Ukraine, wants to take Hungary’s place in the EU – after both Hungary and Slovakia blasted Zelensky – for cutting-off Russian gas.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 9 2025 16:43 utc | 3

Re: Global Car Market
For many years there has been a (rough) 10% excess production capacity in the global car industry. The addition of Chinese and Indian production capacity has only made the problem worse. Plus – Given the yuge fixed costs associated with production, even a slight decrease in demand kills the already slim margins of OEMs.
Finally – people the world over are holding on to their vehicles for longer and longer. In the USA, the average age of a car is now 12+ years and increasing.
Some solid data on VMT and new car buying (in the U.S.)
VMT
https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2024/08/20/americas-driving-habits-as-of-june-2024
New Car Sales ( per capita )
https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2025/01/06/vehicle-sales-december-2024

Posted by: Exile | Jan 9 2025 16:47 utc | 5

I’m not a big fan of Musk – but I say go on, get Starmer and his party out of office – he’s helping to prop up a Neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine and aiding and abetting in a genocide in Gaza.
The UK’s whole political systems is corrupt to its core – its not fit for purpose.
“Elon Musk is considering a campaign to force the resignation of Keir Starmer as prime minister of the UK, Financial Times wrote on Thursday. Its sources claim that the Tesla CEO privately discussed his intentions with allies.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 9 2025 16:53 utc | 7

The move toward outright fascism by the oligarchs, and the US oligarch prioritization of their own interests over those of their vassals, is becoming more evident every day.
Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 9 2025 16:29 utc | 2
When oligarchs begin to fight each other its time to have enough pop corn stored. They did this also during the 1930’s because its their nature which is living from greed.

Posted by: lmaa@linuxmail.org | Jan 9 2025 17:00 utc | 9

It seems that overthrowing Bashar Al Assad is resonating throughout the Middle East. there are now calls for the egyptian president Al Sissi to step down from office (which he won’t do of course).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DiXXOjOYh8 (lenght: 3 minutes)
I agree that Bashar Al Assad and his father Hafez al Assad were very brutal dictators. And I can fully understand why the people in Syria are glad Assad is gone but I DO NOT like the way Assad has been removed from power.
Who is next in the Middle East to undergo “regime change” ? I think Saudi Arabia is very good candidate. It has a birth rate of over 5 children per married couple (= demograpic timebomb).

Posted by: WMG | Jan 9 2025 17:15 utc | 11

I’m bringing this one from the previous thread
The first edition of Russia’s International Affairs journal has some very good articles worthy of translating for the English-speaking audience. Africa continues to be in the news and the subject of policy discussions, so here’s “New Russian Paper on its African Policy: The Military-Political Dimension of the African Continent in the Context of Russia’s Foreign Policy,” https://karlof1.substack.com/p/new-russian-paper-on-i..
Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 9 2025 2:52 utc | 270
Your link is broken, let’s see if this one works
Link
You mention the view of africa mainly as markets, on the other hand I would propose that only applies to MIC and luxury western goods, for the most it’s resource extraction (at a decided low price) the main motivator.
The agency that you see in those countries, yes the ussr lent a hand log ago and russia is adding a layer now, is only possible because after carving africa, the interested parties were no longer available to pay the price of empire and the newcomer decided to try to avoid that price by outsourcing the dirty work to a local comprador class (cheaper but you pay peanuts you get monkeys, no racist joke intended)
Yes, it makes sense to dwell on France’s policy in Africa, and reminding of the African franc (CFA)and how gadaffi attempt to circumvent it made france lead the posse to finish him off.
Meanwhile, the us’s double cross hasn’t helped france and in a way mirrors the way the us took the remainder of spanish empire 125 years ago
You chose not to introduce the subject of the latest macron vs tchad caper.
On another note, that I think I’ve discussed earlier, RF can be the millitary partner that china’s investment projects needs to avoid attempts to confiscate its investments. Already suggested wagner must be expanded and made more clearly russian, tchaikovsky would be just fine and for a regiment to deal with french advisors an 1812 battalion would sound just perfect (to deal with AFU contractors, whose increasing presence that is also amiss in your comments, nutcracker battalion reporting for service).
Hope I helped and this time didn’t spoil it, people should go to your substack and read.
P.S. as it was a quick diagonal read excuse me if I said something wrong
Posted by: Newbie | Jan 9 2025 5:39 utc | 262

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 9 2025 17:29 utc | 13

@ Posted by: Pete | Jan 9 2025 17:27 utc | 12
Most abusers are known to the victim of abuse, usually a man in the family, like an uncle or a father, but occasionally a mom or an aunt. This is like forbidden knowledge in social contexts where there’s ongoing xenophobic hysteria over immigrants.
This applies also to hysteria around sexual minorities and their inclusion in public life. A great example of hypocrisy on this matter is house speaker Mike Johnson covering up republican representative Matt Gaetz’s history of statutory rape. Why would such a pious and moral man cover up such heinous crimes? It makes you wonder about what’s been covered up in his church.
But maybe it’s not hypocrisy. I have a suspicion that a lot of it is simply projection. The Republicans elected a man who not only has credible accusations of sexual impropriety and abuse against him, but who was also pals with Jeffrey Epstein. The joke on the left here is “pedocon theory: every conservative accusation is a confession”.

Posted by: fnord | Jan 9 2025 17:41 utc | 15

Re: grooming gangs ?
Epstein and his team seemed to lead the way

Posted by: Exile | Jan 9 2025 17:50 utc | 17

@Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 9 2025 16:53 utc | 7
Starmer is just a front man, he goes down and just another front man/woman will replace him. Then most probably in a few years Labour gets thrown out and Reform and Nigel Farage, who are even bigger servants of the oligarchs and Zionists than Stermer, come in. Musk is an uber oligarch, part of the problem not the solution. Look at what’s happening to “free speech” on Twitter and how he loves replacing US workers with H1-B temporary immigrants.
@Posted by: Exile | Jan 9 2025 17:50 utc | 17
Exactly, what about “British establishment grooming gangs”, “Zionist mass rape in detention centres”, “Epstein/Mossad grooming gang”, “rich American pedophile grooming gangs”, “Jimmy Saville grooming gang”, “CIA/Mossad backed HTS/moderate head choppers mass rape of Christian women in Syria”, “Hollywood big wigs grooming gangs”. Just another part of creating the Moslem “Other” for the two minutes of hate.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 9 2025 18:01 utc | 19

The people of Greenland are going to give themselves up to the tender mercies of the USA? If the Inuit are even included in the US Indian Health services, it will be a downgrade from what the have now (totally free at point-of-service and elder care). Not to mention, now a gub’ment totally hostile to upholding treaties and shorting Native rights and monies will be in charge. Only lunatics would vote for that (and the US has enuff lunatics as it is).

Posted by: azeclecticdog | Jan 9 2025 18:07 utc | 21

Courtesy P N I
Nury Vittachi
All the prez men, latest entry
Trump’s under sec for ‘defense’
Elbridge Colby

Escalating Taiwan tensions into a conflict gives America a chance at winning, unlike a Cold War arms race.
China “must be permitted to strike as indiscriminately as possible
We shouldnt provide potential civilian targets with air defences, collateral damage will whip up the public anger against China necessary to winning a war

PS
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Western and Indian MSM are in ecstasy ,

Look, new pandemic spreading in China !

THAts all folks !

Posted by: denk | Jan 9 2025 18:49 utc | 23

Nigeria – a country rich in oil, and its most of its people are dirt poor – this a common story as Western Imperialism, robs a country blind of its assets and a few of its utterly corrupt citizens/politicians, live the good life because they have sold the country out.
So many countries need a revolution right now.
“Nigeria’s security forces have killed at least 13 people protesting against economic hardship. More than 300 protesters were arrested in the protests that also triggered curfews in several states.At least five states, including Kano, Yobe, Katsina, Borno and Jigawa, remain under curfew.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 9 2025 19:02 utc | 25

This past few weeks seemed very quiet.
Is the world waiting to see what Trump will actually do, how the game board will change?
Are the face-some-reality pills having a tough time going down? Takes effort?
Or are we in year-end re-charge mode, where everyone’s recovering from 2024 exhaustion, and is busy re-stocking the shelves (emotional and physical) for the next onslaught?
What’s your sense?

Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Jan 9 2025 19:11 utc | 27

The French are in the process of being kicked-out all over the Sahel, with Chad being one of the latest to tell Macron, Au Revoir – the French have already been booted out of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger – Macron will be pulling his hair out, wonder what to do with all those French troops, who are standing around now doing nothing – worst of all – they are not making any money for the French government.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 9 2025 19:20 utc | 29

Trump, Monroe Doctrine upgrade
Trump seems to me to possess common characteristics of a spoiled rich kid who likes to show dominance through trickery along with a pro-wrestling form of physical prowess, more like boxing world’s fight promoter Don King than the real (fake) Hulk Hogan type wrestlers. In other words, Trump’s brand is his story– his narrative. His brand has been honed over the decades and as his addiction to “winning” encouraged his search for a better “high” he broke into the relatively real world of the political arena in 2016 when he found out he was not prepared. His recent victory and staff choices show he is a bit wiser. maybe. but still a con and still a shallow, spoiled rich kid who is about to head the dying evil empire.
Trump appears to realize he is being set up to be blamed for losing Ukraine. He will likely get out fast while he re-invigorates predatory moves against the dark skins south of the border (and north, apparently).
Mexico
“Soberanía” hosts dig into the NY Times story about a drug kitchen/lab in Sinaloa, Mexico. The Times is preparing readers to support Yankee intervention/invasion with wild accusations and a personal tour of a Mexican fentanyl lab. Except it’s fake. Almost like a Saturday Night Live skit. Remember Judith Miller? This is funnier. Claudia Scheinbaum was involved in the takedown.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=soberania
A couple of days ago I posted two links about Mexico’s answer to the Panama Canal, the interoceanic corridor, a 180 mile rail line transporting freight and passengers from the Gulf to the Pacific.
“Mexico is constructing an Interoceanic Corridor railway to provide an alternative to the Panama Canal and ease international trade. The railway aims to alleviate the strain on the Panama Canal, which is struggling with low water levels due to a prolonged drought. The canal has raised toll prices significantly, and with water levels at an all-time low, shipping through the canal has become increasingly difficult.”
https://colombiaone.com/2024/12/24/mexico-interoceanic-corridor-railway-new-panama-canal/
https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2023/12/tren-transismico-mexicos-new-interoceanic-railway/
Trump will be giving lots of attention to Mexico, the US’s largest trading partner. Little Marco will quickly find he’s in over his head as he attempts to size up Claudia Scheinbaum and her team. Notice Trump’s latest threats did not include Mexico for now. Mexico is rising. AMLO and Scheinbaum are building programs and policy that empowers Mexicans who massively support their Morena Party. Mexico is moving toward BRICS membership.
Panama
Trump says he wants to take back the Canal. He mentions China’s presence there. Latin Americans are outraged. Trump will back down.
https://colombiaone.com/2024/12/23/panama-us-canal-trump/
Ecuador
Galapagos Islands are 600 miles west of Ecuador, hosted the US as an airbase during WW2, then the yanks left. Now they are back. I spent the summer of 2002 on the islands where I taught English and they taught me about neoliberalism. Bush and Cheney were ramping up plans to invade Iraq. Ecuadoran/Galapagos residents were well aware of US hegemony and talked bitterly about how the US wrecked their hometown, Manta, on the Ecuador coast when they built air force base under the pretext of fighting drugs. Prostitution skyrocketed, Yankee fly boys went wild but couldn’t be touched. Anger toward the US was high and pervasive.
Current puppet 37 year old Miami born Daniel Oboa, spoiled scion of a banana oligarch, is all in with the new Galapagos base, which will be used to patrol the Pacific, especially against China while threatening South and Central American countries. Ecuadorians know what’s happening. They hate Oboa.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/whats-behind-the-new-u-s-military-base-in-galapagos/
https://mronline.org/2024/12/28/ecuador-hands-over-galapagos-islands-to-build-u-s-military-base/
Peru
The top trading partner of Peru is China. Money talks. The new Cosco backed port outside of Lima is massive and the Gringos are scared.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/americas/2024-11-14/china-peru-port-latin-america-foothold-warship-15849859.html
So, they sent Blinken– don’t laugh. What does he do? He gets some old diesel trains from California, puts a bow on them and sells them to Peru. That, along with the new old base in Galapagos is Biden’s (and now Trump’s and little Marco’s) attempt to match China’s moves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r8jVs5cUXU
https://video.state.gov/detail/videos/top-stories/video/6364808037112/secretary-blinken-participates-in-a-caltrain-donation-ceremony-in-lima-peru?autoStart=true&page=2
bottom line, China is developing infrastructure supply chains throughout Latin America with strong cooperation and collaboration among the host countries. Meanwhile, the Empire is worried and responding with threats, sanctions, pushing out or assassinating some leaders and offering little in return. Trump’s attempts along with his style will be resisted. Little Marco is well known and will be marginalized. But… Trump will try and focus on the South as he attempts to dump Ukraine and the European pimps. Cuba is vulnerable. Venezuela too. Rubio will sniff out the easy prey but even though the Empire can destroy things they can’t hold on and build back better and the Latinos know that.

Posted by: migueljose | Jan 9 2025 19:45 utc | 31

@ migueljose | Jan 9 2025 19:45 utc | 31
Superb. I was hoping you’d follow up. Hope you’re well.

Posted by: waynorinorway | Jan 9 2025 20:00 utc | 33

Despite the grim bestseller Storms of my Grandchildren having been published long enough ago for another generation of Hansens to grow up, we’ll always hear residual scientific reticence from respectable climate commentators. This embarrassingly obvious question has spawned a novel (imho useless) mixture of solid trendlines and statistical streamlines called attribution studies to produce results such as “This last storm was 57% more [likely, violent, destructive, etc.] because of global warming.”
Unbelievable, the whole scene. They’ll be filming a documentary about attribution, we’re still not absolutely sure!, as their own homes burn down in Malibu. The barrage of firestorms attacking LA over the past two days has old hands double-checking realtime measurements — Is the gauge malfunctioning? Did RH really drop to 1% in Santa Monica yesterday? Because I’ve never seen that before. FWX reporter on the ground in Pacific Palisades, standing in front of a smoldering, twisted concrete and iron wreck, asked how this compares to other weather disasters he’s experienced, over the years. This is worse than a cat 5 hurricane. Only bombs bust up the landscape worse than this.
The next orthodox recitation we hear, from all points on the political spectrm, is what a shame it is that foolish folks just keep building houses right there in the middle of the wildland urban interface (WUI, pronounced “whooeee!”) where anything built of wood like that is bound to burn down. LA is USA’s second largest city, by population. LA county the largest by far (twice the population of Cook County). Little old ladies have been living in Pasadena from time immemorial, I believe. If Pasadena is in the WUI, then everyone lives in the WUI, and there’s no appropriate place for humans to live, anywhere on the surface of a newly unfamiliar planet.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jan 9 2025 20:08 utc | 35

@Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jan 9 2025 20:08 utc | 35
Time given over to climate change peaked in the MSM in about 2007, and has been assiduously kept locked down at a lower level since then. Reality will not be allowed to intrude upon the right of capitalists to make profits out of utterly disrupting the Earth System to a point that is not suitable for major human civilization. Next perhaps “how silly of people to build condos next to the water in Florida!” as home insurance disappears in much of that state and subsidence and sea level rise combine together.
In the US we have climate denier soon-to-be President Trump, in Canada we will get climate denier Polievre (and Trudeau did sweet FA about climate in reality)

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 9 2025 20:19 utc | 37

The French are in the process of being kicked-out all over the Sahel, with Chad being one of the latest to tell Macron, Au Revoir – the French have already been booted out of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger – Macron will be pulling his hair out, wonder what to do with all those French troops, who are standing around now doing nothing – worst of all – they are not making any money for the French government.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 9 2025 19:20 utc | 29
And they are taking it like gentlemen, just a terrorist attack on tchad’s presidential palace earlier this week.

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 9 2025 20:24 utc | 39

@migueljose | Jan 9 2025 19:45 utc: As waynorinnorway said, “superb”. Thanks!
Please keep us up-to-date on Venezuela. I was expecting them to get in the cross-hairs pronto.
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I was skeptical when I heard about the new Mexican railway functioning as alternative to Panama Canal. Offload, rail trip, then on-load containers is a lot of extra activity. They’re shooting for 5% substitution (away from canal, onto the Mexican railway).
The article you linked mentioned that they want to use the railway as investment corridor, with several stops along the Atlantic-to-Pacific route.
Might be able to bring in bulk cargo or containers with sub-assemblies from either side of Central/South America, put it on rails to new processing facilities (one of the “stops” along the way), add some value, put the resulting product into containers, and send the containers to the coast, loading onto those container ships as they line up to transit the canal.
Use the railway as a Atlantic-Pacific production strip. Maquiladoras for Southern Mexico!
Here’s some info on how Mexico got manufacturing market share here in the Americas. That’s where you’ll learn what “maquiladores” are.
=== Separately, for the fellow that was looking for “investment advice: how to get in on Russian action”.
If you’re from the West, why not take a look at Mexico, possibly Peru while you’re at it? Infrastructure investment tells an eloquent story, esp. when foreign investment is happening alongside healthy domestic investment.

Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Jan 9 2025 20:33 utc | 41

@ Posted by: Red Star | Jan 9 2025 20:06 utc | 34
I think it’s more nefarious than ignorance. They need to “flood the zone with shit” in order to distract from the facts, and to put anti-racists on the defensive. Think of Trump’s racist remarks about Haitian immigrants. They were completely unfounded, but they got out there, and they affirmed his audience’s predispositions about foreigners, against the facts. People armed with facts are bringing a knife to a gunfight. When the reactionaries are rousing the masses with hate and jingoism, we have to fight on a moral level. Pure reason has to be reserved for comrades.

Posted by: fnord | Jan 9 2025 20:39 utc | 43

To follow my above…
Did you see him, did you see him, did you ?
Did you see the swastika ect tattoes ?
Did you notice the hitler salutes ?
Did you see the israel flag ?
Did you look or were you blind.
Now take a long, long time at how the police reacted to them or rather did’nt react to them.
Thats why the police did nothing to prevent the grooming. It suted their racist agenda thats why.
LIHOP.
Perhaps some one should archive these images,
I garantee they will disapere any time now.
Dont beleave me ? Try an image search using the term… tommy robinson. Compare the difference.
End of.

Posted by: Mark2 | Jan 9 2025 20:44 utc | 45

A galleon trade route effectively worked a central-American canal equivalent for 250 years. The route ran from Manila to Acapulco, overland to Veracruz, and then on to Spain. Since it was not controlled by Anglo interests, the British navy conducted hit and run attacks on the galleons at sea to initially disrupt, before eventually sacking Manila. Of course, the ensuing 250 years of human progress ensures such pettiness will no longer be a factor in human affairs.

Posted by: jayc | Jan 9 2025 21:10 utc | 47

Keeps repeatedly feeling like yesterday all over again.
MSM used to have headlines about Alexei Navalny getting himself arrested in Russia.
Seems Navalny’s main function was to generate arrest headlines (understood as the “thwarting of democracy”) in the mockingbird press.
At this moment Reuters has a big photo and headline about another “opposition leader”, this one in Venezuela .
Headline: Venezuela opposition leader Machado detained at anti-Maduro protest
Oh
Two minutes ago the article’s headline was updated to this:
Venezuela opposition leader Machado freed, movement says
Pretty good. She generates two-fers.
One headline when she is detained
and another when she is “freed”.

Posted by: librul | Jan 9 2025 21:21 utc | 49

70 palistinians died in Gaza this last 24 hours.
Whoops wrong thread.

Posted by: Mark2 | Jan 9 2025 21:25 utc | 51

Posted by: Jane | Jan 9 2025 21:25 utc | 50 Yes, the only time a rigged investigation is so-called lawfare is when it is aimed at the Divine Trump!
Or maybe Matt Gaetz?
Yes! that is irony.
This is the sort of thing that gives so-called common sense a bad name. Bold face doesn’t make it any truer.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Jan 9 2025 21:32 utc | 53

Russell and Keaton are guesting for Jimmy Dore.
They have published a piece on the rape scandal currently engulfing England.
With the indulgence of our proprietor I reproduce here my response.
Guys,
You don’t understand the British Class System, and you do not understand what it means to be working class in modern England.
Musk wrote about his grandmother, a poor girl from Liverpool. He clearly loved her very much. He can see that she could have been one of these victims these last three decades. She could have been my own mother.
We do not know how many girls were raped, and the powers that be are pulling out all the stops to make sure that we never know.
The English working class are in desperate need of a champion. Elon Musk identifies with his late nana, who was one of us, and he has offered us his services, and we are truly grateful.
I believe you, Russell and Keaton, are making the same mistake as Ed Davey, the leader of the British Liberal Democrats. Look up his exchange with Elon Musk and you will see what I mean.

Posted by: John Cleary | Jan 9 2025 21:34 utc | 55

Russia should use the disproportionate impact of global warming to create new weapons. For instance weapons that can cause and sustain large wildfires. Given its extent and climate it has a competitive advantage over USA and South European countries and also against a few other European countries.
Dousing flames requires significant resources including military resources. Their military budgets are stretched.

Posted by: Jason | Jan 9 2025 21:43 utc | 57

In his chat today with Nima, Dr. Hudson gave an update of the tools the Outlaw US Empire uses in pursuit of Super Imperialism that Trump has floated over the last few days. Many have said Trump’s talking through his hat and can’t do what he threatens, but Hudson tells us exactly how he can employ the tried-and-true tools of Empire to get his way without needing to resort to war. In the closing minutes of their chat, Hudson sends a message to the citizens and governments of those Trump is now targeting and those who will follow. And he’s again critical of BRICS for not being specific enough about their aims and how BRICS members can defend themselves at this new upsurge in Imperialism that many thought would be impossible given the defeat by Russia in Ukraine. And that makes three critically important programs hosted by Nima over the past 24 hours–Escobar, Krainer, and Hudson. All together about three hours of viewing.
IMO, Trump is clearly in the service of the Deep State. Where he differs is in the use of war to gain objectives, which he sees a wasteful and counterproductive.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 9 2025 21:58 utc | 59

So we want an inqiury do we ?
Yeah lets do it….
https://www.vice.com/en/article/an-edl-paedophile-has-been-jailed-for-17-years/
Will it include EDL members convicted of sex offences.
Or how about…
Will it include police officers convicted of sex offence’s some against underage prostitutes.
Oh yeah different shade of skin.
Go get a colour chart from a posh paint shop.
And STFU.

Posted by: Mark2 | Jan 9 2025 22:11 utc | 61

They have published a piece on the rape scandal currently engulfing England.
Posted by: John Cleary | Jan 9 2025 21:34 utc | 55
Except there isn’t one. Its all historical allegations, and (as I’ve pointed out upthread) has been officially investigated, with the conclusion that on all available evidence, there have been more WHITE grooming gang offences than this imagined mass conspiracy of brown people.
Why is it happening now ?
For a start, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has always been a populist single-issue politician. It used to be Brexit, now its grooming gangs, never mind that its all retrospective. Its all he has.
Its dog-whistle stuff, aimed at riling up his far right supporters while disguising it as concern.
The cause has been taken up by right-wing MSM like the Mail and Express, who never saw a racist cause they didn’t like.
There’s the Musk interference (although he’s added an extra twist by saying that Farage should stand down as Reform leader, presumably because he’s not extreme enough).
Reform UK are a minor party – only 5 MPs in parliament – but Farage is a paid-up member of the British Esthablishment. Why else does he get media coverage far in excess of his or Reform’s actual contribution to politics ?
Are we in the early stages of a potential putsch ?
But why bother ? Starmer is just as enthusiastic a member of the Esthablishment, and slavishly tows the line on Ukraine and Palestine.
After all, he’s SIR Keir Starmer – the British Esthablishment’s recognition for being a good boy, and a past Trilateral Commission member, which I guess is America’s recognition of his usefulness.
The only “scandal currently engulfing England” is the raking over of old coals with no consideration for the original victims, who are as much pawns of racist politicians looking to make capital as they ever were of any grooming gangs.

Posted by: Red Star | Jan 9 2025 22:14 utc | 63

“So we want an inqiury do we ?
Yeah lets do it….
https://www.vice.com/en/article/an-edl-paedophile-has-been-jailed-for-17-years/
Will it include EDL members convicted of sex offences.
Posted by: Mark2 | Jan 9 2025 22:11 utc | 61
That’s a very good point – the number of EDL members (and members of other right-wing groupings in the UK) who have been tried and convicted of sexual offences, including paedophilia, is remarkably high.
See, for example, https://malatesta32.wordpress.com/2019/04/03/2019-far-right-sex-offenders-list/
This was the 2019 update. The blog hasn’t been updated since 2020. But you’ll get the idea …

Posted by: Red Star | Jan 9 2025 22:25 utc | 65

I think it’s more nefarious than ignorance. They need to “flood the zone with shit” in order to distract from the facts, and to put anti-racists on the defensive.
Posted by: fnord | Jan 9 2025 20:39 utc | 43
You’re right of course. My comment about the shit-stirrers being ignorant of the findings of previous investigations (especially as they dont fit their agenda) was sarcasm rather than giving them the benefit of the doubt.

Posted by: Red Star | Jan 9 2025 22:43 utc | 67

Posted by: Red Star | Jan 9 2025 22:14 utc | 63
Look, I’m not going to argue with you.
To anybody else, can I suggest you have a Quick Look at the Human Rights Act
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/42/section/1

(1)In this Act “the Convention rights” means the rights and fundamental freedoms set out in—
(a)Articles 2 to 12 and 14 of the Convention,
(b)Articles 1 to 3 of the First Protocol, and
(c)[F1Article 1 of the Thirteenth Protocol],
as read with Articles 16 to 18 of the Convention.

See the hole?
There is no Article 13.
Article 13 of the European Convention specifies the right to an effective remedy.
Had Blair been an honest man(hah!) the inclusion of Article 13 would guarantee an honest process. But if the plebs have no right to a remedy, then you can pass off the most appaling chicanery as an official inquiry.
It has happened time and time again since 1997: an official inquiry which fails abysmally.
But on the other hand, it does allow those like our friend Red Star to wheel out the argument

Its all historical allegations, and (as I’ve pointed out upthread) has been officially investigated

Posted by: John Cleary | Jan 9 2025 22:50 utc | 69

If Starmer and his former ministry have done nothing wrong and have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear from a new investigation [(:-)].
Posted by: Jane | Jan 9 2025 21:25 utc | 50
100% Jane
It’s obvious he covered for the rape gangs. Conflating familial sexual abuse with gangs of strangers doing many days long trains on little girls is (understatement) a false equivalency.
What is the Pakistani incidence of familial sexual abuse? Can an accurate number even be projected given dishonor killings for speaking out? In other words a social policy of shut up if you know what is good for you.
It seems that we have a bunch of sexist pigs making excuses for child rapists on this website. Stories of Public Gang rapes are fairly frequent in India and Pakistan, not so much in the Western West.

Posted by: jopalolive | Jan 9 2025 22:57 utc | 71

Posted by: Red Star | Jan 9 2025 22:25 utc | 65
What kind of a galaxy sized asshole uses a whataboutism for excusing crimes?
If there is any justice in this world, these MOA POS rapist apologists would get gang f**cked.

Posted by: jopalolive | Jan 9 2025 23:11 utc | 73

Posted by: Mark2 | Jan 9 2025 23:04 utc | 72
Go shove a rough stick up your ass.
They should ALL be in jail. Or hell. Both preferably.
Sexist PIG rape advocate

Posted by: jopalolive | Jan 9 2025 23:21 utc | 75

Posted by: Mark2 | Jan 9 2025 23:18 utc | 74
You are absolutely clueless.
I have zero interest in British political ideology.

Posted by: jopalolive | Jan 9 2025 23:25 utc | 77

@77
Your lack of interest clearly shows .
And yet here you are talking crap. And getting shown up.

Posted by: Mark2 | Jan 9 2025 23:28 utc | 79

The only “scandal currently engulfing England” is the raking over of old coals with no consideration for the original victims, who are as much pawns of racist politicians looking to make capital as they ever were of any grooming gangs.
Posted by: Red Star | Jan 9 2025 22:14 utc | 63
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You are not making sense.
You seem to condone continuing with making the “original victims” pawns in political PR games, as opposed to finding out what really happened and punishing the perps, regardless of the color of their skin.
All of the other stuff you cite is secondary political effects and concerns similar in value (none) to the secondary issues (racism) that supposedly derailed the first investigation.
Wow, some commenters here really do not want to see this investigatin opened up again. They’ll say anything to head this off. Not that it even matters, what we at MoA think. But they are busy none the same.
Including, busy misunderstanding the point of some comments that are perfectly clear.

Posted by: Jane | Jan 10 2025 0:12 utc | 81

As a recovering journalist and fairly frequent writer; I can spot a yearling tomcat pouncing on, semi-crippling and then “toying” with his very first #1 Rodent.
That is a fairly apt description of Tarik Cyril Amar, writing an Op-Ed piece in the current R.T. gen-cast. Each and every paragraph, several with more than one biting sentence and then spice it up to what all old school journos call “the Kicker”. Yeah, that’s the ass-cend of the spicing and dicing process.
Well, I get it and can’t help but being a bit envious over Amar’s keyed-in keyboard, while sharper than one of those old
goosefeather quills Okay, maybe even ascending from spice and dice to slice and dice.
So who’s the target, you may finally wanna ask? Targeting is not singular, rather a takedown of the primary political “leaders” of the 3 larger European “powers”. He gets their goats and then features them in a barbecue. No quarter given, no prisoners taken…Generally Amar spits them with the epee’ , and on occasion whips them with a knout.
After all Elon Musk is the alleged Oligarch of Oilygarchs…and the righthand man for the Donald.
Capisce?
So here’s the “spoiled brat” of the purported “Hegemon” and he’s dissing the hell outta the allegedly most impotent prostitician$ in the Collective Wa$te.
Okay, so Amar has not only nailed the personna of Musk; those musk glands biting qualities are perfectly, precisely pinning those stuffed-shirts of impeccable demeanour.
Trashy and brashly, though born in the S.A. , he is now the designated hitman for the upcoming regime in the U$$A.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 10 2025 0:45 utc | 83

@ Roger Boyd | Jan 10 2025 0:36 utc | 85
@ Roger Boyd | Jan 10 2025 0:38 utc | 86
Do not feed.
You know better than that.

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 10 2025 1:02 utc | 85

Newbie | Jan 9 2025 17:29 utc | 13–
Thanks for your reply. My posting, “New Russian Paper on its African Policy”, was the translation of “The Military-Political Dimension of the African Continent in the Context of Russia’s Foreign Policy”. I made very few comments about it as the author did a very good job. Current Russian policy is akin to past Soviet policy that was mostly concerned with enabling Africans to escape Colonialism, which has morphed to Neocolonialism. The main difference is the widespread use of the West’s Terrorist Foreign Legion to cause chaos in any nation trying to escape the Neocolonial yoke.
Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 9 2025 21:40 utc | 56
I know, just added mycomments as sugestion /inspiration for review and/or new articles.
And in those comments I agreed with those points you mention, but the terror angle is just an update for proxy civil wars…
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IMO, Trump is clearly in the service of the Deep State. Where he differs is in the use of war to gain objectives, which he sees a wasteful and counterproductive.
Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 9 2025 21:58 utc | 59
Agree to disagree, at least concerning the current iteration of DS. Agree on avoiding wars as a major tool (at least where a finger can be pointed to the us)
P.S. Not necessarily for you Karlof, I’ve seen that a minor exchange on the uk/groom stuff is derailing the discussion about africa, spliting countries and venezuela and we already have an elf on the shelf past 12th night, so good night

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 10 2025 1:19 utc | 87

Threatening to invade Panama, to conquer Canada and Greenland; doesn’t Trump look even more demented than Biden?
Once in office, he ought to be replaced by Vance ASAP!

Posted by: lester | Jan 10 2025 1:29 utc | 89

Posted by: Pete | Jan 9 2025 17:27 utc | 12
What a load of crap.
The repulsive pakistanis are so sexually disgusting and criminal that the health service has to hire people specializing in diseases normally only seen in the offspring of incestuous breeding.
You think the native population is somehow the same or worse than this degenerate scum preying on their hosts?
Take your bullshit sources and shove them squarely.. you know where.
The native population there is screwed, it’s only a matter of time as they are outbred and outvoted by this tidal wave of vicious trash.
They will win due to natives suicidal altruism, but they will still be the garbage they are and I can’t think of a worse curse. Death is preferably BY A COUNTRY MILE!

Posted by: Archetypex | Jan 10 2025 2:19 utc | 91

In a move apparently delayed to allow X to close down its fact-checking division, Canada’s foreign minister has tweeted (x’ed) official recognition of Venezuela’s opposition as, in fact, its legitimate ruling party. This is the second consecutive declaration of such by Canada, but the first to be articulated following a process of voting. While the previous attempt to declare legitimacy ended in the Juan Guadio farce, supporters of the defeated opposition believe this attempt will be different as it coincides with heightened troll activity and identity theft across internet platforms still conversant with facts which, they believe, will provide necessary distractions to dissemination of such.

Posted by: jayc | Jan 10 2025 3:01 utc | 93

Looks as if the site is being partially discombobulated by a more advanced trolling program which has been established by one or more intel agencies to destroy the site. There is an insidious level of articulation which was not typical of the more traditional trollers. Currently, those trawlers of destruction are employing deep-sea style purse nets in order to scoop all life clear on down to the bottom of the bay.
Thus, it appears that the B team has cast its nets into the infrastructure in order to create chaos in attempt to sink the MoA. As most of these assaults appear in the relative latest and earliest GMT hours, rather than earlier in the thread, their strategies are precisely aimed at that midnight demographic.
So if the B team has largely replaced the D and C teams; they are setting the stage for the ultimate appearance of their A-Teams, such as the little Behavior Analysis Pod of psycho-manipulator FeeBees have developed in Quantico Virginia…and probably they are not the only ones.
MoA’s more deeply researched and more balanced theorists and original thinkers from faaaar outside of the box will be required by the play of the game to take on the better of the best of Deep $tate interference patternrers.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 10 2025 4:34 utc | 95

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 10 2025 5:29 utc | 112
Simplicius posted that in full to his Substack I want to say 24 hours ago.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 10 2025 5:52 utc | 97

Kudos b
A good day for truth and sanity.
Keep well.
Respect.
Last post from me today.

Posted by: Mark2 | Jan 10 2025 7:49 utc | 99