What was the situation with Nexperia’s export of chips to China for “testing” and “packaging”, before the Dutch pirates came in, does somebody know? @C1ue for example (as someone who if I am not mistaken has experience in this field)?
Are we talking about whole wafers of chips before cutting, or wafers after cutting, or chips “packaged” in plastic/ceramic cases with pins (for subsequent outer packaging in China such as tape-and-reel)? As I see it both the last options are massively unrealistic both economically and organisationally, only sending whole wafers to China for subsequent processing makes any sense (in any case the main testing is on the wafer itself, although the packaged product should have some testing as well). 
In that case, China has the pirated company very thoroughly by the goolies, if the pirates really refuse to let go. Squeeze tightly China! China also should have sufficient leverage on Germany to force “reasonable and self-interested” parties to cooperate with China, although Germans these days are neither reasonable nor capable of rational action in their own self interest, so we shall have to see how it turns out.
If they had any sense (in case the suicidal Dutch refuse to let go), the Germans will refuse to recognise Dutch control of headquarters and allow the Hamburg factory to be snipped out from Netherlands and reverted to Chinese control.
Something tells me the Germans will (a) try to pressure Amsterdam to submit to Chinese control under Chinese terms (or go halfway); and (b) after that fails commit full hari-kiri and do a Nord-Stream 2.0. In that case the hari-kiri will apply not only to losing semiconductor jobs and production, but also hari-kiri for the whole German auto industry (including parts manufacture by independent companies which is a huge part of the industry).

Posted by: BM | Oct 20 2025 11:59 utc | 104

It would be interesting to know the total tonnage going into just India.
 
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Oct 20 2025 12:02 utc | 104
 
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It would be more interesting to know how much metal has been sold to merchants out of lease, and how the lessors plan to make themselves whole.  Do these lessors think they can buy the metal back?
 
We will only learn the depth of rehypothecation in the monetary metals market after the lease market fails.

Posted by: too scents | Oct 20 2025 12:15 utc | 106

@too scents
Li Chenggang had been promoted to China’s trade negotiator, This is a minister level job.  As such his previous post as Chinese trade rep at the wto,  which is a vice minister level job, has to be replaced with someone else. The new trade rep had already  showed up in Geneva back in September.  So this announcement is merely a formality.

Posted by: cindy6 | Oct 20 2025 12:26 utc | 108

“…Soon after its gestation, Christianity became an Exceptionalist Religion where only the correct types of Christians were God’s likeness…” Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 19 2025 23:00 utc | 61 This is false, karlof1!  
Posted by: juliania | Oct 20 2025 5:42 utc | 88
 
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Not sure about the “God’s likeness” part, but “true” Christians began prosecuting “heretics” and of course nonbelievers shortly after they acquired the temporal power to do so.

Posted by: malenkov | Oct 20 2025 12:31 utc | 110

Anyone here intimately familiar with SS7? I’ve just had a peek at Q.700 (only 24 pages) and seen the list of documents after “SS No. 7 consists of a number of components or functions which are defined in the Q.7xx-Series Recommendations“.
 

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Oct 20 2025 12:57 utc | 112

Reuters is reporting on the wrench being thrown into the gears of trade
 
Fall in China’s exports of rare earth magnets stokes supply chain fears

China’s exports of rare earth magnets fell in September, reigniting fears that the world’s top supplier could wield its dominance over a component key for U.S. defence firms and makers of items from cars to smartphones as leverage in trade talks.

 
The devil in mw wants Trump to dig down more on this issue and really halt arms manufacturing entirely in the West……..if the military punch bowl goes away, what happens?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 20 2025 13:45 utc | 114

really halt arms manufacturing entirely in the West
 
Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 20 2025 13:45 utc | 113
 
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They’ll confiscate and recycle personal technology to recover critical minerals before arms production stops.
 
The rare earths imbroglio is just a side show for more fundamental supply chain issues.  Industrial silver consumption for example.  
 
Also at about $5500/oz gold will surpass the US $ as the leading central bank reserve asset.

Posted by: too scents | Oct 20 2025 13:57 utc | 116

@too scents #25
How are cryptocurrencies,a counterpoint?
Because they are also going up? That’s also a function of the excess liquidity sloshing around.
The difference between cryptocurrencies and gold, is that the present prices of cryptocurrencies are 99% speculation while gold is probably 40% to 60% speculation. Let’s not forget that cryptocurrencies – using bitcoin as a proxy – saw bitcoin at $6000 in spring 2020. It is literally 20x that now.
There’s a second bit of evidence: gold dropped $200 last Friday. This should never happen if, in fact, the true primary driver of gold price increases were central bank ramping up gold holdings.

Posted by: c1ue | Oct 20 2025 14:17 utc | 118

@Roger Boyd #53
Explain what I am misusing and what your supposed correct definition is.
I will note that anyone relying on the modern version of reading chicken entrails: “technical analysis”, is extremely low credibility in my view.
The problem with technical analysis is not that nobody can be successful with it – the problem is that literally every single type of technical analysis is extremely subject to interpretation. Changing time scales, changing “important levels”, changing “trigger points” etc etc are precisely the type of unscientific practices used by witch doctors in the past. Which is another way of saying that you can use technical analysis to justify literally anything.
The successful types are the very few ones who use technical analysis to justify their expert grasp of the market; it is well documented that experienced practitioners in any subject have skill that they cannot document or express, but which exists.
But fools who think it is the reverse, well, time wounds all heels.

Posted by: c1ue | Oct 20 2025 14:24 utc | 120

@Sunny Runny Burger #30
That is why I said you should skip the beginning part – you missed the actual meat because you were turned off by the fluff.
Note I am not saying that Palmer Luckey is correct in every regard. Certainly I don’t agree with him in much of the large hodgepodge of beliefs he put forward in a free ranging 2+ hour talk.
Nonetheless, here are some important points which I did learn something new (from memory so may not be 100% accurate):

1. The comparisons of Chinese car stability (ie the filled champagne glass) vs. American cars is stupid and invalid. The reason is that anyone, even of relatively modest means in China, has a driver. Tesla’s best selling car in China is nothing like what they sell in the US – it is 2 very large back bucket seat, tiny front seats vehicle because the people who buy it have drivers.
2. For Chinese buyers of cars, the drivers’ comfort is irrelevant because they are the “help”, and actual owners in the back seat want a limousine experience in contrast to American wealthy drivers – who want road feel.
3. Chinese cars are cheap because they have much cheaper costs of materials due to energy and other reasons
   1. [c1ue: It isn’t just that, it is also purchasing power parity, lack of legacy costs like pensions for a century of ex-workers, etc etc]
4. “Import” cars in the US – most of them are made in the US by foreign companies so don’t get the advantage of purchasing power parity differences.
5. Chinese cars are cheaper and better. $4000 gets you a great car whereas the cheapest car on the US market is $17000 – Nissan Versa being one and I can’t remember the other – which are crap.
6. WW2 US production was not just GM switching from cars to tanks, it was John Deere switching from tractors to tanks, it was [?maybe wrong memory]aluminum siding companies making aircraft parts.
   1. US arms designers would design their weapons platforms to fit specific, previously non-MIC factory capabilities as opposed to the other way around.
   2. Anduril is seeking to do the same: create weapons platforms that can be made in GM factories as opposed to custom MIC factories, because you cannot scale up a custom MIC factory but you could scale up if GM can make the platform
   3. He then contradicts this by talking about some fancy coating for drones
      1. [c1ue: why exactly do you need fancy coatings for expendable drones? Not clear to me.]
   4. He talks about a “loyal companion” AI fighter which Anduril won the contract for over LockMar and Boeing[?maybe someone else]
      1. The loyal companion is useful because while the US Air Force has a tactics manual based on its 70 years of experience for optimal combat behavior, there is another manual of tactics which you don’t use because they are low success rate and/or suicidal. An AI loyal companion fighter jet is much cheaper and could do these tactics
      2. That the loyal companions can have greater performance because they are not limited by human body frailty or human limited reaction speeds
         1. The problem is – if the controller is flying with them, you’re still going to be limited by the controller’s capabilities if the controller flies with them. If the controller is far away, then you have huge vulnerability in comms and command/control latency.
      3. [c1ue: there are many problems with this loyal companion idea
         1. the AI companions are going to be reliable to start with
         2. that the “master” pilot cannot be identified and taken out – Palmer showed pic and boasted how the loyal companion doesn’t have a cockpit – well, that’s an easy well to tell which to shoot down first, yo
         3. that comms will not be interfered with/unavailable
         4. that the loyal companions can adapt to changing opposition tactics quickly and consistently
         5. that the Western reliance on aerial attack is even feasible in the era of Oreshniks hitting airfields, of obviously powerful and ubiquitous air defense systems with Mach 14+ interceptor speeds.]
   5. Palmer talks about Barracudas and similar systems being used to defend Taiwan.
      1. The Barracuda is a $100K or so [cheap by US MIC standards], relatively short range ground attack missile.
      2. [c1ue: The problem is that while the Barracuda probably would be effective should China try to invade Taiwan, IMO China doesn’t need to invade Taiwan. All that China needs to do is sink every ship coming near it; Taiwan will starve in 6 months and surrender.
         1. In this context – the Barracuda is basically useless. Chinese oceanic interdiction can be from as far away as 2000 km, but this isn’t necessary since I am sure China has all sorts of mobile and entrench systems on Chinese land that starts a mere 200 km from Taiwan.]

Overall, I think Palmer has a realistic understanding of just how fucked US MIC capability is right now. Not clear to me that his solutions will resolve these core problems given that the real issue is a US nationwide relative paucity of manufacturing, but it is certainly an improvement on the existing US MIC incompetence.
His faith in “new” systems like drones is also clearly amateurish. 
This is a spark gap transmitter.
Before the advent of crystal based radios, spark gap transmitters were used to generate radio signals. They are a terrible way to generate clean, clear radio signals but they are very cheap. You can make a spark gap transmitter for under $100 and you don’t need anything in terms of industrial equipment or fancy materials or whatever. Spark gap transmitters’ problem is noise, but they generate powerful radio signals. Well, if you want a jammer, noisy is not an issue!
The ITU – the International Telecommunication Union, used to be International Telegraph Union – which is the international entity that governs radios and communications via satellite etc, banned spark gap transmitters in 1924 precisely because of the [unintentional] noisy jamming tendency of this tech in favor of vacuum tube transmitters, which in turn gave way to the present day crystal based.
Anyway, a backpack sized spark gap transmitter can shut down all radio comms in a several hundred meter radius over a wide band of frequencies; the frequency band range can be changed by simply switching out antennas.
If you want to take down comms for everybody – that’s how you do it.
Now imagine what a truck sized spark gap transmitter would do. Or a ship sized one.
And this is only one of the obvious low tech ways to attack Western comms dependent Command and Control methodology.
Shooting down satellites – which is what happens in a real war – would be the very first step.
Shooting down AWACS, firing hypersonic and/or Oreshnik missiles at any and all sources of radio commands would be an ongoing military objective.

Posted by: c1ue | Oct 20 2025 15:04 utc | 122

@ Tannenhouser | Oct 19 2025 22:57 utc | 61
thanks! i see and read the link at this and got the link o@ 94 as well.. i did see your note on the previous thread as well..  i think that is all plausible.. i once travelled to the area where the hopi and zuni people lived and read up on them too…  not sure if that is the oldest dated areas for indigenous peoples on the north american continent or not.. 
 
@ Tannenhouser | Oct 20 2025 9:45 utc | 94
thanks! ICE acting like brownshirts – yes, as i see it too..  here is an article from ken klippenstein which articulates much of this.. 
 
William Gruff | Oct 20 2025 11:06 utc | 101
see the article above from klippenstein… tell me if you think he has it wrong.. 
 
 
 juliania | Oct 20 2025 10:45 utc | 99
 
i think it was leo toltstoy who suggested venerating ikons was much essentially idolatry…  what are your thoughts on this juliania?  as an outsider, it seems that way to me… 
 

Posted by: james | Oct 20 2025 15:16 utc | 124

“I will note that anyone relying on the modern version of reading chicken entrails: “technical analysis”, is extremely low credibility in my view.”
 
Posted by: c1ue | Oct 20 2025 14:24 utc | 119
 
On a humorous note don’t tell that to Roman consul Claudius Pulcher:
 
“The story of Claudius Pulcher and the sacred chickens is a tale from the First Punic War where the Roman consul threw the chickens overboard when they refused to eat, leading to a disastrous naval defeat at the Battle of Drepana and his subsequent trial for impiety and exile. The act of discarding the sacred birds, which were used to predict battle outcomes, defied Roman religious customs and ultimately resulted in a significant loss for the Roman fleet. 

• The ritual: Before a battle, Roman commanders would consult sacred chickens by offering them food. If the chickens ate, it was considered a good omen to fight; if they refused, it was a bad omen.
• The incident: In 249 BC, before the Battle of Drepana, the sacred chickens refused to eat. Pulcher, frustrated and impatient, threw them into the sea, famously saying, “If they won’t eat, let them drink!”.
• The consequence: The Roman fleet suffered a crushing defeat at Drepana, losing a large number of ships.”

Posted by: canuk | Oct 20 2025 15:28 utc | 126

Can barflies find a shred of morality in the following from Reuters?
 
In Trump’s drug war, prisoners may be too much of a legal headache, experts say

When two alleged drug traffickers survived a U.S. military strike last week in the Caribbean, they left the Trump administration with a decision to make: send them back home, or find a way to keep them detained.

Where is the discussion about what the international legal responsibility is for all humans?
 
We really are reverting to the barbaric patriarchy that birthed monotheism, IMO.  The fig leaf of international law and acceptable human behavior has been torn off and the God Of Mammon cult of exceptionalism and their jackboot of global private finance and might-makes-right militarism is at the end of its run.  The sausage making process of moving society forward from here is going to be messy.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 20 2025 15:42 utc | 128

That should have been – “The post WWII west”….

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Oct 20 2025 15:51 utc | 130

EIJING, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) — The Southern Theater Command of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army on Sunday expelled an Australian P-8A military aircraft that illegally intruded into China’s territorial airspace over the Xisha Qundao, a Chinese military spokesperson said on Monday.
Li Jianjian, spokesperson for the Air Force of the theater command, said that the P-8A had illegally intruded into China’s territorial airspace over the Xisha Qundao without the approval of the Chinese government.
The theater command had organized naval and air forces to conduct tracking and surveillance, take strong countermeasures, and issue warnings to drive the Australian aircraft away in accordance with the relevant laws and regulations, Li said.
The spokesperson emphasized that Australia’s actions had seriously violated China’s sovereignty and posed a high risk of triggering maritime and air incidents.
“We sternly warn Australia to immediately cease its infringements and provocative acts,” Li stressed. “The theater command’s troops remain on high alert at all times and will resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and security, and regional peace and stability.” ■

Posted by: arby | Oct 20 2025 16:24 utc | 132

arby | Oct 20 2025 16:24 utc | 131
 
We now have an American military headquarters here in Australia and I think is is safe to assume the Australian military are now firmly under the command of the American military.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Oct 20 2025 16:58 utc | 134

Over to the Brits gringo cousin…
 
30m of high octane entertainment, especially the part where jp./kooks comment on daddy Trump !
 
We should gang up with our allies to kick the bully in the gut

Posted by: denk | Oct 20 2025 17:56 utc | 136

@Peter AU1 #126
What I wrote above is what Palmer Luckey said – not my view. I don’t pretend to know.
However, I will say that I don’t consider Pepe a reliable source for anything.
He is entertaining, but like his younger compatriot Danny Haiphong – China never does anything wrong and everything is perfect there for everyone.
Which is blatantly untrue.

Posted by: c1ue | Oct 20 2025 18:20 utc | 138

Posted by: c1ue | Oct 20 2025 18:20 utc | 137
 
I agree with your scorecard on the presenters.  Foo is entertaining too but he’s always has the same old theme: US crashing , China ascending.
 
I prefer Mecouris and his Greek buddy, Alex.
 
Sometimes I watch Pierce Morgan as he puts on opposing/conflicting  ideas whereas all of the above  have interviews where they all agree.
 
Methinks one requires a  Hegelian dialectic to bet anywhere in a discussion.

Posted by: canuk | Oct 20 2025 18:29 utc | 140

Hello petergrfstrm I have a query concerning things LaRouche and you have mentioned him and his ideas previously so I thought you might have some insight
 
 
In the 90’s EIR the LaRouche magazine put some effort into publicising the Paul Bonacci story. Are you aware of Bonacci’s story and if so might you have any thoughts why this editorial policy was implemented and then sustained for several years?
 
 
ps my keyboard works poorly, so typing is laborious but if you need more context I could  force a  paragraph out of it lol
 
No problem if you feel the question inconsequential  or doesn’t interest you

Posted by: will moon | Oct 20 2025 19:00 utc | 142

One more for the road…
 
Recommended…
 
Nathan Rich on China’s crackdown on xtian cult.

Posted by: denk | Oct 20 2025 19:09 utc | 144

Good summary on the current state of play regarding Nexperia from smalltownvoice1.
tl;dw the West shot itself in the foot again.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Oct 20 2025 20:13 utc | 146

Glenn Greenwald
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mHM_8EIi5A
 
“Marco Rubio’s obsession with Venezuela & Cuba explained.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 20 2025 21:23 utc | 148

He is entertaining, but like his younger compatriot Danny Haiphong – China never does anything wrong and everything is perfect there for everyone.Which is blatantly untrue.
Posted by: c1ue | Oct 20 2025 18:20 utc | 137
 
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You are completely correct. No human institution at any level is completely without fault.
 
My guess is that Pepe and Danny may feel that there are already more than enough commentators focusing on China’s faults without the need for them to add their contribution.  
 
Besides, it seems that they do not have sufficient time to adequately cover China’s good points. It is a real dilemma for them!

Posted by: General Factotum | Oct 20 2025 21:41 utc | 150

Deep Seek and AliBaba reduce need for GPUs by over 80%. Black swan moment for Nvidia.
https://x.com/merlinscapital/status/1980367641794740456

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 20 2025 22:04 utc | 152

US has shot itself in both feet.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Oct 20 2025 22:35 utc | 152
 
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They have long since had only stumps left – but they keep blasting away.
 
Maybe force of habit?

Posted by: General Factotum | Oct 20 2025 23:21 utc | 154

General Factotum | Oct 20 2025 23:21 utc | 153
John Gilberts | Oct 20 2025 23:37 utc | 154
 
🙂

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Oct 20 2025 23:46 utc | 156

A came to the open thread to write down some thoughts but those two replies had me laughing and I lost my train of thought.
 
Wokism. von der Leyen, Kallas, Baerbock. Totally brain dead bimbos. 
My former wife and daughters all turned woke in the decade after I became ill. I did not realise it at the time, but they went to a place where I could not follow.
 
I have long since realized my sister is woke too, but we still stay in contact and converse. Wokism is a massive dumbing down process and no different to a religious cult. My son, my mates dont seem to be so affected by it. I guess the women have been targeted as men follow their dicks.
 
How the west will break out of this insanity I do not know. It will be like deprograming from a religious cult.
 
The time I spent in the Aboriginal community. Wallace was the manager there. When there was a problem to be discussed a meeting would be called. Wallace would lay out the problem and the young people would all be given an opportunity to speak. The he would turn to the elders sitting in another group and any who had an opinion would speak. After that Wallace would spend quite some time sitting and talking with old Jock, the oldest and most respected elder, then he would make a decision.
 
Putin changed the Russian political scene in 2018. Those that had helped pull Russia up by its bootstraps were put in position of respected elders and younger people were appointed to take domestic Russia into the future.
 
The respected elders, the security council could concentrate solely on the geo-political scene. The protectors of the new Russian federation.
 
My sister, a year older than me has now ceased her working life. We both have grandchildren and so we have become the elders of our families. And so I write to her about this changing world as that should be there to guide our children and grandchildren. My recent email to her I put in the Todd thread, I thing @12.
 
But the western world has dismissed that completely. Marriage is temporary, a passing thing and history is nothing. It is an utterly destructive culture we have entered into.
 

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Oct 21 2025 0:21 utc | 158

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Oct 21 2025 0:28 utc | 158
 
RE:  like they say about great minds, eh-?
 
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Welp

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Oct 21 2025 1:09 utc | 160

Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 20 2025 2:33 utc | 83
Duh.
I am disappointed. I have  enjoyed some of your writing in the past. The fact that these subscribers dumped you is obvious
 You bloviated for paragraph after paragraph about how evil America is. But not for a good reason. You weren’t trying to get Americans to figure it out, you were doing nothing but providing cover, excuses and concealment for criminals who are protesting and rioting in support of anarchy.
 
 All while blathering about how important the “rule” of law supposedly is to these degenerates.
 
 You’re a fraud. 
Americans that understand history don’t need you to bloviate about how evil our government has been.
 We already know.
 We also don’t need more obfuscation and bullshit spread to provide support for the truly lawless.
 I’m not stupid enough to pay random people on the internet for their opinions which I can get for free. But I kind of wish I had subscribed so I could dump yours.

Posted by: Archetypex | Oct 21 2025 1:30 utc | 162

Matt Taibbi explains on Racket News how FEMA workers improperly collected data about the political leanings of hurricane victims, from 2021 through 2024.  The political controversy surrounding FEMA aid grew especially in 2024 out of the vague way in which the agency’s Disaster Survivor Assistance Field Operations Guide was written.
 
The Field Operations Guide instructed FEMA workers to “Remove yourself from the situation if you feel threatened” when dealing with “hostile” individuals, the only problem being, as the new report notes:  “The Disaster Survivor Assistance Field Operations Guide did not define the term ‘hostile.’”
 
“The way the guide was written, FEMA employees had leeway to skip outreach to a house if its yard signs supporting Trump made them feel uncomfortable,” one Washington-based First Amendment lawyer put it last week (this according to Matt Taibbi’s reportage.)   “So it’s basically the same concept of a harm or distress standard we’re seeing in Europe with speech issues, where the emotional response of the observer, threatened by a pro-Trump yard sign, is what matters legally, as opposed to a concrete pragmatic rule.”
 
FEMA’s actions were “not limited to the Hurricane Milton disaster relief efforts in 2024,” and in fact, “FEMA impermissibly collected prohibited information at least dating back to the Hurricane Ida disaster in September 2021.”
 
Federal aid workers felt empowered to withhold relief based on what they consider “hostile” signage.  This fact alone creates an opening for a federalized version of the old “walking-around-money” operation pioneered by ward-heelers in city elections, in which petty cash made it into the hands of one party’s potential voters.   This phenomenon escalated during Autopen Robinette’s administration.
 
The mere fact that FEMA aid can be politicized should worry members of both political parties enough to do something about it.  Citizens distrust the government enough as it is.  If it is known that disaster relief can be politicized and nobody fixes the problem, imagine how mad citizens will be one or two cycles from now.
 
Nobody wants a king unless he is on their side.  The press did not utter a peep about Autopen Robinette’s monarchy, and the politicians who were Autopen Robinette’s loyal subjects stayed mum.
 
Please note, however, that the same press which to this day blasts VVP’s “unprovoked war of brutal aggression” in Ukraine is the same press which uttered not a peep about Autopen Robinette’s monarchic abuses ad refused to report on Autopen Robinette’s cognitive decline while his royal court hustled to hide all evidence but now works itself into high dudgeon over DJT’s actions from the Executive Branch-?
 
They are on the same side.   They are anti-DJT.  Whether he’s hung as a sheep or hung as a wolf matters not at all:  they’re hellbent on hanging him.
 
If DJT were in fact king of America, it would be difficult for the party which is not in power, the Dems in the senate, to shut down the government for 3 weeks, which the Dems have done, without feeling ultimately the wrath of the king.   A vengeful king would shut down their pathetic efforts, their ukelele strumming, their singing, and disappear them to boot.
 
Which is not happening.
 
The No Kings-! protest happened from 1-3pm on Saturday 18 October:  people showed up w/ their ukeleles and their mass-printed No Kings-! signs and then they went home.  Even though the past 4 presidential monarchies—erm administrations—-have exhibited kingly abuses, the protesters, hypnotized into believing that our Constitutional republic has been tainted by one king and one king only, gripped the necks of their ukeleles and wailed away.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Oct 21 2025 1:56 utc | 164

Mahmood OD: ‘No Kings!’
 
https://www.youtube.com/@Mahmood_OD/videos
 
“America’s largest protests| Trump’s sinister response.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 21 2025 2:46 utc | 166

psychohistorian | Oct 21 2025 2:31 utc | 163
 
There was something I wrote some years back which grieved commented on.
 
When I was in Guangzhou, the place I was staying, a couple of traffic cops would come around and sleep the afternoon at the intersection below the hotel where I was camped. They were unarmed.
 
Going into Canton fair was different. To get the pass they checked everyone’s credentials carefully. They were hard and lean and the sort of blokes you simply do not fuck with and they werent dicking about.
 
The building was a couple of stories and over a number of days I looked at every stall. I would go out on the balcony from time to time for a smoke.  It had a view over the car park and their sitting around was the swat squad.
 
One day walking in, A little enclosure had been put up and two soldiers were in it. One held his rifle but to his shoulder ready to swing it up at a moments notice. There must have been some sort of alert and they were watching the vehicle traffic intently. I think it was then, I realised those really hard fuckers would give their lives to protect the international visitors like me.
 
It is something I think few in the west understand.
 
China has pulled its people out of poverty and the government has good approval rating. If the west goes up against China, we will face a great number of really hard fuckers that will be willing to die for their country.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Oct 21 2025 3:00 utc | 168

PIlger was called a self hating whites !

Posted by: denk | Oct 21 2025 3:58 utc | 170

Keep on keeping on Denk.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Oct 21 2025 4:25 utc | 172

Therefore the new extra territorial export control will stay no matter who Bessent is going to talk to. 
 
Posted by: cindy6 | Oct 20 2025 19:06 utc | 142
 
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Thanks again for your point of view on the negotiations.

Posted by: too scents | Oct 21 2025 5:19 utc | 174

If you want to keep up, watch this 7+ minute video from Xinhuanet
 
Innovate China: Humanoid revolution

Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 21 2025 5:45 utc | 176

Insanity on stilts!

US army taps private equity groups to help fund $150bn revamp
Apollo, KKR, Carlyle and Cerberus among investors that held talks with federal government
The US army has asked private equity groups including Apollo, Carlyle, KKR and Cerberus to pitch “meaty” strategic projects to help the service fund a $150bn infrastructure overhaul.
US army secretary Daniel Driscoll and Treasury secretary Scott Bessent held a forum with about 15 of Wall Street’s best-known buyout firms last Monday to discuss deals.
Driscoll told the Financial Times he gathered the private investors to say, “‘Hey, here are all the assets we have in our arsenals and our depots that we are underutilising . . . What are those types of deals where we can work with you and invite you in?’”
The army secretary, the service’s top civilian official, said he asked the groups to draw up “clever financing models or unique financing models” to help meet the army’s infrastructure needs.
continues ==> https://www.ft.com/content/0e9228db-9fa5-4f90-ab8a-93aadcb62d57

 
A real fire sale!

Posted by: too scents | Oct 21 2025 6:10 utc | 178

re: US army taps private equity groups to help fund $150bn revamp ?
 
Too Scents; thats a significant tell. Thank you. 

Posted by: exile | Oct 21 2025 6:14 utc | 180

thats a significant tell. 
 
Posted by: exile | Oct 21 2025 6:14 utc | 179
 
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The tell is that the USA is being looted.

Posted by: too scents | Oct 21 2025 6:23 utc | 182

The tell is that the USA is being looted.
 
Posted by: too scents | Oct 21 2025 6:23 utc | 180
 
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Adding.
 
All these crooks with their hands up to their elbows in the Treasury’s cookie jar are going to be the first to show up in Tuxedos with whores in tow at the White House State Ballroom.
 

Posted by: too scents | Oct 21 2025 6:29 utc | 184

Posted by: Tel | Oct 20 2025 10:40 utc | 98
Re: Glutahione (GSH).
 
That’s a fascinating chemical. I came across it while studying the toxicity of lead (Pb). Lead binds at the sulphur (S-H) site on GSH, and that’s the means by which it hitches a ride across cell-barriers. It’s got me wondering if the Selenide version has a protective effect to lead… A subject I’d like to discuss further sometime.
 
 
 
 

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Oct 21 2025 7:10 utc | 186

Utterly delicious: the honesty you’ll never (really) see, to congratulate RT:
 
WATCH Western journalists finally ‘speak’ the truth (AI VIDEO)
https://www.rt.com/news/626744-western-hosts-admit-mistakes/

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Oct 21 2025 8:28 utc | 188

China. Scanner the Reuters propaganda headlines this morning, something had changed. Something about the leader of the KMT instead of the American stooge party. I didn’t bother reading the propaganda.
 
I’m not sure what has changed, perhaps it is the American’s own economy, or perhaps its China really sticking it to the Americans in this American instigated trade war.
Whatever it is, something has changed. Time will tell on that one I guess.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Oct 21 2025 10:04 utc | 190

I saw there was a lot of fellow Australians on the Todd thread today and that was good to see. I didn’t have much I could add there. I think there was also one or two others from this time zone and that is really good.
 
Just saw my previous pot. Scanner. Scanning….
 
China. Will be good if PRC can prevent US using ROC as Ukroid cannon fodder.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Oct 21 2025 10:23 utc | 192

Pot – post. Bloody hell. These typos are driving me nuts.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Oct 21 2025 10:25 utc | 194

Aleph_Null | Oct 21 2025 8:28 utc | 188
 
I checked it out. Had to laugh out RT’s takedown of those two, though RT videos don’t seem to play here in Australia anymore.
 
I saw something about Durov in the sidebar and started thinking about him, the stuff with the French and so forth. Russia runs deep.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Oct 21 2025 10:33 utc | 196

“House Arrest: Mike Johnson Locks Out AZ” (representative for the House of Representatives)
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eIMKnD9nPI  (length: 40 minutes) (in the 1st few minutes there is a good summary of the story)
 
Quote:
“Arizona’s Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square, but Speaker Mike Johnson’s government shutdown has become a hostage crisis. Grijalva would have been the 218th vote to release the Epstein Files. Instead of being sworn in, Grijalva’s locked out while Johnson clings to power and uses the House swearing-in delay to feed his MAGA base. Rick Wilson tears into this clown show—how GOP power politics turned a duly elected congresswoman into a political pawn, how the shutdown in Congress hurts Arizona’s families, and why Johnson’s behavior reeks of tiny “D” energy.”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YfoGIzp2_k  (length: 5 minutes)
 
“Members from the Democratic Women’s Caucus, along with several members from the Democratic Caucus and Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, marched through the Capitol to House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office Tuesday night, chanting “swear her in” for Grijalva. Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat who won a special election last month to succeed her late father, has yet to be sworn in for her seat in Congress. Johnson says she’ll be sworn in when the House returns to session and blames the government shutdown for the delay.”
 
(@B: Love the new way one can format a text. Using things like  “/B” on the previous version of MoA was (very) cumbersome).

Posted by: WMG | Oct 21 2025 11:01 utc | 198

too scents
 
Thanks for correction. Didn’t realise  he could swear in members even though Congress is shuttered

Posted by: will moon | Oct 21 2025 11:05 utc | 200