JohnH | Nov 12 2025 22:00 utc | 70—
 
Thanks for the info on Colombia. I did some digging to discover what is being called the “Trump Doctrine” by Cambio magazine. The full article is behind a paywall that requires a subscription and is in Spanish, of course, although a version of the infamous photo can be seen at the link. UPI cites Cambio:
 

According to Cambio, the first paragraph of the document held by Blair outlines five steps against the Colombian president, three of which are already underway.
The five are designating additional cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, supporting pro-U.S. leaders in the Western Hemisphere, imposing targeted sanctions on Petro, his family and associates, countering corrupt and anti-U.S. criminal activities, and launching a comprehensive investigation into Petro’s campaigns and their foreign financing.

 
Otherwise, there’s very little to be found. Cambio looks informative but most of its items are behind the subscription barrier. So much of this screams of the horrors South America experienced at the hands of the Outlaw US Empire’s Death Squads during the last century.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 13 2025 1:09 utc | 104

Otherwise, there’s very little to be found. Cambio looks informative but most of its items are behind the subscription barrier. 
Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 13 2025 1:09 utc | 104
Internet archives are your friend.

Posted by: Archetypex | Nov 13 2025 1:15 utc | 106

Okay I’ll ask you right out, is it okay to burn a Quran, yes or no?
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 12 2025 21:04 utc | 54
 
Come on RS.  Everyone with even a slight amount of brain knows that burning a Koran is a very intentional insult and slap in the face to a certain group and even that tiny brain could expect some backlash. If not the person is a complete idiot. This is not the same as say burning a book about witches. There is most definitely a desire to hurt and inflict hurt. 
 Treating this act as if it just some kind of personal grudge about a book the idiot probably never even read one page of as pissing on ‘our freedoms’ is very Dubya like.

Posted by: arby | Nov 13 2025 1:23 utc | 108

Recently Updated @ 89, Peter AU 1 @ 94:
I stand corrected, the report has not disappeared from the Internet.
The Birth of Al Wahhabi Movement and its Historical Roots
Runs to 53 pages.

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Nov 13 2025 1:50 utc | 110

Refinnejenna 110 111
 
Thanks for adding that it. I was aware the British used Wahhab and Wahhabism to use against the Ottoman Empire but did not know enough to write about it.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 13 2025 2:26 utc | 112

Archetypex | Nov 13 2025 1:15 utc | 106—
 
I tried it. No help there.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 13 2025 2:45 utc | 114

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 13 2025 1:09 utc | 104
 
karlof1, did you see the last Dialogue Works conversation Nima had with John Helmer – arghh, his last name – Dances with Bears?  It’s important, especially his last segment dealing with a large explosion near the Red Fort in India which could be part of the underlying preparation for something being orchestrated in a hidden way.  I strongly suggest if you haven’t watched this you should do so – I linked to the conversation at the last Week in Review, final page.  I watched it twice to get what Helmer was suggesting.  He compares how the headchopper was being addressed by both Russia and the US.
 
I don’t say I understand it all, but in conspiracy matters, and with the Colombian attention you mention here,  my thought is that the more sunlight the better as that is the best disinfectant.  Apologies for being such an ignoramus.  I look forward to those who can pursue these matters doing so for the good of us all.
 
I will go try and provide the link again.

Posted by: juliania | Nov 13 2025 3:03 utc | 116

The ups and downs of global life…..
Ups –
Debt
Unemployment 
Bankruptcies 
 
Downs –
Global travel 
Consumer confidence
Chinese CO 2 emissions (just a little)
Cruise ship bookings
Ukraine
 

Posted by: Bingo | Nov 13 2025 3:58 utc | 118

French FM at G7 Meeting in Canada Says US Boat Strikes Violate International Law
 
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/france-is-latest-strikes-9.6975606
 
“In what appears to be the most significant condemnation so far from a G7 ally, France’s foreign affairs minister says the deadly boat strikes carried out by the United States in the Caribbean since early September violate international law. 
 
When asked about the French minister’s comments she  [Canada’s FM Anita Anand] said it was ‘within the purview of US authorities’ to determine whether they are complying with international law…”
 
A highly qualified ex law professor from the University of Toronto delivers a good Canadian vassal answer. 

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 13 2025 4:49 utc | 120

In Europe, in the last couple of decades, the has been a massive influx of young men of different culture. The sort of young men not willing to fight for their country. Braines perhaps scrambled by67 NGO’s and propaganda. Crime has exploded.
 
In Australia, the first ethnic street gang I knew of was the Vietnamese. in Sydney. Religion has eff all to do with the crime wave that companies an influx of people of different culture. First gen Viet settled down and worked hard. The street gangs are second gen. 
 
I live in Victoria Australia. Machetes are now banned. Whopping great fine or a year or so in jail. Ethnic steet gangs in Melbourne using them so instead of the woke shitheads cracking down on the street gangs, the woke fuckers ban machetes for all Victorians. I made a chopper in a forge some years back. I liked it for different odd jobs and to take camping the odd time I went. Couldn’t be bothered looking for but now it seems I am a crim. This crime that is now occurring is not a matter of religion. It covers many ethnic groups.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 13 2025 5:29 utc | 122

What the world is now. The mess the world is in now. All the result of Anglo American wars of conquest coupled to the woke brainwashing that has occurred in the last several decades.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 13 2025 5:48 utc | 124

China vs Australia: hospital surgery etc.
 
The ABC reports that the waiting list for some specialists extends up to six years to see a neurologist or plastic and reconstructive surgeon, and more than five-and-a-half years for specialists like ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgeons, gastroenterologists and ophthalmologists.
 
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-13/australians-waiting-years-to-see-specialists/105991158
 
Those waiting list figures are for the people who hang around: some give up, some die (and are cheerfully removed from the list).
 
The Economist published a list based on UN and World Bank figures ranking countries by living standards:
 
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2025/05/06/which-countries-have-the-best-and-worst-living-standards
 
Australia ranks 7th, and China ranks 78th. Just imagine how terrible the hospital/health system must be in China!
 
But wait – I recently read a report by an elderly UK citizen living in China. He had recurrent bladder infections for years when living in the UK, and was prescribed antibiotics and told to go away. Scans and testing unavailable. One morning in China he took the bus to the hospital. No Appointment, just join the queue. Within 30 minutes he was seen by a doctor, who sent him to a urologist on another floor in the same hospital. The urologist made a preliminary diagnosis, and ordered an MRI. The imaging department apologised- there was a 2 hour wait! A slot became available, and he had the MRI within an hour. Went back to the specialist who confirmed the diagnosis, recommended surgery, and prescribed medication – which was filled by the hospital pharmacy on an upper floor. 
 
The gentleman caught the bus and was back home around 2 PM. The total process cost him less than it costs me in Australia for a PSA blood test. I have clocked up one year wait for eye surgery – yippee, only four more to go. unless I ‘drop off’ the waiting list…

Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 13 2025 6:04 utc | 126

Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 13 2025 6:04 utc | 132
 
######
 
From a distance, as I’ve never been to China, their system works the way a system should work.
 
For the client.
 
IMO, the issue in the West is that the client is often not the person requiring service.
 
It’s an endless array of middlemen and special interests. Your doctor doesn’t work for your health, he follows the diktats of his licensing bureaucracy.
 
Someone said the other day that in place of Democracy, China is establishing a Meritocracy. The incentives, values, and outcomes couldn’t be more different with such a systemic difference.
 
It was just 10 years ago that Westerners still believed that they were far ahead of everyone else.
 
Now, it is apparent that the West has been falling behind and lacks the drive/leadership/mechanisms to catch back up.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 13 2025 6:28 utc | 128

“Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 13 2025 6:04 utc | 132”
Hospital in China : In Shanghai, I have the same kind of experience as this old UK lad. Show up without appointment, within a few hours you have seen a GP, a specialist and have been under some very expensive modern diagnostic equipment. Blood tests (you can ask the GP what you want) are also back before lunch.
All is extremely cheap when you pay by yourself (no insurance) while locals pay almost nothing. You probably spend more on taobao ordering some idiot stuff during the waiting time.
However, there is no coffee machine anywhere, so I only put 4 and half stars for the experience.

Posted by: Asian Frog | Nov 13 2025 7:13 utc | 130

US Sanctions Push Indian Refiners Away From Russian CrudeAll but two Indian refiners have skipped placing orders for Russian crude for December after the U.S. sanctioned Russia’s top oil producers, Rosneft and Lukoil.

But the important fact is that secondary sanctions are destroying BRICS.Remember when you lambasted Trump for stating ‘BRICS are dead’ a few weeks ago?
Here we are, there is NO unity in the BRICS.
Notice how easily it was to get one of the top 3 players in the BRICS to turn it’s back on another top 3 player. To the point of not buying oil from Russia and then turning around and planning to buy oil from the USA who is the primary enemy of the BRICS.This means goodbye to any alternative to western power, to dollar, to western dominance all over the world
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/US-Sanctions-Push-Indian-Refiners-Away-From-Russian-Crude.html

Posted by: Louis | Nov 13 2025 7:38 utc | 132

I’ve seen it reported anecdotally that Chinese universities and employers no longer value Western qualifications with much esteem, particularly in STEM or medical subjects, leading to students in these fields staying in their domestic universities and academic institutions.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 12 2025 19:45 utc | 30
This is absolutely correct. Even with a degree in e.g.aeronautics from the best faculty in Germany the son of a good friend from Loyang have had hard times to find the job. These students are best when working with European companies as liaison personnel 

Posted by: Lmaa | Nov 13 2025 7:53 utc | 134

Now the MSM is laughing at Venezula and the mobilized “peasants” who have few weapons against the mighty US killing machine.
When the US landed in Incheon to invade Korea and Mongolia China Republic was one year old. It had no army. General Peng put a plan to Mao for a million man volunteer army. They had no weapons except their courage and commitment .
And we all know how the US army was driven back.
 
The VietCong and the North Vietnamese Army defeated the Us. The Taliban defeated the US. The Houthi defeated the US.
 
Please have respect for courage and not awed by big beautiful American soldiers.
 

Posted by: Bingo | Nov 13 2025 7:59 utc | 136

@Bingo | Nov 13 2025 7:59 utc | 146

Taliban defeated the US.  

Yes, the US spent 20 years replacing the Taliban with the Taliban.

Posted by: Norwegian | Nov 13 2025 8:10 utc | 138

Merz is determined to give Ukraine billions more in Euro’s at great expense to German citizens and public services.For me the EU should be dissolved. Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 12 2025 20:03 utc | 35
If EU survives in its current form it will become a authoritarian monster and go to war to get rid of overpopulation. Hence this was the reason inviting all those economic migrants.  EU JUST KILLED YESTERDAY FINANCIAL PRIVACY! 
This is infrastructure for control, built “in the name of safety.” A stark vision of financial surveillance creeping into everyday life across the EU, framed as a slow-motion erosion of autonomy under the guise of security. It’s always for your safety at the cost of your freedom and the privilege of their tyranny.
 

Posted by: Lmaa | Nov 13 2025 8:18 utc | 140

“Austrian police raid house of man who leaked Israeli ambassador video making genocidal comments”
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8AaPjNAvv4  (length: 3 minutes)

Posted by: WMG | Nov 13 2025 8:54 utc | 142

“Silver climbed more than 1% to above $54 per ounce on Thursday, marching toward an all-time high reached last month and bringing this week’s gains to around 12%”
 
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/silver
 
$54.241 

Posted by: too scents | Nov 13 2025 9:01 utc | 144

SYDNEY, Nov 13 (Reuters) – Australia’s AUKUS submarine fleet base and its vicinity are being quietly connected to three powerful new undersea internet cables planned by Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab and SUBCO, documents viewed by Reuters show.The HMAS Stirling naval base on Australia’s west coast will house four U.S.-commanded Virginia submarines from 2027, placing the U.S. Navy on the Indian Ocean’s rim as Washington and Canberra step up surveillance of Chinese submarine activity.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australias-aukus-base-connect-subsea-cables-us-allies-boost-ai-pipes-2025-11-13/
 
The way things are going, I regret giving my guns to my son.
 
This invasion of the yanks…. but still, what would be the point. The stupid fucks about me want to be yank cannon fodder just like the Ukroids.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 13 2025 9:37 utc | 146

Perhaps it is just time zone, but the wanker has not replied. Perhaps tomorrow.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 13 2025 8:37 utc | 144
 
****************
 
I think the cleaner has been.

Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 13 2025 9:44 utc | 148

LoveDonbass (76)
 
You deftly dodged the question on burning the Quran, and by that I’ll assume I have your answer – as for your response on the knife wielding man – Zionist court or not no one one should fear for their life – for burning what is a book – and deep down you know that.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 13 2025 10:10 utc | 150

 Jon_in_AU (80).
 
I can’t argue with that Jon – you’ve nailed with that comment.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 13 2025 10:16 utc | 152

What the Mossad agent Epstein really thought about Trump.
 
Monitor𝕏 (@MonitorX99800): “🇺🇸⚡- Jeffrey Epstein to Larry Summers: “Recall I’ve told you, I have met some very bad people, none as bad as Trump, not one decent cell in his body. So yes, dangerous.”” | nitter.poast.org

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 13 2025 10:35 utc | 154

I posted a comment on a thread – about cloud seeding to cause first flooding then drought.
 
Monitor𝕏 (@MonitorX99800): “🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡- Dean Winington claimed last night on the Tucker Carlson show that NATO has been using weather engineering technology for years as a weapon of war against countries like Iran to create famine, eliminate rain, destroy food resources, disrupt population, and destabilize.” | nitter.poast.org
 
 

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 13 2025 10:37 utc | 156

AS if the French actually give a toss about International Laws – they’ve robbing Sahel nations blind for decades, and imposing their imperialist ideology/colonialism on North Africa for as long,  if not longer.
 
 
“French Foreign Minister, Jean-Noel Barrot, says Paris is worried about the US military operations in the Caribbean waters because of “concerns they violate international law.””

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 13 2025 10:43 utc | 158

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 13 2025 10:43 utc | 162
 
Two wrings don’t make a ‘right’.

Posted by: canuk | Nov 13 2025 12:04 utc | 160

Do you think we could be friends? I’d like that. 
 
Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 13 2025 10:19 utc | 157

 
Aww!! Okay.

Posted by: persiflo | Nov 13 2025 13:26 utc | 162

Japan confirms Chinese warships sailing east of …
 
Defence Blog
20 hours ago — Japan’s Joint Staff confirmed that three Chinese Navy vessels transited eastward through the Osumi Strait into the Pacific Ocean on November 11,

Posted by: denk | Nov 13 2025 14:27 utc | 164

Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 13 2025 10:19 utc | 155
 
It seems that we arent’t alone in having an older brother with some…issues. I suspect in my brother’s case, it had much to do with his childhood leukaemia, and the associated lumbar punctures and radiation “therapy” that came with that.
He seemed okay before hospital, and very, very, not okay afterwards. I spent a considerable portion of my childhood from ~18mo-16yo running away from him and his explosive temperament. I guess he needed something to blame for his suffering, and I just happened to be the readily available target.

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Nov 13 2025 14:48 utc | 166

Posted by: Louis | Nov 13 2025 7:38 utc | 133
 
######
 
Secondary sanctions are failing. Their premise is based on choosing the West over the East.
 
India is a bad example of anything.
 
BRICS is Russia and China, then Brazil. India and South Africa barely deserve mention.
 
India remains a post-colonial basket case, much like Turkiye, trying to play both sides but ultimately lacking its own identity.
 
BRICS  is strong and ascendant.
 
India is irrelevant because markets clear and demand for fossil fuels is massive. Russia will continue to sell and export oil. We can consider that a constant.
 
If India gets out of the refining trade, they lose revenue that they cannot easily replace, while sabotaging neighborhood relations.
 
Next time, find secondary sources, preferably ones which challenge your initial thesis.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 13 2025 14:57 utc | 168

The Chinese fleet are passing thru a passage well within jp’s 12 nautical miles territorial water, what gives. ?
 
Ask uncle sham !
 
In 1975, US proconsul, er, ambassador James Hodgson told Tokyo the USN needs to pass thru Osumi straits frequently, jp had better open itself wide to facilitate unhindered passage for the 7 fleet
 
jp said ‘yes my lord’ and shrank its territory water from 12 to 3 nautical miles, !
 
From then on the Osumi straits became international water !
 
Thanks to uncle sham’s forced penetration which open up jp for all !

Posted by: denk | Nov 13 2025 15:06 utc | 170

By Kit Klarenberg- Nov 10, 2025
This year’s anniversary of 9/11 passed without mainstream mention. Almost two-and-a-half decades on, the media appears to have lost all interest in that fateful, world-changing day. This is despite the April 2023 release of a bombshell court filing by the Office of Military Commissions, which concluded at least two of the alleged hijackers were CIA assets, having been recruited “via a liaison relationship” with Saudi intelligence. The same document offers illuminating insight into how the 9/11 Commission buried this, among other inconvenient truths.

Posted by: arby | Nov 13 2025 15:16 utc | 172

Posted by: juliania | Nov 13 2025 15:18 utc | 175
Faith is fine, formal or informal.
The problems start when one tries to impose that faith on others or begin thinking that one’s faith is superior to another or all others. We see that in action today in Israel – and where it leads.
Organised religions are the worst instruments for amplifying such ideologies.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Nov 13 2025 15:25 utc | 174

“Epstein alleges in emails that Trump knew about his conduct” was the nytimes headline above the fold on 12 November, festooned even w/ the italicized word ‘Breaking’ in an eye-catching red font.
 
 
Five hours later, the nytimes headline read, “Trump named in Epstein emails.”
 
 
By the end of the day DJT had signed the bill to end the governmental shutdown, so news of that had knocked the Epstein reportage off the front page.
 
 
The House Oversight committee, which is run by Republicans, has acquired all the documents from the deceased financier’s estate.  Dems on the committee quickly released three of the emails on 12 November, from a tranche of 23,000 documents altogether, isolating on anything that seemed incendiary regarding DJT.  They decontextualized excerpts from a 2011 email, a 2015 email and a 2018 email in which Epstein mentioned DJT.
 
 
Although the content of the excerpts was weak sauce indeed, the Dems rushed to publicize the material in order to amplify the Epstein nexus w/ DJT strategically.  Obviously the Dems wanted to drive the news-cycle before the Oversight Committee could command the spotlight by releasing the entire tranche of 23,000 documents, and the nytimes was eager to dangle beaucoup slow-drip click-bait w/ its day-long above-the-fold updates & ongoing coverage on 12 November.
 
The full context of the email excerpts is not clear from the portions released by the Dems on the Oversight Committee.  None of the documents contain allegations of wrongdoing by DJT, which is true of other documents previously made public through court trials against Epstein and the court trial against Ghislaine Maxwell.  Being named in 3 of the 23,000 documents pertaining to Epstein does not imply nefarious actions. This holds true for other names which have surfaced in the so-called Epstein Files, people who may have had normal & inconsequential interactions w/ the disgraced financier.
 
 
The Dems are engaging in bad faith efforts to smear DJT at a moment when they most need to divert the media’s unrelenting gaze from their own recent failed government shutdown.  Working in the Dems’ corner, an unethical and dramatically partisan media boost a smear campaign.  Misleading the public is merely collateral damage.
 
 
It has been known for years that Epstein had ongoing connections w/ Larry Summers, Michael Wolfe and Steve Bannon.   It has been alleged that Bill Gates’s association w/ Epstein led to the end of Bill’s marriage to Melinda Gates.   According to the new tranche of documents, Epstein intended to “send girls” to Peter Thiel, Wm Burns, Gordon Brown and Jagland, the former Norwegian prime minister & Nobel Chairman.  Oft-reported but unproven rumors are capable of igniting outrage about widespread corruption among the global elites.
 
 
At the heart of the Epstein myth is the idea that an international conspiracy, notably involving Israel, relies on the destruction of innocence and the practice of blackmail in order to advance Mossad’s power & control.
 
 
Aside from the sworn public testimony in the criminal court trials involving Epstein and Maxwell, none of which revolved around public figures or international leaders, we’re left w/ gossip and hearsay regarding the name-checked Major Players and a well-connected pedophile.
 
 
Epstein remains the Schroedinger’s Cat of kompromat.
 
 
>>Coda: when day broke on 13 November, the nytimes had centered Epstein reportage above-the-fold once more:  “After Trump Split, Epstein Said He Could Take Him Down.”

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Nov 13 2025 15:30 utc | 176

You literally have no idea how my mind works, nor what processes I use to reach conclusions. People who think they don’t believe in religion tend to have a very narrow and self-servicing definition religion. Infinitely better thinkers than I have remarked on this many times.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 13 2025 15:02 utc | 171
 
My bad LD. When I said you I didn’t mean you personally. I was thinking  a collective you not a singular.  Maybe that changes how you read my comment. Maybe it doesn’t.  

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Nov 13 2025 15:35 utc | 178

The right wing is still for preserving the status quo, liberalism. Progressive liberalism and conservative liberalism are both liberalism.
 

So, I feel the New Deal conditions of the 1930s will never replicate themselves, the Dems and GOP are largely batting for the same side, and the only intellectual force capable of taking on liberal ideology is currently on the right. If the working poor are going to be mobilised it will be along the path of superstition and mystification.
Posted by: Patroklos | Nov 12 2025 19:39 utc | 29

This is the very same narrative that put Trump into power. “Trump is an outsider, not part of the Dems or GOP swamp. He’s for conservative values, just like us. And he fights for the people! Trump! Trump! Trump!” There is no intellectual force from the right that can challenge liberal ideology because the right itself is liberal. The right is simply warmed over Manifest Destiny settler colonialism with fewer pretensions about being a force for good. I do commend you for using “the right” correctly because “the right” in politics stands for preserving the status quo by definition.
 

@29 Patroklos I agree with you. If any US populist group overthrows our current corporate rulers, it will be from the right. I listen to right wing leaders with interest. My interpretation is: in a given speech, 50%-100% is bashing the mostly non-existent US left, people like me, which I ignore. The remainder of what they say, the actual proposals and ideas that they want to implement, is what is interesting.
Posted by: Woke American | Nov 12 2025 20:10 utc | 36

If you find yourself agreeing with right-wing leaders, you’re not a leftist. You’re just a progressive liberal with some conservative sympathies. “Woke American” is essentially another “Dan Kelly”-type liberal, proving once again that the left doesn’t exist in America.
 
Choosing to name the enemy as simply “corporate rulers” further demonstrates that you’re a progressive liberal. The terms corporatocracy/crony capitalism/financial oligarch etc are used to support the idea that only particular aspects of capitalism (finance, corporations etc) are bad and that the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie can be reformed into something kinder and gentler. This is why I’ve been hesitant about promoting Michael Hudson on MoA too much. I thought he was focused on critiquing financial capitalism because it was the form of capitalism that his American audience would be most familiar with, but being exposed to more of his work has made me realize that he’s a liberal reformist who thinks that industrial capitalism will magically lead to a form of “socialism”, as if handing the reins of the economy back to industrial capitalists won’t just end up recreating the very same conditions that gave rise of financial capitalism. Only a dictatorship of the proletariat will keep capitalism in fetters, and only communism will fully abolish capitalism.
 

Browns don’t care about the working towards freedom or what the constitution is supposed to inhibit (mainly the overgrowth of central control). If I was an out-of-touch elite, I would want the most pliable population possible, especially those most susceptible to the lure of free things like universal basic income or foodstamps. But that’s my blackpilled take. My worldview is the product of compounding disappointment. I would love to be proven wrong and feel the whirling opportunity of catastrophe and central planners admitting defeat. Not too far off from Lenin’s revolutionary defeatism.
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Nov 12 2025 21:41 utc | 67

Stop abusing terms like “Lenin’s revolutionary defeatism” as if you’ve actually read and comprehended the texts fully. The rulers of America, meaning the bourgeoisie, have zero material incentives to challenge capitalism. The alternatives proposed by the labor aristocrats dissatisfied by the government like you mainly revolves around conspiracy theories fueled by your extreme prejudice against non-White people, and they do nothing to challenge capitalism either. There’s nothing revolutionary about either America, its rulers or its people.
 

Patrokolos and WA – Agree with you both … the dynamic popular political energy nationally is on the right. I don’t think there’s any hope of socialism on a national level. But I also think this is a good thing, because localism is actually what may be achievable and may save us in the long run. So what needs to happen is to ride the populist right to minimization of the DC empire and, at the same time, replace it with the fifty states that were always supposed to be where the action was politically in this country.
Posted by: Caliman | Nov 12 2025 20:35 utc | 39
I think it’s incredible that this idea should be favored by all political persuasions (except hardcore authoritarian collectivists).
Posted by: HB Brian | Nov 13 2025 4:58 utc | 121

The populist right loves big government. They want the government to deport people, they want the government to ban “woke” ideology and abortions, they want the government to bail them out when times are tough (the farmer bailouts from Trump are a good example). Ahenobarbus, William Gruff and Roger Boyd have succeeded in creating the National Socialist American Workers’ Party on MoA. Boydian fascists are everywhere. America under the rule of 50 different “independent” flavors of NSAWP should prove interesting. As the nation that inspired the Nazis and the Zionists, I’m sure America will surpass the their descendants’ depravity in every way imaginable. Just don’t nuke the rest of us on your way out.
 
Death to America
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Nov 13 2025 15:40 utc | 180

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 13 2025 15:27 utc | 177
Looks like AI slop to me. Need some corroboration for this from better sources.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Nov 13 2025 15:47 utc | 182

Or am I getting that wrong ?  
Posted by: juliania | Nov 13 2025 15:18 utc | 175
 
You are. I have wiggle room. Xcept death nothing in the world is for certain and maybe not even that, right?  Religion provides answers to things we cannot comprehend. Some people need this. Perhaps on day i will too. Most of it is based on human belief constructs. I’m not certain about most things and am definitely open to being mistaken about them.  I have zero animosity towards any religion except maybe capitolism:) My use of the word you was seen as an attack. It was not intended this way. So my apologies to you as well.

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Nov 13 2025 15:48 utc | 184

Looks like AI slop to me. Need some corroboration for this from better sources.
Posted by: ChatNPC | Nov 13 2025 15:47 utc | 184
 
I agree. Traore seems like a great leader but unfortunately and I think intentionally youtube is now flooded with AI slop about him.

Posted by: arby | Nov 13 2025 15:53 utc | 186

The Chinese are way out in front on … and substantial terraforming to date. 
 
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 13 2025 14:47 utc | 167
 
—
 
Construction of the Grand Canal began 2500 years ago.
 

Work began in 486 BC, from south of Yangzhou to north of Huai’an in Jiangsu, and within three years the Han Canal had connected the Yangtze with the Huai River utilizing existing waterways, lakes, and marshes.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canal_(China)#History
 

Continuity of Agenda.
 

Posted by: too scents | Nov 13 2025 15:58 utc | 188

 ChatNPC (184).
 
Interesting – the main pusher of fake AI narrative is AFP – which as we all know is French, and Traore unceremoniously booted the French out of Burkina Faso.
 
AFP’s “fact checking” can best be described as:
 
“A fact-checking scene coordinated from the United States, paid for by the EU and supported by the federal government ensures that all media are supplied with narrative-faithful agency reports on important topics, which they disseminate, and remain true to the narrative prescribed from above in their own reports and comments. ”
 
 
Agence France-Presse – Wikispooks

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 13 2025 16:09 utc | 190

Will jp take the bait ?

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DissidentVoice
Japan’s Abe Kowtows to U.S. Imperial Elite
 
Hundreds in NYC protest renewed Japanese militarism
 
by John V. Walsh / February 27th, 2013
 
Last October a delegation of the U.S. imperial elite slithered into Japan, led by Richard Armitage, former Undersecretary of State and Joseph Nye, Dean Emeritus of the Kennedy School of Empire – er, Government- at Dear Old Harvard.
They came armed with a diatribe which they had co-authored for the Center For Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) the previous August wherein they belittled Japan for its pacifist stance, which put it in the humiliating status of “second-tier” nation.
But the Armitage/Nye screed made it clear that Japan could rise from this degrading condition by taking up the cudgels against China.
Not mentioned was that such a move could prove costly for the Land of the Rising Sun.
But not to worry, Japanese brothers, Armitage and Nye implied, the U.S. Empire would back its Asian puppet from the other side of the Pacific, something that might one day come to be known as “leading from afar.”
 
The Armitage/Nye paper was a transparent attempt to goad Japan into belligerence against China.
 
Last week, newly elected arch militarist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe returned the visit coming to Washington, D.C., very quietly on Friday afternoon, a time of minimal press coverage. Abe was given little more than a quiet lunch with Obama, with no joint statement or press conference, quite adequate for a vassal state like Japan.
Later in the afternoon, Abe went immediately to the CSIS where Armitage and others hosted him for a short speech. A transcript is here.
One might ask right off whether Japan would produce a leader so foolish as to get between two giants like the U.S. and China.
Abe’s speech showed that the U.S. had found someone sufficiently obtuse in Mr. Abe.
 
Abe, speaking in English as befits a supplicant in the Imperial City, opened his little talk at the CSIS thus:
“Last year, Richard Armitage, Joseph Nye, Michael Green and others published a paper about Japan.
They asked if Japan would end up becoming a tier-two nation.
Secretary Armitage, here is my answer to you:
Japan is not and will never be a tier-two country. That is the core message I’m here to make, and I should repeat it by saying I am back and – (laughter, applause) – and – thank you – and so shall Japan be.”
No wonder there was applause.
Abe had taken the bait.

Posted by: denk | Nov 13 2025 16:30 utc | 192

Okay, you don’t want to believe any of this.  So don’t.  I enjoy giving thanks, that’s all.  It seems only polite to do so.
Posted by: juliania | Nov 13 2025 15:52 utc | 187
 
Thanks to you as well. It doesnt matter what i call christianity. What the people who believe it call it is what matters. Know that what you say resonates w me. How many who identify as christian will approach their belife with the introspection and thoughtful diligence that you seem to? Again at an individual level i  have seen miracles induced by belief. I do not discount it.  The history alone of the organized human belief constructs show an almost strait line to the absolute.  If a society could forgive the transgressions of a possessed person, I’d say fair play. Beyond the individual Christianity doesn’t seem to display this.

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Nov 13 2025 16:36 utc | 194

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 13 2025 16:09 utc | 192
Who are you going to believe AFP or your own lying eyes?
My eyes saw the camera work, head movements and hand movements seemingly on a loop. The only thing synchronised to the speech was his mouth.
As regards the content many claims are made. For instance he says Israeli diplomats from 18 countries across sub-Saharan Africa were expelled after discovery of this ‘plot’. A quick search did not reveal any corroborating reports.
If you have links to back that up, I might reconsider, until then i will stick with my first judgement – AI slop.
Who is making it and why, I do not know but would be interested to discover. I suspect it is not fans of Traore.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Nov 13 2025 16:42 utc | 196

One more for the road…
 

US leading from afar.…or behind

 
As in,
Libya
Syria
Ph
Jp
SK
Ukraine
….Israel !
 
 
 

Posted by: denk | Nov 13 2025 16:52 utc | 198

perfidious albion
 

Chinese electric bus national security threat

 
Signing off 
 

Posted by: denk | Nov 13 2025 16:56 utc | 200