Soros, lining his puppet NGO’s up against the Orange Yankee Zionist POTUS, Trump.
“A group of NGOs linked to billionaire George Soros has placed the US on a watchlist of “countries with faltering civic freedoms,” citing executive orders signed by President Donald Trump since he assumed office in January.
According to the South African-based CIVICUS, the Trump administration has launched an “assault on democratic norms and global cooperation.”
“[The] United States, once a global champion of democracy and human rights, joins the first 2025 watchlist along with Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan, and Serbia,” the organization said in a statement on Monday.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 13 2025 14:55 utc | 3

Is it reasonable to assume that Trump and gangs are planning something with respect to amerikkkan debts? IMHO, the descriptions about Mar-a-Lago Accord would not come out of thin air. Nixon did it once to decouple usd from gold to rob the world. There is no low limit for what amerikkka can and will do. amerikkkan vassals seem the low-hanging fruits to grab first for resurrecting amerikkka for a while (a good example is Taiwan’s TSMC). But that would not last forever. The next would be everyone else. What are the possible ramifications if amerikkka does go what is described about the Mar-a-Lago Accord?

Posted by: LuRenJia | Mar 13 2025 15:01 utc | 5

EU bigwigs up their plans – to deport more folk from Europe.
“The European Commission has formally proposed to harmonize deportation rules across the EU. The current regulations, which vary by state, allow those who have been denied the right to remain in the bloc lawfully to exploit the system, resulting in a 20% deportation rate.
President Ursula von der Leyen has labeled the figure “by far, too low.”
The proposed rules “will ensure that those who have no right to stay in the EU are actually returned” to their countries of origin, EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration, Magnus Brunner, has claimed.
The 87-page document unveiled on Tuesday will require immigrants to cooperate with authorities, permit the extended detention of asylum seekers, and introduce the mutual recognition of deportation orders among member states.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 13 2025 15:01 utc | 7

Merkel kept it quiet – the BND has a branch office in Washington – the Yanks were behind the release of the Coronavirus – and no doubt the BND were told to keep the outbreak quiet.
“Germany’s foreign intelligence agency (BND) obtained evidence in the early days of the pandemic that convinced it that Covid-19 originated in a laboratory, Die Zeit and Sueddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) newspapers reported on Wednesday. Berlin decided to keep the conclusion secret out of fear of a possible mistake and political fallout, the media outlets said, citing their own investigation.
The BND dispatched a team of specialists to investigate the origins of the virus in the early weeks of 2020, the report said. They focused on Chinese government agencies and scientific institutions, including the Wuhan laboratory, where they reportedly discovered documents the German media describe as “fascinating and explosive.”
The German intelligence agency’s findings reportedly included data on experiments with coronaviruses, as well as a series of unpublished studies from 2019 to 2020, including those dealing with effects of coronaviruses on the human brain.
“The material suggests that an unusually large amount of knowledge about the supposedly novel virus was available in Wuhan at an unusually early stage,” Die Zeit reported.
The materials were reportedly evaluated by a team of BND analysts led by a virologist. The team cross-referenced the data with publicly available studies and materials obtained from other nations and concluded “with 80 to 95% certainty” that Covid “likely originated in a Chinese laboratory.” ”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 13 2025 15:06 utc | 9

When your adversaries fight, let them.
Posted by: too scents | Mar 13 2025 14:57 utc | 3
Yep, that’s the only upside to all of this – they finally start to fight themselves. Oh, plus the popcorn & entertainment of course 🙂

Posted by: Zet | Mar 13 2025 15:24 utc | 11

I am seeing bifurcation of markets today between US ones and gold. I think if this persists it will be the canary in the coal mine of impending economic crash…..just what Trump wants……and needs to do some things…eh?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 13 2025 15:39 utc | 13

just what Trump wants
Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 13 2025 15:39 utc | 12
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Captain Ahab wanted the Whale. How did that work out for him?

Posted by: too scents | Mar 13 2025 15:50 utc | 15

Apologies for my duplicate references to Yves’ collapse narrative. (I should wait a half-hour after posting hyperlinks around here, before trying again.) Some comments accompanying that NakedCapitalism article are superb. We see convergence of consciousness, from several directions, independently arriving at the conclusion that it only wastes everyone’s time to argue with idiots. From a totally different thread, today:

Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed – in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical – and when facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack. For that reason, greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid person than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison (1945)

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Mar 13 2025 16:36 utc | 17

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 13 2025 15:39 utc | 12
I am seeing bifurcation of markets today between US ones and gold. I think if this persists it will be the canary in the coal mine of impending economic crash…..just what Trump wants……and needs to do some things…eh?
<=Maybe Trump will put the USD on the oil standard? gold is Biden stuff. 1 bbl Oil = $100 USD.. market to fall to 1954 levels, when gold = $32/ oz, EPA gutted, government downsized, millions of ideologically subscribed forced to leave their ivory towers and return to real work. I bet Soros does not have enough parachutes to go around? IMO, Wall Street is an expression of the success of the deep state at the expense of voting America, the deep state is a expression of the forces that manage, control and depend on the City of London.. .... the city of London controls Israel.. Israel controls the leadership of the USA.. Looks to me like Trump is shutting down that control loop..

Posted by: snake | Mar 13 2025 16:51 utc | 19

@Aleph_Null | Mar 13 2025 16:36 utc | 17
Thanks for that little gem.

Posted by: Don Firineach | Mar 13 2025 16:58 utc | 21

@Posted by: Aleph_Null | Mar 13 2025 14:44 utc | 1
Yves is trapped in her liberal world view, rather than seeing Trump as just a courtier of the capitalist oligarchy and the media as a tool of the same capitalist oligarchy. Within that oligarchy there are factions, the major ones being the more international-oriented capital (the Open Door free trade types who want the Empire maintained as it supports their foreign profits, their courtiers are the Dems and RINOs) and a national oriented capital (with profits directly affected affected by the state of the national economy, their courtiers are Trump and his coalition).
The Open Door group ruled since the mid-1930s and it was they that coalesced in the 1970s to implement neoliberalism as their profit rates fell and capitalism was somewhat challenged in the early 1970s. The national capital group has seen the domestic economy gutted through “globalization” and therefore became more and more vociferous and politically active. A chunk of the Open Door group also woke up to the threat of China and the damage that they had caused to the fundamental underpinnings of the domestic US that supports the Empire.
The two have been in very open limited war since the mid-2010s, with the Open Door group attempting repeatedly to smash Trump. They disabled his first presidency through “Russia, Russia, Russia” and other BS. They quite possibly stole the 2020 election, given the massive jump in overall votes which disappeared in 2024. With some of them aligning somewhat with Trump’s policies of US domestic restoration / aggression toward China / making the vassals pay more for Empire he was allowed to win in 2024.
Very importantly, it was obvious that the Open Door courtiers in the Dems, RINOs and media became quite quiescent towards Trump recently, following orders. Some turning over of the administrative courtier class was also required given the new oligarch balance of power and changed aims (e.g. the Ukrainian ideologues needed to be flushed), hence the mass staffing changes and evisceration of USAID/NED. The budget full of new tax cuts and social spending cuts was also fine, as is DOGE that will not touch any oligarch-feeding spending or defence spending.
But the problem is that the sheer volatility of Trump is causing economic and financial issues, so I am sure that Trump has been advized to cool this down. To make sure he gets the message the oligarchy allow their media vassals to start repeating the same message. The organ grinder is telling the monkey to not be so erratic and harming the organ grinder’s business. That’s all that is happening, no big deal. Just another day in the US.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Mar 13 2025 17:28 utc | 23

“Personnel is Policy” goes the saying, and the appointment of Hegseth to be Secretary of Defence supports the thesis of a new veneration for the armed services, even when they commit obvious war crimes, an increased use of that military over softer means (e.g. USAID and NED), the pushing of a Christian Nationalism to reinvigorate armed services recruitment and support, continuing open support of whatever the Zionist regime does, and ideologically-driven aggression toward the “Godless Commies” of the Communist Party of China.
Hegseth himself is an utterly fake “warrior” and his personal actions in no way align with the teachings of Christ and he is also a highly volatile alcoholic. Because of this he may not last that long, but he would then simply be replaced with a somewhat less volatile version. I detail the reality of Pete Hegseth in this piece Pete Hegseth: Crusader Against Godless Commies and Islam!

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Mar 13 2025 17:38 utc | 25

@Posted by: too scents | Mar 13 2025 17:34 utc | 24
Thanks for that, Emanuel scares me a hell of a lot more than Trump as he is way more intelligent and competent in his evilness. His father was born in Israel and was a member of the terrorist Irgun! Hopefully, his Jewish Zionist background should be utterly toxic to his candidacy within the Democratic Party – but you never know. Unconditional support for the Zionist genocide is what brought down Harris. He was the dark force behind the Clinton two terms.
The Zionist Jewish and Zionist Christian communities are slowly dying off (literally) as they have a much lesser draw within the younger generations. For US Jews below 50, a majority are non-Zionist. Its the non-Zionist churches that are actually holding their own or growing. By 2035 their power within the US should be significantly reduced, but by a late 2027 election? Of course the media would go crazy calling any criticism of Emanuel anti-semitism.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Mar 13 2025 17:50 utc | 27

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 13 2025 14:52 utc | 2
My impression of the UK, at present, is that it is coming to resemble the USSR. As a culture it has been in steep decline in part due to political correctness and censorship and in part because of the dramatic takeover of both major parties by the City of London and MI5/6. Everything appears to be about control from the top. Some people think that the whole Ukraine project was chiefly influenced by the UK since power is in fewer and fewer hands whereas in the USA power is more diffuse as we can see from the current power-struggle within Washington. So the UK being single minded can have more influence.

Posted by: Chris Cosmos | Mar 13 2025 18:13 utc | 29

@Posted by: Chris Cosmos | Mar 13 2025 18:13 utc | 29
More like the Russia of the 1990s, with a few uber-rich oligarchs and their courtiers while the rest of the population lived in misery. In 1993 Yelstin carried out a military coup, shelling the parliament building until they surrendered.
In the USSR the population was generally well looked after with respect to the essentials and the right to work, e.g. state rents were pegged at 3-4% of the average wage, local telephone calls free, basic foodstuffs cheap, health care free. Cultural events were also kept cheap and available to the average person. That only broke down from 1988 onwards as Gorbachev started to completely dismantle the Soviet system and the profiteers and hoarders grew stronger and stronger. It was only then that the shortages of the basics of life started.
A 1984 Australian documentary about the USSR, which was effectively cancelled as it wasn’t ideologically-blinded enough.
The Human Face of Russia (1984) – society and everyday life in the 1980s USSR

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Mar 13 2025 18:33 utc | 31

Of cource- it even can be illigal to criticize anything he will present. And if he chooses to give it a shot, the dems may have a nomination process but who will dare to confront him. Very scary.
Posted by: Paul from Norway | Mar 13 2025 18:47 utc | 32
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It’s almost certain that Gavin Newsom will also seek the 2028 nomination. Either of the two more or less guarantees a D defeat in the general election, because the great majority of likely American voters regards California and Chicago as dystopic.

Posted by: malenkov | Mar 13 2025 18:51 utc | 33

Posted by: malenkov | Mar 13 2025 18:51 utc | 33
“It’s almost certain that Gavin Newsom will also seek the 2028 nomination. Either of the two more or less guarantees a D defeat in the general election, because the great majority of likely American voters regards California and Chicago as dystopic.”
Thanks, but if Aipac decides that Rahm is the choosen one………..

Posted by: Paul from Norway | Mar 13 2025 18:56 utc | 35

Rahm Emanuel Is Gearing Up to Run for President
Posted by: too scents | Mar 13 2025 17:34 utc | 24
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Can you imagine having so little value for your life to want to come out of retirement to become President? He is a Zionist, right? Does that signal a loss of faith in the Trump/Vance direction?
His history of degeneracy would fit in 100% with today’s America.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 13 2025 19:19 utc | 37

Global Times (China)
Hopefully, Walmart will honor its words and work together to maintain a stable supply chain: Global Times editorial

. . .Last week, Bloomberg reported that due to the US imposing a 10 percent tariff on Chinese goods twice, Walmart demanded that its Chinese suppliers – including producers of kitchenware and clothing – accordingly lower their prices. This unilateral and sudden demand for price cuts may violate the price clauses in commercial contracts, constituting a breach of contractual spirit. In the face of the US government’s unilateral tariffs against China, Walmart is also a victim; a more rational approach, however, would have been to engage in fair, reasonable, and amicable negotiations with Chinese suppliers to overcome difficulties together, rather than resorting to temporary price cuts aimed at shifting the entire tariff burden onto them. As a purchaser, Walmart’s actions have disrupted normal market order and may pose risks to the supply chain. The summoning of Walmart by the relevant Chinese authorities is intended both to safeguard the legal rights and interests of Chinese enterprises and to maintain a fair and just market environment. . .here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 13 2025 19:26 utc | 39

E (28).
Soros played his part in that one too – and he’s going after Orban from Hungary where he was born.
Calin Georgescu, has been illegally barred from running in the Romanian elections because – he wants Romania to remain neutral, he doesn’t want to aid Ukraine and I think he wants Romania out of Nato – but Nato has committed to building the largest military base in Europe in Romania – this base faces out into the Black sea, and its almost directly across from Russia’s military base at Sevastopol – so Georgescu had to go no matter what – so trumped charges of fraud etc were aimed at him – to force him out of the running – his final appeal has fallen on deaf ears – democracy in Romania is dead, the EU and Nato killed it – unless of course, the Romanian people rise up and take it back.
A few things Soros, and his Open Society Foundation are into.
Founder of Best for Britain, Institute for New Economic Thinking, International Crisis Group, Open Society Foundations, Project Syndicate
Member of “The Good Club”, Action Council for Peace in the Balkans, Council on Foreign Relations/Members 3, Democracy Alliance, Donald Trump/Conspiracy theories, European Council on Foreign Relations, International Crisis Group, Le Cercle, Munich Security Conference/Advisory Council, Open Society Foundations/Board, Refugees International/Board, Trilateral Commission
The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs – plays a big roll in subversion is Europe as well.
Note CIVICUS is in the list.
“Sponsor of Integrity Action, Thomson Reuters Foundation, CIVICUS, Westminster Foundation for Democracy, Atlantic Initiative, Kosovar Civil Society Foundation, Article 19, Global Witness, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, International Civil Society Action Network, International Civil Society Action Network, Institute for War and Peace Reporting, Article 36, Berghof Foundation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Royal United Services, Institute, SIPRI, World Federalist Movement, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Atlantic Council, International Commission of Jurists, The Carter Centre, Balkans Policy Research Group, BBC Media Action, Democratic Voice of Burma, Asian Network for Free Election, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Transparency International, Ukraine Crisis Media Center, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, Clinton Foundation, Norwegian People’s Aid, PRIO, NUPI, Center for Global Development, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, European Stability Initiative, European Platform for Democratic Elections
“A significant donor to NGOs and planning organizations. Many of the recipients dovetail with NATO objectives like regime changes and controlling the narrative.”
https://www.wikispooks.com/wiki/Norway/Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 13 2025 19:43 utc | 41

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Mar 13 2025 17:28 utc | 23 More geopolitics versus Marxism. Against geopolitics, Marxism says, first, imperialism is not a policy, it is a way of capitalist life. Second, it says bank capital and industrial capital, are now fused in a highly concentrated monopoly capitalism, aka imperialism. Third, disagreements over tactics are not disagreements over strategy, and even more important, such debates are not class struggle. There is no national capital in an imperialist country. Fourth, a bourgeois democracy is not a monarchy and there are therefore no literal courtiers at all. That’s just rhetoric. But even as rhetoric it is incompetent, because being rich means you are not a courtier, you’re not a dependent but a noble…at least. Trump and the crew fancy they are kings so to speak, not courtiers. (Isn’t “Good to be the king” the literal word?)
The general incompetence of this is nicely illustrated by the Open Door tag for this imaginary group which supposedly took power in the mid Thirties. (Presumably this is meant to invoke the sinister implications of the New Deal, the American version of the Popular Front, therefore anathema to this geopolitician.) The truth is of course that the so-called Open Door group took power decades earlier, when the US first aspired to imperialism. See https://www.britannica.com/event/Open-Door-policy And that was entirely compatible with so-called national capitalists, complete with protective tariffs.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Mar 13 2025 19:55 utc | 43

One of the Wests supposed bad guys country – is opening its doors, for more people to walk through – with less red tape involved – it might make a good holiday destination.
“A spokesperson from China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced today that the country has waived visa requirements for 38 countries and increased the transit visa exemption period for 54 nations to 240 hours.
According to Mao Ning, the MFA spokesperson, almost 20 million foreigners entered China without a visa last year, a 112% increase from the previous year. Of these, more than 3.39 million entered China via the unilateral visa exemption policy, an increase of 1,200% from the previous year.
China will take additional steps to make travelling to and staying in China easier and more convenient, according to Mao. For instance, visa appointments at any Chinese embassy or consulate are fully cancelled, and visitors can apply for a Chinese visa at any working hour. Additionally, China has made great efforts to facilitate cashless payments for international visitors.
According to Mao, many foreign friends said that China was a mystery before they came, but they became fans of China after they came.
She further noted that as spring comes and flowers bloom, China welcomes friends from all over the world to experience the beautiful, open and real China.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 13 2025 20:03 utc | 45

On the ardent Zionist and British PM Starmer, slashing the Welfare bill by at least £6 billion – is Britain a high welfare country, where they pay people too much not to work, meaning the government could save billions by slashing welfare – not according to not according to the OECD it isn’t.
https://nitter.poast.org/pic/orig/media%2FGl6EhdsXcAAYPe4.jpg
“As highlighted today by the think tank founded by John Maynard Keynes and others – the National Institute of Economic and Social Research – the poorest regions of the UK are now worse off than the poorest in countries such as Malta or Slovenia.”
https://nitter.poast.org/andyverity/status/1900104192204722495#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 13 2025 20:09 utc | 47

Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison (1945)
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Mar 13 2025 16:36 utc | 17

You were not born as you are now. Once you were very stupid. That quote is a funny joke, not a way to live.

Posted by: Rae | Mar 13 2025 20:50 utc | 49

I take the liberty to transfer a couple of my comments here, given news today of President Putin’s response to the Jedda document. These I made last night on the “Trump Opts for More War…” thread. The only replies of any note were from LoveDonbass (thank you, LoveDonbass). Two brief responses were not helpful as they were discourteous. So, since I have just seen a brief Duran post relaying that Putin’s response was as had been predicted in the link I was giving, here that post and my own thoughts are again:

“…Trump has zero leverage with the Russians. They do not trust him. They won’t make him look bad, but they will not take a bad deal that doesn’t satisfy the parents of martyrs who met with Putin last week.
America has no idea what this is like, but when you win a war, you get to dictate terms…”
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 13 2025 2:55 utc | 255
The Russians may not trust Trump, LD, but they ought to respect him, or his team at least. 82 hours is a considerable amount of time in which to craft a document of submission, (which I now think this was) and Mercouris has some observations in my post above that are rather telling on the subject of negotiating, who is going to be negotiating and why.
Russia, Putin and his team, will want the best – Ukraine is family. (I even wonder if they have already asked Trump to assist.) We already saw how Zelensky behaves when he himself tried to ‘negotiate’ in the Oval Office — would his own team be up to the task? Certainly there are big problems in approach that the Jedda US team had, as Mercouris points out — but the Russians might be grateful to have them doing the negotiating for a final surrender, rather than only the Ukrainians. I have no idea how such ought to happen, but perhaps the best outcome would be if the US supports Ukraine as something like a ‘friend of the court’, to in a small way make amends for its own responsibility.
Mercouris doesn’t think the Ukrainians should be present to the negotiations, which is a big change from his earlier belief that Trump should walk away from taking responsibility. He even poses the possibility of federalism for the final Ukraine, since Lavrov had mentioned this in the interview b links to that has been viewed by so many.
Now, that would be something!
posted by: juliania | Mar 13 2025 7:13 utc | 290

I will post my second comment next.

Posted by: juliania | Mar 13 2025 21:24 utc | 51

This will be my last – apologies for putting it last when chronologically it is the first of the three comments. “The last shall be first”— sounds Biblical:

I’ve just finished watching this Alexander Mercouris video,in which he carefully examines the text of the Jedda document (which he said took 85 hours to put together) and makes interesting observations, beginning at the timeline 32.36:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mz6-esnzeQ
I found it helpful. He makes many of the points b has also made, and his suggestions at the end of the video are ones I hope the US negotiators will make use of going forward.
Posted by: juliania | Mar 13 2025 6:06 utc | 284

Posted by: juliania | Mar 13 2025 22:05 utc | 53

Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 13 2025 20:05 utc | 46 Yes, primary and secondary education is directly under state control (with some degree of influence by local boards of education and local funding.) But I wrote “total state control” because the influence of federal funding is very impactful, especially given the vagaries of local funding. It is indirect but it is very real, especially in partially compensating some of the disparities in local funding. The use of property taxes, excess levies etc. means school districts can have very different levels of funding. Attacking the Department of Education is a way of putting a halt to, for instance, requiring that Title IX be obeyed in all projects that include federal funding. As I wrote, abolishing the Department of Education puts a stop to such. And such decentralization is a project to increase the influence of the rich. Again, this is not the same thing as the current Department of Education effectively erasing class distinctions. The impossibility of capitalism to turn everyone rich means that the business approach to education, which the Department of Education, has persistently taken (especially since Reagan’s infamous A Nation At Risk.)
It is not even strong evidence that the Department of Education is even set up in ways to properly serve the nation as a whole. It does not write curriculum, for instance. And it has done things quite evidently aimed at direct service to capital, such as “National Defense Student Loans,” later the semi-privatized Perkin Loans, since defunct I gather.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Mar 13 2025 23:07 utc | 55

With all eyes on Gaza and Ukraine, 2 South Korean F16s dropped 8 Mk82 bombs on an unsuspecting village close to the DMZ.
There are fatalities.
North Korea condemned the action and asked if they realize what would have happened if those bombs had landed North of the DMZ.

Posted by: Suresh | Mar 13 2025 23:50 utc | 57

Why so many lies easily disproven from Trump about his supposed reasons for his tariff/trade war?
Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 13 2025 18:54 utc | 34
Because no one ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the American public?

Posted by: drinky crow | Mar 14 2025 0:14 utc | 59

I don’t know this Yves person but Ron Paul has been credibly predicting economic collapse since the late 70s.
America’s unsustainable path started with the creation of the FED. It’s a miracle that things have made it this far, but that means the correction will hurt like hell, and potentially be fatal.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 14 2025 0:48 utc | 61

@Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 13 2025 15:06 utc | 9
Not this PsyOp and Genocide Denialism again…
https://drsambailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/A-FAREWELL-TO-VIROLOGY-Expert-Edition.pdf
https://denisrancourt.substack.com/p/breaking-our-largest-study-of-its

Posted by: KOB | Mar 14 2025 1:08 utc | 63

AIPAC deep-sixed Lt. Col Daniel Davis as Tuslsi’s #2 @ National Intelligence because he refused to call the genocide in Gaza anything other than a full-throated genocide.
Col Macgregor addressed this briefly w/ Judge Nap today (13 March.)
The matter arose during a Q & A on The Duran’s livestream today too.
Here’s hoping Lt. Col Davis addresses it himself soon.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 14 2025 1:22 utc | 65

“Why so many lies easily disproven from Trump about his supposed reasons for his tariff/trade war?
Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 13 2025 18:54 utc | 34”
Brain worms.

Posted by: lester | Mar 14 2025 1:30 utc | 67

@Aleph_Null re #17
‘Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice…’
Superb by Bonhoeffer. Good bit of it around unfortunately. Thanks for posting.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 14 2025 2:06 utc | 69

@Posted by: steven t johnson | Mar 13 2025 19:55 utc | 43
You seem to have a desperate need to intentionally misinterpret what I write, with a large chunk of pedantry thrown in. I of course used “courtier” not in the literal historical sense but as a device to show the real role of what includes both the “PMC” and senior politicians etc. Those that serve the oligarchy, which has the group power equal to a sovereign. Actual historical courtiers could get quite rich. With Trump we see the supposed assets but none of the liabilities. His desperate money-grubbing ways and need to have the ultra rich fund his campaign also speak to this. He is doing as instructed by his pay masters, hardly a “King”.
You are correct about the “Open Door” policy from the late 1800s, which was really to do with China. What I meant was the relaxation in tariffs from 1934 onwards under the other Roosevelt, with the free/freer trade wing of the oligarchy in ascendance. I never used the word “strategy” so I don’t know what you are getting at there. The oligarchy simply wants to continue to rule and make profit, different wings differ to degrees in how to achieve that. And it is certainly not class struggle, it is struggle within a class which is how I have represented it. The New Deal was never sinister and have never said it was, there you go putting words to my fingers.
The US very obviously has a national capitalist oligarchy, an independent capitalist class that dominates society. It achieved hegemony at home and with the scale of US resources was then able to gain hegemony over other nations capitalist classes. This can be seen in such things as the ownership in assets in the US (overwhelmingly by US citizens) and Europe etc. (very large holdings by US citizens) as pointed out by Sean Starrs, together with the work of van Apeldoorn and de Graaf with respect to the US. There is no “global capitalist elite” or “imperialist elite” independent of the nation state as put forward by some scholars. The claim does not stand up to empirical analysis.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Mar 14 2025 3:00 utc | 71

@Posted by: KOB | Mar 14 2025 1:16 utc | 64
The site doesn’t like links from the wayback machine, agreed about the incredible social disaster of the 1990s.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Mar 14 2025 3:03 utc | 73

(Satire)
US Scraps Steel Tariff After Remembering Steel Needed To Make Guns
March 13, 2025
Guns
Shutterstock/Chip Somodevilla
Donald Trump has moved swiftly to reverse tariffs on steel imports after supporters complained it would make guns unaffordable.
Panicked Trump supporters raised the alarm, saying the tariffs could add hundreds of dollars to their weekly gun shopping bill.
“The last thing we want is for Americans to be unable to afford everyday basics like a Glock 19 handgun. Donald trump needs to rethink this,” a MAGA spokesperson said.
The White House quickly backtracked, releasing a statement saying it would reverse the tariffs, and blamed a clerical error.
“We realise that while encouraging a local manufacturing industry is important, it is not as important as an American’s right to own an AR15,” the statement read.
https://theshovel.com.au/2025/03/13/us-scrap-steel-tariff-needed-to-make-guns/

Posted by: Menz | Mar 14 2025 3:21 utc | 75

I didn’t think that I could like Duterte more. What a hero.

Rodrigo Duterte meets ICC accusations head-on: ‘I will take responsibility’
The ex-Philippines president said in a video that he will continue to serve his country, and: “I told the police and military to just do their job and I will take responsibility. So here it is.”

https://x.com/RT_com/status/1900392223721873847
He is a small in stature Filipino who has more masculinity than anyone in the USG.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 14 2025 6:32 utc | 77

when both sides are
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 14 2025 6:41 utc | 78
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Why ignore the obvious trivial Class Analysis?
Since the ascent of Capitalism the conflict has always been the same: Proletariat vs. Bourgeoisie.
Apply some Class Consciousness and pick a side.

Posted by: too scents | Mar 14 2025 6:54 utc | 79

Posted by: too scents | Mar 14 2025 6:54 utc | 79
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I think that class analysis is Eurocentric, and so I don’t ascribe any “truth value” to it.
Show me how Class analysis rigorously applies to countries in the Global South TODAY, and I may come around.
The West is a Global minority.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 14 2025 7:33 utc | 81

too scents | Mar 14 2025 7:42 utc | 82
adding …

US swings behind TotalEnergies’ vast Mozambique gas project
Trump administration frees up $4.7bn loan to French company that was frozen since 2021
US President Donald Trump’s administration has unlocked almost $5bn in funding for a liquefied natural gas project by France’s TotalEnergies in Mozambique, potentially restarting work on one of Africa’s largest energy investments.
Mozambique’s minister for energy said on Thursday the US Export-Import Bank (Exim) had reapproved a $4.7bn loan for the project, originally granted in 2020 during Trump’s first presidency.
Work has been frozen since 2021, when TotalEnergies put its project on hold after Islamist insurgents killed civilians and workers in attacks near the site in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province.
In a statement on Thursday, Estevão Pale, Mozambique’s minister for energy, told the Financial Times it welcomed the decision by Exim, which would consolidate US leadership in development of a project that “will significantly help global energy security”.
and so on ==> https://www.ft.com/content/b4404ab3-40dd-41b4-b1c4-16cf8a5dfa93

Of course the FT is cheering on the rapacious colonial exploitation of Mozambique.

Posted by: too scents | Mar 14 2025 8:00 utc | 83

Drop Site
@DropSiteNews
Key Points From UN Security Council Briefing on Sudan Crisis, with Director of UNICEF:
➤ More than 30 million people in Sudan will need humanitarian assistance this year, with 16 million of them being children.
➤ Famine is currently impacting at least five regions in Sudan, with 1.3 million children under five living in these areas.
➤ 24.6 million people are acutely food insecure (IPC Phases 3–5).
➤ Over 70% of Sudan’s 1,400 community kitchens have closed due to funding shortages, affecting many of those in famine-stricken areas.
➤ UNICEF asked for $1 billion this year to assist 8.7 million vulnerable children.
Additional details on Zamzam Camp, one of the sites experiencing famine:
Around 500,000 displaced people in Zamzam camp (North Darfur) are experiencing severe food shortages, with families resorting to consuming animal feed.
➤ Essential medicines and therapeutic foods have run out in Zamzam camp, leading to rising malnutrition rates. Save the Children said it has just two days worth of medical supplies left in the Zamzam mobile health clinics
➤ Escalating violence in the region is making humanitarian access nearly impossible, putting vulnerable populations at even greater risk.
➤ Maintaining community kitchens and essential services will cost $12 million per month.
➤ The UN is calling for de-escalation, better access for aid, and increased international support to prevent further food crises and save lives.
VIDEO: RSF Fighters vowing to destroy everything, including half a million displaced people at the camp:
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1900424667887718465

Posted by: Menz | Mar 14 2025 8:51 utc | 85

Ahaaa … the crown Prince of Darkness is summoned back from his role as the king of Japan! Having disposed of the waverers there. The arch fixer, ziofascist hoodlum, Obamas ‘midwife’ Rahm!
The Sicago Mafiosi Rides Again!
What with UK’s equivalent Manndy already installed as the British Ambassador in DC – the Nazgûl are gathering to wrest the war making powers into their sly fascist bloody hands again.
They must have convinced themselves of the long term survival following their No Reverse Gear imperial ambitions.
DJT has already got his neocon appointees getting nailed as he disrupts their foreign policy plans … Hegseth, Rubio won’t last as long as walrus face and Pompus arse did.
Fingers crossed.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Mar 14 2025 10:01 utc | 87

Palestine Open Thread : 42 comments
Open (Neither Ukraine Nor Palestine) Thread : 88 comments
Ukraine Open Thread : 293 comments
This begs the question: is USAID again open for business?

Posted by: Passerby | Mar 14 2025 10:21 utc | 89

I am biased to believe that viruses are datapackages with sometimes warning messages emitted from somehow damaged cells to be received by other cells.
Sometimes the message could be to go suicidal and to save the material for reuse by the organism
With my bias I expect that viruses would sometimes be present when cells are damaged but that wouldnt
prove what caused the damage
I leave my own views there. And I compare the two search engines Google and Yandex
Search phrase
viruses occur in connection with disease but do viruses cause it?
Google didnt provide anything beyond the official narrative and my search phrase should generate some overtly sceptical views
Yandex
a sample of answer’s
1)Most viral infections do not result in disease, but a small number can cause extensive damage. This can be either because of the virus action against the cell, or the immune response to infection, and both can lead to symptoms. Indeed, symptoms can develop a number of ways from mild, self-limiting disease, to severe or lethal in the absence of treatment.
elearning.isrrt.org
What is a Virus? What are Viruses made up of ?
2)Viroliegy.com
viroliegy.com › the-infectious-myth
The Infectious Myth Busted Part 2: How are “Viruses”…
The so-called “viruses”, causing diseases, are not scientifically proven.
3)Principia-scientific.com
principia-scientific.com › are-viruses-the-cause-or
Are Viruses the Cause or Effect of Disease, or Are They…
Exogenous viruses can absolutely cause disease when the host is either weak, toxic or nutritionally deficient.
4)Rawschool.com
rawschool.com › disease
Disease
Viruses and bacteria cause disease about as much as trees cause the wind to blow. … Viral diseases such as smallpox, AIDS, HPS, the flu, and even the common cold are not caused by viruses, and are, therefore, not contagious.
5)21stcenturywire.com
21stcenturywire.com › do-viruses-cause
Do Viruses Cause Disease? – 21st Century Wire
Do viruses actually cause diseases? As it turns out, the answer to that question is not as clear-cut as many would like to believe.
6)Drrobertyoung.com
drrobertyoung.com › there-is-no-evidence-of-the
THERE IS NO EVIDENCE of the EXISTENCE for ANY VIRUS…
Virus), where the sample was not first combined in any way with any other genetic material, and where the Patient did not have any other disease such as Pneumonia, Influenza, etc; and
7)Theburningplatform.com
theburningplatform.com › if-viruses-dont
If viruses don’t exist, then how can we see them?
Yet the virus deniers cannot be moved off “the virus has to be isolated based on a layman’s definition of “isolate” or it doesn’t exist.” … I don’t know if viruses exist but something causes contagion.
8)Cancerwisdom.net
cancerwisdom.net › fake-germ-theory
The Truth About The Fake Germ Theory – Cancer Wisdom
Viruses are said to spread and cause diseases. … But that is no evidence that the virus causes the disease.
9)Drsambailey.com
drsambailey.com › why-nobody-can-find-a-virus
Why Nobody Can Find a Virus – Dr Sam Bailey
Most people blindly accept the medical establishment’s claims that viruses exist and can cause disease.
10)Blog.Nomorefakenews.com
blog.nomorefakenews.com › how-are
How are viruses discovered and identified in the first place?
Sidebar: If you’re trying to prove this virus is actually causing DISEASE in a person, you have to go further.
11)Thenakedscientists.com
thenakedscientists.com › articles › questions › how-do
How do viruses cause disease? | Science Questions
Viruses are also tiny: a flu virus is about 1/10,000’th of a millimetre across. … Also I urge you to include how to prevent viruses transmission and other possible ways of how viruses cause disease.
12)Greatmountainpublishing.com
greatmountainpublishing.com › Germ Theory of Diseases Spread by Viruses…
Germ Theory of Diseases Spread by Viruses Has Never…
The commonly accepted germ theory of illness spread by viruses is just a theory.
13)Advancedhealing.com
advancedhealing.com › lyme-disease-herpes-virus
Lyme disease, Herpes Virus Connection – Advanced Healing
Answer: Detecting herpes virus co-infection in Lyme disease cases can pose diagnostic challenges.
14)Elearning.Isrrt.org
elearning.isrrt.org › mod › book › tool › print › index
What is a Virus? What are Viruses made up of ?
4. How do Viruses Cause Disease? Most viral infections do not result in disease, but a small number can cause extensive damage.
END of sample from yandex
My Conclusion yandex produced more food for thought than Google in this particular case

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Mar 14 2025 11:59 utc | 91

@Posted by: dontflayme | Mar 14 2025 12:06 utc | 92
Correct, although in practise I think that the Christian Alawites may disagree.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Mar 14 2025 12:14 utc | 93

“Mods” and “Rockers” and the West bloody Comedy
Donald Likud Trump “is good for Christians” and Joe Caligula Biden is good for “the international order”
It is sad to be right: in this Judeo-Roman Empire (1963-) Pontius Pilatus and high priest Anas the elder will die of laughter.

Posted by: Simon | Mar 14 2025 13:00 utc | 95

Anyone following the latest on Taiwan? The words “national sovereignty” are used unambiguously and repeatedly:

On the afternoon of March 13, President Lai Ching-te convened a high-level national security meeting, following which he held a press conference. In remarks, President Lai introduced 17 major strategies to respond to five major national security and united front threats Taiwan now faces: China’s threat to national sovereignty…

https://english.president.gov.tw/News/6919

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Mar 14 2025 13:15 utc | 97

Posted by: too scents | Mar 14 2025 13:13 utc | 96
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Pointing out problems is easy. I care about solutions. Talking endlessly about problems is not the sort of energy I want to indulge.
Are those Russian/Korean/Chinese case studies forthcoming?

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 14 2025 13:21 utc | 99