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AI will take your job – and if you rail against the machine too much, it could be used to target you as well.
“Artificial intelligence could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within the next five years, the CEO of American AI research company Anthropic, Dario Amodei has warned.
In a statement to Axios published on Wednesday, Amodei, who co-founded Anthropic and is a former OpenAI executive, said he hopes to jolt the US government and fellow developers into preparing for the consequences of rapid automation. AI could spike unemployment in the US to 10-20% in the next one to five years, he warned.
AI development companies are already working on systems that could soon replace workers in technology, finance, law, consulting and other white-collar professions, particularly entry-level positions, Amodei claimed.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 29 2025 16:22 utc | 1
(This could fit anywhere).
A quick something on the “western” narrative and a concept of “complicated stupidity”
The narrative of “the west” is predominantly based on the world jumping into existence in 2022. Nothing before that is given much importance unless it can be exaggerated into something extremely negative about Russia but even then it is mostly avoided. Many important background facts are plainly denied or twisted beyond recognition.
Some stupidity is so complicated or time-consuming to explain that it forms layers of armor around the stupidity. Lies and evil often fall into this category. The stupidity itself can be a simple thing but if it relates to a large and complex mass of previous stupidity as well as a complicated topic then it becomes something one might name as “complicated stupidity”.
The “western” narrative is built on such “complicated stupidity”.
(That’s all I have for now but I think this could be an interesting angle to see things from. I’m not all that bright and don’t have much energy or time so it might be as far as I get …I am trying to do other things that write comments on “the internets” :P).
Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | May 29 2025 16:24 utc | 2
The CIA can’t recruit enough foreign stooges – anyone interested in joining?
“The CIA is grappling with difficulties in recruiting foreign informants and “needs more spies,” The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing current and former intelligence officials.
Chief among the problems the sources listed is the global proliferation of public surveillance systems and advances in facial recognition, which make it harder for operatives to avoid detection.
CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis acknowledged the issue in a recent public interview, saying that although “some of the tools and techniques from the 1960s or ‘70s might still work today, a lot of them need to be updated and refreshed.””
Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 29 2025 16:24 utc | 3
One wonders what the little French coke head Macron – thinks of this one – maybe his spouse will give him another slap on the face just for good measure – I’m sure Durov would like to.
“Elon Musk’s startup xAI will invest $300 million and deploy its Grok AI chatbot in partnership with the messaging app Telegram, according to a statement by the app’s CEO Pavel Durov published on Wednesday.
In announcing the deal, Durov said that he and Musk had agreed to a one-year partnership designed to strengthen Telegram’s financial position.
“We will receive $300M in cash and equity from xAI, plus 50% of the revenue from xAI subscriptions sold via Telegram,” he said.
Musk later stated on X that “no deal has been signed,” without providing any additional details, prompting Durov to clarify that the parties had reached an agreement in principle, with formalities still to be finalized.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 29 2025 16:28 utc | 4
The Proud Boys, I meant ICE arrests another patsy.
“US immigration authorities have arrested a Mexican man who allegedly threatened to shoot President Donald Trump, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
In a press release issued on Wednesday, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem thanked US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, saying the “illegal alien … is behind bars.”
Earlier this month, ICE received a handwritten letter from 54-year-old Ramon Morales Reyes in which he vowed to “shoot your precious president in (his) head” at one of Trump’s rallies. The DHS published an image of the letter, in which Morales blamed ICE for deporting his family and, after threatening to kill Trump, promised to self-deport.
“We are tired of this president messing with us Mexicans – we have done more for this country than you, white people,” the letter read.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 29 2025 16:34 utc | 5
There was some talk about whether or not the Taurus could deliver a nuke. If it can’t/couldn’t then it most likely would be simple to make it possible.
For reference here are the approximate dimensions of the “physics package” (such a cute name) of the W80 nuclear bomb used in the BGM-109A Tomahawk Land Attack Missile – Nuclear (TLAM-N) (allegedly retired):
· 30 centimeter diameter
· 80 centimeter long
· 130 kg heavy
Judging by the pictures (Wikipedia) I think the W80 might actually be slightly larger but it is still quite small. I guess the pictures show some casing as well as the actual physics package but it shouldn’t make a big difference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W80_%28nuclear_warhead%29
If the Taurus can fit and carry it then it can be nuclear.
And as someone must have already mentioned if the Russians can’t tell if the radar ping is a Taurus, a Tomahawk, or something else then it doesn’t matter because they’ll have to treat it as a nuke regardless.
Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | May 29 2025 16:43 utc | 6
An absolute tour de force with today’s Nima/Wolff/Hudson chat. Each week’s discussion’s very satisfying, but this week was one of the best. Perhaps that’s because the counter-revolution against Classical Political-economy was so well explained as being the #1 reason why the West is as it is. Also, why China’s the success it’s become is also addressed. The prescription for BRICS is formulated by this discussion.
Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | May 29 2025 16:43 utc | 6
Physics package. These people are sick.
Posted by: lex talionis | May 29 2025 17:16 utc | 8
@ karlof1 | May 29 2025 17:01 utc | 7 with the support for the latest Nima/Hudson/Wolff video
I watched it real time and agree. This is the one to send to those ready to hear the real political/economic history of the past couple of centuries and what it means for now.
The answer is public finance instead of private finance. It is as simple and complicated as that.
Posted by: psychohistorian | May 29 2025 17:26 utc | 9
Grok on Telegram? What a joke. The ultra liberal Durov mixing with anti-woke creationism?
Posted by: Tom | May 29 2025 17:34 utc | 10
The depth of which the Zio-Monsters reach into the English government knows no bounds.
“Documents released by the British government reveal that London has been coordinating with Israeli officials to prosecute protestors associated with activist group Palestine Action for disrupting the operations of Elbit Systems, which manufactures deadly weapons being used in the genocide in Gaza.
The documents highlight a years-long Israeli influence campaign, and suggest that Tel Aviv’s meddling has prompted London to abandon well-established legal standards in order to charge anti-genocide activists under highly politicized counter-terror provisions.
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/05/27/israeli-interference-uk-protests/
One especially revealing document shows the British Attorney General’s Office (AGO) furnishing their Israeli counterparts with guidance on how to avoid an arrest warrant for war crimes, reassuring them that the Crown Prosecutorial Service (CPS) “has strengthened the procedural safeguards around the issuing of private arrest warrants in recent years.” ”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 29 2025 17:42 utc | 11
The British government – and their propaganda machine the BBC – exposed yet again.
“Mediazona, the self-styled “independent” Russian outlet which partners with the BBC to track the deaths of Russian troops, requested hundreds of thousands of pounds directly from the British government, according to a tranche of leaked official documents.
Having mainly targeted Russians since its founding in 2014 by members of the Western-backed troupe of provocateurs known as Pussy Riot, Mediazona has largely remained off the radar of news consumers in the West. But that changed with the outbreak of full-scale war in Ukraine. Since the first day of the conflict, Mediazona has collaborated with the BBC Russian Service on a project tracking the deaths of Russian servicemen through open source methods. Mediazona describes “the work [as] meticulous and time-consuming,” requiring “relentless efforts of journalists.”
Who or what was footing the bill was left unmentioned in the description of the initiative, which was clearly designed to foment dissent and opposition to the proxy war among Russian citizens. Now, leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone indicate that between 2020 and 2023, Mediazona was in line for vast, secret grants for anti-Kremlin agitation from the British Foreign Office, under the official auspices of London’s opaque “Global Britain Fund.””
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/05/24/mediazona-uk-govt-funding-leaks/
Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 29 2025 17:45 utc | 12
Well the English government – and their puppet politicians, at the Westminster controlled Holyrood building in Scotland – finally managed to force the Irish band Kneecap out of a Transmit concert in Glasgow, because the band are outspoken on many subjects – including denouncing the Zio-Monsters genocide, London’s favourite puppet in Scotland FM John Swinney – will be very pleased that his masters bidding has been done.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 29 2025 17:49 utc | 13
psychohistorian | May 29 2025 17:26 utc | 9–
Thanks for your reply. IMO, what was provided ought to be the basis for an investigative seminar featuring all the political-economists and their works that were cited. The French philosophical work Wolff cited he found revelatory/enlightening I’d like to find.
Speak or report the truth and we’ll crush you.
“The European Union has banned three journalists — two Germans, Alina Lipp and Thomas Röper, and a Turkish national living in Germany, Hüseyin Doğru — from entering the EU, and frozen their bank accounts. The EU accuses them of “spreading pro-Russian propaganda”, “undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine”, and “destabilising” EU countries through their reporting.
In fact, they are being punished solely for engaging in critical reporting about Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Gaza.
The fact that challenging the EU-NATO narrative on the war in Ukraine or on the genocide in Gaza is now effectively treated as a quasi-criminal, de facto act of treason justifying extra-judicial punishment in the form of travel bans and asset freezes is nothing short of terrifying.
The ethical and legal implications are staggering: two EU citizens have effectively been stripped of their basic civil liberties — exiled from virtually the entire European continent and subjected to financial strangulation — through a simple act of bureaucratic fiat, without trial or court ruling. This is punishment without process, imposed by an unaccountable, out-of-control elite, in defiance of the most basic principles of the rule of law.
Making the ruling even more chilling is the fact that the decision is legally binding on all member states. That means that anyone who provides funds or resources to the accused journalists would also be in violation of the sanctions and could themselves be sanctioned as a result.
With the snap of a finger, EU officials have swept aside centuries of legal development. Core principles such as the separation of powers (whereby punishment should be the exclusive domain of independent courts), proportionality and the foundational concept of nulla poena sine lege — no punishment without law — have effectively been discarded.
In effect, EU elites have discovered a way to bypass all legal and constitutional safeguards against the repression of dissent, by weaponising a mechanism originally designed to target foreign entities, not domestic citizens.
The geographic scope of the ruling is also entirely without precedent: while in the past there have been isolated cases of individual states denying re-entry to their own nationals for political reasons, typically by revoking their citizenship, a practice broadly condemned under international law, there is no historical precedent for a supranational body imposing a travel ban on a citizen of a member state across almost thirty countries simultaneously.
This exposes the dangerous flipside of the EU’s supranational legal framework: rights that apply uniformly across all member states can just as easily be revoked across the entire bloc through mere bureaucratic fiat.
In the past, individuals facing political persecution in one European country could seek refuge or political asylum in another. That is no longer possible, especially when the persecution is orchestrated by the supranational and international authorities of the Union itself.
All Europeans who believe in democracy and the rule of law — whether on the left, the right or anywhere in between — must push back against this monstrosity, regardless of what they think of Röper, Lipp, or Doğru’s views. If we don’t stand up for them now, any one of us could be next.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 29 2025 18:25 utc | 15
If we don’t stand up for them now, any one of us could be next.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 29 2025 18:25 utc | 15
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My 40+ years of trying to get people to grasp this has achieved only one thing. It has exposed that the vast majority of people can’t even understand the concept.
Pavlovian stupidity and infantile logic. If the ‘authorities’ bell ring someone is bad, they must be bad. They know they are not bad themselves, so they will never be targeted. Only bad people are punished.
Posted by: saner | May 29 2025 18:40 utc | 16
“The European Union has banned three journalists — two Germans, Alina Lipp and Thomas Röper, and a Turkish national living in Germany, Hüseyin Doğru — from entering the EU, and frozen their bank accounts.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 29 2025 18:25 utc | 15
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The bureaucrat whose signature empowers the Diktat is Kaja Kallas.
EU Dictatorship Has Begun: Journalists And German Citizens Sanctioned ==> https://youtu.be/CqNwYbnuk30
Posted by: too scents | May 29 2025 18:59 utc | 17
@15 and 16
Do you understand satoshi did now?
Peer-to-peer electronic cash (with no trusted third party in between)
Posted by: E | May 29 2025 19:00 utc | 18
(with no trusted third party in between)
Posted by: E | May 29 2025 19:00 utc | 18
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That is not how it works.
Holders of digital assets trust that the root cryptographic token is secure.
The controller of the root cert is the third party.
Posted by: too scents | May 29 2025 19:04 utc | 19
saner | May 29 2025 18:40 utc | 16
40+ years of trying to get people to grasp this has achieved only one thing [failure].
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What a sad, wasted life. Did no one tell you this is exactly why governments exist, that the 2% (IQ 115+) control, exploit and extract wealth from peasants exactly because they are dunces born and bred to be fodder?
Why do you think democracy was invented? To give power to the people? LOL – on an intuitive level I know there are people like you, it’s just shocking to actually be directly exposed.
Imagine if you had my upbringing, with my TLA father laying out the harsh cold truths. The last 40 years would have been one of having peace of mind, accumulating wealth and simply enjoying life while watching the spectacle play out in predicatable fashion.
Posted by: Markw | May 29 2025 19:49 utc | 20
EU goes full fascist in freezing journalists bank accounts, and banning their travel.
Apparently the EU FM and Ukronazi supporter Kaja Kallas is behind this bald faced attack on free journalism.
Apparently, speaking out against the Little Dictator in Kieve is now a crime in the EU.
Where is Ireland, why are they not speaking out against this Mr. Martin?
Posted by: tobias cole | May 29 2025 19:53 utc | 21
19
For a start, the word cryptography does not mean what you think it means
Also, I did NOT say digital assets, I said satoshi because I am shadowbanned instantly if I use the B word…
Posted by: E | May 29 2025 19:57 utc | 22
What a sad, wasted life.
Posted by: Markw | May 29 2025 19:49 utc | 20
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I sense projection.
The rest appears merely an effort to convince yourself that you have superior knowledge, of something. Not sure what.
If it fluffs your ego…….
Posted by: saner | May 29 2025 20:01 utc | 23
Yeah somehow I think if Markw was as evolved as he thinks he is then he wouldn’t be such an asshole.
Thanks saner for that succinct summary of the thought processes of many at #16.
Posted by: Rae | May 29 2025 20:29 utc | 24
Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 29 2025 16:22 utc | 1
Ach, fit like, Republic? Aye, it’s a braw day for a wee blether aboot how the robots are gonna stea oor jobs, eh? Honestly, tho, I dinnae ken whether to laugh or cry. Next thing ye ken, AI’s gonna be takin’ yer job, yer gran’s job, and maybe even yer dug’s job—though I doubt it’ll be much of a loss there.
But jist think, mate—if we start cryin’ aboot the machine takin’ over, it’s only a matter o’ time before it’s us that’s under the thumb. Might be smarter tae just sit back, pour a pint, and hope the AI doesn’t decide to replace us for good—otherwise, we’ll be out the door faster than a Glaswegian on a Friday night.
And dinnae fash yerself too much—if AI’s so clever, maybe it can figure oot how tae get rid of the traffic, fix the weather, and stop the traffic lights from bein’ a nightmare. Or at the very least, it can sort oot yer Wi-Fi connection.
Aye, the future’s lookin’ bright… if you’re a robot.
Posted by: Mac Campbell | May 29 2025 20:46 utc | 25
Bono is a Piece of Shit
Bono virtue-signals, cloaked in fame,
Yet robs the ones who fund his grand estate.
He sings for peace, but plays a rigged old game—
A pawn for those whose greed determines fate.
He bows to Davos Kings with plastic pride,
While truth and kin are trampled, cast aside.
The Irish bled from swords and banker chains,
Yet he, their son, salutes the tyrant’s gold.
He strums their grief in calculated strains,
Then sells it cheap, his conscience bought and sold.
An idol, say the blind—yet those who see,
Know idols fall when stripped of decency.
Chat Gupta
Posted by: canuck | May 29 2025 20:50 utc | 26
26 did u prompt an AI to answer in Scottish brogue 🙂
Never mind that you missed the biggie… if AI is so great, why hasn’t it cracked multiple cryptographic schemes yet?!
Posted by: E | May 29 2025 20:54 utc | 27
psychohistorian | May 29 2025 17:26 utc | 9–
Thanks for your reply. IMO, what was provided ought to be the basis for an investigative seminar featuring all the political-economists and their works that were cited. The French philosophical work Wolff cited he found revelatory/enlightening I’d like to find.
Posted by: karlof1 | May 29 2025 18:08 utc | 14
That’s “Reading Capital” by Louis Althusser.
See the Marxist Internet Archive
Posted by: NH | May 29 2025 20:56 utc | 28
@26
almost came across as a kosher Teucter until you wrote “cryin'”
Any Loon worth his geld would ken it wa greetin .
Posted by: AleaJactaEst | May 29 2025 20:57 utc | 29
“I development companies are already working on systems that could soon replace workers in technology, finance, law, consulting and other white-collar professions, particularly entry-level positions, Amodei claimed.””
Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 29 2025 16:22 utc | 1
Nothing new-when my paternal grandfather milking 60 Holstein cows with three workers proposed to the men they get milking machines (this is 1934)and they could do 100 or more cows with the same manpower and increase profits (for Grandpa , of course).
His workers struck, Grandpa-like all Irish get mad quick- sold the farm and the cows and went into the Mill business where he revolutionized animal feed in Ontario.
It’s not dislocation if the new tech is bundled with gov. policies that would educate or put these menial jobs behind the Peasants for a more qualified job or public service (clean up garbage, public parts on and on) that would help the State.
Why not tax the AI efficient robots like humans so that the Hoi Polloi can have a better life and the Oligarchs don’t take ALL the cake?
If not nuked out mankind will become more efficient: the question you should be asking is with these new efficiencies the profits should be given to the people/State not just the Oligarchs who own the machines/patents/govt contracts/ et al.
Posted by: canuck | May 29 2025 21:01 utc | 30
Posted by: karlof1 | May 29 2025 17:01 utc | 7
I agree, karlof1. The analysis fusing classical economics with Marx, restated in different ways and well coordinated between the two economists, was so well presented that I’m saving it to reread for a nightcap. Bravo to them for keeping on keeping on.
Trump just lost one advisor; he should hire these two. Not that they’d want to associate with him, but perhaps for the good of the country? I’m struggling to imagine it. This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship … nah. Even I can’t make that work.
Posted by: juliania | May 29 2025 21:05 utc | 31
NH | May 29 2025 20:56 utc | 31–
Thanks for your reply. Thanks for your efforts but I found that on my own and also a freely downloadable For Marx. The time machine effect of the latter work will be experienced by all in different ways.
@15 and 16
“Do you understand satoshi did now?”
Peer-to-peer electronic cash (with no trusted third party in between)
Posted by: E | May 29 2025 19:00 utc | 18
Satoshi did fuck all; bitcoin was invented and founded by the US NSA (1)(2)
1. The NSA research paper
Penned by Laurie Law, Susan Sabett, and Jerry Solinas on June 18, 1996, the NSA paper delves into online transactions, cryptography, and digital signatures. It suggests a distributed framework with the potential for “untraceability.” The proposed “electronic coin” even spans offline uses. Roberts’ comments on X prompted a flurry of reactions.
2. https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/money/nsamint/nsamint.htm
Posted by: canuck | May 29 2025 21:08 utc | 33
…IMO, what was provided ought to be the basis for an investigative seminar featuring all the political-economists and their works that were cited…
Posted by: karlof1 | May 29 2025 18:08 utc | 14
Much better idea than mine, karlof1! Thanks!
Posted by: juliania | May 29 2025 21:09 utc | 34
Posted by: Epa | May 29 2025 21:03 utc | 34
If you wan to be taken seriously you should have combated Epa’s argument with a serious counter argument rather than just throwing adoloscent graffiti on his post.
Your repartee could have been written by a smart 7 year old.
Posted by: canuck | May 29 2025 21:14 utc | 35
juliania | May 29 2025 21:05 utc | 35–
Thanks for your reply. There’s so much baggage/garbage needing to be ejected from the government before anything positive can be passed and then there’s the Class that caused it all that must be neutered. The problem’s so big an army is required. I see another step beyond Owner->Worker that’s also hierarchical: Manager->Worker. What I see happening in Russia is an attempt to flatten the hierarchical relations, but IMO the problem is insurmountable regardless the political-economic philosophy: Some must direct and some must follow the directions. Both contribute to increased value, yet society provides the director with a higher status than the doer.
Posted by: canuck | May 29 2025 20:50 utc | 28
Bono is a Piece of Shit
Paul David Hewson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bono
So how do you pronounce the first part of his last name?
Posted by: Paul from Norway | May 29 2025 21:28 utc | 37
“canuck.
You are a fucking old man who has an marvelous genetic, but you are a child.And it’s evident that you drink, sob.”
Posted by: Epa | May 29 2025 21:08 utc | 37
It seems you just enjoy ad hominens don’t want serious discussion
If that is how you get your ‘jollies’ so be it- but I won’t be entertaining your peculiar enthusiasm for that genre.
Posted by: canuck | May 29 2025 21:30 utc | 38
“STFO and, please, because the Niobium chips do not exists, parasite.”
Posted by: Epa | May 29 2025 21:22 utc | 41
if you want the proper term it is , ‘Shut the Fuck Up’ not, ‘STFO’, for future use.
I’m not saking your polite counsel.
You are quite confused or perhaps you focus too much on your ad hominens such that you lose the thread- Niobium computer chips do exist:
“Quantum computers being developed by IBM at its Q laboratory rely on superconducting qubits made from aluminum and niobium that sit atop a silicon substrate (the two superconducting electrodes sit between an insulator – or Josephson junction – of aluminum oxide).
Contrary to classical computers, which use binary digits (bits) that can have one of two states (0 or 1) at a time to solve mathematical and logical operations, a quantum computer uses quantum bits which can have two states simultaneously. It follows that two qubits can hold four values at once (00, 01, 10, and 11), three qubits can hold eight values and so forth, thereby creating a system that’s exponentially more powerful than a classic computer. ” (1)
1. https://niobiumcanada.com/niobium-and-quantum-computer-chips-qubits/
Posted by: canuck | May 29 2025 21:38 utc | 39
Understanding Trump anybody?
Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won’t be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
The Rabbi (Leonard Cohen= Rabbi) text:
Give me back my broken night
my mirrored room, my secret life
it’s lonely here,
there’s no one left to torture
Give me absolute control
over every living soul
And lie beside me, baby,
that’s an order!
Give me crack and anal sex
Take the only tree that’s left
and stuff it up the hole
in your culture
Give me back the Berlin wall
give me Stalin and St Paul
I’ve seen the future, brother:
it is murder.
Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won’t be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold
and it has overturned
the order of the soul
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
You don’t know me from the wind
you never will, you never did
I’m the little jew
who wrote the Bible
I’ve seen the nations rise and fall
I’ve heard their stories, heard them all
but love’s the only engine of survival
Your servant here, he has been told
to say it clear, to say it cold:
It’s over, it ain’t going
any further
And now the wheels of heaven stop
you feel the devil’s riding crop
Get ready for the future:
it is murder
Things are going to slide …
There’ll be the breaking of the ancient
western code
Your private life will suddenly explode
There’ll be phantoms
There’ll be fires on the road
and the white man dancing
You’ll see a woman
hanging upside down
her features covered by her fallen gown
and all the lousy little poets
coming round
tryin’ to sound like Charlie Manson
and the white man dancin’
Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St Paul
Give me Christ
or give me Hiroshima
Destroy another fetus now
We don’t like children anyhow
I’ve seen the future, baby:
it is murder
Things are going to slide …
When they said REPENT REPENT …
Posted by: Paul from Norway | May 29 2025 21:43 utc | 40
Posted by: karlof1 | May 29 2025 21:18 utc | 40
Thanks for your reply, karlof1. I wasn’t around when FDR was attempting a change, and I know you have some reservations on that, even as you remind us of the four freedoms speech. I can remember remnants of his policies that had seemed to provide restrictions on capitalism even so, though we never had all the needed social programs. I can remember when monopolies were generally thought a bad thing in the private sector. And then when they weren’t. And when government regulation became a bad thing and money became speech — all of that. Greed is good, etc.
Apologies for my facetious suggestion. Maybe things need to get worse here before that FDR moment can happen again. Not a happy thought.
Posted by: juliania | May 29 2025 21:43 utc | 41
“Well the English government – and their puppet politicians, at the Westminster controlled Holyrood building in Scotland – finally managed to force the Irish band Kneecap out of a Transmit concert in Glasgow, because the band are outspoken on many subjects – including denouncing the Zio-Monsters genocide, London’s favourite puppet in Scotland FM John Swinney – will be very pleased that his masters bidding has been done.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 29 2025 17:49 utc | 13
I agree with you to a point but since the internet and forums like this one , alternative news has a type of Streisand Effect(1) which boomerangs against the original purpose-to shut the fucking Band up.
If ‘Kneecap” hadn’t been censored, cancelled I would never have heard of them-such that this State inspired intervention actually spread Kneecaps justified message far and wide.
1. “The Streisand effect refers to the unintended consequence of an attempt to suppress information, where the effort actually amplifies public awareness and scrutiny of that information. Essentially, trying to censor or remove something from the public eye often results in it becoming even more widely known and discussed. This phenomenon is named after singer” Barbra Streisand, who unsuccessfully attempted to suppress photographs of her house, which ultimately led to more people seeing the house.
Posted by: canuck | May 29 2025 21:59 utc | 42
Posted by: canuck | May 29 2025 21:38 utc | 45
“You don’t know what the fuck you are talking about, old clown-”
Posted by: Epa | May 29 2025 21:54 utc | 49
Fuck off asshole; I gave you the info about Niobium chips-you know about them than ‘IBM ‘?- yet you ignored the proof cause as you are an Intellectual Clown (‘IC’-TM).
Go Fuck Yourself I will no longer waste my time such IC’s.
Posted by: canuck | May 29 2025 22:07 utc | 43
Really?
Posted by: Epa | May 29 2025 22:26 utc | 53
Yes really. Starting flame wars is hardly a cogent way to express your thoughts. You seem ESL maybe slow down your brain when you type. Imo of course.
Value will vary.
Posted by: Tannenhouser | May 29 2025 22:59 utc | 44
@ 47
Roosevelt’s ‘four freedoms’ to me looks like the entrée to ‘rules-based international order.’
Posted by: Don Bacon | May 29 2025 23:07 utc | 45
Posted by: E | May 29 2025 19:00 utc | 18
Do you understand satoshi did now?
Peer-to-peer electronic cash (with no trusted third party in between)
Sa-to-shi is three letters when written in the phonetic Japanese alphabet. Definitely a three letter operation.
Posted by: Saigishi | May 29 2025 23:10 utc | 46
juliania | May 29 2025 21:43 utc | 47–
Thanks again for your reply. As both Wolff and Hudson remind those of us who watch their chats, they’re relegated to Nima’s and others because BigLie Media is controlled by the Counter-revolutionaries and has since roughly 1912 in the USA. Much was revealed during the 1930s about the linkages between the banks, the merchants of death and the government that fueled the movement supporting the Neutrality Acts, but what’s been swept under the rug are those revelations–the critical Congressional hearings that ought to take up a large portion of US History texts but instead are mostly absent. Then after 1945, it seems like the entire polity suddenly was stricken with amnesia–the only pacific demand was to Bring the Boys Home ASAP. Not having been alive and old enough to recall what actually happened between May 1945 and November 1948 is crucial for today since the government news blackout over Japan and the atomic bomb genocide wasn’t lifted until late 1947, and of course no one knew about the planned Operation Unthinkable which was set for late 1945 and postponed annually until it was finally cancelled in 1949 when the Soviets demonstrated their bomb.
IMO, the key to developing a critical understanding of 20th Century history up to today is to follow the path of the Counter-revolutionaries from the UK into Europe and over to the USA, which means going back to the Franco-German War of 1870 as a starting point. So, 155 years of history at minimum. And there’s no one book to tell the story; instead, there’re dozens of good ones out of the many hundreds overall. And yes, I remain a student.
Don Bacon | May 29 2025 23:07 utc | 55–
You’re correct, Don, as the Four Freedoms became part of the UN Charter’s rationale, and it proclaimed the New World Order which still exists today despite all the warts that have attached to it and the ongoing attempt to change it into something far more monstrous.
Posted by: Don Bacon | May 29 2025 23:07 utc | 55
@ 47
Roosevelt’s ‘four freedoms’ to me looks like the entrée to ‘rules-based international order.’
Indeed. It was quite intentionally, and quite intelligently, designed as rhetorical flim-flam. At bottom, what it means is that “freedom” now is anything we say is freedom.
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – that’s all.”
Posted by: Saigishi | May 29 2025 23:47 utc | 49
Posted by: karlof1 | May 29 2025 23:17 utc | 57
With all due respect, karlofi – I admire your work- every single organised (govt) entity since civilization began- every from of society- gets decadent, cruel and rentiers a/ oligarchic then fresh reforms , revolutions clean the plate till it becomes decadent, cruel and rentiers.
It is a cycle, like Plato’s cycle from aristocracy, timocracy, oligarchy, democracy and tyranny’-its human nature, that won’t change-if AI’s take over we have a ‘revolution, “The Butlerian Jihad.-kill the machines
The cycle will run its course no matter how we wail about the injustices of a dying ‘system’-in this case ‘capitalism’.
Posted by: canuck | May 29 2025 23:50 utc | 50
canuck | May 29 2025 23:50 utc | 60–
Thanks for your reply. I have my own take on the Vico/Spenglerian notion of history being circular that includes human evolution. However, I see a distinct cultural difference between East and West when it comes to the evolution of norms and mores, which underly my latest substack offering. Humanity has a long road to travel to attain a peaceful, equitable existence.
“Time travelers” on the front line: The grim toll of North Korea’s deployment in Kursk
https://theins.ru/en/politics/281617
Posted by: Dogon Priest | May 30 2025 1:51 utc | 52
@ Dogon Priest | May 30 2025 1:51 utc | 62
regarding the publication – sounds about right, lol…. i wonder if they’ve had their funding cut from usaid as well… those folks in riga, latvia might have to find another occupation..
“On 23 July 2021 Russia’s Ministry of Justice added The Insider to its list of “foreign mass media performing the functions of a foreign agent”.[76][77] On 14 December 2021 a court in Moscow ordered the outlet to pay 1 million rubles.[78] On 15 July 2022, the publication was banned in Russia alongside Bellingcat. Following this restriction, any Russian citizen who aids Bellingcat or The Insider may face criminal prosecution; they would also be restricted from citing their publications. The office of the Prosecutor-General of Russia said that they were banned due to “posing a threat to the security of the Russian Federation”.[79][80]”
Posted by: james | May 30 2025 2:00 utc | 53
based on how many pet projects they doubled up on with bellingfart, maybe they get their funding from the uk instead… propaganda is alive and well at any rate..
Posted by: james | May 30 2025 2:04 utc | 54
On ABC 60min….
Aussie broad
Dont you think your unprecedented military buildup pose a threat to Oz ?
Victor Gao
Beijing would be derelict of its duty NOT to respond to the unprecedented buildup of the 8NA around our shore.
We’ve no beef with Aussies, but By joining the gringo possie, your’r asking for it !
broad
Why do you send your navy to our shore , isnt it a provocation ?
Victor Gao
You have been paying ‘courtesy calls’ to our shore for ages, high time we return the favor !
PS
I watch the vid so you dont have to !
Posted by: denk | May 30 2025 2:35 utc | 55
Seems to me the anglosaxons have managed yet again to direct Germany for the purpose of the anglosaxon empire.
Since previous historical science and official historical narratives in all important opinionmaking outlets has been under firm control by the anglosaxons the rest of the world is rendered a sleepwalker drifting in a suicidal direction. Socialists, in my view, mean the best, but always lack necessary will to absorb the reality of anglosaxon manipulation of perception beyond the right left dicotomy. They, again in my view, therefore fail to contribute to help the world sober up.
They like the familiar narrative of Germany being the bad guy. Few seem to recognise or remember even recent previous incidents like that involving Ulfkotte. And that was just one of the tips of the ice berg. Most of the previous anglosaxon manipulation of Germany is rarely mentioned despite it having played out for a good part of a century and in ways that determined all important aspects of the world wars and revolutions. I mention it but often see myself as quite alone in my effort to raise that angle.
I fear people wont wake up
And I dont hesitate to judge that past history really has been determined – close to 100% – deliberately by the anglosaxons.
Wellinformed Russian opinion makers who know important fragments of this nature still – today presumably due to pressing priorities – play along within the scenario successfully managed by the anglosaxons.
Posted by: petergrfstrm | May 30 2025 2:37 utc | 56
@ petergrfstrm | May 30 2025 2:37 utc | 66
what exactly are you saying?? germany is being framed? is that it??
Posted by: james | May 30 2025 2:59 utc | 57
mronline
The hidden battle: India’s water war against Pakistan
Whats so hidden about it, everybody knows…except to the // universe they call it the garden
You mean hidden in plain sight ?
Like the hidden genocide in Kashmnir ?
Had it been China, the gardenist would come down on Beijing like a ton of bricks !
Posted by: denk | May 30 2025 3:06 utc | 58
PS
gardenists own the garden, viz the anglo/euro clan
gardeners work for the gardenists, viz the jap, sk, indians…
Posted by: denk | May 30 2025 3:17 utc | 59
james | May 30 2025 2:59 utc | 67
germany is being framed? is that it??
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Look, its all very simple. You merely have to reject everything you were taught and instead focus on observable reality.
What do we know about Germans, what are the stereotypes? Well, the first thing that springs out to most is that thay are ardent rules followers.
Ok, now if you’re in the 2% (IQ 115+), and are interested in earning wealth for little effort, enjoying the finer things in life and scoring the most lucious pussy, who would be your ideal fall guy?
Hard to manage Arabs, Italians, French, or dumbass imbeciles who love following orders?
Corollary, why did Monty et al advise never marching on Moscow? Because even though the Slavs are reliably late getting off the ball, they eventually catch up and grind out a win.
This shit is elementary to anyone within the 2% except those (cough, MoA) who voluntarily blind themselves to reality.
Posted by: Markw | May 30 2025 3:28 utc | 60
YT
China’s Highway Into Nepal—A Move
the U.S. Can’t Ignore
[SIC]
Posted by: denk | May 30 2025 3:32 utc | 61
@ Markw | May 30 2025 3:28 utc | 70
okay – thanks markw… you’ve really outed yourself in this response, lol..
Posted by: james | May 30 2025 3:37 utc | 62
In response to
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@ petergrfstrm | May 30 2025 2:37 utc | 66
what exactly are you saying?? germany is being framed? is that it??
Posted by: james | May 30 2025 2:59 utc | 67
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I see Germany in reality as a colony of empire, just like Japan. As such, Germany is operating as another proxy against Russia. Merz is a Nazi installed by empire to push Germany against Russia….he is a puppet, not a leader…..he gets to make Trump look like a “mediator”, while in fact, the face of empire directly.
If a Taurus missile is used in Ukraine, Trump will know about it and have approved its use. Its use is not a Merz decision.
Posted by: psychohistorian | May 30 2025 4:17 utc | 63
Earlier this month, ICE received a handwritten letter from 54-year-old Ramon Morales Reyes in which he vowed to “shoot your precious president in (his) head” at one of Trump’s rallies. The DHS published an image of the letter, in which Morales blamed ICE for deporting his family and, after threatening to kill Trump, promised to self-deport.
“We are tired of this president messing with us Mexicans – we have done more for this country than you, white people,” the letter read.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 29 2025 16:34 utc | 5
Sounds like an idiot. Doing Trump a favor playing the heel like that. Plus, “white people”? The dipshit doesn’t even realize it’s about high and low, not white and brown. Dem programed via Univision ( owned by Zionist btw)
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 30 2025 5:32 utc | 65
Bono is a Piece of Shit
Bono virtue-signals, cloaked in fame,
Yet robs the ones who fund his grand estate.
He sings for peace, but plays a rigged old game—
A pawn for those whose greed determines fate.
He bows to Davos Kings with plastic pride,
While truth and kin are trampled, cast aside.
The Irish bled from swords and banker chains,
Yet he, their son, salutes the tyrant’s gold.
He strums their grief in calculated strains,
Then sells it cheap, his conscience bought and sold.
An idol, say the blind—yet those who see,
Know idols fall when stripped of decency.
Chat Gupta
Posted by: canuck | May 29 2025 20:50 utc | 28
You know, I’m no expert on poetry, but this is good.
Seriously though, Bono’s mere visage makes me cringe. He’s just pissed on an otherwise beautiful artistic legacy playing the Imperialist monkey. Imagine if around 1994, he just retired. Wouldn’t that have been nice?
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 30 2025 5:38 utc | 66
What a sad, wasted life. Did no one tell you this is exactly why governments exist, that the 2% (IQ 115+) control, exploit and extract wealth from peasants exactly because they are dunces born and bred to be fodder?
Why do you think democracy was invented? To give power to the people? LOL – on an intuitive level I know there are people like you, it’s just shocking to actually be directly exposed.
Posted by: Markw | May 29 2025 19:49 utc | 20
Are you the masked Israeli, Mark? The Hannibal Lector impression was a bit of a tell…
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 30 2025 5:41 utc | 67
So if people like Glenn Grenwald are willing/ silly to upload their own sexual acts and humiliation online, boggles my mind what people were doing with Diddy and Epstein that’s too extreme and they must conceal.
>spoiler. Nothing R rated. Just… ick … offends my hygiene threshold
https://files.catbox.moe/wyrns0.mp4
Posted by: Melaleuca | May 30 2025 7:08 utc | 68
Posted by: karlof1 | May 29 2025 23:17 utc | 58
Education is the key, isn’t it? When things get as bad as they are getting, it doesn’t take much to notice that it is – and we have at present education at our fingertips as it were. So, I think we can be hopeful that in the ‘forseeable future’ if not longterm — it won’t just be Michael and Richard pointing out these things to us, but there will be chronicles to buttress what they teach written by those coming after us, the democratization of liberty, equality, and fraternity without counter -revolutioniary propaganda.
China is huge — hard to avoid seeing it!! Russia as well.
Way past bedtime for me, but it was worth it (value); thank you, guys.
Posted by: juliania | May 30 2025 8:26 utc | 69
@ james | May 30 2025 2:59 utc | 68
It isnt just about Germany being framed right now.
It has been going on for 500 years!
The 30-years war certainly was an example of Germany being framed. Schillers Geisterseher explains how the agents of Venice managed to twist the mind of a german nobleman who eventually evolved into an asset for those who wanted to destroy Germany.
From the beginning the venetian agents had explained why: It was bevause the Germans were competitive.
Not because they were a threat in any other way.
Then the venetian oligarchy was almost wiped out and therefore transplanted itself to northern Europe. In particular to England.
England under that genre of mind became something well represtened by the words of Palmerston, whose motto was roughly ‘Unrest and confusion abroad, peace and stability at home’
Germany was among the worst hit by Britains 19th century secret geopolitical manuevering. But since this kas never been honestly reported it remains hidden for most who ought to be concerned.
That continued for a good part of the 20th century.
So the framing I mostly had in mind concerns how the background of nazism was set by the british, beginning with Edward Gibbons insights about how the generation of cults as tools of empire may be used with systematic effect. The whole setup requires learning and patience something british scholars and their private school clientel of underlings apparently had plenty of.
Most other nations dont seem to have it but seem rather helpless to me.
Therefore I cannot bring myself to hate the British.
I have to admit that they have some rare quality that is hard for me not to respect.
Yet I do feel a terrible injustice has been working on Germany for many centuries.
Posted by: petergrfstrm | May 30 2025 9:38 utc | 70
Weestern media exposed by President of Burkina Faso Ibrahim Traore
Video…
https://www.tiktok.com/@manb9b9/video/7508620991766023430
Posted by: Menz | May 30 2025 9:39 utc | 71
US urges Australia to increase its military spending
May 30 2m30s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CCWFCdLujk
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has urged Defence Minister Richard Marles to increase Australia’s defence spending
……
§| we’ve paid some $$$ upfront, and committed to the U$ nuclear subs deal (agreeing to screw over France [boohoo]) to give the U$ the deal they demanded.
Now. That’s all in the past, and not good enough … now we “must” increase our defence spending [give the U$ more tribute$$] *before* the U$ will commit to delivery of the subs
> … already pushed back to 2047……. <
Posted by: Melaleuca | May 30 2025 10:02 utc | 72
The Webbs knew more than a century ago that if you pay high wages you get high productivity.
Here:
https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62583
Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | May 30 2025 11:04 utc | 73
The answer is public finance instead of private finance. It is as simple and complicated as that.
Posted by: psychohistorian | May 29 2025 17:26 utc | 9
They’ll never allow the debate to get there. The tax payer money myths, the deficit myths and the debt myths stop it from happening. They have completely convinced the sheep that money has to be borrowed or earned like a household. Hide the truth that it created.
Even the inflation debates are myths. They ensure the sheep believe that every types of spending are non inflationary apart from government spending that causes Zimbabwe and Weimar.
The sheep are stupid enough to believe all of it. Why we are where we are.
Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | May 30 2025 11:12 utc | 74
The answer is public finance instead of private finance. It is as simple and complicated as that.
Posted by: psychohistorian | May 29 2025 17:26 utc | 9
All the myths are generated from the old gold standard, fixed exchange rate paradigm. To stop the debates from happening.
Here:
https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=2562
The two monetary systems are very different. You cannot apply the economics of the gold standard (or USD convertibility) to the modern monetary system. Unfortunately, most commentators and professors and politicians continue to use the old logic when discussing the current policy options. It is a basic fallacy and prevents us from having a sensible discussion about what the government should be doing. All the fear mongering about the size of the deficit and the size of the borrowings (and the logic of borrowing in the first place) are all based on the old paradigm. They are totally inapplicable to the fiat monetary system.
That’s the propaganda that fools the sheep. As I have shown time and time and time again at the bar over the years. How the Eurozone was set up using this ideological belief system.
Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | May 30 2025 11:19 utc | 75
The answer is public finance instead of private finance. It is as simple and complicated as that.
Posted by: psychohistorian | May 29 2025 17:26 utc | 9
I wish it was as simple and complicated as that. However, human beings swim in GROUPTHINK. Completely fallen for the ” monetary silencing ” propaganda.
It’s a struggle to try and get the sheep to understand modern money. I’ve been at for over 20 years. Believe me, their ideology and confirmation biases prevent any learning whatsoever. You see it at the bar every day.
GROUPTHINK rules unfortunately. Which keeps humanity stupid. They’ll continue to vote against their own communities interest.
Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | May 30 2025 11:29 utc | 76
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 30 2025 5:32 utc | 76 The takeaway from this is, Ramon Morales Reyes is a Democrat controlled by Zionists. In many quarters, this means at least a cultural Marxist indoctrinated by Jews. So far as I know none of these assertions are supported by any facts. I suppose we should be grateful it didn’t conclude in a negative campaign aid against Biden et al. Don’t know if calling a Mexican as a “dipshit” was a dog whistle or merely a happy accident? I do think that simply dismissing the man’s anger at his family being deported is rather cavalier at best. The moral is, people deported by ICE should feel honored and their relatives should show a patriotic pride in this?
The overall lesson is that one way of supporting Trump is making sure to attack his enemies at every occasion possible, no matter how implausible the excuse.
Posted by: steven t johnson | May 30 2025 12:24 utc | 77
No surprise that the bargain basement Louis Proyect jumps to the defense of a prospective assassin.
Posted by: William Gruff | May 30 2025 12:35 utc | 78
It would be gratifying William Gruff if you showed interest in anything other than the essence of anti-Trumpness
Posted by: a stone | May 30 2025 12:47 utc | 79
If multipolarity is the solution to the planet’s problems, how is it that Israel’s genocide in Palestine has not been addressed by BRICS, et al.?
China is currently the largest trade partner of the war criminal state of Israel. Russia has not acted against them, excused by some because of the large Russian contingent of Zionists who migrated there.
If nationalism (even on a regional basis) continues, there will still be resource wars, especially now that the global climate collapse is imminent.
I did think that Hudson and Wolff diagnosed the contradictions of capitalism very well, but they didn’t describe how we get from here to there (socialism). The expropriation is in the details. I hope there are intelligent youngsters working on that issue or we are doomed.
Posted by: LindaJ | May 30 2025 13:02 utc | 80
Pascal Lottaz (Neutrality Studies):
“EU Dictatorship Has Begun: Journalists And German Citizens Sanctioned”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqNwYbnuk30 (length: 20 minutes, didn’t watch the entire video).
Posted by: WMG | May 30 2025 13:17 utc | 81
Lincoln Project (e.g. Rick Wilson):
TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UylTqgDB1VE (length: 23 minutes)
Trump seems to never follow through with his policies and already has multiple times reversed course with a number of policies and that acronym TACO seems to “annoy” Trump very much so.
Posted by: WMG | May 30 2025 13:24 utc | 82
Rick Wilson (Lincoln Project):
TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UylTqgDB1VE (length: 23 minutes)
Trump seems to never follow through with his policies and already has multiple times reversed course with a number of policies and that acronym TACO seems to “annoy” Trump very much so.
Posted by: WMG | May 30 2025 13:24 utc | 93
Posted by: WMG | May 30 2025 13:29 utc | 83
“That’s the propaganda that fools the sheep. As I have shown time and time and time again at the bar over the years. How the Eurozone was set up using this ideological belief system.”
Posted by: Son Of Arrogance | May 30 2025 11:19 utc | 86
Your Messiah like idea that you are a prophet is laughable.
Last year when gold was $1,800 an ounce you said only ‘fools believe in gold’ and now gold is $3,300 an ounce.
You are a complete joke
Posted by: canuck | May 30 2025 13:29 utc | 84
You know, I’m no expert on poetry, but this is good.
Seriously though, Bono’s mere visage makes me cringe. He’s just pissed on an otherwise beautiful artistic legacy playing the Imperialist monkey. Imagine if around 1994, he just retired. Wouldn’t that have been nice?
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 30 2025 5:38 utc | 77
The poem was written by chatGPT-I just designed it; though I do write poetry Chat Gupta is better than myself and takes 1/100th of the time it would take me.
Yes Bono should have retired in 1994.
Posted by: canuck | May 30 2025 13:32 utc | 85
“Merz is just trying to protect Blackrock investments.”
Posted by: Exile | May 30 2025 5:06 utc | 75
Agreed.
On the bright side those investments are diminishing by the day.
Posted by: canuck | May 30 2025 13:33 utc | 86
Seriously though, Bono’s mere visage makes me cringe.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 30 2025 5:38 utc | 77
_______
Holy Christ on a crutch, have none of you ever heard his voice? painful from Day One!
Posted by: malenkov | May 30 2025 13:45 utc | 87
“It would be gratifying William Gruff if you showed interest in anything other than the essence of anti-Trumpness”
Posted by: a stone | May 30 2025 12:47 utc | 90
It would be gratifying if you argued your TDS point of view with Gruff’s ideas about Trump in a coherent argument: which is difficult to do, of course, as Gruff would rhetorically wipe the floor with you in a debate and, secondly how can one champion the Dems (that’s the only alternative in the US)after their horrendous record?
Hence, I guess your post, above, was merely to distract Gruff and to forget his 4 aces on this issue it would seem; if you don’t like his posts, and I would probably guess mine too, just ignore us and we wouldn’t have these annoying sidebars.
Have a good day.
Posted by: canuck | May 30 2025 13:55 utc | 88
“Seriously though, Bono’s mere visage makes me cringe.”
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 30 2025 5:38 utc | 77
_______
“Holy Christ on a crutch, have none of you ever heard his voice? painful from Day One!”
Posted by: malenkov | May 30 2025 13:45 utc | 98
———————————-
This is a “Ripley’s Believe It or Not’ moment when all three of us share the same opinion!!
Posted by: canuck | May 30 2025 13:57 utc | 89
“Tech layoffs 2025: IBM lays off 8,000 employees as AI replaces HR department”
https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/tech-layoffs-2025-ibm-lays-off-8000-employees-as-ai-replaces-hr-department-478053-2025-05-28
As mentioned more than once before, AI increases productivity and that in turn reduces the demand for workers (= reduced demand = weaker economy).
Posted by: WMG | May 30 2025 14:10 utc | 90
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 30 2025 5:32 utc | 76 The takeaway from this is, Ramon Morales Reyes is a Democrat controlled by Zionists. In many quarters, this means at least a cultural Marxist indoctrinated by Jews. So far as I know none of these assertions are supported by any facts. I suppose we should be grateful it didn’t conclude in a negative campaign aid against Biden et al. Don’t know if calling a Mexican as a “dipshit” was a dog whistle or merely a happy accident? I do think that simply dismissing the man’s anger at his family being deported is rather cavalier at best. The moral is, people deported by ICE should feel honored and their relatives should show a patriotic pride in this?
The overall lesson is that one way of supporting Trump is making sure to attack his enemies at every occasion possible, no matter how implausible the excuse.
Posted by: steven t johnson | May 30 2025 12:24 utc | 88
No, the takeaway is that Steve is a Zionist, Dem troll. Don’t believe me? Say anything against either the Dems or the Zios and watch him go to work.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 30 2025 14:28 utc | 91
@ LindaJ | May 30 2025 13:02 utc | 91
re: If multipolarity is the solution to the planet’s problems, how is it that Israel’s genocide in Palestine has not been addressed by BRICS, et al.?
Multipolarity principally enables the member countries to help address and manage issues in the member countries. Have solutions to planet problems? No. BRICS is not an illegal instrumental bloc like EU.
. ..and BRICS has addressed Gaza. In 2023 South African chair President Cyril Ramaphosa condemned the Gaza war. In 2024, a joint statement slamming Israel’s attacks in Gaza was made by the foreign ministers of BRICS.
Posted by: Don Bacon | May 30 2025 14:39 utc | 92
South China Morning Post
China invested in a lagging Darwin port. Now profitable, Australia wants it back
Posted by: denk | May 30 2025 14:41 utc | 93
@ b
Please throw the Epa trash out the door. It’s harassing one of the regular barflies and annoying everyone else.
@ canuck
I think PJ ORourke used to repeat something about the risk of losing idiot debates with idiots because they beat you with experience. Don’t let it happen to you! 😉
@ canuck | May 29 2025 21:01 utc | 33
Yes, yes. Should the benefits of millennia of science and technology investment flow so heavily to a sliver of humanity with the best connections?
@ markw
You describe the way things worked and continue to work. It seems you’re saying you’ve embraced it. Most here do not. We dream of a better future for much more than just the demographic formed by the intersection of high IQ and amoral sets. Heck, I’d even like to end factory farming.
Maybe you’re trying to help us here, by teaching us to stop dreaming and embrace reality. “Just get rich.”. Thanks for trying. But, well, fuck me, I’m kinda retarded. Probably beyond helping, at this point.
Posted by: I forgot | May 30 2025 14:48 utc | 94
Posted by: WMG | May 30 2025 14:10 utc | 101
#########
In China, AI is creating Healthcare jobs, specifically in Radiology.
The American corporatist system will use AI to punish workers instead of empowering them.
The problem isn’t AI. The problem is cultural. If one wants to maintain the white man’s way of doing business, then the outcomes are predictable.
AI is the latest scapegoat. Imagine the challenges that candlestick makers faced when the electric lightbulb came onto the scene. Ditch diggers with the first steam shovel. Horse whip carriage drivers by the automobile, etc.
Progress is inevitable and persistent.
The AI revolution is American offshoring all over again, this time a couple notches higher on the value chain. Today it’s programmers.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 30 2025 14:49 utc | 95
I’ll be shocked if the gold is still there – hell Fort Knox is probably empty of gold, but the charade that its still there has to be continued.
“One-third of Germany’s gold reserves are stored at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for reasons dating back to the Cold War and the monetary system created in the wake of World War 2.
With the U.S not having audited its own Fort Knox gold in decades, German lawmakers are suddenly wondering if all their gold is even still there.
Even mainstream politicians are saying the quiet part out loud: maybe it’s time to stop trusting the U.S with 1,100+ tonnes of bullion.”
https://nitter.poast.org/MarioNawfal/status/1928373314935980067#m
Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 30 2025 14:53 utc | 96
You are a complete joke
Posted by: canuck | May 30 2025 13:29 utc | 95
You only see gold bugs when gold starts to rise. You point at it like gollum. The rest of the 95% of the time we never hear from them thank fuck. Because 95% of the time the world isn’t on the brink of a world war. Or 95% of the time the whole world economy hasn’t been shut down.
I remember in 2008 the gold bugs came out from under their 60 year rock during the banking crises and gold nearly tripled in price from $ 700 to nearly $2000. Then after the crises it fell all the way back down to nearly $1000.
The Gold bugs went back under their rock again after talking several years of bullshit. Move along nothing more to see everything they predicted was a lie.
Then covid hit and the economy was shut down and a war was started and oh look the gold bugs are back again. Talking complete and utter shite as the world central banks started to aggressively hike interest rates.
Screaming recession since the last Quarter 0f 2020. Yup, that’s how stupid they are.
When peace comes the gold bugs will run back under their rock as gold plummets again. Hide in the dark for another 60 years and thank the Lord for that.
Enjoy your brief moment in the spotlight as you will be back in the dark again soon enough. I won’t stop pointing it out as gold plummets back into the non event asset it is and always will be.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Then the gold bugs can jog on back to zero hedge like they did after the banking crises and lick their wounds with the other crazies. Give their ignorance a group hug to go along with their GROUPTHINK.
Wait under their rock for the next crises or war.
Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | May 30 2025 14:53 utc | 97
I too watched Wolff and Hudson but I get lost in high finance, “rent” etc. Too deep for me.
So rightly or wrongly I simplify the situation, thinking: China government controls corporations, whereas US government is controlled by corporations. That’s in spite of what the US repeats: autocracy vs. democracy, where the use of elections defines democracy. wow — look at the US Congress and beware of throwing up. China has better leadership, judging by the results they get without elections.
Posted by: Don Bacon | May 30 2025 14:56 utc | 98
@ psychohistorian | May 30 2025 4:17 utc | 74
i agree with you on all of this – yes..
@ petergrfstrm | May 30 2025 9:38 utc | 81
thank you petergrfstrm… it is an intelligent and thoughtful response and i appreciate it.. my gut tells me you are right as well.. my question to you is this.. how does germany find a place for itself in all of this whereby it doesn’t continue to be led down the wrong path? merz seems like a bad choice for a leader and more likely to lead to the very same bad results for germany.. will germany fair any better if the AfD get in power in the next turn, as roger boyd a poster here at moa, seems to think??
i can’t help but think germany brings some of this on itself at present.. the censorship seems very pronounced in germany.. has this been imposed on it from outside, or is it the byproduct of too many followers and not any good leaders in germany??
on a related note, i recently finished reading wolfgang streecks book ‘take back control?’ which is very good… there are many smart people in germany too… how does germany get on a different track?? perhaps getting out of NATO and acknowledging the european union is a failed project would be one way, but it appears all this has to run it’s course before more see the attractiveness of these options..
Posted by: james | May 30 2025 15:00 utc | 99
This guy hits the nail on the head – Europe is on the way down, but cost will continue to rise.
“The EU’s decision to eliminate all Russian energy imports within two years would deliver the coup de grâce to Europe’s already flailing industrial base.
Not only would Europe be forced to import even larger volumes of higher-priced LNG — primarily from the US — but, as Russia redirects its LNG to more distant markets, transport costs will rise, pushing up already volatile global gas prices and making imports to the EU even more expensive.
So what’s the logic behind this seemingly suicidal policy? This is not about “stopping Putin’s war machine” — little more than a fantasy, and they know it — but rather about pre-empting any future normalisation of EU-Russia relations. The new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz vowing to do “everything” to ensure the Nord Stream 2 pipeline never reopens fits this same logic.
The EU leaders’ staunch opposition to any re-engagement with Russia is partly due to their deeply entrenched hostility towards Russia. But there are also deeper geopolitical dynamics at play. The global LNG market is supply-constrained. Few countries have excess capacity. The United States — currently expanding its LNG export infrastructure — is uniquely positioned to profit. Trump has made LNG central to his trade policy, pressing the EU to buy more as a way to narrow the trade imbalance. This makes a mockery of the EU’s talk of “strategic autonomy”. Publicly defiant of Trump, EU leaders are quietly implementing his energy demands — even if it accelerates Europe’s economic decline.
As one German commentator observed: “The planned ban on Russian gas imports has little to do with the war in Ukraine — and everything to do with the American trade war. The EU is capitulating to Trump. The cost of that capitulation will be devastating, especially for Germany.”
EU elites, however, also have more self-interested reasons for pursuing this strategy. The ever-present spectre of the “Russian threat” provides EU elites with a perfect justification for their ongoing crackdown on political dissent, accelerating militarisation of European societies and further supranationalisation of the bloc’s politics. The threat must remain alive — not because it’s real, but because it’s politically useful.
Ultimately, it should be clear that resuming Russian gas imports makes sense on every level: it is cheaper, more reliable, environmentally cleaner than LNG, and it would also help stabilise geopolitical relations with Moscow. Which is precisely why it’s no surprise that EU leaders are doing the exact opposite: deepening dependence on more expensive, more volatile, and more polluting LNG from across the globe, accelerating Europe’s deindustrialisation and fanning the flames of confrontation with Russia.”
https://nitter.poast.org/battleforeurope/status/1928364483593875762#m
Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 30 2025 15:02 utc | 100