From older ukraine thread, maybe better here
So many terrorism, much wow.
Unless you implement a heavy handed police state there will always be terror attacks.
Particularly if you have foreign agents involved.
Soft targets will always be soft targets.
And should be replied in kind. RF can do without a police state.
Lately (years) western assets have done much worse than a bridge.
Rocket missile scientists and main engineers were targeted and killed in RF
Just the latest… https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14742603/Russian-missile-designer-fighting-life-hammer-attack-assassination-bid.html
AI scientists and researchers were targeted and killed in China
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3306394/early-deaths-top-chinese-ai-scientists-raise-concerns-about-industry-pressures
Nuclear scientists and researchers were targeted and killed in Iran
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nuclear_scientists
Just saying that maybe forbes 500 would have enough weight to impose rules of engagement about soft targets. At least those still able to voice a suggestion to their employe… politicians .
Posted by: Newbie | Jun 1 2025 12:07 utc | 302

Posted by: Newbie | Jun 1 2025 12:51 utc | 3

Re. Butler PA assassination attempt on Trump in prev. thread.
*Imho* it was genuine, Crooks was clearly a patsy, many arguments could be made, but one would need a ‘thread’ like in the old-days forums, where one topic can be dissected and different povs. thrashed out.
Someone (sorry I forgot who) made the point that the Top(s) of the Protective SS service was not (were not) fired, which is a good point.
Cynic in the thread asked:
Why was there so notably little fuss — or even investigation — about it compared to comparatively minor (as in, of no serious political or national importance) killings or attempted killings?
Because.. It was speedily discovered what happened, who organised the attempt, etc., which couldn’t be communicated to the public as incredibly damaging, disruptive, revealing of the inner workings of State / other orgs / Rogue actors, etc.
On the day, the day after, and even a bit later, a lot of interesting info came out (about cars, extra video sightings, etc. -> fascinating), the MSM was prudent and keen at the same time, and then 3-5 days later there was just Silence.
The perp, Crooks, was dead, and that was that. Nobody bothered to try to answer who had ‘recruited’ him, into ‘what’, motivated him ‘how’, even the usual guff about a lone assassin was muted. No investigation into all the ‘security failures’ (incredibly glaring) took place.
I realise these args. could be twisted backwards (see! all fake!) but let’s remember others died right in the line of fire…
https://www.pa.gov/agencies/psp/newsroom/pennsylvania-state-police-identify-victims-shot-during-attempted.html

Posted by: Noirette | Jun 1 2025 12:54 utc | 5

Too scents ?????
Please you can‘t be serious. Please play this song 100 times, and realize its also a sacred list.
Das bisschen Haushalt… sagt mein Mann
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fW0uZJzjvJc&pp=ygUcZGFzIGtsZWluZSBiaXNzY2hlbiBoYXVzaGFsdA%3D%3D

Posted by: Exile | Jun 1 2025 13:53 utc | 7

Trump’s ear. Some say it should have been properly pierced, but that seems to be forgetting it could have been a grazing shot. I know nothing about the damage such a scenario would likely present, but reckon it would be varied. Most instances would probably leave a scar. Where is that scar?
If I were Trump and had gigs where I appear on a jumbotron in a filled wrestling Arena, or would see heads of lesser states in the WH on occasion to blackmail them, I’d absolutely have that scar. I mean, how badass is that — ?!

Posted by: persiflo | Jun 1 2025 14:30 utc | 9

thanks b…
are folks trying to figure out whether it was an attempt by the state – cia – to murder trump or whether it was a playacting hollywood thingy?? seemed real enough to me which suggests it could happen again..
i am curious why it has come up again..

Posted by: james | Jun 1 2025 14:38 utc | 11

“A million dead and a million exiles, when the worst was over Sir Robert Peel observed : “The time has come when it’s not any longer necessary to pet Ireland. We can only spoil her by undeserved flattery and by treating her to every thing for which she herself ought to pay.” In 1844 Disraeli had summed up the situation in Ireland with devastating accuracy. But when it came to finding a remedy for this intolerable state of affairs, he only shrugged his shoulders: “One day the Pope, the next day potatoes”. With this sardonic quip Disraeli turned away from the boring problem of an incorrigible people, nor did he thereafter in the course of his long political career devote any serious attention to the affairs of Ireland…. [During these years the government] deliberately established the principle that public works must not be productive. Public works were designed to be useless so as not to interfere with private enterprise.” ( C.f., A Hist. of Mod. Ire.)

Posted by: Ben Trovata | Jun 1 2025 14:51 utc | 13

@ LoveDonbass | Jun 1 2025 14:46 utc | 12
thanks ld, but i think this particular focus on the attempted assassination of trump is different.. it is a distraction though, but i don’t think that is it here..
————————-
this article b links to from 2021 is a fairly clear and brutal example of racism.. one wonders if racism ever goes away, or it just circles back in some newer form??
Birth of the Cruel: How Truckee Pioneered Modern Anti-China Hate – Peter Lee / Counterpunch

Posted by: james | Jun 1 2025 15:23 utc | 15

@james | Sun, 01 Jun 2025 14:38:00 GMT | 11

are folks trying to figure out whether it was an attempt by the state – cia – to murder trump or whether it was a playacting hollywood thingy?? seemed real enough to me which suggests it could happen again..
i am curious why it has come up again..

Yes, and the topic emerged on the last recent thread, with some of us only coming around to read it fully today, so it was carried over here. The collection of views has been worthwhile.

Posted by: persiflo | Jun 1 2025 15:47 utc | 17

King Charles III’s Visit To Ottawa and What It Says About the Canadian Ruling Class’ ‘Opposition to Trump’
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/29/pfab-m29.html
“…In truth, the visit and Canadian nationalist hoopla that surrounded it were a profession of bankruptcy and testament to the reactionary character of the Canadian ruling class, its state and nationalist mythology.
In so far as it opposes Trump, the Canadian ruling class does so only from the standpoint of defending its profits and predatory geostrategic interests and to uphold its ‘sovereign right’ to the lion’s share of the riches generated through the exploitation of Canada’s workers and abundant resources.
The Canadian bourgeoisie is using Trump’s barrage of trade war measures and annexationist threats as the political cover for implementing the class war agenda for which it has long been agitating.
At the same time, with a view to both asserting Canadian imperialism’s capacity to pursue its own interests and gaining leverage for redefining its relations with Washington and Wall Street, the Carney government committed to pursuing closer relations with the European imperialist powers and others including Japan and Australia.
The crux of Canada’s expanding partnership with Britain, the European Union and its leading powers, Germany and France, is their common determination to continue the war with Russia and build up their independent military capacities; and their opposition to Trump’s aggressive America First agenda, which has destabilized NATO and blown up the world economic order, threatening their respective international interests.
The Throne Speech announced that the government ‘will boost Canada’s defence industry by joining ReArm Europe,’ the EU’s trillion-dollar initiative to rapidly procure the military means to act independently of and, if need be against, the US…”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jun 1 2025 16:20 utc | 19

“RUSSIA nuclear assets attacked. DEEP STRIKES. Trains hit. OPERATION WEB.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYG_t5CBS0g
Well, we now can expect Russia to retaliate in the Ukraine. Or Russia will ratchet up tensions in the Baltic.

Posted by: WMG | Jun 1 2025 17:28 utc | 21

@ persiflo | Jun 1 2025 15:47 utc | 17
thanks.. i did happen to see all that on the previous thread.. we are going over the same ground that was gone over at the time, but regardless – maybe something gets something from it all..
@ Passerby | Jun 1 2025 17:42 utc | 22
another dream military industrial complex project that canada also expressed an interest in participating in… in truth it is a banking complex dream as well and unfortunately for both canada and the usa – being run by bankers keeps producing the same tired ideas that are of no value or use to the ordinary person – just the opposite in fact… so, it will probably happen.. we have to wait until these buffoons run out of money making ideas, and we know that won’t happen any time soon… cheers..

Posted by: james | Jun 1 2025 18:37 utc | 23

“RUSSIA nuclear assets attacked. DEEP STRIKES. Trains hit. OPERATION WEB.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYG_t5CBS0g
Well, we now can expect Russia to retaliate in the Ukraine. Or Russia will ratchet up tensions in the Baltic.
Posted by: WMG | Jun 1 2025 17:28 utc | 21
as mentioned @3, in kind
houti container ship, diego garcia b52s

Posted by: Newbie | Jun 1 2025 21:34 utc | 25

Passerby | Jun 1 2025 17:42 utc | 22
*** The Trump admin has proposed Golden Dome, a $175 billion missile shield.
After todays’ events in Russia, it seems a missile shield is easily evaded by half a dozen trucks carrying containers filled with drones.
If you know the time of the attack in advance, you could even make a profit playing the stock market.***
Quite so ….
Will the Golden Dome have a retro “one-arm-bandit” lever, or be entirely push-button?

Posted by: Cynic | Jun 1 2025 22:35 utc | 27

Just sharing.
Dumbing Down Students So Everyone is Equally Stupid. https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/dumbing-down-students-so-everyone
Researchers report surge in at-home heart attacks and cardiac deaths since COVID pandemic
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20250530/Researchers-report-surge-in-at-home-heart-attacks-and-cardiac-deaths-since-COVID-pandemic.aspx
Bulgarian nationalists protest government plans to adopt the euro currency https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/06/links-6-1-2025.html#:~:text=trends%20European%20Interest-,Bulgarian%20nationalists%20protest%20government%20plans%20to%20adopt%20the%20euro%20currency,-The%20Independent

Posted by: Dogon Priest | Jun 2 2025 1:58 utc | 29

Nationalist wins Polish presidential election … Tusk is not happy.
… of course it is possible that the preferred candidate may win on Tuesday due to ‘alleged’ Russian interference!

Posted by: Don Firineach | Jun 2 2025 5:21 utc | 31

Unlike the article, I think Pantsir would be logical for a layered defense…
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/combat-tested-russian-pantsir-protecting-nkorea

Posted by: Newbie | Jun 2 2025 12:16 utc | 33

mronline

America is a scam

USAss is a protection racket masquerading as a country.
potus are extortionist In chief
Exhibit A

Trump used Kidnapped Huawei CFO as ‘bargaining chip’ in trade fight with China
Trump risks war by turning the One China question into a bargaining chip in tariff war.

Posted by: denk | Jun 2 2025 14:54 utc | 35

2012
When they publicised the recipe for bird flu weaponisation.

Gerstein made an alarming prediction during his presentation, stating that “we expect a pandemic by the end of 2013.” One must wonder how Gerstein could possibly pinpoint a timeline for a pandemic, which is generally seen to be the result of unpredictable microscopic events. Unless, perhaps, he has a hand in creating one

2013
H7N9 hit China.

The fact that several selective delivery systems for biological/chemical warfare have already been documented within the borders of the United States adds credence to the perception that a flu planted in another country could be used as a cover for a selective devastation of certain demographic groups within the First World. The declaration of a global pandemic gives the WHO the power to mandate vaccinations, overriding sovereign national law concerning the right of refusal.

https://tinyurl.com/yc46x5v8
https://tinyurl.com/y4vdwkmh

Posted by: denk | Jun 2 2025 16:15 utc | 37

“Unredacted Tonight: The Top 11 Signs That Israel Is Collapsing”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnG5RaftHJE (length: 21 minutes)

Posted by: WMG | Jun 2 2025 17:20 utc | 39

Boris, Morrison were all in on it.
They incited a global Han genocide which is still blazing on.
——————————————-
Trump’s ‘Chinese Virus’ tweet helped lead to rise in racist anti-Asian Twitter content: Study
Trump’s ‘Chinese Virus’ Tweet Linked to Rise of Anti-Asian Hashtags on Twitter
https://thediplomat.com/2021/06/how-trump-fueled-anti-asian-violence-in-america/
How Trump Fueled Anti-Asian Violence in America
Racist anti-Asian hashtags spiked after Trump first tweeted ‘Chinese virus,’ study finds
Trump can’t claim ‘Kung Flu’ doesn’t affect Asian Americans in this climate
Trump Is The Biggest ‘Superspreader’ Of Anti-Asian Racism
Trump Tweet On ‘Chinese Virus’ Sparked Rising Use Of Anti-Asian Hashtags
Trump is ‘legitimizing’ hate incidents against Asian Americans: U.N. experts
Donald Trump Repeats ‘China Virus’ Slur on Fox News on Same Night As Atlanta Shootings
Trump dubs COVID-19 ‘Chinese virus’ despite hate crime risks
Trump ‘seemingly legitimizing’ the rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans, according to a UN report
Trump Continues Calling the Coronavirus “Chinese” Despite Reports of Anti-Asian Hate Crimes
[1]
————————————
Faux News host Tucker Carlson backs Donald Trump for calling coronavirus ‘the Chinese virus’ and says it shows the president ‘at his best
Fox News host Tucker Carlson begins referring to ‘Chinese coronavirus’
‘China did this to the world and we should not pretend otherwise’ Fox host tells viewers
—————————————
Scott Morrison insists it would be “absolutely nonsense” to suggest the coronavirus started anywhere other than China.
The prime minister is pushing ahead with calls for a global inquiry into the origins of the deadly disease despite diplomatic blowback from the Chinese government.
Morrison turns China ‘threat’ into an election wedge
—————————————-
UK government officials say there’ll be “reckoning” for China over its handling of the coronavirus.
Boris Johnson’s government is reportedly furious with the Chinese state.
Five Eyes Intelligence Document Says Virus Likely Came From Wuhan Lab
Who’s have been pushing for a probe in Wuhan ?
Who but the FUKUSA [AUKUS] led five liars ?

Posted by: denk | Jun 2 2025 18:20 utc | 41

Fact is, Trump has repeatedly
invoked the wuflu meme to blackmail Beijing, except the Chinese aint impressed.
Moral of the story…
When someone tell me the war on China is a jewish plot cuz the joo were pissed off they coudlnt get a foothold in China,
I tell them to go fly a kite.
Thats all folks !
PS
Looks like Nathanyahu might be joining the ranks of discarded useful assets, …Saddam, Noreiga, Suharto, Z etc etc ,
Tip of an iceberg
Thats all folks !

Posted by: denk | Jun 2 2025 18:35 utc | 43

TACO time.
🌮🌮🌮

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇨🇳 US pauses tariffs on select Chinese goods until August 31st.

https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1929631587047456821

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jun 2 2025 20:16 utc | 45

Alastair Crooke:
“Key Nuclear Limitation Treaties Threatened by Ukraine’s Strike”
https://conflictsforum.substack.com/p/key-nuclear-limitation-treaties-threatened
&
“The Collapse of US Hegemony”
https://conflictsforum.substack.com/p/the-collapse-of-us-hegemony
Alastair Crooke was interviewed by 2 bloggers called Larry Johnson (SONAR21) & Andrew Napolitano (Judging Freedom) in 2 seperate videos. As seen by the links above these videos were posted on the “Conflict’s Forum” (https://conflictsforum.substack.com/ ) where Crooke also regularly posts. I am sure that “The Unz review” will post one of these videos by Crooke as well. ( https://www.unz.com/author/alastair-crooke/ )

Posted by: WMG | Jun 2 2025 21:38 utc | 47

Now Chuck Schumer is talking about TACO.
Trump won’t take it head-on, and so, I suspect, it will stick for good.
He is so screwed when it comes to China. America has no cards.

“China will not relax its rare earths export ban because it is the key to achieving global peace and security for both West and East Asia…We are about to have a peace imposed by denial of the means of war.“
– Kathleen Tyson

https://x.com/RebeccaYChan/status/1929708278881386820
She is talking about disarming America and Israel.
A great time to blow a bunch of precision munitions on Yemen!!! 😂😂😂

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jun 3 2025 2:17 utc | 49

🇲🇾 John Pang: It’s absolutely structural—NATO expansion will cause war. It became very real for us when they started talking about having NATO in Asia. Asia needs Europe like we need a hole in the head. Their attitudes toward the war in Ukraine and the massacre in Gaza are astounding! I can’t emphasize enough how discrediting that is. This is a moral and cultural disqualification, from the perspective of much of the world, that is truly breathtaking—something you don’t really recover from. Europe really seems to be coming apart, and it’s a wonder they can hang on. Every European leader is among the most unpopular democratic leaders in the world.
The current European notion of security is infantile, in the sense that they want absolute security for themselves, with zero regard for the security of the other. I am not secure unless my neighbor is also secure—finally.
Now, Europe is isolated in a way that terrifies them, and their reaction is actually depressing. Their reaction is to double down. Now they’re even more deluded, even more unhinged. They’re detached from reality. To be honest, it’s hard to see reversal and reform without some kind of serious disruption and collapse. There’s a certain course of history that’s coming to an end—or a course of anti-history, of Europe rejecting the very basis I spoke about in favour of a sort of god of progress.

https://x.com/apocalypseos/status/1929076957565825299
He had me at “collapse”.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jun 3 2025 2:35 utc | 51

Being right on the internet. A case study on a niche webforum.
Abstract: In this paper, we analyze the propensity for error in the commentariat of MoA. Over a time span of 17 years, all truth-value statements in the blog comments were recorded and checked; in addition to that, a number of N=50 questionnaires were sent out to random commenters. Advanced maths was used to compute the results, and overall plausibility was checked using an AI. We found that the median number of errors N(e) for a MoA commenter was 0.71, while the average was 31.3 suggesting a high level of trolling and/or inadvertent stupidity by a minority of the barflies. Using the questionnaires along with the system of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Feather [jukebox], we compute an estimated lifetime average number of errors made for a typical barfly as 0.97 which seems about accurate.

Posted by: persiflo | Jun 3 2025 3:28 utc | 53

10 year gov’t debt interest rates required to attract buyers
Nov 2020
0.9% US
3.2% China
May 2025
4.4% US
1.7% China
The Bond Vigilantes are voting with their feet.

Posted by: Exile | Jun 3 2025 4:47 utc | 55

I just finished reading Karl’s latest Substack piece with the title
You Read About Things in the News Because Something Is Happening Here But You Don’t Know What It Is Or How It Will Affect Your Life
Karl does a great job of telling us why the end of Crook’s latest is true

“And here is the ‘revolution’: No fireworks, no Western headlines. Just one quiet early morning in Beijing where the dollar’s crown slipped. The world’s financial plumbing just got a reroute—through the China [super highway]”
“For the first time ever, China’s CIPS (Cross-Border Interbank Payment System) surpassed SWIFT in single-day transaction volume. A red banner flashed across Bank of China’s HQ at 1:30AM on April 16, 2025”.
“CIPS [as Zerohedge tells it] processed a jaw-dropping ¥12.8 trillion RMB in just one day—roughly $1.76 trillion USD. That volume, if verified, overtakes the greenback-dominated SWIFT system in sheer daily cross-border throughput”.
Yes – It’s all about money.

Public/private finance as core to our forms of social organization is a drum I have been beating here for ever….I want all public finance, please and thank you!

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jun 3 2025 6:15 utc | 57

Posted by: Exile | Jun 3 2025 4:47 utc | 55
‘ Gov ‘meaning Chinese-gov ‘Yuan Renminbi bonds’ or Chinese gov US denominated bonds?

Posted by: Mustee | Jun 3 2025 7:57 utc | 59

Mustsee,
Good question. To clarify CNY
https://www.investing.com/rates-bonds/china-10-year-bond-yield
I’m not a bond expert, bunch ofnuances. Do think more relevant to compare USD denominated Chinese debt ?

Posted by: Exile | Jun 3 2025 8:52 utc | 61

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jun 3 2025 12:49 utc | 61
##########
It must be painful knowing how to read but lacking the capacity to understand what is being read.
Pedantry is a character flaw.
Be better.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jun 3 2025 13:03 utc | 63

##############
SOCKPUPPET ALERT
Indulis Kradzins Appeared May 20
https://www.moonofalabama.org/.services/blog/6a00d8341c640e53ef00d83451c54069e2/search?pager.sort=created_on&filter.q=Indulis
Sounds like Spectator?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 21 2025 7:09 utc | 204
———————
Spectator was banned on 18th and up popped Indulis Kradzins on the 20th
Hey that’s what Is aid many times. was harassed and put upon for it [ yes by james he was one – came to the rescue of one Indulis Kradzins ] … then b deleted my comments, and deleted my comments and deleted my comments (shrug)
Search now seems like all his Indulis Kradzins posts have been wiped … so the little group here stays snug in a rug. No baddies allowed. Be happy. b loves you. Obviously.
Indulis Kradzins spewed at me each time I outed him …. indignant he was real. Spectator (Jake blanchard) picked out the name from australia LinkedIn I think. a real person’s name …
Then again might have been Peter AU .. was somewhat crazy. But who cares anyway? I don’t. But that Spectator creep did NOT support me and others when support was needed … so fuck him to hell whoever it was. May he never get back in the door.
May it be welded shut to everyone in fact.

Posted by: Original Child | Jun 3 2025 13:43 utc | 65

Everything Hegseth said in Singapore was nonsense and only made China’s resolve greater.
Posted by: karlof1 | Jun 2 2025 20:14 utc | 44
Bullshit man. Pete was selling US industrial military output capacity … making sales for Uncle Sam … they know exactly what they are doing and why. You analysts cannot see for all the dust being thrown in your eyes.
or to repeat myself … … the issue is not how big the US economy is it is about much BIGGGER it is than everyone else … it’s the COMPARATIVE strength the makes the US more powerful
TRUMP was hired to up end the money tables at the Temple — to create utter turmoil so the USA comes out top in the long run. It does not matter who or what gets hurt in the process. Inside or outside the USA does not matter. The winners will win this one.
China has one option to stay afloat and out compete the USA globally … and that is War. Cold, economic, diplomatically, and militarily especially Taiwan … or it’s fucked, and so is BRICS and so is Russia. Fight the USA in a War and win, or you will lose!
Trumps doing to cracking job for what he was chosen to do. And he 100% agrees with it too. He was always a Mob Man, and went with the flow. TRUMP never caused waves. Mr I Agree.
I am 100% anti-USA to the core, but the truth is the truth and the facts are the facts — deny them and you will lose! Or die.

Posted by: Original Child | Jun 3 2025 14:14 utc | 67

pale face speaking with forked tongue…
Exhibit 1001
SCMP/THE DAILY MAIL

UK’s defence overhaul puts focus on a ‘more lethal’ Nato, highlights China, Russia threats
the need for Britain to play a greater role in nuclear deterrence,
. The need for stepped-up UK action is driven by “the unprecedented challenge” of the US facing two “near-peer” nuclear powers in Russia and China
The UK is already under “daily attack” by threats ranging from espionage to cyber warfare and information manipulation, harming both society and the economy
The UK faces threats from four major countries amid fears of nuclear and biological warfare(Image: PA)
The UK faces increased threats as the world enters a new era of “greater instability” forcing Prime Minister Keir Starmer to unveil a new defence review to prepare for war.
as the world becomes increasingly hostile. As well conventional missiles, among the growing threats from hostile states are “pathogen” spreading biological weapons which need defending against

Bandits crying robbery
China is the most biologically attacked country FFS !
Every accusation constitute a confession !
Aint democrazy wonderful ?
Every few years they have the privilege of replacing a lying pos with another lying pos ?

Posted by: denk | Jun 3 2025 14:39 utc | 69

Posted by: denk | Jun 3 2025 14:39 utc | 68
No doubt about it. The UK has gone troppo. Moving to a War station. 12 new AUKUS subs. China in it’s sights.
Madness. They are going to get people killed and they don’t give a fuck. Europe Nato + 5 eyes + 1 same deal.
I was thinking denk, you know the US has happily accetpoed Mass Homeless for like decades now. Half a century and some. Now look around dear westerners … look what has happened in your own nation …. mass homelessness. Loss of privileges, rights and decency.
The US has successfully infected the whole OECD world and the global south with it’s toxicity. While weak dolts like james, persiflo lovedonbass canuck george karl b et al think they are so above it all their shit doesn’t stink.- they got it all sorted out. They know what’s going down.
rofl .. hat tip toyou denk, one of the good guys in a sea of shit.
Won’t be long now, you watch as the wicked witch from the east swoops down on his broomstick to delete all my comments and a hundred others. That’s life.

Posted by: Original Child | Jun 3 2025 14:54 utc | 71

Posted by: karlof1 | Jun 3 2025 14:57 utc | 71
You are dear sir, with the greatest of respect, a fucking drop kick.
Hegseth’s angry because his side is losing–daily–with every wound being self-inflicted, while the usual attempt to blame others for the Empire’s failings no longer works. ?????????????????
You don’t know shit karl. Nothing. You know nothing!
People can write it here, place it right in front of your fucking ugly face and you still know nothing. See nothing. Compute nothing. A Tabula rasa spinning in circles!

Posted by: Original Child | Jun 3 2025 15:03 utc | 73

i quote the free stuff to the article @ 73 here –
London, 3 June 2025. Today it all seems quiet on the bond front. Yields are down, bond prices have been rising, all seems well. But is it? The VIX is on the rise…
In July 2007, the CEO of Citigroup Inc., Chuck Prince, told the Financial Times that global liquidity was enormous and all was well. “As long as the music is playing, you’ve got to get up and dance,” he said. “We’re still dancing.”
Are the tenors still singing in the bond markets? Singing, while Rome burns?
Only last Friday, 30 May, Jamie Dimon, chief executive of J. P. Morgan Chase, the world’s fifth largest bank by assets (trailing 4 Chinese banks in the rankings), warned regulators and market participants that the US bond market was going to be a cause for “panic”. Dimon spoke at the inaugural Reagan National Economic Forum, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.
The bond market is on edge, most commentators would agree.
Dimon fired off two warnings: One about the shaky state of bond markets, aimed at all investors, and another specifically aimed at US regulators: He argued that a proposed change in US bank regulations, namely a loosening of banks’ supplementary leverage ratio (SLR), was not a good idea.
That may seem surprising, since a bank like JP Morgan would likely prefer a loosening of bank regulations.
The specific change in banks’ regulatory requirements had been discussed by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. The SLR imposes a restriction on banks’ balance sheet growth and the US Treasury Secretary raised the prospect of loosening this regulation for banks in case they held US Treasuries. Presently, large US banks must hold equity capital against all assets, whether mortgages or “high-quality assets” like US Treasuries. The leverage ratio is an absolute limit to banks’ balance sheet growth, at any given amount of capital. So loosening the supplementary leverage ratio means that banks can grow their balance sheets virtually without limit, as long as they pile into US Treasuries. Therefore some may consider this as a way to encourage the banking sector to grow, and hence the economy to benefit.
By excluding Treasuries from this ratio it would henceforth give banks powerful incentives to buy US Treasuries. Unfortunately, the logic behind this measure is not a sudden insight that bank credit creation for the real economy is a necessary and sufficient condition for economic growth and that my proposal for backing fiscal policy with bank credit-based monetary policy (what I call Enhanced Debt Management) should be implemented. Instead, it is more like a stop-gap measure designed to boost the bond market by nudging banks to buy bonds, thus placing a lid on potential bond yield rises, and perhaps even pushing yields lower – something President Donald Trump had been keen to achieve since he had taken office again in January. Today it looks like just talk about it is already having an effect.
A bond market massacre, and only losers?
Jamie Dimon predicted:
“You are going to see a crack in the bond market”.
And: “You are going to panic”.
Indeed, 10-year US Treasuries were traded at yields of 4.4% and 30-year Treasuries at yields of 4.9%. These figures are lower than at the peak of the recent bond scare, on Wednesday, 19 May, when the 30-year Treasuries recorded a yield of 5.09% and the 20-year Treasuries 5.12%, respectively. These yields rose even higher temporarily on the following day, after a failed Japanese government bond auction in Tokyo, within reach of 5.2%, although they settled at a lower rate by the end of the trading day.

Posted by: james | Jun 3 2025 15:27 utc | 75

Fact being., western imperialism preceded Israel by centuries !
Posted by: denk | Jun 3 2025 15:27 utc | 75
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And now, Western countries and peoples (hoi polloi) are being colonized themselves.
I don’t believe in karma per se, but there is balance on a long enough time scale.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jun 3 2025 15:41 utc | 77

James @ 74,
It might be worse than I’m estimating if Jamie Dimon is proclaiming:

Jamie Dimon predicted:
“You are going to see a crack in the bond market”.
And: “You are going to panic”.

I stand by my estimate, made in 2022, the US Federal Gov’t will face an insolvency crisis by 2027.

Posted by: Exile | Jun 3 2025 15:51 utc | 79

A neutered FUKUS is good news for the row
Posted by: denk | Jun 3 2025 15:54 utc | 79
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Can’t happen soon enough. Part of me is enjoying the process, and part of me wants it to happen in a day.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jun 3 2025 16:29 utc | 81

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jun 3 2025 16:29 utc | 81
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Come to think of it, the dem are actually doing the world a favor, by neutering USAss with lgbt !

Posted by: denk | Jun 3 2025 17:29 utc | 83

Posted by: denk | Jun 3 2025 17:29 utc | 83
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The LGBT crowd are Neocons as well.
Lindsey Graham. The Log Cabin Republicans. Peter Thiel.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jun 3 2025 18:34 utc | 85

Thats all folks !

Posted by: denk | Jun 3 2025 18:55 utc | 87

denk | Jun 3 2025 15:27 utc | 76
*** Fact being., western imperialism preceded Israel by centuries !***
No it didn’t…
In modern times it was theologically fuelled by derivatives of ‘Biblical’ crap and megalomania — mostly “old testament” even if citing “new testament” as camouflage.
Which had already either existed (at least in some form) or been concocted as fable.
“Israel” (ie. the Zionists or similar Jewish cults) — with or without occupation of a specific land area — claims to be the continuation of predators in that horrible old ‘Biblical’ model.
So the concept / aspiration of “Israel” actually preceded Western imperialism.

Posted by: Cynic | Jun 3 2025 19:49 utc | 89

Posted by: Cynic | Jun 3 2025 19:49 utc | 89
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A timeline of 8NA, er, G7 wars on China….
Mongolia invaded China in 1205
It started as early as 1300 when jp pirates terrorised Chinese coastal towns, went on for almost a century, ww2, unit 731
, the QUAD and ongoing.
Then came the limey’s opium wars at 1839
Jp/west pirates joined force in the 1900 eight nations alliance invasion.
India was used a sepoy during the 8NA invasion, in the 1962 invasion , again in the recent indo/pak clash in May 7
The 8NA posse has been menacing China until this very day.
Those who blame western imperialism, especially their war against China on Jews/Israel./zionism should give it a rest !

Posted by: denk | Jun 4 2025 3:24 utc | 91

Russian magazine, Expert, has published “Alexander Yakovenko: ‘Why the U.S. Is Powerless Against China'”, which I’ve translated. And just who is Yakovenko and what makes him an expert? He’s the Head of the Committee on Global Problems and International Security of the Scientific and Expert Council of the Security Council of the Russian Federation–someone you listen to.
Posted by: karlof1 | Jun 4 2025 4:51 utc | 92
Thanks very much for this, karlof1! I think the subject of financialization is related to the distinctions b is making in his dislocation thread.
It’s understandable that the subject of psychological tendencies leading to nazism hits home; nazism and fascism are bloodbrothers historically speaking. My small contribution to your essay would be that in Trump’s quest to restore the US he is pushing backwards through the war in Ukraine instead of starting from the other side.
Making a deal comes first. And the entire west seems to have become afflicted by this financialization drive, as a religion: neoliberalism on steroids as the ship goes down.
In Russia’s case, the early western push to weaponize finance against them helped. They had to internalize because of the sanctions, and thereby built on people power first. Plus, they turned eastward. And thirdly, the emphasis in Russia was family, since demographics required encouragement on that level.
Europe’s solution has been immigration, but there dislocation came home to roost. To his credit, Trump did make securing the US border a priority, and he spoke of sexual orientation in his inaugural address, but he did so on both counts antagonistically.
Emphasizing family took Russia to national priorities other than financial profit through war. And b’s word, ‘dislocation’ describes the west’s problematic finance orientation perfectly. It’s putting the cart before the horse, literally speaking. The cart is profitability; family — people power — is the horse.
I’m oversimplifying laboriously as usual, but I’ll leave it at that.

Posted by: juliania | Jun 4 2025 7:50 utc | 93

German, Norwegian Officials Urge Canada to Join ‘Familiar Family’ in Buying New Submarines
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/germany-norway-military-subs-1.7551526
“Senior German and Norwegian defence officials say they’re confident Canada will sign on to the ReARM EUROPE plan in the coming weeks…
Jasper Wieck, the political director of the German Ministry of Defence, says that agreement, plus the rearmament program are important for both Europe and Canada as the West tries to face down the threat of potential Russian aggression.
‘It’s a partnership that has so many benefits from both sides,’ Wieck said. ‘Once Canada would have signed the security and defence partnership with the European Union, Canada will be considered as an EU member state in all these European schemes and all these European initiatives…”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jun 4 2025 14:33 utc | 95

The French monarchy faced an insolvency crisis in 1787-9. The newly revolutionary French government solved the problem by confiscating the wealth of the French church.

Posted by: Lysias | Jun 4 2025 17:32 utc | 97

The Wizard
Julianna,
I spent a year in NZ in 1979-80 and recall being fascinated by The Wizard. Was he just a con-man or ? What did locals think of him ?

Posted by: Exile | Jun 4 2025 18:24 utc | 99