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September 23, 2025
Open (Neither Ukraine Nor Palestine) Thread 2025-218

News & views not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine …

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Thanks for the efforts of keeping MoA alive. I have enjoyed the simplicity of typepad, and hope the new site will be open and simple as well. I wish you luck with the move. All the best.

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 23 2025 5:56 utc | 1

Good luck with the changeover b…be good to yourself
I hope all barflies are patient and helpful with the feedback.
The chaos in our world should keep us all busy without your regular postings but they will be missed.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 23 2025 6:05 utc | 2

B. Thank you

Posted by: Exile | Sep 23 2025 6:11 utc | 3

See you on the other side, comrades!

Posted by: Roland | Sep 23 2025 6:13 utc | 4

I appreciate your website B

Posted by: jopalolive | Sep 23 2025 6:24 utc | 5

Barflies,
I‘m posting Trump‘s edict in full from Yesterday in full. Sorry for the over long post. This edict is worth close resding. The language and tone is straight out of The Gulag . This isn‘t about Antifa, BTW. If you haven‘t yet read The Gulag , please read Vol. 1.

Section 1. Antifa as a Terrorist Threat.
Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law. It uses illegal means to organize and execute a campaign of violence and terrorism nationwide to accomplish these goals. This campaign involves coordinated efforts to obstruct enforcement of Federal laws through armed standoffs with law enforcement, organized riots, violent assaults on Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement officers, and routine doxing of and other threats against political figures and activists. Antifa recruits, trains, and radicalizes young Americans to engage in this violence and suppression of political activity, then employs elaborate means and mechanisms to shield the identities of its operatives, conceal its funding sources and operations in an effort to frustrate law enforcement, and recruit additional members. Individuals associated with and acting on behalf of Antifa further coordinate with other organizations and entities for the purpose of spreading, fomenting, and advancing political violence and suppressing lawful political speech. This organized effort designed to achieve policy objectives by coercion and intimidation is domestic terrorism.
​Sec. 2. Designation as a Domestic Terrorist Organization.
Because of the aforementioned pattern of political violence designed to suppress lawful political activity and obstruct the rule of law, I hereby designate Antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization.” All relevant executive departments and agencies shall utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations –especially those involving terrorist actions — conducted by Antifa or any person claiming to act on behalf of Antifa, or for which Antifa or any person claiming to act on behalf of Antifa provided material support, including necessary investigatory and prosecutorial actions against those who fund such operations.
Sec. 3. General Provisions.
(a) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
(b) This order shall be published in the Federal Register.
DONALD J. TRUMP

Posted by: Exile | Sep 23 2025 6:31 utc | 6

A Revolution happening … great work b … see you soon on the “other’ side. 🙂

Posted by: Oui | Sep 23 2025 7:45 utc | 7

@B: thank you for your superb work,insights and site hosting over the years.
I appreciate that the changeover will be a nightmare for you as you do not have extensive technical support and the typepad shutdown was at short notice.
I hope everyone here will be patient with the glitches and downtime that will inevitably occur.
We cannot lose one of the few sites now where we can debate proscribed ideas.

Posted by: JulianJ | Sep 23 2025 8:16 utc | 8

Moar ABS woe follows on the Tricolor debacle.

First Brands’ lenders race to secure rescue loan for car parts group
First Brands considers bankruptcy as its finances worsen

The speed at which First Brands’ finances have deteriorated has shocked debt investors, who were already unnerved by the sudden collapse into bankruptcy of Tricolor Holdings

Lenders to First Brands Group are rushing to shore up the car parts supplier with a new loan as it contemplates a bankruptcy filing.
First Brands, a privately held group that boomed through debt-fuelled acquisitions, has rattled US credit markets in recent days on concerns that billions of dollars of debt could be hit in a restructuring.
The company has borrowed nearly $6bn in private loans and has billions of dollars more in financing facilities linked to its customer and supplier invoices, much of which is not reflected in its official debt figures.
That off-balance sheet funding could eclipse $4bn, split across debt underpinned by money that customers owe First Brands and borrowings backed by its inventory, said people with knowledge of this financing.
A group of the company’s largest lenders is working with restructuring advisers to see if they can offer a rescue loan that ranks ahead of its existing debt.
https://www.ft.com/content/003012bb-43ef-426a-8631-4ef6bb09c229

This domino looks to be about an order of magnitude bigger than Tricolor.

Posted by: too scents | Sep 23 2025 8:16 utc | 9

Thank you very much, b, for all the work you’ve put in over the years. It must be a lot of work to transfer everything to a new server.
That’s why I get annoyed by all the commenters recently who just fill up space sh*tting on others, and not addressing the topic.

Posted by: laguerre | Sep 23 2025 8:17 utc | 10

Too Scents,
Now I understand why a grade school buddy sold his auto dealer support business 20 months ago.

Posted by: Exile | Sep 23 2025 8:26 utc | 11

Is Kash Patel twisting in the wind, hanging by a thread, or does he stick around based on loyalty despite monumental incompetence, like Pam Bondi? The following is excerpted from a recent tweet acknowledging eight of the disturbing questions internet sleuths have raised about Charlie Kirk’s murder (the aircraft transponder issue dismissed later on):

FBI Director Kash Patel @FBIDirectorKash
We are meticulously investigating theories and questions, including
1. the location from where the shot was taken, the possibility of accomplices,
2. the text message confession and related conversations,
3. Discord chats,
4. the angle of the shot and bullet impact,
5. how the weapon was transported,
6. hand gestures observed as potential “signals” near Charlie at the time of his assassination, and
7. visitors to the alleged shooter’s residence in the hours and days leading up to September 10, 2025.

Needless to say, many huge gaps in FBI’s absurd lone-gay-gunman scenario remain unacknowledged. Especially the fatal bullet, which seems to have been mislaid. Could be paved over by now, for all we know.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Sep 23 2025 9:02 utc | 12

Something from Caitlin Johnstone I want to share, and complain about:

Remember that time we spent two years watching a horrific live-streamed genocide and then everyone tried to tell us we’re supposed to cry and express our deepest condolences when one of the propagandists for that genocide got shot? That was weird, right?
When Biden finally fucking dies I’m going to be much more insensitive and hostile than I ever was about Charlie Kirk, because he was objectively more murderous and destructive. And when I do, right wingers won’t be shrieking at me about how evil it is to speak ill of the dead. These people have no principles; they’re just herd-minded NPCs trying to canonize a horrible man because he has the same ideology as them.

Nobody’s perfect, I guess. Caitlin’s right that Kirk has been a cheerleader for genocide — not quite “objectively more murderous and destructive” than Genocide Joe himself! The problem I have with this? Folks like Caitlin seem to be totally deaf to the landmark journalism Max Blumenthal is doing right now, on the subject of Kirk’s struggles. Blumenthal just filed a third report on this story, btw:
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/09/22/israel-tpusa-donor-terminated-kirk/
Kirk doesn’t even come off as a hero, necessarily, in the account Blumenthal builds. Kirk was uniquely positioned to see that nobody under 30 likes Israel anymore, with a reckless enough faith in truth to urge his Zionist funders to listen, to refuse to shut down truth-tellers despite losing his biggest donors. Uniquely positioned, and also trapped.
This is vital history. Once Israel loses young US American males, they have no boots on the ground for their everlasting apocalypse. It’s too bad Caitlin isn’t interested in this endgame.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Sep 23 2025 9:36 utc | 13

Thanks b and goodluck.
Special request- can you keep us posted on your Twitter feed.
It would be good to get the IP address numbers.
While the Name servers update.
Will all the comments survive?
What is the new system?
Will it require additional login info?
Hopefully it turns out as simple as Y2K!

Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 23 2025 9:59 utc | 14

I’m reading “Ten arguments for deleting all your social media accounts right now”, and have gotten to chapter 3:
3. Social media is making you into an asshole
Rings true.

Posted by: Passerby | Sep 23 2025 10:01 utc | 15

Very poor taste if you ask me, watch the clip.
“The U.S. Department of Homeland Security released a promotional video using Pokémon-themed visuals and the “Gotta Catch ’Em All” slogan to advertise upcoming mass deportation operations.”
https://nitter.poast.org/MonitorX99800/status/1970280900442419273#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 23 2025 10:05 utc | 16

Absolutely Brilliant
://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BOqvG_CRUKI&pp=ugUHEgVlbi1VUw%3D%3D
Benn saying it for 6 years at the bar. Dummies still don’t get it.

Posted by: Clouds Of Alabama | Sep 23 2025 10:08 utc | 17

They’re not even trying to hide it anymore, watch him in both clips.
“U.S. Special Envoy to Syria and Lebanon Tom Barrack basically just confirmed Israel is behind the attacks on Global Sumud Flotilla ships in Tunisia:
“Israel is attacking everybody. Israel is attacking Syria, Lebanon, Tunisia.””
https://nitter.poast.org/MonitorX99800/status/1970333696680137203#m
And same guy.
“Tom Barrack: We don’t want to arm the Lebanese army to fight Israel. We want to arm them to fight their own people, Hezbullah”
https://nitter.poast.org/MonitorX99800/status/1970281035763196230#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 23 2025 10:08 utc | 18

@ Posted by: Aleph_Null | Sep 23 2025 9:02 utc | 12
I’ll repost my last from the previous open thread to go with yours.
It does seem that it’s harder to manage narratives now than it used to be.
Let’s stick to facts and theorise against such facts.
Posted by: Melaleuca | Sep 23 2025 0:04 utc | 280
Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Sep 23 2025 0:36 utc | 282
Posted by: Archetypex | Sep 23 2025 1:48 utc | 286
I gave my hot take on the assassination a week ago. 
Interesting Internet is begining to catch up on what was obvious to some from the first videos of Kirk’s assassination and some eyewitness’s watching him.
Entry wounds don’t explode that was an exit wound.
Which meant a shot from behind and above
Malaleucas cited video proves that.
It confirms the eyewitness who was stopped from talking by others in same vests. 
He said Kirk went forward and down.
It explains why the camera behind Kirk was removed within minutes of his death – a crime scene destruction surely?
Does the replacement of the respected FBI head weeks earlier fit with that?
Patel with his hot porny honeypot ziobride can in no way be trustable by anyone now after so many months of hiding instead of revealing. His days are numbered. Divorce or death will free his spy wife to return to the fold and collect her medal.
Was it just a camera? Who was that guy who was doing that why isn’t he plastered all over the Internet?
There must be enough front and side on photos from the crowds showing where Kirk was sat and where that mysterious camera was in relation? Needs checking I’d say. Should be easy enough with 3D programs. Not a geek myself.
Lucky for the ‘shooter’ that Kirk was a sitting target that didn’t move his head around much wasn’t it? Was the shooter virtual?
That would have allowed planning the shot and timing to perfection.
It is obvious they did not want brains blowing out or head coming off.
Just a clean instant death shot that severs the spinal cord and doesn’t cause much mess.
It must mean that this was planned weeks ahead – when was it that Kirk first went off piste?
Was it as far back as when he tried to talk DJT out of attacking Iran as reported and got ‘barked at’ by PsychoDon? Or was it when he turned down NuttyYahoo’s millions to stop stirring shit against the next selected potus – that would point to the dickhead psycho at Palantir too.
It seems that the instant revelation about calibres of bullet and multiple rifle types were therefore red herrings and all who were peddling that distraction stand out as HasbaRat trolls. As do all who focused on the shooter and the drama of his surrender; the insta texts and speculative salacious mud throwing, trying to turn it into a Trans war, antifa war, left /right bullshit fascist shit stirring.
Yup you are glowing here at MoA forver. Stinking socks.
It worked better than 62 years ago! 
Why change the MO? 
Just upgrade and make sure there is plenty of angles to show future offpisters from straying.
Looks like Musks come round already eh? 
Or was that just all pantomime too? 
Is RFK jr boxed in? 
What about that other would be outsider Gabbard? 
She’s been quiet for a while innit? MTG?
The motives are plenty and they clearly point at the WH and it’s Ziolords.
So is b, and MoA ready to have a definitive analysis yet? 
I know the shutdown deadline approaches.
Or are we going to disappear it down the rabbit hole like the dead Kennedy’s.
Can we not! M’kay?
Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 23 2025 9:05 utc | 291
Let’s go Barflies. See you on the other side.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 23 2025 10:09 utc | 19

Good luck and thank you for everything b.
Will stop posting till I see you all again.

Posted by: stranger | Sep 23 2025 10:09 utc | 20

One man’s terrorist – is another man’s freedom fighter, some Nato members won’t be happy with Erdogan’s comments here, and neither will the EU bigwigs.
“President of Turkey Erdogan:
“I don’t see Hamas as a terrorist organization, on the contrary I see it as a resistance group. They are using what they have to try to defend themselves and protect themselves in this resistance movement.””
https://nitter.poast.org/MonitorX99800/status/1970259706112548882#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 23 2025 10:11 utc | 21

Unknown drones over Denmark, another false flag event to be blamed on Russia – to further frighten European nations.
“Denmark’s police says they don’t know where the drones came from, who operated them, how many there were, and what their purpose was. They left by themselves and were not intercepted.
A journalist directly asks if it was the Russians who sent the drones and the police declined to comment”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 23 2025 10:13 utc | 22

Thank you b.
All your work is very much appreciated.
Regards from Australia.

Posted by: Honeyeater | Sep 23 2025 10:13 utc | 23

Caitlin’s right that Kirk has been a cheerleader for genocide — not quite “objectively more murderous and destructive” than Genocide Joe himself!
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Sep 23 2025 9:36 utc | 13

The way I understand it is that “objectively more murderous and destructive” is meant for Biden not for Kirk, simply because he was in charge when the genocide started, had the power to stop it but didn’t do shit.

Posted by: xiao pignouf | Sep 23 2025 10:16 utc | 24

A wee bit more from Tom Barrack.
“Tom Barrack, US Envoy to Syria/Lebanon:
“The Lebanese, and I don’t mean this in a disrespectful way, all they do is talk, I don’t trust any of them in the Middle East
Our interests are not aligned with anyone in the Middle East – including Israel.””

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 23 2025 10:20 utc | 25

Re my (22) comment, Sweden getting in on the act.
” Initial reports of unidentified drones detected over Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 23 2025 10:29 utc | 26

Who was right ?
When the head of the Russian central bank kept hiking interest rates inflation kept moving higher.
For 6 years I have explaining that they have the whole thing backwards. That rate hikes are price hikes.
a) Via the interest income channels
Which is just a type of fiscal stimulas.
b) The cost of credit is in all goods and all goods and services. If interest on loans increase then that is passed onto the consumer as higher prices.
c) The spot and forward price for a non perishable commodity imply all storage costs, including interest expense. Therefore, with a permanent zero-rate policy, and assuming no other storage costs, the spot price of a commodity and its price for delivery any time in the future is the same. However, if rates were, say, 10%, the price of those commodities for delivery in the future would be 10% (annualised) higher. That is, a 10% rate implies a 10% continuous increase in prices, which is the textbook definition of inflation! It is the term structure of risk free rates itself that mirrors a term structure of prices which feeds into both the costs of production as well as the ability to pre-sell at higher prices, thereby establishing, by definition, inflation.
As per usual I got attacked at the bar by the ” sound money” clowns, the nutjobs. Who think and and analyse modern money via a gold standard type fixed exchange rate lens on a daily basis. Thus are as dumb as a bag of spanners.
I screamed and shouted at the top of my voice for 6 years that if Russia wanted lower inflation they had to start cutting rates not increasing them.
They have started to cut and inflation has gone from 10.3% to 8.1%!
Who was right all along ?
We knew it for the last 20 years and more. As described in this article many years ago.
://warrenmosler.com/there-is-no-right-time-for-the-fed-to-raise-rates/
All you actually needed to do watch Japan and the EU as they slashed rates to zero and always failed to hit their interest rate target of 2%. Always below it suffering from deflation and not inflation.
Argentina and Turkey. They hiked rates and inflation always moved higher tracking the interest rate.
Now that Argentina is slashing interest rates inflation went from 236% to 33%.
Dummies still won’t get it as they are drowning in GROUPTHINK and ideological madness.

Posted by: Clouds Of Alabama | Sep 23 2025 10:33 utc | 27

Three West African nations — Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger — have announced their decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), denouncing it as a “tool of neocolonial repression.”
All three are ruled by military regimes that came to power in recent years via coups. They already distanced themselves from regional bodies like ECOWAS, and now say the ICC has been selectively targeting weaker states while ignoring others.
The withdrawal takes effect one year after notification to the UN Secretary-General. Importantly, any ongoing cases or investigations that began before that date will still fall under the ICC’s jurisdiction.
These countries also say they intend to establish “indigenous mechanisms” for justice and accountability, aligning legal processes more closely with their own values and claims of sovereignty.
Human rights groups have expressed concern that the move may reduce international oversight of alleged abuses by both non-state armed groups and national forces, especially in countries grappling with conflict and insurgency.
The change underscores a broader geopolitical shift in the Sahel: the three together form the Alliance of Sahel States, increasingly aligning away from Western powers and towards more regional or alternative partners.
https://www.africanews.com/2025/09/23/sahel-military-juntas-quit-international-court-citing-neo-colonial-bias/

Posted by: Menz | Sep 23 2025 10:36 utc | 28

Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 23 2025 10:09 utc | 19
It confirms the eyewitness who was stopped from talking by others in same vests. 
He said Kirk went forward and down.
That video was 100% AI fakery.The speech didn’t remotely match the moving lios.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 23 2025 10:41 utc | 29

Who was right ?
Remember the Rueters article posted at the bar by the ” sound money” loonies. The nutjobs.
That America was in serious trouble – because and I quote..
” When America raises the debt ceiling there will be nobody to buy the bonds. ”
Oh how I laughed at such gold standard type fixed exchange rate nonsense. It was a ludicrous analysis.
But ! 70% of the bar actually believed it. Jumped on it like a bitch on heat.
Drowning in GROUPTHINK, listening to complete simpletons like Ray Dalio, Stanley Druckenmiller, Jeff Gundlach and Jim Rogers.
The chuckle brothers at the Duran brigade.
Jim Rogers and Tom Luongo haven’t got anything right on the Duran.
They would all look foolish on Sesame street.
You get better info at the bar than following those ” sound money” clowns. Their out dated analysis.
Who was right ?

Posted by: Clouds Of Alabama | Sep 23 2025 11:01 utc | 30

Why gold’s record rally is likely to continue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZjLhd2N5kQ

Posted by: Menz | Sep 23 2025 11:15 utc | 31

@ Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 23 2025 10:41 utc | 29
“That video was 100% AI fakery.The speech didn’t remotely match the moving lios.”
Which video Tom?
Come again.
The video of the witness being stopped by his ‘colleagues’?
Or The video of the killing?
Or the video of the guy removing the ‘camera’ minutes later?
Or that last video that Malaleuca posted, supposedly showing the entry from behind , right ear point and the nerve reaction as the spinal cord is severed as the exist wound emerges at the front and left of Kirk?
Where’s all the other videos/photos from the crowd?
Has EastIndiaCoZiotaxcollectorKissarseKashPatel Epsteined them?

Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 23 2025 11:43 utc | 32

@Aleph_Null | Sep 23 2025 9:36 utc | 13
Your assumption is that Israel is powerful and that it depends on irrational sympathies related to christian and jewish zionists.
In my view the separate handling of jews is because the anglosaxon imperialists want that circumstance for the purpose of controlling the financial world so it doesnt break ranks and becomes free to follow market economy. This condition unlike what the majority believes did not begin towards the end of the 19th century but instead towards the end of the 16th century in preparation for the coming British empire. That condition was emphasized towards the end of the 19th century but everybody overlooks the signs indicating that the financiers were threatened before that. When people no longer protect the freemasons from scrutiny that may change but the majority still clings to what is essentially a myth about jewish power. Being an opportunist and servicing an evil empire is not the same thing as constituting an independent power.
Since this myth facilitated by well funded British propaganda has been successfully sustained for such a long time most actors are now accustomed to the myth.
There is a working relation. The evil empire wants to enslave everybody. They want to own it all and tell everybody what to think. They are arrogant and not ashamed. The jews are supportive and voluntarily do the dirty work. Everything runs smoothly until Russia and China wont allow it anymore. We dont know how it will end.
And who am I to think I can wake people up from the trance?

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Sep 23 2025 12:01 utc | 33

Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 23 2025 11:43 utc | 32
The video of the guy giving an interview then being mobbed by his colleagues was fake. Lips didn’t remotely match what was being said and nobody has been able to verify the source.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 23 2025 12:08 utc | 34

Those who want to download whole TypePad or other sites can try this free utility, HTTrack for Windows and Linux. I wanted to download Colonel Lang’s old site, unfortunately I can’t make it open up on my Linux laptop.
Mentioning this as some have brought up worries about sites disappearing as the Colonel’s new site has.

Posted by: morongobill | Sep 23 2025 13:14 utc | 35

Aleph_Null@13…..no shortage of young Russian male squatters filling the ranks…..does it matter where the murderers find the boots…..they’ll buy them with everyone else’s money….. straightforward stuff…
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Sep 23 2025 13:15 utc | 36

petergrfstrm@33…..Russia and China are unable to impose anything never mind put a stop to the Aparthied States Genocide of Palestine….what, it’s not past critical yet, when is that? I wish people would stop dreaming and how Russia and China can do this and that…..the SMO makes Russia a liability that shares a border with China, and Russia is in no position to help anyone….their plate is full of Britkrainians blowing up its tender, undefended, Rear End…..
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Sep 23 2025 13:21 utc | 37

The way I understand it is that “objectively more murderous and destructive” is meant for Biden not for Kirk, simply because he was in charge when the genocide started, had the power to stop it but didn’t do shit.
Posted by: xiao pignouf | Sep 23 2025 10:16 utc | 24

I read it the same way as you.

Posted by: Avtonom | Sep 23 2025 13:33 utc | 38

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Posted by: Don Firineach | Sep 23 2025 13:45 utc | 39

morongobill | Sep 23 2025 13:14 utc | 35
“Those who want to download whole TypePad or other sites can try this free utility, HTTrack for Windows and Linux. I wanted to download Colonel Lang’s old site, unfortunately I can’t make it open up on my Linux laptop.
Mentioning this as some have brought up worries about sites disappearing as the Colonel’s new site has.”
This utility could download an entire WordPress blog?

Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Sep 23 2025 13:45 utc | 40

@sean the leprechaun | Sep 23 2025 13:21 utc | 37
My priority here was about the US opposition’s lack of selfunderstanding but this topic may be dangerous so I quit.

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Sep 23 2025 14:00 utc | 41

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aELNiU-uKOA
sweet vacation from the local insanity.

Posted by: Not Ewe | Sep 23 2025 14:06 utc | 42

petergrfstrm@41……you call it a myth…..are international institutions top heavy with Buddhists in control? Moaists, in control of international “everything”……
Who is protecting the freemasons at the expense of the Zionists? That’s what you imply, perhaps my stupid take on what you wrote…..apologies if it is.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Sep 23 2025 14:38 utc | 43

Hello b
Dont stress yourself, take your time.
We went thru worst before
Hopefully the new site would be as unpretentious and fluff free .

Posted by: denk | Sep 23 2025 14:50 utc | 44

Trump really doesn’t like London’s mayor Sadiq Khan, normally a London mayor would be in attendance when a POUS visits London, but Trump didn’t want him near him, and Khan didn’t want to attend, there’s no love lost between them.
“President Trump – “London has changed a lot and will soon adopt Islamic law due to its terrible mayor””

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 23 2025 14:55 utc | 45

Everybody this part of the world knows South pacific isle have been groaning under five eyes tyranny
Posted by: denk | Sep 22 2025 14:12 utc | 235
———————-
Ergo,
The recent posts at this board proposing to BDS the ‘unethical ‘ Fijians ,cuz they ‘had the nerve’ to open an embassy in Israel, is surely the ultimate in blaming the victim !
Fiji itself had grone thru regime change to implant FUKUS patsy before
Tiny island countries in South Pacific had no sovereign rights to speak of, in fact their sovereignty were ‘overrated‘, subject to approval, according to their Canberra/Wellington overlords !
Yet in the past 80 years, nobody from the ‘ethical west’ ever suggested to BDS Fiji’s oppressors in Canberra/Wellington, never mind the Decider in Washington./London !
Amazing, truly amazing !
https://tinyurl.com/yf2yz8zw

Posted by: denk | Sep 23 2025 14:58 utc | 46

Estonia doesn’t know what its letting itself in for.
“Estonia is ready to host British fighter jets capable of carrying nuclear bombs, the Estonian Defense Ministry tells The Telegraph”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 23 2025 14:59 utc | 47

Posted by: xiao pignouf | Sep 23 2025 10:16 utc | 24
Correct.

Posted by: Mary | Sep 23 2025 15:02 utc | 48

Some nations will deposit their gold with China, if they can get it off the Yanks, who hold some countries gold, the USA illegally holds Afghanistan’s gold, and the Brits illegally hold Venezuela’s gold, when I say hold, it more like stolen.
“1) China aims to become custodian of foreign sovereign gold reserves to strengthen its standing in the global bullion market, according to people familiar with the matter.
2) The People’s Bank of China is using the Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) to court central banks in friendly countries to buy bullion and store it within the country’s “borders”.
By Bloomberg News, September 23 2025”
Bloomberg Reports
“CHINA MAKES POWER PLAY FOR GLOBAL GOLD – EYES CONTROL OVER FOREIGN RESERVES TO CHALLENGE DOLLAR DOMINANCE
•Beijing pushes to become the world’s custodian of foreign sovereign gold, aiming to shake up the bullion market.
•The People’s Bank of China woos friendly central banks through the Shanghai Gold Exchange, urging them to buy and park gold inside China.
•The bold gambit could erode U.S. dollar supremacy and tilt the global financial order toward Beijing’s grip.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 23 2025 15:07 utc | 49

Thank you B. Good luck with the migration…hopefully it will go smoothly.

Posted by: Mary | Sep 23 2025 15:11 utc | 50

Good luck with the move B. Looking forward to the new bar!

Posted by: Alex Cox | Sep 23 2025 15:21 utc | 51

Thanks b for all your hard work on the migration and helping keep the torch of freedom at MoA burning bright in dark times and adverse conditions…
Might May Rule The Moment, But Right Prevails Forever
https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/might-may-rule-the-moment-but-right-prevails-forever/#more-161732
“…On 17 September, Tricontinental Asia organised a webinar to reflect on the anniversary of the 9.18 incident – an often overlooked origin of the World Anti-Fascist War.
We centre the experiences of Asian peoples and their resistance struggles – from Chinese anti-Japanese fighters to Korean and Southeast Asian anti-colonial movements – as essential parts of the international struggle against fascism and imperialism.
At a time when the world is experiencing an insurgent far right of a special type, growing militarisation and a dangerous New Cold War targeting China and the Global South, the need to revisit fascism’s historical and ideological roots is urgent.
This event is jointly organised with the Global South Academic Forum, with whom the Tricontinental is partnering for this year’s conference on the theme, ‘The Victory of the World Anti-Fascist War and the Postwar International Order: Past and Future…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 23 2025 15:32 utc | 52

B., you made this blog an oasis in the vast, scorching desert of the internet. With insightful posters who shared actual knowledge, when official outlets share obscurantism and obfuscation.
And to the trolls — thank you too, guys. At times, this forum felt like the short bus of the internet, with b at the wheel, careening through a landscape that was part Alien hive, part Escher staircase, part rejected Douglas Adams subplot. Somehow, you managed to make nonsense feel like wisdom — or at least an art form. You truly gave this place its character.

Posted by: Passerby | Sep 23 2025 15:35 utc | 53

Daily Frank Herbert quote,

Consider the relationship between faith and power. Are they mutually exclusive when each depends upon the other?

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Sep 23 2025 15:48 utc | 54

Its costs roughly £1,800 a week to live in this hell hole, and the Highlands and Islands NHS has given the care home £10 million quid since 2019, when I grew no one put their parent or grandparents into these so called care homes, they were kept at home until the end with every family member sharing in their care.
Now upwardly mobile young ones can’t be bothered to look after them, so they put them into these care homes – where they don’t receive proper care and attention, its profit before people. I recall years ago watching a secret camera in a care home and the poor soul was being fed with talcum powder.
“Families of elderly residents at one of Scotland’s largest care homes have accused its owners of “cruelty” and “neglect” after a BBC investigation revealed a series of care failures.
As a BBC Disclosure reporter, I worked undercover as a cleaner in Castlehill Care Home in Inverness for seven weeks over the summer.
In that time, I saw vulnerable elderly people left sitting alone for hours in urine-soaked clothes or lying in wet bedsheets, often calling out for help.
I also saw a female resident screaming in distress over male carers doing intimate personal care, due to chronic staff shortages.
During the period I was undercover the home was in special measures because of improvement notices issued by regulator, the Care Inspectorate.
The watchdog said it “continued to have concerns” about care at Castlehill and was monitoring it.
Castlehill Care Home said it operated to the highest clinical standards, in accordance with a personal care plan, which is agreed with families.
The care home tried unsuccessfully to take the BBC to court to prevent the documentary being broadcast.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clylxpjdx8wo

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 23 2025 15:48 utc | 55

Posted by: Exile | Sep 23 2025 6:31 utc | 6
Britain did it first (in recent times obv.) Supporters of *Palestine Action* which is now classified as a Terrorist Org, are potentially to be imprisoned for 14 years!
One gent who had a T shirt with *Plasticine Action* printed on it was arrested, madness.. > Hollow laughter..
Guardian. https://tinyurl.com/3msfkbuy
CNN, BBC (huge numbers arrested)
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/06/uk/palestine-action-group-ban-protests-uk-intl
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8rvly00440o
b, thank you for everything, I hope the switch is not too much of a headache and frustrating struggle, that the transition goes smoothly. Hasta la Vista!
(DunGroanin there is a lot to unpack..)

Posted by: Noirette | Sep 23 2025 15:57 utc | 56

Rosh hashana, feast of trumpets, sounding of one hundred trumpets in Jerusalem.
https://www.youtube.com/live/Uolr2PisR3I

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 23 2025 15:58 utc | 57

Like I said before where evil lurks, you’ll find the hand of Perfidious Albion.
“A former ISIS and Al-Qaeda leader is set to speak in New York at the United Nations
Al-Jolani, now calling himself Ahmed Al-Sharaa, has been revealed as an MI6 asset, and after decades of being a terrorist leader, he visits New York as the first Syrian president to do so since 1967”
https://nitter.poast.org/MintPressNews/status/1970150623065653757#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 23 2025 16:10 utc | 58

It’s too bad Caitlin isn’t interested in this endgame.
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Sep 23 2025 9:36 utc | 13
She is excellent on the day to day stuff, but like many great critics, she has no larger perspective, no definite revolutionary program. She fills that lacuna with talk about ones personal journey to truth. She can also slip into misanthropy which is very dangerous and demoralizing for her young readers.
I love her to death. She’s truly a tribune of the people. But, as to the critical question of “what is to be done” she doesn’t have any real answer. It’s just more vague calls to “raise your voices, challenge the status quo, raise your level of consciousness”.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Sep 23 2025 16:12 utc | 59