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Converting various forms of energy into electrical energy.
The most common is the conversion of thermal energy into electrical energy. Thermal energy can be produced by many things – most common is the exothermic reaction of oxidizing vary elements with atmospheric oxygen. The other most common is the exothermic reaction of decaying Uranium 235.
Solar is the conversion of electromagnetic frequencies in or close to the visible light frequencies to electric energy.
Hydro is the conversion of gravitational energy into electrical energy though solar/heat energy also comes into play as evaporation of sea water, which is then dumped on high ground as rain, gravity then returning the water to the sea or to a lake. Though rivers that flow year round will have outlets to the sea.
Thermal energy from the sun also comes into play with wing energy – differing temperatures cause convection current…….
Thinking about the energy of electromagnetic frequencies – Infra red is just outside the visible to humans frequencies but it seems to instantly change to heat energy when it hits something – not sure if that is correct, just a thought that came while writing.
I’ve been thinking a bit along this line of thought since talking to the crazy old Hungarian man. He firmly believed energy could be created from nothing and had zero understanding that we can only convert one form of energy to another form.
Solar commercial aircraft – battery operated with current Chinese battery technology is likely now viable for short haul. But solar. The sheer size of the aircraft cross section, unless traveling very slow would create a huge amount of drag. Might be enticing to drag queens, but the rate of knots getting from point A to point B due to having to keep drag low – I guess a bit of Lead Zeppelin music would be required to wile away the hours.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 4:20 utc | 101
@ Refinnejenna | Nov 6 2025 22:47 utc | 73
i am with you in most of the sentiment you express here… however the concern some have, and i think it is a legitimate one, is what about the possibility of trumps situation being covered up in a manner similar to how bidens situation was covered up?? it seems to me the public is the last to know anything… so while i appreciate your perspective, i keep an open mind at the possibility of a concern for trumps health being a legitimate one as well… they tried hiding bidens situation until it was virtually impossible to hide it anymore..
Posted by: james | Nov 7 2025 4:23 utc | 102
Thorium. China wins again.
Posted by: Suresh | Nov 7 2025 4:36 utc | 107
Early days yet for thorium, but I think you are right. Abundant, and with the right technology, clean.
I haven’t tracked it down to the source but several days ago read something on China, or a Chinese company developing plans for a thorium reactor for large cargo ships. Makes a lot of sense. Cargo ships have to carry a very large tonnage of fuel oil, be it diesel or bunker oil. As far as I know, the US aircraft carriers and the Russian ice breakers are the only surface ships using nuclear energy.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 4:48 utc | 104
who makes the decision?? obviously everything that touches germany turns to shit these days, so i take it this is another german creation by german idiots..
Posted by: james | Nov 6 2025 21:50 utc | 66
The prize is awarded by the organisation Wirtschaftliche Gesellschaft für Westfalen und Lippe e. V. , some entrepeneur / capitalist organisation. Didn’t know that, when I heard it in the news, either. And if you look in the jury of the prize committee, all questions are answered:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationaler_Preis_des_Westf%C3%A4lischen_Friedens
It’s a German article, but the names of the jury are relatively at the beginning and be no trouble reading.
Posted by: Helmuth von Moltke | Nov 7 2025 5:01 utc | 105
Hawkins and energy. I watched a few videos in the year or two before he died. He was left paralyzed at a young age but I think he could still work a keyboard or something wit his right hand. And although his body had ceased to function, his mind kept functioning right up till his death.
He narrowed all matter down to the smallest particle of energy. Different but in that vein I think of the quantum computing and quantum communication where the energy of light frequency electromagnetic energy is reduced to the paired squiggly bits.
Energy, the base/basis of all matter
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 5:06 utc | 106
The light frequencies and opal. The value in opal as a gemstone lays in its natural ability to defract visible light into the separate frequencies which then show as different colours. Boffins in the light frequencies are now looking at tailored artificial opal as a component in the light frequency disciplines.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 5:14 utc | 107
The essence of what some General Factotums comments have revolved around. Taking graphite down to its one atom thick mesh. First to do that was a boffin or two with household sticky tape. No high tech required.
Supermarket lab equipment …..
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 5:31 utc | 108
Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 7 2025 0:08 utc | 81
Thank you for these, karlof1. I will think on them more tomorrow.
For now, here is my thought on what it means to be Russian, since a Russian I have known and loved was the priest of my little Orthodox church. He indeed had been himself concieved in Russia of Russian parentage, but his parents had left and he was born in Constantinople, and never his whole life did he set foot on Russian soil. His family intermarried with theTolstoy family, but he himself was a student of Dostoievski and I came into Russian Orthodoxy through having first studied Dostoievski’s novels.
This was for me a true Russian. He was at Dresden when it was firebombed, excaped to Prague, then to Alaska. Then to my eastern liberal arts college where I met him as a student. Like the new mayor of New York City, he was an emigrant. He was an authentic priest of theRussian church, though he never officially joined the organized church other than in his ordained capacity as its priest for 20 years in Santa Fe. God took him from us on the eve of the church’s dedicated feast.
He loved everyone.
I believe we are all such Russians each in our inner souls meant to be. That is a different concept from the national one which Putin expresses . But it is part of the same.
Posted by: juliania | Nov 7 2025 5:37 utc | 109
too scents | Nov 7 2025 4:02 utc | 104
Riding thermals, riding waves. When I was flying and had to wait for a bit for the blokes on the ground to get to me, I would find a thermal to ride. If I found a good one, I could cut the throttle back to near idle. Overgrown carnivorous chooks also liked riding the thermals and they could be bad news during nesting season. My mate had a chook come though his rotors, the messy remains landing in his lap. He had to land and clean things up a bit as the blood guts and feathers sticking to his rotors caused a lot of stick shake. Whenever I saw wedgetail eagles, I had to keep one eye on the sky above me. Several times, one would tuck in its wings and come at me like a German Stuka. When that happened, I would jam the throttle all the way to the stops and if I had a bit of heigh, a shallow dive to get out of their territory as fast as possible.
In north eastern Australia, at one point in the year, I cannot remember the season, there is a wave. It can be seen by a particular cloud formation. Caused by seasonal change rather than hills. The glider blokes go up there to ride it. My brother in law was into hang gliding and he and his mates would jump off the coastal cliffs and escarpment that drove the prevailing winds upwards in south west Australia.
Riding thermals, riding waves, can be interesting recreation but I do not think it would be suitable for commercial reality.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 5:54 utc | 110
juliana @69One of my favourite bits from GG’s show was the interview with Brazilian geopolitical analyst Prof Diego Ruzzarin, on Trump’s threats against Venezuela and Nigeria: It’s well worth checking out: ‘Now is the Time of Monsters’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYykeBg4Llg
Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 6 2025 23:49 utc | 77
Thank you, John. I will visit that and reply tomorrow. I wrote my senior thesis on Milton’s “Paradise Lost”, and had researched the origin of that poem for Milton in an earlier work he had written about the Gunpowder Plot. So, having been a child who visited bonfires on the fith of November, that visit to theThames in London two nights ago was charged meaningfully for me in all of that. Guy Fawkes was hung, drawn and quartered back in the day. As children we weren’t faced with that atrociousness, but it is in the depths just as the house of Atreus was built on a monstrous feast for the Greeks. The mystery, the great mystery, being that:
The way up is the way down.
Posted by: juliania | Nov 7 2025 5:55 utc | 111
Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 6 2025 22:25 utc | 71
Thanks for pointing out my ‘weakness’ General Factotum — I never had seen it earlier!
I bought a house across the road from Dunedin Harbour, which is only really an estuary , full of seabirds, drop dead gorgous. I saw the house the one day I was there that there was NO WIND.
Little did I know when I moved in that my whole front exposure faced south across the harbour where a valley opened up to channel the antarctic wind! I stayed seven months, and the last, November was the nonstop one. I had a walled gate but if I didn’t close it before the wind came up I could not close it at all.
There was a black swan that sheltered in the harbour from the open sea. Millions of gulls would come in when it stormed. Unforgettable!!
I slept in the kitchen – because it was at the rear of the house. I was able only to depart putting my house on auction status, losing half the value I’d put in, but I had to leave. The QE 2 had come in and nearly lost its mooring. So, nearly did I. The royal albatrosses flew from beyond the opening of the harbor; they still do I am sure.
Posted by: juliania | Nov 7 2025 6:10 utc | 112
Tom Pfotzer | Nov 7 2025 2:57 utc | 97—
Yes, culture drives the bus, although a nation can have multiple cultures. China’s one of those nations.
Tom Pfotzer | Nov 7 2025 2:57 utc | 97—
Thanks for your reply. I stumbled upon this, “Tobolsk – the heart of Siberia – International Affairs,” and think you’ll find it interesting.
juliania | Nov 7 2025 6:10 utc | 116
Not much weakness in you juliania. Like just a few others here, an isle of peace troubled times. I guess I am the opposite. b has had to put on his gestapo hat and give me a stern warning or two.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 6:32 utc | 115
Re China I believe there is virtually zero chance of an ordinary Westerner immigrating (as in permanent residency) there without either marrying a citizen (Q visa, I believe) or investing a substantial amount of money into a business and spending a good chunk of that money on employees etc.
Visiting for some months is not an issue, especially if you pop outside the country from time to time, but putting down roots is different.
Posted by: BillB | Nov 7 2025 6:52 utc | 116
In north eastern Australia, at one point in the year, I cannot remember the season, there is a wave.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 5:54 utc | 115
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Would that be the Morning Glory in the Gulf (Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia, between Queensland and the Northern Territory – for those unfortunate folk who don’t live in Australia!)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YoiySHqD1Q
https://morninggloryaustralia.com/morning-glory-cloud-documentary/stock-footage.html
We saw one in the early 80’s while traveling around Australia. I haven’t studied into these, but just by the look of it I’d guess it is a shock wave (because there is no train of waves) and it has some/most/all of the properties of a soliton (because it travels undiminished for such large distances).
We were lucky enough on MoA to be discussing these phenomena just recently, so everyone knows exactly what Peter is talking about.
Thanks to Peter for reminding us of the beauties of nature – far from war and (most) mad people… glider pilot surfers excepted!
Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 7 2025 7:32 utc | 117
General Factotum | Nov 7 2025 7:32 utc | 122
The morning glory is indeed the one general.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 7:35 utc | 118
Trillion Dollar Man-nekin
Its taken over a century and many wars (never ending) to finally force defeat on the global robbers and the financial system they set up to enslave the whole world.
They are trying ti hang on with various rentierism scams – sillycone wizard app fees; student loan to neo pseudo economic religious, climate change bollocks, scamdemic levies to endless prrsonal debts.
The old bastard shapeshifter dynasties – rushing to build their golem – the TRILLION dollar man – who will proclaim the neoreligion transhuman cyborg sci-fi supremacy.
Another fake religion like JudaeoChristianity of ‘Europe’ to retain control of our AngloEuropean slave mentality.
The myth of the ‘white mans burden’ – all hail Elon the first king of Mars with his reusable rocket! The Richest Man Ever!
Well the first proclamationmed ‘trillionaire’ anyway.
Gammon c**t that he is. Doubly so. With his support of the murderous ss of the illegal apartheid entity, iof supporting fellow c**t ‘Fake Tommy’, of the English and ziofascist defence league!
(Nowhere near as pink or useful or fun as a real female ones!)
Lol – they have built the new mythological Unsinkable Titanic of the Collective Waste – their fantasy AI supremacy!
The RF has chewed up their MIC toys
China has splattered the AI monopolist fantasy.
Iran has bottled up the Levantine and West Asia conquest with the fake WoT.
SCO and BRICS+ are busy tearing a hole in the other ‘unsinkable’ Financial Controllers System.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Nov 7 2025 7:42 utc | 119
General Factotum
Have you ever read Weary Dunlop. In their time, virtually none died in their battalion or whatever the group was termed in the time on the Burma railway. The officers to a man were virtually all boffins in the civilian world. The stuff they created from from very basic basics, quite incredible, quite different from the current western world.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 7:53 utc | 120
Weary Dunlop
I guess l;ike my physical life, my mind still runs free so one thought leads to another. In Charleville, there was a big whiskery Doc, something of a reincarnation of Weary Dunlop but no doubt different style.m Many stories were told about him, perhaps some tall, but I think not. The stories of those treated by him for physical injuries, in cluding my son.
There was a story of a bloke that went in for a physical. Doc had a female student he was teaching. The poor basted that had gone in for a physical was standing there naked as Doc was explaining stuff to the female internee. While talking to herel he was idly flipping the poor blokes old fella from side to side with a ruler.
Stories and tall tales – I talked to a number that had been treated by him for physical injuries. He was the real deal.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 8:14 utc | 121
Cargo ships have to carry a very large tonnage of fuel oil, be it diesel or bunker oil.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 4:48 utc | 109
“…..the front fell off…..”
Posted by: drink crow | Nov 7 2025 8:20 utc | 122
“…..the front fell off…..”
Posted by: drink crow | Nov 7 2025 8:20 utc | 127
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Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 8:28 utc | 123
Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 8:28 utc | 128
The front fell off
Posted by: dan of steele | Nov 7 2025 8:35 utc | 124
You should have warned me. My ethanol went down the wrong way and I nearly choked to death watching that. Those blokes go straight to the heart of the matter.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 8:46 utc | 125
Firstly: replying to comments on this site is very difficult…… However.
Re, Don Firineach | Nov 6 2025 16:10 utc
It’s amazing that these psychologists are talking about Trump’s “dementia” etc and never talked about Biden’s dementia. Something that was obvious to a layman and yet, Biden was :sharp as a tack,” according to the MSM/Democrats/medical pundits….. It seems as though they, The Establishment, has a axe to grind on Trump.
To respond to anyone who thinks that I am a Trump supporter, I am, and am not. I’m just pointing out an obvious fact to anyone who is not blinkered either way.
Posted by: Kirklodgejp | Nov 7 2025 9:16 utc | 126
Step1: Is complete, Prince Andrew has fallen on his sword. When somebody with his power and connections could easily have got away with it.
Step2: DOJ suddenly comes out yesterday and warned the Republicans the Epstein files are a lot worse for Trump than they thought.
Step3: Fill in the blanks. The question remains over everything like a bad smell. Has Andrew been thrown under the bus willingly or unwillingly. In order to clear the way to now show the alleged 3 photographs of Trump in the Files that show young naked girls sitting on Trumps lap in Palm Springs? Allegedly one of the photos has several young girls pointing at the stain on Trumps pants and laughing.
Step 4: Andrew will then be cleared of all charges and framing and narratives non stop will be created 24/7 to polish the prince.
It’s interesting now that Andrew is lying battered and bruised in a pool of blood letting. The social media narrative and mainstream media are now creating a direct line to Trump.
Conspiracy or the shoe that is about to drop?
Posted by: Clouds Of Alabama | Nov 7 2025 9:38 utc | 127
A letter has been now been sent to andrew windsor, from the congress investigating the epstien empire, it’s been signed by a lot of tbe people on the committe, interestingly ther are no Repuplican signitures on the letter.
It is a formal request / demand for windsor to appear before the hereing and answer questions under oath, andrew windsor is no longer a prince or part of the royal family, officaly, he is now classed as a ‘commener’
- The republicans silence and the silence from long term commenters on this blogs comment sections shows an extremily clear example of how dishonest and curupted both have become, the truth and reality will set you free.
Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 7 2025 10:24 utc | 128
Conspiracy or the shoe that is about to drop?
Posted by: Clouds Of Alabama | Nov 7 2025 9:38 utc | 132
Prince William has the Epstein files. Trump was warned at the Vampire Ball in Windsor Castle.
Andrew was an example of what can happen.
That’s my theory….
Posted by: ChatNPC | Nov 7 2025 10:53 utc | 129
Today, in 1917, the Bolshevik revolution began.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Revolution
Posted by: too scents | Nov 7 2025 11:02 utc | 130
General Factotum Have you ever read Weary Dunlop.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 7:53 utc | 125
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I haven’t read anything ‘Weary’ Wrote, but I did read an excellent biography of the man by Sue Ebury (available in pdf for free download on Anna’s Archive). Highly recommended! He certainly was an outstanding man, and a tru mate to all around him. I’ve also just downloaded “The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop: Java and the Burma-Thailand Railway 1942-1845” from Anna’s Archive. If I start reading that I’ll be offline for a few days because I know I can’t stop…
I can’t remember whether it was ‘Weary’ or some other group constructed a wireless from bits and pieces – most of those bits had nothing to do with electronics, but were cleverly adapted. The thing that stuck in my mind was making a high resistor from a graphite pencil mark on a piece of paper. These blokes really understood what they were doing! The biggest challenge modern folk have is changing batteries correctly.
Before I read that I had felt a bit too smug about making a 4-valve wireless (plans and components loosely adapted) when I was in primary school from bits and pieces I had scrounged at the local dump. Scavenging was allowed in those easy days… No brains required, and ‘bird-shit’ soldering was good enough.
Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 7 2025 11:10 utc | 131
ChatNPC @ 134
He is not a prince, please call him andrew windsor.
Windor may hold some epstien files but not ‘thee’ epstien files. Plaural not singular.
Ther’s tbe pilots manifesst with a list of epstiens clients and visitors, when the island was raided and epstien arrested ther would be all the evidence found and cataloged.
And still much much more. The sooner america comes clean on this matter the better for america. Cover up’s just make things far worse as seen in the church cover ups.
The games up for trump.
Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 7 2025 11:15 utc | 132
Older memory. We had a Hudson Straight-8 convertible. I think it was a 1932 model. Anyway it had a 6V system. We lived in the bush and Dad used to take the battery out of the car and hook it up to the ‘wireless’ inside, so we could listen at night. There was only one station – the ABC. Finally the old Hudson conked out, and dad replaced it with a Studebaker. Batteries were expensive, but an old one would hold enough charge to run the engine long after it was ‘too tired’ to work the self-starter. Anyway, Dad reckoned cranking kept you fit…
The Studebaker had a 12V system. Dad’s understanding of electricity was rather limited. He thought 12V would just make the wireless twice as loud – and we could just turn the volume down. When he hooked up the 12V battery it certainly did make a loud noise, somewhere between a crack and a bang, which didn’t last very long. The wireless also released a large quantity of magic smoke. My father confirmed that a wireless will not work after the magic smoke is released.
Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 7 2025 11:36 utc | 133
I really don’t understand how some people can think that Trump and his cabinet of billionaires and Fox News TV stars are anti-establishment superheroes. Like the very rich aren’t the establishment!
Posted by: Dave G | Nov 7 2025 11:46 utc | 134
I really don’t understand how some people can think that Trump and his cabinet of billionaires and Fox News TV stars are anti-establishment superheroes.
Posted by: Dave G | Nov 7 2025 11:46 utc | 139
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Posted by: too scents | Nov 7 2025 12:01 utc | 135
Imagine powering AI data centers by burning household garbage…
ROFL!
Trash for Trash.
Posted by: MAKK | Nov 7 2025 12:10 utc | 136
Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 7 2025 10:24 utc | 133
I read today that “American letters “ have no sway on English subjects, as the former only have jurisdiction over Americans ie anyone resident in America .
However, if the US wants its man it can get very creative. Don’t most Euro countries have treaties with the US re escapees and “suspects”? Isn’t that what Interpol and extradition treaties are for? Isn’t there a world de facto, if not de jure rule about combatting child-molesters? Him being stripped of his Princely Titles may be a first step for getting him over there to the US . Nevertheless, King Charles III will likely ask a high price for that.
What could the UK be very eager to retain? Leave the NHS in public hands? Nah.The elite in the UK couldn’t care less. Bring back manufacturing to the UK ? Nah, the Pom elite are making money hand over fist after financialising their economy and outsourcing, so they don’t care about that. So what do they care about? Two things only ; the US continuing to support the Ukraine endlessly with the UK as just slightly junior partner, and keeping the City of London the West’s main financial centre. Yep, those two things , as it keeps the elite of the UK in pounds and power!
Posted by: Recently updated | Nov 7 2025 12:27 utc | 137
drinky crow:
Ha ha, ever heard of a guy named Edward Bernays?No not the pseudonym who posts here.Psychology, as a social science, has far more credibility than psychiatry which is just numbing people with a cocktail of witches brew.
Yes, the psychology of masses of people (mass marketing) most definitely has more legitimacy than psychologizing individuals, even though I love doing that myself online in my troll hunting. Like predicting the behavior of a volume of gas versus predicting the behavior of an individual atom in that volume of gas. It is this mass psychology that powers color revolutions and is used to create fascist movements (movements of real fascists and not just people I don’t like/disagree with… fascist movements are always artificial and directed from above in the cultural power hierarchy). It also sells carbonated sugar water and t-shirts with logos on them, so mass psychology has real utility for capitalists.
In defense of my enjoyment of individual psychologizing of trolls (think of the warped brony Inkan6969 or the sad and terminally enraged substitute for Louis Proyect that post here), note that my psychological profiling of them is always very general. For example, you may think my characterization of the brony as being overweight, greasy, and having a neck beard is too specific, or the fake Islamic lover of post Soviet rust belts as actually being a resentful freeloading dweller in his parents’ basement is likewise not a generalization, but they are actually very safe bets. What is worse is that these adherents to Identity Politics, as undercover social media agents for the Democrat party always are, will always be caricatures of a cartoon “identity” that “represents” them. They define themselves by a pre-packaged “identity”, which is why it is so important for them to see examples of that “identity” in the mass media they consume so they know what over-simplified caricatures they are to conform to. As willing, enthusiastic even, products of the mass marketing/mass psychology discussed above, broad generalizations can strike surprisingly close to home on dembots.
Am I unfairly targeting so-called “liberals” here? Not at all. Research it yourself. Compare and contrast “the Left” with the supposed “Right” where comfort levels with the Establishment mass media and its increasingly overt “messaging” are concerned. Check the degree of trust and satisfaction in mass media between the “woke” and the “deplorables”. Which demographics are embracing the brainwashing/marketing being directed at them by big business and which demographics are resisting that mind control? Which demographics complain about “woke” Disney movies being review-bombed and which are doing the review-bombing? Who likes the new Dr Who and who thinks it is unwatchable crap beating the audience over the head with blunt objects messaging? Answer these questions and you can easily see which demographics are obediently marching in lockstep and thus are easily accurately stereotyped and predicted.
Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 7 2025 12:41 utc | 138
William Gruff | Nov 7 2025 12:41 utc | 143
There are degrees of wokeness. It’s not something you have to be either in favour of or opposed to. You can want to treat people who are different to you with respect, but think that women-only spaces shouldn’t be invaded by biological males self-identifying as women.
Posted by: Dave G | Nov 7 2025 13:02 utc | 139
DunGroanin | 124
Musk had to bend the knee to the Chosen Ones a couple of years ago after he realised he could get wiped out. Even had to take The Tour. For all the hate he gets from every which way, I find it impressive how he’s been able to thread his way forward. Regarding the tech, the robots were destined to walk among and we best get used to the idea. It’s going to be an interesting ride.
Posted by: Subtropical | Nov 7 2025 13:07 utc | 140
He is not a prince, please call him andrew windsor.
Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 7 2025 11:15 utc | 137
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I will call him Andrew Battenberg und Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha, thank you very much 😌 or King Tampon’s Kid Brother.
Posted by: malenkov | Nov 7 2025 13:12 utc | 141
but I did read an excellent biography of the man by Sue Ebury
Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 7 2025 11:10 utc | 136
Possibly what I read but I cannot remember. Whatever I read was his life during the war, a big part of which was spent in internment as a POW.
Thinking about it now, it was likely the circumstance that caused him to stand out and remain in my memory. The medical equipment they built, virtually every man under his command staying alive to return home.
I cant remember what part of the Railway his lot were sent to. When I was in Thailand, I did go out to see the remnants of a bridge that one movie was based on. A newer bridge was beside the remnants of that old bridge, remnants as in the earthworks either side of the river.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 13:25 utc | 142
Posted by: Subtropical | Nov 7 2025 13:07 utc | 145
Musk himself is part Jewish in blood, if no longer in religion ( at least publicly), just like Millei of Argentina. If he had to take the knee it would not have been too painful for him.
I agree he did it out of fear ; but not due to fear for his life. I believe he is a front- man for the Deep State, including the CIA and Pentagon and simply doesn’t want to lose the kudos and power of being a famous “genius” . He is not made of the same stuff as Diogenes, who was quite happy to live in a barrel and even give lip to Alexander the Great. We fear losing one unit of x a lot more than being happy about gaining of unit of the same x. Gruff’s Edward Bernays knew all about that.
Posted by: Recently updated | Nov 7 2025 13:40 utc | 143
Dont lets forget this is about political blackmail by epstien… illegail sexual favours in return for political favours for israel and the wider jewish diaspora…
Amarican jews, english jews , europian jews and all round the world, favours for jewish influence and carrier advancement. Including a mutial code of silence.
Who would be disloyal to ther own country enough to condone and take part in this silence / cover up.
In a word ‘blackmail’
I’m looking at you moa commentators.
Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 7 2025 13:49 utc | 144
Thorium has been five years away for sixty years. That does not mean it is never happening. It does reduce interest.
Posted by: oldhippie | Nov 7 2025 13:51 utc | 145
A wise head on such young shoulders – not doubt the imperialists will want to remove him one way or another.
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Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 7 2025 14:05 utc | 146
Trump admits that he was in charge of the attacks against Iran.
Khalissee (@Kahlissee): “TRUMP SAYS HE WAS IN CHARGE OF ISRAEL ATTACKING IRAN “I was very much in charge of that. That attack was very, very powerful When Israel attacked Iran first, that was a great day for Israel” It means Trump lied to the Iranians when he’s said Israel won’t attack. The planned negotiations were just a decoy. He can’t be trusted” | nitter.poast.org
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 7 2025 14:07 utc | 147
The thieving Dutch – have backed down, and will hand back the Chinese company known as Nexperia, which it illegally seized a recently – around 50% of Nexperia chips are used in the European automotive industry, and they desperately need theses chips to keep production going – the thieving Dutch wants China to resume sending the much needed chips to Europe.
85% of the medical device industry – and around 95% of the mechanical engineering sector i Europe also relies on Nexperia’s chips.
What should China resume the supply or not? – bearing in mind that Europe cannot be trusted anymore, as they are currently in the process of stealing Russian assets.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 7 2025 14:14 utc | 148
Dave G @144: “You can want to treat people who are different to you with respect…”
There’s the thing, isn’t it? People suffering from “Identity Politics” cognitive poisoning believe people fit into readily defined “identities” and resent it when others reject that nonsense. They absolutely hate it when rednecks self-identify as fishing enthusiasts or NASCAR fans rather than white supremacists like the woketards believe they should. Admit it, you cannot stand it when people, particularly lighter-colored people, fail to self-identify by their skin tone.
Anyway, everyone is different from me. That lack of automatic belonging to a defined (by mass media) herd or tribe is clearly terrifying and incomprehensible to the “Identity Politics” crowd, but I am actually very comfortable with it, as are quite a few people. Furthermore, I do respect others as individuals but never as comically broad “identities”, unless that “identity” is class. Nobody gets automatic respect from me due to their self-identification as a psychedelic-colored magical cartoon pony, but you are welcome to do so if you are that simple-minded. Also, that respect of others as individuals is very different from respect for individuals due to their achievements and accomplishments. If you want everyone to pedestalize tragically sick individuals who cannot accept the objective reality of their own bodies then you are delusional and forever doomed to frustration with the population you live within… just as an example.
Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 7 2025 14:18 utc | 149
He is not a prince, please call him andrew windsor. Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 7 2025 11:15 utc | 137 ______ I will call him Andrew Battenberg und Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha, thank you very much or King Tampon’s Kid Brother.
Posted by: malenkov | Nov 7 2025 13:12 utc | 146
I didn’t call him prince – read carefully. And yes they’re all Germans and fkn dim too. It took 3 whole years of mechanised slaughter before they realised it might be a good idea to adopt an English surname.
Posted by: ChatNPC | Nov 7 2025 14:23 utc | 150
ChatNPC @ 155
You said….
“Prince william has got tbe epstien files”
@ 134
But dont sweat about it, at least you’v got the balls to even discuse epstien, unlike the spineless.
Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 7 2025 14:35 utc | 151
Interesting idea from Sachs – could Africans set aside their differences and unite the continent – what a powerhouse it could if African’s could do it.
Going Underground (@GUnderground_TV): “🚨PROF. JEFFREY SACHS MESSAGE TO AFRICA: UNITE AS 1 CONTINENTAL ECONOMY, FOLLOW CHINA’S MODEL ‘If you add up the 55 countries of the African Union, that’s around 1.5 billion people, same size as India🇮🇳 and China🇨🇳. The big difference is the imperial powers divided Africa…they HAVE TO unite. As 55 countries you can’t make it, but as ONE African continental economy, you can.’ ‘Look at what China did, follow that model.’ Every African leader that has tried to pursue the pan-African agenda has been brutally killed or overthrown in coups instigated by the US and European powers. Will the 21st Century see the people of Africa overcome attempts to keep Africa divided via intervention and local vassal leaders?” | nitter.poast.org
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 7 2025 14:38 utc | 152
Ha ……my apolage to ChatNpc.
To many dam princes ! Too many dam royal benifit scroungers for that matter.
Sorry ChatNPC my mistake.
Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 7 2025 14:42 utc | 153
Elon Musk, World’s Richest Man, Awarded $1 Trillion Pay Package
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/07/hdil-n07.html
“Elon Musk, the world’s richest man with a net worth of $461 billion, has been awarded a $1 trillion pay package over 10 years, putting the CEO on course to become the world’s first trillionaire.
Musk’s unprecedented payout comes the same week as the Trump administration announced plans to slash food stamp benefits, threatening tens of millions of American families with hunger.
Musk, a fascist who welcomed the second inauguration of US President Donald Trump with a public Sieg Heil salute, said his primary motivation in seeking the pay package was to secure direct personal control over life-and -death decisions for humanity.
‘I don’t feel comfortable building a robot army if I don’t have at least a strong influence,’ Musk said…”
Resist don’t collaborate.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 7 2025 14:46 utc | 154
“The royal family are ther only by public concensus”….. a spokesman from the palice said.
Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 7 2025 14:47 utc | 155
This won’t stop Trump from invading Venezuela – but Russian and Chinese military hardware already sent to Venezuela might.
“The U.S. Senate votes 51-49 against a resolution to prevent Trump from waging war on Venezuela”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 7 2025 14:58 utc | 156
The UN and the US cementing the legitimacy of the proscribed terrorist head choppers (HTS) leader as the president of Syria.
“The UN Security Council voted 14–0 to lift sanctions imposed on Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Interior Minister Anas Khattab. 🇺🇸 U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz: With the adoption of this text, the Council is sending a strong political signal that recognizes Syria is in a new era since Assad and his associates were toppled in December 2024.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 7 2025 15:01 utc | 157
Posted by: Dave G | Nov 7 2025 11:46 utc | 139
really don’t understand how some people can think that Trump and his cabinet of billionaires and Fox News TV stars are anti-establishment superheroes. Like the very rich aren’t the establishment!
This is not literally punctuated as a question, but the fairly short and simple answer is, right wing identity politics. The establishment is defined as a particular identity, such as a so-called deplorable. And many very rich people indeed are in fact religious bigots or racists etc. Class, being an owner of the country rather than one of the working masses, doesn’t matter nearly as much as expressed social attitudes and tastes. Indeed a billionaire crank like Thiel or Musk or Trump (and he’s always been a crank from the days he admired Roy Cohn for his worldly insight) is all the more suitable as a master than a working class anything. Working class is losers, they don’t own multiple properties or mine opals or travel the world on this project or business.
Posted by: steven t johnson | Nov 7 2025 15:10 utc | 158
Drumpf bluff CALLED!
Oh Donald you will keep losing your trousers!
‘East_Calling (@East_Calling)
Translation by: t.me/EastCalling/24868 Full subbed video of the Meeting with permanent members of the Security Council on November 5th, 2025. Vladimir Putin held an operational meeting with permanent members of the Security Council in the Kremlin. Source: Kremlin ru ➖➖➖ Summing up what was said above. It looks like the US is perceived by Russia as monkey with a hand grenade. And that Russia sees and hears everything they do and say.’
https://xcancel.com/East_Calling/status/1986774523320905806
Very interesting that the meeting basically announced the existence and deployment of HYPERSONIC US weapon system by end of the year!
Cutting time to central Russia to 7 mins from Germany.
And the First Strike option with ‘new nukes’ being practiced in recent manoeuvres.
Doomesday clock edged forward.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Nov 7 2025 15:16 utc | 159
William Gruff | Nov 7 2025 14:18 utc | 154
I think tolerance makes a better world than intolerance.
Posted by: Dave G | Nov 7 2025 15:21 utc | 160
Thorium has been five years away for sixty years. That does not mean it is never happening. It does reduce interest.
Posted by: oldhippie | Nov 7 2025 13:51 utc | 150
The big difference now is China is now running a small pilot reactor. The first. I suspect thorium is something along the lines of closed cycle rocket engines. Theoretically possible but a few hurdles in the workshop. The constant feed and and the constant filtering of high temp, highly corrosive, radioactive molten salt brew is a couple of things that come to mind.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 15:23 utc | 161
Posted by: Lillyhammer | Nov 6 2025 23:59 utc | 80
Voting my Values which mans voting against those Parties whose policies do not reflect my Values and which exclude realist application is not performative. It’s a Vote reflecting my Values — that includes not Voting for anyone when that fits best. That there is no majority who aligns with my Ethical and Moral Values rendering my Vote meaningless, is not my fault, nor my problem. It’s theirs.
There is no so-called voting against! There is only voting for! And non-votes are always ignored at best! In practice, non-votes are assumed to reflect satisfaction with the status quo, usually understood as the winner of the vote. The notion of a mandate is largely an ideological fiction. In addition to recommending an impossible tactic, the strategy of voting values instead of voting for programs and policies and personnel is basically incompetent. Unsurprisingly, commenters Dalit and malenkov seem to agree with this absurdity. Fortunately, the real point of this exchange is to show how morally superior to the rabble.
Posted by: steven t johnson | Nov 7 2025 15:25 utc | 162
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 4:48 utc | 109
“As far as I know, the US aircraft carriers and the Russian ice breakers are the only surface ships using nuclear energy.”
Your comment piqued my interest, so I had a quick search online. According to the radiationworks website, there are currently 39 nuclear powered vessels operating globally.
It’s a mix of cruisers, aircraft carriers, icebreakers, and a few oddities, including a Russian container ship ‘Sevmorput’.
Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Nov 7 2025 15:37 utc | 163
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 3:19 utc | 101 The notion that Trump is a Little Empire man strikes me more as an apology for Trump. If he really wanted a Little Empire, he wouldn’t need the biggest budget in the world, he wouldn’t need a purged officer corps to carry out massacres and he wouldn’t commit himself to keeping the US dollar as the world’s main reserve currency. Taking aim at PRC isn’t shooting for a Little Empire, it’s shooting for winning the world despite the relative decline of US economy. A Little Empire man doesn’t need NATO to pay more money, a Little Empire man needs the US out of NATO, period. Again, when people say stuff like this is a way of denying what Trump is in favor what they pretend he is doing which is supposedly somewhat less awful. And a Little Empire man doesn’t offer Milei billions to throw down a rathole. Trump offers billions to Milei as a support for his kind of politics, a ruling class oligarchy savagely attacking the masses with no regard for BS about democracy (of any kind) for both immediate and ultimate profit. A Little Empire man makes a deal with Maduro, confident that Maduro is as mortal as Chavez and the local compradores have every good prospect of winning if he doesn’t attack the whole country, forcing everyone to take a stand.
Gorbachev was not as anti-Communist as Yeltsin and Putin. But he was an anti-Stalinist and didn’t want Russia to waste money on foreign socialism, so he dismantled the so-called Soviet empire. (It wasn’t, anyone who sincerely says “Soviet empire” is a reactionary twit.) Trump is not anti-imperialist, he is pro-capitalist to the max.
Posted by: steven t johnson | Nov 7 2025 15:39 utc | 164
Dave G @165:“I think tolerance makes a better world than intolerance.”
Yeah, I hear you there! Some people cannot tolerate much, what with their imaginary “microaggressions” and calling everyone who disagrees with them a fascist white supremacist and needing to dictate that college campuses become disagreement-free “safe spaces” where delusions are coddled. Honestly, some people need to adult (verb form) and advance their emotional ages to match their chronological ages and maybe grow an epidermis.
Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 7 2025 15:47 utc | 165
steven t 169
As that was addressed to me I tried reading through it but was not up to the job. I have zero interest in partisan politics, identity politics nor any of that type bullshit.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 15:47 utc | 166
‘It is Gorbachev!’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTxa2Ukl2EI
Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 7 2025 15:49 utc | 167
William Gruff | Nov 7 2025 15:47 utc | 170
Trump is clearly heading towards something akin to fascism. If you disagree, you’re not paying attention.
Posted by: Dave G | Nov 7 2025 15:51 utc | 168
John Gilberts | Nov 7 2025 15:49 utc | 172
Spot on 🙂
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 15:54 utc | 169
the whole trump thing is so divisive.. it is no fun seeing the division.. is trump going down the same road as biden, losing his faculties and increasingly becoming erratic? will his handlers cover for him, like they did for biden, until it was impossible to cover anymore??
ken klippenstein wrote a good post that relates to this if anyone is interested..
The Gerontocracy Is Dead
Posted by: james | Nov 7 2025 15:58 utc | 170
BAR: Major Power Politics, Rare Earth Minerals, and Claims of Genocide in Nigeria (& audio)
https://www.blackagendareport.com/major-power-politics-rare-earth-minerals-and-claims-genocide-nigeria
“David Hundeyin is a Nigerian investigative journalist, bestselling author, and founder of West Africa Weekly, an independent Pan African digital news publication focusing on West Africa and the Sahel region.
He joins us from Accra, Ghana, to discuss the claim that there is a Muslim genocide against Christians taking place in Nigeria.
President Trump and Secretary of War Hegseth vowed to kill ‘Islamic terrorists’ there, but major power competition, a puppet government, and a search for rare earth minerals are behind the headline-grabbing narrative.”
Not to mention oil and refining capacity.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 7 2025 15:59 utc | 171
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 7 2025 14:38 utc | 157
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So long as the Empire continues to decline and Russia/China stay involved, the “turn” in Africa is inevitable.
After Gaddafi was killed Islamic Africa has really dropped the ball, which is why America and France removed him.
The thing is, Islam produces men like Gaddafi and Sinwar regularly. Traore is such a man, and he inspires others.
The whole world will have opportunities as the Empire of lies declines. It’s inertia.
Attitudes take time to change. Racism, arrogance, and degeneracy were never strong foundations to build Empire upon.
Very Western, filled with shortcuts, greed and insecurity.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 7 2025 16:01 utc | 172
Posted by: Dave G | Nov 7 2025 15:51 utc | 173
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In my observation, many loud Trump supporters want fascism. They don’t want infrastructure or strong families. They want to punish scapegoats in pursuit of an idealized past that never was.
Always blaming others for what they lack the ability to achieve.
They will claim not to be fascist but they turn a blind eye to genocide, human trafficking, arbitrary murder, theft, deception, etc.
They show us who they are. It’s up to us to acknowledge that.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 7 2025 16:06 utc | 173
LoveDonbass | Nov 7 2025 16:01 utc | 177
Traore is very much an African Putin. A pity he does not have the power of a large nation as Putin does.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 16:08 utc | 174
Dave G @173: “If you disagree then you are a fascist white supremacist!”
lol! See?
Trump is not moving towards fascism. He’s just wielding the power of the state in a way you don’t like. That’s not the same thing. Fascism is quite specifically mobilizing a portion of the population (typically the middle class and lumpen proletariat) to attack the working class. Problem is that working class organizations in the US have already been neutered so there is not much to direct fascist gangs against other than the working class (“deplorables”) in general.
Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 7 2025 16:13 utc | 175
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 16:08 utc | 179
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Putin stands on the shoulders of centuries of Russian culture and experience. Men like that are the first the West kills in colonization projects.
My friend, Traore is on a hero’s journey.
It may end prematurely in death.
He’s already become legendary with his accomplishments. Not to Westerners but to the people who matter, Africans.
Traore has courage and integrity, like Putin.
If he falls then the next man picks up the baton and keeps pushing forward.
Human progress is a marathon, not a sprint.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 7 2025 16:19 utc | 176
Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 7 2025 16:13 utc | 180
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Punishing dissent from the Zionist line, rewarding the oligarchy at the expense of the workers, targeting the “other”, that’s fascism.
Textbook fascism. Arbitrary murder, foreign aggression, genocide.
The state and business. Palantir is the fascist ideal. The Zionist ideal…
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 7 2025 16:23 utc | 177
@Don Firineach #3
Meh. This wanker John Gartner has always been TDS.
He founded “Duty to Warn” in 2017 and was saying the same shit then.
And did he say anything about Biden’s obvious dementia/senility?
Nope. He argued last year that it was Trump that was demented, not Biden.
Just another partisan hack from a bullshit profession.
Posted by: c1ue | Nov 7 2025 16:26 utc | 178
LoveDonbass | Nov 7 2025 16:19 utc | 181
You are right. Traore took the batten from a man a generation or two before him. I forget the blokes name but he was killed by the western powers that be.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 16:27 utc | 179
Some see nothing wrong with murdering fishermen or ethnic cleansing.
Technical “fascism” or not, evil is evil.
What is a “man” if he won’t call out evil?
A collaborator? A beast?
He’s just “governing” differently…
We’re reaching Ukrainian levels of cope.
😂😂😂
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 7 2025 16:28 utc | 180
@CasualObserver #9
Interesting given historic (for this generation) inflation of Biden, but whatever.
If you want return of your money, gold is at least always going to return something.
If you want return ON your money, then you have to gauge your risk. IMO, a big crash is coming and it will smash stocks.
Usually this means a run into bonds, but who knows in this era of dumbfuck meme investors.
Posted by: c1ue | Nov 7 2025 16:30 utc | 181
@Woke American #11
I think Trump has killed 69 people so far off the coast of Venezuela – he has a LONG LONG way to go before he reaches Obama’s 3797 <- according to the Council of Foreign Relations.
Hope you were protesting back then!
Posted by: c1ue | Nov 7 2025 16:32 utc | 182
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 16:27 utc | 184
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Thomas Sankara, I believe. His insights about food sovereignty have influenced Traore greatly.
One of Traore’s first projects with Russia was for fertilizer and farming machinery.
Now Burkina Faso produces much of its own food for the first time in a long time. They may even become exporters in a few years.
Africans feeding Africans.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 7 2025 16:33 utc | 183
Posted by: c1ue | Nov 7 2025 16:32 utc | 187
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Bbbbbbbut…..
OBAMA!
😂😂😂
You’re not counting the thousands Trump has killed in Iran or Palestine. You’re not counting the millions he starved to death with sanctions in Syria.
You don’t remember, but the ROW does.
I’m not even talking about the Africans killed by US proxies.
Trump, like most US Presidents, is covered in the blood of the innocent from head to toe.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 7 2025 16:39 utc | 184
LoveDonbass | Nov 7 2025 16:33 utc | 187
That’s the bloke I was thinking about.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 16:40 utc | 185
@john brewster #27
Sorry, but Susan Webber aka Yves Smith and Gary Marcus are both smoking crack.
The $500 billion going to $600 billion invested in “AI” is not going to get bailed out, for the very simple reason that the vast majority of it is radioactive, economically speaking.
Bailing out a real industry so that it can reform and become competitive is one thing, bailing out a giant money sucking black hole of a scam is another. A few tens of billions ain’t gonna cut it to bail out LLM/”AI”, especially when there are almost no jobs involved.
To put in perspective: the car industry was bailed out with $81 billion of which the end net cost (not counting opportunity cost of capital) was maybe $10 billion.
$81 billion will barely bail out OpenAI from one of its bullshit promises of AI data center buildout from one of its roundtripping partners, much less all of them.
From purely my memory:
nVidia: $100B
AMD: 160 million shares of AMD stock at $0.01
Oracle: $300B
Coreweave: $33B
Microsoft: $13B (of cash)
Amazon: $38B
Posted by: c1ue | Nov 7 2025 16:43 utc | 186
Let’s talk about the white Russians that Trump has killed with proxy Ukraine.
But they are Slavs. Zionists have been killing and enslaving Christian Slavs for a long time.
Bbbbbbbut OBAMA!!!!
Bbbbbbbut BIDEN!!!!
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 7 2025 16:46 utc | 187
Pro tip, defending the indefensible makes one look like a fool and retarded.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 7 2025 16:48 utc | 188
LoveDonbass | Nov 7 2025 16:46 utc | 191
The Church of Rome vs the Church of Byzantine. It runs all the way back to the great schism. So much of what is occurring now, I have found I can only look at through a historical lens.
The to and fro about Trump. At this inflection point in history, I find myself thinking that in the future, hindsight will give us insight into what Trump actually is/was.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 16:54 utc | 189
@ Peter AU1 #100
Time will tell.
The question which separates the TDS, from those which are potentially credible, is:
What would Trump’s 9 months to date have looked like if the Senate neocon Republicans had not supported Trump?
Support in the form of passing Trump’s budget (Big Beautiful Bill), in the form of confirming Tulsi/RFK Jr/Wright etc etc, in the form of not opposing his immigration/ICE actions, in the form of not opposing his border actions, and many more.
How many of these would have occurred anyway vs others, not at all?
And if you agree that a majority of them would not have (which I firmly believe because it was what happened during Trump’s first term), then the next question is: what was the price agreed upon for this support? Because Senators, much less neocon fucks, don’t give something for nothing like all good prostitutes.
Assuming that you agree with the chain of logic up to this point, the next question would be: when should the Senate neocon price be paid?
Should it wait until after the 2026 elections? The Senate neocons would never accept that.
So should it happen in 2026 during the midterm election year?
Or should it happen now, which may (or may not) give Trump some time to heal the damage obviously being caused by “his” foreign policy?
I note again that if Trump were truly a neocon, or an autopen a la Biden, then Ukraine would already be receiving its $50B a year, the US would have bombed Iran more than a token but probably there would not be a US fleet off the shores of Venezuela.
Posted by: c1ue | Nov 7 2025 16:54 utc | 190
Is someone making noises? I can’t hear them. I don’t listen to dumbfucks.
Posted by: c1ue | Nov 7 2025 16:56 utc | 191
c1ue | Nov 7 2025 16:54 utc | 194
Your comments are always interesting c1ue. As Putin said, Trump is returning the US to normalcy. His wild statements throw many, but to the Russians he is predictable as his lifelong political thoughts/policies have never changed.
Trump good or bad? I do not attempt to judge that. I just wait and watch. I think there was much good in Gorbachev but he led the Soviet Union into disaster. I think Gorbachev lived out the remainder of his life in California and was buried in Russia. Putin attended Yeltsins funeral but did not attend the burial of Gorbachev.
What Trump is, only time will tell.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 17:08 utc | 192
c1ue | Nov 7 2025 16:56 utc | 195
That comes immediately after your post addressed to me ….
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 17:18 utc | 193
@ c1ue | Nov 7 2025 16:43 utc | 190
I wouldn’t be so sure about that. Yes, AI is, as you say, “a giant money sucking black hole of a scam”, but the scammers are among some of Trump’s bestest buddies. And besides, if the AI bubble collapses, the collapse brings down a goodly bit of Wall Street besides. So it really doesn’t matter that there are few jobs involved.
Posted by: malenkov | Nov 7 2025 17:30 utc | 194
@malenkov #198
who are these LLM/ai scammers that are Trump best buds?
Maybe you will say Ellison, except Ellison was previously against Trump – supporting Nikki Haley and Tim Scott. So was BlackRock ceo shwarzman.
is Trump best buds with the OpenAI ceo? Satya? Pichai? Zuckerberg?
do tell.
Posted by: c1ue | Nov 7 2025 17:41 utc | 197
There is no so-called voting against! There is only voting for! And non-votes are always ignored at best! In practice, non-votes are assumed to reflect satisfaction with the status quo, usually understood as the winner of the vote. The notion of a mandate is largely an ideological fiction. In addition to recommending an impossible tactic, the strategy of voting values instead of voting for programs and policies and personnel is basically incompetent. Unsurprisingly, commenters Dalit and malenkov seem to agree with this absurdity. Fortunately, the real point of this exchange is to show how morally superior to the rabble.
Posted by: steven t johnson | Nov 7 2025 15:25 utc | 166
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I note with some alarm that your comments grow, if anything, more incoherent with time. Let’s dissect, shall we? —
There is no so-called voting against! There is only voting for!
Well, I suppose that depends on whom we ask. A lot of people think they’re voting against, even if that entails also voting for someone. I wouldn’t be in a hurry to discount their opinions just because a certain steven t johnson has made a proclamation to the contrary. In fact, I’m reminded of the example of my mother, who neatly inverted your assertion by “voting for” as a means of “voting against”, always selecting the least viable D in primary elections in order to promote the candidacy of the R in the general election.
And non-votes are always ignored at best!
Well, they’re certainly ignored by the Powers That Be, but so what? They also ignore votes, if you concede that votes reflect issues that the voters are either for or against.
In practice, non-votes are assumed to reflect satisfaction with the status quo, usually understood as the winner of the vote.
In other words, non-votes are not ignored!
The notion of a mandate is largely an ideological fiction.
If this sentence isn’t entirely irrelevant to your argument, then it would seem to contradict your previous argument that non-votes are ignored, instead constituting some kind of silent assent.
In addition to recommending an impossible tactic, the strategy of voting values instead of voting for programs and policies and personnel is basically incompetent.
Two objections: (1) Few “values voters” who reject the two-winged Property Party regard their votes as a “tactic” that is “possible” of achieving anything. After all, the same holds true more or less universally: there’s this little matter of the impossibility that anyone’s one vote will decide an election. How many elections are decided by one vote, after all? (2) Why the dichotomy between “values” and “programs and policies”? Don’t the “programs and policies” advocated by some hopelessly minor third-party candidate reflect the “values” of those people voting for the candidates advocating such programs?
Fortunately, the real point of this exchange is to show how morally superior to the rabble.
Not necessarily. Some people vote their conscience by pulling the levers for the Ds or the Rs; you seem to have a problem with those whose conscience forbids them from doing so.
So what have we learned? First, that steven t johnson disdains those who refuse to vote for the Duopoly. Furthermore, that when he makes a particularly dubious assertion, he sets it in boldface.
Posted by: malenkov | Nov 7 2025 17:54 utc | 198
@ c1ue | Nov 7 2025 16:26 utc | 182
thanks c1ue.. i appreciate this post of yours and all the others too, lol.. cheers..
Posted by: james | Nov 7 2025 17:55 utc | 199
is Trump best buds with the OpenAI ceo? Satya? Pichai? Zuckerberg?do tell.
Posted by: c1ue | Nov 7 2025 17:41 utc | 201
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Well, they are doing a bangup job sucking up to Trump, of course (and you could mention people like Bezos and Musk as well — the latter astonishingly eager to mend fences). I suppose you’d discount Peter Thiel as well? Anyway you’re certainly correct in the sense that if Trump has any buds at all, it’s the guy he sees in the mirror.
Posted by: malenkov | Nov 7 2025 18:12 utc | 200