Wise thoughts from juliania! I love the idea that memory must be secured, to carry the sacrifices of Russia into the next generations, where they can inspire belief and a sense of self-worth. Not unlike a reversal of Nemesis’ scapegoat theme, perhaps.
On virology: could it be that the problem is with the operational term causation? There appear (at least) two distinct factors involved, the presence of a contagion agent, and a sufficiently susceptible (weakened) person, so that transmission actually results in contagion and not just (as is surely often the case) in succesfull defense by a vital physique. To reduce “causation” on either one of those factors produces a fool’s errand.

Posted by: persiflo | Mar 14 2025 13:59 utc | 104

The origin of Maga…
wiki..

In “The White Man’s Burden”, Kipling encouraged the American annexation and colonisation of the Philippine Islands, a Pacific Ocean archipelago purchased in the three-month Spanish–American War (1898).[1] As an imperialist poet, Kipling exhorts the American reader and listener to take up the enterprise of empire yet warns about the personal costs faced, endured, and paid in building an empire;[1] nonetheless, American imperialists understood the phrase “the white man’s burden” to justify imperial conquest as a civilising mission that is ideologically related to the continental expansion philosophy of manifest destiny of the early 19th century.[2][3][4][5] With a central motif of the poem being the superiority of white men, it has long been criticised as a racist poem.[6]

Posted by: denk | Mar 14 2025 15:09 utc | 106

Denk (106)
It wasn’t just Kipling that praised British military actions abroad you had the likes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – (Sherlock Holmes creator) – commend British actions in Africa. The Brits interned thousands of Boers, including women and children – in what would be later sensationalised in WWII, as Concentration Camps – many died of disease and starvation.
“When the Boer War broke out, Doyle, who at forty-one was too old to enlist for combat, served as a surgeon near the South African front. He was knighted in 1902 for his historical account of the incident, The Great Boer War (1900), as well as for a pamphlet in which he defended the British action in the Boer War.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 14 2025 15:46 utc | 108

wiki….
https://tinyurl.com/4sfvw57p
The editorial cartoon “‘The White Man’s Burden’ (Apologies to Rudyard Kipling)” shows John Bull (Britain) and Uncle Sam (U.S.) delivering the world’s people of colour to civilization (Victor Gillam, Judge magazine, 1 April 1899). The people in the basket carried by Uncle Sam are labelled Cuba, Hawaii, Samoa, “Porto Rico”, and the Philippines, while the people in the basket carried by John Bull are labelled Zulu, China, India, “Soudan”, and Egypt.

Posted by: denk | Mar 14 2025 15:53 utc | 110

denk (110)
The baskets might have gone – but the message is the same, when the EU’s Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell – described Europe as an “Idyllic Garden, and the rest of the world as a “Jungle”
Borrell’s exact words.
“Europe is a garden. We have built a garden. Everything works. It is the best combination of political freedom, economic prosperity and social cohesion that the humankind has been able to build – the three things together,” Borrell said during the event.
“The rest of the world,” he went on, “is not exactly a garden. Most of the rest of the world is a jungle, and the jungle could invade the garden.”
“But he did not reject the figure of speech and instead doubled down on it, arguing the term jungle is an apt illustration of the lawlessness and disorder that currently rule world politics.”
Now the warmongering EU backs a genocide in Gaza, and its propping up a Neo-Nazi dictatorship in Ukraine.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 14 2025 16:05 utc | 112

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 14 2025 15:46 utc | 108
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The yanks took it up where the limey left off, with gutso..

author: Lone Wolf
I ran across this article on 4-25-05 and thought you might want to read it concerning “White Terror.”
“Never before in modern history has a country dominated the earth so totally as the United States does today.”
Excerpted from “Discovering America as It Is” by Valdas Anelauskas (Clarity Press 1999)
A Taste for EMPIRE
by Valdas Anelauskas
The capitalist logic of expansionism led U.S. elites to seek not just a continental but a global empire. Hence, even before the smoke had cleared at places like Wounded Knee, greedy eyes were being cast across the waters of the world as the country’s business and governmental leaders contemplated the acquisition of colonies in a variety of strategic locales. Given the climate, it was no overstatement when in 1898, on the eve of the Spanish-American war, the editors of the Washington Post opined that, “We are face-to-face with a strange destiny. The taste of Empire is in the mouth.” Or, as Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge more accurately framed the matter about three years earlier, “We have a record of conquest, colonization and expansion unequaled by any people in the Nineteenth century. We are not about to be curbed now.”

uncle shaM was born gangsta !

Posted by: denk | Mar 14 2025 16:14 utc | 114

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 14 2025 16:05 utc | 112
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Wang Yi

If every country were to put itself first, the ‘law of the jungle’ would return,

Er, problem is, there’s a garden out there !

Posted by: denk | Mar 14 2025 16:28 utc | 116

China’s shipbuilding capacity is 320 times US capacity, and the US doesn’t like it.
. . .from the National Law Review
The Office of the United States Trade Representative (“USTR”) announced its proposed actions under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 (“Section 301”), in connection with its Investigation of China’s Targeting of the Maritime, Logistics, and Shipbuilding Sectors for Dominance (the “Proposed Action”) on February 21, 2025.
In short, the Proposed Action includes a variety of recommended remedies, including (1) imposing significant port fees on Chinese vessel operators and other operators of Chinese-built vessels, and operators with orders for new vessels being built in Chinese yards, and (2) implementing requirements for mandatory use of U.S.-flag and U.S.-built vessels to carry fixed percentages (increased annually) of U.S. exports. . . here
. . .from World Shipping Council
The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has now proposed multiple recommendations, including a per port entry fee of up to $1.5M on Chinese-built vessels, and up to $1M per port entry fee on any vessel (Chinese built, or non-Chinese-built) to an operator that has a Chinese-built vessel in their fleet or orderbook. USTR also proposes a restriction on the ocean transportation of all U.S. exports, specifically the proposal would limit all US exports to a very small number of U.S.-flag/U.S.-built vessels. . . here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 14 2025 17:09 utc | 118

Let’s try again:
Cancel F-35 Contract. Canada Shouldn’t Spend Billions on US Fighter Jets
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/cancel-the-f35-fighter-jet-contract-canada-shouldnt-spend-billions-on-us-made-and-controlled-weapons-systems?source=direct_link&

Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 14 2025 17:20 utc | 120

F-35 Pilots spend a lot of time on trainers because flying this plane (when they do get up on the air) is mighty expensive and can cause health issues for pilots, so go with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV).

Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 14 2025 17:30 utc | 122

Canada, which has an affinity with the Neo-Nazi dictatorship of Ukraine – it is now sending a $100 million dollars in aid to Syria, which is ran by the murderous proscribed terrorist group (HTS) which is backed by the West.
Apparently most of the money is for aid, however the money will be sent through certain banks such as the Central Bank of Syria – who’d bet against the top tier of the Western backed proscribed murderous terrorist group (HTS) now becoming millionaires – I wouldn’t.
“We remain committed to ensuring that vital humanitarian aid reaches those in need. Minister Hussen announced $84 million in new funding for humanitarian assistance to respond to the crisis in Syria. This funding will support experienced humanitarian partners to deliver life-saving assistance, including food, protection services, water, sanitation and hygiene services, and health services. This brings Canada’s total humanitarian assistance to the Syria crisis this year to more than $100 million.
“To facilitate the delivery of assistance by the Government of Canada and other partners into Syria, Canada has issued a general permit under to the Special Economic Measures Permit Authorization Order that temporarily allows any person in Canada, as well as Canadians outside Canada, to carry out a specific set of activities and transactions in support of democratization, stabilization and the delivery of humanitarian assistance to and within Syria that are otherwise prohibited under the Special Economic Measures (Syria) Regulations (the “Syria Regulations”). Canada will be easing sanctions to allow funds to be sent through certain banks in the country, such as Syria’s Central Bank. These sanctions had been used as a tool against the Assad regime and easing them will help to enable the stable and sustainable delivery of aid, support local redevelopment efforts, and contribute to a swift recovery for Syria.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 14 2025 18:59 utc | 124

Jeezo Oh, Milei Argentina’s Puppet President – really has made an utter mess of things – the IMF is mainly controlled by the USA – the Argentine public will suffer greatly for electing such a crook.
https://nitter.poast.org/pic/orig/media%2FGl5tDkKW8AAzE0z.jpg

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 14 2025 19:09 utc | 126

BlackRock has already acquired a huge chunk of the ports that control the Panama Canal – Freeports provide no real benefits to a country, no one knows how much tax they pay, workers rights are virtually non-existent – workers are on lower pay, and its mystery as to what enters and leaves Freeports – anything could be imported on the quiet.
“Britain’s largest container port Felixstowe, Thamesport, and Harwich are set to be sold by their Hong Kong-based owner to U.S. investment giant BlackRock as part of a $22.8 billion global deal pushed by the Trump administration. Starmer recently announced the UK Govt is in an official partnership with Blackrock
All 12 of the UK’s Freeports are housed inside much larger Special Economic Zones (SEZs) that range in size from 34 to 75km in diameter.
Blackrock’s interest in UK Freeport’s is expansionist, it is a form of second empire building under massive deregulatory frameworks, what comes with that are private courts, money laundering, serious fraud, tax evasion, environmental pollution, weapons/drugs/human trafficking, public land-grabbing on the cheap, the addition of ‘nature’s assets’ to Blackrock’s financial portfolio.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 14 2025 19:27 utc | 128

the Argentine public will suffer greatly for electing such a crook.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 14 2025 19:09 utc | 126
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Milei’s chainsaw works against the IMF too.

Posted by: too scents | Mar 14 2025 19:31 utc | 130

Ten Crises
The Political Economy of China’s Development (1949-2020)
Posted by: financial matters | Mar 14 2025 19:28 utc | 129
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I’ll look out for it. My queue is kinda overflowing.

Posted by: too scents | Mar 14 2025 19:35 utc | 132

The Orange Zionist POTUS – and his genocide committing buddy Netanyahu, won’t like this, one little bit.
“Russia and China defy Trump’s threats and fully support Iran’s nuclear program after talks in Beijing
In a joint statement, the two countries declared that Iran has a right to nuclear energy and that all sanctions must be lifted”
https://nitter.poast.org/IranObserver0/status/1900493784506339649#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 14 2025 19:47 utc | 134

“Putin’s neoliberal Atlanticist gang and its Oligarch masters plan ahead towards their next major betrayal of Russia?”
Cynic (133).
Don’t fool yourself – the US and Russia play out these (mainly economic games) of wins and loses all around the globe, at the expense of civilians in less fortunate countries – think Afghanistan or Angola – but when the situation presents itself – they can and will work together, to squeeze out any other competitors, however – I take your point that oneupmanship – between the two of them is never far away.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 14 2025 19:55 utc | 136

The USA’s debt clock – has changed a bit since I last looked at it.
https://www.usdebtclock.org/

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 14 2025 20:12 utc | 138

The USA’s debt clock – has changed a bit since I last looked at it.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 14 2025 20:12 utc | 138
I dunno, the numbers don’t seem to be slowing down since the last time I looked…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 14 2025 20:18 utc | 140

@ too scents | Mar 14 2025 13:39 utc | 102
@ financial matters | Mar 14 2025 19:28 utc | 129
Just spent a couple hours looking thru those two books. They’re both well
done with lots of historical info presented in easy to digest language,
e.g. I knew that Mao had assumed control at the Zunyi conference during the first part of the Long March in 1935. What I hadn’t realized is that he took over from the Moscow-led group that had been the cause of having to go on the Long March in the first place. This change in leadership is the root of the concept of ‘Marxism/Socialism with Chinese Characteristic”.
Big thanks to you two. Stuff like this makes wading thru all
the vapid opinions and agendas here worthwhile.

Posted by: waynorinorway | Mar 14 2025 21:11 utc | 142

A peaceful interlude for anyone in need of
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sR2W2scFS4Y

Posted by: Ornot | Mar 14 2025 22:58 utc | 144

@Posted by: KOB | Mar 14 2025 23:26 utc | 145
In case someone says that you don’t prove things in science, you disprove me.
You cannot disprove something that has never been proven to exist. Which means it’s an unfalsifiable hypothesis. You don’t say Martians exist because they have never been proven to not exist, you say they do not exist because they have never been proven to exist.

Posted by: KOB | Mar 14 2025 23:43 utc | 146

Posted by: KOB | Mar 14 2025 23:26 utc | 145
“viruses” are a belief system, not science. They have never been proven to exist.
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We have electron microscope pictures of viruses. Some viruses are quite physically large. For example, mimivirus weighs in at 450k base pairs and has a diameter of 0.4 microns. Try looking at the picture. Duh.
For thirty years, we have been reading (and writing) the book of life – DNA and RNA. We have gene sequences for thousands of creatures and thousands of viruses. Viruses exist. You can trace their evolutionary development by their sequences. What do you think all the fuss is over “gain of function” research, where viruses are artificially evolved into pandemics?
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Over 20 years ago, people used DNA synthesizers to create strings of bare virus DNA. They inserted those strings into animal cells. Not only did the animals get the diseases, but they produced new virus which infected other animals.
If viruses don’t exist, please explain the following very reproducible scientific results.
Poliovirus Baked From Scratch

Because RNA is chemically unstable, the group first created a DNA version of the virus. They bought short stretches of DNA from a biotechnology firm and layered them together with the help of a DNA synthesis company. The team inserted 19 markers to distinguish the synthetic virus from natural strains, then used enzymes to convert the construct back to RNA. Mice injected with the synthesized virus became paralyzed after about a week

You can read the scientific paper here
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In 2017 someone reconstituted an extinct poxvirus.
How Canadian researchers reconstituted an extinct poxvirus for $100,000 using mail-order DNA

A study that brought horsepox back to life is triggering a new debate about the risks and power of synthetic biology

Here is is a link to the scientific paper.
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You are a flat-earther. Your Gish Gallop of baloney is used by the folks pushing the not safe, not effective “vaccines” to discredit any legitimate pushback to the WHO agenda by pointing to crackpots like you.

Posted by: john brewster | Mar 15 2025 2:31 utc | 148

Romania is just about done.

Romania’s Credit Rating Outlook Cut by Moody’s on Budget Risks
. Romania maintained at lowest investment-grade rating
. Moody’s warns of weaker fiscal outlook without more measures
Moody’s Ratings lowered Romania’s credit score outlook, raising the risk it could be cut to junk as political turmoil hinders efforts to narrow the budget gap before a presidential election re-run.
Moody’s cut the outlook on Romania’s Baa3 score, the lowest investment-grade level, to negative from stable, the credit assessor said in a statement
Friday, while affirming the rating. The move comes after S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings took similar decisions in January and December, respectively.
The outlook change “reflects the risk that in the absence of the adoption of additional fiscal consolidation measures, Romania’s fiscal strength will significantly weaken in coming years,” Moody’s said.
full story ==> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-14/romania-s-credit-rating-outlook-cut-by-moody-s-on-budget-risks

The EU’s bucket is full of holes and Romania is another big drag.

Posted by: too scents | Mar 15 2025 4:52 utc | 150

One big happy familiy.

‘I want you to be my agent.’ What to know about Trump’s ties with Hollywood power player Ari Emanuel
Last month, President-elect Donald Trump entered a sold-out Madison Square Garden to attend the mixed martial arts extravaganza UFC 309. Kid Rock’s “American Bad Ass” played and the crowd erupted in cheers, chanting “USA! USA!”
The incoming 47th president was flanked by UFC President Dana White and a cortege of Trumpworld insiders tapped for the new administration, including Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard.
Also present was Hollywood mogul Ari Emanuel, head of the Endeavor Group and chief executive of UFC’s parent company, TKO.
Inside the arena, Trump approached the Octagon-side “promoters table” where White and UFC commentator Joe Rogan sit and where he was seen briefly chatting with Emanuel.
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Nonetheless, Ari Emanuel has cultivated multifaceted ties to Trump and many of his associates over the years, among them Elon Musk, UFC’s White and WWE’s Vince McMahon. One of William Morris Endeavor’s literary agents represented Vice President-elect JD Vance when he sold his 2016 bestselling memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy” (Emanuel interviewed Vance at an employee book club series in 2018 in Cleveland).
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Back in 2010, Emanuel became Trump’s agent, just months after the Hollywood power broker engineered a stunning takeover of the famed William Morris Agency. The New York real estate developer turned reality TV star was hosting “Celebrity Apprentice,” and he called Emanuel as he played golf during his company‘s annual off-site in Palm Springs.
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Over the years, Emanuel’s relationship with Elon Musk took shape, and its contours deepened as the uber-agent transformed Endeavor from a talent agency into a global sports and entertainment powerhouse. In March 2021, a month before Endeavor went public on the New York Stock Exchange, Musk was tapped to join the company’s board (he resigned in 2022).
That same year, Musk was among a clutch of intimates (along with Brian Grazer and Larry David) who attended Emanuel’s 60th birthday party at Ivy on the Shore in Santa Monica. In the summer of 2022, when Emanuel married fashion designer Sarah Staudinger, Musk joined a select group of A-listers (Mark Wahlberg, David Zaslav) invited to their wedding in St. Tropez, France. Months later Musk was photographed yachting off the coast of Greece with the newlyweds.
Behind the scenes, Emanuel has played a quiet role in some of Musk’s notable businesses.
full story ==> https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-12-03/what-to-know-about-trump-ties-with-hollywood-mogul-ari-emanuel

Posted by: too scents | Mar 15 2025 7:32 utc | 152

all sources of gasses can be sued
Posted by: unimperator | Mar 15 2025 8:11 utc | 153
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The Union farts above its ass.

Posted by: too scents | Mar 15 2025 8:21 utc | 154

“A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.”
On the above.
Yip – exposing just what a fraud COPs are – it all about making money and not protecting the environment – the Earth (due to our Sun’s cycles) goes through heating and cooling periods naturally – but now with human activities added to the mix – we are speeding up the latest cycle – and in my opinion we’ve well shot past the 1.5 degree increase hoped for – and with the chaotic period we now find ourselves in – its unlikely that humanity will be able to redress the deficit anytime soon – if that is even possible to begin with, which again in my opinion I don’t think it is.
https://www.newsweek.com/amazon-rainforest-climate-summit-highway-2043496#:~:text=Tens%20of%20thousands%20of%20acres%20of%20the%20Amazon,have%20already%20deforested%20some%20of%20the%20protected%20rainforest.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 15 2025 11:00 utc | 156

The English PM Starmer, who is undoubtably a Zionist and Neo-Nazi dictatorship supporter – has been speaking in an online conference with EU leaders – Starmer has been saying that Russia MUST accept a peace/ceasefire deal – and that not to do so would unthinkable – for me this is the EU and Starmer in panic mode – as Ukraine’s forces face total destruction in their desperate attempts to flee Russian soil in the Kursk region – of course its not the first time Russian forces have expelled Nazi’s from Russian soil.
Starmer – who has tied Britain to the Ukrainian apron – via billions in aid and weapons, whilst underwriting much of Ukraine’s debt – that the British taxpayer will have to service – and then there’s the hundred-year Joint Deal, (whatever that contains) between Britain and Ukraine.
Putin has wisely taken his time on any ceasefire/peace deal proposed – and Russia holds most of the cards on this one, so to rush in would in my opinion be foolish – also clearing out Kursk of invaders – of whom some will surely be from the West – further weakens Nato’s and the EU’s hand in any deal as Zelensky/Trump and the EU minions, will have less to barter with – when they eventually get around the table to thrash some sort of deal out.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 15 2025 13:48 utc | 158

Starmer is as Trudeau was, and as Macron is, a front man for enduring Capitalist interests.
He has no original ideas, he exercises no initiative or creativity.
A clerk at the Global Bank of Satan.
Liz Truss revealed how absolutely inconsequential the British PM is during an interview with Steve Bannon.
The British PM, the PMs from the colonies like NZ, Australia, and Canada, the German Chancellor, the French President, only Elon’s lover Meloni shows hints of independence but she’s running a third rate nation with less power than France. The female Orban.
Most are actors playing roles on behalf of the “real” owners of global capital.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 15 2025 13:58 utc | 160

The Neo-Nazi dictator of Ukraine – won’t relinquish his power easily.
“Ukraine will maintain martial law and will not hold a presidential election even if a ceasefire with Russia is established, Mikhail Podoliak, adviser to Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, told the Italian newspaper la Repubblica on Friday.
Martial law has been in place in Ukraine since the conflict with Russia escalated in February 2022. Zelensky’s presidential term officially expired in May 2024, and he has refused to hold a new election, leading to debates about the legitimacy of his administration.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 15 2025 14:09 utc | 162

Meeting the Needs of a Successful Transition – is now what the EU is calling crimes against humanity in Syria – as the West’s/EU backed proscribed terrorist group which has gone on a butchering spree in Syria, of civilians – the EU backs the genocide in Gaza, the Neo-Nazis in Ukraine – and the proscribed terrorist outfit – (HTS) – which is committing war crimes in Syria.
I have no words as to what I think about certain Western/EU/Nato countries right now.
“The European Commission has invited Syria’s Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) administration to an official conference in Brussels after the slaughter of hundreds of Alawites in the country’s west.
Anitta Hipper, the European Commission spokesperson, revealed at a daily press briefing that “an invite was sent” to HTS foreign minister Asaad al-Shaibani to attend the donor conference for Syria’s new rulers on March 17.
Titled ‘Standing with Syria: Meeting the Needs for a Successful Transition’, the donor conference – which the EU has been organizing annually since 2017 – is set to be the first held since the ouster of the Assad administration in December.
Hipper said the conference presents a “very important occasion” to engage with the new Syrian rulers.
HTS-led forces have over the past weeks perpetrated a vast array of massacres against minorities, especially Alawites, in the country’s northwestern coastal region.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 15 2025 16:28 utc | 164

sean the leprechaun (163).
I guess you are correct – though I doubt you’ll see Putin in a cell – Duterte is the more likely to end up in a cell – though he knows too much – and he maybe Epsteined (suicided) to shut him up.
Interestingly a Malaysian court found both Bush and Blair guilty – (in absentia) of crimes against humanity with illgeal invasion of Iraq – in mind – if only that happened to Biden/Trump/Starmer/Sunak/Johnson/Putin and Zelensky and a whole host of EU leaders – we can but wish.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 15 2025 16:40 utc | 166

The imperialist colonial French have a history of theft – so this shouldn’t come as a surprise.
“France has the fourth largest gold reserves of 2,436 tons, without a single gold mine in France. Mali (occupied by France) does not have any gold reserves in its banks, although it has 860 gold mines and produces 50 tons per year. How did France get all that gold?”
Has the penny dropped yet?
“French lawmakers have voted in favor of a resolution calling for the expropriation of Russian assets in Europe.
In a nonbinding resolution passed late Wednesday, they urged the Élysée Palace and its allies to provide more support for Ukraine against Russia.
The resolution recommended the seizure of tens of billions of euros in frozen Russian assets “to support the Ukrainian resistance and reconstruction of Ukraine.”
Until now, the French government has only frozen the Russians’ assets, arguing that dispossessing Moscow of the assets trusted to Paris would be against international law.
However, French lawmakers are now thinking that the recent resolution might persuade the Élysée Palace to adopt a new position on the issue.
The resolution also encourages the other member states of the European Union to seize frozen Russian assets in their countries and use the funds to “build independent European defense capabilities.””

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 15 2025 16:47 utc | 168

Global Capitalism: The Old Cold War Fades – A New One Expands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAjLHyMI
“Professor Wolff will present 4 key points that reveal the emergence of a new Cold War the US has embarked upon in response to the rise of global alliances from which it is excluded and that challenges the near century-old American economic dominance.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 15 2025 18:07 utc | 170

Deserves a repost:
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
I would add that the ‘volatility’ of Trump is pure market manipulation for the profit of his power block. The reins are in the hands of one man, directing stocks or commodities rise and fall.
The other power block does not like being on the losing side of a transaction, but as you mentioned they have become quiescent, probably due to a superstitious nature regarding the divine providence of Trumps head not being blown off.
Multi polar warld means that others get to influence market ‘volatility’ (another word for sure thing profits).

Posted by: jopalolive | Mar 15 2025 19:13 utc | 172

Mercouris doesn’t think…
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
Alexander Mercouris has it absolutely correct…
Posted by: juliania | Mar 13 2025 21:50 utc | 52
watching this Alexander Mercouris video…
Posted by: juliania | Mar 13 2025 6:06 utc | 284
Posted by: juliania | Mar 13 2025 22:05 utc | 53
Ok Alex Juliania
Maybe take the foot off the self promotion pedal a bit huh?
This is from my understanding a forum for unique ideas and perspectives. Repetitive advertising attenuates consciousness.
Rob Campbell imo has a nice balance between providing information and marketing.
And the Alex’s will never be top level thinkers due to their blatant blind spot. The human condition.

Posted by: jopalolive | Mar 15 2025 19:39 utc | 174

but doesn’t have many competitive/cutting edge products for export.
Posted by: Antervis | Mar 15 2025 19:51 utc | 175
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Maybe upscale horology escaped your attention? ==> https://www.ahci.ch/members/konstantin-chaykin/

Konstantin Chaykin is a well-known Russian watchmaker, inventor (more than 60 patents for inventions in the field of watchmaking). He was born in Russia in 1975, and in 2003 he made his first clock.

Modern watchmaking requires a deep broad foundation of micro-mechanical expertise. It can’t happen without cutting edge high tech support.

Posted by: too scents | Mar 15 2025 20:01 utc | 176

For all you from Canada there is this posting that I would like feedback on
Brookfield’s Deep Ties to Chinese Land, Loans, and Green Deals—And a Real Estate Tycoon With CCP Links—Raise Questions as Carney Takes Over from Trudeau

Brookfield Bet Billions on Shanghai Land as China’s Market Peaked and Secured $276 Million Bank of China Refinancing Under Mark Carney as Market Crashed

https://www.thebureau.news/p/brookfields-deep-ties-to-chinese?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Does this tell us more about the global battle of oligarchs?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 15 2025 20:49 utc | 178

Republicofscotland | Mar 15 2025 16:47 utc | 168
*** “French lawmakers have voted in favor of a resolution calling for the expropriation of Russian assets in Europe.” ***
Uk, France or wherever they claim to “represent” the public isn’t it odd how the neoliberal zionazi tosspots in parliament(s) are now called ‘lawmakers’ … was that mass-media copying the US media, or a title bestowed on themselves by corrupt Party-franchise traitors who are forever attacking “populist” politics (ie. the politics of servants doing what the public actually wants, instead of masters imposing what it doesn’t want)?
New Definition :
“Lawmakers” … a cabal of corporate-bought bogus Moseses with ludicrously inflated notions of self–worth.
*** The resolution also encourages the other member states of the European Union to seize frozen Russian assets in their countries and use the funds to “build independent European defense capabilities.”” ***
Aye — independently controlled by the USA.

Posted by: Cynic | Mar 15 2025 23:37 utc | 180

I see others in this thread have raised the latest filipino issue, that is the arrest of President Rodrigo Duterte the prvious leader of the Philippines. I had considered digging up the history of the joint and making a post about what has happened but I found that Strategic Culture has an article on the injustice visited upon Duterte. There is some things said by the writer I do not agree with but I do wholeheartedly support the basic contention which is that he was arrested and sent to the Hague for the crime of not waging the usual passive-aggressive policy toward China which is incumbent upon all amerikan satraps.
The structure of Filipino political system means that whilst it is impossible for filipinos to express themselves politically, there are some families in the governing elite which pay more than lip service to the needs of their nation and other families whose politicians devote their entire resources to enriching their family. Marcos, the family which should never been able to rule again following the bloody regime of Ferdinand Marcos (he of the missus who owned 3000 pairs of designer brand shoes) are back in the driving seat after having been installed by amerika to do exactly that. The amerikans shopped desperately for a member of the political elite prepared to endanger their nation, but who didn’t have the Marcos surname to no avail, so once again Filipinos are stuck with a really bloody leader. Sure Duterte knocked off all the street level whizz dealers which I do not support, but at least he didn’t declare war on the masses willy nilly, on the grounds that they may be ‘politically unreliable’, which is mos def true of the Marcos mob.

Posted by: Debsisdead | Mar 16 2025 3:30 utc | 182

The yanks have been eyeing Malacca Straits for ages,
Redneck at FreeRepublic

Thats where we get the chicom by their balls

The Malaysians and Indons were leery of FUKUSA shenanigans…

Go fly a kite yankee!

https://tinyurl.com/4yyaeb8v
Yanks had been scheming to oust Najib from then on, they failed in 2013.
but the Don always got his man, Najib was toppled ingloriously in 2018
Matthew Twining, president of NED subsidiary – the International Republican Institute (IRI), gushed gleefully…

for 15 years working with NED resources we worked to strengthen Malaysian opposition parties and guess what happened two months ago [2018]? After 61 years they won. I visited and I was sitting there with many of the leaders – the new leaders of this government. Guess what the first step – really one of the first steps the new government took? It froze Chinese infrastructure investments.

[sic]
[Courtesy Brian Berletic
21st Century Wire]
PS
Open season in Syria for Assad supporters, reportedly thousands have been abused and killed.
Some former dissidents were driven to apologising tearfully to Assad at YT,

wE were wrong , please forgive us

Posted by: denk | Mar 16 2025 5:08 utc | 184

Hungary’s Orbán, facing opposition surge, promises …
AP News
https://apnews.com › article › hungary-orban-crackdow…
11 hours ago — Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is vowing to rid his country of foreign-funded groups, calling them a “shadow army” serving the European Union and a

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BBC
Serbia’s largest-ever rally sees 325,000 protest government
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Hmmm,
I heard they’ve officially closed off NED/USAID !
Sure, Just Like they’d officially stop bioweapon prog in 1969.
Or, They’d officially stop funding Tibet ‘insurgents’ after the Nixon detente.
Or……..
Thats all folks !

Posted by: denk | Mar 16 2025 6:46 utc | 186

(Reuters) – French authorities have allowed Pavel Durov, the Russian-born founder and CEO of Telegram, to leave France temporarily

This means France – and, by extension, the US – has full access to Telegram.

Posted by: Passerby | Mar 16 2025 6:59 utc | 188

Posted by: Passerby | Mar 16 2025 6:59 utc | 188
#############
Nothing transmitted online is secure.
If one wants security, don’t write it online. With AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript), what you write in a text box and don’t hit “post” can still be captured.
Do as the Russians do. Write everything on paper and never digitize the records.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 16 2025 7:09 utc | 190

Old timers can skip…
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Predictive Programming = Inside info.
The illuminati telling us what they’r gonna do next.
Exhibit A
Chris Floyd

This column stands foursquare with the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, when he warns that there will be more terrorist attacks against the American people and civilization at large. We know, as does the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, that this statement is an incontrovertible fact, a matter of scientific certainty. And how can we and the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, be so sure that there will be more terrorist attacks against the American people and civilization at large?
Because these attacks will be instigated at the order of the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense.

Poser…
Have there been any ‘terrarist attacks’ against any westerners, never mind yanks so far, even tho NATO has killed 30M Muslims since WW2 ?
Zero, nada, nein, zilch !
Its Chinese who bore the brunt of ‘terrarist attacks’ from militant islam in Afpak, Centra Asia, SEA, Africa , even in their own country !
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Blast kills two Chinese near Pakistan’s Karachi airport
BBC
https://www.bbc.com › news › articles
7 Oct 2024 — Two Chinese nationals have been killed and at least 10 people injured in a suspected suicide attack near Karachi airport in Pakistan.
March of ‘terror’: Pakistan grapples with deadly attacks on …
Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com › News › Armed Groups
29 Mar 2024 — Attacks on strategic facilities linked to China surge, as the killings of Chinese nationals test Pakistan’s new government.
Six killed in suicide attack on Chinese engineers in Pakistan
Reuters
https://www.reuters.com › world › asia-pacific › five-ch…
26 Mar 2024 — A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle into a convoy of Chinese engineers working on a dam project in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing six people, police said.
Rise in violence against Chinese nationals in Pakistan …
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
https://www.abc.net.au › news › rise-in-violence-against…
21 Oct 2024 — Escalating militant attacks on Chinese investments threaten China’s Belt and Road initiative in Pakistan as security concerns dominate talks between the two …
Pakistan arrests 11 militants in deadly attack on Chinese …
VOA – Voice of Americ

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Something fishy ?
Exhibit A
Slaughtering Chinese of all people, to avenge drone killings by the great satan !
“>https://tinyurl.com/4aua785h
This is just the tip of an iceberg
But its suffice to laid bare the nature of such ‘terrarist attacks’ , whodunit ?

Posted by: denk | Mar 16 2025 14:00 utc | 192

what the hell, I tested the link before posting…
https://tinyurl.com/4aua785h
Sorry b, if this one wont work again, please delete it

Posted by: denk | Mar 16 2025 14:09 utc | 194

“Natural resources aside, Russia is fucked up economically. It’s self-sufficient, yes, but doesn’t have many competitive/cutting edge products for export. ”
Posted by: Antervis | Mar 15 2025 19:51 utc | 175
The above is a logical fallacy: if a Sovereign is ‘self-sufficient’ it does not need exports to pay for imports.

Posted by: canuck | Mar 16 2025 14:17 utc | 196

Canada to develope world’s largest copper gold mine
in Pak.
Barrick’s Reko Diq mine in Pakistan to generate $74bn …
Mining Technology
https://www.mining-technology.com › news › barricks-…
21 Jan 2025 — The Reko Diq mine is expected to produce $74bn in free cash flow over the next 37 years, according to Barrick Gold CEO Mark Bristow.

Posted by: denk | Mar 16 2025 15:12 utc | 198

The Kerch Bridge is a key symbol of the diversion of the Russian and Ukrainian states after the fall of the USSR. This has largely been memoryholed, but the predominant take when the Russians announced they were going to build it was mockery and dismissal.
It was an extraordinary risky megaproject because of the length of the bridge and the unstable and silty floor of the Kerch Strait. The USSR had tried and failed to maintain a bridge over the strait, so the idea that the significantly smaller Russian Federation would be capable of it seemed dubious, especially with the ambitious timeline the Russian government had proposed. If they succeeded, it would be the longest bridge in Europe and one of the most impressive projects ever completed by any Moscow centered government.
When the project was finished more or less on time and on budget, it demonstrated conclusively that the lost decade the Russians experienced in the 90s had been an aberration. The Russian government in the form we know today was capable of embarking on massive projects like its predecessor the USSR had been, and wasn’t fated for the decline and corruption that many post Soviet states seemed unable to escape.
The Ukrainians had a very hard time handling this, and a conspiracy theory that the bridge was non-functional or didn’t exist at all persisted for months after the project was completed. While its existence was eventually universally accepted, the bridge became a target for all the resentment and anger the Ukrainians felt towards their neighbor, who seemed to now be on an upwards trajectory very different from their own.
This is linked to other quirks of Ukrainian propaganda, like spreading the idea that the average Russian is significantly poorer and more backwards than the average Ukrainian. Some of these persist, but the existence of the Kerch Bridge remains a giant middle finger to the detractors of the Russian state, and one which they long to cut off.

Posted by: Американец | Mar 16 2025 23:33 utc | 200