The MoA Week In Review – OT 2025-149

A tale of two bloggers.
The U.K. moves towards Nazism and coming to terrorise it’s ‘subjects of the Crown’.
I had come to realisation some years ago of the fake democracy and ever more fascist nature of our British State.
I had on previous decades celebrated the success of campaigns against apartheid South Africa.
Boycotts. Disruptions of sporting events etc.
Also against nuclear missiles being sited in Britain.
I had lived through the proscription of SinnFein and their long rebellious war of decolonisation of Eire. Had supported the republicans at home. Supported the strikers and public servants under attack as the neoliberal globalists set their sails.
It took me a long while – having been fully raised in the orthodoxies of being anti communist, anti Soviet and in the xenophobic environs of the Murdoch media from the 80’s.
Maggies ‘Enemy within’ neo fascism.
It was lies!
Hidden within football mania, soft porn tits-out teenage girls across Murdochs reprogramming of the British Mind.
That led us to the much harder core variety of manic sexulisation of youth and society that is now ubiquitous. Normalised and mega bucks!
It wrapped the anti Union, pro privatisation feeding frenzy. The anti European and subsequent Islamophobia – which itself was built to launch Wars against a word – Terrorism.
I had sleepwalked through the heinous attack on Yugoslavia by Nato – an OFFENSIVE organisation.
Then as the century turned the dogs of war unleashed.
Through the coordinated LIES about who actually ‘demolished’ the WTC and why?
What first made in a bit queasy was the mass media coordinated coverage of the ‘attacks’ that were immediately followed by an invasion of Afghanistan ! Almost as if that was planned. Which for the next 20 years reversed the almost complete end of Opium growing that had happened there for many decades. Using western troops to reignite and return it to the pre Taliban levels of production.
Followed by the insane conflation of Iraq and it’s invasion on the basis of the sexed up dossier on WMD…
The protests of millions ignored as the objective became clear that it was all aimed 7 countries in five years and the extension of the Last Imperial Anglo European Colonisation in the Levant – wholly using every single 5 Eyes, Natzios and their satraps around the world.
The illegal apartheid entity and its killers in the IDF.
Death Death to them.
Built on the back of the fake prophets of NuLabInc the fresh Prince Blair and his Camelot court, their capture of the young and us adults with the Cool Britannia, PR and Advertising scripted return to sanity after Thatcherism. His fake Road Map.
We swallowed it hook line and sinker. Happy that no promised reversals of privatised Public services happened. Happy that education was sold down the river as energy and rail and affordable social housing. We were fools to our own avarice and dumb belief that a Labour Government would make it all ok!
Like little children believing in Santa Claus! It wasn’t Labour it was ‘New’ Labour.
…
Now, New Nu-Labour Inc is the same as the old NuLabour Blairites. That was no different to the ever more autocratic Thatcherite Tories. It’s been a steady ratcheting up repression of freedoms through ever more fascist laws by controlled lawmakers and their henchfolk in the pillars of state.
Across the Collective Waste.
Here is a perfect example of the latest draconian new laws aimed at crushing dissent and protest and democracy.
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07/05/complying-with-the-requirements-of-the-law/
The compliance to ever more vicious fascist laws being made writ large by that blogger. Who has long taken to censoring and banning commentors.
And here is another, who not only resisted but was prisoned for reporting truths and is still sacrificing health and risking further persecution on all our behalf.
‘Craig Murray
@CraigMurrayOrg
Jul 5
Back to my hotel room after 13 hours in court supporting Palestine Action today.
Well, we lost.
But the Genocide was detailed and the British government abandoned their mask of civilised behaviour.
Will write up tomorrow. The entire legal team was emotionally shattered.
Jul 5, 2025 · 12:53 AM UTC’
Support him with money and attention and spread the word.
Resistance is not futile. We stand stronger by standing together against the nazification by ziofascist State terrorists in our Collective West.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jul 6 2025 13:49 utc | 1

I’ll put this here preferably although it is really an extension of the Palestian thread
TextCyprus in the scheme of “greater Israel”.
In case you were worrying, Cyprus has been added to the “Greater Israel”. I am sure it is clearly marked in the bible somewhere. Along with Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan and parts of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Syria, Iraq and Egypt. The Nile and Euphrates are probably symbolized by the two horizontal lines on the Israeli flag. (between two rivers,)
If you look at the map that goes with this post, which now includes Cyprus. (https://x.com/MonitorX99800/status/1941084712774045923/photo/1
It is clear that the trace has been carefully updated by some moving finger that wrote and then moved on. To include Cyprus it needed a link across to the Euphrates. This line chops off a bit of Syria that is at the moment Turkish, (but which was Syrian before becoming Turkish). Carefully leaving a miniscule Turkish section for oil exports from the Ceyhan terminal in Turkey to Israel by sea.
Descending the Euphrates and taking pieces of Syria and Iraq on the way, (we will return to that later) it englobes Kuwait, Basra and includes the delta., where there are globs of Oil.
Turning across Saudi Arabia, it crosses delicately just, very just, north of Medina, the second Muslim holy city after Mecca. All Northern Saudi Arabia, now gets included. The line leaps across the Red Sea from Yanbu (probable US Logistic hub?), immediately bulging southwards slightly to take in the Assuan Dam (Aswan) south of the town itself, to be able to control the Nile waters downstream. That must also have been written in the bible somewhere, but I have been temporarily unable to find it. Only a few thousand Scrolls to go through.
Following the Nile northwards towards the Mediterranean, ALL the land between the Nile itself and the Red Sea is now included, plus all the Nile delta and Alexandria, which may have felt a bit “left out” if not. The line then rejoins Cyprus and I presume will include ALL the gas and oilfields in the Levantine basin.
Simple really.
Some details are interesting even though their exact mentions in the bible are somewhat discrete, are;
1) All of Cyprus is included. (Both sides)
2) The North-eastern Syrian territories, now held by Kurds are already in “good” hands under US “scrutiny” and occupation (as well as the European Union Agency for Asylum EUAA). As are the northern “Kurdish” territories in Iraq (Mosul, Kirkuk. Erbil, etc.) Al-Jewlani with his Al-Quaida expertise in declaring “resistance zones”, is asking for ancient Syrian territories now found in Iraq to be “returned”; Anbar, Salah-al Din, Diyala and Sulaymaniyah Governates. (Cuts Iraq into easily modulable segments.One wonders if the second “river” is not the Tigris rather than the Euphrates. In which case the “Grater Israel and friends” are right on Iran’s border.
3) Maybe I should have included the land between the Red sea and headwaters of the Blue or White Niles, as there are several bits of interesting countryside since as Israel has bases on Socotra (with the Emirates) but this must be left to future “extensions” of the Biblical lore.

Posted by: Stonebird | Jul 6 2025 14:29 utc | 2

First word “Text”, should be HTML bold for the title. sorry.

Posted by: Stonebird | Jul 6 2025 14:32 utc | 3

Today is Ashura.
Every day is Ashura. Every land is Karbala.
A Shia call to jihad (vigilance), remembering Imam Hossein’s ultimate sacrifice.

Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Jul 6 2025 14:45 utc | 4

thanks b…. nothing to promote, but appreciate what others are sharing…

Posted by: james | Jul 6 2025 14:52 utc | 5

BRICS to launch investment fund for member states, managed by China’s New Development Bank, to rival the World Bank — Reuters

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jul 6 2025 15:05 utc | 6

God damn that Iran article is telling.
https://indi.ca/white-empire-collapse-out/

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 6 2025 15:05 utc | 7

Sun 06 Jul 2025 07:55:28 AM PDT
Ozzie’s Osbourne’s farewell gig
Featured real live Zio `all-star’ War Pig: https://consequence.net/2025/07/disturbed-david-draiman-boos-final-black-sabbath-concert/

Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerer of death’s construction
In the fields, the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind
Poisoning their brainwashed minds

Posted by: Laurence | Jul 6 2025 15:10 utc | 8

David Draiman…isn’t he that Brad Roberts (Crash Test Dummies…remember?) knockoff who did that silly histrionic cover of “Sound of Silence”?

Posted by: malenkov | Jul 6 2025 15:37 utc | 9

@ Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 6 2025 15:05 utc | 7
the author of your link is pretty entertaining… might be hitting close to the truth too, but regardless it’s entertaining… a quote –
“We (me) talk about America all the time now, but in a generation or two we just won’t. They’ll be some weird dinosaur island, split into a dozen isolated states, where people still use giant dinosaur cars running on dinosaur ‘bones’ and are fundamentally disconnected from the world. They won’t be able to print money, they certainly won’t be able to print bullets, and they won’t even be able to hold their ‘united’ states together. They could have dragged out this process for a dignified century, but they’d rather be dragged out kicking and screaming this decade.”

Posted by: james | Jul 6 2025 15:38 utc | 10

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 6 2025 15:05 utc | 7
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Great share. People weren’t reading stuff like that 2 years ago.
Sinwar has changed human consciousness.
It doesn’t delight me to see the West end. I’d be fine with a West that did science and discovery. The ending of mass oppression is long overdue.
Maybe the Chinese will be pricks. I don’t know. They do have a vision of shared communal progress and dignity that is very appealing to me.
Better than anything coming from Washington or Brussels.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 6 2025 15:55 utc | 11

If one wants to mention DRC and minerals, one should always mention the pertinent history:
1. Mobutu signed a mining deal with the Chinese.
2. The US got butthurt, and decided to destroy Zaire/DRC. They asked Habyarimana to use Rwanda as a base for invading Zaire/DRC, but he declined.
3. The US got butthurt, and decided to genocide Rwanda, using feudal revanchist exile baTúutsi for this purpose. For this purpose, feudal revanchist exile-cum-deputy chief of Ugandan military intelligence, Paul Kagamé, was sent to Fort Leavenworth for the purpose of leading the invasion/genocide.
4. Habyarimana attempted to preempt this plan, by granting all Rwandan refugees abroad permission to apply for Rwandan passports, and return (29 September 1990, UN General Assembly). This forced the US and the Ugandans to speed up their plans: the first (and naturally, fake) human rights organization in Rwanda was set up the very next day, and the Ugandans invaded the day after (1 October 1990), although Kagamé was still at Fort Leavenworth (Fred Rwigema was in charge).
5. Kagamé took over, and engaged in such sports as mass bashing in of the skulls of baHutu with hoes, often then cutting off the heads of the victims, and throwing the corpses in rivers (Western propaganda claimed falsely that these were baTúutsi victims), and using the skulls to make trophy piles (falsely insinuated by Western propaganda to be the skulls of baTúutsi). Other sports included gunning down baHutu, and throwing grenades into homes of baHutu.
While Kagamé was engaged in this sport, the US and Canada we’re providing daily supply flights to Southern Ugandan, and the US moved its embassy to Ugandan-occupied Mulindi.
The Ugandans (Hakizimana) estimated that in 1994 they killed between 1M and 2M baHutu.
The official Western propaganda (including HRW, another human rights organization) claim that of the 600k baTúutsi that lived in Rwanda in 1991 (per the 1991 census), 800k-1M2 were killed (New Math), leaving 400k-500k survivors (IBUKA, an Ugandan/RPF proxy organization). Normal arithmetic would suggest 100k-200k baTúutsi victims, many of whom were killed by the Ugandans.
6. Upon consolidating their control of Rwanda, they started mass mineral theft and genocide in Congo-Kinshasa, and have by now well out-done King Leopold.
The propaganda in support of the Ugandan/Rwandan feudalist genocide was that they were “chasing genocidaires,” with the term “genocidaires” being a term of abuse for baHutu, principally double refugees, first from Byumba prefecture, where the Ugandans reduced the population from just under 800k to under 3k (they principally fled to the refugee camp north of Kigali, that the Ugandans had been hitting with artillery 24/7 since at least the beginning of 1994), and again fled, through Congo Kinshasa, principally to Congo-Brazzaville and Cameroon.
Thus the “genocidaires” (baHutu survivors of Ugandan genocide) fled to the North-West, while the Ugandan invaders raped and plundered and set up child slave labour mines (to extract minerals for sale via Kigali, with US and Western backing) toward the Zambian border, along the Cobalt/Tantalum belt.

Posted by: Johan Meyer (2) | Jul 6 2025 16:09 utc | 12

Here is a perfect example of the latest draconian new laws aimed at crushing dissent and protest and democracy.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Jul 6 2025 13:49 utc | 1
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I see that trial by ordeal is well and truly underway in the UK.
Maybe once Richard Murphy is beaten severely enough he’ll give up his liberal ways.

Posted by: too scents | Jul 6 2025 16:17 utc | 13

Update on the new Nazi Law in little England.
Zionism Observer
@receipts_lol
18h
The UK just arrested an 83 year old woman for terrorism (holding a sign).
Not charged for terrorism: this guy unloading his machine gun on a neighborhood, for sport.
He’s from Manchester.
Younis Tirawi | يونس
@ytirawi
Apr 3
Shujjaiya, Gaza City |
IDF soldier from 🇬🇧Manchester, UK opening fire indiscriminately on homes in the neighborhood this morning.
His fellow Israeli-UK soldier writes back ironically: “war crimes”
Jul 5, 2025 · 4:30 PM UTC
Campaign Against Antisemitism
@antisemitism
11h
We have reviewed this post. Palestine Action has been proscribed. Anyone expressing support for it contrary to section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000 commits a criminal offence.
We stand ready to privately prosecute offenders in instances where an offence has been made out and the authorities fail to act.
Jul 6, 2025 · 8:21 AM UTC

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jul 6 2025 16:38 utc | 14

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jul 6 2025 13:49 utc | 1
Back in 1977 Mr John Lydon told you there was no future and that you were living under a fascist regime. Anyways, god save the king!

Posted by: Ogre | Jul 6 2025 16:42 utc | 15

10 year gov‘t debt as of Close end last week:
4.54% England ££
4.34% USA $$
2.56% German €€
1.64% China (CNY)

Posted by: Exile | Jul 6 2025 16:45 utc | 16

no american party/elon musk?
US had a full cycle with republican-democratic parties only
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-new-political-party-2095098

Posted by: Newbie | Jul 6 2025 17:03 utc | 17

Yesterday, I discovered the Telegram had deleted its article about the missile hits after doing some sleuthing. Martyanov tried to blame some Oregon State researchers for the story, but it was the Telegraph who confessed it was its assessment. Existing video disproves the Telegraph story which is lkely why it was deleted. I found a copy at the Way Back Machine run by the Internet Archive. Here’s my report buried at the bottom of the comment queue.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jul 6 2025 17:43 utc | 18

@ DunGroanin | Jul 6 2025 16:38 utc | 14
any predictions on when the uk completely caves?? does it first have to get bombed by russia, or will it just implode on its own?? it is truly crazy what a transformation the uk is going thru at present.. where does it lead?? fascism seems like it is already fully realized, but maybe i have that wrong..

Posted by: james | Jul 6 2025 17:43 utc | 19

“Survivors testify: MKs participated in sadistic sexual ‘rituals’ involving minors”
Boy, just when you think the Zios pervert culture cannot get any sicker!

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Jul 6 2025 17:49 utc | 20

The Telegraph did not delete its article, but it requieres registration to read it:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/07/05/iran-struck-five-israeli-military-bases-12-day-war/
Link to the Way Back Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250705154700/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/07/05/iran-struck-five-israeli-military-bases-12-day-war/

Posted by: Esophagus | Jul 6 2025 18:07 utc | 21

https://web.archive.org/web/20250705154700/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/07/05/iran-struck-five-israeli-military-bases-12-day-war/
Trying again…

Posted by: Esophagus | Jul 6 2025 18:09 utc | 22

In the preview there’s no error, but in the post the web direction becomes corrupted.
Copy and paste in the a browser the web direction between brackets:
[ https://web.archive.org/web/20250705154700/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/07/05/iran-struck-five-israeli-military-bases-12-day-war/ ]

Posted by: Esophagus | Jul 6 2025 18:13 utc | 23

Re @21,22
I tried posting, using preview, and the blog software really butchers it—this blog software prevents posting links to the way back machine.
For others, use the original link, and enter it at web.archive.org

Posted by: Johan Meyer (2) | Jul 6 2025 18:16 utc | 24

Esophagus | Jul 6 2025 18:13 utc | 23
Well, error again.
Copy and paste in a browser the web direction IN RED.
Pff

Posted by: Esophagus | Jul 6 2025 18:17 utc | 25

Japan is set to sell 6 sub hunter ships to the the Philippines navy. Will the ships come with Japanese comfort girls?
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jul 6 2025 18:17 utc | 26

thanks esophagus @ 21, 22, 23..
i was able to get to it in one of your links.. here is the link which hopefully will work for others…
Iran”>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/07/05/iran-struck-five-israeli-military-bases-12-day-war/”>Iran struck five Israeli military bases during 12-day war

Posted by: james | Jul 6 2025 18:20 utc | 27

well that screwed up as well… i will try again and preview first…
too many // symbols and it doesn’t seem to work, but one of your links did go thru.. thanks..

Posted by: james | Jul 6 2025 18:23 utc | 28

Foolproof way to post any link on MoA.
Go to http://archive.ph and paste your link there. Then copy the archived link and paste it into Typepad ==> https://archive.ph/cT1KO

Posted by: too scents | Jul 6 2025 18:40 utc | 29

vtforeignpolicy referred to infobrics for the article about
Oleksiy Arestovych (or Alexey Arestovich)
Heading
“Former advisor to Zelensky office admits Russia could ‘crush Ukraine'”
July 4, 2025
…..
Arestovich now resides in the United States, in what could be described as a “comfortable political exile”
….
Arestovich then went on to explain that the Kremlin is fighting on “easy mode” because it wants to “avoid overheating the Russian society”. He also stated that the idea of “a surprisingly strong Ukraine” comes from the fact that “Moscow is simply not fighting a real war, but a special military operation (SMO)”. Arestovich pointed out that the Russian military has only announced partial mobilization once and that its troops have regular rotation, unlike the Neo-Nazi junta forces, where soldiers are forced to fight for years. He also contrasted Russia’s “5% effort” with the Kiev regime’s use of 40% of its budget to wage the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict, clearly implying that “Moscow isn’t even trying yet” and pointing out that “700,000 Russian soldiers are fighting a million Ukrainians” (and still advancing on all fronts).
Arestovich then explained that if the Kremlin wanted to, it could “easily mobilize two million troops, ramp up military spending to full wartime levels and erase Ukraine from the map in three months”. His exact words include a rather colorful analogy, as he stated that the Neo-Nazi junta would be “crushed like a rotten walnut”. Arestovich admitted that “it’s clear Russia doesn’t want to destroy Ukraine, because it still sees Ukrainians as brothers, misguided and misled, but still part of the same historical and cultural space”.
….
“Arestovich argues that “Russia could turn this into a real war, the kind that leaves nothing standing, but chooses to fight with restraint, using volunteers and contracted soldiers rather than throwing its full weight into the fight”.
He also thinks that the Kiev regime is still surviving because of a combination of the political West’s massive investment to prolong this NATO-orchestrated conflict and the Kremlin holding back, rather than its own strength, arguing that the aforementioned Russian restraint stems from the desire to avoid widespread destruction in NATO-occupied Ukraine.”
….
“Arestovich also mentioned the infamous TCC and its kidnapping of tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of regular Ukrainians in order to fill the ranks of frontline troops and contrasted that to Russia’s professional and all-volunteer military.”
…..
“As previously mentioned, many Ukrainians themselves are helping by providing the exact coordinates of TCC offices, as they realize this could accelerate the end of this NATO-orchestrated war.”
https://infobrics.org/en/post/51162

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Jul 6 2025 18:59 utc | 30

MOATS with George Galloway: America Third?
https://rumble.com/v6vsjfr-america-third-the-end-of-the-munk-trump-bromance-billionaire-forms-his-own-.html
“The end of the Munk-Trump bromance – billionaire forms his own party. A third force in US politics or Munk vanity project?”
With Dr Annelle Rodriguez Sheline & Scott Ritter

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jul 6 2025 19:26 utc | 31

🇧🇷🌎 BRICS NEW MEMBERS!!!!
The BRICS Rio de Janeiro Declaration states that 10 countries from various regions around the world have joined BRICS as official partner countries.
📝The full list of the new members:
🇧🇾 Belarus
🇧🇴 The Plurinational State of Bolivia
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
🇨🇺 Cuba
🇮🇩 Indonesia
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🇲🇾 Malaysia
🇹🇭 Thailand
🇻🇳 Vietnam
🇺🇬 Uganda
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1941942843096043668

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 6 2025 19:37 utc | 32

“The end of the Munk-Trump bromance – billionaire forms his own party. A third force in US politics or Munk vanity project?”
Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jul 6 2025 19:26 utc | 31
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Obvious misdirection. That so many in the alt media are giving it oxygen is more about clicks than it is about analysis.
Most still believe uncritically what they are told by known liars.
Has no one watched pro wrestling before?

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 6 2025 19:40 utc | 33

Breaking
Araghchi statement over at BRICS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsDFmuvCelk

Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Jul 6 2025 19:44 utc | 34

Top 10 Biggest Economics in the World (PPP)
1. 🇨🇳 China – $37.07T
2. 🇺🇸 United States – $29.17T
3. 🇮🇳 India – $16.02T
4. 🇷🇺 Russian Federation – $6.91T
5. 🇯🇵 Japan – $6.57T
6. 🇩🇪 Germany – $6.02T
7. 🇧🇷 Brazil – $4.7T
8. 🇮🇩 Indonesia – $4.66T
9. 🇫🇷 France – $4.36T
10. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – $4.28T
PPP: Purchasing Power Parity
Source: IMF

https://x.com/stats_feed/status/1941720261465927956
5 of the top 8 are in BRICS

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 6 2025 20:04 utc | 35

I realize people either don’t read my comments or simply miss them (there are a lot of comments after all) but here’s how to make web archive links work (and make me feel useful lol).
Modify the web archive link with “&colon;” instead of the “:” that is actually part of the destination (not the first one in your link).
Please (copy and) remember! 😀
The change works because it is the second “invocation” of the HTTPS protocol that throws everything sideways 🙂
Here’s the link done that way:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250705154700/https&colon://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/07/05/iran-struck-five-israeli-military-bases-12-day-war/
Take notice of where the “&colon;” appears in the link above.
(Hopefully I’m not messing this up, otherwise I’ll have to make a sunny runny burger… maybe I should mess up? 😀 )

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jul 6 2025 20:07 utc | 36

And btw “archive.org” are morons for not doing this automatically to their URLs.
I said it 😀

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jul 6 2025 20:10 utc | 37

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jul 6 2025 20:07 utc | 36
Worked for me. Thanks a lot.

Posted by: Avtonom | Jul 6 2025 20:19 utc | 38

If I’m going to call them morons I should use a replacement that actually sticks in the URL after it loads… (oops).
So it’s better to use “%3A” to replace the “:”. The “%3A” stays as it is and isn’t replaced when (or after) the URL loads.
This way people don’t get hopelessly confused by things changing automagically…
Again as an example:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250705154700/https%3A//www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/07/05/iran-struck-five-israeli-military-bases-12-day-war/
Anyway I feel a bit stupid myself :3

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jul 6 2025 20:29 utc | 39

Thought this one would make the Week in Review, an in-depth look at the machinery for production of pro-NATO NPCs, with a particular focus on Germany:
Elite Capture and European Self-Destruction: The Hidden Architecture of Transatlantic Hegemony

Posted by: S.P. Korolev | Jul 6 2025 20:33 utc | 40

Posted by: Johan Meyer (2) | Jul 6 2025 16:09 utc | 12
I’m just curious about one thing — did China have any real influence on global events back in 1990? I know they made small donations here and there during the 1990s, but China at that time was nowhere near the global power it is today. Even from my own experience, most Chinese graduate students in Canada back then dressed very modestly, which reflected the country’s economic situation.

Posted by: Cable Guy | Jul 6 2025 20:36 utc | 41

@ Sunny Runny Burger | Jul 6 2025 20:07 utc | 36 // 39
thanks.. oh we read your posts – not all of them, but most of them! i don’t know if i will remember this because i do this so infrequently, but i appreciate you educating me on the use of this idea to make it work next time… thanks..

Posted by: james | Jul 6 2025 21:07 utc | 42

@ Sunny Runny Burger | Jul 6 2025 20:07 utc | 36 // 39
It’s unlikely people are going to remember this tip, unless they save it somewhere. Perhaps we should create an archive of helpful stuff like this in a central location? I made a substack called The Philosopher’s Corner for reasons such as this, so I’ll put it there:
https://persiflo.substack.com/p/the-moa-archive-of-tips-and-tricks
Please add whatever is helpful there in the comments. Someone did a list of abbreviations, that would fit. And the links to the various scripts people made to aid in handling MoA.

Posted by: persiflo | Jul 6 2025 21:30 utc | 43

BYE BYE SWIFT
The Russian delegation is the second largest at BRICS in Rio. Crammed with heavyweights – from Rosatom and Rostec directors to top presidential advisor Maxim Oreshkin, who addressed the BRICS Business Council yesterday.
Arguably it’s Russian Finance Minister Siluanov who dropped the major bombshell – on the road to de-dollarization front. “The New Development Bank (NDB) can become BRICS’ cross-border settlement hub.” That’s a DIRECT, straight to the point, sanction-proof alternative to SWIFT.
That means, as Siluanov stressed, the NDB providing loan guarantees for mega-infrastructure projects all across the BRICS sphere.
ALL BRICS members ratified the move. Next step: organizing a working group, a “mere formality” according to Siluanov.
China was particularly incisive. Because Beijing has been working for quite some time to set up a BRICS-supported payment system.
THIS IS IT. One of the good results out of the priorities set by the Brazilian presidency in 2025. Let’s see what else may come up in the final declaration.

https://x.com/RealPepeEscobar/status/1941894415569617258
Friends, we’re watching the deconstruction of the current financial order in real-time. History being made.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 6 2025 21:45 utc | 44

karlof1@18
thank you for correcting that. i found it strange smoothie didn’t look into it, or thank you. sigh. as AHH says, What days?

Posted by: emersonreturn | Jul 6 2025 21:52 utc | 45

lovedonbass @ 35
we have to keep in mind, these numbers reflect what’s declared or known to empire, most of the trade between china & russia (& india/russia) & as well possibly between china/russia with Indonesia & brazil, is dark.

Posted by: emersonreturn | Jul 6 2025 21:57 utc | 46

@41
I do not know how to test such a matter.
As an example, North Korea provided assistance e.g. to Yemen, selling rockets, and perhaps know-how.
Poorer countries may often have a freer hand than wealthy countries, as their actions are usually regarded as insignificant, out of contempt from those who regard themselves as powerful.
Perhaps the US conduct was out of a fit of picque, rather than fear, but at the same time, China, for all its poverty, had nuclear and space programs. Note the Western psychosis that Russia is at the same time about to collapse, and take over the world.
As for myself, I prefer an “a luta continua” cultural proclivity to a “decisive blow” cultural proclivity. That is, one studies problems (background in differential equations and random variables is really prerequisite; even Mao had a good chunk of calculus exposure), comes up with hypotheses, tests them, tries various opportunities (think Boyd’s OODA loop, but without conflict being necessarily present at any moment with any given party whose interests differ from one’s own), studies new problems for which solutions have not necessarily even been proposed, studies problems for which standard solutions exist, infers the underlying assumptions of these solutions, and reflects on their validity, etc.
Setting up semi-modern mining in Congo Kinshasa need not have been understood by the then Chinese leadership as an affront to the US.

Posted by: Johan Meyer (2) | Jul 6 2025 22:19 utc | 47

S.P. Korolev
thank you, S.P. bookmarked & shared.

Posted by: emersonreturn | Jul 6 2025 22:35 utc | 48

Posted by: emersonreturn | Jul 6 2025 21:57 utc | 46
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If you think about it, no one benefits in the ROW from having their transactions and history public.
Only the hegemon benefits.
All transactions should be dark IMO.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 6 2025 22:39 utc | 49

The best most complete ‘history’ of the zionist entity’s attack on Iran that I have come across was written by Kit Klarenberg. You can find it titled Who Really Won The ’12-Day War’?.

Posted by: Debsisdead | Jul 6 2025 22:47 utc | 50

In the spirit of questioning everything, why do governments have to announce every new weapons system and deployment?
Seems like a terrible idea. From what I have seen, it is mostly a Western obsession to make announcements in lieu of meaningful policy announcements.
Every statement is a promise of future greatness and success. And to what end?
The adage, “under promise, overdeliver,” doesn’t apply to modern-day politics.
It’s all about headlines now, not meaningful action when it matters.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 6 2025 22:49 utc | 51

well im so glad the WA Post told me it was still possible for Ukraine to lose this war. “despite the conventinal wisdom”.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Jul 6 2025 22:57 utc | 52

49 lovedonbass
Fair enough, but in my opinion, money that is permissionless is more important in this digital and surveillance future we are hurtling towards (west or east)

Posted by: E | Jul 6 2025 23:37 utc | 53

I’ve deactivated my X account and start checking MoA once a week only. I honestly can’t do this anymore. There is no baseline for truth or ethical human behaviour. It’s otherwise like watching porn; I need my sanity back. Books and teaching and that’s it. It’s just all so goddam depressing. My faith in an essential humanism needs to be rebuilt somehow. The internet can have no part in that…

Posted by: Patroklos | Jul 6 2025 23:56 utc | 54

@ Patroklos | Jul 6 2025 23:56 utc | 54
i think that is a wise move patroklos.. i have considered this myself… happy trails getting your life back on track..

Posted by: james | Jul 7 2025 0:46 utc | 55

Posted by: Debsisdead | Jul 6 2025 22:47 utc | 50
Why did Iran stop? I kind of feel that if the Zionist enitity had had their successes, they wouldn’t have.

Posted by: lex talionis | Jul 7 2025 0:52 utc | 56

emersonreturn | Jul 6 2025 21:52 utc | 45–
Thanks for your reply. At least he didn’t delete my comments, although they were buried at the bottom of the comment thread. If you’re going to slander/libel people, you better be certain of your facts.
I was very happy to see this posted at Guancha last night, “The Sinicization of Marxism: “This is China” No. 290″, which I translated and provided some internal links for concepts readers are unlikely to know along with some links to doctrinal materials. The Sinicization of Marx is an ongoing affair over 100 years old and will continue for many more decades.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jul 7 2025 1:08 utc | 57

Posted by: Stonebird | Jul 6 2025 14:29 utc | 2
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It’s the water, stupid!!

Posted by: Jane | Jul 7 2025 1:25 utc | 58

@Patroklos | Jul 6 2025 23:56 utc
Gonna miss you, and everyone understands why you’re re-allocating that emotional energy where it’ll do you and yours more good.
I’m doing the same thing, maybe a lot of others are. Moving from worry/outrage toward action is therapeutic.
You stayed in long enough to see Iran kick Israel’s ass, to see BRICS thrive, to watch the Empire freak out, and Russia re-shape the European political scene.
Not a bad run while you were here, was it?
Happy trails, and thanks for all your help along the way.
Tom

Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Jul 7 2025 1:27 utc | 59

Posted by: Patroklos | Jul 6 2025 23:56 utc | 54
Dear Patroklos, the sun has begun to head in your direction, and you have wise words! I think we should all follow your example, and I intend to do more reading than I have had time to do myself; less now of us is needed here. We’ve watched such sad events … it is time for rebuilding as you say. I’ve just reached midway in my rereading of “Anasazi America” that maybe will apply:

“… We moderns believe we can find a technological solution to any problem, but how is that different from the Chacoan frenzy of kiva building and accelerated ritual activity in the late 1000s and early 1100s? Isn’t that reasonable evidence that they were convinced a solution would be found from more, and more perfect ritual?
They oveerreached, and somehow Chacoan society became so fragile due to scarce resources and its brittle, unsustainable formula of roads, rituals and great houses that events that would have sparked few consequences in the first eight thousand years of Southwestern prehistory — two droughts about thirty years apart — undid it completely. The most important question is how the Chacoans became so vulnerable. Is there a lesson in it for us? The answers lie in the marked contrast between the daily lives of those who occupied the great houses and those who dwelled in the farmsteads…”

There was no baseline there, either. But I now live in the land of the farmdwellers who left Chaco behind. I bought a little storyteller doll from one of them this 4th of July. I have others, but she’s different — they all have little children perched on their shoulders and knees but for this one those tiny ones have even tinier ones they are holding. And so that’s a hopeful thing. Just as it is wonderful that you will be teaching, and, I hope coming back here to pass on some of your wisdom, some of what your students teach you. Please do.
Lets all become storytellers!

Posted by: juliania | Jul 7 2025 1:29 utc | 60

Lex Talionis @ 56:
I’d say that by targeting those military, cyber-intelligence and industrial targets that they did, and knowing what damage was done to those targets, was enough for Iran to scare the Israelis, temporarily anyway. Whether Israel learns a lesson from the damage and destruction, will be another thing. From here on, Israel has no excuse to blame Iran for whatever transpires next.
Had Israel not called for a ceasefire, my hunch is that the Iranians would have happily continued to grind down that country’s defences and industrial infrastructure, bit by bit. This would not garner any overseas headlines, due in part to Israeli government censorship of its news media.

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Jul 7 2025 1:41 utc | 61

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Jul 7 2025 1:41 utc | 61
Thank you for replying to me. Your input is always valued, and you are the coolest of the cool. The restraint shown by the Iranians also prevented a situation that could have gone super out of control.
It reminds me of Ukraine in 2014 before Minsk the First when Givi and company were on a roll. But what do I know when I have no skin in the game here in Pindostan. The whole thing is so depressing, and I have grown even more misanthropic. At least there is music.
Death in June – Lesson One: Misanthropy (1986)

Posted by: lex talionis | Jul 7 2025 2:00 utc | 62

OK I’ll try this one more time. Last week as some barflies are aware the englander government headed by known target of ukrainian cross dressers & rent boys kid starver was a busy week for the dubious (to say the least) governance of england. In addition to denying benefits to disabled englanders en masse, the government added a group named Palestine Action to its list of organisations proscribed under the englanders’ terrorist legislation. This means that anyone who utters or writes ‘Palestine Action’ publically is liable for several (up to ten) years imprisonment.
Many of us outside england know little of this group and the excellent work it has been doing in highlighting england arms manufacturers’ supply of weapons to the zionist entity, even as the zionists race to complete the genocide of the Gaza community before the agencies tasked with preventing genocides are arm-twisted by people into doing their jobs.
Two days before Palestine Action was proscribed they released a feature length documentary on their considerable achievements, that doco unfortunately got banned last Friday. I stumbled across a copy of “To Kill A War Machine”, so it can be streamed or downloaded here. It is worth watching as it shows how so much learned over centuries of revolutionary/resistance action has remained true to day even as much of the tactics have altered in the digital age.
If I was a young bloke again setting out to resist the forces of darkness that are created by imperialism, I’d consider this doco essential viewing.

Posted by: Debsisdead | Jul 7 2025 2:08 utc | 63

Andy Boreham
————–
Hirlarious
[white man burden]
pale face
Your are oppressed !
UIghur
Not that I know of
pale face
You’r being culturally genocided
They force Mandarin on you and your language is lost
Uighurs
Have you been to Xinjiang btw ?
pale face
Shut up, you are oppressed, I told you so. !
GO learn some proper English !
hehehehe

Posted by: denk | Jul 7 2025 2:22 utc | 64

I commented on this Xinhuanet documentary last night without watching it and now have and suggest others do as well….quite well done even though I see too much consumption of plastic to suit me….and then all those Colgate toothpaste tubes…hope they evolve to make their own.
Documentary | Grassroots Governance in China
https://english.news.cn/20250705/e26f4f50de0f43dc86efbe4ceb5fb76e/c.html

How is China governed from the ground up? What does political leadership look like far from Beijing?
In this 80-minute documentary, Xinhua’s Miao Xiaojuan is joined by six Western experts on a journey across China to meet the unsung heroes driving rural development, resolving disputes, and dreaming under the stars.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 7 2025 2:47 utc | 65

Human progress consists of breakthrough advances and lots of improvements around those advances over time. I posit that the advance of the breakthrough of LLM and its implementation in China will establish and maintain China as the leader in many industrial and technological areas going forward….from Xinhuanet
Economic Watch: Chinese companies embrace AI-driven industrial upgrades
https://english.news.cn/20250705/8c7af3335e5f4867a80a9553191e11f5/c.html
quote

Shougang Group, one of China’s largest steelmakers, is leading the way with an AI-powered visual system that is transforming the entire steelmaking process from labor-driven to model-driven. With this cutting-edge technology in place, the steel giant has boosted production efficiency by over 20 percent and reduced defects by 35 percent.

Go watch the documentary on governance I provided in #65 and then you will understand why I welcome our new global overlords…..

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 7 2025 2:58 utc | 66

Yo, Patroklos, I’ll give you a ring the moment the Epstein arrests start. Feeling the same way as you, though. My belly is empty and my head is full. <---
In the meantime, I’m pouring out drinks on the ground.
One for me and one for my homies.
We are all alone, and without the guiding hand of philosophers on the western wheel, adrift we be. The tyrants are gorging us on nothing.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Jul 7 2025 3:55 utc | 67

Posted by: Debsisdead | Jul 6 2025 22:47 utc | 50
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Excellent. I have forwarded to my list.
The first comment is also interesting.
It seems like even though many Iranians despise the theocracy, they are willing to live with it . . . for now.
It represents the nation.

Posted by: Jane | Jul 7 2025 3:59 utc | 68

Last comment got lost in the ether, I think.
Patroklos, will let you know when the Epstein arrests start.
In the meantime, some R&R does sound like a good prescription.
Thx b for keeping at it. Our model should be either you or Job.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Jul 7 2025 4:02 utc | 69

The hilarity of this story being spread in the Western media is a whole new level of shrill:

French intelligence: China used embassies to undermine sales of France’s flagship Rafale fighter jet
A French intelligence service says China has used its embassies to promote claims that Chinese-made Pakistani warplanes outperformed French Rafale jets during India-Pakistan clashes in May
July 6, 2025 at 10:12 p.m.
John Leicester | AP
PARIS — China deployed its embassies to spread doubts about the performance of French-made Rafale jets after they saw combat in India and Pakistan’s clashes in May , French military and intelligence officials have concluded, implicating Beijing in an effort to hammer the reputation and sales of France’s flagship fighter.
Findings from a French intelligence service seen by The Associated Press say defense attaches in China’s foreign embassies led a charge to undermine Rafale sales, seeking to persuade countries that have already ordered the French-made fighter — notably Indonesia — not to buy more and to encourage other potential buyers to choose Chinese-made planes. The findings were shared with AP by a French military official on condition that the official and the intelligence service not be named.
Ooofph ==> https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/06/france-china-pakistan-india-defense-rafale/dc265fda-5a3f-11f0-b45b-dc9aeb848c03_story.html

The embassy employees ==> https://www.tiktok.com/@murtazaviews/video/7502137984158895382

Posted by: too scents | Jul 7 2025 4:10 utc | 70

Texas flood ~ “Thomas Keith”
Technically, shaping a flood is not science fiction. Cloud seeding has been operational since the 1940s; today, microwave injections, aerosol corridors, and electromagnetic pressure tuning appear in military research across classified and open domains. With real-time satellite ISR from NASA, NOAA, and DARPA-aligned platforms, the tools to target and stall systems exist.
Operationally, it’s not about building storms but redirecting them, anchoring a Gulf-fed low-pressure cell over saturated terrain by manipulating ridges or wind shear. Harvey in 2017 showed how natural stalling can devastate; speculative studies suggest it may also be inducible, though no confirmed deployment exists. Theories involving aerosols or microwave bursts remain unproven but feasible at a black-budget level.
Strategically, Texas is a soft kill jackpot: energy grids, crypto farms, LNG corridors, and defense infrastructure all sit in the blast zone. A flood disrupts supply chains, spikes markets, and justifies climate emergency powers, high reward under perfect deniability.
But July 2025 checks out under traditional meteorology. Forecast models tracked the stall, no satellite anomalies were recorded, and the worst-hit zones weren’t high-priority infrastructure.
The event aligns with natural extremes, not deliberate manipulation.
Still, the history is real, Operation Popeye seeded storms over Vietnam. DARPA continues to explore geoengineering, ice nucleation, and even lightning control. The infrastructure is there. Texas may not have been a weather weapon. But the blueprint exists.
https://nitter.net/iwasnevrhere_/status/1941858597593313667

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jul 7 2025 4:27 utc | 71

things changing automagically…
I *like* that. ^ So often, after posting, I rage at autocorrect. I actually preview my posts (well, mostly) and I swear stuff *automagically* changes from my preview to what actually posts.
“Automagically”.
Stealing that one, thanks S-R-B

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jul 7 2025 4:45 utc | 72

I read a techie blog called The Register and they have a posting up about the latest Microsoft layoffs. I won’t bore you with that but want to share a comment from elsergiovolador that is getting overwhelming support
Micro shafted
There’s a moment before the layoff hits when everything feels fake.
Your calendar’s full, your tasks are real, but you already know:
you’re done.
The Slack channels go quiet.
The VP posts about “resilience.”
You did everything right.
Stayed late. Picked up extra tickets. Covered for bad management.
You missed birthdays. Skipped holidays. Worked sick.
You shipped the thing that saved the quarter.
You trained the new guy.
You carried the dead weight.
You swallowed shit.
All so the company could thrive.
And it did.
Revenue soared.
The stock climbed.
The CEO got a bonus larger than your lifetime earnings.
But none of that was for you.
You weren’t rewarded.
You weren’t protected.
You weren’t even seen.
Because in this system, loyalty is worthless.
Sacrifice is invisible.
And your “market rate” is just a polite way of saying:
We’ll pay you as little as we can get away with until we can pay someone else less.
You were never part of the company. You were a cost item.
And when it comes – the email, the lockout, the HR script – you realise:
You didn’t build a career.
You subsidised a yacht.
With your time. Your health. Your life.
You should’ve been a sparkie – at least the shocks are honest.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 7 2025 4:50 utc | 73

On the phone, so brief note.
Thinkers should read S P Korolev essay linked above at #40.
Scholarly about grooming current leaders.

Posted by: jonku | Jul 7 2025 5:13 utc | 74

On the phone, so brief note.
Thinkers should read S P Korolev essay linked above at #40.
Scholarly about grooming current leaders.

Posted by: jonku | Jul 7 2025 5:13 utc | 75

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the US Department of Justice believe that US financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged with the sexual exploitation of minors, did not blackmail influential people, did not have a client list at all, and was not killed, but committed suicide, according to a newly released memo.
The document published by the FBI and DOJ argues that further disclosure of information on Epstein’s case would be inappropriate because it could expose innocent people to “criminal charges.”

Ummm …

Posted by: Laurence | Jul 7 2025 5:18 utc | 76

I also much appreciated the SP Korolev essay linked @ 40. Canada’s new PM Mark Carney ticks quite a few of those elite boxes..

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jul 7 2025 5:23 utc | 77

Putin, Lavrov Speak at BRICS (& vid)
https://www.rt.com/news/621073-putin-brics-summit-speech/
“BRICS Summit in Brazil. As it happened…”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jul 7 2025 5:26 utc | 78

@ Laurence | Jul 7 2025 5:18 utc | 76 with the oxymoronic quote
“…because it could expose innocent people to “criminal charges.”
Gee! Maybe these folks aren’t so innocent if they could face criminal charges…..maybe even they are guilty of criminal acts….isn’t that what we have courts for?…instead of the FBI/DOJ charade.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 7 2025 5:38 utc | 79

From Reuters
Trump threatens extra 10% tariffs on BRICS as leaders meet in Brazil
Just how is this extra tariff enforced?
It gets even more complicated if these countries exchange with other nations without going through SWIFT or the BIS which the latest BRICS+ meeting has stated that are furthering through the NBD bank….the growing alternative to the Western private finance jackboot.
The God Of Mammon cult has no clothes……and is ugly as sin [pun intended].

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 7 2025 5:58 utc | 80

Introducing Ghanaian author Femi Akomolafe, for those not familiar with her writings:
How Europe Committed Seppuku
(Trump’s Return, NATO’s Humiliation, and the Vassals Who Love Their Chains)
https://www.modernghana.com/news/1413663/how-europe-committed-seppuku.html

Posted by: Menz | Jul 7 2025 6:16 utc | 81

The Silent Heist…
https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1941953559408394325
“How Gates, Blackrock and Nestle are seizing control of the world’s water…”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jul 7 2025 6:44 utc | 82

It’s just all so goddam depressing. My faith in an essential humanism needs to be rebuilt somehow. The internet can have no part in that…
@ Patroklos | Jul 6 2025 23:56 utc | 54
Some of my fellow barflies might have noticed increasing rarity and brevity of my visits here. Nothing against MoA in particular — but this site isn’t immune to the general longing for chaos which intensely infects the nihilistic innertubes. Other settings can be healthier, at times, amidst the mounting confusion.
Dishonesty from my brothers and sisters brings me down worse than anything. No matter how hard it is for you, it could be get better by simply acknowledging obvious truths. But avatars of ignorance “are full of passionate intensity” as Yeats had it. In a quest for truth, there’s no point in arguing with people who deny any possibility of simple, common truth. You can lead a horse to water, they say, but you can’t Petaluma.
More than 80 dead and 40 missing from flooding down in Texas. Serious adults — an endangered species — know what that’s about. For them I’ll post a link to Stevie Ray Vaughan. From the early days of exploring the electric instrument, Vaughan is one of a dozen geniuses nominated as the best guitarists of all time. In this recording of Texas Flood, Vaughan’s in a mood to show off a little bit…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC5H9P4F5Uk

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jul 7 2025 6:52 utc | 83

Posted by: Patroklos | Jul 6 2025 23:56 utc | 54
I’ve learnt much from your posts, thank you.
It’s a tough fight, my ancestors went through nearly 200 years of it. I was lucky to be born into a previledged life, comparatively, I owe them.
The Orange One and his Circle Wanking Mate will shortly be hinting at the next 10,000 Palestinian deaths without batting an eye lid. The more things change, the more they remain the same.

Posted by: Menz | Jul 7 2025 7:53 utc | 84

privileged

Posted by: Menz | Jul 7 2025 7:58 utc | 85

My faith in an essential humanism needs to be rebuilt somehow. The internet can have no part in that… Posted by: Patroklos | Jul 6 2025 23:56 utc | 54
There was a wise prof who was forlorn
He had seen far too much of the war porn
He went back to his book
Hoping that’s all it took
For his heart and his spirit to be reborn.
Soon came the words from the drummer
Agreeing that it is such a bummer
That the net can destroy
All the joy in the boy.
Take a break, it soon will be summer.
A Kiwi then told him of sunshine.
Embrace it like finding a goldmine.
Get away from it all
And answer your call.
Your mind will rebound, you’ll be jes fine.
Tom P and Nem C put in their say
With others who all feel the same way.
The views and the news
Are not what we’d choose.
To heal one must look away.
It’s a little bit sad cuz it’s just that
He’s a comrade who knows where it is at.
We’ll miss him fer sure
As he takes this detour.
But don’t stay away for too long, Pat.
Best

Posted by: waynorinorway | Jul 7 2025 8:15 utc | 86

Posted by: S.P. Korolev | Jul 6 2025 20:33 utc | 40
and
Posted by: Menz | Jul 7 2025 6:16 utc | 81
Thank you very much! Both articles cover similar terrain and are very much worth reading. NEL’s analysis of German leaders is spot-on, and Europe’s elites definitely deserve the ridicule and contempt they receive from Femi Akomolafe.

Posted by: Cherrycoke | Jul 7 2025 8:32 utc | 87

james on the last OT wondered if consciousness could be identified with Being. I have thought about it for a bit, to now chip in and say no. This is intruiging to work out nevertheless, so here is my reflection:
It all comes down to the question of „what else is there?“ –
While all experience is necessarily noetic („conscious“ for us mortal humans), the reverse association that all which we experience is merely conscious does not provide. – To now flip this back around and conclude that consciousness would not provide, returns us the old conundrum of Realism vs. Idealism. I’m not sure if this does james’ original idea justice – but by all means, this angle of questioning leads to nowhere.
Rather than to spin off into an abstract deliberation, I shall give an illuminating example which is actually quite famous on the internet. One day, a world-famous violinist went to New York’s Grand Central Station and played there for people passing by on their way to the subway platform. He was accompanied by some folks researching human memory who interviewed some of the witnesses to this event. Turns out, many didn’t even realize there was a great violinist playing for them.
This tells us a lot about the relation between experience and time. Experience as one’s own experience is the most basic foundation of all experience (since everything else is technically already conjecture), but also true veracity of one’s experience is only attainable in the ever-present here and now. Even if you remember the violinist, and even if this only reappears in your memory under hypnosis, you will still be removed (in time) from the immediate experience with all that this implies.
This can be turned into a simple experiment, which philosophy does in rare cases; it’s a classic: try kicking a rock to see if consciousness is all that there is. You can come back tomorrow if you’re not yet satisfied and continue kicking until convinced; according to my own experience, as well as all records that I’m aware of, it’s usually conceded that conscious experience by way of imagination has hard limits. However, calling those ‚reality‘ is problematic in itself as soon as one claims independent existence of this ‚reality‘ as-such.
The dilemma can only be solved by doing away with the original framing of the question, for the devil here is in the premise. Neither so-called reality nor perception of it are solely ‚original‘; but conscious experience itself in the here-and-now is! Awareness (nous) is a faculty, and „awareness-of“ is how we come to experience both awareness itself and any a „thing“; while agency over one’s own focus is the essence of experiencing time. Within this time-experience, we can perceive ‚things‘, which we can further act upon in some ways. But neither on its own defines the world-at-large.
I’ll close with another example that all musicians know: playing to a timekeep is immediate evidence that personal time does not simply identify with other’s time, much less the metrum of a machine.

Posted by: persiflo | Jul 7 2025 8:52 utc | 88

“Everyone’s fine…. And then 12 years go by…And what have you done?”
https://files.catbox.moe/30biel.mp4

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jul 7 2025 8:54 utc | 89

@ Posted by: Ogre | Jul 6 2025 16:42 utc | 15
‘Punk’ was an invention of the record industry, it was an extension of what was being built in the US at the time with various tyros there.
The movement was led by Malcolm McLaren in the U.K. with his ‘invention’ of the sex pistols. They were taken around the country to be show cased to encourage the nextgen musicians to take it up as a means of collecting the soon to be disaffected youth – who were to be severed from their parents and grandparents post war generational social contract.
The security of a peaceful happy lives from cradle to grave had to be destroyed. To that end Punk was timed just as Thatcher was to achieve that.
As a teenager I witnessed this absolutely first hand as the ‘Tweenies’ of the time were encouraged into glue sniffing, deranged self mutilation with safety pins, bloody razored heads and obnoxious behaviour.
Families were thus divided within their homes, the elder by a year or two of younger siblings torn from each other and a whole generation sent onto the dole as they turned 16 instead of a guaranteed job.
Nihilism was the order of the day.
These ‘sex’ pistols could tell you about their ‘grooming’ but haven’t come clean yet. They were no strangers to Savile and the paedo bbc DJ’s gang…
The lyric was nearly right it should have been –
‘ a ziofascist regime ‘.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jul 7 2025 10:07 utc | 90

“ Posted by: james | Jul 6 2025 17:43 utc | 19
Good questions James – a short response for now.
Why would Russia ever bomb Britains mainland? That would be the red rag to the dumbed Downton Abbeyed generation.
The effect of having their button pushed, dog whistled, knee jerked Pavlovian (ahem) mob madness to go die in some foreign field and not ask why!
What transformation of the U.K. are you worried about James?
The transformation of the rancid Old World Order is more important.
That includes you and yours and all in our Collective Waste.
A much longer answer to follow in a while.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jul 7 2025 10:10 utc | 91

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jul 7 2025 4:27 utc | 71
Thomas Keith’s writing is AI LLM generated slop. Like a stopped clock “he’s” dead accurate 2x a day. That post about geo/weather engineered floods is absolute garbage no matter where he’s on about. And notably these cloud seeders make no secret of their activities. Nobody seeded any clouds prior to the floods in Texas and there’s no high altitude radar system capable of “creating” weather anywhere, let alone near Kerrville. Sorry kids, the fossil fuels folks most likely own this one.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 7 2025 11:07 utc | 92

Sigh… And he’s both right and wrong at once there. The ground was the opposite of saturated FWIW.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 7 2025 11:10 utc | 93

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jul 7 2025 10:07 utc | 90
Johnny Rotten alluded to Jimmy Savile’s crimes in a 1978 BBC interview which was not broadcast but is available online.

Posted by: Cherrycoke | Jul 7 2025 11:12 utc | 94

Posted by: Patroklos | Jul 6 2025 23:56 utc | 54
I hear you. My faith in humanity and hopes for humankind’s future have taken a severe pummeling.
I’ve even had to re-engage with mental health services in recent months, as it has had that negative an impact on my overall mental landscape.
Do whatever it is that you feel you need to bring some light back into your life, brother.
Peace.

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Jul 7 2025 11:27 utc | 95

The hilarity of this story being spread in the Western media is a whole new level of shrill:
French intelligence: China used embassies to undermine sales of France’s flagship Rafale fighter jet
Posted by: too scents | Jul 7 2025 4:10 utc | 70
unintended consequences of kicking RF out of the arms market…
where there was a limited capacity competitor the west now faces a low cost high volume juggernaut
(tiny violin playing)

Posted by: Newbie | Jul 7 2025 11:45 utc | 96

With the victory of the two old Nazi killer civilisations – again having to dismantle the ziofascist Gollum- the hegemonic unipolar Rules based order heads towards its culmination in Rio.
This time though, they started stronger, limiting the sacrifice of 50 millions of deaths of their peoples; and perhaps the destruction of hundreds of millions or, billions as planned by the evil Bastards.
This time raising the freed slaves nations in alliances. Liberating those long enslaved, robbed and exterminated. Giving them the mettle to stand up to the Old Bastard Oppressors.
Like Iran is doing. Like Formosa is failing. Like Japan is beginning to fall back into EurAsia.
Indonesia also raises its head from the jackboots, as Malaysia and other SEA nations have already been able to.
Rio shows that with the BRICS+. Even as Humpty Dumpty Modi (a shapeshifter banker) makes a continued fool of himself as they failed to entice VVP to turn up and allow himself to be captured and incarcerated by the fake ICC charges.
Probably expected to die in a hail of bullets as his bodyguards attempted to protect him… and his body lynched on the mount of Rio!
Such spectacle of vicious barbarity is how these Few have always maintained superiority. As we can see in Gaza and elsewhere through history.
Such dumb traps that only the crazed dynastic ziofascIst would lay to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
Well VVP and Xi avoided that distraction and sent their top teams instead.
Perhaps that’s what the famous handshake between the two with a single translator perched between them was about?
Modi/Jaishankar and the other satraps are sidelined by the Top Teams leadership there.
The old dynastic kings and ‘aristos’ who think they are the cleverest of all. Just like their minion colonialists house slaves believe, everywhere they were sent. The shapeshifter satraps who sit on walls as their Old Imperial Owners wobble like the mighty statue of a false god.
Those ziofascist owned and controlled unipolarists and their satraps colonials around the world are in panicked mode now.
They have no viable options left, their sand castles are to be washed away by the rising Mutipolar tide.
Their financial slave chains are falling to pieces.
What can the 5+1 eyed and their CE do?
Burn down Atlanta as they retreat?
Nuke everyone and scurry into their deep underground and under ocean caves?
Live lifetimes in pressurised air unable to rise to the surface without months of decompression?
Planning to reemerge into a dead brave new world in a hundred years?
Yup they are that mad, as hatters, down the rabbit hole.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jul 7 2025 12:18 utc | 97

Planning to reemerge into a dead brave new world in a hundred years?
Yup they are that mad, as hatters, down the rabbit hole.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Jul 7 2025 12:18 utc | 97
There is an ongoing graphic novel series, Lazarus by Greg Rucka, you might “enjoy”

Posted by: Newbie | Jul 7 2025 12:23 utc | 98

unintended consequences of kicking RF out of the arms market…
where there was a limited capacity competitor the west now faces a low cost high volume juggernaut
(tiny violin playing)
Posted by: Newbie | Jul 7 2025 11:45 utc | 96
usually I wouldn’t quote myself but…
“Chinese defence giant Norinco has unveiled a new class of main battle tank which has been developed on the basis of the Soviet T-72, and represents a comprehensive upgrade package for the older vehicles.”
“The package is expected to provide clients with a less costly alternative to procurements of the VT-4 or Type 96 main battle tanks that have been marketed abroad. ”
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/chinese-upgrade-package-t72-tanks-unveiled-ukraine-war-gap-market

Posted by: Newbie | Jul 7 2025 12:47 utc | 99

Returning to last week’s “experts” discussion.
Could this be a case of being really an expert and saying ” you wont listen, I won’t stay”? (with possible echos of Tulsi with balls)
“Italy’s former intelligence chief Elisabetta Belloni will exit her role as chief diplomatic adviser to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in September.
“Mrs. Belloni is leaving her position,” a European Commission spokesperson said during a press briefing, adding that the EU executive had no additional information to share at this stage.
Belloni, 66, joined von der Leyen’s cabinet in January 2025, shortly after stepping down as head of Italy’s Department of Information and Security — a move that surprised many in Rome.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/top-adviser-quits-von-der-leyens-team/

Posted by: Newbie | Jul 7 2025 12:59 utc | 100

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