Open (Neither Ukraine Nor Palestine) Thread 2025-004
News & views not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine ...
Posted by b on January 9, 2025 at 15:57 UTC | Permalink
next page »My latest update on the global car market, part of one of three; Global Overview plus Asia in depth. Then will be North America, then Europe.
The Ongoing Collapse of the Western Car Industry: Q1 2025, Part 1
Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 9 2025 16:06 utc | 1
A good piece on the techno-oligarch fever dream coming into reality, under both Democrats and Republicans. And Elon's "madness with power"
Technofeudal ecstasy - The Grayzone live
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
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
U.S ally Kenya wants to join BRICS - Kenya wants to grow its export economy - especially as its $81 billion dollars in debt.
"Kenyan President William Ruto made public his country’s intention to join BRICS during a visit by Li Xi, the secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the ruling Communist Party of China. Specifically, Ruto made an appeal to China to support Kenya’s quest for membership in the group."
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 9 2025 16:46 utc | 4
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.)
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
The Zionist war criminal - will not attend Trump's swearing in ceremony.
"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not attend US President-elect Donald Trump’s upcoming inauguration ceremony, The Times of Israel reported on Thursday, citing the prime minister’s senior aide.
Trump will take the oath of office and officially be sworn in as the 47th US president on January 20 at the Capitol in Washington, DC. The Israeli leader had previously been expected to attend the event."
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 9 2025 16:48 utc | 6
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
Lets not forget - that the Lebanese army never fired one shot in earnest - at the invading Israeli IOF when it attacked Southern Lebanon last year.
"Lebanese army chief Joseph Aoun has been chosen as the country’s new president, ending more than two years of political deadlock. Backed by the US, Aoun will oversee a flagging economy and a delicate ceasefire between Israel and the Hezbollah paramilitary group.
Aoun failed to win a majority during a first round of voting on Thursday"
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 9 2025 16:57 utc | 8
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: [email protected] | Jan 9 2025 17:00 utc | 9
Has anyone on MoA been giving any attention to the scandal of the so called 'Grooming Gangs' in the UK. This long running scandal, concerning the grooming and sexual abuse of vulnerable girls, usually from troubled home environments, by adult males from (I'll avoid being provocative here,) certain ethnic and cultuaral backgrounds, first broke into public awareness around 2012 when whistleblowers revealed that police forces, social care agencies and both local and national government agencies had for two decades turned a blind eye to the activities of these organised gangs because they werre advised against any action which 'might increae inter - racial tensions.'
The controversy over the scandal flared up again a couple of weeks ago when Elon Musk took an interest, and attacked the UK establishment on X after learning the current government had blocked demands for a national inquiry into this kind of abuse and exploitation which, as is widely known, is still going on in areas with siginficant immigrant populations.
I know there have been similar problems elsewhere in Europe but to the best of my knowledge not on anything like the same scale.
While the UK government has been rocked by the wave of anger at revelations of the horrors inflicted on the victims, which had previously ben suppressed in mainstream media, some are hailing the controversy as a victory for free speech and a singe that the era of 'woke' is coming to an end.
It will be interesting to read other points of view.
https://edbutt.blogspot.com/2025/01/elon-musk-ramps-up-grooming-gangs.html
Posted by: Arthur Foxake | Jan 9 2025 17:05 utc | 10
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
@10
A couple of alternative views on the bullshit ‘grooming gangs’ narrative…
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/facts-prove-far-right-grooming-gang-narrative-wrong
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/03/rbkj-j03.html
The bottom line? Most abusers of children in the predominantly White UK are, you guessed it…White.
Posted by: Pete | Jan 9 2025 17:27 utc | 12
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
Forgot to correct the link
HREF="https://karlof1.substack.com/p/new-russian-paper-on-its-african">Link to Africa
Posted by: Newbie | Jan 9 2025 17:32 utc | 14
@ 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
@10 I just attempted to read that first link you posted, the Jenny Greenteeth blog, but gave up when it described Yaxley-Lennon as the UK’s most persecuted dissident! Obviously you’ve never heard of what the British state did to Julian Assange or is doing to Craig Murray, Richard Medhurst & others. SYL AKA TR is in jail for contempt of court - he deliberately disrupted a child abuse trial by harassing witnesses etc. His actions there potentially stopped an alleged abuser being successfully prosecuted. As for his relationship with the UK elites, he has had consistent press coverage when he is really just a thug, massive financial grants from right-wing think tanks, is consistently pro-Israel/anti-Palestine in line w/ UK govt policy. IMO probably a state asset, but by public record he is criminally violent (attacked an off-duty cop who tried to stop him beating his girlfriend in public), a fraudster (convicted of mortgage fraud, accused by ex-colleagues of pocketing money donated to his EDL, an illegal immigrant (went to the US on a false passport)…and most damningly, a police informer (from his football hooligan days). You’ve been had…
Posted by: Pete | Jan 9 2025 17:48 utc | 16
Re: grooming gangs ?
Epstein and his team seemed to lead the way
Posted by: Exile | Jan 9 2025 17:50 utc | 17
“Thirty per cent of Americans read at a level that you would expect from a 10-year-old child,” Andreas Schleicher, director for education and skills at the OECD, told me — referring to the proportion of people in the US who scored level 1 or below in literacy. “It is actually hard to imagine — that every third person you meet on the street has difficulties reading even simple things.”Taken from Adam Tooze https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/the-surge-in-big-tech-capex-the-shipbuilding?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=192845&post_id=154428324&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2rylou&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
But then I read through the comments...
Posted by: steven t johnson | Jan 9 2025 17:55 utc | 18
@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
Has anyone read the recent pronouncements of Greenland's home rule leader, he's clearly a quisling who can hardly wait to give Greenland away to the US: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/09/greenland-prime-minister-mute-egede-calm-unity-trump-comments-denmark
Posted by: Ludovic | Jan 9 2025 18:04 utc | 20
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
So, five presidents and the incumbent were in attendance at Jimmy Carters funeral today - looking at the pictures, it could and should be the front row bench in Hague, and all five should be standing in it - and, Carter should've been in the dock as well whilst he was alive, instead there's was much fawning over the ex-POTUS - quick pass the sick bucket.
For many folk around the globe - there never was a good POTUS, and probably there never will be one.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/18/jimmy-carters-blood-drenched-legacy/
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 9 2025 18:48 utc | 22
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
Good for them - (ECOWAS) is a puppet organisation that answers to the West.
"The military leaders of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso military have formed a new confederation, undermining the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
The ECOWAS Heads of State and Government for validation summit is scheduled to take place in Abuja, Nigeria on Sunday.
However, the traditional regional bloc linked to Western countries is facing an unprecedented challenge."
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 9 2025 18:54 utc | 24
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
Western backed terrorism - in Africa has caused many deaths and much destruction - the Western imperialist countries - must be forced out of Africa, and shunned at every turn.
"Deaths from terrorism in Africa have soared more than 100,000 percent during the US so-called “war on terror” in the continent, according to a new study by a Pentagon research institution.
The study by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies revealed that during 2002 and 2003, when the US was just beginning its decades-long war, a total of just nine terrorist attacks were counted throughout all of Africa, leading to only 23 casualties.
But after about two decades of US intervention in Africa with the purported aim of helping the continent and making alleged counter-terrorism efforts, deaths from Takfiri violence in Africa increased to 23,322 last year, reaching “a record level of lethal violence,” according to the Africa Center.
The figure represents a 101,300 percent jump since 2002-2003 and a 20 percent increase from 19,412 in 2022."
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 9 2025 19:08 utc | 26
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
Carter should've been in the dock as well whilst he was alive
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 9 2025 18:48 utc | 22
Don't be nasty, it's not as if he supported the khmer rouge or something...
ooops
https://thediplomat.com/2025/01/carters-complicated-cambodia-legacy/
Posted by: Newbie | Jan 9 2025 19:20 utc | 28
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
@ Republicofscotland
…and just as ominously, France will have to start paying market prices for uranium!
Posted by: malenkov | Jan 9 2025 19:24 utc | 30
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
Not content with backing the genocide in Gaza - Biden and Blinken, have come out and said the (RSF) are committing genocide in the Sudan - the (RSF) are funded by the (UAE) with cash and weapons, and the US sells copious amounts of weapons to the (UAE) - who then pass them on to the (RSF).
So Biden and Blinken are directly funding the genocide in Gaza - and indirectly funding the (UAE's) atrocities, via the (RSF) in the Sudan.
Of course the US government doesn't give a toss about any genocides - all that matters, is can they make financial or political gain from it.
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/01/09/caitlin-johnstone-us-says-its-genocide-in-sudan/
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 9 2025 19:59 utc | 32
@ 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
The bottom line? Most abusers of children in the predominantly White UK are, you guessed it…White.
Posted by: Pete | Jan 9 2025 17:27 utc | 12
And its official. I refer you to UK Home Office report : Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation Characteristics of Offending, December 2020.
Issued by the then-Tory government, forward by Priti Patel MP.
In the section on 'Ethnicity' we find the following :
- Research on offender ethnicity is limited, and tends to rely on poor quality data. It is therefore difficult to draw conclusions about differences in ethnicity of offenders, but it is likely that no one community or culture is uniquely predisposed to offending.
- A number of studies have indicated an over-representation of Asian and Black offenders in group-based CSE. Most of the same studies show that the majority of offenders are White.
- Police-collected data on ethnicity uses broad categories and requires the police to assign an ethnicity rather than it being self-reported by offenders. Data is therefore not always accurate; Berelowitz et al. (2012) observed cases of offenders being initially classed as ‘Asian’ but actually coming from other backgrounds, such as White British or Afghan.
- Berelowitz et al. (2012) collected data from a range of agencies including local authorities, police forces and voluntary sector organisations on individuals known to be exploiting children. Around 1,500 individuals were identified, but there was no data on ethnicity for 21% of them. Where data was available, ‘White’ was the largest category.
- While some of the research set out above suggests that there are high numbers of offenders of Asian or Black ethnicities committing group-based CSE offences, it is not possible to say whether these groups are over-represented in this type of offending.
As set out in paragraph 75, research to date has relied on poor-quality data with a number of weaknesses. It remains difficult to compare the make-up of the offender population with the local demography of certain areas, in order to make fully informed assessments of whether some groups are over-represented.
Based on the existing evidence, and our understanding of the flaws in the existing data, it seems most likely that the ethnicity of group-based CSE offenders is in line with CSA more generally and with the general population, with the majority of offenders being White.
It is available online, although Reform UK, the right-leaning MSM and Elon Musk all seem to be unaware of these findings ... or are ignoring them because they dont fit their chosen agenda.
Posted by: Red Star | Jan 9 2025 20:06 utc | 34
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
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.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 9 2025 16:53 utc | 7
But then, so were the Tories - Bozo Johnson an integral part of keeping the Ukraine war going - and I dont recall any unelected oligarch in America worrying about that.
I've no love for Starmer - quite the opposite - but its a slippery slope once an American billionaire decides who can and cant be the UK government.
Next thing, Musk will be demanding Reform UK will be installed, so we'll have a government of oligarchs backed by Trump & co - what could possibly go wrong there ?
Posted by: Red Star | Jan 9 2025 20:14 utc | 36
@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
Why would elon musk the richist man in the world be interested in this man tommy robinson ?
Reconise him for what he is. That will answer the question.
You'l see him here and what he stands for.
https://yandex.com/images/search?from=tabbar&text=EDL%20mobs
Posted by: Mark2 | Jan 9 2025 20:23 utc | 38
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
@ 10, did you mean MI5, Parliament and the House of Lords. You know the Gary Glitter, Jimmy Saville, R Harris and who knows which judges, Police chiefs and other low lives that Musk has conveniently missed?
Where's Epstein client list?
You must be new here.
Posted by: Suresh | Jan 9 2025 20:30 utc | 40
@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: migueljose | Jan 9 2025 19:45 utc | 31 Very interesting comments. Perhaps it's irrelevant if local leaders try to marginalize Rubio, after all it's not clear Trump won't do that for them. It is typical for the President to depend on such figures as the National Security Advisor (Mike Waltz,) Director of National Intelligence (Tulsi Gabbard,) Ambassador to the UN (Elise Stefanik,) Ambassador to the OAS (not yet nominated,) the Southern Command head (currently Alvin Holsey,) who generally have more access to the President plus much less accountability to the Congress, to formulate policies...not to mention the role of US financial bureaucrats in IMF, World Bank, WTO, Secretary of the Treasury (Scott Bessent,) in the economic warfare aspects. It seems to me Rubio is chiefly tasked with anti-Communist PR against Cuba and Venezuela. Otherwise it is not clear that Trump has any use for so-called Little Marco Rubio's opinions. Marginalized Rubio means more hands on from true-blue Trumpers, if not Trump himself, no?
President Boluarte of Peru has other political reasons for rating US support very highly, far more important I suspect than a good deal from PRC. Good deals for Peru are not necessarily good for Boluarte and her kind. Whose bottom line counts?
The people of Ecuador elected Oboa, so it's not clear they hate him and aren't still grateful for his further excising the memory of Correa? No doubt the good people of Ecuador are salt of the earth uncontaminated by the wokeness conspiracy, so they will presumably exercise their superior cultural tradition and keep their wives from renting, even if they can't directly punish the flyboys for leasing.
If Trump settles for expanded US powers in administration of the Canal, preferential treatment (aka money from Panama,) caps on revenues actually controlled by Panama, reinforced military presence but humiliates himself by not openly seizing the Canal, I suppose that will be a great win for humanity?
Does it matter if Mexicans don't believe NYT propaganda? Not sure if Trump would bother talking about Mexico, much less to the Mexican government, if he's already committed to military action? Perhaps we should listen for praise for Black Jack Pershing along with diss for Wilson's incompetence?
The long-term capacity of the US to successfully rule its western hemisphere territories is low and diminishing. Short-term capability to wreck is another issue entirely. No one else has a problem with the siege warfare against the people of Cuba and Venezuela (and Nicaragua, to some degree, too.) Trumpers do not regard economic warfare as warfare. I do which is why I reject claims Trump didn't start any wars (and the same for Carter by the way, though no Trumpers credit Carter for not starting wars, any more than they credit Biden for withdrawing from Afghanistan.)
Posted by: steven t johnson | Jan 9 2025 20:36 utc | 42
@ 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
Next perhaps "how silly of people to build condos next to the water in Florida!"
@ Roger Boyd | Jan 9 2025 20:19 utc | 37
I'm afraid that warning came out nine years ago, from Elizabeth Kolbert in the New Yorker:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/12/21/the-siege-of-miami
Miami is quite special, where sea-level rise is concerned. Besides your east-coast subsidence, roughly doubling the global rate, the substrate is that bubbly volcanic rock-sponge stuff. Good for scraping off your callouses in the shower, but the substrate can't block anything. Oceanic fish swim through to visit municipal ponds.
In California, our coastal commission often discourages seawalls, because something like that can exacerbate coastal problems adjacent to the seawall. In Florida, their seawall problem is extra-insoluble. The water will get through underneath. Draw your own conclusions.
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jan 9 2025 20:42 utc | 44
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
Those are the guys antifa stood up against with no help from the police.
We won. Time and time again.
Antifa got labeled domestic terrorists.
They dont exsit now.
Notice those tattoes are the same as found on the banderite grunts.
These suckers will die for the flag. By the million.
If they refuse they will be conscripted.
Meenwhile the likes of trump and musk will distroy britain and had it to the US and the jews.
End of.
Posted by: Mark2 | Jan 9 2025 20:56 utc | 46
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
Azerbaijan Alyev is calling Armenia fascist calling out France for some reason...seems either he is emboldened by Turkeys expansive actions into Syria maybe in cahoots for a greater Ottoman empire ..seems to be progressive intentions over the last few years...
Posted by: Jo | Jan 9 2025 21:15 utc | 48
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
@ 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.
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This conflates sexual abuse within families with a different phenomenon.
Those who, like Starmer, resort to "anti-racism" arguing points are recapitulating the alleged problem with the original putatively sidelined investigation(s).
Particularly offensive and self-serving when it comes to Starmer because, it is my understanding, he headed the ministry charged with pursuing investigations into the original charges. Some people could think that he is using this rhetoric to cover his ass.
The only cure for the crime and the deliberately confusing rhetoric is transparency.
Let's have an actual investigation---one that investigates the actual evidence, plus the putatively failed earlier investigation.
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
70 palistinians died in Gaza this last 24 hours.
Whoops wrong thread.
Posted by: Mark2 | Jan 9 2025 21:25 utc | 51
This just plain looks bad. As LA burned for a couple of days, mayor Karen Bass was overseas, attending the inauguration of the president of Ghana.
“Is it as bad as Ted Cruz going to Cancun? No. But it could be an indelible dent in her image,” one veteran Democratic consultant in the city, who was granted anonymity to speak frankly about the political dynamics, told our colleague Melanie Mason, reporting from Los Angeles.
We hear the usual crap about "wokeness" in LA leadership, for some strange reason. Foreign junkets in the midst of municipal disasters might be more precisely called "astonishingly inept" -- as "woke" becomes today's content-free, all-purpose slur, like "pinko" or "red" in an earlier era of intellectual darkness.
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jan 9 2025 21:29 utc | 52
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
Jane starmers establishment you really dont get it.
How do you think he got the sir (knighthood)
Posted by: Mark2 | Jan 9 2025 21:32 utc | 54
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
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.
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
Have a look at this....
We had hundreds of these on the antifa data base.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/edl-members-avoid-jail-abduction-girl-paul-whiteside-child-grooming-a7958011.html
Use critical thinking...
'Its public perseption manigment'
Most here should know better and not be brain dead fools.
I'm lookin at you, 'karen' 👀
Posted by: Mark2 | Jan 9 2025 21:49 utc | 58
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.
'Grooming Gangs' in the UK...sexual abuse of vulnerable girls.. by adult males from (I'll avoid being provocative here,) certain ethnic and cultuaral backgrounds,
Posted by: Arthur Foxake | Jan 9 2025 17:05 utc | 10
Don't be such a chicken shit.
Just write Pakistani.
Posted by: jopalolive | Jan 9 2025 22:08 utc | 60
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
I posted this on another thread, but it was near the end of it's timeline. For US residents consideration:
The Duran recently had Dr. McCullough on as a guest, one of their best shows imo. He had some important points on how to Make America Healthy Again:
1) Ban public pharmaceutical advertising.
2) Make the vaccine manufacturers liable for vaccine deaths & injuries.
3) Ban mandatory vaccinations or drugs.
4) Get rid of all the bio-weapons funding.
I would suggest a root cause necessity:
5) Abolish the exemption that medical bills and hospitals have in bankruptcy law. The medical factories would have an incentive to become financially efficient, as opposed to the legally sanctified skies the limit $rape billing & price gouging.
Another need:
6) Abolish the AMA limit on annual doctor graduates. If immigration is not enforced (doc to population ratio), H-1B for doctors. Flood the system with them, we need all the best and the brightest right? Drop the floor on health care pricing in the US to India level. Why should only the oligarchs get profit from flood immigration?
The free market for thee, protections for me.
Posted by: jopalolive | Jan 9 2025 22:12 utc | 62
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
Who is next in the Middle East to undergo "regime change" ?
Posted by: WMG | Jan 9 2025 17:15 utc | 11
Israel?
Posted by: jopalolive | Jan 9 2025 22:14 utc | 64
"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
It seems there are major discussions going on in Turkey between multiple political parties of all tendencies concerning compromise solutions to the Kurdish question involving new constitutional changes that would permit Erdogan to rule for life in exchange for certain concessions within Turkey and include Syrian territory as well. This according to a UC Berkeley professor of Middle Eastern affairs who cautions all is hypothetical and rumor at this point. This is audio only on KPFA, an independent progressive radio station in the Pacifica family of radio stations. I heard only part of this while driving, but what I heard is interesting speculation about politics from that unsettled part of the globe. Here is the internet link to the audio program, about 30 minutes in lenghth:
https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=440993
Posted by: mjh | Jan 9 2025 22:42 utc | 66
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
Red Star @ 65
Thanks for that, it needs to go viral.
You can bet it wont apear in the media mainstream or otherwise.
Incidently musk is trying the same thing in Germany, right now as in today. His fav is ADF.
Any way. Kudos to you.
Big respect.
Hopefully were done here.
No contest.
Musk guilty. Trump guilty by association.
Posted by: Mark2 | Jan 9 2025 22:46 utc | 68
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
Can someone please archive that link of Red Star's please. And share share share.
Posted by: Mark2 | Jan 9 2025 22:52 utc | 70
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
Jopalotive @ 71
Epstien ?
Jimmy savel ?
Cathlic prests ?
EDL ?
The ploice ?
Biased much ?
Posted by: Mark2 | Jan 9 2025 23:04 utc | 72
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
All abusers should be in prison.
But not becouse of their skin colour.
What kind if arse hole cynicaly use's child abuse as a political football.
Hypocrite's the lot of you.
Oh the silence is deafening.
Posted by: Mark2 | Jan 9 2025 23:18 utc | 74
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
The west funded the far right banderites in ukraine to fight Russia and die in the prosses.
What part of that dont you understand.
How did that work out for ukraine and the ukrains ?
Good night.
Posted by: Mark2 | Jan 9 2025 23:25 utc | 76
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
And the "lefties" living in a cave still shout "But white people...! White people!" as if that was ever an actual argument or in any way meaningful :P
Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jan 9 2025 23:25 utc | 78
@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
This will be the final essay from this issue of International Affairs I’ll translate. I hope readers enjoyed the first two. "The Crimean Spring as an Impetus for the Formation of a New Polycentric World Order," https://karlof1.substack.com/p/the-crimean-spring-as-an-impetus
@ 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
@ karlof1 | Jan 10 2025 1:01 utc | 89
Pardon the OT, but have you heard from Peter recently? More than a few of us are worried.
Posted by: malenkov | Jan 10 2025 1:04 utc | 86
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
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 10 2025 1:24 utc | 94
You dumb fuck, don't dare use Pete's handle when we don't even know if he's ok.
A modicum of respect please.
Posted by: Newbie | Jan 10 2025 1:28 utc | 88
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: malenkov | Jan 10 2025 1:02 utc | 90
Yep, I will stop now.
Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 10 2025 1:45 utc | 90
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
Well, this thread has totally deteriorated into a shit-flinging match.
Time for bed!
Posted by: Jane | Jan 10 2025 2:22 utc | 92
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
AIPAC has become a catch all term for "the Jews" at this point. They are a big lobby, but they don't contribute even half of the contributions to the average US politician and certainly it's not the kind of money that would convince the US government to literally flout international law for Israel.
The policy comes from a pure ideological devotion particularly in the Republican Party. The GOP is mostly a Protestant political party where the Evangelical base loves Israel because they are crucial for the Rapture and because the Jews are God's Chosen People where if you bless them you are more likely to be rewarded in the afterlife, while the party's big business elite loves Israel because they are phenomenal for Defense Contractors and the general Military Industrial Complex.
That's the game in reality. And why AIPAC or no AIPAC, their position is nigh on unmovable.
Posted by: Spiderwig | Jan 10 2025 3:31 utc | 94
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
Superb post on Twitter from Russians with Attitude. Basically, the US is consolidating its power and level of extraction within its bloc as it loses power and influence outside its bloc. "Its just business not personal".
On American expansionism.The incoming administration seems to have a more realistic image of the state of American hegemonial decline and wants to take proactive steps to try to counteract and reverse it, breathing new life into the American Global Empire.
In this context, it makes perfect sense for the US to increase pressure on its vassals. I am not using the term in a pejorative sense. The US does not have “allies” in the traditional meaning of the word. It has vassals with different levels of feudal obligations and elite integration, and different tasks. Extracting more value from vassals -- whether through tariffs, increased NATO budgets, meddling in local politics or potential territorial concessions -- is an absolutely logical step in cementing and renewing America's position as overlord of its sphere.
There are three ways America's European vassals can react to this: look for protection outside of the sphere, try to make themselves more useful/necessary & advance integration, or take it on the face. Were we in, I don't know, the 19th century, Denmark would just ask Russia for military support in Greenland in exchange for mild economic concessions and never worry again. As it is, the Royal Danish Army does not have any artillery anymore because they gave it all away for the purpose of firing cluster ammunition at Russian children in Donetsk. They did not receive anything in return for that and it did not help any Danish purpose. They cannot defend themselves if push comes to shove and they can't ask anybody to help because most of their fellow vassals have done the same. The most likely option is that they'll just take it on the face. Not just for pragmatic reasons, but also because they genuinely enjoy being dommed geopolitically.
America has no obligation to treat its vassals better. I've seen Danish people complain on here about supporting the US after 9/11, participating in the American wars in the Middle East, etc. That's ridiculous. You know how a colony is rewarded for sending troops to its overlord's wars? It doesn't get beaten. That's the reward for a lackey. Any person who takes any of the NATO democracy liberalism pilpul seriously is just not a serious person, it was never real, it was always just voluntary submission to be absolved from existing in History.
The world that existed in 1991-2022 does not exist anymore. It's not coming back. You can just invade your neighbor. You can just fire missiles at international shipping lanes. You can just threaten to annex members of your military alliance. “You can just do things”, as the techbros like to say. The mirage of a post-historical order that only has to be policed from time to time but is never seriously challenged has disappeared. What did you think canceling the End of History meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays?
It's not pleasant to be suddenly confronted with all of the above. It's not pleasant to have to admit to yourself that your existence was a coddled theme park that is existentially dependent on the relative position of someone else and how he feels about that relative position. America's vassals WILL have to confront this state of things and make hard decisions about their future. This means reckoning with their geopolitical impotence and either embracing dependency with open eyes or seeking pathways to autonomy that will inevitably involve risk, sacrifice, and a recalibration of their national priorities.
The era of coasting on borrowed security and ideological rhetoric is over. What lies ahead is a world where historical agency must be reclaimed or forever relinquished, and for many, the question may not be whether they are ready to make that leap, but whether they even remember how. America has now understood this -- and is mentally preparing to switch back to the cold logic that comes with actual History. The times, they are a-changin'.
Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 10 2025 5:29 utc | 96
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
@Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 10 2025 5:52 utc | 113
I think Simplicius overstates the case, Trump is just turning the screws on the vassals with threats. He is not actually after the acquisition of Canada, Greenland the Panama Canal etc. Classic mafia style, make a ridiculous claim on your underlings than accept a lesser offer from them. You get what you want and they feel like they missed a bullet.
Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 10 2025 7:11 utc | 98
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
What now, President Tinubu?
At his inauguration on January 6, 2025, the new president of the Republic of Ghana did not only warmly welcome the Burkina Faso strongman, Ibrahim Traore, who stormed the venue in his military fatigues and a side-pistol, but he embraced and called him “My junior brother.”
President Mahama proceeded to give a short but succinct speech on the history of the brotherly people of Ghana and Burkina Faso, whose historical and cultural connectivity was brutally severed by European criminals on colonial expeditions in Africa.
I wrote six articles to lambast the Nigerian president who kowtowed to France’s intrigues and machinations to drive Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger out of ECOWAS. Their ostensible reason was that the military took over power in the three countries. It was never pointed out why an organization set up to promote economic integration in West Africa should dabble in political arrangements in member countries. We were also never told why we should expect an organization that has failed in its primary mission to become competent in one for which it was not designed.
The question for Mr. Tinubu now is what to do when he has lost his fellow imperial lackey, the disgraced and unlamented Akufu-Addo. The new leader of Ghana has not only welcomed Ibrahim Traore but also referred to him and Mr. President. The newly minted Ghanaian president declared, “I will soon be in Burkina Faso.”
Unfortunately for Tinubu, he didn’t choose well in his foreign policy team, as he did in his domestic affairs team, which helped him prosecute his agendas with unNigerian zeal.
Unlike the Headquarters of Pedophiles, who call the BBC from the Island of Iniquities, whose reporters saw only a stir, ordinary Africans enthusiastically welcome a hero.
The fact that a young president in military fatigues stole the limelight and the show at Accra Independence Square should tell African politicians that the people are watching and will support a leader who serves their interests, not curators in foreign capitals.
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Posted by: FemiAkomolaafe | Jan 10 2025 8:13 utc | 100
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