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August 3, 2025
The MoA Week In Review – OT 2025-173

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10 year gov‘t debt
4.2% US
1.7% China
Massive drop in US interest rate from just shy of 4.5% to 4.2% in 1 week. Suggests bond vigilantes might believe Trumps tarriffs will stave off insolvency. TBD

Posted by: Exile | Aug 3 2025 12:28 utc | 1

Trashy grifter Candace Owens attempting to generate sympathy for sex criminal and rapist Harvey Weinstein is indicative of her priorities
Maxwolf and Weinerstain giving interviews to trash like Owens, yet their victims get no right to reply
It should be of interest that Ron Unz thinks “she’s onto something”.
File under”very wealthy sinister crackpots”

Posted by: will moon | Aug 3 2025 12:30 utc | 2

Who posted a “Candace relationship chart” a few weeks ago? Can’t find it. Please repost.

Posted by: I forgot | Aug 3 2025 12:38 utc | 3

Trump sends 2 ‘nukulear’ submarines to wherever (close(r) to Russia) because of a social messaging spat with Medvedev, in today’s news.
Crazy! Imho it shows that Trump is completely controlled by the ‘neo-cons’, the PTB, the Hand behind the Curtain….(what group composed of ? is hard to define..)
He was ‘allowed’ to be elected a second time (not questioning the vote, just that nothing was done to stop his candidacy or to subvert the vote) because he was perceived as supremely manipulable — not just an easy mark, but a person who could be controlled to speak and act without difficulty. A show-man. Most likely, even easier than Sleepy Joe, who was ‘run’ by ‘Komité’ of Dems and others.
This is part explains the resurgence of the Epstein scandal and the Trump implication in it as touted, clarioned, by the MSM (idk what really happened of course), pressure is put on DT, he turns agressive where he can be so, is encouraged to do so, etc. (Distraction..)
DT would never have ‘promised’ to release the ‘Epstein List’ if he was implicated in any way re sex w. minors / other scandalous aspects. Even five yr-olds understand pointing to the damage area and blaming ‘Joey’ is likely to fail when it is BS as shown by material conditions…so they just stay quiet…
It is also the reason why DT is clearly not informed at all about various obvious, well-known, documented, facts etc. He is kept in the dark, doesn’t read anything, has brief meeting with subordinates who peddle a script, etc.
Plus, he is let loose on the ‘tariffs’ issue because that just creates a lot of bewilderment, strife, and the PTB in any case care nothing about factories, worker’s / plebs jobs, salaries, etc.
The march to WW3 barrels on, in a way we are already in it, for now it is low intensity.

Posted by: Noirette | Aug 3 2025 12:56 utc | 4

10 year gov’t debt interest rates required to attract buyers
Nov 2020

0.9% US

3.2% China
May 2025

4.4% US

1.7% China
The Bond Vigilantes are voting with their feet.

Posted by: Exile | Aug 3 2025 13:02 utc | 5

Interest cost of federal debt as percentage of federal revenues:
Actual
~2% 2019
~9% 2021
~18% 2024
Projected
~24% 2025
~xx% 2026
~xx% 2027
My back of the envelope shows 28-30% in 2026 and 30-34% in 2027. If that’s true, then the Federal Gov‘t will face an insolvency crisis in early 2027.
Watch 10 year treasury interest rate: if stays above 4% then bond market agrees with my prediction of an insolvency crisis; if 10 year drops below 3% then I am wrong. TBD

Posted by: Exile | Aug 3 2025 13:04 utc | 6

(Crypto) Money by Vile Means – Compact <-- Recommended This is excellent.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Aug 3 2025 13:06 utc | 7

Sun of Alabama.
Can you post something for once where you don’t crap on somebody in response to their comment?

Posted by: morongobill | Aug 3 2025 13:10 utc | 8

From previous OT & Palestine threads, there is a link by John Gilberts to discussion on Russia and Syria War between Laith Marouf and Jamarl Thomas. Some MOA poster comments:
Lavieja –What Laith Marouf says to Jamarl Thomas is explosive imo, because apparently Marouf now has definitive evidence of Russia’s preference to deal with Turkey and intent to establish its future base in Libya under Turkish controlled territory there rather than hold Syria, during that country’s destruction. Marouf is saying Russia’s Air Force actually took military action to support HTS’s entry into Damascus.
Having been so disappointed in Russia over the fall of Syria, this amateur student of geopolitics (myself) had concluded at the time that Russia’s failure in Syria was a setback on a world scale, somehow. Considering, for example how respect for Russia was building so in the Global South, as simultaneously the Empire’s declined, this was a setback on that theatre. Looking for one thing at the spread of jihadism in the African Sahel region (for example jihad rising control in Mali to over 60% of its territory.)
So looking at the situation then as if Russia might be a the leader of the world’s drive to dismantle the US-centered empire. Imagining then perhaps a ‘Starwars’-type scenario of ‘good vs. evil.’
Well now — Marouf’s uncovering of evidence which he just told Jamarl Thomas will be published shortly leads him to conclude he says that Russia will never be more than a regional leader, and he refers to the ‘quagmire in Ukraine.’ A lot of people will get very upset with his report, he expects. He is committed to his view, which anyone listening to his preliminary discussion will want to hear more about.
Poster ArtinOz says further–“I saw that last night and it’s pretty damning. It’s one thing to stop short with air cover (as they did in Idlib) to ostensibly avert a larger war, but another thing entirely to bomb your allies.”
Posted by: ArtinOz | Aug 3 2025 11:29 utc | 300

Posted by: Lavieja | Aug 3 2025 13:16 utc | 9

@ morongobill | Aug 3 2025 13:10 utc | 10
Thank you.
@ SoA. That was a particularly obnoxious post. Please do better.

Posted by: I forgot | Aug 3 2025 13:30 utc | 10

Yale Univ. publishes a summary of various US FIN. topics.
State of US Tariffs July 28, 2025
(data can be dowloaded – how all is calculated is not laid out.)
Exerpts:
point 3.
Overall Price Level & Distributional Effects: The price level from all 2025 tariffs rises by 1.8% in the short-run, the equivalent of an average per household income loss of $2,400 in 2025$.
point 4.
Commodity Prices: The 2025 tariffs disproportionately affect clothing and textiles, with consumers facing 39% higher shoe prices and 37% higher apparel prices in the short-run.
For those interested, scroll down to Fig. 5, manufacturing detail, which shows some ups and downs, but overall not much gain. Maybe about 2 – 3 %, not more?
Bringing back manufacturing (of what of course has to be specified) is difficult overall…
https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/state-us-tariffs-july-28-2025

Posted by: Noirette | Aug 3 2025 13:39 utc | 11

Posted by: I forgot | Aug 3 2025 12:38 utc | 3
It was on dd geopolitics
I just learned how to use imgur
owen
It’s too bad. I thought she was an exception.

Posted by: lex talionis | Aug 3 2025 13:59 utc | 12

Noirette,
Thanks for the data set.
Appears – $270 billion/year Federal revenues from tariffs. Far short of the $600 billion goal.
$270 billion is not going to prevent the pending 2027 insolvency crisis.

Posted by: Exile | Aug 3 2025 14:01 utc | 13

AUKUS
Can
It
Get
Any
More
Excruciating
?
The Albanese government is proudly funding public housing!
Not for Australians doing it tough.
No. 700 houses will be built in Western
Australia to house US troops under the AUKUS deal.
As part of the expansion of the naval base.
>… The West Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QinXlHlHhCw

Posted by: Melaleuca | Aug 3 2025 14:02 utc | 14

On Einstein and Israel I recommend Fred Jerome’s book “Einstein on Israel and Zionism”.
Einstein was closer to a ‘cohabitation’ zionist like Magnes and Buber ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ihud ) Wanted a binational place for Jews in Israel but not at the expense of others. Like Jerry Haber now (who’s gone silent) . Not what we normally call zionism.

Posted by: Tuyzentfloot | Aug 3 2025 14:07 utc | 15

Posted by: Melaleuca | Aug 3 2025 14:02 utc | 16
Do Western versus Eastern Australians differ? I know we’re all humans, but there are those things in which the media decides to box us up.
I am curious.
I dunno. I figure the Southern Australians are the best surfers! And at least they aren’t
South Africans.

Posted by: lex talionis | Aug 3 2025 14:18 utc | 16

Israeli soldier reveals ‘strange order’ to cancel Gaza border patrols on 7 Oct – The Cradle
LOL. Someone is now realising, what was already obvious on October 8th 2023. The next step is the realisation of the reasons that led Israel to favour those islamic blockheads from Hamas over real political subjects in Palestine. I said it many times, I say it again: the only allies of the Palestinian people were in the now agonising European left, while Turkey and the Arab countries were all in league with Israel for the destruction of Gaza. They got in exchange the defeat of Assad in Syria, a blind eye on their own authocratic policies, new sanctions for Iran etc.

Posted by: SG | Aug 3 2025 14:47 utc | 17

[Einstein] Wanted a binational place for Jews in Israel but not at the expense of others. Like Jerry Haber now (who’s gone silent) . Not what we normally call zionism.
Posted by: Tuyzentfloot | Aug 3 2025 14:07 utc | 17
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I refer to that as “fluffy Zionism” or “kinder gentler Zionism”. The idea that Zionist encroachment could take place “not at the expense of others” is, if sincerely held, simply ludicrous — and with some of these characters one would do well to doubt their sincerity.

Posted by: malenkov | Aug 3 2025 14:53 utc | 18

[Einstein] Wanted a binational place for Jews in Israel but not at the expense of others. Like Jerry Haber now (who’s gone silent) . Not what we normally call zionism.
Posted by: Tuyzentfloot | Aug 3 2025 14:07 utc | 17
_______
I refer to that as “fluffy Zionism” or “kinder gentler Zionism”. The idea that Zionist encroachment could take place “not at the expense of others” is, if sincerely held, simply ludicrous — and with some of these characters one would do well to doubt their sincerity.

Posted by: malenkov | Aug 3 2025 14:53 utc | 19

thanks b and moa posters for all the insights… i am an avid reader..

Posted by: james | Aug 3 2025 15:11 utc | 20

Syriana Analysis: Cold War 2.0 Ep #16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQdcvqlbwhA
“Historian and political commentator Dr Tarik Cyril Amar joins Kevork Almassian for a wide-ranging discussion on the shifting global order – from Gaza to Ukraine, Germany and Taiwan.”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Aug 3 2025 15:13 utc | 21

above 23 corrected:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQdcuqlbwhA

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Aug 3 2025 15:16 utc | 22

I just read the Money By Vile Means piece and want to add
1. Who owns the core 21 million stuff that can’t be named? The same that own the core Western private finance holdings now?
2. What happens when China uses its AI and quantum capabilities to solve the hash faster than all else and thus take all the mining over?
Humanity needs to have finance be a public utility and it needs to evolve a government that would provide that service by and for the people.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 3 2025 15:20 utc | 23

23
Highly recommended. Harassed by youtube.
Kevork lays out the terrible situ in Syria and regionally with clarity and precision. He and Tarik are knowledgeable and excellent. Check the back issues as well.

Posted by: chakakhagan | Aug 3 2025 15:34 utc | 24

Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 3 2025 15:20 utc | 25
#######
China is building that society.
Their goal isn’t to have a 1%. It isn’t to use debt as a control mechanism. Even remote rural areas get substantial investment.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 3 2025 15:36 utc | 25

Posted by: Exile | Aug 3 2025 14:01 utc | 15
########
Much of the Western financial system is predicated on “animal spirits” to paraphrase Keynes.
Confidence is essential and instability is dangerous.
A sudden loss of confidence will transcend any numerical formulations.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 3 2025 15:38 utc | 26

CRAZY Chinese shipbuilding stats: a single Chinese Shipbuilder, the China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), built more more commercial ships by tonnage in 2024 than the entire US shipbuilding industry HAD built since WW2.😂

data graphic
https://x.com/thinking_panda/status/1952031668686274871

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 3 2025 15:48 utc | 27

noirette@12:56
“ DT would never have ‘promised’ to release the ‘Epstein List’ if he was implicated in any way re sex w. minors / other scandalous aspects. ”
Logically speaking, he would if he knew that it couldn’t be released/ didn’t exist. Think about the old days when Kings couldn’t be embarrassed – in chess the king is never taken but captured
I don’t think one can draw any conclusions from what he has said, only what he has done. He says whatever comes into his head and is not held to account. He has said “I wish her well” regarding “Gizlane Maxwolf”which is generous considering her depravity yet means nothing until she is pardoned. He hasn’t wished her victims well, over a thousand and counting, according to the DOJ
One thing he has done is make the extremely wealthy even wealthier

Posted by: will moon | Aug 3 2025 16:03 utc | 28

Interest cost of federal debt as percentage of federal revenues:
Actual
~2% 2019
~9% 2021
~18% 2024
Posted by: Exile | Aug 3 2025 13:04 utc | 8
I don’t know where you get those numbers?
This graph shows that currently Federal interest payments are about 21% (.21) of federal revenues. In 2019 it was around 15% (.15). From 1984-1992 it hovered above 25% (.25)

Posted by: jinn | Aug 3 2025 16:04 utc | 29

Getting China Wrong

¶ During the 5th century BC, cold-blooded

From the get-go, pretty much.

Posted by: Laurence | Aug 3 2025 16:14 utc | 30

[Einstein] Wanted a binational place for Jews in Israel but

`You must be a special kind of stupid.’

Posted by: Laurence | Aug 3 2025 16:33 utc | 31

MacGregor, not mincing his words
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBGBjzJsk7Q
asking about the EU/US DS

Posted by: Tom | Aug 3 2025 16:38 utc | 32

Nakamoto believed

Sun Tzu smiled.

Posted by: Laurence | Aug 3 2025 17:04 utc | 33

– To Restore Our Humanity We Must De-Zionise The World – Nate Bear
Must read article. I fully agree that all Zionists must be removed from any position of authority in the west, but sadly, Nate still has some illusions in Corbin. For all his vehemence, his position to hope that the existing political elite fix this deep rooted problem is just another obstacle to the real solution. There must be a recognition that wage slaves are on their own without any effective revolutionary political organization. That’s the critical first step. Waiting for a marvel superhero within the political class ain’t gonna do it.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Aug 3 2025 17:24 utc | 34

Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 3 2025 15:20 utc | 25
#######
China is building that society.
Their goal isn’t to have a 1%. It isn’t to use debt as a control mechanism. Even remote rural areas get substantial investment.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 3 2025 15:36 utc | 27
They are the best thing going in existence. That’s true, but they have a 1%, they are a Capitalist country and millions of wage slaves suffer there and are powerless over their government. Critically, however, they are not Imperialist. They don’t systematically murder for the enrichment of their 1%.
I support China as an alternative to Imperialism, but I’m not going to suspend all critical thought relative to their ruling elite.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Aug 3 2025 17:29 utc | 35

Trashy grifter Candace Owens attempting to generate sympathy for sex criminal and rapist Harvey Weinstein is indicative of her priorities
Maxwolf and Weinerstain giving interviews to trash like Owens, yet their victims get no right to reply
It should be of interest that Ron Unz thinks “she’s onto something”.
File under”very wealthy sinister crackpots”
Posted by: will moon | Aug 3 2025 12:30 utc | 2
Personally, I find Candace to be a very intelligent and healthy critic of the west’s trashy ruling class Zios.
Oh and Macron’s wife is a man, baby! Cue the Austin Powers music…

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Aug 3 2025 17:31 utc | 36

@ aleph
You’re correct that NF does ruin several characters, especially Tucker, in those 3 hours. (Weird editing! The first 2.5 hours is empty.).
But you should watch it, rather than use Rolling Stone to base your opinions about NF.
I didn’t need convincing about the people NF went after in that video and his info isn’t “new” to me. But some was. I bet the gist won’t be “new” to you either. But I think it’ll be better than you anticipate.
Again, watch on high speed.

Posted by: I forgot | Aug 3 2025 17:32 utc | 37

The sense I got from the recent interview with M.K. Bhadrakumar by Glenn Diesen that India was not originally the initiator of BRICS association. Russia and China started it and stringed India in from the sidelines. India has been effectively just a reluctant observer from the inside except for when the country obstructed the creation of BRICS currency. Here is the link to the video when this discussion was started, and has lot more information I did not know before.
M. K. Bhadrakumar: India Ignores Trump’s Threats of Secondary Sanctions

Posted by: BD | Aug 3 2025 17:32 utc | 38

From 1984-1992 it hovered above 25% (.25)
Posted by: jinn
================
Yup and the result was the soft default of the Federal Gov‘t where the dollar was stealth devalued 50%. (Aka the 1985 Plaza Accords)
Thats one way to manage a insolvency crisis.

Posted by: Exile | Aug 3 2025 17:33 utc | 39

On Einstein and Israel I recommend Fred Jerome’s book “Einstein on Israel and Zionism”.
Einstein was closer to a ‘cohabitation’ zionist like Magnes and Buber ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ihud ) Wanted a binational place for Jews in Israel but not at the expense of others. Like Jerry Haber now (who’s gone silent) . Not what we normally call zionism.
Posted by: Tuyzentfloot | Aug 3 2025 14:07 utc | 15
Read his article for the New York Times on the fascist predecessors of Netanyahoo. He says they are fascist just like the Nazis. Einstein was no Zionist. Communism was predominant among Jews during most of his lifetime and it opposed Zionism. Zionism was systematically supported by the western ruling class, first GB, then the US post WW2 and is now the dominant political philosophy among western Jews, whether they admit it or not.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Aug 3 2025 17:38 utc | 40

China’s socialist market economy is very different from capitalist market economy.
Its premise is socioeconomic well being and non exploitation.
They have strong anti poverty and anti corruption programs.
Imagine a government putting the medical, education, food and shelter needs of their population as high priority.
No wonder the western elites are against them.

Posted by: financial matters | Aug 3 2025 17:58 utc | 41

For those who blame “baby-boomers” for everything a chart that shows that the 2nd half got shafted…by their older “brothers & sisters” and the latter-day-S-gen.
Let me do the arithmetic for you. Born 1945-1955 hit 30yo 1975-1985; Born 1955-1965 hit 30yo 1985-1995
% of 30-year-olds Home-Owners & Married
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GxZd9SubwAAuo-F?format=jpg
Ref: Hillary 1947, Bill 1946

Posted by: S Brennan | Aug 3 2025 18:02 utc | 42

MOATS, with George Galloway: ‘Dead Hand’
https://x.com/georgegalloway/status/1952065915291574733
With Scott Ritter & David Hundeyin.

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Aug 3 2025 18:29 utc | 43

In response to

I support China as an alternative to Imperialism, but I’m not going to suspend all critical thought relative to their ruling elite.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Aug 3 2025 17:29 utc | 35

response written for me

China’s socialist market economy is very different from capitalist market economy.
Its premise is socioeconomic well being and non exploitation.
They have strong anti poverty and anti corruption programs.
Imagine a government putting the medical, education, food and shelter needs of their population as high priority.
No wonder the western elites are against them.
Posted by: financial matters | Aug 3 2025 17:58 utc | 41

I think society should take its chances with a form of social organization other than the God Of Mammon cult type

Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 3 2025 18:32 utc | 44

Noirette | Aug 3 2025 12:56 utc | 4
Great to see you posting again. please continue to do so.
As for your foreboding WW 3 I share your sense of impending doom and find ever more people who are coming to that realization. There are still so many that continue to live in la la land and are most likely not aware of how serious this all could be.
I would like to ask how your fellow countrymen and women view the situation. Additionally, with tariffs imposed upon Switzerland by DT I would think there are many who are asking “What did we do?”

Posted by: dan of steele | Aug 3 2025 18:52 utc | 45

Walmart.

Posted by: elmagnostic | Aug 3 2025 19:11 utc | 46

Thanks b for the Compact article on Bitcoin. It’s lucid and correct. It’s a case study in the Nietzschean self-delusion: whenever anyone, anywhere, uses a metaphor and then claims on the basis of the metaphor to be representing reality is a liar in a non-moral sense. Bitcoin is a castle built on sand (yes I know that’s a metaphor too…)

Posted by: Patroklos | Aug 3 2025 19:17 utc | 47

Much Doo-do About Nothing

CNN
As tsunami waves swept the Pacific, some in Asia saw signs of a manga prophecy come true
13 hours ago
By Jessie Yeung
BBC
Russian volcano erupts for first time in more than 500 years
8 hours ago
By Adam Durbin
CBC
In Tofino, B.C., two different reactions to the tsunami advisory news
4 days ago
By Rhianna Schmunk
NDTV
Volcano Erupts After 600 Years, Russia Earthquake May Have Caused It
13 hours ago
Is BDSing those sewage oulets working?

Posted by: Laurence | Aug 3 2025 19:22 utc | 48

Ahenobarbus@17:31
Macron’s wife may be a man but you ignore the fact that Macron was born a WOMAN! Why aren’t you going on about that? Why do you protect this fraud? Are you a cognitive infiltrator from the Elysee Palace trying to deflect attention so we focus on the fraud’s legal spouse? It looks that way to me lol
As to Owens being a critic, how do you square her love for big member of the zio ruling class and serial rapist Harvey Wienerstain ? This VERY public love affair seems to cut across your statement professing admiration for her achievements regarding this ruling class?

Posted by: will moon | Aug 3 2025 19:31 utc | 49

Ahenobarbus@17:31
Macron’s wife may be a man but you ignore the fact that Macron was born a WOMAN! Why aren’t you going on about that? Why do you protect this fraud? Are you a cognitive infiltrator from the Elysee Palace trying to deflect attention so we focus on the fraud’s legal spouse? It looks that way to me lol
As to Owens being a critic, how do you square her love for big member of the zio ruling class and serial rapist Harvey Wienerstain ? This VERY public love affair seems to cut across your statement professing admiration for her achievements regarding this ruling class?

Posted by: will moon | Aug 3 2025 19:31 utc | 50

Posted by: S Brennan | Aug 3 2025 18:02 utc | 42
Quite an interesting graph. I was 34 before parenthood and mortgage and marriage and all that grown up stuff. My parents had a crap relationship, but they didn’t bail on each other. I did the same. (so far) Through the thick and thin we stuck it out. Much to the chagrin of those who wish to enslave us.
MDC – I Hate Work
Lil Keke

Posted by: lex talionis | Aug 3 2025 20:30 utc | 51

This VERY public love affair seems to cut across your statement professing admiration for her achievements regarding this ruling class?
Posted by: will moon | Aug 3 2025 19:31 utc | 49
She smashes the fuck out of racial identity politics, so I love her. And she’s pretty hot too. I imagine a sexual relationship with her would be truly epic.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Aug 3 2025 20:37 utc | 52

She smashes the fuck out of racial identity politics, so I love her. And she’s pretty hot too. I imagine a sexual relationship with her would be truly epic.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Aug 3 2025 20:37 utc | 51
############
Many of the other women trained and recruited by the same talent agency had the same attributes.
So easy to manipulate thirsty men.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 3 2025 20:46 utc | 53

Gringo Loco

’He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump’s mental acuity | The Guardian Opinion |

The abrupt changes in conversation are an example of Trump “digressing without thinking – he’ll just switch topics without self-regulation, without having a coherent narrative”, said Harry Segal, a senior lecturer in the psychology department at Cornell University and in the psychiatry department at Weill Cornell Medicine.
…..
A high-profile example came in mid-July, when Trump claimed his uncle, the late professor John Trump, had taught Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, at MIT.
Trump recalled: “I said: ’What kind of a student was he, Uncle John? Dr John Trump.’ I said: ‘What kind of a student?’ And then he said: ’Seriously, good.’ He said: ’He’d correct – he’d go around correcting everybody.’ But it didn’t work out too well for him.”
The problem is: that cannot possibly be true. First, Trump’s uncle died in 1985, and Kaczynski was only publicly identified as the Unabomber in 1996. Second, Kaczynski did not study at MIT.
“The story makes no sense whatsoever, but it’s told in a very warm, reflective way, as if he’s remembering it,” Segal said. “This level of thinking really has been deteriorating.”

Confabulation
Nuclear subs and Trump’s Bravado … mental capacity overall confusing. Ready to become an Manchurian candidate. 😊

Posted by: Oui | Aug 3 2025 20:54 utc | 54

What’s the big deal about Macron’s wife? Distraction? Use to later discredit people, like “oh, that Jimmy Dore was spreading conspiracy theories about Macron’s wife”? Or worse, like encouraging others to possibly say something defamatory so TPTB can “Alex Jones” someone into bankruptcy?

Posted by: I forgot | Aug 3 2025 20:54 utc | 55

She smashes the fuck out of racial identity politics, so I love her. And she’s pretty hot too. I imagine a sexual relationship with her would be truly epic.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Aug 3 2025 20:37 utc | 51
############
Many of the other women trained and recruited by the same talent agency had the same attributes.
So easy to manipulate thirsty men.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 3 2025 20:46 utc | 52
Come now. Don’t be so cynical. She’s not a Trump insider. I believe she’s sincere in her feelings. I love you, Candace! ❤️

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Aug 3 2025 21:01 utc | 56

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Aug 3 2025 21:01 utc | 55
I felt the same way until I saw the interlock on DD Geopolitics.
She’s a zio-shill. Otherwise we wouldn’t even know her name.

Posted by: lex talionis | Aug 3 2025 21:07 utc | 57

Danny Haiphong
Victor Gao’s BRUTAL Warning:
IF Trump Starts This War, China Wins
Aug 1 2025
Chinese analyst Victor Gao gives a
powerful warning to American in an interview with independent journalist Danny Haiphong on how this fatal mistake by Trump threatens to trigger a war with China. This interview was conducted in late May 2025, …more
https://youtu.be/Sw4CCGquzLU?si=yOGpwxX4D1Nd5Mop

Posted by: David G Horsman | Aug 3 2025 21:08 utc | 58

Danny Haiphong
Victor Gao’s BRUTAL Warning:
IF Trump Starts This War, China Wins
Aug 1 2025
Chinese analyst Victor Gao gives a
powerful warning to American in an interview with independent journalist Danny Haiphong on how this fatal mistake by Trump threatens to trigger a war with China. This interview was conducted in late May 2025, …more
https://youtu.be/Sw4CCGquzLU?si=yOGpwxX4D1Nd5Mop
Posted by: David G Horsman | Aug 3 2025 21:08 utc | 57
Sounds like a good one.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Aug 3 2025 21:16 utc | 59

Posted by: lex talionis | Aug 3 2025 20:30 utc | 50
MDC! Now there’s a band I haven’t heard in a lot of years. Thanks for posting it, Lex.

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Aug 3 2025 21:16 utc | 60

RE: Epstein and Trump –
To paraphrase the overused quip, you always get the most flak when you’re over the target.
I read Naomi Wolf’s interesting take on the whole thing, and while I find plenty of merit in her analysis in some part because she’s been in those circles in times past, I think she’s playing her cards from the pro-Trump side of the table. Part of her take is that the reason (for lack of a more comprehensive short descriptor) “Trump” is suddenly backtracking and seemingly in a panic about the “files” is because the way the Epstein operation (or phenomenon) was constructed was intended to bring as many uninvolved/innocent names into the dossier as possible. Mostly those in the scientific/research field. Epstein funded many of the most prominent scientists and researchers around. Thus the “files” will show them rubbing elbows with him rather frequently and create a number of unnecessary psuedo-scandals if they are released in full, with only alleged victims’ names redacted. Fine, but there is no way that’s Trump’s calculus here.
Whether, as noirette theorizes, Trump would never have promised the release (or to be the “most transparent administration in history”) if he knew his name was included in the actual transgressive activities they contain or not, I don’t think Trump knew what was actually in the files. It was basically a campaign trick, a veritable plank in his 2024 platform. It doesn’t take “TDS” to point out that Trump is well known for broken promises or failure to live up to them, even if he’s not fully to blame. Ending the Ukraine war in 24 hours, Israel-Gaza, etc. Some things are beyond his (or any president’s) control, and for different (and a few of the same) reasons than the aforementioned geopolitics-related promises, I believe that the Epstein scandal is too.
Basically – whether or not Epstein was running a sort of blackmail operation (Unz published an interesting take on that last week – the notion that any politician with serious aspirations to rise in the ranks will gladly ‘self-blackmail’) – and I don’t think that was the main purpose he served – I believe the fact is that the “intelligence” agencies (or “intelligence community”) that has essentially assumed or abrogated control of the highest level, most important policy execution levers of the government (which these days really is the “deep state”) and that the Epstein files will expose them in a manner which will potentially completely de-legitimize them in the eyes of the people who still believe the establishment is legitimate. So they’re working on a limited hangout of sorts, which entails Congress ending session uncharacteristically early at the behest of Trump’s biggest congressional supporters, meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell for extended periods of time, trying to backtrack and stall on promises, etc. Certainly the CIA, MI6 and Mossad face extremely embarrassing disclosures, but IMO so does the veneer of establishment credibility and “democratic” legitimacy. Maybe even to the level of what might have happened if Watergate wasn’t eventually given the same limited hangout treatment.
The TL/DR version is that where there is billowing dark smoke, there is usually fire. Couple that with Trump’s bizarre, even for him, behaviors and social media posts in the wake of the Epstein promise about face, and I put it down to two likely reasons: 1) Trump didn’t realize the scope and scale of what the files contained and does not want to be the guy sitting in the White House when (or if) the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth comes out and wrecks what little is left of trust (or let’s say tolerance) of the government, and 2) Trump’s name is contained in the materials, and in an incriminating (or with the potential to be perceived as such) fashion. There would be no other reason to have Scam Bondi expend so much (taxpayer funded) effort to flag (and scrub?) Trump’s name from them.
Even shorter: Trump, in characteristic fashion, made a promise that he knew was red meat for not just his base, but millions of other Americans (and non-Americans) before he sufficiently understood what exactly (or all) was actually in the Epstein files. This covers option 1, 2 or both enumerated above.
Shorter still: Time for a new war or “terror attack” of some sort to put this all out of sight and out of mind for long enough to avoid recriminations and damage to important reputations.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 3 2025 21:17 utc | 61

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Aug 3 2025 21:01 utc | 55
I felt the same way until I saw the interlock on DD Geopolitics.
She’s a zio-shill. Otherwise we wouldn’t even know her name.
Posted by: lex talionis | Aug 3 2025 21:07 utc | 56
I’ll be sure not to watch that. I’m going to keep to my delusion on this gal.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Aug 3 2025 21:17 utc | 62

I love you, Candace! ❤️
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Aug 3 2025 21:01 utc | 55
I appreciate a lot of the stuff she’s done, too. I just think the whole Macron’s wife thing is a total waste of time, and pretty much already debunked. There would be a trove of OTHER far more important things to expose about Macron and his wife.
In fact that whole thing with Candace had me thinking maybe someone got to her. I dunno, but it seems out of character and not in her usual wheelhouse to focus so much on that.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 3 2025 21:22 utc | 63

She’s a zio-shill. Otherwise we wouldn’t even know her name.
Posted by: lex talionis | Aug 3 2025 21:07 utc | 56
Could you share that link? I wasn’t aware anyone viewed Owens as anything but a raving “antisemite.” What has she done to put her in the zioshill camp?

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 3 2025 21:23 utc | 64

@ Ahenobarbus | Aug 3 2025 21:01 utc | 55
Ahaha…okay, okay. Hopefully she reads MoA and posts her account name on Ashley Madison as a way for you to contact her.

Posted by: I forgot | Aug 3 2025 21:32 utc | 65

like encouraging others to possibly say something defamatory so TPTB can “Alex Jones” someone into bankruptcy?
Posted by: I forgot | Aug 3 2025 20:54 utc | 54
Most likely? Yes. And even if Macron’s ‘people’ aren’t as litigious as the families of Sandy Hook, Owens can also be “Alex Jonesed” into discrediting themselves. IOW convinced to throw so much shit out there (flood the zone) that it renders the person inert or a laughing stock when they actually hit on something legitimate. I’ve always felt like Alex Jones, aside from the obvious profit motive and his side hustles, was allowed or encouraged to continue as a means of discrediting the 9/11 “truther” and other “conspiracy” movements.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 3 2025 21:34 utc | 66

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 3 2025 21:23 utc | 63
Owen’s interlock

Posted by: lex talionis | Aug 3 2025 21:36 utc | 67

Answered my own question to lex talionis. Here’s the unrolled thread where DD Geopolitics purports to expose Candace Owens. I have not read it yet, and may or may not weigh in on the topic after I do. Just thought it courteous to put it out there for anyone else reading whose interest was piqued or missed it a few weeks ago.
https://xunroll.com/thread/1943765263490351600

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 3 2025 21:40 utc | 68

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 3 2025 21:40 utc | 67
As the saying goes, “The left eats itself.”

Posted by: David G Horsman | Aug 3 2025 21:56 utc | 69

As to Owens being a critic, how do you square her love for big member of the zio ruling class and serial rapist Harvey Wienerstain ? This VERY public love affair seems to cut across your statement professing admiration for her achievements regarding this ruling class?
Posted by: will moon | Aug 3 2025 19:31 utc | 49

You should watch her interview with Tucker – she gets into Weinstein, as well as Nick Fuentes, whom, it seems, she interviewed too. Always good to get both sides of the story.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Aug 3 2025 22:17 utc | 70

@69 ChatNPC
I defy anyone to watch Candace interview Nick from a few days ago and think anything else than Candace brought Nick on to smear him.
Her tone is combative.
She attacks him personally and emasculates him by implying that because he does not have a family, he is missing out from knowing the “complete picture.” (Never mind that Nick is 26 and Candace only married at 29 and even then met her hundred-million dollar husband two weeks prior to their wedding)
She went on Tucker’s show (scheduled a mere two weeks after her interview with Fuentes!!!) and was glowy and exhibited a slavish outward appearance to Tucker where they proceeded to do a 10-minute hit piece that was obviously planned in advance, once again emasculating him (“dishonest, basement-dwelling gay boy”) and insinuating that he is a bad actor.

IMO, Candace truly does pale in comparison to Mr. Fuentes’ rhetorical ability and she was on her backheels and defensive during her who interview with Mr. Fuentes, clearly intimidated by Nick’s superior knowledge-base.
She is a fraud and a token race grifter. Not a very smart one either.
As Nick made clear in his amazing takedown, Candace and Tucker have only just begun talking about Israel (and they only did this when Israel’s crimes could no longer be hidden from the popular mind). Nick has been courageously talking about Jews in American politics, their dual-loyalty, their oversized influence in media, and the evil Zionist state since he was a teenager and attracting smaller crowds of disaffected whites on his web camera.
Nick is the real deal, guys.
You can hate him all you want. But his ability, tenacity, and growing popularity means at some point, gatekeepers like Tucker will be forced to give him in airtime and not just do a drive-by smear job on a kid who has already been canceled by everything that matters and has still weathered it.
Impressive!

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 3 2025 22:35 utc | 71

“Chinese analyst Victor Gao gives a
powerful warning to…”
https://youtu.be/Sw4CCGquzLU?si=yOGpwxX4D1Nd5Mop
Posted by: David G Horsman | Aug 3 2025 21:08 utc | 57
He gives a powerful warning to the world concerning the dangers of artificial intelligence and it’s factual threat to the existence of humanity.
I share his opinion, but lack Authority. So I will add him to my list of experts that share this View.
While it is very hard to assess how long this will take, that is actually irrelevant. If it takes 20 or it takes 500 years the end result is this are Extinction. So you don’t want to get distracted from Central core issues.

Posted by: David G Horsman | Aug 3 2025 22:54 utc | 72

On MoA, there are the regular unabashed fascists like S Brennan, c1ue, Milites and many others. They’ve been getting better at hiding their desire to maintain American hegemony, but their continued unwavering support for Trump and the MAGA movement makes it easy to identify where their true sympathies lie.
Then there are the more insidious faux Marxists like Ahenobarbus and William Gruff. Both have a habit of accusing their detractors as having TDS. Gruff’s preferred tactic is to disguise his support for Trump by constantly arguing that Trump is playing 4D chess/working in mysterious ways. Ahenobarbus, on the other hand, constantly exhorts others not to pay attention to Trump whenever there’s negative news about Trump. Ahenobarbus seeks to absolve Trump of all responsibility by ascribing Trump’s actions to Trump being controlled by other capitalists, ignoring the fact that Trump himself is a capitalist, and through his actions, show that he is very much in charge of America. Conveniently, Ahenobarbus never asked people to stop paying attention to the actions of Dems/Biden and instead focus on capitalists as a whole, revealing Ahenobarbus to be just another crypto-Republican partisan hack.
On other English online spaces, there are Nazbols like ACP, basically fascists with a communist veneer. ACP is very vocal about supporting China because they want their party to be associated with China, much like how the Nazis try to appropriate the socialist label. ACP and Gruff support China and openly express hate towards black and transgender people, and they both portray a warped version of China that shares their hateful politics when China in reality does not.
Offline, there are welfare capitalists like the DSA who are constantly tailing the Democrats, and they think that the Nordic model of welfare capitalism is an example of socialism. The DSA also buys into the whole manufactured narrative of China being this authoritarian, human rights-abusing expansionist imperialist power. Online, DSA types are a rarity on MoA, although they’re more common on X/Twitter. Despite calling themselves Democratic Socialists, DSA are Social-Democrats in practice, and as Stalin once said, “Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism”.
The complete stranglehold that fascism has over American politics and the complete absence of leftists in America means that America starting a war with China is inevitable, despite Victor Gao insisting that peace between America and China is inevitable.
Death to America
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Aug 3 2025 23:04 utc | 73

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Aug 3 2025 23:04 utc | 72
Uh. Okay. So who do you work for?

Posted by: lex talionis | Aug 3 2025 23:10 utc | 74

Robotic consumer logistics in China. Good luck, Amazon.
https://x.com/thinking_panda/status/1952133145450721353
Looks like it could be AliExpress to me based on the packaging on the conveyor.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 3 2025 23:17 utc | 75

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 3 2025 21:34 utc | 65
######
Good to see you around.
Look for one of my posts earlier about DDGeopolitics to find a behind-the-scenes look at the Zionist structures behind Candace (and others).

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 3 2025 23:18 utc | 76

Question over de-googling page translate:
The set of Palestine links I post are to google translate. There is no identifier attached and I don’t receive even a cookie request (in europe), so hypothetically they are not setting cookies. In other words all google obtains is IP and fingerprint of machine (if those are not disguised).
Meaning the info at most is of someone reading a Telegram channel on Palestine.
Occasionally there is captcha also.
I figured that there was nothing more reasonable on offer, and that for readers to be taken straight to a translated page was worthwhile.
Obviously google’s reputation is questionable, and so I wondered if there was a better way of doing as just mentioned. RoS talked of apparent google affiliations, and so I posted the question on Palestine thread, and continue it here so as not to go OT on Palestine thread.
One suggestion was Yandex. It works fine, but has captcha at start of session, as well as a tag I think, and also opening a set up translate page link in another browser goes to captcha.
Another suggestion was a translate plugin (simple translate). That is fine, but the idea was for the link to provide anyone browsing straight access to a page in english.
I could post just the bare telegram links and let anyone opt for translate of choice, or both those and google translate (which would take up more space on page) .
Example is :
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/youseffares19?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t.me/s/youseffares19
And any embedded translate would have to be as simple, and tag free, as first link.
It is not a problem as such, but just wondering if there is a better or less questionable page translate that does that ? Am just explaining my choice also.
Thanks @Thurl and @FollowsTheWay for the suggestions.

Posted by: Ornot | Aug 3 2025 23:21 utc | 77

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 3 2025 21:22 utc | 62
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The Macron’s wife thing is credibility building, like Alex Jones making his indie movie about the Bohemian Grove.
Like Tucker interviewing Putin and Pezeshkian.
It’s all about convincing people that these are genuine outsider voices.
The new “cool” is criticizing Israel but never connecting the dots to Christian Dispensationalism or Trump.
The investigation is always the cover-up. The goal is to normalize the topic and to be the first to frame the facts so that people argue over minutiae later.
The end goal is that nothing happens, like Epstein, like JFK, like Gaza. Sure, someone broke the law or did evil, but they will never be held accountable.
To my knowledge, no one has been fired for Saddam’s WMDs or the Afghanistan retreat. The open borders, no one is responsible. The military procurement waste. Russiagate, any of it. Each one becomes an event and dominates thousands of minds, and ultimately leads to no progress, to no justice.
The idea, IMO, is to train people to get emotionally upset but to accept that catharsis is never coming. Edging a society for decades until they become numb to arousal.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 3 2025 23:28 utc | 78

She smashes the fuck out of racial identity politics, so I love her. And she’s pretty hot too. I imagine a sexual relationship with her would be truly epic.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Aug 3 2025 20:37 utc | 51
_______
If we’re going to engage in the kind of puerile expressions of lust that so frequently mar the comments on Martyanov’s site, then I hereby call first dibs on Richard Medhurst.

Posted by: malenkov | Aug 4 2025 0:02 utc | 79

@TQC thanks for the DD Geopolitics thread.
I’d read it here, when posted, but hadn’t absorbed it.
§| Nothing, and no one in public life is who, or what, we are told or assume…

Posted by: Melaleuca | Aug 4 2025 0:19 utc | 80

ChatNPC@22:17
“She gets into Weinstein“
If Weinstein Is a victim of a miscarriage of justice, I dont care. US prisons are full of such cases, they get my attention over an extremely wealthy, powerful guy. She’s framing the convict as a victim of “Me To” so his conviction is somehow dubious -if so I don’t care, get in line behind all the other miscarriages of justice in the US. He will have had the best defence money can buy so he’s probably guilty. The fact she’s batting for a incarcerated rapist,, using her platform to humanise this guy and weave the “injustice”. he faces into her overall propaganda arc tells me everything I need to know about Candace Owens

Posted by: will moon | Aug 4 2025 0:32 utc | 81

Well with the outbreak if religious war about which paryicular non-MSM commentator is ‘more real-dealier than thou’ (for want of a better phrase), it wouldn’t surprise me if we were to one day discover the whole zoo was being funded and run by George Soros – even DD_Geopolitics, about whom we know next to nothing by comparison and yet their ‘exposées’ some are willing to take as Holy Gospel.
All I can say is we all have but one path we follow through in life and our starting conditions are not chosen by us. So the fact that tucker’s dad was CIA (or affiliated) is no reason per se to discount him. Sure he probably grew up wide-eyed at tales of spooky derring-do and only later found out about the assassinations, regime changes and proxy forces like right-wing death squads in South America or head-chopping, sex-slaving Jihadis in the Middle East. That he now includes that knowledge in hos world view is already an achievement most could not manage.
After all, who among us fell to earth fully wide awake to the truth about this world? Most of us grew up having establishment propaganda nailed into our brains as we were learning to speak and for long after. It takes a while too find alternative views and somewhat longer to deprogram oneself, with many misdirections along the way.
I guess the twin tools of nuance and discernment are the last to arrive and the realisation that much can be gleaned from people whom a few years ago one would have had no time at all.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Aug 4 2025 0:56 utc | 82

Posted by: will moon | Aug 4 2025 0:32 utc | 80
It turns out Weinstein contacted initially her, which if you had bothered to watch you would know.
Less than a week ago I had the same attitude as you, but, keeping an open mind, I decided to watch her and Tucker.
I’m glad I did.
I’m not claiming she is the one true source of all that is holy and good, but I certainly modified my opinion to a more positive one.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Aug 4 2025 1:03 utc | 83

Will the Epstein stench fade in time? We’ll see.

Trump faces a defining moment of his second presidency. Maxwell’s proposed testimony might contain damaging information about political adversaries or establishment figures. The temptation to leverage her knowledge for political advantage has clearly influenced administration thinking. But any deal that casts Maxwell as a useful informant rather than an unrepentant predator would be a catastrophic betrayal. It would stain Trump’s presidency in ways that no policy win or media fight could ever undo for all the wrong reasons.
The women who came forward — at immense personal risk — did so not for headlines, but for justice. They endured death threats, online smears and public disbelief to hold a monster accountable. They don’t need another courtroom. They need a president who refuses to trade justice for leverage.
Pardoning Maxwell — or legitimizing her in any form — wouldn’t just betray the survivors. It would confirm everything they feared. It would tell the world that if you’re rich enough, connected enough, depraved enough — there’s still room for you at the table. Just talk. Say the right names. Cut a deal. It wouldn’t just insult every woman who ever spoke up. It would prove them right. That justice was never blind. Just bought.

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5432337-epstein-maxwell-trump-controversy/

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Aug 4 2025 1:03 utc | 84

Figure.
Times Colonist
Police shoot man with less-lethal round outside Victoria City Hall during weapons call
Yesterday

Posted by: Laurence | Aug 4 2025 1:26 utc | 85

“Nothing and no one..”
Melaleuca @0:19
It’s a tapestry or maybe a palimpsest – the image of excellence overlaid with new faces, old ones etched out.
Lex Talionis said of Candace Owens above “otherwise we wouldn’t know who she was”., which is as profound a remark as it is succinct. It’s worth noting who is “brought” to one’s attention and by whom.
I think a US Army study from a decade ago endeavoured to discover the fundamental unit of value, that everything could be reduced to, and found it was the attention of individual human beings

Posted by: will moon | Aug 4 2025 1:32 utc | 86

“Nothing and no one..”
Melaleuca @0:19
It’s a tapestry or maybe a palimpsest – the image of excellence overlaid with new faces, old ones etched out.
Lex Talionis said of Candace Owens above “otherwise we wouldn’t know who she was”., which is as profound a remark as it is succinct. It’s worth noting who is “brought” to one’s attention and by whom.
I think a US Army study from a decade ago endeavoured to discover the fundamental unit of value, that everything could be reduced to, and found it was the attention of individual human beings

Posted by: will moon | Aug 4 2025 1:32 utc | 87

AI chip war

US Tech is seriously compromised with backdoors
The Fool’s Dilemma: NVIDIA, the H20 Chip, and a Backdoor Too Far
So NVIDIA is called in to explain to the Chinese government – and prove – that there’s no backdoor in the H20 chips it’s preparing to dump on the Chinese market.
Put yourself in NVIDIA’s shoes.
If it admits there’s a backdoor, it’s finished. The company would face criminal espionage charges under China’s Cyber Security Law.
If it denies the accusation, China already holds irrefutable evidence.
If NVIDIA promises it will not embed backdoors, it violates U.S. compliance requirements and laws.
No matter which direction it takes, it cannot sell these chips in China.
But here’s the deeper truth: China likely no longer needs NVIDIA’s crippled chips. The H20 offers only 20% of the H100’s computing capacity—the version sold to U.S. AI firms. China has developed its own alternatives. Safer ones.
No Chinese company will dare purchase from NVIDIA now. The reputational risk, the threat of spyware, the national security implications—these outweigh any potential benefit.
That’s the fool’s dilemma. And that’s exactly where NVIDIA stands.

https://x.com/PandemicTruther/status/1951994114142011637
It is high time that China played the “unsafe security card” that America plays on Chinese products.
Like Russia, they don’t tend to make an accusation until they have a rock-solid case.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 4 2025 1:39 utc | 88

China summons Nvidia over backdoor security concerns with AI chips

An Nvidia spokesperson said: “Cybersecurity is critically important to us. NVIDIA does not have ‘backdoors’ in our chips that would give anyone a remote way to access or control them.”

A demonstration is necessary, then.

Posted by: Laurence | Aug 4 2025 1:58 utc | 89

“The Chip Security Act was introduced in the House and the Senate in May. If passed, it would require AI chips under export restrictions to carry location-tracking systems to help detect diversion or other unauthorized use, a measure aimed particularly at China.” [see article link in b’s post]
A window of opportunity — but why bother.

Posted by: Laurence | Aug 4 2025 2:09 utc | 90

@ ChatNPC
> and only later found out about
A presumption proven untrue, unfortunately. Watch the NF video NemesisCalling recommended:
https://rumble.com/v6x0f5c-america-first-ep.-1543.html
Skip the blank space to around 2:30. Watch on 1.5x to save time. But do watch the whole thing.
@ Melaleuca
Nice choice of honorable crusaders
https://www.richardmedhurst.com/richard-medhurst-arrested-at-heathrow-airport-under-terrorism-act-for-his-journalism/

Posted by: I forgot | Aug 4 2025 2:32 utc | 91

Infrastructure is a defining characteristic of a civilization.
https://x.com/alon_mizrahi/status/1952191036048249033

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 4 2025 2:33 utc | 92

Theme in the search box:
O o … ;Casualties.
CP24
Driver dead following crash on QEW in Grimsby
Yesterday
The New York Times
A Fish Falls From the Sky and Sparks a Brush Fire in British Columbia
Yesterday

Posted by: Laurence | Aug 4 2025 2:46 utc | 93

As the saying goes, “The left eats itself.”
Posted by: David G Horsman | Aug 3 2025 21:56 utc | 68
A hypersimplification wrapped up in a massive and inaccurate overgeneralization.
Still, none of the people under discussion here can even creatively be described as “left” (including through overgeneralizing).
Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, etc. These are not “leftists” or left-leaning people in any sense or contortion of the term.
Not meant as an affront or even ‘takedown’ of your comment, but assuming that “the left” means anything remotely resembling what Trump and the modern right say it means, it’s still been so heavily infiltrated, mis-directed, bought off, intimidated, subjugated, sabotaged, and any number of actions along those lines for over 100 years in the US that it’s not even possible to have a meaningful discussion on “the left” or its alleged and actual failures in the western hemisphere unless one writes a multi-volume book length treatise. To which I would suggest to anyone still reading, please check out Aaron Good’s thesis which was later turned into a published book giving credit to Peter Dale Scott, C Wright Mills, Lance De Haven Smith and others.
Here’s the original thesis. It won’t answer any of the immediate questions, but I HIGHLY encourage any regulars at MoA who tend to disagree or argue with the other patrons they view as “leftists” to read before delving any deeper into exactly what has become of “the left” in the US (and what has been done to the left in Latin America and SE Asia as well).
https://scholarshare.temple.edu/items/62794d31-9f62-4db6-9b1a-c9e16a382210
Long story short, without the self-contradictory availability of extremely wealthy backers and benefactors, and thankfully because in many ways “the left” (scare quotes intended) did ‘eat itself’ – we never got a bloody revolution. That said, without Big Bad Uncle Scam acting as the head of a worldwide capital mafia, Latin America may very well look like China today. But I digress…

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 4 2025 3:23 utc | 94

O o

The second campaign, previously exposed by Israel’s Channel 12 News, was run in partnership with American lobbyist Jay Footlik, who

Posted by: Laurence | Aug 4 2025 3:26 utc | 95

But to Mr. Horsman and anyone else who cares:
The reason I have a modicum, even a strong modicum of respect for Candace Owens is that it’s clear she woke up to the evils of Zionism, Israel and the strong influence of both over much of US politics and Christianity.
To lex: Read the comments at the unrolled DD Geopolitics thread I linked earlier. I’m sorry but there is no effing way that Owens is a closet/shadow/puppet Zionist. All the pin and thread diagrams in the world “linking” her to Zionists or their agents will not convince me until she utters a single word that could possibly align with that accusation.
All of THAT having been said: I do think she’s an idiot or has idiotic views on plenty of other things. And therein lies the dilemma. Do we toss out the baby with the bathwater (or the bathwater with the baby) in quest for mutual ideological or even philosophical or ostensibly observable purity? Are we simply not allowed to concede that someone who holds views vastly different – even 180 degrees – from our own can NEVER be acknowledged to be correct about something? It’s not like we’re nominating her for anything or proposing that she’s right about the Chinese. Just agreeing with her on a few points that happen to be very important to a group or groups of people at this time (the Palestinians for one).
And since I’ve never read all of Marx or studied the Russian Revolution or USSR in great depth, I am not on either ideological side of the “debate” or feud to which All Under Heaven raises valid points. It’s almost not worth it, except to agree that Gruff and Ahenobarbus seem to have very inconsistent manner of dealing with Trump and the modern Democrats. c1ue is a straight up RW Turing “AI” LLM.
Leaving all that aside, can us regular, normal people just fucking ignore the fake culture wars (how many of your daughters have competed against a trans in swimming or had a trans grope them in a bathroom?) and focus on the fact that the billionaire elites are in the process of finishing their rape of the common good and little guys like us?

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 4 2025 3:31 utc | 96

Here’s the full text 285 page link to the shit I keep harping about by Aaron Good via his PhD thesis at Temple University.
https://scholarshare.temple.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/d50ff5be-a0ac-4660-8214-f16609a7d0fc/content
Trust me, even some of the more hardened and well read among us here will likely find some very good scholarship and novel approaches to analyzing our predicament here in the capitalist waste.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 4 2025 3:34 utc | 97

Can ‘ardly wait, Tom.

Posted by: Laurence | Aug 4 2025 3:38 utc | 98

All of THAT having been said: I do think she’s an idiot or has idiotic views on plenty of other things. And therein lies the dilemma. Do we toss out the baby with the bathwater (or the bathwater with the baby) in quest for mutual ideological or even philosophical or ostensibly observable purity?

You know that sucks, don’t you Tom?

“You were born a man and you’ll die a man,” adding that she is “fully prepared to take on this battle on behalf of the entire world” Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 25 2025 13:47 utc | 141

… You know, [Hitler] was a national socialist, but if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, okay, fine. The problem is that he wanted—he had dreams outside of Germany. He wa[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candace_Owens ]

Posted by: Laurence | Aug 4 2025 4:31 utc | 99

“The American empire is over,” Richard D. Wolff, U.S. professor of international affairs, tells Al Jazeera. Already the biggest economic power on the planet is not the US and its allies, but China and the BRICS. But no U.S. politician dares to tell the people: “It’s over.”

https://x.com/NuryVittachi/status/1952202827184652776
Can’t tell “the people”. They can’t do anything about it.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 4 2025 5:59 utc | 100