps in public knowledge about traumatic events like the assassination, activating public dissatisfaction with official explanations of those events. Their ambiguity, coupled with the seeming pervasiveness of conspiracy theorist tropes across political divides, appeared to activists seeking realignment of both the left and the right as a promising tactical opportunity to assert that they and their erstwhile enemies were actually engaged in a shared project. Activists thus came to see conspiracy theory not as the province of an exclusively left or right politics, but as an autonomous and contestable cultural space. This, in turn, led to cross-partisan encounters.” (1)
1. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08913811.2023.2305537

Posted by: canuck | Nov 22 2024 14:39 utc | 123

You are wrong and Gruff is correct-here is the etymology of the term, ‘Deep State”:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08913811.2023.2305537
Posted by: canuck | Nov 22 2024 14:39 utc | 12
Ah so. “Deep State” is a trope. Well that certainly nails it down.

Posted by: jinn | Nov 22 2024 15:08 utc | 125

@jinn | Fri, 22 Nov 2024 14:24:00 GMT | 120

Ha ha ha. Gruff thinks anybody who doesn’t share his paranoid delusions must work for the federal govt.

I can see Gruff’s point, and actually was harbouring the same suspicion since my very first back and forth encounter with Mr. johnson which was months ago. The way he sneaked a very specific, subtle yet important western PR talking point into an argument where it didn’t naturally belong was just not quite looking right; I don’t remember the specifics now. All later conversations with the poster were equally frustrating as the first, and I decided to simply disengage after our resident leprechaun intervened on Mr. johnson’s behalf with his argument of ‘to live and let live’ which I thought fair enough after my earlier analysis of the subject’s ability to reason. That’s my two cents, to make it three paranoiacs here on the record.

Posted by: persiflo | Nov 22 2024 15:35 utc | 127

Elon Musk tells the Brits to, “Go F Yourself”.
https://modernity.news/2024/11/22/elon-musk-responds-as-british-government-summons-him-to-disinformation-hearing/

Posted by: librul | Nov 22 2024 15:47 utc | 129

“Leaked files expose high-level UK military plot to destroy The Grayzone”
https://thegrayzone.com/2024/11/20/leaked-files-uk-military-plot-grayzone/

Posted by: librul | Nov 22 2024 16:07 utc | 131

Financial Times – Canadian indigenous groups seek deals with China despite security fears
Posted by: All Under Heaven | Nov 22 2024 1:30 utc | 95
———————————
I missed out on Canadian indigenous folks.
China should champion the rights of American Indians, Canadian Indians, Aborigines, Maori rights at the UN podium.
Two can play at this game.
Why leave the field to the west all by themselves ?

Posted by: denk | Nov 22 2024 18:27 utc | 133

China is Now Unequivocally the World’s Leading Scientific Power…
https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1859455325793087522
“…According to ‘Nature’s latest rankings (The world’s most authoritative scientific journal), half of the world’s top 10 leading cities in China, with Beijing and Shanghai respectively in number 1 and 2 position.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 22 2024 19:20 utc | 135

Posted by: robin | Nov 22 2024 12:39 utc | 117 Omitted the blockquote despite this person mandating it on the grounds that quotation marks can’t be expected to enclose quotations. This decree may strike some as pompous but it seems like it supporting the America Firster Ahenobarbus from being quoted/exposed.
Posted by: canuck | Nov 22 2024 14:39 utc | 124 Ahenobarbus vainly aspires to reach canuck’s heights of intellect. Ahenobarbus glories in being “flexibly coopted.”
Ooh, my bad, I disobeyed the MoA Tsar/Tsaritsa of Punctuation!
Posted by: canuck | Nov 22 2024 14:39 utc | 124

…flexibly coopted. And that’s Ahenobarbus.
Posted by: persiflo | Nov 22 2024 15:35 utc | 128 It would be flattery to call this poster a paranoiac. Given how rarely I engage this commenter, I suspect the real issue was a comment taking apart some nonsense about the names of the days of the week and the Roman calendar. What can I say? The trivia was actually interesting to me, and persiflo was very wrong.
One interesting thing about the late but unlamented Louis Proyect is that Proyect was a vociferous anti-Leninist, boasting of how he saw through Trotskyism through his experience in that movement. He was an internet example of so-called Western Marxism the late Domenico Losurdo would have laughed at. Yes, this is a plug for the recent translation of Losurdo’s book, Western Marxism!

Posted by: steven t johnson | Nov 22 2024 20:34 utc | 137

What you’re aiming for here appears to be nested quotes. Quoting the man who quotes the man who said something.
Poster 1

Poster 2

Poster 3

The blockquote feature is simple to use. Trust me on this Steven

Posted by: robin | Nov 22 2024 21:00 utc | 139

By raising the rates, the Fed encourages capital to exit from other countries and go into the US.
posted by All under one Heaven.
IMPORTANT !!!!!!!! – Be very careful.
When Cross-Currency Bond Yield Spreads Do Not Matter
Here:
http://www.bondeconomics.com/2018/03/why-cross-currency-bond-yield-spreads.html#more
The simple rule of thumb is that one should never make such cross-currency yield comparisons; they only matter if the currency value is being pegged.
So “other countries” is a loaded term. Even though the ideologues think everybody is like the EU.
ALSO VERY IMPORTANT !!!!
Framing tricks and controlling the narrative are the base tools of neoliberal economics. One character that pops up regularly is the Fickle, Flighty Foreigner. Worthy of a Shakespearean tragedy, they will brutally condemn any country that deviates from the divine path.
Let’s explain the narrative trick and how to counter it.
THE TRICK:
You’ve heard the story. The Fickle, Flighty Foreigner will ‘dump’ government bonds or ’trash’ the currency. Everything will ‘spiral down’ and become ‘unstoppable’. Note the emotional, fatalistic language and the focus on the nemesis. That’s the framing.
So let’s break the frame.
It doesn’t matter whether the individual selling is foreign or domestic. In both cases, the process and effect are the same. There is no ‘outsider’ impact.
For every seller, there is a buyer. That buyer has the opposite view from the seller. Or they wouldn’t be buying.
Without that person with the opposite view, there is no market. Without liquidity, you cannot sell.
From the point of view of a bond, sitting on the computer of a registrar, buying and selling is nothing more than changing the ownership tag. The bond doesn’t go anywhere, and it doesn’t leave the country.
The same holds for money. It is also a computer record in a bank. Buying and selling is nothing more than changing the ownership tag. Money doesn’t go anywhere either, and it doesn’t leave the country.
The obvious analogy is a house. It doesn’t go anywhere over its lifetime but changes owner many times. Some will be domestic. Some will be foreign.
Once you switch your viewpoint, you can see that capital flight is a complete myth. It doesn’t apply to a sovereign currency operating a floating exchange rate.
Nothing goes anywhere. It stays firmly rooted in the spot. All that happens is the ownership changes.
THE TRUTH:
Freed from the trap of neoliberal framing, we can now see what happens in practice.
We’ll use the UK as a concrete example.
When person A sells a gilt, the ownership tag changes to person B. Similarly, the ownership of the Sterling used in payment becomes person A.
When person A sells their Sterling, the ownership tag changes to person C. Similarly, the ownership of the US dollars used in payment becomes person A.
Person C now has Sterling. They can keep that as a bank deposit or use it to bid up the price of Gilts and lower their yield. We’re then back to the two alternatives again.
Have you ever heard about person C’s buying activities in the gilt market from a neoliberal?
Of course, you haven’t. That would be contrary to the narrative.
Next time you come up against one, point it out to them.
Here:
Will investors shun UK debt ?
https://new-wayland.com/blog/mmt-verify-will-investors-shun-government-debt/

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Nov 22 2024 21:37 utc | 141

The west fumes about ‘China’s threat to our national security’.
In reality, China and Co represent what Chomsky call ‘The threat of a good example’

—
Posted by: denk | Nov 22 2024 18:15 utc | 133
Yes. You see this over and over, and it means at some level they understand, our “Capitalist” friends, that they themselves are NOT a good example, for all the barrage of bullshit about “freedom” and “democracy” and “opportunity” and such abstractions.
And now, they find themselves with a good example they had better leave alone, two of them in Russia & China; hence all the nostalgic attempts to revive the “Iron Curtain”, which was always there to protect them, and nobody but them.

Posted by: Bemildred | Nov 22 2024 22:22 utc | 143

Posted by: robin | Nov 22 2024 21:00 utc | 140 The simple explanation that doesn’t impute invidious motives is the most charitable: I suspect I made a typo in the end-BLOCKQUOTE bracket, so the block quote continue till the end of the comment. Your

sniping from the hedge

is exactly what finding a non-existent confusion in simple quotation marks in my comment looked like.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Nov 22 2024 23:32 utc | 145

Sometimes I get a little carried away

[jukebox] The indeed Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark – Radio Song
Fifteen miles from Memphis, I think that was the sign
I’ll be drivin’ through tomorrow just to lose a worried mind
. . .

Posted by: persiflo | Nov 23 2024 7:02 utc | 147

There are plenty of twists and turns in Trump’s quest for a new Treasury Sec. The latest guy, Bessent, ran the family office for Soros.
An old house of his known as Wyndecote …

Former Investor for George Soros Lists a $22.5 Million Hamptons Home
Scott Bessent, who served as chief investment officer for the billionaire’s family office, is putting a restored Southampton estate on the market.
In the Hamptons, a restored home dating back to the late 1880s is coming on the market for $22.5 million.
The Southampton, N.Y., property was built in the heyday of 19th-century Hamptons summer society, said listing agent Harald Grant of Sotheby’s International Realty. The extension of the Long Island Railroad in 1872 led to a stream of wealthy New Yorkers building large summer retreats near the area’s beaches for the first time.
Known as Wyndecote, the home was designed by architect Robert Henderson Robertson, who is also known for designing Southampton’s original Rogers Memorial Library, according to the book “Southampton Cottages of South Main Street,” by Sally Spanburgh. About 10,665 square feet, the 10-bedroom house spans three floors plus a finished basement, with a series of covered porches and verandas as well as a porte-cochère. “It was designed when people had horse and buggies,” said John David Rose, a local architect who worked on the restoration.
with pictures ==> https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/former-investor-for-george-soros-lists-a-22-5-million-hamptons-home-122833?locale=

Posted by: too scents | Nov 23 2024 7:29 utc | 149

academia.org has just handed me something unexpected – a comprehensive forensical examination of the 9/11 WTC tower’s destruction by means of nuclear fission. 150+ pages of solidly explained work, crucially listing air sample data obtained by the USGS in the days following the event, which show signature elements of fission reactions; but there’s more, like thermal and seismic measurements, and analysis of photographic evidence, etc.
That settles it, folks. I’m sorry.

Posted by: persiflo | Nov 23 2024 7:48 utc | 151

Fifteen miles from Memphis, I think that was the sign
I’ll be drivin’ through tomorrow just to lose a worried mind
. . .
Posted by: persiflo | Nov 23 2024 7:02 utc | 148
Yes, I have that LP around here somewhere, somewhat worn, and a rip of it, just in case.
“There’s a train leaves here this morning, I don’t know what I might be on”

Posted by: Bemildred | Nov 23 2024 11:50 utc | 153

Financial Times – Canadian indigenous groups seek deals with China despite security fears
…..
Ogen, of the First Nations LNG Alliance, said she would put the controversy surrounding the trip to Beijing aside. “I . . . look at the global energy sector, China’s need for our gas, and how I can make the best deal for my people,”
Posted by: All Under Heaven | Nov 22 2024 1:30 utc | 95
———————-
Good thinking !
FUKUSA is no longer the only game in town.
People from ROW now have a choice, China’s win-win model vs IMF/WORLD BANK./CIA jackal tyranny
Exhibit A
P N I

Ramos-Horta visit to Beijing pushes against US pressure, omits Greater Sunrise
By Peter Murphy

Posted by: denk | Nov 23 2024 12:37 utc | 155

David Kelly suicided
Posted by: hh | Nov 22 2024 14:32 utc | 122
—————-
Microbiologists dying like flies
Key words..DNA SEQUENCING
https://www.copvcia.com/free/ww3/02_14_02_microbio.html

Posted by: denk | Nov 23 2024 14:53 utc | 157

Uk comtemplating energy shortages this winter driving up utility rates………you can blame Trotksyites like Sir Keir and their weak Conservative no nothings for this mess……
The UK has plenty of coal reserves and gas reserve in the North Sea……there is no excuse for the outrageous utility rate increases.
Burn coal, pump ng, and the crisis goes away………..dumb really dumb……..

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Nov 23 2024 16:05 utc | 159

https://nitter.poast.org/GeorgeSzamuely/status/1860348084179358092

Trump has hired neocon, warmonger, Russophobe, fanatic, poor man’s John McCain, Sebastian Gorka as his chief “counterterrorism” adviser on the National Security Council. Gorka was of course an advocate for killing Bashar al-Assad and General Soleimani, thereby making the Middle East safe for ISIS and al Qaeda. Hard to think of a worse human being to join the White House.
This is worse than it was during Trump’s first term. Back in 2017, Gorka only got in by riding Steve Bannon’s coat-tails. The moment Bannon received his walking-papers, Gorka was out of the door. It was all over in a few months. This time, Gorka’s in under his own steam. There has to be something about Gorka’s insane ravings that appeals to Trump. That is truly alarming.

https://nitter.poast.org/BenjaminNorton/status/1860346205752164710#m

Billionaire Donald Trump is “draining the Swamp” by filling his cabinet with neocon war hawks and Wall Street oligarchs.
His Treasury secretary pick is billionaire hedge fund manager Scott Bessent, who worked for Democrat-aligned billionaire George Soros.
The US is an oligarchy

Like a man (XY genes) declaring he’s now a woman and demanding from the world not to believe their eyes because he now identifies as a woman, likewise Trump identifies as a person who will end the wars of the US empire.

Posted by: xor | Nov 23 2024 18:38 utc | 161

Thats all folks !

Posted by: denk | Nov 23 2024 20:35 utc | 163

Posting in this thread because it doesn’t directly fit into the current Ukraine or Palestine topics.
Zero Hedge has put up a posting discussing the F-35 and its ongoing cooling problems. The piece itself is quite excoriating and, as can be imagined given the venue, so are the comments.
A link causes the post to dissolve, here’s the headline:
F-35’s Cooling Crisis: Design Flaws Fuel $2 Trillion Dilemma For Pentagon

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 23 2024 21:57 utc | 165

@ Johan 157
Because a wolf doesn’t come with a person on a lead who clears natural habitat for rearing livestock to feed and expanding the human population (and their dogs) ?
‘Climate change’ = energy resource adaptation, economy and profit (often corrupt) and to some degree environment (pollution)
Environmental concerns = habitat and species destruction, natural resource depletion, pollution.
The focus for a couple of decades or more has mostly gone towards ‘climate change’ , i.e. is actually human centric. Previously it was more clearly diversified towards ‘nature’ and ‘natural environment’, forms of stewardship of the planet, its wildlife and flora.
There are token gestures of all kinds in all disciplines, but in practical terms it has been a replacement of one method/direction by the other.
I think some associate better with the world of nature, and some associate better with the world of people.
When you view people from the world of nature, they aren’t particularly inspiring.

Posted by: Ornot | Nov 24 2024 0:03 utc | 167

anyone seen this video out of UK ?
a prone tied man, has his head kicked and stomped on by a cop
https://x.com/i/status/1860514928743866567

Posted by: ld | Nov 24 2024 4:13 utc | 169

Please shitcan your nuke nonsense. NO NUKES. They would axiomatically devolve into the destruction of the human race, as we were warned by the parable of Pandora’s Box. The history of that parable may date back to the time when the Indus Valley civilizations centered on Harappa and Mohenjo Dharo were obliterated by nuclear weaponry thousands of years into the past.
Posted by: aristodemos | Nov 24 2024 4:09 utc | 643
Brought it here because this part belongs here
Probably Indus Valley civilizations was already the remainder of the Kurukshetra War, Mahabharata War and all.
After more than a thousand years any advanced nuke would fall to lack of maintenance except the simplest gun type… And i don’t see nukes, except current ones, in the last 5.000 years.
Those cities AFAIK had a more mundane ending.

Posted by: Newbie | Nov 24 2024 5:03 utc | 171

Perhaps Europe should quit NATO and join the BRICS as well.

Posted by: WMG | Nov 24 2024 9:15 utc | 173

If tiny timor could do it,
Posted by: denk | Nov 23 2024 19:09 utc | 163
Several very good articles regarding Timor. Problems and solutions.
Here:
https://billmitchell.org/blog/?s=Timor

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Nov 24 2024 13:54 utc | 175

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-infighting/
Posted by: Menz | Nov 24 2024 10:20 utc | 175

How probable is it that such articles are to a large part synthetic and
directed communications across the aisle?
In Germany much was made about political strife inside the SPD and various candidate demands “Pistorius!!” from the population.
IMU no such thing. All synthetic conjured up by mainstream media from rather thing air.

Posted by: MAKK | Nov 24 2024 15:34 utc | 177

More suicided microbiologists.
Key words: DNA SEQUENCING
aka race specific germ warfare
They knew too much.
Dead men tell no tales
Exhibit A
David Kelly

July 18, 2003: Dr. David Kelly, 59
–Expertise: Biological warfare weapons specialist, senior post at the Ministry of Defense, an expert on DNA sequencing when he was head of microbiology at Porton Down and worked with two American scientists, Benito Que, 52, and Don Wiley, 57.
–Helped Vladimir Pasechnik found Regma Biotechnologies, which has a contract with the U.S. Navy for “the diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of anthrax”
–Circumstance of Death: He was found dead after seemingly slashing his wrist in a wooded area near his home at Southmoor, Oxfordshire.

https://tinyurl.com/767vtcrm

Posted by: denk | Nov 24 2024 15:56 utc | 179

We all know that its mandatory for every garden pol to lecture the Chinese on ‘human rights’ when in Beijing,
Even when they go there with begging bowl in hand !
MInd you.
Only in Beijing.
They wouldnt dare doing it in Delhi, or Jakarta for example,.
Starmer is following this age old five eyes tradition right now.
He had to, else the home crowd will scream…

OUr PM IS selling out to the chicom for commercial benefits !

Turns out one of his demand is…

Stop persecuting our human rights champion !

Thats all folks !

Posted by: denk | Nov 24 2024 17:48 utc | 181

Larry Johnson has an interesting perspective on whom or what killed JFK…drumrolll…it is Israel:
“Now that all of the principals who were alive when John Fitzgerald Kennedy was murdered in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, are dead, there are only two reasons — neither mutually exclusive — to explain why the full files have not been released — 1) The CIA is implicated in the assassination and/or 2) A country with influence in the United States is implicated.
While many have speculated that the CIA is hiding evidence that Cuba was involved, the CIA has no reason, in my judgment, to withhold evidence of Cuba’s guilt. I have shied away from pursuing the various JFK assassination theories, but I recently came across a video by Ryan Dawson that suggests a credible reason for keeping the files from the public — Israel is implicated.
What!!!??? That was my first reaction. But then I listened and examined the evidence proffered by Ryan. There is certainly some smoke that points to Israel and members of Jewish organized crime. Why would Israel be involved? Let me summarize Ryan’s argument — the Kennedy’s represented an existential threat to Israel:
1 Prior to the assassination, the Kennedys wanted Israel inspected for nuclear weapons. The CIA had collected evidence from Dimona indicating that the Uranium Israel was processing had been illegally removed from the US Nautilus project via NUMEC (i.e., Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation).
2 John and Robert Kennedy supported Palestinians right of Return.
3 President Kennedy directed Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, in October 1963, to require the Zionist Organization of America to to register as foreign agents.
4 JFK along with France’s Charles de Gaulle, who also survived an assassination attempt, supported Algeria independence.
5 Robert F Kennedy was prosecuting aggressively Italian and Jewish mobsters. Many of the Jewish mobsters played a direct role in providing Israel with weapons prior to and after Israel’s establishment as a country in 1948. Jack Ruby, aka Jacob Rubenstein, was involved with the Italian mafia.
This does not prove that Israel or some of its agents helped kill Kennedy, but there is circumstantial evidence warranting further investigation. This would not be the first time that Israel attacked the United States. Just ask the survivors of the USS Liberty. However, this provides one reasonable explanation for why the CIA wants to keep the files locked away.
Keeping the files secret no longer makes sense. President Trump is now on the record, vowing to release the files. Let’s see if he keeps his promise.”

Posted by: canuck | Nov 25 2024 10:59 utc | 183

Possibly few people will read this as the thread is old, so I’ll likely repost it. https://www.telesurenglish.net/venezuela-rejects-us-definition-of-nicaragua-as-an-extraordinary-security-threat/. Nicaragua has a population of about 7 million and essentially no military. I think the “extraordinary security threat” may be because a Nicaraguan diplomat apparently suggested to Xi when the latter was visiting the Changay port in Peru that China might want to consider putting in a new canal in Nicaragua. Uncle Shmuck doesn’t like competition and does really really love to stomp on the little guys and girls.

Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Nov 26 2024 0:15 utc | 185

Posted by: canuck | Nov 25 2024 11:13 utc | 185 The Constitution sets the bar for a supermajority, as in conviction for trial of impeachment, at two thirds. That’s what the Constitution considers a mandate! Trump didn’t get it. Fifty percent of the vote wins, but it’s a lie to claim that’s a landslide. Counting non-voters as tacit consent may be time honored duplicity, but it’s still duplicity. The Republic Not A Democracy trash invoke the mantra precisely because they want a minority to rule over the majority (at least on vital issues of property, then slavery.) The hypocrisy of supporting Trump without even questioning the DOGE or “warrior council” despite violating the republican principle that elected representatives make the laws and appointments should be glaring. But people like this don’t think, they just repeat. It’s all about the secret agenda, Constitution be damned! (Compare the so-called filibuster, or cloture rule, which adds an unconstitutional supermajority to the Senate.)
The real compromise between small states and large was the equal representation in the Senate, a point declared to be inviolable, not subject to amendment. Madison admitted long ago the sharpest division was between slave and free states. The divisiveness of that issue was precisely because even the more conservative—elitist is fairly descriptive too—Framers still acknowledged some part of the democratic impulse of the Revolution. That’s why popular election was imposed by the House of Representatives! That settlement was merely copied into the Electoral College. It’s something like the notorious three fifths clause apparently being copied from a 1783 amendment proposed but failed, to the old Confederation, lawyers’ boilerplate so to speak.
So far from being a significant step in resolving that dispute, the election of the President, was not even written up until September! (The Convention began in late May.) A Committee of Eleven was selected to handle the loose ends or leftover issues. What surviving discussion of the secret deliberations we have mainly focused on the separation of powers (undue influence by the national Congress) and—ironically, see the election of 1800 and ensuing constitutional crisis—the danger of no candidate getting a majority. The Convention adjourned September 17. The Electoral College was a last minute odds and ends thing, not an issue of moment.
Not sorry for all the facts, even if they do make a stressfully long comment!

Posted by: steven t johnson | Nov 26 2024 19:19 utc | 187

Hello what has happened to the rouble. Now a rouble is worth less than a cent. Internal or external causes?

Posted by: guest from franconia | Nov 28 2024 9:41 utc | 189