@Posted by: canuck | Apr 4 2025 13:44 utc | 98
Nietzsche was a classic clever low elite careerist climber, high as a kite many days due to the need of drugs to deal with his many ailments, who put forward a self-serving philosophy that only the great men (ubermensch) should rule society. Just like Plato’s philosopher kings. This of course played very well with the German higher elite who were happy to reward his obsequiousness. He attended private school where he was able to make the necessary connections with elite society and understand what was required of him to be allowed to rise in society. It is remarkable how many of the “great” philosophers were in fact such careerists, making up elite-serving theories to facilitate their social and economic progression; including many of the liberal philosophers such as Adam Smith, Ricardo, Bentham’s family was quite wealthy.
Until quite recently, philosophy, history and anthropology were dominated by the 1% (the ones who could afford not to work and spend time researching) and the courtiers of the 1% (who could get paid to spend time researching). Even Marx was only able to continue his research after being persecuted throughout Europe for his philosophical theories because of the wealth of Engels. I find it quite astonishing that people can view philosophy as independent of the social place and interests of the philosopher.
Losurdo did an excellent analysis of Nietzsche in his book “Nietzsche, The Aristocratic Rebel” identifying “the ruthless implications of Nietzsche’s anti-democratic thinking – his celebration of slavery, of war and colonial expansion, and eugenics” placing him within the context of “his many contemporary apologists”.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Apr 4 2025 14:23 utc | 104

Kühlungsborn, Germany: the ruling party dissolves.

We hereby cancel our membership of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) with immediate effect.
Our decision is based on a series of far-reaching political developments that we can no longer support. The debt brake is the DNA of the CDU. The current amendment to the Basic Law has effectively abolished it. This is not a “special fund”, but additional debt amounting to 1 trillion euros – with serious consequences for our country.
In addition, the inclusion of climate neutrality by 2045 in the Basic Law has definitely exceeded the limits for us. Political objectives of this scope do not belong in the constitution, but in the democratic debate.
We can already see the consequences: rising inflation, rising prices, a massively increasing interest burden and a huge burden that we are placing on the younger generation.
What Germany needs are far-reaching reforms. With tax revenues of almost 1 trillion euros, it is incomprehensible to us how these funds are currently being used. The disastrous economic development, partly caused by the policies of the current Minister of Economic Affairs Robert Habeck and the current government, puts Germany at a considerable competitive disadvantage compared to other European countries.
Another crucial point remains migration policy. The pull factors must be reduced to the absolute minimum. With the SPD as a coalition partner, we do not currently see a major, effective solution.
Similarly, the abolition of the heating law and a fundamental reorientation of the citizen’s income (up to and including the abolition of the citizen’s income) remain of great importance to us. These points were part of our political conviction and our election campaign – and were rewarded by the citizens.
We know that compromises are necessary in coalition negotiations. But we have to realize that the election winner, the CDU, is hardly or not at all reflected in the ongoing talks. This is dramatically demonstrated by both the exploratory talks to date and the amendments to the Basic Law.(cdu-kuehlungsborn.info)

“>https://www.cdu-kuehlungsborn.info/”>cdu-kuehlungsborn.info)

Posted by: Passerby | Apr 4 2025 14:28 utc | 106

A interesting point on Trump’s tariffs.
“Trump believes offence is the best defence. So he throws out tariff to force others to negotiate. If you give in, he roll back tariff. So essentially Trump can get concession for nothing. This is the art of the deal
Trump put 34% on China
Bessent said don’t ever retaliate or you will get counter retaliation
Lutnick said if China crack down on fentanyl, 20% tariff can be roll back
Text book Art of the Deal move
China saw through this and call the bluff
Counter 34% means no US export can be competitive in China, technically decoupling
What can Trump do? Current China import avg tariff is over 60% and if US can find replacement, they will. Those that still imported to US means there is no replacement. Trump can add that to 600%, result is the same
If Trump puts on counter tariff, China US decouple. Is US prepared?
If Trump gives in, the world sees that and will take a tough stand. The entire chess game is over.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 4 2025 14:52 utc | 108

Just Wow! if its true.
“China has begun mass production of nuclear batteries
The declared service life is 50 years without recharging. The battery does not emit radiation, and at the end of its life cycle it turns into ordinary copper.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 4 2025 14:42 utc | 107
Isotopes for (very) small energy production is an old thing.
But half-life is a thing.
e.g. at 101 years half life, nickel 63 will probably still have 70%+ of “charge” at 50 years, barely useful, but still 70% radioactive nickel. That will still be 25% @ 200 years so millennia before it turns to “pure copper” -63
Second thing is 100 MICRO watts
Puny energy is puny.
A us company is also on the same page, infinity power.
Nothing particularly interesting nor new.

Posted by: Newbie | Apr 4 2025 15:01 utc | 110

The Ukrainian, Neo-Nazi dictator – Zelensky – spending some of his stolen cash.
“In case you were wondering how your tax dollars are being spent – Zelensky just purchased a 51% stake in one of the biggest platinum mining companies in South Africa – Northam Platinum.
The price is believed to be around $1.6B. Zelensky will be visiting South Africa on April 10th.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 4 2025 15:02 utc | 112

the technology for nuclear batteries
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 4 2025 14:58 utc | 109
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If nuclear batteries were feasible biological examples would be found in living organisms.

Posted by: too scents | Apr 4 2025 15:03 utc | 114

Come on people, prove me wrong. Demonstrate you’re capable of taking a broader view; discard the crutch of rote anti-Americanism.
https://x.com/morningdwnld/status/1908163798084858349
PS This isn’t cheerleadering, rather an example of evaluating different data points. We still lost in Ukraine, Russia still exists, now stronger than ever. We still need to move forward on Greenland and Canada. Nothing is set nor settled, there are many different theaters in play. But to blindly stick by a losing proposition repeating the same old tired BS regardless of context or understanding isn’t a good look.

Posted by: markw | Apr 4 2025 15:09 utc | 116

Fascinating to see Washington not realize that only 2.7% of Chinese GDP is dependent on exports to USA.

Posted by: Exile | Apr 4 2025 15:19 utc | 118

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 4 2025 14:52 utc | 108
###########
The chess game was over when South Korea, Japan, and China teamed up.
That was a sign of organized defiance that everyone noticed worldwide.
EU response is coming on the 7th. It may be trivial but it will be a signal of how people regard Trump’s approach.
A bully can be terrifying but once you have seen him knocked down the aura of fear fades.
My continuing concern is what Trump does once everyone tunes him out. He’s incapable of backing down and doesn’t do win-win deals.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 4 2025 15:25 utc | 120

“anti-Americanism”
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Anti-Americanism is Joe Caligula Biden and Donald Likud Trump
Americanism is Thomas Massie, the last free man in Washington DC
When the power of Washington DC declines, that day Americans will regain their freedom.

Posted by: Simon | Apr 4 2025 15:33 utc | 122

I am not familiar that familiar with Heidegger, but Nietzsche was certainly not a Fascist; kindly please educate yourself:
Posted by: canuck | Apr 4 2025 13:44 utc | 98

Please, stop letting ChatGPT think and research on your behalf, and stop trying to pass off ChatGPT responses as your own. Are you trying very hard to emulate your idol Trump who used ChatGPT to formulate his tariff plans?
The deep irony here is that those ChatGPT points you listed as arguments against Nietzsche being fascistic are actually evidence of Nietzsche being fascistic.
It is you who needs self-education. Roger Boyd already recommended an excellent book by Losurdo. If reading an entire book sounds too daunting for you, Georg Lukacs penned an article critical of Nietzsche in the midst of the anti-fascist war, in 1943.
Here is an excerpt:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/nietzsche/ch04.htm
What does the transformation of people demanded by Nietzsche consist of? Especially of a new picture of the future. Nietzsche believed that the world was growing beyond the narrow nationalism and provincialism of his time, that the age of great politics and great wars was beginning, an age which he considered Bismarck unfit to lead. From a social point of view he develops the following image of the coming lords of the earth: “The sight of the present European gives me a lot of hope: a daring ruling race is forming there, on the breadth of an extremely intelligent herd mass.” The task of philosophy is now to create a morality “with the intention of breeding a ruling caste – the future masters of the earth.” To bring about this state of affairs requires “a new terrorism”.
Let us now consider that morality which, according to Nietzsche, is necessary for breeding such a master race. In the beginning there is a renewed barbarization of the instincts: “A lordly race can only grow from terrible and violent beginnings. Problem: where are the barbarians of the twentieth century? Apparently they will only become visible and consolidate after tremendous social crises.” Here Nietzsche is clearly a prophet of Hitlerism.
The ideal of the barbarization of human instincts runs as a guide through Nietzsche’s entire development. We can already see it in his early works, as a supposedly original struggle for a deeper understanding of antiquity. The struggle against the academic conventions in the ancient conception, which is justified in details, is the bait for the dissatisfied intelligentsia; the essential content is the discovery of barbarism as the real guiding principle of antiquity. Nietzsche later extended this philosophy of history to the Renaissance, to France in the seventeenth century. He saw models everywhere for the longed-for, coming barbarian type of the future.
According to Nietzsche, barbarism stands at the beginning of every culture, and according to his ideal, barbarism is the conclusion, the culmination of cultural development. In his concluding main work he defines the ideal of the superman as follows: “Man is the monster and super-animal; the higher man is the inhuman and superman: that is how they belong together. With every growth of man in size and height, he also grows in the deep and terrible: one should not want the one without the other – or rather: the more thoroughly one wants the one, the more thoroughly one achieves the other.”
Above all, it is necessary to overcome the (Christian-democratic) conscience. Conscience, according to Nietzsche, is the introverted cruelty of the original barbarians, an inversion that is the destructive work of Christianity and democracy. The task of the new morality consists above all in freeing man in this respect, in freeing him from his conscience, in having his original cruelty turn outwards again. Since Nietzsche, as we have seen, sees biological basic facts in oppression and exploitation, his morality wants to eliminate everything that prevents the healthy natural instincts of man from being lived out. “I fight against the thought that egoism is harmful and reprehensible: I want to create a good conscience for egoism.” The pessimism of strength, the overcoming of decadence from within, is therefore an affirmation of the animal in man: “The animality no longer terrifies; a witty and happy arrogance in favor of the animal in man is the most triumphant form of spirituality at such times.”
Once one has clearly seen these basic principles of the Nietzschean moral and social philosophy, one finds it self-evident that he became the enthusiastic prophet of the militarism of the imperialist period. We have already noted that he regards the militarization of the labor relationship as an ideal. It is only logical that he himself enthusiastically endorses militarism. “I am pleased with the military development of Europe … The barbarian is affirmed in each of us, even the wild animal.” And in complete agreement with his basic views, Nietzsche therefore glorifies the imperialist military state, the growth of militaristic Prussia into the one he dreamed of Coming time of the ords of the Earth: “The maintenance of the military state is the very last resort, the great tradition, whether it be taken up or maintained, with regard to the supreme type of man, the strong type. And all concepts that enmity and perpetuate the rank distance of the states, may then appear sanctioned (e.g. nationalism, protective tariffs).” Nietzsche, who, as we have seen, generally despised provincialism and nationalism, approves of the latter provided that it becomes the organ of imperialist militarism, of imperialist struggles for world domination, of imperialist wars.
Of course, Nietzschean teaching is not identical with the official ideology of Hitlerism. It cannot be because Nietzsche stopped thinking on the eve of imperialism: for him the age of imperialist barbarism is still a dream of the future, while fascist ideology arose as a repulsive product of decay of developed imperialism. This difference in periods also determines the difference in intellectual and aesthetic level. Nietzsche is a man of broad and varied culture, in contrast to the ignorance of Hitler or Goering, the boastful half-education of a Rosenberg or Goebbels; For all his mannerisms, he is a witty and important stylist who – albeit often problematically – has nevertheless worked creatively in language, in contrast to the barbarization and rape of the German language under Hitlerian tyranny. In addition, one could also point out many individual deviations. Nietzsche always despised anti-Semitism.
Despite all these conceptual, aesthetic, and moral differences, Rosenberg rightly named Nietzsche the ancestor of German fascism. For Nietzsche carried the glorification of barbarism into German philosophy, and the more justly one assesses his intellectual abilities, his cultural-critical work, the more clearly one must see that the change he made created the basis for that reactionary development in German ideology, from which fascism then drew its intellectual arsenal.

Denying that Nazism is the ideological successor of Nietzsche is the same as denying that NATO is an organization that continued the Nazis’ fight against socialism and communism.

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Apr 4 2025 15:47 utc | 124

@119 Julianna
Reconciliation with liberalism is a big question. I am not sure that what Russia is embodying now, for example, is indeed a liberal force vanquishing fascism that has taken root in the west. Many here are hoping it is.
I do think many here unconsciously believe this: that the advancement of liberalism since the enlightenment is generally a force for good that has merit and should be saved. But I think that peak-liberalism still can not answer the call to certain needs of the human spirit. That the march of technology leads to an overall deflation in man’s orientation to philosophy.
In the liberal mind, philosophy is just a tool, a science among many, a survey of popular thinkers. That doesn’t cut the mustard and will eventually lead the people to a crisis of meaning.
As always your posts warrant a second reading. Thx for the effort!

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Apr 4 2025 15:55 utc | 126

@Simon | Apr 4 2025 15:33 utc. Simon: succinct and accurate.
For non-U.S. Rest-of-World barflies: would you like to learn what a “highly-regarded among the little people” citizen of the U.S. looks like? Check out Thomas Massie.
Here’s a 35-min utube vid about Massie, his politics, education, career, family and his KY homestead. The man can hit the ball. He’s also U.S. congressman, which is almost incomprehensible, given how good he is, and how wildly out-of-step he is with the rest of Congress.
In another vid, Massie is interviewed by Carlson Tucker, and Massie tells the story about how AIPAC controls Congress, and tangentially how AIPAC uses Christian evangelism to exert pressure on behalf of Israel.
This is probably the best, short-form primer on how Israel exerts political influence over the U.S. that I’ve seen. 10 mins vid.
There are a lot of people here in the U.S. that like Thomas Massie.

Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Apr 4 2025 16:06 utc | 128

What is the tariff on KSA?
Zero
Manufactured goods are exactly the same as oil.
Manufactured goods are embodied affordable energy.
The question is who “earns a living” transforming affordable energy into manufactured goods.
The question is resolved around cost skills and facilitation.
The question was resolved based on currency distortion.
The currency distortion is present because of reserve currency status.
Nixon should have fixed this in 73.
Who fixed USA manufacturing?
Japan.. Japan blew the doors off manufacturing. Japan set the standard in manufacturing for the whole world. Japan taught Germany too. Japan innovated. China is running with the ball but Japan brought it to the 10 yard line. USA could have run the ball but handed it to China and went into the war and money creation business. Nixon could have not reconciled with China. Nixon could have not gone into the war and money creation business. But Japan had not fixed USA manufacturing yet.
None of it could have happened without debt. None of it could have happened without the affordable energy token. But the affordable energy token is a ponzi. Now he music stops and where the manifestation of where the affordable energy token created facilitation are physically located where they are.

Posted by: LosBanos | Apr 4 2025 16:37 utc | 130

Posted by: LosBanos | Apr 4 2025 15:02 utc | 111 Sorry, no, tariffs are a form of sales tax. Directly blocking imports is sanctioning yourself. Jefferson tried this with the Embargo Act/Non-Intercourse Act. Like Trump, Jefferson was deluded about the economic power of America. Jefferson’s failed policies didn’t prevent the War of 1812, helped it be a de facto tactical loss. In the very long run, there was some increased industrial production from necessity, but as the joke has it, at what price? The greatest periods of US industrialization did not occur until much later, nor were they fostered by other Jeffersonian policies like low revenue tariffs, large expensive sale of public lands for maximum revenue, minimal government that eschewed internal improvements, balanced government budgets no matter what. (It was Madison who was stuck with the war spending.)

Posted by: steven t johnson | Apr 4 2025 17:11 utc | 132

Trump’s American Rebuild
As Trump bets on tariffs to jumpstart a U.S. manufacturing comeback, the question looms: can America reindustrialize without reinventing the global economy and capping trade imbalances?
https://www.beyondwasteland.net/p/trumps-american-rebuild

Posted by: KevinB | Apr 4 2025 17:28 utc | 134

Posted by: too scents | Apr 4 2025 17:49 utc | 135
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Trump has fired up hyper-nationalism in the already very nationalistic China, they will never allow him to get TikTok.
They can’t. I would be an enormous loss of face for them.
Besides, the last time the Zionists tried to ban TikTok, thousands of Americans discovered (via Xiaohongshu aka Red Note) that China has cheap education, housing, and national healthcare—amazing self-own by the Congress.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 4 2025 19:00 utc | 136

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 4 2025 19:02 utc | 137
I read somewhere (forgot where) that 84,000 drones were involved. Now imagine if they were armed. What could they do to a US fleet? How would a fleet defend against such? I think the Pentagon should just call it a day.

Posted by: horseguards | Apr 4 2025 19:42 utc | 138

Juan Moment | Apr 4 2025 12:11 utc | 90
“In Germany, for example, only those self-employed with no employees, or working for only one client, are obliged to pay into the government pension system.”
Minor point, it’s not an OR in this code, it’s an AND. Both conditions have to be met. Self-employed with no employees and working for only one client, you have to pay into the government pension scheme.
Also, if your ‘trade’ or line of business is that of a tradesperson or insurance broker, typically those won’t be compelled to use the government pension scheme and social security. There are indeed many self-employed types of job for which the law makes it compulsory to pay for and use government pension and social security, like midwives, artists, journalists and fishermen (see). What the rationale behind this selection is, I don’t know. Is it fair? I don’t know. But on the other hand, there are scores of self-employed professions that are off the hook. They are absolutely free to use the common state-run schemes, or shun the state and take out private social security insurance, or have no social security insurance and pension scheme at all (and thus be a direct payer, whatever your bill is). Doctors, lawyers, accountants, traders or dealers for whatever, life coaches, psychotherapists, physiotherapists, pharmacists, franchisees etc etc. And that is a baked-in problem for the system that we have, because many in those middle-class professions make a lot of cash.

Posted by: Scotch Bingeington | Apr 4 2025 19:58 utc | 140

I do not have an agenda, because I’m a person who are destroyed by the terrible instance of cancer. It’s a mess to see so hypocritical old men.

Posted by: Malenkov | Apr 4 2025 20:43 utc | 142

I see Tucker continuing to shill for the regime by interviewing Treasury Secretary Bessent, after doing Steve Witkoff and USTR Robert Lighthizer.
Hilarious. I have been casually tracking the Deep State’s attempts to create regime forms of Joe Rogan to capture the podcast space.
I believe that Tucker is a Patriot, but he only presents the Trump side of every argument. When he interviewed the Qatari leader in an obvious whitewashing, I was disgusted.
Qatar, while tiny, is one of the worst regimes on the planet, IMO.
It would really be a shame if they caught a dozen Iranian hypersonics with their airfields if a conflict kicks off.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 4 2025 20:53 utc | 144

The problem is that you are a hypocritical bitch. Not all of you. There are, certainly, men and women who are truthful.
And, I see beyond the structure. Because I was living that mess. All the people is free because must be individual and we have a great option: be honest and be free:

Posted by: Malenkov | Apr 4 2025 21:08 utc | 146

Posted by: malenkov | Apr 4 2025 22:31 utc | 147
i knew it wasnt you. Knew who it was by the second post.
next up: love and dead grandmothers.

Posted by: UWDude | Apr 4 2025 23:29 utc | 148

[jukebox] Swans – Love will Save You

Posted by: persiflo | Apr 4 2025 23:51 utc | 150

Posted by: canuck | Apr 4 2025 13:44 utc | 98
“@104 Roger
Your post proves to me, not even being a Nietzsche scholar, that he is the most misquoted, misappropriated, and misunderstood thinker that ever had the misfortune of being a genius.
You are a good writer and thinker. You could probably do much better than this. But I will take a look at your book reference for the argument.”
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Apr 4 2025 17:17 utc | 133
Look, Roger believes that Nietzsche was/is a Fascist -he died (1889?) fully 25 years before the actual definition of Fascism was defined and coined. (1)
However, there is no reason for me to rejoin the intellectual skirmish after Boyd’s last voluminous, rather pointless counter attack-I said my piece -Nietzsche wasn’t and can’t be defined as a Fascist; Boyd believes the opposite.
Readers can decide for themselves.
1. “Benito Mussolini upon being expelled from his position as chief editor of the PSI’s newspaper Avanti! for his anti-German stance, joined the interventionist cause in a separate fascio. The term “fascism” was first used in 1915 by members of Mussolini’s movement, the Fasces of Revolutionary Action.”

Posted by: canuck | Apr 5 2025 2:03 utc | 152

Both of you guys are Canadians and very rigid ideologues. Maybe you should get a room. Fly to Palm Springs or Boca Raton.

Posted by: Spectator | Apr 5 2025 2:28 utc | 154

https://tinyurl.com/y5pr2mab
Iconic image removed in DEI purged
Maga

them injun dont belong here

https://tinyurl.com/263mb6s2

Posted by: denk | Apr 5 2025 3:08 utc | 156

Posted by: john brewster | Apr 4 2025 0:37 utc | 50

Ad hominem attacks are not a valid argument.

Posted by: KOB | Apr 5 2025 3:15 utc | 158

“Ad hominem attacks are not a valid argument.”
Posted by: KOB | Apr 5 2025 3:15 utc | 158
In your case they actually are valid. It is who/whom. You are a fucking idiot with your “viruses don’t exist” idiocy. Do you think Bigfoot exists?

Posted by: Spectator | Apr 5 2025 3:33 utc | 160

Posted by: Spectator | Apr 5 2025 3:33 utc | 160

I plead to you to read this:
https://drsambailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/A-FAREWELL-TO-VIROLOGY-Expert-Edition-V1.2.pdf
Ignorance is not an excuse. Unquestioning obedience to authority is a danger to yourself and others.

Posted by: KOB | Apr 5 2025 3:57 utc | 162

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Apr 5 2025 3:59 utc | 163
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Trump should try telling that to this injun..
https://www.rt.com/usa/native-american-immigration-man-500/

Posted by: denk | Apr 5 2025 4:17 utc | 164

This is sure to please China.

Taiwan’s top security official arrives in US for secret talks
Meeting comes amid mounting tensions between Washington and Beijing
Taiwan’s top national security official is in the Washington area for secret talks with the Trump administration as China increases military pressure on its island neighbour.
Joseph Wu, Taiwan’s national security adviser and former foreign minister, is leading a delegation for a meeting known as the “special channel”. The talks were set for Friday and mark Donald Trump’s first use of the forum since he returned as US president in January.
The channel has been in use between the US and Taiwan for years but was first revealed by the Financial Times in 2021. It offers a setting for officials from Washington and Taipei to discuss security issues although the two sides do not openly discuss it.
…
The channel typically includes US officials from across the administration, including the National Security Council.
…
People familiar with the situation said figures in Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement were seeking to purge NSC officials they considered “neoconservatives”, or more willing to use American military power abroad.
The Maga camp has received support from Laura Loomer, a far-right conspiracy theorist and social media influencer, who urged Trump in a meeting this week to fire NSC staffers. She has also targeted Alex Wong, deputy national security adviser, and Ivan Kanapathy, the NSC official for Asia who would have been expected to attend the secret channel meetings.
https://www.ft.com/content/8b18ff26-703e-4ace-b362-8ad862799e19

Loomer! Inside the Taiwan backchannel.

Posted by: too scents | Apr 5 2025 4:51 utc | 166

Posted by: waynorinorway | Apr 5 2025 4:53 utc | 167
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The who’s who of eugenics junkies…
Exhibit A
‘My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it’s full complement of species, returning throughout the world.’
https://www.azquotes.com/quotes/topics/depopulation.html
Signing off….

Posted by: denk | Apr 5 2025 5:07 utc | 168

People familiar with the situation said figures in Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement were seeking to purge NSC officials they considered “neoconservatives”, or more willing to use American military power abroad.
Posted by: too scents | Apr 5 2025 4:51 utc | 166
#################
These hypocrites! They have no problem with military power used for Israel.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 5 2025 5:31 utc | 170

The Neutrality Studies YouTube channel has posted up a good interview on the JFK-Adelson-Mossad connection. It hits the high notes inside an hour.
Cover-Up Continues After Newly Released JFK Files | Harry Berger & Aaron Good ==> https://youtu.be/IhRZ_gHhUWs

Posted by: too scents | Apr 5 2025 8:11 utc | 172

Pork. Pork. Pork. Pork. Pork.

Trump Administration Weighs New Bailout for U.S. Farmers
Bracing for trade fallout, agriculture groups press for relief ahead of retaliatory tariffs on American exports
Trump administration officials and lawmakers are mulling a new bailout for U.S. farmers as agricultural groups warn of economic fallout from the president’s tariff push.
The discussions are at an early stage, with the scope of potential relief needed still unclear, according to administration officials, lawmakers, congressional aides and farm trade groups.
“We’re talking about, looking at it,” Sen. John Hoeven (R., N.D.) said of the possible relief package, noting he had spoken about it Thursday with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins.
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Amid a downturn in the agricultural market, Congress late last year approved $10 billion in relief aid to farmers. USDA recently began distributing the funds. A new relief package could potentially be larger, given the broad nature of the tariffs and industry challenges, a congressional aide said Friday.
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“We are setting up the infrastructure that if, in fact, we have some economic consequences in the short term to our farmers and perhaps our ranchers, that we will have programs in place to solve for that,” Rollins told reporters this week.
Even with the aid, farm groups have warned for months that retaliatory tariffs targeting U.S. agricultural exports could further harm prices for corn, soybeans, cotton and other crops. More than 20% of farm income comes from exports, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation, one of the nation’s largest agriculture trade groups.
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“We hope there will be a bailout,” said Barry Evans, who farms sorghum and cotton on 5,000 acres in Texas and sits on the board of directors for the sorghum grain trade group. “If we don’t get something, it will be quite a disaster.”
Soybean prices sank on Friday and are down nearly 20% over the past 12 months. Roughly 60% of soybeans, meal and soy oil produced in the U.S. end up exported.
Trump’s first trade war led to more than $27 billion in losses of agricultural exports, according to USDA research. The federal government sent about $23 billion to compensate farmers during Trump’s first term.
full story ==> https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-administration-weighs-new-bailout-for-u-s-farmers-8916a521

Agriculture has long been unprofitable without government aid. Something about the tendency of profit to fall.
The correct support is to give people vouchers that they can use to spend on agricultural production and thus let the market decide where the value is.

Posted by: too scents | Apr 5 2025 8:49 utc | 174

Anyone surprised? The Dutch have so much interests in the US that they do not want to be hurt by their… EU partners.
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/04/dutch-urge-restraint-over-us-tariff-response-ahead-of-eu-meeting/

Posted by: Tom | Apr 5 2025 10:13 utc | 176

Good morning from London folks. A leisurely start today.
Well where to now? I’ll pick the Neitschen canard if I may?
First a thanks to all the participants regardless of their motive or worth.
Don’t know how long it’ll be, sorry Roger.
I’ll start by badly quoting that so far unmentioned and later person than Nietzsche. The crisis consists entirely in the new struggling to be born while the old refuses to lay down and die as Gramsci discerned speaking of the same problem.
He was another great Eurocentric ‘Philosopher’, who had rebelled against the fake socialism of the Marxist Communist neo religion created by the ziofascist AngloEuropeans owners and master through the C19th. As it was rejected by Stalin and co too!
That was cooked up into the full blown Nazism as a mental aberration to send the German peoples and fellow travellers to the mincer, as they had in the trench warfare of WW1 (which actually wasn’t about war, just a means of getting rid of troublesome ‘peasants’.)
The main effort of WW2 was to savagely destroy all things Russia and China – including the failed attempt at imposing the neoreligion of Leninist-Trotskyism upon the followers of the Orthodox of Russia that had escaped the yoke of jesuite ziofascist Holy Rome!
This seems to have been facilitated by the Russian Peoples long developed nature, to embrace their spiritual EurAsinism with the spiritual message of the Christianity.
The critical thought being that the orthodox that had escaped like a genie from the bottle of Western European ziofascism of the Holy Roman Empires’ grasp – is actually the liberalism that some here seek!
Is that the morality that Nietzsche spake of and seems to have wanted to be the guiding principle of a superior European race?
I understand he died early and a lot of his works were possibly written by his sister and her partner.
I don’t know more than that.
Is it true?
The Russian psyche that so befuddled the ziofascists and their henchmen for centuries and including Napoleon to Churchill to Hitler to the Collective Waste now.
It was born from the millenia of tribal sharing the vast EurAsian continent that gave rise to the multiple civilisational evolutions.
The savagery of suffering, attempted genocidal extermination, cruelty and mass slaughter of family and neighbours and all the strangers as the ziofascist overlords sent their willing ‘supermen’ and slave masters to do their bidding against the only true ‘European’ human spirit, that had resisted them again and again, without resorting to dumb animal rage and destroying the invaders totally and forever – because they are a moral human civilisation evolved peoples.
Civilised – that is the EurAsian lands.
And Africans.
That’s what made them so easily captured, enslaved, exploited …
The fact such old human civilisations didn’t respond by destroying the invaders and following them back to our lands and laying such a birthing cesspool to ruins so that such evil could not rise again upon the Earth – is a testament of the true liberalism, built of deep spirituality , unsullied by the myth of a single god, an ubermensch , that results in that imaginary entity creating and supporting a Chosen One Peoples to Own and Rule over the whole of ‘Creation’.
Yup the fascist, ziofascist, financial fascist, roots run deep into history and the fake creation myths post the failure of their empire to extend any further under the Roman guise!
That led to all the imperial nation states of Europe- all with their superiority complexes! Culminating in the British Empire and the baton passing to the American Empire – of which we now see the direct transformation of a Republic to a Monarchic State with its Caesars!
I’m not saying it just started with Drumpff – Hey the Roosevelt’s and Bush’s and other such landed gentry have been around since befor the Mason Dixon Line was ordained by the elite aristos sent to colonise the east coast only!
That too seems intent on bashing its brains upon the ancient folly of the conquest of EurAsia. URA!
Whether anyone can put the blame firmly at Neitschzes tomb is in my mind, unsettled.
Have good day barflies.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Apr 5 2025 10:33 utc | 178

Vance prepping US troops in Greenland for the illegal land grab.
“On Friday, Vance told US troops stationed at Pituffik Space Base on Greenland’s coast that Washington plans to annex the mineral-rich region, if necessary, by “military force.”
Vance criticized Denmark, claiming that the small Scandinavian country had failed to adequately protect the island’s security.
“Our message to Denmark is very simple … You have underinvested in the people of Greenland, and you have underinvested in the security architecture of this incredible, beautiful landmass filled with incredible people. That has to change.”
The majority of Greenland’s 57,000 inhabitants are in favor of independence from Denmark. However, since Trump expressed his willingness to annex the ice-covered island, they say are not interested in joining the United States.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 5 2025 14:16 utc | 180

“Ad hominem attacks are not a valid argument.”
Posted by: KOB | Apr 5 2025 3:15 utc | 158
In your case they actually are valid. It is who/whom. You are a fucking idiot with your “viruses don’t exist” idiocy. Do you think Bigfoot exists?
Posted by: Spectator | Apr 5 2025 3:33 utc | 160
Its much more complex than your realiz: , Antione Bechamp, was a contemporary of Pasteur’s.
Bechamp’s idea was called ‘terrain theory’ such that bacteria, viruses themselves are not the initiating incident they were fine until there was weak or damaged, or toxic tissue and they would would attack; voila infection..
On Pasteur’s deathbed his last words were, “Bechamps is right”.(1)
“1.Béchamp’s “Terrain Theory”:
Béchamps argued that microbes became dangerous when the health of the host (its “terrain” or environment) deteriorated, rather than being the primary cause of disease as Pasteur proposed with his germ theory.
The Rivalry:
Their rivalry stemmed from their competing theories about fermentation and disease, with Béchamp criticizing Pasteur’s germ theory as “the greatest scientific silliness of the age”.
Pasteur’s Germ Theory:
Pasteur’s germ theory, which states that many diseases are caused by invisible germs, is the foundation of modern medicine and is supported by evolutionary theory and observations.
Béchamp’s Legacy:
Today, Béchamp is largely remembered by those who promote alternative medicine and anti-vaxxers, who believe that food is medicine and that the body’s internal environment is the key to health.
Other Opponents:
While Béchamp was the most prominent opponent, Pasteur also faced criticism from others who continued to defend spontaneous generation, the belief that life could arise spontaneously from non-living matter. ”

Posted by: canuck | Apr 5 2025 15:30 utc | 182

Shit stirrers on steroid …..
Arab News
Saturday . April 05, 2025
HomeTrumps’ top diplomat Rubio affirms ‘ironclad’ US commitment to Philippines amid China threat
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Right after the sino/jp/sk summit,
6 days ago — U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth described Japan on Sunday as indispensable for tackling Chinese aggression and said implementing of a …
6 days ago — United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says his country and Japan share a “warrior ethos” in tackling Chinese aggression across the Taiwan
Pentagon chief Hegseth says US command in ‘warrior’ Japan being upgraded to deter China

Posted by: denk | Apr 5 2025 15:50 utc | 184

What is “warrior ethos?”
..from US Army (boys and girls)
WARRIOR ETHOS
I will always place the mission first.
I will never accept defeat.
I will never quit.
I will never leave a fallen comrade…here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 5 2025 15:59 utc | 186

@161 AUH
Sorry for the delayed response. I usually like to settle in with some coffee before answering fan mail.
Do you know, dear sir, that I was the first poster here, perhaps the first person ever, to use the phrase “decouple” in reference to the U.S. and China’s trade relations? Check it out. (I have tried, but am unable to find the exact point I started with it, but I do have an affinity for wagons, trains, and hitches)
Your response to mine is basically the flip side: I throw some shade on China because everyone here always gives them a pass and you send it back and tell me to look at my own elite who sold us down the river to the Chinese. I don’t see anything necessarily wrong with either and, in fact, I have come around in my writing here to reflect that position: China has worked hard to secure the mantle as supreme, manufacturing powerhouse.
What I wanted to accomplish with my writing is the idea of mutual infection, that China made a deal with western elites (basically Satan) to make McDonald’s Happy Meal toys for us and you could expect bad things down the line. Now, what’s the problem? China used its mercantilism the same way the U.S. uses tomahawks. Who can argue against this? Are you really going to defend the position that when a nation guts its own manufacturing sector, that the accomplices to this policy will not reap a whirlwind down the line? “But it’s just friendly competition!” you will say. Sure, competition that when it enters the existential realities of a nation’s tenability will invite war and conflict in the future. We are seeing the fruits of this.
Now what were China’s alternatives? I don’t think they had any. They have no choice but to harness their strength, to “shake their money maker,” what God gave them. Perhaps I am asking too much from China then to openly challenge the liberal west and that their pussy-footing might be the only means at their disposal to eventually wear down Uncle Sambo and his gimps. So you can see, I think my view of China has evolved and I think that is ok. Isn’t that the point of philosophical dialogue? The teacher needs students, and I think it is an indictment of the whole liberal edifice we inhabit to smear someone or judge them for not towing the company line right this minute! I work hard in the other direction: I want to be a teacher, therefore I need a student to nurture. And, I believe in teaching, therefore I need to be an excellent student.
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Now regarding philosophers like Heidegger and Nietzsche, I will admit that I am more familiar with Heidegger. However, there is something special about Nietzsche and it is beyond what Canuck alludes to above in his post regarding the endless cycle of violence and renewal of the Dionysian that speaks to me.
Liberalism is not a neutral system that welcomes all and celebrates all. Nietzsche correctly points out that liberalism is the greatest tyranny of all because it accepts no substitutes. It entertains and permits discussion to occur, although this is even becoming less acceptable to them as their plight enters its twilight, but because philosophy has been relegated to being an equal amongst the physical and social sciences, philosophers are treated more as anatomical oddities (“How did they live? What drugs did they consume? What affairs did they partake in?”) and when a man like Heidegger comes around during the National Socialist Movement in the hopes of transmogrifying the liberal mind back into authentic Dasein in the service of world spirit, he is smeared as backwards, an ape, a fascist.
The same goes for Nietzsche here at the bar. If Liberalism continually seeks to stifle spirit, keep it in the bottle locked away, so to speak, in its substituting Leviathan for Dionysis, I can think of no greater anti-human force that has befallen mankind now or ever. And yet people here refuse to acknowledge this or give credit to Nietzsche who was perhaps the first in history to point out that liberalism is not a neutral system. “We have killed Him,” the madman says.
As a Christian, it is painful for me to have to agree that the promise of safety from Dionysian violence destroys what makes a human being a human being. This is the question that arises from the work of Rene Girard who took a great look at Nietzsche and Heidegger’s reading of Nietzsche.
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But, and here is the breakthrough when looking at these guys: they all agree that Liberalism is not the system of peace it says it is. Whether or not it unwittingly obscures the Dionysian pull or sanctions it in a backroom, it is insufficient when dealing with human reality and its need for violence. This is what I mean when I say that liberalism has not reconciled with the sacred. That modern liberalism is really just Catholicism minus its sacred trappings (Catholicism started the university and hospital system and kept the Jews (usury) under control).
Nietzsche: Mankind is violent and needs the Dionysian; Liberalism/Post-Christianity is a doomed tyrant.
Heidegger: Man is the one who breaks open reality and innately desires to know. We need Nietzsche.
Girard: We can accept Heidegger and Nietzsche for their uncovering of the essential obscuring of the Dionysian within the Liberal cult. But is the resulting violence, even in the open, really acceptable, or has God sent a messenger and an alternative message where he wants us to realize Man’s fallen nature/need for blood sacrifice and has offered a scapegoat in place of all other innocent victims?

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Apr 5 2025 16:12 utc | 188

China has hit back hard in its tariff response.
They won’t cover this in Western news.
Now it is up to Trump to retaliate. The problem for him is that China has all of the cards.
If it goes far enough, China can always “nuke” the treasury market.
As I posted in the tariff discussion, which has been abandoned for colonizer white supremacy philosophy class, China is positioning itself to accept zero-tariff imports from the poorest Global South countries.
Trump’s gambit was to bring everyone to the negotiating table with guns to their heads.
Extorting money from the Arab kingdoms won’t do much if Iran erases all of their oilfields.
Every missile that the Houthi absorbs is exponentially more difficult to replace today. It’s not about money, it’s about the necessary stuff to make more. China has cut off supply to a lot of resources, which may necessitate war for America to gain access to them again. Hence, the Ukraine “deal” and Greenland. Without the right resources, America is done.
The crypto-fascists at the bar can now carry on with their white supremacy philosophy (LOL) chat.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 5 2025 16:48 utc | 190

————
Hegseth

gringo and jp share a warrior etho

G7 SHARe a pirates creed.
fify
At least hEGSETH spare us that human rights, rule of law ‘SHARED values’ BS,

Posted by: denk | Apr 5 2025 17:07 utc | 192

Hegseth

Hey all you gooks, go fight the chinks, I’ll have your back, dont you worry !

https://tinyurl.com/3p42wbwz

Posted by: denk | Apr 5 2025 17:19 utc | 194

Intelligence Sources: China Will Try To Take Taiwan in Six Months – A takeover of the Republic of China (ROC) on the island of Taiwan by the Mainland People’s Republic of China (PRC) is increasingly being considered a question of “not if, but when.” . .here
This will involve extensions of the recent China drills around Taiwan. China’s activities are designed to take Taiwan back to China.
There will also be other factors, other reactions to China’s Taiwan takeover. For example, there are 750,000 migrant workers in Taiwan, including 250,000 Filipinos and “we will have to rescue them” says Philippines. Another factor: The PRC blockade of Taiwan would be an enormous threat to the ROK economy. If ROK imports through the South China Sea are delayed by just “two to three days,” the ROK will experience “enormous economic losses.”

Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 5 2025 17:37 utc | 196

@canuck | Sat, 05 Apr 2025 15:17:00 GMT | 181

If one believes that no matter how big the Universe is, it is finite.
Time is infinite.
Hence, anything that can happen will happen; and it will happen over and over again for eternity..

That’s not true. Even in an Newtonian phase space you can find orbits – called attractors – which are not closed even in finite space and infinite time. The simplest example is a pair of bodies like Earth and Moon who revolve around a common center of mass while slowly closing in until they collide – The End.
I’m fairly certain, but not sure (as it’s my learned intuition) that Nietzsche – ‘Needs-shuh – had a Newtonian idea in mind; I know that he tried to compute it, and failed. The reasons became clear only later; Poincaré’s Theorem is from 1890 and was proved in 1914 IIRC. It is a most consequential theorem, which gives rise to the popular ‘Butterfly Effect’ and allows a complete refuting of deterministic naturalism all by itself.
[jukebox] Georg”>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L2vLH2KgSU”>Georg Friedrich Haas – Limited Approximations (2010)

Posted by: persiflo | Apr 5 2025 17:54 utc | 198

Whats with gringo/jap

Shared values

No Punishment, Little Remorse
731 vet

There’s a possibility this could happen again,

https://zzwave.com/cmfweb/wiihist/germwar/germwar.htm
Thats all folks !

Posted by: denk | Apr 5 2025 17:59 utc | 200