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Taiwan Today
VP Hsiao attends IPAC gala in Taipei
Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim (third left) attends a reception organized by an Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China delegation led by U.K. MP Iain Duncan…
.1 day ago
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‘The IPAC has expressed its concern over China’s drills that encircled Taiwan in April, and condemned Chinese intelligence agents’ plot to crash a car into Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim’s (蕭美琴) vehicle during her visit to the Czech Republic in March last year, he said.’ [sic]
https://tinyurl.com/y375dd99
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Lying is as natural as breathing for THE 8NA, or G7 MOTHER FUCKERS !
Posted by: denk | Aug 29 2025 4:12 utc | 101
Everybody knows AIPAC, ITS kindergarten stuff compared to IPAC !
‘a “global alliance of parliamentarians” launched a highly publicised video campaign urging their constituents to “stand up against [China’s President] Xi Jinping’s authoritarian bullying … by drinking a bottle or two of Australian wine and letting the Chinese Communist Party know that we will not be bullied”. The video was made by the InterParliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), comprising parliamentarians from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the USA and Europe.
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IPAC’s parliamentarians declared they #StandWithAustralia. However, they do so in name only. Many of IPAC’s members are the most extreme anti-China politicians in their nations, counterparts of Australian members Andrew Hastie and Kimberley Kitching, who are pushing for the Five Eyes nations—the USA, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand—and their allies to “decouple” economically from China. Australia is the guinea pig in this campaign,
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https://tinyurl.com/2s4x6tx7
hOW many times must I repeat, its always about Garden vs jungle, its the 8NA’s way of life…with or without Jews/zionist/Israel !
Posted by: denk | Aug 29 2025 4:47 utc | 102
IPAC
Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China”. The alliance as its name suggests, is an international, cross-party body of parliamentarians that hold hostile attitudes toward China because of their political bias and Cold War mentality, not to mention their white supremacy psychosis.
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Cabrera said that the Latin American country’s lawmakers can use the IPAC to access US support to help Panama counter China’s “influence” that he claimed was evident around the world “from cyberattacks in Central European and Latin American countries to economic practices that generate significant debt for the countries”
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OMFGAWD
According to these lying pos, China has been cyberattacking, debttrapping the west and its ‘allies’ 24×7 since times immermorial !
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COUrtesy ChinaDaily
Thats all folks !
Posted by: denk | Aug 29 2025 5:48 utc | 103
“The people have been systematically broken, and blamed for it.”
All good people everywhere, in so many ways.
https://x.com/fljeeper71/status/1961065554141188218
Posted by: GreatLakesObserver | Aug 29 2025 6:36 utc | 105
38 Lovedum –“The Hegelian Dialectic (Problem, Reaction, Solution) is so predictable and obvious. Melania wants ‘pre-emptive intervention’ after Minnesota school mass killing.”
That’s not Hegelian dialectic — it’s simple cause and effect and it’s not even that, just a pretense to logical thinking. Such mindless pomposity This bot is so reductive, so simple-minded, imposing such incessant verbiage on this thread, he succeeds in derailing it to the point where it becomes hardly worth reading, that is because 50% of it has become useless since that bot got on. B really should put a quota on the # of posts allowed, rather than allow this destruction of a once thought-provoking and informative site. Actually, there’s a progression happening here which imo, is dumba’s intent. First, he throws around accusations like unwarranted calling people genociders– that is to draw the focus onto itself. (This also has the dangerous effect of depleting the meaning and importance of the word genocide.) Then — as the current thread illustrates –the dum has reached the ‘who me?’ stage; having depleted it’s ability to conjure up vapid speculations and undocumented ‘information’ dum says “I’m drinking my coffee and reading all the comments here and I’d rather not see these ugly, childish insults.”
In truth I don’t care if he didn’t say that, he might as well have, which dumb would have –with a self-satisfied sneer–completed the circle of his childish self-serving game.
““I’m suspicious of any White liberal that tries to lead a black organization rather than teaching a black man to lead that organization.” (Referring to Herbert Hill of the NAACP.)”
— Malcolm X
Malcom X was close to figuring it out. Herbert Hill was a Jew, not a White person, and the NAACP was never a black organization for Blacks, it was a Jewish led organization for the destruction of Whites and Blacks through forced integration…”
~2.5 minute video
https://x.com/uncommonsince76/status/1960745535876252098
Posted by: GreatLakesObserver | Aug 29 2025 6:49 utc | 107
Little fat Marco the poss 48th calling the play.
‘We lost against Russia again guys let’s get off the pitch before we get hammered even more – throw Shelenski under the bus – and let’s go find another war we can win easily M’kay ?’
‘@SprinterExpres0
14m
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio started major negotiations with Mexico, Canada, Italy, UK and France to JOIN military operations in the Caribbean
Aug 29, 2025 · 6:31 AM UTC ‘
Meanwhile :
‘The tenth Chinese Project 055 destroyer was spotted during sea trials. This is a new Chinese Type 055 destroyer equipped with an integrated crane for reloading vertical launch missiles at sea. ‘
Yeah , little Marco and ziofascist crumbling empire, I think you’re going to need an even smaller pond, in an even smaller backyard, to play ball with your mates so you can have a WIN – how about taking on the liitle fishes, make them call it the Gulf of United States Sea Exceptionalism Territory ?
Gusset.
Unless Barbados or Greneda objects and asks for help from the multipolar sheriffs – the Chinese, Russian and their SCO muscle – will keep themselves to the Caribbean and make sure the safety of Waster warships and subs transiting through the Panama Canal. 😂
Posted by: DunGroanin | Aug 29 2025 7:03 utc | 108
God knows what we don’t actually know.
Posted by: james | Aug 28 2025 20:53 utc | 91
That’s a wonderful thought, james! He knows, and yet he thought creation was going to be worthwhile. And we Orthodox think that even if way, way far into the future, after God knows how much rehab scrubbing stars or whatever, everyone finally works their way back.
And even if we’re wrong about that, it’s still a better thought to have than the alternative.
Posted by: juliania | Aug 29 2025 7:17 utc | 109
Hey b,
are you aware that typepad will be closed down by the end of September?
Heise newsticker reported this yesterday, Anfänglicher”>https://www.heise.de/news/Urgestein-der-Blogging-Szene-Typepad-wird-Ende-September-geschlossen-10624983.html?seite=all”>Anfänglicher Liebling der Blogger: Typepad wird Ende September geschlossen
Any plans for alternatives?
Posted by: TomD | Aug 29 2025 7:38 utc | 110
109 “And even if we’re wrong about that, it’s still a better thought to have than the alternative.”
Pascal’s Wager?
I highlighted as soon as Hungary was head of the EU in the revolving position of power. That Serbia would be under threat.
As Orban in his speech highlighted his number one priority was to get Serbia into the EU.
Posted by: Moon of Alabama | Aug 29 2025 12:04 utc | 112
The fire in Hamburg has been put out with the help of robotic vehicles (video 2min). The burning stacks of shipping containers had been inaccessible because of exploding gas canisters. I’m no expert, but it doesn’t look like an ammo dump fire to me. Instead, the video does not fail to mention that nitrous oxide is renowned as a party drug.
Posted by: persiflo | Aug 29 2025 12:18 utc | 113
The Duran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOgb4McSKxY
“Putin, Xi, Modi at SCO. BRICS united.”
Recommended.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Aug 29 2025 12:24 utc | 114
Geopolitical Economy Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utvD1JiIgCM
“US dollar dominance could end very fast warn top economists. This is how…”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Aug 29 2025 12:34 utc | 115
In other news from Hamburg, Rheinmetall wants to buy Blohm&Voss shipbuilding. Money isn’t an issue, as local media comments.
Posted by: persiflo | Aug 29 2025 12:35 utc | 116
This bot is so reductive, so simple-minded, imposing such incessant verbiage on this thread, he succeeds in derailing it to the point where it becomes hardly worth reading, that is because 50% of it has become useless since that bot got on. B really should put a quota on the # of posts allowed, rather than allow this destruction of a once thought-provoking and informative site. Actually, there’s a progression happening here which imo, is dumba’s intent.
@ Lavieja | Aug 29 2025 6:38 utc | 106
Thanks for your thoughts, with which I largely agree. I’m consistently disappointed by the shallowness and sniping around here, compared to issue-oriented analysis contributors contributed a couple of years ago. Deterioration provoked by distraction agents (Hasbara bots, I’m convinced) such as LD.
I try to refrain from making it any worse by commenting on it like this — this here post is a continuation of irrelevant sniping, now — but it gets to the where the sheer volume of Hasbara bot-ulism is challenging to wade through. Similar to the situation with global security, the situation with thread quality waxes precarious.
My poor opinion counts for nothing, but personally — by default — I blame the Anti-Defamation League of the Sons of the Covenant, the most prolific producers of political rot since their initial impulse to defend child-rapist Leo Max Frank in 1913. Official headquarters: Beverley Hills, California.
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Aug 29 2025 12:41 utc | 117
I was Sun of Alabama but was attacked by a virus on Larry Johnson’s blog.
Had to buy a whole new set up. Lost all my automatic log ins.
Now moon of Alabama. Had to start all over again with a new computer.
Be careful out there… If you are on anti mainstream platforms.
Posted by: Moon of Alabama | Aug 29 2025 12:52 utc | 118
persiflo | Aug 29 2025 12:35 utc | 116
Weapons money. Germany is now sacrificing all parts of its economy to concentrate on weapons building. On borrowed money. Rheinmetall no doubt understands or has been informed that warships will be required.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 29 2025 12:56 utc | 119
A little more about Leo Max Frank, a name which will forever simmer in infamy with that of the ADL. A relevant book-review, from a Ron Unz article:
Anonymous works published by heavily-demonized religious-political movements naturally engender considerable caution, but once I began reading the 500 pages of The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man I was tremendously impressed by the quality of the historical analysis. I think I have only very rarely encountered a research monograph on a controversial historical event that provided such an enormous wealth of carefully-argued analysis backed by such copious evidence. The authors seemed to display complete mastery of the major secondary literature of the last one hundred years while drawing very heavily upon the various primary sources, including court records, personal correspondence, and contemporaneous publications, with the overwhelming majority of the 1200 footnotes referencing newspaper and magazine articles of that era. The case they made for Frank’s guilt seemed absolutely overwhelming.
https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-the-leo-frank-case-and-the-origins-of-the-adl/
This book can be tricky to find. Banned from Amazon, because Israel. An online pdf is available, but at 500+ pages, I want a real book. I located it on alibris under the title The Secret Relationship Between Blacks & Jews, Volume 3. I was expecting a dusty old tome, but this is the best history book I’ve enjoyed in a long time. An absolutely thrilling page-turner, like a deep-south murder mystery, only without much actual mystery.
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Aug 29 2025 13:06 utc | 120
Moon of Alabama doesn’t have a login.
Isn’t that a bit pretentious, SoA? Frankly, Sun of Alabama was bad already, so I have to say this is insanely pretentious now. Perhaps you would like to overthink your decision once more.
Posted by: persiflo | Aug 29 2025 13:09 utc | 121
Perhaps you would like to overthink your decision once more.
@ persiflo | Aug 29 2025 13:09 utc | 121
It’s better to have overthunk than never to have thunk at all, they say. Should we ever get stuck up a dead-end, there’s always the option to adopt a new philosophy:
The first time that Sally Brown expressed one of her philosophies was in October 1986, when she tells her older brother, Charlie Brown, that she has now adapted a new philosophy of “Who cares?” With this new philosophy in hand, nothing will ever bother again, as she is committed to this new philosophy – “Who cares?”
https://www.cbr.com/peanuts-sally-brown-new-pholosophy/
(Kristin Chenoweth as Sally Brown included above.)
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Aug 29 2025 13:23 utc | 122
JF: Pepe Escobar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnxSRRc5RSc
“BRICS vs the West.” Recommended.
Excellent synopsis of the great importance of SCO/Vladivostok meetings. Alaska autopsy. Multilateralism marches forward.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Aug 29 2025 13:35 utc | 123
I was Sun of Alabama but was attacked by a virus on Larry Johnson’s blog.
Now moon of Alabama. Had to start all over again with a new computer.
Posted by: Moon of Alabama | Aug 29 2025 12:52 utc | 118
________
Why not call yourself Derek Henry? That would at least be (sort of?) honest. Or how about MMT?
Posted by: malenkov | Aug 29 2025 13:39 utc | 124
Posted by: John Gilberts | Aug 28 2025 22:52 utc | 93
I think John, that US gets to be the middle man in the selling NG to Europe as until June Canada had no ships that could transport NG (1)
1.” Yes, Canada now has ships that transport natural gas via the LNG Canada project, which shipped its first cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to global markets in June 2025.”
Posted by: canuk | Aug 29 2025 13:55 utc | 125
Posted by: Jason C | Aug 28 2025 15:32 utc | 79
Because Melanie is, obviously, quite educated and, even more obviously, LoveDumbass is not.
My supreme annoyance to this intellectual bum has much to do LD’s constant spasmodic, ubiquitous posts which only degrades MOA discussion with his adolescent name calling -ie naming Jane as a racist and promoter of American Indigenous genocide is laughable .
As a young man I was a boxer such that I one would describe LD as having a ‘glass jaw’ -he likes to ‘dish it out’ but he can’t take an intellectual punch without whining, crying. .
Posted by: canuk | Aug 29 2025 14:06 utc | 126
I confused “to overthink” with überdenken, which apparently means “to reconsider”.
Posted by: persiflo | Aug 29 2025 14:08 utc | 127
Posted by: Don Firineach | Aug 27 2025 19:05 utc | 18
Re: Iran and Iraq Memorandum of Understanding.
This is a very important development. Thanks for the interesting read.
I do have one small quibblle with one of the statements made by the author, Hadi bin Hurr:
“Although the commitments undertaken by Iraq and Iran in signing the MoU are nowhere near the level of NATO’s famous Article 5 — which obliges all Alliance members to respond collectively and without delay to any armed attack against one of them — in practice, the effects could prove very similar.(his emphasis)
My understanding might be erroneous, but I thought that the Article 5 provisions didn’t go as far as actually obligating direct military involvement in the event of an attack on another signatory state, and that the level of assistance provided would be at the discretion of each individual sognatory government.
Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Aug 29 2025 14:11 utc | 128
The DNC went after Trump in frivolous lawsuits, not to mention assassination attempts, as well as locking down the USA in covid bullshit, but those activities, in your opinion, are not considered actions that of a ‘police state’?
LoveDumbass, the all time leader in these awards,just received his 18th, “The Most Retarded Post I Have Read Today Award” for this blatant idiocy, below:
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is building your police state.”
Posted by: LoveDumbass | Aug 28 2025 4:56 utc | 45
Posted by: canuk | Aug 29 2025 14:17 utc | 130
Why are MAGAs so pro woke, really?
https://x.com/TheRISEofROD/status/1960911233336447312
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 29 2025 14:58 utc | 131
Derek Henry?
BWAHHHHHH
Posted by: exile | Aug 29 2025 15:22 utc | 132
Echo Chamber…
Posted by: waynorinorway | Aug 29 2025 15:49 utc | 133
NATO’s Anschluss (by Dmitry Medvedev)
https://www.rt.com/news/623617-dmitry-medvedev-austria-nato/
“The countries of the Old World are intoxicated by militaristic frenzy. Like spellbound moths, they flock to the destructive flame of the North Atlantic Alliance.
Now reason is giving way to herd instinct. Following Finland and Sweden, Austria’s establishment – egged on by bloodthirsty Brussels – is fueling public debate about abandoning its constitutionally enshrined neutrality in favor of NATO membership.
Austrian society is far from enthusiastic about the idea. But in today’s Europe, when has the will of the people truly stood in the way…”
It seems the reckless and delusional Western elites are determined to ignore all Russian red-lines and take us to a wider war.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Aug 29 2025 17:20 utc | 135
The Finnish are kind of reluctant to drop the Swastika from their military the Finns had their own SS battalions during WWII, fighting with the Nazi’s.
“The Finnish Air Force is preparing to remove the swastika from its unit flags as part of a wider reform, state broadcaster Yle reported on Thursday. The symbol’s association with Nazism has resulted in “embarrassing situations,” according to a top commander.
The swastika was first adopted by the Finnish Air Force in 1918, years before Adolf Hitler made it notorious as the emblem of the Third Reich. Finnish aircraft bore the blue-on-white design until 1945, when the victorious Allied powers forced its removal after WWII. However, it remained on unit flags, emblems, medals, and even uniforms.
The logo has proved problematic when dealing with foreign allies, including the United States, Colonel Tomi Bohm, commander of the Karelia Air Command, told Yle. Finland joined the US-led NATO military bloc in 2023, followed by neighboring Sweden the next year.
“We could have gone along with this flag as well, but sometimes embarrassing situations may arise with foreign guests,” Bohm said, adding “It may be reasonable to live in the times.”
Air Force headquarters has reportedly already dropped the swastika, and officials expect its removal from other insignia in the coming years.
The swastika is banned or restricted in many countries, particularly Germany, due to its association with Hitler’s regime. Russia has drawn attention to its continued presence in Finland, pointing out in a 2024 report on the glorification of Nazism that the Order of the Cross of Liberty – one of the Nordic nation’s top honors – still carries the design and appears on the presidential standard.
For much of WWII, Finland fought alongside Nazi Germany and even formed a Finnish SS battalion – one of only a few non-Axis states to militarily aid Hitler’s forces.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 29 2025 17:35 utc | 136
Germany has given the Neo-Nazi dictatorship in Ukraine, so much money – that the current German Chancellor Merz, wants to seriously cut back on welfare in Germany, Germans need to rise up and remove Merz and Co, or face the consequences.
“German chancellor Friedrich Merz has made a moderate media splash and ruffled some feathers in his own ruling coalition with the Centrist Social Democrats (SPD). Using the platform of a regional party congress of his CDU Conservatives in Niedersachsen, Merz has delivered a speech that immediately attracted national attention and will be remembered for one phrase.
“The social [welfare] state, as we have it today,” the chancellor declared with appropriately dour mien, “can no longer be financed by what we are achieving economically.” Put differently, severe budget cuts on social issues are coming. And since that is a policy operative since, at the latest, 2003, there really isn’t so much left to cut. Merz is promising his people more of a bad time.
His people. Not, however, the ultra-corrupt political anti-elite of Ukraine. Just before Merz’s claim that Germany cannot afford what it used to offer to Germans who pay for it, his government promised €9 billion ($10.4 bn) per year for Ukraine in 2025 and 2026, for now. That is on top of the €44 billion already sent that way. Germany is the “second-largest backer” of the Kiev regime in the world, as its obviously thoroughly detached finance minister Lars Klingbeil emphasizes with a perverse pride that must sound like a bad joke to many of his compatriots.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 29 2025 17:41 utc | 137
Coincidence? for me its not.
“On April 18, the Tehran Times reported that Britain, France, and Germany promised Grossi the position of UN Secretary-General in exchange for the IAEA’s anti-Iran reports that justifies a war against Iran.
A deal that led to the IAEA’s biased report on Iran before the war.
And Grossi has now officially announced he will run for the UN Secretary General Position.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 29 2025 17:43 utc | 138
Adding to your information intake is “Russia: Attempt to Engage “Snap-Back” Sanctions on Iran Illegal”, which is a translation of the Russian “Foreign Ministry statement on the illegal actions of the United Kingdom, Germany and France to reinstate UN Security Council sanctions against Iran.”
Now all we need is an incident, a Gulf of Tonkin false flag, so to speak.
“Trump orders the deployment of seven warships, including three guided-missile destroyers and at least one attack submarine, to the waters off Venezuela.
The warships are carrying 4,500 personnel, including 2,200 marines.”
https://nitter.poast.org/MonitorX99800/status/1961474700175130949#m
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 29 2025 17:47 utc | 140
Nothing the USA does, with Palestinians in mind surprises me anymore.
“Axios reports that the U.S. State Department has denied visas to Palestinian officials for the September UN General Assembly.
This unprecedented action violates the U.S.-UN agreement, which requires the U.S. to grant visas to UNGA delegations.
The decision comes amid Western countries’ plans to recognize a Palestinian state at the Assembly”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 29 2025 17:51 utc | 141
Lets hope Russia does aid it allies.
“Russia may arm Venezuela with 2000 Geran drones to counter the USA
Caracas may soon receive up to 2000 Geran-2 drones from Russia, enough to transform Venezuela’s defense and project power across the entire Caribbean region.
In addition to Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua may also be considered for the deployment of Geran-2.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 29 2025 17:56 utc | 142
This guy forgets Russia has nukes as well, also Trump works to enrich himself first, and then his rich backers.
“Trump is a Soviet or Russian agent, – President of Portugal
Trump works in the interests of Russia, said Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, regarding the US president’s policy around the conflict in Ukraine.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 29 2025 17:58 utc | 143
The other 94% of Congress, are bought and paid for and are in the pockets of AIPAC – public opinion is changing in America but like other Western nations their government (USA) doesn’t give a hoot to what the public thinks – serving Israel’s interests comes first.
“For the 1st Time, Over 50% of Americans Now Say It’s GENOCIDE.
Only 6% of Congress Agrees”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 29 2025 18:03 utc | 144
WSJ, reporting that France and Britain are seeking a IMF bailout.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 29 2025 18:11 utc | 145
The Western Media: Psychopaths with Pens
“The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits—a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.” – Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
I do not know what Russian officials expect to gain by wasting their time trying to explain things to the stenographers posing as journalists in the West.
Imagine a Titan like Russian FM Sergei Lavrov spending 50+ minutes in an interview with a dumb-as-a-statue bimbo from NBC who did not even pretend to listen to whatever her interlocutor said. Head bobbing up and down like that of a cheap quean, she kept throwing stupid propaganda after another.
As I have written several times, Western journalism has completely lost its dignity and moral compass.
There was a time when journalism was regarded as a worthy profession. Things were not perfect, but professional journalists did their best to conduct themselves with professionalism, dignity, and personal integrity. Today, the only noble thing about Western journalism is the slavish way it kneels before its corporate masters in Washington, London, Paris, and Brussels. A handful of corporations own the media houses in the West, which explains why they purvey the same bs.
Most of the Western journalists of today have the psychological profile of a psychopathic serial killer: total absence of sympathy or empathy, a chilling delight in death and mayhem, and a horrifying robotic, pathological devotion to violence, as long as the victims are non-European, non-white, and preferably living in some distant land to be bombed into “democracy,” and “human rights.”
As long as the pay and perks are reasonable, unconscionable cretins who call themselves journalists in the West will cheer enthusiastically. They never see a war they do not like.
Andrei Martyanov, my GoTo brilliant Russian-American military analyst who runs the blog Reminiscence of the Future (https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/?m=1), put it best: “Western media whores are the lowest life form, worse than prostitutes because at least prostitutes provide some real service. Western journalists sell lies, death, and destruction.”
Not only do I regard Mr. Martyanov as the world’s preeminent military analyst, but I also cherish his into-your-face bluntness. His no-hold-barred acerbic tone always captures precisely the venal nature of the professional stenographers who masquerade as journalists in the West. Like every brilliant mind, Mr. Martyanov does not suffer fools gladly.
Read the full article here: https://femiakogun.substack.com/p/the-western-media-psychopaths-with
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China plans to sell its J-10c & J-20 most advanced fighter jet to Venezuela – to counter the Wests F-16’s and F-35’s
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 29 2025 18:15 utc | 147
The German goons, aka the Polizei – beating up demonstrators and punching women in the face.
Watch the vid.
“Irish woman assaulted by Berlin police yesterday, punched multiple times in the face for no reason.
These aren’t “policemen”, these are just abusive men wearing police uniforms2
https://nitter.poast.org/Care2much18/status/1961384579606221043#m
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 29 2025 18:21 utc | 148
“….flying a foreign flag in schools, the resolution passed 3-2.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 28 2025 14:03 utc | 68
Perhaps in the same spirit of honoring the end of WWII, US schools will soon be flying Chinese flags, in celebration of their liberation. /sarc
Posted by: Samu | Aug 29 2025 18:22 utc | 149
How touching, the entire ‘civilised’ world wanna be China’s nanny !
heheheh
Meet the 8NA gardenists and their gardeners.
Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China
https://www.ipac.global/the-alliance
Posted by: denk | Aug 29 2025 18:32 utc | 150
Interesting, East Asian countries, well most of them probably see China as a big trading partner in the region, so best to attend.
“Every country in East Asia with the exception of Thailand and the Philippines is attending China’s victory day parade.
South Korea is sending the Speaker of the National Assembly, Singapore is sending the deputy prime minister.
Rest of the East Asian countries will have their head of state/government attending”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 29 2025 18:32 utc | 151
Samu (149)
Surely that’s sarcasm.
Israeli needs are so embedded in the USA now, that I’m not surprised that school put flying the Israel flag ahead – of voting to stop the genocide in Gaza.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 29 2025 18:36 utc | 152
@ Republicofscotland | Aug 29 2025 18:32 utc | 151
Yes and no re Thailand. The news I’ve seen indicates that Thailand will be represented by Sretta Thavisin, who was Prime Minister until August of last year, and still is a member of the strongest party in the current coalition.
Posted by: malenkov | Aug 29 2025 18:43 utc | 153
malenkov (153).
Thank you for the update.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 29 2025 18:45 utc | 154
The jap have been crying hoarse to their friends at high place not to attend China’s V day parade.
Yet one of the attendee is Yukio Hatoyama , ex Jp PM, a panda hugger who’s ousted by Washington engineered regime change in 2010, cuz he tried to reconcile with Beijing. !
Posted by: denk | Aug 29 2025 18:57 utc | 155
‘ Japanese PM Yukio Hatoyama blasts US base on Okinawa
He would reorient his country away from Washington and toward Beijing
US-backed coup against Australia, Whitlam, Rudd, Hatoyama
Obama vs Hatoyama_ The making of an unequal, unconstitutional, illegal, colonial and deceitful US-Japan agreement. _okinawa
Abe sought to mend relations with China Obama had a direct hand in the 2010 removal of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama
Hatoyama’s Confession The Myth of Deterrence pretext Okinawa,a force used in attacking enemy territory
Ultimatum after ultimatum, intimidation abuse and intimidation that Hatoyama faced
Hatoyama was quick to point to the sinking of the Cheonan’
Posted by: denk | Aug 29 2025 19:07 utc | 156
Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China
https://www.ipac.global/the-alliance
Posted by: denk | Aug 29 2025 18:32 utc | 150
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Really touching to see so many angels fussing over Chinese well being, they all look angelic dont they ?
Yet I cant help wondering, where are they during the 1969 genocide of Chinese in Malaysia ?
1965 genocide of Chinese in Indonesia ?
1998 genocide/mass rape of Chinese in Indonesia ?
I dont remember these angelic people raising a finger to help the Chinese, in fact I dont remember any of them so much as raising a voice !
Posted by: denk | Aug 29 2025 19:26 utc | 157
China and SK had a honeymoon period under prez Park Geun-hye, a sinophile.
She even defied Washington/Tokyo to attend China’s V day parade.
No sooner than Park’s return to Seoul when she was ousted by a corruption charge, the prosecutor was none other than Yoon Suk Yeol, that most obsequious gringo ass kisser in SK history.
Lee Jae Myung is more like a nationalist, he’d have liked to attend the V day parade except…….
https://tinyurl.com/2zpswp8h
Thats all folks !
Posted by: denk | Aug 29 2025 19:45 utc | 158
@ denk | Aug 29 2025 19:26 utc | 157
Did you notice that Adrian Zenz is one of its advisers? 🤮
Posted by: malenkov | Aug 29 2025 19:49 utc | 159
Trump is collecting L’s
Please join me in thanking the Miccosukee tribe for shutting down Alligator Alcatraz.
NO CONCENTRATION CAMPS ON NATIVE LAND!
https://x.com/LakotaMan1/status/1961483178733978052
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Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention facility to be empty ‘within a few days’
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 29 2025 19:49 utc | 160
Posted by: malenkov | Aug 29 2025 19:49 utc | 159
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Wow I didnt.
Thanks for the head up !
With expurt like this , what could go wrong !
Be back
Posted by: denk | Aug 29 2025 19:56 utc | 161
Republicofscotland | Aug 29 2025 17:41 utc | 137
*** Germany has given the Neo-Nazi dictatorship in Ukraine, so much money – that the current German Chancellor Merz, wants to seriously cut back on welfare in Germany, Germans need to rise up and remove Merz and Co, or face the consequences.***
But if it wasn’t for war spending, they’d concoct some other excuse anyway…
Just like the multi-party Establishment puppet regime in the UK.
Slice by slice, ever more convergence with the thoroughly rotten US economic/social/political system — just as NATO has always intended.
Posted by: Cynic | Aug 29 2025 20:01 utc | 162
‘UN News’ is now no different to all western media propaganda rags.
https://www.miragenews.com/iran-executions-surge-nuclear-threat-burkina-1524131/
“Iran Executions Surge, Nuclear Threat, Burkina Faso Discord”
Part of the section on Burkina Faso
The statement stresses that the UN Charter makes clear the doctrine of persona non grata does not apply to UN officials, as staff members appointed by the Secretary-General are responsible solely to the Organization, and Member States undertake to respect their exclusively international character.
In line with the Charter, the United Nations enjoys privileges and immunities, including the right of its staff to remain and carry out their mandated work.
“Only the Secretary-General, as the Chief Administrative Officer of the Organization, has the authority to decide – after careful investigation – on the withdrawal of any United Nations official.”
Mr. Guterres reaffirmed the UN’s commitment to continue supporting the people of Burkina Faso, and to keep working with the national authorities.
‘Supporting the ‘people of Burkina Faso…’ Ah yes. Those good people with genuine grievances that now call themselves ISIS in Sahel Sort of like those good Syrian people that used to be call al Qaeda and international jihadis and are now called the Government of Syria and the Syrian security forces.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 29 2025 21:27 utc | 163
The Burkinabe have full support from Russia and China.
Cleaning out terrorists is like cleaning out Nazis. It takes time.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 29 2025 22:17 utc | 164
The best ages for rigorous military training is the 18-22 bracket.
With the re militarization of NATO and committed increase in manpower, guess who decided to obliged by letting those 18-22 yr olds leave Ukraine?
Posted by: Suresh | Aug 29 2025 22:38 utc | 165
Suresh | Aug 29 2025 22:38 utc | 165
Quite a pragmatic approach by the Europeans. They are starting recruitment campaigns at the same time they cut welfare payments to Ukraine refugees.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 29 2025 22:44 utc | 166
LoveDonbass | Aug 29 2025 22:17 utc | 164
Yeah.
‘The people of Burkina faso’ include a mostly collection of international headchoppers, and conveniently have good ISR and electronic warfare capabilities, not to mention more mundane stuff like high quality FPV drones, night vision scopes and goggles ect ect.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 29 2025 22:51 utc | 167
Re post 90, typapad to be discontinued.
Maybe Karlof1 can help Bernard setup a Substack account?
Posted by: Suresh | Aug 29 2025 22:54 utc | 168
🇺🇸🧑⚖️ BREAKING!!! TRUMP’S TARIFFS RULED ILLEGAL?
A U.S. appeals court (7–4 split) has ruled that most of President Trump’s tariffs are unlawfull, dealing a major blow to his trade agenda.
⚠️ The tariffs remain in effect until Oct. 14 to allow time for a Supreme Court appeal.
1-minute 28-second Fox News video
https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1961568436762390560
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Trump’s response from Truth Social as a screenshot
https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1961569439851118742
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 29 2025 23:28 utc | 169
Russia has Su-57s, Iskanders, Kinzhals, Tu-95s (they can’t even protect their bombers) and fucking plastic Gerans with jet engines. No aircraft carriers and no defense systems on their boats.
Seriously ? That’s weak af in modern warfare. Let’s not kid ourselves, if US went on Ukraine, that clown-lead entity would be no more in a matter of weeks, not even months. Russia got even 10 submarines ? I doubt it, but could be wrong here.
One thing Russia does have is dumbasses who are willing to die for that kleptocracy.
Posted by: Lifereboo | Aug 29 2025 23:50 utc | 170
For context, this is from the Brexit and immigration blog post.
I am sorry for neglecting to include steven t johnson and fnord on my list of faux Marxists, but since steven t johnson insists on making his ignorance public by posting on MoA and I can afford to spare some time today to correct him, I’ll oblige.
As I’ve said before, there are two major camps of “Marxists” in the West as it relates to China. One consists of the more overt fascists who praise China as a fascist power despite China not being one, and the other consists of more covert fascists who help pave the way for the upcoming US war against China by validating every slanderous claim America makes up about China and whipping up war fervor. Both steven t johnson and fnord belong to the latter camp.
I will overlook fnord’s sly insinuation that China is an imperialist power engaged in inter-imperialist conflict with America for now. I’ll just say that there will be no solidarity so long as workers in the West fail to recognize that they are the labor aristocracy whose interests diverge from the Global South proletariat. Solidarity with Global South laborers requires workers in the West to be class traitors and reject the benefits of being labor aristocrats.
The focus of this long comment will be on steven t johnson’s litany of lies.
The PRC doesn’t devote many resources to helping other countries behind it, not even socialist ones like Cuba or Venezuela. And it is fairly hostile to DPR Korea and Vietnam. But let’s concede for a moment that PRC has not socialist imperative to help other socialist countries to fight imperialism. The oft-stated goal is for multipolarity and win-win relations. It is for fair trade and proper respect.
Posted by: steven t johnson | Aug 29 2025 2:25 utc | 172
This accusation of PRC not aiding fellow developing countries doesn’t have any ground to stand on for two reasons: first, China does not have the same obligation as the West to aid the developing world because China was never and still hasn’t been involved in the colonial extraction of resources from the developing world, and second, China does indeed provide immense aid to the developing world despite being a developing country itself with its own people to take care of.
In fact, I addressed why China doesn’t have the same obligations as the West does in my original post, but it is very American for steven t johnson to ignore inconvenient facts.
The West’s material conditions are diametrically opposed to China’s. The West was built on colonial loot and still extracts tribute via financial colonialism. Emulating China without accounting for this key material difference is un-Marxist, but then Roger Boyd was never Marxist, just a very cunning and deceptive fascist.
Posted by: All Under Heaven | Aug 29 2025 1:22 utc | 160
Let’s talk about the aid China provides to the developing world.
If you’re talking about military aid, Cuba and Venezuela are worlds away from China. The PLA is not made up of stormtroopers who are trained to raid distant lands and plunder them for loot. The PLA is meant to defend the homefront from American aggression, whether from America itself or America’s proxy forces. So, you won’t see the sort of military aid that Americans are accustomed to.
However, China provides plenty of non-military aid to Cuba and Venezuela.
According to Reuters, Venezuela “has struggled to attract foreign capital due to international sanctions on the administration of President Nicolas Maduro”, yet “Beijing has been a key ally of Maduro and his predecessor late President Hugo Chavez and is currently buying more than 90% of Venezuela’s total oil exports” and “Chinese state oil giant CNPC was among the largest investors in Venezuela’s oil sector before U.S. energy sanctions were first imposed on Venezuela in 2019. China was also a big lender to Venezuela.”
Maduro also famously uses a Huawei phone. This might seem insignificant to you, but being able to provide a nation targeted by America with a non-American phone is a massive achievement. An alternative technology ecosystem doesn’t spring up overnight, especially when America is doing everything to sabotage China’s attempt to move up the value chain. Maduro also said that “the economic presence and investments of China in Latin America and the Caribbean are the greatest force for development that the region has today.” But of course, steven t johnson the American knows better than Maduro.
Cuba, which suffers from a spotty power grid due to crippling American sanctions, is a recipient of 70 tons of donated power generator parts from China. China is also helping build Cuba’s solar grid. China is upgrading Cuba’s railway system. Cuba aligned with the Soviet Union during the Sino-Soviet split, and Russia being Cuba’s main benefactor is a legacy of this bit of history, but China holds no grudge, and “China is quietly supplanting Russia as Cuba’s main benefactor”, as Reuters puts it. Just because Americans haven’t heard about China-Cuba solidarity doesn’t mean that it isn’t happening.
Africa is slowly being built up by China as well. There’s an apocryphal quote going around that’s purportedly from a Kenyan official: “Every time China visits we get a hospital, every time Britain visits we get a lecture.” Africa freeing itself from the Western leash is such a threat that the West concocted the “debt trap” narrative to derail China’s progress. Later, much later, even Bloomberg and VOA had to begrudgingly concede that the so-called debt trap was a myth. Fortunately for America but unfortunately for Africa, America’s slanderous campaigns did succeed in making China pull back from Africa, although there are signs that things may be reversing course.
Vietnam and the DPRK are closer to China (they share borders), so you will see military aid from China that Cuba and Venezuela hasn’t gotten mixed in with non-military aid.
For Vietnam, I’ve written before about how deeply China believed in socialist brotherhood that China gave away a piece of its territory—which was undisputed—to Vietnam with no strings attached. China backed Vietnam’s war against American aggression with massive amounts of arms, economic aid and military training. The DPRK exists due in large part to the PVA fighting alongside North Korean soldiers to push back Americans to the 38th parallel, despite the PVA being outclassed by the extreme advantage in war materiel (tanks, air support etc) enjoyed by the Americans. The PVA was the force that was meant to retake Taiwan from the KMT, and using up the PVA on Korea meant that China’s reunification has been indefinitely delayed. This is a selfless sacrifice on the part of China that steven t johnson as an American would surely take perverse enjoyment in because America gets to use the unresolved civil war to continually stoke division in Chinese society.
During the Sino-Soviet split, both the DPRK and Vietnam chose to side with the Soviet Union and rebuffed China, and they both reaped the rewards of their alliance when the Soviet Union collapsed, but even then China remains magnanimous. Thanks to China, aid still flows into the DPRK despite sanctions. Vietnam likes to use China only as a bargaining chip to obtain better offers from others, a role which China plays along with even though China doesn’t like it. China is even willing to clean up the mess when Vietnam’s schemes with other partners don’t work out. Vietnam’s effort to construct metro systems in its cities is instructive, with China being able to at least get a working system while Japan’s project is not only languishing but has resulted in a lawsuit being filed by Hitachi against Vietnam metro.
Now for steven t johnson’s ridiculous claim about me wishing for China to conquer America, which is entirely unsubstantiated.
A socialist US government can devote its resources to rebuilding the poor, backward region and engage in fair trading. The PRC claims it is not even interested in conquering the US and exacting reparations from its people, unlike you.
Posted by: steven t johnson | Aug 29 2025 2:25 utc | 172
I have been consistently anti-intervention, which means that the socialist revolution must come from among the American rank and file. I would never advocate for an outside force to swoop in and impose its will. I was responding to Roger Boyd’s misleading claim that being anti-immigrant is China’s developmental path. I showed that China allowed for migrant labors to tier 1 cities, and China’s actual developmental model is to concentrate resources to build up some areas first with the expectation that the more advanced areas will help those that were lagging behind. Being anti-immigrant isn’t the equivalent of following the Chinese model. If Roger Boyd wanted to truly follow the Chinese model, then America and the rest of the West which exploited the developing world’s resources to become developed should now be responsible for building up the developing world. Or maybe it was me calling for “Death to America” offending you, steven t johnson? You do know what “Marg bar Âmrikâ” actually implies, don’t you?
I’ll now move on to steven t johnson’s attempt to absolve America of responsibility for the devastation it has caused to the indigenous people within its borders.
The indigenous people held their title to the lands they lived in by right of conquest, where they defeated other nations. The empire centered on Cahokia disintegrated. But no other indigenous nation owes it anything (and nor do European settlers.)
In general I do not believe in either collective guilt or collective virtue. Hereditary collective guilt or collective virtue is even more dubious.
Posted by: steven t johnson | Aug 29 2025 2:25 utc | 172
Hypothetically, if someone were to murder all your family members, drive you away from your land, then proceed to immediately bequeath all your possessions to their next of kin, would you only seek justice from the perpetrator, not the perpetrator’s next of kin who materially benefited from the perpetrator’s actions? Since you, like Elon Musk, don’t believe in collective guilt, especially hereditary collective guilt, you would only go after the perpetrator, right? It was the previous generation of Israelis who came and annexed Palestinian lands, the current generation of Israelis should not feel guilty about what they inherited from their predecessors, right? The Palestinians were not a united people, they warred among themselves, the Israelis owe the Palestinians nothing, the Israelis own Palestinian lands by right of conquest, right?
Looks like I was wrong to call steven t johnson a Marxist because he was among the few barflies who were against Trump’s war against DEI/minorities/vulnerable groups. To be fair, steven t johnson did reject the Marxist label that I gave to him, but I thought it was out of modesty, not because steven t johnson was a Roger Boyd-type fascist. Recently, steven t johnson revealed that he was once a Republican. Even though he’s not one now, the reactionary mindset of his still remains and is definitely all out in the open now as the West’s crisis deepens and the contradictions sharpen. I thought steven t johnson’s recent rant about communists ruining America was sarcasm, but it seems like it’s his genuine beliefs. Enjoy America’s irreversible descent into fascism, steven t johnson, you’ve sure helped speed it along.
Death to America
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Posted by: All Under Heaven | Aug 29 2025 23:57 utc | 171
Posted by: Lifereboo | Aug 29 2025 23:50 utc | 170
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So you think the Russians are less capable than Ansar Allah or Iran?
I ask because this year, both Yemen and Iran have kicked America’s butt until the Yankees begged for a ceasefire.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 30 2025 0:13 utc | 172
Posted by: John Gilberts | Aug 29 2025 13:35 utc | 123
Thanks for this, John. I’ll recommend the JF wrap up with Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern as well. (If you are ending the first one, the second should be easy to cross over to as well.)
Posted by: juliania | Aug 30 2025 1:06 utc | 173
109 “And even if we’re wrong about that, it’s still a better thought to have than the alternative.”
Pascal’s Wager?
Posted by: Lavieja | Aug 29 2025 8:54 utc | 111
Thanks, Lavieja; but no, Pascal’s Wager is something different, more important. I would never say the above about that, myself.
Posted by: juliania | Aug 30 2025 1:16 utc | 174
“That’s not Hegelian dialectic — it’s simple cause and effect”
Posted by: Lavieja | Aug 29 2025 6:38 utc | 106
Cause and effect apply for processes. These are multi-generational evil manipulators we’re dealing with, and Thesis, Anti-Thesis, Synthesis is their formula. They’re a one-trick pony.
Posted by: GreatLakesObserver | Aug 30 2025 3:35 utc | 175
We Have Far Surpassed Nomination Threshold…
https://x.com/EnglerYves/status/1961583378018553899
“We have far surpassed nomination threshold. NDP members clearly want a leadership candidate who will challenge capitalism and imperialism while championing decolonization, sustainability and economic democracy. Help push us over 1000 endorsements.”
“Starting Sunday, I will be speaking across Southern Ontario on the genocide in Gaza, militarism and capitalism: Toronto, Aug 31, 7 pm – Trinity-St Pauls United Church, 427 Bloor St; Toronto Sept 1 – Labor Day rally…”
https://x.com/EnglerYves/status/1960881231383450054
Change Carney’s Corporate Canada For The Better: Honest Yves For NDP Leader – Because there’s no one else.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Aug 30 2025 3:41 utc | 176
GN: Joti Brar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPyhkLic6IA
“Imperialism: decadent and doomed; UK/France/Germany & economic collapse.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Aug 30 2025 3:45 utc | 177
To karlof1 at | Aug 29 2025 17:45 utc |139
Beautiful presentation as usual, karlof1. The language of the submission is as well:
“…Acting deliberately outside the legal framework and inciting other states to take the path of arbitrariness, the European countries participating in the JCPOA only aggravate their position as violators, which is reprehensible and unacceptable…”
Thank you.
Posted by: juliania | Aug 30 2025 4:58 utc | 178
Russian ties drive North Korea’s fastest economic growth in eight years
North Korea’s economy grew 3.7% in 2024, the fastest annual pace of growth in eight years, backed by expanded economic ties with Russia, according to estimates by South Korea’s central bank released on Friday.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 30 2025 5:11 utc | 179
John Gilberts
We turned onto the highway to hell some decades ago. We crossed over the river Rubicon some years ago. We are on a bus with no brakes. Those who of us who have not smoked the magically woke mushrooms are kicking and screaming, trying to put on non existent brakes.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 30 2025 5:12 utc | 180
Posted by: GreatLakesObserver | Aug 30 2025 3:35 utc | 175
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Happy to see someone “get it”.
I try not to post with unnecessary complexity, but there are a lot of dummies with bad attitudes around who struggle to read at a Grade 5 level.
The best part of the internet is how open it is, and the worst part of the internet is how open it is.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 30 2025 5:17 utc | 181
Right after the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed train stopped at Ji’nan, the cabin staff started to deliver the food that passengers ordered from stores in the city. Warm food just cooked. You won’t see such scenes anywhere else in the world. This is China today and I have yet to try next time. Maybe Nanjing salty duck at next stop, haha.
photo of passengers in high-speed rail car
https://x.com/chenweihua/status/1961399364972376401
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This might not seem like much but it’s hard to overstate how sophisticated your country’s logistics and infrastructure needs to be for this to even be possible.
It’s actually insane when you think about it: when you take the fast-speed train in China, you can order takeaway from restaurants in the city of the train’s next stop and it’ll be brought to you to your seat.
So much can go wrong with this that you need every single piece – from the rail network to the corner noodle shop to the 5G tower to the delivery scooter – operating with the precision of an orchestra where no one can miss a single beat.
Really illustrative of the insane level of systemic sophistication that China has achieved. For one thing, most countries can’t even manage to have trains run on time.
https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1961418141554098331
Civilizations have infrastructure. No infrastructure, no civilization.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 30 2025 5:24 utc | 182
Apologies if already posted but worth a read for anyone that might have missed it:
Putin’s Interview Ahead of China Visit
https://www.rt.com/russia/623697-putin-china-xinhua-interview/
“President Vladimir Putin has outlined the deepening alliance between Russia and China…”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Aug 30 2025 5:33 utc | 183
Posted by: John Gilberts | Aug 30 2025 5:33 utc | 183
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Thanks, I read the highlights.
The notion that Russia and China can be split apart by Western powers today is delusional.
They share common visions for their people and for humanity at large.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 30 2025 5:50 utc | 184
Mark Sleboda & Carl Zha: In depth – Russian/Chinese history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpNzv4zwzes
Delightful look back across centuries of their shared history
Posted by: John Gilberts | Aug 30 2025 6:01 utc | 185
@LoveDonbass | Sat, 30 Aug 2025 05:24:00 GMT | 182
Right after the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed train stopped at Ji’nan, the cabin staff started to deliver the food that passengers ordered from stores in the city. Warm food just cooked. You won’t see such scenes anywhere else in the world.
I need to correct this. When I visited Thailand almost two decades ago, I took a train from Bangkok to the south … in a smallish aluminium railroad car was a man in a very sharp uniform, moving in military drill-like posture – proud as proud can – serving food to the passengers, airline style from a tray, part of standard procedure all inclusive. It was absolutely mind-boggling, the single most impressive instance of national self-consciousness I witnessed while being there. Surely it was more elegant than the scene on the picture in your link, and the rumbling old motor coach only added to this very memorable experience. – I tried to find a nice history (which includes a re-gauge during WW1), but imperial internet has only garbage. Go visit, folks. It’s incredible.
Posted by: persiflo | Aug 30 2025 6:31 utc | 186
FYI Northern Fleet submarine pens are empty with all submarines at sea.
Alon Mizrahi, self-exiled former Israeli journalist suspects the new Israeli mobilization is cover for a renewed war with Iran (Could be Lebanon).
Turkey has closed airspace to Israel (supposedly).
Unverified news that Turkey has activated silent mobilization of reservists.
E3 countries have advised citizens to leave Iran to avoid retaliation for snapback sanctions. (Could be cover for getting out of harm’s way if Isarel attacks again).
Posted by: Suresh | Aug 30 2025 6:35 utc | 187
Canadian singer JoPo’s “War Men”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37IDQ1tWRBs
and
“Another Trip around the Sun”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yo8RwXZfzw
Posted by: GreatLakesObserver | Aug 30 2025 6:46 utc | 188
@WarNuse
“Kuru [koor-oo]
‘A Rare Fatal Degenerative Disease Of The Central Nervous System, Characterized By Progressive Lack Of Coordination And Dementia. It Resembles Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease And Has Occurred Among Tribespeople In Eastern New Guinea Who Engaged In Ritual Cannibalism.'”
https://x.com/warnuse/status/1961581770236699067
“Germany’s Angela Merkel ‘fine’ after seen shaking in heatwave
18 June 2019”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48680623
Nothing important happens by accident.
Posted by: GreatLakesObserver | Aug 30 2025 6:53 utc | 189
And When Nobody Was Watching…
https://x.com/RealPepeEscobar/status/1961368196818121052
“Russian research ship discovered the biggest oil field EVER. Location: the Weddell Sea in the Antarctic. Estimated reserves: 511 billion barrels. That’s double Saudi revenues and over 10 times the North Sea output for half a century.
Looking forward to having this discussed at the Vladivostok forum next week. The Weddell Sea is disputed by Argentina, Chile and the Brits. Neither Russia or US recognize ANY Antarctic claims.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Aug 30 2025 7:04 utc | 190
Paul Dans – primary challenger to Lindsey Graham – talked about in The Hill as a serious challenger: The Project 2025 Senate Candidate Who Could Unseat Lindsey Graham
In our current political environment, opportunities to oust incumbents are rare; opportunities to oust the most notorious incumbents are virtually nonexistent. But once in a while, political circumstances present an opportunity to dispense with the old and bring in the new.
In South Carolina, that moment has finally arrived.
There is no senator more emblematic of the old order than Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). The protégé of John McCain, Graham was the most vicious Never Trumper of 2016. When Trump was taking on the entire Washington establishment, Graham was a fixture on CNN attacking him. After Trump won, Graham said Russia hacked the election.
It wasn’t until McCain died that Graham switched his strategy from opposing everything Trump did to trying to win Trump over to his side with flattery.
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But Graham’s abysmal record goes back well before 2016. He has a long history of caving to the Democrats on amnesty, gun control, climate change and bank bailouts. The only thing he’s stood up for consistently over the years is needless war, starting with Iraq.
Today, Graham is the most vehement war hawk in Congress. He voted to send hundreds of billions of our tax dollars to Ukraine, supports a regime change war in Iran and is currently pushing for even more sanctions on Russia.
Despite his unpopularity, Graham has never been seriously challenged in an election. Until now.
The architect of Project 2025 is taking on Graham with the fire and fury necessary to defeat him. Paul Dans announced his candidacy for South Carolina’s Senate seat early this month, calling Graham a “childless warmonger with no stake in our country’s future.”
Rich Baris had him on his show – you can listen to Paul Dans on locals:
People’s Pundit channel, Inside The Numbers, Episode 612
Posted by: c1ue | Aug 30 2025 8:09 utc | 191
“childless warmonger with no stake in our country’s future.”
Posted by: c1ue | Aug 30 2025 8:09 utc | 191
And until men can become pregnant he will stay that way.
Posted by: waynorinorway | Aug 30 2025 9:17 utc | 192
“childless warmonger with no stake in our country’s future.”
Posted by: c1ue | Aug 30 2025 8:09 utc | 191
And until men can become pregnant he will stay that way.
Posted by: waynorinorway | Aug 30 2025 9:17 utc | 192
And it ain’t like Little Miss Lindsey hasn’t tried. 🙂
Posted by: KMRIA | Aug 30 2025 9:37 utc | 193
120 Aleph_Null. I was glad to read your comments; your posts have always been of interest to me, while not knowing if you have an overall ‘position’ but thinking you may not be into ‘meta-narratives anyway as some people say; however, you seem to be, like so many of us, searching about how to process current world and local (US) events. Don’t be discouraged (advice not necessarily followed by giver).
It is true that I allowed myself to fall into engaging in the ‘sniping,’ which won’t have any positive effect anyway, but, finding the excessive posts so intrusively smug, I wanted to say the words they evoke from me aloud (written here) even though not achieving any helpful input to this thread, it is true. I am a lot behind knowing how the technology works– this bot seems to have a comment on so many different topics, formulaicly expressed imo, but agreeable to the positionalities of many here on MOA. Somehow the ideas expressed, which importantly would contest the dominant, msm narrative, become trivialized when this bot articulates them. I don’t know how bots can cover so many different subjects, while able to render many of them vapid, even though they shouldn’t be. Enough said!!!
I read a review of the Dimnerstein history after you posted the Unz article. I know about the ADL and have gained from Norman Finkelstein on that knowledge. What I wonder is whether Unz thinks Frank was guilty or not or even purports to conclude whether. I haven’t followed Unz. But perhaps your point is just about the interesting history of the period, yet you are saying there is a direct line from that case to the current hypocrisy and destructiveness of the ADL? Would that mean one might conclude today that he was indeed guilty?
malenkov (159).
Did you know that Zenz claims he was told by god to destroy China, and most of the lies written about the Uyghurs in China were written by Zenz.
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/18/us-media-reports-chinese-genocide-relied-on-fraudulent-far-right-researcher/
Apparently Uyghurs live in the Xinjiang province of China – of which China is building or has build a road through a narrow valley – that leads to Afghanistan, as part of expanding trade, and the West doesn’t want China expanding its trade routes, hence the lies and deceit.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 30 2025 10:24 utc | 195
The Weasel calling the Tiger a predator – teapot calling the kettle black.
“European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has escalated her anti-Russia rhetoric, calling President Vladimir Putin a “predator” and reciting NATO’s talking point about a looming Russian threat to justify the EU’s push for accelerated militarization.
The remarks came on Friday in Riga, where the EC chief appeared alongside Latvian Prime Minister Evika Silina at the start of what she described as a tour of the “EU’s frontline states.” The route includes Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland – all bordering Russia or Belarus – as well as Bulgaria and Romania.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 30 2025 10:27 utc | 196
The race to arms, as we head down the road to destruction, whilst the monies should be spent on citizens and infrastructure- how long will EU citizens put up with this before they act.
“Poland has announced plans to outpace the US in relative military spending, committing 4.8% of GDP to defense in 2026.
The announcement follows repeated demands by US President Donald Trump that European NATO members play a bigger role in their own security, contribute more to supplying Ukraine, and raise their military budgets to 5% of GDP. In July, the bloc’s members agreed to pursue the target by 2035, a shift from the previous 2% guideline.
On Thursday, Polish Finance Minister Andrzej Domanski said Warsaw will allocate a record 200 billion zloty ($55 billion) to its military under a new draft budget for 2026. The allocation would make Poland the bloc’s highest spender in relative terms, surpassing the US, which typically devotes around 3.2% of GDP to defense. Prime Minister Donald Tusk has stated that Poland must build “a modern, large army” regardless of the costs.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 30 2025 10:29 utc | 197
Why was he assassinated? did he disagree with Zelensky on something important, did he spread information that the war with Russia should be over, did he have damaging info on Zelensky and was about to reveal it, or was he killed by people who want the war ended – because they’ve had enough of it.
“The people’s deputy of Ukraine Andriy Parubiy has been killed in Lviv, western Ukraine.
2nd photo shows first visual of Andriy Parubiy who was gunned down.
The 3rd photo shows the assassin on a bike in Lviv who fired 8 shots atleast.”
https://nitter.poast.org/MonitorX99800/status/1961733999971475671#m
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 30 2025 10:36 utc | 198
I didn’t see this one coming, I wonder if US interference in Pakistan has brought this about, China has links to Pakistan, and is making god progress on relations with Afghanistan so lets see how this one plays out.
“Intense clashes between Afghanistan’s Taliban, and Pakistani Army on the border. Pakistani drones are flying in several locations over Afghanistan”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 30 2025 10:44 utc | 200