Sorry for the name repetition above. I guess I was still in ‘mountain name duality’
mode as I tried to proofread my post. ;(

Posted by: juliania | Jan 16 2025 15:46 utc | 4

juliania@3….grinding slabs, reminds me of Gaza….blood used as lubricant. Excuse the dourness, but hope these days flutters aimlessly in the wind.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 16 2025 15:51 utc | 6

I’ve changed my ID from Turk 152 to Deniz 152. It’s not that I think anyone cares, I just need to be transparent. Deniz is my first name.

Posted by: Deniz 152 | Jan 16 2025 17:13 utc | 8

What a hilarious but foul fart departing President Poopy Pants let fly re the dangers of oligarchy. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 16 2025 17:35 utc | 10

Biden Warns of ‘Oligarchy’
https://www.rt.com/news/610974-biden-farewell-oligarchy-tech/
“In his farewell address, the outgoing US president drew parallels with President Eisenhower’s ‘military-industrial complex.’
‘An oligarchy is taking place in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead,’ he stated.”
And few did more to support it than Genocide Joe did.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 16 2025 17:45 utc | 12

Posted by: Assistants | Jan 16 2025 17:39 utc | 12
Barely browsed your text, but I’m sure more than 3 would fit inside K.harris. Can’t even fathom a guess on the quantity of seamen inside.
Nice thread to discuss her, the open throat…

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 16 2025 17:47 utc | 14

tiktok refugees flooding Chinese social media rather than migrating to meta as expected. !
Posted by: denk | Jan 16 2025 17:18 utc | 10
-Comrade Chairman ; The Barbarians are upon the numeric Great Wall !
-Are they invading ?
-No ,they are numerical refugees fleeing a dictatorship !
-By going to China ? Didn’t they hear Brandon calling me a Dictator, talking about “Uyghurs genocide” and our economy collapsing since 2001 ?
-That’s the reason they are fleeing here comrade Chairman.
-They love dictatorship ?
-No , Biden said it ..

Posted by: Savonarole | Jan 16 2025 17:56 utc | 16

Long-time reader of the great comments. As an American, anarchist-leaning libertarian, it amazes me how much common ground there is throughout the political spectrums on the depravity of the USA. Gives me much hope.
One thing I wonder about seems to be a sacred cow. Why does almost nobody acknowledge that the power of the USA comes from its magic-money-printing machine, which the owners thereof will do ANYTHING to protect. Isn’t it that simple?
Lord Acton is wrong, sort of, power doesn’t just corrupt, but it attracts the psychopaths who are willing to pay the highest price to get it. Wouldn’t restoring the gold standard be the ultimate democratic (not voting, but real power of the people) silver bullet? Or are most of us just statists and want to use the power for “good”? Probably. Ask yourself what you would do if you had a magic-money-printing machine, and how you would protect it, and how you might self-servingly “adjust” your moral compass to continue protecting it.
I have heard Bret Weinsten talk much of how “zero is a special number”, in regards to Twitter being the “one” that opens the information floodgates against the censorship regime. I agree. But “zero” was the number that USA was trying to protect when they murdered Gaddafi who wanted to introduce the gold standard in just “one” country. If Putin or Xi really want to defeat the empire, they would implement a gold standard. Unfortunately, that would undermine their power too – no chance. We must save ourselves.
This 100-year experiment in fiat money has been a disaster.

Posted by: HB Brian | Jan 16 2025 18:04 utc | 18

Posted by: too scents | Jan 16 2025 17:46 utc | 14
—————
Their first impression…
‘hey surprise, surprise, The Chinese are rather swell guys !’
Many pissed off yanks are letting off steam about uncle sham at the rednote.
I heard bIden and co are already mulling to forget about the ban !
Lesser of two ‘evil’ eh ?

Posted by: denk | Jan 16 2025 18:11 utc | 20

@ Savonarole | Jan 16 2025 17:56 utc | 16
lol.. thanks for that..

Posted by: james | Jan 16 2025 18:32 utc | 22

@ HB Brian | Jan 16 2025 18:04 utc | 18 who announces as a new barfly…welcome
I am the guy who says its is not just the past 100 years of fiat money that needs to be corrected but that the God Of Mammon cult of global private finance needs to be eliminated.
China is leading the parade to provide a global alternative to private finance and I think they will succeed.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 16 2025 18:47 utc | 24

Mission Accomplished
Victory lap
Chongqing seeing off fire fighters from Yunan and other provinces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV2-InYMTVU
Thats all folks !

Posted by: denk | Jan 16 2025 19:22 utc | 26

@Posted by: denk | Jan 16 2025 18:18 utc | 21
LOL
Not a day ago I wrote about the fact the US holocaust museum deliberately omits the “first they came for the communists” sentence from the poem since Americans are scared of that word.
Freedom land must never see the “C word” and God forbid they come in contact with them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaohongshu
Xiaohongshu is not actually called “Rednote” but “Little Red Book“.
And is founded by a guy called MAO Wenchao
All joking aside, the results are marvelous.
American youth learning from Chinese that they have been lied to and China is not what the propaganda makes of it.
A nightmare for the regime. Sure they want to call the consequences of their actions a psyop. Typical.
Bootlickers online seething and calling to deport anyone who has made an account.
Also after a few days the Chinese app suddenly has a massive influx of US military and cops.
TF are they trying to achieve?
Anyway, the TikTok ban is working out great.
Almost as good as sanctions on Russia.

Posted by: Ed Bernays | Jan 16 2025 20:13 utc | 28

In response to
”
Wouldn’t a gold-standard make it much easier to keep all of these governments in check? I think there’s a few very good first steps that would get us 80% there: gold standard, eliminate corporate organization, and eliminate IP. These would all decentralize and empower local communities.
Posted by: HB Brian | Jan 16 2025 19:34 utc | 27
”
A value based money would keep the sovereign bankers in check to a certain degree but we need sovereign bankers first instead of private ones.
Since Roman time economies have been a mix of public and private activities. Just like government need to be organized and managed well on the public side, private organizations need to be organized and managed by governments to meet social needs and minimize people and ecological abuses.
The concept of IP is to manage the reward of personal or group creativity and I think it still has a place but it is currently not managed for social benefit and non-financial/social abuse.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 16 2025 21:13 utc | 30

^^^ How much any die-hard anti-war Trump supporters wanna bet that he doesn’t do it?

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 16 2025 22:43 utc | 32

..coups, mercs, and cash.

Posted by: UWDude | Jan 16 2025 22:56 utc | 34

Mark Carney, ex BOC Chairman, throwing his yoke into the ring for Liberal Leadership. He knows the money side…Canadian thoughts…..? I don’t think he’s as pretentious as the past drama queen…..but he’s just finished a spin at the flailing UK economy….
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 17 2025 0:10 utc | 36

and what battles he chooses to fight.
Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 17 2025 0:16 utc | 39
Since he presented his first choices I said, and hoped to be right, no hot war with RF and/or china.
Let’s hope for the best

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 17 2025 0:27 utc | 38

Posted by: UWDude | Jan 16 2025 22:55 utc | 34
Read the NYT piece by their literal Editor in Chief. He’s openly begging Trump to invade Venezuela. If that’s the case with the “left-liberal” NYT (yeah I know Stephens is a neocon), I can only imagine the pressure he’ll be under from the actual Venezuela/socialism haters in his orbit once he is sworn in.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 17 2025 1:32 utc | 40

The naysaying of my suggestions has the opposite effect, but the fleas are too dumb to know that.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 17 2025 2:35 utc | 42

..coups, mercs, and cash. Posted by: UWDude | Jan 16 2025 22:56 utc | 35

Lawyers Guns and Money…

Posted by: comrade simba | Jan 17 2025 3:22 utc | 44

I just finished watching the latest Nima/Alex Krainer video and want to write about some of Alex’s perspectives that align with my own.
Alex thinks that the City Of London is the financial center for the globalist God Of Mammon cult and I agree but think he needs to include Rome and Pope Frank.
Alex thinks that we are in a civilization type war about forms of social organization which I have written about here forever and focus on public/private finance.
Alex posits that Trump and his team are ok with multipolarity (may join with Russia) and so at battle with the City Of London globalists which is possible but involves much hopium which I ran out of with Obama.
Alex is optimistic that Trump will stop the killing in Occupied Palestine and I am not a believer in Trump’s ability to deliver a lasting resolution to the situation…..but I hope he is correct.
I am glad to read more folks talking about form of social organization issues like public/private finance and continue taking hopium about change to this core jackboot of our current form of social organization…..private finance.
I agree with Alex that the next 6 months are going to be interesting in our world…..I say, bring it on.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 17 2025 5:40 utc | 46

10 year ended day at 4.61% a significant drop from peaking a few days ago at 4,82%.
as long as the 10 year stays above 4% ; No more cheap credit to fund moar War.
watch this space

Posted by: exile | Jan 17 2025 6:27 utc | 48

The editorial view of the Financial Times is as transparent and resolute as a soap bubble.

Is TikTok pushing Taiwan’s young people closer to China?
A growing number of researchers fear that the controversial app is promoting pro-China content and softening attitudes towards the People’s Republic
Last spring, pupils at National Chia-Yi Girls’ Senior High School in southern Taiwan were set an unusual topic for their annual essay exam: “How to negotiate with a dictator”.
The students had to choose the best survival strategy for a small country facing a powerful neighbour — prevent war at all costs, or deter through strength? The exam paper mentioned Russia’s assault on Ukraine, but the unspoken parallels with China’s threat to their own country were obvious.
Teachers say they were stunned when they got the scripts back: nearly all the teenagers argued that Taiwan must do everything to avoid provoking China into attacking it. “Almost without exception, they wrote that, being small and weak, Taiwan must avoid appearing as a threat to China,” says Chu Yi-chun, who teaches Mandarin. “No matter how they harass us, we must tolerate it.”
…
There are many potential reasons for these changes. But for a number of Taiwanese social scientists and ruling party politicians, one of the main causes is TikTok, the controversial Chinese social media app that has amassed more than 1bn monthly active users worldwide.
The app “cannot necessarily make Taiwanese youth identify with the Chinese nation or agree to unification with China”, says Eric Hsu, a researcher at the Taiwanese think-tank Doublethink Lab who is working on the first systematic survey of TikTok’s impact on Taiwanese society. “But it can probably lower their apprehension towards China and their will to resist.”
Lower your will to resist ==> https://www.ft.com/content/e25ee12b-3a4a-4a15-bd5e-0f5fb410e856

The brain damage suffered by the British class that writes for the FT is truly a wonder of Nature.

Posted by: too scents | Jan 17 2025 6:35 utc | 50

Spectacular SpaceX Wardrobe Malfunction…
“Following stage separation, the Starship upper stage successfully lit all six Raptor engines and performed its ascent burn to space,” SpaceX wrote in a mission debrief posted to its website. “Prior to the burn’s completion, telemetry was lost with the vehicle after approximately eight and a half minutes of flight. Initial data indicates a fire developed in the aft section of the ship, leading to a rapid unscheduled disassembly.”
https://www.lonestarlive.com/news/2025/01/rapid-unscheduled-disassembly-spacex-explains-what-happened-to-starship-flight-7-upper-stage.html

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jan 17 2025 7:39 utc | 52

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jan 17 2025 7:39 utc | 53
Elon is the richest KSP player on earth ^^.

Posted by: Hiro Masamune | Jan 17 2025 8:03 utc | 54

Is the cup 95% full?
Or 5% empty?
SpaceX catches Starship Booster for the second time.
The following is tech descriptive, you can skip if it is not your thang:
“A block of planned upgrades to the Starship upper stage will debut on this flight test, bringing major improvements to reliability and performance. The vehicle’s forward flaps have been reduced in size and shifted towards the vehicle tip and away from the heat shield, significantly reducing their exposure to reentry heating while simplifying the underlying mechanisms and protective tiling. Redesigns to the propulsion system, including a 25 percent increase in propellant volume, the vacuum jacketing of feedlines, a new fuel feedline system for the vehicle’s Raptor vacuum engines, and an improved propulsion avionics module controlling vehicle valves and reading sensors, all add additional vehicle performance and the ability to fly longer missions. The ship’s heat shield will also use the latest generation tiles and includes a backup layer to protect from missing or damaged tiles.
The vehicle’s avionics underwent a complete redesign, adding additional capability and redundancy for increasingly complex missions like propellant transfer and ship return to launch site. Avionics upgrades include a more powerful flight computer, integrated antennas which combine Starlink, GNSS, and backup RF communication functions into each unit, redesigned inertial navigation and star tracking sensors, integrated smart batteries and power units that distribute data and 2.7MW of power across the ship to 24 high-voltage actuators, and an increase to more than 30 vehicle cameras giving engineers insight into hardware performance across the vehicle during flight. With Starlink, the vehicle is capable of streaming more than 120 Mbps of real-time high-definition video and telemetry in every phase of flight, providing invaluable engineering data to rapidly iterate across all systems.”
from zh

Posted by: jopalolive | Jan 17 2025 9:12 utc | 56

So there’s talk of sending Nato troops to police what might be a new DMZ in Ukraine – it will be further discussed after Trump takes office with the likes of the French President Macron and possibly Starmer the UK’s PM getting onboard with it.
In reality though – it will just give Nato and excuse to man the Ukrainian front lines – and to continue the fighting

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 17 2025 10:48 utc | 58

I expect b will give us his take on the TikTok debacle!
It’s almost as the US wanted to create a stampede .. maybe not where it’s ended up though!
The memes are outta this world already! Which makes it seem sort of pre planned unless they really were put together so effing fast by Chinese AI! There’s the one about a Chinese imitating Trump walking through the transfer of all Timtok posts to the Redbook app! Then there’s the one about all Hollywood icons and superheroes all avidly reading the little red book!
And there are avalanches as Chinese ask USAsians – do they really have to pay for an ambulance? Do they really spend 20% of income on food? Do they really need multiple jobs working over 40 hours a week (and the rest) and still have no money after paying for housing?
It would make you laugh 😂 if not cry, like thousands of yankeedoodles are doing when they see what China has achieved in less the. 50 years raising their poorest whilst the US remains how it started – A slave state , full of xenophobia, violence and poverty.
There is some counter narrative Cope – suggesting that the Chinese will become Americanised by the influx of so many yanks that they will ‘civilise’ them with the western mindset!!
Arnaud Bertrand rips that to shreds with a superlative history lesson – which even includes Mao complaining to Nixon about how hard it is to change the Chinese!
Imagine the Borg becoming De-borged by meeting a world of naive cartoon characters.
The Chinese have been assimilating for Millenia- they don’t look like stopping with the latest bunch of ‘refugees’.
https://xcancel.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1880116476650352867

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jan 17 2025 11:58 utc | 60

And so today it will be signed, some were doubting
https://tass.com/politics/1900655
New treaty with Iran to promote cooperation in all spheres — Putin
The Russian president recalled that Moscow and Tehran had been working on the document for a long time
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Russian President Vladimir Putin Valery Sharifulin/TASS
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Russian President Vladimir Putin
© Valery Sharifulin/TASS
MOSCOW, January 17. /TASS/. The Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty to be signed today between Russia and Iran will give an impetus to practical cooperation in all areas, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at his meeting with Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian.
“Your visit today is of special significance, because we will not only have an opportunity to discuss all areas of our cooperation, but we will also sign a major basic treaty between Russia and Iran on comprehensive strategic partnership,” the Russian leader said.
He recalled that Moscow and Tehran had been working on the document for a long time.
“I am very pleased that this work has been completed. It is important, because it will open up an opportunity to give an additional impetus to practically all areas of our cooperation,” Putin added.

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 17 2025 12:24 utc | 62

PAK… a lot of letters that were put together to artificially make a name and country to keep it controlled.
Let’s not forget the artificial still imperial controlled sub continent left by the Crown as a disfunctionally divided as the Gertrude Bell (Sykes-Picot) lines Dewan on the maps of West Asia a few decades previously.
‘Our Boy’ as Kissinger referred to him. After he had been honeytrapped by Zioprincess broodmare (Goldsmith) – Imran Khan.
He overthrew the establishment control. Went beyond the soft power control via cricket and promise of dynastic ambition for his children ‘of the blood’ and yet survives.
But like Gandhi and Mandela he now represent the greatest political prisoner of the Collective Waste. Modi stays shtum. A bit of a giveaway about the equally fake nation ‘India’ under the same yolk it has been for centuries by the East India Companies and its backers from say back then.
‘Craig Murray
@CraigMurrayOrg
4h
Pakistan’s elected anti-imperialist leader Imran Khan is sentenced to 14 years in jail as its CIA installed rulers are rewarded for doing the US bidding with a new $20 billion World Bank loan.
They don’t try to hide it.’
Jan 17, 2025 · 8:04 AM UTC
I expect , hope, he too will emerge to finally free the Peoples of these lands and lead them to multipolar integration and prosperity.
The only thing stopping mass support in the U.K. is the Saudi owned Sunni madrases and preachers. Keeping many in the tribal mindsets that most peoples have transcended. Except the ones the Crown keeps in ghettoes of some parts of U.K.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jan 17 2025 12:37 utc | 64

Reuters has a laugher of a headline, partisan much?
Headline: Once an interloper, Trump returns to White House more powerful than before
Subtext: Trump faces fewer guardrails as he pursues a norm-shattering agenda that is already upending Washington and unsettling the world.
This is just days before Trump’s inauguration.
Think it would be interesting to see what they were saying in 2017 just prior to his first inauguration.

Posted by: librul | Jan 17 2025 12:55 utc | 66

@Posted by: librul | Jan 17 2025 12:55 utc | 70
Ok, so here is Reuters headline just days before his *first* inauguration:
January 17, 2017
Headline: Germany concerned about Trump’s NATO remark
Subtext: BRUSSELS/BERLIN – Germany’s Foreign Minister said that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s comments that NATO was obsolete had aroused concern across the 28-member alliance.
Trump threatens German carmakers with 35 percent U.S. import tariff
—-

Posted by: librul | Jan 17 2025 13:08 utc | 68

Anyway, the TikTok ban is working out great.
Almost as good as sanctions on Russia.
Posted by: Ed Bernays | Jan 16 2025 20:13 utc | 28
————–
They wanna ban tiktok so badly cuz

‘the longer one stay there, the more he become a panda hugger‘

Well,
Some tiktok refugees are flaunting Quotation of Chairman Mao at their new haunt, littleredbook !
BIden is so traumatized he’d decided to leave the decision to Trump !

Posted by: denk | Jan 17 2025 13:47 utc | 70

The CIA outlet – the NYT all but calling for the invasion of Venezuela – when Trump was last POTUS, he wanted to invade Venezuela – maybe he’ll do it this time around.
https://nitter.poast.org/AlanRMacLeod/status/1879661355801944469#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 17 2025 15:48 utc | 72

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/the-fools-war-useful-idiots-at-the
A late response to Simplicius article mentioning the symbolism of Milley. Looking at the painting the UKrain map with the hoped for Zaporhizye dream, Red outlined in a particularly phallic shape, it overlays the map of China/Russia. The 23′ summer of offensive thrust would top the modernized Red threat.
Symbolically Telling is the table, and the books and papers on top of the desk, blot out and shadow the American flag. His war plans are more important than the US.
The flag to his left is shown clearly and prominently, the arrows held by the eagle Cupidly (not stupidly dear reader) piercing his heart. The other service flags? are arrayed with a shade less prominence as Old Glory, but they fill almost the width of the back drop.
The painting is of a picture, and it has another picture that is a reproduction of a staged admittedly great photo op, the raising of the flag at Iwo Jima. It’s placement near the top gives this Hall of Mirrors effect priority. A group of men raising the flag.
Milleys confused eyes countenance reflects his interior state, medals galore colorfully splashed like a Pollack painting over his rotund chest.
The clenched right fist near the groin suggests a masturbatory gesture, frozen in time. The left hand ready to assist in a jiff, a good wanking. The uniform suit coat suggests a dress like quality, with the privates area a blackened area, almost like a deep, dark hole. One wonders, is he? is he not? a part of the globohomo civilized society. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Shout out to Dungroanin for the literary influence.

Posted by: jopalolive | Jan 17 2025 16:42 utc | 74

Re ‘starship’
As I mentioned before, for it to be ‘reusable’ it must first be usable. Turns out it isn’t so far.
Posted by: Norwegian | Jan 17 2025 12:48 utc | 65
I know. The main section, the Heavy Booster has twice been spectacularly caught, and is reusable. It’s use was to lift the Starship to space, and it did so. The Starship rapid disassembly made for beautiful fireworks.
The glass is 5% empty.
All the best Norwegian. I wish to visit the magnificent fjords of Norway some day. In the summer. Your countries (assumption on my part) energy, economic and political independence bode well. Pathfinder is a great film/story. And you have gjetost 🙂

Posted by: jopalolive | Jan 17 2025 17:02 utc | 76

Canada’s liberal party ; from bad to worse :
Chrystia Freeland declared her intention to become the next Liberal leader – and the country’s next prime minister
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/17/chrystia-freeland-liberal-canada-prime-minister
I would like to see BC or Alberta voting for the BQ just for the sake of trolling her …

Posted by: Savonarole | Jan 17 2025 17:20 utc | 78

Due to the inferno in California, people have been comparing notes…

The PLA are always at the front line fighting flood, fire, saving HAARP earthquake survivors.
Where’s our military during Katrina typhoon, Hawaii fire and the current bush fire ?

Ex Texas Mayor Tim BOyd had the answer…during the snow storm in 2021

Im sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout’
Get off your ass and take care of your own family!”
No one owes you or your family anything; nor is it the local government’s responsibility to support you during trying times like this! Sink or swim, it’s your choice! The City and County, along with power providers or any other service owes you NOTHING!,
Disaster relief is for socialist deadbeat !

Posted by: denk | Jan 17 2025 17:50 utc | 80

Posted by: Richard L | Jan 17 2025 3:13 utc | 43

“Brian Berletic, in a conversation he has with Danny Haiphong, portrays a broad picture of the global conflict Washington wages against Asia.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQG9oxpMI1k
Thank you Richard L. for linking to this lengthy interview between Danny Haiphong and Brian Berletic. The latter explains in detail what he believes is occurring in today’s geo politics, but more importantly why. He also explains where his research for his views come from, which is a document he specifically refers to during the interview, written by the empire’s Brookings Institute thirty five years ago, which Brian believes any one can still read on the Brookings Institute’s own webpage and likely reach the same conclusions Brian does. The document is forecasting foreign policy for the united states over the next twenty five years, beginning in 1990. The only caveat for the empire has been unforeseen events have created a ten year lag in their plans, that the empire is feverishly trying to overcome.
Thanks again Richard, t’was the best interview I’ve seen in ages. A little over two and a half hours, but worth every minute, imho.

Posted by: aye, myself & me | Jan 17 2025 19:28 utc | 82

Prisoners are being used in the US to put out fires in LA – if this was China using Uighurs to do the same, their would be an almighty outcry from, the Wests well known propaganda outlets – but because its Yankee land its okay.
https://nitter.poast.org/AlanRMacLeod/status/1878530614460072034#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 17 2025 20:10 utc | 84

The Yankee government – has offered a reward of $25 million dollars, for the arrest of the democratically elected president of Venezuela – there’s nothing the Yanks won’t do to overthrow a president they don’t like.
https://nitter.poast.org/AlanRMacLeod/status/1877766444764606712#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 17 2025 20:17 utc | 86

First we had the Yanks – and the Brits, meet with their proxy terrorists group HTS in Syria – then some European nations – and the UN sent delegates to meet with these evil head choppers – with handshakes and smiles all round – now we have the ICC, which has also sent delegates to meet and greet these vile Western/Israeli/Saudi backed monsters.
https://nitter.poast.org/RealAlexRubi/status/1880298237736939647#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 17 2025 20:40 utc | 88

it’s never really been about ‘human rights’, or ‘democracy’, or ‘freedom’ (of speech, assembly or press) but about imperialism and how the US-centralized Empire can continue dominating the world’s resources, labor, shipping routes, supply-lines, finances (mostly through the US Treasury and its sanctions, the World Bank and the IMF etc etc) and of course the Global Narratives which provide the USA-Titanic with such stupendous wealth, influence, power and prestige
https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1880281263422247168
Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
Meaning the TikTok ban is going forward, unless the Trump administration decides against it.
Insane to think that one of the biggest single act of censorship ever – shutting down an app used by 170 million Americans – would be done by a country that’s always been lecturing the world on “freedom”.
Goes to show that America’s commitment to “freedom” was always conditional on its dominance. Which is no freedom at all, it’s the age-old story of power pretending to be principle.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jan 17 2025 23:01 utc | 90

SeanS | Jan 17 2025 23:47 utc | 92==
So, you advocate burying the event and not telling people about it? That puts you on par with the presstitutes at that event.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 17 2025 23:55 utc | 92

Hydroclimate Whiplash

The underlying idea is that the water-vapor holding capacity of the atmosphere increases exponentially as a function of temperature.
And in that article, my coauthors and I use the analogy of the expanding atmospheric sponge to describe how this works, which is that not only do you raise how intense precipitation can become, but then in the reverse direction, that increased water-vapor holding capacity also means that when the atmosphere is not saturated, it actually has an increased thirstiness, if you will. It means, in this context, the landscape could become drier faster. The “thirsty” atmosphere steals water away from plants and from humans and animals fast, unless you’re delivering more water consistently.
So that’s the expanding atmospheric sponge effect. It really drives the majority of what we’re talking about when it comes to hydroclimate whiplash.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/daniel-swain-interview

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jan 18 2025 0:22 utc | 94

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Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 18 2025 1:59 utc | 96

10 year ended the week at 4.63%
de-dollarization brings Peace

Posted by: Exile | Jan 18 2025 4:31 utc | 98

a couple of weeks after Congress raisies the Federal Debt Limit – BOOM, already hit the new debt limit.
Posted by: Exile | Jan 18 2025 5:00 utc | 103
—
It is the stated with of the new Administration to remove the debt limit altogether. Bessent’s job is to front run the market.

Posted by: too scents | Jan 18 2025 6:48 utc | 100