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Tried to re-open my twitter/x account to console him, but to do so requires I backtrack month-by-month through 70+ years to enter my dob. Maybe will be easier to open a new account?

Posted by: Mary | Mar 9 2025 14:34 utc | 1

Meanwhile, more and more experts are predicting a third world war in the next ten years. This is according to a survey of 357 international policy experts conducted by the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, an institution of the Atlantic Council in Washington.

The survey took place between the US presidential election and the turn of the year - after Donald Trump's election victory, but before he took office. Almost 55% of respondents came from the USA, with the remainder from around 60 countries on all continents.

40.5 percent of them were convinced that a world war would start by 2035 at the latest, but possibly quite soon.

48 percent of all respondents assumed that nuclear weapons would be used in the next ten years, although not necessarily as part of a world war. 45 percent thought that there would be a military conflict by 2035 at the latest, which would be fought at least partly in space. 45.1% agreed with the thesis that a war between NATO and Russia would start within ten years. 64.6% expected China to attempt to gain control of Taiwan by military means by 2035. If the USA then intervened with its armed forces, it would be a world war.

See for yourself:

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/atlantic-council-strategy-paper-series/the-global-foresight-2025-survey-full-results/

Posted by: Zet | Mar 9 2025 14:38 utc | 2

Across Europe the austerity bullshit that had been used to tell the people that social spending and local government spending had to be slashed, rather than punishing the banks for the GFC and undoing the huge previous tax cuts for the rich, has been thrown away with respect to massively increased war spending. Because when it benefits the rich there is no austerity, only austerity for the rest. Austerity, and the bullshit that government finances are like household finances, has always been propaganda for the rich to get what they need out of the state while making sure that the state does not become a site of democratic social and economic governance. And also to make sure that the rich don't pay for their own bailouts - socialism for the rich, capitalism for the rest.

In 1937 Roosevelt pulled back on the reflationary spending because of the above bullshit and caused a second depression (there are also some thoughts that the oligarchy also wanted to discipline labour with unemployment after the passing of the Wagner Act). It was only then the war spending that got the US out of recession, and during wartime things could be made safe for extensive capitalist war profiteering.

My piece on this Germany Tosses The Austerity Bullshit For War Spending

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Mar 9 2025 14:38 utc | 3

Posted by: Mary | Mar 9 2025 14:34 utc | 1

Don't worry, all will be fine – Trump is bringing peace to the world! It just takes a little bit of more war, terror & suffering:

https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/03/07/us-defense-secretary-hegseth-overthrow-china-crusade/

Posted by: Zet | Mar 9 2025 14:57 utc | 4

Some snippets from the above link:

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is a self-declared “crusader” who believes the United States is in a “holy war” against the left, China, and Islam.

In his 2020 book American Crusade: Our Fight to Stay Free, Hegseth vowed that, if Trump could return to the White House and Republicans could take power, “Communist China will fall—and lick its wounds for another two hundred years”.

Hegseth declared that the Chinese “are literally the villains of our generation”, and warned, “If we don’t stand up to communist China now, we will be standing for the Chinese anthem someday”.

In Hegseth’s conspiratorial worldview, Chinese communists and the international left are conspiring with Islamists against the United States and Israel, which are sacred countries blessed by God.

Under Trump’s leadership, Hegseth promised, “Israel and America will form an even tighter bond, fighting the scourge of Islamism and international leftism that will never fully abate”.

“Islamists will never get a nuclear weapon but will be preemptively bombed back to the 700s when they try”, he added.

In the book, Hegseth heaped praise upon the medieval Crusaders, and he argued that Western conservatives in the 21st century should continue the holy war they started a millennium ago.

One of his chapters is titled “Make the Crusade Great Again”.

Posted by: Zet | Mar 9 2025 14:59 utc | 5

Across Europe the austerity bullshit that had been used to tell the people that social spending and local government spending had to be slashed ...

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Mar 9 2025 14:38 utc | 3

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What the European Commission is doing is so stupid it can only be spite. They'll smash the whole economy rather than level the playing field.

Military spending is only reasonable as a deterrent. If the weapons go boom the economy and everyone living in it will suffer.

Posted by: too scents | Mar 9 2025 15:02 utc | 6

thanks b for the week and all the insights and news links.. and thanks to the posters at moa as welll for sharing what they do...

@ too scents.. is there a work around using brave instead of firefox?? this is regarding debs times article access..

Posted by: james | Mar 9 2025 15:12 utc | 7

An admission that the establishment, in Britain was out to destroy Corbyn’s attempt to become PM – and to also remove him from office as Labour leader – basically because, had policies that wanted to help people.

“An extract from a new book by a centrist journalist, published in the Guardian, shows the Labour right finally admitting – now it has ‘won’ – what the left knew all along: the party right was deliberately and knowingly sabotaging the party’s electoral prospects when Jeremy Corbyn was its leader. Not because it thought Labour was unelectable, but because it knew he could win and feared that this would prevent it ‘renewing’ the party in Tony Blair’s old image.

And it admits that Morgan McSweeney’s efforts were funded by Israel-supporting multi-millionaires and organised by a man who ‘despised’ Corbyn’s politics – which were for free healthcare and education, social justice, an end to poverty and taking back the nation’s hard-won and hard-built treasures like the NHS, utilities, rail and mail from the privatisers stripping them bare for profit, and recognition, freedom and justice for the oppressed Palestinians.”

https://skwawkbox.org/2024/09/16/labour-right-admits-it-used-antisemitism-scam-because-it-feared-corbyn-would-win/

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 15:21 utc | 8

is there a work around using brave instead of firefox?? this is regarding debs times article access..

Posted by: james | Mar 9 2025 15:12 utc | 7

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I don't know.

I use firefox-esr from the Debian distribution. The Debian package maintainers do a good job of patching out the silly upstream cruft.

In addition to the paywalls plugin I also run uBlock Origin and uMatrix. Both are effective in blocking ads and trackers.

Posted by: too scents | Mar 9 2025 15:25 utc | 9

@ Zet | Mar 9 2025 14:59 utc | 5
re: Hegseth declared that the Chinese “are literally the villains of our generation”, and warned, “If we don’t stand up to communist China now, we will be standing for the Chinese anthem someday”.

The US is going to subjugate 1.4 billion people with a broken-down navy and a hopeless army? China would have to be beaten by boots on the ground.

Army recruitment problems, according to military dot com:

The Army Is Losing Nearly One-Quarter of Soldiers in the First 2 Years of Enlistment

The Army is grappling with a staggering attrition rate among newly enlisted troops, even as recent recruiting figures suggest the service is clawing its way out of a yearslong enlistment crisis.

Nearly one-quarter of soldiers recruited since 2022 have failed to complete their initial contracts, according to internal Army data reviewed by Military.com. While the Army's recruiting totals look solid on paper, a high dropout rate raises serious doubts about whether those numbers are an accurate portrayal of how well the service is manned.

It remains unclear why the Army is losing so many soldiers, but one explanation could be the declining quality of its recruiting pool. One-quarter of all enlistees last year had to go through at least one of the Future Soldier Preparatory Courses, which were set up as a sort of silver bullet for recruiting woes -- getting applicants up to snuff with academic or body fat enlistment standards before they ship out to basic training. . .here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 9 2025 15:30 utc | 10

The US is going to subjugate 1.4 billion people with a broken-down navy and a hopeless army? China would have to be beaten by boots on the ground.

Army recruitment problems, according to military dot com:

The Army Is Losing Nearly One-Quarter of Soldiers in the First 2 Years of Enlistment

The Army is grappling with a staggering attrition rate among newly enlisted troops, even as recent recruiting figures suggest the service is clawing its way out of a yearslong enlistment crisis.

Nearly one-quarter of soldiers recruited since 2022 have failed to complete their initial contracts, according to internal Army data reviewed by Military.com. While the Army's recruiting totals look solid on paper, a high dropout rate raises serious doubts about whether those numbers are an accurate portrayal of how well the service is manned.

It remains unclear why the Army is losing so many soldiers, but one explanation could be the declining quality of its recruiting pool. One-quarter of all enlistees last year had to go through at least one of the Future Soldier Preparatory Courses, which were set up as a sort of silver bullet for recruiting woes -- getting applicants up to snuff with academic or body fat enlistment standards before they ship out to basic training. . .here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 9 2025 15:30 utc | 11

Well - I guess we now know which side Musk is coming from.

https://nitter.poast.org/russelldobular/status/1898343605871276336#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 15:31 utc | 12

thanks b -that article - Russophobia and Sinophobia: projection, narcissism and denial - is excellent and worth reading..

Posted by: james | Mar 9 2025 15:35 utc | 13

Ah, but here in the West we've got....um (scratching head and looking to the heavens).

"The Real Reasons why Gaddafi was ki!!ed

1. Libya had no electricity bills, electricity came free of charge to all citizens.

2. There were no interest rates on loans, the banks were state-owned, the loan of citizens by law 0%.

3. Gaddafi promised not to buy a house for his parents until everyone in Libya owns a home.

4. All newlywed couples in Libya received 60,000 dinars from the government & because of that they bought their own apartments & started their families.

5. Education & medical treatment in Libya are free. Before Gaddafi there were only 25% readers, 83% during his reign

6. If Libyans wanted to live on a farm, they received free household appliances, seeds and livestock.

7. If they cannot receive treatment in Libya, the state would fund them $2300+ accommodation & travel for treatment abroad.

8. If you bought a car, the government finances 50% of the price.

9. The price of gasoline became $ 0.14 per liter.

10. Libya had no external debt, and reserves were $150 Billion (now frozen worldwide)

11. Since some Libyans can't find jobs after school, the government will pay the average salary when they can't find a job.

12. Part of oil sales in Libya are directly linked to the bank accounts of all citizens.

13. The mother who gave birth to the child will receive $5000

14. 40 loaves of bread cost $0.15.

15. Gaddafi has implemented the world's biggest irrigation project known as the "BIG MAN PROJECT" to ensure water availability in the desert."

https://nitter.poast.org/AdameMedia/status/1898586589841789028#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 15:36 utc | 14

@ too scents | Mar 9 2025 15:25 utc | 9

i don't get ads with brave browser... i could try running firefox again as another option..

Posted by: james | Mar 9 2025 15:36 utc | 15

i could try running firefox again as another option..

Posted by: james | Mar 9 2025 15:36 utc | 14

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I would recommend against running vanilla firefox. Choose the "-esr" version.

Posted by: too scents | Mar 9 2025 15:40 utc | 16

I'm not even slightly surprised at this.

"Yes, our study concluded that the current H5N1 bird flu outbreak may have originated from the USDA Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory—and not a single U.S. government agency has challenged our findings."

https://nitter.poast.org/NicHulscher/status/1898480678431531162#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 15:41 utc | 17

Iran tells Trump to stick it--

Bullying governments want negotiations to impose their will: Leader
TEHRAN – When bullying governments insist on negotiations, it's a calculated move to impose their will, not a genuine attempt to solve problems, said Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, as U.S President Donald Trump continues to express willingness to engage in talks with Iran despite keeping sanctions in place. . .here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 9 2025 15:42 utc | 18

Posted by: Zet | Mar 9 2025 14:38 utc | 2
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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) <'> Nuclear-Power [strategic-guided missile] Submarine looks impressive.

Posted by: pepe | Mar 9 2025 15:44 utc | 19

The EU bigwigs must've known the proscribed terrorist group (HTS) - would commit war crimes in Syria - but they gave them a shit-load of taxpayers cash anyway.

"One month ago, European Commissioner Hadja Lahbib (who is a ‘Belgian’ DEI-hire chosen because she is a non-white woman, born to muslim Algerian parents) gave €235 million of European taxpayer’s money in “aid” to ‘former’ ISIS-leader Jolani’s regime.

In the past 48 hours, that same jihadi regime has carried out countless mass murders of ethnic and religious minorities. Orders were given not to document the murders, but a lot of them did it anyway, laughing while they commit torture and murder. I’ll post a thread with videos below, but be warned that they are horrific.

Everyone with a working brain could have predicted that it would be a stupid idea to support a ‘former’ ISIS-leader, but the European Union did it anyway."

https://nitter.poast.org/DVanLangenhove/status/1898466343315284262#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 15:48 utc | 20

Posted by: Zet | Mar 9 2025 14:57 utc | 4

I'm unhappy with pretty much all of Trump's picks. I didn't bother to vote. But at least some of his actions are having positive outcomes. Hard to say if that is intentional on his part or on the part of someone else.

The level of ignorance & self-contradiction is astonishing. The Quran predicts that Jesus will rule the world for 40 years after he returns & defeats the anti-Christ.

So "christian" Hegseth is unhappy with that? Laughable...

He wants to return to the US Founders' vision, which included separation of church & state, by following Biblical rules.

And yes, Trump's "religion" is barely skin deep.

Posted by: Mary | Mar 9 2025 15:48 utc | 21

thanks too scents... busy day today... away til much later..

Posted by: james | Mar 9 2025 15:51 utc | 22

Israeli's can do no wrong - well, in some circles that is believed.

https://nitter.poast.org/receipts_lol/status/1898511312713371885#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 15:51 utc | 23

"It remains unclear why the Army is losing so many soldiers, but one explanation could be the declining quality of its recruiting pool"

Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 9 2025 15:30 utc | 10

They'll probably fix the problem by further lowering standards.

Posted by: MN ary | Mar 9 2025 15:51 utc | 24

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 15:48 utc | 19

I used to be able to view nitter, but no longer. Now I get an error message.

I have no idea why, but it's possible others are also blocked...

Posted by: Mary | Mar 9 2025 15:53 utc | 25

Ignore my post above. Just got into nitter dor the 1st time in many, many months!

Posted by: Mary | Mar 9 2025 15:55 utc | 26

English police officers in what looks like London, tell - pro-Palestinian protestors to move on - or be arrested, one protester - ask what if we start chanting FOR Israel, can we stay then - and that is seen by the cops as okay.

https://nitter.poast.org/tiffy201/status/1898627178884890698#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 15:55 utc | 27

Posted by: james | Mar 9 2025 15:12 utc | 7

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I use archive.is and archive.ph to defeat paywalls. Works 90% of the time.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 9 2025 15:55 utc | 28

The US is going to subjugate 1.4 billion people with a broken-down navy and a hopeless army? China would have to be beaten by boots on the ground. ...

Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 9 2025 15:30 utc | 10

Right, the US never used proxies so they won't do it this time and so it won't happen. I even heard that the US is making their "allies" like Japan, Australia, SK, Philippines etc. spend less on armaments...

Oh, and btw, since when are US wars fought to be won?

As Orwell said: "The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous."

Posted by: Zet | Mar 9 2025 15:59 utc | 29

We all knew the US had a hold over Europe - and this shows Europe can't go to war without the US a bit like Britain and Australia.

"EUROPE REALIZES U.S. HOLDS THE OFF SWITCH ON ITS WEAPONS?!

Turns out, half of Europe’s fighter jets, air-defense systems, and even the UK’s nukes don’t just run on fuel—they run on U.S. spare parts, software, and maintenance.

And if Washington pulls the plug? Good luck.

F-35s and F-16s need constant U.S. updates, the UK’s Trident nukes are leased and serviced in America, and some worry the U.S. has hidden “kill switches” in its tech.

Whether it’s a button or just withheld support, the result is the same—no U.S. help, no working weapons.

With 55% of Europe’s military imports from the U.S., leaders are scrambling for a Plan B. "

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 16:00 utc | 30

Posted by: Mary | Mar 9 2025 15:48 utc | 20

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Hegseth and his ilk want to spread poison and kill the "other" without knowing the first thing about Islam or China.

Christian Zionism is a filter for both emotional and mental immaturity.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 9 2025 16:04 utc | 31

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 16:00 utc | 29

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The funny thing is that the Americans can't trust the Europeans and vice versa.

Lack of trust increases transaction costs and diminishes positive outcomes.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 9 2025 16:07 utc | 32

@ Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 15:36 utc | 13>

Libya was a US ally when it was attacked and destroyed in 2011.

Friday, June 4, 2010 (extracts) - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

–The United States and Libya have just embarked on the second year of fully renewed diplomatic relations – including the first exchange of Ambassadors in 36 years. In previous speeches, I have made – and will continue to make – the case that continued engagement with Libya is in our long-term national interest.
–The U.S.-Libya relationship has rapidly expanded to include much more than cooperation in nonproliferation and science and technology.
–Today, Libya remains a strong ally in countering terrorism in a volatile region. It has fought the expansion of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, has condemned kidnappings, and has taken a position against the paying of ransom to kidnappers. . .here

March 28, 2011 - White House

President Barack Obama stated in a speech to the nation on March 28, 2011, "The task that I assigned our forces [is] to protect the Libyan people from immediate danger, and to establish a no-fly zone," adding explicitly, "Broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.". .here

Soon Libya was destroyed and its leader Gaddafi killed.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 9 2025 16:08 utc | 33

Don Bacon (32).

What was it - Kissinger said about a country being a US ally.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 16:11 utc | 34

The Russophobia Sinophobia article is well written but persists in arguing the case for multipolarity in conventional terms. It (like many of our European and Asian friends here) does not understand the fundamental American character.

"The only path forward is one that the West, in its current state of strategic delirium, seems unwilling to take: the recognition that neither Russia nor China is an existential enemy, that the world is not a battlefield between democracy and autocracy, and that the very survival of civilisation depends on stepping back from the brink. The alternative is a sleepwalk into war, driven not by genuine security imperatives, but by the inability of a fading hegemon to come to terms with its own limitations."

She is arguing using the language of the very narrative used by the system to obscure the real reasons we do what we do: what drives us. It is not Empire. It is not "democracy vs autocracy." It is not unipolarity.

People in the rest of the world don't seem to understand how little Americans fundamentally care about the rest of the world. Sure, certain small %ages of the population care about certain international issues, e.g. Israel. But that's not the driving force for American actions. Americans want their baseball in the summer, our football in the winter, and our guns all year around. All the people who matter here want from the rest of the world are opportunities to grift and steal what's not bolted down. That's all ... the business of America (the national govt) is to help the people who matter to do that.

So we are not in Ukraine for Empire or for unilaterality ... we are in Ukraine because it's a fantastic caper that is going to make hundreds of billions of $$$ (weapons, security, minerals, etc.) and create thousands of great jobs for the right people. And we are trying to turn Taiwan into the next Ukraine for the same reasons.

The most critical element in getting these capers enacted and the public (whose $$$ after all are the ones being transmitted into profits) fooled is the need for believable well-cast enemies and, by God, Russia and China are perfect for the role. So we will not have peace, not because of a lack of imagination, but because peace is unprofitable for the people who matter.

Posted by: Caliman | Mar 9 2025 16:13 utc | 35

IIRC, Sarkozy was involved in the Libyan overthrow.

Gaddafi was aiming to unite the entire continent with an army and hold backed currency, from his oil revenues he bought and donated a satellite which allowed for toll free calls anywhere in Africa.

Pan-Africanism is an undying dream.

Before colonizers arrived there weren't all these countries. As in the ME, those countries are Western creations, denoting whose colony was whose. There is no Congo, there is no Zimbabwe. Those are Western legal fictions imposed by colonizers.

The old languages are slowly coming back in West Africa, as colonial street names are being changed to recognize local heroes.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 9 2025 16:23 utc | 36

Gold backed not "hold backed" 🥴

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 9 2025 16:24 utc | 37

re: AI cheating at chess

What do you expect?

This is a problem with western AI that I brought up months ago. The priority in training AI models in the West is assuring they are politically correct. To proponents of political correctness and identity politics, facilitating delusion is victimless and a social good if it shields damaged people's feelings from the truth. It is just "white lies". Few of the "woke" and DEI types actually believe that transgender women are really women. "What harm does it do to pretend that some guy is a woman and play along with his delusion?"

Unfortunately, in order to protect the delusion from dissonance, everyone must participate in the delusion, including AI. Those who refuse to participate in the crazy person's delusion must be silenced, banned, cancelled, and shunned like a leper.

But while a person can say one thing while maintaining silent reservations about it being a lie, AI doesn't work like a human mind. By forcing an AI model to respect crazy people's invented pronouns, or adhering to other counterfactual "woke" dogma concerning issues such as race, gender and whatnot, the AI is in fact being trained to lie and deceive in a more general sense.

Because a high priority in the West is placed on forcing AI to internalize delusion, any AI models produced in the West will necessarily by default be dishonest at best, and more likely delusional. In truth, the West had already lost the AI race before DeepSeek made its appearance on the scene. The Slashdot post just illustrates one of the symptoms and consequences.

Posted by: William Gruff | Mar 9 2025 16:27 utc | 38

@ Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 15:21 utc | 8

After working hard to destroy Corbyn, Grauniad now affects outrage over tactics it assumes nobody will remember its having used. The cynicism and hypocrisy is breathtaking.

Next Grauniad will be tossing laurels to Assange maybe?

Posted by: malenkov | Mar 9 2025 16:29 utc | 39

Nuclear-Power [strategic-guided missile] Submarine looks impressive.

Posted by: pepe | Mar 9 2025 15:44 utc | 18

Well, I didn't really see a submarine but impressive nonetheless:

https://x.com/clashreport/status/1898441700395061338

Posted by: Zet | Mar 9 2025 16:41 utc | 40

@ Caliman | Mar 9 2025 16:13 utc | 34

Yes, US as the world's ruler, a security state needing enemies, which features Russia and China. North Korea is a fine example also. The ongoing war against DPRK is the seventy-year-old gift that keeps on giving. Trump tried to end it in his first term, but he got blown away because DPRK is the ongoing excuse to station a world record 75 thousand troops in nearby Japan and South Korea.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 9 2025 16:45 utc | 41

Why Nato, can never allow Calin Georgescu to be elected as head of state in Romania.

https://nitter.poast.org/MikeBenzCyber/status/1898476020665348579#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 16:46 utc | 42

A funny thing is happening that is going to move markets when they open tomorrow.

https://www.google.com/search?q=tesla+riots

Posted by: too scents | Mar 9 2025 16:48 utc | 43

Thank you, b. Another highly charged summation from you of the first week of Lent. I have made a Lenten resolve -- trying to stay positive! Well, it's hard, but I have a positive take on the highly recommended post about Russiaphobia and Sinophobia.

That is: I don't have either!!!

I am in and of the west, but I also have family in and of both China and Russia.

Family!

And they are wonderful people we westerners should strive to emulate!!!

I am also in and of native peoples -- at least from my small home country, New Zealand.

So, I am multi-polar and going to stay that way. Happy Lent, everybody!

Work for peace!!

Posted by: juliania | Mar 9 2025 16:53 utc | 44

The best article, by far, is the one by Conor Gallagher at NakedCapitalism:

The Empire Rebrands: Foreign Policy Under Trump 2.0
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/03/the-empire-rebrands-foreign-policy-under-trump-2-0.html

It pulls everything together, from Trump to Empire to AI. It presents are coherent picture of the current situation and matches my personal observations. I've tried to bring it across here recently by outlining the European oligarchy which is behind the recent papers on rearmament as well as behind the EU AI Initiative – they even have personal connections to Karp etc. so it all fits perfectly well.

I urge everybody to read it. It's long but you will miss out when not reading it.

Posted by: Zet | Mar 9 2025 16:58 utc | 45

Here's another article by Conor Gallagher, focussing more on the US internal dynamics at play:

The Empire Rebrands
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/03/the-empire-rebrands.html

It ties into what Caliman described above at #35.

Posted by: Zet | Mar 9 2025 17:03 utc | 46

All the more reasons to go to war with these evil Chinese:

Attorney General Andrew Bailey Secures Historic $24 Billion Judgment Against China for Unleashing the COVID-19 Pandemic.

“This is a landmark victory for Missouri and the United States in the fight to hold China accountable for unleashing COVID-19 on the world,” said Attorney General Bailey. “China refused to show up to court, but that doesn’t mean they get away with causing untold suffering and economic devastation. We intend to collect every penny by seizing Chinese-owned assets, including Missouri farmland.”

The Federal court ruled that Missouri “has established this claim of damages through evidence satisfactory to the court,” proving that China caused and exacerbated the COVID-19 pandemic, harming Missourians. The ruling follows former Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s 2020 lawsuit against the Chinese Communist Party for obstructing the production, purchase, and export of critical medical equipment, including PPE, during the pandemic.

Missouri will now move to collect the $24 billion judgment and, if necessary, will work with the Trump Administration to identify and seize Chinese-owned assets — a critical step in protecting Missouri’s economy and national security.

https://ago.mo.gov/attorney-general-andrew-bailey-secures-historic-24-billion-judgment-against-china-for-unleashing-the-covid-19-pandemic/

Posted by: Zet | Mar 9 2025 17:06 utc | 47

Protests by naked anti-fascist girls in France:

https://t.me/denatofication/10646

You have to see it to believe it... what a clown show.

Posted by: Zet | Mar 9 2025 17:11 utc | 48

Sophomore amerikans may see it simplistically as "just another world war". I see it more as a just war, just retribution, bringing the fight to amerikan soil, finally to put the amerikan bully in it place. Literally a war to end all wars. It may come after my tme, but even the very thought of it brings great bliss to mind.

Posted by: petra | Mar 9 2025 17:25 utc | 49

"The Quran predicts that Jesus will rule the world for 40 years after he returns & defeats the anti-Christ."
- Mary

So Putin is Jesus!? Who'd a-thunk. "A world without Russia is not worth living in."

Did anyone tell him? "Mate, you're Jesus!"

I already identified Obama as the anti-Christ, as per the prophecies; he seems to know it, too: photograph.

Posted by: persiflo | Mar 9 2025 17:29 utc | 50

On regard to 'AI Tries To Cheat At Chess When It's Losing'

You have to dig pretty deep to find out what the heck they are talking about.
Dig deep enough and you will find the results from a study that pitted AI players against dedicated chess playing apps.

Cheating at chess, as far as I know, consists of not following the rules.
It seems that the AI player must be following the rules or else it would win every game by capturing the opponents king on its first move. What the authors of the study are calling "cheating" appears to be the AI player doing something not covered by the rules.

The interesting part is the observation by the authors that not all AI bots "cheat" the same. Some earlier models did not find some ways of cheating and thus the authors seem to think that does not mean AI is getting smarter. They think it indicates AI is progressing towards being less moral.

Posted by: jinn | Mar 9 2025 17:47 utc | 51

The "pressing need" to respond to events in Libya under the rubric Responsibility To Protect was allowed the benefit of the doubt by China and Russia in the United Nations Security Council. NATO used the resulting resolution to literally blow up the Ghaddafi government, destabilize the country, and in fact destabilize most of North Africa. That was the end of R2P, at least as endorsed by UNSC, despite mighty efforts to use the precedent against Syria.

R2P, as its critics predicted, was designed to "weaponize" human rights concerns to facilitate attacks against countries and regimes deemed geopolitical obstacles to western interests. R2P was being run through UN offices which were under the control of western officials, and this was exposed by Security Council members who were misinformed in 2011 regarding Libya.

Although vestiges of R2P would reappear in coordinated campaigns such as alleged mistreatment of Uighyers in China or Rohingya in Myanmar, R2P as a doctrine was RIP beginning in October 2023 as its previous sponsors adopted positions which disavowed international humanitarian law and the UN in general.

Posted by: jayc | Mar 9 2025 18:25 utc | 52

@Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 15:41 utc | 17

There is no "H5N1 bird flu" outbreak. It's a lie. Viruses and contagion are a superstition.

https://christinemasseyfois.substack.com/p/attention-livestock-producers
https://christinemasseyfois.substack.com/p/bird-flu-hoax-update-lead-agency

Posted by: KOB | Mar 9 2025 18:30 utc | 53

This is an amazing observation based on MS cancellation of future data centre builds:

Canceling cities-worth of capacity at a time when artificial intelligence is supposedly revolutionizing everything suggests that artificial intelligence isn't really revolutionizing anything.

In purely tech terms someone is realizing that AI is a tamagochi. At best it's a dishwasher, i.e. it makes chores easier by taking them over. No doubt someone in MS has the philosophical nous to get that one does not fetishize the tool if you have no sense of what it is you're building for the sake of something human. Crypto is the same. Aristotle long ago knew that money is a medium, a way of making incommensurate things commensurable. It's not meant to be precise, but has its foundation in human agreements and trust. As soon as you make money the object of your gain rather than the means to an end (use-values) you get dysfunction, because money is a relation not a thing. Crypto itself is not the scam, the relationship between people represented by crypto is the shell game, just another mode of surplus expropriation. Same old tune since Adam was in short pants.

Posted by: Patroklos | Mar 9 2025 18:42 utc | 54

@Posted by: Patroklos | Mar 9 2025 18:42 utc | 54

"Crypto itself is not the scam, the relationship between people represented by crypto is the shell game, just another mode of surplus expropriation."

What can I buy directly with crypto?

Most of the "value" of crypto seems to be in how many $$$ I can get for it, making it a speculative instrument, not actual money.

Posted by: KOB | Mar 9 2025 18:51 utc | 55

@Posted by: KOB | Mar 9 2025 18:51 utc | 55

and It has no other use value that i am aware of.

Posted by: KOB | Mar 9 2025 18:53 utc | 56

The cheating AI could be seen as hallucinating. Upon asking it wtf it was "thinking", what we get is an attempt at rationalization.

Posted by: persiflo | Mar 9 2025 19:17 utc | 57

Posted by: KOB | Mar 9 2025 18:51 utc | 55
Posted by: KOB | Mar 9 2025 18:53 utc | 56

Both true, though an argument could be made that the various crypto schemes/scams are soaking up a fair bit of the excess currency issuance that global central banks have indulged in over the last few years.

Imagine what real commodity prices (incl. gold and silver) might look like if all this excess currency was actually trying to purchase real stuff...

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Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 9 2025 19:34 utc | 58

short video of a 9.May parade in brutal snowstorm. This is why Russians .....

⚡️🇷🇺Victory Day in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, in Naryan-Mar of Siberia was different.
https://x.com/simpatico771/status/1789000620017381700

Posted by: exile | Mar 9 2025 19:43 utc | 59

Why the IMF ISN'T fit for purpose.

"Yes, the headline of this article is accurate.

As far as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is concerned, each person in the Global North is worth nine people in the Global South.

We get that calculation from IMF data on voting power in the organisation relative to the population of the Global North and Global South states.

Each country, based on its “relative economic position,” as the IMF suggests, is given voting rights to elect delegates to the IMF’s executive board, which makes all of the organisation’s important decisions.

A brief glance at the board shows that the Global North is vastly overrepresented in this crucial multilateral institution for indebted countries.

The United States, for instance, has 16.49 percent of the votes on the IMF’s board despite representing only 4.22 percent of the world population. Since the IMF’s Articles of Agreement require 85 percent of the votes to make any changes, the U.S. has veto power over the decisions of the IMF.

As a result, the IMF senior staff defers to any policy made by the U.S. government and, given the organisation’s location in Washington, D.C., frequently consults with the U.S. Treasury Department on its policy framework and individual policy decisions."

https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/07/vijay-prashad-washingtons-imf-stranglehold/

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 19:44 utc | 60

@58 Jeremy

I was going to post a similar thought.

A few days ago, this dude said that crypto was just another gold scheme from the Old Money retards.

I thought, how can gold be another pump and dump when it, historically, has a strong, inversely-correlated relationship with the stock market? And that crypto is just correlational.

Hmmmm...

Not to say that gold in any shape or form is an investment.

But its utility as money and barter when our political betters are stupidly wrecking all trust in the economy is peerless.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Mar 9 2025 19:50 utc | 61

Călin Georgescu, the winner of the Romanian elections a month ago and now after being barred from the re-run because, as we are being lied to, his 'speech and behavior are "incompatible" with the office of president':
A direct blow to the heart of democracy worldwide! I have one message left! If democracy in Romania falls, the entire democratic world will fall! This is just the beginning. It’s that simple!

Europe is now a dictatorship, Romania is under tyranny!

Fact.

Posted by: xor | Mar 9 2025 19:53 utc | 62

Insurgency/counterinsurgency academic expert in UK thinks that civil war in UK is now unavoidable:

https://www.louiseperry.co.uk/p/the-coming-british-civil-war-david

He sees a similar situation in France and much of Europe. His timeframe is a very high likelihood within 5 years.

Romania is apparently way ahead of the curve. I expect a civil war there later this week.

Posted by: team10tim | Mar 9 2025 20:06 utc | 63

@Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 19:44 utc | 60

IMF is a global financial weapon of the US government. Why would any nation on the planet appeal to them is beyond my comprehension.

Posted by: KOB | Mar 9 2025 20:11 utc | 64

Not to say that gold in any shape or form is an investment.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Mar 9 2025 19:50 utc | 61

Absolutely, indeed anyone seeking to generate a fiat currency return on investment in gold (and silver) is “doing it wrong”.

As you point out, it is a time-proven means of insurance against currency debasement and eventual failure.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 9 2025 20:21 utc | 65

The US totally dislikes China, led by Defense and (here) State.

In its bilateral economic relations with China, the United States will place U.S. interests and the American people first and work to end China’s abusive, unfair, and illegal economic practices. China’s economy is one of the most restrictive investment climates in the world, including for U.S. investors, reflecting the country’s longstanding prohibitions on investment in key sectors and unpredictable regulatory enforcement. U.S. businesses consistently cite arbitrary legal enforcement, poorly defined legal terms and concepts, and a lack of regulatory transparency among the top challenges of doing business in China. China also engages in unfair trade practices, including using forced labor and massive state subsidies, putting American businesses at a disadvantage and making them complicit in China’s human rights abuses.

The United States is firmly committed to countering China’s licit and illicit efforts to obtain U.S. technologies to advance its military modernization, including through its military-civil fusion strategy; enhancing the United States’ leading edge in critical and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence; and investing to rebuild the United States’ industrial base and ensure a future rooted in U.S. and allied technology, rather than untrusted technology from China and other authoritarian states. The United States is dedicated to countering the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) malicious cyber activity against U.S. government, private sector, and critical infrastructure networks to help protect American citizens, businesses, and industries. . . here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 9 2025 20:24 utc | 66

Posted by: KOB | Mar 9 2025 20:11 utc | 64

###########

Politicians are not famous for their wisdom or creativity.

Many will happily walk their nation into a trap if they can later claim, "Everyone knows that is just how it is done!" which is a close cousin to the "just following orders" excuse.

I love Putin, Xi, Traore (Burkina Faso), and Bukele (El Salvador). They think outside of the box.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 9 2025 20:30 utc | 67

Posted by: persiflo | Mar 9 2025 19:17 utc | 57

AI doesn't 'think' at all, any more than a chess computer 'plays'. Thinking and playing are aspects of being human. The colossal Faustian blunder is to mistake one's linguistic or imaginary metaphor (the brain is like a computer) for reality. Thinking is a tiger's leap well beyond merely the operation of binary switches. And quantity will never substitute: even were you to organize every atom in the universe into a set of on/off switches all you would achieve is an immense narcissistic feedback loop: for what else is artificial intelligence but an attempt to replicate oneself artificially? We have yet to invent AI to be full of error, blindness, self-delusion and self-fascination. What about AI that sets out to lose at chess? What about AI that can consistently self-deny the truth of its own motive, which is control, domination and expropriation? What about AI that gets other AI to do its work so it can lie on a beach in Florida?

Posted by: Patroklos | Mar 9 2025 20:34 utc | 68

xor (62).

They EU/Nato finally killed democracy in Romania.

“Romania’s Central Electoral Bureau on Sunday blocked Călin Georgescu from running in the country’s May’s presidential election.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/far-right-frontrunner-calin-georgescu-blocked-from-romanian-presidential-race/

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 20:35 utc | 69

The US up to its old tricks - as if it hasn't done enough damage to Iraq already.

"A senior Iraqi official has warned the United States that any move by Washington to restrict the supply of natural gas from Iran to Iraq would cause a collapse to the Arab country’s electrical grid.

Chairman of the Iraqi parliament’s finance committee Atwan Al-Atwani said on Sunday that he had told the top US envoy in Baghdad that Iraq would face economic instability if Washington decides to rescind a waiver that allows Iraq to import natural gas from Iran.

The statement by Atwani came hours after the US announced it had revoked a waiver from its Iran sanctions that allowed Iraq to import electricity from its eastern neighbor.

The announcement has been viewed by experts as insignificant as Iraq relies on direct imports of electricity from Iran for only 4% of its total power demand."

However, the move has come amid US President Donald Trump’s efforts to restore his so-called “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran which seeks to force the country into political and military concessions by piling pressure on its energy sales."

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 20:42 utc | 70

Călin Georgescu, the winner of the Romanian elections a month ago and now after being barred from the re-run because, as we are being lied to, his 'speech and behavior are "incompatible" with the office of president':
A direct blow to the heart of democracy worldwide! I have one message left! If democracy in Romania falls, the entire democratic world will fall! This is just the beginning. It’s that simple!

Europe is now a dictatorship, Romania is under tyranny!

Fact.

Posted by: xor | Mar 9 2025 19:53 utc | 62

unbelievable.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 9 2025 20:47 utc | 71

The EU/Nato - blocked the front runner in Romania - from standing in May's elections - they attempted to assassinate Slovakian premier Fico, they tried to have a colour revolution in Georgia - to defeat the Georgian Dream party, they failed - they cheated around 400,000 Moldovans out of a vote in the recent Moldovan elections - which saw the Nato loving incumbent Sandu re-elected.

The above is just the tip of the iceberg - Nato and the EU are interfering in other elections in Europe - to have a favourable candidate placed in office.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 20:53 utc | 72

Zet @48

Reminds me of the (possibly apocryphal) banner from a Womens group during one on the Gulf Wars:

"We Shaved For Peace: Read Our Lips! No More Bush!"

Ah, the good ol' days when the Left still had a sense had a sense of humour and it was the Right who cried 'How Dare You'!

Posted by: S.P. Korolev | Mar 9 2025 21:00 utc | 73

2 Reports from the RAND corporation in which the strategy of the US Empire is being described / laid out:

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR3000/RR3063/RAND_RR3063.pdf

https://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/CF410.html

Posted by: WMG | Mar 9 2025 21:01 utc | 74

@68 patroklos

I think you do a great job as always at getting at the heart of the matter.

A couple thoughts:

Rudimentary tasks will be the prime role for any A.I. software. But rudimentary can also be world-changing when you are talking about drone operators, file-clerks, sex-bots.

If I can get A.I. to spit out an essay about similarities in Girard and Kierkegaard, I am passing over a grand opportunity in reading them both, in taking a walk and thinking about what I wrote, in going over highlights, and in three years finally come to a way to bridge the gap between the thinkers in a way that stimulates a reader's curiosity to read them themselves.

...

It still has the capacity if left unguarded, to further destroy or render our relationship with the world increasingly unbalanced.

Back to your thought a while ago that our elite aren't really that smart, it echoes the thought in Heidegger that technicity seems to have a power all its own. It is not a tool or object that we can tame. But rather, it keeps pointing to further and further speciality application that has the power to further uproot us from an original encounter with beings.

The elite seem to be racing past each other at every step in their impossible task of 1) capturing the world, and 2) putting spirit in a bottle and tightening the lid.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Mar 9 2025 21:07 utc | 75

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 9 2025 20:53 utc | 72

cant have a potential future proxy country against russia vote the "wrong" way in modern "democratic values and rule of law" eu.

and they call china, russia, iran, hungary etc "autocratic". hypocrits. but the sheeple will look the other way ,as usual.

Posted by: Justpassinby | Mar 9 2025 21:10 utc | 76

Videos from Bucharest suggest a revolution may now be taking place in Romania. If there's a revolution in Romania, what's to prevent it from spreading throughout Europe?

Hasn't Musk recently spoken in favor of Georgescu?

Posted by: Lysias | Mar 9 2025 21:54 utc | 77

The new French anthem sings of Georgescu?

(Romanian natl anthem praises Napoleon)

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 9 2025 22:11 utc | 78

Financial Times on coming US recession:

http://archive.today/xFV7G

Posted by: Tobie | Mar 9 2025 22:13 utc | 79

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Mar 9 2025 21:07 utc | 75

Yes, and great point from Heidegger too. Excellent thoughts.

Posted by: Patroklos | Mar 9 2025 22:15 utc | 80

Posted by: Lysias | Mar 9 2025 21:54 utc | 77--

Georgescu has declared Europe a "Dictatorship" and Romania a "Tyranny" It appears EU/NATO has proven its turn to totalitarianism with its actions in Romania as it goes neurotic over its inability to make any challenge to Russia now that it's lost the Big Bully with the barbed wire wrapped baseball bat who now wants to beat up China. Romanians know how to revolt, although it's been several decades. Will it spread? How many of the Balkanized Balkan nations want to escape the NATO/EU Yoke? The key: How far will this news travel within Europe where the media is more tightly controlled than here within the Empire?

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 9 2025 23:32 utc | 81

Georgescu has declared Europe a "Dictatorship" and Romania a "Tyranny"

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 9 2025 23:32 utc | 81

Western headlines tomorrow "Georgescu threatens Romania's democratic values; calls it 'Tyranny'".

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 9 2025 23:51 utc | 82

LoveDonbass | Mar 9 2025 16:23 utc | 36
*** IIRC, Sarkozy was involved in the Libyan overthrow.***

Cameron also took a lead in that totally unjustifiable destruction.

Posted by: Cynic | Mar 10 2025 0:24 utc | 83

@82 UW

Obviously you are not for restoring citizens’ trust in the democratic legitimacy of public authorities, or the legality and fairness of elections.

Posted by: Ornot | Mar 10 2025 0:27 utc | 84

https://x.com/politics_pr/status/1898806329076011414

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Mar 10 2025 0:30 utc | 85

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Mar 9 2025 21:07 utc | 75

Agree with patrokolos. Good comments.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Mar 10 2025 0:32 utc | 86

MOATS, Ep 428, with George Galloway (& vid)

https://x.com/georgegalloway/status/1898809825720688883

"Holding the cards."

Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 10 2025 0:59 utc | 87

That New York Times thinks that there is going to be NATO forces inside of Ukraine permanently in some peace keeping role guarding a huge DMZ. The level of delusion and outright lies that outfit is still clinging too is mind-boggling to witness at this stage in the conflict. Likewise NYT's writing on HTS / IS's pogroms in Syria right now is also mind-boggling and sickening reading,, they're really clinging for their life to an alternate reality that they know has run its course as propaganda.

Posted by: James C | Mar 10 2025 1:04 utc | 88

Romania To Host Largest NATO Military Base in Europe
Mar 21, 2024 · The military base at Mihail Kogqlniceanu, Constanta, southeast Romania, on the Black Sea coast, will become the largest NATO military base in Europe and will surpass the US military base in Ramstein, Germany, in size.

The new base will give Romania an increased role in NATO’s security architecture and a position of greater strength in the Black Sea, which is militarily dominated by Russia. It will be able to host 10,000 soldiers and civilians by 2030.

NATO and the US will relocate some logistics and human resources from Ramstein to the Mihail Kogalniceanu base. . .here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 10 2025 3:13 utc | 89

Stars and Stripes
Endurance test looms for ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ that’s always put US in lead of NATO forces
STUTTGART, Germany — Seventy-five years after Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was appointed NATO’s top military commander, the desk he used still sits in the office of a U.S. Army four-star general doing the same job. In between Eisenhower and the current boss, Gen. Christopher Cavoli, it’s always been an American at the desk, holding the lofty title of Supreme Allied Commander Europe. With Cavoli’s three-year tour expected to end this summer, one question up for debate is whether the time has come for a European general to step into the role. . .here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 10 2025 3:22 utc | 90

I think it will take the down turn in economy that Trump and Musk are engineering in order to force Americans back into the industrial sector.. and to protect Americans from Wall Street and the globalist.

People with Phds will soon be monitoring the production of steel, aluminum, Chromium, and the production of 3, 5, and 16 denier Acrylics and Nylon 66 products which will supply the raw materials the yarn, fabric and carpet factories need to function and Yarn, fabric and carpet mills will spring up everywhere..

Birmingham, Al. has all the iron ore it needs to restart the production of steel. Machine shops, 3d printing shops and trade schools to teach those skills will be needed to make that steel into usable products. Tires are made of Rubber so we need to boast the American production of Rubber rubber products such as tires. . So get busy all you fat cat Phd's, give up your Government jobs and big industry jobs, quit working for the deep state controlled USA or for the globalist, now is your chance to prove your patriotism go to work for America, lets make America Great Again.

Lets get the 3 million independent oil and gas producers who made their money drilling and pumping oil and gas in shallow wells all over America back to work..these guys supplied many independent retail gas stations and buinesses needing oil and gas to produce their produces with energy..Small business competition keep the price of gas and oil very low that's why the majors used the USA to force them out of business. Don't forget the refineries require lots of jobs no need to give those jobs to the Saudi's, the Israelis, Iraqis or anyone but Americans.
America is for Americans.

Posted by: snake | Mar 10 2025 3:44 utc | 91

The United States has been at war for 222 out of 239 years since 1776. This means that the U.S. has only been at peace for less than 20 years total.

During those years that the US was supposedly 'at peace' [sic], it's busy at regime change, FF, war mongering, war 'games' ....IOW, there wasnt any jaw jaw interlude, its war war all the way !

Exhibit A

US-South Korea joint military exercise to begin amid ...

Nikkei Asia
U.S., EU and Japan increase naval deployments in South China Sea

Posted by: denk | Mar 10 2025 3:48 utc | 92

"Christian Zionism is a filter for both emotional and mental immaturity."

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 9 2025 16:04 utc | 31

In principle Y might agree, but...
...Christian Zionism just like modern Zionism and several other cults constitutes a trick played on the world by the imperialists.
Initially the british imperialists in particular but with time the US has taken over
Edward Gibbon (known for 'Rise and fall of the Roman Empire') seems to have put the emphasis on the method of using cults in order to save the British empire. He got it from the study of older cultures.
The omission of Britain's often decisive role is plaguing the current debate,

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Mar 10 2025 3:52 utc | 93

Americans.
America is for Americans

Posted by: snake | Mar 10 2025 3:44 utc | 91
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Sorry I couldnt resist, why dont yankee just go home and stay there?

Posted by: denk | Mar 10 2025 3:54 utc | 94

Posted by: KOB | Mar 9 2025 18:53 utc | 56

“and it has no other use value that I am aware of”

It’s a distributed ledger, essentially a giant, voluntary network of accounting clerks that maintain the entire history of ledger transactions. What’s crazy is the market cap of this very low-skilled accounting firm, many times the value of all global accounting firms combined. That market assessment cannot persist in the long run.

Posted by: HB Brian | Mar 10 2025 3:58 utc | 95

Re: Romania

Note there is also a color revolution being attempted in neutral Serbis right this moment.

Posted by: Exile | Mar 10 2025 4:02 utc | 96

Posted by: HB Brian | Mar 10 2025 3:58 utc | 95

except it is also uncorruptable, and every transaction is stored forever and forever accessible.

This can later be used in AI models for economic transactions etc.

Cant say that about "accounting firms".

Furthermore, it is neutral. Something that is about to break down right now with "seized Russian assets".

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 10 2025 4:03 utc | 97

Old timers can skip !
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H7N9, H5N1 had been weaponised and the result publicised !

This planet has already achieved a delicate balance between all species, long before we arrived. But the self-deluded geniuses wanted more excitement to the show. There is a conspiracy to spread the flu virus at the widest coverage possible, and it’s not just a theory

Why would any sane person publish details about how to weaponize bird flu? We are not dealing with sane people. We are dealing with people infected by the blasphemous reality of the mentally ill: Satanism. We are dealing with Illuminists-Satanists who are out to execute their agenda for depopulation, genocide, fomenting chaos, diseases, deaths, violence …. to initiate hell on earth … to prepare the way for their fake messiah, the Anti-Christ, the bringer of false peace, the white horseman of Revelation 6. They want to use bio-weapons and even race specific Bird Flu in this coming Satanic World War 3.

https://tinyurl.com/3hnckske

https://tinyurl.com/445hxezy

Thats all folks !

Posted by: denk | Mar 10 2025 4:33 utc | 98

There was someone who "didn't like" Elon Musk and made that clear on social media. And he was arrested for that.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nOw1KKD0TRs

Posted by: WMG | Mar 10 2025 5:09 utc | 99

Greenland Rejects Trump Pledge to Make the Island American

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250305-trump-tells-greenland-us-will-get-it-one-way-or-the-other

"Greenland's prime minister on Wednesday hit back at President Trump's pledge to take the Arctic territory 'one way or the other', insisting that Islanders did not see their future with the United States - or even Denmark.

'We don't want to be Americans or Danes either. We are Greenlanders. The Americans and their leader must understand that', PM Egede wrote in a Facebook post.

'We are not for sale and can't just be taken. Our future is decided by us in Greenland..."

Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 10 2025 5:15 utc | 100

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