To all of you I wish a happy, peaceful and healthy 2025.
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God Bless Us, every one !
And thank you B for this site.
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Dec 31 2024 17:07 utc | 1
Thank you for your invaluable work, sir. God’s blessing on everyone here. (Even the trolls need God’s blessing.)
Posted by: Hunsdon | Dec 31 2024 17:11 utc | 2
right on!! to a renewal of your health b and happiness in that too! to everyone to moa – health and happiness in 2025!
Posted by: james | Dec 31 2024 17:12 utc | 3
Praying for you full recovery b
Wishing you and all the barflies Peace in the New Year
Wishing Justice for Empire’s victims
Posted by: ld | Dec 31 2024 17:31 utc | 5
I wish everybody a happy, healthy and prosperous 2025!
Except the evildoers, of course.
Posted by: NaomiClareNL | Dec 31 2024 17:51 utc | 8
The best wishes for a new year to b and all humanity.
We are watching social organization sausage being remade in front of our eyes….WOW!
Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 31 2024 17:54 utc | 9
Thank you b, for continuing to soldier on through serious health problems and, as you note, the colapse of human decency we are seeing everywhere. All the BEST to you and your family!
Posted by: c | Dec 31 2024 18:30 utc | 10
Happy New Year B … and best wishes for continued recovery in your health. Thanks again for this blog.
Happy New Year to all the barflies, especially the regulars. If anyone is interested, I wrote up some predictions for the year 2025; see the URL in my post header.
Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Dec 31 2024 18:37 utc | 11
MoA is a great place to learn. Thanks, B! Really do appreciate all you’ve done and especially all the goodwill you exhibit in each and every post.
To all my friends here at MoA, I wish you a healthy new year. Please remember to pat yourself on the back for being a good person, and trying to what’s best for others.
Last night I was with friends, and one said “I’m just trying to be helpful and positive to the people I come into contact with. I can do this; it makes them happier, and that makes me happier”.
Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Dec 31 2024 18:42 utc | 12
Wishing a happy New Year to b and all good people on MoA.
Posted by: Cynic | Dec 31 2024 19:33 utc | 17
Happy New Year, b and everyone! I can wish it already as my birthplace has already rung it in! Thanks to Alex Christoforou for leading with fireworks in Auckland this morning!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
Posted by: juliania | Dec 31 2024 19:36 utc | 18
Happy New Year to all who frequent the bar, and best wishes to our host for a recovery to full health and strength.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Dec 31 2024 19:48 utc | 19
Happy new year and all good and health for everyone (and extra for B)
Posted by: Newbie | Dec 31 2024 19:52 utc | 20
Happy New year, Health and Happiness to all!
Hold your head high, watch for incoming, and keep your shields up.
Posted by: golddigger | Dec 31 2024 19:57 utc | 21
Happy New Year b, and thank you thank you for this marvellous blog, and thanks to all of you who are dispelling the fog curtains spread by the MSM! 2025 I will ask all of you, which slogans to set to get people involved against climate change…I hardly know any woman who doesn´t worry about the future we are handling over to all children.
Posted by: Northern Eve | Dec 31 2024 20:21 utc | 22
Same to you and the guys on the site, hope 2025 is the year the Empire is taken down
Posted by: Englishman | Dec 31 2024 20:41 utc | 23
Same to you and the guys on the site, hope 2025 is the year the Empire is taken down
Posted by: Englishman | Dec 31 2024 20:41 utc | 23
HEAR! HEAR!
Posted by: Linda | Dec 31 2024 20:45 utc | 24
As hopes and wishes take form, this is my contribution to the chorus.
May the coming year bring sober sanity and healthy optimism to inspire all humanity to thoughts, feelings and actions that foster peace, happiness and the good.
Happy New Year!
Posted by: jonku | Dec 31 2024 20:52 utc | 25
Salutations for 2025.
Thank you b for this refuge. A unique place to converse, share and learn.
Thank you to the genuine contributors, and thank you to the lurkers (I was one for many years).
Posted by: Melaleuca | Dec 31 2024 20:54 utc | 26
It’s New Year already in Sydney and the birds started crowing early. At this time of year, and with daylight saving too, dawn starts at 5:20 am or even earlier.
Here’s looking forward to a happier, healthier year for B as he continues his recovery and gains strength and energy to keep researching and writing.
And also wishing all MoA barflies and visitors a good year this year too.
I wish I could say the same for the planet that we live on, though I am keeping my expectations low – in case there is a pleasant surprise! 😊
Posted by: Refinnejenna | Dec 31 2024 21:13 utc | 27
Frohes Neues Jahr B! Happy New Year everyone! See you around in 2025!
Bless Moon of Alabama!
Posted by: annie | Dec 31 2024 21:46 utc | 29
Thank you . Let truth justice recompense and healing prevail in 2025 and our lives help as much as we can to bring that about . With best wishes for everyone.
Posted by: Jo | Dec 31 2024 21:46 utc | 30
HNY b thanks for the best bar in the world.
HNY barflies.
Let’s work! The World Turns on Our Watch.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Dec 31 2024 22:11 utc | 31
Happy and peaceful New Year to B and Barflies. Your collective wisdom and writings make all the difference in the world!
Posted by: Elsom | Dec 31 2024 22:16 utc | 32
Happy and peaceful New Year to B and Barflies. Your collective wisdom and writings make all the difference in the world!
Posted by: Elsom | Dec 31 2024 22:16 utc | 33
Happy New Year to our host and regulars.
I hope Russians will destroy that darn 750kV power grid so Vargas can become finally happy.
Posted by: Preki | Dec 31 2024 22:33 utc | 34
So many wandering about the Oreshnik.
Isn’t the main threat of the Oreshnik obvious?
Think,….
All aircraft carriers taken out in a small number of minutes.
Each has 36 packets capable of passing right through a carrier.
Posted by: choose | Dec 31 2024 22:48 utc | 35
Some’ll win, some will lose
Some are born to sing the blues
Whoa, the movie never ends
It goes on and on and on and on…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCffH90zGTE
Posted by: Apollyon | Dec 31 2024 23:30 utc | 37
And you. Thanks for the work you do on this wonderful site.
Posted by: Raumati | Jan 1 2025 0:07 utc | 38
Six hours to midnight here, adjusted for daylight savings…Happy New Year everyone. All the best b, may you have a stellar year health wise, in fact a toast to good health for all MOA bar patrons…..cheers!
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 1 2025 0:09 utc | 39
Bonne Année, Monsieur B !
Revenez-nous l’année prochaine, en bonne santé !
Vos analyses sont précieuses à tous ceux qui attendent anticiper les méandres du Temps.
Posted by: maria | Jan 1 2025 0:36 utc | 40
“Six hours to midnight here”
Seven here—
I’ll be asleep
Posted by: hightrekker | Jan 1 2025 1:19 utc | 41
Happy New Year, b, and all of the true-minded, honest MOA contributors, regardless of their particular views.
Posted by: Activist Potato | Jan 1 2025 2:03 utc | 42
stay healthy b & all – gotta feeling that the ride’s just getting started
Posted by: b real | Jan 1 2025 3:39 utc | 44
Best hope for a New Year to everyone. But I fear the worst is yet to come. What can the Deep State do but try to ruin the party starting on January 20. Or will it be a wake, for the West, for America…?
Posted by: Johannes | Jan 1 2025 4:55 utc | 46
AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY
@AfricanArchives
History of the New Year’s Watch Night Service.
The Watch Night Services in Black communities can be traced back to gatherings on December 31, 1862, also known as “Freedom’s Eve.”
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On that night, black people came together in churches and private homes all across the nation, anxiously awaiting news that the Emancipation Proclamation actually had become law.
Just a few months earlier, on September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the executive order that declared enslaved people in the rebelling Confederate States legally free. However, the decree would not take effect until the start of the new year.
Then, at the stroke of midnight, it was January 1, 1863, and all slaves in the Confederate States were declared legally free.
When the news was received, there were prayers, shouts and songs of joy as people fell to their knees and thanked God.
White enslavers feared that religion, which was often used to quell slave resistance, could incite the exact opposite if practiced without observance. They wrote laws that restricted worship and large gatherings, such as that in the 1848 Georgia Slave Code:
‘No person of color . . . shall be allowed to preach, to exhort, or join in any religious exercise with any persons of color, either free or slave, there being more than seven persons of color present.’ —1848 Georgia Slave Code
AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY
@AfricanArchives
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Despite these laws, enslaved people sought to exercise their own religious customs, including Christianity, Islam, and indigenous faith practices reflective of the homes from which they were stolen.
They convened at praise houses on plantations or secretly gathered in the woods, where they practiced their faith under the protective cover of the trees and brush in what became known as “hush harbors.”
It’s been 160 years since that first Freedom’s Eve and many of us were never taught the African American history of Watch Night, but tradition still brings us together at this time every year to celebrate “how we got over.”
https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1874123496046879169
Posted by: Menz | Jan 1 2025 10:11 utc | 50
Happy New Year B! May we all have health and peace in 2025.
Posted by: Vog3lfr3i | Jan 1 2025 10:36 utc | 52
From the day that I read your first posts decades ago to today’s greeting, your integrity and intellectual depth never fail to enrich.
Posted by: Glorious Bach | Jan 1 2025 13:09 utc | 54
“b” – Ein gutes Neues Jahr. Und vielen Dank für die hervorragende Arbeit, die Sie im vergangenen Jahr geleistet haben.
Posted by: English Outsider | Jan 1 2025 13:24 utc | 55
Sigh
First post this year and I just read the headlines, a truck crashed into a New Orleans crowd killing at least 10 people.
That happened today at 3 am local time.
The criminal escaped. No word about suspects, could be anything.
—
In other news, France launches air raids over Syria, their first time since…
Posted by: librul | Jan 1 2025 13:28 utc | 56
Happy new year to Bernhard and to everybody at the bar. I’ve learned a lot, still learning, even getting that strange feeling of making friends while sipping
Posted by: Avtonom | Jan 1 2025 13:31 utc | 57
Happy new year to one and all, in spite of counter currents – all it will take is that the citizens of the world decide to look after themselves first and get rid the “Politicians, Oligarchs and warmongers” who steal it all for themselves I have high hopes for a real revolution in the world this year, as greed and corruption are systematically called out.
@ aleph
Your post regarding superficial relationships with “non-player characters” (NPC’s, iow “entities lacking/refusing knowledge and, thus, agency”) resonates with me.
My own decision was to minimize or end those relationships entirely. I decided I have no use or time for people committed to disregarding or exploiting almost everyone else on the planet. I maintain friendships only with people who never stop learning.
I tried for decades to “reach” people. Instead, they continued subjecting me to stories from NYT, WAPO, WSJ, FOX, etc, drama from their workplace, summaries about places they visited on their expense accounts taken from the backs of the poor they never consider, etc. By now, chatbots are probably about as entertaining and intelligent.
Cutting NPCs out of my life was an act of mental self-preservation.
Posted by: I forgot | Jan 1 2025 18:47 utc | 59
A picture of Sydney! Happy New Year all from Lapdogistan.
Posted by: Patroklos | Jan 1 2025 20:22 utc | 60
Not so happy for some in Germany
Maybe economic and political crisis not assisting or
been plunged into New Year’s chaos after five people were killed by fireworks and 400 were arrested as rioters caused mayhem across the nation.
While revellers across the country traditionally ring in the new year by setting off large numbers of fireworks in public places, last night’s celebrations were heavily tainted by the use of fireworks against emergency officials.
Among the dead was a 24-year-old man who was killed by a homemade firework that is believed to have gone off prematurely near Paderborn in North Rhine-Westphalia
Police believe he had constructed the pyrotechnic rocket himself.
In Berlin, 30 police officers and one firefighter were injured in confrontations or attacks during New Year’s Eve, leading to 400 arrests, city officials said.
Hundreds of police officers from across the country were deployed to the capital to help prevent further violence.
Terrifying footage showed windows getting shattered by the force of the explosions as Germans fled the area.
In Cologne, police said that two officers were injured after fireworks had been shot at emergency service workers, while Leipzig saw 50 people attack firefighters and cops.
Etc
Posted by: Jo | Jan 1 2025 21:36 utc | 61
Wishing a Glückliche Neues Jahr to Bernhard und Danke Sehr.
Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 1 2025 23:37 utc | 62
Uncle Howard brought back a war-bride from Nurenburg, nee Margarathe Popp. Cousin Cathy told me that she would awaken to her mother’s nightmare screams of “Die Bomben. Die Bomben!” Last night in numerous German cities, similar outcries may have occurred amongst those who were tiny children during WWII.
Perfidious Albion schnookered Hitler into sending the Luftwaffe over London, replacing their attacks on Britain’s air bases. Adolf did a lot for the Allied cause and that bad decision set the game in motion, following his failure to halt the Dunkirk evacuation of the BEF and a number of French and even a few Belgian troops.
Question is, whether that maternal side descendant of the Austrian head for the Rottenchild crime clan, actually did spend some months in Britain in 1913…most probably receiving hypnotic “therapy” at the Tavistock Institute.
If the AFD wanted to become assured of becoming the Prime Minister in Berlin; all he would need to do would be to promise to demand that Britain and the U$$A would sign a peace treaty at long last with Germany.
The rider on such an appeal would be for all occupation forces, almost exclusively the U$$A military to get the hell outta Dodge. Pronto.
Though of merely minuscule German DNA…perhaps almost as much as 2%…my feeling is that the German people have suffered long enough. That agony has been going on for 80 years on the 8th of May.
“Yankee go Home” has been a much used slogan in several lands for many decades. It is about time for the major
shareholders in the WarDefense Industry, to get a quick kick in the ass. Ditto for their profits from occupation of South Korea.
Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 1 2025 23:54 utc | 63
Happy next day. Anyone wanna discuss the NOLA truck attack? ISIS a supporting Army vet? Kinda similar to Germany. Doesn’t seem to need accomplices but they’re sure of it. Seems prebaked.
Posted by: Scottindallas | Jan 2 2025 0:11 utc | 64
@ Scottindallas | Jan 2 2025 0:11 utc | 64 with the ISIS/NOLA truck murder
I put something up on the MoA Week in Review where we maybe should be discussing it…
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 2 2025 0:42 utc | 65
First Sight
Lambs that learn to walk in snow
When their bleating clouds the air
Meet a vast unwelcome, know
Nothing but a sunless glare.
Newly stumbling to and fro
All they find, outside the fold,
Is a wretched width of cold.
As they wait beside the ewe,
Her fleeces wetly caked, there lies
Hidden round them, waiting too,
Earth’s immeasureable surprise.
They could not grasp it if they knew,
What so soon will wake and grow
Utterly unlike the snow.
Larkin
To the new year!
Posted by: JAB | Jan 2 2025 0:53 utc | 66
@ Scottindallas | Jan 2 2025 0:11 utc | 64 with the ISIS/NOLA truck murder
I put something up on the MoA Week in Review where we maybe should be discussing it…
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 2 2025 0:42 utc | 65
This ISIS attack by a ten year US military vet in NOLA as well as this other guy who was just found with an enormous amount of explosives at a Virginia farm who is said to be a white nationalist associated with “No Lives Matter” movement, (whatever that is) both have me very suspicious. Why would ISIS be mad at the US when they just spent billions and acted as their airforce to ensure their rebranded take over of Syria? Wouldn’t they be glad their brethren HTS just set up a Caliphate in Damascus that has already been legitimized by the US state department? Bizarre timing to me..
Posted by: James C | Jan 2 2025 2:26 utc | 67
The guy that drove a truck through a crowd in New Orleans killing a dozen people
was a US Army veteran.
But here is how Reuters is currently burying that fact for headline-readers.
Main Reuters headline:
Driver flying ISIS flag rams into New Orleans crowd, killing 15; he may have had help
Subtext:
The suspect, identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a U.S. citizen from Texas who once served in Afghanistan, was killed in a shootout with police after ramming the crowd. Police found weapons and a potential explosive device in the vehicle.
Got that? Doesn’t say US Army veteran. It says he “served in Afghanistan”. Given the headline, that potentially can be misunderstood to mean he served as ISIS.
Posted by: librul | Jan 2 2025 5:06 utc | 68
…
All aircraft carriers taken out in a small number of minutes.
Each has 36 packets capable of passing right through a carrier.
Posted by: choose | Dec 31 2024 22:48 utc | 35
Nice bit of lateral thinking.
It’ll be fun watching the Yankees pretend they’re not worried.
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jan 2 2025 12:49 utc | 69
The local Fox channel in New Orleans (which happens to be my home town) said:
According to Fox News, the truck was tracked crossing the southern border into the U.S. at Eagle Pass, Texas, in November. The person who crossed the border with the vehicle in November is not believed to be the attacker.
and that:
Law enforcement recovered a handgun and an AR-style rifle from the truck, which had a Texas license plate and an ISIS flag attached to the trailer hitch.
All just a little too neat for me. Blame the open border and Islxmists. Why not find a Hamxs or Hezbxllah go-cup in the truck too? On the other hand they say he was a veteran.
Meanwhile on France-Info radio, a “Sorbonne professor who is a specialist in US history” immediately blamed Islamixt radicalisation for the attack, and even when the interviewer pointed out that the man was going through a divorce and had threatened to kill his family, the “professor” managed to spin back to Islamixt radicalisation, saying that such unstable individuals are more vulnerable to its influence.
Posted by: Gene Poole | Jan 2 2025 12:52 utc | 70
trouble here too
Brussels descended into chaos on New Year’s Eve, as rioters hurled Molotov cocktails at Belgian emergency services and set vehicles ablaze. Police made dozens of arrests, according to local officials, media reports, and videos on social media.
The authorities reported 159 arrests on Wednesday during the overnight unrest, which saw at least 60 vehicles torched across Brussels, which is the seat of the EU Commission and NATO headquarters.
“It was really crazy,” Walter Derieuw, spokesperson for the Brussels Fire Department, told Politico. “We were there to help, and we were getting Molotov cocktails thrown at us.”
Posted by: Jo | Jan 2 2025 20:37 utc | 72
Like a John le Carre story.
The car in Las Vegas that was parked in front of a Trump hotel and exploded
has autopilot capability.
(question: could the driver have jumped out of the car window before it reached it’s destination
or does the car normally stop when the weight on the drivers side goes to zero?)
The driver had been shot in the head before the explosion, a gun found on the floor between his feet.
Did he shoot himself one moment before the blast went off?
Did he shoot himself before arriving and let autopilot do the rest?
Did someone else shoot this guy in the head and then set the autopilot destination in motion?
Posted by: librul | Jan 2 2025 21:03 utc | 73
Happy New Year. Wish you a healthier and peaceful new year too.
Sharing mty latest album release with you. May peace and rejuvenation be yours for the upcoming year.
https://hiddenharmoniesmusic.com/en/music/warmest_wishes/
Posted by: Allen Yu | Jan 2 2025 22:32 utc | 74
apparently this brigade cost 900m euros. No wonder the USA guy is calling the whole Ukraine situation a scam and fraud.
Ukraine must be held accountable for ‘stealing’ US aid – retired Naval officer
Zelensky’s government should answer for its massive misuse of aid, a piece published by the Washington-based outlet demands
Ukraine must be held accountable for ‘stealing’ US aid – retired Naval officer
Vladimir Zelensky’s government in Ukraine must answer for the corruption and theft of Western aid, according to an opinion piece published in The Hill on Tuesday. The publication comes on the heels of US President Joe Biden’s latest disbursement of aid to Kiev, totaling $2.5 billion.
The article written by James Durso, a retired Navy officer, blasted both the US and NATO for sparking the Ukraine conflict in the first place and enabling the massive theft.
“The American shame is that the US heedlessly expanded NATO to the borders of Russia, and then, after Russia pushed back, enabled and funded the cynical maladministration by the Zelensky government, which will go down in history as one of the greatest examples of waste and theft of Western aid,” reads the piece.
Posted by: Jo | Jan 2 2025 23:12 utc | 75