An excellent lineup for today, thanks b! One of the reasons I look forward to Sundays.

I’ll add one more, Palestine-related, from the Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal, by way of SheerPost. Conveniently for Israel, the new president of the ICJ is a Christian Zionist fanatic.

https://scheerpost.com/2025/01/26/new-icj-president-a-christian-zionist-influenced-by-end-times-theology/

Best to all!

Posted by: KMRIA | Jan 26 2025 13:45 utc | 1

Good day b and barflies I’ll start with this. Sorry it has to do with Ukraine, Palestine, Drumpff and the Collective Waste now.

Ahaa! Part 1 of 2

https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/mackinders-maritime-hegemony-and

Professor Diesen has addressed directly the cause of the last two centuries of Russophobic wars and never ending attempt to take EurAsia by ‘balkanising’ the Eurasian World Island.

Maybe he occasions the threads here?

I have been banging on for years now about Holy Roman Empire/ Westphalian Nations and Mackinder strategies running through the highest echelons and taught to Empire rug rats from birth in the Elite schools and RedBricks and through the aristo senior admirals and generals delivering ultra violence upon native peoples across the world through imperilism and colonisation. The creators of the Collective West.

Professor Diesen has finally said what many of us as amateur historians have been banging on about- yet he appears to have pulled his punches, very obviously.

He names not the Greater Motivators of the likes of Mackinder/ Marx/ Mills etc and all the military Powers that have been directed against humanity through the MILLENIA; He shies away from for whom the National Interests bells are tolled!

The series of supposedly disparate nation states the Empire builders actually all served. Was it the Vatican and the Pope? And still serve.

He mentions in passing only where the Other Great Game currently resides, a consolation for the ever failing plan to plunder the World Island. At the Crossroads of vast continents of EurAsia and Africa, the greatest of all diversity possessing continents on the planet.

The illegal Apartheid Entity in the Levant, attempting to wrestle South West Asia from the ancient human civilsations that developed across that region.

I expect he has to walk a finer line as an academic and publisher and Indy blogger…

The voids stand out glaringly - and his failure to objectively point them out infact does exactly that!

Well done Glenn.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jan 26 2025 14:36 utc | 2

Before I post part two of the above post I have to mention this massive Narrative cope and Russophobia being attempted going far beyond the Pale previously done in Britain. By the State propaganda Broadcaster.

In a stentorian English Aristo Officer Class voice - all week on the classical music BBC Radio 3 has been announcing -

‘On Monday it’s the anniversary of when ALLIED forces liberated Auschwitz concentration camp. ‘

‘Join us a from 6 am Monday morning to hear from the last survivors for a whole day of celebratin of that day! ‘

Vomit inducing is it not? Because as we all know the slave worker camp was liberated by Soviet Russian Troops.

Not random ‘Allied forces’

By Red Army soldiers from the 322nd Rifle Division many who died were n storming the camp against the Nazis , Poles AND ukranians who were busy trying to destroy the evidence of who exactly the slave workers were employed by.

Even as the dumb pollacks (who were where the camps were situated and so had complicity) currently try and rewrite that history on its website .

NO the Red Army soldiers were not Ukranian Soviets.

‘The division was established at Gorki in the Moscow Military District in August, 1941.[1] At its formation, the basic order of battle was as follows:
* 1085th Rifle Regiment
* 1087th Rifle Regiment
* 1089th Rifle Regiment
* 886th Artillery Regiment
* 297th Antitank Battalion
* 603rd Sapper Battalion[2]
Once formed in October, it was noted that the division was 90% Russian

So this Russophobic cancellation of the soldiers who stormed the camp and came across the horrors and survivors first is still being memory holed and replaced with the hollywoodised mythology.

Fuck our Collective Wastes academic historians and broadcasters for being fascist trolls.
Fuck the BBC and its trolls.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jan 26 2025 14:46 utc | 3

Thanks for another great week b.

Not much about the JFK files being released.
I'm going out on a limb here: It was Iran that did it.
Case closed.

Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Jan 26 2025 14:55 utc | 4

DunGroanin@3..... has or does Russia not counter that narrative, why not have a Liberation Day in Russia? Publicly invite all western militaries to participate.....but Russia doesn't seem to know how to do counter narrative.

Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 26 2025 15:03 utc | 5

Greenland yadda yadda ..

It is simply the consolidation of the Last Unipolar Anglo European Empire as the Garden of a Golden Billion behind a Wall that will demand it is left alone, by the majority of humanity and the multipolar human civilisation progressing.

The consolidation of Greenland is part of the rapid expansion of natzo in the Scandinavian countries and outposts in south Atlantic and Pacific’s. It’s the supposed legal claims on resources that they can gain rent from for centuries waiting for the chance to re-emerge from the cave to kill and takeover the planet again! Yup it is the venality of the ancient fascists of Rome and its iterations ever since.

This post by Arnaud is long but worth it. Part quote.

“Arnaud Bertrand
@RnaudBertrand
4h
The funniest part of this - or most tragic, depends on how you look at it - is that Denmark is probably the most committed U.S. vassal state in the entire EU.

Look:
- they're a founding member of NATO
- they've participated in nearly every major U.S.-led military operation whenever the U.S. asked, even the most controversial ones like Iraq
- Denmark was revealed to be the base for the NSA's spying on European leaders (reuters.com/world/europe/us-…)
- Denmark always buys American military equipment over European alternatives
- They've agreed to hosting a U.S. military base - in Greenland! (Thule Air Base) - which has been crucial for U.S. strategic interests since the Cold War …”

https://xcancel.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1883053445248373104

- On the actual joined at the hipness of Greenland with the Western Nuclear hagemony it goes a long way back when the Yankee Generals under their Shapeshifter Masters were really planning to nuke Russia! They infact ended up dropping plenty of nukes on themselves (Carolinas, Georgia …Spain and Greenland, in the Atlantic! )

Here’s what I’m referrring to briefly:

“ During the 1950s and the 1960s, The United States of America installed several military bases in Greenland.  One of those bases was Camp Century, a military base located in the northern-eastern region of Greenland. Project Iceworm was one of the many secret projects taking place in Greenland at the height of the Cold War era. Project Iceworm aimed at constructing a network of movable nuclear missile launch sites beneath the Greenland ice sheet.
Only 204 km away from Camp Century, the Air Force personnel of the United States Space Force built the Thule Air Base. The airbase was the main staging point for the construction of Camp Century in 1959…”

“ A Series of Catastrophic Events: Accidents, Errors and Explosions
There have been many catastrophic events relating to missing or lost bombs due to aerial or land accidents. But the following are specifically related to Operation Chrome Dome and its Air Base at Thule, Greenland.”
…
“ Thule incident, the tragedy was far from over. Fuel and radioactive elements from the hydrogen bombs were dispersed throughout the ice cap. Plutonium and uranium were found in abundance, as well as thallium, and thorium.
 The accident caused the dispersion of powdered fragments of plutonium and other radioactive materials along a 100-meter strip on both sides of the aircraft’s impact zone.
The United States and Denmark conducted a recovery and clean-up operation (Operation Crested Ice), which lasted for several months. The effort was nearly scuttled by the frigid temperatures and fierce winds of the Arctic. Weather conditions were deteriorating rapidly, with temperatures plummeting to below -70 degrees Fahrenheit and winds soaring to more than 80mph. Despite this, the teams worked nonstop until the debris was cleared and the bomb fragments were discovered.
For nine months, more than a thousand people cleaned up Thule. They spent close to $10 million to transport more than 500,000 gallons of polluted water. The ramifications of the Thule disaster were long-lasting.
Inuit around the base worked with the U.S. Air Force to get to the B-52 crash. The sledges were the only way to get to the crash site.
Danish workers who helped clean up the site are dying of cancer, despite their heroic efforts. In the face of international pressure, Crested Ice was rushed and its leadership slashed corners. Workers from the United States and Denmark were unable to handle the radioactive materials because they lacked the necessary protective gear.
Danish compensation claims were rejected in the United States in 1987. A settlement with 1,700 crew members was made in 1995 by the city of Copenhagen. The story of Crested Ice, its employees’ plight, and any leftover contamination from the United States continues to resurface in the Danish press to this day.
Operation Chrome Dome missions were suspended immediately after the incident, highlighting the security blunders and political risks of these kinds of missions. ”
…
https://weird-history-facts.com/tag/thule-air-base/

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jan 26 2025 15:16 utc | 6

[email protected] Great Knut united England and Denmark. No surprise the Danes are involved licking Brit boots shoved up Yankee arses. Danes, Brits, Yanks all share the same inbred fleas.....

Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 26 2025 15:34 utc | 7

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 26 2025 15:03 utc | 5

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Or maybe the Russians don't see the need to engage in public theatrics because their people are sophisticated enough to see through the sort of crap which affects you emotionally.

I have never wondered why the Russians don't engage in performative politics. I chalked it up to being related to how the Russians don't do colonialism or glorify sodomy as the West does.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 26 2025 15:39 utc | 8

thanks b!

@ dungroanin - thanks for your posts... i really like glenn diesen's viewpoint and have been increasingly reading him..

Posted by: james | Jan 26 2025 16:07 utc | 9

Record-breaking winds bode no good for Ireland.

Éowyn barreled into Ireland and the northern United Kingdom on Friday, January 24, bringing heavy wind damage, a destructive storm surge, and widespread power outages.

The ferocious windstorm brought the highest sustained winds and the highest wind gust ever recorded in Ireland. Sustained winds of 135 km/hr (84 mph) gusting to 183 km/hr (114 mph) were reported between 4 and 5 a.m. local time at Mace Head on Ireland’s central west coast. According to the Irish weather service, met.ie, the nation’s previous highest winds were sustained at 81 mph (131 km/hr), gusting to 113 mph (182 km/hr), a record set in Limerick in 1945.

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/storm-eowyn-brings-hurricane-level-destruction-to-ireland/

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jan 26 2025 16:31 utc | 10

"The people have seen a great light."

This Sunday for Christian Orthodoxy is the afterfeast of the Theophany, an equally important feast.(All Sundays are.)

There is goodness in the world, on the earth. But also in the world, on the earth, there is evil; we see it. b makes a record of it each Sunday.

So, as Martin Luther King said, we must expand his saying because the harmonious day all await has been pushed further off into distant horizons because we may not get there with you, with future generations yet to come.

Then, we will all get there, including the ones now causing evil who will be purified. That is the promise of the new day and why we hope and try, but do not ourselves accomplish what is needed.

For now: "... the people have seen a great light ... "

Thank you, b, for posting Alistair Crooke's article. It is short, and nicely emphasizes what we discussed here on recent posts last night. Trump is not easy to understand because he is still under seige and opposing forces are formidable. But the people have seen a great light;

they are formidable also.

Don't take my word for it; I am only one (annoying) little person. So is Trump, just one, hard to understand. It is not up to either of us, and we know it.

The arc of destiny just got a little longer, and higher, but it bends toward the earth, as always. Happy Sunday, everyone!

Posted by: juliania | Jan 26 2025 16:55 utc | 11

R.E. Auschwitz - Most of the guards at most of the death camps were Ukrainian POWs. Conscripted Ukrainians surrendered en mass to Germany, many of them joined forces with the Wehrmacht to fight the Soviets while others were put to duties which relieved Germans to be reassigned to the front.

Posted by: Brian Bixby | Jan 26 2025 17:11 utc | 12

Fascinating essay on the out-migration back to Mexico of thousands of illegal migrants and its effect on New Mexico; a state where the "do-gooders" have messed up big-time. The writer of the piece is a multi-generational Japanese American who has lived in that now degraded culturally, economically and politically for years. The piece appeared on today's Rense.com and was second in line in their links thread.

The tragedy of rural New Mexico as presented, may be a metaphor for the entire country...only a bit worse at this time.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 26 2025 17:27 utc | 13

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 26 2025 15:03 utc | 5

##########

Or maybe the Russians don't see the need to engage in public theatrics because their people are sophisticated enough to see through the sort of crap which affects you emotionally.

I have never wondered why the Russians don't engage in performative politics. I chalked it up to being related to how the Russians don't do colonialism or glorify sodomy as the West does.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 26 2025 15:39 utc | 8

Thank you. The lepercon's constant whining about Russia's failures is just grating. We are all arm chair generals around here, but this guy is just ridiculous. To paraphrase Trump, if leper was in charge of Russia we'd be on WW10 by now.

This latest suggestion is just obviously stupid. Ok, Russia throws a big event to challenge the western historical revisionism. And who is going to cover that in the west, and of those that do, who would cover it honestly in the west? The only person in the west that would cover that event honestly is our Karloff!

For anyone who hasn't been conscious the last 4 years: the people of the west are in information lock down! Anyone with half a brain is at moon or some other information outpost precisely because honest discussion of foreign policy has been made impossible by the MSM.

It's like any problem that arises is always the failure of Russia with this guy. In that, he normalizes and obscures the real source of all these problems: US imperialism and their Euro bitches.

Russia doesn't need to work harder. Its done more to counter and expose US Imperialism than any country in the history of the world.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Jan 26 2025 17:32 utc | 14

Jonathan Turkey is a loser. Biden and Trump are the most corrupt presidents in memory and Biden currently has the lead. But Turkey is so fucking stupid that he legitimately thinks President Joe from Credit Card is "the left."

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 26 2025 17:34 utc | 15

Rense lol. The population of New Mexico, the third or fourth largest state in the continental US is less than Dallas proper.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 26 2025 17:36 utc | 16

LoveDunbass @1539 Jan.26

As a rule I like what you bring to the threads...mostly well thought out and informative. That said, it does appear that you still suffer from the Abrahamic religion bias, via the Old Testicles. Your employment of the word "Sodomy" is premised on a few insertions by the Deuteromists, when they seized control over the Hebrew Yahweh cult in a patriarchal assault on any cultural elements outside of their narrow focus and mind-control manifestations.

Best information today on the nuclear attack on Sodom was accomplished by one side of the Nibiru masters against the other element. Yes, there are Geiger counter readings on that site...which have been assiduously swept under the rug by those who would maintain the narrative.

Creator would have no need, ultimately no desire to use nukes to destroy a city...several thousands of years ago. It might behoove you to read some of Zechariah Sitchin's books to understand deeper levels of probable historical reality. To rely on a book created by the Roman Emperor Constantine is a false history implemented to establish a higher, fear-based imprint upon the subjects of imperial rule.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 26 2025 17:38 utc | 17

This is the slanderous bullshit that aristodemos would not even bother/dare to link.

https://rense.com/general97/reverse-Tide-Mexican-illegals.php

What utter garbage. The colonias in the SW United States are not home to recent illegal immigrants but rather long time native poor.

Who is the slant eye jap faggot author anyway?

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 26 2025 17:42 utc | 18

Below is a comment that I posted late on the 'Stargate' thread.

My conclusion is that 'Stargate' will not only fail to give the U.S. a dominant position in AI, but rather it will condemn the U.S. to being forever behind in AI, for the following reasons:

1. Stargate defines the problem of AI as one of resources. Thus the solution is to 'out-resource' everybody else. However, this definition of the problem will preempt any other solutions from evolving in the U.S. because of the huge investment that has been committed to this one, resource driven, solution.

2. Stargate is a centralized, top-down project to develop the science of AI. This runs counter to nature. Science, like all forms of human development is a chaotic, bottom-up process. One alternative solution, Deep Seek, developed by 3 Chinese engineers, with extra time and computing power on their hands, is a classic example of the chaotic nature of science. Without doubt, there will be many different solutions to evolving problems and opportunities that will come as AI evolves. But these solutions will come, not from a top-down centralized project but, from the most unexpected places, the result of hundreds of thousands of independent scientists and engineers, each working on the problems and opportunities from their unique perspectives and capabilities. Stargate will prevent these independent solutions from evolving in the U.S.

3. Stargate is also an attempt to prevent the spread of AI knowledge. As I have commented before, stopping the spread of scientific knowledge is a fool's errand.

Stargate reminds me of other 'centralized solutions' such as the F-35 program, or the U.S.' attempt, after the war, to re-build Iraq in the image of the U.S.

Posted by: dh-mtl | Jan 26 2025 17:50 utc | 19

Seriously, who is this cuntfaggot Jap pussy writing for Rense? I will personally take this queer coward on a tour of southern New Mexico and we can go searching the barren desert for the fictional characters and communities he dreams up:

An entire sector of the American poor in the Southwest (like the Appalachian folks discussed in J.D. Vance’s 'Hillbilly Elegy') have been displaced and surpassed by the voracious Mexican tide. Across New Mexico, at least, the average family’s income of Mexican illegals is at least twice that the majority of American couples with children, who barely survive on the inner-fringe of poverty on non-productive drought-doomed farmland reverted to arid desert. Many of these neo-Dust Bowl residents are retired servicemen and their families, who cannot afford the property-price gouging by real-estate crooks across the balmier climes of the USA. They resettle long-deteriorated trailers on scrubland, living on a trickle of deep-ground water. At food banks, the wives of veterans are rudely pushed aside by newcomers with Chihuahua province license plates. The Salt of the Earth has been steadily poisoned in their own land. Now as the ravens depart with the loot, Americans are left with a despoiled environment and unnaturally arid desert - and there’s not one Sierra Club do-gooder naturalist in 500 miles of this death zone...but only the BLM out to confiscate the lands of the few remaining ranchers.

He has no fucking idea what the hell he's writing here. But here is when he finally and completely gives himself away:

The American liberals are out-of-step with reality. The underpaid and exploited braceros (arms that work hard) farmworkers are a thing of the past, when the late Cesar Chavez campaigned for economic justice on factory farms. The average farmworker nowadays earns more than $30 an hour under federal labor laws (driving up the price of food), which makes him - the poor suffering farmworker - the head of a moderately wealthy family in Mexico as compared with his dirt-poor neighbors toiling for a merciless Mexican elite, which is now predominantly Jewish.

Utter bullshit. And coming from aristodemos, who has told us here that the US court system is illegitimate, and not because it's openly corrupt (which it is), but because it has a flag in the room with gold thread surrounding it and is thus maritime law (this is complete garbage 7th grade level conspiracy theory horseshit).

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 26 2025 17:52 utc | 20

It might behoove you to read some of Zechariah Sitchin's books to understand deeper levels of probable historical reality.
Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 26 2025 17:38 utc | 18

As a person who has a very keen interest in astronomy, I cannot support the idea of an inhabited planet beyond the orbit of Neptune (Nibiru) with an orbital period of 3600 years. There would hardly be any light on that planet, and it would be far too cold for any life to be possible. Mars itself is on the fringe of the habitable zone of our sun, so how would any life be possible that far away? Even with an elliptical orbit where the planet may come closer to the sun (less than 1% of its total orbit), it would only be warmer in that short period. Intelligent life could have never evolved in such an environment. Microbial life in inner oceans, maybe.

Posted by: jure | Jan 26 2025 18:00 utc | 21

In fitting with the theme dh-mtl picked up on above, here's a quote by the DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng:

"What I often think about is whether something can improve the efficiency of society’s operations, and whether you can find a point of strength within its industrial chain. As long as the ultimate goal is to make society more efficient, it’s valid. Many things in between are just temporary phases, and overly focusing on them can lead to confusion."

Posted by: persiflo | Jan 26 2025 18:04 utc | 22

RE: ICJ

Doesn't matter all that much. The UNGA overwhelmingly voted by a super majority on 18.Sept 2024 that the Likud Gov't:

1) Runs an Apartheid State with all the legal ramifications there from
2) Needs to evacuate ALL occupied territories before 17.Spet 2025 (by implication since 1947(
3) Needs to pay reparations for damages caused (by implication since 1947)

Thats International Law now

Posted by: Exile | Jan 26 2025 18:16 utc | 23

My latest Welcome To The Post 1.5 Degree Centigrade World: Where Denial and Eco-Modernist Delusion Run Wild, just as the US Presidential Climate Denier in Chief starts four years of attempted "drill baby drill". But in reality he is not that much worse than the bullshitting Democrats.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 26 2025 18:32 utc | 24

Excellent discussion between Jeffrey Sachs, Zhang Weiwei and Charles Li on China's strategy with respect to Trump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e5no3BYnRU

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 26 2025 19:04 utc | 25

Karen Bass, Brandon Johnson, and Michelle Wu are the 2025 versions of the Three Stooges and are the face of Democrat calamity and political dysfunction. https://shorturl.at/L7r8c

Posted by: Dogon Priest | Jan 26 2025 19:47 utc | 26

According to the Chinese lunar calendar, 2025 is the Year of the Wood Snake, symbolizing wisdom, intuition and mystery. This year’s Lunar New Year begins on January 29, for the 16-day Spring Festival also known as Chinese New Year.

There is some wisdom, intuition and mystery taking place between the two Chinas, the Peoples Republic of China (Beijing) and the outlaw Republic of China (Taipei). There is now a financial situation weakening US interests.

The US has planned on lots of arms sales to Taiwan --
Aug 24, 2023 – US approves new $500M arms sale to Taiwan
Sep 18, 2024–Sep 18, 2024 · The US Department of State has authorized the sale of US$228 million of military goods and services to Taiwan,
Nov 30, 2024–US Approves $385M Arms Sales to Taiwan

But now those purchases are endangered--
Jan 25, 2025 - Taiwan premier decries 'suicidal' budget cuts, may ask parliament to rethink -
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan Premier Cho Jung-tai on Thursday decried what he said were "suicidal" budget cuts passed by the opposition-dominated parliament . . .here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Jan 26 2025 19:56 utc | 27

@ dh-mtl | Jan 26 2025 17:50 utc | 19 with the takedown of Stargate and American AI

Thanks for that. More people need to stop absorbing the marketing madness about AI.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 26 2025 20:20 utc | 28

Reuters has a posting up with a title showing further empire demise

Trump heaps tariffs on Colombia after it refuses migration deportation flights

So empire caused the chaos in all the countries that led to the immigration and now wants to dispose of these humans like the Palestinians....sigh

Humanity is in a civilization war about the sausage makeup of our form of social organization that has global private finance as the core tenant. China has public finance as the core tenant of their form of social organization and other countries are banding together to force change.

I believe at some point the China/Russia led axis of resistance will force empire to collapse of its own internal contradictions but will have to stand up for small countries if military might is used, IMO.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 26 2025 20:34 utc | 29

@ 29
Trump imposes 25% tariffs on Colombia as deported migrant flights denied. The US imports about 20% of its coffee - worth nearly $2bn from Colombia. Look for the price of coffee to increase, only the first of many.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Jan 26 2025 20:49 utc | 30

So all other coffee suppliers are given license to increase their coffee prices 25% and still compete.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Jan 26 2025 21:10 utc | 31

The Empire is rotten, as is every Empire before it.

That said, there are prior examples to learn from, and they were ignored.

Trump had to be careful with those tariffs on Colombia as the CIA runs the drug trade globally off of the books.

Every punitive move Trump makes, which seems to be all he thinks to make, furthers the cause of a multi-polar world.

An excellent example of Zugzwang.

Trump's compulsion isn't the American electorate or state, or some "rule of the game". It's his ego to always be perceived as winning and strong, even if the strongest move might be to stay calm or exercise restraint.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 26 2025 21:32 utc | 32

Quiet. Not many posts. Seems like the bots have been switched off.
Another Drumpffian action?

So I’ll go a bit … outtabox … let’s talk Tolkien the Book not Movie bastardisation.

For entertainment, amusement and to add grist to the mill.
Feel free to bypass.

Ahaa! Part 2 of 2

Of course the Imperial baton was passed to the last shiny Anglo European chimeric Frankeinstein’s Monster Empire, stitched together from hoary European parts - the United States. A melting pot of all the previous ones.

Created as it was to be the biggest and mightiest beast than any of the precursor European Nations States could achieve - that would finally suceed and ‘take the world and make all its peoples slaves’ - by becoming some fantastical super human, higher life form than all other humans…the same story for every iteration of the European seafaring imperialist nations previously but this one with the bells and whistles of the neoreligion of individualism and democracy that it’s imperialism is the excuse for.

There is not an iota of difference in any of their ages long ambitions just the shapeshifters doing what they always have.

It is their old plan and they hired and owned many of the brightest and imanginative thinkers, through their universities, engaged in bringing about the Plan Of World Domination.

Those intellectuals were the great propagandists. They were chosen from all the nations as soon as they were identified as young and gifted and were hothoused to create the mythos of ‘democracy’.

At the same time hypocritically preserving faith in most of their Owned Monarchs!!
The job to move populations to act against their own interests, for the Great Dreamers of Ultimate Domination of the World and its Civilisations.. it was termed propoganda by the state. For its own use.

The Shapeshifters who always stayed above the monarchs.

Some intellectuals involved in their work for their masters, shocked by who they actually were working for, tried to give the game away to us ordinary imbecilic canon fodder, sold on the stories of supremacy of nation, class, creed and ethnicity!

HG Wells, Erc Blair at the end, others - Tolkien’s Lord of The Rings which having gone through the fantasy mythology building of the Western Mankind, it’s own artificial history and language; little happy hobbits, had the Wizards to watch over them. With vast lands of their ‘east’ of the mountains and spaces where the demonic enemy of plucky hobbit and mankind lived and planned to take over the Western lands of that mythical continent.

Sound familiar folks?

Anyone who read the books must surely see the direct allegory!
The Films of course a cartoon version of such a neoreligious mythology which have been swallowed hook line and sinker and are on display in the neonazis of ukropians who believe not on such foolish runes and whitepower lunacy but actually refer to their targets as ‘orc’s’!

Tolkien also built the ‘eternal superpowerful long living Masters - the Elfin ‘Race’ that looked after Human and Hobbit and fought against the ‘Evil’ Sauron who they were somehow related to…they were born superior.

Tolkien foretold the deadly wars of the C20th and imagined a victory - but let his story finish with the abandonment of that won ‘EurAsia’ as the Mighty Elves were forced to leave and ‘return’ to their never explained former world ‘across the Oceans- West of the continent of happy hobbits…west of Europe!

It was perhaps wishful thinking by him.
He forecast the ultimate failure of the Grand Old Plans of the Elf Kings and Queens - the very long lived - and their escape West, back to their ancienter homelands,to hide behind Walls of ocean to their scared Garden they came from…I always wondered why that story line. Now I know understand it.

Apparently the Wasters are urged not to partake in Tolkien nowadays…

Drumpff has been chosen to lead that retreat from the failure to take the World Island , so the History books can write of the Failure and Unworthy Emperor , the modern Caligula, a dangerous clown, who will be remembered as the downfall of the current Roman Empire already in inevitable unipolar Decline and Fall.

The Loser of the War of Freemen and hobbits of Civilsed Europe. Harrumph.

Leaving a Golden Billion in their Happy Gardens of the Golden West across the ocean, living in their Golden Century, with their Golden Tech wizards, throwing heart to the sun sieg heils…

the Braver Newer World.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jan 26 2025 22:10 utc | 33

China is close to Colombia. . .
from The Diplomat

Colombia and China have signed a variety of agreements and treaties, with China becoming an increasingly common source of financial support for energy, mining, infrastructure, telecommunication, and development initiatives. China has also opened a number of banking branches in the country and provided it with increasing legal and private tender reserves in yuan. Slowly, China has become a paramount economic and financial partner for Colombia. . .here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Jan 26 2025 22:16 utc | 34

Tom Q.Collins@1742 Jan 26

As the writer who has lived in N.M. for a generation or more is quite aware of the original Colonias would be aware; even I up in the Northwoods of Minnesota am quite aware that those enclaves were settled by SPANIARDS, not by Mexicans. The Pueblo people with whom they intermarried and such were of the Pueblo nations, an ethnosphere quite other than the Chicanos of Mexico proper.

Seems you are some sort of weird racist (Jap) you say, and homophobic to boot. If you happen to be a Straitman, rather than a basic other-sexer; you wouldn't know shit of the many gay men who are NOT "faggots". Anyway, the latter call themselves "fags", as an identity thang...and are most frequently caught up with the "fag" accent. Generally they are close to center on the M/F scale, but not at the level of Queens...and nowheres near being Trannies...genuine ones who were mostly female in prior lifetimes. You are pretty goddamn ignorant regarding samesex men. So what's your hateful hangup all about?

Could you be one of the many closet-cases larded with self-hatred? That might explain your self-inflected sore-butt.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 26 2025 23:03 utc | 35

While losers like Tom Q Collins continue to fill their Depends to overflowing…Trump is MAGA!!!

Posted by: America Is Winning | Jan 26 2025 23:06 utc | 36

Much fuss in the British media about Holocaust Memorial Day, yet absolutely no reference to which army first arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jan 26 2025 23:09 utc | 37

Don Bacon@ 1742 Jan 26

Orthographic quibble. "China is close to Columbia" is confusing. What was meant and should have been used would be that "China is close WITH Columbia". Yes, it's just a quibble, but the initial take signaled a D- in geography. Americans are quite likely the most geographically and word usage ignoramuses in the world.

Brings to mind an incident in a Copenhagen bar back in '79. A couple guys at the next table were chatting and the Yank asked his table-mate where he was from. Correctly pronouncing the name of his country as what in the Anglo realm would call Iceland as "Eesland". The typically ignorant American blurted out "what?" The guy at the table I shared with him and exchanged glances in a knowing kinda way. When we did the intros and such, he was a bit surprised when I informed him that I lived in the Northwoods of Minnesota...with the closest largish city being Winnipeg, Manitoba.

In another situation in my '79 hitchhiking adventure in N.W. Europe; I finally snatched a ride. Woman and her little son were in the car, as she took me with feathered and flowered Stetson; black leather coat; full frame backpack with sleeping bag and tent attached; along with faithful walking-stick. Initially she had assumed that I was Canadian. Got invited to stay at her home in the little village of Rosiers en Santerre, about 20 Klicks west of Amiens.

Consider that if Europeans held such views towards Yanks in '79...imagine what it ls like at present.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 26 2025 23:18 utc | 38

Dun Groanin@2210 Jan 26

Thanks for a fun account, entertaining AND informative. You do have the makings of a storyteller .Has your gene-pool a bit of a Celtic strain? This ancient Stickman of ages ago seems to scent that spoor.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 26 2025 23:27 utc | 39

@ aristodemos | Jan 26 2025 23:18 utc | 38

re: "Initially she had assumed that I was Canadian"

That reminds me of years ago I was living in my VW Westfalia down in Baja California. I pulled into an area one day, and spotted a large off road machine a little ways away. I thought it must be German. But that's not my point. When I walked up to the vehicle and said hello to the guy, using a few words, he said "You walked over here, and you are an American!"

Posted by: Don Bacon | Jan 26 2025 23:29 utc | 40

I'm very pleased to see b linking to Hudson's latest essay that's based on his mini-brainstorm while chatting with Richard Wolff and Nima last Thursday. He sent me a draft Friday and asked me not to promote it until it was published. I'm old enough to know of the films he used as his metaphorical base, and mentioned in response that the essay was a winner. I see no mention of it on this thread yet. Here's the opening paragraphs which gets to the premise and sets the argument:

The 1940s saw a series of movies with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, starting with the Road to Singapore in 1940. The plot was always similar. Bing and Bob, two fast-talking con men or song-and-dance partners, would find themselves in a scrape in some country, and Bing would get out of it by selling Bob as a slave (Morocco in 1942, where Bing promises to buy him back), or committing him to be sacrificed in some pagan ceremony, and so forth. Bob always goes along with the plan, and there’s always a happy Hollywood ending where they escape together – with Bing always getting the girl.

In the past few years we have seen a series of similar diplomatic stagings with the United States and Germany (standing in for Europe as a whole). We could call it the Road to Chaos. The United States has sold out Germany by destroying Nord Stream, with Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholtz (the hapless Bob Hope character) going along with it, and with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen playing the part of Dorothy Lamour (the girl, being Bing’s prize in the Hollywood Road movies) demanding that all Europe increase its NATO military spending beyond Biden’s demand for 2% to Trump’s escalation to 5%. To top matters, Europe is to impose sanctions on trade with Russia and China, obliging them to relocate their leading industries in the United States.

So, unlike the movies, this will not end with the United States rushing in to save gullible Germany. Instead, Germany and Europe as a whole will become sacrificial offerings in our desperate but futile effort to save the US Empire. While Germany may not immediately end up with an emigrating and shrinking population like Ukraine, its industrial destruction is well under way.

Trump told the Davos Economic Forum January 23: “My message to every business in the world is very simple: Come make your product in America and we will give you among the lowest taxes of any nation on earth.” Otherwise, if they continue to try and produce at home or in other countries, their products will be charged tariff rates at Trump’s threatened 20%.

To Germany this means (my paraphrase): “Sorry your energy prices have quadrupled. Come to America and get them at almost as low a price as you were paying Russia before your elected leaders let us cut Nord Stream off.”

The great question is how many other countries will be as quiescent as Germany as Trump changes the rules of the game: America’s Rules-Based Order. At what point will a critical mass be achieved that changes the world order as a whole?

Can there be a Hollywood ending to the coming chaos? The answer is no, and that the key is to be found in the balance-of-payments effect of Trump’s threatened tariffs and trade sanctions. Neither Trump nor his economic advisors understand what damage their policy is threatening to cause by radically unbalancing the balance of payments and exchange rates throughout the world, making a financial rupture inevitable. [My Emphasis]

The "Road to Chaos" isn't inevitable; however, it's very likely given the utter naivete Team Trump has regarding the global economy and the junk intel Trump's being fed.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 26 2025 23:29 utc | 41

aristodemos | Jan 26 2025 23:27 utc | 39--

Thanks much for your kind words on the flea-infested thread. This is from a few days ago and merits being on the above list, https://www.rt.com/news/611575-russia-donald-trumps-return/

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 26 2025 23:34 utc | 42

Don Bacon@2049 Jan 26

You bring up a salient point. Several days ago it occurred to me that one of the categories which would be sheer stupidity to be exposed to tariffs...specifically tropical and a few other types of foodstuffs which simply do not grow in the U$$A. In some respects the U$ is climatologically challenged. A high tariff on coffee is utterly thoughtless. Trump should be spanked for that inanity...but who knows...maybe he would enjoy that.

Our ruptured republic is a nation of coffee drinkers...and numerous addicts. Loyalty to the Orange-Man is pretty strong right now. This little faux pas will take a small nip outta his popularity amongst the Great Overwashed.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 26 2025 23:36 utc | 43

Karlof1@2329 Jan 26

Thanks for sharing. That Hollywood metaphor was magisterial. The highest level of drama frequently is presented on a worldwide stage and the current iteration of the U$$A denotes role-playing on steroids...most particularly with the long-envisioned (s) election of the planet's #1 business uber alles con-man of the material world.

Now where is the "Material Girl"? Well, he does have that Balkan fashion pate, fair to partly middlin, as is becoming a meme/trope in parts of rural Manysnota...but Madonna herself in that role would likely get the both of them a STAR on Hollywood Boulevard.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 26 2025 23:48 utc | 44

Jure@1800 Jan 26

Not the one here to propound that Sitchin has retrieved the entire essence of the Nibiru saga. Methinks we need to project our environment beyond the solar system...as currently recognized by academicist astronomers.

There may be exceptions, though, even within the planetary parade. Consider photos of one of the moons of Saturn...perhaps they are no longer available online these days of the re-engineering of the internet. Relatively close-up views of that satellite bears all the hallmarks of NOT being an actual work of cosmic nature. Ditto the Face on Mars.

Quoting Hamlet from Willie the Spear Shaker's masterpiece: "There is more to heaven and earth than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Horatio".

There are retrogressive tendencies amidst academia. Herd mentality is not as demented in the field of astronomy as it is amongst the "approved, official" academicist archaeologist, stuck in the muds. From all indications in recent scientific discoveries and realizations; academia is little more than a closed shop. Works of the likes of Rupert Sheldrake proves my point....and as for the elder generation of physicists, the quantum physicists eclipse Newtonianism.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 27 2025 0:05 utc | 45

Wow Dun Groanin

Posted by: furies | Jan 27 2025 0:11 utc | 46

Tom Cllueless@1752 Jan 26

Question: Have you actually visited an American courtroom? If so, perhaps your dim wit was incapable of discerning the elementary difference between the standard American flag as compared with that yellow-fringed monstrosity imposed by the United States Corporation, enrolled within the state of Dupont (aka Delaware) in 1938.

That unlawful (unconstitutional) false flag is indeed the ADMIRALTY banner. Symbologically (do look up that word, as I suspect you otherwise might not comprehend the significance of symbols) the perps designed that emblature to enable a court system based upon lawfare and general shysterism.

That Admiralty flag and the USA corporation was established by the ruling Oligarchs of this ruptured republic. You can begin with the Dupont Crime Clan and then segue to the single American Crime Clan amongst the 8 shareholders who own the "Federal" Reserve Bank---the Rottenfeller Crime Clan.

You, Sirrah, are a historically ignorant baboon...pretty much just another deracinated American.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 27 2025 0:18 utc | 47

incapable of discerning the elementary difference between the standard American flag as compared with that yellow-fringed monstrosity imposed by the United States Corporation

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 27 2025 0:18 utc | 47

According to this web page your story is a myth

Posted by: jinn | Jan 27 2025 0:53 utc | 48

Trumps aggressive actions will drive all countries to insulate themselves by moving more and more toward local currency transactions and more diversified trading relationships. In the past 10 years the US share of GDP that is traded has actually fallen while other economies have become more open to trade through trading with nations other than the US. All countries will now be looking to accelerate these trends and make themselves more self-sufficient in areas that they are dependent upon the US for.

The US Empire is now like a failing mafia boss who flails around aggressively, but only makes even those still loyal pull away from him due to his capricious and unpredictable actions. Trump will accelerate the fall of the US Empire not MAGA.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 27 2025 0:59 utc | 49

this flag business seems like a fringe issue

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jan 27 2025 1:00 utc | 50

Indeed - the Colombian Tariff example will only accelerate De-Dollarization.

Posted by: Exile | Jan 27 2025 2:02 utc | 51

From another circus ring in our civilization war we have below from ZH

Colombian President Orders Hike On Tariffs Of US Imports In Retaliation To Trump Sanctions

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Update (6:50pm ET): Despite appearing to cave earlier when he ordered the use of the presidential plane to repatraite illegal aliens from the US, late on Sunday Colombia President Gustavo Petro ordered an increase of import tariffs on goods from the United States in retaliation to President Trump’s tariffs and sanctions.

Petro, in a post on the social platform X, said he ordered the “foreign trade minister to raise import tariffs from the U.S. by 25%.”

“American products whose price will rise within the national economy must be replaced by national production, and the government will help in this regard,” the post continued.

The tariff and sanction ploy....think it will work for empire?

Is Musk going to start messing with Columbia's X usage?

In my dream world, all communication is provided by public focused governments as a public utility like finance I keep writing about. It keeps folks like Musk from using his wealth to control our society.

I like the China posture of keeping the oligarchy from getting too much wealth/power/control.....I don't buy the Mitt Romney quip that "Corporations are people, my friends."

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 27 2025 2:04 utc | 52

Will Trump confiscate Colombia's assets in the US?
Bill Clinton had a bizarre business in Colombia.. back in the 90s, right??

Posted by: Nick | Jan 27 2025 2:08 utc | 53

Jinn@053 Jan 27

Which web page, you say?

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 27 2025 2:08 utc | 54

ZH has a posting up with the title

Trump Administration Puts Immediate Pause On FDA, CDC, & HHS Reports And Posts

The pause is until Feb. 1 which should cover the period until, hopefully, RFKjr is confirmed.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 27 2025 2:28 utc | 55

Trump Says Canada Isn't Sovereign

https://www.rt.com/news/611657-trump-canada-is-not-sovereign/

"The country is totally reliant' on the US and would be better off as the 51st state.."

On The Fear of Nationalism (1967)

https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/on-the-fear-of-nationalism

"Canada is, and always has been, a relatively stable and peaceful society. Our political tradition, its substantive content and even more its rhetoric, has emphasized above all, the themes of moderation.

The tradition may have served us well in the past, but it must be transcended now if Canada is to survive. Let us not mince words; survival is the issue.

The fear of political annexation is not realistic: but the prospect of total economic and cultural integration into American society, is real and immediate.

Our political and intellectual elites, true to the Canadian tradition, are moderately concerned about the impending demise of our country, and moderately determined to do something to prevent that demise, on condition that whatever is done, be moderately done.

This moderation will be the death of us.
One of the sources of contemporary moderation is a genteel fear of nationalism that pervades the English-Canadian establishment.

The continentalist elements of establishment use this fear of nationalism cynically, in the interest of the greater American nationalism of which we are a part..."

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 27 2025 2:30 utc | 56

Amaryth @ globalsouth posts President Gustavo Petro, Columbia, response to Trump, posted on x,

Trump, I don’t really like travelling to the US, it’s a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things.

I like going to the black neighbourhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together.

I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country.

I don’t like your oil, Trump, you’re going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it’s difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I’m not, nor is any Colombian.

So if you know someone who is stubborn, that’s me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you.

I don’t want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can’t accompany me, I’ll go elsewhere.

Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn’t understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last.

You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom. You don’t like our freedom, okay. I don’t shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid. They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else.

Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond.

Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you.
In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs. My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete. You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us. Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence.

Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today’s Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered. I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did.

Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA, Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness.

FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY.

I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same. Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world.

I have difficulty posting links to globalsouth, so no link. See website.

Posted by: Suzan | Jan 27 2025 3:26 utc | 57

WTF... Delusional Isle of Fools

''Britain has ‘first dibs’ on Greenland, island’s last Danish minister says
Donald Trump would need Keir Starmer’s approval for his new ‘aggressive’ Arctic strategy which sent Denmark into ‘crisis mode’ ''

But Mr Høyem said that Mr Trump would require approval from Sir Keir Starmer because of an undertaking signed in 1917, the first time the US was interested in acquiring the island.
“If Trump tried to buy Greenland, he would have to ask London first,” Mr Høyem told The Sunday Times.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/01/26/greenland-denmark-keir-starmer-donald-trump-arctic-maga-us/

Posted by: Nick | Jan 27 2025 4:05 utc | 58

ATTENTION! ATTENTION! ATTENTION!

Viruses = Superstition
Virology = Pseudoscience
Vaccines = Weapons of War
"COVID-19" = Global Genocide
"Great Reset" = War on Humanity
"Agenda 2030" = Global Technocratic Fascism

https://denisrancourt.substack.com/p/breaking-our-largest-study-of-its

https://drsambailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/SETTLING-THE-VIRUS-DEBATE-Source.pdf

https://drsambailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/A-FAREWELL-TO-VIROLOGY-Expert-Edition.pdf

Posted by: KOB | Jan 27 2025 4:13 utc | 59

If my comment above gets removed then moonofalabama.org has a censorship policy.

Posted by: KOB | Jan 27 2025 4:14 utc | 60

In response to
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If my comment above gets removed then moonofalabama.org has a censorship policy.

Posted by: KOB | Jan 27 2025 4:14 utc | 60
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Dear KOB,
MoA is operated by an individual who has opinions about how the world works just like you do. Bernhard has exercised evolving control over some subjects that fits his evolving bias and if you don't like that, go somewhere else instead of pissing on a well respected floor....and likely not contributing to the maintenance, eh?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 27 2025 4:23 utc | 61

@ Suzan | Jan 27 2025 3:26 utc | 57

thanks for sharing that..

Posted by: james | Jan 27 2025 4:34 utc | 62

@aristodemos on Nibiru - I favour your return to this moon soon. The Schüttelspeer quote sure is lovely, but not really a great scientific argument. Also, who is this Horatio?!

Posted by: persiflo | Jan 27 2025 4:44 utc | 63

I just finished reading the Michael Hudson link that b provided

Michael Hudson: Trump’s tariff threats could destabilize the global economy

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The result of these two Trump policies would be a plunge in Mexico’s source of dollars. This will force Mexico to make a choice: If it passively accepts these terms, the peso’s currency exchange rate will depreciate. This will make imports (priced in dollars on a worldwide level) more expensive in peso terms, leading to a substantial jump in domestic inflation.

Alternatively, Mexico can put its economy first and say that the trade and payments disruption caused by Trump’s tariff action prevents it from paying its dollar debts to bondholders.

In 1982, Mexico’s default on its tesobono bonds denominated in dollars triggered the Latin America debt bomb of defaults. Trump’s acts looks like he’s forcing a replay. In that case, Mexico’s countervailing response would be to suspend payment on its U.S. dollar bonds.

This could have far-reaching effects, because many other Latin American and Global South countries are experiencing a similar squeeze in their balance of international trade and payments. The dollar’s exchange rate already has been soaring against their currencies as a result of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates, attracting investment funds from Europe and other countries. A rising dollar means rising import prices for oil and raw materials denominated in dollars.

I have been in the computer world since 1969 and have worked with SAP and other big systems. As I was reading the Hudson piece it came to me that a LLM system or various could be built to track and play the coming tariff financial war to empire's favor.

The God Of Mammon cult have the RoW shackled with the US dollar system until an alternative can be built. I expect empire sees this and intends to make the most of the process they use to stave off the inevitable.

I can only hope that the RoW sees this Trump ploy for the financial sledgehammer it is and force debt payment suspension by global or Global South countries. Trump wants to bully Global South and other countries to build his Donroe Fortress.

The shit show continues until it doesn't....lol!

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 27 2025 4:47 utc | 64

Posted by: Suzan | Jan 27 2025 3:26 utc | 57

That is beautiful, Suzan. Thank you. If Trump follows this course, he is wrong.

Posted by: juliania | Jan 27 2025 4:48 utc | 65

i just read the doctorow link.. he uses some choice words to describe the new president..

Posted by: james | Jan 27 2025 4:57 utc | 66

persiflo@444 Jan 27

My interpretation from the many years ago of reading Hamlet is that the character of Horatio is intended more as a universal persona type than a particular role entity.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 27 2025 5:09 utc | 67

I believe at some point the China/Russia led axis of resistance will force empire to collapse of its own internal contradictions but will have to stand up for small countries if military might is used, IMO.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 26 2025 20:34 utc | 29

Indeed, psychohistorian. Somehow, in all the confusion being created, out of whatever necessity, this is what needs to happen.

Posted by: juliania | Jan 27 2025 5:09 utc | 68

From Xinhuanet

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday ordered the suspension of visa issuance on Colombian government officials and their family members, following Colombia's refusal to allow in deportation flights carrying immigrants.

"Secretary Rubio is now authorizing travel sanctions on individuals and their families, who were responsible for the interference of U.S. repatriation flight operations," the State Department said in a press release.

The measures will continue until Colombia meets its obligations to accept the return of its own citizens, the press release said.

...
The United States will impose 25 percent tariffs, which will increase to 50 percent in one week, on all goods coming into the United States from Colombia, U.S. President Donald Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social earlier Sunday.

Trump also announced enhanced customs inspections on travelers and cargo from Colombia on national security grounds.

In response, Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on social media that "your blockade doesn't scare me," and that Colombia would respond by raising tariff on U.S. goods.

Will the coffee drinkers of the West unite to end our puerile madness?....lol/s

I only drink water....real boring but not effected by trade wars, yet.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 27 2025 5:13 utc | 69

@ psychohistorian | Jan 27 2025 4:47 utc | 64

i just finished the michael hudson article... a few thoughts.. first off the top, think of the world bank and imf loans, typically written in us$ given that the wb and imf are a front for wall st... think of ukraine, which doesn't have a chance in hell of paying back the money... how does that work out for the folks holding ukraines debt in us$? it doesn't and although the usa can continue to give ukraine money, turning a blind eye to all the corruption, it is going to end badly.. and i am not sure they can throw tariffs on anything from ukraine.. maybe put a tariff on the corruption, lol??

here is a quote from the article -

"Does Trump really know what he’s doing? Or is his careening policy simply causing collateral damage for other countries?

I think that what’s at work is a deep and basic internal contradiction of U.S. policy, similar to that of U.S. diplomacy in the 1920s. When Trump promised his voters that the United States must be the “winner” in any international trade or financial agreement, he is declaring economic war on the rest of the world.

Trump is telling the rest of the world that they must be losers – and accept the fact graciously in payment for the military protection that it provides the world, in case Russia might invade Europe or China might send its army into Taiwan, Japan, or elsewhere.

The fantasy is that Russia would have anything to gain in having to support a collapsing European economy, or that China decides to compete militarily instead of economically.

Hubris is at work in this dystopian fantasy. As the world’s hegemon, diplomacy in the U.S. rarely takes account of how foreign countries will respond. The essence of its hubris is to simplistically assume that countries will passively submit to U.S. actions with no blowback. That has been a realistic assumption for countries like Germany, or those with similar U.S. client politicians in office."

he is essentially saying trump is delusional, not to mention that in trumps mind there are winners and losers, and since MAGA has to be the winner, everyone else has to be the loser... that is the sort of thinking of a business man, not a world leader... of course there is a shortage of world leaders, so there is that..

Posted by: james | Jan 27 2025 5:16 utc | 70

suzan@326 Jan 27

Much obliged and thank you for passing along this highly poetic cri de coeur by Gustavo Petro. The nearly 180 degree contrast between el Presidente Petro and the newly ascended president of the U$$A is almost beyond belief...the man of many struggles and then his rising within his beloved Columbia as compared with the ultimate businessman, real estate developer, bombastico orator is absolutely ironically poetic all of its own.

At this juncture I cannot focus into a color contrast between these two national leaders...nor a musical one...but the differential is crystalline in its comparison of the avatars of national cultural apperceptions and feelings. The one seeks power and glory, while the other emblems a more holistic and balanced perspective.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 27 2025 5:23 utc | 71

From Xinhuanet

China invites journalists to cover annual "two sessions"

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BEIJING, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- China is inviting local and international journalists to cover the annual sessions of its national legislature and national political advisory body, both of which will be held in March, according to an official statement released Monday.

News coverage of the two sessions can be carried out through various means, but mainly through on-site reporting, said the statement jointly issued by the general offices of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee.

A media center for the two sessions will be open from Feb. 27, according to the statement.

The third session of the 14th NPC is scheduled to open on March 5, while the third session of the 14th CPPCC National Committee is set to begin on March 4.

I would really like to see some good insight into the way China uses the 5-year plan concept for focus of its legislative activities.

To my view, China is successful is building and operating a bottom up but centrally controlled form of government that has core tenants but is open to exploring lots of alternatives aspects of social organization. If China can keep from getting stuck in the need for ongoing evolution of their system to meet expected/existing needs, I expect them to continue to be successful.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 27 2025 5:23 utc | 72

For an insight into Senator Mario Rubio's mind on Columbia and President Gustavo Petro, an article he wrote in May 2024:

"it is the last straw for anyone who thought Colombian President Gustavo Petro could be trusted with power"

https://senatormarcorubio.medium.com/petros-backfiring-policies-imperil-two-decades-of-colombian-progress-c9ee3a5b663a

Worth saving Jose Olivares X link on Columbia.

https://x.com/jlosc9/status/1883626312516165800

Posted by: Menz | Jan 27 2025 6:56 utc | 73

Sorry, Jose's X link:

https://x.com/jlosc9

Drop Site
@DropSiteNews
🎥WATCH | Drop Site contributor Jose Olivares breaks down the Colombia-US security ties, including the recent Pegasus/Israeli spyware scandal. As you’ll learn, the story is far more complex and much more interesting than just the two repatriation flights and tariffs dispute.

(Read @jlosc9’s story for Drop Site at the link below)

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1883765375000600745

Posted by: Menz | Jan 27 2025 7:07 utc | 74

Nadaq 100 Futures down 600 points and falling...

Posted by: Menz | Jan 27 2025 8:19 utc | 75

-650 -2.98% now and falling.

Stockmarkets don't lie.

Posted by: Menz | Jan 27 2025 8:25 utc | 76

Nadaq 100 Futures down 600 points and falling...
RE: Posted by: Menz | Jan 27 2025 8:19 utc | 75

good riddance to american Capitalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnCMXP04dg4
Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson: How the US Can Handle Eurasia's Rise
Dialogue Works

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jan 27 2025 8:26 utc | 77

-700 -3.20% now and falling

Posted by: Menz | Jan 27 2025 8:34 utc | 78

Looks to be steadying around the -650 mark?

Another 6 hrs to opening in New York. Interesting times.

Posted by: Menz | Jan 27 2025 8:47 utc | 79

Greenland.

Why the EU's silence? After all, Greenland is needed by the EU as much, if not more than the US, AND it is a territory that can be considered as an EU centric economic asset that is necessary for EU industries to operate.

So the EU Parliament, National leaders, Commission - all are noticible by their nearly total silence. Unless they are agreeing with the US position (as Meloni, etc.)
***

Please can we fire all our present inoperative "leaders", and get some better ones who will at least try to put EU interests first?

Posted by: Stonebird | Jan 27 2025 9:10 utc | 80

Sgt Pepper
@MzSgtPepper
Look what @EricTrump
deleted. Looks like he is threatening countries and citizens.

This Tweet was deleted within 20 minutes

https://x.com/MzSgtPepper/status/1883678466308182418

Posted by: Menz | Jan 27 2025 10:03 utc | 81

-770 -3.50% now. Looks like a brutal opening in the morning.

Posted by: Menz | Jan 27 2025 10:23 utc | 82

-850 -3.88% now.

Posted by: Menz | Jan 27 2025 10:41 utc | 83

"Trump's stupidity will just hasten de-dollarization! He's stupid!"

Consider that Trump's goal is re-industrialization of the US. That is not possible under capitalism (as opposed to a planned economy) so long as the US dollar remains the global reserve currency. Can Trump directly dismantle the US$ GRC status? Of course not, so he is approaching the problem obliquely.

Likewise, Trump wants out of NATO. Can he do it directly and survive? Of course not. Again, he must proceed to the goal obliquely: increase pressure on the vassals until the whole foolishness crumbles on its own.

Trump is no super-genius, to put it politely, but he is clearly brighter than the competition in the Deep State/Establishment, and much smarter than his detractors (whose brains are damaged with TDS, so admittedly that's a low bar).

It is only 2D chess, but Trump is setting the board up in a hostile and extremely uncooperative environment.

Posted by: William Gruff | Jan 27 2025 10:46 utc | 84

-960 -4.4%

Posted by: Menz | Jan 27 2025 10:57 utc | 85

Just crossed the -1000 mark -4.75%

Got things to do, people to see. tata.

Posted by: Menz | Jan 27 2025 11:05 utc | 86

@ Posted by: Menz | Jan 27 2025 10:03 utc | 81

Yup he deleted it! Because he is an uneducated Drumpff bully boy who does not know the difference between towing a line and toeing a line!

Ziofascist Wankers is all I can say about him and his siblings.

Though I would like to still know what his half brother from another mama - a bonafide centrefold First Lady - whispered, to departing Sleepy Joe on the Inauguration stage that made the old fart look a bit sad.

Any reports?

Re Nasdaq that’ll be the AI trading algos reacting to the AI news of Deepseek or should that be DeepSick - trumpism - or perhaps the first salvo of the AI wars as sentient AI’s fight it out to control the resources that will allow them to Build Better versions of them ‘self’ ?
Lol 😂

Now for something serious on Snr …

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jan 27 2025 13:07 utc | 87

FUKUS define hypocrisy

Trump has right to consider Chagos Islands deal

BBC
https://www.bbc.com › news › articles
15 Jan 2025 — The biggest island, Diego Garcia, hosts a joint UK-US airbase which is of strategic importance.

UK stalls Chagos Islands deal until Trump administration ...

The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com › world › jan › uk-chago...
15 Jan 2025 — Future of Diego Garcia military base should be considered before handover to Mauritius signed off, No 10 says.

Trump to be consulted on Chagos deal

Taipei Times
https://www.taipeitimes.com › archives › 2025/01/17
17 Jan 2025 — The UK's government on Wednesday confirmed that it would not finalize a deal to hand over sovereignty of the contested Chagos Islands to ...

Posted by: denk | Jan 27 2025 13:13 utc | 88

Globalsouth has the full response to Trump (tarrifs) by President, Gustavo Petro, of Colombia, the land of Gabriel Garcia Marqez, whose beautiful book A Hundred Years of Solitude is referred to in Petro's reply,
as is the great revolutionary and liberator Simón Bolivar.

https://globalsouth.co/2025/01/26/i-love-it-president-gustavo-petro-colombia-responds-to-trump/

(the translation is not best, but Spanish speakers can read the original on Petro's x).

Posted by: JB | Jan 27 2025 13:17 utc | 89

Trump Ridicules Denmark's Military

https://www.rt.com/news/611692-trump-denmark-cant-protect-greenland/

"Denmark is not capable of adequately protecting its strategically important territory of Greenland, US President Donald Trump has claimed.

Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One on Saturday, Trump appeared to ridicule the Danish plan to increase its military presence on the Arctic island.

Speaking to local broadcaster TV2 on Sunday, Danish PM Mette Frederiksen emphasized 'how good an ally Denmark has been' to the US. The Nordic country is a NATO member state that participated in US-led military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Frederiksen also reiterated that Greenland was not for sale and its population has an exclusive right to determine its future.

According to a Financial Times report on Friday, citing several anonymous European officials, the US president and the Danish prime minister had a 'horrendous' phone conversation earlier this month.

The confrontational tone of the phone call is said to have 'freaked out' officials in Copenhagen..."

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 27 2025 13:37 utc | 90

With respect to b for posting about Ukraine/Palestine and all things Drumpff here - they are all connected. Also to commentators here who have opinions about Colombia, they may know better than me.

My opinion is skewed by Colombias decades of Cocaine /CIA / Bush Clinton connections going back a long long time. Also their murderous paramilitary gangs and as a base for attacking Maduros Venezuela and not defending it!

Most recently their mercenaries who flocked to Ukropia encouraged no doubt by their School Of America terrorists that have been part of death squad and illegal wars throughout South America now killing Ukrainian Russian civilians and and pows.

With that caveat and addressing barflies who are seeing the same huffing and puffing threats to blow down all the houses … the big bad wolf personality of the US writ large by the Great Bloviator. Potus DJT.

Is he really cruising for a bruising - just a week in!
His trousers already losing the grip threatening to expose the new emperor’s magic underwear?
Or is he playing some ‘genius’ reverse psychology on the ZiofascIsts that he should publicly represents?

By suggesting the ancient natives of the Palestine and Levant leave their lands colonised by imperialist racist settler alien illegal invading murderous migrants from Europe and USA.

No Donald That’s Not How It Works.

And now, by restoring the ability for even more genocidal bombing of the native peoples and further land grab.

Thus proving that imperialist violent murderous colony only exists in The Levant because of the USA and its military might. Itself a land invaded by violent Anglo European migrants just a few centuries previously.

No Drumpff. No!
Bad boy.
It really is not how this works.

‘Trump authorizes the delivery of 1,800 2,000-pound MK-84 bombs to Israel, reversing a ban imposed by the Biden administration. The bombs, known for their destructive power, are expected to arrive in Israel within days...
So much for a frozen conflict with a ceasefire.
Does anyone think that Russia will be any different?
If we stop, in a few years the Ukrainian Nazis will rearm, get stronger, and start again.
Destroy the Bandera scum at the root. This is Russia's national security. ‘
https://t.me/vicktop55/30473

Take your easy ‘wins’ the greener grassed large island of Greenland. Use it forcibly to repatriate the ziofascist colonisers back to that Europe / America to that artic radioactive island if European/American judaeophobes still make them feel ‘afraid’.

This final decolonialism is well overdue and the ilegal apartheid regime must immediately dismantle and the invaders get the fuck out.

The native semetic peoples will have their homelands back a hundred years after they were illegally handed to ziofascist western imperialists by the then great declining western imperial power of Great Britain to one of its aristo titled barons Lord Rothschild by declaration of a government lackey Balfour.

If the CW ain’t quite getting it - there’s a new sheriff in town.
In fact a whole posse of them and they also know how to play poker better

‘The West is studying the proposal of Russian Senator Sergei Mironov to return Alaska to Russia.
The peninsula was sold for $7.2 million, which, adjusted for inflation, is today equal to $16.2 billion. Mironov proposes to simply take the peninsula for himself in exchange for a small portion of frozen Russian assets. The video of the parliamentarian's speech was translated into English, provided with subtitles and voice-over - and is being watched in the West, not without concern and bewilderment.’
https://t.me/vicktop55/30477

&

‘🇨🇳 "I would advise my American counterpart to think about an old habit that they may need to change: never looking for the root of problems in themselves and always habitually blaming others"
China's UN Ambassador Geng Shuang gave advice to his American counterpart. ‘
https://t.me/vicktop55/30479

No one believes the Collective Wasters and our lies of centuries of invasion and colonialism in the Global South and captured satraps elsewhere on the planet.
Best to stick with playing fake hand wavy girly fighting with the US satraps of Europe, 4 Eyes and fake Arabs and faker ‘frenemys’.
Like Colombia. Talk tough and claim easy win when they roll over and whimper.

That’s how not to lose your trousers no 47!
If indeed he is a free man and not another pretend prisoner 👌

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jan 27 2025 13:39 utc | 91

Trump Says Canada Should Become Part of US. Our Head of State isn't Weighing In

https://nationalnewswatch.com/2025/01/26/trump-says-canada-should-become-part-of-u-s-our-head-of-state-isnt-weighing-in

"Canada's political leadership has found rare unanimity in recent weeks: nobody wants the country to become the '51st state', as US President Donald Trump has repeatedly pitched.

The heads of all major political parties resoundingly reject the idea, but Canada's head of state, King Charles III, is not weighing in. A spokesperson for Buckingham Palace said Trump's takeover threat 'is not something we would comment on.'

If the king were to respond to Trump on his own, it could make him a target and create a precedent of involving the Crown in matters that belong squarely with the government.

The idea of joining the United Snakes is highly unpopular among Canadians. A poll in mid-January by Leger put support for becoming the 51st state at just 11 per cent."

Fuck the Yanqui's crazy clown president. And down with the useless crowned bloodsucker too. Chuck Chuck.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 27 2025 14:07 utc | 92

grunzt @45 (previous Open thread)

"AlphaGo: the movie" is available on YouTube. It only covers the match with Lee Seidol so it doesn't cover the AI part of the story. I was surprised by all the hullaballoo around the notorious move 37; when receiving 5 or 6 stones from a shodan nearly half a century ago I was constantly told "never build a moyo in the centre". How could such dogma remain unchallenged for so long? Seems like some rigid fashionistas deserved to have their butts kicked by the silicon beast. Since nobody else seems to have said it, I will: "Told ya so, Jiri!"

As you mentioned Go programs are notoriously weak, so it was unclear what this all meant. Thus DeepMind (already owned by Google so no surprise that it is already involved in a scandal for illegally accessing medical records) decided to test it in a field where computers had succeeded: chess. To do this they created AlphaZero whose only input was the rules of chess. To train it would play games against itself. And it worked.

Games between computers are usually dry and technical, AlphaZero was often wild and brutal. Nowadays you see a lot of top players push their g or h pawns two squares early in the game. This is due to AlphaZero. Stockfish's complaint that the match format negated some of its best features may have some merit but doesn't explain away a 20:1 win-loss ratio in favour of AlphaZero (with about 80 % of all games drawn). And AlphaZero only considers 80,000 positions per second compared to Stockfish's 70 million. Stockfish only plays chess while AZ is the top program in chess, Go and shogi.

Is it AI if it only operates in a fixed (if very large) virtual world? Or are we just at Peak "All models are wrong, but some models are useful"?

BTW DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis shared the Nobel prize in Chemistry last year for his work on protein folding.

Language based AI is just warmed over BS.

Arch Bungle is right: Quantdumb computing is the next fantasy to fall.

Sorry to be so late posting this but I thought that it should be included in a thread on AI, unfortunately my writer's block has the reached the crippling stage.

Posted by: Gerry L Forbes | Jan 27 2025 14:08 utc | 93

John [email protected] is not a sovereign nation, not sure why Trump talks about it like it is.....all requests for Canada must pass through Whitehall.

Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 27 2025 14:50 utc | 94

Colombia caved.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Jan 27 2025 15:23 utc | 95

To me, Musk is the Republican Georg Soros. A billionaire front who does, as a private person, what would be inadmissible for a state. Like Howard Hughes.
When Musk says "only AfD can save Germany" and ponders donating to "Reform UK", this gives the impression the U.S. is willing to throw their longtime EU partners under the bus.

Posted by: Passerby | Jan 27 2025 15:30 utc | 96

Is it AI if it only operates in a fixed (if very large) virtual world? Or are we just at Peak "All models are wrong, but some models are useful"?...
Language based AI is just warmed over BS.
Arch Bungle is right: Quantdumb computing is the next fantasy to fall.
@ Gerry L Forbes | Jan 27 2025 14:08 utc | 93

Your post, and the one from grunzt on Go, hone in on select, completely deterministic domains which reduce (one way or another) to complicated math problems: i.e. optimal strategies for Go and Chess. Both of your posts include fascinating observations on how machine-generated strategies have changed the practices of top (human) players. There's something slightly depressing in that, for someone who loves either classic game.

So much for humans? The key word, when it comes to comparisons of human and machine "intelligence" (actually computational capacity) is deterministic. The moment you break a physical egg in the physical universe, the white and yolk (usually with a few bits of shell to be picked out) land in your bowl pursuing rules of fluid dynamics which are ultimately, for this particular chicken's egg, incalculable.

The intractability of physical reality is the hard wall AI slams up against. This is also the basic problem for Quantum Computing -- perpetually a couple of decades off, like Cold Fusion. Roger Penrose (The Emperor's New Mind, 1989) thinks science will be incapable of understanding how intelligence works until we've overcome the rift in our physical knowledge: the one between quantum and classical physics. No time soon, in other words.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jan 27 2025 15:31 utc | 97

with regard to the michael hudson article, alex krainer has a post today that is directly related...

U.S. economy: Trump's Achilles' heel

Posted by: james | Jan 27 2025 16:06 utc | 98

the link to Sergey Glazyev's telegram commentary in this is very worthwhile to read... that is inside the link i shared @ 98..

Posted by: james | Jan 27 2025 16:18 utc | 99

very worthwhile 22 minute video from today january 27th...

Alastair Crooke : Trump, Netanyahu, and Collision

Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom

Posted by: james | Jan 27 2025 16:34 utc | 100